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

"hunter."

"I can smell it again."

As soon as Guixu uttered those words, the atmosphere in the Zhenmo Pass operations room instantly sombered.

Shen Ye felt a slight burning sensation on the gray door mark left by the third lock on his chest.

It doesn't hurt.

It was as if someone had peeked at him through the crack in the door.

Han Pojun raised his hand, and the battle map unfolded in mid-air.

In the direction of the ancestral temple of the demon race, a dark golden light is flashing.

That was the first lock.

The Beast Emperor's Platform.

Outside the Beast King Platform, an extremely thin black line appeared.

The black line remains stationary.

But it's like a bow that's already drawn.

Zhou Xuan's face was grim.

"The message sent back by Tianhuang is correct."

"Not the afterimage of the hunter."

"It's the shadow of the real body."

Qin Wuji frowned.

"If it's just the original body, why not just go directly to the ancestral court?"

Lu Chenzhou stared at the black line, his voice low and deep.

"It is waiting."

"Wait for Shen Ye to be seated."

Everyone fell silent.

Shen Ye must repair the Throne of Ten Thousand Beasts in order to seal the third lock.

To repair the Throne of All Beasts, one must enter the interior of the throne.

Once seated, the first lock of the Beast Emperor Platform, the second lock of Old Jiang City, and the third lock within the body will resonate briefly.

At that moment, Shen Ye's position would be most clearly visible from the doorway.

For the hunter, that was the perfect moment to draw his bow.

Zhou Xuan gritted his teeth and said:

"It can be delayed."

"The third lock has a 30-day suppression period."

Shen Ye looked at the battle map.

"No delay."

Han Pojun frowned.

"You've just come from the old Jiangcheng, your energy and blood haven't settled in yet."

Shen Ye said:

"Since it has already drawn its bow, it means that dragging it out will only make it aim more accurately."

Qin Wuji glanced at him.

"So you're planning to go to the throne and get shot now?"

Shen Ye said calmly:

"It wasn't an arrow."

"It's about finding the bow by following the arrow."

Guixu looked up.

"It can bite."

Zhou Xuan's forehead twitched.

"It's not a question of whether or not it can be bitten."

Guixu added a sentence carefully:

"Bite it."

Qin Wuji remained silent for a moment.

That makes sense.

Zhou Xuan didn't want to talk anymore.

Half an hour later.

Beneath the Demon-Suppressing Pass.

The town gatehouse is opened.

This is not an ordinary training room.

The four walls were covered with black and gold array patterns, and the ground was engraved with the highest-level gate-guarding array of the Eastern Xia Army.

Wei Cang personally oversaw the formation.

Han Pojun led the Demon-Suppressing Army to form an outer defense.

Qin Wuji, Li Xuance, Chu Jinglan, and Meng Qianqiu each guarded their own territory.

Lu Chenzhou stood behind Shen Ye, the Old Night King Blade held horizontally at the edge of the shadow.

Xue Li was in charge of monitoring the blood soul corruption.

Zhou Xuan stood in front of the main battle platform, his brush almost never stopping.

"The protective array can only block one shift."

"If the arrow hits the crack in the throne directly, I can't stop it."

Shen Ye sat cross-legged in the center of the formation.

Night Feather landed on her left shoulder.

The candlestick enters the shadow.

Long Yuan stood behind him.

Jie Chen knelt on his knees.

Guixu crouched in the center of the array patterns, with a small black and silver door faintly visible behind it.

Shen Ye closed his eyes.

That's enough.

A system notification sounded.

[Enter the Throne of Beasts.]

[Objective: Repair the rift crack and lock the third lock.]

[WARNING: Host coordinates will be exposed while seated.]

[Warning: A porch stalker has been detected aiming.]

next moment.

Shen Ye's consciousness sank into the space of the Black Gold Throne.

Before me stood a dilapidated throne.

On the throne are bite marks left by the Devourer King.

Circle after circle, like black teeth marks, gnawed into the foundation of the throne.

To the left of the throne, the Dark Gold Beast Emperor's Platform Mark slowly burned.

On the right, the black and white wedge pattern of the second lock in the old Jiangcheng turns quietly.

And the throne is in the very center.

A gray door mark was pasted with Shen Ye's name on it.

Behind the door mark, someone chuckled softly.

"finally."

Shen Ye opened his eyes.

"Have you been waiting long?"

There was no answer from behind the door.

Only the sound of the bowstring being drawn could be heard.

hum.

Beneath the Demon-Suppressing Pass, Guixu suddenly looked up.

"bow."

At the same instant, outside the ancestral court of the demon race.

Above the first lock of the Beast King Platform, the black shadow finally moved.

It has no face.

It has no eyes.

There was only a longbow pieced together from countless gaps in the door.

The black bow is fully drawn.

The arrow was pointing not at the Demon-Suppressing Pass.

It was not Shen Ye's physical body either.

It was the Seat-Devouring Crack on the Throne of All Beasts.

A furious roar echoed from the ancestral temple.

"Pressure the stage!"

Peng Jiuxiao led the demon race's prodigies to simultaneously activate their ancestral blood.

The Beast King Platform suddenly lit up.

But the black arrow still flew out.

There was no sound of air being cut.

There was no thunder.

It's like a result.

It shot directly into the gap of the three locks' resonance from outside the first lock.

At the bottom of Zhenmo Pass, Zhou Xuan's expression changed drastically.

"They're here!"

Qin Wuji was the first to make a move.

Emperor Lei Zupeng transformed into thunder wings, and ten thousand thunderbolts blocked his path.

The black arrow pierced through the lightning.

The lightning only shaved off a layer of its black skin.

Li Xuance thrust out his sword.

The Azure Lotus Heart-Questioning Sword Formation blooms.

The black arrow pierced the lotus heart, and a petal of the sword lotus withered instantly.

Chu Jinglan raised his hand, and the Canghai Domain transformed into a bottomless deep tide.

The black arrow entered the sea.

The sea split open silently.

Meng Qianqiu gripped the sword with both hands, and the ethereal image of the Qianqiu Sword bone solidified.

The sword struck the arrow.

clang!

The black arrow finally missed by half an inch.

Lu Chenzhou took a step forward, and the Old Night King Blade slashed at the shadow beneath Shen Ye's feet.

"Don't let it borrow your shadow!"

The blade flashed.

A shadow line at the end of the black arrow was severed.

Zhou Xuan seized the opportunity, and the gate-suppressing formation suddenly closed.

"Shen Ye!"

"Only one breath left!"

Inside the throne.

Shen Ye looked up.

The black arrow has arrived.

It is not an arrow.

It is an arrow-shaped door.

The tip of the door is aligned with the crack in the throne.

Once you drill in, the crack will be completely torn open.

The third lock will also unlock the door.

Night Feather Black Sun Netherfire ignited.

The candles, nine in nine, spread out across the underworld.

Longyuan braced himself against the crack in the throne with both arms.

The Heavenly Punishment of Calamity pins the arrowhead to the eye of calamity.

Guixu emerged from the void and bit the arrow's fletching.

"It tastes awful."

Shen Ye did not execute the attack immediately.

He raised his hand and placed it on the armrest of the throne.

"Repair it first."

The five animal patterns lit up simultaneously.

It's not a nail.

It was not a sacrifice.

It is a shared principle.

Night Feather's black sunset fell on the crack in the left wing.

The Nine Netherworlds of Zhu Jiu suppressed the cracks in the shadows.

The blood of the Fighting King of Longyuan propped up the fractured foundation.

The lightning patterns of the Heavenly Punishment of Calamity welded the edges of the gray door shut.

Guixu, biting the arrow's tail, dragged the door line outwards with all its might.

The system prompts an error.

The Throne of Beasts is under repair.

[Repair progress: 7%...12%...19%...]

[Intrusion of hunter's arrow path detected.]

[Optional: Sever.]

[Risk: Arrows explode, cracks widen on the throne.]

[Optional: Devour.]

[Risk: Guixu will be marked by the hunter.]

[Optional: Deadbolt.]

[Requirement: Capture the bowstring coordinates.]

Shen Ye's eyes turned cold.

"Lock it from the inside."

Gui Xu, still chewing on the arrow fletching, mumbled:

"I need the thread."

Shen Ye raised his sword.

There was no arrow-cutting technique.

Instead, it slashed at the back of the arrow, at the thin, almost invisible black bowstring.

Slaying the Name of Ten Thousand Beasts.

It wasn't an object that was being cut.

It is "Hunting Path".

Click.

A very faint cracking sound rang out from within the throne space.

The arrow-shaped black door trembled violently.

For the first time, the shadowy figure of the hunter made a sound from behind the door.

"The Crown Bearer".

"You dare look at my bow?"

Shen Ye gripped his sword and stepped forward.

"I saw it."

The tail of the black arrow was bitten open by Guixu.

Beyond the gap, there is no longer nothingness.

Instead, it is a secluded and hidden path.

At the end of the road.

The hunter's true form, a shadow, stood in the darkness.

The bow was fully drawn back.

This time, the arrow was aimed at Shen Ye's brow.

The system message "Ice" popped up.

[Capture the coordinates of the hunting path.]

[Warning: The Hunter's shadow has locked onto its host.]

[Repair progress for Throne of Beasts paused at 21%.]

Shen Ye slowly rose from the throne.

All five beasts raised their heads at the same time.

The hunters were eerily quiet, separated by the doorway.

"Taking a seat is like entering a hunting ground."

Shen Ye raised his sword, and the black and gold sword light illuminated the entire dilapidated throne.

"Wrong."

"This is my throne."

"You're the one who should be hunted."