"Roar!"
"Rooo~"
The two sound waves collided, canceled each other out, and finally dissolved into nothing.
The sluggishness weighing on Zeng Tian abruptly vanished as well.
Xiong Jun refused to give up. He was the mighty king of the dark gold terrorclaw bears, a 470,000-year-old ferocious beast, yet he had nearly been injured by a junior barely ten thousand years old.
And it had happened right in front of Di Tian, Bi Ji, and the other ferocious beasts. He had lost face spectacularly. How could he possibly swallow that?
Without hesitation, Xiong Jun charged across the field. The earth trembled, and the beasts scattered in every direction.
But mere moments later, he discovered to his astonishment that even at full speed, he still could not catch Zeng Tian!
After all that time spent stacking Flame Charge, Zeng Tian's speed had reached an extraordinary level. Even teleportation might not have been faster than him within a five-hundred-meter radius.
Once Flame Charge had stacked to its limit, Zeng Tian stopped circling and turned to attack Xiong Jun.
"Since your defenses are too strong for ordinary moves to work, I'll use moves that can pierce your armor."
Charizard beat his wings, forming dozens of blue-green Air Slashes, each over three meters long, and sent them flying. At the same time, he breathed out a swirling flame that drew in every last Air Slash, transforming into a rotating pillar of fire more than ten meters across that blasted toward Xiong Jun.
Within the Fire Spin, the Air Slashes ravenously absorbed the power of the surrounding flames and began spinning rapidly, driven by the vortex.
Almost instantly, those Air Slashes became blue-green and crimson meteors spinning at high speed, while the Fire Spin enveloped Xiong Jun and sealed off his escape routes.
Looking at the cage of flames around him, Xiong Jun finally grew somewhat solemn.
It was not because of the cage itself, but the blue-green blades within the flames. He actually sensed a trace of danger from them.
His instincts were right. Air Slash already had the ability to strike vital points, and with the rotational force and fiery power of Fire Spin added to it, its strength had undergone a qualitative leap.
Boom, boom, boom-
The blue-green and crimson meteors broke free of the Fire Spin and rained down on Xiong Jun like falling meteorites.
Even so, the pride of a dark gold terrorclaw bear kept Xiong Jun from even considering dodging. He raised both arms and swung them fiercely at the incoming Air Slashes.
With one swipe, dark golden claw marks appeared in the air. The ten claw marks not only destroyed most of the Air Slashes, but also tore apart the barrier formed by the Fire Spin.
Only a few Air Slashes, coming from tricky angles, escaped the claw marks and successfully struck Xiong Jun.
Clumps of dark golden fur fell to the ground, streaked with traces of blood. Air Slash's ability to strike vital points had worked.
Just then, Zeng Tian suddenly appeared behind Xiong Jun and attacked as his arms dropped.
Hands, claws, wings, tail...
For a moment, Zeng Tian's entire body became a ferocious weapon, unleashing one combination after another on Xiong Jun.
Combined with the extreme speed amplified by Flame Charge, this manifested as a streak of red light darting back and forth across Xiong Jun's body, leaving the field filled with Zeng Tian's afterimages.
"Gasp..."
On the small hill, the ferocious beasts all drew sharp breaths at the sight.
Bi Ji recovered and exclaimed, "What terrifying battle instincts. No wonder you were so confident before the fight, Scarlet King. With strength like that and so many skills, Xiong Jun really can't do anything to Zeng Tian unless he goes all out."
With her discerning eye, Bi Ji could naturally tell that Zeng Tian had already displayed no fewer than twenty skills in the battle.
Normally, simply being able to use so many skills proficiently would have been impressive enough.
But Zeng Tian had not only mastered these skills until he could unleash and withdraw them at will; he could also link them together into an assault as fierce as a raging storm, denying his opponent even a moment to breathe.
Only Xiong Jun's extraordinarily high defense kept him safe. Any other ferocious beast of the same level with ordinary defenses would likely have been injured within a few breaths.
"Actually, when I fought him, he never unleashed his skills this relentlessly. It seems Xiong Jun is putting him under far too much pressure."
Hearing Bi Ji's words, the Scarlet King replied with a bitter smile.
Judging by Zeng Tian's current performance, his strength had undoubtedly surpassed the Scarlet King's.
If the Scarlet King had been facing this situation, Flame Charge might have spared him from being forced to take a one-sided beating like Xiong Jun. But whether in the range of his skills or his ability to chain them together, he fell far short of Zeng Tian. The final outcome would not have been pleasant.
Meanwhile, the young lady Auspicious Beast gave a disgruntled huff at the sight. "He got this strong and didn't even tell me. He made me worry for nothing."
But a moment later, an irrepressible smile and a trace of pride appeared on her lips. As expected of the soul beast she had chosen-he really did her proud.
Before this, although she had trusted Zeng Tian's strength, she had never imagined he had become powerful enough to suppress even an expert like Xiong Jun to some extent.
Beside her, Zi JI was utterly stunned, her eyes trembling.
She imagined herself in Xiong Jun's position and realized she would not have fared much better.
That meant Zeng Tian's strength was by no means below hers, and might even have surpassed it.
And one must not forget that Zeng Tian was merely a fire-attribute lesser dragon with ten thousand years of cultivation and a thin Dragonkind bloodline.
She, on the other hand, was a Pureblood True Dragon with over two hundred thousand years of cultivation.
The very idea of comparing the two should have been a joke.
The Myriad Demon King narrowed his eyes slightly, his thoughts unreadable.
"He really is impressive."
Faced with such a performance, even Di Tian had to voice his praise.
But a moment later, Di Tian fixed a penetrating gaze on Zeng Tian and Xiong Jun and said, "Still, using skills like this consumes no small amount of soul power."
"You... that's enough!"
At the same time, Xiong Jun could no longer contain himself. His aura erupted, and faint traces of blood-red appeared across his dark golden fur.
Never in his life had Xiong Jun fought such a stifling battle. His counterattacks could not touch the blindingly fast Zeng Tian. He was simply taking a one-sided beating.
Even though most of Zeng Tian's attacks could not penetrate his defenses, and the worst damage so far had been little more than broken skin, he was still furious!
"Dark Gold Dreadclaw!"
Xiong Jun swung his enormous arms upward in front of him and clawed outward with his palms.
The next instant, terrifying dark golden light filled the sky, each sharp claw transforming into a dark golden blade over a hundred meters long.
Wherever those dark golden blades passed, space tore apart, exposing pitch-black claw marks in the sky.
And those dark golden blades were heading straight for Zeng Tian!