"Enough? What do you think the human race is?" The figure atop the giant beast sneered.
"You're still far too weak! Whether you want to drive the humans out or keep your people alive, you have to keep devouring them!
"Chances like this don't come around often. If you miss this one, the Blood Beast Clan will be nothing but livestock raised by humans forever!" His words were full of temptation and fervor.
The giant beast shook its head again, agitated, and let out a low growl.
"The one you just ate was merely a human sent by their clan to secretly protect these young ones!
"Even someone like him was far stronger than you were before!
"Once you've slaughtered these human cubs, what kind of human do you think the outside world will send to take revenge on the Blood Beast Clan?"
The giant beast fell silent. It knew the other was right.
The human who had come to investigate just now—the Fifth Realm Warrior, as the other called him—had been strong enough to crush it!
What about the humans outside the Secret Realm? How many more powerful warriors were there?
It vaguely sensed that perhaps resisting was not the right choice.
But as the king of the Blood Beast Clan, it could no longer endure watching its people being raised in captivity and periodically slaughtered...
"Roar~!"
Chu Yuan stopped in his tracks. He thought he heard an angry roar, seemingly coming from somewhere far away.
Several Blood Beasts were running nearby. One of them had a corpse in a school uniform clenched in its jaws...
He had a feeling that something unusual was about to happen in Secret Realm No. 7.
He drew the Wind Cutter Sword and easily reaped the lives of the Blood Beasts.
Then he plunged the sword into the ground, blasting open a large pit.
Chu Yuan channeled Spiritual Power to bury the body in the school uniform, then continued on his way.
A Secret Realm was called that because its area was limited.
Otherwise, it wouldn't be a Secret Realm, but a... world!
Secret Realm No. 7 was only about half the size of Yunan Prefecture.
For Blood-Qi Realm Warriors, that was already enormous.
But an Internal Breath Realm Warrior could explore the whole place in just a few days.
Chu Yuan had already reached the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, making him even stronger than an Internal Breath Realm Warrior. Naturally, he was faster, too!
Farther along, he saw more and more Blood Beasts.
They seemed not to notice Chu Yuan at all, focused only on running. They wouldn't even spare a moment to attack him.
But Chu Yuan had no intention of leaving them in peace. He didn't mind taking a little extra time. They were all points...
The Wind Cutter Sword circled at his side, never returning to its sheath.
As time passed, batch after batch of Blood Beasts fell beneath his sword. He had lost count of how many he had killed.
But the points recorded on his terminal were... 10,319!
He emerged from a dense forest, and the view suddenly opened onto a vast wasteland.
Chu Yuan froze for a moment, then stepped onto the Wind Cutter Sword and rose into the air, surveying the land below.
He saw Blood Beasts rushing in from every direction. Some were so exhausted that they were coughing up blood.
As they neared the plain, they all slowed down in unison, as if approaching a sacred place.
Then, one by one, they leaped into the huge hole at the center of the plain, like a Sky Pit...
Aside from the wind, the breathing of some enormous creature seemed to echo all around.
Each breath carried the stench of blood...
Chu Yuan's heart tightened. He immediately released his full Spiritual Sense, then urged his Flying Sword toward the Sky Pit!
A streak of light trailed behind him. In an instant, he reached the air above it.
But the moment his Spiritual Sense swept inside, the hairs on Chu Yuan's arms stood on end. He immediately turned his Flying Sword around and fled!
"Swift!"
As Spiritual Power surged, the Flying Sword's speed soared once more!
He had seen a giant beast whose Blood Qi was like an ocean, and... atop its head, a strangely built Warrior playing with a medal!
Either one of them gave him an overwhelming sense of danger, as if they were impossible to resist!
Run!
He had enough points anyway. With his killing efficiency, an Internal Breath Realm Warrior couldn't catch up even on horseback...
But just then, a roar that shook the heavens suddenly rang out, echoing across the land.
The sound waves seemed almost tangible, pounding against Chu Yuan's eardrums!
A searing headache struck, as if someone were hammering his skull with a tiny iron mallet...
The Flying Sword wobbled and began to fall.
He landed right in the middle of a group of Blood Beasts!
Even so, they still paid him no mind. They trampled over him and raced toward the Sky Pit...
Chu Yuan rose from the ground and looked toward the Sky Pit, his heart still pounding.
That had been nothing more than a roar, not even an attack... and he couldn't withstand it!
If it had truly attacked him, he probably wouldn't have survived even one move, would he?
As for the fact that the passing Blood Beasts had kicked him a few times, Chu Yuan didn't care in the slightest.
He had killed so many of their people. What was a few kicks? All they'd done was dirty his clothes...
He fled back the way he had come. Unexpectedly, no more sounds came from behind him.
"This human has the blood of my people on him! Why won't you let me kill him?"
At the bottom of the Sky Pit, the giant beast growled.
It could sense that Chu Yuan was responsible for countless deaths among the Blood Beast Clan!
But when it had tried to kill Chu Yuan, the figure atop its head had stopped it...
The man seemed not to notice the giant beast's resentment. He looked up at the sky and said in an inscrutable tone, "A high schooler in the Air-Traversing Realm? This trial even has a prize like this...
"Could Great Qin really not be fishing for bait this time?"
He couldn't make sense of it.
Chu Yuan had stood on a sword to fly, but to him, that was just a strange quirk.
That kid in the Chenyang No. 1 High School uniform was unquestionably flying. That meant he had to be in the Air-Traversing Realm!
What did someone in the Air-Traversing Realm at that age imply?
It meant he was guaranteed to become at least a Seventh Realm Warrior! He even had a good chance of reaching the Eighth Realm!
Great Qin had already made a bold move by using the children of martial families as bait. But a prize like Chu Yuan... was Great Qin really not worried at all that something might happen to him?
The figure grew excited. Chu Yuan could be incredibly useful!
Whether he made him work for them or used him to bargain with Great Qin... there was no way to lose!
How could the giant beast be allowed to kill him just like that?
"Even if he really is bait... I'll take it!" If he hadn't still needed to protect the giant beast, he would have rushed off to capture Chu Yuan right then!
But it didn't matter. Chu Yuan couldn't escape anyway...
"So what if he's in the Air-Traversing Realm? Why won't you let me kill him?" The angry roar reverberated through the underground space.
"You're making too much noise." The figure seemed impatient and casually struck out with his palm.
The next moment, the giant beast's skin and fur rippled like waves! Blood seeped from its mouth and nostrils...
The giant beast fell silent, its eyes bloodred. Humans... all deserved to die!
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