Tyrannosaurus Rex

Haoyuan was completely oblivious to this.

Today, he had hunted a massive hadrosaur over seven meters long.

Just as his explosive Constriction Strength welled up, every organ in his body began to resonate in harmony.

Suddenly, he felt an inexplicable surge of dizziness, panic, chest tightness, weakness, rapid breathing, and skin-crawling dread.

An intangible sense of oppression and terror rushed over him from out of nowhere, relentlessly screaming a single warning: Run! Escape!

He hastily halted his chokehold and loosened his Kirin Arms, wanting to make sense of the situation, but the ground beneath him began to violently tremble.

His quivering dragon whiskers caught something in the air. In disbelief, he raised his head to look ahead.

A prime 14.8-meter-long Tyrannosaurus Rex was sprinting directly toward him with its mouth shut, its chest and neck vibrating as it emitted low-frequency rumbles and penetrating infrasound.

The acoustic waves rippled invisibly through the air, shaking his internal organs to their core.

Overwhelmed with terror, Haoyuan frantically uncoiled from the hadrosaur, desperate to flee.

But how could a prey bound so tightly be released in an instant?

Before he could even undo the last loop, the Tyrannosaurus Rex was already upon him.

Forced into a corner, Haoyuan raised his Kirin Arms and opened his bloody maw to meet the Tyrannosaurus Rex head-on.

Yet the apex predator's massive head didn't pounce straight on him. Instead, it suddenly lowered its snout and gave a powerful thrust forward.

Feeling the colossal force transmitted through the massive hadrosaur, Haoyuan's heart sank instantly.

The next second, he and the massive hadrosaur beneath him were flipped upside down together by the Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The hadrosaur's heavy body crashed directly on top of him, leaving him dazed and disoriented.

Ignoring the pain, he detonated his Trunk Strength in a sudden burst, springing upward to block the Tyrannosaurus Rex's descending jaws.

That bite force—the strongest among land animals in his past life—could instantly strip him of all ability to fight back, no matter where it landed on his body.

This was a life-or-death battle where getting bitten even once meant absolute demise!

“Roar!!”

Haoyuan let out a furious roar and swung his powerful Kirin Arms, unleashing a brutal strike straight across the upper jaw of the gaping beast!

The blow interrupted the creature's lunging bite while leaving five bloody gashes of varying depth across its broad snout!

The stinging pain enraged the Tyrannosaurus Rex as well!

Emitting an ear-splitting, shrieking roar, it raised its massive, thick footpad and stomped down toward Haoyuan's upper body!

Haoyuan barely dodged out of the way, but a gaping abyssal maw packed with razor-sharp teeth lunged directly at him, carrying a suffocating stench of blood!

Haoyuan's pupils dilated.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex's previous footstep had pinned down his room to maneuver, restricting his upper body's mobility.

With the monstrous jaws closing in right in front of his face, he had no choice but to leap forward into the danger!

Spreading his powerful Kirin Arms, at the critical moment of hair-breadth danger, he clamped his claws tightly onto the upper and lower jaws of the descending beast!

A massive cloud of dirt flew into the air.

The terrifying pushing force drove him deep into the mud, racking his whole torso with intense pain.

Fortunately, with the support of his Kirin Arms, his head and body arched back, keeping him out of the foul-smelling, abyssal maw.

It was also thanks to his years of experience hunting giant beach crocs that he had executed such a precise grab on the upper and lower jaws.

Otherwise, a single misstep would have sent him straight into those deadly jaws, sealing his doom forever!

The Tyrannosaurus Rex snapped its mouth shut, missing Haoyuan's body. It snapped repeatedly in a flurry of bite attempts, but failed each time.

Infuriated, it let out an angry roar.

Meanwhile, the sickle-like claws of the Kirin Arms sank deep into its upper and lower jaws, making opening and closing its mouth excruciatingly painful.

Stung by the agony, the predator adjusted its stance, attempting to step on Haoyuan's body and pull its head free from the Kirin Arms' iron grip.

Haoyuan instantly saw through its intention, alarm bells ringing wildly in his head.

If he was pinned down, he would become meat on a chopping block, left completely at its mercy.

Yet if he let go, the Tyrannosaurus Rex would feel the tension release and immediately lunge with a deadly bite.

Caught off guard at that moment, he would be utterly unable to defend himself—a dead end either way.

Combining the power of his Trunk Strength with the grappling grip of his Kirin Arms, Haoyuan coiled his body up like an arching tiger rising from its back, springing upward to bite directly onto the Tyrannosaurus Rex's snout.

Stress-induced constriction!

Although part of his body was still pinned under the large hadrosaur, the combined force of his dragon head and Kirin Arms gave him a solid fulcrum, allowing his Trunk Strength to erupt with full power!

Though difficult, he managed to wrap a coil around it!

And he wasn't done yet!

The max-level limit bite force of his ten-meter flood dragon body poured out without reserve!

Combined with the grip of his max-level Kirin Arms, the resulting pain was beyond imagination!

No matter how thick the Tyrannosaurus Rex's hide was, it couldn't withstand it.

Wracked with intense pain, it immediately jerked its head upward.

This was an instinctive body reaction—to move away from the pain.

But it was also a fatal mistake.

During the struggle with the Tyrannosaurus Rex, Haoyuan had already loosened his grip on the hadrosaur, fighting to pull his body free inch by inch.

Roughly a quarter of his body had still been trapped beneath the lingering weight of the dying hadrosaur.

But now, aided by the upward force of the Tyrannosaurus Rex raising its head in pain, that trapped quarter slipped free in an instant.

The moment his body slid free, the pulling weight suddenly disappeared, causing the Tyrannosaurus Rex to stumble back several steps.

Haoyuan's dragon body snapped back like a rubber band, seamlessly coiling around the upper and lower jaws of the Tyrannosaurus Rex to complete the death lock in an instant!

By the time the Tyrannosaurus Rex regained its footing, its world had already plunged into darkness!

Its entire head, including its eyes and mouth, was bound deathly tight by the ten-meter flood dragon body!

The extra length wrapped tightly over its nostrils and neck, cutting off its breath completely!

Opening its mouth to gasp for air was entirely out of the question!

The explosive Constriction Strength of the ten-meter flood dragon body erupted at once!

The terrifying force clamped its jaws shut seamlessly—it couldn't open them even a fraction of an inch!

An intense wave of suffocation washed over it!

The Tyrannosaurus Rex tried desperately to inhale, but could not draw in a single breath!

The drumbeat of its heart resonated through bone and blood from its chest into its ears, beating faster and louder like the death knell of the Grim Reaper!

Thud after thud filled the Tyrannosaurus Rex with absolute terror!

Yet, like a drowning soul, it could not grasp even a single straw to save itself!

Worst of all was the extreme cranial pressure overloading its brain!

The Tyrannosaurus Rex felt like its head was going to explode!

It was as if a heavy hydraulic press were crushing its skull and flattening its brain—an utter nightmare of sheer terror!

Enveloped by asphyxiation, its pounding heart grew louder and louder, drowning out all sound in the world until only that thunderous death knell echoed clearly in its ears—thump, thump, thump—as if its chest would burst at any second!

In overwhelming panic, it tried to howl and scream, but not a single sound could escape.

The terror only deepened.

It could only desperately hurl its head skyward and slam it violently toward the ground.

Hoping to hurt Haoyuan enough to break his death grip.

Yet with the full weight of Haoyuan's dragon body and his crushing force clamped onto its head, simply raising its head was a massive struggle, let alone smashing it down with power!

It managed two weak thuds before collapsing face-first into the dirt, never to rise again.

The Tyrannosaurus Rex that had dominated this hunting ground for decades could never have imagined that an ant so much smaller than itself could possess such terrifying power.

As an apex ruler of the Cretaceous, for the first time in its life, it experienced a nightmare of true fear.

And the price of tasting that fear was death.

Only after ensuring the Tyrannosaurus Rex remained motionless with no possibility of playing dead did Haoyuan slowly release his coils.

Exhausted, he lay gasping on the earth, hungrily breathing in the air of survival.

Thank goodness I managed to wrap around its head, Haoyuan thought, lingering fear clutching his heart.

Otherwise, with such a massive size disparity and the T-Rex possessing apex predator specs, winning would have been completely impossible.

Once he rested enough, Haoyuan rose back up. Looking over the vast hunting ground, a surge of emotion and grand pride swelled within his chest.

“From this day forth, this is my hunting ground.”

“I will become the new apex predator.”