Chapter 1671: The Breaker of Faith Shall Die
The Beast Realm lay on the reverse side of the myriad heavens, its territory vast beyond measure, occupying nearly half the cosmic universe. Such an immense, boundless domain belonged entirely to the Beast Realm.
Yet, within the Beast Realm, there was no Netherworld.
However, just as Little Earth Lord performed his ritual, the Beast Realm finally gained a Netherworld.
This Netherworld was tiny, pitifully small, but it was sufficient.
When this tiny Netherworld appeared, Little Earth Lord sensed that it had established a connection with a vast and profound existence.
This existence was so majestic, his power so immense, that Little Earth Lord blinked his eyes and flicked the ox tail behind him.
Zhu Hongyu, the daughter of Dragon Qilin, curiously looked at the tail behind him and quietly touched it.
"Maha!" Little Earth Lord said to her with great seriousness.
"I understand, Uncle..." Zhu Hongyu stood to the side, aggrieved.
At that moment, the tiny Netherworld suddenly expanded, rapidly swelling in an instant, breaking free from the constraints of the divine prison, and in a mere blink, it had grown to half the size of the Primordial Realm!
The Beast Realm Netherworld overlapped with the Beast Realm. Among the ancient colossal beasts of the Beast Realm, there were those of boundless power, no less formidable than beings at the Imperial Throne level. Yet, when the Beast Realm Netherworld appeared, they only sensed a slight anomaly, but they could not discern where this anomaly originated.
In the Beast Realm Heavenly Palace, Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable also detected a peculiar wave of disturbance, shaking his primordial spirit. But the next moment, everything returned to calm, and he could not help but feel astonished.
"What happened?"
He was, after all, more cautious. Though this wave was subtle, it stirred the movements of the Heavenly Dao within the Beast Realm. For an existence as powerful as him, such anomalies in the Dao were highly sensitive.
His divine sense was immensely strong, and he immediately released it to probe the void for millions of miles around, searching from the first layer of void all the way to the thirty-fifth layer, yet he still detected nothing amiss.
"It seems the Heavenly Dao of the Beast Realm has suddenly increased, but where have these added Dao gone?"
Just as this thought crossed his mind, suddenly, his nine heads and eighteen eyes—everything before him plunged into darkness!
Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable’s body stiffened, standing upright in the boundless darkness.
A hint of panic arose in his heart. At this moment, he had lost all sensation of his physical body!
He could no longer feel where his body was!
What now stood in the darkness was his primordial spirit. His immensely powerful physical body had somehow separated from his primordial spirit without his knowledge, and he had not even noticed when the separation occurred!
The eyes of his primordial spirit, like eighteen colossal suns, radiated an endless blaze of power, attempting to dispel the surrounding darkness.
His divine abilities were vast. If he were to gouge out the eyes of his physical body and place them in the universe, they would become true suns.
Though his primordial spirit was inferior to his physical body, it contained immensely powerful divine sense. If his primordial spirit were to visualize, creating celestial bodies and stars would be no challenge!
Yet this darkness was extremely peculiar. It absorbed the divine light emitted by his eyes, preventing his gaze from illuminating the surroundings!
"Earth Lord!"
Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable’s hair stood on end, suddenly recalling the natural enemy of the Creator.
As an ancient divine king, Dragon Xiao was worshipped by the Creators, specifically to counter the ancient gods. Whether it was Heaven Father and Earth Mother, Heaven Yin Emperor and Empress, or the Four Ancient God Emperors, all were suppressed by him.
Only one ancient god he could not suppress, and was even suppressed by in return!
Earth Lord. Only Earth Lord, who controlled death, could separate his spirit from his flesh, causing him to unknowingly fall into the Netherworld!
Yet...
"The Beast Realm has no Netherworld; Earth Lord cannot descend!"
Dragon Xiao’s eyes widened, his nine heads cautiously scanning the surroundings, his heart filled with unease: "And Earth Lord is already dead!"
In the darkness before him, butterfly-shaped patterns suddenly spread outward on both sides. These patterns continuously shifted, growing larger and larger.
Then, at the center of the patterns, a vertical eye slowly opened.
Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable’s heart pounded wildly. The natural suppression of his nemesis caused his soul to tremble, unable to muster the will to resist. He could only stare blankly at this vertical eye.
At that moment, more butterfly-shaped patterns emerged from the darkness—a pair of eyes, positioned below the vertical eye.
Those eyes opened, and within them, karmic fire blazed fiercely, as if countless souls of beings, gods, and demons were suffering, struggling, and screaming in the sea of karmic fire within those eyes.
The endless chaotic thoughts and evil intentions of all beings flooded in, instantly throwing Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable’s divine sense into utter chaos, unable to concentrate.
Before him, three eyes opened one after another, and from the darkness emerged the face of a young man.
"Pasture Heavenly Venerable?"
Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable paused. This face was almost identical to Qin Mu’s, but younger. And strangely, this Qin Mu had a pair of long, twisted horns growing from his head, from which magma from the depths of the myriad heavens flowed like rivers.
Hum, hum, hum.
A tremendous noise arose, and from the darkness emerged six massive cycles of reincarnation, spinning in different directions.
"No, it’s Pasture Heavenly Venerable’s twin brother!"
When the Little Earth Lord Pact was signed, Qin Mu had once told Dragon Xiao that Little Earth Lord was his twin brother, born with a ferocious nature, and even he feared this brother somewhat.
At the time, Dragon Xiao had taken it as a joke. Later, when he saw the tiny Little Earth Lord living inside Dragon Qilin’s ear, he assumed that this little fellow was the so-called Little Earth Lord.
He never expected that Qin Mu truly had a brother who looked almost exactly like him!
But oddly, Qin Mu appeared much older than his brother.
From all around came the faint whispers of Netherworld demonic language, sounding like the voice of the tiny Little Earth Lord beside Dragon Qilin, reciting something.
Qin Fengqing remained silent, listening quietly. When the voice finished reciting the Little Earth Lord Pact, he spoke: "Dragon Xiao, you have violated the pact twice. Today, the time has come for you to fulfill it. Do you have anything to say?"
Dragon Xiao suppressed his fear, laughed heartily, and said: "I am the foremost of the ancient divine kings, having suppressed the ancient gods of the heavens since time immemorial. Now I am the Lord of the Beast Realm and a Heavenly Venerable of the Heavenly Court! You, a mere child whose hair hasn’t even grown, dare to take my life?"
He forcibly activated his primordial spirit, mobilizing his divine sense to attack Qin Fengqing, while frantically trying to sense his physical body!
His physical body was immensely powerful. Even when thrown into the Abyss to be suppressed, he could still pull it out. If he could sense his physical body, he believed this Little Earth Lord would be no match for him!
The magma on Qin Fengqing’s twin horns flowed more rapidly as he slowly reached out a hand toward him.
From Dragon Xiao’s nine heads came the chaotic thoughts and evil intentions of all beings, disrupting his consciousness and preventing him from mobilizing his divine sense or divine abilities. Seeing Qin Fengqing’s hand reaching for him, his earlier bravado vanished, and he immediately turned to flee!
But the space he was in was extremely peculiar. No matter which direction he fled, Qin Fengqing and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Wheel were always before him.
He surged his primordial spirit, frantically attacking Qin Fengqing, hoping to kill him with the sheer power of his spirit.
Yet no matter how he attacked, it had no effect on Qin Fengqing. Qin Fengqing’s hand still grabbed his nine necks and lifted him up.
"Stop!"
Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable, his eyes bulging white from the pressure, quickly shouted: "Stop! I surrender! I surrender to Pasture Heavenly Venerable!"
Qin Fengqing shook his head: "The Netherworld has its rules. Once a pact is signed, there is no going back. The breaker of faith shall die."
He opened his mouth wide, and Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable watched in terror as he was sent into it, his voice shrill: "If my physical body were still here, I would not die by your hand! I do not accept—"
Gulp.
Qin Fengqing swallowed him, and his three eyes slowly closed one after another.
"Your physical body has always been here. You and I are currently inside your physical body."
His form slowly faded, and the Six Paths of Reincarnation Wheel also gradually disappeared into the darkness: "Dragon Xiao, you are one who clings to delusion."
The darkness dispersed. Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable’s colossal physical body coiled within the Heavenly Palace, his long necks towering into the sky outside the palace, his eyes wide as if searching for something.
Suddenly, his body lost all strength. His nine heads drooped weakly, his long necks becoming incredibly limp.
His heads fell from the sky, each one with eyes wide open, the flames within them still blazing fiercely, like eighteen suns crashing down from the heavens.
Yet, he had completely lost all signs of life.
He had violated the Little Earth Lord Pact. Little Earth Lord Qin Fengqing had appeared within his physical body, before his primordial spirit, and directly taken his soul.
The physical body he had desperately sought and sensed had always been there.
At that moment, almost all the ancient colossal beasts of the Beast Realm, no matter where they were, involuntarily raised their heads.
In the sky, eighteen suns fell. Dragon Xiao’s necks and heads crashed into his Heavenly Palace, toppling one hall after another.
Dragon Xiao was dead.
His magnificent Heavenly Palace, built with countless treasures from the ancestral lands, was shattered and split apart by his fall.
The Heavenly Palace fell from the sky, crashing toward the ground.
Within the divine prison, Dragon Qilin suddenly fell to the ground, weeping loudly. He sensed the death of his adoptive father.
In the palace, countless strange beasts scattered in panic. The Heavenly Palace collapsed, falling from the heights. Some colossal beasts that could not fly faced only death.
The kings among the beasts guarding the divine prison also fled in all directions like headless flies. Many beasts jumped directly from the edge of the Heavenly Palace, often smashing into bloody pulp!
Staying in the Heavenly Palace was even more terrifying. The palace was collapsing, its majestic structures crumbling. The falling halls often crushed those beasts beneath them, shattering them to pieces!
Dragon Qilin rose, wiped away his tears, and let out a low, strange roar.
Outside the divine prison, a massive void mother beast suddenly poked its head out from the void, brandishing its claws to tear open the prison.
Dragon Qilin, with Little Earth Lord and his children, walked out of the prison and climbed onto the head of the enormous void mother beast. Suddenly, he shook his body, revealing his true form—a colossal creature a thousand miles long with a dragon’s head and a qilin’s tail. He roared up to the sky, his dragon cry echoing endlessly!
On the ground of the Beast Realm, countless colossal beasts suddenly stood upright, shaking their bodies to transform into towering giants with beast heads and human forms!
From within their bodies came booming sounds, like doors opening one after another—the layers of divine treasures within them!
These ancient colossal beast cultivators stepped onto auspicious clouds, soaring into the sky, flying toward the falling Heavenly Palace. One giant after another used their hands and shoulders to support the falling Beast Clan Heavenly Palace, slowing its descent.
Finally, the Heavenly Palace stopped falling and instead began to rise upward.
Many of these beast cultivators were disciples of Lan Yutian, practicing the path of non-human cultivation. These non-human cultivators had later left the ancestral land of Great Black Mountain and entered the Beast Realm with Dragon Qilin.
Here, Dragon Qilin led them in attempting to combine the Divine Treasure Heavenly Palace cultivation system with the unique traits of the beast race, creating a distinct beast clan civilization.
Over the years, he had achieved considerable success!
The Beast Clan Heavenly Palace returned to its original place. Dragon Qilin stood amidst the mist-shrouded palace, with Dragon Xiao’s massive corpse behind him.
In the ruins of the Beast Clan Heavenly Palace, one colossal beast after another shook off the rubble and pillars from their bodies. They were the kings of the various beast clans, wielding power second only to Dragon Xiao Heavenly Venerable, ruling their own races.
One by one, the massive beast kings strode forward, arriving before the void mother beast, looking up at Dragon Qilin standing atop its head.
Suddenly, an ancient beast king bent its front knees and knelt down.
Behind it, one ancient beast king after another bowed their heads and knelt.
Dragon Qilin let out a long dragon cry, clear and deep, spreading across the mountains and plains.
Those ancient beast kings raised their heads, letting out deep, prolonged roars and calls, shaking the mountains and the stars.
On this day, the old master of the Beast Realm passed away, and a new master was born.