Gaining a tiny bit of weight every day, my weight is a billion tons.

Quality Engine, Ignite!

The ten-ton body accelerated to its maximum speed in an instant.

But this time, he did not choose to confront it head-on.

[Inertial Drift] Initiated.

Su Ming's body drew an incredible arc during the high-speed sprint, deviating from the Iron-spined Rhinoceros's charging trajectory and grazing the outside of its horn by thirty centimeters.

The wind pressure tore at his hair, and the crimson steam scorched his exposed skin, leaving only a blush, as if he had just come out of a sauna.

The Iron-backed Rhinoceros missed its target, its massive body propelled forward dozens of meters by inertia, its hooves carving two deep furrows in the ground, sending mud flying into the air.

Su Ming had already circled around to its side and rear.

Everyone watching from behind saw it.

A shirtless boy, facing the charge of a fourth-tier source beast, executed a textbook-level dodge with an unbelievable maneuver.

Of course, even if you teach them, they still won't be able to learn it.

"That kid..." Zhou Ke's pupils contracted sharply.

The mercenary captain nearly dropped his phone.

"How did he do that? How can someone change direction so easily at that speed?"

No one answered him.

Because something even more outrageous happened.

After dodging, Su Ming did not create distance. His footsteps carved an arc-shaped crack in the ground, and gravel bounced and flew along the crack as he circled back to the Iron-Spine Rhinoceros's side.

He pulled his right fist back to his waist.

Clench your fists tightly.

The bones between the knuckles made a series of soft clicking sounds.

[Quality Heavyweights].

Ten tons multiplied by five.

Fifty tons.

All of it was poured into this punch.

"Bang!!!"

The fist slammed into the exposed wound on the Ironback Rhinoceros's ribs, where Big Yellow had torn off its leather armor.

Without the protection of armor, flesh and blood are no different from paper in front of a fifty-ton cannon.

The Ironback Rhinoceros's body caved in from the middle, its entire twenty-plus-ton body shifting two meters laterally with that punch. The ground was ripped into four parallel furrows by its hooves, and gravel flew like rain.

Fresh blood gushed out.

He spat out a mouthful of bloody foam.

"roar!!!"

The Ironback Rhinoceros's perception has always been correct.

The ferocious beast before us is the real threat!

This blow caused it several times more damage than the scraping that had been going on for several minutes.

It has completely gone mad.

The red light on the unicorn swelled to its maximum, and its body suddenly rolled over, trying to crush Su Ming into the ground.

Su Ming had anticipated this.

The mass engine ignited again, and inertial drift activated in sync, allowing his body to slide out of the blind spot where the rhinoceros was rolling.

Keep fighting!

Chu Feng, watching this scene from afar, forgot to even repair the cracks in his frost armor.

He is a fifth-order rank.

He could tell that this kid's fighting style was unlike any known system. It wasn't military combat techniques, nor academic energy cultivation skills, and it didn't even resemble the fighting style of a regular awakened individual.

Pure...beast.

Solve problems with physical collisions, crushing with sheer weight, and the most primal form of violence.

But ironically, the timing of each strike is abnormally precise.

"Just who is this kid?" Chu Feng murmured.

He suddenly remembered what he had just said: "Step back, leave this to me."

My face feels a little hot.

It's not that the frost armor is cracked and letting in air.

It's really hot.

He subconsciously touched his nose and decided to slightly edit this part in today's mission report.

Another loud bang!

The Ironback Rhinoceros rolled to its feet, and the crimson steam was even thicker than before. The surrounding bushes withered and curled in the heat, their leaves turning to ash before they even hit the ground.

The light from the brand on his forehead had changed from dark red to a dazzling bright red.

It felt like it was setting the whole head on fire.

This time it did not charge.

Instead, he tilted his head back.

"roar------!!!"

This roar was unlike any of the previous ones.

It wasn't anger, it wasn't pain, it was some kind of calling from the depths of a life instinct...

Su Ming's expression changed.

He had heard that sound before.

The wolf king also let out a similar howl before he died, and then the brand on his forehead exploded, unleashing power far exceeding that of his original body.

But the Wolf King is a third-tier wolf.

This thing is tier four.

If the branding were to unleash its full power once again—

Su Ming quickly did some mental calculations, and the conclusion he reached made his brows furrow.

This deal was a huge loss.

"Everyone retreat!" Su Ming suddenly turned around and shouted at the rear, his voice so loud that even Chu Feng trembled.

Zhou Ke reacted the fastest, grabbing the mercenary next to him who was still holding up his phone, his voice stern. "Did you hear me? Retreat!"

The mercenary stumbled as he was pulled, and the screen of his phone was filled with the frantic "Holy shit, holy shit, holy shit" comments.

Shen Qingci, riding Big Yellow, also turned over to help the crowd escape.

In a battle of this magnitude, their presence would only be a hindrance.

However, the Ironback Rhinoceros did not give them time to retreat.

The moment the roar stopped, the brand on its forehead suddenly exploded.

It didn't break apart.

It is blossoming.

A dark red beam of light shot into the sky from the mark, piercing straight into the clouds. The air around the beam was burned into distorted ripples, and heat waves spread in all directions at a visible speed.

The pebbles on the ground bounced up and down, and the earth itself trembled.

Chu Feng's extreme cold domain melted rapidly from the point of contact with the pillar of light, like an ice pop meeting a furnace.

"This isn't fourth-tier power!" Chu Feng's voice carried genuine fear for the first time.

He sensed it.

The dark red energy rapidly condensed in mid-air.

Then it transformed into a giant turtle-like phantom!

The barbs on the tortoise shell gleamed coldly in the moonlight.

Everyone present was stunned by the violent and turbulent source energy.

Only Chu Feng recognized the illusory figure.

"This...this is...a sixth-tier Origin Beast, an Ironclad Dragon Turtle?!"

His voice trembled.

Chu Feng had dealt with the Southern Military Region's classified files for over a decade. The name "Ironclad Dragon Turtle" had only appeared once in the highest-level classified report on the deep exploration of the Source Abyss, with only four words in the remarks column—"Do Not Contact."

In the blink of an eye, the phantom swooped down and merged with the rhinoceros king's remains.

Tortoise shell patterns appeared on the rhinoceros king's body, with dark red light flowing through the patterns, like magma filling every crack.

The Ironback Rhinoceros's body began to swell. Its already enormous body grew even larger in the red light, and dense, dark red patterns appeared on its carapace, spreading from its forehead to its tail.

Its four legs were driven into the ground like pillars, and each breath brought a wave of heat.

In its vertical pupils, the last trace of the instinctive fear and pain belonging to a wild beast vanished.

Instead, there is a cold, detached intelligence that does not belong to beings of this level.

It is looking at Su Ming.

It's not the kind of look a wild animal gives its prey.

It is an examination.

A superior being, through borrowed eyes, is scrutinizing an anomaly that should not exist here.

Su Ming felt a chill run down his spine.

The Ironback Rhinoceros opened its mouth.

It wasn't a roar.

It is a syllable.

It was a muffled, distorted syllable, as if it came from the deepest part of the earth.

Nobody understood.

But at the same time, everyone felt a chill rising from the depths of their bones.

Su Ming's pupils contracted to the size of pinpoints.

It is speaking.

A primal beast is speaking.

Source beasts of the fifth rank and above already possess a certain level of intelligence.

This Ironback Rhinoceros has already reached the threshold of the fifth rank.

Inside the cockpit of the high-altitude aircraft, the adjutant stared at the energy monitoring screen, his voice distorted.

"Sir! The target's energy reading is still climbing! It has already broken through the fourth-order limit and is approaching—"

He swallowed hard.

"Approaching the fifth-order critical value!"

...!