Chapter 1690: The Treacherous Shall Die

The Beast Realm lies on the inverse side of the myriad heavens and worlds, its territory immense, arguably encompassing a significant portion of the universe. This boundless expanse entirely belongs to the Beast Realm.

Yet, Youdu had never existed within the Beast Realm.

But then, as Little Earth Count performed his ritual, Youdu finally manifested in the Beast Realm.

This manifested Youdu was minuscule, almost pitifully so, yet it was perfectly adequate.

As this tiny Youdu materialized, Little Earth Count sensed it forge a link with a vast and profound existence.

The entity was so colossal and its power so immense that Little Earth Count blinked and flicked the ox tail behind him.

Zhu Hongyu, the Dragon Qilin's daughter, watched his tail curiously and quietly touched it.

"Maha!" Little Earth Count told her with great seriousness.

"Understood, Uncle..." Zhu Hongyu replied, standing aside with a wronged expression.

At that very moment, the small Youdu suddenly expanded, rapidly swelling in an instant. It broke free from the constraints of the divine sense cage, and within a mere moment, it grew to half the size of the Primordial Realm!

The Beast Realm's Youdu overlapped with the Beast Realm itself. While the Beast Realm was home to ancient giant beasts of immense, boundless power, some not inferior to cultivators at the Emperor's Throne realm, they only perceived a slight anomaly when the Youdu manifested, unable to discern its origin.

In the Beast Realm's Celestial Palace, Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao also detected a peculiar wave of intrusion that caused his primordial spirit to waver. However, the next moment, everything returned to calm, leaving him surprised.

"What happened?" he wondered.

Being a cautious individual, he knew that even a subtle fluctuation could disrupt the Beast Realm's Great Dao of Heaven and Earth. An entity of his power was exceptionally sensitive to such anomalies.

With his incredibly powerful divine sense, he immediately probed the void for millions of miles in every direction, searching from the first layer all the way to the thirty-fifth. Yet, he still found nothing amiss.

"The Beast Realm's Great Dao of Heaven and Earth seems to have suddenly expanded," he mused. "But where did the increased Dao go?"

No sooner had he finished this thought than, with his nine heads and eighteen eyes, everything before him plunged into darkness!

Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's body stiffened, standing rigid in the boundless darkness.

A sense of dread filled his heart; at that moment, he had lost all sensation of his physical body!

He could no longer feel where his body was!

It was his primordial spirit that now stood in the darkness. His immensely powerful physical body had unknowingly separated from his primordial spirit, and he hadn't even perceived when this separation occurred!

The eighteen eyes of his primordial spirit, like colossal suns, emitted endless fiery light, attempting to dispel the surrounding darkness.

His divine powers were immense; if he were to pluck out his physical eyes and place them in the universe, they would truly be suns.

Though his primordial spirit was not as formidable as his physical body, it contained an incredibly powerful divine sense; if it were to visualize, creating constellations would be effortless.

Yet, this darkness was extraordinarily bizarre. It absorbed the divine light emitted by his eyes, preventing his gaze from illuminating the surroundings!

"Earth Count!"

Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's hair stood on end as he suddenly remembered the Creator's natural enemy.

As an ancient god-king, Long Xiao was worshipped by the Creators to specifically restrain ancient gods. He could suppress everyone from Heavenly Duke and Earth Mother to Empress Tianyin and the Four Emperors of the Ancient Gods.

Only one ancient god defied his suppression, even managing to suppress him in return!

Earth Count, the master of death, was the only one who could strip his spirit from his body, causing him to unknowingly fall into Youdu!

However...

"The Beast Realm has no Youdu; Earth Count cannot descend!"

Long Xiao's eyes widened, his nine heads cautiously surveying his surroundings, terror filling his heart. "And Earth Count is already dead!" he thought.

In the darkness before him, butterfly-shaped patterns suddenly spread outwards, constantly changing and growing larger.

Then, in the center of the patterns, a vertical eyelid slowly parted.

Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's heart pounded wildly. The natural suppression of his nemesis made his soul tremble, rendering him unable to muster any thought of resistance. He could only stare blankly at this vertical eye.

Just then, more butterfly-shaped patterns emerged from the darkness, revealing a pair of eyes positioned below the vertical one.

As that pair of eyes opened, karmic flames blazed within them, appearing as if the souls of countless beings, gods, and devils were tormented, struggling, and roaring in a sea of karmic fire.

The endless demonic and distracting thoughts of all beings caused Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's divine sense to instantly become incredibly chaotic and unable to coalesce.

Before him, three eyes successively opened, revealing the face of a young man in the darkness.

"Heavenly Venerate Mu?"

Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao was stunned. The face was almost identical to Qin Mu's, yet younger. What was more bizarre was that this Qin Mu had a pair of long, winding horns on his head, and lava from the depths of the myriad heavens and worlds flowed down them like a river.

A resonant hum filled the air.

A tremendous hum filled the air as six enormous wheels of reincarnation emerged from the darkness, rotating in different directions.

"No, it's Heavenly Venerate Mu's biological elder brother!"

When the Little Earth Count pact was initially signed, Qin Mu had told Long Xiao that Little Earth Count was his biological elder brother, brutal by nature, and that even he feared him somewhat.

At the time, Long Xiao had dismissed this as a joke. Later, upon seeing the tiny Little Earth Count living in the Dragon Qilin's ear, he assumed that creature was the one Qin Mu referred to.

He never expected that Qin Mu actually had a brother who looked almost exactly like him!

Oddly, Qin Mu appeared to be many years older than his brother.

Faint Youdu demonic whispers emanated from all around, sounding like the tiny Little Earth Count beside the Dragon Qilin, reciting something.

Qin Fengqing remained silent, listening intently. Only when the voice finished reciting the Little Earth Count Pact did he finally speak: "Long Xiao, you have violated the pact twice. Today is the time for you to fulfill it. Do you have anything more to say?"

Suppressing the fear in his heart, Long Xiao let out a defiant laugh. "I am the chief of the ancient god-kings, who has suppressed the ancient gods of all heavens since ancient times! Now I am also the master of the Beast Realm, a Heavenly Venerate of the Celestial Heavens! You mere child, you haven't even fully matured, yet you dream of taking my life?"

He forcibly activated his primordial spirit and mobilized his divine sense to attack Qin Fengqing, while simultaneously frantically trying to sense his physical body!

His physical body was incredibly powerful; it had been thrown into the Return to Ruins for suppression, yet he had managed to retrieve it. If he could sense his physical body now, he figured this Little Earth Count would be no match for him!

The lava on Qin Fengqing's horns flowed even faster as he slowly extended a hand, reaching for Long Xiao.

The distracting and demonic thoughts of all beings emanated from Long Xiao's nine heads, disrupting his mind and consciousness and preventing him from mobilizing his divine sense abilities. Seeing Qin Fengqing's large hand reaching for him, he instantly lost his previous bravado and turned to flee!

However, the space he occupied was extraordinarily peculiar; no matter which direction he fled, Qin Fengqing and the Six Paths Heavenly Wheels remained perpetually before him.

He agitated his primordial spirit, frantically attacking Qin Fengqing, intending to kill him with the sheer might of his primordial spirit.

Yet, no matter how he attacked, his blows had no effect on Qin Fengqing. Qin Fengqing's palm still seized his nine necks, lifting him up.

"Stop!"

Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's eyes rolled back from the pressure, and he quickly pleaded, "Stop! I surrender! I surrender to Heavenly Venerate Mu!"

Qin Fengqing shook his head. "Youdu has its rules. Once a pact is signed, there is no turning back. Those who betray their word shall die."

Qin Fengqing opened his mouth wide. Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao watched in terror as he was brought into it, his voice piercing: "If my physical body were still here, I wouldn't die by your hand! I refuse to accept this!"

Gulp.

Qin Fengqing swallowed him, and his three eyes slowly closed one by one.

"Your physical body was always there," he said. "You and I, right now, are within your physical body."

His body slowly faded away, and the Six Paths Heavenly Wheels also slowly vanished into the darkness. "Long Xiao," he stated, "you are one who clings to delusion."

As the darkness dispersed, Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao's immensely massive physical body was seen coiled within the Celestial Palace, his long necks towering into the sky outside. His eyes were wide open, as if searching for something.

Suddenly, his body went limp, his nine heads drooped listlessly, and his long necks became incredibly soft.

His heads began to fall from the sky, their eyes still wide and blazing with fire, like eighteen suns plummeting to the ground.

However, he was completely lifeless.

He had violated the Little Earth Count pact. Little Earth Count Qin Fengqing had appeared within his physical body, before his primordial spirit, and directly seized his soul.

The physical body he had desperately sought and tried to sense had, in fact, been there all along.

At this moment, nearly all ancient giant beasts throughout the Beast Realm, wherever they were, involuntarily looked up.

In the sky, eighteen suns plummeted. Long Xiao's necks and heads successively crashed into his Celestial Palace, toppling one palace after another.

Long Xiao was dead.

His magnificent Celestial Palace, built with countless treasures from the ancestral court, was shattered, collapsing and splitting apart.

The Celestial Palace then plummeted from the sky, crashing towards the ground.

Within the divine sense cage, the Dragon Qilin suddenly prostrated himself and wept loudly, for he had sensed the death of his adopted father.

Inside the palace, countless strange beasts scattered and fled as the Celestial Palace collapsed and plunged from a great height. For the giant beasts unable to fly, only death awaited them.

The kings among the giant beasts guarding the divine sense cage also scattered like headless flies. Many giant beasts leaped directly from the edge of the Celestial Palace, only to plummet to a mangled death!

Remaining in the Celestial Palace was even more terrifying. As the magnificent palace collapsed, its towering buildings and crumbling halls often crushed the giant beasts beneath them, shattering their bodies!

The Dragon Qilin rose, wiped away his tears, and let out a low, strange roar.

Outside the divine sense cage, a gigantic Void Mother Beast suddenly emerged from the void, waving its sharp claws to tear open the cage.

The Dragon Qilin led Little Earth Count and his children out of the cage and climbed onto the head of the unparalleled Void Mother Beast. Suddenly, he shook his body, revealing his true form: a colossal creature a thousand miles long, with a qilin head and a dragon tail. He roared skyward, his dragon's roar echoing endlessly!

Across the Beast Realm, countless giant beasts suddenly stood upright, their bodies swaying as they transformed into colossal, heaven-reaching giants with beast heads and human bodies!

Tremendous thudding sounds emanated from within them, as if layers of divine treasures were opening, one after another.

These ancient giant beast divine ability practitioners stepped onto auspicious clouds, rising into the air and flying towards the plummeting Celestial Palace. One giant after another used their hands and shoulders to support the falling Beast Clan's Celestial Palace, gradually slowing its descent.

Finally, the Celestial Palace ceased its descent and began to ascend.

Many of these Beast Clan divine ability practitioners were disciples of Lan Yutian, cultivating unique paths. These cultivators had later left the Ancestral Court's Great Black Mountain and followed the Dragon Qilin into the Beast Realm.

Here, the Dragon Qilin led them in combining the Divine Treasure Heavenly Palace cultivation system with the unique characteristics and strengths of the Beast Clan, forging a distinct civilization for the beasts.

Over the years, he had made significant progress.

The Beast Clan's Celestial Palace returned to its original place. The Dragon Qilin stood amidst the cloud-shrouded palace, with Long Xiao's colossal corpse behind him.

In the ruins of the Beast Clan's Celestial Palace, giant beasts shook off rubble and pillars from their bodies. These were the kings of various Beast Realm tribes, possessing power second only to Heavenly Venerate Long Xiao, ruling their respective races.

One giant beast king after another stepped forward, stopping before the Void Mother Beast and looking up at the Dragon Qilin standing on its head.

Suddenly, one ancient beast king bent its front knees and knelt.

Behind it, one ancient beast king after another bowed their heads and knelt.

The Dragon Qilin let out a long, clear, and deep dragon's roar that echoed throughout the mountains and wilderness.

The ancient beast kings looked up, and from their mouths came deep, prolonged roars and bellows that shook the mountains and stars.

On this day, the old master of the Beast Realm passed, and a new master was born.