Jiang Shaoliu narrowed his eyes and sped up even further.
"The rare fruit ripened so fast, faster than I imagined. Now there's a big monster on the mountaintop and it could nab it at any moment."
With fists clenched and chest bulging, even the airflow around him was impacted as a faint sheen of blue light covered his eyes and his pupils turned blood red.
This was one of the conceptions, Crazy Ape Mind.
A huge lizard with eight claws swooped in screaming. There was a thick layer of glittering blue mucus on its tongue, which it was slipping in and out of its mouth, like a snake.
"Die!"
Jiang Shaoliu roared fiercely and drove his fist forward.
Boom!
The lizard's tongue exploded, blood spraying wildly in the sky. It screamed as it retreated, before being swallowed up by the wave of oncoming beasts.
A lot of mucus sprayed over the combat suit, and the exposed metal wires turned black and began smoking.
A buffalo came charging in wildly, steam blowing from its nostrils.
Boom!
The buffalo was blown away with its chest caved in, it's humongous 20-meter long body forming a barricade that slowed down the beastly onslaught.
The ground shook again and again as the battle raged, and rocks of all sizes rolled down the slopes of the mountain.
Meridians bulging as he converted fresh air into overflowing amounts of true qi, Jiang Shaoliu's pores and nostrils were exhaling so much that his combat suit became slightly inflated.
"Don't even try to stop me!"
Blue air sprayed from the three-ringed monsters' feet as they charged dozens of meters with each step, even faster as they were going downhill.
They were all bronzed and rushed forward together in a dark mass, like a vast expanse of colorful hills, which left no gaps to be found.
Bang bang bang!
The tremendous impacts continuously reverberated over the mountain, one after the other.
Skulls shattered as one beast after another fell to the ground, bleeding from every orifice, only to soon be crushed under the feet of the next wave of monsters.
Ruo Feng was stunned.
The viewers of his livestream were in awe.
Whether masters or ordinary people, everyone who saw this was riveted to their screen.
"Damn, damn, damn, Jiang Shaoliu is a BEAST!"
"Is he made of iron? How is he doing that?"
"This is insane! Even a tank couldn't hold a candle to this crazy bastard!"
"Look at this shit! The four greatest masters may dodge, but Jiang Shaoliu just ran straight into the thick of it without even slowing down."
"Hey, are those silver monsters over there? Dude, focus the camera on them for a sec."
Boom…
Jiang Shaoliu knocked aside the last monster and somersaulted through the air, landing steadily on the second platform, covered in blood.
All at once, his pores opened and expelled the waste gases built up in his meridians, shaking off most of the blood as a red mist.
The four great masters landed not far away almost at the same time, then quickly separated and stood at different locations to surround the nine silver monsters.
"Jiang Shaoliu!"
Yin Manshu's gaze fell upon him and her eyes immediately grew colder as frost built up on her tight combat suit.
Jiang Shaoliu was staring firmly at the nine giant monsters, his aura of power no less than that of the four great masters.
"Didn't you hear me?" Yin Manshu stomped and tendrils of freezing mist sprayed into the air around her.
Jiang Shaoliu didn't reply.
The main bulk of the masters of Yungang was still fighting its way up the mountain, still about 400 meters below the second platform.
The 20-meter-tall lion lowered its head, its eyes glittering with malicious red light.
It was impatiently digging its unsilvered claws into the ground, crushing rocks like bean curd.
Jiang Shaoliu and the other four great masters didn't attack, and the nine giant monsters also stood their ground.
"The fruit needs more time to ripen completely," Jiang Shaoliu thought. "I can still smell it.
According to the records on the net, when an extremely high-quality fruit was about to ripen, it would lose its aroma entirely.
The higher grade the fruit, the more power it contained, and it would collect all the fragrance inside it and waste nothing at all.
Jiang Shaoliu wasn't worried at all as he studied the beasts before him carefully.
There were 8 giant monsters besides the lion.
There were two polar bears as tall as four-story buildings, their hind limbs four or five meters in diameter and theirs shaggy bodies as thick as grain silos. Each had a circle of grey fur on its chest, like a big iron ring, and two tusks in its mouth.
Standing on their hind legs, they were so tall it was hard to see their eyes.
There were three silver rhinoceroses, all more than 10 meters tall, with wrinkled faces. They had red skin, red eyes, and three massive horns, the biggest being two meters long and so broad even two men would not wrap their arms around it.
Their backs and bellies were covered with massively thick, hexagonal scales and it was unknown whether they were silvered or naturally silver-white.
There was a giant wolf too, considerably bigger than the rhinos even with its limbs bent slightly. It had gleaming yellow eyes and a maw like a water tank, it's bared fangs growing up to a meter in length. The foulness of its breath pervaded even the omnipresent fragrance of the heavenly fruit at the top of the mountain.
Finally, there were two incredibly fat parrots, rubbing against each other as though they were a mated pair.
They had dark blue talons like giants' sickles, which seemed almost to be made of metal, glittering as they uneasily scraped the rocks, leaving deep grooves.
The legs themselves could hardly be seen, as they were hidden beneath their puffy bellies. They had rather short wings with multi-colored feathers, which made Jiang Shaoliu wonder if they could even fly.
The eyes set in their huge heads were somewhat comically small, but their beaks were short and viciously curved to a needle-sharp, nut-cracking point.
"I wonder if they can speak…" Jiang Shaoliu humphed and turned his gaze to the lion again.
It might have gotten bored, for it lay down and began napping with half-closed eyes. It's mane waved gently in the wind.
"Hmm, how majestic. Always wanted to go on safari..." Jiang Shaoliu nodded appreciatively and took a look around.
Eventually, the few hundred fighters from the various factions scrambled over the edges of the second platform and joined the four great master and Jiang Shaoliu.
The noise of the battle died out as the last few stragglers were dragged away by the swarming throngs of beasts below.
Exhausted troops began raising up their rocket launchers to aim at the group of silvered beasts overlooking them from above.
The lion stood up suddenly, its fur flashing with bright silver.
The lion, rhinos, giant wolf and parrots all silvered up, screaming, roaring and howling as they jumped away wildly in all directions.
"Fire!" Lin Yuetao roared, pointing at the lion.
With bloodlust in his eyes, Chi Xiao pointed at the giant rhinoceroses and growled, "Shoot them!"
Yin Manshu turned her angry gaze from Jiang Shaoliu to the giant wolf, saying coldly: "Kill it."
A barrage of more than fifty rockets boomed and whistled through the air. The humans jumped for cover to avoid the ensuing airborne debris and shrapnel.
Jiang Shaoliu took a few steps back and raised his arm to shield his face.
BOOM!!
The mountain shook to its core as the rockets blasted the rocky ledge above the second platform to smithereens, smoke and fire mixing with blood and dust.
The seven giant monsters momentarily disappeared in the smoke, their cries echoing over the mountain.
With a puff, the two parrots burst out from the cloud of smoke, and were immediately blasted with another volley of rockets, sending them screeching and spiraling downwards with flaming wings.
A wall of thick smoke and dust spread over the mountain, reducing visibility to almost nothing.
The rocket launchers did not rest yet. Volley after volley bombarded the mountainside, flinging debris and clouds of dust hundreds of meters in every direction. After a few minutes of continuous battering, the human master finally ran out of rockets.