Chapter 159: Wind God Lizard

"Where is this?"

As the teleportation subsided and Song Hai's feet touched the ground, he immediately scanned his surroundings with vigilance. Looking at the unfamiliar scenery, a question instantly surfaced in his mind.

Boom!

At that very moment, a massive roar erupted from the distance. Following the direction of his gaze, billows of dust rolled forward like a surging dragon.

"Food! Food!"

Accompanied by the rolling dust forming a long dragon-like trail, a thunderous voice imbued with a trace of excitement washed over him.

"Food?" Upon hearing these words, Song Hai's stationary body twitched slightly, his brows furrowing. "Is it talking about me?"

Song Hai looked around. Towering trees reached toward the heavens, flowers and grass grew in abundance, and everything presented the quintessential appearance of a primeval jungle. Yet, bizarrely, aside from the flora and the thickets, not a single living creature existed within his line of sight.

Therefore, it was blatantly obvious that the food mentioned by this strange voice referred to none other than him.

Smoothing his brows and sensing the aura transmitting through his consciousness, a flash of playful amusement suddenly danced in his eyes. "What gives you the courage to utter such words?"

While he was contemplating, the billowing dust gradually dispersed, revealing the creature hidden behind it.

A fiery-red body, four legs and a tail, an elongated snout crowned with a pair of lantern-sized eyes. It scurried forward rapidly on all fours, kicking up clouds of dust. Saliva dripped endlessly from the corners of its mouth, and its eyes bulged as it stared at Song Hai, gleaming brilliantly.

"How many years has it been? How many years? Someone has finally come here!"

Arriving before Song Hai, the creature—presumably a lizard—examined him with glowing eyes. The saliva at the corner of its mouth never ceased flowing, while its gaze burned with longing, fascination, greed, and other desires.

"What... sort of creature are you?"

Song Hai gazed at the revealed lizard, looking it up and down for a moment before asking with a hint of uncertainty.

It truly looked like a lizard, yet bore a resemblance to a gecko—the palm-sized creatures he had occasionally encountered back in the mortal realm or around his home.

"I am the Wind God!" The lizard stared unblinkingly at Song Hai, not even minding the lack of politeness in his tone, its gaze greedy and yearning.

"You want to eat me?" Song Hai curled the corner of his mouth, looking at the lizard that stared at him blatantly without the slightest concealment of its intentions, and said softly, "Lizard!"

"I told you, I am the Wind God, not a lizard!" Song Hai's blunt words pulled the lizard slightly out of its frenzied state, and it rebuked with a trace of dissatisfaction.

"Understood, lizard!"

Song Hai went along with it smoothly and replied promptly.

The greed in the lizard's eyes receded slightly. Its oversized eyeballs narrowed somewhat dangerously, and a sudden, bone-chilling tone revealed its master's rising fury: "Are you serious, food?"

"Otherwise? What did you expect?" Faced with the lizard, which had suddenly turned serious and enveloped him in bone-chilling murderous intent, Song Hai's expression remained completely devoid of tension. In fact, a blatant look of mockery surfaced on his face. "Lizard!"

"......" The lizard narrowed its eyes and sized up Song Hai seriously for the first time. Its gaze swept from top to bottom, from head to toe, yet it found not a single extraordinary trait!

"You actually possess some peculiarity!" To remain completely composed under its murderous intent was no easy feat. One had to know that here, among over ninety percent of people, very few could stand upright without collapsing after facing its full aura of slaughter. Yet Song Hai not only stood straight, but also looked completely unfazed, as if its murderous aura simply did not exist.

Based on this alone, the lizard could conclude that this person who had suddenly appeared here possessed extraordinary strength. Although it could find no outward anomalies in Song Hai, the mere ability to resist its murderous intent so effortlessly was already the greatest anomaly of all!

"You do have some strength, but you surely don't naively believe that a little bit of strength gives you the right to be so arrogant?"

The lizard stared at Song Hai with dense mockery in its eyes. So what if he had strength? So what if he could block its murderous intent? That was all it amounted to. Such strength might be fine against those ordinary people, but dealing with it fell far too short!

"You must know this is the Savage Valley. With your little bit of strength, trying to act wild here falls quite short indeed!" The lizard suddenly grew interested. It was no longer in a rush to eat him; since someone had finally arrived after all this time, it was going to play with him properly.

"Savage Valley?" Song Hai repeated the words, and his mind suddenly pieced together where he was.

"Is this the Peerless Island?"

He asked the lizard.

"You don't know?" The lizard's already half-narrowed eyes narrowed further, a dangerous aura spreading across its body. "You've come all the way here, and you're telling me you don't know this is Peerless Island? Are you messing with me?"

Boom!

Before Song Hai could reply, feeling profoundly insulted, the lizard abruptly widened its mouth. As its arcane power shifted, a tiny speck of white light appeared within its jaw and cast outward, instantly forming an invisible whirlwind.

The wind was only the size of an arm, yet it carried immense destructive power. The moment it appeared, the surrounding space groaned under the unbearable burden, emitting cracking sounds. The heaven and earth instantly transformed, shifting between light and darkness. A colossal suction force emerged, sweeping up all the surrounding dust and air to form a gigantic tornado centered around that small vortex, seemingly connecting the heavens and the earth.

In an instant, it felt like the apocalypse!

"How did things escalate into a fight just like that?"

Faced with this instantly altered apocalyptic scene, Song Hai frowned slightly, his body rooted to the ground as if anchored, completely unaffected by the immense gravitational pull of the tornado.

Swish!

Seeing the sky suddenly plunge into darkness, a trace of annoyance flashed in Song Hai's eyes. Within his pitch-black pupils, a miniature blade-like vortex mirrored the colossal tornado sweeping toward him.

"Go!"

With a soft cry, Song Hai flicked his palm, and a finger-sized beam of blade-light shot out, heading straight for the miniature tornado.

Swish!

The blade-light flashed and vanished instantly. The surrounding space froze, and time seemed to halt. After the blade-light appeared, everything happening around them came to a dead stop in an instant.

The tornado unleashed by the lizard possessed not the slightest bit of resistance the moment the blade-light emerged. The blade-light cleaved straight down, and the tornado that should have been split in two was instantly obliterated into nothingness by the blade Qi radiating from the edges of the light.

"How... how is this possible?" Everything happened too suddenly. The lizard was still squinting its eyes, waiting to watch Song Hai be blown into dust by its divine wind, forcing the arrogant kid who had insulted it to pay the price. Yet instead of watching Song Hai turn to dust, it watched its own divine wind turn to nothingness.

"You... exactly what kind of person are you?"