"A hundred-year dark gold terrorclaw bear in the beginner zone, and a sixty-thousand-year Titan Snow Demon in the intermediate zone-they're deliberately making sure nobody passes!"
Just then, the sleeping "top dog" of the Intermediate Spirit Ascension Platform sensed the intrusion into its territory. Its enormous eyes, harboring savage fury and near-human intelligence, snapped open.
Rumble-!
The earth shook violently, and shards of ice came cascading down. The terrifying beast, over sixty meters tall, slowly rose, like a mountain range of ice and snow thrusting up from the ground. Its immense shadow instantly engulfed a vast area, bringing suffocating pressure. It looked down at the two antlike figures below, snorting two white columns of vapor laden with ice crystals.
"Shall we fight it?" Na'er showed no fear. Instead, sparks of excitement kindled in her eyes, and she was itching to try. It was merely a Titan Snow Demon. Even if a pureblood titan returned to life, its kind had once been defeated by their Dragon Clan and reduced to one of their subordinate races.
"Cover me!" Blazing battle intent likewise rose in Xu Qingjia's dark eyes, along with the delight of discovering a precious "treasure chest." The beginner zone's guardian had yielded an external soul bone. What wonderful loot might this overlord of the intermediate zone drop?
Before his words had faded, Xu Qingjia drove off with his feet, shattering the ice with a thunderous crash! Like an arrow loosed from a bow, he shot straight toward the ice giant amid fierce gusts and flying snow, his eyes glittering with a hunter's exhilaration.
A sixty-meter ice beast and a human not even two meters tall charged toward each other through the swirling snow, a sight both absurd and breathtaking. Amid footsteps that shook the earth and mountains, Xu Qingjia suddenly stamped