In the dark and cold secret realm, the floating boulders were like the stars in the universe, innumerable.
Feng Feiyun's speed was not something those Icecloud Rats could catch up to. Soon, he flew to another area. The floating boulders here were even larger. Some were over a hundred miles in diameter, like meteorites floating in the starry sky.
A dangerous aura came from behind the floating boulders. A blood-red head rose up, shaped like a lion. Just the head alone was ten meters tall, and a pair of golden eyes were like two lanterns in the night, very frightening.
"Roar!"
Its roar was especially loud, like rolling thunder, directly shattering a huge boulder ten miles away.
Feng Feiyun was sent flying by the shockwave from its roar. Such a powerful aura, could it be an eight-hundred-year-old beast?
No.
It was still a bit short of an eight-hundred-year-old beast.
"Rumble!"
Half of the beast's body was revealed. Its entire body was covered in golden light, and everything within a radius of dozens of miles had turned into a golden sea. It had a lion's head, but its neck was covered in dragon scales. The rest of its body was covered in scales that were as big as tiles. Its body was huge, like a dragon or a lion.
This was just a seven-hundred-year-old beast, how could it be so terrifying?
"This is … a Golden Lion, the descendant of the Ancient Holy Beast Suan Ni. It has the bloodline of the Divine Dragon, no wonder it is so terrifying." Feng Feiyun became cautious. He retreated a hundred miles away, looking at the mountain-sized beast.
The Ancient Desolate Era had passed for too long, and the Ancient Holy Beasts were already extinct, dying in that era. Even some beasts with the same name as the Ancient Holy Beasts were not as powerful as the Ancient Holy Beasts. For example, the Taotie, the Qiuniu … and so on. They were famous in the Ancient Desolate Era, able to slaughter Divine Spirits.
But their descendants were too weak, unable to inherit the bloodline of their ancestors. They became mounts or battle beasts of human cultivators.
The Suan Ni was also one of the Ancient Holy Beasts. Its bloodline was extremely powerful, able to swallow the north sea with one mouth. But its descendants had also declined, and their battle prowess could no longer compare to their ancestors.
Of course, there were also a small number of Suan Ni that had awakened their ancestral bloodline. Although it was only a trace, they were ten times stronger than other Suan Ni.
These Suan Ni that had awakened their ancestral bloodline was also called a "Golden Lion".
"Roar!"
This Golden Lion's entire body was exposed. It was like a surging golden mountain, towering and ferocious. It sat on a floating boulder, its eyes condensing a golden light that shot towards Feng Feiyun.
The enormous Holy Beast's might attacked, causing the floating boulders to shatter into pieces.
"What a good Golden Lion. If I can refine you into my body, my physique will definitely improve and my strength will become even more powerful!"
The phoenix soul in Feng Feiyun's body dissipated, and a huge phoenix shadow wrapped around Feng Feiyun's body. Its wings spread out, covering the sky and the earth, and there were flames burning on its wings.
The Golden Lion was not a real beast, it was a battle soul, and Feng Feiyun's phoenix soul was only an aura.
The phoenix was an existence on the same level as the divine dragon. It was one of the four demonic beasts in the world that had the bloodline of a divine beast. It was even more powerful than the bloodline of the Ancient Holy Beasts. It had a great deterrent effect on the Golden Lion, or to be more precise, on the so-called strange beasts.
"A mere Golden Lion dares to show off before a phoenix? Today, I will use your battle soul to forge my Myriad Beast Physique." Feng Feiyun stood straight on top of the boulder with an invisible prestige that shook the firmament.
Many heaven-defying methods could only be cultivated after Feng Feiyun reached first-level Heaven's Mandate. However, after using the phoenix blood to shatter all of his bones, Feng Feiyun could use the memories of his previous life to cultivate some terrifying things beyond the imagination of ordinary cultivators.
For example, he wanted to cultivate the Myriad Beast Physique right now.
Among the demonic phoenix race, there were also phoenixes that cultivated this physique by devouring the souls of ten thousand spirit beasts to forge the physique.
At this moment, Feng Feiyun had a human body and had cultivated the Immortal Phoenix Physique to the fourth blood transformation. He also used the phoenix blood to refine all of his bones. Even though he couldn't refine the souls of ten thousand beasts into his body, it wasn't impossible for him to do so.
It was already difficult for a human to refine one beast soul. To be able to refine four was already a top-notch talent, but Feng Feiyun wanted to refine ten thousand. If other cultivators were to hear this, they would laugh at him as a madman.
Long before entering the soul realm, Feng Feiyun had this plan. However, ten thousand beasts was truly too many, so he could only give up.
However, after arriving at the Exotic Beast Soul Realm and discovering the countless Exotic Beast Battle Souls here, he saw hope and was overjoyed.
"Boom!"
The Infinite Spirit Ring shot out six diagrams that covered the sky to stop the leo's attack.
Feng Feiyun used his Swift Samsara to rush forward and landed on the leo's back. He reached out and unleashed the Thunderfire Jewel. The power of a second-ranked spirit treasure unleashed ten thousand lightning bolts.
"Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Long, snake-like lightning bolts filled the entire space. All of them were aimed at the leo below.
The leo roared and glared at the sky. It also spat out ten thousand lightning bolts that turned into a sea of lightning to stop the attack from the jewel.
Its roar was like the ringing of a heavenly bell. It shook Feng Feiyun's ears and almost caused him to fall off the leo's back.
"That's the bloodline of an ancient sacred beast for you to be so powerful. Your battle prowess is comparable to a third-level Heaven's Mandate." Feng Feiyun quickly retreated and recalled the jewel before running for his life.
The leo was enraged. In the past, core disciples from the pagoda came here to train, but they all stayed far away, not daring to offend it. However, this disciple actually took the initiative to attack it. This was simply lawless.
It gave chase.
The leo's monstrous body caused the world to turn upside down in its path. Boulders scattered everywhere. From afar, it looked like a golden tidal wave was sweeping by.
Despite Feng Feiyun's speed, the leo wasn't much slower. It chased after him and spat out golden lightning bolts, forcing Feng Feiyun into a miserable state.
"Whoosh!"
Up ahead, a group of blue lights flew over with a chilling aura and ice crystals flying everywhere. It was the large group of Icecloud Rats, more than one hundred of them.
All of them were brimming with murderous intent. After seeing Feng Feiyun, they ran even faster while screaming.
"Come!"
Feng Feiyun wasn't afraid at all. He was actually quite happy as he rushed forward to meet them head-on.
The Icecloud Rats had come to chase after him, and seeing that he had taken the initiative to attack them, their bodies began to glow brightly as they attacked.
"Whoosh!"
Feng Feiyun used his stone saber to shatter the souls of four or five rats before running through the group. The leo also caught up and ran right into the rats' attacks.
"Rumble!"
Countless chilling auras struck the leo's body.
Although the power of one Icecloud Rat was far inferior to that of a Golden Leo, the simultaneous attack of over a hundred Icecloud Rats was a completely different matter.
This was a destructive force.
The leo was caught off guard. More than one hundred attacks caused the golden light on its body to dim down. Its body was blocked and couldn't move forward even a single step.
It became even more furious. A group of low level Icecloud Rats dared to attack it — this was truly unforgivable.
"Rumble!"
Right when the leo was surrounded by the rats, a gigantic blue ancient ship came down from above. This ship was monstrous, and its power was even more unparalleled. It directly caused the golden light on the leo's body to dim down even more.
"Rawr!"
The leo was furious. Its eyes shot out two golden divine lights. Suddenly, more than ten Icecloud Rats turned into nothingness after being shattered by the golden light.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
It rushed out of the Icecloud Rats' battle and unleashed a claw attack towards the Azure Bronze Spirit Vessel in the distance.
Feng Feiyun stood on top of the vessel and controlled it to escape. At the same time, he unleashed the Infinite Spirit Ring with six diagrams in front of him to stop the leo's attack.
"The leo's power is too great, it is too difficult to suppress it." Feng Feiyun began to run again.
The leo was still madly chasing after him!
"Rumble!"
A long river of exotic beast war souls appeared before them. Thousands of exotic beast war souls were linked together as they charged in the same direction. The leading exotic beast war soul was a 900-year-old Stone Elephant war soul.
Its aura was boundless as it swept across the sky with the aura of a divine sun.
Feng Feiyun was ecstatic and had a plan. He directly flew towards this river and activated his Swift Samsara to the limit. The leo chased after him with extreme speed.
"Go for it!"
In the blink of an eye, Feng Feiyun had entered the river of beasts. All of them noticed this outsider and began to attack Feng Feiyun.
Waves of power overlapped and turned into a flood.
The simultaneous attack of thousands of Exotic Beast War Souls was extremely terrifying. Who knew how many floating boulders were smashed into smithereens?
Feng Feiyun used his Swift Samsara to move like a fish in the water. His movement technique was extremely strange. His steps were a bit curved and a bit circular, allowing him to dodge most of the attacks from these low-level beasts. Of course, some of the attacks landed on his body, but his powerful physique was able to withstand them all.
The Golden Leo didn't have such good agility. When it saw the attacks of thousands of strange beasts, it suddenly stopped and retreated. However, there were still hundreds of attacks that landed on its body, severely injuring its Battle Soul and causing it to become extremely dim.
If it wasn't fast enough, it would have turned into ashes by now.