Chapter 167: Marking

The dragonized wolf pack moved through the jungle, and as more ferocious wolves joined, the scale of the wolf pack grew larger. Therefore, the noise they made as they moved grew louder, disturbing more and more creatures.

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The ground shook continuously, and a colossal creature sleeping underground twitched its eyelids but did not open them, only turning over with some impatience within the soil layer before continuing its sleep.

However, a few moments later, the sensation of vibration from the ground not only did not stop but grew stronger, as if the team moving on the surface was gradually approaching its sleeping location.

"Who exactly is it?" This time, the giant creature could no longer bear it. After its thick eyelids struggled to move a few times, they slowly opened, revealing a pair of angry apricot-yellow vertical pupils.

"Not only invading my territory but also disturbing my deep sleep." The creature swung its thick tail, and where the tail swept, the soil naturally parted like flowing water.

"Boom!" The ground churned, and this creature, which hadn't moved for many years, began to crawl towards the surface. It wanted to see what exactly dared to disturb its sleep.

"Boom!" The creature, covered in smooth, dark yellow scales, protruded its head from the ground, its apricot-yellow vertical pupils looking towards the direction of the noise, then saw a black tide rushing towards it, interspersed with specks of dazzling gold.

"Ferocious wolves?" The creature focused its gaze, clearly seeing what composed the black tide—head after head of ferocious wolves with dark blue fur, but "why are they so much larger than I remember?"

"And those with golden fur..." The creature flared its nostrils a few times, "It's the aura of golden dragons, dragon beasts."

"Hmph, a bunch of beasts that somehow gained dragon's blood dare to disturb my slumber, ignorant of life and death."

Among the rumbling of the earth, this creature completely emerged from the ground, revealing its forty-meter-long massive body, a land dragon with dark yellow scale armor exuding a sense of solidity like a mountain.

Then, under the land dragon's feet, three dark yellow rings of light appeared and slowly rotated. The thick scales began to emit a dark yellow spiritual light, and a heavy oppressive force began to spread, like a mountain, and this mountain was still rising, expanding in size.

The ground under this oppressive force rippled like the surface of water, followed by spreading cracks.

Then, the land dragon's pair of apricot-yellow vertical pupils looked towards the wolf pack rushing towards its location.

"These beasts should be frightened and scatter in all directions by my displayed might!"

But, to the soul-level land dragon's disbelief, the wolf pack continued to rush towards its location, with no change in direction, speed, or formation, as if they hadn't seen it at all.

"How dare you? Ignore me?" A feeling called anger rose in the land dragon's heart.

Every time it woke from its slumber and came to the surface, all beasts would bow down wherever it passed. All creatures living on its territory were at its mercy to kill or spare.

And this time, after it was awakened and revealed its presence, this group of mere silver-level mixed-breed wolves, oh, the strongest of them was just a gold-level mixed-breed wolf, dared to ignore it?

Did they know what it meant to charge at it? It was a soul-level land dragon, an existence that even adult true dragons would avoid.

The land dragon slowly opened its mouth, the dark yellow, heavy soul rings around its feet expanding and contracting. It seemed to want to roar, and at the same time, do something to prove its might as a soul-level dragon beast.

But, at that moment, the land dragon saw at the forefront of the mixed-breed wolf pack, the wolf whose fur had turned to gold, and a tiny youth slowly raising his head, his golden eyes looking towards it.

As Muria's gaze met it, a dominating, high-above-all consciousness, tyrannical and aggressive, crashed into the land dragon's consciousness sea, transforming into a roaring golden giant dragon!

In that instant, the land dragon beast stared at by Muria stiffened, the soul rings under its feet flickered a few times and then quickly disappeared. Then, this land dragon, at the fastest speed of its life, plunged into the ground.

"By Tiamat above, it finally understood why that group of mixed-breed wolves wasn't afraid of it. There was actually a golden dragon hidden among the wolf pack, and it was a soul-level one at that.

Golden dragons like to transform into human form and conceal their aura, which it could understand because most golden dragons in the world liked to play this way.

But what it couldn't understand was, why would the strongest of the metallic dragon kind, the golden dragon, mingle with a group of lowly wild wolves, even bestowing them with dragon's blood? This was truly undermining dragons! And what was that oppressive force just now, why did it feel an urge to prostrate and worship?

We are both soul-level, even if I am a mixed-breed dragon beast and you are a pure-blooded golden dragon, we are at the same level, why did I feel an urge to worship? That shouldn't be... unless, this is not an ordinary golden dragon!

Damn, I knew it, a normal golden dragon, why would it lead a group of wild wolves rampaging through the wilderness?"

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"How cowardly?" Muria sat atop the newly promoted gold-level Wolf King, twitching the corner of his mouth, "At least it's a soul-level dragon beast, fight me before you leave!"

Although it's said that creatures of the earth attribute are more conservative, they shouldn't be this conservative. This creature emerged from the ground, set up its stance, and before it even had a chance to roar, was scared back into the ground by his unleashed dragon might.

"Stop!" When the wolf pack reached the location where the land dragon had appeared, Muria had the giant wolf stop its steps, and as the Wolf King stopped, all the dragonized giant wolves also stopped.

Muria looked satisfied at the wolf pack that had completely stopped in a few breaths. A slight smile unconsciously appeared on his lips.

Absolute obedience! This wolf pack, formed in just a few short months, easily achieved this. No matter the wolf, they inherently possess strong organizational and mutual coordination abilities, which Muria valued.

Moreover, as the degree of dragonization in the wolf pack deepened, their strength continuously grew stronger, and their intelligence also increased day by day, becoming smarter. They were better able to understand and execute Muria's various commands.

Muria sat on the dragonized Wolf King, looking at the large pit left by the land dragon entering the ground, a smile appearing on his lips: "It's rare to encounter a soul-level creature, especially a dragon beast, I can't let you escape."

The youth stretched out his hand, golden lightning thundering in his palm, then gradually intertwining and extending, a spear fitting his current stature appeared in his hand, exuding cold light—this was one of his nine exclusive weapons, the Sun Chasing Spear!

Holding the thundering Sun Chasing Spear, Muria slightly moved his hand, aiming the spear's tip at the depression on the ground, then vibrated his arm, thrusting the spear into the ground.

"Boom!" Accompanied by a loud atmospheric burst, the spear instantly pierced into the ground, stabbing towards the land dragon's location.

"Aow!" Along with a full-bodied scream from below, a satisfied smile appeared on Muria's face.

"Come back, Sun Chaser!" As Muria called out, golden lightning shot out from the ground, instantly merging into his body.

"Good, left a mark!" Feeling a faint mark underground, Muria patted the Wolf King's nape, "Let's go! In one more day, we will reach Troy's location."

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Deep underground, in an unknown subterranean cavity, a robust land dragon looked at the lightning-shaped, flashing golden pattern on its scales with frustration.

"What does that golden dragon want to do to me? I didn't do anything just now and ran back.

Why mark me? Is it holding a grudge for my actions just now? That shouldn't be, it's a golden dragon, not a dark dragon, its heart shouldn't be so narrow.

No matter, no matter what that golden dragon wants to do to me, this mark cannot stay."

The somewhat naive-looking land dragon's eyes flashed with a hint of ruthlessness, its body bent, and it opened its mouth wide, biting towards its own buttocks...

"Roar! Why can't it be removed?" After a long time, the land dragon with a bloodied buttocks issued a mournful roar.

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