Volume 2: Setting Forth on the Journey Chapter 45: The Snipe and the Clam Clashing

After appreciating the rare scenery for a moment, Wang Jue did not forget his purpose. He picked up his binoculars and gazed intently into the misty zone.

At the edge of the fog, various star beasts of all shapes and sizes could be seen everywhere. Some lay prone on the ground, others walked slowly, and a few slammed into each other repeatedly as if driven by a fierce competitive spirit.

"Strange, why is there not the slightest sound?"

Wang Jue tried his best to observe the surroundings, but simply could not find any trace of the two powerhouses. "Where are those two experts?"

At that moment, Wang Jue couldn't help but wonder if he had followed the wrong direction...

...

Just as Wang Jue was beginning to doubt his life choices, on the other side—about one kilometer away from him, inside a room on the tenth floor of a twenty-story residential building—Jiang Feng and the giant Lin Chong were sitting cross-legged, drinking water to replenish their bodily fluids.

"A-Chong, let's just charge straight into the heart of the lair later and deal with that Steel Tyrannosaurus directly."

The youth-like Jiang Feng took a small sip of water. "Of course, by then its two subordinates—the two Level-5 star beasts, the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon—will definitely help their leader. When that time comes, I'll leave those two beasts to you."

"Mn," the giant Lin Chong replied in a deep voice, gently waving a long staff in his hand as effortlessly as if it were a matchstick.

"Although the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon might not match the Steel Tyrannosaurus among Level-5 star beasts, they are still extremely troublesome entities to provoke," Jiang Feng said with a solemn expression. "Therefore, your task is merely to pin them down, with no expectation of killing them. However, you must remember this: the moment you can no longer hold on, retreat decisively without worrying about me."

The leader Steel Tyrannosaurus, the Velociraptor, and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon!

Three Level-5 star beasts!

Such a combination was more than enough not only to dominate a small suburb of this ruined city, but even to carve out a territory right in the city center.

If not for the fact that the most formidable Steel Tyrannosaurus had just given birth and suffered severe damage to its vitality, drastically lowering its strength, Jiang Feng and Lin Chong would never have dared to mount such an assault.

"Brother Jiang, I've recovered." After finishing his rest, the giant Lin Chong immediately stood up.

"Mn."

Jiang Feng stood up as well, his eyes gazing coldly at the fog-shrouded area in the distance. "Let's go, move out!"

*Whoosh! Whoosh!*

Two figures leaped directly out of the tenth-floor window like human giant grasshoppers, spanning a distance of nearly a hundred meters to land on another building. With a slight push off, the two instantly darted rapidly through the forest of steel and concrete.

Most exaggerated of all, both of their speeds exceeded the speed of sound!

*Boom...*

By the time the sonic boom reached Wang Jue's ears and he immediately turned his head to look, all he caught sight of were two blurred figures dashing into the mist-shrouded zone.

"Hm, they went in? So fast!"

Not daring to be careless any longer, Wang Jue raised his binoculars and stared intently at the fog-shrouded area.

The next second:

"Roar..."

"Ahow..."

Frantic, furious roars instantly erupted from within the fog, sounding as if the world had descended into chaos.

Meanwhile, the massive horde of star beasts outside the fog immediately broke into a sprint, charging into the mist. For a moment, the very earth began to tremble!

"Could they have started fighting?" Wang Jue could only stare at the fog and guess, completely unable to see what was happening inside.

...

At the same time, deep within the fog-shrouded zone.

In a plaza covered in dust and faint, weathered remains of humans and star beasts, human presence was entirely absent; this place had long since become a paradise for star beasts.

*Huff... Huff...*

A colossal creature covered entirely in black scales lay sleeping in the center of the plaza. Two foul-smelling streams of vapor puffed from its nostrils, dispersing and slowly merging into the surrounding fog.

"Roar, roar, roar..."

Suddenly, frantic roars echoed from outside the plaza.

"Roar!"

The behemoth slowly rose to its feet, a pair of golden vertical pupils flashing with a chilling light.

It stood roughly eight meters tall, with a body length reaching a full twenty-plus meters, and a tail that alone was an astonishing ten meters or more in length! Its physique was relatively slender, and on either side of its forehead grew two curved, black single horns.

As it stood up, a white giant egg measuring a full meter in height was revealed beneath its body.

*Bang!*

With a motion of its black-scaled body, the star beast vanished directly from the center of the plaza.

The plaza served as the core of the entire beast horde, and massed outside of it were countless star beasts of all kinds.

*Whoosh, whoosh...*

At that moment, two figures moved like lightning, swiftly treading across the bodies of various star beasts as they hurtled toward the central plaza.

"Quick! Don't get bogged down in fights, and be careful not to get pinned down by this horde," Jiang Feng barked in a low voice.

Suppressing the violent impulses within his heart, Lin Chong nodded. "Understood."

At the entrance to the plaza, numerous dragon-beasts with front claws shaped like curved hooks, thick hind legs, and massive bodies were gathered, alongside other similarly massive dragon-beasts that resembled pangolins yet possessed maws filled with gigantic teeth.

Every single scale on these star beasts was brighter than those of ordinary star beasts, appearing far more refined. Moreover, the gazes of these massive star beasts seemed to carry a trace of intelligence.

That's right.

The crowd of over a hundred massive star beasts gathered at the plaza entrance consisted entirely of Level-4 star beasts! They could be considered the core strength of this terrifying and massive beast horde!

Especially ahead of these hundred-plus Level-4 star beasts stood two giant beasts whose bodies were two to three times larger, radiating an even more unsettling aura!

Although these two behemoths belonged to a different species, their appearances were largely identical to the star beasts behind them, with one exception: the scales covering their entire bodies possessed not a single trace of stray color.

Without a doubt, these two behemoths were the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon! The other two Level-5 star beasts, aside from their leader, the Steel Tyrannosaurus.

"Roar..."

Accompanied by a heaven-shaking roar, a blurred black shadow suddenly materialized in front of the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon.

Its form coalesced into a star beast slightly larger than the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon, its entire body covered in black scales. Two streams of angry smoke puffed from its nostrils, and its vertical pupils stared dead ahead at the two charging humans.

The appearance of their leader, the Steel Tyrannosaurus, seemed to provide an immense boost of encouragement to the horde, and countless star beasts frantically lunged toward Jiang Feng and his companion.

"You beasts, go to hell!" Seeing their target appear, Jiang Feng let out a fierce roar, charging forward amidst a rain of blood as the corpses of numerous star beasts plummeted from the sky.

Sensing the formidable power of the two humans before it, the Steel Tyrannosaurus turned its head to look deep into the plaza. Its dragon egg was still resting there...

Fighting here meant that any collateral damage could easily destroy the egg!

"Roar..."

Possessing no small degree of intelligence, the Steel Tyrannosaurus made a split-second decision. With a low roar, it suddenly bolted outward, generating an astonishing sonic boom as it ran.

"Just as expected!"

Seeing the Steel Tyrannosaurus voluntarily leave to choose a battlefield, Jiang Feng and Lin Chong felt a surge of joy.

They had guessed that for the sake of its newly laid dragon egg, the Steel Tyrannosaurus would likely forgo a decisive battle within its lair. This way, without the hindrance of a massive horde of star beasts, their chances of victory increased significantly.

*Bang, bang...*

Jiang Feng and Lin Chong instantly burst forth with supersonic speed, racing in pursuit.

*Bang, bang...*

The two Level-5 star beasts—the Velociraptor and the Serrated-Tooth Dragon—likewise accelerated to sonic speeds and gave chase.

As for the hundred-plus Level-4 star beasts, only about a third followed them out; the vast majority of the Level-4 beasts remained entrenched around the plaza to protect their leader's lair.

Backed by nearly a hundred Level-4 star beasts, several thousand Level-3 star beasts, and tens of thousands of Level-2 star beasts, such a force was something even a Green Star Realm expert could not break through in a short time!

...

Meanwhile, standing on the balcony of the high-rise building, Wang Jue was still peering intently through his binoculars.

Suddenly—

A black shadow appeared.

Then a second.

Right after that, two more black shadows burst successively out of the fog-shrouded zone.

"Holy shit, they actually came out for a decisive battle?"

Wang Jue's eyes lit up with excitement. "Tsk tsk tsk, battle scenes between Level-5 star beasts and Green Star Realm experts are a rare sight indeed. But what I'm even more curious about is, what on earth do dragons look like in this world?"

As a descendant of the Yanhuang tribe and a successor of the dragon, how could he not be curious?

After all, his understanding of dragons came either from television, novels, or mythological tales depicting the "dragon" as a non-existent creature. If he were still on Earth, "dragon" would be a very special and noble title, whether to Easterners or Westerners. No beast was qualified to be called a dragon!

However, things were different on Azure Star. Due to spatial rifts, various bizarre and terrifying star beast races had descended onto this peaceful planet.

Star beasts were not fundamentally different from the species on Earth; for instance, felines were divided into many varieties, as were canines, birds, rodents, wolves, tigers, snakes, eagles, bears, and so on. Every category had numerous distinct breeds!

On Azure Star, the populations of these species were undoubtedly magnified dozens or even hundreds of times over, and the different varieties of star beasts within each category surpassed ordinary imagination!

Aside from these, there were also extremely special and rare star beasts whose evolutionary origins remained entirely unknown to anyone, perhaps born from some special factor.

Normally, these star beasts possessed peculiar names, assigned by humans based on their appearance or differences in strength.

The Steel Tyrannosaurus!

This was one such extremely special star beast species!

Because it was nearly flawless in speed, strength, defense, consciousness, and physical structure, combined with scales harder than steel, martial artists who had designs on it either ended up eaten as food or escaped at a heavy price.

Even so, those who managed to escape from the jaws of a Steel Tyrannosaurus inevitably lost limbs in the process!

Naturally, there were those who could escape completely unscathed, but individuals of that caliber of strength would naturally target star beasts of equivalent value and power. Of course, this was largely because the Steel Tyrannosaurus itself was extremely difficult to mess with!

Consequently, humans named it the "Steel Tyrannosaurus," bestowing upon it the title of "dragon."

To be honest, given such a name, one could easily imagine just how formidable and terrifying the Steel Tyrannosaurus truly was.