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Chapter 16: Deceived! Zhun Ti, You Are Ruthless! The Beast King Qiong Qi!

As Yuan Lian was observing the battle and thinking, the battle was about to come to an end.

The two Innate Sacred Beings at the mid-stage Golden Immortal Realm did their best, showing all their supernatural powers and spiritual treasures.

A ferocious beast in the mid-stage Golden Immortal realm found it hard to resist; even if it fought fearlessly, it would eventually be suppressed to death.

If it weren’t for the terrifying destructive power of the Law of the Chaos Demon God, Zhun Ti and Fei Lian would not have dared to risk injury to deliver the killing blow.

This ferocious beast may have already returned to Heaven and Earth.

But even so, it was seriously injured and dying, its flesh and blood collapsed, and the black blood was sprinkled all over the mountains, burning the earth into blackness.

“It’s a pity to lose this drop of Demon God’s blood.” Yuan Lian did not show up for the time being.

In this situation, it was already impossible for Yuan Lian to obtain this drop of Demon God’s blood.

Even if managed to grab it by surprise, it would probably be difficult to escape.

He didn’t want to try whether the current Gold Immortal Rank White Lotus could resist the siege of two Sacred Beings of the same realm.

Moreover, it’s not worth taking such a risk for just a drop of Demon God’s blood.

It may be worth a try for the spirit treasure in their hand.

Yuan Lian looked at the Seven Treasures Wonderful Tree in Zhun Ti’s hand with some greedy eyes, and he faintly felt the Proto-Qi of Gold within it.

It’s a pity that there are too little of it, far from enough to refine into a complete essence of Proto-Qi of Gold.

“Well, it’s better to make friends with them first, and then think of a way to trade for a branch.”

BOOM!!!

Zhun Ti, who knocked the beast into the air with another blow, suddenly frowned, and subconsciously glanced around.

“It seems that there was a faint malice spying on this Daoist just now?” Zhun Ti’s spiritual thoughts were released, covering hundreds of millions of miles in an instant, but nothing was found.

“Two fellow Daoists.” At this moment, Yuan Lian came out of the Pocket Dimension and looked at the two with a smile on his face.

“Where did you come from?”

Zhun Ti and Fei Lian looked at Yuan Lian vigilantly and said in unison.

The ferocious beast was about to die, and suddenly a mid-stage Golden Immortal Sacred Being appeared, so they had to guard against him.

“Fellow Daoist, don’t be alarmed, I won’t snatch your prey, I just want to get acquainted with you.”

Yuan Lian didn’t move a single step, and projected his kindness to the maximum extent.

“Good.” After Zhun Ti finished speaking, he was ready to kill the beast.

But suddenly, his complexion changed drastically, and then he recovered in an instant.

“Fei Lian, I’ll give you this beast. I still have something to do.”

After finishing speaking, before Fei Lian could react, Zhun Ti flew a million miles away in an instant.

“???”

Yuan Lian was also a little dazed, just now he was fighting to death with this ferocious, and now he just turned his head and didn’t want it?

“Old Thief, Zhun Ti, you dare to trick me!!!”

Fei Lian was also wondering, just when he was about to kill the beast, he suddenly felt a terrifying murderous aura coming.

In that instant, he was jolted out of his bloodlust, which was an Innate Divine Instinct to warn against a crisis.

This is the crisis of falling!

“Damn! F*** this Primordial World is too dangerous!”

Yuan Lian reacted extremely quickly, and immediately returned to the Pocket Dimension, and then let Penglai Immortal Island flow in the void turbulence, not daring to leak a trace of energy.

Fei Lian even increased his speed to the extreme, cutting through the space directly.

The next moment

“Hey!!! You dare to hunt and kill the king’s subordinates? How courageous! Die!!”

Before Yuan Lian could enter the Pocket Dimension, the furious roar that resounded through the Heaven and the Earth had spread across hundreds of millions of miles and reached the original battlefield.

The extremely cold killing intent froze the space, cut off the flow of time, and directly annihilated the fierce beast that was already on the verge of death.

Only a drop of bright blood remained, being sucked into nothingness and carried away by the turbulent flow of time and space.

Qiong Qi doesn’t care about the life and death of a mere ferocious beast, but if others dare to hunt it down, it is challenging his majesty.

This could never be tolerated!

In the next moment, a terrifying giant beast with a huge body appeared.

It was like a bull or a tiger, with wings on its back, its face was ferocious and terrifying, and its eyes were full of endless destruction and killing intent.

In the Pocket Dimension, Yuan Lian, who was hidden observed surrounding and looked worriedly at the Huang Zhongli.

At that moment just now, he felt the terrifying divine consciousness sweeping past. Fortunately, the Huang Zhongli blocked it with immeasurable Dao accumulation, and he was able to escape the detection of this Beast King.

Roar!!

Qiong Qi glanced at the space around him suspiciously, slapped out with his claws casually, and then followed Fei Lian’s residual aura to chase after him.

Boom!!

Yuan Lian felt a monstrous force coming, and the space around the Pocket Dimension, where he was hiding was directly torn apart.

He hastily operated the formation to resist Qiong Qi’s casual blow.

In the next moment, a turbulent flow of wind gushed out from the shattered space, swept the Pocket Dimension inside, and fell into the gap of time and space.

“Did I almost die just now?”

“Damn it! Zhun Ti, you’re ruthless!”

Yuan Lian reacted in fear, he was almost killed.

He originally planned to make friends with good intentions and find a way to make a deal.

But when they first met, he was almost killed.

Even if Yuan Lian thinks differently, in that case Zhun Ti might have just wanted to run away by himself.

But that’s not important, the important thing was that he almost died!

After a while, Yuan Lian calmed down.

“This Qiong Qi, the King of Beasts that Zhun Ti mentioned! It’s actually sentient?!”

With just one glance at its retreating back, Yuan Lian had already confirmed that it was indeed Qiong Qi.

What surprised him was that Qiong Qi was actually a sentient beast.

You know, he also understands a little about the laws of the Chaos Demon God.

The laws and power left by the chaos will collapse the rational consciousness of all those who have been eroded, and they will completely fall into the madness of destruction.

Unexpectedly, today, he saw such an exception as Qiong Qi.

“Since Qiong Qi can retain consciousness, does the legendary Beast Emperor God Shen Ni also retain consciousness?”

“And can this method of keeping the beast conscious be promoted?”

“Can they control unconscious beasts?”

“How many fierce beasts have rational consciousness?”

The innate divine soul is powerful, allowing his thoughts to expand infinitely. It’s just that the more Yuan Lian thought about it, the more terrifying he felt.

“If those ferocious beasts are still conscious and rational, who can stop them?!”

It’s like Yuan Lian can use the advantages of supernatural powers and spirit treasures to kill fierce beasts of the same realm.

But if the ferocious beast has rational consciousness, let alone the same realm, even if it is a ferocious beast that is a small realm lower, he would not dare say that it is a sure victory.

“No, it’s too dangerous. In the future, I can’t just hunt and kill ferocious beasts. It’s best to find some Innate Sacred cultivators like Zhun Ti and Fei Lian.”

“In this way, when encountering a crisis, I can also increase the chance of escape.”

A ferocious beast has no intelligence, so it is destined to be the prey of the Innate Sacred Beings and become the food for cultivation.

But when the ferocious beast has intelligence, it will be completely different.

Who is the hunter and who is the prey is still unknown!

Yuan Lian had some doubts before that an Innate Sacred Beings like Zhun Ti was supposed to be enough to rule the Primordial World, so why would he form an alliance.

Now Yuan Lian finally understands, with such a dangerous beast by his side, alone, it is easy to be beaten to death!

Thinking about it carefully, there are almost no characters who can dominate the Primordial World and become the top group of powerhouses alone.

For example, the Fuxi and Nuwa brothers and sisters, the Three Pure Ones, and Jieyin and Zhun Ti, who are not real brothers but are better than real brothers.

There also the group of Di Jun and Tai Yi who were very popular for a while, and the Twelve Ancestral Witches even made their debut directly.

Not to mention, the kinship of the Qilin, phoenixes, and Dragon clans.

At this moment, Yuan Lian decided to find a team to mix in first.

Under the condition of ensuring one’s own safety, he would then plan for the Proto-Qi of Gold from Zhun Ti.

“Fei Lian, just don’t die.” Yuan Lian silently prayed for him.

Compared with the alliance that Zhun Ti is in, he is more willing to join Fei Lian’s side.

Originally, he planned to make a deal with the quasi-submit, and then look for opportunities to trade, but now he has changed his mind.

Thinking back to before, Zhun Ti clearly sensed Qiong Qi’s aura first, and he just fooled Fei Lian before leaving in a hurry.

‘I’m afraid the purpose is to put Fei Lian in the back and effectively block Qiong Qi’s pursuit.’

As long as Fei Lian doesn’t fall, Fei Lian will definitely do his best if he wants to survive.

This is a natural ally!

“It’s too dangerous outside now, and I just got a lot of spiritual materials recently, so let’s take advantage of this time to cultivate hard.”

Putting away his thoughts, Yuan Lian decided not to go out for the time being.

Before leaving the Primordial West, such a terrifying existence appeared. Think about how many terrifying existences there must be in the vast expanse of the Primordial World.

This is definitely not cowardice.

This is maturity.

Time flies and never stops.

“The Wood Qi has increased, and the Water Qi just follows behind, and my spirit energy has increased by more than ten times.”

After consuming all the wood and water attribute spiritual roots, Yuan Lian carefully felt the changes in his cultivation.

The reason why the Water Qi grew so fast was due to the three Flat Peaches from Yaochi.

Although those spirit treasures were not the Proto-Qi of Renshui, they also contained extremely rich Renshui Qi.

“The road is long and long!” Yuan Lian sighed sincerely.

Before Yuan Lian knew it, it had been a long, long time since he came to this Primordial place.

It was so long that he almost forgot the short and negligible time in his previous life.

“Although the Primordial World is dangerous, it is also very exciting!”

“It’s time to go out.”

(End of this chapter)

Mythological tidbits:

Qiong Qi (穷奇), often translated as “Distressingly Strange” or “Winged Tiger,” is one of the infamous Four Perils (Si Xiong) in Chinese mythology, representing chaos and deviousness.

In classic texts like the Classic of Mountains and Seas, it is typically depicted as a winged tiger (or sometimes an ox with porcupine quills) that feeds on humans. Unlike normal predators, Qiong Qi is morally inverted: it actively hunts and eats the righteous and loyal—often biting off their noses—while rewarding the wicked and encouraging evil deeds. Legend states it was eventually banished by the sage Emperor Shun to the outer frontiers to repel demons.

For more details, you can visit the Qiong Qi Mythlok Entry.

Four Perils of Chinese Mythology

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