Reborn as a lotus, she initially refuses to hand it over to the state.

The Primordial Jade Talisman broke through the clouds.

It did not fall directly into Black Dragon Lake.

Instead, it hovered quietly in mid-air, hundreds of miles away from the restricted area.

A faint white light appeared on the surface of the jade talisman.

The Heavenly Gate of Kunlun opens.

The Primordial Dao Palace invites high-ranking beings from the Ancestral Realm to witness the calamity before the Heavenly Gate.

Those who do not wish to join will not be forced to.

On Heilong Lake.

Little Jinbao flew to the bottom of the jade talisman and circled it twice.

"Master, this White Stone is quite polite."

Lord Baishan lay prostrate on the mountaintop, his tiger-like eyes fixed on the jade talisman: "You're being polite, but that doesn't mean you have no ulterior motives."

Chu Zhou's lotus leaves swayed gently: "The Primordial Dao Palace wants to see my true colors."

The strange rock at the bottom of the lake sneered: "Their probing is a pretense; what they really want to see is how many powerful figures are still in this world."

"The Kunlun gang is best at calculating the big picture. They are not in a hurry to fight for a city or a piece of land, but they will never hand over the initiative to others."

Chu Zhou's roots reached out and touched the Primordial Jade Talisman.

The jade talisman trembled.

Black and gold lotus patterns appeared on it, and the next moment, the jade talisman shattered instantly.

Meanwhile, in front of Kunlun Tianmen.

The young man in white robes instantly sensed the jade talisman shatter.

His expression was somewhat solemn.

The gray-robed old man's face was gloomy as he angrily said, "A mere strange beast is far too arrogant."

The young man in white robes turned around and said, "Three years ago, when the spiritual energy of the ancestral realm had just recovered, who could have imagined that Black Dragon Lake would come to this? Don't look at the mountains and rivers of today with the eyes of the old era."

Since the Lord of the Azure Lotus is not coming, we need not force him.

He raised his hand and placed it on the Kunlun Heavenly Gate.

The white jade gate trembled.

But through the crack in the door, a drop of pitch-black liquid slid down the threshold.

The young man paused, his fingers moving slightly.

The drop of black liquid fell onto the snow.

laugh!

The white snow instantly turned charred black.

The gray-robed elder's expression changed drastically: "How could there be an aura of erosion within the Heavenly Gate?"

The young man in the white robe stared at the ever-widening crack in the door.

"Order the Dao Palace to seal off the area around the Heavenly Gate. No one is allowed to enter the Heavenly Gate, including this Holy Son."

At the same time.

Sichuan, Broken Cloud Ridge.

The Black Tiger King stood before the shattered sacrificial stele.

In the valley, the strange beasts of Xiongling are cleaning up the remains of the Black Tide.

Thousands of rescued alien beasts left in batches.

Some returned to their old mountain home.

Some followed the Ironback Bear King to Bear Ridge.

Another portion remained outside Duanyun Ridge, guarded by the Black Tiger Guards.

The Black Tiger King's forehead was burning hot with the battle order from the Abyss.

It lowered its head, and deep within Broken Cloud Ridge, a black beetle that had been pressed down by the sacrificial stele crawled out from a crack in the rock.

The beetle is no bigger than the palm of your hand.

On its carapace, however, was an unfamiliar mark.

It had a vertical pupil.

Nine black chains encircled the vertical pupil.

The Black Tiger King raised its paw.

Snapped!

The beetle was smashed into a black pulp, but instead of falling to the ground, the pulp turned into a wisp of black smoke and burrowed into the earth.

Black Tiger King's eyes narrowed slightly: "All Black Tiger Guards, stand back!"

Boom!

The ground suddenly cracked open.

A pitch-black crack, hundreds of meters long, was torn open from the center of the Duanyunling Valley.

There is no rock layer below the crack.

Instead, it was a gray-black wasteland.

Countless broken animal bones stand on the wasteland.

Each animal bone was topped with a black spear.

The Ironback Bear King hurried over.

"Another Sacrifice Cave?"

Black Tiger King stared at the crack.

"No, the black tide in the Sacrifice Abyss Cave surges outwards. What's inside is waiting for someone to enter."

The voice just fell.

Footsteps echoed from the depths of the crevice.

Three figures draped in gray-black cloaks emerged from the wasteland.

They were similar in size to humans, but their faces were covered with bone masks.

The leader was holding a black bone spear.

Several animal cores were strung on the tip of the bone spear.

One of the beast cores is still pulsating.

The Ironback Bear King's breathing was heavy; that was the core of the bear clan's beasts.

Black Tiger King stepped forward: "This is Sichuan. Go back to where you came from."

A hoarse laugh echoed from beneath the skeletal mask: "Sichuan, the mountains and rivers of the ancestral realm, you can't even protect the boundary gate, yet you dare to draw a line between your territories?"

The leader raised his bone spear, and the beast core at the tip of the spear lit up.

Inside the valley, several newly rescued beasts suddenly clutched their heads and roared.

The remaining abyssal seeds within them were also restless.

The Black Tiger King's forehead lit up with a battle order: "Soul-Suppressing Platform, Suppress!"

hum!

The black and gold lotus pattern fell into Broken Cloud Ridge.

The black tide that had just begun to rise from the bodies of those strange beasts was suppressed back into their bodies by the lotus pattern.

The three men in gray-black cloaks paused.

The leader looked up at the sky and said in a deep voice, "The Soul-Suppressing Platform of Ten Thousand Beasts? No wonder the chief priest's monument was destroyed."

He took off the mask from his face.

The face had no features, only a single, slowly rotating black vertical pupil.

"The Ancestral Realm has produced another Abyss Suppressor."

The Ironback Bear King roared, "What are you doing with the bear clan's beast cores?"

The man with vertical pupils chuckled: "Naturally, it must serve as the anchor of the boundary gate, the bloodline of the Beast King, the ley lines of mountains and rivers, and the Black Tide Abyss Seed—none of these can be missing."

The Black Tiger King suddenly pounced, and the shadows spread across the realm.

As the light in the entire valley dimmed, hundreds of shadowy blades slashed towards the three cloaked figures from all directions.

"Shadow Suppressor!"

boom!

The leader, a man with vertical pupils, raised his bone spear.

A black spear-like beam swept across.

Dozens of shadowy blades shattered on the spot.

The aura of a late-stage seventh-order cultivator swept across the entire Broken Cloud Ridge.

The Ironback Bear King shattered the mountain rocks.

"Iron Mountain Moving!"

Boom!

A phantom image of a 100-meter-high mountain descended from the sky.

The two cloaked figures behind the man with vertical pupils raised their hands simultaneously.

Two gray-black rings emerged from their palms.

The ring rotates.

The illusory mountain was torn apart by a strange force.

The Ironback Bear King was shaken back dozens of meters.

The Black Tiger King merged into the shadows, its body transforming into a black line, aiming straight for the throat of the man with vertical pupils.

The man with vertical pupils seemed to have anticipated this.

It raised its left hand.

A large black net fell from the void.

As soon as the Black Tiger King stepped out of the shadows, a black net covered half of its body.

The network cable, as if alive, burrowed into its body.

The Black Tiger King chewed up a network cable.

Black liquid inlet.

Its soul was suddenly torn apart by pain.

The Black Tiger King swayed.

The man with vertical pupils said coldly, "The Hunting Soul-Locking Net is specifically for locking beast souls."

"You ancestral beasts have good bloodlines. You can sell them to those ancient clans and get a lot of world crystals in return."

The Ironback Bear King's eyes were bloodshot.

It grabbed two huge rocks and hurled them at the man with vertical pupils: "You're asking for death!"

boom!

The boulder was pierced by the bone spear.

The man with vertical pupils took a step forward, his bone spear piercing straight into the chest of the Ironback Bear King.

Despite the excruciating pain in his soul, the Black Tiger King transformed his shadow into claws.

boom!

The bone gun was deflected.

The spearhead grazed the Ironback Bear King's shoulder and back.

Large swaths of hair and blood flew out.

"Black Tiger!"

The Ironback Bear King roared.

The Soul-Locking Net on the Black Tiger King tightened more and more.

It stared at the three people and said in a deep voice, "Master, these things are not Abyssal Erosion."

Inside Heilong Lake.

Through the shared senses of all beasts, Chu Zhou felt the pain of the Black Tiger King's soul being torn apart.

Huge waves instantly surged up on the lake surface.

The strange rock's texture pulsated violently.

"The Beyonder!"

Chu Zhou's roots landed on the Imperial Seal: "What is a hunter-governor beyond the borders?"

The strange stone's voice was deep: "Among all the worlds, they are most skilled at hunting down the scum of newly revived worlds. They do not belong to any race; they only care about their own interests."

"The Hunter Clan bloodline, the Hunter King Beast spirit bone, the Heart of the Hunter Cave, and the Lord of the Abyss Erosion have most likely made deals with them."

"The Abyss Corrupts them, and they harvest all the spirits for the Abyss Corrupt. These guys are here now, and it seems they were sealed in the Abyss Realm in ancient times."

Unexpectedly, as the seals on the ancestral realm and those grotto-heavens loosened, these troublesome fellows also appeared.

Chu Zhou looked at the scene at Duan Yun Ridge, his face dark, and snorted, "If they dare to capture my patrol envoys, then they shall remain in Sichuan."

boom!

The Zhenyuan Emperor's Seal soared into the sky.

A black and gold beam of light pierced the sky.

Above Duanyun Ridge.

A nine-petaled blue lotus casts its shadow, pressing down on the mountains.

The person with vertical pupils raised their head.

It looked at the lotus shadow that stretched for thousands of miles, and a hint of surprise appeared in its vertical pupils.

"Eighth-tier mid-stage, less than three years after the ancestral realm's revival, such a being has already appeared."

Chu Zhou's voice fell: "Release the Black Tiger King."

The man with vertical pupils gripped his bone spear tightly: "Zhenyuan, you are here to serve in the Hunting Hall. If you leave now, I will pretend I never saw you."

Chu Zhou swayed gently on the lotus leaf: "Who do you think you are, daring to make me retreat? The Hunting Hall, you're nothing but a few stray dogs, yet you dare to bark?"

"court death."

Upon hearing this, the man with vertical pupils flew into a rage. The Lord of the Azure Lotus deserved to die for such provocation.

hum!

The Soul-Suppressing Platform lit up from Black Dragon Lake, and the Black Tiger King responded with a battle order from his brow. A black-gold lotus pattern pierced through the void and landed on the Soul-Locking Net.

Zizizi!

A large plume of black smoke billowed from the Soul-Locking Net.

The man with vertical pupils changed his expression: "The Soul-Suppressing Platform can break the Soul-Locking Net of the Hunting Guard?"

The Black Tiger King's body suddenly trembled.

The Soul-Locking Net crumbled inch by inch.

It burst forth from the shadows of the valley, its tiger claws slamming into the face of the man with vertical pupils.

"Shadow Suppressor!"

boom!

The person with vertical pupils had half of their head smashed.

Black blood sprayed out, but it did not fall.

Black threads protrude from the severed skull, attempting to stitch it back together.

The roots of Chu Zhou emerged from the void.

Snapped!

The roots wrapped around the neck of the person with vertical pupils, and the purifying spiritual light flowed into its body through the roots.

The man with vertical pupils let out a shrill roar.

"This isn't psionic power, so what are you?"

boom!

The roots tighten.

The person with vertical pupils exploded.

A gray-black crystal core flew out from the blood mist.

Seeing that things were not going well, the other two cloaked figures turned and rushed towards the rift in the boundary gate.

The Iron-Backed Bear King pressed his paws to the ground: "Iron Mountain Moving!"

Boom!

Two illusory mountain shadows sealed the crack.

One of the cloaked figures was struck by the giant mountain, his bones shattered.

The other person bit into a black rune stone.

Half of its body was absorbed by the gate.

"Trying to run? Did I give you permission?"

Chu Zhou snorted coldly, and in an instant, roots reappeared from the void, directly entangling the cloaked man who was about to be taken away by the boundary gate.

"No, absolutely not."

The creature's body was entangled by the roots released by Chu Zhou, and it was unable to leave for a moment. With a thought from Chu Zhou, it was finally freed.

The cloaked figure was directly devoured, turning into a large number of evolution points.

The other heavily wounded cloaked figure was still trying to escape.

Chu Zhou killed him instantly.

It's gone just like that?

All three cloaked figures perished.

Inside Duanyun Ridge.

Black Tiger King stood in the ruined valley, his chest heaving.

The Ironback Bear King's shoulders and back were stained with blood, and a broken bone spear lay beneath its feet.

Neither of the beast kings relaxed, because of the deaths of the three.

The dark gray crack did not close; instead, an even deeper rumble emanated from the wasteland below it.

hum!

Three gray-black crystal cores flew up simultaneously.

The crystal nuclei did not escape; they transformed into three streaks of black light and fell into the deepest part of the crack.

Black Tiger King's eyes narrowed slightly: "Ironback, retreat!"

Boom!

In the middle of the wasteland, a black iron nail bursts out of the ground.

The iron nail was a hundred meters tall, with nine chains wrapped around it.

Each chain pierced through countless beast bones, extending deep into the ancestral realm's earth veins.

A strange voice echoed from the bottom of Black Dragon Lake: "Boundary Nail!"

Chu Zhou paused, his beard bristling: "Boundary nail?"

The strange stone's patterns pulsed: "The boundary gate has no fixed location unless there are sufficiently powerful ley lines and bloodlines to serve as coordinates."

"The Sacrifice Abyss Cave pollutes the earth's veins, and the Beast King's bloodline provides the catalyst. Once this boundary nail is completely driven into Broken Cloud Ridge, it will completely connect that wasteland with the Ancestral Realm."

"At that time, it won't be three broken bodies that arrive."

Chu Zhou looked up at the sky above the valley, where the projection of the Nine-Leaf Green Lotus pressed down on the clouds. He understood perfectly what the strange rock meant.

These so-called boundary nails are just like coordinates, right? But what's a bit scary about them is that they're not.

It can even forcibly connect Earth to that so-called other world.

That's a bit scary.

If they are truly connected, who knows how many powerful beings from other worlds will descend upon them?