Chapter 151: Fat Ball Emerges, Giant Rhinoceros Hawk
The blood that had been extracted from him eventually wrapped Xu Yang's heart into a large ball, extremely eerie.
The red threads on the fat ball's body were finally sucked dry, leaving only a white and chubby plush ball sleeping soundly on the ground.
Xu Yang let out a breath, sensing his current state. His heart was wrapped in a thick layer of blood clots, but it didn't affect its functioning. Taking a deep breath, he could hear the steady and powerful rhythm of his heartbeat, which seemed even stronger than before.
Xu Yang put his mind at ease and began to observe the situation of the fat ball. He waved two fingers in front of the fat ball's head.
The fat ball's eyes were tightly closed, seemingly asleep, but its uneven breathing had already given it away. Xu Yang smiled slightly and two fingers poked out, grasping the back of the fat ball's neck, lifting up its small body.
The fat ball opened a pair of shiny black eyes, its four limbs kicked wildly in the air, and its fluffy little face was full of anger.
Xu Yang put down the fat ball and smiled: "Look at you still pretending to be asleep?" He was somewhat surprised, the fat ball had been intelligent before, but now it seemed even more clever, with wisdom no less than that of a human being, and could actually pretend to sleep to tease its master.
The fat ball let out a muffled sound, jumped up from Xu Yang's pant leg and climbed onto his shoulder with an speed that was extremely disproportionate to its body size. It found the familiar position and started snoring again, falling asleep once more.
"Did you just fall asleep like that?" Xu Yang cried and laughed, "After swallowing a whole pool of blood, can't you at least grow up a bit?!"
Xu Yang carefully examined the plump body and found that this small body had become much stronger, which might be the only gain.
"In any case, it's good that the fat ball escaped safely."
Xu Yang comforted himself, then put away the Golden Board and the Hu Wen Ding, preparing to change his cultivation location. This was the experience he had gained from lurking in Cangwu Mountain for these past few days - after causing a disturbance in the heavenly and earthly spiritual energy at one location, he needed to quickly change locations; otherwise, it was possible that he would attract the attention of some strange beasts.
Suddenly, outside the valley came a "thud, thud" sound, like a giant drumbeat, shaking the withered leaves of the trees nearby.
"It came so quickly!" Xǔ Yáng raised his head and saw that outside the valley, many large trees had been brutally knocked down, and he exclaimed in surprise.
Xu Yang leaped up a low earth mound in two or three strides and gazed out as far as the eye could see.
That was a gigantic rhinoceros, with a dark yellow back and light yellow belly, over seventy feet long, its four legs like giant pillars, each step causing the earth to shake!
This giant rhino is one of the overlords in the depths of Cangwu Mountain, with a body as hard as steel. It once encountered Xu Yang and was struck by his ancient sword, but only left white marks on its skin. Fortunately, the giant rhino's speed was its weakness, allowing Xu Yang to narrowly escape.
After that battle, the giant rhinoceros seemed to have set its sights on Xu Yang, often tracking him down and disrupting his cultivation. Just as he had just used the Barbaric Secret Method to lift the Blood Egg's seal, the giant rhinoceros sensed the fluctuations in the Heavenly Earth's aura and came again to stir up trouble.
For such a big guy who can't move, Xuyang really didn't have any good way out and could only be driven away all the way.
Xu Yang gritted his teeth and leaped deeper into the Cangwu Mountains. He had left behind a set of coordinates for an escape route, so even if he encountered danger in the depths of the mountains, as long as he wasn't killed on the spot, he could still manage to escape with his life.
"You can't get me, I'll always dodge." Xǔ Yáng cursed, his body leaping like a bird in flight. Féi Qiú sat on his shoulder, looking at the scenery retreating on both sides, calling out with joy, apparently having been suffocated by the bloody eggs.
That giant rhino drove Xu Yang out of its territory and would not venture further. In its dull consciousness, any creature that dared to offend it within its territory must be killed or expelled.
"I don't know what kind of ferocious beast or bird's territory this is, so I'd better be careful." Xǔ Yáng warned himself, and he proceeded cautiously, one foot deep and one foot shallow, until he stopped in front of a rock wall.
"On that cliff, what a huge nest!" Xǔ Yáng raised his head and saw on the cliff wall, at a height of hundreds of feet, there was a gigantic nest, like a bird's nest.
"What is the lair of this tyrannical bird?" Xǔ Yáng thought to himself, "Is it that iron-gray fierce bird I saw that day, tearing apart a hundred-foot giant python?"
Looking up, a large shadow suddenly rose in the sky, shouting and shocking the heavens. A huge bird with its whole body shining with flames soared high in the sky, flapping its wings towards the direction where Xu Yang came from, and the sound of its cry contained a strong sense of threat.
"Heterogeneous Fire Eagle!" Xǔ Yáng finally understood, seeing the tail of the fire eagle, a particularly bright and beautiful tail feather, Xǔ Yáng couldn't help but think: "It's said that this fire eagle has a hint of phoenix bloodline, it seems to be true. Its strength is unmatched under the Mystic King."
Xu Yang understood, the giant rhinoceros chased all the way to the border of the alien fire eagle, provoking the anger of the master of the sky of Cangwu Mountain, and specially went to warn.
Relying on the strength of the Fire Eagle, it should be able to take down that giant rhinoceros, but at a great cost. So, these two overlords of the sky and land coexisted peacefully, each minding their own business, without interfering with each other.
Xu Yang's heart suddenly warmed up: "In the nest of the Fire Eagle, there may be fallen feathers that can be used to transform my Vermilion Bird Mystic Wings. Even the branches it uses to pave its nest are precious treasures, nurtured by the Fire Eagle's fiery aura for years and months, no less than ordinary fire-attributed treasures."
It's easy to imagine that the Fire Eagle is not easy to mess with. Unlike the Giant Rhinoceros, it has extremely fast speed, and if it wants to kill Xu Yang, the latter can't escape at all.
The cliff where the fire eagle perched was over a hundred zhang high, with walls as sharp as knives and axes, nearly vertical, making it difficult to climb. Xu Yang could ride the Black Dragon to fly up, but that would be too showy, and if the fire eagle discovered them, they would be in trouble.
Xu Yang took a detour, carefully climbing up from the side. Although this road was a bit longer, it had more cover and could block the hawk's line of sight.
Before long, the clear cry came again, and the fire eagle returned from the border, its wings bringing endless flames that dyed the evening sky a fiery red.
Xu Yang only saw the giant ferocious bird with a wingspan of hundreds of feet, fold its wings and land back in its nest, without noticing anything unusual, and couldn't help but secretly feel relieved.
Suddenly, the fire eagle swooped and soared everywhere, angrily shrieking as it rose, its wings flapping like clouds hanging from the sky, circling around the rocky wall.
Having heard the warning and threatening implications in the eagle's cry, Xu Yang became vigilant. The eagle may have smelled or heard that someone was lurking around its nest, otherwise it would not have reacted so strongly.
"The reaction of the Fire Eagle is a bit too big, it seems to be very tense. Is it just laying eggs or are there treasures around that are about to mature and need to be guarded against theft?" Xǔ Yáng secretly guessed.
Taking advantage of the shade of the trees, the fire eagle did not discover Xu Yang, and after circling dozens of times, it returned to its nest.
