"In that case..."
Watching the Golden Giant Eagle hover a hundred meters overhead with its wings spread, still refusing to descend, Yu Ziyu lost the last of his patience.
Although his true body was a willow tree, Yu Ziyu could not stand remaining on edge for so long.
Naturally, he chose to act.
But before he could strike, he had to get the Golden Giant Eagle to come down.
At that thought, ideas raced through Yu Ziyu's mind.
Why wouldn't the golden eagle come down?
And if it wouldn't come down, why did it refuse to leave?
Question after question turned over in his mind.
Before long, as though something had occurred to him, Yu Ziyu suddenly gave a cold laugh.
"It must be wary. As an animal, even if it has evolved, its intelligence can't be very high. In that case, wariness is the only thing that would make it watch from the shadows without approaching."
"He's wary..."
"And the object of that wariness definitely isn't the peregrine falcons. The red fox is unlikely, too. That leaves only me."
"But I haven't shown him anything particularly unusual..."
As he murmured this, Yu Ziyu's heart suddenly sank.
Only now had another possibility occurred to him.
Aura.
The aura of the strong.
The aura his true body gave off was powerful enough to make the Golden Giant Eagle deeply wary.
With that thought, Yu Ziyu had a plan.
"Hoo..."
Letting out a deep breath, Yu Ziyu slowly opened the pores of his true body.
Trees breathed.
Yu Ziyu's true body was no exception.
But on one occasion, Yu Ziyu had happened to discover that he could freely control the tree's breathing.
In other words... he could hold his breath for a long time, just like a human.
And what did holding his breath mean?
Yu Ziyu guessed that it might offer some hope of reducing the aura he gave off.
Just like a martial art from his previous life-the Turtle-Breathing Technique.
"Inhale..."
Taking another deep breath, Yu Ziyu decisively held it.
With a boom, the entire willow tree shuddered slightly.
Immediately afterward, countless willow branches suddenly drooped.
For a moment, the entire willow tree seemed to have died...
Meanwhile, high in the sky,
"Screee!"
With another cry that could pierce metal and split stone, the Golden Giant Eagle abruptly spread its wings.
A flicker of almost human confusion crossed its eyes, but the Golden Giant Eagle slowly approached the willow tree on the ground.
In its perception, the field of aura this willow tree emitted had suddenly weakened considerably.
Yes, considerably.
Although it still extended three or four meters, that field of aura was insignificant compared with its own seven meters.
In other words, this place seemed to have become somewhere it could hunt for food.
What puzzled it, though, was why the field of aura had suddenly weakened.
The confusion flashed past.
The Golden Giant Eagle did not dwell on it.
Its simple intelligence left little room for thought.
Compared with humans, its thinking was very simple and very pure.
Food was everything.
And now, there was little danger here. It could hunt.
"Boom!"
With a beat of its wings, the Golden Giant Eagle became an arrow loosed from a bow, diving down.
At that moment, however, what the Golden Giant Eagle failed to notice was-
"Rumble..."
Accompanied by faint tremors, the soil beneath Yu Ziyu's willow body slowly split open. Then, one black root after another, each over ten meters long, emerged.
Under Yu Ziyu's control, the winding roots moved as readily as his own arms.
"Rotate..."
At a barely audible murmur, the black roots slowly began to twist.
At the same time, the tips of the roots slowly contorted until they stretched into very sharp, cone-like points.
Looking up, one would see what resembled a massive black spear over ten meters long.
But by now, the massive black spears had twisted around and around. Faint creaking sounds could even be heard from the roots, as though they might snap at any moment.
Moreover, there was more than one spear.
To ensure a lethal strike, Yu Ziyu had even brought his other eight major branching roots into play.
In other words, a full nine spears lay concealed around him.
And just then,
"Boom!"
A fierce wind sprang up, making Yu Ziyu's entire body sway uncontrollably.
The tree that towered above the forest would be battered by the wind.
The fierce wind carried by the Golden Giant Eagle's dive was far from pleasant for Yu Ziyu.
But precisely because the Golden Giant Eagle's charge was so thunderous, it failed to notice the massive black spears on the ground, poised to strike.
"Screee!"
With a hint of excitement, the Golden Giant Eagle extended its talons.
Then its entire body lunged at Yu Ziyu's true body.
In Yu Ziyu's field of vision, all he could see was a black shadow blotting out the sky.
But at that very moment, Yu Ziyu moved.
He moved at a speed beyond human imagination.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
Amid a succession of sounds tearing through the air, nine massive black spears shot skyward.
"Screee!"
As though sensing danger, the Golden Giant Eagle abruptly checked its body.
But with the speed it had already built up, how could it possibly stop just because it wanted to?
With a bang, a massive black spear struck it hard as it flapped its wings, unable to dodge in time.
With a scrape, fiery sparks flew everywhere. When Yu Ziyu's root, as hard as steel, stabbed into the Golden Giant Eagle's wing, it actually sent up a shower of sparks.
Damn, that hard?
Exclaiming inwardly, Yu Ziyu felt somewhat helpless.
Those golden wings truly deserved the system's assessment that they were as hard as an alloy. Their hardness was beyond question.
But if that was all it had, this was as far as it would go.
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