Golden Horned Beast

"Damn it, if only I had a Domain-type Supreme Treasure!" Yang Hao simply could not keep the two Demon Race Venerables from escaping.

Those Demon Race powerhouses had enormous divine bodies and thick hides. Killing them was incredibly difficult.

After exchanging only a few blows and annihilating ten percent of the crocodile's divine power, the two Demon Race Venerables fled outright, leaving Yang Hao with nothing to show for his efforts.

If he had a domain treasure, even a top-tier domain-type major treasure, he would have had a chance to kill that crocodile. Unfortunately, Domain-type Supreme Treasures were hardly cheap. Even the cheapest cost sixteen supreme treasure points. Even a top-tier domain-type major treasure cost more than one supreme treasure point.

"Those damned demons let the Northern Border Alliance take the supreme treasure." While Yang Hao fought the two demon Venerables, the Northern Border Alliance had swooped in and claimed the prize. The offensive supreme treasure that had emerged was worth around one supreme treasure point.

Not only had he gained nothing, but he would also have to expend treasures to replenish his depleted divine power. It was a crushing loss.

Hum! Hum! Hum!

A strange fluctuation spread through the air.

"What a powerful aura! Stronger than an Ordinary Supreme Treasure." Yang Hao's eyes lit up as he sensed the powerful energy fluctuations. The emerging treasure had probably reached the level of a High-grade Supreme Treasure.

The more powerful a treasure was, the stronger the aura it released when emerging, and the farther that aura spread.

Usually, the more formidable the emerging treasure, the more powerhouses it attracted, and the stronger those coming to compete for it would be.

"I have to get it!" Yang Hao's gaze sharpened. With his High-grade Supreme Treasure armor protecting him, he felt thoroughly confident.

"A supreme treasure is emerging! With an aura this powerful, it must be at least a High-grade Supreme Treasure!" The speaker was a lion-shaped behemoth with dark-gold eyes and black scales covering his body and wings. Intricate golden markings spread from his single black horn down his neck, along his back, and all the way to his tail. Two other powerhouses accompanied him.

"A supreme treasure!"

Seven or eight nearby teams sensed the High-grade Supreme Treasure's aura. Without exception, the powerhouses turned into streaks of light and raced to seize it.

Boom! Boom! Boom!

Powerhouses flew in one after another, following the aura. A volcanic island stood in the ocean, and at its very center, a strangely shaped object emitting wondrous starlight had partly emerged. The supreme treasure's aura came from it.

"A Golden Horned Beast!" Yang Hao had only just reached the volcanic island when towering waves surged across the sea and a massive shadow engulfed him. He looked up and saw a Golden Horned Beast.

Two other powerhouses followed beside the beast.

Those two should be the Golden Horned Beast's clones, Yang Hao concluded.

As one of the Starry Sky Beast Alliance's twelve pinnacle bloodlines, Golden Horned Beasts were born with a tenfold life gene level. Even if they did nothing but eat and sleep, they could still become World Lords.

They could also nurture three clones. Whether used in combat or to assist with cultivation and comprehending laws, those clones offered an obvious boost to their strength.

"A monster over ten thousand kilometers long, as big as a planet! How much divine power must it have?" Yang Hao exclaimed. With such a massive divine body and clones as well, the Golden Horned Beast could explore the Primal Star with complete confidence.

Unlike him, who had to spend a fortune on a defensive supreme treasure armor just to feel somewhat safe.

"Human, leave the supreme treasure behind!" The Golden Horned Beast's torso alone was ten thousand kilometers long, and his tail was another ten thousand kilometers. His spread, scaled wings covered more than twenty thousand kilometers of space! Only a place as vast as the Primal Star could accommodate such colossal creatures.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The Golden Horned Beast shrank, then flapped his wings, leaving three winding trails through the air. In less than a blink, he appeared before Yang Hao.

Venerable Golden Sakura, a High Universe Venerable of the Golden Horned Beast lineage among the Starry Sky Behemoths. He has three clones, but the available information only identifies two. One excels at spatial combat, and the other at time. Though their combat strength is ordinary, they provide Golden Sakura with considerable support. Yang Hao found the Golden Horned Beast's information in the database.

What a troublesome opponent. His sheer size alone was intimidating, not to mention the Golden Horned Beast's many Inheritance Secret Techniques. Once he mastered the third level of Original Body Heaven and Earth, he could change his size at will. Not only did those changes leave his combat strength unaffected, they could also unleash thirty-six times his strength!

Only when facing a Golden Horned Beast as an enemy did one truly understand how powerful he was.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Just as Venerable Golden Sakura and his two clones confronted Yang Hao, several more teams flew in.

"The Northern Border Alliance, the Demon Race, and even a Zerg Mother Emperor!"

The Northern Border Alliance had sent three teams, totaling ten Venerables. The Demon Race had one team, consisting of a Thousand-Footed Striped Centipede, a Ziqian Myriad Snake, and a Gold-Fearing Hou, all from Demon Race royal bloodlines. The other arrival was a Zerg, Venerable Qing Mi, who had only recently broken through to the Venerable level.

Zerg Mother Emperors excelled at Soul Attacks with their own bodies, while their Matter Attacks relied mainly on the Zerg Warriors they created. Their extraordinary intelligence and immense mental processing power allowed them to divide their attention among countless Zerg Warriors, combining the warriors' attacks into a single strike.

Fortunately, Venerable Qing Mi was newly advanced and had not created many Venerable Level Zerg Warriors. Her combat strength was therefore still some distance below that of a Universe Overlord. Given enough time, however, she would surely become one.

"Haha, how interesting. Zerg, the Demon Race, and humans!" The Golden Horned Beast laughed. "If a Machine Race Venerable showed up too, I wouldn't even bother competing for the Supreme Treasure. I'd just sit to the side, drink, and enjoy the show."

Venerable Golden Sakura was alone, so naturally, he had to find a way to provoke them. Troubled waters made for easy fishing. How could he compete for the supreme treasure without throwing the battlefield into chaos?

Those damned four races occupy the best territories in the universe. If our race had territory like that, why would we need to join the Northern Border Alliance... A Venerable from the Northern Border Alliance stared at the Venerables of the pinnacle races, resentment burning within.

If only our Northern Border Alliance could truly unite. Those damned Universe Masters do nothing but fight for power among themselves, instead of making the Northern Border Alliance genuinely strong.

Our Northern Border Alliance has over three hundred thousand Venerables and more than a hundred Universe Masters. Damn it, how did the alliance end up like this?!

Boom!

The tense situation was like a powder keg, needing only the slightest spark to ignite.

A Northern Border Alliance Venerable with two horns on his head and blue-green markings covering his body suddenly struck his own companion.

"Damn it!" The Northern Border Alliance's three teams had ten Venerables, but most of them were only Intermediate Universe Venerables individually. They had banded together precisely for mutual protection.

"Snap out of it! You've been hit by an illusion attack!" another Northern Border Alliance Venerable shouted. After taking an inexplicable blow, he hurried to wake his attacker.

"It's the Zerg Mother Emperor's illusion attack!" The Northern Border Alliance members' expressions shifted slightly.

They had not expected to be outmaneuvered before the fight for the treasure had even begun.

Even as a newly advanced Universe Venerable, Venerable Qing Mi possessed formidable Soul Attacks. In terms of manipulating souls, the Zerg were undoubtedly among the universe's very best races.

That was why, despite their sparse numbers, the Zerg could still rank among the pinnacle races and contend with humans, the Demon Race, and the Machine Race for countless ages.

Thank goodness I inherited Qian Wu's Universe Overlord-level will, or I'd have died right here. Yang Hao shuddered inwardly. The Zerg Mother Emperor had made an imposing entrance, immediately launching an illusion attack against every powerhouse present.

Fortunately, Qian Wu's will was strong enough to reach the Universe Overlord level. Otherwise, Yang Hao, with no one to help him, might well have fallen victim to Soul Enslavement.

Even an illusion attack spread across everyone had ensnared one of the Northern Border Alliance's weaker Venerables. That alone showed how formidable the Zerg Mother Emperor's Soul Attacks were.