Berserk Bloodline

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Qi Bei slowly turned around. His dark eyes narrowed to slits, and his face darkened in an instant like the clouds pressing down on a city before a hurricane, making everyone's heart tremble.

"This is the Golden Leaf Dynasty. The land beneath your feet is the Imperial Capital of the Golden Leaf Dynasty, not the territory of your Nord Family. Prince Locke of the Luoshui Kingdom came here at the invitation of Father Emperor for an exchange of knowledge. He is an honored guest of our Golden Leaf Dynasty, so you must apologize." Princess Mingyue stared into Qi Bei's black-hole-like eyes and spoke slowly.

Qi Bei stared at Princess Mingyue for a long while. Then he suddenly smiled and walked toward Prince Locke one step at a time.

Prince Locke's heart trembled, and he involuntarily took several steps back. Faced with Qi Bei's expression, the courage and arrogance he had possessed at first had long since been crushed into a corner of his heart.

"You want me to apologize?" Qi Bei asked, each word deliberate.

Prince Locke's legs went weak. What kind of eyes were those? They were filled with bloodshed and slaughter, as well as an imposing majesty that left him utterly incapable of resisting. He felt as though he was not facing a sixteen-year-old boy, but a demon that had butchered countless lives.

"You want me to apologize?" Qi Bei asked again.

"N-no... No need..." Prince Locke stammered. His entire body was drenched in cold sweat.

Qi Bei's gloomy expression returned to normal as quickly as a page turning. He laughed heartily, patted Prince Locke on the shoulder, and turned to Princess Mingyue. "Your Highness, you heard him, right? When you pull out your noble status, please ask the person involved for his opinion first. Do you think you're his mother? Can you make decisions for him?"

A chill flashed through Princess Mingyue's beautiful eyes, and her jade hand clenched at once. Facing Qi Bei, she actually felt as though she could no longer control her anger.

"Sister-in-law, little girl, I'll be leaving first." Qi Bei waved to the Feng Ruoyun sisters.

Qi Bei had only taken a few steps when his feet suddenly stopped. A chill shot straight from his tailbone to his head. Every muscle in his body tensed, and he stood completely motionless.

This feeling of extreme danger was just like when he had encountered that ghost in the Undead Mountain Range whose foot had half-stepped into the Ghost King realm.

The noble men and women around them stared at Qi Bei, who had suddenly turned to stone. They had no idea what kind of fit he was throwing this time.

A flicker passed through Princess Mingyue's beautiful eyes. She opened her clenched fist and made a gesture.

Only then did Qi Bei feel the aura locking onto him recede. He turned his head, narrowed his eyes, swept Princess Mingyue with a glance, and strode away.

Feng Ruoyun looked at Princess Mingyue thoughtfully. Clearly, she had guessed something.

When Qi Bei returned to the Nord Family's own courtyard, he found that the Vajra siblings were nowhere to be seen.

"Young Master, hurry! Hurry and go see my brother. He's about to collapse." At that moment, Phantom stumbled in. Upon seeing Qi Bei, she looked as though she had found her savior and spoke through sobs.

"Where is he?" Qi Bei's heart tightened as he asked urgently.

"He's in the woods to the north," Phantom said.

Qi Bei's figure blurred, and he vanished without a trace.

The Nord residence was enormous. To the north was a stretch of woods where no one usually went.

Qi Bei arrived at the center of the woods and saw utter devastation all around. Tree after tree had either been uprooted or snapped in half, as though a hurricane had ravaged the place.

What shocked Qi Bei even more was the giant, more than ten feet tall, kneeling in the center with his hair hanging loose. His entire face was covered in flame-like bristles, his features twisted with pain, and his bell-sized eyes were scarlet, flashing with a terrifying, frenzied killing intent. Yet he seemed to be forcibly enduring it.

"Vajra!" Qi Bei shouted, flashing to his side.

Vajra suddenly raised his head and let out a beast-like growl from his throat. His scarlet eyes fixed on Qi Bei, as if he wanted to tear him into pieces.

However, he clearly still retained a shred of reason and was doing everything he could to control himself.

Qi Bei discovered that the blood vessels in Vajra's arms—which were even more robust than Qi Bei's entire body—were bulging violently. What flowed through them seemed not to be blood, but boiling magma. Even through the layer of flesh and skin, he could feel the berserk power within.

"Go... Leave. I... can't hold on much longer." Vajra roared. If not for the shred of reason suppressing him, he would already have lunged forward and torn Qi Bei into pieces.

"Berserk transformation... Is this really the Berserk Bloodline that only the legendary Descendants of the Beast God possess?" Qi Bei was filled with shock. Without hesitation, golden light flashed in his left hand, and he pressed it against Vajra's brow. His inner force wormed into Vajra's body like a spirit snake.

The violent, mysterious energy inside Vajra's body churned like waves, surging against the heavenly aperture in his mind. Perhaps this was the fundamental reason he was losing his reason.

Qi Bei's heart sank. Sealing the heavenly aperture itself was not difficult, but the nerves in the brain were extraordinarily complex. If he accidentally injured even the slightest part, the consequences would be no laughing matter.

However, Vajra was already nearing his limit. After his berserk transformation, he was practically a massive tank. Leaving aside the consequences he could cause, the mysterious energy's assault on his heavenly aperture might very well leave him a raving lunatic forever.

Qi Bei gritted his teeth and cautiously used his inner force to build a defensive line around Vajra's heavenly aperture, blocking the violent energy from surging into it.

To Qi Bei's delight, although his inner force seemed tiny before that berserk energy, the trace of Dragon Power contained within it seemed to inspire fear in the energy. Once his inner force wrapped around Vajra's heavenly aperture, the energy automatically veered away and stopped attacking it.

Vajra's eyes remained scarlet, but the frenzied killing intent slowly receded, and his consciousness gradually returned.

Qi Bei's inner force condensed on Vajra's heavenly aperture into a pattern resembling the Dragon Seal in the center of his left palm. Only then did he withdraw his hand.

"I... I'm fine now..." Vajra still seemed unable to believe it. He looked at his immensely powerful arms, feeling for the first time that he could wield this tremendous strength without having to struggle to suppress it.

Vajra let out a loud shout and swept both arms outward. Rings of flame-like radiance surged forth, and tree after tree exploded into powder, as though they had been molded from mud.

"Brother!" At that moment, Phantom rushed over excitedly.

"Little sister, I'm fine." Vajra spread open his enormous palm and actually let Phantom stand on it, lifting her up.

Qi Bei crossed his arms, feeling both delighted and smug.

A Descendant of the Beast God. In other words, the two siblings actually possessed divine bloodlines.

Just look at Vajra's physique and attacks after his berserk transformation—even King Grade Warriors and King Grade Mages would have to retreat before him, wouldn't they?

At that moment, the scarlet color in Vajra's eyes rapidly faded. He hurriedly set Phantom down, and in the same instant, his enormous body began to shrink. The flame-like bristles on his face also receded.

As soon as Vajra returned to normal, he staggered and collapsed onto the ground, as though every ounce of strength had been drained from him.