Chapter 246

A cultivator of the Beast God Clan at the Return to Void realm was slain by the human race!

Two months after Xu Xing arrived in the Beast God Realm, news erupted like a storm, sending shockwaves through the entire Beast God Clan's upper echelons!

In this realm, where Dao Union no longer exists and Return to Void is the highest rank below the Beast God, a Return to Void cultivator of the Beast God Clan had fallen at the hands of their mortal enemies, the humans!

The human race, already weakened to the brink of extinction, still had a Return to Void cultivator among them?!

But…

Why did the Dao Net give no feedback whatsoever?

How did he evade the Dao Net's lock?!)

More than the mere existence of a Return to Void human, the Dao Net's failure sent the Beast God Clan's upper ranks into panic.

Thus, the proposal that Liao had submitted multiple times and been repeatedly rejected was revived—and passed swiftly.

And it passed unanimously!

But when the Beast God Clan's elders, carrying the approved proposal, went to find Liao, they discovered he was gone.

He had already taken Ming with him to pursue and eliminate that human Return to Void cultivator, refusing to return no matter how they tried to contact him.

Clearly, Liao was furious over their prior actions.

The elders of the Beast God Realm had no way to stop him—he had already reached perfect Return to Void—so they instead sent two other Return to Void cultivators of the Beast God Clan to communicate with the Beast God and inquire about the Dao Net.

Yet at this moment, the Beast God was locked in battle with Hun Tian Yi, both desperately seeking to annihilate the other.

The two Return to Void cultivators had barely established contact before their minds were corrupted by the Beast God's frenzied will.

Their spiritual souls fell into ruin, their bodies twisted and swollen into two monstrous horrors—mindless, indiscriminate killing machines.

Only after the loss of one Return to Void cultivator and three others severely wounded were the two creatures, warped by Hun Tian Yi's insane will, finally subdued.

After this incident, the proposal to communicate with the Beast God about the Dao Net was scrapped.

One glance kills—who would risk their life on such a gamble?!

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The Sacred Ground of the Heir, a blazing fireball burning high above.

Amidst a sea of crimson-gold radiance, Xu Xing sat suspended atop the flame waves, a brilliant, luminous point hovering in his palm.

Chong Ming, Jing Yao, and Fu Mu stood respectfully before him.

A month ago, Fu Guang, who had been traveling to spread teachings, encountered a mechanized squad of the Beast God Clan. To cover the retreat of the humans behind him, he cast a spell to alter their perception and make them leave.

After all, the Beast God Clan was at its peak, while the human race was still gathering strength—open confrontation was unwise.

But he did not know that the mechanized squad's armor was equipped with an abnormal state detection module, linked via newly developed spiritual-nexus crystals capable of connecting up to the squad's highest commanding officer.

That is, a Return to Void cultivator of the Beast God Clan.

Upon sensing something amiss, the Beast God Clan's Return to Void cultivator immediately crossed space to arrive.

Caught off guard, Fu Guang crushed the entire mechanized squad, severed the transmitted signal, then assumed the appearance of a Beast God Clan member and engaged the Return to Void cultivator in fierce combat.

The entire thousand-li radius was reduced to barren wasteland by their clash.

In the end, Fu Guang, a perfect Return to Void cultivator, personally killed the Beast God Clan's Return to Void cultivator.

But the mechanized squad's armor was equipped with the Beast God Clan's newly developed 947th-generation encrypted information transmission technology—so Fu Guang's attempt to sever the signal failed.

His identity as a human was thus exposed.

The Beast God Clan's dominance over the human race for so many years was not merely due to the quantity and quality of their cultivators.

Now, the Beast God Clan has dispatched three Return to Void cultivators at perfect realm, each leading a full mechanized war regiment, to hunt down Fu Guang and exterminate the remaining humans!

This is why the three of them stand before him today.

They too must leave!

Previously, they had no choice but to linger under Xi's Dao essence radiance, wasting time. Now that their friend and kin face imminent peril, they could no longer remain here in peace.

Yet Xu Xing, as before, did not interfere with their decision.

"Since you're all leaving, I'll give you a method to save your lives."

The brilliant luminous point in his palm trembled slightly; three streaks of light shot forth, spiraling toward the three.

These past days, he had studied Hun Tian Yi of this realm using Xi's Dao essence—and gained some insight.

The streaks landed on their foreheads, becoming crimson-red sword marks.

"Should you face mortal peril, use this sword to break free."

Fu Mu instinctively touched his forehead, then bowed with the other two.

"Thank you, Elder."

"Go."

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Xu Xing waved his hand—the three vanished instantly.

Through the Dao essence left by Xi, he had deduced a fragment of Hun Tian Yi's fundamental power.

Using it as camouflage, wrapping a layer of "shell," he could partially conceal his own power signature.

Of course, each use accelerated Hun Tian Yi's awakening.

When it fully awoke and descended personally, he would have no choice but to unleash this sword.

Thoughts flashed like lightning; Xu Xing raised his hand slightly, and the Dao essence point in his palm rose, returning to its original position.

"The first clash has already occurred. Soon comes the most brutal, yet most brilliant moment."

The Beast God Clan's supremacy needs no elaboration.

But the human race, with my support and their remaining reserves, is not without resistance.

Xu Xing's gaze descended, piercing through the roaring flame waves, falling upon the human cultivators within the Secret Realm—some high, some low in cultivation.

Then he gazed farther away, seeing the humans who cautiously sought survival, struggling to live in the Boundless Beast God Realm.

Many had already embarked on the path of cultivation after receiving the cultivation method and Dao lineage passed down by Fuguang.

Some among them, bold to an extraordinary degree, had already killed Beast God clan members and seized the Beast God clan's "Fa."

And after killing them, they donned their skins and infiltrated Beast God clan society.

Like wolves in sheep's clothing slipping into a flock, or venomous snakes lurking in mud, they sheathed their fangs, waiting for the right moment.

"This is truly…"

Like the Xiangfan Sect.

"But in the end, it's merely a matter of opposing sides—what is their enemy is our hero."

From the standpoint of the Beast God clan, this act was no different from demonic behavior.

But from Xu Xing's standpoint, some of these youngsters' performances were astonishing.

If they did not die prematurely, they were destined to shine brilliantly in the brilliant yet brutal era to come.

He suddenly recalled a passage.

The world always waits through long, meaningless stretches of emptiness before arriving at truly gripping historical moments, and those destined to shine all appear together in these rare and precious instants!

"What a nostalgic scene…"

With a soft sigh, Xu Xing withdrew his gaze and looked toward the vast, shadowy figure above the world, immense and radiating boundless madness.

The crimson longsword behind him trembled slightly, as if also anticipating the day it would be drawn. (End of Chapter)