Heart Trembles at the Sight, Spirit Stirs at the Beholding

As Ji Yuan spoke, he did not dare conclude what kind of strange beast this was. At a glance, it looked utterly unfamiliar, and aside from its mournful howls, it had no intention of communicating at all. It simply attacked the flood dragons like a savage beast fighting for its life.

Including the two clusters of red light that Old Yellow Dragon had previously swatted back into the darkness below with a claw, Ji Yuan counted twelve attacking strange beasts in all. The one he had just observed merely had more distinctive features. Though these beasts looked broadly similar, each had its differences—some resembled fish more, some snakes, and some beasts.

Of the three hundred flood dragons, only twenty or thirty were truly fighting these strange beasts. The rest had spread toward the sides due to the cramped space. In this situation, their dragon nature made them more inclined toward close-quarters grappling.

"Aang-roar..."

One flood dragon was directly bitten in the abdomen by one of the strange beasts and let out a pained roar. Demonic arts surged across its dragon body, whipping up enormous underwater whirlpools. Yet it could not shake off the monster within the red light. It viciously contracted its dragon body and used the Dragon Entanglement Technique to coil tightly around the strange beast, intending to crush it to death.

"Crack... crack..."

The flood dragon's powerful strangling force was truly terrifying. Waves of teeth-grating sounds came from the strange beast's body, like rusty springs being pulled tighter and tighter.

"Wuu... wuaa—"

Blood burst from the strange beast's mouth, but the moment it sprayed out, it ignited upon meeting the water. When it splashed onto the flood dragon, it made the dragon let out an enormous scream.

"Roar... it burns, it's burning me to death..."

The flood dragon's