Tyrant!

After the Battle of Burning Lion City, the army rested and reorganized on the spot.

Shi Jian was seriously injured, but fortunately, with the enhancement of his bloodline by the Barbarian Bone Dao Fruit, the physical recovery speed of a bear-type Demon Beast was simply absurdly fast.

The fractured bones, nourished by the white aura of bone, healed at a visible speed, and the healed bone was denser than before.

Shan Li comes every day to deliver spirit medicine and also acts as his protector.

Although he was called a protector, he actually spent most of his time holed up in his cave abode, clinging to Shi Jian and ruthlessly exploiting Shi Jian.

During the day, she would massage his muscles and joints, and clear his meridians; at night, she would roll over and press herself against him, claiming it was to "use the yin and yang energies to help her husband regulate his breathing."

Shi Jian was getting thinner and thinner from all the torment she put him through; his injuries hadn't fully healed before his back started aching.

"Take it easy, my bones have only just healed."

"Tch, your body's as hard as a rock, you think you're afraid of me?"

Shan Li bit him on the shoulder, leaving a row of teeth marks.

"Besides, you seem pretty energetic. Who was it that tossed and turned with me all night last night?"

Shi Jian fell silent. This woman was truly unreasonable.

The repairs lasted for more than a month.

Shi Jian's injuries have healed by about 70-80%, and the source of his internal energy has been re-condensed and stabilized; this injury has actually made his physical body even stronger.

Sometimes one has to admit that the power of a Dao Venerable of the Fruit Realm is beyond imagination.

It could even be a certain rule that directly blesses one's bloodline.

Several months later, the army broke camp and continued westward.

The Mountain Bear Lineage's offensive was swift and devastating, with strongholds large and small falling one after another along the way; the Frenzied Lion Clan's western defense line was also suffering repeated defeats under the iron hooves of the Giant Bear Army.

But the Frenzied Lion Clan did not sit idly by and wait for their doom.

During their retreat, they continuously reduced their forces and deployed layers of ambush forces in strategically important locations such as passes, canyons, and mines.

They used small elite units to harass the flanks, constantly delaying the main army's westward advance.

The war raged for millions of miles, and every step forward required paving the way with demon blood.

Shi Jian led Lightning Bear Line, always positioned on the right flank of the main army; the right flank was the most vulnerable to surprise attacks, with complex terrain consisting of sand dunes and Gobi desert.

The Frenzied Lion Clan frequently launched surprise attacks, causing considerable trouble; however, most of these were minor skirmishes and did not result in too many casualties.

Until we reach: Red Sand Gorge, a long and narrow canyon in the heart of the western region.

The main force of the Mountain Bear army is passing through the northern section of the canyon, while Shi Jian leads a portion of the Lightning Bear to cover the rear and guard the southern entrance of the canyon.

"They've arrived."

Shi Jian's Divine Sense tightened suddenly. Three Nascent Soul auras rose from the sand dunes in the southeast, carrying intense Fire Dao energy, and rushed straight towards his right flank.

Three Nascent Soul Middle Stage Frenzied Lion Demon King formed a triangular formation, each activating their Immortal Foundation; the leading Frenzied Lion wielded a crimson-gold blazing longsword, its blade inscribed with Fire Dao runes, and with a slash of its blade, it split half the sky in two.

"Kill that bear king, tear open the right flank!"

Their objective was clear: kill Shi Jian, cripple a key part of the army, and tear open the main force's formation from the right flank; create chaos in the canyon so that the Frenzied Lion Clan's ambush could take advantage of the situation.

Three streaks of fire struck simultaneously.

Shi Jian raised his spear to meet the attack, the tip of which collided head-on with the flaming longsword.

When!

The clang of metal against metal was deafening, and the sand dunes within a radius of thousands of miles were blown away by the shockwave; the Shi Jian was as solid as Boulder, but the Frenzied Lion holding the knife was shaken back several miles, its tiger's mouth split open.

The other two raging Frenzied Lion flanked from the side, and the Fire Dao Immortal Foundation combined its power to transform into a crimson-gold fire python, which coiled around Shi Jian's waist.

Shi Jian's divine sense surged, and an invisible bolt of lightning erupted forth!

Soul Lightning, fleeting in an instant.

An invisible wave precisely entered the brow of the mad Frenzied Lion on the left; the Frenzied Lion froze, its vertical pupils dilated, and it plummeted from the sky.

The Nascent Soul shattered little by little within the body, the divine soul vanished, and he died silently.

The remaining two Frenzied Lion were terrified and were about to turn around.

Shi Jian had already reached him when the Thunder Spear swept out horizontally.

The spear struck the second Frenzied Lion's waist, followed by a deafening roar of thunder, obliterating its physical body and nascent Nascent Soul.

Then, with a flick of the spear tip, Shi Jian thrust the spear through the throat of the last Frenzied Lion.

Twist the gun, and thunder pours in.

The last Nascent Soul Frenzied Lion was instantly blasted to pieces by lightning; just as the Nascent Soul left the body to escape, lightning appeared in the void.

The lightning continued to erupt, completely obliterating his Nascent Soul!

In just a short moment, all three Nascent Soul Middle Stage were annihilated.

Shi Jian flicked the blood off the tip of his spear without even turning his head.

"Continue the march."

Since the Battle of Red Sand Gorge, Shi Jian's fearsome reputation began to spread across the western battlefield; in the following two months, the Mountain Bear Army advanced with unstoppable momentum, successively capturing seven key towns and twelve strongholds of the Frenzied Lion Clan.

Shi Jian always led the vanguard in every battle.

Wherever the lightning spear pointed, the Nascent Soul Demon King was like paper, slaughtered at will.

Its fierce and courageous performance left even the demons speechless.

There was a veteran Mad Frenzied Lion Demon King in the Nascent Soul Late Stage who, relying on his profound foundation, wanted to confront him head-on; however, he was always killed by him, his physical body destroyed, and not a single Nascent Soul could escape back.

There was another stronghold where three Nascent Soul Nascent Soul had joined forces to set up a trapping and killing formation; he first destroyed one of them with Soul Lightning, and then used his Lightning Domain to blast the remaining two to death in just a dozen breaths.

There was also an old lion in the Nascent Soul Late Stage who risked burning his Essence Blood to escape, fleeing for 80,000 miles, but was still caught up by Shi Jian and nailed to the top of the sand dune with a single spear thrust.

In just a few months, Shi Jian single-handedly killed fourteen Nascent Soul!

Including the previous battles at the Red Rock Mountain Range and the Yellow Sand Lion Plain, Shi Jian has now killed a total of twenty-three Nascent Soul.

The Frenzied Lion Clan, representing more than half of the Nascent Soul power in the Western Region, has suffered losses.

The name of the Tyrant spread throughout the West.

Among the Frenzied Lion Clan, any Demon Beast below the Golden Core trembles at the mere mention of the Lightning Bear; even the Nascent Soul Demon King turns pale upon receiving the military order to confront the Shi Jian Tribe.

A reputation earned through fighting is more valuable than anything else.

His reputation Tyrant is practically equivalent to being invincible at the Nascent Soul!

To date, no demon has been able to directly confront Shi Jian, whether they are from the direct line or from a collateral branch.

Shi Jian slaughtered his way through them!

Shi Jian, however, did not take this seriously.

He was simply doing his duty; the more merits he accumulated, the better, as this would naturally solidify the Lightning Bear Line's position within the Mountain Bear Main Lineage.

In the future, when resources are allocated and territories are contested, these heads will be the strongest bargaining chips.

Cultivation is inherently a path of great contention.

What you can't win, you'll only be trampled underfoot by others; Shi Jian is simply putting this principle into practice, climbing upwards all the way!

The ancestral home of the Frenzied Lion Clan, the Heaven-Burning Ancestral Court.

A grand hall, entirely made of pure gold, stands at the deepest part of the ancestral temple.

Inside the hall, hundreds of soul tablets hung on the walls; these soul tablets were refined with demon blood and corresponded to each of the Frenzied Lion Clan's Demon King above the Nascent Soul.

At this moment, nearly half of the soul tablets on the wall had shattered.

Fragments were scattered all over the ground, still carrying the lingering Blood Qi.

"Twenty-three now."

"A Dao of Lightning Demon Bear at the Nascent Soul Late Stage stage actually killed twenty-three Nascent Soul from our clan. Truly, the younger generation is formidable."

The old lion stood up and shattered the crimson-gold throne beneath him with a single blow; fragments flew and embedded themselves in the walls, causing the entire hall to tremble and dust to fall in a flurry.

Beside him stood a monstrous Frenzied Lion in the Nascent Soul Late Stage, its head bowed and eyes lowered, not daring to utter a sound.

"Ancestor, please calm your anger..."

"Calm down?" The old lion turned his head, his vertical pupils icy cold. "We've lost most of the Western Territory, and more than half of our Nascent Soul have been wiped out. You want me to calm down?"

He paced slowly, his Dark Gold mane flickering in the firelight.

"Those two old geezers are beyond my control for now; but this Lightning Bear is only at the Nascent Soul, surely I can handle him?"

The old lion stopped in its tracks, its vertical pupils narrowing.

"Pass down the order: draw four Nascent Soul Late Stage from the Eastern Territory, along with the remaining six from the Western Territory; form a ten-man killing formation to lure that Lightning Bear into a deadly trap."

The clan leader's expression changed. "Ancestor, ten Nascent Soul... if another one falls, our clan will truly suffer a severe blow."

"Severely damaged?"

The old lion sneered, "Our clan is no longer suffering any serious damage; this is a war of annihilation, and our clan has no way to retreat."

"I, along with a few others from the clan, have preserved the clan's lineage and sent it to another realm."

"Those who remain are all martyrs; our deaths are still preordained and cannot be defied."

"But while disobeying will result in the extermination of the clan, it is not unforgivable to retaliate."

"If this bear is not eliminated, the Giant Bear Clan will gain another Nascent Spirit Transformation; the Giant Bear Clan must also feel extremely distressed to have killed such a prodigy."

"Wouldn't it be delightful to have a prodigy buried with my clan?"