Chapter 55: There is a path to heaven which you refuse to take, yet you hurl yourself into the netherworld where no door exists!
Two Tarbosaurs!!
Liu Xing was dumbfounded. He had no idea when he had been caught in a pincer attack by this pair of Tarbosaurus mates.
Clearly, not long ago, when their family was hunting a Leptoceratops, they had used the exact same pincer strategy.
It was only at this moment that Liu Xing belatedly realized he, too, could end up as prey for other predators!
"Roar!!"
"Roar!!!"
The two Tarbosaurs, one in front and one behind, closed in step by step, leaving Liu Xing with nowhere to run. He stood frozen in place, letting out helpless snarls.
Liu Xing wanted to call out for Momma T-Rex, but because he had pursued his prey deep into unfamiliar territory, he was far tooled away from her, and she couldn't possibly hear his cries for help.
"Roar, roar, roar!!"
The male Tarbosaurus recognized that both Liu Xing and Chu Xu were members of that same family of Tyrannosaurus rexes. Its eyes burned a fierce red, brimming with brutality and hatred.
While Chu Xu, with his bizarre abilities, might be someone the male Tarbosaurus couldn't match, the petite and fragile Liu Xing right before it was nothing more than fish on a chopping board. The male Tarbosaurus intended to exact his revenge on Chu Xu's family starting with Liu Xing!
With an angry roar, the male Tarbosaurus took the lead, lunging forward with its blood-mighty jaws wide open to tear Liu Xing apart!
"Roar—!!"
Suddenly, a thunderclap of a roar erupted from the distance.
The sheer, overwhelming intimidation packed within it caused the male Tarbosaurus's charge to screech to an abrupt halt. It was forced to stand frozen in its tracks, its entire body spasming and trembling with muscle spasms!
The female Tarbosaurus on the other side was no exception. For reasons unknown, as that roar echoed into her ears, she felt an indescribable sense of terror and powerlessness well up in her heart.
It felt as though her heart had been tightly clutched by an invisible giant hand, barely able to beat, leaving her unable even to catch her breath.
What on earth... was this?!
"Roar—!!"
The next second, a thunderous roar blasted forth once more, but this time it was right in front of them.
When the Tarbosaurus mates trembling turned their heads to look, their bodies froze completely.
In their field of vision stood a figure far larger, more majestic, and more intimidating than the two of them combined: a familiar tyrannosaurine body, yet its head was covered in an ankylosaur-like bony facial plate, sprouting three massive horns like a Triceratops!
The Tarbosaurus mates could scarcely believe their eyes. In all their lives, they had never seen a Tyrannosaurus rex with such a bizarre and terrifying appearance!
However, the male Tarbosaurus quickly noticed something, a glimmer of shock dawning in its eyes.
From this peculiar Tyrannosaurus rex before it, the male Tarbosaurus caught a whiff of a scent that was all too familiar!
It was him!
It was that juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex who had gravely injured it two months ago using that bizarre method!
What baffled the male Tarbosaurus beyond comprehension was how, in just a short span of two months, the creature's size could have exploded so drastically, directly surpassing its own, while its entire physique had undergone a complete metamorphosis!
"Awooo?!"
Liu Xing had thought he was doomed to certain death, but to his surprise, the Tarbosaurus mates had inexplicably ceased all movement.
Could Momma T-Rex have arrived?
Liu Xing had also heard that rather familiar roar and hurriedly looked in its direction. However, what greeted his eyes wasn't Momma T-Rex, but a Tyrannosaurus rex far more terrifying and menacing than the Tarbosaurus pair!
Could that be... Big Brother?!
For Tyrannosaurus rexes, scent was the primary method of identification.
Although Liu Xing had never seen this tyrannosaur's new form, he caught the unmistakable scent of his eldest brother radiating from it!
They had only been apart for a few days—how on earth had Big Brother changed so completely?
"You seek no path to heaven, yet you blindly rush into the gates of hell."
Having steadily suppressed the Tarbosaurus mates with the might of an Intermediate Overlord, Chu Xu cast a cold, merciless gaze upon them.
Once the Overlord's Might had upgraded to the intermediate level, its oppressive and deterrent effect on other creatures had been vastly enhanced.
Moreover, it could now be controlled according to his own will, released through his physique, gaze, and voice. From the timing and potency to the radius of its impact, everything was completely under his control.
Earlier, Chu Xu had infused the effect of the Overlord's Might into his own roar, achieving the result of stunning and intimidating the Tarbosaurus mates from afar.
As for how he managed to discover the Tarbosaurus pair's return, that was thanks to Chu Xu's upgraded Telepathic Perception.
His perceptual range had expanded to a ten-kilometer radius. Aside from sensing biological auras and geographical environments, he could also sense malice, foresee danger, and predict the enemy's next moves.
Chu Xu glanced at Liu Xing—good, no injuries.
Next, it was time for him to settle old scores with this pair of Tarbosaurs!
"Roar!!"
Chu Xu locked onto the male Tarbosaurus first, letting out a roar as fierce as a falling star tearing through the sky. The massive horn on his snout suddenly became coated in layer upon layer of substantive fluid energy, stacking up to make it twice as thick and long!
This was the Intermediate Fluid Armor, which covered his entire body. Over localized areas like his body, it could achieve stacked destructive power, ultimately even penetrating the surface of objects to wreak havoc directly on their interiors.
Rumble, rumble, rumble!!!
The earth trembled violently!
Chu Xu rushed upon the male Tarbosaurus almost instantly, his erupting aura so fierce and blazing that everything in his path was utterly crushed, with nothing able to stand in his way.
Giant Horn Charge!
Facing this attack, the painfully familiar threat of death flooded the male Tarbosaurus's mind once more, yet it still had nowhere to dodge.
"Pfft!"
Chu Xu's massive horn easily pierced through the male Tarbosaurus's body, striking dead center in its chest.
The piercing damage was only the beginning. Following right behind it was the internal destruction brought by the Intermediate Fluid Armor, instantly inflicting fatal damage and shattering the male Tarbosaurus's internal organs and bones. Blood sprayed like a geyser, and it dropped dead on the spot.
And it didn't end there. With a violent sweep of Chu Xu's head, the male Tarbosaurus's two-ton carcass was effortlessly hoisted into the air.
His massive horn sliced through the corpse without the slightest resistance like a bone-carving knife, tearing it straight in two. The severed halves of flesh and bone crashed to the ground, leaving no intact remains.
A one-sided, instantaneous slaughter!
Today, Chu Xu was not only twice the size of the Tarbosaurus, but his strength, speed, physical constitution, and other attributes completely eclipsed it. Their combat power was simply no longer on the same plane.
His giant horn was stained with blood, which streamed straight down into Chu Xu's eyes, dyeing them an even deeper, bloodshot red and exuding a ferocious, violent wildness!
Seeing her mate brutally slaughtered in an instant, the remaining female Tarbosaurus felt her limbs turn to jelly, scared out of her wits.
Even when facing a fully grown adult Tyrannosaurus rex, she had never felt such terror.
She wanted to run, but her body refused to obey, leaving her rooted to the spot; she wanted to resist, but doing so would be as futile as a praying mantis trying to stop a chariot, utterly frail and weak.
"Boom——!!"
After killing the male Tarbosaurus, Chu Xu's gaze immediately fell upon the female. Raging flames began to brew menacingly in his throat, and before they even left his maw, eager tongues of fire eagerly licked past the gaps in his teeth.
Super Flame!
When Chu Xu flung his jaws wide open, a gargantuan torrent of fire, primed and ready, instantly spewed forth.
The ultra-high temperatures it radiated scorched the air itself, producing a series of roaring shockwave explosions. Its sheer scale and coverage enveloped almost the entire body of the female Tarbosaurus!