Chapter 321 - 273: Bestiary, Mountain-moving Rat! (Double-length)
"Mountain-moving Rat..."
It was the first time Song Changming had heard of the name of this rodent.
The Mountain-moving Rat in front of him, though its eyes revealed Spirit, had not yet transformed into a Demon, still remained within the realm of Fierce Beast.
And to be able to withstand Song Changming’s frontal slash, losing only a layer of rock dust, showed the extraordinary nature of this large rat.
It was important to know that, with his enhanced strength, even the few Demons under Four-Eyed Taoist back then might not be able to take Song Changming’s slash.
"Previously when scouting this place, I hadn’t seen this Mountain-moving Rat, this place shouldn’t be its territory..."
Song Changming pondered secretly, as the Mountain-moving Rat staggered back a few steps, staring at Song Changming with some suspicion, eyeing the drifting Purple Gold Fire.
Intending to retreat due to apprehension, it was pursued to this point, its hunger unbearable, shattering its remaining rationality.
It must eat quickly to have enough Qi Power to escape.
The Mountain-moving Rat opened its mouth intending to release the Sound Wave Technique, but suddenly realized it would attract its pursuing enemies, thus it closed its mouth.
Its body suddenly enveloped with a dark yellow Energy, causing the ground beneath to violently tremble.
In an instant, the Energy went berserk, the earth collapsed again, and rocks covered with the dark yellow Energy launched fiercely towards Song Changming’s group from all directions.
Su Qingqing and Song Ping’an immediately activated their Inner Qi to counterattack, but the rocks that had easily shattered in the past were now impossibly hard, and Inner Qi seemed ineffective against them.
Seeing the rocks about to hit them, a torrent of Purple Gold Fire roared through.
Inner Qi couldn’t shatter these energy-covered special rocks, but Innate Qi Aura could.
Under the impact of the Purple Gold Fire, the rocks were shattered entirely.
"Controlling the stone on the ground, is this a Demon Technique, or a natural ability of the Fierce Beast?"
Song Changming was amazed by the unique ability of this Fierce Beast before him.
In Da Lai, Fierce Beasts didn’t have such magical manipulation skills.
The ability displayed by the Mountain-moving Rat was indeed unique in his knowledge!
Indeed, in the Ancient Abyss Country, seeing anything mystical seems unsurprising.
After all, the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi here is so abundant, any creature might be born, becoming one of the Ten Thousand Races.
Just as Song Changming was about to continue fighting, the Mountain-moving Rat suddenly became alert, hurriedly burrowing into the collapsed ground, disappearing with a momentary rumble.
"It ran?" Song Ping’an breathed a sigh of relief, somewhat surprised.
After all, the Mountain-moving Rat had been quite vicious just now, with an expression wanting to devour them alive, but then suddenly fled.
Song Changming then gazed towards the sky.
Sure enough, the Golden winged Roc came and went, lingering a few rounds before disappearing into the sky.
It seemed to be searching for something.
Considering the hurried escape of the Mountain-moving Rat earlier, it’s not hard to deduce that the Golden winged Roc was probably looking for that Mountain-moving Rat.
Without finding its target, the Golden winged Roc soon vanished into the misty clouds.
Being a Fierce Beast as well, it showed no interest in the group below led by Song Changming.
"Let’s go." Song Changming didn’t intend to pursue the Mountain-moving Rat; a Fierce Beast, if it ran, it ran.
What concerned him more was the Golden winged Roc overhead — his intuition told him it posed a greater threat.
Not wishing to linger, the group quickly departed, continuing onward.
Several days passed.
In these days, crossing mountains and rivers, the group saw many strange and ferocious Exotic Beasts, yet didn’t encounter any actual Transformed Demon Race appearances.
The Land of Spiritual Energy, especially in such unclaimed wilderness, nurtures life in numbers as vast as the stars, countless in number.
The further they moved away from the Red Earth Continent, the more they saw various Spiritual Creatures and Evolutionary Organisms moving in groups.
Fortunately, among them, few Exotic Beasts or Fierce Beasts posed an actual threat, making the journey relatively smooth without encountering danger yet.
Additionally, the group gradually adapted to the large spiritual energy environment of this world.
Song Ping’an even directly broke through his current Qi Refining Cultivation on the road, bringing him much joy.
Previously, he had been stuck at this bottleneck for some time, but now with the environmental shift opportunity provided by Ancient Abyss Country, he had finally achieved this rounds’ Qi Refining Cultivation breakthrough, considered an unexpected delight.
A stream of purple-gold light flickered in the sky, coming from afar, crossing a range of mountains, then descending.
With Song Changming, an Innate Practitioner capable of flight, among them, detours were not an option.
"I didn’t see wrongly, my lord, it truly is a Human Race village!"
After landing, Song Ping’an looked at the scenery outside the woods in the distance and spoke out.
There were clear signs of fields being cultivated, and afar some farmhouses and tile roofs could be seen.
This was their first sighting of Human Race’s traces after arriving in Ancient Abyss Country for so many days.
This indicated their direction was correct; they had now entered Human Race territory and hadn’t randomly ventured into a deceptively dangerous foreign race area.
This was undoubtedly good news for them.
Unfortunately, upon closer inspection, Xiaoye Village was already without residents.
The collapsed houses, and the clearly visible footprints of massive Fierce Beasts upon closer look, were stark.
Added to that, scraps of blood-stained broken cloth on the ground, although the destruction scene wasn’t visible, seemed to portray what this place had gone through.
"It seems it’s not peaceful here either..." Li Jinyu touched the footprints and claw marks left by the Fierce Beasts, seemingly seeing further images.