Swallowed Star: Lord of the Wolf

The mountains, vast and boundless, seem to have been silent since time immemorial, yet they also seem to be constantly enacting silent slaughter and devouring.

Xu Yang's other clone did not go to the Yongzan tribe with him.

The moment he arrived on this unfamiliar continent, he was like a shadow blending into the night, choosing a completely different direction and plunging alone into this boundless, primeval wilderness.

Only by walking in the completely deserted wilderness can one discover that the energy of heaven and earth in many places here is hundreds or thousands of times more violent than that of the cosmic ocean, and it also carries a primitive, wild, and almost viscous sense of oppression.

It's fine during the day, with sunlight shining through.

As day turns to night, the sky becomes a chaotic gray haze, with thick clouds hanging low, as if they might crush those menacing mountain peaks that pierce the sky at any moment.

Countless miniature universes hang endlessly high in the sky, like countless eyes; looking up, one sees only the vastness.

Beneath the vast sky, light is distorted and swallowed up, shrouding the depths of the mountains and forests in perpetual darkness. Only a few strange plants containing the essence of light emit a faint glow, like will-o'-the-wisps adorning the endless darkness.

He 'strolled' among them.

Of course, this is not really a leisurely stroll, but rather an application of a very high level of principles.

His figure sometimes blended into the howling wind, sometimes sank into the cold shadows, his footsteps treading on withered leaves or jagged rocks without making a sound. A powerful will, like invisible tentacles, spread out from him, penetrating the layers of giant tree barriers, penetrating deep into the dark crevices of caves, scanning every inch of potentially dangerous area.

……

The Stone Forest is densely covered with black stone pillars as sharp as spears, emitting a chaotic magnetic field powerful enough to shred the souls of ordinary gods.

Xu Yang moved through the stone forest like a fish, unaffected by its chaotic force field. Suddenly, a strange beast, resembling a pangolin but covered in thorns and bone spikes, lurking in the shadows of a stalagmite, pounced out, its aura as a mid-stage Void True God carrying the sharpness to tear through space!
Xu Yang's eyes were calm as water. He didn't even turn around. The space beside him rippled like water. The strange beast's body was strangely split in two, as if cut by an invisible blade. Before the hot beast blood could even splatter, the heart of the true god was swallowed and annihilated by the distorted spatial power.

……

The filthy swamp churned with dark green bubbles, emitting a putrid and poisonous stench.

Countless tiny, invisible poisonous insects writhed in the mud.

Xu Yang stepped onto it, a faint light of law shimmering beneath his feet. A thin, transparent layer of law-based ice crystals instantly condensed on the surface of the swamp, carrying him lightly across. Deep within the swamp, a colossal beast, a thousand feet long, covered in thick scales and resembling a crocodile-dragon, was startled. Its massive jaws opened, spewing forth a torrent of foul-smelling venomous saliva, transforming into a massive wave of poisonous mist that corroded the void—the aura of a peak-level Void True God!
Xu Yang raised his palm, his five fingers loosely clenched, and the surrounding space seemed to collapse and compress instantly, forming an invisible cage. Given the stability of the space on the Origin Continent, his current strength was not enough to break through space and create cracks, but it was not difficult to stir up spatial ripples and cause damage.

The raging waves of poisonous fog crashed against the spatial barrier, producing a teeth-grinding hissing sound, but could not advance an inch.

The crocodile-dragon beast roared in terror, its massive body struggling desperately, but it was as if it were trapped in solidified amber.

Xu Yang gently squeezed his palm, and the spatial cage suddenly contracted!

Click!

Only a bottomless, smooth-edged hole in the mud remained, which was slowly filled back into the swamp.

……

In just one day.

Throughout the journey, Xu Yang's clone acted like a precise and efficient killing machine, as well as an extremely calm explorer. He avoided unnecessary trouble, but he never hesitated to strike against any void beasts that dared to attack him or that lurked on his path, radiating a threatening aura.

These Void-level alien beasts are 'worthless', but he doesn't have any money on him right now... so their scales, bones, venom, and source materials are just a drop in the ocean.

Xu Yang naturally wouldn't waste any of them; he accepted all comers and collected every single strange beast he killed.

I don't know how long we traveled or how many treacherous terrains we crossed.

Xu Yang's figure stopped at the edge of a huge cliff.

Below the cliff lies a vast, boundless black swamp.

After comparing his location with the map he had purchased, Xu Yang finally determined his approximate location.

Kurosawa!

This place is about 50 billion miles away from the Western Mountain region, but it is still within the 'Western Tian Region', one of the Eight Regions of Qingmiao.

The Black Swamp is a well-known dangerous place in the Western Regions, home to a considerable number of Eternal Beasts, and countless Void-level beasts.

A thick, toxic miasma, reeking of decay and poison, hung like a tangible curtain over the swamp, preventing the soul from exploring its depths.

In the swamp, rotting giant trees protrude from the water like twisted, monstrous claws. Beneath the murky sewage, occasionally a huge shadow can be seen slowly swimming by, creating ripples that send chills down your spine.

The deathly silence contained an aura of danger that was heavier, more ancient, and more deadly than any place they had encountered before.

Xu Yang stood on the edge of the cliff, his animal-skin robe fluttering in the foul wind.

He stared at this legendary "Black Swamp," his gaze stretching far into the dense miasma layer, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea; he could only perceive extremely vague energy reactions.

“Kurosawa…” Xu Yang murmured to himself, his voice merging into the howling wind.

This area had already been described as a dangerous place in the initial information he received. He vaguely sensed that deep within the swamp, there seemed to be an ancient and profound aura of eternity lurking!

He did not venture further in rashly.

Instead, it slowly retreated, blending into the shadow of the cliff, and silently left the edge of the Black Swamp.

Crossing the Black Swamp is suicidal. According to intelligence, even the powerful individuals who come to the Black Swamp specifically to hunt strange beasts only stay along the shore... which allows them to advance or retreat as needed.

As Xu Yang cautiously circled the edge of the Black Swamp, about two hundred thousand miles away, deep within the swamp, the thick, inky miasma churned violently, twisting and swirling as if alive, yet its fluctuations were firmly confined to the vicinity.

A raised floating island, surrounded by black sewage and made of rotting giant trees and black silt, appeared and disappeared like a mirage under the cover of miasma.

This floating island appears lifeless, indistinguishable from the surrounding swamp—decaying branches and leaves cover the muddy surface, and a few withered, knotted black tree roots are exposed.

suddenly--

On the edge of the floating island, in a spot covered with thick mud and decaying seaweed, the solidified silt surface undulated very slightly.

Immediately afterwards, thick layers of mud slid off the surfaces of two huge, rock-like protrusions covered in sludge!

When the sludge recedes, what is revealed is not rock at all.

Those were two enormous eyeballs!
Each eyeball is the size of a football field, displaying a chilling, murky, dark yellow color, with two vertical, narrow black lines in the pupils, like rifts in an abyss!
At this moment, those two vertical pupils suddenly contracted and opened, their cold, cruel, and emotionless gaze piercing through the thick miasma, locking onto Xu Yang's fleeting aura in the shadow of the cliff two hundred thousand miles away.

hum...

An invisible, viscous thought spread out as the two eyes opened.

Large swaths of sludge and decaying matter covering the floating island began to peel away and slide off, revealing an even larger and more terrifying entity beneath—a colossal beast whose grotesque appearance defies description!
Its body was as large as a mountain, crawling on the floating island. Its body was covered with a thick, rough, gray-black hard skin covered with mucus and dark gold spots. Countless large and small wart-like protrusions grew on the hard skin, as if it were wearing a layer of natural decaying armor.

Four massive, thick legs, as thick as pillars of heaven, were half-sunken in the mud, their feet broad and covered with sharp claws.

A thick tail covered in bone spurs dragged behind it, submerged in sewage.

Most terrifying of all was its head, enormous and flat, almost as wide as its body, taking up nearly half the area of ​​the floating island. The gigantic mouth gaped open, a slit almost piercing through the entire skull. No nose was visible; only two enormous nostrils opened and closed above the mouth, spewing out a murky gas with a highly toxic sulfurous odor.

No teeth were visible in its mouth, only a huge, scarlet, viscous tongue covered with barbs slowly wriggling. Thick, viscous saliva that shimmered with an eerie green light dripped from the tip of the tongue and fell into the sewage below, instantly emitting a violent "hissing" corrosive sound and rising a large plume of foul-smelling blue smoke. Even the space itself seemed to be slightly distorted by the venomous saliva!
Poisonous Toad!

A fearsome late-stage Eternal True God beast that grew up in the terrifying environment of the Black Swamp!

It has been dormant here for a long time, disguising itself as part of a floating island, blending into this highly poisonous swamp.

Miasma is its barrier, and swamps are its den.

Xu Yang's 'close-range' arrival was like a stone thrown into stagnant water; even through the thick miasma, it still disturbed this sleeping hunter!
The murky, dark yellow vertical pupils were fixed on the direction where Xu Yang had disappeared, and the icy killing intent was like a tangible cold current, causing the surrounding miasma to stagnate.

The crimson tongue lightly licked the corner of its mouth, leaving behind a trail of sticky, poisonous saliva.

"The lone... Eternal God..."

A surge of greed and savagery from the depths of its bloodline instantly overwhelmed the ancient toad's intelligence. A lone, eternal true god, wandering on the edge of the Black Swamp—this was nothing short of a blessing! Devouring its divine body and essence would be enough to loosen its long-stagnant realm once more!

The enormous, mountain-like body began to twitch very slightly.

The thick layer of silt and decaying matter covering the body seemed to have a life of its own, silently sliding down and merging into the black water below.

It didn't stir up towering waves, nor did it create any noticeable ripples in the water. The four enormous legs, like pillars reaching to the sky, slowly emerged from the mud, the slime covering their massive feet blending perfectly with the swamp's sewage.

The thick, impenetrable miasma, drawn by an invisible force, smoothly converged around its massive body, forming a flowing, constantly twisting and deforming "miasma cloak" that completely concealed its terrifying form.

Under this natural camouflage, the poisonous toad, like a huge shadow made of filthy miasma, began to stealthily move towards the direction where Xu Yang had last disappeared, at a speed completely disproportionate to its size, almost ghostly.

Wherever it goes, whether it's a lurking crocodile or a highly venomous python, they all die silently without a sound.

In the late stage of the Eternal True God realm, he was already the absolute overlord in the outer area of ​​this Black Swamp!

……

In the wilderness, apart from the supreme Chaos Ruler and the God-King, there is no absolute hunter-prey relationship! Cultivators can hunt Eternal Beasts to obtain materials and cultivation resources, while Eternal Beasts can also kill cultivators, devour their essence, and evolve themselves.

On this vast continent, countless eternal gods and eternal beasts perish every moment because of this.

Just as the Poisonous Toad began to quietly track them, thanks to its extreme control over the Black Swamp environment.

About three million miles ahead of Xu Yang's detour route, at the bottom of a desolate, steep, towering cliff, a deep mountain ravine, sandwiched between black giant rocks and never seeing the sun, has a cold stream that whimpers and flows among the jagged rocks.

Inside a secluded natural cave on the rock face on one side of the mountain stream, the entrance is completely hidden by hanging dark purple vines.

The two powerful auras were firmly bound within the cave by an invisible force, without leaking out in the slightest.

The cave was dry and lined with thick animal hides.

A small bonfire burned in the center, its flickering light illuminating two figures sitting cross-legged.

On the left was a tall, thin man dressed in tight-fitting dark blue scale armor. The armor's surface shimmered like water, clearly indicating it was of exceptional quality. His face was stern, with a hooked nose, thin lips, and eyes as sharp as blades. A longsword, entirely azure blue with a blade that looked like it was made of solidified ice crystals, rested across his lap. The tip of the sword emitted wisps of cold air, freezing the air into tiny ice crystals.

His aura was like eternal ice, an eternal true god!
On the right stood a man of imposing stature, like an iron tower, clad in a heavy, dark red armor covered in spikes. The armor was etched with patterns resembling flowing magma, radiating a scorching heat. His face was rugged, his beard like a halberd, and his eyes seemed to flicker with flames. Beside him lay a massive, door-like crimson battle axe, its blade stained with dark red, still-wet blood of a strange beast, exuding a ferocious aura.

They are also eternal true gods!
They are the eternal team from the "Burning Flame Tribe," a major tribe in the "Yange Domain," one of the eight realms of Qingmiao—"Cold Edge" Mo Chen and "Lava" Shi Kui!
The Yange Domain is adjacent to the Xidian Domain; they came from across the domain.

Both of them looked tired, but they exuded a chilling aura of killing intent.

"Shi Kui, how is your recovery?" Mo Chen's voice was like the clash of ice shards, cold and direct.

"Almost done!" Shi Kui patted the heavy breastplate, making a dull thud, his voice booming like thunder. "Damn it, that 'Crimson Scale Earth Dragon' really went all out in its dying counterattack, almost singed my beard! But its dragon heart is a good thing, at least I can go back and report." (End of Chapter)