Chapter 723: Strange

Big Mouth grew excited. After holding back for so long, he had finally met a worthy opponent. He leaped up, his long tail swaying as he stared at the dark clouds approaching in the sky. A powerful battle lust erupted from his body. Under its influence, the surrounding Water Elemental Power grew more active and easier for Big Mouth to manipulate. This was a trick he had learned from Old Horse. Old Horse’s origins were clearly extraordinary, and he possessed an endless array of strange and unique Cultivation Techniques suited only for True Essence Beasts. Wang Meng’s five little companions had all benefited greatly from them.

The entire tribe felt Big Mouth’s will to fight. The tribal chief beat the war drum, and the BOOM BOOM of the drum resonated with Big Mouth.

In the sky, a bolt of lightning flashed through the dark clouds, which had now arrived directly above the tribe. From within the lightning, a scaled claw emerged. With a loud RUMBLE, a Taiyin Water Thunder attack blasted toward Big Mouth.

ROAR! Big Mouth let out a corresponding roar. He instantly gathered surging Water Element True Essence, forming a defensive Jade Wave Water Belt.

BANG… With a muffled explosion, the Taiyin Water Thunder slammed into the water belt. The belt rippled with iridescent, glassy waves. Clearly, Big Mouth’s defense was at a disadvantage.

The entire tribe trembled. The Taiyin Water Thunder was incredibly insidious, seeping through everything. A few wisps of Taiyin Primordial Power penetrated Big Mouth’s defense and instantly burrowed into the bodies of several tribespeople. Even the strongest warriors collapsed on the spot, and in a flash, they melted into puddles of horrifying black, toxic water.

Big Mouth watched, enraged, as people were killed despite being under his protection. With a furious roar, the defensive Jade Wave Water Belt coiled and transformed into a whip-like Water Tornado, lashing viciously at the dark clouds in the sky.

The whip struck the dark cloud, which churned violently as a pained hiss echoed out. The cloud then receded, revealing a six-legged, six-winged Exotic Beast. It had no visible head, and its nine eyes were scattered across its body. There was even one on its fish-like tail, leaving it with no blind spots.

This was the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster.

Once it revealed its true form, an immense aura pressed down. The Nine-Eyed Headless Monster was a Legendary Level creature even in the Divine Space. It was said to have originally been a powerful nine-headed, nine-lived demon whose Abnormal Power was great enough to contend with the gods. The gods eventually beheaded all nine heads, killing it. However, as the old saying goes, a centipede does not collapse even in death. Even the gods found it difficult to completely annihilate such a powerful and unusual demon. Its corpse instead transformed into this Exotic Beast, the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster.

The aura now erupting from the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster was filled with a demonic, Evil Abnormal Power. It was the very same Abnormal Power it had once used to contend with the gods!

RUMBLE!

Big Mouth was completely unable to resist this Abnormal Power. His body, as if crushed by a great mountain, slammed to the ground, unable to move an inch.

The Nine-Eyed Headless Monster let out a “CHICHI” hiss. A bloody maw suddenly opened on its abdomen. Jagged teeth lined the inside, and a massive, foul-smelling black tongue shot out. The groove of its tongue was covered in countless fine, sharp barbs that extended and retracted unpredictably.

Landing on the ground, the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster ignored Big Mouth’s presence. It instead rushed toward a woman from the tribe, its massive tongue darting out to snatch her into its giant mouth.

Utterly enraged, Big Mouth suddenly broke free from the binding grip of the monster’s demonic aura. He sprang up and charged fiercely at the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster, his two claws slashing violently toward the giant mouth on its abdomen.

The Nine-Eyed Headless Monster’s nine eyes stared at Big Mouth in unison, seeming surprised that he had managed to escape its suppression.

In terms of the Water Element hierarchy, the ancient Nine-Eyed Headless Monster should have an Innate suppression over a mere Third Transformation Water Spirit Beast that was more than ten times stronger. Under normal circumstances, a serious Nine-Eyed Headless Monster could suppress Big Mouth with a single glance, to say nothing of the aura it unleashed in a fit of rage! But the aura Big Mouth was now displaying was in no way inferior to its own.

“ROAR! You wretched subspecies! How dare you defy me!”

The Nine-Eyed Headless Monster had suddenly spoken in a human tongue!

Big Mouth was clearly startled, and his movements faltered. The Nine-Eyed Headless Monster took the chance to slam into him, sending him flying sideways.

Big Mouth growled as he staggered back to his feet. A large patch of his scales had been torn open by the monster’s six feet in the previous collision, and crimson blood flowed from the wound. Big Mouth stared at the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster in shock, sensing a superior Dragon Blood Divine Power coming from it…

Dragons were promiscuous by nature, and the Black Water Divine Dragon was the most infamous of all. Moreover, dragons could produce offspring with any living creature. The past life of this Nine-Eyed Headless Monster was, in fact, the offspring of a Black Water Divine Dragon and some powerful Demon Beast. As such, the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster that it had transformed into after death naturally inherited a portion of the majesty of the Divine Dragon’s Blood.

Water Spirit Beasts also possessed a trace of Dragon Blood, but it was exceptionally thin. This was why they were known as Water *Spirit* Beasts, not true Water *Dragon* Beasts. When the Nine-Eyed Headless Monster called Big Mouth a subspecies, it was a sign of contempt, treating him as a lowly existence, like a servant.

Big Mouth roared in fury, but his bloodline was indeed Innately suppressed by his opponent’s. Moreover, his opponent’s True Essence cultivation was far beyond his own.

Wang Meng watched all of this quietly. He wasn’t too concerned about the Exotic Beast. ‘A headless, brainless idiot. But these primitive people are a bit strange.’

At first, Wang Meng hadn’t noticed anything unusual about them, but just now, a very strange feeling had emerged. If it weren’t for his keen Primordial Spirit, it would have been difficult to detect. ‘These “people” are truly odd.’

In his eyes, he could see strange threads extending from the center of each primitive’s forehead. The other end of these threads connected to the Nine-Eyed Headless Beast.

‘These people are real, flesh and blood. But the Nine-Eyed Headless Beast in the sky isn’t real. It’s as if it was “created” by these primitive tribespeople.’

Compared to a ferocious beast like the Nine-Eyed Headless Beast, Wang Meng found this tribe and these primitive people to be far more mysterious. Across the innumerable Middle Thousand Realms, there were countless physiques and countless races. ‘Perhaps these primitives are one such special race. Their thoughts seem to have some kind of miraculous effect on True Essence Beasts.’

‘But why are these people inside the space of the Divine Sealing Tower? Perhaps each level of the Divine Sealing Tower connects to a real world.’

Big Mouth roared at the Nine-Eyed Headless Beast in the sky. ‘So it can talk… big deal. But a fight isn’t about who has the cleverest mouth. It’s about who has the tougher body and the sharper teeth.’

BOOM! Power erupted from Big Mouth’s body as Water Element True Essence condensed into a cloud of mist beneath him. This was the fruit of his recent training: the ability to ride the clouds and mist. It was a little slow, but Big Mouth had finally learned to fly.

Big Mouth pounced, his sharp claws slashing mercilessly at the Nine-Eyed Headless Beast. ‘Time to finish this job and get something to eat.’

POW! Big Mouth slammed into an invisible water curtain, sending countless ripples spreading out. A powerful repulsive force threw him back, smashing him into the ground headfirst.