"Those fierce beasts, for some reason, suddenly went into a frenzy..."


    After Liang City turned danger into safety, the news reached Xianjing, and the alliance heavily publicized it, considering it a milestone in humanity’s fight against the fierce beasts.


    After three rounds of drinks.


    Shen Cheng, slightly tipsy, couldn’t help but curse the Keyboard Immortals online.


    "The fierce beasts and demon folk that Master Dao yed are more than all of thembined, how do they have the face to talk about escapism? If they were put on the front lines, they’d surely cry for their parents!"


    Even with the Nine Continents ravaged by fierce beasts and humanity facing an apocalyptic backdrop, truly brave souls willing to fight to the death were but one or two out of ten.


    Most people just went with the flow; when fierce beasts came, they ran without a second thought, and when the army was defeated, they died in the maws of the beasts.


    Rebellion, after all, requires tremendous courage!


    "Ny percent of people in this world are a confused crowd. They are limited by their cognition, deeming one thing bad today and another good tomorrow, never having a fixed,prehensive standard for judgment," Zhou Yi said with augh, "These days theyvish praise upon someone, and a few dayster, when pessimistic words are spoken, I again be a viin in their eyes!"


    How could someone as esteemed as a Golden Elixir True Monarch stoop to trading insults with mere mortals because of rumors? It would be beneath him.


    Even if he did stoop to their level, it was unlikely he would win the argument; they were adept at using moral coercion, forcing you to the front lines to fight fierce beasts—you couldn’t prove your innocence without sacrifice!


    Zhou Yi might speak generously, but in reality, whenever he saw suchments, he would curse them from afar.


    Not to death, of course. At the least, they’d have bad luck for ten days to half a month; at worst, they might break an arm or a leg.


    Master Dao is small-minded!


    Zhou Yi had a smile on his face. These days, the rave reviews of "Master Tang" online were probably rted to this; after all, each and every naysayer had ended up in the hospital.


    "Shen Cheng, I’ve specifically assigned your dorm room to 404, where you’ll live with the students of the Ancient Cultivation department."


    Shen Cheng was taken aback, puzzled. "Master, do you have any instructions for doing this?"


    "There are two students in that dormitory, one is Gu Chen, the other Han Chao. Remember to make good friends with them in your daily life," Zhou Yi said, "Their futures are boundless..."


    Before he could finish speaking.


    A monstrous might enveloped Xianjing, and the terrifying aura of ughter made people’s souls tremble.


    "Something’s happened at the school!"


    Zhou Yi’s brows furrowed deeply. With no time to say goodbye to Shen Cheng, his figure flickered and vanished.


    ...


    Martial Arts University.


    The academic building.


    The murderous aura condensed into substance, rising like a beacon of smoke into the sky.


    The teachers in the building used their skills to break the blockade of the murderous aura, leaping directly from the building, shouting for the students to stay away.


    Boom! Boom! Boom!


    The sound of warnes filled the sky, hovering over the school, ready to reduce the academic building to rubble at any moment.


    Zhou Yi activated the Supreme rity Divine Talisman, bing invisible and concealed as his Divine Sense swept over and immediately identified the source of the murderous aura.


    The principal’s office.


    Xiao Hong was nowhere to be seen, and in his ce was a thirty-foot-long winged tiger, with only its facial features still resembling a human’s.


    "Is this bloodline bacsh?"


    Zhou Yi had encountered Xiao Hong several times in the past half year and had always noticed that the ughter within him grew stronger each time, while his human aura faded.


    On a daily basis, those who attended to him closely would inject him with bloodline-suppressing Elixirs, helping Xiao Hong suppress the beast blood within him.


    "ording to initial estimates, Xiao Hong could have endured for another year or two. By then, I would already be able to refine the second Elixir, then cast a spell to help him take and assimte it, greatly increasing his chances of sessfully advancing!"


    Zhou Yi’s brow furrowed slightly as the Light Dividing Sword moved through his sleeve.


    Once Xiao Hong’s human soul shattered and he fellpletely into demonhood, he would cast a spell to y him, sparing the school from cmity.


    Roar!


    Xiao Hong roared to the heavens, sending sound waves out that shattered all the ss in the teaching building, followed by disjointed human voices.


    "Everyone stay away from the school... take the second Elixir... aim the weapon of destruction!"


    Having said this.


    Xiao Hong smashed the safe with one w, revealing silver-white Elixirs inside, radiating strong energy fluctuations.


    After hesitating for a moment, he swallowed the Elixir, and tumultuous surges of beast blood and Spiritual Energy coursed through his body, tearing apart his organs and meridians as if he were being mutted by thousands of knives.


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    Roar! Roar! Roar...


    The tiger’s roar grew stronger, truly shaking the vicinity for miles. Yet those who understood the situation all had serious expressions, for the tiger’s roar was bing increasingly vicious and brutal.


    The human wisdom within Xiao Hong had beenpletely suppressed by the beast blood inside him.


    "In such a state, even with the integration of the elixir, it has just be a bigger bane!"


    Zhou Yi waved his hand, and dozens of Array tes fell near the teaching building, forming an invisible matter formation that was sufficient to withstand the outbreak after demonic possession. Afterward, it was simply a matter of beheading with a single sword.


    At this moment.


    Another change urred. Xiao Hong looked up to the sky and let out a long howl, and from his mouth, a Magic Artifact flew out.


    It resembled a banana leaf, as red as fire!


    As soon as the Divine Fire Fan appeared, with a gentle wave, seven-colored mes flowed out, enveloping Xiao Hong and beginning to aid him in refining his bloodline.


    "To think he is a descendant of Xiao Ran, the ways of the world are ever-changing, even I cannot fathom them!"


    Zhou Yi shook his head slightly. Since he was the descendant of an old acquaintance, he naturally couldn’t just stand by and do nothing. He took out a wisp of golden light from the Kunlun Cave Heaven.


    The golden light was as fine as a strand of hair and spiraled around in his palm as if it were alive.


    After the Tiger Emperor’s soul had dissipated, Zhou Yi used a secret technique of the Ghost King Sect to capture a wisp of the Nascent Soul Origin.


    "Tiger bloodline with wings, a perfect match for the Tiger Emperor, consider yourself lucky!"


    Zhou Yi waved his hand, and the golden light silently burrowed into Xiao Hong’s body, merging with his Divine Sense.


    The pure Nascent Soul Origin, even just a wisp, was a tremendous supplement for Xiao Hong.


    Xiao Hong’s Divine Sense quickly grew stronger, beginning to regain rity from the viciousness. Even more mysteriously, the nature of the Divine Sense began to change, gradually transforming from a human-shaped Divine Sense into a tiger-headed, human-bodied figure with wings growing out of its back.


    After the Divine Sense changed, the original fierce and brutal beast blood calmed down instantly and became obedient and docile.


    "Is there a noble person secretly helping?"


    Xiao Hong couldn’t care to ponder who was helping him; under the suppression of his Divine Sense, he rapidly integrated his bloodline.


    The painful and vicious roars of the tiger ceased, and the cultivators who were watching both openly and secretly, even though they did not understand the underlying reasons, could feel that Xiao Hong’s aura was returning to normal.


    "In such a state, could he be merging sessfully?"


    "There has yet to be a sessful case with the second elixir among the demon race, is the human race going to take this step first?"


    "It was on the brink of failure, and then suddenly sessful; there feels like an unexpected element!"


    "Heavenly assistance, this is a sign of the human race’s great prosperity!"


    "..."


    A chorus of excited and thrilled exchanges.


    Sessful consumption of the second elixir grants strengthparable to that of a Golden Core, enough to protect the human race indefinitely.


    The bloodline fusion continued from noon until nightfall, and Xiao Hong finallypleted his transformation, turning into a creature with the upper body of a human, the lower body of a ck-striped white tiger with four ws, and a pair of wings on its back.


    Roar—


    A long howl.


    Xiao Hong looked up at the sky and saw that out of nowhere thick clouds had formed, with the sound of thunder endless in his ears.


    "Is this the Minor Forty-Nine Heavenly Tribtion? Even I must undergo tribtion while practicing a new technique!"


    Xiao Hong, holding the Divine Fire Fan, took to the clouds with his four ws and rose into the air, flying directly towards the dark clouds without a trace of fear.


    Somewhere in the void.


    Zhou Yi was not worried about Xiao Hong. With the Sect’s Supreme Treasure acknowledging him as its master, if he couldn’t even ovee the Heavenly Tribtion, the Nascent Soul Origin would have been wasted for nothing.


    "His aura is alreadyparable to a Golden Core, but the way he maniptes Spiritual Energy seems somewhat familiar..."


    "Magic body!"


    Zhou Yi, watching Xiao Hong being struck by lightning, suddenly realized that the other’sbat techniques were simr to those of the demon race. However, he could control Spiritual Energy through innate talent and bloodline, simr to the Star Body.


    After a long while.


    Xiao Hong’s body was charred on one side, having narrowly survived the Heavenly Tribtion. He awaited the purification by heaven and earth as recorded in the annals.


    Hum!


    Out of nowhere, a mysterious sound like the chime of dawn or dusk bells prated into everyone’s hearts and minds.


    Zhou Yi, along with everyone else, suddenly had a realization — the sound conveyed much information, among which the most important was that Xiao Hong was the first Golden Elixir True Monarch of the new era!


    Perhaps it shouldn’t be called a Golden Core; the general meaning was simr.


    Heaven and earth would grant special blessings, encouraging the younger generation of cultivators to work hard at their cultivation, taking Xiao Hong as a role model!


    The sound ceased.


    A seven-colored Spiritual Light appeared out of nowhere, containing the mysterious essence of yin and yang and the five elements, pouring directly into Xiao Hong’s body. The scars from the lightning tribtion visibly healed and the vicious and brutal aura slowly dissipated.


    Xiao Hong felt an itch on his back; under the Divine Light, his back wings continuously shrank until they disappeared.


    A seven-colored Spiritual Light appeared out of nowhere, containing the mysterious essence of yin and yang and the five elements, pouring directly into Xiao Hong’s body. The scars from the lightning tribtion visibly healed and the vicious and brutal aura slowly dissipated.


    Xiao Hong felt an itch on his back; under the Divine Light, his back wings continuously shrank until they disappeared.