Today's third update: Chapter 2194! 3/4!
"Are you sick or something?"
If not for Xu Kun standing beside Hao Jian, Qiongqi, who was already burning with anxiety, would probably have slapped Hao Jian across the face.
Whether he could win was another matter, but who was Qiongqi?
One of the Four Fiends of the present age, Qiongqi was a man-eating monster!
Don't be fooled by the image of a good big brother he put on in front of Xu Kun. He simply had yet to rise to prominence. Otherwise, he would definitely show them what the might of a fiendish beast truly was!
"The Four Fiends... are all formed from the resentment of gods. They're fine at first, but once they grow up, ordinary people can't possibly subdue them. It would be another matter if they were independent individuals like my Qi Ge, but if they're treated as pets..."
Xu Kun could more or less tell that none of the races currently eyeing this divine egg intended to bring an ancestor home.
There were two ways to deal with this divine egg.
The first was to treat it as an ancestor. Provided they could successfully hatch and raise it after bringing it back, they could continually invest resources into it and hope that it would grow powerful enough to protect their race.
However, anyone with even the slightest understanding of the Four Fiends probably would not do such a thing.
Why were they called the Four Fiends?
Because they were fiendish!
This brought up Xu Kun's Little Hei Zi. She was also one of the Four Fiends. In this life, she had reincarnated through a special method, becoming a descendant of the Nine-Origin True Dragon—half naturally created, half inherited by bloodline, much like the Nine Dragon Ancestors.
Now that