Chapter 701: Chapter 629: Who Ganged Up on Whom

Inside the Mirage Mountain Range,

The Single-Horned Giant Beast’s roars were continuous, its vast wings flapping and stirring up hurricanes, breaking through the sound barriers as it fled into the distance.

Around it, the startled Transcendent Tier Mutant Beasts scurried away in terror.

The beasts at a lower level of life, those of the Awakening Tier, could only tremble under the savage aura of the Single-Horned Giant Beast.

As the overlord of this several-hundred-kilometer radius, many beasts recognized it.

Yet the Single-Horned Giant Beast continued to flee.

It cursed its own territory for being too vast for the first time.

That detestable human’s speed of flight was no weaker than its own, and each swing of his sword brought about a sky full of flames that could severely wound it.

Its wings, its tail— It didn’t know how many times they had been mended.

Each time, it had to spend 2%, 3% of its Origin.

Without recovering, its combat power would be diminished, and it wouldn’t last much longer in the hands of that human.

But it was close now…

When only about 80% of its Origin was left, its eyes, as large as copper bells, lit up. No longer evading, it swung its front paws, releasing a spinning golden light, shooting towards the relentless human pursuer.

Since he, Tang Yu, had grasped the laws of the Fire Attribute, the power of the Flame Battle Skill and magic he casually used were several times stronger than before.

An ordinary Flame Slash managed to break the Single-Horned Giant Beast’s attack that had been gathering strength for a long time, and with undiminished momentum, it sliced towards the Single-Horned Giant Beast.

Boom!

An orange flare rushed towards the sky, illuminating the dim mountain range.

But what appeared in Tang Yu’s vision was not the battered body of the Single-Horned Giant Beast, but instead, a gigantic turtle with a red body and a black shell covered in numerous mysterious patterns.

It was another overlord from the Mirage Mountain Range— the True Fire Mystic Turtle!

The True Fire Mystic Turtle, a Transcendent Mutant Beast proficient in defense and with a Fire Attribute, raised its front hooves high and stomped down. In an instant, a fiery red translucent light shield rose from the surroundings, enveloping its massive body.

The moment the True Fire Mystic Turtle appeared, it stood in the path of the fleeing Single-Horned Giant Beast.

When the Flame Slash collided with the Flame Shield, the translucent light shield violently shook, and the tens of meters long sword light was steadily dissolved.

Finally,

the Light Shield broke, and the sword light too was reduced down to palm-sized Sword Qi, landing on the shell of the True Fire Mystic Turtle, causing it no harm.

“Roar Roar!”

“Chirp Chirp!”

The Single-Horned Giant Beast and the True Fire Mystic Turtle made eyes at each other.

Tang Yu could not understand the language of beasts, and his spiritual perception also required proximity to be effective—after all, these two were genuine Second Tier Transcendent Mutant Beasts; he wouldn’t underestimate them too much—just moderately so. It was known that on Earth at present, aside from Green Shadow, the number of Second Tier Transcendents did not exceed the count of three fingers.

However,

he could guess that the two beasts were discussing strategy.

With a body as large as a small hill, the Fire Turtle stood in front, while the Single-Horned Giant Beast hid behind it… This strategy, Lord Tang had understood it ten years ago while playing games.

He also understood the principle of attribute restraint.

Thus,

when the True Fire Mystic Turtle condensed the Flame Shield again, he took out a Magic Wand inlaid with Water Series gems from the Space Ring—after years of Cultivation, he was no longer just a novice who knew only a few fire-related moves.

With a raise of his hand,

two Water Dragons spiraled out, instantly breaking through the Flame Shield and spraying the face of the True Fire Mystic Turtle.

His other hand still held the Divine Weapon Longsword, casting multiple sword shadows that collided with the golden light in the air, exploding into bursts of energy flares.

With the power of one man, he forced two Mutant Beasts of the same tier to repeatedly retreat.

But…

Another roar sounded.

Then,

the fourth, the fifth.

Tang Yu glanced around.

There was a more than ten-meter-tall black giant ape holding a coarse, pitch-black stone club.

A Mountain-breaking Rat with a soil-yellow sheen and sharp spikes covering its back scales.

And a round, thunderous beast entwined with lightning.

The Swallowing Sky Giant Ape, Moving Mountain Rat, Thunder Cloud Beast!

Data streams flashed in Tang Yu’s eyes, and after comparing them to the vast database formed from reading numerous books in his mind, he instantly recognized the lineage of these five Second Tier Transcendent Mutant Beasts in front of him.

Like the Single-Horned Giant Beast… whose academic name should be Golden Horned Giant Beast.

Among the Mutant Beasts, they were considered relatively noble.

Mutant Beasts take great care with bloodlines, with noble lineages naturally soaring in the hierarchy of life without cultivating—this privilege surpasses that of humans, yet it is also easy to be shackled by one’s bloodline.

Mutant Beasts have no concept of humanoid transformation.

But he had read in ancient texts that some massive beast tribes, after tens of thousands of years of selective breeding, might gradually evolve closer to humanoid forms—cultivating with humanoid, or almost human bodies, in line with the Law, made it easier to break free from the shackles of bloodline constraints.

The price, however, is that the boost provided by the bloodline weakens considerably.

There are two paths,

One is the way of the Mutant Beast body, which typically grows increasingly massive as its life tier advances.

The other veers towards a humanoid form.

Broadly speaking, the Beastmen race came into being when humans and Mutant Beasts heading towards a humanoid form overcame racial barriers.

Historians of the Second Epoch analyzed that the first of the Beastmen to emerge were likely Centaurs.

The five Tier Two Transcendent Mutant Beasts before him were undeniably purebred beasts.

They held dominion over the inner layers of the Mirage Mountain Range.

With a mocking, almost human gleam in its eye, the Single-Horned Giant Beast seemed to say, “Little human bro, didn’t see that coming, did you?”

With a multitude of beasts, one can do as one pleases!

“Oh-ho!”

“Grrk!”

“Crack!”

The Mirage Five Tyrants flexed their muscles, their terrifying aura enveloping hundreds of miles.

The winds ceased.

Tang Yu swept his gaze over them, his face betraying no fear.

Not that he was confident in his own strength.

One on one, he could dominate any Tier Two Mutant Beast.

Against two, he could still suppress them with ease.

Against three, at most, he could just manage a draw.

One vs. five? He had a good idea of his own limitations—these nobly bred beasts were not weak among Tier Twos.

And so,

Tang Yu snapped his fingers.

Space rippled in waves, and a circle of blue specks formed a Light Gate.

In an instant,

Eileen and the others, already prepared, stepped out of the circular Gate.

The unstable Light Gate quickly shattered into countless tiny points of light.

The Single-Horned Giant Beast and the other beasts counted these newly arrived humans.

Two, three, four, five, six…

Six humans.

Their aura, not the slightest bit weaker than theirs!

And there was one more of them than the beasts!

The Single-Horned Giant Beast panicked.

They might be the Mirage Five Tyrants, ruling by birthright at the pinnacle of the pyramid, casually bullying those lesser Transcendent Mutant Beasts, but they had practically no real experience in life-or-death battles.

Nor had they ever been in such dire straits.

If one human could take on three, six would be… six plus three should make ten?

They panicked at once, a complete frenzy.

The True Fire Mystic Turtle and the other beasts glared unkindly at the Single-Horned Beast, short of outright cursing it.

What a betrayal of allies!

Was it still possible to break ties now?

Would showing one’s belly in surrender spare them from humans?

And what about those without a belly?!

“Oh-ho!”

The Single-Horned Giant Beast bellowed, its eyes signaling towards the deeper reaches of the range.

In the Core Area,

There lurked a sovereign amongst beasts.

They had not lost yet!