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The snowstorm had stopped, and in the vast white expanse of sky and earth, a dark figure moved swiftly.
On the back of a black bear that is over two meters tall, tiny figures the size of a palm sit in a row.
The cold wind generated by their rapid movement slapped against the faces of the little people.
One of the square-faced little people asked the most beautiful and smallest of them all with a worried expression, "Priest, can we really turn back?"
Shen Nong had been listening to this question the whole way.
At first, he would reply with a "yes," but later, as the nine people asked him one by one along the way, Shen Nong simply stopped saying anything.
Even if I tell them, they will still keep asking questions.
At this point, the black bear slowed down and finally came to a complete stop.
Shen Nong said unhappily, "Why did you stop again?"
The black bear opened its mouth at the pretty little priest, then pointed to the little priest's pocket.
Shen Nong sighed and resignedly took a candy out of her pocket.
He channeled his supernatural energy while chanting incantations, and the candy instantly grew larger, returning to its original size.
The tiny figure, no bigger than a palm, held a large purple candy and looked extremely fierce. "Big Black, this is the last one. If you dare to stop after finishing this candy, I'll let you taste the feeling of having your bear head beaten with an iron fist."
The pretty little man was angered by the big black bear's greedy face and plucked several of its hairs.
Big Black whimpered guiltily, but didn't forget to take the candy with its paws and stuff it into its mouth immediately.
Ah! So delicious!
But hitting a bear on the head hurts a lot... Never mind, the two-legged creature is really angry, it pulled so much of Big Black's fur... Sigh, then Big Black will have to eat fewer candies!
With the candy in hand, the shadowy figure moved swiftly again, splashing up snow and ice along the way.
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Due to magical means, Dahei's body size is normal, even smaller than that of ordinary bears in the Beast World.
As a result, the people of the Mu tribe arrived at the doorstep of the Ze tribe without being discovered.
Behind the boulder, Shen Nong instructed Da Hei: "Da Hei, from now on, run as far away as you can, understand?"
Big Black didn't understand why the two-legged creature would make this request. It pointed at the Ze tribe, raised its bear paw, and kept hammering the air while making soft howls.
Hey, you two-legged creature, Big Black can't run away! You gave Big Black lots of candy, and now you're hitting him!
Having spent a long time together, Shen Nong, now a Level 4 Xiong Yu (a term referring to a person who has passed the highest level of Xiong Yu), roughly understands Da Hei's consciousness.
He laughed and said, "I'm not telling you to run away. You need to run far away so I can carry out my plan."
Shen Nong told Da Hei about her plan, and after listening, Da Hei put down its bear paw.
It nodded, indicating that it understood.
Sigh, two-legged creatures always overthink things.
Following Shen Nong's instructions, Da Hei quickly left. It soon disappeared from sight, leaving only a trail of bear paw prints in the snow.
"System, start timing for me."
Fifteen minutes later, a huge creature suddenly appeared in the snow.
Big Black felt its body growing bigger and bigger, taller and taller, reaching heights it had never reached before.
The two-legged creature said that whenever it felt itself getting bigger, it would run back.
Big Black, with its bear legs resembling small mountain peaks, walked towards the Ze tribe.
The system looked at the giant black bear that had appeared out of thin air not far away, growing ten times larger and reaching a height of two or three hundred meters, and reminded Shen Nong again, "Host, I told you from the beginning that although magic can enlarge objects, the object's own power will not change."
Even if you make Big Black this big, the energy it unleashes will remain the same as before; it won't become more powerful with its size.
“Although they’re this big, they won’t kill them, but they’ll scare them to death.” Shen Nong laughed when she heard the terrified screams coming from the Ze tribe. “Listen, they’re all screaming.”
The system is shaking its code... Waaaaah, is the host some kind of reincarnated demon king? His smile is terrifying!
The Wood Tribe members who remained in place also saw the giant black creature grow larger.
Ze turned his head, wanting to ask Shen Nong about her next plans, but instead caught a glimpse of the faint smile that hadn't yet faded from Shen Nong's lips.
Beneath his seemingly calm and indifferent gaze lay a deep and unknown greed.
The priest has such a beautiful smile; I wish she would smile at me...
Apart from Shen Nong and Ze, the rest of the Mu tribe were staring wide-eyed at the giant bear's face in the sky.
Already shrunk to ten times its original size, Dahei appeared to them as if it were half the sky. "Beast God! Is this Dahei?"
Shen Nong patted the tiger roar that was closest to her, "Stop looking, we're going to enter the Ze tribe now."
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An unprecedentedly large behemoth is heading towards the tribe, and the Ze tribe is already in complete chaos.
Taking advantage of their confusion, Shen Nong led the people of the Mu tribe to successfully infiltrate the Ze tribe.
They were already small in size, and the entire Ze tribe was so focused on the giant black creature that they didn't even notice them.
After the group entered silently, they groped around like headless flies for a while.
The result was that they gained nothing.
After Hu Xiao was nearly trampled flat by the panicked Ze tribesmen for the third time, he grabbed Ze and suggested, "Ze, you lived in the Ze tribe for so long before. Wouldn't it be faster for you to lead us in the search than for us to search slowly from place to place?"
Ze glanced at the cave of the Ze tribe priest not far away. His expression was serious, and there was a hidden murderous intent between his brows. "Not familiar with him."
Hu Xiao found it strange. How could someone who had lived in the tribe for so long not be familiar with it?
He wanted to ask more, but the priest interrupted him.
Shen Nong knew that Hu Xiao was just like his appearance, with a tiger-like head and a clumsy face.
"Someone's coming, shut up."
Ze looked down at Shen Nong, and their eyes met.
Shen Nong was slightly startled by the focused gaze on him, and he quickly turned his head away.
Subconsciously ignoring her racing heartbeat, she thought randomly, "Ze seems to have gotten even more handsome..."
After the footsteps faded into the distance, Ze said, "There's a place where they might be imprisoned. I'll take you there to see."
They dodged the hurried footsteps of the Ze tribesmen, their screams echoing throughout the area.
All the orc warriors of Zebu were summoned together to prepare to resist the suddenly appearing super behemoth.
The most heavily guarded place in the Ze tribe's past was now deserted.
Shen Nong watched Ze's unwavering steps and knew that this was the place Ze knew best.
From the moment they entered the Ze tribe, whenever Ze blocked his way to scout ahead, Shen Nong could sense his uncertainty and unfamiliarity.
I'm unsure where this road leads, and I'm unsure where I am right now.
There was no light underground; it was pitch black.
Familiar places allow painful memories to break through barriers, and the fear of the dark sweeps through the body.
Ze tensed his body, repeatedly recalling the feeling of death.
He silently endured the suffocating pain that surged towards him from all directions like a tidal wave.
It was pitch black, with no light in sight.
Shen Nong noticed that the person next to her was not in a good state. For some reason, before her brain could react, her body reached out her hand.
By the time he realized what was happening, he was already holding a strong, large hand.
Ze felt the warmth from her palm, a warmth he had never experienced before.
He was like someone trapped in a dead end who suddenly found a glimmer of hope, so he struggled to break free of the shackles binding him and desperately grasped at the tail of hope.
"priest."
Ze's voice remained steady, the kind of voice Shen Nong liked.
If you don't listen carefully, you won't be able to detect the tremor at all.
The hand that was about to let go was gripped tightly by Shen Nong again, and he responded to the voice in the darkness, "Yes, I'm here."
Ze froze upon hearing the response. He had never imagined that anyone would respond to him in this dark and gloomy place.
He dared not even imagine that after his mother died, someone would tell him, "I am here."
priest…
Ze felt his heart pounding wildly, as if it were about to jump out of his chest.
A surge of emotion welled up in his chest, and he wanted to release it, but there was no way out, so he could only suppress it with all his might.
He wanted to ask the priest what was wrong with him.
Before he could speak, he was interrupted by a tiger's roar, "Priest! There seems to be someone ahead!"
The dungeons dug by the Ze tribe weren't particularly large, but because they were so small, they seemed very big when they walked around.
It's pitch black here; without a fire, coming in would be like being blind.
Even after finding the person, Shen Nong couldn't see their face. Too lazy to try and create light to identify them, she simply asked, "Lu Shuang? If you're here, say something."
The Water Tribe members, who were bound underground and unable to move, had already fainted from hunger.
In his hazy state, Lu Shuang seemed to hear someone calling his name. The voice was exceptionally melodious and pleasant, like the voice of a priest from the Wood Tribe...
Oh right, that sound seemed to be telling him to squeak...
Although she found it strange, Lu Shuang, who was drowsy and lying face down, still did as she was told.
"squeak…"
A note from the author:
Choice: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
System: The AI sees the devil in the eye of the beholder.