On the distant horizon, the earth suddenly churned and rolled, forming a massive soil dragon that spread with astonishing speed, as though some colossal creature underground were hurtling toward
The giant had a mane of emerald-green hair, a lion's mouth, bull's eyes, and was bare-chested save for a cyan leather kilt around its waist. Its muscles bulged and knotted across its entire body, gleaming with a brilliant silver sheen as though forged from pure silver. With a single colossal stride, it crossed several hundred zhang of distance, causing the ground beneath to shudder violently.
The giant's body seemed impossibly heavy.
Once
Even as he watched, the giant had already caught up to the head of the earth dragon in a few enormous strides. With a low roar, both palms slammed savagely into the ground.
Two earth-shaking booms erupted like thunder.
Centered on the giant, the ground within a radius of several li collapsed and sank all at once, forming a small basin a hundred zhang deep.
A sharp cry pierced the air!
A massive yellow beast, its form slightly blurred, suddenly surged from the basin and fled desperately toward the Howling Fiend Lands.
But the silver giant seemed to have anticipated this all along. With a hearty laugh and a flicker of its body, it instantly appeared above the beast and drove one enormous foot downward with crushing force.
With a thunderous crack.
The moment the yellow beast made contact with the silver foot, its body shuddered and plummeted from the sky.
After a muffled thud, nearly half of the beast's body had been stamped straight into the ground.
Now
The silver giant wasted no more time. Its arms began to swing again, and two enormous fists transformed into a storm of silver fist-shadows, hammering down relentlessly.
In an instant, bursts of silver light exploded across the yellow turtle's body, and shockwave after shockwave rippled outward in all directions.
Despite the yellow turtle's astonishing defenses, within the span of a few breaths its entire head had been pounded into pulp by the fist-strikes, and its shell shattered piece by piece under the silver light.
With a crack.
One of the silver giant's massive hands finally punched clean through the turtle's body. When it withdrew, it now held a yellow pearl roughly the size of a head.
The moment the giant saw the pearl, it let out a wild laugh, flicked its wrist, and tossed the pearl into its mouth, swallowing it whole.
A flash of yellow light rippled across the silver giant's skin, but after a single-handed seal gesture, it returned to normal.
It was at that moment that the giant suddenly turned its head and looked toward
Its eyes were blindingly silver-white, seemingly without pupils.
The silver giant immediately began striding toward
"May I ask whether you too are a fellow Daoist attending the gathering at Heaven Beyond Heaven? I am Yin Gangzi of the Tianji Clan—a pleasure to make your acquaintance."
"So it is a fellow Daoist of the Tianji Clan. I am
"So you are Daoist Han of the human race, the one who went to the Demon Realm and slew the Insect Mother! What a remarkable coincidence. I have heard much about you." Hearing this, a look of surprise flashed across the silver giant's face. But it quickly formed a single-handed seal, and its body shrank with astonishing speed, transforming within moments into a silver-skinned man roughly the same size as
"Brother Yin flatters me. My killing that Insect Mother was nothing more than a coincidence. It is the reputation of the Tianji Clan that has long thundered in my ears. That transformation just now—that was the Tianji Clan's celebrated Body of Creation, was it not? Its power is truly unfathomable."
The Tianji Clan was one of the most renowned races on the Fengyuan Continent. Though never numerous, every member possessed astonishing natural talent, and their cultivation speed far surpassed that of ordinary races. Those who reached the advanced stage capable of manifesting the Body of Creation could multiply their strength several times over in an instant.
Thus the Tianji Clan was known as one of the Four Great Hidden Clans of the Fengyuan Continent. Its high-ranking members seldom appeared before others, and encountering a Tianji Clan member at the Mahayana stage here took
"Heh heh, Daoist Han is far too modest. I ran into this Earth Turtle Beast on the way, and its inner core is rather useful to me, so I had no choice but to transform and chase it all the way here. Since the two of us have met by chance, why don't we travel to Heaven Beyond Heaven together?" Yin Gangzi said with a chuckle.
"If Brother Yin invites me, I would naturally be happy to oblige."
"Ha ha, Brother Han is truly a straightforward man! Then let us set off at once. On the way, we can discuss the matter of that Blood Sacrifice Immortal. That old fellow Ming Zun sent me only a brief message—perhaps you know something more about it?" Yin Gangzi looked visibly pleased.