“Roar!’

Again, the entire place trembled in deferent response to the power that the roar demanded.

From within the rising cloud of black smoke, a pair of feral, crimson eyes stared, maddened with fear and rage.

There was a power stopping it from leaving the forest.

It had thought that the magical barrier would have weakened with age, but it seemed strong enough to hold the creature for now.

It roared again, thwarted. The dual resonance cultivator was just there, so close on the opposite side. And so puny. If it could just get through, it could swallow him in one gulp.

And with the power of dual resonances, it would surge through its current bottleneck in cultivati...