Chapter 54: Transformation, King of Beasts

The image suddenly shattered, then reassembled itself amidst agonizing pain.

This time, he was an adult Molten Gold Battle Tiger, engaged in a desperate deathmatch in the muck with a massive green python measuring dozens of meters long.

The snake's thick, slippery body coiled around his torso. His bones shattered inch by inch under the constricting force, sending a piercing, excruciating pain through him.

On the brink of death, his single eye, burning like molten gold, locked onto the python's vital spot. Gathering all his remaining strength, his tiger claws tore through its scale armor and gouged out its still-beating heart.

In its death throes, the python unhinged its massive, hideous jaws, and its dense rows of fangs punctured his abdomen...

The scene shifted again.

The aging battle tiger sat alone atop a snowy peak, where the blizzard cut like knives.

Three pale skeletons, ten meters tall, crawled out from a glacial fissure, eerie Soul Fire dancing in their eye sockets.