Strongest Replication

In the Endless Forest, near the border between the territory of the Level-10 and Level-9 Strange Beasts.    

    

With the appearance of the Earth Shifting Dragon, a Low-rank Level-8 Strange Beast, Chu Zhongtian subconsciously looked at the middle-aged woman and was surprised to find that she was still looking ahead with a serious expression.    

    

He did not know if he was thinking too much, but he felt that the middle-aged woman was staring at the surface of the lake instead of the Earth Shifting Dragon that had just made its appearance.    

    

Just as the Earth Shifting Dragon was crawling on the ground, a screech suddenly jolted through the air.    

    

Hearing this sound, Chu Zhongtian suddenly recalled the existence of a bird known as a cuckoo back on Earth before his transmigration. This was the exact sound that it would make.    

    

The speed of the flying strange beast was extremely swift. Before the sound of the cuckoo diminished, Chu Zhongtian noticed a slender strange beast flying in the sky above the lake — its appearance similar to that of a pigeon he had seen back on Earth.    

    

With his limited knowledge regarding strange beasts, Chu Zhongtian did not know anything about this particular beast. But since its appearance and sound were very similar to that of the cuckoo he had seen in his previous life, he temporarily called it the Cuckoo Beast.    

    

Looking at the Cuckoo Beast that suddenly appeared in midair, Chu Zhongtian found that the Earth Shifting Dragon, which was originally crawling on the ground, suddenly stood up and raised its dragon head to roar at the Cuckoo Beast flying midair.    

    

Facing the Earth Shifting Dragon's obvious provocation, the Cuckoo Beast did not intend to be outdone.    

    

With the apperance of the two Level-8 Strange Beasts, the middle-aged woman who remained hidden in the thickets suddenly walked out. Noticing her sudden presence, both the Earth Shifting Dragon and Cuckoo Beast swept their glares towards her.    

    

Despite being under the glare of the two powerful Level-8 Strange Beasts, the middle-aged woman kept staring at the surface of the lake instead of looking back at them.    

    

"Come out! I know you're down there." After staring at the lake for a few minutes, the middle-aged woman suddenly exclaimed.    

    

Seeing how there was not a single movement on the surface of the lake, the middle-aged woman's face darkened. Tapping her left foot lightly on the ground, she leaped up into the air.    

    

"Since you intend to take advantage of me after I'm done fighting with these strange beasts, I'll just have to force you out of there," the middle-aged woman hovered in the air and shouted with a fierce tone.    

    

At that moment, she struck her hands back and forth, creating waves of shockwave that struck down on the surface of the lake. In the next instant, the originally calm surface of the lake suddenly raged with countless waves.    

    

Just as the middle-aged woman suddenly flew up higher into the air, the Earth Shifting Dragon and Cuckoo Beast immediately became alert of her. However, when they saw that she was targeting the surface of the lake, they immediately understood that some sort of strange beast was concealing itself within the lake — one that was not at all weaker than them in fact.    

    

One had to know that the stronger the strange beasts, the more intelligent they would become. Since Level-8 Strange Beasts possessed the same amount of intelligence as humans, the Earth Shifting Dragon and Cuckoo Beast immediately knew that there was something else present upon seeing the middle-aged woman's actions.    

    

As the middle-aged woman kept striking down on the surface of the lake, sending a series of powerful force reached the bottom of the lake, a vortex gradually appeared on the surface of the lake.    

    

At first, the water vortex was only a few centimeters long. But with each passing second, the vortex gradually expanded until it reached an astonishing diameter of three meters.    

    

Following the manifestation of the vortex, a roar that sounded like that of a divine dragon erupted from within the vortex.    

    

At that moment, under the pressure of the roar, all the Level-10 and Level-9 Strange Beasts standing around the lake fell to the ground one after another. Even the Earth Shifting Dragon was forced to lower its proud head upon hearing the loud roar.    

    

Around ten seconds later, a ferocious looking strange beast suddenly emerged from the water.    

    

Despite remaining a far distance away from the lake, Chu Zhongtian could nevertheless see its appearance clearly. The head of that particular strange beast was quite similar to that of a divine dragon that he had seen on television in his previous life.    

    

There were only two differences between them. While the divine dragon depicted on Earth had two deer horns growing out from its forehead, this strange beast only had one horn. Furthermore, the divine dragon he recalled normally had two eyes, but this strange beast only had one.    

    

Other than those features, the remaining parts of this strange beast were basically the same as the divine dragon in Chu Zhongtian's memory.    

    

Just as the head of the strange beast emerged from the bottom of the lake, the Earth Shifting Dragon that was still brimming with energy retreated dozens of meters while the Cuckoo Beast flew several hundred meters away in the sky.    

    

"Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon, it really is you!" the middle-aged woman shouted with an exceptionally furious tone as she stared at the strange beast.    

    

"Yan Jinghong, the Cyan Heart Lotus is mine. Are you sure you want to snatch it away from me?" the Crimson-eyed Flood Dragon roared.    

    

"A Level-7 Strange Beast!" Upon hearing the strange beast speaking the human language, Chu Zhongtian felt a sudden twitch in his heart.    

    

After all, only strange beasts at the Seventh Level or above were capable of speaking the human language.    

    

Of course, there were also special exceptions for that. Any strange beasts with the bloodline of a Divine Beast would be exempt from that rule and could speak even before breaking through to the Seventh Level.    

    

To think a Level-7 Strange Beast was actually dwelling at the border between the territory of the Level-10 and Level-9 Strange Beasts. It seemed that the Cyan Heart Lotus on the surface of the lake might not be merely at the Low-rank Seventh Level.    

    

Upon hearing the threat of the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon, Yan Jinghong, the middle-aged woman, snorted coldly and said with an unusually cold tone.    

    

"The Cyan Heart Lotus is a heavenly treasure found in nature. It's not up to you to decide who owns it. If you really want it, then you'll have to fight for it. However!" Yan Jinghong's expression changed drastically as she spoke up till this point.    

    

"Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon, let's settle what happened twenty years ago first!"    

    

Upon shouting these words, Yan Jinghong instantly dashed towards the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon floating on the surface of the water, not caring about the aftermath of the battle possibly harming the Cyan Heart Lotus.    

    

"Yan Jinghong, if you desire a fight, then I'll glady accept it. However, you must not destroy the rare treasure that I've been guarding for more than ten years. Let's fight somewhere else instead." The Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon said after realizing that she did not care one bit about the safety of the Cyan Heart Lotus. It also knew that she had been blinded by hatred.    

    

Although Yan Jinghong did not care about the Cyan Heart Lotus, the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon, on the other hand, did. Otherwise, it would never have stayed in this place that was exhausted of Spiritual Qi for the past 20 years.    

    

Exposing its entire body from the surface of the lake, the Crimson-Eyed Flood Dragon stretched nearly fifty meters long while being two meters thicks as it hovered midair.    

    

Usually, the size of a strange beast would become increasingly bigger the stronger it became. However, after breaking through to the Seventh Level, it would, on the contrary, shrink as it gets more powerful. The reason was that their ultimate goal was to take the form of a human in the future.    

    

Having emerged completely from the lake, the Crimson-Eyed Dragon immediately lifted its tail to block Yan Jinghong's attack. In the next instant, it opened its jaw and shot out thousands of bursts of energy towards the other strange beasts surrounding the lake.    

    

Two of those energy beams were aimed towards the Earth Shifting Dragon and the Cuckoo Beast hovering in the air.