Seeking an Opening
A range of thirty to fifty miles is not considered a large area for cultivators.
Whether it's Sequence Holder like Changkong Luo or a cultivator like Zhang Xuezhou, both can patrol very quickly while running at full speed.
The faint roar of a tiger echoed through the mountains and forests, and Zhang Xuezhou had already pinpointed the location with remarkable speed.
If it weren't for the winged beasts hiding there, he would have already leaped down.
"It's there!"
Zhang Xuezhou himself is also a master of voice manipulation, with a high level of skill in voice changing and Demonic Sound Technique, and he is extremely perceptive in judging the source of sounds.
He braved the wind and waves, traversed three mountains, and then entered a stone forest filled with towering stone pillars. Beneath the massive stone pillars, some over thirty feet tall, lay various strange creatures draped in tiger skins.
As described by Chimman Haig and Zuo Teng, there were groups of four-legged ferocious tigers, as well as strange eight-legged ferocious tigers. There were also tiger cubs with long noses, thick legs, long wings, walking upright, without tiger hair but with tiger skin patterns, nearly three zhang long, and smaller than an adult's body.
Looking around, Zhang Xuezhou only felt that these ferocious beasts had strange shapes.
"If these ferocious beasts were guided to transform, what force guided them, and why did they transform into the shape of tigers?"
A group of strangely shaped tigers is odd, but once you step into the Xieluosi River Holy Land, such a situation becomes quite common.
Of course, Zhang Xuezhou must say that it is extremely rare for a group to collectively transform into tiger-like forms. Even the transformations in the Xieluosi River Holy Land mostly use human bodies as the standard, resulting in all sorts of strange and bizarre human appearances.
He observed the group of seemingly humanoid ferocious beasts from afar, high in the sky, and continued to investigate the reason why the beasts occupied this area.
This group of elderly Sequence Holder entered Qinmeng to hunt ferocious beasts. The beasts they hunted were not to help Zuo Lianguang and others step into the Seventh Sequence, but to help Ren Yisheng advance in the sequence.
If the ferocious beast that Ren Yisheng needed was not among them, it would be normal for Zhang Xuezhou and others to give up in the face of danger.
This is something that many of the older Sequence Holder are well aware of, and many have no choice but to do their best, even to the point of exhausting all means, to protect Zhang Xuezhou's safety in order to achieve what they need.
Zhang Xuezhou continued to observe, but found it difficult to distinguish these deformed creatures, and he didn't know if these ferocious beasts could display their original forms, nor could he find out why the ferocious beasts were lurking there.
He was too high in the air; even with his sharpest eyes, it was difficult to see clearly below. In fact, Zhang Xuezhou could see fewer ferocious beasts than Qimeng Haige had mentioned.
"I must get rid of that winged tiger beast before I can move freely!"
A hundred meters in the air is very high, equivalent to more than thirty stories high, but the vulture beast that the group had hunted earlier had a wingspan of more than twenty meters, and it only took two or three seconds to soar to a hundred meters in the air.
When body size changes, but the leaping motion can still maintain the same frequency, this will result in a significant increase in leaping speed and distance.
Just as Zhang Xuezhou transformed into a seven-zhang-tall giant, he felt that the journey of several hundred miles was terrifyingly short.
The winged tiger beast was only about ten feet long, but once it revealed its true form as a massive beast, it was only a matter of moments before Zhang Xuezhou was caught up.
He circled and flew around, constantly looking for an opportunity to land below and investigate.
"We can only wait and see what Chimmon Hagrid and his men do!"
No matter how Zhang Xuezhou tried to find his bearings, he always felt that once he fell behind, he lacked the ability to escape pursuit.
This made him wander around for a while, and finally he found a mountaintop area more than ten miles away from the ferocious beast as a waiting place.
"Being big has its advantages, and being small has its own merits!"
As long as one moves normally, a large body brings many crushing advantages, while a small body can take advantage of the terrain and has the potential for a fierce and rapid burst of power.
This is a choice made by demons after thousands, even thousands of years, or even longer.
These ferocious beasts resembling tigers may still be in their nascent selection stage, while Zhang Xuezhou only needs to copy the answers.
He even seriously considered the various problems he would face after the world's transformation, and also speculated about how the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon would feel after taking over his body.
When a muffled gunshot rang out, followed by a more urgent and high-pitched tiger roar, Zhang Xuezhou suddenly stood up and quickly formed the Cloud Soaring Technique Method incantation.
Clearly, Changkong Luo and the others had also discovered the situation and, through some kind of discussion and planning, used long-range shooting to guide and divide the ferocious beasts.
Although it is unknown who was in charge of the traction and what good retreat areas were available, the person firing was undoubtedly Song Xianzong.
"That old gun better be aimed at that winged beast!"
The more muffled the gunshot, the greater the power of the firearm.
Song Xianzong's large hunting firearms are highly likely to break through the resistance of ferocious beasts, and could even kill them instantly if a vital point is hit.
Zhang Xuezhou was hoping that Song Xianzong would kill the winged beast with one shot, rather than hitting the largest one.
He didn't release the hand seal he was holding until the nearby area heard Qimeng Haig shouting through a megaphone and the sounds of rocks collapsing, then Zhang Xuezhou leaped into the air.
He glanced back and saw that in the distant mountains and forests, Chimon Haig's figure was like a gray line drifting back and forth, while the nearly three-zhang-long tiger that Zhang Xuezhou had seen earlier roared and charged wildly in pursuit.
On the back of the three-zhang-long tiger, the tiny cub gripped tightly, occasionally letting out low, menacing growls.
Further afield, various ferocious tigers and beasts roared in pursuit, their forms occasionally appearing and disappearing in the jungle.
"That winged tiger really didn't show up!"
Zhang Xuezhou looked down, then up into the sky, and finally around the horizon.
After confirming it several times, he rode the waves and sped across the sky.
"Changkong Luo and his group are indeed using inducement and division!"
The large number of ferocious beasts gathered together made it difficult to carry out precise strikes. When Changkong Luo and his group initially targeted the beasts, they did not seek to survive, but only to eliminate the threat.
Besides Chimon Hagrid, the main force that lured the ferocious beasts, several other elderly Sequence Holder with advantages in running speed shared the task. Even Wang Haoran, who was good at ranged combat, was caught in the chase and escape.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced at him from afar and felt that Wang Haoran's movement through the mountains and forests was relatively stable, and the situation was most likely within Changkong Luo and the others' plan.
At another gathering point of ferocious beasts, the sounds of flashing swords and howling could be heard incessantly.
Winged beasts are the most troublesome, and Zhang Xuezhou was wary of getting close. Song Xianzong fired the first shot at this winged tiger, and later, Changkong Luo and others, who were in charge of the group's attack, joined forces to beat it up.
"That's strange. Are the wings on this ferocious beast just for show? Why doesn't it even flap its wings to pounce? It could at least flap them a couple of times!"
Seeing the group fighting amongst themselves in the rocky jungle, and the winged tigers and ferocious beasts being beaten so badly that they could roar but still not leap three zhang high with their wings intact, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't help but feel a bit curious.
But he quickly abandoned the idea, and after adopting a position that allowed him to avoid Song Xianzong's viewpoint using the stone pillar, Zhang Xuezhou's body leaped and plummeted rapidly.