Chapter 2362: I

How ironic, how cruelly fate plays its tricks!

At first, the Ten Great Beasts still thought of giving up, but the more they thought, the more they felt it was unacceptable—after all, it was merely Hongjun's seal, and they believed their combined power could break free.

But they did not know that this seal grew harder to escape the more they tried to break it.

"Let's try!"

Even if they didn't know this, they would surely know the other thing.

They had long prepared everything necessary—even the blood left behind by Bai Ze's battle with Tianzhu Xuanwu, they had prepared to mix into it.

Zhu Yan said: "No matter the outcome, as long as we've tried, that's enough!"

"Come on!"

At his command, all the beasts transformed into their true forms, repeatedly striking the seal with their bodies—each impact caused them excruciating pain.

But this pain could not compare to their longing for freedom.

The most violent collisions came from Teng She!

Yet the seal remained utterly unmoved; after nearly fifteen minutes of battering, their bodies were covered in wounds, and even with the combined strength of the Ten Great Beasts, they could not produce even a single crack.

Those fifteen minutes felt like a full thousand years—they were truly in agony.

Seeing Ying Long lying on the ground, his face pale, Zhu Yan immediately ordered them to stop.

"Stop!"

"I can feel that since Luo Fu the Sage appeared, the seal's power has weakened—perhaps because Luo Fu the Sage suppressed him."

Zhu Yan spat out blood and said: "This time, we cannot break it open, but it has already loosened!"

Teng She also nodded, spitting out two mouthfuls of blood—he had taken far more impacts.

"Zhu Yan is right. I can also feel the seal nearby beginning to loosen."

"As long as we can obtain the Linglong Pagoda, everything can be restored—we will gain our freedom!"

Teng She's words lit up every beast present.

But they no longer had the strength to go and break the seal—they could only wait for the next time.

"Let's rest first. Nearly a thousand years have passed—how many more millennia are there in this Primordial Chaos? We can wait." Ying Long clenched his fists and said.

To cooperate with Luo Fu, there must be a basis and possibility for cooperation.

Zhu Yan could not persuade Luo Fu, but he was willing to try.

"Can we find out where that power originates? We'll go investigate there—Ying Long and Jin Wu, you two will guard this Rock Cave."

"I'll guard it."

Bi Fang said: "Let Jin Wu carry Ying Long back—he needs to heal his wounds first."

"Alright."

Ying Long gave Bi Fang a grateful glance, nodded to him, and returned.

He himself had been injured by the Demon-Sealing Array, and now he tried again to smash the seal—clearly, they all understood his limits, so they wouldn't easily go near him.

To prepare for all this, they each needed to find the right opportunity to act.

"Fine!"

"Let's go search. If we can find Luo Fu the Sage, we'll speak with him—perhaps then they'll know what to do next."

"We Ten Great Beasts only seek freedom—we won't disrupt the order of the Primordial Chaos."

Zhu Yan and Teng She thought this way, but the creatures of the Primordial Chaos did not.