Chapter 598: Chapter 356: The Little Nian Beast Displays Its Divine Might, the Great Monarch Returns (Double-Length)

"You three come at me together, one of you isn’t enough for me to fight."

Just as the Little Nian Beast finished throwing harsh words at the Zodiac Team, the Dragon Cat perched on its back suddenly leaned in and licked its cheek, the damp sensation making the Little Nian Beast remain silent for a while.

Helplessly, it looked up and saw the little Dragon Cat staring at it innocently.

"Aren’t you annoying? Can you stop lying on my back?" said the Little Nian Beast impatiently. "Whether you’re a Dragon Cat or a Panda, get off my back now!"

Having said that, it twisted its body abruptly, flinging the Dragon Cat off its shoulder, and then slapped it back to the red cushion.

The Dragon Cat rolled over on the ground once, then lay on the red cushion looking aggrieved.

"What did Lord Little Nian just say?" the Rat Demon asked at this moment.

"Did I say something wrong just now?" The Little Nian Beast lifted its head and looked at the Snake, Horse, and Ox Zodiac Demons.

Suddenly it thought of something and said in realization, "Oh, I forgot to mention... I didn’t mean you three together just now, I meant all eight of you come at me together, got it?"

A moment of brief silence enveloped the vast temple interior, followed by a burst of laughter.

The Little Nian Beast raised its eyebrows, following the source of laughter, and looked up, only to see the Rat Demon and Spirit Monkey Demon. The former laughed until his mustache twitched, while the latter spilled half-eaten peach pits from its mouth, dropping with a thud inside the temple.

"What’s so funny?" asked the Little Nian Beast, puzzled.

"The young ones are impressive, the young ones are impressive..." the Rat Demon said, grabbing its mustache to suppress the laughter.

"Even for the Year Beast Monarch, at your age, I’m afraid he wouldn’t dare claim he could take on the Zodiac Team alone." The Spirit Monkey Demon sighed lazily.

The Cyan Snake Demon narrowed its eyes; its tall, vertical pupils were cold as if they could freeze anything.

It never cared for this Year Beast Prince who ran away from home without a word, causing countless demons on Hai Fan Mountain to die. Now, the Little Nian Beast returned shamelessly to the mountain as if nothing had happened, which was even more irritating, not to mention the Little Nian Beast’s attitude was so contemptuous.

The Little Nian Beast looked at the Zodiac Team members, "You guys were the ones who suggested testing me, could you stop the nonsense?" It scratched its ear, "Moving so slowly, someone might think your zodiac sign is a turtle."

"Since Lord Little Nian said so, then I’ll be the first to challenge you. Let me see what the Year Beast has been up to these past ten years," said the Mad Bull Demon.

In the blink of an eye, the Mad Bull Demon opened its eyes.

It abruptly rose, horns forward, limbs landing on the ground. With a booming crash, it shattered the ground, leaving a fissure, and then its massive body charged towards the Little Nian Beast, stirring up a dense sweeping wind.

Listening to the roaring in its ears, the entire temple trembled. Even the waterfall at the temple’s exit became distorted, carried by the howling gale. This fifty-meter giant was charging straight ahead just like a high-speed train, terrifying and unstoppable.

The enraged bull got closer, the bull’s face reflected in its pupils grew larger.

The Little Nian Beast stomped the ground and leapt, its slender form twisting in mid-air. Its body rapidly expanded, from tiny to immense, like a mandrake sprouting from a seed and finally blooming fully.

In an instant, a thirty-meter purple-red giant lion opened its massive jaws, roaring as it plummeted down, its body enveloped in a fierce stream of flames. It was like a purple-red meteor falling from the sky, illuminating the entire dim temple.

[Demon Flame Frenzy: The Little Nian Beast is covered from head to toe with Demon Flame, charging forward with all its might, transforming into a stream of fire attacking its opponent, entering an unstoppable state in the process.]

Everyone in the Zodiac Team was stunned. They didn’t expect the Little Nian Beast to grow so quickly. The typical lifespan of a Nian Beast is around two hundred years, and it takes at least eighty to ninety years to attain the size of a Year Beast Monarch.

Yet Lord Little Nian is only 19 years old, and the growth rate of its body size has far surpassed others of the same age in its race.

In an instant, the Little Nian Beast transformed into a giant pillar of flame, colliding with the Mad Bull Demon, the roaring gale sweeping outward, carrying ember-like remnants of flames, the purple mixed with red fire captivating and fierce.

The Rainbow Horse Demon suddenly flicked its tail, a spectrum of light flaring up, surrounding the Little Nian Beast and Mad Bull Demon, and absorbing the spreading flames within it.

"Boom——!" a dull thud resounded as the Mad Bull Demon’s body was forcibly pushed back, its limbs creating sparks from friction with the ground, plowing two furrows spreading a hundred meters wide.

In disbelief, it looked up at the thirty-meter-tall purple-red giant lion.

At that moment, the Cyan Snake Demon silently erupted from its seat, shooting towards the Little Nian Beast from mid-air like a cyan arrow.

"Faster than I thought, it seems it’s more than just Quasi-Catastrophe Level..."

The Little Nian Beast knew that each demon within the Cyan Snake Demon’s species harbored enough venom to instantly kill a whale, and the Cyan Snake selected to be part of the Zodiac Team naturally had even more dangerous venom.

Even a Catastrophe Level body might not withstand the Cyan Snake’s venom. Paralysis would be minor. If the venom invaded the weak parts of its body, causing a fatal infection, that would indeed be terrifying.

Thus, the Little Nian Beast’s body suddenly shrunk at this moment, gradually turning into a human silhouette, a black-haired, black-eyed teenager with a wisp of purple-red hair at the forehead.