Roar!
A heaven-shaking roar cleared the way as an enormous ancient beast emerged from Great Scarlet Heaven. Its entire body was covered in long golden fur, its maw wide and fangs bared, looking incomparably ferocious. Yet from another perspective, it was also immensely majestic.
This was the Lord of the Hou Clan, the ruler of Fallen Immortal Ridge, yet Yan Kuan had now subdued him as a mount. He felt utterly humiliated. He had once been a mighty overlord who gazed down upon the world, revered across the four seas, only to end up like this today.
The Golden-haired Hou had considered self-destruction, but he could not do it. He could not resist, and his body would not obey him, because his primordial spirit was not merely imprisoned—it was also being gradually converted. He could sense the process. This was an even more powerful conversion method than that of the Immortal Monk King during the Immortal Ancient Era.
He could feel his thoughts changing. At first, he had wanted to fight to the bitter end, even if it meant mutual destruction and Body and Spirit Annihilated. He could never accept such humiliation. How could he willingly serve as someone's mount?
Yet with every step he took, another voice gradually arose within him. Better to live badly than die well. Besides, he had been forced into this. Since the matter had already been exposed, there was no need to seek death...
Immortal Qi surged as the Golden-haired Hou walked onward in a daze. After being suppressed, his emotions were complicated, and he recalled many past events.
Back then, a group of True Immortals like him had come from the Immortal Realm and used the Nine Heavens as a battlefield to wage war against the Foreign Realm. Although he had successfully advanced