Chapter 3670 — Dangers upon Dangers
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My god! What in the world is going on here?
An extremely ominous premonition surged through Wei Zhao's heart, and in the very next instant the sky seemed to darken, his whole body engulfed in an enormous shadow.
Looking up, he saw a giant eagle circling in the low air some fifty or sixty zhang above the canyon—by rough reckoning its wingspan easily exceeded five zhang! In the parlance of the mortal world, that was a full sixteen meters; hovering there over the canyon, it gave Wei Zhao a feeling of something blotting out the heavens and covering the earth.
For a fierce bird of such dimensions, anyone could guess without a moment's thought that it was no ordinary creature: talons like golden hooks, beak like a blood diamond, gleaming with a cold light in the rays of the setting sun and striking terror into all who beheld it.
Even a cursory glance was enough for the savage, overbearing aura of the thing to tell Wei Zhao that this giant eagle was at least a Foundation Establishment spirit beast—and as for its actual strength, he sensed it was at least two grades above the Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard he had fought for his very life and blasted into a corpse!
In other words, the creature overhead was likely a powerful spirit beast of at least the mid Foundation Establishment stage!
Compared with it, the flying spirit beasts once kept in the rear-mountain hall seemed as docile as quails, and their strength was nowhere near so absurd; Wei Zhao had no doubt that if any of those flying spirit beasts met this thing in the air, they would all be slaughtered in an instant.
Faced with a fierce bird of such caliber, Wei Zhao had not the slightest confidence in standing against it. The one thing he thanked his lucky stars for was that, before descending, a passing thought had made him stow the Heavenly Thunder Pig into the jade pendant's space in advance instead of leaving it above to stand watch for him.
Had the Heavenly Thunder Pig really been up there now, never mind keeping watch or sounding warnings—it would probably have become this fierce bird's snack by this very moment.
But now, though the Heavenly Thunder Pig was safe enough, the one in danger was Wei Zhao himself!
The giant eagle's pair of sharp eyes, keen as a ghost's, had plainly already fixed upon Wei Zhao; after all, a living, breathing man standing on a cliff face made for an all-too-conspicuous target!
My god! How am I supposed to survive this?
Watching the giant eagle circle once at low altitude and then immediately prepare to dive straight toward him, Wei Zhao's heart turned cold.
Against a spirit beast of the early Foundation Establishment stage like the Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard, he had at least had the confidence to maneuver and kill it, but the thing above his head was at least mid Foundation Establishment—if he truly crossed blows with it, he would most likely be killed in a single move!
And what mattered even more was his present predicament: the only reason he could keep his footing steady on the branch at all was thanks to those two loops of vine rope about his waist, and even that had been hard-won. In such a situation, never mind a mid Foundation Establishment giant eagle—even a random early Foundation Establishment spirit beast might well be more than Wei Zhao could handle!
But no matter what Wei Zhao thought, the giant eagle overhead had already decided to make him today's supper. His frame might be somewhat small relative to its vast bulk, but the flesh and blood of a human cultivator had always been delicious, and its spiritual qi content far surpassed that of other spirit beasts—a rare and precious tonic that could not be counted on to come along often.