Ten Celestial Passages?

Three days later.

"Mountain Treasure. A great opportunity, an enormous opportunity!"

Shi Yi almost laughed. He truly wanted to laugh. Why did people always think that some so-called great opportunity would fall into their hands? Why did people always think pies would naturally fall from the sky?

Honestly.

If Shi Yi had not known that the Willow Deity stood behind him, ensuring the safety of his life, he would never have come to fight for this so-called Mountain Treasure with his current cultivation.

Of course.

Had Shi Yi not come to fight for the Mountain Treasure, he would not have witnessed such a blood-soaked scene. Human experts, Ancient Descendants, and Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts were all slaughtering one another.

Severed limbs and broken arms littered the ground, corpses sprawled across the wilderness.

Some belonged to humans, some to ferocious beasts.

Looking around.

Several mountain ranges in succession had turned into meat grinders. Countless lives were falling, whether human or ferocious beast, all doing everything they could to seize the Mountain Treasure from the Upper Realm.

The great powers of the Upper Realm were like gu breeders. They only needed to cast down a few good things, and the lifeforms of the lower realm would slaughter each other like insects until the strongest insect emerged.

"The four great ferocious beasts of the Great Wilderness have yet to appear. The Mountain Treasure is right before us. This is our chance!" shouted a middle-aged man of the Flood Dragon Clan with prominent horns.

He was fighting an Ancient Descendant. Both sides were bloodied and battered, seemingly determined to decide who was superior.

This Ancient Descendant was a monstrous serpent, covered in crimson scales. It had one head, two bodies, six legs, and four wings.

"This is the depths of the Great Wilderness. Ferocious beasts keep appearing endlessly, and we can never kill them all. Shouldn't we retreat?"

High in the vast sky, a giant radiating purple light was fighting a Ferocious Bird. Yet anyone with eyes could see that the Ferocious Bird's momentum was growing stronger and stronger, while the purple giant was nearly unable to hold on.

"Retreat? So many people have died. Why should we hand the Mountain Treasure over to these ferocious beasts?"

Not far away, beneath the mountain range, a dazzling bolt of lightning erupted. Some Prehistoric Ferocious Beasts and Desolate Variants that had secretly crept closer, preparing to launch sneak attacks, were blasted to ashes by the lightning.

"This won't do. Old ghost of the Purple Mountain Clan, Luofu Great Marsh will retreat with you. Even if the four great ferocious beasts do not emerge and do not fight for the Mountain Treasure, we are no match for these Ancient Descendants and Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts."

After saying this, a man with an imposing face stomped on the ground. The earth instantly collapsed, and he flew directly into the sky, leading a group of people in retreat.

"Before the four great ferocious beasts have even shown themselves, nearly half the people from our great Tribal Clans have already died. Something is wrong. Retreating first is best. Sons of the Golden Wolf Tribe, follow me and retreat!"

A blood-covered middle-aged man did not even turn his head. He directly crushed the ten-meter-long giant python attacking from behind, then began loudly calling for his clansmen to retreat.

"You... you really are cowards. Ferocious beasts are not mindless beasts. They fear death too, and they cherish their lives too. We're only one step away, yet you cower at a time like this."

The lightning deep within the mountains surged. Seeing that the people of Luofu Great Marsh, the Purple Mountain Clan, and the Golden Wolf Tribe had begun retreating, a group of people covered in flashing lightning also fled outward.

At that moment.

A colossal beast over a hundred meters tall appeared at the very center of the battlefield.

It had the body of a tiger and leopard, long and powerful limbs, a dragon's head and tail, scales that were both golden and jade-like, a pair of wings growing from its shoulders, and a single horn on its dragon head that curved backward.

It was a Pixiu, a Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beast, an Adult Pixiu.

The Adult Pixiu had a horned middle-aged man clenched in its mouth. This man had just been fighting an Ancient Descendant to the death, only to be fatally struck by the Adult Pixiu when it suddenly appeared behind him.

"You came, and now you want to leave? You humans have always been so arrogant. Do you really think we are all brainless beasts?"

The Adult Pixiu spoke unhurriedly as it chewed the bloody food in its mouth. Its reddish eyes held not a trace of emotion as it calmly watched the fleeing Tribal Clans.

They were both intelligent lifeforms, yet it could not understand why these humans thought so highly of themselves and looked down on their intelligence. Did they truly think Pure-Blooded Lifeforms like them had no brains?

Not long ago, while it had been hunting down someone who had killed its child, a group of humans had suddenly appeared. It would have been one thing if they had fled, but they had actually tried to surround and kill it to seize the true blood within its body.

And in the end?

Had they not all been killed by it one after another, becoming part of its bloody meal?

Human wisdom?

It was nothing special.

For some reason.

The instant Shi Yi, who had been hiding in the shadows, saw the Adult Pixiu, his heart ached terribly, as though he had lost an important family member.

"What's happening to me?" Shi Yi clutched his chest, the pain in his heart unbearable.

Unable to understand why, he fell to his knees, his fists clenched tightly.

During this time.

The suddenly appearing Adult Pixiu had already devoured all the people from the Golden Wolf Tribe, Luofu Great Marsh, the Purple Mountain Clan, the Flood Dragon Clan, and the Thunder Clan.

Other than the Snow Clan, which had remained true to its words and actions from beginning to end and had not participated, all the human experts sent by the other great Tribal Clans had become food for this Pure-Blooded Pixiu.

But as the humans at the scene were nearly all dead or wounded, Shi Yi, hidden in the shadows, became like a shining lightbulb in the Adult Pixiu's eyes.

"A human boy? How could someone his age appear in a place like this?"

A trace of confusion flashed through the Adult Pixiu's large eyes. It could not understand why a boy like Shi Yi had appeared in the depths of the Great Wilderness, a place filled with ferocious beasts.

Immediately after.

The Adult Pixiu looked at the surrounding ferocious beasts and said calmly, "The Great Wilderness has never had a rule against killing cubs. But this old man is not like you despicable, shameless humans. I never bully the weak with strength. You, go eat him."

As soon as it finished speaking.

Hundreds and thousands of ferocious beasts, forcibly driven by the Adult Pixiu, pounced toward a place where there was supposedly no one and nothing.

At this moment.

Having discovered that his hiding place had been exposed, Shi Yi had no time to consider the cause of his heartache. Clutching his chest lightly, he slowly and unsteadily rose from the ground.

The next second.

Shi Yi appeared in an empty clearing where there had supposedly been no one and nothing, as though he had emerged from another space.

This was the innate rune Treasure Technique of an Ancient Descendant, the King-level Demon Ape. It could hide one's aura and body within the cracks of space.

But once someone discovered the location, the space one occupied would become unstable, forcing the body out of the cracks of space.

In other words.

This Treasure Technique could not withstand observation. Once seen, one's body would be revealed. If one encountered a Double Pupil User or an expert of a higher realm, this Bloodline Inheritance Precious Technique of the King-level Demon Ape was basically useless.

Of course.

Double Pupil Users were rare. There had only been a few throughout the ages, so it was not truly useless.

Before experts of a higher realm, whether the Treasure Technique failed or not no longer mattered. But against experts of the same level, this Treasure Technique was still very useful.

"Roar!"

"Hiss!"

"Sha!"

One hideous and terrifying ferocious beast after another lunged at Shi Yi from every direction. In an instant, they were about to tear apart and devour this boy of around eleven years old.

The next instant.

"Boom!"

Ten suns hung in the sky, and heaven and earth trembled.

"Kill!"

Shi Yi casually stepped forward. His long arms spread wide to either side as his Ten Celestial Passages spun at high speed, madly drawing in the energy of heaven and earth.

Before the ferocious beasts could react.

Endless lightning descended from the sky. Every pillar of lightning was as thick as a water barrel, an utterly terrifying sight.

The Suan Ni Precious Technique contained the runes of the Great Dao of lightning. Those who learned it could command all lightning between heaven and earth, transform into lightning, and bathe in a sea of thunder.

This was the first time Shi Yi had used the Suan Ni Precious Technique at full power after opening Ten Celestial Passages.

"Boom! Boom! Boom!" Thunder roared.

Pillars of lightning descended one after another from the sky, blasting every charging ferocious beast to death. Before long, the area within a hundred meters around Shi Yi had become charred black, without a single surviving ferocious beast.

"Ten Celestial Passages? Even in the Upper Realm, he would be an unparalleled prodigy. A Young Supreme like him would not be alone."

The Adult Pixiu looked left and right, its eyes incomparably vigilant. Shi Yi's attack had indeed far surpassed the Celestial Passage Realm, but it was not afraid of that. What it feared was the Dao Protector behind a Young Supreme with Ten Celestial Passages.

But after observing for quite some time.

The Adult Pixiu still found nothing unusual. Then it spotted a Crimson Feather atop Shi Yi's head and immediately understood his identity.

"So he is the Vermilion Bird's envoy. If I have caused offense, I hope you will forgive me."

Humans had distinctions of status, and ferocious beasts were the same.

Among Pure-Blooded Ferocious Beasts, the Vermilion Bird, Zhu Yan, Heaven Swallowing Sparrow, and Qiongqi were the four great ferocious beasts standing at the peak of the Great Wilderness. The Adult Pixiu did not wish to invite trouble.

"The Mountain Treasure is fated to be mine."

Shi Yi ignored the Adult Pixiu's gesture of goodwill. He raised his head and looked toward the depths of the mountains, at the fist-sized black sphere within the white pillar of light that reached through heaven and earth.

"Boy, leave at once. Do not fail to appreciate kindness. This is not something you can covet. It would be different if the Vermilion Bird came here personally," the Adult Pixiu said coldly.