Before the two could decide whether to go for support, one of the young men's arms was severed by a monster's sharp claws in the distance.
"Oh no, you stay here, I'll go support!" Seeing this, Qing Niao's expression changed slightly, and she immediately said to Yu Xian. The next second, she transformed into a blue bird and flew out of the bubble.
After Zhou Tai Number Five consumed the Dead Curse Blood, the abilities he gained were simple and brutal: an extremely strong body, and his entire body was covered with bone-like blades suitable for killing.
"Is this all you're capable of?"
"So weak, so overconfident, who gave you the courage to seek death?"
Zhou Tai Number Five caught up to a dodging young man, opened his enormous mouth and roared, then tried to bite the man's head off from top to bottom.
Boom!
However, just as he opened his mouth to bite down, Qing Niao flew over swiftly.
She struck Zhou Tai Number Five's cheek heavily with her beak, instantly producing a terrifying burst of air.
Zhou Tai Number Five's defense was extremely strong; ripples spread across his cheek from the impact, but his defense was not broken. He only paused slightly, then his eyes flashed with ferocity, and he immediately grabbed the man's shoulder and threw him towards Qing Niao.
Qing Niao had originally intended to pierce Zhou Tai Number Five's head with one blow.
However, she didn't expect Zhou Tai Number Five's head to be so hard. Unable to pierce it, she could only use the recoil from the impact to turn back, preparing to circle around and attack again.
But one wrong move, and the whole game is lost.
Qing Niao didn't expect Zhou Tai Number Five to react so quickly.
She had barely flown five meters when she was struck in the back by the man thrown by Zhou Tai Number Five.
The main reason was that her fastest speed was indeed ten times the speed of sound, but after attacking Zhou Tai Number Five, her speed instantly slowed down, and she also needed a process of acceleration when turning back.
And now, being hit by the man, her body froze even more.
"All of you, die!!!!"
Zhou Tai Number Five gave Qing Niao no chance to breathe. Taking advantage of Qing Niao's reduced speed, he pushed off with his legs, and his sharp bone blades slashed towards the two of them.
Clearly, he intended to kill both the man and Qing Niao together.
It's over.
Qing Niao turned her head to see the bone blade coming and her heart sank instantly.
She hadn't expected Zhou Tai Number Five's actions, seemingly wild and reckless, to actually contain such careful detail, forcing her into a desperate situation with a single move.
At the critical moment, two bubbles passed over Zhou Tai Number Five, directly enveloping Qing Niao and the man. Zhou Tai Number Five's bone blade struck the surface of the bubbles, causing a large number of ripples.
He still wanted to continue attacking, but the two bubbles quickly ascended. Without the ability to fly, he could only watch helplessly as the bubbles flew away.
"Saved!"
Qing Niao transformed back into human form, looked at Zhou Tai Number Five below, and let out a heavy sigh of relief.
For a moment there, she truly thought she was doomed. Zhou Tai Number Five's strength was estimated to be at the upper serpent level, much stronger than her.
In the air, Yu Xian, floating in a bubble, drifted over and asked Qing Niao, who was in a bubble beside him, "Qing Niao, are you all right?"
Qing Niao shook her head and said, "I'm fine, thank you. Otherwise, this time..."
"Alright, we're comrades, no need for formalities. Next, I'll go meet him!" Yu Xian interrupted, then looked towards Zhou Tai Number Five.
On the ground, Zhou Tai Number Five roared, turned to prepare to kill another team member, but found that the man whose arm he had severed had also been rescued.
"Ahhhhhh, who is it, who is it? Come out!!!"
He let out an angry roar, then was struck by a sudden bubble, and his entire body was pushed into the rocky mountain by the bubble.
Yu Xian descended from the air, manipulating the bubble like a wrecking ball demolishing a house, constantly smashing it against Zhou Tai Number Five's body. It had to be said that Zhou Tai Number Five's body was terrifyingly hard; the rocky mountain was dented several meters, yet he remained largely unharmed.
However, Yu Xian then created another bubble, controlling the two bubbles to alternately collide in a V-shape. Gradually, the bone blades on Zhou Tai Number Five's body broke, and his body began to severely deform.
Even steel cannot withstand repeated hammering, let alone flesh and blood.
A few minutes later, Zhou Tai Number Five was already unrecognizable.
After confirming that Zhou Tai Number Five no longer had the ability to resist, he walked forward and asked, "Which Zhou Tai are you?"
"Kill you, I want to kill you," Zhou Tai Number Five murmured weakly.
Yu Xian nodded and said calmly, "Understood, so it's Zhou Tai Number Five."
After speaking, he used a bubble to imprison Zhou Tai Number Five, preparing to ask the captain later how to deal with this thing.
Wait.
Yu Xian turned around to leave, then suddenly realized something belatedly.
Although Zhou Tai Number Five wasn't very strong to him, in fact, to many people, it was already a monster-level threat.
In fact, Zhou Tai Number Five's combat power was even greater than that of the previous giant ape. If the other Zhou Tais also survived, they might indeed succeed in breaking through.
Realizing the seriousness of the problem, he quickly pulled out his phone to contact Jin Sheng, and at the same time conveyed the matter to him.
Jin Sheng immediately responded, ordering Qing Niao to patrol the surroundings and, upon discovering any Zhou Tai, to immediately notify everyone nearby, so that everyone could provide support as much as possible.
Both Yu Xian and Jin Sheng at this time mistakenly believed that Zhou Tai's sudden increase in strength was a variable resulting from their mastery of the ability to excavate extraordinary creature bloodlines.
While Jin Sheng was adjusting his strategy, on a mountain peak in the edge region, Zhou Tai Number Three squatted in the shadow of a boulder, watching Yu Xian in the distance.
Because of Plato's reminder, the few of them naturally stayed as far away from the metal lotus as possible. Therefore, General Zhao Yi's attack actually only destroyed the metal lotus and a large number of Alienated Insects that couldn't escape; all the Zhou Tais had managed to flee.
"Little brother Yu Xian, what kind of monster are you, after all?"
From Zhou Tai Number Three's perspective, Yu Xian was like a bloodthirsty beast, madly devouring everything.
Originally, Zhou Tai Number Three thought Plato's 'truth' was already terrifying enough, but now seeing Yu Xian's 'truth', he felt Yu Xian was even more terrifying.
It was a beast whose form was hard to describe, its entire body composed of countless whirlpools, seemingly ready to draw anything that came near into itself.
Even more terrifying was that it was constantly feeding, its body like a bottomless pit, seemingly impossible to fill no matter how much it consumed.
However, a challenging opponent is even more interesting!
Zhou Tai Number Three was eager to try. Anyway, even if he did nothing, this body would die in a day, so he might as well have a good time and see how much stronger Yu Xian had become.
He swiftly leaped down from the mountain peak, jumping from one mountain to another, approaching Yu Xian at an extremely fast speed.
After reporting the situation, Yu Xian did not remain idle but continued to kill more beasts.
Their standby position was actually one of the few paths for animals to descend the mountain; the remaining areas were either sheer cliffs or thorny, impassable terrain, a death trap for animals.
"Little brother, I've come to play with you again!"
Suddenly, a wild ox in the distance soared into the air and slammed directly towards Yu Xian. At the same time, Zhou Tai Number Three's voice rang out.
Yu Xian, sitting in the bubble, saw the wild ox crashing down and immediately controlled the bubble to change its properties, from its original hardness to extreme elasticity. At the same time, the bubble also expanded from two meters in diameter to five meters.
The wild ox hit the bubble and was instantly bounced back the next second.
"Are you that Zhou Tai from the school before? Number Three?" Yu Xian looked at Zhou Tai Number Three, who caught the wild ox and quickly jumped out of the beast group, and asked.
Zhou Tai Number Three opened his mouth, took a heavy bite out of the struggling wild ox, and, with a mouth full of blood, laughed, "It seems you've investigated very thoroughly, indeed. I am Number Three; you can call me Little Three."
After speaking, he suddenly opened his mouth and spat, and a mass of wild ox flesh shot towards Yu Xian like a cannonball.
However, his attack was still easily blocked by the bubble, and the flesh even bounced back, forcing him to slightly dodge.
"So where did the other Zhou Tais go?" Yu Xian looked around and continued to ask.
Zhou Tai Number Three's emotions changed very quickly, and at this moment he said unhappily, "Little brother, you're playing with me right now, why are you always thinking about other people?"
"Alright, then I'll deal with you first, and then find the other Zhou Tais," Yu Xian said calmly.
In an instant, dense bubbles gathered from all directions, then shot towards Zhou Tai Number Three like a barrage of bullets.
After his mutated blood energy gained the exclusive skill of bubbles, Yu Xian's combat style had already transformed from a close-quarters fighter to a noble mage. Many times, he could easily defeat enemies without even needing to lift a finger.
Zhou Tai Number Three's dynamic vision and reaction speed were both extremely fast. He quickly retreated backward, widened the distance, then jumped left and right, continuously dodging the incoming bubbles.
These bubbles looked hollow, giving a light and airy feeling, but their movement speed and attack power were unexpectedly strong.
As he dodged the bubbles' attacks, the surrounding plants and rocks suffered.
Rocks were instantly shattered into pieces by the bubbles, and flowers and grass looked as if they had been gnawed by a large number of insects, with semi-circular or circular gaps everywhere on their leaves.
Compared to when he was at school, Yu Xian is much stronger now.
This speed of becoming stronger is truly astonishing.