...
ow?
Chen Huaian was stunned.
He had sensed sothing off about this million-year World Beast from the start, noticing many cat-like characteristics. But hearing such a fawning sound now, he simply couldn't hold back anymore.
It really is a cat?
Well, not exactly.
To be precise, it's more like a spinosaurus-version cat.
So this is an offspring born from the Golden Dragon King and so feline World Beast.
The Golden Dragon King's genes determined ninety percent of its outward appearance, while its inner nature was almost entirely occupied by the cat's genes.
Interesting.
Chen Huaian narrowed his eyes. "Is this look of yours an attitude of submission to This Venerable One?"
North-South Green Bean Haimi cautiously glanced at Chen Huaian, speaking in a squeaky voice completely mismatched with its size. "Don't... don't kill ow..."
"But you weren't like this when you were hissing at This Venerable One just now." Chen Huaian twisted his wrist with an amused expression. "This Venerable One currently needs to improve his strength, and you are excellent material for This Venerable One's improvent. Now, give This Venerable One a reason not to kill you."
North-South Green Bean Haimi trembled all over, finally squeezing out a sentence after a long pause. "ow's father is the Golden Dragon King. If you kill ow, you'll be targeted by all the World Beasts of the entire Canglan World, and ultimately face ow's enraged Dragon King father."
Hearing about the Golden Dragon King, Chen Huaian adopted a dismissive attitude.
Through the gourd left by the middle corpse, he had long known that the system's reward resources weren't conjured from thin air. Instead, the middle corpse relied on its own "connections" to obtain them from corresponding "people" or forces—it was all about social graces.
When he claid a reward, the Golden Dragon King had to cough up the million-year World Ring.
As long as his identity remained hidden, the Golden Dragon King was essentially his lackey.
But Bixixi and the other Battle Masters didn't see it that way.
"Your father is the Golden Dragon King among the Gold and Silver Dragon Kings?"
The face of the Battle Soul Hall's Pope, Your Holiness, turned grave at this mont.
She could sense this million-year World Beast's bloodline was exceptionally noble, but she never imagined it would reach such heights.
The Golden Dragon King...
That's a Dragon God!
An existence even the deity behind her, Lucifer, wouldn't dare provoke.
"That's right, it's that Golden Dragon King."
North-South Green Bean Haimi lifted its head, putting on a smug expression.
Though with its bruised and swollen face, it couldn't really pull off the smugness.
"It actually really is a descendant of the Golden Dragon King... Should we... let it go?"
Bixixi looked at the giant beast, which despite being bruised and swollen still radiated a terrifying bloodline aura. Ultimately, greed in her eyes was suppressed by reason.
"Your Excellency..." She took a deep breath, her tone carrying a note of earnestness. "Know when to stop.
Today, we've already hunted two hundred-thousand-year World Beasts, which is already a bountiful harvest.
If we truly kill this dragon descendant and incur that existence's wrath, the entire Canglan Continent might face utter devastation."
The surrounding Battle Masters chid in agreent, nodding their heads like pounding garlic.
They were utterly exhausted from today's battle and couldn't withstand another round. As long as they could survive, what did it matter if they let this million-year World Beast go?
"Yes, yes..."
"Your Holiness speaks wisely. Our objective has already been achieved."
Seeing all the Battle Soul Hall's Battle Masters around saying this, North-South Green Bean Haimi secretly rejoiced.
It tried hard to squeeze out an honest-looking smile, using that awkward squeaky voice to say, "As long as you let ow go... ow can let bygones be bygones about today's matter.
Those subordinates that died... they just had bad luck. This ow will pretend I didn't see it."
As it spoke, it quietly circulated the Battle Power within its body, repairing its broken bones and torn-off flesh.
But in its heart, it was roaring madly: Once this king returns, I'll definitely have my dad chew all you insects to pieces and swallow you!
Especially that guy in white clothes! ow will skin him to make a scratching post!
"Let bygones be bygones?"
Chen Huaian sounded like he had heard the biggest joke in the world.
He stood with his hands behind his back, his sleeves gently fluttering in the wind. His gaze swept playfully over Bixixi before finally landing on Haimi's hypocritically large face.
"You all seem to have misunderstood sothing."
Chen Huaian spoke calmly.
"Who This Venerable One kills has never depended on anyone else's approval.
Let you go? Then where would This Venerable One find a replacent for your million-year cultivation, for that World Bone that's guaranteed to drop?
Since you're unwilling to offer yourself up in a dignified manner..."
Chen Huaian slowly raised his right hand. There was no sword at his fingertips, yet a point of cold brilliance, more dazzling than the stars, coalesced there.
"Then This Venerable One will help you... achieve dignity."
"ow——!!!" North-South Green Bean Haimi sensed that bone-piercing Killing Intent and instantly shed its pretense.
Its massive body abruptly tensed, the power accumulated within erupting without reservation at this mont.
It didn't want to fight; it wanted to flee!
However.
Its movents were fast, but Chen Huaian's Sword Intent was faster.
No visible blade gleam or sword shadow, not a sound to be heard.
Chen Huaian's finger lightly traced through the void.
Like a master calligrapher placing the most freehanded stroke on rice paper.
Sshh——!
Between heaven and earth, it was as if a tightly drawn string had snapped.
North-South Green Bean Haimi's massive body, which had just taken to the air, abruptly froze in mid-air.
The terror, resentnt, and cunning in its eyes all solidified in that instant.
The wind stopped.
The clouds ceased.
An extrely fine black line slowly appeared on its supposedly indestructible neck.
Then.
Crash——
Like collapsing building blocks.
That enormous, cat-eared dragon head silently slid off. The cut surface was smooth as a mirror; not even blood had ti to spurt before it was sealed by the lingering Sword Intent.
Chen Huaian withdrew his hand, his expression indifferent.
This one sword strike.
rely one-tenth of a Golden Immortal's power.
As the physical body perished, a million-year World Ring shimring with a profound azure-golden light slowly separated from the corpse.
"Roar————!!!"
A soul phantom filled with hatred and unwillingness erupted from the World Ring.
It was the vengeful spirit of North-South Green Bean Haimi, clawing and snarling with a ferocious visage.
"Human! You dare kill ow!!"
"ow will curse you! ow will tear your souls to shreds!!"
It roared, carrying the ntal storm of a million-year Fierce Beast's death throes, and slamd fiercely toward Chen Huaian and Li Qingran.
Chen Huaian was Li Qingran's Battle Soul. Only at this mont did North-South Green Bean Haimi finally discover Chen Huaian's abnormality.
Chen Huaian wasn't human, but a Battle Soul—a soul without a physical body. His soul was powerful, yet it was connected to that girl.
But that girl wasn't even a Soul King.
A weakness!
Simultaneously, an opportunity to turn the tables.
"Tireso noise." Chen Huaian snorted coldly.
Watching the million-year World Beast soul charging at him, he not only didn't defend but openly spread his Divine Soul wide.
"Want to tear This Venerable One to shreds?
Co in and try."
Whoosh——
The massive soul phantom was instantly sucked into the space between Chen Huaian's eyebrows.
Simultaneously, that masterless million-year World Ring, drawn by an attraction, steadily settled around Li Qingran's feet.
Boom!
A torrent of violent energy, like a river flowing backward, madly poured into Li Qingran's body.
Guided by Chen Huaian, this power didn't burst her apart but transford into the purest nourishnt for leveling up.
Li Qingran's aura surged upward level by level. In just a few breaths, she leaped across ten levels, steadily stopping at the threshold of a sixty-fifth-level Battle Emperor!
...
anwhile.
Within Chen Huaian's Divine Soul space.
This was a boundless expanse of pale whiteness.
No sky, no earth, only a blizzard of snowflakes swirling through the air.
Each snowflake carried a violent Sword Intent.
North-South Green Bean Haimi's soul phantom appeared here. Originally massive as a mountain, within this heaven and earth, it seed as insignificant as a speck of dust.
It looked around in terror.
Cold.
A cold that pierced to the bone marrow.
It wasn't the cold of temperature, but... the chill of Sword Intent.
"Where is this?!"
It trembled and shouted.
"This is This Venerable One's soul world."
A grand voice ca from all directions.
Haimi abruptly looked up.
It witnessed a scene it would never forget for the rest of its life—
High in the firmant, a figure clad in white looked down upon it with indifference from above.
That figure wasn't particularly large.
But in its eyes, it was like the vault of heaven itself.
A terrifying pressure, like turbulent seawater, engulfed it.
It felt as if before that swordsman's soul, its so-called "million-year World Beast" soul was nothing but an ant that didn't know its place.
"Didn't you want to tear This Venerable One's Divine Soul to shreds? Co on~"
"You... are you a god... No, that's not right... Even ow's father, he also..." North-South Green Bean Haimi collapsed to the ground in despair.
The words that followed were also sealed in its throat.
"Next life, choose a better birth."
Chen Huaian spoke calmly.
Then, a snowflake drifting through the void gently landed on Haimi's soul.
Sss——
Like a spark falling into ice and snow.
The mont that snowflake touched it, Haimi's soul disintegrated inch by inch, turning into countless points of light that dissipated within this vast and boundless white world.
Great snow falls on the dark northlands, a single piece of killing intent concealed.
...
The outside world.
Li Qingran slowly opened her eyes.
Deep within her pupils, a fleeting azure-golden stream of light flashed past.
Beneath her feet, two World Rings shone upon each other—one deep-blue, one azure-gold—radiating a suffocatingly noble aura.
And Chen Huaian stood quietly beside her, his aura appearing several degrees more solidified than before.
Right at that mont.
Ding.
A crisp sound attracted everyone's attention.
Above Haimi's massive headless corpse.
A crystalline, translucent skull emitting a rainbow-colored halo slowly materialized.
That skull was flawless, faintly taking the shape of a crown. The ntal fluctuations it emitted made all the Battle Masters present feel dizzy.
This was a million-year·World Beast skull bone!
It could be said to be the most precious piece among all World Bone parts.
Gazing at that World Bone.
It also ant North-South Green Bean Haimi's soul had been completely absorbed, with no possibility of resurrection.
Everyone instinctively looked at Chen Huaian and Li Qingran.
Complete silence reigned over the scene.
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