Could it be that some fool was causing trouble here?
Even if Cloud Peak was on high alert, Ying City still had the teams of Young Master Yun and Ah Yang stationed here, filled with experts. Who would dare cause trouble?
However, they didn’t hear the expected sounds of battle. Instead, more and more evolved gathered by the roadside, curiously watching the direction of the noise.
Currently, the main streets of Ying City had already been paved, as they were the first part of the city’s construction project. The materials used were extremely high-quality, with large ‘Tai Ning Bricks’ fired from the Wenjia Furnace. These bricks were extremely hard, and Cloud Peak had specifically chosen an antique blue color for them. To accommodate the massive size of battle beasts, the roads were extremely wide—equivalent to a twelve-lane highway in peaceful times—and the foundations were solid. As a result, the roads looked exceptionally neat and beautiful.
Soon, everyone saw a large group of people walking down the road.
This road led all the way to the foot of Cloud Peak Mountain, connecting to the path leading to the mountain villa. At the end of this road, the northern barracks were located. This road was also the base for Young Master Yun and Ah Yang’s teams. It was one of the first completed projects.
“It’s the Black Ao Horse!”
“Young Master Yun’s team?”
Old Wang and the others first saw a black, horse-like creature. But this horse was different—it towered over any horse from peaceful times, standing at 3.5 meters tall and over 5 meters long.
A purple magic crystal on its forehead indicated it was a level-seven creature.
Ye Zhongming originally found this Black Ao Horse for Young Master Yun’s job, the Shapeshifter. At the time, Yun Shao was a five-star evolved, and after using the job, he could transform into a level-seven Black Ao Horse. Coincidentally, someone had found this creature, so Ye Zhongming captured it and gave it to Yun Shao, telling him to kill it to activate the Life Plunder.
But Young Master Yun fell in love with the creature at first sight and couldn’t bear to kill it, insisting on keeping it as a battle beast.
Due to the Shapeshifter’s unique points, the user could transform into a mutated lifeform two levels higher. Ye Zhongming thought that once Yun Shao reached seven stars, he could find a similar lifeform for his ultimate transformation, so he didn’t press the issue.
However, an adult level-seven mutated lifeform would never submit to an evolved two levels lower. At first, the Black Ao Horse completely ignored Young Master Yun, and whenever he got close, it would attack him. Young Master Yun was injured several times because of this, with two incidents nearly costing him his life.
But Young Master Yun couldn’t bear to hurt or kill the creature. He adored this tall and majestic Black Ao Horse, taking care of it meticulously.
His efforts paid off. After becoming a seven-star evolved, he finally gained the creature’s recognition, and the Black Ao Horse became his battle beast.
“Wait, look behind it. Why are there so many battle beasts? The mountain villa built a battle beast camp, but it seems they only started breeding not long ago, right?”
Sure enough, as the group got closer, everyone saw that there were only two small teams among the two hundred or so people wearing Cloud Peak Mountain Villa’s unique uniform. The rest were a mix of people wearing various outfits, but they all had one thing in common—each of them was riding a giant bear!
While Cloud Peak’s equipment was uniform, the other team’s battle beasts were uniform!
Though not high-level, these giant bears were massive, almost as large as the Black Ao Horse. Each was clad in heavy armor, with evolved sitting on their saddles, looking extremely majestic.
There were five hundred of these bear riders!
With so many mutated lifeforms, each weighing over a ton, walking on the road, the ground trembled slightly.
Old Wang and the others stared wide-eyed, wondering if Cloud Peak had formed a new main combat team.
Just as the bear riders passed by, everyone saw another five hundred giant mutated apes following behind. Each ape had a thick iron chain around its neck, with two evolved holding either end.
The mutated ape’s evolution level was similar to that of the giant bears, but they seemed more agitated, their nostrils flaring and low growls escaping their mouths. The evolved beside them had to constantly calm them, making sounds that outsiders couldn’t understand.
These mutated apes seemed even more fierce and dangerous than the giant bears.
After the mutated apes passed, everyone thought that was the end of it. But then they realized that they could now see a thousand mutated dogs of various colors without the towering apes blocking their view. These were breeds that were already fierce in their original forms, but after mutation, they had become even larger, each as big as an adult bull.
The mutated dogs were the most numerous, with over a thousand of them. Their levels varied, ranging from level two to level five. The pack leader, a pure white mutated dog, had reached level six!
“Wow!”
Many people couldn’t help but exclaim in awe.
But that wasn’t all. Behind the dogs were all sorts of battle beasts—tall, wide, small, fast, flying, crawling—you name it, they had it.
These diverse mutated lifeforms numbered around two thousand, and it took over half an hour for them to pass through this road.
The people on both sides of the road watched as if they were at a circus.
Even though they had lived in the post-apocalyptic world for over four years, they had never seen so many mutated lifeforms gathered together, all so well-behaved.
The sounds of people identifying the various battle beasts and expressing their envy filled the air for a while. At the end of the group, the sight of a few people leading level-seven battle beasts caused a small climax of excitement.
Cloud Peak didn’t even have this many battle beasts, did it?!
“Y-you, look…” Old Wang’s voice suddenly trembled. Those who had been enthusiastically discussing turned to follow his gaze and saw that what they thought was the end of the ‘battle beast’ parade was followed by a true giant beast. Behind it was Ah Yang’s entire team.
This battle beast was like the king of the land. Even as it leisurely walked down the road, it couldn’t hide the powerful aura it exuded.
Its five-colored fur shimmered in the sunlight, so bright it was almost dazzling.
But what made these evolved tremble was the orange magic crystal on its forehead!
Level eight!
This was a level-eight battle beast!
Soon, someone recognized it, and a name began to spread through the crowd.
Spotted Giant Bear!
With that, the name of this team became obvious.
Thousand Beast Villa had arrived!