Restraint

"Roar~"

"Is this all there is to Huang Daoxian?"

The time was short; it only took a few minutes to reach Zhang Xuezhou's landing point.

This is an exit for inspection and testing, and there is also a simple inspection booth.

The light from the pavilion illuminated the surroundings, casting a shadow over the dark pavilion beneath it.

Lin Na collapsed here, and Ren Yisheng also brought Feng Xiangyu back to the museum for interrogation here.

But Ren Yisheng did indeed miss something.

He looked at a snarling yellow dog under the guard post, then at Zhang Xuezhou holding a steel bar, and simply couldn't understand how the overthrow of the Scarlet Alliance State had lasted for a century, could be caused by such an ugly dog.

The fact that Zhang Xuezhou, who was not skilled in hand-to-hand combat, could fight while wielding steel bars meant that the damage caused by this fight was extremely limited.

"Yellow Dog, you're finished!"

Zhang Xuezhou's change of address also means that his identity has been confirmed.

Ren Yisheng and Ren Anran exchanged a glance, then grabbed a brick from the side and approached the ugly, yellow-haired dog that was about to lunge and bite again.

What heinous thing has this dog done?

Feng Ziqiang arrived from behind, panting. Seeing the state of everyone, he reached down and grabbed a brick from the ground.

"This is a dog my dad recently picked up. He walks it every day when he's patrolling Dongshan," Feng Ziqiang exclaimed. "This dog is very obedient; it doesn't bark or make a fuss!"

"Is your dad walking the dog?"

Zhang Xuezhou asked in surprise, feeling that Feng Xiangyu was probably being led around by Huang Daoxian.

Not only did Feng Ziqiang and the others not expect it, but Zhang Xuezhou also never imagined that Huang Daoxian's spiritual home would be in the body of a dog.

The dog was clearly not in good health; even if Zhang Xuezhou's spirit was imprisoned in a dog's body, he couldn't make the dog any more powerful.

If Huang Daoxian's spirit hadn't entered the other person's body, Zhang Xuezhou felt that he might have been able to beat the dog more swiftly.

But he wasn't idle either; whenever the other party tried to escape, Zhang Xuezhou would quickly leap and change position to block them.

As the number of people increased, Zhang Xuezhou quickly made a hand gesture, feeling that it would be more reassuring to kill them all at once.

"Friends of the North Rehe Tiankeng (sinkhole), only in prosperous times can the grandeur of a dynasty be displayed. I still have some confidence to cause destruction!"

With its back to the guard post, the yellow dog's growls transformed into human speech.

"If I am left with no way to survive, even if you defeat me and seize the Scarlet Alliance State, this entire land will surely be turned into a barren wasteland!"

"If I lose control, countless seeds will sprout from the soil, growing at an insane rate and devouring everything in their path!"

"My seed plants are not afraid of pests, but your fragile ecosystems are being destroyed, and endless pests will sweep across every place!"

"Countless fields will be destroyed, and famine will return to this land!"

"Your population has exploded nearly tenfold in the last few decades. Famine will have a backlash that none of you can withstand, and even a large number of Sequence Holder will not be able to stabilize social order!"

The yellow dog spoke in human language, but no one stopped gathering around it because of these words.

No one responded to a single word. Only Feng Ziqiang, who was frightened by the yellow dog's human speech, trembled slightly and made a strange noise.

"Screw you!"

Ren Yisheng started with the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique, but seeing that it lacked a striking response, he approached, cursed, grabbed a brick, and smashed it down.

Zhang Xuezhou's words could still bewitch people, but Huang Daoxian's words had no chance of being bewitching at all.

Even if anything happens, people have no choice but to eliminate future troubles rather than be bound by endless coercion.

I hate weaponized combat!

With the Dragon Elephant Combat Technique ineffective, Ren Yisheng's fighting ability was extremely average, while Ren Anran and Zhang Xuezhou's skills in this area were also somewhat lacking.

In an instant, chaos erupted as everyone fought. If Zhang Xuezhou hadn't repeatedly blocked their path by wielding a steel bar and braving the waves, the yellow dog would have almost escaped.

It wasn't until nearly two minutes later, when Zhang Manqian and Ning Que arrived unsteadily, that the attack became effective.

"Since you're not giving us a way out, then let's have a showdown! Nobody's going to have an easy time!"

When Zhang Manqian landed a close-range punch on the yellow dog's neck, the dog let out a hysterical howl, and bursts of purple light appeared around its body.

"All my seeds will sprout immediately, your Alliance States are finished, and I..."

"Er Gouzi?"

No one responded to the hysterical Huang Daoxian, not even when he used his backup plan.

Zhang Xuezhou, however, unexpectedly voiced a question of doubt.

"Get down!"

When Zhang Xuezhou shouted again, everyone saw that the yellow dog, which had been baring its teeth and cursing, seemed to have encountered inexplicable fear. Its body trembled instantly, and its limbs collapsed weakly to the ground.

You dare use my dog?

Zhang Xuezhou was still talking, but the steel bar in his hand had already been driven down.

The steel bars pierced through the purple light, also revealing the dark spots beneath the blond hair's head.

The agonizing screams of pain, as if piercing the skull, resounded throughout the surroundings, and the shockwaves from the mental piercing exploded in all directions.

Like the shockwave of an explosion, an area within a radius of tens of meters was silently reduced to ashes.

The collapsed powder fell, stirring up countless specks of dust.

A few coughs were heard, Ren Yisheng was the first to drag Feng Ziqiang, whose face was covered in blood, out.

Next were Zhang Manqian and Ren Anran, their faces covered in dust and their clothes tattered.

Later, Ning Que also crawled out of the dust and powder covering the ground.

Where is Xuezhou?

Ren Yisheng asked a question.

"I'm inside!"

Zhang Xuezhou's response came from the swirling dust, his tone somewhat strange, yet also tinged with a sigh.

"How are you?" Ren Yisheng asked.

"I am fine!"

Zhang Xuezhou replied.

Compared to the disheveled state of everyone else, Zhang Xuezhou's clothes were extremely clean.

He emerged from the dust, carrying a spotted dog skin in his right hand and eight purplish-black crystal chips in his left.

"Where is Huang Daoxian?" Ren Yisheng asked.

"It's molted!"

Zhang Xuezhou waved the dog skin.

Huang Daoxian's method is not unusual; Jin Wanliang would use the toad-skin demon treasure he had refined to escape.

However, this ability can only be used once, and the consequences after using it are dire.

A tree will die if its bark is removed, and a demon won't survive much if its skin is removed either.

"They escaped?" Ren Yisheng exclaimed in surprise.

"It's nothing serious!"

Zhang Xuezhou shook his head and then pointed to the dog skin and the chip in his hand.

"He is affected by my technique and finds it difficult to break free from the hyena's body. The more he hates me, the more firmly he will be bound, and his mental power will continuously adapt to the hyena's body," Zhang Xuezhou said.

"Then what?"

"Perhaps he will lose his senses and eventually believe he is a dog, or perhaps when he awakens, he will be too weak to break free from the constraints of his body," Zhang Xuezhou said. "If he cannot use that hyena's body to cultivate and change his fate, no matter how strong his spiritual power is, it will age along with his body, eventually becoming old, decayed, and obliterated!"

"The consequences are very serious!"

"Moreover, I've obtained all eight of his abilities, so he no longer has those skills!"

Zhang Xuezhou raised his hand.

If Huang Daoxian's physical deterioration was a desperate situation, then the fact that his opponent's many abilities were stripped away meant he was in a life-or-death predicament.

In Zhang Xuezhou's hand lay eight purplish-black crystal chips, which meant that Huang Daoxian had lost the eight top-level abilities that he used to command Zhao Changhe and others.

The other party had moved far away from Dongshan, Zhang Xuezhou couldn't sense him at all even with his Soul-Controlling Beast Technique. Zhang Xuezhou knew very well that Huang Daoxian would have a hard time making a comeback.

Of course, even if Huang Daoxian were to defy fate one day, Zhang Xuezhou would not be afraid.

Any opponent he has defeated will find it difficult to recover. Perhaps he already possessed even greater abilities when Huang Daoxian defied fate, so he would surely win even if they clashed again.

If he were to die at the hands of the Extraterrestrial Heavenly Demon, Zhang Xuezhou would have no way to deal with this mess anymore.

For Zhang Xuezhou, all the threats posed by Huang Daoxian were over.

"Huang Daoxian is incredibly fast, and he looks like a strange beast. How did he turn into a dog?"

After Ren Yisheng understood the situation, he felt relieved, but there were still many things he couldn't understand, so he couldn't help but ask Zhang Xuezhou directly.

"It's a bit of a coincidence..."

Zhang Xuezhou thought about his trip to the Pan'an sinkhole, and then about the hyena that had escaped and he hadn't been able to capture.

He never expected that he would almost kill Huang Daoxian that time, nor did he expect that Huang Daoxian, in his corpse flower form, would actually escape by parasitizing a hyena in his panic.

If hyenas were low-intelligence creatures, that would be one thing, but the hyenas tamed by Zhang Xuezhou undoubtedly carried his Technique Method markings, and any replacement would suffer continuous consequences.

As the Beast Taming Sect's trump card, the Soul-Stirring Beast Control Technique, this is an extremely rebellious Technique Method. The more you struggle, the deeper you will be bound, until it becomes impossible to break free.

Perhaps from the moment he was bound and restrained by the hyena's body, Huang Daoxian, having lost his physical advantage, was already defeated.