Pretending To Be A Boss

Tang Feiji felt that this sounded vaguely familiar. With a great battle imminent, he didn't dwell on the thought.

The Shiling Beast did not answer Tang Xian's question.

"Lowly humans, what right do you have to question me?"

Tang Xian nodded in understanding.

It seemed to him that the several species of holy beasts probably all held a certain disregard for others.

Even when facing beings of the same rank as themselves, they regarded them as nothing more than ants.

Characters like Bai Mansheng and Qing JiuYu would be very careful. While Tang Feiji might not necessarily be much stronger than Qing JiuYu, he just wouldn't take Qing JiuYu seriously.

He guessed it would take getting ridden by Qing JiuYu one day for Tang Feiji to learn the ways of a dragon.

Shiling probably felt the same; once in the pot, it would behave.

"I'll just assume you can't then."

"Why would I want to become a weaker species? Only those ugly creatures would possess such an impractical ability."

"Much appreciated." Tang Xian's gratitude was sincere.

The Shiling Beast found the conversation somewhat nonsensical.

As for the humans around, they were even more perplexed.

They couldn't hear the voice of all beasts.

In the crowd, a team seemed to recognize the voice of the Masked Chopper Hero.

They had once gone to the Red Clay Forest to hunt a gigantic Cerberus.

But had the rare encounter with a nine-tailed fox and a human riding it!

Now seeing a human riding a giant dragon and hearing this voice again, the memory connection made them instantly remember.

"Captain, it's that person!"

"Yes... the one riding the nine-tailed fox!" The captain responded quite calmly.

Riding a dragon, naturally one could also ride a fox.

However, the people around them found it rather shocking.

The content on the eighth layer's Stele had not been fully disclosed.

Li Wanye, in order not to incite panic, had concealed the fact that certain creatures could transform into humans.

To the onlookers, the person on the dragon's head was undoubtedly human.

Riding a Calamity-level boss creature, and not just any, but a holy beast at that.

This shock left their minds blank.

Just like before, Tang Xian seemed to be talking to himself.

But the captain wasn't stupid; he quickly realized that this was not self-talk.

"Is this man still human? Is he talking with those monsters? Could this be some kind of innate ability awakening?"

The captain's question mirrored the doubts of many, and his speculation provided a plausible explanation.

Song Que looked at Tang Xian, also puzzled.

Could it be that Tang Xian wasn't really human?

But he soon shook his head slightly.

Perhaps the question wasn't that important.

In the world of humans, there were plenty of two-legged demons and beasts.

Unlike Tang Xian's view that if you wear human skin you count as human, no matter how vile your soul,

Song Que believed that beasts would always be beasts, and sometimes humans might not be human.

Tang Xian had saved humans. That alone made him worthy of the identity.

He stopped dwelling on it. Meanwhile, the crowd suddenly cried out in alarm.

For the friendly exchange had ended just a second ago, and the giant white dragon and masked oddity swiftly began their assault.

From within the dark clouds, instantly, more than a dozen bolts of lightning struck down!

The earth trembled, and everyone felt a tingling in their bodies.

Yet, the lightning did not strike. The immense power of a dozen thunderbolts was indeed vast, but these bolts of electricity had all come to a stop.

For the first time, people witnessed lightning that was frozen in place!

But they finally saw another anomaly.

When the fearsome thunder entered the Time Stop Domain, the lightning was not entirely motionless!

The tremendous, terrifying energy was slowly falling at a pace so sluggish that it took several seconds of observation to notice any change within the Time Stop Domain.

Tang Feiji snorted coldly.

The Shiling Beast mocked:

"Stupid dragonkind, this is why you were not chosen by the tribunal. None of your abilities can hit me, the master of time!"

Watching the lightning almost negligibly descending, Tang Xian's face grew grave.

He still remembered the event when the Ancestral Holy Tree got angry and overturned the entire Red Clay Forest.

Such was the power of a Calamity-level boss. Although the Shiling Beast wasn't a destructive Calamity-level boss, if it went all out against Zhenhai Canglong—

Even just the remnants of the fight were enough to doom the humans nearby.

Tang Feiji breathed golden flames, frost, storms, thunder.

Elemental strikes of utmost intensity rained down.

But the Time Stop Domain dissolved all these assaults.

Attacks that could have devastated a battlefield were now suspended over the head of the Shiling Beast.

It impassively watched the energy entering its domain as if seeing the most nourishing of foods.

Tang Xian's expression grew even more serious; although wearing a smiling mask meant people couldn't see his face, some from afar felt the masked man's predicament.

The creature like a Qilin had what could be described as the strongest defense.

Tang Xian said:

"There are ten Lei Xiaos over there. Tang Feiji, you go and handle the Lei Xiaos. No problem, right?"

"I want to kill that self-righteous Qilin!"

Tang Feiji's voice carried anger. It seemed to have been provoked by the Qilin's gaze.

Tang Xian commanded:
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"This is an order."

Observing Tang Feiji's attacks slow to a crawl and dissolve, Tang Xian was convinced the domain was not simply stopping time.

He wasn't underestimating the challenge.

After all, no human could currently match the existence of a Calamity-level boss creature.

The capabilities of the Shiling Beast were almost unsolvable.

Jumping straight off the dragon's head, Tang Xian used his grappling hook to swing to the forefront of where the humans were.