Atop the fortress, the youth stood with his hands behind his back, exuding a calm confidence.
"Since you are my elder, I shall let you make the first move. I wouldn't want the world to mock Bai Mang for bullying an old beast."
In the distance, Bai Ze frowned. This felt so familiar...
The old beast laughed out of pure rage. "Hah... What a joke. I am a dignified ninth-grade Beast God, while you are a mere seventh-rank demon cultivator. If I were to strike first, wouldn't the whole world laugh at me instead? This Beast God shall stand right here and give you three free moves. If I so much as flinch, you win."
Xu Xian was delighted.
Standing still and giving him three moves?
How ridiculous.
He immediately replied, "Fine, those are your words. Don't you dare go back on them."
This was exactly what he had been waiting for the old beast to say.
The crowd was stunned, their gazes shifting as they sensed something was amiss.
Even the old beast froze for a moment.
Was this right?
He felt like something was wrong, but he couldn't put his finger on it.
However, the words had already been spoken. To take them back now would be a slap to his own face.
So many people were watching.
Besides, Bai Mang was only at the seventh rank. Could he truly beat a Beast God to death?
Crossing his arms, the man said arrogantly, "Enough nonsense. Whatever skills you have, bring them on."
Since things had come to this, Xu Xian wasted no more words. He raised his right hand, pressing his fingers together like a sword and pointing them toward the sky.
Amidst everyone's confusion and anticipation, he let out a great shout.
"Come forth!"
"Chaos Divine Tortoise!"
Inside the inner cabin of the anchored Cloud Boat, within a small Heaven-Sealing Trapping Formation...
Hearing Xu Xian's signal, the Old Tortoise stood up with great reluctance, dragging his chains and the stone stele. He moved in front of the Bixu Mirror.
He grumbled under his breath.
"I'm really over this."
"A bunch of little runts, and they actually need Grandpa Tortoise to step in."
"What a waste of talent..."
"I could scare them to death just by showing up..."
At that moment, the world fell silent.
It was a deathly silence.
The mountain city,
The sand sea,
The smoking volcanoes, the dim sky, and the whistling wind...
Everything seemed normal, as if nothing had changed.
People looked at the youth's strange pose, and the anticipation in their eyes slowly faded, replaced by confusion and bewilderment.
"This..."
They seemed to hear the cawing of crows circling above the clouds.
Some swallowed hard,
Some were speechless,
Some had their cheeks twitching,
And some shook their heads with bitter smiles.
They had been quite expectant, but now it seemed they had overthought it.
The Beast God he was facing was also dumbfounded. He had expected a masterstroke, but it seemed the boy had only produced a grand failure.
He mocked without restraint,
"That's it?"
"Are you here to be a comedian?"
The youth remained unhurried, a slight smirk playing on his lips. "Don't be in such a rush..."
He slowly looked up as the dim clouds suddenly shifted. The youth's voice continued, "Here it comes."
In an instant,
An ancient aura suddenly spread across the world.
In the blink of an eye, it rippled across hundreds of miles of mountains and rivers.
And it continued to expand...
As they felt this unfamiliar aura, everyone's hearts trembled.
They instinctively looked up, searching for the source of the pressure.
What they saw...
In the dim sky, the clouds churned, the winds turned chaotic, and ten-colored radiance surged within the rolling mist.
"That's..."
"This aura..."
They were dazed at first, then surprised, and finally, fear and panic dawned on their faces...
Before they could figure out what was happening, thick chains suddenly dropped from the heavens.
One, two, ten, a hundred... they were dense and massive, like heavenly pillars.
It was as if a divine punishment had descended from above to imprison the world.
The cold chains vibrated with an ear-piercing sound, the mourning winds howled, and a biting chill surged.
Then, space itself trembled like ripples on a great marsh or waves in the deep sea. A colossal creature poked its head out from the churning abyss.
It emerged inch by inch, descending with a world-ending presence, like a star falling from the sky.
It covered the heavens and the earth.
Powerful experts panicked,
Saints felt terror,
As it drew closer and closer, the chaos intensified. People realized that the gargantuan entity was actually just a head.
If a single head was this large, they couldn't imagine how massive its true body was.
Language became inadequate, and thoughts turned into a chaotic mess.
The giant beast hung in the sky, its blood-red eyes as large as suns.
The living beings trembled in fear, and the saints stood in a daze. They looked up in reverence, their clenched fists, tense bodies, and frozen expressions all revealing the panic they felt.
Even the saints and demon immortals involuntarily held their breath.
They murmured silently in low whispers.
"A monster!"
"How is this possible?"
"This can't be..."
How could such a thing exist in Fanzhou? Why was there such a giant beast here?
Countless questions flashed through their minds simultaneously, but there were no answers.
The only possibility they could guess was that this creature came from the Emperor's Tomb. It was a divine beast from the tomb and Bai Mang's dao-protecting beast.
In this moment,
They seemed to understand.
They understood why Bai Mang had been so calm from beginning to end, and why he always acted without fear.
They understood why he dared to blackmail the entire world.
Based solely on the aura released by this beast, saints would find it hard to oppose, and demon immortals would find it hard to block.
The world should have been noisy, but the people felt as if all sound had vanished.
The youth stood there, brimming with arrogant confidence. The boisterous Beast God, however, had long since become motionless, frozen in the sky.
It wasn't that he was keeping his promise to stay still.
He was simply scared witless by the scene before him and the titan above his head.
His gaze was hollow,
His body was stiff.
The giant tortoise looked down at him and exhaled through its nostrils.
Puff!
Billowing white mist and a violent gale poured down from the sky, slamming into the Beast God's face until it twisted and deformed.
The heaven-hanging cold chains around them also began to shake violently, letting out ear-piercing screeches.
In an instant, the Beast God's scalp went numb.
The whole world was shocked, viewing this as a divine miracle.
The Old Tortoise spoke, his voice like crashing thunder.
"Little thing,"
"Are you the one who wanted to take three of my moves?"
When the voice rose, it was like a deity had descended. The demon immortals and saints all underwent a massive change in expression.
Even the four saints of the Wendao Sword Sect, who knew the truth, were all struck with amazement.
Jiang Wanyin's fingers tightened unnaturally under her long sleeves.
Lei Yunche's Startling Thunder scabbard vibrated.
Yao Xiqiao's Adam's apple bobbed as he swallowed.
Even Lin Fengmian, who was revered as the bane of ten thousand demons, looked solemn.
He could sense that his Ten Thousand Demon Banner could suppress any demon god in the world and counter demon immortals, yet it was useless against the fellow before him.
He found it extremely difficult to imagine what kind of existence this truly was.
It seemed both real and illusory, something that divine sense couldn't pierce and the naked eye couldn't fully encompass.
Did it come from beyond the heavens?
The previously boastful Beast God now had a blank mind. Facing the pressure of the Old Tortoise, he suddenly knelt in the sky with a loud thud and lowered his head in submission.
"This junior wouldn't dare!"
Within the beast race, bloodline suppression had a long history. The entity before him was more than just a few levels above him.
"I beg Senior for mercy!"
In the face of life and death, the Beast God decisively compromised and pleaded for his life.
The giant tortoise lowered its massive eyes slightly. "The person you should be begging isn't me..."
The Beast God looked at Bai Mang. The arrogance and bluster in his eyes had vanished, replaced only by dread and fear, mixed with desperate entreaty...
Xu Xian knew when to stop. He glanced at the man sideways and asked flippantly, "Do you realize your mistake?"
The Beast God bit his lip.
"I was wrong."
Xu Xian gave a contemptuous smile and said dismissively, "Scram."
The Beast God remained motionless, stealing a glance at the giant tortoise.
The Old Tortoise let out a roar.
"Roar!"
The wind and clouds surged, yellow sand danced wildly, and the sound echoed through the heavens.
"I said scram!"
The Beast God's internal energy surged in panic, and he was so terrified that he spat out a mouthful of blood. His face turned deathly pale as he scrambled and crawled, fleeing in haste...
Xu Xian stood beneath the giant tortoise and looked around at the crowd. Standing between heaven and earth, he looked down upon all living beings and asked:
"What about the rest of you? Will you come at me one by one, or all at once?"
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