Bang!
Suddenly, that mountain peak collapsed without any warning. A mass of mist burst upward and pierced the sky, creating a terrifying sight.
"That is the Dragon Crocodile has awakened..." Fang Yu's eyes widened.
The Golden Ape screeched sharply, jumping onto Fang Yu's shoulder, baring its fangs and claws toward the place a thousand meters away, restless and uneasy.
The mountain peak collapsed, and the earth split apart. The crack was so enormous it was frightening, enough to swallow the entire mountain into its bottomless darkness.
At that moment, a gigantic white crocodile tail emerged from below.
"Dragon Crocodile!" Fang Yu was stunned, unable to speak for a long time. It was an unimaginably powerful demon.
It was precisely because it had surfaced that the mountain collapsed and the earth cracked open.
Mist rolled like the sea, dust shot into the sky, and the massive crocodile tail thrust high into the heavens as it struggled upward from underground.
Very soon, amid the exploding debris and roaring mountain, a colossal creature over thirty meters long, pure white all over, suddenly burst from the earth.
Under the lingering sunset glow, its dragon-like head looked savage, with a vertical eye above its pair of eyes. Its body seemed covered in a layer of treasure armor, radiating pure white light. It looked incomparably tough, while the pressure erupting from it far surpassed the Warrior-Level.
Roar...
The Dragon Crocodile bellowed, shaking the forest. Many trees snapped apart as leaves flew wildly through the air.
Its huge head was as large as a house. It opened a bloody maw, hideous beyond compare, carrying terrifying gale-force winds.
At this moment, White Crocodile Island trembled violently.
After ten days of calm, the Dragon Crocodile had awakened from its transformation, stronger than before, stirring up monstrous waves.
Terrifying aura rolled out from within the Dragon Crocodile, spreading in all directions. As it covered the entire island, towering waves also rose on the distant sea surface.
Whoosh! Whoosh!
At that moment, two shattering sounds came from the far horizon as two streaks of divine light flew toward this place.
The Dragon Crocodile's location was undoubtedly dangerous, yet Chen Jingxi and Mu Hou did not retreat. Instead, they chose to descend here.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
The roars of savage beasts rang out as undead beasts charged forward, each carrying a mage on its back. Though they ran across the ground, they sounded like rolling thunder, as if ten thousand soldiers and horses were galloping.
Those beasts were exotic wild species from the Northern Frontier, covered in grim scales and looking extremely savage.
The mage seated atop the central beast held a great banner in his arms. It snapped loudly in the wind with overwhelming momentum.
Five large characters were written on it:
Blood Pupil Hunter Group!
Their display and momentum were immense.
Three savage beasts carried twelve powerful mages. Though there were only a dozen people, they looked like an army of thousands charging in, making the earth tremble.
"The Blood Pupil Hunter Group?!"
Dust billowed violently as Fang Yu was greatly shocked.
At the same time, sounds of breaking air came from another direction.
A gigantic feathered demon, over ten meters long, arrived at high speed and joined up with Chen Jingxi and Mu Hou.
This was a mutated raptor beast evolved from an eagle. Its feathers gleamed like metal, giving off a cold luster, and its eyes were vicious.
Two people stood on its back.
"They've finally arrived!"
Seeing this, Chen Jingxi and Mu Hou let out sighs of relief.
After all, the Blood Pupil Hunter Group was not to be underestimated.
"The Four Great Academies!"
When the members of the Blood Pupil Hunter Group saw the newcomers, all their pupils contracted.
Both sides stopped, each occupying one region, confronting one another from afar.
"Whoever has the strength claims it!"
The mighty voices of both groups rang out.
Fang Yu's heart trembled.
The Four Great Academies and the Blood Pupil Hunter Group had arrived one after another. It seemed the Dragon Crocodile's value was astonishing enough that, after receiving the news, the Blood Pupil Hunter Group had rushed to White Crocodile Island to take part.
Boom!
At that instant, a monstrous surge of demonic power erupted.
White radiance burst forth, shaking everyone backward. Not a single person could withstand that violent force.
The savage beasts of the Blood Pupil Hunter Group were directly turned into blood mist, dying on the spot, while the twelve mages atop them fled in a sorry state.
The academy side also suffered heavy losses.
The gigantic feathered demon was covered in wounds and gravely injured.
Chen Jingxi, Mu Hou, and the other two leaders all turned pale, blasted backward dozens of meters before stabilizing themselves.
Even beings as powerful as they had nearly been severely wounded.
Thump!
Then the Dragon Crocodile was enveloped in white light, dust rolling everywhere.
It disappeared from the ground.
The mist gradually dispersed, leaving behind only terrifying ruins.
A long time passed with no further movement, as if nothing had ever happened.
"Stop it! We absolutely cannot let it escape!" an old man from the Blood Pupil Hunter Group shouted anxiously.
"Intercept it!"
The leaders of the Four Great Academies were shouting as well.
A thousand meters away, Fang Yu had no time to focus on the Dragon Crocodile's strength.
His heart trembled, and he immediately realized something.
The Dragon Crocodile had completed its transformation and departed. The experts had all been drawn away, which also meant that the discarded molt should still remain at its former location.
This was a heaven-shaking opportunity.
Fang Yu moved at once, charging directly toward the place where the Dragon Crocodile had appeared.
Along the way, Fang Yu also spotted four or five humans.
One of them was the old man who rode the snake, Ouyang Ye, whom he had encountered several times before. He was not far from the Dragon Crocodile's former location.
On another side, more than ten people were advancing. Among them was an extremely towering giant of a man, over two meters tall, named Shi Peng, whose strength was astonishing.
Unfortunately, none of the people from Peral Academy were present.
"The place where the Dragon Crocodile appeared, surely another fierce struggle awaits!"
Fang Yu swept his gaze around, keeping a certain distance from everyone else to avoid conflict as he advanced step by step.
The ground was sticky.
Lowering his head, Fang Yu discovered many broken bones and chunks of flesh drifting in the stream.
This made him wary.
Some humans had already died here long ago.
Fang Yu continued forward.
Along the way, he had already found eight corpses, all of whom had fallen within the past few days.
When he reached the destination, a massive abyss stretched before him.
Below was pitch-black darkness, like a bottomless pit.
It seemed capable of swallowing a person's soul and dragging them into eternal descent.
Everyone stared nervously at the mouth of the abyss.
"The place where the Dragon Crocodile appeared also signifies treasure!"
"Its abandoned nest most likely contains its discarded molt!" Ouyang Ye was so excited that the wrinkles on his face relaxed. His thin body trembled.
Many people gasped sharply.
Then their eyes blazed like scorching suns, as though they had seen a peerless beauty stripped bare.
At the same time, the atmosphere at the abyss entrance became extremely tense.
More than ten human mages guarded against one another.
There was only one discarded molt.
That meant everyone present would have to fight for it.
The tension grew heavier and heavier.
No one was willing to retreat even half a step.
A battle was clearly unavoidable.
"Let's join hands first and break open the Dragon Crocodile's nest. There are definitely White Crocodiles hiding inside. Kill them first, and afterward we each rely on our own ability to compete for the prize. How about it?"
Ouyang Ye looked at Shi Peng, then at Fang Yu, and finally swept his eyes across the others.
"Good. That is exactly how it should be." Shi Peng immediately nodded in agreement.
"Fine." Fang Yu replied.
Everyone present had already witnessed the strength of these three.
Since the three of them agreed, the others could only follow along, lest they be cleared out first.
At that moment, the tense atmosphere finally eased.
Then, more than ten mages leaped into the abyss.
The abyss was dozens of meters deep.
When they landed underground, an ancient and desolate aura rushed toward them.
The underground cavern was vast, gray and hazy.
The terrain was incomparably wide, yet dim and shadowed.
Looking around, there was only endless emptiness.
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