Just as his shield was erected, Yue Yang found that in that split second when his shield rose up, a bloodied scythe that was ignited in flames was about to slash at his back mercilessly. However, in that thousandth of a second, the attack was blocked by his shield. If he was late by even a tenth of a second, his soul would probably have ended up in another place. Yue Yang turned around and saw that there was a Blood Scythe Demon wielding a bloodied scythe ignited in flames, standing more than five metres tall and glaring at him with an extremely vicious look… This Marquis of Zi Jin… When did he summon this Blood Scythe Demon?
When Yue Yang observed the demon closely with his [Divine Vision], his heart beat soared up to three hundred beats per minute.
Gold-ranked Level 7.
This Blood Scythe Demon whose whole body was ignited in flames was actually an extremely high levelled Gold-ranked Level 7!
This, this was already the limit of the beasts in the Soaring Dragon Continent… Before this, Yue Yang had heard about different versions of beasts’ levels. Most mercenaries believed that normal-ranked beasts wouldn’t be able to rise above level 8 and only elite beasts could. Ye Kong and the others had also misunderstood this belief. This was because a normal-ranked level 9 and level 10 was not something that could be ‘seen’ by the common folks… Ten Thousand Year Ancient Tree looked like a forest on the outside, but it was actually a single large, old tree; The Ocean King Whale lived deep in the vast ocean, so no one could see it; As for the other level 10 beast, the Island Tortoise, its shell looked exactly like a small island. It was said that it wouldn’t be crowded even if a city was build on top of the shell.
All these beasts were not beasts that were normally seen by mercenaries. Even if they had seen one, they might not realise it.
Normal mercenaries wouldn’t even think that they were beasts.
However, under Grandma Wu Teng’s proper teaching, Yue Yang’s knowledge had changed beyond recognition, and experienced a 180 degrees change.
She had clearly pointed out that normally, in Soaring Dragon Continent, the beasts over level 10 wouldn’t exist. Grandma Wu Teng didn’t say it out, but Yue Yang knew the hidden meaning behind her words. She meant that under normal circumstances, in Soaring Dragon Continent, there wouldn’t be beasts over level 10 that came into being naturally.
However, if beasts wanted to exceed this limit, they would only need to follow 1 point; that was – Transform into humans.
As they transform into humans, beasts would be able to learn and improve like human beings, breaking through new limits each time. They could only surpass level 10 this way… Otherwise, level 10 was a beast’s maximum limit. Those who did not conform to the requirement of ‘transforming into humans’ would be limited at level 10, existing as a colossal beast and becoming a peerless existence in an area of Soaring Dragon Continent.
Transforming beasts into human had always been the secret amongst the deepest secrets.
Only the truly strong Rankers would be allowed to know these secrets that normal people wouldn’t be able to access.
Yue Yang suspected that the Marquis of Zi Jin in front of him was actually an extremely high levelled strong beast who had transformed into human and had this human appearance now…
Otherwise, a normal human’s body wouldn’t possibly still be alive under the circumstances of having their brains destroyed and spinal cord detached. Most importantly, the Marquis of Zi Jin’s words had also hinted on admitting this point.
This Marquis of Zi Jin was definitely not a human being.
Could it be that he was that Giant Dragon that the mercenaries had said before?
Yue Yang didn’t think about it that much, he immediately took out a Teleportation Scroll, channelled his Spirit Qi into it and prepared to teleport away. Why would he fight with a Giant Dragon who could already evolve into a human? Why would he fight with such a powerful entity who wouldn’t die even after his forehead was pierced through and his neck twisted off? Yue Yang wouldn’t bother with such a pain in the ass. Such a meaningless fight was not something that Yue Yang was seeking. Furthermore, the Marquis of Zi Jin even had a Gold-ranked Level 7 Blood Demon Scythe as his beast. Who would still want to fight with him?
Surprisingly, although the Marquis of Zi Jin should have hated Yue Yang to his every bones, he didn’t have any reaction when he saw Yue Yang teleporting away.
Yue Yang immediately felt that something was wrong when he entered into the teleportation pillar of light.
To his surprise, he found that the place he was teleported into was not the Settlement Camp at the bottom of the Abyss; it was right in front of the Marquis of Zi Jin.
In the air, it was as if the Blood Demon Scythe had known beforehand that the place where Yue Yang would teleport into was right in front of the Marquis of Zi Jin. His bloodied scythe split the air