Chapter 35: A Hero — Hua Rong (Silver)

“Rapid growth, just how rapid can it be?”

Xia Tian was a little curious.

However, he was about to find out.

“Hooowl! Hooowl!”

As soon as the black and white flood dragons hatched, they immediately began to gnaw on “bloodstones”—condensed from a large amount of biological flesh and blood.

By the time they finished an entire large bloodstone, the twelve black and white flood dragons had grown to about half a person’s height, and their level had reached Tier 3!

The entire process took less than an hour.

“Good heavens, with this growth rate, should I say they truly are Xenomorph nurtured by heaven and earth?”

Xia Tian was genuinely astonished.

Especially when the twelve black and white flood dragons, after devouring the bloodstones, began to howl “hooowl! hooowl!” again.

They looked as if they hadn’t eaten enough, still extremely hungry.

“Feed them the corpses of those ‘Xian,’ feed them all. At the same time, domesticate them according to the ‘Breeding’ manual I gave you!”

Xia Tian thought for a moment before instructing the Territory people who possessed the “Domestication” skill.

“Hmm, speaking of which, these adult black and white flood dragons can reach over two meters in height, possess extremely fast movement speed, and have very strong carrying capacity!”

Thinking of this, Xia Tian had a bold idea.

If successful, it might solve the centaur threat.

“Hmm, speaking of it, when I killed that large black and white flood dragon before, the ‘Earth Will’ judged that I had annihilated an ‘evolved species’ when calculating rewards.”

“After I have people tame these ‘black and white flood dragon’ cubs, will it judge that I have ‘subdued’ an evolved species again? If I get two rewards for the same evolved species, is that considered bug abuse?”

Xia Tian felt a little anticipation.

Of course, if he could encounter one or two more evolved species with high potential and subdue them as well, that would be even better!

“My lord, a group of humans has been spotted outside the territory, being chased by a stone monster!”

Just then, a soldier rushed in to report… *Whoosh!*

A round black stone, like a cannonball, flew towards a soldier who was frantically running away.

In his panic, the latter tripped over a branch on the ground and fell. It looked like the human-head-sized black stone was about to smash into his face, instantly splattering red and white matter!

*Clang!*

An arrow with a carved feather fletching flew in from the side, striking the stone in mid-air.

The specially crafted heavy iron arrowhead sparked against the stone. The seemingly slender arrow, however, contained an extraordinary amount of power, causing the stone flying in the air to violently deflect. It grazed the fallen soldier's ear, then landed with a trail of blood, bounced and rolled for a distance.

Finally, it struck another soldier in the chest.

*Puff!*

Even though the human-head-sized stone had lost a significant portion of its force by landing on the soft ground in the jungle, the soldier whose chest was struck still coughed up a mouthful of fresh blood!

But even though he was spitting blood and his steps faltered from the impact, the soldier dared not stop. Instead, he ran towards “Star,” which was already not far away.

“If you’re not dead, get up and run faster. Entering the ‘Sanctuary’ is the only way out.”

The string of the silver longbow in Hua Rong’s hand was still trembling, much like his own hands, which were already a little exhausted.

All of this, frankly, seemed rather absurd.

Originally, after seeing “Star” and learning that there was a territory in this jungle that could shelter humans, Hua Rong, unable to resist the pleas of numerous soldiers, led his subordinates towards it.

Relying on their guns, bows, and the imposing presence of dozens of soldiers moving together, they hadn’t encountered too many dangers along the way.

Who knew that just as they were about to get close, several soldiers, unable to hold it in, ran to the side to relieve themselves. As soon as they had half-peed, a “stone man” made entirely of stone, over ten feet tall, stood up from the leaf-covered ground.

Subsequently, it began to chase their group.

*Rumble, rumble…* The ten-foot-tall stone man pursued them with heavy strides.

Every so often, it would squat down, dig up a pile of dirt from the ground, and with a peculiar gray light emanating from its hands, the loose dirt would magically transform into a very dense form of “black stone.”

Then, the stone man would hurl it at the people fleeing in front of him!

“What kind of monster is this? A stone spirit?”

Hua Rong couldn’t imagine that he would encounter a “monster” made of stone, so much so that his proud archery skills had no room to be displayed against the monster’s body.

Watching the stone man once again hurl a black stone projectile at a soldier, Hua Rong, with his right hand aching from shooting arrows with all his might, instinctively reached into his quiver.

“Oh no, I’m out of arrows!”

His expression suddenly changed.

An archer can only carry a limited number of arrows, especially since he was wearing silver armor, carrying a silver spear, and using specially made heavy arrows.

He had only brought fifty arrows in total for this trip!

Some arrows had already been consumed encountering monsters along the way.

Now, after constantly deflecting the stone man’s projectiles, all the arrows he had brought were completely used up!

Just as the “projectile” thrown by the stone man was about to strike a soldier who was running with his back turned, a hit would most likely be fatal—

Suddenly, a figure, nearly two meters tall, with black hair and thick eyebrows, burst out from the jungle behind them. He clenched one hand into a fist and slammed it heavily onto the stone!

“Boom!”

The extremely hard “projectile,” no less inferior to real stone, was actually shattered by this single punch.

“Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh…”

Immediately following, a continuous series of crossbow firing mechanisms and bowstring sounds rang out, accompanied by volleys of crossbow bolts striking the black stone man’s body, causing numerous pits to appear on its surface.

However, given the stone man’s enormous size and weight, while these crossbow bolts hitting it couldn’t be said to be merely tickling it, they also failed to inflict substantial damage!

Instead, the stone man was enraged. This time, it no longer threw projectiles.

Instead, it took heavy strides, rushing in a few steps to stand before the person who had shattered the “stone projectile.” Its fist, as large as a human head, slammed down from above towards the person’s head.

Yet, the latter neither dodged nor avoided. Instead, he raised both hands, similarly striking the stone man’s arm.

“Watch out!”

Hua Rong’s face changed dramatically as he tried to warn the other party.

The stone man’s strength was terrifying, capable of easily snapping tree trunks as thick as a bowl.

But this human actually caught the stone man’s descending fist with his bare hands, and even grabbed the stone man’s arm. Following that, the stone man, a full ten feet tall and weighing certainly thousands of pounds or even more, was actually flipped over by this black-haired man, falling heavily and clumsily to the ground.

*Boom!*

The immense impact made the ground seem to shake, creating a deep indentation where it struck.

“Is that… really a human?”

All the soldiers of Qingfeng Village stared dumbfounded at the black-haired man who had single-handedly flipped the stone monster.

“Hmm, silver armor, uses a bow and arrow?”

Xia Tian, who had arrived at the battlefield, focused his gaze on the young man in silver armor among the crowd.

“Is this the person the centaur scout mentioned, who not only caught an arrow bare-handed but also shot it back, killing a green, possibly even blue-level centaur scout leader?”

“Eye of Insight” activated, consuming luck points to obtain the most detailed information.

【Hua Rong (Silver)】

【Level】Tier 8

【Physique】6.6

【Spirit】7.7

【Talent】Innate Archery Sense (Possesses extraordinary talent for archery, capable of learning and replicating various archery techniques)

【Trait】Little Li Guang (Arrows shot deal greater damage to alien race ), Silver Spear Hand (Gains ‘As Arm Commands’ effect when fighting with a spear)

【Skills】Archery (Grandmaster), Spear Arts (Master), Horsemanship (Expert), Taming Raptors (Expert)

【Description】A hero with superior potential!