Chapter 1331 — Ambush of the Strange Beasts in the Hidden Valley
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As they walked on, fewer and fewer god-people remained behind them, until only three thousand were left, still following with unflagging determination.
Strangely enough, some giant beasts they encountered actually joined the ranks of the followers.
When Lan Yutian and Xu Shenghua stopped to discuss Dao arts and divine powers, these ancient beasts would sit down in imitation and listen.
Some god-people wanted to drive these beasts away, but Xu Shenghua stopped them. "All things have spirit, all things have Dao—all can cultivate."
Lan Yutian's perception grew ever sharper, and even Xu Shenghua admitted he could not match it. After walking for dozens of days, they finally arrived beside a Sea of Chaos.
This Sea of Chaos was filled with incomparably ancient chaos qi—utterly dense and heavy, dissolving all things, extremely perilous. Even the giant beasts of the Ancestral Court dared not set foot here.
Xu Shenghua looked around and shook his head. "The Great Dao here has dissipated, leaving only its aura."
Lan Yutian shook his head. "It has not dissipated. The Great Dao has always been here—it is just that someone used the Great Dao of this place to achieve their Dao. After achieving it, their realm became too profound to need this place, so they left."
Just then, the sky suddenly darkened. The group looked up one after another and saw countless six-legged giant beasts with two pairs of fleshy wings gliding across the sky.
Those beasts were somewhat more massive than the other giant beasts, their bodies marked with extremely peculiar patterns. As they flew through the sky in dense flocks, they filled the heavens.
None of the group had ever witnessed such a spectacular sight, and they all craned their necks to look.
Xu Shenghua murmured, "Sect Master Shen once taught me several kinds of void patterns, saying they contained a Void Great Dao. Those patterns resemble the ones on these giant beasts... Yes, these are Void Beasts!"
The moment he spoke, the herd of giant beasts near the Sea of Chaos suddenly seemed startled, scattering in all directions. Even the few beasts that had followed Lan Yutian trembled and prostrated themselves, as if trying to hide.
Xu Shenghua, Lan Yutian, and the others knew little about Void Beasts, but the other giant beasts knew well the terror of the Void Beasts. Void Beasts could be called the natural predators of all giant beasts. With so many Void Beasts on the move, they could truly slaughter everything in their path!
Strangely, however, the Void Beasts in the sky paid no attention to the fleeing beasts below. Instead, they were rushing toward a single direction—and that direction was another opening in the sky above the Ancestral Court!
There were two openings in the sky. One was the Rift of Heaven caused when Kaihuang split Heaven with a single sword strike. The other was a great circular hole blasted through the divine seals when Shen Mu triggered the eruption of the Taishi vein.
The Void Beasts were heading straight for that circular hole.
Just as countless Void Beasts surged toward that great hole, the sky suddenly trembled violently. A round, incomparably massive eye emerged from the void, pressing against the sky and causing it to crack continuously.
The other Void Beasts fled in all directions, yielding a space.
Then the giant eye probed downward, gradually revealing the even more massive head of a Void Beast.
BOOM—
The sky quaked. A claw several times thicker than a mountain range reached out from the void, grinding against the air and sending lightning flashing and thunder rolling, fire and lightning careening wildly.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
The beast's six claws emerged from the void, and its complete body descended—it was the Void Mother Beast!
This Mother Beast was the very one Long Qilin had once controlled, but now it had returned to the Great Emperor's dominion.