66: Rocky wasteland, burrowing insects

The giant eagle flew continuously for over two hours. Xuanwu Ring City's city walls turned into a thin line in Lin Chuan's eyes, finally disappearing completely.

A strange feeling surged in Lin Chuan's heart, as if he were a paper boat floating in a vast ocean.

"We're here!"

It wasn't until Qin Yan's reminder that Lin Chuan noticed the Eagle King had landed on a solitary hilltop.

One side of the hilltop was a large slope, descending into an endless wilderness filled with strange, jagged rocks, with the occasional hoot of a night owl.

The other side was much steeper, with a bottomless abyss below; falling into it would surely mean death.

As for Yao Beasts, Lin Chuan hadn't seen any yet.

"There are no Yao Beasts here?" Lin Chuan looked at Qin Yan.

"No Yao Beasts? Heh heh..."

As he spoke, Qin Yan had the Eagle King shift his claws. A strange worm as thick as a thigh was wriggling under the Eagle King's claw.

Half of its body had been crushed beyond recognition, while the other half remained in the dirt.

Clearly, this thing hadn't grasped the situation, planning a sneak attack upon hearing movement on the ground, only to hit a brick wall.

"There are at least twenty Elite Rank Tunneling Worms underground, like this one. Is that enough? I'll put the Eagle King away later, and then the other Yao Beasts will dare to come out. Get ready for a surprise!"

With that, Qin Yan went off to rest by himself, leaving Lin Chuan in disarray in the wind.

"Damn it, bring it on."

He steeled himself and directly summoned Old Hei.

A Transcendent RankBeast Taming (Beast) thus brazenly appeared in the wilderness, like a naked beauty appearing on the street.

Many hidden eyes fixated on Old Hei, eager to pounce and feast on his blood and flesh.

With a diameter of over six meters, he was certainly enough to provide a very filling meal.

"Old Hei, lure some monsters out."

"???"

Old Hei didn't understand 'lure monsters,' so he urinated.

Immediately, like a drop of water falling into a boiling oil pot, this area erupted.

In the world of Yao Beasts, urinating represents declaring sovereignty.

However, this area was clearly already occupied by Tunneling Worms.

Old Hei's actions were full of provocation.

Dozens of crisscrossing trenches and churning earth below indicated that the Tunneling Worms were constantly moving around Old Hei.

"Try Taunt."

Old Hei heard the command but couldn't use the skill because he couldn't see the target.

So, he urinated again... a true *Taunt*!

"Hiss... Roar..."

Suddenly, a five-meter-long worm burst out of the ground, its meat-grinder-like mouthparts heading straight for Old Hei's face.

Hardening Armor

Old Hei retracted his head, simultaneously activating the skill buff.

With a "crack," the Tunneling Worm's mouthparts bit into a corner of the Turtle's shell, its teeth shattering instantly.

At the same time, this also sounded the horn of attack; a dozen or twenty Tunneling Worms of various sizes continuously pounced on Old Hei.

The main attack methods of these worms were their mouthparts and the sharp spikes on their undersides. If an attack was ineffective, they would spray a corrosive mucus to reduce the target's defense.

Soon, Old Hei's obsidian scales were corroded with significant holes.

"Can he do it? A Transcendent RankBeast Taming (Beast) soloing twenty Elites. I've never seen anything so outrageous in my life."

Qin Yan walked over, looked at Old Hei, and worried for Lin Chuan.

Perhaps, he should have said that after meeting Lin Chuan, the outrageous things he encountered were more numerous than those he had encountered in most of his life before.

"How can a man say he can't!"

"Old Hei, ram them."

With that, Old Hei immediately activated his combination skill, ramming fiercely into a Tunneling Worm that had just leaped up.

With a "rip" sound, this Tunneling Worm was directly torn into two sections, green blood splattering everywhere, clearly no longer alive.

This scene, far from scaring off the other Tunneling Worms, instead ignited their ferocity.

They didn't even attack Old Hei first; instead, they began to devour their fallen kin.

"Damn it, those are my spoils of war!"

Lin Chuan was displeased. The fresh flesh and blood of an Elite Rank Yao Beast should be worth at least a few enhancement fruits.

Subsequently, Old Hei continuously rammed into the Tunneling Worms, but the effect was not very good.

The worms themselves had high body flexibility and agility, and they could burrow, so Old Hei was temporarily at a loss against them.

It looked as if these worms were toying with Old Hei.

Qin Yan, on the other hand, watched with great interest. This Turtle was originally a defensive type ofBeast Taming (Beast); if an ordinary person wasn't prepared, they would definitely be ambushed to death.

"Old Hei, go over there."

Lin Chuan observed the terrain while directing Old Hei, deliberately shifting the battlefield to the hard, rocky area.

The soil here was too soft; Lin Chuan would never fight them to the death on such terrain.

As expected, many worms fell for it. Even without burrowing, they didn't think Old Hei could do anything to them.

"Shrink, and charge upwards."

Air-Treading Rapid Acceleration activated again.

This time, Old Hei shrunk to his smallest size, reducing resistance, then directly took off vertically, ascending to a height of nearly a hundred meters before beginning to fall.

"This... is insane... utterly ridiculous."

Qin Yan watched, dumbfounded.

The Tunneling Worms below, seeing the Turtle, now less than half a meter, about to land in front of them, were too lazy to dodge.

They used their rarely-used brains to ponder: "Why did it get so small? Not enough to eat!"

"Make it as big as possible!"

With a deafening "boom."

The entire hillside vibrated!

A giant Turtle, fifteen meters in diameter, directly smashed a circular crater into the ground.

Inside the crater, a dozen or so Tunneling Worms lay haphazardly, all flattened into specimens.

The remaining few narrowly escaped, with only one being Taunted by Old Hei, then crushed alive until it burst.

"Wha... the..."

Qin Yan had initially thought this was just a simple special training, finding a few Elite Rank monsters for Lin Chuan to practice with and be done. But Lin Chuan had been at it for less than ten minutes and had already wiped out a small Elite Rank population... Who could tell him this wasn't a dream?

Lin Chuan waited for Old Hei's Taunt to cool down before walking over. Although Qin Yan was watching, he still had to guard against any sneaky attacks.

He wondered if the golden tree was picky about these dozen or so 'specimens'?

Absorb.

Indeed, the golden tree only absorbed a small portion, giving him nearly twenty enhancement fruits, significantly reducing their value. As for the Yao Beast crystal cores, they were all squeezed out of their bodies by the pressure, which made them very convenient to pick up.

Lin Chuan didn't rush to absorb the dozen or so Elite Rank Yao Beast crystal cores, planning to save them for later to exchange for other things in the city.

"Tsk tsk..."

Qin Yan circled the gigantic Old Hei, praising him incessantly.

He even jumped onto Old Hei's back.

After seeing the Gray Snake tattoo, he only paid it a brief glance before no longer paying attention.

"Old Qin, what's wrong?"

Lin Chuan felt a little uneasy under Qin Yan's gaze and asked directly.

"Nothing, yourBeast Taming (Beast) far exceeds my expectations. No wonder you easily defeated those high school students at the school. Even university students, if they haven't reached Gold Rank, would probably be ambushed to death by you."

"Heh heh... What ambush? I've always fought fair, alright."

"Heh heh..."