Beast Taming Sect, Beast God Hall.
"This way, please, both of you."
He Muye opened a hidden door and warmly ushered Lu Ze and Nangong Yuan inside.
The three entered a secluded grotto-heaven.
A Hornless Chi Dragon, its entire body as transparent as glass, lay curled into a ball with its eyes tightly shut.
Black, murky matter drifted through its transparent body.
"This is our Beast Taming Sect's Sect-Guardian Divine Beast from ancient times..."
His heart aching terribly, He Muye stepped forward and stroked the divine beast's whiskers.
"The Void Dream Chi."
The Void Dream Chi was an immortal beast, the only one of its kind in all heaven and earth.
During the Righteous-Demonic War of old, it had been the Beast Taming Sect's Void Dream Chi that commanded the world's spirit beasts against the Demon Path cultivators, buying time for the Five Great Sects to grow.
To break the beast tide's offensive, the Demon Path had employed countless sinister methods, putting the Void Dream Chi in peril and plunging it into slumber.
"Had the Void Dream Chi not suffered such grievous damage to its vitality, our Beast Taming Sect should have been the sixth great sect..."
He Muye sighed as he recalled the past.
"The Void Dream Chi has spent a thousand years recuperating, yet its condition only worsens. But even so, our Beast Taming Sect should never have been reduced to such utter obscurity."
As he spoke, his fists clenched unconsciously, his gaze brimming with resentment.
"Those damned demon cultivators! They didn't just put the Void Dream Chi to sleep. They... implanted a 'heart demon' within it!"
He Muye continued his account.
The demon cultivators' methods had been vicious beyond measure.
They had captured spirit beasts, suppressed and tortured them through sinister means, then gathered their consciousnesses