Chapter 570 - 220: Level Too Low to Devour, Encountering a Beast Tide, Certain Death

Suddenly, at the far edge of her vision, she saw an endless cloud of dust rising into the air. As the dust billowed, towering trees toppled one after another, and the sky filled with countless flying creatures taking off in a panic.

"Ah!"

"Something’s happening!"

"Brother Fei!"

Seeing the anomaly, Li Xiaohong leaped directly from the treetop. She dropped rapidly toward the ground, and just as she was about to land, she executed a spinning maneuver that brought her to an instant stop beside Shen Fei, where she shouted in alarm.

"What?"

A beast tide?

Hearing Li Xiaohong’s alarmed voice, Shen Fei immediately pressed his ear to the ground. Then, he heard them: a series of seismic thuds traveling through the earth. He recognized the sound instantly—it was exactly the same as the one he had heard when the beast tide erupted in Qing City.

Holy shit, you can’t be serious! Can our short little legs even handle a beast tide?

With Li Xiaohong’s help, Shen Fei also scrambled to the treetop. From there, he saw it all. Dozens of kilometers away, swaths of massive trees were collapsing, and a pillar of dust rose into the sky. He also saw the flying creatures, including Winged Dragons, forced into the air by the falling trees and now circling in a panic.

"Run!"

Realizing his small group was directly in the path of the advancing beast tide, Shen Fei scrambled back to the ground without a second thought and immediately led his team in a desperate flight. Their small bodies couldn’t fend off a single dinosaur, let alone a massive tide of them. In fact, they didn’t even dare touch an adult dinosaur. If they made contact, the effect of the [Devouring] skill meant it would be an instant game over.

WHOOSH!

There was no time to ponder what had caused the colossal dinosaurs to stampede. Faced with this sudden disaster, all Shen Fei could do was lead his team and charge forward. He had seen it moments ago: the beast tide was over fifty kilometers away, but its front was a staggering hundred kilometers wide. Therefore, his only option wasn’t to try and go around the stampede, but to run straight ahead, reach the water’s edge on the other side, and find a new way out.

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

WHOOSH!

Following Shen Fei’s lead, the starving team took off, their short little legs churning desperately.

RUMBLE!

「Half an hour later.」

Shen Fei and his group could already hear the tremendous roaring closing in from behind. Clearly, their short little legs were no match for the adult dinosaurs. A single stride from one of those giants covered the distance it took them a thousand steps to run.

"Brother Fei!" No. 0’s voice suddenly rang out from the rapidly fleeing group. "Should we use this chaos to go steal some eggs?"

As the violent roaring grew louder, all nearby creatures were thrown into a frenzy. Shen Fei and the others also saw countless panicked dinosaurs appearing in droves, abandoning their eggs without a second thought. In this chaos, the unguarded dinosaur eggs seemed like a golden opportunity.

THUD!

Before Shen Fei could answer, a massive pillar of flesh five to six meters thick dropped from the sky, slamming into the ground right next to them.

Holy crap!

Looking up, Shen Fei couldn’t help but curse as he saw an enormous, hundred-meter-tall Snake-necked Dragon with "LV 512" displayed above its head, stampeding past in a blind panic. He cursed partly because a dinosaur had already caught up to them, but he was also astonished. What on earth could have frightened such a massive Snake-necked Dragon so badly?

RUMBLE!

As Shen Fei watched in horror, more dinosaurs surged forward from behind. His heart leaped into his throat at the realization that a single misplaced step from any of the panicked dinosaurs could squash his entire team into a fine paste. He hadn’t expected the giant dinosaurs to be so fast. It had taken only half an hour for them to catch up to his frantically fleeing group. There was no chance to go back and steal eggs.

Faced with the dense, endless sea of dinosaurs, their more immediate concern was being trampled into mush by the chaotic herd. Even if they weren’t crushed into pulp, touching any dinosaur with a higher level than theirs would mean they would be instantly consumed by the [Devouring] skill.

Holy fuck!

As Shen Fei’s heart seemed to freeze, he suddenly saw a black health bar appear in the distance. The level indicator read LV 1000. A super-creature had appeared right before his eyes.

"Ahhh!"

The black health bar and the four-digit level made No. 0 and Xiaohong, who were right beside Shen Fei, scream in terror.

RUMBLE!

At the same moment the super-creature with the four-digit level appeared, the beast tide closed in, now only ten meters away.

We’re done for!

In the body of a young dinosaur less than a meter tall, Shen Fei was, this time, finally and truly terrified.