1173 Brothers! Brothers! (1/2)
The Eagle King's foot hovered in midair, freezing there. It was as if he'd turned into a timeless statue!
Only his head was twitching, straining to slowly turn around and look unwillingly at his Fourth Brother who was lying silently on the ground. Endless hopelessness and worry laid in his eyes…
”Fourth Brother… hurry up and wake up, I really can't hold on anymore… ah…” Eagle King begged in desperation. His voice was so soft that even he couldn't hear himself. Following that, his body suddenly fell silent.
There wasn't any more movements from him.
But his eyes were still flickering with that worry and helplessness!
Fourth Brother, I cannot protect you any longer.
Eagle King's eyes were filled with pain, regret, and anxiousness!
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The Bear King laid there silently, oblivious to everything that was happening around him. He was simply too tired! His body was thoroughly exhausted and strained to the limit! When the Tribulation Lightning struck, it'd nearly jolted the very bones out of its body.
In the quietness, his soul floated calmly. There seemed to be something that he'd forgotten, unable to grasp properly… Right now, he just wanted to have a good sleep… he didn't want to think about anything and just sleep!
But at this time, he seemed to hear a heart rending voice calling out to him from a faraway place: Fourth Brother… Wake up…
This voice… sounds like Ninth Brother, Eagle King?
All of a sudden, Bear King's heart shook!
Big Bear struggled to open his eyes, but no matter what, it wouldn't open! He continued to strain his eyelids, but they felt as heavy as mountains right now!
My brother!
My brother is calling me!
Big Bear kept trying, but it seemed to be useless… His entire body felt like cotton…
”Fourth Brother… wake up ah… wake up ah… I can't hang on any longer…” It was the Eagle King's voice again!
Big Bear's soul roared and struggled even more anxiously… Ninth Brother! Little Ninth, just what did you encounter? Ninth Brother… your Fourth Elder Brother is coming… Fourth Elder Brother is coming to you…
Just at that moment, the image of the Eagle King miraculously appeared in Big Bear's sea of consciousness. Big Bear seemed to have finally succeeded in opening his eyes, and as he looked at the bloodied brother infront of him, he felt a sudden sharp pain in his heart, as if his five viscera and six bowels were being mashed together!
The Eagle King in his mind was looking at him, straining to open his mouth as he cried: ”Fourth Brother… wake up… ah…”
Following that, Eagle King's figure suddenly disappeared! Even more abruptly than when it'd just appeared!
Big Bear roared to the heavens and suddenly leapt up from the ground!
He'd finally woken up!
Amidst the blood soaked battlefield and after passing through a terrifying lightning tribulation, the Bear King actually woke up in a miraculous manner!
But the instant he opened his eyes, it remained wide open, as if his eyelids would tear apart!
An indescribable rage gushed like a torrent into his heart!
Before him was a patch of darkness, and a straight and sturdy body blocking silently before him! Unflinchingly! Red, viscous blood dripped steadily from his body, splattering onto Big Bear's body!
That roar from him as he woke up caused the surrounding strange races experts to tremble with fear. However, this person blocking before him… why isn't he moving? Why didn't he move?
Why wouldn't he turn around to look at me!
And why does this back feel so familiar? But his brother did not have such a back ah! Is it Little Ninth? It's somewhat familiar, but this back doesn't have Little Ninth's wide wings ah… Eh? No wings…? No wings?!
A terrifying thought appeared in his mind, and Big Bear suddenly felt his heart skip a beat! An indescribable pain suddenly filled his heart.
Standing up unsteadily, he took one step around and looked at the face of this figure. In an instant, he felt a blur before his eyes, as if countless huge hammers had smashed onto his head in an instant!
Hammering his body, bones, heart, and soul into pieces!
”Ninth Brother! Little Ninth AHHHH…..” Big Bear did not dare to believe the sight before his eyes as he rubbed his eyes and roared in an insane manner!
This person before him was really his Ninth Brother, the King of the Sky—Eagle King!
A mouthful of blood spurted from his mouth!
Eagle King's mangled body was still frozen in the same stance, his eyes blaring fiercely, staring forward as if he would explode with a deadly attack anytime, to protect his brother…
”Little Ninth…” Big Bear stretched out his trembling hands as if he wanted to embrace the brother in front of him, that body that was already gradually turning cold. But at the same time, he didn't dare to do that, as if afraid that he would disrupt the final rest of his brother.
”Brother! Little Eagle! AH… AH… AH AH AH AH AH....” Big Bear roared with rage and grief, only feeling as if his heart had been shredded apart.
Big Bear was 20 something years older than the Eagle King. He still remembered that when his Ninth Brother was born, he was still just a little bear cub, squatting before the nest and looking at the milky white eagle egg, listening to the little pecking sounds curiously. All of a sudden, the eggshell broke, and a sharp little beak poked out from inside…
Following that, a wet and slimy little golden baby eagle chick crawled out, extended its neck and looked around at this world curiously…
That was his Ninth Brother's first look at this world…
His brother, a brother for life!
The little eagle chick slowly grew up, finally learning how to fly, and advance in cultivation… Finally, like himself, he grew to the level of a Ninth level Xuan Beast, then to the peak of the Ninth level, gaining the ability to transform… What a long and memorable period of time that was…
Among all the brothers, he had always been the closest with Tiger King, because both of them had the same rough and direct character. As for the Ninth Brother, they had practically been bickering all the time even before they gained the ability to transform, arguing for several hundred years, nearly half their lives…
Even until today, not long ago, they had still been arguing…