Demise

Silence. When Hong and Lei Shen both entered the Devouring Beast's body, almost everyone's heart was in their throat. But what was happening inside the Devouring Beast was completely unseen!

"Babata, can Hong and Lei Shen win?" Luo Feng was also anxious.

"Don't worry," Babata said. "Hong and Lei Shen are the two greatest genius warriors on Earth, and both are incredibly intelligent and decisive! To counter the 'devouring' move, Hong directly created so much metal debris. He probably worried the Golden Horned Beast could swallow it, so he also carried a large bundle of hydrogen bombs! This ensured—the Golden Horned Beast wouldn't dare to swallow."

"Hong then seized the opportunity to prepare his ultimate move! Clearly, that ultimate move required time to prepare and unleash."

"When the enraged Golden Horned Beast's hooves and claws swatted away the metal debris, Hong's ultimate move was unleashed at just the right moment! One move perfectly complementing the next, truly brilliant." Babata exclaimed. "Luo Feng, rest assured. Judging by their performance from start to finish, they clearly came fully prepared! Now that they're inside the Golden Horned Beast's body, it can't attack with its hooves or claws, so the success rate has increased to fifty or sixty percent."

How could Luo Feng be at ease after Babata's words? He couldn't!

Luo Feng kept staring at the screen.

"The Golden Horned Beast, one of the peak bloodlines among Starry Sky Behemoths, actually allowed Hong and Lei Shen to pierce its scales and enter its body. It's truly... truly too naive. Its combat skills are simply too poor." Babata couldn't help but say, "Looking at its previous battles, it always relied on brute force."

Indeed, with the Golden Horned Beast's strength, talent, and so on, if its techniques were a bit better, or if it were a bit smarter, it wouldn't have fallen to this point.

"If it were any stronger, we'd have even less hope," Luo Feng grumbled inwardly.

"That's not what I meant. I'm saying, I estimate this Golden Horned Beast is very, very young, just entering its growth phase. Perhaps because it's so young, it lacks any experience. Its attack methods are so simple and crude." Babata explained.

Body, talent, and so on, are innate. But experience, techniques, psychology, cunning, and so on, need to be gradually cultivated later in life. Even someone as intelligent as Einstein on Earth, or as wise as Sun Wu during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, was 'naive' as an infant. If this Golden Horned Beast were allowed to grow for ten thousand, or a hundred thousand years, it would be terrifying beyond measure.

But now? It was still very young! Yet, this young Golden Horned Beast had already pushed humanity on Earth to the brink of collapse.

...

Above the Pacific Ocean.

"Woooo—" "Woooo!!!" The Golden Horned Beast roared in agony and fury, and streaks of golden light spread across its scales, occasionally penetrating its body, attempting to kill those two hateful humans within.

Clearly. Because the battleground was inside its own body, the Golden Horned Beast dared not unleash its golden light too savagely, lest it 'self-harm' or 'commit suicide.'

"Boom~~" The Golden Horned Beast's entire body suddenly shuddered, its dark golden eyes filled with a hint of pain and fury, and incredibly bright red blood overflowed from its mouth.

"Boom~~" A strange tremor made the Golden Horned Beast painfully throw its head back and roar, and drops of red blood actually seeped out from the overlapping gaps in its scales all over its body.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!" Amidst its painful roars, a large number of blood beads seeped from the Golden Horned Beast's scales, and in just about ten seconds, its entire body was covered in a layer of blood. At first, it roared in agony, but later its roars continuously weakened, and eventually, it stopped making any sound. Suddenly—its dark golden eyes dimmed, its massive scaled wings drooped, and its enormous body actually began to fall weakly downwards!

...

In Huaxia Nation, on screens by the streets, on televisions at home, and inside military barracks...

"Life signs are weakening!" "The Devouring Beast's immense life signs are rapidly diminishing, now only eighty, seventy, sixty, fifty, forty, thirty percent of what they were..." An incredibly impassioned voice echoed everywhere in Huaxia Nation, and not just there; other parts of the globe were also in an unprecedented state of excitement.

"We won!" "We won!" "Victory!"

Excited voices, even tinged with tears, rang out, and at the same time, everyone across the globe erupted! In this moment, regardless of gender, age, race, or nationality, people from all countries worldwide cheered with excitement.

...

In the Training Hall of the Yangzhou City Extreme Dojo, it was a frenzy! Everyone was shouting excitedly.

"It succeeded! Its life signs are gone!" Luo Feng looked at the blood-soaked corpse of the Golden Horned Beast falling on the screen, overwhelmed with excitement.

It actually died! This terrifying monster, which had driven humanity to near despair, was finally dead! My god! In this moment, Luo Feng couldn't even believe that happiness had arrived so suddenly.

"Where are Hong and Lei Shen?" Luo Feng stared intently at the screen.

The live broadcast narrator's voice rang out: "To all people on Earth, we must deliver a somber message. We can no longer detect any life signs, which means... although the Devouring Beast is dead, our two most powerful warriors on Earth, the two Grandmasters 'Hong' and 'Lei Shen', have sacrificed themselves! They are heroes, heroes who saved the entire world!"

Silence. The Training Hall quickly fell silent.

"Not necessarily," Babata's voice echoed in Luo Feng's mind. "Hong and Lei Shen might not be dead."

"Not necessarily? Aren't their life signs undetectable?" A glimmer of excitement and hope rose in Luo Feng's heart.

He didn't want Hong and Lei Shen to die like this either.

"No, your Earth's life sign detector was obtained from the ruins of a star fleet!" Babata explained. "This detector actually has a limited detection range. When life signs fall below a certain threshold, the detector can't pick them up. Furthermore, the detector itself isn't as good as it once was; I estimate it can't detect life signs below that of a Beginner Tier apprentice warrior."

"No!" A terrified voice rang out in the Training Hall. "The, the Devouring Beast stopped."

Luo Feng froze, Xu Xin beside him froze, everyone froze.

Luo Feng quickly looked, and indeed, the Golden Horned Beast's corpse, which had been falling weakly on the screen, stopped its descent and hovered there, and the screen showed... the Golden Horned Beast actually had life signs again.

"The Devouring Beast's life signs are strengthening!" The live broadcast narrator was filled with shock.

Everyone was stunned.

"How, how..." Luo Feng's eyes widened in disbelief.

How could it be so hard to kill? So much had been sacrificed! How was this Devouring Beast still not dead!!!

The Golden Horned Beast hovered in mid-air, its life signs continuously strengthening, strengthening... recovering to ten percent of its original strength, then continuing to rise, twenty percent, up to thirty percent! The intensity of its life signs stopped rising once it reached around thirty percent.

...

Countless people on Earth despaired! Countless people cried silently! Countless people knelt in agony! My god!

...

Above the Pacific Ocean.

The Golden Horned Beast slowly opened its eyes, its dark golden eyes now somewhat dim and weak... It had never come so close to death! This time, it was even more terrifying than the previous B6-grade laser cannon attack.

"Wooo." A low, weak roar.

The Golden Horned Beast looked at its abdomen. It saw the blood-stained black-clad figure and the blood-stained white-clad figure slide out from the bloody hole in its abdomen, then fall directly into the ocean below. The Golden Horned Beast looked at these two individuals... It was these two seemingly insignificant humans who had brought it so incredibly close to death. This setback also taught it a lesson! Even when dealing with seemingly weak opponents, one must be serious and give it their all!

"Hmph." The Golden Horned Beast swung its claw!

Whoosh! On the surface of the Pacific Ocean, a silver-white human figure stood, and suddenly, its entire body began to rapidly expand! From about two meters tall, it instantly swelled to two hundred meters high! A two-hundred-meter-tall silver-white giant! It was roughly the same size as the Golden Horned Beast!

"Wooo!" The Golden Horned Beast was also greatly startled, looking at the silver-white giant below.

The silver-white giant's body surface seemed to have silver-white liquid flowing over it. Appearing suddenly, it directly extended a massive hand, blocking the space between Hong, Lei Shen, and the Devouring Beast!

"Thud!" The claw slammed onto the hand, and the hand actually dented. But when the Golden Horned Beast retracted its claw, the dent automatically repaired itself.

...

While one silver-white giant blocked the Golden Horned Beast, another silver figure, holding Hong and Lei Shen in its arms, rapidly fled into the distance. There were two Flowing Silver Guards in total! Luo Feng had arranged for Babata to send them earlier, to rescue Hong and Lei Shen if the opportunity arose!

"Wooo!" How could the enraged Golden Horned Beast watch its two most hated human bodies be taken away? With a flap of its wings, it lightning-fast bypassed the Flowing Silver Guard blocking it. It pursued the other one... In terms of speed, the Golden Horned Beast was indeed very fast. A Flowing Silver Guard could travel a little over 10,000 meters per second. The Devouring Beast quickly caught up!

"Whoosh!" The Flowing Silver Guard being pursued suddenly expanded, transforming into a massive silver giant, instantly enveloping the Devouring Beast. Meanwhile, the other Flowing Silver Guard, which had been behind, quickly scooped up Hong and Lei Shen and continued to flee!

...

After a while, the Devouring Beast finally broke free.

"Wooo!" The Devouring Beast angrily looked at the Flowing Silver Guard below, which had shrunk back to normal human size. This strange thing was slower than it, and its attacks were weaker than those of the black-clad and white-clad figures, but its only advantage was—its entire body was like liquid, capable of rapidly expanding, like sticky candy that could entangle people. No matter how strong the attack, the Flowing Silver Guard could deflect it. The Devouring Beast understood... With two Flowing Silver Guards working together, it truly couldn't snatch away those two human bodies.

"Wooo!" The Devouring Beast, now severely injured and weakened, merely let out an angry growl before flying directly into the ocean.

...

In the corridor outside the Training Hall of the Mingyue Residential District Extreme Dojo, Luo Feng held his phone.

Luo Feng's face was ashen. "Yes, I sent them. It's useless. Flowing Silver Guards can only entangle people; they serve as bodyguards. They can't kill the Devouring Beast at all." Luo Feng hung up the call with Jia Yi, his heart filled with immense pain. Others were shocked by the appearance of the two Flowing Silver Guards, even feeling a glimmer of hope. But Luo Feng knew very well. Flowing Silver Guards, as high-tech cosmic products, had a very clear purpose: protection. "What do I do, what do I do, what on earth should I do? Babata, tell me, what should I do?" Luo Feng was on the verge of madness, closing his eyes in agony, a hint of moisture at their corners.