Taoist Master Xuanhuang

The last of the origin tribes, as the name suggests, is a tribe without a central authority.

He is a powerful being who emerged from the "Return of All Beasts Scripture" of the Spirit Beast faction, a being born from the blood and flesh formation.

It's somewhat similar to the fate enhancement of a cultivator, while for spirit beasts it's bloodline enhancement.

Within each great formation, countless mindless ferocious beasts are imprisoned. Then, the formation is activated, and like a grinding wheel of flesh, these beasts fight each other to the death.

Born from bloodshed, they develop enough wisdom to become spirit beasts.

This is how the Guiyuan royal family was born. Such a flesh-and-blood mill could not possibly temper the entire clan; it was inevitable that individual members would emerge victorious.

After these individuals undergo transformation, they are no longer considered to belong to the same race as before.

After all, every creature that emerges from the flesh and blood formation has been bathed in the blood of ten thousand beasts.

Not only will the bloodline change, but even the physical form will undergo a dramatic transformation.

The patriarch of the Guiyuan Clan is a time-space mayfly.

Its appearance can also be described as a miracle, a mayfly that lives only a day and dies at night, rising up to become the patriarch of the Guiyuan clan.

His extraordinary talent for time travel makes him seem like a point in time himself.

It evolved from a mayfly into the colorful cloud-like mass of light it is today.

Its surrounding spacetime is disordered, but it doesn't appear distorted. Instead, it possesses a beauty of spacetime fusion that makes it easy to immerse oneself in it at first glance.

However, once you get caught up in it, things will go terribly wrong.

They will be captured by the time surrounding them and become like time-space puppets.

He roams the space and time he has woven, and all living beings find it difficult to extricate themselves.

The Guiyuan Clan has the smallest population and follows an elite path; each member is a powerful individual, born from the blood and sweat of the Guiyuan Grand Array.

Although it doesn't receive any special attention or favor from any important figures, the very existence of a single thread is a miracle.

These are the twelve most powerful clans in the spirit beast faction over the past century.

Below them are countless races, truly countless races, for the infinite small worlds have nurtured countless monsters and ferocious beasts.

Because of the distortion of fate, countless races were born in the main world.

Anything that is neither human nor plant can be called a ferocious beast or a monster.

Within such a vast area, the myriad races of spirit beasts truly exist, and may have even long exceeded the scope of the myriad races.

Spirit beasts are not as extreme as humans.

Apart from the Small World Alliance, there is no other major power belonging to the Small World.

The spirit beast factions are different.

Strictly speaking, the Holy Mother of Tushan is a realm deity. Although she is from the realm of the main world, she is not a being of the main world in the strict sense.

The black cat comes from the Blood Moon Realm, as does the dream-eating tapir.

These two are the representatives of the spirit beasts in the small world.

Among the remaining nine royal families, the Giant Ape and the Flood Dragon also came from the Small World.

The remaining kings of various races all came from the main world.

However, the spirit beasts in the small world make up nearly half of the total, achieving a roughly 50/50 split with the spirit beasts in the main world.

This is where the spirit beast faction differs from the human faction.

Humans don't even want to acknowledge their own kind in the small world, let alone the true coexistence of all races with spirit beasts.

This idea doesn't work with humans.

The spirit beast faction is the pioneer and the ultimate embodiment of Xuanhuang's philosophy of education for all.

Apart from the third-tier spirit beast, the Holy Mother of Tushan.

Neither the Black Cat nor the Dream Eater reached the third tier.

Even their true strength is inferior to that of the leaders of major human powers, sects, and alliances, or even some experts.

This is one of the difficulties faced by spirit beasts; their cultivation is far slower compared to that of humans.

Second-tier humans are not uncommon, but second-tier spirit beasts are extremely rare.

It's fortunate that they focus on quantity; if they focused on the elite, they definitely wouldn't be able to compete with humans.

The little fox, the Holy Mother of Tushan, has tried her best, but this is all she has achieved. This will be a long chase, or perhaps she will never catch up with humans in her lifetime.

The tide doesn't lie with them; no amount of effort can overcome the prevailing trend.

However, the spirit beasts are not weak.

The Holy Mother of Tushan is the best proof; she is the ballast of the entire spirit beast system and the key reason why the four superpowers dare not easily offend the spirit beasts.

In addition, they also have an honorary Supreme Elder, Star Mother Yuanjun, who needs no further introduction.

With these two around, the spirit beasts don't have to worry about being targeted. As long as they don't act recklessly, they can develop slowly.

but!

The worst thing is...

Wisdom is the source of turmoil; wisdom is the root of trouble.

Once wisdom is acquired, turmoil and strife are inevitable; there is no escaping it.

Although the dream-eating tapir did not actually 'defect' at the beginning, it still had a negative effect.

Now, twelve royal families have emerged, along with other groups that are eyeing these twelve royal families covetously.

The little fox, the black cat, and the dream-eating tapir are still under its control.

They are at least easier to manage than humans.

But there were already signs. Although those above remained unmoved, the chaos below was quite alarming.

Even if mythical beasts possess intelligence, they lack human emotions and the accumulated wisdom of human civilization.

In short, feelings of shame, guilt, remorse, and morality are inherently deficient.

Even within the same species, it's common for the strong to devour the weak; this is even more true among spirit beasts of different species.

In the human world, anyone who dares to eat people is absolutely guilty of heinous crimes, intolerable by law and order, and deserving of death by everyone.

But this is quite common among spirit beasts.

They possessed sufficient intelligence, but lacked the civilization that intelligence could bring, mainly because their development was too short.

Even learning from humans won't work.

When it comes to the same thing, humans will have a lot of common sense. Some things, according to common sense, should not be done.

Spirit beasts are different. Why can't they be allowed? What are the consequences?

But their civilization is a product of time.

Cannibalism is an heinous crime.

The spirit beast eats the spirit beast and it feels normal. It's weaker than me, so why can't I eat it?

This is an area where even if spirit beasts possess intelligence, they cannot compare to humans.

Furthermore, even the Holy Mother of Tushan did not establish a common denominator that everyone could agree on.

Legal and moral considerations are completely out of the question.

They also trigger their subordinates in a brutal and tyrannical way: "I am the king, I am stronger than you, and killing you is justice."

If things are like this above, imagine how it is for the spirit beasts below that have just broken free from the distortion.

They are the experts in the law of the jungle, where only the fittest survive.

Moreover, it involves the issue of eating. I originally used it as food. I have developed intelligence, so you're saying I can't eat it and I have to have morality? The spirit beast expressed its doubt: What is morality? Can it fill my stomach?

That doesn't make any sense.

This led to a brutal battle below, truly a struggle for supremacy among all races.

Many who offended powerful clans were nearly wiped out, if they hadn't known that the one who was annihilating another would also be wiped out, if it weren't for this fear.

It wasn't just a near-extinction, but a genuine case of a tribe being wiped out by its own people.

There was a previous incident of annihilation of the entire clan.

It wasn't the twelve great kings against a weaker race, but rather an ordinary race that wiped out an even weaker one.

This caught the attention of the Holy Mother of Tushan, and as punishment, she also exterminated the clan that had been wiped out.

Furthermore, an order was issued that fighting was permissible, but the bottom line was that the entire clan could not be wiped out.

If it weren't for this bottom line, at least one-tenth of the myriad races of spirit beasts would be affected.

That is to say, at least several thousand to nearly ten thousand ethnic groups were wiped out.

"Ten Thousand Races" is a collective term, specifically referring to more than 100,000 ethnic groups, and this number is constantly increasing, with some previously unknown groups just being discovered.

"Myriad races" is a term used to refer to people; the exact number is unknown.

Perhaps today is 108,936, and tomorrow it will be 108,943.

This is still largely due to the fact that many animals are not reproductively isolated and will automatically cluster together.

Otherwise, there will only be more.

In short, not annihilating the entire race is the bottom line.

Such tragedies have never happened again, but not annihilating a clan does not mean that fighting is forbidden.

The twelve royal families, in a subtle way, led to the formation of twelve branches of their own.

The lower-ranking tribes, if they wanted to survive, could only seek refuge with the stronger tribes; the stronger tribes, if they wanted to survive, could only seek refuge with the even more powerful tribes; and the even more powerful tribes, if they wanted to survive, could only seek refuge with the twelve royal families.

In this way, a relationship tree is created.

Each royal family had its own ruling clans, forming twelve branches.

Even though the patriarchs of these royal families were warned by the Holy Mother of Tushan not to intentionally branch out in this way.

Even so, the inertia of seeking advantage and avoiding harm is unavoidable.

As long as one has wisdom, one will seek advantage and avoid harm. One cannot build one's life on fluctuating rules. Even if the king does not allow them to stick together, they will unconsciously stick together in order to seek advantage and avoid harm.

It's not that we think we can stop it.

Seeing this change, the little fox spirit, the Holy Mother of Tushan, had some concerns.

But I saw the experience of my predecessors.

The four predecessors have already provided their experience, and since we are powerless to change it, we can only go with the flow.

The four seniors are Sun Hui, Ming Hui, Yan Lai, and Jiu Tong.

These are the four predecessors of the Holy Mother of Tushan.

The four of them initially didn't want to split up, but later felt they couldn't defy the trend, so they just let it be.

Accepting imperfection is not only an attitude, but also a way to cultivate one's mind.

Try to maintain the status quo as much as possible. If you really can't maintain it anymore, then let go.

Having fulfilled his responsibilities and single-handedly developed the spirit beast faction, he can be considered to have accomplished a great feat.

The task assigned to me by the Lord has been completed. I have lived up to the Lord's expectations and also to my subordinates. Like the four predecessors, being a little fox by the Lord's side is not bad.

It's simply a matter of what happens before this major trend arrives.

May the spirit beast grow stronger, accumulate more knowledge, and have a more abundant foundation.

This is what I need to do.

Therefore, the four superpowers are splitting apart, and subordinate factions are rising, making it a very turbulent time.

While the scenery here isn't exactly breathtaking, the spirit beasts are also striving for their future.

The Guiyuan Formation in the wilderness operates day and night, and all the ferocious beasts captured or driven from the mountains and seas are thrown into the formation.

They either gain intelligence and become spirit beasts, or they contribute their essence to help other ferocious beasts gain intelligence.

There is no other way; if the discovered ferocious beast is completely irrational, it will be treated this way.

However, if the Dao Lord Xiao Tiandao completes the process, and a demon beast that has developed intelligence after cultivating to the first level will be captured and sent to headquarters.

It's not about killing them, but about educating them.

Then they become his subordinates, becoming part of the spirit beast army?
Why won't you agree?

If they don't agree, that's fine too. They can just eat it, or throw it into the higher-level Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to Origin Formation to burn as nourishment and fuel.

If you live to the end and become a member of the Guiyuan Clan among the twelve royal families, will they still ask if you agree?
If they don't agree to take back all the transformations, then they're one of us.

In short, there's no such thing as refusing; you have to agree whether you want to or not.

That's how domineering spirit beasts are.

The aforementioned demonic beasts joining the spirit beast faction are transformed in this way.

At least these monsters, compared to humans, realize how lucky they are. Humans are the ones who are xenophobic, with so many branches within a single race.

My spirit beasts are a model of loving and affectionate relationships.

Every demon beast born to complete the Heavenly Dao has two choices: one is to stay safe and learn the cultivation techniques of spirit beasts, and then return to its birthplace to guard a region.

The second method is the rapid path to strength provided by headquarters, which is to enter the Origin Returning Array.

Many of the captured monsters have seen the images left by the Ten Thousand Beasts Returning to Origin Formation.

Among the demon beasts, only one in ten thousand dares to take this path.

Even after completing their studies and returning to their lair, they would often recall the scene they had witnessed, a memory that still made the beast tremble.

That was in the desolate mountains and rivers of the Xia Kingdom.

This place seems isolated from the world, but it is actually a training ground for spirit beasts.

The Great Formation of Returning All Beasts to Their Origin, viewed from the sky, resembles a painting: The Blood Refining True King Diagram.
The battle begins—

The earth roared and trembled like a giant drum made of animal hide that could not bear the weight.

Billions of tons of charred basalt mixed with ancient bone fragments and black rune patterns rose from the ground, piercing the scarlet sky and instantly forming an endless, bloody gladiatorial prison!
The sky was completely sealed off by a viscous, writhing lid of a demonic furnace filled with countless phantom images of tormented beasts. The viscous blood-red light poured down from the cracks in the lid like molten lead, hissing and boiling up a poisonous blood mist wherever it touched the rock pillars.

The air was filled with a pungent, fishy smell and the acrid smell of burning sulfur; every breath felt like a thousand red-hot steel needles stabbing into my lungs.

Endless ferocious beasts, poured into the blood hell!
Space was torn open with countless huge and ferocious ancient god-tooth-like cracks.

The raging creatures from all the heavens and myriad realms were forcibly seized and thrown into the void by the invisible giant hand of law.

The colossal beasts, as large as mountains, come from the deep sea eye of the abyss. The Ice Soul Armored Dragon has a carapace made of solidified dark blue ice and fangs like collapsing glaciers. The Hellfire Ancient Lizard, which emerges from the cracks in the earth, is covered in lava scales and spews rivers of sulfurous fire. There is also the Star-Splitting Steel-Maned Hou, which is born deep in the star debris. Every step it takes causes stone pillars to crack and space to tremble.

The nine-headed shadow serpent demon in the Shadow Nightmare Valley, a speed-type ferocious beast as swift as lightning, drags three hundred phantoms; the Thunderwing Sky-Splitting Eagle captured at the Storm Peak stirs up blinding arcs of electricity with every flap of its wings; and there is also the Ghost Bone Chain-toothed Python, a thousand feet long but faster than lightning, whose joints can tear apart the soul with their grinding sound.

There are vicious and venomous beasts of the Gu type, the putrid plague cloud scorpion formed from swamp miasma that corrodes rocks into mud wherever it goes; the thousand-eyed bewitching butterfly mother born from a dream distortion, whose scales can turn everything into withered bones; and the soul-devouring nightmare maggot that lives by parasitizing the fragments of the ancient demon ancestor's soul that has existed for billions of years, which silently burrows into the head of a giant beast to suck its brain marrow.

and many more……

This is not a battle, but a torrent of flesh and blood colliding and grinding together!

"Roar—whoosh—hiss—hehehe!"

...(End of chapter)