Starting with SSS-rank talent, I contracted the Forbidden Ferocity.

In the Sealed Beast Abyss, the ten thousand king beasts that had been swallowed opened their eyes at the same time.

In that instant, the Throne of Ten Thousand Beasts behind Shen Ye suddenly sank.

It wasn't bitten by the Devouring King.

Instead, it was being watched by the hungry king beast with ten thousand heads.

Those afterimages had no complete form.

Some only had half a head left.

Some had broken spines.

Some had broken wings.

But they all have the same mark on them.

Tooth marks.

The teeth marks of the Devouring King.

The system notification light appears.

[Remnants of past royal beasts detected.]

[Status: Controlled by Devouring King's Mark.]

[Hint: After shattering the afterimage, its essence will flow back to the Devouring King's rebellious heart.]

[WARNING: Do not exterminate on a large scale.]

Shen Ye's eyes narrowed.

The next moment, the afterimage of a giant, dark blue tiger pounced from the front.

Long Yuan took a step forward and threw a punch.

boom!

The giant tiger's afterimage had half of its body smashed.

But the shattered afterimage did not dissipate; instead, it transformed into a wisp of black-gold aura, which surged back into the Devouring King's rebellious heart.

My heart is pounding with betrayal.

The Devouring King chuckled softly.

"beat."

"Keep fighting."

"The more you kill, the faster I will wake up."

The system prompts will change accordingly.

[The afterimage of the King Beast returns to devour the King.]

[The exposure of the Devouring King's treacherous intentions has decreased: 52%...49%.]

Long Yuan forcefully stopped the next punch.

Shen Ye raised his hand.

"Don't kill."

Night Feather Black Sun Netherfire lowered.

The shadow of the Candle Nine spread out, only entwining but not binding.

The Heavenly Punishment of Calamity's Eyes shone brightly, and lightning bolts pinned down the joints of the approaching afterimage.

Guixu opened its mouth and bit a wisp of bite mark, but was forced to retreat by more afterimages.

The afterimages of the ten thousand-headed king beast began their charge.

They are not afraid of death.

Because he died long ago.

They are not afraid of getting hurt.

Because its broken body had already been eaten by the Devouring King.

The Devourer's voice echoed in the darkness.

"Shen Ye."

"Didn't you want to be the king of all beasts?"

"These are beasts too."

"If you kill, then feed me."

"If we don't kill them, they will tear us to pieces."

"select."

Shen Ye did not answer.

He looked at the afterimages of the approaching royal beasts and suddenly asked:

"The End of Time".

Do they still have names?

Above, Tianhuang was taken aback.

"have."

"But it was torn to pieces by the Devouring King."

Shen Ye said:

"Do you remember the Beast King's Platform?"

Tianhuang remained silent for a moment.

"Remember."

"The Beast King's Platform remembers every beast that has ever stepped onto the platform."

Shen Ye looked up.

"Then let's take attendance."

Tianhuang's vertical pupils suddenly trembled.

"The Crown Bearer".

"Use the Beast King's Crown."

Shen Ye raised his hand.

The Lost Beast King's Crown appeared behind him.

The crown bearer's command light is on.

The ancient beast military token trembled.

The light from the Beast Emperor's Platform descended from above the Sealed Beast Abyss.

Ancient beast names began to emerge from the darkness.

[Azure Roar.]

[Mystic Dragon Turtle.]

【Red-eyed Celestial Scale.】

A six-winged eagle.

【The Mountain-Suppressing Wild Ox.】

A name lights up.

The afterimage of the king beast paused for a moment.

The Devourer King's laughter suddenly turned cold.

"Do you dare to give them back their names?"

Shen Ye cut open his palm.

Black Gold King's blood was spilled into the light of the Beast King's Platform.

The myriad beast divine patterns lit up.

This time, Shen Ye did not use Wang Xue's control.

Instead, he used the king's blood to nail those shattered names back onto the afterimage, one by one.

I won't pay it back.

"Taiwan returns."

The Beast King Platform roared.

More and more animal names are emerging.

The charge of the ten thousand-headed beast's afterimages began to fall into chaos.

The hunger in their eyes did not disappear immediately.

But beneath the teeth marks, a ray of clarity shone anew.

The Devouring King roared.

"You have already been eaten by me!"

"You are my shadowy shadows!"

Black Gold's heart pounded violently.

The fang marks on all the afterimages of the royal beasts lit up simultaneously.

They pounced on Shen Ye again.

The system prompts an error.

[The Devouring King's Mark is regaining control of the afterimage.]

[The progress of awakening the beast's name has been stalled.]

The bite marks need to be removed.

Shen Ye looked at the five beasts.

"Removing teeth marks".

Ye Yu was the first to take flight.

The Black Sun's Netherfire no longer burned the afterimages themselves, but instead precisely targeted the teeth marks on their bodies.

The nine candles spread out across the nine netherworlds.

The Nine Netherworlds cleanse the soul.

Those lingering figures, overwhelmed by hunger, began to move more slowly.

The calamity of heaven and the punishment of the calamity fall upon us.

Grayish-white lightning bolts pinned the root of the bite mark.

Long Yuan stood at the forefront, not killing, but blocking.

Every afterimage of the king beast that pounced was forcefully pressed back to the ground.

Guixu, on the other hand, swiftly traverses the darkness.

Wherever there are traces of a beast trying to escape back to the Devouring King's rebellious heart, it will pounce on it and take a bite.

"This is bitter."

"This old man."

"This is edible."

Shen Ye raised his hand, and the crown-bearer's command shone brightly.

"Remember who ate you."

The sound wasn't loud.

However, the news spread throughout the entire Sealed Beast Abyss, following the Beast Emperor Platform.

"Remember who took your blood."

"Who will shatter your names?"

"Who told you that you won't even have peace after you die?"

The afterimage of a blue-green roar was the first to stop.

The teeth marks on its chest were burned through by the black sun's ghostly fire.

The hunger in his eyes subsided by half.

It looked at Shen Ye blankly.

Then he looked at Black Gold's treacherous heart.

The next moment, it let out a roar that shook the Beast Sealing Abyss.

It turned around.

It lunged at the Devouring King.

boom!

The afterimage of the Azure Roar crashed into the Black Gold Betrayer's Heart, tearing off a piece of flesh.

The Devourer King let out a painful roar.

Immediately afterwards, the afterimage of the Xuanjia Dragon Turtle lowered its head and charged forward.

Crimson-eyed Tianlin rose into the air amidst the flames.

The afterimage of a six-winged eagle swooped down.

The mountain-suppressing wild ox used its broken horn to hold back the rebellious shell.

More and more afterimages of the royal beasts awakened.

They no longer pounced on Shen Ye.

Instead, it lunged at the Devouring King.

The system is displaying a continuous ticking error.

[Number of awakened afterimages of the King Beast: Thirty-seven.]

[Number of awakened afterimages of the King Beast: 162.]

[Number of awakened afterimages of the King Beast: 940.]

[Number of awakened afterimages of the King Beast: 3,700.]

The king's rebellious intentions backfired.

[Disclosure of Betrayal: 49%...58%...67%...79%]

The Devourer King was utterly enraged.

"All of you, come back to me!"

The nine layers of fangs opened again.

This time, it didn't bite Shen Ye.

Instead, it bit at the afterimages of the king beasts that were turning against it.

Shen Ye's eyes turned cold.

"Ancient Beast Military Talisman"

The military insignia lit up.

Three hundred beast cavalrymen, their remaining formation broken, charged out.

A hundred flying beasts, their remnants scattered across the sky.

Fifty armored beasts, remnants of their formation, stood guard before the Devouring King's Tooth.

The remnants of the twenty soul beast formation locked down the Fang Shadow.

The remnants of the twelve-layered beast formation pressed down.

The moment the remnants of the ancient beast army merged with the afterimage of the king beast, countless low roars echoed from above the Beast Emperor Platform.

Like an army formation that was ten thousand years late, finally the last column was added.

Tianhuang's voice came from above, carrying a tremor.

"The Beast Emperor's Platform..."

"Recognizing the army."

Shen Ye gripped his sword and stepped forward.

"continue."

The Beast King Platform shone ever brighter.

Each beast's name nailed back to its lingering shadow.

The five beasts cleaned away the bite marks one by one.

The Devouring King's rebellious intentions were torn apart by the afterimages of ten thousand beasts, causing him to shrink back repeatedly.

It once devoured these king beasts.

Now, these king beasts are slowly crawling out of its heart.

The black gold shell, once a symbol of betrayal, crumbled.

Deepest inside, the outline of a fist-sized, pitch-black core finally emerged.

There are no teeth on the core of the heart.

There is no flesh and blood.

There was only a very thin grayish-white mark.

That was the last mark left on the porch.

The system notification light appears.

[The King's betrayal is exposed at 91%.]

[Core revealed.]

[Note: The Betrayer's Core is bound to the Devourer King's true name.]

If the true name cannot be severed, the Devouring King can be reborn using any of the Devouring Marks.

Shen Ye frowned.

"Real name?"

Tianhuang's voice was low and deep.

"Its true name is at the very bottom of the Beast Emperor Platform."

"Back then, in order to seal it away, the first Beast King personally erased its name."

"If they don't have a name, they can only be sealed off, not killed."

Shen Ye looked into the depths of the light emanating from the Beast Emperor Platform.

"Do you remember Taiwan?"

Tianhuang remained silent for a moment.

"Remember."

"But once that name is uttered, it will fully awaken."

Upon hearing this, the Devouring King suddenly laughed.

Its laughter was hoarse, yet filled with madness.

"call."

"Shen Ye."

"Do you dare to shout?"

"Speak out my true name, and I will regain my complete seventh-tier body."

"If you don't scream, you'll never be able to kill me."

The Sealed Beast Abyss fell silent.

The afterimages of countless beasts surrounded Black Gold's rebellious heart.

The five beasts returned to Shen Ye's side.

All eyes were on Shen Ye.

Shen Ye looked at the pitch-black core and calmly said:

"call."

Tianhuang's vertical pupils contracted.

Shen Ye raised his hand.

The Beast King's Crown, the Crown Bearer's Order, and the Ancient Beast Military Talisman were simultaneously raised.

At the very bottom of the Beast Emperor Platform, a beast name that had been sealed away for ten thousand years slowly emerged.

The moment the name appeared with the first stroke, the entire ancestral court of the demon race began to tremble.

The Devouring King's aura surged wildly.

Peak of the sixth rank.

Pseudo-seventh order.

The seventh level is incomplete.

It's still rising.

The system message indicated a blood-red area.

[Warning: The Devourer King's true name has been restored.]

[Warning: The target is retrieving the complete cell.]

[Warning: If the Nameless One is not defeated within three breaths, the Devouring King will be fully resurrected.]

Shen Ye gripped the black and gold short sword tightly.

The Throne of Beasts solidified behind him.

He looked at the true name that was about to fully emerge, his voice very soft.

"Here's your name back."

"I'll take your life."