The Qilin Seal
Boom!!!
Ancestral Qilin was sent flying backward!
When he landed, even Buzhou Mountain trembled.
Great swaths of rock tumbled down, and boundless dust billowed into the heavens.
Amid the utter chaos, Ancestral Qilin struggled to his feet, blood at the corners of his mouth and great patches of the scales covering his body shattered.
The blood of a Quasi-Sage spread in a gruesome sight, terrifying to behold!
"Cough, cough!"
"How could this be???"
Ancestral Qilin roared, his eyes bloodshot!
He had never encountered anything like this before.
Since his birth, he had led the Qilin Clan and fought countless battles across the Primordial World.
Even when countless enemies had ambushed him, he had ultimately slaughtered every last one of those contemptible wretches!
He had also fought the leaders of the Dragon and Phoenix Clans for supremacy, staining the sky with blood!
But never before had he been crushed so utterly.
And now, that being without a trace of cultivation had actually dealt him a grievous blow despite taking his palm strike!
Ancestral Qilin looked toward Fuxi.
The man in robes whiter than snow was utterly composed. He calmly withdrew his hand and turned his emotionless eyes toward Ancestral Qilin.
At that moment, Ancestral Qilin felt his body shudder.
"Why? Why is there no trace of injury on him?!"
Terrifying waves surged in his heart!
As his emotions surged, a sweet taste rose in his throat.
He spat out a mouthful of essence blood!
It formed a bloody mist in the air.
"Why... why..."
That being had clearly taken the full force of his palm strike, so how could this be?
The killing aura of clashing weapons in his strike had never failed to wound once unleashed, so how could it have failed to leave so much as a scratch on that man?
Intense confusion left Ancestral Qilin unable to find peace, and even his Dao heart began to tremble.
Yet Fuxi stood with his hands behind his back, his white robes untouched by dust, looking every bit a graceful young noble in a world of dust.
"You're not bad yourself."
He nodded slowly and spoke to Ancestral Qilin.
His manner was utterly condescending!
It was like the mild praise a clan elder might give a junior.
And the sight was an eyesore to Ancestral Qilin.
It made the flames of his rage burn all the fiercer, as though his very insides were ablaze.
On the vast lands of the Primordial World, no one had ever dared say such a thing to him.
Ancestral Qilin glared, drawing the spiritual Qi from within a million miles into his body without cease.
The wounds on his body began to heal faster!
Dark clouds blanketed the sky, as though the heavens were about to tilt and collapse.
The atmosphere was unbearably oppressive.
Within hundreds of millions of miles of Buzhou Mountain, not a single living being dared make a sound beneath the oppressive presence of this Quasi-Sage.
Except for that group of Ancestral Witches!
Those fellows had noticed none of the changes in Ancestral Qilin and simply laughed among themselves!
"Hahahahaha, that's my big brother for you! That bird-beast couldn't even withstand a single palm strike from him!"
Zhurong laughed heartily, his red hair burning like flames.
"Just who is that Ancestral Qilin? He actually managed to get back up after taking a palm strike from my big brother?"
Dijiang looked at Zhu Jiuyin, who understood at once and entered the River of Time to trace the origins of the man before them, whose ferocious might soared to the heavens and whose hair bristled with rage.
"Born of earth, fire, water, and wind, he leads the Beast lineage and is one of the supreme rulers of heaven and earth on the Primordial Continent."
Zhu Jiuyin opened his eyes and emerged from the River of Time.
"That bird-beast can actually be a supreme ruler of heaven and earth?" Gonggong was utterly unconvinced.
He couldn't even withstand a single palm strike from his big brother, and he was worthy of that?
"He has the cultivation of a Quasi-Sage."
Dijiang added, his words tinged with disdain.
They did not understand what a Sage was, but they knew it was a cultivation realm far above that of a Daluo Golden Immortal.
Yet now, he couldn't even deal with them!
He hadn't even been able to fully withstand their big brother's palm strike.
"The position of supreme ruler of heaven and earth on this Primordial Continent was far too easy to obtain."
Those words voiced the thoughts of all the Ancestral Witches present, and also infuriated Ancestral Qilin, who had seized the chance to heal.
That white-robed being truly was bizarre beyond measure.
He had no cultivation whatsoever, yet he could take his palm strike.
That was a palm strike that neither Ancestral Dragon nor Yuanfeng would have dared guarantee they could withstand.
He, Ancestral Qilin, had won his position as a supreme ruler of heaven and earth by leading the Qilin Clan through hundreds of Yuanhui of battle against the Dragon and Phoenix Clans.
Countless fine warriors of the Qilin Clan had perished because of it.
How could he let those people spout such nonsense!
Killing intent surged skyward at the foot of Buzhou Mountain, shaking every star in the heavens.
Countless mighty beings hidden in the shadows turned their gazes toward this place.
"Isn't that Ancestral Qilin?"
"Who is he fighting?"
"Who could have stirred such killing intent in him?"
"I am Ancestral Qilin, born of the fortune of heaven and earth, leader of the Beast lineage and a supreme ruler of heaven and earth!"
Ancestral Qilin threw back his head and howled, making his declaration to the heavens and earth of the Primordial World!
"You contemptible wretches, what use are your sharp tongues?"
"I shall slay you all??!!!"
Ancestral Qilin's imposing presence was peerless as he walked slowly toward Fuxi and the others.
It was as though a volcano had taken shape beneath his feet, ready to erupt at any moment and utterly devour everything before him.
"Speak your last words, then come and meet your deaths!"
This was the pride Ancestral Qilin had gained from leading the lands of the Primordial World for hundreds of Yuanhui.
He firmly believed that he must have been too careless and underestimated his opponent.
That was what had given the other side an opening!
"Oh?"
Ancestral Qilin's declaration brought a hint of interest to Fuxi's eyes.
He had long heard the name Ancestral Qilin.
But that palm strike just now had not been enough to satisfy him either.
"If you insist, I don't mind."
A smile touched Fuxi's lips as he gestured with one hand.
"Use whatever moves you have."
He, who had reached Qi Guidance into the Body in the Mythic Great Luo system, also wanted to see just what a Quasi-Sage was capable of.
In all the battles between cultivators on the Primordial Continent, no one had ever dared act as Fuxi did.
If one was going to fight, then striking first was what mattered!
No one could be so completely confident as to act with such ease.
No one could guarantee that their opponent wasn't hiding some means to turn defeat into victory!
"Hahahahaha, you certainly are confident!"
Ancestral Qilin laughed wildly.
He laughed at Fuxi for giving up the first move in battle, for being so conceited in a fight against him!
"I hope you'll remain just as confident in a moment!"
A majestic presence erupted from Ancestral Qilin, and heaven and earth answered him.
Wind, rain, thunder, and lightning appeared at once, each unleashing power greater than usual.
In mere moments, the foot of Buzhou Mountain had become a sea of thunderbolts.
Disaster erupted at that moment!
Amid the raging wind and rain, Fuxi stood alone, like a pillar holding up the heavens.
The torrential rain and fierce winds had no effect on him whatsoever.
He looked coldly at Ancestral Qilin.
Ancestral Qilin laughed, spiritual Qi surging around him.
He summoned a square seal!
From atop the seal came countless birdcalls and cicada chirps, and the gentle murmuring of flowing water!
From beneath it came the clashing of weapons and the pounding of war drums!
The Qi of living beings intertwined with the bloody Qi of slaughter, converging atop the seal to form the image of a qilin.
Life and death, two utterly opposite sides, coexisted upon this one seal.
"This is the Qilin Seal, my innate spiritual treasure. It has followed me through countless battles, drinking deep of my enemies' blood!"
"Can you withstand this attack of mine?"