Chapter 871: The Great Melee

Amid Nato’s consumption, the pitch-black giant hand could no longer hold on.

Then there was a sound.

With a “bang,” the pitch-black giant hand completely collapsed, turning into a cloud of black smoke, vanishing without a trace.

It took thirty-five minutes for Nato to completely eliminate a Chaos Star Beast.

It must be said, from this timing, Nato’s strength is quite impressive.

Of course, compared to Lin Yuan, he’s still lacking by quite a margin.

“Brother Nato is amazing!”

“Looking at it this way, Chaos Star Beasts aren’t all that scary.”

“Even if we can’t defeat a Chaos Star Beast one-on-one, taking them two-on-one should be no problem.”

“Lin Yuan and the Peacock Great Ming King haven’t even made a move yet, looking like this, these Chaos Star Beasts are nothing to worry about.”

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Nato slayed a Chaos Star Beast, which greatly boosted morale.

For a moment, these Tier Two powerhouses under Lin Yuan were as if they’d been injected with adrenaline, howling with excitement.

Originally, they harbored a certain fear towards these suddenly appearing, completely unknown creatures called Chaos Star Beasts.

After all, the unknown is the most terrifying.

Their fear of Chaos Star Beasts was understandable.

Having just observed the battle, now they understood Chaos Star Beasts.

Plus, seeing Nato singlehandedly take down a Chaos Star Beast, they realized the Chaos Star Beasts weren’t as strong as they’d imagined.

In everyone’s eyes, if Nato can take care of a Chaos Star Beast in half an hour, then the more powerful Peacock Great Ming King and the even more powerful Lin Yuan have no problems either.

The events that just unfolded made the Chaos Star Beasts go from untouchable to manageable in their minds.

If they’re manageable, then there’s nothing to fear.

While everyone was secretly pleased, the Peacock Great Ming King frowned, looking around.

“What’s wrong, did you discover something?” Lin Yuan asked the Peacock Great Ming King.

The Peacock Great Ming King looked puzzled and voiced his inner doubts: “Tell me, why aren’t those underground Chaos Star Beasts attacking or fleeing?”

“Why don’t they even help when they see their companion being killed?”

Chaos Star Beasts possess a certain level of intelligence and even know to band together to hunt Heaven and Earth’s races, securing prey.

The fact they know to team up for hunting indicates they have a sense of camaraderie.

However, just now when Nato hunted that Chaos Star Beast, the other Chaos Star Beasts were nearby, yet none came to aid.

This behavior directly contradicts any sense of team spirit.

The Peacock Great Ming King’s question stumped Lin Yuan.

Though Lin Yuan knew a bit about the top-tier Chaos Star Beasts and some Tier One Chaos Star Beasts, such a large number of Chaos Star Beasts he was encountering for the first time.

About the so-called team spirit of Chaos Star Beasts, Lin Yuan really had no clue.

With the Chaos Star Beasts behaving as they did, it was hard for them to ascertain if they had a sense of teamwork.

As everyone was perplexed, a tall and portly Tier Two powerhouse stepped forth, resembling a barrel.

This Tier Two powerhouse was someone Lin Yuan vaguely remembered—also from the Demon Race.

Moreover, he was an exotic breed of the Demon Race, a Ba Snake.

Ba Snake stepped forward and shared his guess: “I suspect those Chaos Star Beasts remain still because they’re digesting the blood meals they devoured.”

“We serpents and pythons need some time to digest food after swallowing it.”

“During the digestion process, our combat power drops to its lowest point, so we try to stay still to digest the food.”

Ba Snake shared the habits of serpent-like magical creatures, but Lin Yuan thought this might as well apply to Chaos Star Beasts.

If this is the case, it perfectly explains why Chaos Star Beasts can coordinate to hunt, yet remain indifferent when their allies are in danger, not helping.

Mind you, the initial Chaos Star Beast was also forced out from underground by Lin Yuan before it initiated the attack.

Perhaps these Chaos Star Beasts hiding underground weren’t even preparing to ambush Lin Yuan, but instead hiding to digest their food.

Even why Nato was able to take down a Chaos Star Beast so easily has a perfect explanation.

Because, during the food digestion process, the Chaos Star Beasts are at their weakest.

Ba Snake’s digestion theory is reasonable, very reasonable.

This digestion theory perfectly explains all the anomalies.

If the digestion theory is correct, then up to now, the Chaos Star Beasts hidden underground still haven’t moved an inch.

This indicates they are still digesting.

For the digesting Chaos Star Beasts, this is when they are at their weakest.

Since this is when the Chaos Star Beasts are weakest, Lin Yuan has no reason not to strike while the iron is hot and finish them!

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan immediately instructed his Tier Two powerhouses: “Prepare for combat, I’ll drive all the Chaos Star Beasts underground out.”

Taking them down while they’re in the digestion state will yield twice the results with half the effort.

With Lin Yuan’s order, his subordinate Tier Two powerhouses dared not delay, those needing to apply their magic formulas did so, those requiring magical treasures summoned them.

Seeing everyone nearly ready, Lin Yuan shouted loudly, “Is everyone ready?”

“Always ready.”

“Always ready.”

“Always ready.”

The numerous Tier Two powerhouses responded in unison with voices as loud as thunder.

Listening to these Tier Two powerhouses’ uniform response, Lin Yuan thought, my military-style training seems to be showing initial results.

With everyone prepared, it was time for Lin Yuan to make his move.

Next, Lin Yuan would take action to drive all the Chaos Star Beasts hidden underground out.

There were dozens of Chaos Star Beasts hidden underground, and only Lin Yuan could force out such a large number of Chaos Star Beasts.

No one else could manage it.

“Boom!”

“Boom! Boom!”

Lin Yuan stomped the ground three times in succession, causing the earth to tremble.

This tremor wasn’t as violent as an earthquake.

Instead, it was like slightly shaking sand with a special frequency.

This specific frequency, though not strong, was very rapid.

Under this special frequency, the entire ground was vigorously shaken.

The upper-layer soil sifted to the lower layer, while the lower-layer soil sifted to the upper layer.

Sifted along with the upper layer soil were densely packed, variously organ-covered tendrils.

These tendrils, coiled together like tree roots and poisonous snakes, would terrify anyone with trypophobia into fainting on the spot.

The first thing to emerge from the ground were these coiled, writhing tendrils.

As time passed, one by one, the entire Chaos Star Beasts appeared before Lin Yuan and the others.