"Bite me?"
Xiaotian Dog stared at the Auspicious Cloud above Guangchengzi's head, dark golden light slowly kindling between his fangs.
That look in his eyes-as though he truly regarded the leader of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect as prey.
Guangchengzi froze for a moment, then laughed in fury.
"A black dog at the Heavenly Immortal realm dares covet my Dao foundation?"
"Yang Jian, your lineage's arrogance truly knows no bounds!"
The Yuqing magic seal in his palm lit up, and the Dao resonance of the Heaven-Flipping Seal pressed down heavily.
To him, however strange Xiaotian Dog might be, he was merely a spirit dog Yang Jian kept at his side.
The one he truly needed to guard against was always the mysterious master behind Yang Jian.
But Yang Jian did not move.
He merely glanced at Guangchengzi.
His gaze was calm-so calm that Guangchengzi's heart inexplicably sank.
The next instant, Yang Jian lowered his eyes toward Xiaotian Dog, who was already baring his teeth.
"Granted."
That single word fell.
Xiaotian Dog's ears shot upright.
To his ears, that word carried more authority than an edict from the Heavenly Court.
"Awooo-!"
A deep canine howl tore through the night.
The speck of primordial violet light in the Ruined Temple's Incense Burner flickered in response.
Yin Jiao and Yin Hong felt their vision blur.
Xiaotian Dog vanished.
There was no eruption of ordinary immortal light, nor any surge of demonic aura.
Only a dark golden vertical mark left a fleeting afterglow in the void.
Guangchengzi's expression changed sharply.
Too fast!
Worse still, the primordial violet presence within the Ruined Temple suppressed his divine sense.
He clearly sensed the black shadow approaching, yet took half a breath too long to pinpoint its position.
"Vile beast!"
Guangchengzi roared, his protective Jade Purity Immortal Light instantly flaring outward.
The Auspicious Cloud overhead churned. A phantom Heaven-Flipping Seal formed in midair and smashed down viciously toward his side.
Yet Xiaotian Dog was already pressed against his left flank.
The dark golden vertical mark opened fully.
Illusory-Breaking Divine Light swept over Guangchengzi's entire body.
The flow of magical power within his protective immortal light, the Yuqing Dao Patterns, the nodes of his Auspicious Cloud-none could hide from Xiaotian Dog's eyes.
He did not bite Guangchengzi's flesh.
He sank his teeth into the thinnest Yuqing Dao Pattern within the protective immortal light.
Crack!
A crisp shattering sound rang out deep within everyone's soul.
The protective immortal light Guangchengzi had hastily raised should have been enough to withstand a Golden Immortal's full-force strike.
But now the Ruined Temple's violet light suppressed its power, while the Illusory-Breaking Vertical Pupil exposed its weakness.
That bite pierced straight through.
Guangchengzi's pupils contracted sharply.
"What kind of teeth are those?!"
A low growl rumbled in Xiaotian Dog's throat.
"The Ancient Celestial Dog's inheritance-Black Emperor Heaven-Devouring Art!"
Layers of dark golden patterns lit up upon his God-Devouring Fangs.
The next instant, his fangs followed that breach in the Yuqing patterns and clamped onto the origin of the Great Luo magical power within Guangchengzi.
Boom!
The Auspicious Cloud above Guangchengzi's head shook violently.
He distinctly felt the magical channels in his left arm and one corner of his Auspicious Cloud collapse at the same time.
A portion of Yuqing origin, painstakingly cultivated over ten thousand years, was forcibly dragged from his body by those fangs.
"Get away!"
Shock and rage gripped Guangchengzi, and fear appeared on his face for the first time.
He was the senior disciple of the Chan Sect.
He had reached Great Luo perfection.
He had cultivated the orthodox Yuqing arts for countless years. How could a black dog at the Heavenly Immortal realm sink its teeth into his Dao foundation?
The phantom Heaven-Flipping Seal crashed down.
The vertical pupil on Xiaotian Dog's brow turned.
Dark golden divine light struck the Heaven-Flipping Seal's Dao resonance.
A gap was forcibly gnawed into its law of suppression.
Xiaotian Dog jerked his head.
Riiip!
The immortal light covering half of Guangchengzi's manifested body dimmed on the spot.
The magical channels in his left arm nearly ran dry, and a glaring gap was torn from the Auspicious Cloud above his head.
"Aaargh-!"
Guangchengzi screamed as he flew backward, slamming hard into a distant cliff face.
Shattered rocks exploded outward.
Jade Purity Immortal Light scattered across the ground.
Yin Jiao and Yin Hong watched, their bodies rigid.
They had only just become their master's disciples, and they knew this lineage was powerful.
But they had never imagined that even a dog under their master could bite and injure a Great Luo of the Chan Sect.
Xiaotian Dog's throat bobbed.
He swallowed that mass of Yuqing origin into his belly.
Boom!
His aura surged instantly.
The barrier at Heavenly Immortal perfection shattered on the spot.
Golden Immortal!
Xiaotian Dog planted all four paws on the ground, his black fur dark as ink and the dark golden light within his vertical pupil even deeper.
He licked his fangs and stared at the damaged Auspicious Cloud above Guangchengzi's head, his eyes gleaming.
"That tastes pretty good."
"I could take another bite."
At the same time.
Deep within the main Temple at Guanjiangkou.
Gu Changqing slowly opened his eyes.
System notifications appeared before him in succession.
[Ding! Divine pet Xiaotian has devoured Great Luo origin and broken through to Golden Immortal!] [Divine Pet Module's Hundred-Thousandfold Critical Hit Return triggered!] [Congratulations, host! You have obtained: three hundred million years of pure cultivation!] [Congratulations, host! You have obtained: Yuqing Great Luo Origin Fragment!] [Congratulations, host! You have obtained: Heaven-Flipping Seal Suppression Dao-Pattern Remnant!] [Congratulations, host! You have obtained: advanced insights into the Ancient Celestial Dog's inheritance, Black Emperor Heaven-Devouring Art!]
Gu Changqing's gaze remained calm.
"At least feeding him wasn't a waste."
As his words fell, he pressed the vast cultivation deep into his Godfiend acupores.
Outside the Ruined Temple in Chaoge.
Chijingzi finally came to his senses.
"Senior brother!"
He flew over to support Guangchengzi, his expression grim beyond measure.
Guangchengzi's aura had fallen considerably. Although he had not dropped below Great Luo perfection, his Dao foundation had already been wounded by that bite.
Ordinary spirit pills could never repair such an injury.
The Yin-Yang Mirror turned in Chijingzi's palm. Black-and-white mirror light became a long river that swept toward Xiaotian Dog.
He wanted to immobilize Xiaotian Dog's primordial spirit and give Guangchengzi a moment to recover.
But the instant the mirror light descended, the vertical pupil on Xiaotian Dog's brow turned toward him.
A sliver of the black-and-white mirror light's edge was actually devoured.
Chijingzi's palm went numb.
The Yin-Yang Mirror trembled faintly.
His expression changed completely.
This dog did not merely counter Guangchengzi.
He could even gnaw away the Yin-Yang Mirror's Dao resonance!
"Go!"
Chijingzi hesitated no longer.
He swept up Guangchengzi and fled toward Kunlun in a bedraggled streak of Yuqing escape light.
Xiaotian Dog stamped a forepaw, about to pursue them.
Yang Jian stepped in front of him.
"Don't chase."
Xiaotian Dog flicked his tail in displeasure.
"I could still take another bite."
Yang Jian's voice remained steady.
"This is the Chaoge Calamity Eye."
"If we truly kill a Great Luo of the Chan Sect, the Saint will intervene at once."
Xiaotian Dog bared his teeth, but ultimately withdrew his paw.
He turned to Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, giving his tail a light flick.
"See that?"
"Stick with Master, and even a Great Luo of the Chan Sect can be a snack."
Yin Hong's Adam's apple bobbed. For a long while, he could not utter a word.
Yin Jiao watched the departing Yuqing escape light, the shock in his eyes lingering.
The leader of the Twelve Golden Immortals of Chan Sect.
An immortal at Great Luo perfection.
Yet a divine dog under their master had forcibly bitten into and wounded his Dao foundation.
Just what sort of being had the two brothers taken as their master?
Yang Jian gazed toward Kunlun, the divine pattern on his brow glowing faintly.
He knew Guangchengzi and Chijingzi would not let this rest.
Still less would the Chan Sect swallow this humiliation.
But from this day onward, Yin Jiao and Yin Hong, these two pawns of Humanity's Dao, had broken free of Jade Void control entirely.
Before the Ruined Temple, the primordial violet light slowly faded.
The Divine Statue within the Temple remained silent.
But when Yin Jiao and Yin Hong looked at that Divine Statue again, only reverence remained in their eyes.
Just then.
Kunlun Mountain.
Deep within the Jade Void Palace.
A Yuqing Glazed Lamp suddenly began to shake violently.
Yuanshi Tianzun slowly opened his eyes. His gaze pierced ten thousand miles of mountains and rivers, falling upon the Ruined Temple outside Chaoge City.
His voice was indifferent, yet it instantly silenced the entire Jade Void Palace.
"Guangchengzi's Dao foundation has been wounded?"