Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely

Chapter 1209: Chapter 406: The True Strength of Great Xia—Shaking the Mountain to Intimidate the Tiger, Coercion into Submission, and Post-War Reckoning (Part 4)

The last White Bear was the largest among the ten Beast Kings. It stood upright, with a body length of over thirty-five zhang, covered in a layer of long, snow-white fur. If one didn’t pay attention to its ferocious beast face, from the ground looking up, one might think it was a giant with a robust figure standing in the air;

"Gulp..."

On the ground, someone unknown was the first to make a swallowing sound.

This sound seemed to be contagious, rapidly spreading from one to ten, ten to a hundred. Over ten thousand Cold Resistance Level individuals in South City began to tremble violently, both in their pupils and bodies. Their mouths opened and closed, seemingly wanting to say something, yet unable to utter a word.

Thump... thump... thump...

In many houses in South City, even the sound of kneeling reverberated continuously.

In South City, there were not only these over ten thousand Cold Resistance Levels, but also hundreds of thousands of Earth-digging Realm individuals from the Eight Towns.

Those hiding inside the Earth-digging Realm simply couldn’t suppress their fear and couldn’t help but kneel facing the sky.

The Ice Abyss people cannot practice cultivation without Beast Meat.

Therefore, anyone who wants to cultivate and embark on the path to strength inevitably has to deal with Cold Beasts. Under normal circumstances, at the same cultivation level, the individual strength of Cold Beasts can easily crush humans, making them extremely difficult to hunt. Humans facing them have already grown accustomed to and must rely on teamwork.

Even at the Xianyang Level, few possess the ability to hunt a Beast King alone.

Who hasn’t cultivated and grown strong step by step from a humble beginning?

This leads to the ingrained belief in most humans that Cold Beasts are stronger than humans.

With this ingrained belief, the fear most humans feel towards Cold Beasts is almost ingrained in their bones, especially when facing Cold Beasts higher than their level, such as Logging Realm encountering low-level Cold Beasts, Earth-digging Realm encountering intermediate-level Cold Beasts, Cold Resistance Level encountering advanced Cold Beasts...

This fear mentality immediately bursts forth!

So, when the ten Beast Kings appeared in the sky that day, regardless of whether it was the over ten thousand Cold Resistance Levels in South City or the hundreds of thousands of Earth-digging Realm inside buildings, their excessive reactions were completely understandable.

Don’t understand? Look at Yang Zhun and the twelve people, and you can understand!

The twelve people at this moment had their gazes fixed on the ten Beast Kings above them, pupils enlarged, faces numb. Except for Yang Zhun, Qin Feng, and Shangguan Yang in the front row, the remaining nine people exhibited slight tremors in their bodies.

Yet, it wasn’t over!

"Screech..."

Suddenly, a sharp cry echoed from several thousand meters above.

A palm-sized shadow suddenly appeared in the clouds, and in less than ten breaths, the shadow expanded hundreds or even thousands of times larger in everyone’s pupils below.

Whoosh...

A fierce wind swept through, instantly causing sand and stones to fly and snow mist to fill the sky above the ground.

Everyone couldn’t help but cover their eyes first, and once the sound of the wind subsided, they raised their heads to look again.

It was surprisingly an avian Cold Beast with fiery red feathers all over its body, with a wingspan of a hundred zhang. Each feather on its body shimmered with a fiery red glow, as if its whole body was lined with crimson blades, and a hooked black beak about ten meters long, resembling a giant curved knife emitting a chilling glare.

The bird’s pupils shimmered faintly with a blood-red glow, constantly assessing over ten thousand people below it in South City, finally fixing its gaze on Yang Zhun and his twelve companions, revealing a ferocious glint in its eyes.

"Screech..."

"Roar..."

Finally, Xia Hong intentionally released the Blood Jade Fox from his embrace.

The Blood Jade Fox soared into mid-air, let out a roar, and its body suddenly expanded, growing to nearly a hundred meters in an instant, with an ultra-long blood jade-colored giant tail swaying gently behind it. Its fierce and threatening posture had absolutely no relation to the obedient demeanor it displayed earlier in Xia Hong’s arms.

"Everyone, did you see clearly enough?"

The twelve Beast King-level Cold Beasts stood across the sky, almost covering half the sky over Hongmen City, and at this moment, Xia Hong’s question was like a fierce hammer striking the hearts of the Six Towns Lords.

Their gazes slowly wandered from the twelve Beast Kings above to Xia Hong, filled with both fear and bewilderment in their pupils.

Xia Hong stood deliberately more than ten meters above the Six Towns, clad in black, hovering in mid-air. Despite the slightly tattered clothes on his back due to his earlier fight with Yang Zhun, and his somewhat disheveled black hair, it did not affect his current demeanor at all, which towered far above the Six Towns Lords.

Especially with his youthful and excessively handsome face, combined with the arrogant and domineering gaze, and the calm and proud demeanor, the scene was highlighted further by the panic-stricken expressions of the twelve Xianyang Levels of the Six Towns, contrasting his figure as even more majestic.

Collaborating with the backdrop of twelve massive sized Beast Kings encircling mid-air, this scene was instantly etched deeply into the minds of everyone in South City.

What everyone thought, Xia Hong surely didn’t know.

His gaze was intently fixed on Yang Zhun and his twelve companions, clearly not awaiting a response from them, but rather contemplating something within.

At the end of the second year of the Great Xia month, Xia Hong gathered more than two hundred Cold Resistance Levels to converge on the Yanglu Forbidden Land and, after defeating the Frost Wolf King controlled by the White Dew Monster, the Great Xia had a Cold Beast Stake capable of simulating a Beast King Level Bone Spur Frost Wolf.

But the Beast King level cultivation of that Frost Wolf was forcibly elevated by other means from the White Dew Monster, and at that time, Xia Hong had not yet broken through to the Xianyang Level and did not dare to provoke a Beast King easily. Therefore, after extracting the Essence Blood of that Frost Wolf King for the Cold Beast Stake, it was merely kept in Xia City as a trump card.