The Styx water this time was clearly more powerful than the Styx water Ri An had used on his own earlier. Without the constraints of the mound spirit and having devoured Ri An's Styx water, its might was even more formidable.
In the sky, ghastly howls and wolfish wails filled the air, as desolate beasts of all sizes devoured by the Styx roared. Some beasts were dozens of meters tall, incredibly strong, while others were as small as a toothpick, but even those tiny as a toothpick were immensely terrifying!
At this moment, a familiar figure appeared in the Styx water, shockingly transforming into the Meat-Winged Monster that was Ri An!
But at this time, Ri An, like the desolate beasts around him, had fallen into madness, his eyes filled only with endless rage and resentment, having lost all intelligence.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
The Styx desolate beasts roared again as they charged forward. The sky turned oppressively gloomy and morbid, with ghastly Phoenix cries echoing, the air almost solidified by the Styx water.
Xiang Beifei wore an indifferent expression as he once again drew the Wufeng broken sword in his hand. Wufeng sparkled with a cold gleam. With one lift of the blade, his Sword Qi burst forth, instantly shattering the Styx desolate beasts in front!
The radiance of the Wufeng sword was overpowering, as if tearing a bright rift through the dull sky. Not a single Styx desolate beast could withstand his strike and were instantly shattered to pieces.
Yet, Ye Ji remained unflustered, manipulating the Styx desolate beasts. All the Styx desolate beasts roared, pouncing on Ri An who had been assimilated by the Styx water!
Ri An himself was a master of the orifice transforming stage. After merging with so many desolate beasts, he became even more formidable, his aura soaring.
Ri An's figure grew massive, towering hundreds of meters tall, resembling a composite ferocious beast. His arms sported desolate beast heads, revealing sharp fangs, and his back bore seven or eight pairs of wings, each with desolate beast heads that were still wriggling mouths, and eyes that seemed to bulge out.
Various powerful sonar waves converged together, quickly forming in mid-air, and by the sheer intensity of their presence, managed to grasp Xiang Beifei's Wufeng blade light!
Xiang Beifei frowned slightly. Wufeng could ignore any gathering of Spiritual Power, much like the mound spirit. Only some of the most common materials could slightly block Wufeng, such as simple stones or trees.
However, it seemed that this Styx water could also block Wufeng's blade light!
Ri An's body seemed wrapped in a thin yellow film, but it still couldn't hide his ferocity as he spat a fishy breath at Xiang Beifei. This breath corroded the surrounding air as if melting a large hole into it.
But at this moment, Brain Deficient's tentacles had already rushed over. His tentacles had transformed into a new pattern, black and red intertwined, merging together, their aura becoming even more bizarre!
As Xiang Beifei swung his sword, the black and red tentacles swept toward his back from another angle. These tentacles flitted wildly, like sharp spikes in the air, arriving in an instant, stabbing toward Xiang Beifei's back!
The tentacles struck extremely swiftly. Brain Deficient and Ye Ji, both very powerful, showed no mercy as their attacks were nearly in perfect sync, leaving Xiang Beifei no chance to counter!
Brain Deficient uttered in a low voice, a savage smile curling at his lips.
But Xiang Beifei still did not move. It was as if he did not care for Brain Deficient's black and red tentacles, or rather, he simply ignored the tentacle attack, his focus solely on Ye Ji before him. This further exhilarated Brain Deficient! He was acutely aware of the power of his move.
Merging the red tentacles with his own was equivalent to fusing a Heavenly Connection stage Priest Lord's avatar into his own body, a process that greatly strained him. Once used, the avatar's power would likely be exhausted.
But now, to deal with Xiang Beifei, he had cast aside all concerns. If he couldn't kill Xiang Beifei, it was highly probable that he would be the one to die!
Thus, Brain Deficient showed no mercy!
The black and red tentacles, at a tricky angle, bombarded Xiang Beifei's back in an instant!
However, to Brain Deficient's surprise, the scene he imagined, where Xiang Beifei would be pierced through by his black and red tentacles, did not happen. Instead, a powerful swirling Spiritual Power rose on Xiang Beifei's back. This spiritual power, one black and one white, continually intertwined, dissolving the powerful force created by the black and red tentacles.
This force was then enveloped by the spiritual power emanating from Xiang Beifei, mingling with the sword in his hand!
The strongest defense is a counterattack!
Xiang Beifei continuously converted the immense force of the red and black tendrils hammering against him, transferring it into his hands, and the power of his sword's glow grew unwittingly stronger. The sword glow, originally wielded by Ri An transformed from a desolate beast, broke free from the monster's grasp after fusing with the power of the red and black tendrils!
In an instant, Ri An's giant hand, covered in eyes, was severed by the Sword Qi!
The massive monster let out a shrill cry, utterly chilling to the core, its soundwaves so powerful they twisted the space around them, making the area seem as though it was about to overturn, reverberating for miles!
All desolate beasts within miles, upon hearing this cry, seemed as though their heads had been struck by something, their spirits scattering, their bodies convulsing, growing restless and anxious, as their pupils gradually became covered by a yellow light.
All beasts that heard the cry immediately sprang into action, heading in the direction of the Ri An monster. Those that could fly took to the skies, those that could run did so, charging madly while roaring, as if in response to the distant Ri An monster.
You should know that relative to Jiuzhou, this place lies deep in the outer wilderness where the desolate beasts dwelling here are extremely powerful. One can stumble upon God Refining stage and even orifice transforming stage beasts anywhere!
Yet these powerful desolate beasts, upon hearing the bellow of Ri An, seemed as if bewitched, losing their own wills and only acknowledging Ri An as their leader!
Ri An was like the King of Desolate Beasts within miles, one command, and thousands of beasts bowed in reverence. The sky was dense with various kinds of formidable desolate beasts. A rough count showed hundreds in the God Refining stage and dozens in the orifice transforming stage!
Xiang Beifei frowned slightly; these Meat-Winged Monsters were more peculiar than he had anticipated. The water from the realm of the dead was also unknown in its origin, and compared to before, it was eerily more sinister, able to control all the desolate beasts here, making him feel surrounded by a horde of beasts, with countless desolate beasts targeting him!
Especially the dozens of powerful orifice transforming stage beasts. If it were a month ago, he would not have easily provoked them since the fight would be very troublesome and any carelessness could lead him into trouble.
But now he had to take it seriously!
Countless desolate beasts swarmed in, wind blades, poison stingers, bizarre toxins, and even beasts that moved with sound waves, relying on Ri An monster's cries as a beacon and instantly leaping in front of Xiang Beifei.
The formidable beasts, as if brain deficient, were uncontrollably savage, pouncing one after another. Their strange abilities interwove, even bending swathes of space, seeking to shred Xiang Beifei into pieces!
All of a sudden, Xiang Beifei seemed to understand what a beast tide truly was!
He had studied pioneer knowledge for a year in the Jiuzhou continent, mastering various techniques against desolate beasts, and had even seen the scale of several past beast tides that had invaded Jiuzhou, witnessing them in simulation classes as well.
However, he had never really faced a beast tide head-on!
This was his first time.
"So this is what a beast tide is like?" mused Xiang Beifei.
The current beast tide was indeed horrific to the extreme, for Jiuzhou's desolate beasts included various lower-level ones, but the beast tide that had suddenly converged here was comprised entirely of incredibly powerful ones. If all of them were to surround Jiuzhou, the impact would be terrifying!
The Jiuzhou continent was protected by that mighty wall, but here, there was only Xiang Beifei!