Splat!
"Boom!"
The silver pangolin weighed over a hundred tons and was a top-tier Variant Savage Beast of the Blood Moving Realm. Falling from such a height, it struck like a bomb, making the earth shake and the mountains tremble in an instant.
Screams rang through the primeval forest, followed by dust billowing skyward. The enormous pangolin, eight or nine meters long, smashed into the ground, breaking the bones and snapping the tendons of several powerful Savage Beasts. Like an airplane-a great lump of iron-its impact was so violent that it shattered on landing, breaking into pieces.
It had landed right in the battle zone, so the seven or eight Savage Beasts nearby naturally suffered terrible luck.
The Savage Beasts and giant birds still fighting were all close to the Cave Heaven Realm. As for the remaining wilderness beasts and birds of the Blood Moving Realm, almost all of them had died.
In this area, the Green-Scaled Eagle was a Cave Heaven Realm giant bird, and an outstanding one at that. She was also an overlord of the Primordial Savage Forest's outskirts, an apex predator.
The Green-Scaled Eagle began clearing the field. She felt the time was right. With a hum, she opened her beak and spat out a bright azure moon. It was only fist-sized when it emerged, but swelled in the wind into a disk three meters across, aimed at the twenty-meter-long kui beast.
"Pfft!"
There was no suspense. This was a fairly formidable kui beast, one that had opened at least one Heavenly Grotto. Yet faced with the Green-Scaled Eagle's Innate Treasure Art, it had no time to dodge. Even the black ripples rising over its body failed to block the strike. By the time the azure moon approached the massive beast, it was nearly five meters across, and it severed the creature's head in an instant.
The kui ox's head crashed to the ground. Fresh blood erupted like water from a broken fire hydrant, spraying over a hundred meters. It was bloody and brutal, but this was the law of the Primordial Savage Forest: the weak were meat for the strong.
"Meow-ow!"
With a piercing cry that unsettled the mind, the lynx with two pointed horns made its move. It leaped over a hundred meters, springing out from the branches of a giant tree to attack the Green-Scaled Eagle's wing. Its sharp horns gleamed coldly with a platinum sheen, while blades over half a meter long sprang from all four paws, their chilling glint like that of titanium-alloy steel blades.
But only after leaping out did the lynx notice Shi Hao crouching on the Green-Scaled Eagle's head. Shi Hao had already struck, also using the Azure Moon Treasure Art. The treasure art he cultivated was more complete than the Green-Scaled Eagle's Innate Treasure Art, having been obtained from her chicks, whose bloodlines were even stronger.
Runes could be seen rising within the azure moon, hazy and enchanting. Azure radiance spilled down, and ancient palaces seemed to stand within the moon; even an ancient tree could be seen towering there. The moon disk flew out, its treasured radiance dazzling, shrinking to half a meter across. With a hum, it swept past, slicing the terrifying lynx's hideous head in two as its expression began to change.
You aren't even in the Cave Heaven Realm. Who gave you the courage to launch a sneak attack? Do you think you're a Primordial Remnant or a Pure-Blooded Fierce Beast capable of fighting above your realm?
Indeed, little Shi Hao was only a little over three and a half years old, yet his mastery of treasure arts far surpassed that of even some top-tier Blood Moving Realm Savage Beasts.
That was talent!
So the truly terrifying thing about this little fellow was his comprehension.
Xiao Tian had known this all along.
A Young Supreme who had undergone nirvana rebirth, surviving a deadly tribulation to be born anew-his talent had long since surpassed his original, innate supreme potential. Calling it the potential of a True Immortal probably would not have been an exaggeration.
He remembered that, in the original story, this brat had dug out his own regenerated Supreme Bone once again, then broken himself down to rebuild anew. Tsk, tsk. This was the secret behind how Shi Hao, as a child, had far surpassed the geniuses and first-generation prodigies of the same realm.
"Auntie Green-Scaled Eagle, don't worry. I'll protect your vital spots."
Little Shi Hao spoke with complete confidence, his small face resolute despite his babyish voice.
"We need to be even more careful from here on. I think stronger, craftier variant creatures are lurking nearby.
"Why not deliberately leave an opening and lure them into attacking?"
Xiao Tian spoke very seriously.
"That's right, Auntie Green-Scaled Eagle. Be careful. We're not in a hurry."
Shi Hao also spoke up quickly.
Then Shi Hao hurriedly relayed some of Xiao Tian's warnings to the Green-Scaled Eagle.
High in the sky, the Green-Scaled Eagle rolled her eyes like a human. This little fellow! Why didn't he say so earlier? I was already about to dig through the rubble. I nearly got set up.
The Green-Scaled Eagle was highly intelligent. With a plan in mind, she made a show of diving toward the cave. Her wings swept outward, sending fierce winds howling over the rubble and moving the huge rocks aside.
Rocks flew everywhere, and soon she had dug out a deep pit.
Whoosh!
Violet light flashed. A dazzling streak shot dozens of meters into the air like a violet spotlight beam, heading straight for the Green-Scaled Eagle's wing.
Hum!
Already prepared, the Green-Scaled Eagle shone with azure light and shifted five meters sideways in midair, dodging the strike.
Hiss!
A streak of bloody light burst out of the rubble and leaped toward the Green-Scaled Eagle's back. Its timing was perfect, striking at the very instant she dodged that violet light.
Both Xiao Tian and Shi Hao saw it. It was a Blood Sable over two meters long. Every hair on its body was translucent, as though carved from red crystal, shimmering with brilliant crimson radiance. A pair of three-meter-long wings sprouted from its flanks, densely covered in scales. Its attack was abrupt and swift, almost impossible to guard against.
"Die."
Like a tiny azure moon, Xiao Tian rushed past and smashed straight through the Blood Sable's skull, leaving a bloody hole as thick as a thumb between its brows before flying out the back of its head. Azure runic halos flowed over his entire body, unstained by even a speck of dust.
His runes formed a large hand that seized the Blood Sable's corpse. Extending his arm, he took a White Bone Bottle from Shi Hao's arms and tossed the corpse inside.
Shi Hao: "..."
Just then, another eight or nine powerful Savage Beasts charged over. Clearly, every one of these newcomers had already entered the Cave Heaven Realm, and none was weaker than the Green-Scaled Eagle.
These Savage Beasts were even more intelligent. After confronting one another for a while, they seemed to reach a tacit understanding and began ruthlessly slaughtering the surrounding Savage Beasts. They were plainly clearing the field. Not everyone was qualified to share the Suanni's remains with them. Rather than immediately fighting one another, they drove off and killed the other fierce beasts and predatory birds.
The Silver Great Crocodile could spit silver ice spears from its mouth.
The Firecloud Qilin Beast could breathe enormous fireballs resembling the disk of the sun.
These descendants of primordial fierce beasts were simply too powerful. They slaughtered more than half of the hundred Savage Beasts that remained.
Even the Green-Scaled Eagle did not remain idle. She tore apart some of the predatory birds watching nearby and killed others with her treasure art.
Xiao Tian and Shi Hao helped with this as well. Azure moons flew out one after another, all looking like the Green-Scaled Eagle's treasure art. Many Fierce Birds were slain outright, or had their wings severed and fell to the ground, their bones broken and tendons snapped.
They headed toward where the old Suanni lay and began digging away the huge rocks.
However, once the Silver Great Crocodile among them uncovered one of the old Suanni's legs, these powerful descendants of Primordial Remnants went mad all at once, and battle erupted immediately.
The silver fierce crocodile, the Purple-Gold Great Insect, the Leopard Hou, and the Firecloud Qilin all stared with burning eyes. Having confirmed that this was indeed the Suanni Treasure Body, they now fought for it with all their strength.
Xiao Tian looked over. The rocks piled on the Suanni had been blasted apart in the fighting, revealing its true appearance. In an instant, dazzling gold shone forth. Its fur was brighter than golden satin, and the skin between its hairs was covered in fine golden scales, flowing with divine golden radiance.
The flying rubble that struck its fur could not harm it in the slightest, repelled by the divine radiance naturally flowing over it.
At the old Suanni's level, even without using treasure arts or runes, its entire body had long since been tempered, becoming spiritually attuned and extraordinary. To lesser creatures, it could be said that every part of its body was a treasure.
(End of chapter)
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