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"Something was wrong."

Chu Liang noticed it the instant Elder Tan opened the seal.

If the Iron-Eating Beast truly possessed such powerful spiritual force, there had been no need for him to watch it get brutally beaten by the Golden Peak Beast earlier. He could have simply opened the seal.

Whom had he been trying to deceive by hiding the Iron-Eating Beast's strength? The Jiuli tribe outside?

No.

The ones he wanted to hide it from were the people of Shushan!

If they knew the Iron-Eating Beast could unleash such power, the Shushan Sect would never have allowed him to bring it in. Or they would have assigned an Eighth Realm cultivator to accompany and watch him, leaving him no chance to play tricks.

Now that he had suddenly opened the seal only after arriving here, whatever he intended to do was surely something the Shushan Sect would not wish to see.

Xu Ziyang realized this no slower than Chu Liang. Since he had been keeping close watch on Elder Tan, he reacted even faster than Chu Liang. The instant the Iron-Eating Beast erupted with powerful spiritual force, Xu Ziyang had already struck!

"Stop!"

He raised two fingers like a halberd, and a streak of Sword Qi shot forth, pointing straight at Elder Tan. In an instant, Elder Tan's body was engulfed by surging sword radiance.

Yet Elder Tan neither dodged nor evaded, forcibly taking the attack head-on.

Pfft—

The instant the sword radiance struck him, he only kept roaring wildly, ordering the Tyrant Baleful Intent to open the seal, utterly heedless of the blood spraying from his body.

Yet the Iron-Eating Beast's first strike did not smash toward the seal. Instead, it punched at Xu Ziyang. It seemed that even in its berserk state, Elder Tan still held great