BOOM, BOOM, BOOM, BOOM— Behind the Wingless Great Dragon, over four hundred Gale Seeds could be seen rapidly coalescing, reconfiguring, then loading into long metal tubes that resembled cannon barrels... Immediately after, a torrential stream of light poured out, erupting with a series of air-tearing blasts to provide Su Zhou with upward thrust!
In a mere instant, the Wingless Great Dragon... no, Su Zhou now had wings! Four wings of light, like rocket thrusters, like Dragon Breath, unleashing a rain of fire and intense heat that distorted the very air and sky!
In truth, rather than wings, these enormous barrels functioned more like complex vectored-thrust nozzles, granting Su Zhou unparalleled acceleration and nimble maneuverability. With minute adjustments from the Gale Seeds and Gale Armor, Su Zhou transformed into a rocket once more and shot off in pursuit of the Ghost Car, which was already scared witless!
Five thousand meters! Four thousand five hundred meters! Four thousand meters!
"Aaaaaah! H-how is this possible?!"
The frantic Divine Bird had never seen a Divine Beast fly this way. Not even in its most terrifying nightmares had it imagined such a scene: a wingless Great Dragon with cannon barrels on its back spewing streams of light, tailing it relentlessly like a colossal meteorite.
It performed all sorts of maneuvers at a dazzling speed—accelerating, turning, and somersaulting—in an attempt to shake Su Zhou. But relying on his vectored-thrust nozzles, Su Zhou matched it with breathtaking flips, rolls, and brutish, logic-defying maneuvers of his own, forcefully closing the distance to the Ghost Car!
Any other Divine Bird, or even a fighter jet, would have been torn apart by Su Zhou's completely unorthodox maneuvers, its body snapping and airframe exploding. The pilot would have been crushed by the G-forces, their brain reduced to paste at the very least. But Su Zhou was different. His body was terrifyingly tough. As for his brain, it was dual-state: one half was solid and impervious to G-forces, and the other half was already mush, so becoming even mushier wasn't a problem.
The Ghost Car exhausted every aerial maneuver passed down by its ancestors and every move it had ever mastered. Had an Elite fighter pilot been present, they would have seen that, if one considered both the Ghost Car and Su Zhou to be fighter jets, the Divine Bird was executing the principles of energy-maneuverability to their absolute limit. Not an ounce of energy was wasted; its sequence of actions was, in a word, Perfection!
But Su Zhou... Su Zhou's engine output was several times that of the Ghost Car! And his "airframe" was completely absurd—he could shift his center of gravity at will, contort his limbs freely, and fly right-side up or upside down with equal ease...
This simply wasn't a battle between equals.
"Why? Why would a Divine Beast of your caliber obey the commands of those Immortal Realm remnants?!"
At this point, the Ghost Car knew it had no chance of survival. But its powerful survival instinct compelled it to shriek just before Su Zhou caught up. "Our Beast God Realm was the one you people invaded! Even the Immortal Gods of old didn't hunt us like this, so why are you doing it?!"
But soon, this defiant tone vanished, and the Ghost Car began to beg piteously. "I'm willing to become human, oh great one from the Immortal Realm! I'm willing to be human! Spare me, let me go back! I'll absolutely abandon the ways of the Beast God Realm and accept the teachings of the Immortal Gods to live as a human... No, I *am* human now! I'm not a beast anymore, I swear! Just spare my life!"
But from beginning to end, Su Zhou didn't say a single word. He simply continued his silent pursuit, his violet-blue Dragon Pupils devoid of any emotion.
Noticing this, the Ghost Car finally understood the nature of the look in Su Zhou's eyes.
It was, in fact, a look it was intimately familiar with, one it often wore itself.
It was the look a predator has when hunting its prey... a pure and dangerous gaze.
It suddenly recalled an analysis of the old Immortal God Inheritance, left behind by the Primordial Ancestors—a teaching buried deep within its bloodline, one it had never before taken to heart.
[The Immortal Gods do not grow angry over 'a wolf eating a sheep.' That is the Celestial Principle of beasts. Life is destined to prey upon other life to survive—this is the Celestial Principle for all living things.]
[What angers Them is unnecessary slaughter—an intelligent being killing another, yet not for resources, not for self-defense, not for the good of their Race, not for vengeance, not for war, not for any complex desire... When one intelligent being devours another, even when other food is available, that is when They become enraged.]
[Therefore, my descendants, even if you come to rule this world, do not act wantonly and without restraint... The Immortal Gods can, in fact, tolerate the existence of a 'non-human civilization.' If We remain low-key, We can be tolerated by Them and continue to rule this world. However, They, who once battled countless Demon Gods, will not tolerate a race that, like the Demon Gods, wantonly devours intelligent life.]
[Do not devour Souls. Do not devour intelligent life... Even if it is our instinct, you must suppress it. For the first step of civilization is to overcome the innate instincts of the flesh and use wisdom to control the self.]
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