Chaos spoke in a low voice:
"Master."
"There is something I do not understand."
Xuandu looked at him, his gaze calm.
"Speak."
Chaos said:
"Now that Master has subdued the three of us, why not strike while the iron is hot and lure Taotie out as well?"
"Though Taotie is strong, if Master traps him with the Innate Five Elements Great Formation, wears him down with Chaos Light, and has the three of us assist from the side..."
"We may not be unable to take him down."
Upon hearing this, Taotie and Qiongqi nodded in unison.
They had been thinking the same thing.
Of the Four Fierce Beasts, three had already been obtained.
Only Taotie remained.
If they could subdue him as well, the Four Fierce Beasts would all gather under the Jie Sect.
What a sight that would be.
Xuandu looked at the three beasts, and a faint smile slowly curved his lips.
The smile was slight, yet it carried an understanding that saw through all things.
He gently shook his head.
"Taotie is different."
At those four words, the three beasts froze.
Xuandu looked at them and slowly said:
"Taotie is the foremost of the Four Fierce Beasts, at the early stage of Zenith Heaven Nine Heavens."
"He is in the same realm as Shen Ni."
"You think the Innate Five Elements Great Formation can trap him?"
Chaos fell silent.
At the Seventh Heaven, he had been trapped within the formation, unable to move.
But Taotie was at Nine Heavens.
The gap between the Seventh Heaven and Nine Heavens was two heavens.
Yet those two heavens were an insurmountable chasm.
The difference between clouds and mud.
An uncrossable gulf between the Seventh Heaven and Nine Heavens.
Xuandu continued:
"The further one advances, the greater the gap between each