Chapter 190: Defeating a Higher-Tier Foe

This lizard-like fierce beast was known as the Earth-Walking Dragon, possessing a ferocious and bloodthirsty nature. As long as it was given enough room to maneuver, it would undoubtedly be eager to tear Wang Chen to pieces.

At that time, Wang Chen would be able to capture it into the Mysterious Toad Wine Gourd.

He estimated that the medicinal liquor refined from this Earth-Walking Dragon should be able to boost his strength or physique attributes.

However, just as Wang Chen prepared himself, waiting for the Earth-Walking Dragon to pounce out, he heard a resounding cry coming from the top of the life space.

The giant eagle, far away at the top, folded its wings and plummeted like a shooting star!

The Earth-Walking Dragon in the iron cage lunged forward fiercely, and Wang Chen was just about to pull it into the gourd.

Unexpectedly, the Earth-Walking Dragon swished its tail and directly bolted away to the side.

It advanced with a posture unique to lizards, its four robust legs thrashing wildly, and with every touch of the ground, its body was propelled a huge distance forward.

Then, it used its long tail to balance the wobbling of its body during the movement.

"Eh?" Wang Chen was dumbfounded. "What's going on? Doesn't the Fierce Beast Compendium state that the Earth-Walking Dragon has a ferocious temperament?"

"Why did it just run away? Could it be..."

Wang Chen looked up and saw the eagle swooping toward the Earth-Walking Dragon with ultimate speed. To an onlooker, it was just a blur of afterimages.

As soon as it closed in on the Earth-Walking Dragon, the eagle's talons fiercely grabbed at the creature's front shoulders.

With this single grab, it actually managed to lift the Earth-Walking Dragon right off the ground, demonstrating that the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle's strength was truly extraordinary.

Wang Chen thought to himself that this was bad. When raptors hunt terrestrial prey, although they also lift their prey high into the air and then drop them, they usually harass them first to wear down their stamina and bleed them out, ensuring the prey has no ability to resist before doing so.

Otherwise, if the prey turned its head and bit back at them high up in the air, they would likely end up crashing together with the prey and turning into a meat patty.

This eagle had never been taught hunting techniques by its mother and had rushed in so recklessly; something bad was bound to happen.

Sure enough, although the Earth-Walking Dragon panicked a little at the moment of capture, it immediately understood its predicament once it was hoisted up.

It instantly twisted its body, opened its blood-fed jaws, and bit down hard on the eagle's talon.

"Clang!" A sound akin to striking gold and iron echoed out.

Wang Chen watched as some yellowish-white objects fell from the air.

He rushed over to take a look. "Goodness, are these the teeth of the Earth-Walking Dragon?"

He saw that the yellowish-white teeth were covered in cracks.

At that moment, the eagle's telepathic message reached Wang Chen's mind.

The general meaning was not to worry about it; this giant worm couldn't possibly pierce its skin.

Only then did Wang Chen realize he had been worried to the point of disorder. One of the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle's skills was Vajra Breach.

Therefore, both its talons and beak were immensely tough and sharp, easily capable of tearing through energy barriers.

The Earth-Walking Dragon had a mouthful of teeth shattered, blood gushing wildly from its mouth, and could no longer put up any resistance in mid-air, leaving it with no choice but to watch helplessly as it was carried high into the sky, only to be dropped from aloft.

It was still flailing and struggling as it fell, but it was meaningless.

"Boom!"

With a deafening crash, the Earth-Walking Dragon smashed into the turf, creating a deep crater and kicking up a considerable cloud of dust and smoke.

"Is it dead?" Wang Chen couldn't be sure. After all, the upper part of the life space was not like the outside sky which stretched for thousands of meters; it was at most five or six hundred meters high.

Thus, this fall might not necessarily kill the Earth-Walking Dragon.

Therefore, he still gripped the Mysterious Toad Wine Gourd in his hand, ready at any moment to suck it into the gourd.

When the dust and smoke cleared slightly, the Earth-Walking Dragon crawled out of the giant pit, limping heavily.

Blood was continuously seeping from the corners of its mouth; obviously, its internal organs had been ruptured from the fall, and it certainly didn't have much longer to live.

However, it should still be able to struggle for a little while.

Right at that moment, the eagle swooped down again, transforming its body into a sharp sword with its beak acting as the tip, and thrust fiercely into the back of the Earth-Walking Dragon's head.

Then, with a single peck and pull, it actually cracked open the Earth-Walking Dragon's skull, scattering the grayish-white matter inside and fresh blood all over the ground.

[Successfully killed Earth-Walking Dragon Lv.23. Current status prevents gaining experience points; please complete the advancement quest as soon as possible.]

A notification tone sounded in Wang Chen's ear.

The eagle was now his battle pet, and upon slaying a fierce beast, he would similarly receive a share of the experience feedback.

As for the eagle itself, it would also absorb experience to level up.

Sure enough, upon killing the Earth-Walking Dragon, the experience points brought by this gold-tier fierce beast directly caused the eagle to level up.

[Eagle]
[Race: Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle]
[Level: Level 7]
[Strength: 700]
[Agility: 900]
[Physique: 800]
[Spirit: 600]
[Skill: Vajra Breach]
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After leveling up, the eagle's condition was restored to its peak. Ecstatic, it flew onto Wang Chen's shoulder.

As if asking for credit, it rubbed its head against Wang Chen.

Yet Wang Chen was still immersed in shock.

"No wait, it just killed a gold-tier fierce beast just like that?" He scooped the eagle from his shoulder into his arms and examined it closely.

"Aren't you only level 7? Leap-level kills aren't supposed to work like this, are you?"

The eagle's eyes looked very innocent as it kept burrowing into Wang Chen's arms.

It completely resembled a spoiled, clinging child, looking nothing at all like the fierce eagle that had just mercilessly slaughtered a fierce beast.

Unable to find any explanation, Wang Chen first placed the eagle on the ground to let it play by itself for a while.

With a flash between his fingers, he pulled out a tablet.

Swiping the screen to find the Fierce Beast Compendium, Wang Chen began to read.

[Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle]
[A fierce beast primarily inhabiting the Unfinished Secret Realm - Great Wind Forest Plains. They generally use towering isolated mountain peaks as their nests. They love to eat dragons, and have thus evolved bodily tissues that suppress dragon-type species.]
[According to scholarly speculation, pure-blooded dragons once left their traces in the Great Wind Forest Plains, but they were hunted to extinction by the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagles. Consequently, the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagles had no choice but to prey on fierce beasts containing dragon bloodlines in their veins to satisfy their preference for eating dragons.]
[Research shows that when facing dragon-types and even pan-dragon-type species, the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle possesses a special suppression effect, often enabling it to hunt opponents above its level.]
[Regarding the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle, the contents recorded in this compendium are as above. This fierce beast is an extremely rare race, and humans still know very little about them. If you have any intelligence regarding the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle, please contact the Fierce Beast Compendium Editorial Team, and we will compensate you for your information.]
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"Then it's no wonder." Wang Chen put away the tablet. "So the Dragon-Eating Vajra Eagle has a special suppression effect against dragon-type and pan-dragon-type fierce beasts."

"I remember the Earth-Walking Dragon indeed carries the bloodline of pure-blooded dragons."

"However, this suppression effect is simply too astonishing, leaping across two entire tiers—Bronze beating up Gold." Wang Chen sighed in admiration.

"I really struck gold!" Wang Chen looked at the eagle, which was tearing into the Earth-Walking Dragon. Even though its beak and talons were stained with blood and Wang Chen would have to clean it up later, it still looked pleasing to the eye.

Sensing Wang Chen's gaze, the eagle turned its head sideways to look at him. "Quack?"