The gathering was a great success. The appearance of the two Tailed Beasts briefly sent the atmosphere soaring. The elites from all sorts of factions, their interest piqued, easily broke through the already shallow barriers between them and began mingling.
The only unhappy ones were probably the two Tailed Beasts who had become objects of public scrutiny.
"Idiot, stay away from me!"
That was the attitude of a certain fox after someone touched its tail. Though it bared its fangs and snarled, its miniature form had no intimidation whatsoever. Instead, it made those girls' eyes sparkle with delight.
That left it feeling deeply depressed...
Back in the day, if anyone blind enough had dared do something like that, it would have ground them to dust. But now, it couldn't.
Because that bastard Qi had actually forbidden it from doing so...
The Tailed Beasts actually knew far more than Qi imagined, because what Six Paths had told them back then was nowhere near as little as Qi had assumed.
That was also why Nekomata hadn't run off after regaining its freedom. Instead, it had stayed after merely seeing the Nine-Tails.
If Qi had known about this, he would have understood that the Three-Tails blasting him directly into the sealing space back then had been no accident.
By the way, ever since then, no one knew where the Three-Tails had run off to...
But Qi had no time to "miss" the Three-Tails right now. His situation was honestly not much better than that of the two Tailed Beasts.
"Brother Qi, that move of yours was freaking awesome! Can you teach your brother here a move or two?"
A brawny youth who was supposedly his clan's future heir, yet looked more like the leader of some mountain bandits in Qi's eyes, wore an