Chapter 1 The Beginning

The night was as black as spilled ink, obscuring everything in sight. The eerie mist was cold and thick.

"Awoo—"

The howls of wolves rose and fell in Xichuan Town. On the rooftop balcony of the Huatian Building, the Wolf King Buck stood tall, his eyes a scarlet, majestic gaze fixed on this isolated town.

"The ruins of the Twelve Divine Kingdoms? Laughable! This is my hunting ground!"

He was domineering and confident. Listening to the excited hunting howls of his wolf tribe below, his eyes were filled with smug satisfaction.

"The Twelve Divine Kingdoms fell long ago. Those old fogeys were all suppressed on the Black Hell Planet. And yet, there are remnants hiding here, who can't even withstand the warriors of my Black Wolf Tribe. They still dream of reviving their bloodline. Utterly foolish!"

"The Twelve Divine Kingdoms are no longer glorious. This place will be Buck's land of glory!"

A sneer appeared in the Wolf King's eyes.

His name was Buck, one of the Wolf Kings of the Black Wolf Tribe.

Just then, a terrified howl echoed from the street below the Huatian Building, as if a member of the tribe was crying for help, but it was instantly cut short.

Buck was startled.

"Hm?! What's going on?! In this desolate and impoverished land, is there still a creature that can stand against the warriors of our Black Wolf Tribe?!"

He leaped from the forty-story building.

His figure drew a parabola in the void, his steel-like claws hooked onto the wall of the opposite building, and he climbed down as quickly as a spider, as if walking on flat ground.

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Down on the street.

"Shhh~"

Zhang Ji swallowed another wolf, blood splattering everywhere.

"Evolution Points +2,000,000, Total 7,532,300/10,000,000"

Listening to the increase in Evolution Points, the light in Zhang Ji's eyes grew even brighter.

Under normal circumstances, preying on the mutated monsters in the town would take a long time to accumulate so many Evolution Points.

But tonight, he was reaping a great harvest!

These giant wolves that had suddenly appeared out of nowhere were all too "fat," making Zhang Ji lose interest in those human-turned mutated monsters.

It was like what the stock god Buffett said: 'I wouldn't pick up ten dollars off the street because the time it takes me to bend over and pick up the money is enough for me to earn ten thousand dollars.'

Zhang Ji's mentality was similar.

"Not much is left to reach the Evolution Points needed for the eighth evolution. Hunting twenty more wolves will be enough!"

Zhang Ji murmured, looking forward to what kind of snake he would become after the eighth evolution.

Looking around, he could still see wolf shadows darting about in the darkness.

As Zhang Ji moved to continue hunting, a fierce aura suddenly swept down from above, shrouding him in a bloody gale. The mist formed a vortex, and a huge shadow pressed down on Zhang Ji.

"Boom~"

Zhang Ji swept his snake tail out, and the floors of the Huatian Building opposite him were pulverized, revealing chunks of reinforced concrete.

The figure that had pounced on him from mid-air was also sent flying, landing on the ground. It was a truly terrifying giant wolf.

Its massive form couldn't be seen clearly in the mist, but it was about thirty meters tall, as tall as a ten-story building. Its fur was like iron spears sticking backward, flashing with a metallic cold light. Its ferocious scarlet wolf eyes were filled with malice.

It strode out of the mist, crushing abandoned cars on the side of the road into scrap metal as if they were toys.

"In this desolate and impoverished ancient land, there's actually someone who dares to flick their tail at me. Interesting!" A muffled voice came, filled with a chilling killing intent.

Gazing at Zhang Ji's massive snake body and two heads, a human-like look of greed and excitement immediately surfaced in its eyes.

"A two-headed Titan Python King Cobra, one head is still a Bai Yan Wolf King. This is the bloodline of a primordial alien species!"

Buck was very excited.

In the place where he lived, the Great Wilderness was vast, the tribes were as numerous as stars, and ancient beasts and demons fought for supremacy, but only primordial alien species had the opportunity to become kings.

They were naturally noble and powerful.

Because when primordial alien species broke through the ninth level of fierce beasts and advanced to become ancient beasts, they would awaken powerful and bizarre innate treasures, and their strength would be earth-shattering, known as fierce beasts.

This kind of innate treasure was more terrifying than those awakened by other ordinary beasts and monsters, incomparable.

Unless, one could devour the bloodline of a primordial alien species for their own use.

Now, seeing the two-headed King Cobra in front of him, Buck realized that his opportunity had come. His eyes were blazing with light, full of greed and desire.

But suddenly, he froze.

Because the eyes of the two-headed King Cobra opposite him were even more excited and fiery than his own. Two pairs of scarlet eyeballs were almost as bright as red lanterns. That kind of greed and desire was several times greater than his own.

"Your eyes make me very uncomfortable!" Buck bared his teeth, very angry. "Why are you drooling so much? What do you want to do?"

Zhang Ji licked his lips, his eyes blazing fiercely. "Of course, I'm craving your body!"

His neck expanded into a hood, and he suddenly pounced, his thirty-five-meter-long body carrying a bloody gale.

The surrounding abandoned cars were blown into the void, and when they hit his tail, they exploded with a bang, like fireworks shooting in the dark night.

"What courage, to dare to attack Buck, the Wolf King of the great Black Wolf Tribe! Your courage is commendable!"

Buck grinned, crouching down to gather momentum, his iron-whip-like tail lowered, and his fur bristled like iron spears.

"Life-snatching chokehold, kill!"

He used a killing technique.

It was an ancient technique passed down from the Black Wolf Tribe. His ancestors used it to gain a foothold in the treacherous Great Wilderness and established the Black Wolf Tribe between the White Mountains and Black Waters.

"Whoosh~"

The thirty-meter-tall wolf shadow pounced across the sky, its power extremely terrifying, casting a large shadow. The surrounding buildings collapsed immediately when grazed.

It was too fast, arriving first despite starting later.

"Shh~"

Zhang Ji's scales were torn up by the sharp wolf claws, and blood poured down like rain. Zhang Ji's snake mouth and the wolf's mouth bit down, but they missed.

Buck licked the blood on his wolf claws, his eyes lighting up. "Indeed delicious!"

"You really think I'm just a level nine fierce beast? How naive. I am a level five ancient beast! I was just suppressed! Die!"

Whoosh~

It pounced again, using the killing technique to the fullest, constantly moving and changing positions. The wolf shadows flickered, and its fierce power pervaded the air.

His position as Wolf King was earned through battles, blood, and bones. His reputation as Buck the Wolf King was by no means undeserved.

Zhang Ji fought and tore at him, but the opponent's speed was indeed much faster than his. His level was higher, and he had mastered a strange and powerful killing technique. His positioning was excellent, and he was also extremely ferocious.

Zhang Ji felt pressure for the first time, realizing his shortcomings!

Speed was his weakness.

"Shh~"

The wolf claws landed on his snake scales again, creating sparks, penetrating deep into his flesh. A sharp pain assailed him, and his steel-like snake tail lashed out.

"Boom~"

The air exploded, creating a hurricane. The wolf shadow was hit by the tail and smashed hundreds of meters away, collapsing a ten-story building, revealing the reinforced concrete rubble.

Zhang Ji took advantage of the situation to pursue, and at the moment of pouncing, his snake mouth opened and sprayed a rain of venom, covering a radius of tens of meters.

"Whoosh~"

The reinforced concrete bricks and stones of the opposite building emitted white smoke, as if they were corroded by sulfuric acid, demonstrating the terrifying toxicity.

The wolf shadow screamed, but shook the dust off its head and pounced again.