Chapter 108: Terrifying and Pitiful Creatures

Baichuan slowly approached the waterfall, sighed deeply, then stepped through it.

Sure enough, past the waterfall, what came into his eyes was an enormous iron gate.

That iron gate stood right before Baichuan, blocking the intrusion of any peeping eyes.

But that couldn't stop him, Baichuan. He slowly extended both forepaws and placed them right at the center of the iron gate—the locked spot—then the current surged once more.

As time ticked by, the spot where Baichuan's claws rested on the iron gate began to turn a glowing red, eroded by the high-energy current.

Of course, it wasn't only the gate that turned red—Baichuan's two claws also began to redden and blacken, but Baichuan, relying on his powerful Regeneration, didn't care.

Just like that, going head-to-head with a massive iron gate, it wasn't long before the gate grew redder and even began to show signs of melting.

Only then did Baichuan stop his Electric Discharge, taking a deep breath. Clearly, sustaining such a long discharge wasn't an easy task for him either.

He stared at the iron gate that had begun to glow red, his gaze hardened, and in an instant he raised his right claw high and brought it crashing down.

"Boom!"

A tremendous thunderous sonic boom exploded, then rapidly spread in all directions—the brittle ring of metal, the shuddering of the iron gate!

The sound was so loud it faintly drowned out the roar of the waterfall.

Under that strike, a dent appeared in the iron gate—punched out by a single blow from the giant beast.

Seeing the gate still hadn't opened, Tanghui once again raised his claw and slammed it down.

In an instant, the booming of metal on metal rang out unceasingly through the valley, even taking on a rhythmic quality.

Finally, with a "Crack!", the center of that massive metal gate burst open, leaving a huge hole.

Only then did the giant beast lower his still-somewhat-deformed left claw; the sharp claw tips beneath had long since vanished.

That was flesh and blood colliding head-on with a steel gate!

The giant beast won a bitter victory.

Slowly exhaling a breath of stale air, the giant beast ignored the searing pain from his claws, his gaze burning as he looked inward, thinking:

"After paying such a huge price, don't let me down!"

Leaving those words behind, the giant beast decisively pushed open the gate and walked in.

The moment he stepped inside, before he could see what lay within, the giant beast felt waves of scorching heat rushing at him, and the moisture in the air was extremely thick.

For a moment, it gave him the illusion that he wasn't taking a steam bath?

Instinctively, facing such a blistering environment, the Ice Frost on the giant beast's body spontaneously surfaced and became active across his hide, to combat the searing temperature.

In an instant, the giant beast transformed into an ice-attribute Dragon Species radiating a ghostly white glow.

And at that moment, what came into his eyes was an enormous heat source—like a bonfire, the heat was absurdly intense.

The scorching heat source and the thick water vapor made it impossible for the giant beast to see the specifics inside clearly; he could only vaguely make out, in his mind's eye, a massive creature lying prone on the ground.

After adjusting for a while, he finally truly saw what was inside, saw the source of the heat.

It was a Baichuan soaked in murky pool water, its body a full seven meters long, its entire form a uniform red with not a trace of skin covering it, covered in various tangled, scabbed-over flesh.

Seen from afar, it looked like a tiger stripped of its skin lying prone on the ground, but strangely it had a pair of Wing Hands with a wingspan of nearly one meter.

So much so that it gave one a sense of being extraordinarily massive.

Visually, the giant beast had to admit—this was the largest land creature he had ever seen besides himself; even an elephant couldn't compare.

It was a bat, a bat far larger than its kind, a bat stripped of skin, its raw red flesh exposed!

Such a massive bat, just like that, wings spread, was pinned to the ground—countless huge iron chains either pierced through its body and wings or bound it down.

The pool water it soaked in slowly emitted wisps of steam, evaporated by the extreme heat.

Seen from afar, the air above this region visibly twisted and warped, burned and deformed by the extreme heat.

At that moment, horror and grandeur played out at the same time.

It made the giant beast couldn't help but sigh—how could such a strange form of life even exist!

Without a doubt, it was a Strange Beast, a Strange Beast related to fire.

Perhaps it could be called a "Fire Bat!"

The giant beast just stood there quietly watching it, his eyes filled with awe and longing.

Both awed by its form and yearning for its terrifying power.

Such a Baichuan's ability was about to become his; he was about to truly obtain the power of fire, not merely the petty trick of breathing flame!

At the thought, even Tanghui couldn't help but get a little excited.

Perhaps the giant beast's gaze was too scorching, for the massive bat slowly awoke from its slumber, lifting its dog-like head to look at the giant beast.

In an instant, the two Baichuan locked eyes.

Sharp, icy dragon pupils and burning, violent beast pupils stared at each other.

It was a clash of ice and fire!

What a violent gaze it was!

Just like the blazing summer sun, its pupils seemed to burn with an inextinguishable raging fire.

Unfortunately, the giant beast could read from them the despair and weakness behind the owner of those eyes.

It was a life that had been tormented day and night, its hope and drive worn away, able only to drag out its last days.

Its strength had been drained again and again by those greedy monsters, leaving it in its weakest state.

If not for various tonic medicines and its own tenacious vitality keeping it going, it would likely have died long ago.

But even if it was still alive, in such a wretched state, could it truly be called alive?

At that moment, even though it was a pitiful mess chained to the ground, the giant beast seemed to see, in its figure, the bold spirit it once had soaring across the heavens, looking down on all below.

Strange Beasts—truly, they are both terrifying and pitiful creatures.

For some reason, the giant beast recalled what Zhangxiaodan had said at the very beginning.

Indeed, a lone, mindless creature with no cunning can never outfight the treacherous, despicable humans.

That's right, and that includes me!

The giant beast was deeply convinced of this.

And while I was lost in thought, the panel scan in my eyes kept increasing without pause.

Wrong, perhaps it's the methods of this group of humans. In the giant beast's eyes, the Fire Bat behind is in a state of powerless resistance, so I can't just approach and scan it directly.

At this, Tanghui was also happy to see that scene, because perhaps the process of gaining power this time might be the same as with the Ice Silkworm last time.

So the fact that that Strange Beast can stay alive for now is not a good thing, because regression also takes Time.

I'm just afraid the situation is similar to the Ice Silkworm, needing to plunder power, but it delays dying, causing the power to dissipate and vanish.

In my idle moment, I suddenly thought of something — it seems only one Strange Beast exists out there, so why isn't there another one?

You should know that two sects are stationed out there, the Flying Heaven Sect and the Earth Dragon Gang.

Generally speaking, any sect that can be called a small sect should have one.

But after the giant beast thought it over carefully, it found that this actually wasn't the case. In the subsequent one-sided slaughter, only the people of the Flying Heaven Sect left a bit of an impression on me, as for the Earth Dragon Gang?

Aren't they just an afterthought?

They basically had no sense of presence. Coupled with the woman I saw back in Yingu, who, upon hearing that her child couldn't possibly join the Flying Heaven Sect, wore a face full of disappointment.

And out there, two sects are stationed there. If they really had two Strange Beasts, would the Earth Dragon Gang really be so servile?

You should know two tigers cannot share one mountain.

All of this invisibly tells Tanghui that the Flying Heaven Sect is better than the Earth Dragon Gang.

And what could be the reason for causing that scene?

Without a doubt, the Strange Beast!

Only a Strange Beast can suppress a sect that doesn't have one.

Thinking of this, the giant beast truly understood Yingu now.

But whether understood or not, it's no big deal — they're all slaughtering themselves anyway.

At most, it adds a little understanding of some secrets of this world.

The giant beast just lay coiled on the ground like that, watching that Fire Bat silently as it pondered.

(End of Chapter)