Chapter 641 The Beast in the Water (2/2)

Stripes coated his entire body and resembled the marine plants in the river. The colour of its back and front differed, and even though its torso was not completely revealed, Shao Xuan could tell make out patterns on its neck.

Its dark coloured back with subtle stripes contrasted with its paler ventral side and created a camouflage effect. This allowed the beast to swim in the river without being easily noticed.

Its skin wasn’t smooth, and the bulges in its body were still dripping wet, reflecting the silver light of the moon. They carried the deathly-cold energy of metallic weapons. Its head was not significant compared to its body and looked like a slanted shield. On its head was a segment of long bonelike structures that looked like horns but not as clearly differentiated as horns.

Even though Shao Xuan couldn’t see the entire beast clearly, judging by the part he could see and its entire skeletal structure, it was a powerful pursue-and-attack type of beast!

What was such a powerful fierce beast creeping here near the shore? What was it worried about? Did it have other intentions?

Even though it had a mouth full of sharp blade-like teeth, it didn’t use any force when it was biting the smaller beast. Shao Xuan could tell that it was trying to avoid hurting the smaller beast.

If it were this simple, most people would’ve guessed that it was a mother beast carrying its cub. But this was not the truth.

Shao Xuan did not know whether the giant beast was male or female, but he was sure that the smaller beast was a different species. That beast was not a cub. It was just a smaller beast, and it was already at a mature age. Shao Xuan had come across beasts like these before. Their bodies were over three metres long, and they were violent carnivores. They were not at all placid creatures. These beasts were brutal and bloodthirsty!

The smaller beast did not move at all after it was set down. Its limbs were frozen as if it were already dead.

After the giant beast set the smaller beast on the shore, it looked in a direction on land.

Shao Xuan’s eyelids twitched. That was where the Gu tribe was located!

Did it hold a grudge against the Gu tribe?

It had not even been a year since the great river disappeared. How did the Gu tribe provoke such a fierce beast?

The giant beast stared at the direction for a long time, and then its eyes swept and scanned in all directions. Its murderous energy was a few times more violent than the vision scan from before! Even the night wind was disrupted, blowing up more leaves in the forest.

Dead silence.

Rustle--

It was a subtle sound, but it stood out in the dead silence. People with sharp ears could hear it right away.

The giant beast withdrew his gaze and turned his head to look at the smaller beast, who was shaking its leg. The rustling, frictional sound was made by this beast when it shook its leg and rubbed against the grass.

Whoosh--

Without another look at the shore, the giant beast dived into the water again and left. The splash wasn’t loud. It wasn’t as loud as the sound of the windswept waves hitting on the shore.

As it left, because the beast no longer chewed on anything, its entire body went underwater, and the long ripple patterns grew faint and disappeared.