The Ferocious Beast Leader's Ability
"Such successful cases of down-on-their-luck individuals venturing out to start businesses, hoping to become rich overnight and return home in glory, are rare!"
Zhang Xuezhou struggles to fight across borders and against opponents of greater strength, but he excels at cleaning up the mess, making it difficult for his opponents to turn the tide.
He shot off to dodge, then stood high in the air, riding the waves, and coldly watched the ferocious beast leader fall from the sky.
Seeing the massive body of the beast fall into the forest and tumble down repeatedly, Zhang Xuezhou did not rush to approach. Instead, he waited for several minutes until the beast leader stopped moving before stopping his cloud-riding technique.
He had maintained a distance of about 200 to 400 meters from the leader of the ferocious beasts until now, when he stepped within 100 meters.
Zhang Xuezhou glanced around, muttered an incantation, and the pebbles and soil beneath his feet gradually turned into sand. With the help of his Law Power, the sand turned into streams that flowed towards the ferocious beast leader.
Lacking any protection, the sand easily filled the beast leader's nostrils, mouth, and ears, and continued to seep into the gaps and passages in its body.
"Roar!"
A mournful roar rang out, and another ferocious beast leader stood up and swayed as it walked.
In his counterattack against Zhang Xuezhou, he chose four methods: enduring humiliation, destroying equipment, suddenly erupting, and feigning death to kill, but none of them were truly effective.
His opponent wasn't particularly strong, but the opponent had completely anticipated all of his counterattack methods in his current predicament and showed no signs of carelessness.
The fine sand kept clogging his nostrils, making it difficult for him to breathe, and some of the sand went deep into his throat, triggering a series of coughs.
His ears were filled with fine sand, which made it difficult to distinguish external sounds. Only the sound of his own stumbling footsteps swirled in his mind, growing louder and louder.
Clearly, his own footsteps couldn't have produced that sound, meaning he was listening to the throbbing of his own muscles.
This situation can only occur when one enters a state of extreme stillness; if such external conditions are not present, it means that he is heading towards death.
This is a sound that only comes when death is imminent.
As it continued to trample forward, the ferocious beast leader's consciousness grew weaker and weaker.
Even if he still possessed some remaining spiritual strength, it was difficult to guide it at this moment.
His opponent didn't give him even the slightest chance to turn the tables.
Stumbling and staggering for an unknown amount of time, his mind went blank, yet he seemed to vaguely see a huge and holy winged white tiger before his consciousness finally sank away.
"This ferocious beast is extremely dangerous!"
For the first time, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the equipment for imprisoning the ferocious beast was inadequate.
No heavy truck could tow away such a behemoth as the Snake King, and no loading or unloading vehicle could imprison this ferocious beast leader once he regained consciousness.
The opponent's tiger tail can break through the material, causing the alloy to weather into pieces in a short time. The opponent's mouth can spit out invisible blades that are as sharp as knives, similar to Ren Yisheng's ability in the Eighth Sequence. This method is enough to penetrate the gaps in the alloy railings, thereby causing damage to outsiders.
Zhang Xuezhou was unsure whether the opponent possessed the ability to mentally attack, but considering the capabilities of the hairless tiger and the information transmitted by the beast leader's immense mental power, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the opponent's mental abilities were not weak.
Killing the beast leader would solve everything, but no one, whether it was Zhang Xuezhou or the others, came to Qinmeng with the goal of killing a beast. Everyone was hoping to hunt live prey to take back home.
Besides the value of the ferocious beasts themselves, the leaders of these beasts possess a great deal of secrets.
Zhang Xuezhou was unaware of the situation in other countries, but for the Scarlet Alliance State, this was the first ferocious beast capable of communicating in a language.
Even if the other party only says a few casual words, it will help them quickly understand Qin Meng.
At this moment, Zhang Xuezhou also needs to be wary of the Yellow Sand Entanglement Technique turning his opponent's feigned death into a real one.
Zhang Xuezhou employed numerous methods in his pursuit of the ferocious beast leader, but figuring out how to deal with the leader after the successful hunt was a real headache for him.
"The Buddha has bound the living Water Ape Great Sage, Divine Lord Zhenyuan has restrained the dead Mingwang Peng Bird with his sleeve. These methods are usually useless, but they become a real headache when needed!"
Zhang Xuezhou pondered for a few seconds, only remembering that others had similar methods of arrest and restraint, but he himself did not possess such abilities.
This allowed him to loosen his Technique Method and get closer to the beast leader, while constantly observing the beast's body, trying to find a way to control it.
"Mortal, you win. If you wanted to kill me, you already did. You didn't kill me right now, so what do you need?"
Zhang Xuezhou searched for a while until he heard a faint roar accompanied by heavy breathing, at which point he gave up the search and kept a certain distance from the beast leader.
"Stop messing with me, hmm!"
After a series of manipulating sand to create a tight blockage, the ferocious beast leader couldn't hold it in and was knocked unconscious again by Zhang Xuezhou.
Unable to find anything, Zhang Xuezhou had no choice but to repeatedly torment the beast leader.
After knocking the opponent unconscious three times, the ferocious beast leader, upon regaining consciousness, was left only with the strength to gasp for breath.
His eyelids drooped, his tiger-like eyes rolled back and he looked lifeless; even his body muscles had relaxed, completely lacking the taut strength he had previously displayed.
"Speak up, say something while you can still breathe!"
Zhang Xuezhou, which was rare for him, causing the beast leader to open its mouth slightly. However, it did not let out a roar, but only opened its tiger mouth slightly, as if it wanted to express itself but was unable to. In the end, it slumped down and even closed its eyes.
"It seems I've gone too far with the torture, but I can't let you rest and recover your strength before giving you a chance to fight back!"
Zhang Xuezhou flipped his back over and took out a blade from the Infinite Blade.
He then determined that the ferocious beast was unable to move, and began searching for the leader's tendons and bones to see if he could sever the tendons in its limbs and wings, thereby breaking its ability to move.
Beneath the loose tiger skin, Zhang Xuezhou felt as if a real body was hidden beneath.
After a series of cuts and slices, he realized he wasn't as efficient as Wang Haoran, leaving the floor covered in pungent, foul-smelling blood.
Perhaps it was the overwhelming smell of blood, or the stinging pain of severed tendons and ripped flesh, or perhaps it was the recovery of some strength while lying on the ground, but when the ferocious beast leader once again gathered its spiritual power and spoke, its voice was filled with deep despair.
"You took advantage of my unconsciousness to sever my four legs and the major veins of my wings, and destroyed the eighteen sources of power throughout my body. I, Tiger Hao, will never forgive you, this hatred will not lessen even after nine lifetimes! Ah~"
"I'm powerless now, but my people will avenge me!"
"Whether you ascend to heaven or burrow to the earth, whether you are alive or a dead soul, they will dig you out and subject you to endless torment!"
The curses continued, accompanied by Zhang Xuezhou's repeated screams of pain as he cut himself with the knife.
Is this all you've got?
With each slash, Zhang Xuezhou made another cut, only to find the new wound mysteriously disappearing. The severed wound healed instantly; he had only inflicted pain on the beast leader, but no new wounds had formed.
The wounds he inflicted while the beast leader was unconscious still remained, and did not heal quickly even after the beast leader regained consciousness; only minor adjustments were made to the injuries.
After so much time had passed, Zhang Xuezhou finally understood the special characteristics of the ferocious beast leader and why the other party's body remained intact despite repeated injuries.
He also clearly understood the beast leader's despair, which was that he had, intentionally or unintentionally, discovered a truly effective way to kill him, making him truly feel the despair before death.