Without another word, Six-Headed Demon Phoenix continued leading the way.
Meanwhile.
Six-Headed Demon Phoenix also sent countless streams of Spirit Awareness to Lin Tian, introducing the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts: what Innate Spiritual Treasures they possessed, what distinctive divine abilities they wielded, how they kept in contact with one another, how they formed alliances, and so on.
Of course, when it came to secrets concerning Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's own origins, race, and the like, the phoenix kept firmly silent.
Better a fellow Daoist die than this poor Daoist, after all.
As Little Beast Emperor faced the exceedingly servile and rather enthusiastic Six-Headed Demon Phoenix.
The beast traced a few more marks on the ground with a twenty-foot-long foot.
The meaning was: This lackey is probably plotting something.
Lin Tian made a gesture.
The meaning was: No matter. Without entering the tiger's den, how can you seize its cubs?
Streams of Six-Headed Demon Phoenix's Spirit Awareness entered Lin Tian's sea of consciousness.
"Master, ranked tenth among the seventy-two fierce beasts is Nine-Headed Parrot. Nine-Headed Parrot can mimic every sound in heaven and earth, and its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Parrot Tongue. This tongue can reproduce any blessing or incantation. Once it has recorded an enemy's true origins and name, it can kill without leaving a trace."
"Ranked ninth is Nine-Headed Immortal Crane. Its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Red-Crowned Poison. A single drop can corrode all the worlds throughout the heavens. Once any living being comes into contact with this poison, its life and death hang on a single thought from Nine-Headed Immortal Crane."
"Ranked eighth is Nine-Headed Golden Eagle. Its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Golden Eagle Claw. Once this claw locks onto a living being of the Primordial World, there is no escape, even if they soar into the heavens, burrow into the earth, or enter another world."
"Ranked seventh is Nine-Headed Owl..."
Hiss...
The moment he heard about Nine-Headed Owl, Lin Tian could not help secretly drawing in a sharp breath.
Holy shit, owls don't even have necks, and they can still sprout nine heads?
Looks like I'm still a greenhorn here on the Primordial Continent. I haven't delved deeply enough into the races and transformations of all these bizarre Primordial World Creatures.
As Lin Tian drew in that sharp breath, he pondered inwardly.
In fact.
These wonderfully bizarre Primordial World creatures were all documented in the complete Earth's Embryonic Membrane, the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas.
After obtaining the Earth's Embryonic Membrane, Lin Tian had nourished his half of it with the Three Lights Divine Water every day.
However.
After hundreds of thousands of years of nourishment, the half that remained had recovered only a tiny amount. It had not been restored into a complete Earth's Embryonic Membrane.
So.
Precisely because half of the Earth's Embryonic Membrane was missing, half the records of ancient Primordial World fierce beasts and other creatures in the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas were also missing.
And the half of the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas that Lin Tian possessed happened to lack the records covering the Eastern Continent and central continent.
Thus, when Six-Headed Demon Phoenix told him that the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts included such a bizarre Primordial World creature as Nine-Headed Owl—a name that left him unsure whether to laugh or cry, unable even to imagine what it looked like—Lin Tian could not stop grumbling inwardly.
Of course.
Grumble though Lin Tian might.
He still rode silently on Little Beast Emperor's back, listening to the streams of Spirit Awareness Six-Headed Demon Phoenix sent him and sifting truth from falsehood.
After all, no matter how one looked at it, he would never completely trust what Six-Headed Demon Phoenix told him.
Who knew whether Six-Headed Demon Phoenix might mix a few lies into the truth that could send him straight to his death?
Six-Headed Demon Phoenix continued the introduction to Lin Tian:
"Master, Nine-Headed Owl has more than one Life-Bound Spirit Treasure. Its eagle eyes are known as the Nine Nether Eagle Eye."
"With this spirit treasure, no matter which world throughout the heavens one enters, or how dark it may be, one can see tens of millions of miles at a glance. It grants vision without blind spots, allowing one to see the present, the future, and the past."
"Nine-Headed Owl's other accompanying spirit treasure is the Nine Nether Eagle Claw. When this claw is unleashed beneath the moonlight, the power of the moon and the Nine Hells erupts together. Its might is no less than that of Nine-Headed Golden Eagle's Golden Eagle Claw."
"The one ranked sixth is called Nine-Headed Green Dove. It has two Life-Bound Spirit Treasures. With one of them, once all things enter its sensing range, it can become their central nexus simultaneously, gathering the Spirit Awareness of all living beings before distributing it again."
"No one knows where it keeps this spirit treasure. It might be an innate divine ability of Green Dove, or it might be a spirit treasure. After all, the Green Dove race is extremely mysterious. Even though I am also a peak supreme golden immortal, I know little about it."
"Green Dove's second spirit treasure is the Clear Wind Qi. This spirit treasure was nurtured by the Innate Azurewood Grand Array here in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range on the Primordial World's eastern continent. Wielding it allows one to reach speeds that disregard space and time!"
"Ranked fifth among the seventy-two fierce beasts is Nine-Headed Demon Phoenix, who is also my ancestor. His Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Nine-Light Feather."
"Ranked fourth is Nine-Headed Hummingbird. His Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Nine Bee Stingers."
"Ranked third is Nine-Headed Fire Sparrow. His Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Nine Heavens Profound Fire."
"Ranked second is Nine-Headed Azure Luan. Its Life-Bound Spirit Treasure is the Azure Netherwater. Apart from our leader, Azure Luan is the most mysterious fierce beast of all. No one knows what its divine abilities are, but its cultivation is the same as ours, at the peak of the great unity golden immortal realm."
"Ranked first is Nine-Headed Ghost Bird, the illustrious Lord Ghost Chariot of the Primordial World's eastern continent and the Eastern Continent Mountain Range. Without Ghost Chariot, our Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts could never have risen to prominence or formed an alliance."
Ghost Chariot...
Something stirred faintly in Lin Tian's heart, and he could not help feeling delighted!
Even without the records in the Earth Book: Classic of Mountains and Seas, Lin Tian knew the origins of the illustrious Nine-Headed Ghost Bird, Ghost Chariot.
At that moment.
Lin Tian finally understood why all seventy-two fierce beasts here in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range were birds.
Moreover, virtually every fierce beast ranked in the top ten had nine heads.
Because their leader was Nine-Headed Ghost Bird, Ghost Chariot!
Ghost Chariot's origins and race were, in fact, quite distinguished among the Primordial World's innate fierce beasts.
The Classic of Mountains and Seas likewise recorded Ghost Chariot as one of the ancient fierce beasts whose fame could stand shoulder to shoulder with the Ten Great Demon Sages.
Were it not for the fierce beast calamity currently sweeping through the Primordial World, targeting the Primordial Clans.
The immeasurable calamity of fierce beasts unleashed by Beast Emperor Shen Ni, with Shen Ni at its helm, had driven the bird races and the Covering Sea Clan into retreat after retreat.
And it threatened to engulf the entire Primordial Continent.
Thus, Nine-Headed Ghost Bird, Ghost Chariot, had gathered the Eastern Continent's Seventy-Two Fierce Beasts into an alliance here in the Eastern Continent Mountain Range on the Primordial East Continent simply so they could unite and avoid being swallowed by the vast Fierce Beast Tide sweeping across the Primordial World.
After all, for an innate Primordial World fierce beast like Ghost Chariot, too low to reach the heights yet too high to settle for the depths, there truly was no other path besides banding together.
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