Chapter 1 The Heavenly Tablet

A heavenly tablet, hundreds of meters tall, stood on the earth, exuding an ancient aura of time. Surrounded by mist, it appeared even more mysterious and extraordinary.

All around, many monsters watched.

On a nearby office building, a titan python king cobra hung upside down, its steel scales dense, its scarlet and majestic vertical pupils opening and closing in the mist, staring at the scene below.

On the ground, Hu San wanted to possess this Tiger Phase Heavenly Tablet, but many attempts were unsuccessful.

In anger, he raised his hind leg, peed on the stone tablet, turned and left, and at the same time barked like a dog, telling his yellow-haired dog subordinates to touch the stone tablet.

The yellow-haired dog was very timid. Its bloodline was that of a Chinese Pastoral Dog, a native dog, and it was timid and dared not approach the stone tablet.

Hu San struck it with a paw, causing it to crash face-first into the stone tablet, knocking out its teeth.

But then, a golden light lit up again and fell on it, but there was no golden aura.

It blankly stretched out its paw to scratch its head, then tucked its tail and returned to Hu San's side, standing respectfully.

Seeing Hu San looking at it, asking what it had obtained, it gesticulated for a long time without making it clear. Instead, it leaned over and licked Hu San's paw, its ears flattened, its eyes narrowed, smiling like a little brother, respectful.

"What a waste!"

Hu San was speechless. How could his dog gang have recruited such a thing!

He waved a paw, ordering the other subordinates of the dog gang to try touching the stone tablet. Everyone was forced to touch it with a hard scalp. As a result, golden lights flew out of the stone tablet and fell into their bodies, but none had a golden aura.

Hu San asked them what they had obtained.

"I obtained a breathing technique."

"Mine seems to be a killing technique, for hunting and the like."

"What I got was footwork..."

A group of dog subordinates gesticulated and confessed, their eyes excited. When the surrounding people saw this, they also cheered and became excited.

"I understand, this Tiger Phase Heavenly Tablet is actually a legacy heavenly tablet!"

"That's right, it can actually pass on mysterious ancient methods and old techniques. It's incredible!"

"This may be the greatest discovery and miracle in history! Unimaginable."

Everyone rushed towards the stone tablet, and all those who touched it had golden light enter their bodies. It was various inheritances, but only one for each, obtained by chance.

But no one else obtained the mysterious golden aura like Hu San.

It seemed to be a reward only for the first person.

On the nearby office building, Zhang Ji wriggled his steel scales and raised his head, planning to take action.

But at this moment, a tiger with a mane suddenly roared in horror. Just as it touched the stone tablet, the stone tablet suddenly sank in, turning into a vortex, and sucked it into the vortex and disappeared.

"Ah, retreat quickly!"

The surrounding people scattered in fear.

Zhang Ji was also startled and quickly retracted his head like a spring.

In his sight, the stone tablet seemed to be completely awakened and activated, emitting a great golden light again, illuminating the nine heavens and ten earths. Among the crowd illuminated by the golden light, all the monsters and beasts transformed from people born in the Year of the Tiger were enveloped by the golden light, rolled up, and disappeared into the stone tablet.

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh."

In Xichuan Town, countless people born in the Year of the Tiger were rolled up by golden lights and disappeared into the stone tablet.

The golden light of the stone tablet was extraordinary, like a scanning laser. It penetrated the strange mist, penetrated everything, and left no dead corners. Even steel-reinforced concrete walls could not stop it.

Some people born in the Year of the Tiger lurking in underground secret rooms were also scanned by the golden light, rolled up, and sucked into the stone tablet.

Zhang Ji saw that his Tian She (Heavenly Snake) Gang subordinates, the Tiger Hall master Chen Ping'an, screaming in horror as he was sucked into the heavenly tablet. The other members of the Tiger Hall were also sucked into it.

They cried out for help in fear and despair, baring their teeth and waving their claws, as if calling for Snake Lord to save them.

In the mist, Zhang Ji hung upside down on the nearby office building. If he flicked his tail, he might be able to save them.

But his scarlet vertical pupils were as cold as millennia-old ice, and he did not move at all. He was very cautious and careful. Before figuring out the purpose of this heavenly tablet, he would not act rashly.

As for those Tiger Hall subordinates, they could die and be replaced. Even if everyone born in the Year of the Tiger in Xichuan Town died, there were plenty of people born under other zodiac signs.

"Hmm? Black silk tiger legs?!"

Zhang Ji suddenly saw a white tiger with black silk stockings on its hind legs being rolled up in the air and disappearing into the heavenly tablet.

"Is it her?... She also loves wearing black silk!"

A picture flashed through Zhang Ji's mind: Su Qi of Hua Tian Building, on the first night of the cataclysm, she transformed into a white tiger, standing on a round conference table, wearing black silk stockings on her hind legs, roaring to the sky, and devouring all the other leaders of Hua Tian Building.

"I thought she was dead. Is she still alive... Did she give birth to the child in her belly? Is it a little tiger or a human child?!"

Zhang Ji's thoughts were chaotic.

The surrounding people were in a panic.

No one expected this kind of change to happen, but they quickly saw the pattern. It seemed that everyone who was rolled up by the golden light and sucked into the stone tablet was born in the Year of the Tiger.

"The Tiger Phase Heavenly Tablet of the Twelve Heavenly Tablets... A heavenly tablet related to the tiger phase... Is it only targeting people born in the Year of the Tiger among the twelve zodiac signs?!"

Zhang Ji pondered, staring at the powerful characters on the heavenly tablet.

On the stone tablet, the vortex gradually disappeared, not knowing where it led to. The fate of these people was unknown.

Around, it was a mess. Some monsters fell to the ground crying, hugging their heads with their paws, tears rolling down, making painful whimpering sounds in their throats.

Some fell in front of the stone tablet, tearing and scratching the stone tablet with their sharp claws, but to no avail. The stone tablet was extraordinary and could not be shaken by their strength.

Many people around watched indifferently, quietly watching this scene.

Since the cataclysm in Xichuan Town, too many people had died. Some had even devoured their wives, children, and parents. These human tragedies had long numbed them.

Now, as long as they could survive, that was all that mattered. The lives and deaths of others were just stories unfolding day after day.

The changes in the Tiger Phase Heavenly Tablet calmed the surrounding people down, and they dared not touch it rashly again.

Zhang Ji hung upside down on the office building, his scarlet vertical pupils vigilant and cautious, watching the heavenly tablet for a moment, then scanning the crowd below.

"I never lack patience, but I don't want to waste time waiting here. Someone must experiment with the heavenly tablet again."

Zhang Ji thought, and his figure slowly moved.

At the same time, in the distance in the mist, on the top of a building, a group of monsters were watching.

The leader was a suanni, fifteen meters tall, possessing the bloodline of a dragon, extremely oppressive, as majestic as a lion, and as ferocious as a wildcat.

Its scarlet eyes naturally radiated a fierce light, and its aura was as fierce and majestic as a prehistoric behemoth.

Behind it followed a five-tailed qingniu (blue ox) and a group of other monsters, but they all had extraordinary auras, with a hint of ferocity more than the monsters outside.

"Brother Long, it seems that the Tiger Phase Heavenly Tablet is really a legacy heavenly tablet. Are we going to go?" Niu Datong, the five-tailed qingniu, asked, looking at the suanni Long Chen in front of him with awe.

After the other party saved him from the mouth of a giant wolf that day, he followed him and swore allegiance to the death.

The others behind him were the same, all subordinates of Long Chen, who possessed the bloodline of the suanni.

Long Chen had led them to seize a large territory in the Northern District, and then led them to drink blood and eat meat, teaching them that if they wanted to be ferocious and powerful, they had to devour and evolve.

They grew up bathed in blood and became ferocious and terrifying, their mentality greatly changed.

But towards Long Chen in front of them, the Brother Long in their mouths, they became more and more awed and fanatical.

Hearing Niu Datong's suggestion, the suanni Long Chen shook his head and said, "Don't be reckless!"

His scarlet eyes scanned the surrounding mist, and he said with fear and solemnity, "Don't forget that ferocious king cobra. When the heavenly tablet is born, everyone gathers. I don't believe it hasn't come."

"That guy is insidious and cunning, and he controls the darkness to kill people like lightning. He is like a hell serpent, and he must be hiding in the dark at this moment... Maybe he is sharpening his teeth and waiting for us!"

Hearing this, Niu Datong and others had their hair standing on end, and they looked around in fear.

That ferocious king cobra was indeed a nightmare-like existence, making them tremble at the thought of it.

Long Chen glanced at his subordinates behind him, raised his head, and a domineering smile appeared in his eyes: "To be stronger than any opponent is the greatest trouble in life!"

"That king cobra must be so troubled now!"

"But I, Long Chen, don't want trouble, and I hate trouble, so I will temporarily endure and let this king cobra be arrogant for a few days. After I evolve a few times, I will definitely eat it bit by bit from head to tail."

"At that time, listening to its wails and bathing in its blood should be so pleasant and unrestrained!"

When he said this excitedly, his tail wagged high, his ears twitched quickly, and the scarlet light in his eyes grew brighter.

Behind him, Niu Datong and a group of subordinates all showed expressions of awe and worship.

As expected of Brother Long, he maintains this invincible mentality at all times and in all places. No wonder he can sweep the Northern District and escape from the pursuit of the king cobra!

On the rooftop in the east, a group of monsters were also spying in the mist, carefully and constantly looking around in the surrounding mist.

In a courtyard behind them, a dense electric fence was set up, exuding a terrifying aura. There were also barrels of gasoline and bombs around.

"I didn't see that king cobra. Didn't it come?!"

"It must have come. It is bloodthirsty and ferocious. When the heavenly tablet is born, everyone comes to the front of the heavenly tablet, and it will never give up such a good opportunity to hunt."

A monkey said, his eyes wise and shrewd.

Beside him were other monsters, with a majestic aura and the temperament of superiors. The surrounding monsters were all respectful to them.

"Give the order to prepare the electric fence, with a hundred thousand volts of electricity. We must kill this king cobra tonight, put it on Professor Hou's dissection table, and extract the best evolutionary potion!"

One of the giant pythons said, his scarlet eyes full of greedy purple light.

"No matter how ferocious it is, it is ultimately a foreign beast, with some brains, but its brains are definitely not as good as ours. We humans are the apex predators of the food chain, in the past, now, and in the future!"

Hearing this, confidence shone in the eyes of everyone.

Just then, screams of horror came from near the heavenly tablet in the distance.

In the mist, a giant python hung upside down from a twenty-story office building, opening its bloody mouth and roaring loudly, its voice as loud as thunder, making all beasts tremble in fear.

Its huge body blocked everyone's path, and its huge and powerful snake tail rolled up monsters and beasts and smashed them towards the heavenly tablet.

"No one wants to try, so I can only reluctantly help you!"

Zhang Ji's scarlet vertical pupils were full of fierce light. One monster after another was thrown on the heavenly tablet by its tail, sometimes with too much force, directly smashing their heads and bleeding.

But on the heavenly tablet, there were no more vortexes or accidents.

Golden lights continued to fly out and enter the bodies of many monsters.

Everyone was both fearful and excited. They wanted to thank this ferocious king cobra, but the words that came to their mouths turned into curses.

Zhang Ji's eyes shone with excitement. After confirming that the heavenly tablet was safe, he swept away all the monsters and beasts with his tail, and his cold scales touched the heavenly tablet for the first time.

"Come on, inheritance, give it to me, give it to me, give it to me...!!!"

Zhang Ji was expectant, and the light in his scarlet vertical eyes grew brighter.