Supporting Characters

"Sir!"

The pressure from four Mystic Immortals was enough to leave Bright Rabbit trembling with fear.

As their savage aura bore down on her, she couldn't help shrieking and grabbing the hem of Li Xuan's robe again.

Li Xuan couldn't easily shake her off, so he sighed inwardly. She really is just a little rabbit.

Her aptitude was good, but she was far too timid.

Then he shook his head at the four rushing toward him. "The road to heaven was open, but you refused to take it. The gates of hell were closed, yet you barged right in."

As he spoke, the clouds churned and the formation closed.

The four Mystic Immortal beings were like droplets of water falling into the sea.

In the blink of an eye, they vanished without a trace, not making the slightest sound.

"Ding."

"Choice System activated."

"Choice One: Kill Golden Scale and all the other Scale Armor Beings. Reward upon completion: double cultivation boost for one hundred years and a one-hundred-year cultivation experience scroll."

"Choice Two: Let Golden Scale and all the other Scale Armor Beings leave. Reward upon completion: double cultivation boost for ten thousand years and a ten-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll."

"Choice Three: Let any one Scale Armor Being leave. Reward upon completion: a ten-thousand-year cultivation experience scroll and one random Innate Spiritual Treasure."

Inside the Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array, the four Mystic Immortal beings were already stumbling around like headless flies.

They struggled nonstop, battling the enemies conjured by the illusion.

At the same time, a set of choices appeared before Li Xuan.

The three options made Li Xuan frown.

The rewards for the first, second, and third options were simply too different.

"What's that supposed to mean?"

Looking at the choices before him, Li Xuan muttered, unsure what the system was getting at.

Then he chuckled. "I get it. You're deliberately tempting me not to kill them all, so they can go back and report what happened, bring more people here, and eventually drag me into the tribulation?"

Having figured it out, Li Xuan laughed. "Don't think you can trick me. I've got a good life here, so why are you always trying to make me go out and fight people? Let me tell you: I'm the greatest hermit of my generation. I. Am. Not. Leaving. The. Mountain!"

As he spoke, he selected Option One.

The Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array, which stretched across three thousand li, suddenly expanded!

Golden Scale and the more than forty other Mystic Immortals had yet to react when the array spread across ten thousand li.

The Grand Xuan Formation, spanning three thousand li, could withstand attacks from a Quasi-Saint.

Expanded to ten thousand li, its power naturally dropped considerably. It could now only withstand attacks from a Grand Unity Golden Immortal.

But...

There weren't any Grand Unity Golden Immortals among the enemies. They didn't even seem to have a Grand Unity Golden Immortal, did they?

Given Li Xuan's cautious nature, if Golden Scale had been a Grand Unity Golden Immortal expert, he wouldn't have expanded the formation. He would have focused on defense instead.

But Golden Scale wasn't. He was only a Golden Immortal.

The Grand Profound Illusory Realm Array could withstand a Quasi-Saint. Expanded to twice its size, it should still be able to suppress a Golden Immortal, right?

As Li Xuan muttered to himself, the clouds surged.

Then the fellow who looked like a great villain... the supporting character, vanished without a trace.

A moment later, the clouds drew back, shrinking to three thousand li once more.

Bright Rabbit had already returned to the foot of the mountain to join the feast.

Humming a tune, Li Xuan began dismembering the Scale Armor Beings inside the Qiankun Diagram.

This time, he'd learned his lesson: good food was best enjoyed in secret.

Otherwise, if he took it out and the other beings saw it, they'd stare at him with pleading eyes. It'd be awkward to refuse, but he'd regret giving it away...

So why not just hide away and enjoy it himself?

A golden Flood Dragon's corpse.

A giant centipede's corpse, a giant green snake's corpse, a giant scorpion's corpse, and a giant lizard.

The corpses all looked bizarre, each in its own way, but the aura they gave off was powerful.

There were countless beings in the Primordial Wilderness.

So any being who managed to cultivate to the Mystic Immortal realm was naturally near the top of the pyramid.

As for Golden Immortals and Grand Unity Golden Immortals, they were true high-level beings, exceedingly rare.

Grand Unity Golden Immortals, Primordial Golden Immortals, and the Quasi-Saints who appeared only once in a blue moon stood at the very top!

Out of countless beings, only a few tens of thousands ever reached those heights.

One had to remember that when Hongjun, the Heavenly Dao Saint, lectured on the Great Dao, he had gathered only the Three Thousand Red Dust Guests at Zixiao Palace—three thousand Grand Unity Golden Immortals—even after summoning beings from across the Primordial Wilderness.

So it was no wonder that Golden Scale, the Flood Dragon, had been so arrogant, claiming to be the strongest within a radius of 1.7 million li!

Unfortunately, this Flood Dragon could now only become meat in Li Xuan's mouth.

The Qiankun Diagram contained a world of its own. Humming a tune, Li Xuan prepared to make hot pot.

As for the more than forty other Mystic Immortal beings, they had all sorts of original forms, but their cultivation levels were lower.

Li Xuan wasn't interested in them, so he tossed them all down into the valley. They caused an uproar of excitement and worship in his zoo.

With so much flesh to feed on, there would probably be a few more beings who could take human form in several thousand or even ten thousand years, right?

That was what Li Xuan thought.

Meanwhile, six million li west of Mount Taixuan lay an enormous lake.

It was called a lake, but it was no smaller than a sea, stretching a million li in every direction!

Rumble!

The water boiled. A roar shook heaven and earth, and a huge brown dragon, several thousand zhang long, burst out!

"Scale?!"

The dragon's eyes glowed red, cold fury filling them.

He had been cultivating at the bottom of the lake.

But just moments ago, he had suddenly sensed that the aura of his third son, Golden Scale, had vanished!

Golden Scale might not have been his favorite child.

But he was still his son. How could he not love him?

And now his third son was dead!?

As the strongest being within tens of millions of li, the dragon was consumed with fury and shock!

"Mirror Lake Brown Dragon, heed my command!!"

But before the brown dragon could set out to search frantically for his enemy,

a louder boom suddenly rang out between heaven and earth!

The entire sky trembled as a massive shadow slowly descended!

"Your subordinate is here!"

At the sound of that voice, the brown dragon immediately suppressed his anger, raised his head, and roared in reply.

"By order of Ancestor Dragon Lord: all Scale Armor Beings under Heaven are to depart Kirin Mountain! Join the birds in surrounding the Beast Clan! Brown Dragon! Within five days, lead all the Scale Armor Beings of Mirror Lake to the East Sea and await Ancestor Dragon Lord's orders!"

The rumbling voice from the sky sounded like thunder, shaking the land in every direction. This was the might of a Grand Unity Golden Immortal!

The brown dragon, a Grand Unity Golden Immortal himself, immediately roared, "Brown Dragon obeys! May Ancestor Dragon Lord endure through countless tribulations!"

Rumble!

The figure gradually departed, clearly going to notify the other Scale Armor Beings.

The brown dragon roared, then his body shifted, transforming into a middle-aged man in a brown robe, his face icy.

He gritted his teeth. "Scale! I'll put your vengeance aside for now. When your father returns, I'll make sure to avenge you!"

After speaking, he stared fixedly eastward. His gaze traveled a million li, as if he could see where Li Xuan was.

He kept staring for a while before growling and returning to Mirror Lake.

Ancestor Dragon Lord's orders came before everything else!

He had to quickly gather all the Scale Armor Beings in the Mirror Lake region and head to the East Sea!

"Scorpion hot pot! Hahaha!"

Meanwhile, in the world inside the Qiankun Diagram on Mount Taixuan, Li Xuan took in a deep breath of the fragrant aroma, then popped the glistening white, springy, plump, tender scorpion meat into his mouth.

"Delicious!"