Chapter 2064 - 2061: Standing at the Top of the Food Chain

Chapter 2064: Chapter 2061: Standing at the Top of the Food Chain

Yet another freakish-looking exotic beast: on its huge back grew a hard shell like armor, with sharp spikes sticking out of it, like a fish’s dorsal fin, or a stegosaurus’s bony plates.

Its head looked like a massive dog’s head, but on top of it were four horns, two pointing up, two pointing forward. Those arrogant-looking horns clearly weren’t just decoration—if you got gored, it wouldn’t be just four holes, you’d likely be torn into pieces.

The strangest thing was the single eye on its forehead, like a supersized human eye, shot through with blood-red veins.

Lin Tian had seen giant beasts before—the Black Water King Snake in the Underground River beneath Jinghua City counted as one—but compared to this thing, that snake wasn’t even on the same level as its tail.

The giant beast soon revealed its full form: thick limbs like four huge pillars planted in the water, and a tail even bigger than the Black Water King Snake. At the tip of the tail grew a round ball, wrapped in hard shell, looking exactly like a battering ram. Whether Blood Sea City’s fortress gate could withstand a single smash from it was very questionable.

Most shocking of all was its sheer size and height—seen from afar, it was like a small mountain rising straight out of the sea.

Roar...

The beast let out a thunderous roar, and the force of the air current actually blasted a huge track in the seawater in front of it, like the wake left by a gigantic ship.

This roar was like a declaration of a king’s arrival. The exotic beasts that had been preparing to besiege Lin Tian and the others scattered in panic, diving into the sand, sinking back beneath the water even faster than they’d appeared.

The ones that ran too slow were stomped into the seabed by the beast’s giant feet and never surfaced again; some were snapped up in a single bite, torn into chunks of meat, and became its food. The terrifying bite force made blood spray straight out of its mouth.

And that battering-ram-like tail—one casual swing, and an exotic beast was slapped into a meat patty.

A single exotic beast could easily smash apart Shangguan Ao Yue’s defensive formation; even when Shangguan Ao Yue unleashed the Asura Thirteen Sword, all she could do was crush an exotic beast’s skull.

But this giant beast? A lazy swipe, a casual stomp, a random bite, and an exotic beast died instantly, not a single corpse left intact. Blood quickly dyed the seawater red; now it was a genuine Blood Sea.

"Giant Pig..." Shangguan Ao Yue and Mu Yun shouted almost at the same time.

"Pig? Looks more like a cow... no, a dinosaur? Nope, this has to be some gene lab mutant." Xiao Manxuan said in shocked confusion.

"Not pig as in pig and cow, it’s ’Pig’ from ’All Gods’—Giant Pig is a Netherworld behemoth, basically a tyrant, like the dinosaurs from the Jurassic era, standing at the top of the food chain. Of course, everything in heaven and earth restrains something; there are creatures that can counter it too." Mu Yun said, face deadly serious.

While they were talking, the Giant Pig had already charged up onto the beach. Every footfall dyed the sand under it red; any exotic beast that was too slow to hide beneath the sand was simply flattened underfoot.

The Giant Pig also whipped its tail violently. The beach sounded like bombs going off, rumbling nonstop as sand flew up—and along with the sand, a bunch of unlucky exotic beasts.

Every time a beast was blasted into the air, the giant beast’s tail smacked it like a ping-pong ball, slapping it forward. Then it flicked its head, snapped the beast into its mouth, chewed it to pulp in a few bites, and swallowed it down.

"It’s hunting. Don’t move—our size shouldn’t be enough to catch its attention." Shangguan Ao Yue whispered a reminder.

Sure enough, the Giant Pig focused only on its hunt, as if it hadn’t noticed Lin Tian and the others at all, or maybe they were just too small to interest it. For the other exotic beasts, though, this was pure slaughter.

The hunt lasted a full ten minutes. The exotic beasts either fled or died; they didn’t even have the courage to fight back. That’s how terrifying the top of the food chain is.

The last exotic beast was knocked into the air by the Giant Pig’s tail and then slapped forward. It just so happened that this time, it flew a little too far—smack—and landed right at Lin Tian’s feet.

Everyone froze. Lin Tian wanted to curse. Was this shit deliberate? If you wanna eat me, just say it upfront—what’s with the theatrics?

Of course, Lin Tian had no way of knowing what the Giant Pig was thinking. But the behemoth did lift its head and look over—it stared first at the "food," then at the five of them. From its gaze, Lin Tian could tell it was looking at them as food too.

The Giant Pig walked over. Maybe because it was full, its pace wasn’t that fast, but its legs were long as hell. Each step covered several meters; it would be off the beach in under two minutes.

"Uh... should we move or not?" Xiao Manxuan looked at Mu Yun and Shangguan Hongyue, the two natives, asking for their opinion.

"You two take Xuanxuan and fall back, now!" Lin Tian suddenly shouted, because he’d seen it—the single eye of the Giant Pig flashed with a mocking gleam, the kind of look a higher predator gets when toying with prey.

The quickest to react was Zhang Lingyu—not because she was stronger than the other two women, but because she absolutely trusted Lin Tian. She grabbed Xiao Manxuan and retreated at top speed.

Only then did Mu Yun and Shangguan Ao Yue start moving. Although Shangguan Ao Yue was a Heavy Sword and Armor Warrior, her speed wasn’t slow at all. To survive the brutal jungle rules, she clearly had her reasons.

Once the two women backed off, they noticed Lin Tian hadn’t moved. They immediately understood—Lin Tian was planning to hold off the Giant Pig alone.

Seeing the little "runts" trying to bolt, the Giant Pig was instantly enraged. It threw back its head with a deafening roar, then charged forward like a maniac. It was worse than a giant bulldozer, plowing a deep trench through the beach.

Its massive body closed in fast. The forefoot lifted and came stomping down toward Lin Tian and the exotic beast; the foot was so huge it covered them completely. With a boom, flesh and blood splattered everywhere, making Mu Yun and Shangguan Ao Yue’s hearts jump into their throats.

Then they saw Lin Tian had already dodged to the side, and only then did they let out a breath. The Giant Pig, realizing it hadn’t managed to crush the "runt," got even angrier. It swung its head, and its long horns swept toward Lin Tian.

Lin Tian gathered strength and jumped. His leap looked just like a Wandering Dragon Body Technique, agile and precise, landing him atop one of the Giant Pig’s horns. He slammed a punch down at the base of the horn.

Boom...

The Giant Pig took a blow with the weight of a thousand catties; its head was forced down, crashing into the ground. But the horn was completely undamaged—not even a hairline crack.

"Fuck, that hard?" Lin Tian’s eyes went wide. It was his first time seeing horns this tough. That punch just now would have been enough to blow up a truck.

Roar...

The Giant Pig bellowed, jerking its head up to fling Lin Tian off. Lin Tian instead used the momentum to vault diagonally toward the other horn. The Heavenly Tribulation Sword materialized in his hand, and he hacked down hard onto the horn.

Clang... What rang out was the sound of metal striking metal. The razor-sharp Heavenly Tribulation Sword hadn’t managed to chop through a single horn!

A shadow swept past, slamming into Lin Tian with a deafening crash and hammering him away in an instant—that was the surprise attack of the tail’s "battering ram."

Lin Tian felt like he’d just been hit by a train doing three hundred kilometers an hour. He shot out like a cannon shell and slammed into the ground, blasting out a massive crater.

"Cough, cough... you son of a bitch, my organs are all rearranged..." Lin Tian coughed a few times and forced himself to stand up, though it felt like his whole body was coming apart.

But Mu Yun and Shangguan Ao Yue were completely stunned—not by the Giant Pig’s ferocity, but by Lin Tian. After taking a full smash from the "battering ram" tail, he could still stand up—and even curse!