I established the Eternal Immortal Clan by taming beasts.

The aura of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape changed completely in that instant.

It was no longer the same scorching heat and frenzy as before, but a deeper state in which all outward energy was being gathered inward, compressed, and condensed.

The surging, dark red spiritual light began to converge towards its right fist, and the molten blazing domain that had covered a radius of hundreds of feet also contracted in sync, like a sea of ​​fire being drawn back to its origin. All the released power was converging towards the same focal point.

Its entire body began to radiate golden flames, which intertwined, collided, and merged with dark red spiritual light on its surface, burning its fur into a flowing dark gold. With each pulse, its body temperature was pushed to new heights, causing the surrounding air to emit a sharp hiss.

Lin Che also noticed this.

The detailed information about the Burning Sky Crimson Ape—the Mad Ape's Wrathful Flames—was already clear in his mind.

Activating the supernatural power will cause the Burning Sky Crimson Ape to enter a berserk state, doubling its speed and strength, and significantly enhancing its control over flames. This state lasts for about half an incense stick's time, after which it will enter a brief period of weakness.

Without a doubt, the Burning Sky Crimson Ape was preparing to kill with a single blow.

The situation was as Lin Che had guessed.

The flames and violent power of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape began to converge on its right fist, and a solid, crimson-gold fireball gradually condensed on the fist, more than three feet in diameter, like a small sun compressed to its limit.

The dark red aura and golden flames flowed, surged, and collapsed on the surface of the sphere, each contraction increasing the density of the sphere by an inch.

Each expansion raised its temperature even further, and the surrounding air hissed continuously as it took shape, like countless fuses being lit at the same time. Even the sand and gravel on the ground were baked into a flowing liquid by the scorching heat, slowly churning under the crimson-gold light.

Lin Che did not back down.

The Wind-Splitting Spear trembled slightly in his palm, the cold light on its tip contrasting sharply with the flaming orb on the Heaven-Burning Crimson Ape's fist.

On one side is an extremely cold bluish-white, and on the other side is an extremely hot crimson gold.

The phantoms of the sacred beasts behind him were re-condensing. A cyan dragon shadow coiled around his right arm, a white tiger shadow roared softly on his shoulder, a crimson sparrow shadow spread its wings behind him, a black tortoise shadow condensed into an invisible armor around his waist and abdomen, and a yellow qilin shadow spread out a dark golden halo at his feet.

Five illusory figures lit up at the same time, like a five-element formation being rekindled.

This time, Lin Che did not passively defend himself while waiting, but took the initiative to meet him head-on.

He took a step forward, and the Flowing Cloud Domain was like a curtain being drawn back before him, creating a crack in the Burning Heaven Crimson Ape's Burning Heaven Melting Domain.

Raising the Wind-Splitting Spear, its tip pointed directly at the crimson-gold flame sphere forming on the Frost Ape's fist, like a guiding star shining in the dark night.

At that moment, the spirit patterns on the spearhead lit up simultaneously, with five colors of spiritual light—cyan, white, red, black, and yellow—flowing and alternating, intertwining with the wind flowing in the Flowing Cloud Domain to form a constantly changing halo, as if a layer of aurora compressed to the extreme was covering the spearhead of the Rending Wind Spear.

The wind began to converge on him.

The silent flow of energy within the Flowing Cloud Domain, the primordial energy suppressed by the Burning Heaven Melting Domain, and the air that rolled down from the distant hills, scattered and then reassembled by the shockwave, all converged towards the tip of the spear.

The wind swirled, compressed, and condensed at the tip of the spear, like a shrinking cyan vortex, rotating, contracting, and layering together to form an extremely thin and bright cyan spot centered on the spear tip, like the eye of a storm compressed to its limit. With each rotation, it pressed the surrounding wind toward the same focal point.

The Crimson Ape of the Burning Sky moved its fist.

The punch was thrown out like a flying meteorite.

A crimson-gold ball of fire burned on its fist, enveloping its entire right arm in a flowing golden flame. Dark red spiritual light, like an elongated tail, trailed a scorching path several feet long behind it, carving a deep trench in the ground where it passed. Soil and gravel turned into lava in the high temperature, slowly flowing along the edge of the trench.

Lin Che also moved.

Instead of dodging, he faced it head-on, his figure like a wisp of smoke blown away by the wind. The wisp of blue light that had gathered on the tip of the Wind-Splitting Spear suddenly expanded, like a star in bloom.

"Flowing Clouds - Wandering Freely"

Body and gun become one; man and gun become completely integrated at this moment.

Instead of aiming for the Crimson Ape's chest, he pointed the spear tip directly at the center of the crimson-gold flame sphere that was condensing on the Crimson Ape's fist.

That was the core of the entire attack, the place where all the power of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape was compressed to its limit.

The collision of wind and fire exploded silently at that moment.

When the two forces, both compressed to their extremes, came into contact, there was a brief, vacuum-like silence, as if the world had stopped breathing at that moment.

Then a shockwave powerful enough to tear the earth apart erupted.

Azure and crimson light spread outwards from the point of collision, like two clouds ignited simultaneously, intertwining, tearing, and devouring each other in the night sky.

The rubble on the ground was shattered into powder, the hills in the distance were flattened at the top, and the clouds that were originally floating in the night sky were torn to pieces by the shock wave, revealing the broken moonlight behind them.

At the center of the collision, the two figures remained locked in a stalemate for a moment amidst the light.

The crimson-gold flame sphere on the Heavenly Crimson Ape's fist had shrunk by more than half, and the remaining part was disintegrating at a visible speed, like embers scattered by the wind. A layer of fine cracks appeared on the surface, and dark red spiritual light was frantically dissipating from those cracks.

The cyan light on Lin Che's spear tip also dissipated simultaneously. The power that had been compressed to the extreme was being released wildly, tearing his robes to shreds and leaving fine bloodstains on his skin. These bloodstains, like spider webs cut by a blade, were spreading rapidly toward his arm.

The body of the Rift Spear made a faint sound during the collision, the temperature of the handle rose rapidly, and the array patterns embedded in the spear body were breaking off one by one, like threads being forcibly torn apart. The first crack appeared at the tip of the spear.

Although the crack was extremely fine, it was like a wound, slowly widening and spreading from the tip of the gun to the shaft.

Lin Che did not retreat. He gripped the handle of the Rift Wind Spear with both hands, his knuckles turning white. Blood seeped from the gaps in his grip, flowing down the gun barrel, only to be instantly evaporated by the high temperature at the center of the impact.

He didn't move backward, but the cracked ground beneath his feet was crumbling layer by layer, with rubble flying in all directions. The illusory azure dragon behind him was flickering violently, as if it would collapse at any moment, yet it never went out.

In the end, the fireball shattered.

The last crimson-gold light on the Blazing Crimson Ape's fist exploded completely, turning into countless burning fragments, like a golden meteor shower, leaving scorching arcs in the night sky before slowly extinguishing, like lamps being blown out.

The Burning Sky Crimson Ape was pushed back several steps by the recoil, each step leaving a charred mark on the ground. The golden flames on its right fist had dimmed considerably, and the dark red spiritual light was visibly thinning, darkening, and dissipating into the air, like embers scattered by the wind.

Lin Che remained standing in the same spot.

His robes were mostly torn, revealing the skin beneath covered in bloodstains, from which blood was slowly seeping.

A trickle of blood spilled from the corner of his mouth, dripping down his chin and spreading a small patch of deep red on his clothes, radiating a faint warmth in the night breeze.

The Crimson Ape's pupils contracted slightly.

It looked at Lin Che, who was still standing, at the long spear that had developed cracks, and at the blue specks of light that were drifting in the night wind. It did not speak.

His right fist was trembling. The force of the fireball had created fine cracks in his bones, like the cracks that begin to appear inside iron that had been repeatedly hammered, and they were slowly widening.

Its berserk state is about to end, and the compressed power was exhausted in the previous attack, making it difficult to regroup in a short time.

A smile appeared on Lin Che's lips.

Just then, a faint silvery-white halo appeared on the distant horizon, dyeing the southeastern sky a flowing silvery-white.

The silvery-white halo was spreading rapidly in this direction, like a rising tide, enveloping the entire wasteland in a cool, clear luster, like moonlight falling on water.

Accompanying that silvery-white light was the tremor of the earth.

It wasn't the sound of one person's footsteps, but the sound of tens of thousands of people stepping forward simultaneously, like a moving mountain range.

On the southeastern horizon, a massive horde of beasts is pressing in.

Their formation was neat and their steps were uniform, like a silver-gray tide pulled by the same thread, silently flowing over the hills and ravines.

At the forefront were the Silver Moon Fox Clan, whose fur shimmered with a flowing luster under the moonlight, as if it were plated with a layer of silver.

In the middle stood a burly member of the Moonshadow Wolf Clan, his steps steady and his gaze cold and sharp.

On both sides were the incredibly fast Sky Leopard Clan and the Three-Tailed Nether Cat Clan, spreading out along the two flanks of the beast tide, like a curved blade being drawn open.

Behind them were the silhouettes of several enormous creatures, like mountains shrouded in thick fog, each step they took leaving another crack in the ground.

This surging army was comparable in size to, or even larger than, the tribe of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape.

The Crimson Ape's gaze lingered for a moment on the approaching beast tide before returning to Lin Che.

"Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox..." it hissed through clenched teeth, "When did you all unite...?"

"From beginning to end." A cool voice came from not far away.

Accompanied by that voice, a figure dressed in a gorgeous long dress slowly emerged from the night.

Her steps were light, each step feeling like walking on moonlight. Her silver-white skirt swayed gently in the night breeze, and a moon-white bone hairpin adorned her hair, gleaming warmly in the moonlight.

Her alluring face, under the moonlight, resembled a jade sculpture that had been repeatedly polished, and her silver-gray pupils held no superfluous emotion.

First, he glanced at Lin Che and nodded slightly in acknowledgment, then looked coldly at the Burning Sky Crimson Ape.

"From the very beginning, my goal was to take you down."

"Heh, old-fashioned bitches, do you really enjoy being dogs for humans?" The voice of the Burning Sky Crimson Ape was hoarse, and the slowly cracking bones made each breath a slight stinging pain, but its gaze remained as sharp as ever.

Lin Che slowly withdrew his domain, the tip of his Rift Wind Spear drooping slightly as he recovered from his injuries while listening to their conversation.

With his powerful divine sense, he sensed the approach of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox army as soon as it got close to Chuyang City.

And the one in front of us should be the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon Emperor.

Unlike the Burning Heaven Demon Emperor, she undoubtedly chose to transform into human form.

This shows her attitude towards the human race.

At the same time, Lin Che also grasped a key point from the conversation between the two—the old school versus the new school.

He knew the history of the Southern Region and understood that most of the demon beasts in the Ten Thousand Demon Mountains today came from the largest beast-taming sect, the Ten Thousand Beast Sect, as well as various smaller beast-taming sects in the Southern Region. They naturally multiplied and evolved into the current situation.

Therefore, there are many races with high bloodlines. Even in Chuyang City, which is on the outskirts of the Fulong Mountains, there are quite a few groups of spirit beasts with superior bloodlines. This is something that cannot be seen in the Central Region.

For this reason, the "old faction" mentioned by the Burning Sky Crimson Ape is very likely the group of demon beasts that are close to humans. This should also be the reason why the Nine-Tailed Heavenly Fox Demon Emperor chose to ally with the Lin family.

"Stop your futile struggles." The Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon King's cold voice rang in the ears of the Burning Crimson Ape. "Considering we are both demon beasts, I will spare your life if you surrender."

Although she was talking to the Burning Sky Crimson Ape, she was observing Lin Che out of the corner of her eye the whole time.

The idiot Burning Sky Crimson Ape was never important from beginning to end. In order to complete the Venerable's mission, Burning Sky Crimson Ape was just an opportunity for him to rationalize his approach to the Lin family.

She had been receiving all the news about Chuyang City all along, and when she saw the battle report of Chuyang City a few days ago mentioning a large army of spirit beasts, she had some guesses in her mind.

Now that she has seen this person with her own eyes, she has finally confirmed her guess.

The Lin family is actually a family of beast tamers!

Ordinary cultivators or demonic beasts cannot detect it, but their race is born with a keen sense of spiritual energy and can tell the general attributes of the cultivation method the other party is practicing at a glance.

Without a doubt, the aura of spiritual energy emanating from the other party was definitely brought about by the Beast Taming Technique.

She understood the overall situation in the Southern Region better than anyone else.

No human cultivator dared to practice the Beast Taming Technique.

If the Lin family were to expose this fact, or rather, if their spirit beast legion were to be exposed on the day they appeared, they would inevitably become the common enemy of the entire Southern Region.

No wonder the Venerable One chose the Lin family as a partner.

Having realized this, the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox Demon King turned his attention back to the Burning Sky Crimson Ape.

On the other side, the Crimson Ape grinned, revealing a row of gleaming white fangs: "You want me to surrender? You think you can?"

It has no intention of escaping.

Even if I escape today, I have already lost everything.

Its tribe is being surrounded by the army of the Nine-Tailed Celestial Fox, its territory will change hands tonight, and its hundreds of years of accumulation will turn to ashes in this night.

The only thing we can do now is to take someone down with us before we die.