Struggling to hover in midair, Nie Yun looked ahead.
A monster stood before him.
A human head, the body of a Burning Heaven Beast.
Half man, half beast!
"Are you the Beast King?"
Nie Yun's expression changed.
This thing was the Beast King? Why did it look like this?
"That's right, I am the Beast King..." The Beast King's lips split apart, and a scarlet gleam flashed through its eyes as it continuously sized up Nie Yun's body. Its tongue licked its lips. "Not bad, not bad... You actually comprehended a new Dao. As expected of a human! As long as I fuse this Dao of yours into myself, I can directly break through my shackles and become an Emperor Beast!"
"You can tell that I've comprehended a new Dao?"
Nie Yun's pupils contracted.
The Fusion Dao was entirely different from the Three Thousand Great Daos. Strictly speaking, it was indeed a new Dao. Yet to prevent the Heavenly Dao from discovering it, he had hidden it within his body. By all reason, it should have been impossible to detect... So how had this creature seen through it at a glance?
"Heh heh, of course I can tell. Even if you hadn't comprehended a new Dao, as long as I placed your blood in the blood pool, I could still complete the sacrifice, successfully devour the core of the Burning Heaven Zone, and charge into the Emperor Realm... But since you've comprehended a new Dao, things are even simpler for me!"
The Beast King let out a sinister cackle.
"A sacrifice? Devouring the core of the Burning Heaven Zone?"
Nie Yun did not understand.
"Burning Heaven Beasts are Heavenly Dao Beasts. At their strongest, they can only stand equal to the Heavenly Dao; they cannot transcend it. Only by becoming