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“That was quite a thrilling battle.”
Haoyuan stretched languidly.
“But when the snipe and the clam fight, the fisherman reaps the rewards. Now it's my turn to take the stage.”
He wore a wicked grin as he swooped down from the high sky like a vertically plunging meteor. Trailing a long tail of flames and enveloped by a majestic aura of Wind Grace, he crashed toward the giant crocodile and the giant snake with a matchless, imposing force.
Boom!
Within a hundred meters of where the giant crocodile and the giant snake were, the ground completely caved in and collapsed. The river was instantaneously cut off, and the air screeched under the unbearable strain. The terrifying wind pressure of his descent slammed the giant crocodile and the giant snake, along with the river water, deep into the mud and sand, while wild torrents of Wind Grace swept in all directions.
Haoyuan stood above them, looking down on them. Shrouded in brilliant heavenly majesty, he was like a deity.
He did not actually slam into them. Instead, at the very last moment before impact, he executed a super brake.
This sudden halt, however, allowed his Wind Grace to stack even greater impact energy, slapping down even more fiercely with extremely terrifying power.
Explosions of water erupted. The giant crocodile and the giant snake were instantly battered until they bled profusely, their flesh torn and their breaths shallow. Struggling against the crushing wind pressure, they looked up at him.
His sudden appearance, with wild gales swirling in all directions as he hovered upright and gazed down at them, filled his golden eyes with utter indifference and majesty. He looked at them as if they were mere ants, making them momentarily forget their life-and-death struggle as they stood frozen in a daze.
Haoyuan did not have much emotional reaction. To him, the various divine abilities and transformations brought by his evolution and ascension in Life Tier should naturally behave this way.
It was just that unreasonably powerful.
After all, his visualization for evolution was a dragon—a dragon of his own imagination, not some ordinary creature.
The moment his Aerial Flight reached the ground and all his visualizations were completed, he was destined to no longer be an ordinary creature, but a legend.
Boom!
The wild wind howled as Giant Wind Blades suddenly sliced horizontally across, decapitating the two giant beasts.
With his Whale Gulp Dragon Inhale, he devoured their blood.
Like a whirlwind sweeping away clouds, he refined them in an instant.
Haoyuan let out a loud burp, lay down in the forest clearing destroyed by the wind, closed his eyes to rest, and slowly digested.
These two giant beasts were quite sizable. The dark-green giant snake was sixty-three meters long, and the giant crocodile was forty-two meters. Both were far larger than the ones before his slumber.
“I hope the energy is satisfying.”
Haoyuan thought to himself, though he did not hold high hopes.
Although he was only of the second Life Tier, his various attributes had multiplied tremendously. Just falling from the sky had nearly beaten the two giant beasts to death.
For him to be truly satisfied, nothing short of a mythical lifeform of the same level would suffice.
Sure enough, after digestion was complete, the dark-green giant snake only provided energy equivalent to fifty pseudo-wyrms, while the giant crocodile gave a mere forty.
Haoyuan was not surprised by this. Both giant beasts belonged to the second Life Tier, but they were relatively weak.
Still, compared to the powerful enemies he had faced before, he could easily crush any of them now, except for the water monster.
“Not bad.”
Haoyuan nodded slightly and slithered up from the forest into the sky.
After finishing this meal, he finally had some confidence. The more Energy Points he had, the greater his sense of security.
He continued to scan from high altitude, searching for powerful individuals within the rainforest.
Three years later, he had completely eaten through the rainforest.
Among his prey, there were those of the first Life Tier and those of the second Life Tier, purely depending on luck.
However, he did not dare to go to the widest rivers of the rainforest to forage for large individuals.
He kept a clear scale in his mind.
The more likely a place was to harbor an exceptionally massive creature, the more cautiously he approached it.
The second Life Tier was still far from enough when facing entities like that giant golden eye.
Thirty years later.
Hego had explored all the safe areas on this continent, accumulating abundant energy.
He could finally attempt to cross the ocean to search for Dinosaur Valley.
Smelling the salty sea breeze and watching the waves crash against the shore, Haoyuan's heart surged with excitement.
He then leaped from the reefs, sending his body into the air as he flew toward the sky above the sea.
The sea was vast and endless, and the sky was blue and cloudless.
Only a golden sun hung in the sky, looking down upon him sandwiched between the two sheets of blue.
A sense of bewilderment and loneliness naturally arose.
No matter how fast or how long he slithered, the ocean remained boundless.
He was forever accompanied only by the salty sea breeze and the occasional fish leaping from the water.
As time passed, it became somewhat hard to bear.
To alleviate this feeling of bewilderment and loneliness, he would often land on various lush green islands, deal with the powerful individuals on them, take a good sleep, and then hit the road again.
As for traveling or resting in the deep sea, he had never even considered it.
This world was truly far too different from his previous life.
The marine life was generally colossal.
He did not dare to gamble on what kind of monsters might be bred in the deep, nor did he know what kind of developments the mimic monsters that once plunged into the ocean had undergone.
Thus, he could only fly through the air as much as possible.
If clouds passed by, he would conceal himself within them.
Being cautious and prudent all the way, it took him five years before he finally spotted land.
The moment he landed, his entire dragon being relaxed, and he dove headfirst into the forest.
This continent was different from the previous one. It did not have vast rivers spanning hundreds of thousands of square kilometers; there were only large rivers spanning a few kilometers.
It was relatively much safer.
In the rainforest where the Titanoboas lived, there were many places Haoyuan did not dare to venture.
Sometimes, on those vast, endless rivers, he would even feel an indistinct gaze peering at him.
Consequently, he became increasingly cautious and prudent over time.
The sizes of the creatures on this continent were rather average, with the upper limit being at most five meters.
They were all creatures resembling hippos, hyenas, and oversized pikas.
Although they lacked the colossal size of the Titanoboa, the variety of species was rich.
Furthermore, on this familiar land, the air and sunlight were very pleasant.
Haoyuan felt much more at ease.
In some of the hidden areas here, powerful individuals still existed.
After Haoyuan hunted them down, he suddenly became curious about how these large individuals survived.
Without dinosaurs or Titanoboas, and with such small prey, how could it possibly be enough for them to eat?
But on second thought, those giant beasts, like him, probably did not rely much on such ordinary energy.
By chance, while chasing a powerful individual, he arrived at the foot of an active volcano.
Looking at the crater filled with glowing red light, some ideas suddenly sparked in his mind.
So, after devouring that large individual, he evolved his fire abilities to the pinnacle, modified his body to a form suited for molten lava, and then flew above the crater.
Looking at the soaring plume of smoke and the boiling, orange-red sea of fire below, he slowly entered.
Scalding molten lava surged against him, and the pungent smell of sulfur filled his nose.
The fiery red glow cast his colossal shadow against the rock walls, mirroring his slight apprehension.
Although he had already modified his body, facing such a high-temperature sea of fire for the first time made Haoyuan inevitably a bit nervous.
He descended slowly, tentatively dipping his sickle claws into the boiling, bubbling molten lava. After a brief silence, he pulled them out to inspect.
The lava dripped down like dew, and his sharp sickle claws gleamed with a cold light.
Haoyuan's confidence instantly soared, and he plunged his entire Kirin Arm inside.
As a result, he only felt a comfortable warmth.
His eyes widened. No longer hesitating, he plunged headfirst into the boiling, bubbling molten lava.
As if entering a warm ocean, Haoyuan swam around freely, finding it incredibly comfortable.
He tentatively took a small sip of the lava.
The scalding and burning sensation he had imagined did not occur; instead, it had a somewhat warm and peculiar texture.
It was not exactly delicious.
Swallowing it down brought no discomfort whatsoever, feeling no different from drinking a glass of warm water on an ordinary day—nothing to write home about.
His heart immediately leaped with excitement. Waggling his tail a couple of times, he dove into the deeper molten lava, swimming downward.
He even opened his eyes.
The warm fluid coated his eyeballs, also without causing any discomfort.
He felt much more at ease, slithering and exploring all around.
Unknowingly, he grew tired from playing, so he soaked himself in the molten lava and drifted into a deep sleep.
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