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Yilumi and Jin Bradrey got to their feet, cautiously observing the area obscured by dust and smoke.
"Whoosh~!"
A colossal tail extended, sweeping through the dust and smoke.
"Bang!"
With a loud crash, a giant shadow was sent flying backwards, smashing "boom" into a towering ancient tree.
It was the gigantic ape that had previously leaped from within the forest. At this moment, it had two bloody holes in its arm, blood streaming down.
"Roar~!"
The ape propped itself up with its arms, rose abruptly, and let out an angry roar towards the sky. Disregarding its injuries, it balled its fists and pounded them fiercely against its chest.
"Thump! Thump! Thump!…"
Even Yilumi, standing at a distance, could feel the formidable, surging power emanating from the ape.
"Thud!"
On the other side, a giant paw stepped out from the dust cloud, sinking deep into the ground. The paw seemed even larger than the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's head.
The shadow of a behemoth loomed indistinctly within the dust cloud. As its massive tail swayed, the dust began to settle, gradually revealing its form.
It had brownish-yellow fur with black horizontal stripes, powerful limbs, and a thick, long tail with black rings. The white patches and black markings on its head resembled the character King.
Its massive jaws were slightly agape, letting out a puff of white breath.
The corpse of the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird lay to one side, lifeless.
The ape stopped beating its chest, its arms hanging towards the ground, fists propped on the earth. Its enormous eyes stared intently at the hunter opposite it.
The two combatants circled an open area, each watching the other's every move with deadly focus.
"Clack…"
Suddenly, the gigantic ape's foot touched a small stone—though "small" was only relative to their size.
To Yilumi, it would have been a boulder.
The ape's eyes narrowed slightly. Its foot inconspicuously gripped the stone as it slowly circled halfway.
Its right hand suddenly snatched the stone from its foot and hurled it at the giant tiger, while the ape itself leaped high onto a massive tree.
"Whoosh!"
The sound of something tearing through the air arrived as the giant tiger's body dipped, evading the flying stone.
It looked up sharply, only to see a behemoth leaping down from above—it was the gigantic ape.
"ROAR~!"
The tiger's massive jaws opened wide, letting out a terrifying roar that could chill one to the bone. Its four limbs tensed, and it suddenly leaped upwards.
"BOOM!!!"
The tiger and the ape collided violently in mid-air. A powerful shockwave radiated outwards, kicking up a fierce gale.
The shockwave spread far into the distance, the air currents from the impact creating violent ripples across the green ocean of the forest canopy.
"Such incredible power."
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey stood their ground, intently watching the two behemoths crash into each other, allowing the strong air currents to whip their hair and clothes wildly.
The collision lasted only an instant.
A moment later, the ape's thick arms spread wide, then fiercely wrapped around the giant tiger's neck. Its muscles bulged as it abruptly exerted its strength. A series of "crack-crack" sounds of bone fracturing came from within its embrace.
But before it could complete the stranglehold, a thick, long tail whipped out, lashing across its face with a "thwack," leaving a bloody gash.
"ROAR!"
The ape cried out in pain, its arms relaxing slightly, allowing the giant tiger to break free.
The tiger pressed its forepaws onto the ape's shoulders, its neck arching back, and then, opening its cavernous, blood-red mouth, it bit down on the ape's throat.
"Pffftt"
Sharp canine teeth instantly pierced the ape's windpipe. The ape let out a painful howl, pressing its hands against the tiger's massive jaws, its arms straining, face contorted in a savage grimace as it tried to pry them open.
The two behemoths, locked together, plummeted violently from the sky.
"BOOM!"
The ground trembled violently, kicking up a cloud of dust. Fissures spiderwebbed across the earth.
After a long while, the dust settled.
The tiger's enormous jaws were clamped tightly around the ape's throat, a trickle of blood slowly seeping down.
The ape lay on the ground, its thick arms hanging limply from the giant tiger's head, all signs of life gone.
"ROOOOAR!!!"
Only then did the tiger release its blood-soaked jaws, throwing its head back to let out a heaven-shattering roar that pierced the clouds.
It rose, slowly turned, and looked towards Yilumi and Jin Bradrey, who were standing in the distance.
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey also stared intently at the giant tiger. Yilumi handed the Tang Dao in his hand to Jin Bradrey.
The giant tiger lifted a paw and, step by step, began to advance towards the two humans, its killing intent overflowing.
"The weak are meat, the strong eat. The law of nature."
Yilumi muttered softly, his expression grave as he watched the giant tiger slowly approach them, his posture extremely cautious.
"Run!"
He shouted.
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey swiftly turned and transformed into streaks of light, vanishing from the giant tiger's sight in an instant.
"ROAR~!"
From far away, Yilumi heard the giant tiger's terrifying roar.
It seemed that its hunt for the day was already sufficient, and tiny creatures like Yilumi weren't even enough for a mouthful.
Within the primeval forest, in the jungle beside the [Monte River].
"Pant… pant…"
Yilumi sat on the root of a towering ancient tree. The root connected to the base of the massive tree, its other end buried deep in the ground.
This was one of the few open areas in this forest. Perhaps because it was beside the river, apart from the rushing sound of the turbulent water and the thunderous roar of the waterfall, no roars of wild beasts could be heard.
"Yilumi!"
Suddenly, Jin Bradrey ran out from behind a colossal ancient tree in the distance, sprinting frantically towards Yilumi, his expression seemingly one of extreme gravity.
"Hmm?"
Hearing the shout, Yilumi turned to look at Jin Bradrey, frowning.
"Didn't you go to find food?"
Because Jin Bradrey had read many books, he was quite confident in his ability to find food in a primeval forest, so Yilumi had let him go search for sustenance while he rested.
"Run quickly!"
Jin Bradrey waved his hands rapidly, racing towards Yilumi.
"BOOM!"
His words had barely faded when, from behind the massive tree Jin Bradrey had emerged from, another enormous creature burst forth—it was a crocodile, its size comparable to the tiger from before.
"A crocodile!?"
Yilumi stared at the crocodile closely following Jin Bradrey, his face a mask of astonishment.
The crocodile's appearance was essentially that of a super-sized Nile crocodile, more than ten times larger.
"Rumble, rumble, rumble…"
As the crocodile charged, a large amount of vegetation and trees were crushed beneath it. Yilumi leaped off the tree root and fled westward along the Monte River.
Jin Bradrey caught up, running shoulder to shoulder with Yilumi, the gigantic Nile crocodile relentlessly pursuing them.
"This is bad! Ahead is the [Xizehai'erwu Grand Waterfall]!"
After running for an unknown number of minutes, Jin Bradrey's face grew grim as he looked at the vast white expanse of mist ahead.
"Less nonsense, jump with me!"
Yilumi, however, was unconcerned. The giant Nile crocodile behind them was not something they could handle in their current state. There was only one way to escape: jump down the thousand-meter-high super-grand waterfall ahead.
"Jump!"
Reaching the edge of the canyon summit, with Yilumi's loud cry, the two of them spread their arms and leaped.
"ROOOAR~~ BOOOM~~"
The thundering roar of the massive torrents of water cascading down the waterfall deafened Yilumi and Jin Bradrey to everything else. The splashing water soaked them to the bone, blurring their vision.