I don't want to come up with a funny book title anymore.

It was a fourth-order Rakshasa bird. It looked a lot like a gray crane, except that it had a white hooked beak and claws.

This bird has a unique habit: it likes to peck at the eyes of other creatures.

Xie Fengnan glanced around; it seemed there was more than one.

Is this the source of its confidence to provoke itself?

Deng Xiu and Shen Rong trembled as they held the lion cub. They seemed to have been caught up in some powerless struggle. One lion, Sheng Shi, was already enough to make them anxious, and now a Rakshasa bird had appeared.

However, his suspicions were confirmed: Xie Fengnan was indeed a big shot; otherwise, how could he dare to rob someone else's house?

We're just newbies at level two, so we hope the big shots will take care of us out of consideration for our past relationship.

The Rakshasa birds attacking them made a "cluck-cluck" sound, which was hard not to see as mocking.

Xie Fengnan chuckled and immediately unleashed his ice-type superpower.

Before the Rakshasa bird could react, it was frozen solid.

Xie Fengnan didn't let the remaining two Rakshasa birds, which were lying in ambush in the shadows, go either.

An ice spike pierced the heart of the one that tried to escape, while the one that stood there dumbfounded was wiped out by Xie Fengnan's slap.

The two people and two beasts looked at the scene in disarray.

Deng Xiu's inner monologue—

No? My imagined scenario is that this Rakshasa bird must have come to find this Lion-Victorious Lion.

Then they got into a fight, and Xiao Xie led us to secretly run away.

The way Xiao Xie pulled me and Shen Rong apart just now, I knew he was no ordinary person.

Although we knew Xiao Xie was quite capable, we didn't expect him to be this good at it!

One fourth-tier Rakshasa bird was one thing, but he took down three of them in one go, and in an instant! Could Xiao Xie be some kind of reclusive master who can reverse aging and preserve his youth?

No, I can't call him Xiao Xie anymore, he's my older brother now!

This time I'm really going to be the younger brother, but before I called him Xiao Xie, now I have to call him Big Brother, it seems... a little hard to say.

"Thank... Brother Xie... You... You're amazing!!"

Unlike Deng Xiu, Shen Rong, whether out of excitement or something else, stammered out the sentence.

But he didn't seem uncomfortable at all, and immediately changed his address from "Feng Nan" to "Brother Xie".

Xie Fengnan turned his head, insisting that humility is a traditional human virtue, "I'm alright, I just have some talent in fighting."

Deng Xiu blurted out, "Brother Xie is too modest. This isn't just a little talent; he's absolutely amazing!"

Xie Fengnan was amused by the two of them. "Brother Deng would actually say something like that?"

"No, no, no, please don't call me brother anymore. I can't accept that. If I had known you were such a big shot, I wouldn't have dared to be so presumptuous."

Deng Xiu looked like she wanted to disappear into a crack in the ground.

"Huh? I don't really care about these things."

Xie Fengnan looked indifferent, but he found Deng Xiu's embarrassed and tearful expression quite amusing.

"Then I won't call you Brother Deng anymore, okay? Look at Sister Rongrong, she doesn't do that."

Deng Xiu felt a sudden relief as the pressure in her heart lessened, and she looked at Shen Rong with a sigh of relief.

She was already delirious, "Waaaaah, the big shot who instantly killed three fourth-tier Rakshasa birds called me 'sister,' even though I know I shouldn't have agreed, but he—called me 'sister'!!"

"Good-looking—good at fighting—good-tempered and eloquent—she's exactly my ideal type! Damn it! Why didn't I meet her sooner!"

Xie Fengnan: "..."

Deng Xiu: "..."

"Sister Rongrong, does she really have this kind of personality?"

Xie Fengnan, somewhat flustered, tried to find his voice again.

"Hmm... although it's not very common..."

Deng Xiu was truly amazed. He knew that Shen Rong sometimes acted crazy, but he never expected her to go to such lengths.

"Ahem—I'm sorry for losing my composure."

Shen Rong makes great efforts to manage her facial expressions and language.

The three tried their best to maintain the atmosphere, but the awkward atmosphere was broken by Lion's victory.

It growled and walked up to Xie Fengnan.

He then lowered his head and lay down on the ground.

This represents surrender.

Deng Xiu and Shen Rong may not yet have a clear understanding of Xie Fengnan's power, but Shi Shengshi understands it very well.

The fact that Xie Fengnan could instantly kill three fourth-tier Rakshasa birds with a wave of his hand means that Xie Fengnan himself is at least a sixth-tier combatant.

If it were a fifth-tier bird, it shouldn't have been dealt with so lightly; the Rakshasa bird wouldn't have been completely without any chance of resistance.

Although the gap between ranks is not small, it is sometimes not so large that it makes it impossible to escape.

They couldn't even delay the time of death by a little bit; this is an absolute crushing defeat.

In this world, the difference is only noticeable at the seventh rank and above.

Lion King knew that Xie Fengnan's ability to kill the Rakshasa Bird meant he could also kill it, but he didn't do so, indicating that he had no intention of harming himself.

Deng Xiu had been wondering if Xie Fengnan was some kind of old monster, but Shi Shengshi, with his unique talent, saw through it and realized that Xie Fengnan was really just a sixteen-year-old boy.

It's terrifying that he could reach this level at such a young age.

Even if a lion is stronger than a lion, one can't help but feel envious.

So it decided to fight for itself and its cubs.