Quelling Chief

Below the snake pit, numerous ferocious beasts were in complete chaos. Even the small golden lion stumbled and staggered, disoriented, and could only roll and leap as much as possible to avoid the beasts' charge.

Zhang Xuezhou stood in the wind and waves for several seconds, but ultimately did not rush into the snake pit rashly.

Without the support of his companions and without knowing when Tiger Cultivation and Tiger Hao would fight, the risk of him getting involved was too high.

With just a moment's thought, Zhang Xuezhou had already stirred up a storm, leaving Hu Yu and Hu Hao far behind.

Zhang Xuezhou was hanging far behind not because he was confident, but because his speed couldn't keep up with Hu Yu and Hu Hao.

Over the years, Zhang Xuezhou had risen to prominence by taking advantage of his flying skills, but he never imagined that he would have such a day.

However, he had considered Hu Hao's formidable flying ability when he pursued him in the past, so he didn't seem too disappointed at the moment.

The darkness made visibility difficult, but the light emanating from Dingkui guided the way.

Perhaps due to the clash, or perhaps because it triggered Ding Kui's power, fragments of colorful afterglow still lingered in the air.

By simply flying in the direction of one's peripheral vision, one can track the two brothers' whereabouts from afar.

"They seem to be a bit slow!"

Zhang Xuezhou kept flying and chasing, but at first he couldn't even see the shadows of Hu Yu and Hu Hao. He could only locate them by relying on the traces left by Ding Kui.

But as time passed, Zhang Xuezhou heard Hu Yu and Hu Hao roar again.

"Is it because you attacked and were attacked, or is it because your Flying Strike formation is not good at long-distance raids?"

Zhang Xuezhou was able to maintain a relatively stable speed while using his cloud-riding technique. He could slow down by reducing his Law Power consumption, but he couldn't increase his speed by squandering his Law Power, so his flight speed was almost completely restricted.

Only by continuously refining and improving Law Power magical power can he demonstrate a higher level of agility.

When Hu Yu and Hu Hao spread their wings and flew, they were like shooting stars streaking across the sky, so fast that Zhang Xuezhou could not keep up.

But as he continued to catch up, Zhang Xuezhou felt that the speed of both of them seemed to be getting slower and slower.

Before Zhang Xuezhou had even covered a thousand miles with his flying pursuit, the two figures, one black and one blue, reappeared in his sight.

"Hao, Dingkui should have left you half-numb. You can't even speak right now, there's no escape!"

Don't take what doesn't belong to you!

Who do you think you are?!

"Without a powerful bloodline, you simply cannot control Dingkui!"

"Bloodline is predetermined at birth. My bloodline is nobler than yours. Dingkui was chosen for me; this is my destiny!"

"If it weren't for that bit of blood in your veins, I would have killed you long ago!"

Hu Yu's words were honest, yet also very hurtful.

The infighting between the two brothers easily reminded Zhang Xuezhou of Ao Li and Ao Sheng.

It's just that one side relies on the strength of their bloodline, while the other relies on the beauty or ugliness of their appearance, thus creating a seemingly unfair struggle against fate.

Zhang Xuezhou wouldn't find it strange if he had witnessed something like this before.

There seems to be no right or wrong in this, but as long as you step out of this theoretical framework, everything these beings say will fall apart on its own.

Zhang Xuezhou's appearance would undoubtedly be considered ugly by the standards of the Dragon Clan, and he also lacked the precious bloodline of the White-browed Clan, but Zhang Xuezhou did not think he was bad.

Even without using himself as an example, in the thousands of years of history of the Scarlet Alliance State or the history of the Southern Jambudvipa Continent, humanity has grown from weakness, and then repeatedly modified and corrected its path to progress, thereby gaining the inheritance of knowledge and strength.

Even after Ren Yisheng and his companions entered the ranks of humanity's strongest, they did not stop.

"There's some truth to the saying that the development of the outer world is slower than that of our lower-dimensional world. Tiger's argument is indeed very outdated. If these phenomena are common in the outer world, then stagnation in development would be quite normal!"

The power of the Western Capital City lineage never lasted more than three generations, with each generation being weaker than the last. Their bloodline did not bring them much special status; instead, they suffered repeated calamities, with some Lineage experiencing complete lineage collapses and even death.

If there were a world that valued bloodlines and held absolute power, Zhang Xuezhou didn't think it was a good thing.

Seeing that he was getting closer to Hu Yu and Hu Hao in the pursuit, Zhang Xuezhou had to deliberately slow down his flying speed.

Listening to the two brothers' verbal sparring was undoubtedly boring, but as Zhang Xuezhou continued to track them down, he couldn't help but feel a pang of pain in his heart.

Had he known that these two sides would pursue each other for so long, he certainly would have had a chance to enter the snake pit.

Putting everything else aside, even just stuffing two large pills into your pocket wouldn't be bad.

But many things are only known in hindsight, and there's no going back now. Zhang Xuezhou could only console himself that he would be better able to make the right judgments next time he encountered a similar situation.

"Hao, that's enough!"

From afar came the incessant, mentally charged roars of Hu Yu, which seemed to have reached Hu Hao's limit.

"The water can isolate the influence of Ding Kui. Even if you get Ding Kui, you can't catch me. See you next time!"

Hu Hao threw Ding Kui from afar, and his body seemed to be transformed as if he had shed his clothes and changed his bones. When the wings that grew on his back retracted, his head had already changed shape, and in just a few seconds, he transformed into a large fish with tiger stripes.

Taking advantage of Hu Yu's turn to chase Ding Kui, he suddenly leaped downwards.

The sound of splashing water reached Zhang Xuezhou, and he realized that the area ahead of him was already open sea.

"I don't believe you can still defeat me even after your body has been numb from Ding Kui's attack. This time, if I catch you, I will cripple your sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch, so you can only lie obediently in the base until you completely repent!"

Hu Yu glanced in the direction Ding Kui had shot, and then his body also swayed.

Compared to Hu Hao's rapid transformation, he was clearly inferior.

Nearly twenty seconds later, Hu Yucai completed his transformation during his leap, eventually turning into a large tiger-striped fish and jumping into the sea.

"Huh? You don't want it anymore?"

Zhang Xuezhou had considered the possible outcomes of the conflict between Hu Yu and Hu Hao, but he had never imagined this outcome.

He glanced at the ocean where the two had plunged, then at the lingering, iridescent light in the distance.

Beneath the pitch-black sea, the giant fish that Hu Yu and Hu Hao had transformed into had vanished without a trace.

Considering the long pursuit these two brothers had gone through, Zhang Xuezhou didn't dwell on it for too long this time.

His body swayed, and he adjusted his direction as he leaped.

Zhang Xuezhou did not expect to rely on Ding Kui's power. As long as Hu Yu and others could not use this powerful treasure that could strike an area of ten miles away, Zhang Xuezhou felt that everything was fine.

In the faint, seven-colored light, Ding Kui, which had fallen to the ground, was completely undamaged, as if a sword had been stuck in the ground.

"Transforming into a tree will prevent Ding Kui from affecting you, but reverting to the body of a ferocious beast will subject you to Ding Kui's control. This means that Ding Kui has an extremely high level of control over living beings, and you must reduce your life force to get close to Ding Kui!"

Zhang Xuezhou took out a rope from the bag and grabbed Ding Kui below. The telescopic part at the front of the rope hooked firmly onto Ding Kui.

He had barely pulled with both hands when the rope snapped as easily as tattered cotton.

A faint, iridescent light floated, and the telescopic components remaining on Dingkui also cracked and fell off.

There's a reason why Hu Yu didn't take Ding Kui; it's impossible for him to just take Ding Kui away at will.

Zhang Xuezhou could only keep recalling every scene of Hu Hao taking the crown.

After thinking for a few seconds, he landed lightly.

As his Law Power receded and his Qi and Blood gradually diminished, Zhang Xuezhou slowly circulated the Grain Avoidance Instruction, also trying to reduce his body's vitality as much as possible.

Two minutes later, he slowly moved his body towards Ding Kui, like a paralyzed person.