156: A fifth-tier ferocious beast, the Thunder Dragon!

Li Qing opened his massive mouth and swallowed the corpse of the Black-Scaled Giant Crocodile directly into his stomach to begin digesting it.

Streams of pure energy surged into his body.

In less than a minute, the flesh and blood of a Fourth-tier Ferocious Beast had entered the Dragon Turtle's mouth.

[Devoured Black-Scaled Giant Crocodile flesh, evolution value +15]

The ten Ferocious Beast generals following behind shuddered all over when they saw this scene.

The gaze they directed at their King's back was filled with awe and fanaticism.

The King was too strong!

The journey ahead was indeed as Li Qing had expected.

The Great Xia Dragon River was fraught with danger.

All sorts of strange and powerful Vicious Beasts emerged one after another.

There were schools of 'Ogre Fish' with teeth as sharp as knives.

There were 'Green-eyed Water Snakes' with bodies as fast as lightning that spat deadly poison.

Li Qing even encountered a 'Giant Claw Crab' over thirty meters long, whose strength had reached the Peak of the Fourth-tier!

However, these terrifying Vicious Beasts, which would be enough to cause a bloodbath in the outside world, faced only one fate before the current dragon turtle avatar.

And that was death!

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

Li Qing's body was like an indestructible heavy tank, rampaging through the dangerous riverbed!

Any Vicious Beast that dared to provoke him, whether Third-tier or Fourth-tier, was directly rammed to death in the simplest and most violent way, then swallowed into his stomach to be converted into pure evolution value!

As he traveled, Li Qing's evolution value skyrocketed at a speed visible to the naked eye!

[Killed Third-tier Middle Stage Vicious Beast 'Ogre Fish King', obtained evolution value +260!]

[Killed Third-tier Late Stage Vicious Beast 'Green-eyed Water Snake', obtained evolution value +340!]

[Killed Fourth-tier Early Stage Vicious Beast 'Giant Claw Crab', obtained evolution value +512!]

...Refreshing!

It's so damn refreshing!

Li Qing felt like he was playing a mob-grinding game, and he was the top-tier player who had turned on cheats!

This pleasure of crushing strength and crazy harvesting left him intoxicated.

However, just as the dragon turtle avatar was about to swim out of the Great Xia Dragon River and enter the estuary, trailing a path of blood and gore...

He encountered a little bit of trouble.

Ahead was a canyon where the current was extremely turbulent.

Towering cliffs on both banks squeezed the wide river surface until it was less than a thousand meters wide.

The rushing river water formed a massive whirlpool here; within the current, undercurrents surged and jagged rocks lurked, full of unknown dangers.

The moment the dragon turtle avatar stepped into this canyon's waters...

Li Qing's heart suddenly skipped a beat!

An unprecedentedly strong sense of crisis shrouded his mind!

In the deepest part of this canyon, an incomparably terrifying and powerful existence lay in ambush!

That Aura was tyrannical, cold, and filled with destructive power!

Peak Fourth-tier?

No, a Peak Fourth-tier wouldn't have such an Aura!

Fifth-tier?

It is definitely a Fifth-tier existence!

It was more powerful than all the Vicious Beasts he had encountered before combined!

“Roar!”

Li Qing stopped in his tracks and let out a low growl, signaling his subordinates behind him to stop.

His golden vertical pupils warily scanned the dark, deep canyon waters ahead.

And right at that moment.

“BOOM—!!!”

A bolt of lightning, as thick as a water bucket and flashing with blinding silver light, shot out from the depths of the canyon without any warning!

That silver lightning, thick as a bucket and carrying a terrifying Aura of total destruction, instantly tore through layers upon layers of river water.

It pulled a long vacuum channel through the water and, at a speed that exceeded the limits of visual perception, struck the dragon turtle avatar's back shell squarely!

BOOM!!!

A dull, massive sound, like a Heavenly God beating a drum, exploded in the deep riverbed!

In that instant, the entire canyon's waters seemed to be illuminated by this terrifying lightning power!

With the dragon turtle avatar as the center, the river water within a hundred-meter radius was instantly evaporated, forming a huge void!

Violent lightning energy, like countless silver snakes, scurried madly over the Dragon Turtle's massive body, emitting ear-piercing crackles!

The ten Ferocious Beast generals behind the dragon turtle avatar didn't even have time to react before being blown away by the violent energy aftershocks!

They all spat blood, their scales charred black by the electricity, and were swept away into the distance by the turbulent current like dumplings falling into a pot, their fates unknown.

This was the terrifying power of a Fifth-tier Ferocious Beast!

A mere exploratory attack was enough to insta-kill a group of Second and Third-tier Vicious Beasts!

However, for the dragon turtle avatar at the center of the explosion, which had taken the full brunt of the lightning strike, the situation was not as bad as imagined.

Xuanming Divine Armor!

The moment the lightning struck its back shell, that layer of divine armor condensed from the world's Xuanming Qi erupted with a deep black light!

The black light swirled, forming a massive vortex that madly devoured and converted the violent lightning energy!

Ninety percent of the lightning damage was directly nullified by the divine armor!

The remaining ten percent, while still terrifying, only caused the dragon turtle avatar—with its Physical Body strength of five hundred thousand pounds and perverted defense—to feel a wave of numbness and a slight surge in its blood and Qi.

“Refreshing!”

Li Qing's mind within the avatar felt no fear; instead, an unprecedented surge of excitement welled up!

This was the kind of opponent he wanted!

This was a real battle!

Those Third and Fourth-tier trash from before weren't even qualified to make him warm up; they were just mobile evolution values.

But this unknown existence ahead had made him feel a long-lost pressure with just a single strike!

From the information Li Qing's main body had gathered in the Royal Capital during this time, he naturally knew that the fifth stage for a Martial Artist was the Divine Power Realm.

And a Fifth-tier Ferocious Beast was equivalent to a human Martial Artist in the Divine Power Realm.

Li Qing controlled the dragon turtle avatar to slowly lift its mountain-like head from the waters boiling from the lightning strike.

His golden vertical pupils pierced through the layers of water curtains, looking toward the deepest part of the canyon.

There, a massive figure radiating endless ferocity was slowly emerging from the darkness.

It was a terrifying giant beast over fifty meters long!

Its body was neither quite snake nor quite dragon, covered entirely in a layer of silver-white scales that seemed condensed from lightning; every scale flickered with dangerous sparks.

Atop its head grew a spiral One-Horn, wrapped in lightning as if it were a peerless weapon capable of summoning Nine Heavens divine thunder.

Beneath its belly were four thick Li Zhua, claws like hooks that shimmered with a cold, grim light, appearing capable of easily tearing through the hardest substances in the world.

Its eyes were not the clouded and tyrannical eyes of ordinary Vicious Beasts, but a cold silver, full of intelligence and pride!