Inside the Mist Forest, it was still a vast expanse of white fog.
And seen from the sky, the fog was even thicker.
Left with no choice, Ethan had White Eagle lower its flying altitude. Using the fire feathers covering its body to disperse the thick fog around it, he was finally able to barely make out what was happening below.
At the outer edge of the Mist Forest, at the foot of a mountain, Ethan noticed a cluster of dazzling golden light, illuminating an entire stretch of fog.
"White Eagle, go over there and take a look."
"Coo!"
White Eagle answered. Then it followed Ethan's instructions and flew toward the golden mist.
However, the moment White Eagle reached the source of that golden light, Ethan immediately felt an extreme sense of danger transmitted through White Eagle's consciousness, as if something below was threatening it.
Immediately after, Ethan saw White Eagle's field of vision begin to shake violently.
That feeling was like footage from a plane about to crash, right before impact. The shaking was extremely intense, and White Eagle also seemed to be continuously descending.
"White Eagle, what's going on?", Sensing White Eagle's panic, Ethan hurriedly asked.
Although he could share White Eagle's vision, that did not mean Ethan knew what was happening to White Eagle.
After all, aside from sight, the other four senses were not shared.
"Coo~ Coo~"
White Eagle conveyed what was happening to Ethan through its consciousness.
The rough idea was that there was a massive suction force below, forcefully pulling it toward the ground. It could not even control its wings to keep flying.
Hearing this, Ethan finally noticed through Hawk Eye that the flames on White Eagle's wings were indeed flickering on and off, as if they might extinguish at any moment.
And the flames emerging from its wings were desperately being dragged toward the ground, as if there were a huge black hole below, pulling the flames downward.
Whooo!
Only at this moment, standing not far from the forest's edge, Ethan finally heard the sound of wind coming from within the Mist Forest.
Then, through White Eagle's eyes, he saw a massive hole sucked clean out of the fog layer inside the forest. The surrounding mist was still continuously being drawn into the monster's mouth.
The monster's body was incomparably huge, at least the size of a nearly thirty-square-meter room. Overall, it looked like a gigantic toad.
And that toad had no flesh or skin, only an enormous skeleton left.
In the middle of the skeleton was a cluster of golden light, shining straight through its body.
The skeleton had only three legs. At the very front grew an enormous mouth, wide open toward the sky like a black hole, capable of sucking in everything.
Including the mist and White Eagle in midair.
"White Eagle, get away from there!"
Ethan shouted urgently, telling White Eagle to quickly escape the suction range of the three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster.
White Eagle also seemed terrified of the monster below.
It desperately spread its wings with all its might, even using every ounce of strength it had. Yet the flames on its body still flickered, as if they were about to go out at any second.
Until…
Pffft!
White Eagle strained too hard and suddenly let out a fart in midair.
That massive burst of firepower was like a rocket booster.
It directly launched White Eagle back into the sky, far away from the suction range of the three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster.
And White Eagle seized this chance to spread its wings again and fly back toward Ethan.
Seeing White Eagle return safely, Ethan finally let out a huge sigh of relief.
"Coo! Coo!"
White Eagle cried excitedly, as if describing the danger just now to Ethan.
A lot of its feathers had fallen out, especially the few tufts of down on its head, which had basically been plucked clean by the Heaven Devouring Monster below.
Even the long feathers it had only recently managed to grow back had fallen out quite a bit.
White Eagle pecked at its body with its beak as if tidying up its feathers.
"Emmm…"
Seeing White Eagle in such a miserable state, Ethan suddenly felt a headache.
You had to know White Eagle had been flying in midair, yet it still got bullied this badly by the Heaven Devouring Monster.
If this were on the ground, forget about eagle feathers. Even bird droppings would probably get swallowed whole by that monster, bones and all.
The Heaven Devouring Monster's combat power was kind of insane.
Ethan reached out and scratched his head.
But at the instant he saw the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast earlier, Ethan had seen the prompt information about it.
[Three-Legged Heaven Devouring Monster: Said to be an undead-type monster formed from the lingering resentment left behind after the divine beast Pixiu died. Pixiu can swallow all things and never release them, and especially loves glittering metallic foods. The three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster, transformed from Pixiu, possesses an even more terrifying devouring ability than Pixiu itself.]
[PS: The three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster loves shiny golden things. If you can use treasures like gold to attract its attention, there may be unexpected results.]
"Likes gold, huh?", Based on the information in the prompt, Ethan began thinking of ways to deal with the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast.
Since it liked gold, then gold would have to be used to lure it.
Maybe he could use gold to set up a trap…
Ding!
≖‿≖✧
In a flash, Ethan's eyes lit up as he thought of a brilliant plan.
Then… He hurriedly had White Eagle stay behind.
Ethan personally went to the edge of the Mist Forest, then quietly peeked inside.
At this moment, the mist inside had already been completely sucked away by the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast. Ethan immediately took out a fragment of gold and tossed it toward the monster.
But unfortunately, he was really too far away from the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast.
That gold fragment only flew a few dozen meters before landing, still several hundred meters away from the monster.
At this time, the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast seemed to have grown tired from swallowing heaven, swallowing earth, swallowing air. So it was lying on the ground, dozing off.
It did not notice the gold fragment Ethan had thrown in the distance at all.
"This won't do!"
Ethan muttered to himself. Then he could only take out an ordinary shortbow from his backpack.
He tied the gold fragment onto it, aimed in the direction of the Heaven Devouring Monster and shot.
Whoosh!
The arrow shot straight into the Heaven Devouring Monster's body.
But the instant the arrow neared the monster's skeletal frame, it was directly sucked into its body.
"Holy crap!"
This time, Ethan was completely stunned by the insane ability of the three-legged Devouring Heaven Beast.
'How the hell an I supposed to fight this?'
Other monsters, no matter how high their defense was, at least when you shot an arrow at them, you'd leave a scratch, right?
But this three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster just swallowed the arrow. Doesn't that mean that no matter what kind of attack Ethan launched at it, it could just swallow it whole?
Thinking of that, Ethan took out another gunpowder compressor.
He tied it to a fire arrow, then shot it at the three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster again.
Whoosh!
As soon as the fire arrow approached the monster, it was immediately sucked in again.
But what surprised Ethan was after the gunpowder compressor was swallowed into the monster's belly, it really did explode.
BOOM!
A muffled explosion sounded from inside the three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster's abdomen.
Black smoke even rose from its body, seeping out through the gaps in its skeletal frame. The monster even opened its huge mouth and exhaled.
A jet of pitch-black gas with a strong sulfur smell burst out of its mouth.
That single breath directly knocked over several large trees in front of it.
It even blew away the thin mist within nearly a hundred meters, fully exposing the three-legged Heaven Devouring Monster's body.
"And it's still fine?"
(๑ʘ̅дʘ̅๑)!!!
Ethan was completely shocked.
'This thing can even swallow a grenade head-on. How the hell am I supposed to beat a monster like this?'
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