Chapter 105: Emerald Demon Bird

Yu Tianyun and Zhu Zhuqing sat side by side by the creek, warmly and comfortably eating grilled fish. Yu Tianyun gazed at the pretty face of the companion beside him, but his mind kept pondering how to search for a Soul Beast suitable for Zhu Zhuqing.

"All this searching for half a day still hasn't found the Soul Beast that best fits Zhu Zhuqing. Should I use the fragrant Qiluo celestial item to attract Soul Beasts and increase search efficiency? That would inevitably draw too many Soul Beasts. Though I'm not afraid of them, I might not be able to fully protect Zhu Zhuqing; it's risky. Should I do it? …"

"No! …" Yu Tianyun, who was deep in thought, suddenly sprang up and lunged at Zhu Zhuqing at breakneck speed. In his haste, Yu Tianyun only managed to unleash massive Dragon Wings, shielding Zhu Zhuqing firmly beneath him.

Immediately afterward, Yu Tianyun felt a heavy object slam into his Dragon Wings. The force wasn't huge; he could easily withstand it, but if that same force hit Zhu Zhuqing, it would surely kill her with a single blow.

Yu Tianyun became greatly irritated, hurriedly helped Zhu Zhuqing to her feet, and turned his head toward the attacker.

Just now, he had been projecting his spiritual power to sense a radius of a hundred meters, when he suddenly detected a bird‑like Soul Beast charging toward them at incredible speed. Instinctively, Yu Tianyun first shielded Zhu Zhuqing, leaving no time to sense it in detail.

At that moment, as he looked at the Soul Beast, a feeling of disgust involuntarily rose in his heart.

It was a bird‑like Soul Beast whose whole body was a jade‑green hue. Only its beak was a vivid red, resembling a woodpecker, and it was about the size of a palm, yet its pair of emerald‑green eyes flashed with extreme ferocity.

Yu Tianyun had never seen such a Soul Beast; he was certain that his Soul Beast references never mentioned it, indicating it was a species unrecorded by humans or mistakenly thought extinct.

Thoughts in Yu Tianyun's mind raced like lightning, recalling some rare Soul Beast records from his past‑life memories.

In the blink of an eye, he had already searched his memories and found relevant knowledge about this Soul Beast.

This bird‑like Soul Beast is, tens of thousands of years later, the famed Emerald Demon Bird! Its power is by no means inferior to the Dark Golden Terror Claw Bear or the Titan Giant Ape; it is a top‑tier Super Soul Beast! The Emerald Demon Bird is among the most ruthless of bird Soul Beasts, and like the Auspicious Beast Three‑Eyed Golden Lion, it enjoys feeding on brain marrow, though the latter only preys on light‑aligned Soul Beasts. The Emerald Demon Bird targets both Soul Beasts and humans, with a particular penchant for human brain marrow. Like the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger, the Emerald Demon Bird is feared and loathed by all Soul Beasts.

This Soul Beast moves like lightning; its speed ranks among the best in the entire Soul Beast world. Yet it is extremely scarce; Yu Tianyun had thought it should have gone extinct long ago, but today they actually encountered it.

The Emerald Demon Bird once caused a massive catastrophe in ancient times; back then they were a swarming type of Soul Beast. A flock of Emerald Demon Birds would fly by, leaving all creatures with holes in their heads and no brain marrow! In comparison, the threats posed by the Dark Demon Evil God Tiger and the Human‑faced Demon Spider were merely minor skirmishes.

It is said that back then a Emerald Demon Bird King once fed on a True Dragon's brain marrow, continuously evolving into the most terrifying killer of that era.

Precisely because the True Dragon was slain, the Dragon Clan that ruled the continent at that time mustered its forces, organized the Soul Beasts, and launched a massive campaign to exterminate the Emerald Demon Birds.

Under the Dragon Clan's leadership, they slaughtered this class of Soul Beast almost completely, with only a handful surviving by a hair's breadth. This greatly reduced the Emerald Demon Bird's threat to continental life; even when they appear, it's only occasional, and they become extremely cautious.

After recalling this information, Yu Tianyun also understood why he felt disgust toward this Soul Beast—it was a nature bestowed by his martial soul. Zhu Zhuqing, still unaware of what had happened, looked up at Yu Tianyun, her eyes full of questions, but before she could speak, Yu Tianyun's figure flashed and vanished from beside her in an instant.

The emergence of this dangerous Soul Beast, the Emerald Demon Bird, which even actively attacked his own kitten, drove Yu Tianyun to the brink of fury. Yet at the same time, he afforded the Emerald Demon Bird some respect; he was now fully under Dragon Transformation, and after all, its beak is razor‑sharp—he didn't want to be injured by a momentary lapse.

Yu Tianyun has always favored caution; he would never deliberately hold back his power just to appear as a master. His style, like his nature, has always been thunderous and decisive—a single strike that kills.

The aura of this Emerald Demon Bird registers in Yu Tianyun's perception as just over a thousand years of cultivation; as for the exact figure, Yu Tianyun can only say it likely doesn't exceed eighteen hundred years.

Given this Emerald Demon Bird's prowess as a Super Soul Beast and its extreme speed, ordinary Soul Saints cannot even capture it.

But Yu Tianyun is not among them!

Not to mention, Yu Tianyun's combat power at all times can rival a Soul Fighter; in terms of his soul power cultivation, converted to a Soul Beast, it would correspond to a Soul Beast with eight to nine thousand years of cultivation.

Moreover, Yu Tianyun's bloodline is richer than that of a True Dragon; even a True Dragon with nine thousand years of cultivation is no match for him, let alone this thousand‑year‑old Emerald Demon Bird. Additionally, Yu Tianyun's soul skills are all amplification types; if he unleashes them at full force, his physical condition will surge to a terrifying level. His speed will far surpass that of the Emerald Demon Bird.

Yu Tianyun's figure flashed in an instant from beside Zhu Zhuqing to stand before the Emerald Demon Bird.

The Emerald Demon Bird, with a thousand‑year cultivation, hadn't fully recovered from being knocked back by Yu Tianyun's Dragon Wings; its head was dazed.

Since its birth, it had never encountered such a hard object in this Sunset Forest. Usually, any creature without excessively high cultivation would, under its ambush, have a hole punched through its skull.

Today it happened to spot two humans it most liked to eat; it sensed a great danger lingering on one of them, while the other human felt markedly weak.

Tempted by the delicacy, the not‑very‑smart creature decided to first feed on the weak human's brain marrow, then quickly depart. What it didn't expect was that it would slam hard into an incredibly hard object.

Yu Tianyun didn't care about its current state; his hands, transformed into Dragon Claws, seized the Emerald Demon Bird in an instant faster than the eye could blink. He would not easily give it a quick end.

Yu Tianyun's left Dragon Claw seized the Emerald Demon Bird's long beak and, with a light squeeze, snapped it. Before it could scream, his hands spread its wings; his Dragon Finger applied a slight force, crushing a segment of bone on the wing. That was not all—his Dragon Finger moved bit by bit, grinding the wing's flesh and bone like a mortar, muttering under his breath:

"How dare you harm Zhu Zhuqing; I will make you regret being born!"

(End of Chapter)