"I need ninety-nine people. Then I'll pick a few more from outside and make it ninety-nine."
As the Absolute Beast Emperor's statue spoke, it opened its hand and sucked in... whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh.
A violent wind swept out through several gates, and figure after figure was drawn by the Absolute Beast Emperor into the main hall. They were some of the geniuses still climbing outside. In one go, the number reached ninety-nine.
One of them was Zhe Ying.
"How did we get in here?" Zhe Ying looked around blankly, completely at a loss.
The Absolute Beast Emperor did not bother explaining to those who had been sucked in. Instead, it shouted heavily, "Now, receive my Beast-Slaying Halberd Dao."
With a hum, everyone within the main hall froze in place.
At the gate on the very edge...
Sikong Jing, whom almost no one had noticed, likewise entered the inheritance of the Beast-Slaying Halberd Dao. The scene before him changed, and his consciousness was dragged into an unfamiliar environment.
The next moment...
He saw that the Absolute Beast Emperor and the statues of the beasts at its feet were still there.
But all of them had come alive.
Of course, they had not truly come alive. Rather, within the illusionary realm of the Absolute Beast Emperor's halberd Dao inheritance, every statue had awakened.
Rumble...
A tremendous crash rang through the illusion. The mountains and rivers before Sikong Jing shattered, and heaven and earth broke apart.
The battle between the Absolute Beast Emperor and numerous powerful beast emperors unfolded before his eyes, presented with incomparable realism.
This was the Absolute Beast Emperor's halberd Dao inheritance: using an illusion of beast slaughter as the method of inheritance.
"Roar, roar, roar, roar..."
One massive ferocious beast after another surged madly toward the Absolute Beast