In Qingshan, the evening breeze swept across the ridges, sending waves through the green foliage.
"Aooo!"
A beast's roar shook the heavens, as though declaring war on the man below the mountain.
Standing beneath the bluestone steps, Big Fat Dragon slowly came back to his senses.
He stopped looking at the dog kennels and cat dens on either side. After a brief pause, he began walking up the mountain.
Tap, tap, tap.
His soles touched the bluestone steps, but he felt not a trace of warmth, only a bone-piercing chill.
One step, two steps...
A few breaths later, Big Fat Dragon reached the eighth step.
He was about to continue upward when he suddenly sensed countless traces of danger rising all around him, as vast and innumerable as dust floating through the air.
He stopped and looked up.
Rustle...
As the mountain forest swayed, savage beasts either extinct in Shenzhou or found only in legends emerged from the sea of green. They stood on either side of the bluestone steps, all staring coldly down the mountain.
In an instant, Big Fat Dragon's scalp prickled, and a chill seeped through his soles.
He had expected the climb to be difficult, but he had never imagined a sight like this.
On both sides of the winding stairway, rare and extraordinary beasts gathered as far as the eye could see, some lying down, some standing, some flying, and others burrowing into the earth.
There was a giant white ape carrying an iron club over its shoulder; birds wreathed in fire circled above the peaks; a qilin radiated seven-colored light, auspicious signs beneath its hooves; and a gigantic blue-green, six-headed python whose every sweep of its tail conjured visions of rippling water and densely gathered storm clouds behind it...
Many of these extraordinary beasts