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Xiao Bai's voice echoed through the empty valley of Sky-Reaching Peak and resonated in the distant mountains.

In the vast fog, no one answered him.

He couldn't even sense anyone else's Spiritual Pressure...

The atmosphere was incredibly strange.

It felt as if he was the only one left in the entire plaza.

Besides himself, the most obvious presence was the huge dark shadow swimming in the air.

Xiao Bai looked up again.

From any angle, this monster didn't look like a fierce beast from the cultivation world; it looked more like a hybrid of a primordial divine beast and Cthulhu.

However, the Tian Yuan Era, having been ravaged by Outer Realm Heavenly Demons for thousands of years, was no longer the cultivation world it once was.

The Dao Alliance had mastered a large amount of mass-producible Automated Spiritual Artifacts technology to combat the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, thus ushering in the Tian Yuan Era.

And the Spirit Beasts of the cultivation era, under the baptism of the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons, were forced to evolve into many strange and peculiar types.

These Aberrant Spirit Beasts looked disgusting, but many of them were very precious medicinal ingredients.

Perhaps the Elder needed this thing.

Xiao Bai calmed down.

Looking closely, the Spiritual Power emitted by this monster was indeed that of a fierce beast.

Its Spiritual Pressure was somewhat peculiar; it seemed to be Qi Refining, but it was constantly changing.

Its exact cultivation level couldn't be determined.

However, with so many Nascent Soul powerhouses present, he definitely wouldn't be in danger.

Let's give it a shot...

Just don't lose too badly.

Thinking this, Xiao Bai stepped onto his sword and soared towards the thousand-zhang high altitude shrouded in thick fog.

In a trance, there was a sense of tragic grandeur, like a tiny human challenging a primordial giant beast.

But the closer Xiao Bai got to the fierce beast, the more he felt that its size... might not be as large as it had seemed before.

The octopus's tentacles were its strong point, and its head was its weak point.

Without a second thought, Xiao Bai headed straight for the enormous octopus head.

Suddenly!

The tens of thousands of tentacles at the octopus's tail instantly spread out, like a peacock fanning its tail.

Its size surged tenfold!

The tentacles constantly transformed into various complex and strange geometric shapes, emitting a sticky, rustling sound, like gods and demons striking a bell, one after another, striking Xiao Bai's soul.

Xiao Bai was startled.

When he came back to his senses, a huge single eye on the octopus's head was staring at him through the fog.

It vaguely carried a sense of ancient primordial sorrow and silent, vast pressure, like an invisible giant hand, tearing apart his Dantian from a distance.

Xiao Bai's body stiffened, his back felt cold, and his mind went blank.

It felt as if something unspeakable was stuck in his throat, and if he wasn't careful, he would lose himself and be dragged into the abyss of the soul, never to return.

Terrified, he quickly swallowed a Blood Spirit Pill...

Only then did he clear his head considerably.

Only then did he realize that there was nothing unusual about his body, he had just been scared into a sweat.

Still shaken, Xiao Bai gritted his teeth and looked again.

Suddenly, it wasn't so scary anymore...

It just had a rather unconventional appearance.

Mental attack?

Xiao Bai leaped onto the top of the octopus's head.

It felt sticky...

His foot slipped, and he almost fell off.

Xiao Bai's eyes were quick and his hands were fast; he plunged his sword into the top of the huge octopus head, barely managing to steady himself.

A strange cry, like a baby monster weeping, instantly echoed through the foggy valley...

In a trance, tens of thousands of tentacles surged towards Xiao Bai from all directions like a tide.

Xiao Bai sensed the anomaly in advance, and the moment he was surrounded by tentacles, his body flashed, and he leaped out of the encirclement.

Seeing his foot slip and having nowhere else to go, with his next step, Xiao Bai stepped into the flesh of the octopus's head!

The movement technique that came with the Butcher's Sword Technique could easily dodge tentacles, but it was difficult to deal with a slippery surface.

The footwork of the Xiahou Body Technique, with its stable, accurate, and powerful force, allowed Xiao Bai to step firmly into the One-Eyed Octopus's head, his feet sinking deep.

Holding his Magic Sword, facing the tsunami-like onslaught of octopus tentacles, Xiao Bai unleashed the Butcher's Sword Technique.

It was like slicing melons and dicing vegetables!

Blue fluid sprayed everywhere.

The fluid wasn't poisonous, but it was highly corrosive...

The Elder's robe woven by Mu Yun had anti-poison properties.

Xiao Bai's precise swordsmanship ensured the fluid only landed on his body, avoiding his handsome face.

Tentacles rained down from the sky.

Some fell onto the Flame Platform, getting thoroughly roasted and emitting the aroma of high-quality protein.

The ferocious beast continued to cry like a baby...

This made Xiao Bai suddenly wonder if he was being too cruel.

Such a large ferocious beast would be very difficult to subdue.

Xiao Bai could only dismember it first, then dissect it, taking its Beast Core and internal organs like the liver and gallbladder. It could be considered a generous gift.

In the fog of the plaza.

A certain Hundred Herbs Peak disciple's heart was bleeding.

The so-called unsubdued ferocious beast had actually already been subdued by him.

Therefore, the pain of it being severed was felt in his heart.

So he immediately formed hand seals and performed the Beast Taming technique—

"Sink!"

While slicing and dicing, Xiao Bai happily adapted to the battle.

Just as he was about to press his advantage, his feet suddenly felt heavy.

His body was being dragged by an invisible force!

He sank straight down, disappearing into the One-Eyed Octopus's head...

With Xiao Bai's max-level Xiahou Body Technique, he could have escaped.

Alas...

Who told him he wanted to go inside the octopus anyway?

Inside the octopus was the best place to perform dissection using the Butcher's Sword Technique.

So, he went with the flow and plunged deep inside the octopus,

directly into its stomach...

It was full of stomach acid, but less corrosive than the blue blood.

What was relatively dangerous was the Spiritual Pressure, the Peak Qi Refining Spiritual Pressure in a confined environment!

Xiao Bai was a bit uncomfortable.

But thankfully, his Balanced Five Elements provided some resistance, and with continuous consumption of Blood Spirit Pills, he felt the problem wasn't too big.

Once his body adapted, Xiao Bai raised his sword and began a massacre directly inside the stomach.

Swish, swish, swish—

An octopus rain began in the air.

Heads were heads, bones were bones, and the internal organs were completely intact, even maintaining a certain vitality after leaving the body.

The valuable internal organs were all put into Xiao Bai's Storage Ring.

The worthless ones were just discarded.

After the sword finished its work.

The octopus was gone, and the fog also dispersed.

Xiao Bai hovered in the air on his sword, feeling a bit lost.

The surroundings were empty, the clear fog had scattered, there were no more baby cries or strange calls, and the ancient, sorrowful aura was gone.

That's it?

He hadn't even broken a sweat...

Cthulhu's weakness in ships truly didn't deceive me!

The Mountain Gate Plaza was silent.

The disciples hadn't fully reacted yet. Affected by the fog, they felt that what they had just seen and sensed with their Divine Sense was somewhat ethereal.

The Elders' eyes were like torches, their expressions growing more solemn one after another.

The Beast Taming Elder's expression was even harder to describe...

Xiao Bai landed on his sword and quietly asked his wife,

"What kind of fierce beast is that? It's quite scary."

Yu Hu's clear eyes were like still water, completely unperturbed.

Although she had known for a long time that Xiao Bai had defeated Mu Yun with the Butcher's Sword Technique, seeing this scene with her own eyes still felt unbelievable.

"It's a One-Eyed Octopus. In the Golden Era, it was an aquatic Spirit Beast, only the size of a palm, living off carrion."

"In the Era of Dharma Decline, when the Outer Realm Heavenly Demons descended, the One-Eyed Octopus gained a foothold by imitating the Heavenly Demons, gradually becoming a carnivorous Spirit Beast."

"Later, relying on abundant Spiritual Power, it ascended from the water, forming clouds and mist in the air, continuing to run rampant, and its size gradually grew to what it is now."

"Generally speaking, a One-Eyed Octopus in the Qi Refining Realm often scares away fierce beasts in the Foundation Establishment or even Golden Core Realm with deception. Those with lower cultivation than it can even be scared unconscious."

Yu Hu explained in detail.

The content was so specialized it completely exceeded the knowledge base a Pill Elder should possess.

Xiao Bai understood.

This was evolution!

It was artificial se...

No, it was demonic selection!

So, he strolled over to the Beast Taming Elder, faced the charming older woman, and respectfully said,

"Thank you, Senior Sister Zhe Hui. The fierce beast has been physically subdued and is about to join Hundred Herbs Peak's luxurious lunch."