Endless Winter: My Camp Upgrades Infinitely Chapter 1209 - 406: The True Strength of Great Xia—Shaking the Mountain to Intimidate the Tiger, Coercion into Submission, and Post-War Reckoning (Part 4)...

Among the ten Beast Kings, the final White Bear loomed as the grandest. It rose on its hind legs, stretching over thirty-five zhang in height, wrapped in thick, pristine white fur. Overlooking its savage animal visage, a glance from below might mistake it for a massive, sturdy colossus hovering in the sky;

"Gulp..."

From the ground below, an unidentified person was the initial one to produce a gulping noise.

This noise appeared to spread like an infection, quickly multiplying from one to ten, then to hundreds. The more than ten thousand Cold Resistance Level folks in South City started shaking fiercely, in their eyes and frames alike. Their lips parted and shut, as if desiring to speak, but no words came out.

Thump... thump... thump...

Across numerous homes in South City, the echoes of people dropping to their knees rang out without pause.

Beyond those over ten thousand Cold Resistance Levels in South City, hundreds of thousands of Earth-digging Realm residents from the Eight Towns dwelled there too.

Individuals concealed within the Earth-digging Realm buildings found it impossible to hold back their terror and involuntarily knelt toward the heavens.

People of the Ice Abyss rely on Beast Meat to engage in cultivation.

As a result, anyone aiming to cultivate and pursue the road to power must confront Cold Beasts inevitably. In typical scenarios, at equivalent cultivation stages, the personal might of Cold Beasts surpasses humans with ease, rendering them incredibly tough to take down. Humans confronting them have long adapted and depend on group efforts.

Even those at Xianyang Level rarely hold the skill to hunt a Beast King by themselves.

Who among them hasn't advanced in cultivation and gained strength gradually from modest origins?

This fosters the deep-seated conviction in most humans that Cold Beasts outmatch humans in power.

Under this deep-rooted conviction, the dread most humans harbor toward Cold Beasts is etched into their very marrow, particularly against Cold Beasts surpassing their own level, like Logging Realm facing low-level Cold Beasts, Earth-digging Realm against mid-level ones, Cold Resistance Level versus high-level ones...

This terror erupts explosively at once!

Thus, on the day the ten Beast Kings manifested in the skies, whether the over ten thousand Cold Resistance Levels in South City or the hundreds of thousands of Earth-digging Realm inside structures, their intense responses were utterly comprehensible.

Fail to comprehend? Observe Yang Zhun and the twelve others, and clarity will come!

At this instant, the twelve fixed their stares upon the ten Beast Kings overhead, eyes widened, expressions frozen. Apart from Yang Zhun, Qin Feng, and Shangguan Yang up front, the other nine showed faint shudders in their forms.

However, the spectacle had not concluded!

"Screech..."

A piercing shriek suddenly resounded from thousands of meters up high.

In the clouds, a shadow no bigger than a palm emerged abruptly, and within fewer than ten breaths, it ballooned to hundreds or thousands of times its size in the eyes of those below.

Whoosh...

A powerful gust blasted across, right away sending dirt and rocks airborne while blanketing the area in swirling snow haze.

All couldn't resist shielding their eyes at first, and after the gale quieted, they lifted their heads once more to gaze.

To their shock, it proved to be a bird-like Cold Beast clad in blazing red plumage from head to tail, boasting a wingspan reaching a hundred zhang. Every plume gleamed with a scarlet radiance, like its form was armored in blood-red edges, plus a curved black beak spanning roughly ten meters, akin to an enormous scimitar that cast a cold shimmer.

The avian's eyes flickered with a subtle crimson light, surveying the over ten thousand below in South City, ultimately locking onto Yang Zhun and his twelve allies, with a savage spark igniting in its stare.

"Screech..."

"Roar..."

At last, Xia Hong purposefully freed the Blood Jade Fox from his hold.

The Blood Jade Fox launched into the air, unleashed a bellow, and its frame abruptly swelled, reaching almost a hundred meters in moments, its elongated blood jade-hued tail whipping softly at its rear. Its imposing and intimidating stance bore no resemblance whatsoever to the compliant attitude it showed moments ago nestled in Xia Hong’s arms.

"Everyone, did you see clearly enough?"

Twelve Beast King-stage Cold Beasts dominated the heavens, nearly blanketing half of Hongmen City’s airspace, and right then, Xia Hong’s inquiry landed like a thunderous blow against the hearts of the Six Towns Lords.

Their eyes drifted gradually from the twelve Beast Kings up top to Xia Hong, brimming with terror and confusion in their gazes.

Xia Hong positioned himself intentionally over ten meters higher than the Six Towns, dressed in dark attire, floating in the sky. Though his rear garments bore some rips from his prior clash with Yang Zhun, and his dark locks looked a bit messy, none of it diminished his present aura, which soared well beyond that of the Six Towns Lords.

In particular, his young and strikingly good-looking features, paired with the haughty and overbearing look, along with the composed and superior bearing, stood out even more against the alarmed faces of the twelve Xianyang Levels from the Six Towns, making his presence seem all the more commanding.

With the addition of twelve enormous Beast Kings looming in the air around, this moment seared itself indelibly into the memories of all in South City.

Xia Hong remained oblivious to the thoughts racing through everyone's minds.

His attention remained locked on Yang Zhun and his twelve companions, evidently not seeking an answer from them, but instead mulling over matters inwardly.

By the close of the second year in the Great Xia era's month, Xia Hong had rallied over two hundred Cold Resistance Levels to assemble at the Yanglu Forbidden Land, and following the defeat of the Frost Wolf King under the White Dew Monster's sway, the Great Xia gained a Cold Beast Stake that could replicate a Beast King Level Bone Spur Frost Wolf.

Yet the Frost Wolf's Beast King level cultivation had been artificially boosted through alternative methods by the White Dew Monster, and back then, Xia Hong hadn't advanced to Xianyang Level and avoided challenging a Beast King recklessly. Thus, after drawing out the Essence Blood from that Frost Wolf King for the Cold Beast Stake, it served only as a hidden asset stored in Xia City.