Chapter 1 A Silent Dragon

Su Zhou didn't say a word. From the beginning of the battle, he hadn't uttered even a single sentence. Now, his blue-purple dragon eyes were devoid of emotion, their icy gaze focused on the three remaining enemies.

Staring at the trembling divine beasts, the great dragon silently bared its fangs.

"Run!"

In reality, that sound wasn't actually spoken by any divine beast, because in the very first moment, they fled towards their army at a speed even faster than when they had arrived.

This wasn't considered a retreat, because it was an unknown and terror that the divine beasts had never encountered. Any life would make the same choice in this situation.

--Initially, they simply thought that allowing a divine beast with a powerful breath to freely attack from a distance was a waste of their own guards and property, so they planned to get close and stop it.

--Then, they discovered that the opponent was indeed a breath specialist, and could even use dozens of miniature breaths to block enemies approaching.

--Later, they also realized that this guy had extremely powerful defensive capabilities! Although it wasn't strong to the point of being despairing, it was still unbelievable.

But now, the truth told them that this divine beast, which seemed extremely strong at range, was actually strongest in close combat and could shatter their heads with a single punch?

"Monster, monster!"

The Guiche, fleeing in panic, cried out in its heart, "How is it possible? The lightning surrounding the Heavenly Dragon is actually the strongest shield, comparable to real lightning. Even approaching it would cause me to feel paralyzed, and physical contact would either burn me black or be directly repelled by the current... How could he just scatter it with one punch?!"

"And my previous Spirit Light Blade can bypass all defenses and directly strike the soul. All divine beasts avoid it, and a direct hit would definitely cause serious damage, or even instant death... Could it be that even his soul is so tough that it's almost immortal?! How is that possible?!"

At this moment, it didn't dare to look back, but it could sense a huge rumbling sound coming from behind it—that was the sound of the giant dragon stepping on the ground to accelerate, causing the earth to shake!

Sensing with its spiritual power, the Guiche fearfully realized that the Shenchan's aura had disappeared... With just a single blow, that strange white dragon had used only a single hand blade to disembowel the Shenchan. And the Shenchan’s ‘Heterogeneous Harmony of Man and Nature,’ which distorted the surrounding spiritual energy environment and prevented all opposing creatures from casting spells and mobilizing spiritual energy, hadn't had the slightest effect, because it could only target the casting of spells, and the opponent could directly tear it apart with just the strength of his body!

Immediately afterwards, the Guagui disappeared... Although it had extremely strong defense and extremely powerful coordination and adaptability, its speed was simply too slow. Even if it had taken the lead in accelerating at the beginning, it was only a matter of time before that monster caught up... The Guiche could hear the sound of the Guagui's sturdy shell being crushed.

Fortunately, that monster didn't seem to have the power to directly crush a divine turtle's shell with brute force. Although it was powerful, it wasn't without limits...

"After returning, I must gather all the divine birds. With such a great enemy present, internal strife is simply a way to seek death!"

The Guiche immediately made up its mind that after returning to the Feather Clan's territory, it would immediately gather all the divine birds and other races' divine beasts, in the name of the progenitor, to crusade against this unprecedented great enemy of the Beast God Realm!

Faced with an combined attack from hundreds of divine beasts, even such a monster would surely die on the spot!

But, in the next instant, the Guiche heard a low exhalation.

Zizz—

It subconsciously turned its head.

Then, it saw it.

Pure spiritual light spewed out from the mouth of the wingless great dragon, directly shooting into the cave where the divine turtle was hiding—even if the Guagui retracted all of its limbs, head, and tail into its shell, it couldn't stop this nearly direct spiritual light bombardment... Immediately, the smell of roasted meat wafted over, followed by the smell of charred charcoal...

"It's impossible to defeat..."

In that instant, the divine bird Guiche completely lost all courage and all thoughts of resistance, and the threat of death was closer than ever before.

But at this moment, a flash of inspiration appeared in the Guiche's mind: "Wait, this monster doesn't have wings?"

Although flying was a common skill for transcendent and leader-level divine beasts, and they would know how to do it naturally without being taught, a massive spirit beast weighing several thousand tons without wings was definitely much slower than a winged spirit bird.

Thinking this, it immediately cheered up, then rapidly gained altitude, flying quickly towards the clouds!

--Without wings, you still want to catch me?!

In an instant, the Guiche sensed that the distance between itself and the monster had widened by several kilometers in just ten seconds! As expected, the opponent's flight speed in the air could never be as casual as a spirit bird's supersonic speed. He could only reach his fastest speed when running on land!

Thinking this, the Guiche, feeling that it had escaped a calamity, subconsciously turned its head and glanced at Su Zhou.

Then, it saw streams of blue-purple light being ejected.

--You must need wings to soar rapidly?

Flying is such an inconvenient thing!

The divine beasts of the Beast God Realm are indeed ignorant... Haven't they heard of it? That power belonging to humans... Called rockets and missiles!

Boom boom boom boom—It could be seen that more than four hundred grams of storm seed were rapidly condensing, reorganizing, and then being loaded into metal tubes that resembled cannon barrels... Immediately afterwards, a surging stream of light poured out, and with bursts of air-splitting explosions, it spewed out from it, providing Su Zhou with the power called 'upwards'!

In just an instant, the wingless great dragon... No, Su Zhou at this time already had wings! Those were four light wings like rocket jets, like dragon's breath, pouring fire rain and high temperature in the air, distorting the air and the sky!

In fact, compared to wings, these huge cannon barrels were more like complex vector regulating nozzles, providing Su Zhou with unparalleled acceleration and flexible turning ability... Under the fine-tuning of the storm seed storm armor, Su Zhou once again transformed into a rocket, and then, chased rapidly towards the Guiche, which was already scared out of its wits!

Five thousand meters! Four thousand five hundred meters! Four thousand meters!

"Ahhhhh, this, how is this possible?!"

The frantic divine bird had never seen a divine beast flying like this. Even in its most terrifying nightmares, it had never imagined such a scene—a wingless great dragon, with cannon barrels spraying light streams behind it, was chasing closely behind it like a huge meteor.

It accelerated, turned, somersaulted, and performed various maneuvers at an astounding speed, trying to shake off Su Zhou's pursuit. But Su Zhou, relying on the vector regulating nozzles, also used amazing flips and rolls, completely unreasonable and savage maneuvers, and forcibly caught up with the Guiche!

If it were an ordinary divine bird or a fighter jet, it would have been tormented by Su Zhou's maneuvers, which he had never systematically learned, to the point of body fractures and fuselage explosions, and the pilot would have been crushed to death by the G-force, or at least have his brain turned into mush—but Su Zhou was different. His body was terrifyingly strong, and his brain was originally in a two-state state. One half was solid and not afraid of G-force, and the other half was already mush, so naturally it wasn't afraid of becoming even mushier.

The Guiche used all the aerial maneuvers that its ancestors and itself could comprehend. If an elite fighter pilot were here, they would realize that if both the Guiche and Su Zhou were regarded as fighter jets, then the divine bird had pushed the energy maneuver theory of aerial combat to the limit, without wasting a bit of energy. The series of operations could be said to be perfect!

But Su Zhou, Su Zhou's engine power, was several times that of the Guiche! And his airframe was even more unreasonable, able to change its center of gravity at will and twist its limbs as it pleased. Whether flying right-side up or upside down was all the same...

This was not a battle on the same level at all.

"Why, why would a divine beast of your level listen to the orders of those immortal realm remnants?!"

At this moment, the Guiche knew that there was no chance of survival, but a strong desire to live made it scream loudly before Su Zhou caught up, "Our Beast God Realm was originally the invaded party, even the immortals and gods of the past didn't hunt us like this, so why are you doing this?!"

But soon, these tough words changed, and the Guiche begged bitterly, "I'm willing to be a human, Immortal Realm Lord, I'm willing to be a human, spare my life, let me go back, I will definitely abandon my original Beast God Realm lifestyle and accept the teachings of the immortals and gods to be a human... No, I am a human now, I won't be a beast, really, please let me immigrate!"

But Su Zhou, from beginning to end, hadn't said a single word. He just silently chased after it, with not a trace of emotion in his blue-purple dragon eyes.

After noticing this, the Guiche finally knew what kind of gaze was flickering in Su Zhou's eyes at this time.

That was actually a look that they were very familiar with, an expression that they also often revealed.

That was the pure and dangerous look that a beast would show when hunting another beast.

It suddenly recalled the analysis of the former immortal gods left behind by its ancestors, deeply hidden in its bloodline inheritance, which it had never seriously looked at.

[The immortals and gods will not be angry because ‘wolves eat sheep.’ Because wolves eat sheep is the way of beasts, life is destined to plunder other lives in order to exist, this is the way of all life.]

[What They will be angry about is unnecessary killing—a wise life killing another wise life, and not in order to seize resources, not in order to defend themselves, not for the great justice of the race, not for revenge, not for war, not for any complex desires... A wise life, eating another wise life when there is clearly food, They will be angry about it.]

[Therefore, my descendants, even if you rule this world, do not wantonly act recklessly... The immortals and gods can actually tacitly allow the existence of ‘non-human civilizations.’ If we keep a low profile, we can be tolerated by Them and continue to rule this world. However, They, who have fought with many demon gods, will not tolerate the existence of a group that, like the demon gods, wantonly devours wise lives.]

[Do not devour souls, do not devour wise lives... Even if that is our instinct, we must suppress it, because the first point of civilization is to overcome the innate instincts of the body and control ourselves with wisdom.]

[Even the civilization that belongs to us divine beasts is a civilization... Even if it is barbaric and ferocious, and not liked by the immortals and gods, it is still a civilization.]

The earnest teachings of the ancestors flashed through the Guiche's heart like enlightenment.

Yes, the ancestors had said it long ago, had said such a possibility... But all the divine beasts had forgotten it.

Greed had eroded their minds, desire had drowned their souls, they pushed other lives into sorrow and bloodshed based on their own preferences, even though they had powerful strength, they caused civilization to stagnate, and powerful talent gave them innate power, but it made them insatiable, civilization taught them to exploit, and wisdom made them ruthless.

The divine beasts wanted too much, but felt too little. Friendship and sympathy did not exist in their lives, let alone pity.

Even if all the enlightenment had gathered.

However, the stubborn divine bird still couldn't understand the painstaking efforts of its ancestors... And, no matter what, it was too late now.

Therefore, it cursed Su Zhou, who was about to catch up with it, with incomparable hatred, "Damn scaled race, hateful monster... Why won't you let me go?! We had no grievances or hatred at first, and you even broke into our forbidden area first. If it's because of the previous actions, then I'm willing to apologize... But why, aren't you willing to give me any chance?!"

At this time, Su Zhou caught up with the divine bird Guiche.

In the very end, he finally opened his mouth and spoke the first sentence he had said since the start of the battle.

Su Zhou: "I'm hungry."

Without any extra thoughts, without any extra malice, he was just ordinary, like a beast, expressing the same desires as a beast.

But this voice was chilling to the soul for the divine bird.

To be eaten... The evil monster, which had always been eating other wise lives, had never thought that it would be eaten by another even more evil, more fierce, more powerful and unreasonable monster.

It had never thought that it would also become the prey in the law of the jungle.

--It shouldn't be like this... It shouldn't be like this!

Unwillingness filled the divine bird's type, so it tried to make a final resistance, but the dragon just condescendingly stretched out its thick and heavy dragon claw, as solid as a mountain peak, and crushed the two heads that the Guiche was trying to use its beak to peck at it, like crushing two liquor-filled chocolate balls.

Immediately afterwards, he opened his mouth and bit down on the neck of the Guiche's last head.

Crack, the crisp sound of a broken neck bone rang out, blood spurted out, and from the headless bird's body, a deep purple feather with a hint of blue light fell out.

The Guiche was dead.

Chewing the other party's flesh and blood, Su Zhou floated in mid-air and closed his eyes.

"The taste is terrible." He commented, "There's too much malice, how many wise lives has this guy eaten? One bite and it's like eating hundreds or thousands of other souls!"

Su Zhou swallowed the flesh and blood in his mouth, and said with some disgust, "It's really unpalatable... But who told me I was hungry? And I never waste food."

So this devouring continued.

Just above all the trembling, frightened, and motionless united army of the Beast God Realm, the huge dragon ate the divine bird.

Then, he lowered his gaze and looked at all the spirit beasts who were working hard and not daring to look directly at him.

The sun rose behind him.

Daytime had arrived.