Suddenly, they were caught by somebody and landed safely on the ground.
Jiang Shaoliu put them down gently. "Are you ok?"
"It's just a scratch." The skinny soldier wiped a streak of blood from his lip and threw a couple pills down his throat. "Those guys are no match for us. They only feel brave because they have an advantage in numbers."
The thick-armed soldier couldn't stand on his own and had to be supported by Jiang Shaoliu as he fumbled in his pouches for some medicine with shaky hands.
Gui Gui, the lady in purple, Tai and twenty oter silvered masters came up and stopped some distance away from them, hesitating.
"You can take a break. I will handle this." Jiang Shaoliu stepped forward with clenched fists. Air gushed and twisted around him, his combat suit fluttering in the wind.
Inside him, the glow in his stomach had almost disappeared. It remained bronze. It was supposed to be a golden abyss, but now it was a bronze abyss.
As Jiang Shaoliu stepped forward, the twenty-odd masters all retreated. Nobody dared to be the first to attack him.
Jiang Shaoliu cried out and charged.
…
A huge tiger, ten meters from snout to tail, was running back and forth on the outskirts of Sector 2.
It was shiny white all over, not a speck of other colors on its fur, and sniffing vigorously. There was a series of numbers painted on one of its front claws, seemingly a telephone number.
Xiao Bai stopped abruptly. A strong gust of wind blew by him, throwing up a swirl of dust.
Xiao Bai wrinkled his nose and changed direction. His thick and strong tail waved back and forth and huge drops of drool dripped from his open maw.
A new discovery - there was a rare fruit nearby!
As he ran, he wondered where all the monsters went. Besides, the trees seemed to be getting smaller. Hills, too. Or, was he just getting bigger?
As he ran, he roared and a bronze light shone around him.
Xiao Bai grew even bigger as the bronze light dissipated. Now he was over ten meters tall. Blue airflow slowly spread from beneath his paws.
He ran even faster in excitement, blue air spraying wildly. He stopped in a deep valley, staring at a pool of clear water beneath a cliff with glittering eyes.
Innumerable stalks of green seaweed tangled together at the bottom of the pool, forming a large round ball not far from the shore. There was a bright red fruit inside, glittering in the sparse sunlight that reached it.
It had such a strong aroma that the entire pond smelled of mint.
Xiao Bai reached in with a paw and scraped the bottom of the pool.
The water rippled and many stalks of seaweed wound themselves around Xiao Bai's claws and began spreading along its foreleg.
Xiao Bai roared loudly and a dark bronze light appeared on him as he exerted his rear legs to drag himself out of the water, tearing the weeds apart.
The weeds retreated to the depths of pool.
Xiao Bai indignantly shoved his paw back in the water and managed to successfully drag out the fruit, pulling it out by the root from the floor of the pool.
"Is it ripe or not? Well, I don't care."
Xiao Bai rolled out his tongue and swallowed it.
Wow, what a bitter taste! it wasn't ripe enough.
Xiao Bai lapped up some water and felt much better.
Once he finished drinking, he took a look around and was surprised to discover two dim gleaming points not far ahead. A faint fragrance reached his nostrils.
Xiao Bai's eyes shone: there had to be something delicious there!
The tiger was about to leap ahead, but then stopped and lay low.
A rumbling noise rang in the valley.
A stampede of monsters burst out of the dense woodland up ahead in a panic. Some of them went right past Xiao Bai while some of them stopped and drank from the pool before continuing.
Xiao Bai roared at them but was completely ignored. Once they finished drinking, all the monsters flew or ran off without giving him a second look.
After a short while, two fat, clumsy, bloodstained parrots came hopping by and stopped before the pool together.
Xiao Bai roared. "Tell me what's going on or die!"
One of the fat parrots glanced at Xiao Bai before turning silver and kicking him away.
The humongous tiger rolled about twenty meters away and sat there like a scared little kitten.
What the hell kind of birds were these?
Daring not to stay for a single minute longer, Xiao Bai escaped to Liang Duan Mountain.
…
The east side of the second platform of Liang Duan Mountain.
Jiang Shaoliu faced the wind, covered in blood.
Gui Gui, the lady in purple and the savage Tai…
More than twenty silver masters lay on the ground. Some were breathing heavily and struggling on the ground, there rest were already dead.
"Mr. Jiang!" Liu Guang and Chen Anguo came running, supporting each other. As soon as they reached him they sat down on the ground, exhausted.
The skinny and burly soldiers had almost recovered. They looked at each other and saluted Jiang Shaoliu together: "Doctor Jiang, we can deal with the situation here, but our Lion Warrior is still fighting on the mountaintop and he needs you now."
Liu Guang looked from the ground, breathing heavily, and said: "Mr. Jiang, Lion Warrior has offended the other three great masters because of you. The situation up there is not looking good. You'd better go look."
Jiang Shaoliu nodded and rushed away without another word.
Bang bang bang!
He steamrolled unstoppably through the throngs of masters, sending bronzed and silvered men flying screaming in all directions at every step.
Jiang Shaoliu circled through the crowd once and stopped in front of Liu Guang and others with a grin: "Now I can go."
Then he squatted and pushed off the ground powerfully, violently shattering the rocky ground beneath him as he flew off up the hillside at an incredible speed.
"We don't need to worry anything with Mr. Jiang there." Liu Guang struggled and stood up from the ground with a confident smile. "I knew nothing could stop him from the moment I met him."
Chen Anguo also stood up. He nodded and put his arm on Liu Guang's shoulder with a smile: "Let's go watch him when we wrap things up down here. It'll be a pity to miss a fight like that!"
The skinny soldier tightly gripped his weapon and gazed over the battlefield in front of them. "Alright, let's do this!"