Qin Yu's calm expression vanished instantly, and he abruptly turned to look in the direction from which the sound came. At the edge of his vision, there were still only overlapping mountains and billowing dust, but his senses had already detected something.
One aura. Ten auras. A thousand auras. Ten thousand auras. Then the number skyrocketed, millions, tens of millions... until it became impossible to distinguish them in a short time.
Those auras were violent, ancient, and ferocious. Some were as heavy as if they were carrying an entire ancient continent, some were so intense that they made the distant sky gradually turn red, some carried an icy chill that pierced the Fate Soul, and some were life forms that Qin Yu had never seen before.
What caused his expression to change drastically was that within this boundless aura were a group of terrifying beings far surpassing ordinary ancient divine beasts, whose fluctuations with each breath caused large-scale distortions in the distant space.
Qin Yu's pupils constricted sharply, and he looked up abruptly—"Oh no, a beast tide is coming!"
Almost as soon as his voice fell, a furious shout came from another distant place—"Not good! It's a beast tide, a supreme beast tide of divine beasts!" "Prepare to meet the enemy!!!" Rumble rumble rumble rumble rumble----!!! The earth trembled completely.
A cloud of dust suddenly billowed up behind the first mountain ridge in the distance, obscuring the sky. Then, a massive, crimson-gold beast head, large enough to make one's scalp crawl, rose from behind the ridge, its two curved horns piercing the sky. A burning ancient sun mark appeared on its forehead, and the mountains trembled when its four hooves stomped down.
On either side, tens of thousands of colossal beasts had already surged up the ridge: there were blue-scaled dragons with wings on their backs and their bodies wreathed in lightning; there were ancient serpents with nine heads raised, each spewing forth a torrent of different Daoist auras; and there were crimson divine birds whose wingspan covered a large portion of the sky.
There is a giant divine rhinoceros covered in black and gold armor that smashes mountains when it runs; there is a white celestial horse galloping through the sea of clouds; there is an ancient fox with nine tails sweeping across the sky; and there are tortoise shells bearing the patterns of mountains and rivers.
There are colossal, armored beasts whose every stomp of their four legs causes the earth to rumble; divine birds surrounded by crimson flames; strange beasts with dragon heads and deer bodies, their hooves adorned with auspicious ancient patterns; and ancient ferocious creatures with tiger bodies and wings, their fangs constantly emanating a murderous aura.
But these are still only a part of the very front of the beast tide.
The scene further behind quickly surpassed the understanding of many cultivators present regarding divine beasts—a colossal silver-white beast without a fixed head traversed the mountains, with twelve slowly rotating beast faces floating above its neck. Each time a beast face opened its eye, the surrounding world underwent different changes.
A group of long-winged ancient beasts, their bodies composed of transparent skeletons and starlight bloodlines, skimmed across the sky. Their flapping wings made no sound of wind, but left behind star trails stretching for thousands of miles.
A colossal black beast with six legs and three ridges carried a naturally formed ancient city on its back, containing even withered giant trees and broken stone towers. With each step it took, the entire ancient city on its back rumbled. Other strange beasts, devoid of flesh and blood and formed solely from countless interlocking golden ring bones, rolled through the air.
A jet-black beastly eye hovered in the center of its body, and wherever its gaze swept, the ancient forests along the way all bowed down; further away, a gray divine beast with a body spanning several mountain ranges burst out of the ground, with thousands of mountain-shaped bone spurs growing on its back, and tiny seas of lightning surging between each bone spur.
At this moment, the sky was completely filled. Dragon-shaped, phoenix-shaped, roc-shaped, snake-shaped, whale-shaped, butterfly-shaped, and a large number of ancient life forms that could not be classified into any known species burst out from behind the clouds.
There are colossal beasts with four pairs of wings but no eyes, and a vertical pupil split open in the center of their chest; there are divine birds with three layers of staggered wing bones, each layer reflecting a different starry sky when unfolded;
There were ancient beasts, tens of thousands of miles long, shaped like swimming fish, their bodies covered with layers of crystalline peaks, trailing a long, silvery-white river as they swam through the sky; and there were also groups of black beast shadows with no fixed form.
As it galloped, it continuously transformed from a four-legged behemoth into a long-winged ferocious bird, and then from the ferocious bird into a hundred-headed serpent, but the dark red beast core within its body remained unchanged.
But deeper within this boundless tide of beasts—the true supreme divine beast appeared.
One after another, colossal figures emerged from behind the dust and sea of clouds. They did not deliberately release their oppressive aura, yet the ancient divine beasts around them instinctively avoided their path. Some of these supreme divine beasts had ten thousand horns on their foreheads, with a miniature starry sky cradled between each horn.
Some were covered in pale bone armor, with nine dark moons on their backs slowly rotating with their steps; others had dragon bodies, but hundreds or thousands of burning golden wing bones extended from their spines;
There was another being whose entire body could not be seen from the horizon; only six crimson giant eyes could be seen opening one after another in the depths of the sea of clouds, each eye separated by a great distance.
The number is still increasing. There are many more in the distance. There are some behind the mountains. There are some in the sea of clouds. There are some underground. And there are some high in the sky.
The entire field of vision is being filled with divine beasts. Hundreds of millions of ancient divine beasts and supreme divine beasts are simultaneously rushing in from different directions across the vast territory of the secret realm. They crush rocks, tear through ancient forests, sweep across long rivers, and rip through the clouds. Dense beast shadows stretch from the ground all the way to the sky.
The beast tide ahead had already crossed the first mountain ridge, and behind them, there were still endless giant beasts appearing.
Rumble, rumble, rumble—!!! The heavens and earth trembled. The mountains shook. The roars of countless beasts converged into a terrifying wave of sound that swept across endless lands.
"Roar----!!!"
At this moment, the countless cultivators scattered Being As It Is Secret Realm finally changed their expressions completely. The crowd, which had just been awestruck by this magnificent world, instantly descended into chaos. Some summoned their divine weapons, while others quickly rallied their fellow disciples.
Some frantically searched for a mountain to lean on, while others turned pale at just a glance at the dense, overwhelming shadows of beasts that filled the sky and earth in the distance.
Qin Yu stood on the ancient plain, his gray robe billowing backward in the increasingly fierce wind, his eyes fixed on the rapidly approaching, boundless tide of beasts. He could feel the tremors beneath his feet intensifying with each step.
The beast shadows in the field of vision are also rapidly enlarging, and in the depths of the hundreds of millions of ancient and fierce auras, the power of the supreme beasts one after another is passing through the vast world, pressing towards all cultivators who have just entered the secret realm--
The moment the beast tide truly crashed into the cultivator's territory, the formation that had been barely maintained was instantly swallowed up by the earth-shattering roar. At the end of the ancient plain, the first batch of primordial divine beasts had already crossed the continuous mountain range, with tens of thousands of giant feet stomping down at the same time.
Rumble! The dark brown earth cracked open in patches, and a rift valley hundreds of feet wide stretched wildly ahead of the beast horde. Dozens of black-gold divine rhinoceroses at the forefront lowered their massive heads, their horns entwined with dark red True Annihilation Dao patterns. With each charge, they smashed the rocks in their path into countless fragments.
Hundreds of cultivators had no time to retreat and simultaneously unleashed their Fate Soul essence. In an instant, the sky was illuminated by various colors of Dao light, and sword shadows, giant seals, ancient wheels, Dao diagrams, halberds, divine spears, and torrents of essence crashed down upon the black-gold divine rhinoceros.
Boom!!! The head of the first True Annihilation Realm · Intermediate Stage Divine Rhinoceros was struck by dozens of divine powers at the same time. Large pieces of the armor covering its forehead bone shattered, but its huge body still pushed forward thousands of feet with the momentum, smashing more than ten hills along the way until a giant sword ten thousand feet long slashed down from the sky.
With a hiss, the sword pierced its wounded neck, and dark gold beast blood gushed out like a waterfall. The massive body finally crashed to its side, sliding along the ground and leaving a deep ravine several miles long. But the herd of divine rhinoceroses behind them did not stop, trampling over the corpses of their kind and continuing to charge towards the crowd.
"Spread out! Don't block the front!"
A cultivator at the Eternal Silence Realm roared, simultaneously spreading his palms outwards. Behind him, his Fate Soul essence transformed into several giant rings that pressed forward, and nearby cultivators immediately retreated to the sides. But just as they dodged the Black Gold Divine Rhinoceros, a shadow pressed down from above.
With a whoosh, hundreds of crimson-feathered ancient birds tore through the clouds and swooped down. These ancient divine birds had wingspans of hundreds or even thousands of feet, and the edges of their wings burned with crimson True Annihilation fire powerful enough to erode one's foundation.
At the forefront, dozens of ancient birds at the True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage simultaneously opened their sharp beaks, and a sea of crimson fire instantly poured down, melting the mountain rocks as soon as the fire waves swept over them. Several cultivators were forced to activate their protective divine abilities, and just as layers of light screens rose, the crimson flames crashed down.
Boom!!! Waves of fire exploded outwards along the outer wall of the defense. One of the cultivators gritted his teeth, his arms trembling violently from the shock. His companion immediately rushed forward, and the three Fate Soul essences simultaneously converged into a giant blue-white spear.
Whoosh! The giant spear pierced through the sea of fire, instantly penetrating the chest of a crimson-feathered ancient bird. Beast blood rained down from the sky, and the ancient bird let out a sharp, mournful cry. Losing its balance, it spun and crashed into the horde of beasts below.
On the other side, the situation was even more chaotic. A dark blue-green ancient serpent with nine heads rose proudly from the rift. Each of the nine heads was wrapped in a completely different primal aura, such as frost, flames, lightning, corrosive mist, and dark light, indicating that it had already reached the True Annihilation Realm · Advanced Stage.
The nine heads opened their giant mouths simultaneously, and nine torrents swept towards the cultivators in front of them. Dozens of people quickly formed a defensive formation. The outermost ancient seal had just lit up when it was violently shaken by the lightning, and the second layer of light barrier was then frozen by the cold current.
Crack! Crack! Crack!—! Large patches of ice patterns spread rapidly, followed closely by the crimson flames spewed from the third serpent head. The interplay of hot and cold caused the entire defensive barrier to shatter abruptly. The cultivators behind them paled in shock; three Eternal Silence Realm experts had attacked simultaneously.
One person pressed down with a horizontal palm, suppressing the countless Dao seals; another used sword light to seal the space between the nine heads; and the last person rushed in from the side, his halberd carrying a heavy source of power, piercing directly through one of the snake heads.
Bang!!! The enormous snake's body twisted wildly, and its tail swept across, shattering several stone peaks in half. Taking advantage of the opportunity, the surrounding crowd launched a coordinated attack, and countless supernatural powers instantly engulfed it completely.
Further away, the six-legged, three-ridged behemoth carrying the ancient city had charged into another group of cultivators. Its cultivation was also at the True Annihilation Realm · Supreme. The dilapidated ancient city on its back trembled continuously as it ran, and large swaths of gray-white beast flames spewed out from the cracks in the city walls.
Hundreds of cultivators surrounded it and bombarded it relentlessly, their sword beams leaving only crisscrossing cracks on its carapace. A True Annihilation Realm · Supreme cultivator seized the moment when it raised its foot and rushed into its abdomen, forming hand seals. His Fate Soul essence transformed into a rapidly spinning silver moon and slammed into the vulnerable spot on its abdomen.
Boom!!! The giant beast's belly armor was blown open. Before the man could retreat, the six-legged beast roared and pressed down, its massive shadow obscuring his vision. His two companions hurriedly grabbed his shoulders and pulled him back. The next moment, the giant foot landed, and the entire ancient plain sank with a deafening roar.
What truly terrifies many cultivators are the supreme divine beasts mixed in with the beast tide. Their numbers are far fewer than ordinary ancient divine beasts, and their cultivation is also between the initial and Supreme True Annihilation Realm · Initial Stage, but their bloodline and origin power are significantly more powerful.
A pale, bone-armored divine beast supreme being True Annihilation Realm · Supreme, strode through the center of the beast horde. Behind it, nine dark moons slowly rotated, dimming the surrounding light with each rotation. When all nine dark moons rose simultaneously, it suddenly raised its head and roared angrily.
"Roar----!!!" Nine beams of dark moonlight converged and descended from the sky, instantly covering hundreds of miles ahead with a pale light tide, and the defenses of more than ten True Annihilation Realm cultivators were shattered one after another.
Several powerful Eternal Silence Realm experts nearby immediately moved sideways. One of them opened his sleeves, and thousands of ancient seal characters flew out from his sleeves, forming a huge blockade in mid-air. The other two attacked from the left and right at the same time, and the blade light and palm print hit the Bone Armor Divine Beast Supreme one after the other.
Boom!!! Large cracks appeared on the surface of the bone armor, but the divine beast supreme became even more enraged. The nine dark moons suddenly sank down, directly crashing into the three's source attack.