72: Chapter 72 The Lion's Wrath

Divine Phoenix Mountain, on the outskirts of Jianghai City.

At this moment.

Atop the peak of Divine Phoenix Mountain, a massive white bird with an elegant posture and an extraordinary aura gazed into the distance.

"Good grief?! So you three were the ones who led the little devil here?!"

When Ye Yang saw the golden Male Lion trailing a few miles behind the three humans, for some reason, this sentence suddenly popped into his mind.

Shaking his head, his golden pupils narrowed into thin slits.

He focused his attention on the golden Male Lion twenty miles away.

Seeing its majestic posture and the domineering aura as it plowed through the forest, Ye Yang was certain that this lion had indeed evolved to "D" rank!

Although he didn't know how small the gap was between "D-" and "D" rank, Ye Yang wouldn't risk his life without confidence.

"Sigh... looks like it's time to make a run for it!"

He looked at the spirit tree on the mountain peak.

At this point, his strength was no longer as weak as before; he was fully capable of migrating with the spirit tree and the white jade bamboo from the cave.

Without these two spiritual plants, Divine Phoenix Mountain would no longer be so extraordinary.

"I need to hurry and tell my three underlings to flee..."

"Hmm?"

Ye Yang's eyes suddenly flickered as he felt a ripple from the distant sky. He looked up!

A black dot appeared in his field of vision!

It was actually a helicopter!

This helicopter was of a completely different model than the ones Ye Yang had shot down before...

Ye Yang's movements halted, his eyes flickering.

A few seconds later, a foolproof plan began to form in his mind.

"It seems the humans are getting serious. Perhaps I don't have to give up Divine Phoenix Mountain, and I might even take this chance to kill this lion!"

The reason was simple.

He actually sensed a hint of danger from the distant helicopter, and that aura of danger was even more direct than the one emanating from the lion.

...

In fact, Ye Yang's intuition was correct.

Although Jianghai City was a second or third-tier city located deep in the south and not bordering any frontiers, it didn't possess its own powerful armed military forces.

However, it still had basic combat units.

This helicopter was a modern, typical support-class tiger helicopter!

With fast flight support and sufficient heavy firepower, it was practically a harvester of lives when operating in areas without anti-aircraft systems!

"Reporting to the City Mayor, Unit One has located the target. Shall we engage?!"

"Hold your fire! There are still humans fleeing ahead!"

"What?!"

The crew of the tiger helicopter looked closely and indeed saw figures a few miles in front of the Male Lion.

The Male Lion was moving very fast; it was now only two or three miles away from the trio!

On the ground.

Reporter Wang Xiaoli and her group were running for their lives, reaching the fastest speed of their lives!

Because a massive, man-eating monster was chasing them from behind.

"Hurry... Divine Phoenix Mountain is just ahead! As long as we get close, the lion's target will definitely shift!"

"Alright!"

But while the idea was good, their physical strength couldn't sustain it.

They had been fleeing for half a day; no matter how strong their will to survive, it couldn't offset their physical exhaustion!

"I can't... I can't keep going!"

Reporter Wang Xiaoli, the one with the least stamina among the three, lost her balance while running and crashed to the ground, drenched in sweat.

The other two soldiers also stopped running, pulling Reporter Wang Xiaoli up from the ground to continue fleeing.

"You two should just run on your own..."

"Our duty as soldiers is to protect you!"

The ground rumbled behind them, and a thick scent of blood wafted through the air into their nostrils.

They knew the Male Lion was about to pounce!

They could even hear the lion's heartbeat, which sounded like a drum, and the low growls emanating from its throat from time to time...

"Roar!!!"

The standard roar of a feline echoed in their ears!

"It's over! We're dead!"

Whoosh!!!

Suddenly!

A fierce wind rose! A hurricane-like gust abruptly descended from the sky!

The three fleeing on the ground were caught off guard, blown over by the massive wind pressure and sent rolling across the ground.

When they turned to look, a massive, beautiful, and elegant figure was descending from the sky!

"It's the White-Feathered Giant Eagle!"

"It looks like we're saved!"

Ye Yang, descending suddenly from the air, successfully ambushed the unsuspecting Male Lion.

Relying on his weight of over a ton and the acceleration of his aerial dive, a swift strike from his eagle claws hit the Male Lion's head directly!

Thud!!!

It sounded like the reverberation of a morning bell from a thousand-year-old temple!

The Male Lion was sent flying like a sandbag, crashing into the distance...

Boom, boom, boom...

Trees within a hundred meters in that direction were knocked down by the flying Male Lion.

Ye Yang landed on the ground and shook his slightly aching white jade claw, his golden pupils as silent as deep pond water.

"I didn't expect this lion's head to be so hard; it's practically as tough as diamond!"

A full-strength strike from him now was easily equivalent to several tons of force, and his sharp claws could shred rocks and crack the ground with ease.

Yet, he hadn't expected that such a blow wouldn't even shatter the Male Lion's skull!

He looked up inconspicuously at the unremarkable helicopter high in the sky.

"I hope the firepower the humans prepared this time is enough..."

He knew the reason the helicopter hadn't attacked was because they were worried about harming the three fleeing humans nearby.

Furthermore, he couldn't let these three humans get close to Divine Phoenix Mountain; heaven knows what kind of firepower that helicopter in the sky was equipped with.

If they ended up blowing up his Divine Phoenix Mountain, he would really be in tears!

"Roar!!!"

A roar like a volcanic eruption exploded!

The golden Male Lion stood up from a hundred meters away, shaking its dizzy and aching head, its blood-red eyes fixed intently on the Giant White Bird in the distance!

From the Giant White Bird's aura, it knew that this was the lord of this territory!

Filled with rage, it gritted its mouth full of fangs, each dozens of centimeters long!

Since leaving the captivity of the two-legged beasts, it had never suffered such an attack...

This Giant White Bird was simply asking for death!

"Roar!!!"

With a thunderous roar, the golden Male Lion's figure charged toward Ye Yang like a bolt of lightning across the land!

Ye Yang's attention had been on it the whole time; how could he be caught by a surprise attack?

He flapped his wings, which were over three meters long, and quickly took to the air, soaring away from Divine Phoenix Mountain.

The golden Male Lion roared on the ground and hurriedly gave chase...

Thus, the white bird with a six-meter wingspan soared through the sky while the massive golden Male Lion, nine meters in length, chased after it with all its might.

The forest rumbled from time to time, the ground trembled, and large trees collapsed.

The scene felt incredibly surreal.

At the same time, it made people can't help but look forward to seeing the two massive creatures fight; their enormous size and unparalleled power both terrified and fascinated them...