Chapter 253: The Beast Beasts

The newly risen Void Transcender of the human race has perished.

When that single finger descended from beyond the heavens, every living being within the Beast God Realm witnessed the scene—

It was a single finger covered in purple scales, ancient and primordial, as if crossing over from primordial mythology.

Brilliant radiance, blazing like the morning sun, erupted with infinite power—ten thousand combined Void Transcenders could not match its ten-thousandth part; the crimson-gold sword-light shattered the night sky, illuminating the heavens.

Yet, before that primordial, ancient finger, the blazing radiance that lit the night was effortlessly crushed.

As if merely poking through a fragile bubble…

Even the Dao essence left behind by Xi was directly taken away by that finger.

It was as if it had been deliberately shown to every living being in the Beast God Realm.

The gap between Tongxuan and Immortal is simply too vast, too vast.

This event plunged the once highly spirited human race back into despair.

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The Sacred Site of the Legacy.

Compared to several centuries ago, little had changed here.

Only the deep pavilions and jade towers upheld by Xuanlight had gained several more levels, and the pearl palaces and shell halls suspended in the high heavens had added several more courtyards.

At the highest point, a fiery sphere resembling the morning sun churned with rolling waves of flame, its light illuminating all of this world.

Though it had lost Xi's Dao essence, after years of Dao essence radiation, it had become an artifact comparable to a Soul Transformation.

Within, another universe existed.

Crimson-gold light flowed, casting everything in brilliant radiance.

There sat a figure clad in plain black robes, her snow-white hair cascading down her back, spreading out like a veil.

The ever-present brilliant light glowed upon her, golden and radiant, like flowing fire—yet her ice-blue eyes remained clear and pure.

But now, those clear, pure ice-blue eyes carried sorrow and confusion.

The human race's hard-won Void Transcender had perished…

On this very day, Xili ascended to the Void Transcendence realm through the Dao of 【Yin】 and 【Sword】.

Her earlier haste for advancement was the price she had to pay.

Yet after her ascension, she felt no joy whatsoever—only unceasing sorrow, a hollow emptiness, as if she had forgotten something profoundly important.

Even she did not know why, immediately after ascending to Void Transcendence, she had come here without hesitation.

This place, once radiated by Xi's Dao essence, where her inherited 【Yin】 and 【Sword】 clashed violently.

"The fallen Void Transcender…"

She strained to recall, to remember everything about that Void Transcender.

Yet no matter how hard she tried, all she could recall was the simple thought: "The human race had produced a Void Transcender."

Who was that Void Transcender? What was his name? Who were his friends and kin…

All of it—she could not remember a single detail.

It was as if everything concerning that Void Transcender had been erased; only the single fact of his death remained in heaven and earth, proving that such a Void Transcender had once existed.

Long silence…

Xili's sorrow deepened, and tears welled involuntarily in her eyes—tears like ice crystals, chilling to the bone, falling into the churning flames.

Ech~

A black spot instantly appeared in the crimson-gold space.

Xili snapped back to awareness, wiped away her tears, then rose to her feet and stepped through the flames toward the exit.

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The erasure of a True Immortal upon lower beings, if unopposed by an equal-level force, is fundamentally irreversible.

Not even Void Transcenders, Dao-Union, Tongxuan, or even Dongzhen could ever recall a being erased in such a manner.

But perhaps Xi's Dao essence stirred the Beast God, or perhaps to strike at the remaining humans—

Hun Tian Yi had left behind a trace.

Otherwise, no living being in the Beast God Realm would have remembered that a Void Transcender had ever been born among the humans.

New Calendar 986.

The Beast God race launched another great purge; the human race, powerless to resist, could only flee and hide.

Most high-level human cultivators perished in this purge. Fortunately, there were human moles embedded among the upper echelons of the Beast God race.

With their aid, the humans preserved a small seed of survival.

New Calendar 993.

Everything had returned to how it began.

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The Beast God Elder Council.

Within a vast estate, lavishly decorated, a gathering was underway.

Today was the birthday banquet of Tai Shang Lao Lao—"Fu"—a former Grand Elder of the Beast God Elder Council who had served multiple terms, the only one in twenty thousand years to receive divine favor, hailed as the "most capable leader" in the past ten thousand years of the Beast God race.

Her legendary life story had made her the most revered being in the Beast God race, second only to the Beast God itself.

!. Du

What?

You disagree with this?

Are you questioning the great Beast God Lord's judgment?

In this age where Hun Tian Yi frequently reveals divine might, not a single beast in the Beast God Clan would dare say such a thing.

Thus, at this birthday banquet, every guest without exception is of high rank and great talent.

Only the very top tier of the Beast God Clan are worthy to attend this birthday banquet.

On the top floor, upon the balcony.

A simple white round table, with only two chairs beside it.

Every beast in the Beast God Clan knows this place serves only Fú's closest friend and most steadfast supporter—Ming.

At this moment, Ming leaned back in the chair, flipping through a thick book.

The faint scent of paper mingled with ink, delightfully pleasant.

"Fú, your biography has a new edition—would you like to take a look?"

After closing the book, Ming handed it over.

Yet Fú—also known as Fu Mu—accepted it but did not open it; instead, she placed it directly in the center of the round table.

"Most of it's fabricated. What's there to see?"

She had no interest in reading how the Beast God Clan boasted about her, how she supposedly crushed the human race so terribly.

"All these years, you've grown increasingly humble."

Ming retrieved the biography from the table and carefully put it away.

Over these years, she had deliberately collected every biography about this friend of hers.

"Humble? I simply know my own limits. I'm nowhere near as powerful as those books claim—I know best what I've actually done."

Compared to the senior elders who tirelessly planned for the Beast God Clan's future, her conduct was nothing short of dragging them backward.

But the world is just that surreal.

A human spy who spent every effort to drag them backward became the most renowned being in the Beast God Clan—simply because she possessed one of the Beast God's scales.

Sigh~

The world truly is a giant makeshift stage.

"Many now hope you'll run for the next senior elder," Ming smiled.

"Forget it."

Fu Mu waved her hand in refusal.

She had already risen too high; every move she made was watched. If she were to take the senior elder position again…

Even Hun Tian Yi might take notice.

Then it would become even harder for her to secretly aid the human race.

"True. You've served as senior elder long enough—you must be tired," Ming glanced at the sky. "Perhaps in a while, we could…"

Her words were cut short.

Boom—!

A thunderous roar, as if rising from the world's depths or beyond it, interrupted her.

Following it came a cold voice, utterly unhidden in its loathing.

"Beast filth—still as repulsive as ever!" (End of Chapter)