The Star River Era! The Dimensional Freedom Demon

As the sun rises in the east, it casts golden rays across the vast expanse, draping the boundless, primeval wilderness in a golden veil.

Ji Chen narrowed his eyes slightly—

At the edge of the sky, a black dot always seems to follow.

Whenever he looked back, the black dot would suddenly disappear into the distance, leaving only a faint trail in the clouds.

He knew perfectly well that it was the Wind Eagle King, his mortal enemy, who was following him.

This tyrant of the skies is clearly waiting for the perfect opportunity for revenge.

The chimpanzee next to them noticed the little tail that had been chasing them for three days, broke off a thick branch, quickly shaved it into a long strip, and threw it into the air.

A hint of mockery flashed in the Wind Eagle King's sharp eyes. It was too lazy to even dodge something as clumsy as a black monkey.

Sure enough, the 'javelin' thrown by the chimpanzee flew less than a thousand meters, covering less than half the distance between the two, before falling weakly from mid-air.

The Wind Eagle King let out a cry that pierced through the forest and split the rocks, carrying an indescribable mockery.

The chimpanzee understood, and two hot white jets shot out from its large nostrils. Frustrated, it threw two more branches, but to no avail. In its impotent rage, it could only pound its chest in frustration.

This is also a declaration of war.

Provoked, the Wind Eagle King instinctively flew over to show off its power.

But suddenly remembering the pure white, flawless wheel that Ji Chen had unleashed last time, she snapped back to reality and merely mocked him with an eagle's cry, showing no inclination to advance.

Ji Chen felt it was a pity, so he could only reassure the chimpanzee and let it go, continuing on his way.

In the past three days, Ji Chen has encountered more than one fourth-tier beast king.

There is a mutated wild boar king whose entire body is covered in crystalline rock armor. Its charging power is comparable to a meteorite impact. It once clashed head-on with a chimpanzee and sent the old chimpanzee flying several miles in a single encounter, suffering a great loss.

There is also a magnificent unicorn king, its body as white as jade, accompanied by wind and thunder when it runs, and its speed can break through Mach 3 in an instant.

Its posture was as elegant as a mythical unicorn from a fairy tale, but its temperament was surprisingly gentle. It only stared at Ji Chen for a moment before leisurely leaving.

Ji Chen saw that it ran fast and was good-looking, so he didn't bother it.

The Songyuan River basin can be frozen for miles, thanks to the frost giant tortoise that single-handedly alters the landscape...

Ji Chen had encountered many similar beast kings, but the one that surprised him the most was a mutated ant king that was only three meters long.

Despite its small size, it possesses terrifying strength, capable of easily performing an over-the-shoulder throw on a 50-meter-tall chimpanzee.

Its carapace was harder than any alloy, and Ji Chen's lightning strikes only left faint white marks on it.

Ji Chen was on his way to catch up with the Ant King.

Putting everything else aside, the 'dwarf' type Beast King, which can treat Old Black like a football and has extraordinary potential, is no ordinary breed and must be dealt with with full force.

The blue behemoth's nostrils, hidden beneath layers of armor, twitched slightly. The mixed scents in the air, processed by his complex nervous system, transformed into clear lines of scent in his mind.

Without any special concealment skills, no matter what kind of beast king it is, it is completely exposed in Ji Chen's eyes.

"Old Black, go over there under that big black tree and unleash your full power. Let's see how long that little ant can hide!"

With its eyes fixed on the Wind Eagle King, the black gorilla, panting heavily in anger, turned its head and saw a towering black tree, hundreds of meters tall, standing proudly in the distance.

Its skin looked dry and lifeless, giving it a gloomy appearance.

However, upon closer inspection, one can discover that there is no vegetation within a hundred meters of this giant tree, making it a completely dead land.

This is clearly abnormal. Once such a huge tree dies, the soil fertility it occupied, the sunlight it vacated, and the nutrients remaining in its body after death should have nourished a vibrant green space.

The chimpanzee keenly sensed the abnormality, but it was full of confidence in Ji Chen's abilities and continued to walk forward with firm steps.

When it stepped within fifty meters of the giant black tree, a strange change occurred.

The ground suddenly cracked open, spewing out thick smoke with a pungent sulfur smell. The chimpanzee paused, looking down to see dark red lava already wrapped around its ankles.

The chimpanzee bared its teeth slightly; the lava didn't do much damage, but being burned was definitely unpleasant.

Enduring the pain, it took two steps to bridge the distance between itself and the giant black tree, climbing up to the top.

On the ground, within a radius of several hundred meters from the giant black tree, the area had almost turned into a lake of lava, where the intense heat baked the land so that not a single blade of grass could grow.

In the magma lake, one can vaguely see black roots resembling dragons emerging from the sunken cracks.

Ji Chen seemed to be deep in thought as he strolled to the vicinity of the lava lake's boundary.

It now appears that the giant black tree is clearly a sentient being, using its special abilities to draw in magma from the asthenosphere and extinguish all its kind that were competing with it for food.

Furthermore, judging from the towering height of the black giant tree, Ji Chen suspected that it also had the ability to directly absorb energy from magma.

"Does wood not fear fire, but rather benefit from it?"

Ji Chen tentatively poked his foreleg into the lava lake that was bubbling occasionally. With a hissing sound, Ji Chen grimaced as he withdrew his bright red foreleg.

Even after experiencing the devastation of an atomic bomb explosion, Yoda, who was born into an aquatic family, still retained an instinctive sensitivity to such extreme heat.

But that's how it is.

He could withstand temperatures of over a thousand degrees Celsius, so this lava lake, which was less than a thousand degrees Celsius, was just slightly hotter water to him; he could endure it.

Ji Chen's limbs sank into the lava lake, and he even lay on his side, letting the rolling lava engulf his body. Enduring the pain and increasing his endurance, he spoke to Old Black in the tree:

"Old Black, I'm not afraid of this lava, what are you afraid of? Hurry up and come down."

Since he had said that, the chimpanzee naturally felt embarrassed to delay any longer, but it didn't come down immediately.

Instead, he grabbed the branches of the giant black tree with both hands, stomped his feet heavily, and began to swing on the swing while hanging from the giant black tree.

The chimpanzee's weight was so immense that its terrifying weight, combined with its violent swaying, caused the entire giant tree to groan under its strain.

The ground began to bulge, and some of the roots at the edges broke off one after another, with soil gushing out of the cracks like a fountain.

The main roots were also threatened, the lava lake rose and fell, and then disappeared into the ground as if it had found a way to release the lava.

Seeing the scalding lava disappear, it ignored Ji Chen's complicated expression, nimbly released its grip, and landed steadily beside Ji Chen, pounding its chest and letting out a victorious roar.

Then, remembering Ji Chen's instructions, it pounded its fists into the ground like drums.

During this time, the chimpanzee's strength also steadily improved. The ground seemed to turn into sticky rice cakes under its fists, rising and falling with each punch.

From another perspective, Ji Chen could clearly see condensed shockwaves spreading underground like ripples, eventually converging at a single point and exploding with a roar.

The rock strata shot up like a fountain, and amidst the swirling earth and rocks, countless mutated ant colonies were violently flung into the air by this force.