After Chiyou died, these Monster beasts knew the tide had turned against them. After all, those who could come here to fight possessed some spiritual awareness. Even the witless pigs and stupid oxen had followed greater Monsters who possessed it.
The greater Monsters had intended to fight to the death, but Shi Feiyang was willing to leave them a path to survival. Why would they keep staking their lives on the fight? One after another, they spoke in human tongues, declaring their willingness to leave and hoping Shi Feiyang would honor his promise.
Shi Feiyang had Ancestor Hollow Space, Vibration Mountain Divine Lord, and the others withdraw their magic treasures and clear the way, reopening the water route. The Monsters hurried back into the sea. Afraid that Shi Feiyang might change his mind, they swam faster toward deeper, vaster waters.
Many of these Monster beasts were colossal greater Monsters that Chiyou had created through various grafts and assemblies. Released like this, without anyone to command them, they would disturb the peace of the four seas.
But Shi Feiyang had no time to attend to them for now. As long as they did not cause too much trouble, he would let them live until the Dharma Decline Age arrived, when their magical power would vanish and they would become ordinary giant sea beasts and monstrous fish, eventually dying natural deaths.
In fact, Shi Feiyang foresaw another possibility. These grafted, stitched-together sea beasts could also cultivate, and some even knew portions of the Heavenly Forbidden Arts. If they could connect with the Myriad Heavens World and eventually project themselves, divide their spirits, and transform into qi, they might remain active for a while during the Dharma Decline Age. Ignorant men and women might see them and worship them as immortals, kowtowing and