46: The difference in strength between fierce beasts

Facing this attack that seemed to freeze the very air, the Black-headed Red-tailed Bee Beast King's entire body stiffened.

Then, under the terrified gaze of this Beast King, nine ice blades, like the scythes of the Grim Reaper, instantly slashed towards it.

"Whoosh~"

Against the attack from the peak sixth-tier Super Exotic Beast, the peak fifth-tier Beast King was cut in half without any surprise.

Looking at the frozen, stiff corpse of the Black-headed Red-tailed Bee Beast King slowly falling from the air, Qingyang opened his bloody maw and swallowed it whole.

[Devour Point +18.]

Such a low devour point made Qingyang couldn't help but frown, looking extremely ferocious and terrifying.

Not far away, Ming Tian's entire body was shaking uncontrollably out of fear, shedding quite a few feathers.

"The rest is up to you. Focus more on that initial fifth-tier Fierce Beast. Remember, our plan is to buy time."

Ming Tian left, but Qingyang returned to the cave even more urgently at the fastest speed.

"So what if it's a seventh-tier Divine Beast? Just an old fossil." After saying this, Qingyang curled up his massive body and also began to fall into a deep sleep, slowly advancing to the seventh-tier.

The reason he called the opponent an old fossil was something Qingyang only said after learning the conditions for the advancement of the tiger type Fierce Beast bloodline.

From zero to six years old is a cub; from six to twelve is called 'Striped'; from twelve to eighteen is 'Great Insect'; from eighteen to twenty-four is 'White Forehead', and only by breaking the racial age limit and growing to thirty years old does it become the Mountain Lord people speak of.

Above the Mountain Lord is the Mystic Altar. Currently, that fellow Huangshan is at this level. Above it are three more levels: Kaiyuan, Bazhou, and Wuqian.

Only after passing through these three stages can the opponent advance to the legendary Divine Beast, the White Tiger.

According to Huangshan's introduction of their race's advancement process to Qingyang back then, Qingyang guessed that the White Tiger, the controller of the Central Region, had lived for at least several hundred years.

Or even longer.

Humans turn cunning when old, let alone this old fellow.

So, to ensure against any unforeseen circumstances, what Qingyang needed to do was to take advantage of being a young Exotic Beast with abundant vitality and break through to the same level as the opponent in one go.

If he really couldn't defeat this old thing by then, at worst he could run away.

As for the eighth-tier, Qingyang didn't even dare to think about it at the moment.

On the sixth day of Qingyang's sleep, when Ming Tian faced that initial fifth-tier Fierce Beast, he constantly acted as if he was severely injured and about to die at any moment.

The illusion Ming Tian created made this fifth-tier Fierce Beast even more frantic.

It seemed as if it could kill Ming Tian directly with a single push.

Under this illusion, Ming Tian lured the opponent into the core of the Eternal Night Forbidden Zone and killed it by a strange coincidence.

And after devouring the opponent, that fellow Ming Tian actually felt the sensation of being about to advance.

Unlike Qingyang, other Fierce Beasts, once they felt the sensation of advancing, couldn't delay at all.

Finally, after telling Little Luan and a few Super Fierce Beasts that he was about to advance, Ming Tian also entered the small island and began his breakthrough sleep.

Everything seemed to be developing in a good direction. While the several Super Fierce Beasts, including Xuan Ming, were engaged in a fierce tug-of-war, they were also killing the opponent's Fierce Beast tide. As they devoured, their strength also rapidly increased.

Until the second day after Ming Tian began his sleep, a change occurred.

It started with Huangshan, a Beast King who had disappeared for a long time and had now become a peak fifth-tier Beast King, running over from the human city in the west, covered in blood.

Huangshan's appearance made the several great Fierce Beasts, including Hong Ying, Xuan Ming, and Mao Qiu, show expressions of joy.

However, just as Hong Ying met Huangshan and was about to ask about his situation over the past few months, Huangshan suddenly raised his tiger claw and fiercely swiped at Hong Ying.

Watching her entire body being sent flying unharmed, Hong Ying, mid-air, finally understood why Huangshan did this.

She saw a two-headed black leopard covered in scales, simultaneously emitting a peak fifth-tier aura, charging towards Huangshan.

Huangshan's swipe had saved Hong Ying.

However, before Hong Ying could recover from the emotion of escaping death, a black shadow from a distance, its entire body creating afterimages, flew towards Hong Ying.

"Whoosh~"

As the hard beak instantly pierced through Hong Ying's body, Hong Ying only felt her entire body suddenly being torn in half.

Subsequently, a strange bird with its head covered in white scales but its body covered in blood-red feathers directly swallowed Hong Ying.

On the verge of death, Hong Ying muttered in disbelief, "Another peak fifth-tier Fierce Beast."

"Roar~"

Huangshan watched as Qingyang's current top enforcer was instantly killed like this. His entire body, over twenty meters long, although covered in blood, still emitted a fierce yellow light. He suddenly turned and charged towards the two-headed black leopard.

There was hardly a single good spot on his body, with many wounds so deep they exposed bone. It was hard to imagine what Huangshan had gone through in the past few months.

A tiger giving birth to three cubs is bound to have one leopard. Looking at this two-headed deformed kin opposite him, a trace of sorrow flowed from the depths of Huangshan's tiger eyes.

Because this two-headed leopard before him was Huangshan's full-blooded younger brother.

And this was the reason why Huangshan, as a regional controller, had been so passive in the past few months.

"Chirp~"

Just as Huangshan was fighting his "brother", the white-headed red-feathered strange bird, after devouring Hong Ying, suddenly opened its sharp beak and, with a "whoosh~", tore off a piece of flesh from Huangshan's back.

"Roar~"

The intense pain made Huangshan tremble uncontrollably, and his fight with the two-headed leopard instantly fell into a disadvantage.

Further away, looking at Huangshan's tragic state, Xuan Ming actually didn't know whether he should go to rescue Huangshan or not.

In this complex mood, Xuan Ming suddenly extended his thick limbs from his shell and roared, "This old man's defense is invincible, what the hell am I afraid of?"

The next second, the ground shook and mountains swayed. Xuan Ming, with a diameter of tens of meters, suddenly strode with his thick limbs and quickly charged towards the battlefield where the three Beast Kings were.

Without much hesitation, the moment Xuan Ming arrived beside Huangshan, he suddenly picked up Huangshan with his mouth, threw him onto his back, and took off running towards the core of the Eternal Night Forbidden Zone.

Peak fourth-tier Xuan Ming primarily focused on defense, with speed being secondary, so he simply couldn't outrun those two fifth-tier Beast Kings.

But to save Huangshan, Xuan Ming still endured the pain of the fierce attacks on his turtle shell and frantically ran towards the core island of Eternal Night.

Gradually, as Xuan Ming, carrying Huangshan, got closer and closer to the small island, the pursuing two-headed leopard and the strange bird Beast King both stopped their pursuit and gazed at the distant small island.

Because from that small island, the two Beast Kings actually felt an even higher-level aura.

The aura of a sixth-tier Super Fierce Beast, or perhaps even stronger.

Faced with this situation, the only thing the two Beast Kings could do was exchange glances and then quickly leave the area.