Pretending To Be A Boss

Chapter 107 Short and weak but persistent

Zudun Giant.

Only by seeing its full stature could one estimate its terrifying height.

If Zudun Giants stood still and were observed from a distance, forty of them could compose a mountain range.

For they stood nearly six hundred meters tall.

The land was now churning, all living beings running through the flying sand and rolling stones.

Facing the abyss below, they all desperately searched for a foothold.

But the Zudun Giants were different... They were standing in the abyss, yet one could still see most of their bodies.

Tang Suoye was seeing such gigantic creatures for the first time.

Akasi recalled the massive beings Tang Xian had spoken about; it was hard to imagine how enormous the Sea Demons were.

After all, next to the Sea Demons, the Zudun Giants, with their six-hundred-meter-tall figures, were like ants beside a giant elephant.

If there really were creatures that could grow so huge, their mere existence, even just normal activities, could likely cause apocalyptic devastation.

The look in Tang Suoye's eyes was fraught with worry.

A group of Zudun Giants spread out, standing in the abyss and continuously searching for something, their movements slow but each step heavy with force.

She was truly afraid Tang Xian would be crushed underfoot.

Akasi saw the concern in Tang Suoye's eyes and said,

"Don't worry, he's even stronger than us."

Song Que, Li Zheng, and the others were still in danger. Akasi ran at full speed, with Tang Suoye barely managing to keep ahead of the speed at which the ground was collapsing.

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Of course, Tang Xian wasn't so easy to kill.

Though he was certain his maximum health had expanded many times, he probably couldn't withstand a stomp from a Zudun Giant.

Now, Tang Xian possessed the attribute of reviving the moment he wasn't dead. But he would still die if he took damage exceeding his maximum health.

Luckily, the Zudun Giant's footpads were enormous, like a giant leaf descending.

The powerful downward blast of air, once it hit the bottom of the abyss, would create a brief convection.

Tang Xian quickly calculated the wind direction and, using the tremendous force of the Serpentine ability, ricocheted out from the convection layer along with the wind.

The terror and speed of Serpentine gave Tang Xian a relatively safe initial velocity.

When the shadow overhead was no longer a vast footpad caked with moss and dirt but instead the murky sky, Tang Xian realized he had narrowly escaped death.

But before he had the chance to cheer, he was flung into the air by the updraft created as the giant's foot touched down.

After his consciousness was tossed and turned, Tang Xian grabbed onto a vine.

He was battered senseless and had grabbed the vine in a daze.

Then, he began to swing along with the vine.

The swings were large, and as his mind cleared up a bit, Tang Xian looked up.

Sure enough, this thick woven vine turned out to be the waist garment of a Zudun Giant.

Tang Xian was like a speck of dust in a muddy rain, which after a sudden stomp could splatter everywhere.

He had evaded one Zudun Giant's stomp, but had ended up at the waist of another.

He clutched the vine tightly, the thick vine seeming only like a strand of hair to the Zudun Giant.

Amid the violent swaying, Tang Xian came to grips with the situation.

"I can't fall down!"

What would the sight of forty giants trampling in the abyss be? A slight misstep could mean real death.

In contrast, atop the giants were safe.

After acquiring the Serpentine skill, Tang Xian's arm strength had improved somewhat.

But to grab onto the vine and climb a distance of about five hundred meters, especially during such violent shaking, Tang Xian admitted to himself that he didn't have the strength to do so.

Thinking of a possibility, Tang Xian began to shout loudly.

He decided to take a gamble.

Next to the giants' backdrop, whether it was his shouting or actions, all seemed feeble and weak.

But he was a man of endurance.

After roaring hoarsely for a few minutes, his voice finally managed to penetrate through layers of interference and reached a Zudun Giant's ears.

"Why are you here?"

A giant hand stretched out toward Tang Xian just as he was about to lose his strength.

Tang Xian gave up struggling, allowed himself to free fall, and then landed on a palm harder than rock.

He felt as if he heard the sound of bones displacing, but within two seconds, the pain disappeared from his body.

He twisted his body, forcibly realigning the misplaced bones.

He was like a monster that couldn't die no matter what.

"Acquired one point of Zudun Giant resistance."

The message in his sea of knowledge left Tang Xian with mixed feelings.

The palm slowly rose, as if he were riding an extremely large elevator.

Not until the breath from the Zudun Giant's lung chamber, carrying a nauseating stench, struck Tang Xian's face did his gaze finally land on those massive pores.

His throat hurt a bit.

Even the man with the greatest endurance would feel drained maintaining high-frequency activity.

"I came here for a walk."

Tang Xian knew that Zudun Giants were not very bright. Even though the Zudun Giants were supposed to deal with invaders, they hadn't recognized Tang Xian as one.

He was betting that without the Soul Crystal, the intelligence of the Zudun Sacred Tree would fade quickly.

He also wagered on the notion that although creatures could sense each other's location through a Soul Crystal, they could not convey voice.

This should be a privilege only he possessed.

At least when Qing JiuYu talked to others, she needed to open her mouth, not just let it echo in one's sea of knowledge.

"Now is not the time for a stroll, the ancestral totem is angry."