Bian observed the bird, it was mainly a light shade of gray with black styles decorating its body. The bird also watched Bian, it placed the deer on a thorn on the tree.
With a mad screech it turned into a blur and circled round Bian. The Tyrant Minotaur and Emperor Manticore were strong, but they weren't speed type creatures.
Bian activated all his gene locks and even the Empirical Will. The lightning rune surfaced in his mind, time seemed to slow to a crawl.
The manticore poised its stinger, a dark purple light gathered on it. It kept trying to shoot the bird, all to no avail.
'It is fast, very fast. But ultimately, it is still just a beast.' Bian watched the energy flow of the Bird using the dongxuan sutra. It was a little bit blurred indicating it was a first generation super creature, but Bian wasn't to be underestimated.
His evolved brain allowed him to deduce the energy flow of the bird, as he kept track of it.
'Behind!' Bian leaped gracefully into the air. The bird appeared where he was a second ago, it quickly dodged a beam from the manticore, losing the chance to attack Bian mid-air.
After thirty more similar exchanges, both Bian and the bird had reached a standstill. Bian needed a way to catch the bird.
The bird also realized Bian was to nimble for it. The poison of the manticore would give it a hard time, it decided to aim for the weakest link, who ironically was the strongest.
The Tyrant Minotaur was an incredibly strong creature, but would pose the lowest threat with the speed of the bird.
Bian had already planned this out, once the bird attacks the Minotaur, it would grab the speedy avian.
The bird attacked the Tyrant Minotaur, it zoomed past the Minotaur as left a nasty gash on its chest. It didn't plan a direct strike on the minotaur but would rather wear it down.
It flashed by the minotaur and left countless slashes around its body. All attempts to catch the bird were futile, the minotaur screamed in rage. The number of injuries on its body increased.
Just as Bian thought of recalling the minotaur, he heard a metallic clank. The Tyrant Minotaur successfully used its armored nails to block the talon of the bird.
"What, but how" Bian observed their exchange, at first it seemed like a coincidence, but the minotaur was getting faster.
It's movement sped up to an astonishing degree. With a deafening roar, the minotaur followed the bird clash for clash, its speed nearly on par with the bird.
The injury covered Minotaur was as fast as the berserk bird. Even Bian couldn't land a blow on the bird because of its speed.
"How did it get faster?" Bian recalled his first encounter with the Tyrant Minotaur. It was an unusual battle, one he nearly lost.
As a sacred-blood creature, it shattered his sacred-blood wrist armor. Before that happened though, it seemed like normal creature.
Its speed suddenly skyrocketed when he threw several mutant one-time use ghost butterflies at it.
"That's it, the minotaur gets stronger with each injury" Bian realized the true power of the minotaur, the more injuries it got, the stronger it became.
Although the minotaur was as fast as the bird, it had no advantage over it. It no longer sustained any injuries and likewise didn't experience any power boost.
The Emperor Manticore gathered a green laser on its tail. Unlike the purple laser which was poisonous, the green laser was acidic.
It shot several laser towards the bird, the bird casually dodged this speedy assaults, it dodged twenty or so lasers when it realized something was wrong.
The green laser weren't aimed towards it, rather it was aimed towards the minotaur. The first few beams put a hole in the minotaur, but later on they only left some scratches on its skin. It had been standing still all this while, accepting the damage.
Before the bird could figure out the reason for this friendly fire, the minotaur burst out in an amazing display of speed.
The bird twisted its body at the last moment. The minotaur hand which went for its head, grappled its wings instead. The minotaur pulled in the bird and twisted its neck before Bian could even stop it, its strength and speed were top class.
[Super creature Cruel Shrike killed. No beast soul gained. Eat the life essence to gain 0 to 10 super geno points. Meat inedible.]
The body of the shriek dissipated leaving behind a pool of blood and a gray life essence, its blood flowed towards the tree. Bian picked up this life essence, he searched for the other two essence in the pit but found they were missing.
He instinctively looked towards the tree, all the creatures on its thorns had dried up. The tree took on a red luster.
With a violent trembling the island quaked and separated into pieces. Bian stood on the Emperor Manticore in the sky.
He sensed a life force greater than that of the shrike. The tree of thorns rapidly grew, it extended forth thorned vines and swiped at Bian.
With great dexterity, the manticore dodged this vines. The minotaur got encased in this thorns, Bian could feel his connection with the minotaur weaken. The tree tried to brainwash to Minotaur, while also sucking out it's blood.
"Was it controlling the shrike to bring it creatures, it absorbed the blood of creatures impaled on its thorns?" Bian couldn't be sure, while he had been paralyzed he didn't feel any blood leaking from him system.
He unsummoned the Minotaur and jumped down from the manticore. It flew round the tree while shooting several acid beams as it.
Bian focused back to the energy flow of the shrike, he went far enough from the thorned tree with the life essence. He deduced the energy flow of the shrike with pinpoint accuracy using mental point targeting.
He stimulated the energy flow with caution and felt the life essence melt into his body. The feeling of getting stronger was amazing.
[Essence of Cruel Shrike absorbed. One super geno point gained.]
[Essence of Cruel Shrike absorbed. One super geno point gained.]
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[Essence of Cruel Shrike absorbed. One super geno point gained.]
Bian gained ten more super geno points from the shrike, bring his super geno tally up to thirty. He felt better than ever.
Bian summoned the Tyrant Minotaur back into action. The Emperor Manticore and Bian flanked the tree while the Minotaur faced it in a head on confrontation.
With an exchange, the minotaur was sent flying. It gave a battle cry and jumped back into the fray. With subsequent exchanges, the Tyrant Minotaur got stronger.
Bian and the manticore opportunistically attacked the tree. The manticore would shoot corrosive beams at it while Bian would punch the tree using yang energy to take out huge chucks of it.
Jade sun force came into play as Bian fought the tree for several hours. His kidneys felt warm as energy coursed through his body non-stop.
They fought the Thorned Tree for almost an entire day. The Tyrant Minotaur no longer lost in a direct confrontation with it. When the tree swung its vines, the minotaur would catch them and rip them off.
The tree would release a shrill shriek, it had its root planted firmly into the ground and couldn't run away. Its towering body was reduced to one hundredth of its original size in the span of an additional three days.
"Stand back!" Bian ordered the Tyrant Minotaur and Emperor Manticore to stop attacking. He wouldn't make the same mistake twice and let them finish it off.
With the Empirical will active, Bian pummeled the rest of the tree with his jade like fists. He had seen its energy flow days ago and was ready to kill it.
He punched the tree until his jade like fist began to bleed. Not willing to feed the tree with his blood, he continued his assault with his feet. Bian delivered a barrage of kicks, until he began to sweat.
The vitality of the tree truly was outstanding, it held on until it was the size of a person. Bian stood in front of it, hands and leg bloodied. He delivered a devastating headbutt and finished it off.
[Super creature Thorned Menace killed. The Beast soul has been gained. Eat the life essence to gain 0 to 10 super geno points randomly. Meat inedible]
Bian broke off the tree bit by bit until he spotted a blood red life essence. The other essences had already been absorbed by the tree.
Bian stimulated the essence of the Thorned Menace. All his hair stood on end, like needles. It was definitely a weird sensation. The red life essence melted into Bian.
[Essence of Thorned Menace absorbed. One super geno point gained.]
[Essence of Thorned Menace absorbed. One super geno point gained.]
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[Geno points gained: 100 ordinary geno points; 100 primitive geno points; 100 mutant geno points; 98 sacred geno points; 39 super geno points.]
"Please be a weapon" Bian prayed as he checked the beast soul of the Thorned Menace.
[Type of beast soul of super creature Thorned Menace: parasite]
"Well, it has its uses" Bian wasn't disappointed at all, Parasite beast souls were extremely rare and useful. He would have to wait till next time for a weapon.