Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison

As the former Invincible Divine General of the Great Shang Dynasty, Sikong Jing had been free to browse the Imperial Treasury's books. During the turmoil of the Seven Kingdoms, he had specifically studied all kinds of poisons to defeat the Ten Thousand Poisons Kingdom.

The records included Crimson Spider Poison. Those poisoned by it showed the same symptoms Su Yuexi was suffering from now.

In other words, Su Yuexi had not been born ugly. Someone had poisoned her.

Sikong Jing's forceful actions made Su Yuexi burst into tears as she begged, "Don't look. Please, don't look anymore."

Only after letting go did Sikong Jing realize how rash he had been. He apologized, "I'm sorry. I'll find a way to help your face..."

Before he could finish, Su Yuexi interrupted him through her tears. "I'm the one who should apologize. I frightened you."

With that, Su Yuexi tied her veil back on and ran out crying.

She thought that Sikong Jing had frozen in shock while recalling Crimson Spider Poison because her face had frightened him witless.

The sorrow in her heart was easy to imagine!

Sikong Jing reached out. He had been about to say that he would find a way to get the antidote for Crimson Spider Poison, but then he suddenly remembered: with his current condition, how could he possibly go to the Ten Thousand Poisons Kingdom to get it?

For now, he shouldn't give Su Yuexi hope.

Back in front of the thatched hut, Sikong Jing murmured to himself, "The Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts... the beast blood boils?"

His gaze suddenly sharpened. He forcefully lifted the thatch.

Beneath it, on the dirt-covered ground, was the head of a strange beast, drawn with intricate strokes. Every line was bloodred, and a faint scent of blood wafted from it.

Sikong Jing crouched and gently touched the beast's head, then concluded, "This is my blood. The blood I spat out awakened this mysterious beast's head, formed the Ten Thousand Beasts Blood Bead, and brought me back to life."

Buzz!

Suddenly, the beast's head, drawn in his blood before him, opened its eyes and stared straight into Sikong Jing's.

They were a pair of savage pupils!

That vast, deep voice sounded in Sikong Jing's ears again. "Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, from this day forward, the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison will be in your care."

As the voice faded, it drifted away into the distance.

The bloody lines forming the beast's head before him lifted into the air, wispy as smoke...

At last, the lines condensed into a tiny beast-head emblem. With a chirp, it darted straight into Sikong Jing's brow.

Boom!

Sikong Jing's mind rumbled again. The thatched hut vanished, and his consciousness arrived in a strange place.

The heavens and earth were dim. The land was parched, stretching beyond sight.

Sikong Jing seemed to float among the clouds, looking down on this lifeless world. But why was this place called the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison?

There wasn't a single demon beast in sight.

"A new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts has appeared!"

The deep voice suddenly rang out. The dim earth seemed to churn like a raging sea, accompanied by excited roars.

"We're saved! We're finally saved!"

"Hahaha, it's been a hundred thousand years! I've been locked in the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison for a full hundred thousand years. At last, the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts has come!"

The excited voices shook the earth and pierced the heavens. Sikong Jing seemed to see the land itself boiling.

But in the next instant, the excited voices abruptly fell silent.

A voice filled with towering fury shook heaven and earth. "Why is the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts a human?"

In the blink of an eye, the land's mood changed completely. Excitement turned to agitation, then to rage!

"This must be the Five Heavenly Emperors' scheme. They sent a human to be the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts so he could wipe us all out!"

"I refuse to accept this! Five Heavenly Emperors, you despicable brats!"

"Kill him! Kill that human!"

As furious cries rang out one after another, the dim earth roiled like mountains collapsing and seas raging.

A brilliant light rose. A Golden Divine Dragon burst from the earth, soared into the heavens, and lunged toward Sikong Jing among the clouds, its momentum enough to tear him to pieces.

But in the next instant, chains rattled, and the Golden Divine Dragon's charge came to a halt. It was yanked viciously to a stop in midair.

Even with his nerves of steel, Sikong Jing was still shaken by the sight before him.

He saw enormous chains wrapped around the Golden Divine Dragon, nine of them in all, each anchored to the earth. No matter how the dragon struggled, it couldn't break free. The chains' clatter alone resounded through heaven and earth!

"Human, I'll swallow you whole!"

A second giant beast burst through the earth. It was a massive, pitch-black tiger, its jaws open as though it could swallow the sky and suck in the earth.

Sikong Jing trembled again and blurted, "The Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger."

He had seen its totem in the Great Shang Imperial Treasury, but it too was tightly bound by chains and couldn't advance an inch.

"Roar, roar, roar..."

Then one giant beast after another soared into the sky. In the blink of an eye, the heavens were filled with countless giant beasts. Sikong Jing recognized some of their totems, but ninety-nine percent were demon beasts he had never even heard of.

At last, Sikong Jing understood.

This place was called the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison because it held the most terrifying demon beasts in the world.

And somehow, he, a human, had become the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts.