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In the vast, verdant forest stood an exceedingly majestic mountain range.
The mountain range divided this primeval forest into two zones. One side was an ordinary area that humans could enter.
The other side, however, was a deathly forest teeming with ferocious beasts, raptors, monsters, and magical beasts.
Two figures stood at its summit, spread their arms, and leaped down without hesitation.
"Whoosh whoosh whoosh…"
High in the sky, the fierce wind whipped through their hair.
Yilumi gazed down at the vast forest below. Countless colossal trees stood tall, stretching into a green ocean. The raging wind swept through, raising waves of emerald green.
The two of them were plummeting rapidly from an altitude of over a thousand meters.
"Caw!"
Suddenly, the hoarse, savage cry of a raptor reached their ears, immediately followed by an immense shadow.
"Bradrey!"
High in the sky, amidst the raging wind, Yilumi shouted, his face pale. Jin Bradrey looked at him and nodded gravely.
Yilumi oriented himself downwards, extending his right hand. Jin Bradrey grasped his right hand, his muscles swelling as he abruptly exerted force with his arm. Gripping Yilumi's body with his left hand, he suddenly swung him forcefully downwards.
Yilumi's rate of descent instantly accelerated, as if he were a cannonball fired from a cannon, plummeting towards the ground below.
"Boom!"
An enormous shadow streaked overhead, accompanied by the sound of the strong wind being torn apart. The chaotic airflow made it momentarily impossible for Yilumi to maintain his balance, his body swaying from side to side in mid-air.
Forced to react, Yilumi unleashed a copious amount of qi from his body, enveloping himself entirely. The white, translucent qi gradually transformed, taking on a shape like a wingsuit. Yilumi managed to regain his balance and glided down towards the forest below.
"That's…"
Yilumi looked up at the huge shadow in the sky above that had just passed him, his eyes instantly focusing.
"An Archaeopteryx!"
It had feathers covering its body, socketed teeth in its beak, the long tail of a bird, and the sharp talons of a dinosaur—it was entirely like an embellished dinosaur.
Yilumi's expression changed slightly. That enormous figure indeed matched the image of an Archaeopteryx from his previous life's memories, only this one was ten times larger.
But in this world, it had another name—Gregoriu's [Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird].
"Caw!"
Having failed in its strike, the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird soared in a circle, then with a beat of its wings, flew to an even higher altitude.
"Caw!"
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird executed a 360-degree turn high in the sky, shifting from a vertical ascent to a vertical dive. It opened its massive beak, filled with socketed teeth, let out a hoarse cry, and swooped down towards him.
"Whoosh!"
The airflow around the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird was split, even creating visible white mist.
Yilumi focused his mind. The white, translucent qi around his body turned light green. He activated The Strongest Eye, a red glint flashing in his left eye as the Ouroboros sigil abruptly appeared on his crimson pupil.
"One, two, three…"
Yilumi muttered softly. Under the effect of The Strongest Eye, he could see various openings on the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's body, as well as the flight path its current posture was least adept at.
Before the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird could approach, Yilumi, relying on the wingsuit formed by his qi, tilted and glided to the left, evading its charge.
"Boom!"
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird streaked past. A powerful gust of torn wind, like fine iron wires, cut at his skin and cheeks, a stinging pain assaulting him.
"Zing~"
On the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's back, Jin Bradrey tightly gripped its feathers with his left hand. With his right, he drew a Tang Dao from his waist with a "zing"—it was the best blade Yilumi had found in the Zoldyck family's repository.
Jin Bradrey, holding the long blade, stabbed fiercely towards the location of the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's heart on its back.
"Pfft~"
"CAWWW!!!"
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird threw its head back and shrieked in pain. Before Jin Bradrey could withdraw the Tang Dao and strike again, the bird's enormous body began to roll and tumble frantically in mid-air, trying to fling off the insignificant pest on its back.
Jin Bradrey held the Tang Dao's hilt tightly with one hand and clung desperately to the feathers on the bird's back with the other, preventing himself from being thrown off.
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird struggled and rolled in the air. At its speed of descent, it quickly caught up with Yilumi, who was still gliding. Yilumi tilted his body, flew towards the bird, grabbed its feathers, and positioned himself near its head.
"Bradrey!"
Yilumi shouted. Jin Bradrey forcefully pulled the Tang Dao out from the bird's back, then clamped the bloodied hilt in his mouth. Gripping the feathers tightly with both hands, he crawled bit by bit towards Yilumi, holding the blood-soaked blade and handing it to him.
Yilumi gripped the Tang Dao's hilt, adjusted his posture on the bird's head, raised the blade with one hand, and thrust it forcefully towards the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's head.
"Clang!"
A sound like a blade striking a block of iron rang out.
"What!?"
Yilumi was astounded. The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's skull was actually this hard; ordinary sharp weapons couldn't pierce it.
"If that's the case, I'll just cover the blade with qi."
Yilumi narrowed his eyes, his expression icy. He focused, slowly channeling the qi from his body onto the Tang Dao's blade. The light green qi enveloped the blade, and with one thrust, he plunged it into the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's skull.
"CAWWW!!!"
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird once again threw its head back and let out a bloodcurdling shriek. Before it could react, Yilumi immediately withdrew the Tang Dao and stabbed it into its skull again, then withdrew and stabbed once more.
He repeated this process, blood splattering.
The Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's body shuddered, its spread wings hung limply, and it began to plummet towards the forest below, carrying Yilumi and Jin Bradrey with it.
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey clung tightly to its feathers. The intense airflow buffeted their faces, continuously distorting their features. Yilumi's black bangs stood on end, and the hems of their clothes flapped wildly.
"Whoa whoa whoa~!"
Just as the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird, along with Yilumi and Jin Bradrey, was about to crash into the towering ancient trees of the forest, a colossal dark silhouette leaped up from the hazy forest below.
The dark silhouette leaped high, bounding nimbly back and forth between the trunks of one towering ancient tree after another. From the tallest of these colossal trees, it leaped high again, grabbing the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's two drooping wings, and plunged towards the forest below.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
During the descent, the dark silhouette and the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's body continuously slammed into tree trunk after tree trunk, snapping numerous thick branches.
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey held on tightly to the feathers on the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird, ensuring they wouldn't be thrown off by the violent jolts.
Looking up, they saw it was actually a gigantic ape, its body enormous, far surpassing the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird in size.
The ape, gripping the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's body with both hands, crashed through the giant ancient trees, breaking branches as it fell towards the ground.
"ROAR~!"
Just as the two men, one bird, and one ape were about to hit the ground, a heaven-shattering tiger's roar suddenly erupted from the forest, its power terrifying.
Yilumi's eyelids twitched. He glanced at Jin Bradrey. The two exchanged a knowing look and simultaneously released their grip on the feathers, then kicked hard against the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's back with their legs.
"Swish!"
In the instant they separated from the Colossal Jungle Ancestor Bird's body, a behemoth flashed past behind them.
"BOOM!"
Immediately after, a deafening crash reached their ears, along with the furious roars and bellows of the gigantic ape.
"CRASH!"
Yilumi and Jin Bradrey landed unsteadily. Turning their heads, they saw a towering ancient tree topple over with a thunderous noise, kicking up countless clouds of dust and creating a large plume of smoke.