Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison

As a former invincible divine general of the Great Shang Dynasty, Sikong Jing could browse the imperial archives at will. During the Rebellion of the Seven Kingdoms, he had specifically studied various poisons in order to defeat the Ten Thousand Poisons Kingdom.

Among them were records of the Crimson Spider Poison, and the symptoms Su Yuexi currently displayed were exactly those of someone afflicted by it.

In other words, Su Yuexi was not born ugly; someone had poisoned her.

Sikong Jing's overbearing reaction caused Su Yuexi to burst into tears as she pleaded, "Don't look, I beg you, please don't look anymore."

Releasing her, Sikong Jing realized he had been too rash and apologized, "I'm sorry, I will find a way to deal with your face..."

Before he could finish, Su Yuexi interrupted him through her sobs, "I am the one who should be sorry for scaring you."

With that, Su Yuexi retied her veil and ran out crying.

She assumed that the dazed expression Sikong Jing wore while recalling the Crimson Spider Poison was because he had been horrified by her face.

The sorrow in her heart could well be imagined!

Sikong Jing reached out, intending to say that he would find a way to obtain the antidote for the Crimson Spider Poison, but he suddenly realized that in his current state, it would be no easy task to go to the Ten Thousand Poisons Kingdom to retrieve it.

For now, it was better not to give Su Yuexi false hope.

Returning to the straw mat, Sikong Jing muttered to himself, "Blood of Ten Thousand Beasts, the boiling of beast blood?"

His gaze sharpened as he forcefully lifted the straw mat.

Beneath the mat, on the dirt-covered ground, a monster's head formed by intricate strokes was revealed. Every line was blood-red, emitting a faint scent of blood.

Sikong Jing crouched down and gently touched the monster's head, deducing, "This is my blood. It was the blood I spat out that awakened this mysterious monster head and condensed the Ten Thousand Beasts Blood Bead, allowing me to be reborn."

Hum!

Suddenly, the monster head drawn in his blood opened its eyes, locking gazes directly with Sikong Jing.

These were eyes filled with tyranny!

A vast, deep voice echoed in Sikong Jing's ears once more: "Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts, from this day forth, you shall guard the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison."

The voice faded away, drifting into the ethereal.

The blood-red lines forming the monster head began to rise, drifting like smoke...

Finally, the blood lines condensed into a small badge of a monster's head, which then zipped into the center of Sikong Jing's brow with a sharp chirp.

Boom!

Sikong Jing's mind roared again. The hut before him vanished, and his consciousness arrived in a strange place.

The sky and earth were dim, the ground withered, and it stretched on as far as the eye could see.

Sikong Jing felt as if he were floating amidst a river of clouds, looking down at this lifeless world. But why was this place called the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison?

There wasn't a single demonic beast in sight.

"It has arrived; the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts has appeared."

A deep voice suddenly boomed, and the dark earth seemed to churn with massive waves, accompanied by excited roars.

"We are saved; we are finally saved."

"Haha, it has been one hundred thousand years! I have been locked in the cage of the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison for a full one hundred thousand years, and finally, I have waited for the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts."

The excited voices shook the earth and pierced the sky; Sikong Jing felt as if the very ground were boiling.

But the next second, the excited voices came to an abrupt halt.

A voice filled with monstrous rage shook the heavens: "Why is the new Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts a human?"

In the blink of an eye, the atmosphere of the land shifted drastically, turning from excitement to agitation, and then to fury!

"This must be a conspiracy by the Five Heavenly Emperors. They sent a human to be the Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts to exterminate us all."

"I am not reconciled! Five Heavenly Emperors, you shameless scoundrels!"

"Kill him! Kill this human!"

Following the waves of angry roars, the dark earth erupted like a landslide or a tsunami.

A brilliant light surged, and a golden divine dragon lunged from the earth, breaking through the sky toward Sikong Jing in the clouds, its momentum threatening to tear him to shreds.

But the next second, a clattering sound rang out, and the golden dragon's charge was halted, violently yanked back in mid-air.

Even with Sikong Jing's strong heart, he was shocked by what he saw.

Huge chains were bound to the golden dragon, with nine of them connected to the earth. No matter how the dragon struggled, it could not break free, and only the sound of clattering chains echoed through the world!

"Human, I will devour you!"

A second giant beast broke through the earth—a massive, pitch-black tiger that opened its maw as if it could swallow the heavens and the earth.

Sikong Jing trembled all over and whispered, "Black Prison Heaven-Swallowing Tiger."

He had seen its totem in the Great Shang imperial archives, but it, too, was firmly bound by chains, unable to move forward.

"Roar, roar, roar..."

One after another, giant beasts soared into the sky. In an instant, the horizon was filled with countless beasts. Some were ones whose totems he had seen, but ninety-nine percent were demonic beasts he had never even heard of.

At this moment, Sikong Jing finally understood.

Why this place was called the Ten Thousand Beasts Heavenly Prison—because it imprisoned all the most terrifying demonic beasts in the world.

And he, a mere human, had inexplicably become their Lord.