If Qi Ye had previously thought that a First Rank taking on a Third Rank was a joke, he changed his mind after witnessing the power of Da Huang's Skill.

The gap in combat power was vast, but with the Sound Cannon Skill in hand, Da Huang had upgraded his arsenal and transformed into "Boss Huang."

Ghost-Faced Beetles become extremely powerful at night. Since they were already exposed, dragging things out until nightfall would be a recipe for trouble—if the Beetle Lord discovered it wasn't dead or triggered some other special ability, there was no telling what kind of complications might arise.

As a sonic Skill, the closer it was to the enemy, the higher the damage it naturally dealt.

Once the distance increased, its power would plummet.

However, the Beetle Lord never left the treetops except to forage; calculating the distance to the ground, Da Huang's Sound Cannon damage would be significantly reduced.

Furthermore, the opponent had wings, and the moment it felt outmatched, it would immediately take to the air, leaving Da Huang on the ground to simply stare helplessly.

If they didn't pin it down on the ground, and it recovered enough to dig three feet under to find them, the situation would become dangerous.

To avoid further complications, it was best to finish it off in one go while it was injured.

But with a body the size of a car, how could they possibly control it?

As an expert in analyzing battle situations, Qi Ye wracked every brain cell in his almond-sized head, carefully calculating the possibility of defeating the Beetle Lord.

Da Huang looked at the Sparrow in front of him, confused, noticing that steam was even rising from the top of his head.

It blankly reached out a paw and waved it, attempting to dissipate the heat rising from Qi Ye's head.

"Got it!"

A quarter of an hour later, Qi Ye looked up, full of confidence.

Facing the Beetle Lord, his odds of winning were not only high, but if handled correctly, they could even reach ninety percent!

He gently patted the top of Da Huang's head, signaling it to follow his lead.

"Looks like my Lord has another good idea!"

Da Huang panted with its tongue out, its eyes filled with excitement; clearly, it didn't understand what was going on, but it happily trotted along to follow him anyway.

After all, the Lord's commands were paramount. No matter what happened, as long as it followed the Lord, there would only be benefits, never drawbacks!

He went to the scene where the Ghost-Faced Beetles had been killed and checked them one by one, discovering that several of the Ghost-Faced Beetle corpses had already disappeared.

This was clearly the work of the Giant Red Worms; over the past few days, he had already figured out the habits of the Giant Red Worms.

They were scavengers with no intelligence that relied on consuming the corpses of various monsters, but they were timid by nature. Most of the time, they only appeared at night and moved silently, as they themselves were food for a large number of monsters.

Although their flesh was foul-smelling and, in Qi Ye's opinion, completely inedible, the Ghost-Faced Beetles loved this treat. At night, he had seen more than once how a Giant Red Worm would be discovered by a beetle because it made too much noise, only to be pierced by the beetle's sharp mouthparts and have its internal tissues consumed.

He ordered Da Huang to hide beside a Ghost-Faced Beetle corpse that hadn't been discovered by a Giant Red Worm yet. After waiting for a few minutes, the ground made a sound, just as Qi Ye had expected.

A Giant Red Worm poked its head out from the ground, acting very cautiously because it was daytime, but Da Huang still rushed forward, bit its head, and dragged its entire body out.

The Giant Red Worm was several meters long and tried to resist, twisting its body to coil tightly around Da Huang, but Da Huang's body was extremely sturdy; other than the sizzling sound of its muscles tightening, it had no effect.

How could a non-ranked monster cope with a First Rank animal?

Da Huang just used a little force with its mouth, and the Red Worm's cranial ganglion was crushed, causing its body to begin twitching aimlessly on the ground.

Next, Qi Ye led Da Huang to drag the half-dead Giant Red Worm into the cave, and while the Beetle Lord above was still resting, they placed it less than three meters away from the cave entrance.

To make the scene look realistic, Qi Ye specifically ordered Da Huang to drag over a dead Ghost-Faced Beetle and place it in front of the Giant Red Worm.

Everything was ready. Under Qi Ye's command, Da Huang let out a bark toward the Beetle Lord overhead.

"Woof!"

The Beetle Lord woke up with a start from its sleep; in a daze, it felt as though it had heard a dog barking.

"Could I have had a nightmare?"

In the dream, the dog it had already killed had come back to life and was roaring at it.

It was now hungry and in pain all over. After briefly observing its surroundings, it had intended to continue its recovery sleep, but its gaze was suddenly drawn to the Giant Red Worm lying on the layer of fallen leaves on the ground.

The Red Worm was weakly twisting on the ground, with a dead Ghost-Faced Beetle in front of it. It was clearly unable to suppress its craving for food and wanted to sneakily steal the beetle's corpse from right under its nose.

Thinking of this, the Beetle Lord couldn't help but feel arrogant. As a Lord with Elementary intelligence, the thing it most needed to overcome was its own appetite.

This was also the most fundamental difference between it and the series of monsters like the Giant Red Worm.

But it hadn't eaten for a long time and was injured, so it needed nutritional supplements. After examining it with a critical eye for a moment, the Beetle Lord immediately released its grip on the tree trunk and dropped down in front of the Giant Red Worm.

Its sharp mouthparts pierced into the Red Worm's torso in that instant, skewering it right through the middle like a kebab.

For its massive physique, the nutrition provided by this Giant Red Worm was a drop in the bucket, but it was still better than nothing.

While satisfyingly consuming the Red Worm's internal tissues, its compound eyes scanned the surrounding environment back and forth.

Suddenly, it realized a terrifying situation.

"Isn't it now just like that Giant Red Worm I just criticized?"

"Bad!"

Sensing a conspiracy behind it, it hurriedly spread its wings, attempting to fly upward, but it was already too late.

"Sound Cannon! Activate!"

Directly behind it, Da Huang and Qi Ye, hiding in a cave entrance covered by fallen leaves, had already been waiting for a long time.

Da Huang was like a mobile anti-aircraft battery on the ground; with a wide-open mouth, it aimed at the Beetle Lord that had just taken off.

The astonishing sonic shockwave swept past the rotten branches in front and struck the connection between the opponent's dorsal armor and elytra head-on.

"Oh ho!"

The Beetle Lord's entire body plummeted from mid-air, smashing a small crater into the ground.

Its throat's vocal apparatus vibrated violently in pain; a gruesome bloody hole appeared on its back, and the elytra on both sides of its back were knocked off, causing it to lose the ability to fly.

"It's in the bag!"

At the moment the Sound Cannon hit, Qi Ye understood in his heart that the situation was decided.

The original ninety percent chance of winning had now become one hundred percent.

"That dog is actually still alive! How is that possible? Wasn't it clearly crushed to death by my massive body?"

A brief flash of terrified cold light passed through the Beetle Lord's compound eyes, but it quickly turned into anger.

It immediately realized it had been attacked by Da Huang, but for the moment, it couldn't find where that dead dog was hiding at all.

It moved its strong six legs and began to rampage on the ground; the surrounding trees were knocked over, and the piles of bones at its feet were scattered everywhere.

"Where are you?"

The angry roar echoed throughout the entire territory. Even the Ghost-Faced Beetles on the far east side rushed over to join the battle, but they couldn't see where the enemy was either, and could only fly aimlessly above the Beetle Lord's head like headless flies.

At this time, Da Huang and Qi Ye had already changed positions. After the Beetle Lord was ready to stop and take a break, they popped out from another cave entrance and fired a Sound Cannon at its supporting legs.

Repeating this back and forth several times, four of the Beetle Lord's six legs were blown off by the Sound Cannon, and it could only rely on the two legs on the far left to crawl with difficulty on the ground.

Even in this state, the saddest part was that it hadn't even found a trace of Da Huang. Every time it looked for the source of the attack, it could find a cave entrance, but after it destroyed the entrance, it found nothing. Then, after a while, a sharp pain would strike its body again.

"Since when did a dog become this smart? It can set bait, dig tunnels, yet if I could just touch it with one insect leg, I could easily pierce its body."

Unknowingly, all six pairs of the Beetle Lord's legs were broken by the Sound Cannon; it was like a round, wiggling worm, with only the two pairs of antennae on its head still waving weakly.

As for the Ghost-Faced Beetles that were originally in the sky, seeing their Lord dying, they scattered in all directions.

Under its final gaze, Da Huang walked out from another cave entrance it hadn't expected with the posture of a victor, and close to its body, fired a Sound Cannon.

The powerful airflow poured into the wound, completely shredding its internal organs.

A powerful Third Rank magic beast was kited to death by a Chinese Rural Dog that had just entered the First Rank two days ago.

Poor Beetle Lord, it didn't even know until it died why it had died in such a frustrating way. It calculated everything, but it never expected that it was one thing for a dog to have an ability, but why did it have to become smarter than a human?

The mastermind behind the whole event, Qi Ye, jumped out from Da Huang's thick dog fur, spat out the dog hair he had accidentally gotten in his mouth, and was extremely excited.

At this moment, a message about the task being completed had already popped up in his mind.