The Power of Destiny

"Let's talk this out." Scarlet King said urgently. "We're willing to compensate you, as long as you release the Imperial Beast."

With its life in danger—especially when the Three-Eyed Golden Lion was facing a matter of life and death—even Scarlet King, a Fierce Beast, had no choice but to bow its head before Chi Yuan.

Hearing this, Chi Yuan's expression eased slightly.

Killing the Imperial Beast was out of the question, but why not extort a Fierce Beast while she had the chance?

"Fine. We want a Fire Attribute Spirit Bone that is at least a hundred thousand years old in exchange for the Imperial Beast."

Chi Yuan stated her condition.

"Alright, I agree. I'll go back and get it right away. You must not hurt the Imperial Beast."

The moment Scarlet King finished speaking, it wasted no more time. Its body flashed and turned into a streak of dark-red light, vanishing in an instant.

Compared to the Imperial Beast, a Hundred-Thousand-Year Spirit Bone was like a firefly before the bright moon! Scarlet King would not even have been surprised if Chi Yuan had demanded a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast instead.

After Scarlet King left, Ji Lin gave Chi Yuan a look. She immediately understood and walked over to the Imperial Beast.

Then she plopped down onto the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's body, red light radiating from her as she suppressed it so thoroughly that it could not move.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion seemed to have recovered somewhat by then. It glared coldly at Chi Yuan and actually spoke in human language, in a beautiful female voice. "Despicable humans, you dare hurt me. I'll make sure you die miserable deaths and suffer endless misfortune."

Ji Lin chuckled and walked up to the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Looking at its eyes, which seemed ready to spit fire, he reached out and touched its forehead. Mm, quite smooth.

He took a deep breath and slowly pressed his forehead against its vertical eye. The power of destiny... in every world, it stood among the highest-order powers.

"No! How dare you!" Seeing Ji Lin's actions, the Three-Eyed Golden Lion flew into a rage, roaring again and again as it struggled desperately. Its previous internal injuries even caused golden-red blood to spill from the corners of its mouth.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion's abilities had been completely suppressed by Chi Yuan. If it still had even a trace of strength left, it would have killed itself without hesitation.

The instant Ji Lin's forehead touched the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's vertical eye, both their bodies shuddered violently.

After that brief tremor, Ji Lin suddenly felt his mind go blank.

Circles of strange, distorted halos enveloped Ji Lin and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. Their bodies actually seemed to become transparent, with light flickering in and out between them. Every time the light shifted, Ji Lin and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion's bodies trembled slightly.

The miraculous power contained within the Three-Eyed Golden Lion surged into Ji Lin's mind. His Mental Power continued to grow, advancing toward the Spirit Sea Realm.

Even his Void Sword Qi broke through to the Dustless Realm of Frozen Heart Lake.

Ji Lin was not the only one who gained something. The Imperial Beast's attribute, which had originally been close to Ultimate Fire, completely transformed into Ultimate Fire through its attribute resonance with Ji Lin.

At that moment, a crimson feather in Ji Lin's Sea of Consciousness burst forth with red light. It slowly burned before finally turning to ash and disappearing.

That was a Feather Crossing Dust feather Ji Lin had obtained from a Treasure Chest during his third year.

Feather Crossing Dust could manipulate brain signals, causing anyone who saw its feather to fall into an illusion created by the holder.

Ji Lin knew that attribute resonance with the Imperial Beast would exchange memories, but he did not want it to know about his memories from his previous life.

So he used Feather Crossing Dust to create false memories. The Imperial Beast would know all of his memories from Douluo Continent, but it would not know that he was a transmigrator, would not know about the Treasure Chest System, and would not know Chi Yuan's true origins.

Out of sheer mischief, he had also created the appearance of the girl he had liked most in his memories.

He wanted to see whether the Imperial Beast would still take human form this time, and whether it would become the appearance he liked.

Of course, since Wang Dong was not present this time and Ji Lin was not Huo Yuhao, half of Tang Wutong's divine consciousness did not enter the Imperial Beast's body.

In Ji Lin's view, Wang Dong had been whole from the beginning. She was Tang Wutong with sealed memories, and only lost half her divine consciousness when Huo Yuhao resonated attributes with the Imperial Beast.

"Buzz—"

At that moment, a layer of golden light suddenly erupted from where Ji Lin and the Three-Eyed Golden Lion were touching. Ji Lin's body was flung away and sent flying backward. Chi Yuan had to reach out through the air and stabilize him.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion swayed its body dazedly and stumbled several steps back. Its third eye actually changed from gold to black. Though it reverted to gold in an instant, Chi Yuan and Ji Lin clearly saw the process of that transformation.

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion looked somewhat weak. It no longer struggled, merely staring blankly at Ji Lin, whom Chi Yuan had placed on the ground.

Ji Lin seemed to sense something as well and turned his gaze toward the Three-Eyed Golden Lion. One human and one beast, their eyes met in midair, and both felt their minds tremble slightly as a strange sensation emerged.

Ji Lin only felt as though his consciousness had traveled across countless ages. His awareness appeared within a dense forest.

Suddenly, everything around him turned golden. The dazzling gold even dyed every plant touched by its light the same color. The plants grew wildly at an astonishing speed, while on the ground, an egg appeared with a golden base covered in brilliant colors.

A crisp cracking sound rang out. A crack appeared on the golden egg's surface and rapidly spread. With a crack, a tiny claw poked out of the eggshell, followed by a small head.

Its golden fur was slightly damp, making it look like a little puppy. It struggled to crawl out of the shell, then turned around and began eating the shell bite by bite.

Crisp crunch, crunch sounds rang out continuously, while a faint golden light began to appear around the puppy-like little beast.

Suddenly, a dazzling golden light descended from the sky like a pillar connecting heaven and earth, directly enveloping the "puppy" that had just finished eating its shell.

The sticky fluid on the "puppy's" body gradually vanished beneath the golden light. In the blink of an eye, its body grew from one foot long to one meter long. Its golden fur became transparent like crystal, while dazzling golden light transformed into rings of halos that rippled outward.

It raised its head and let out a somewhat shrill roar. Then the "puppy's" forehead suddenly split open, revealing an eye that seemed capable of seeing through heaven and earth.

Once the image in Ji Lin's consciousness reached that point, everything began to accelerate. Countless scenes flooded crazily through his mind. In an instant, it was as though he had lived through ten thousand years. Vast numbers of simple memory fragments flashed past, almost all set within dense forests. How could he possibly see them clearly?

The Three-Eyed Golden Lion appeared somewhat weak. It felt that two sets of memories had appeared in its mind. One was Ji Lin's experiences since he was one year old on Douluo Continent. Aside from awakening an Ultimate martial soul and becoming Chi Yuan's disciple—he was merely an ordinary genius.

The other was somewhat fragmented. The protagonist of those memories was a girl with pink-blue hair. In the brief instant it received those memories, it seemed to have changed quite a bit.