CBGC - ch166

Chapter 166: Eat

"Ancient celestial artifact. If it shines upon you, your ring might reveal itself." Xuanyuan Wentian leans against Big Bai, using her as a pillow. He gazes at Su Tingyun, feeling rather cheerful.

His primordial spirit is strong, and he uses his soul power to cover her sea of consciousness, naturally avoiding the Bodhi Mirror of Reality's prying. After all, although that fox is strong, it's still far inferior to him.

If Su Tingyun wants to avoid detection, she can only rely on him.

He focuses his divine sense on Su Tingyun. Dark energy dances menacingly in the air, while Su Tingyun says, "Didn't you say before that if the world inside my ring strengthens and surpasses the Heavenly Dao of the Three Thousand Realms, you wouldn't have to dissipate?"

Xuanyuan Wentian's smile freezes, thinking, 'You really dare to dream!'

In truth, if that were the case, he would have a significant chance of not needing to hide and continue reincarnating.

"Not only does your world need to grow for millions of years, but you also need to become a god."

"There is always hope." Su Tingyun smiles faintly, "You've endured for millions of years, can't you wait a bit longer?"

"Can't you speak properly when fucking begging for help?" Xuanyuan Wentian's tone turns sinister. He pulls out the Springwater Sword from his body and throws it heavily to the ground. Then, the dark energy starts spreading within Su Tingyun's divine sense, like a dense fog, enveloping her entirely.

The aura contains intense killing intent, boundless hatred, and various negative emotions, making her restless. Su Tingyun suddenly feels that Xuanyuan Wentian's divine sense is indeed powerful. If she were tormented by these emotions day and night, she would have already collapsed.

However, these are his nutrients. Perhaps, for him, they are not painful or unbearable.

Outside, the Nine-Tailed Fox Priestess Jiu Yue holds the Bodhi Mirror of Reality. Its light shines across the entire valley. Soon, her face turns pale, and she looks exhausted. After putting away the Bodhi Mirror, she glances coldly at the Butterfly beast Tribe kneeling on the ground. "You stole the sacred fruit, then fabricated a thief, thinking you could deceive everyone?"

At first, Jiu Yue did sense something unusual. However, since the Bodhi Mirror of Reality couldn't reveal anything, it either meant she was mistaken, or the person was extraordinarily powerful, possibly even stronger than the Beast Saint.

In any case, she can’t get involved. She has to distance herself from the matter.

As for the Butterfly Tribe, they are destined to face this calamity. She won’t even be able to protect herself, let alone this group of minor beasts.

"Priestess, a powerful beast did steal the sacred fruit!" The leading butterfly beast cries, "Our Butterfly Tribe is weak. Even if we had the guts, we wouldn't dare steal the sacred fruit!"

Indeed, but who would care about this?

On the contrary, she herself will be under greater suspicion, and soon the outside would be in chaos!

Jiu Yue's expression remains cold. "Tell those beast kings yourself." As she finishes speaking, a thunderous roar comes from outside the valley. "The time has come, distribute the sacred fruit!"

"Stop dawdling, Priestess Jiu Yue, open the valley seal!"

"Do we have to break the seal together?"

The valley seal can be opened by Priestess Jiu Yue, but it can also be broken from the outside. The six beast kings each have a key which, combined, can break the valley seal. This is to prevent the priestess from monopolizing the sacred fruit and staying inside forever.

If the seal is broken, wouldn't the powerful beast escape?

But if not opened, the beast kings outside would go mad. Thinking of this, Jiu Yue feels a headache. She returns to the altar, takes a pill, and slowly gathers her energy. After slightly recovering, she shouts, "The Butterfly Tribe lost the sacred fruit. Not a single one was taken from Guanding Mountain."

"What!" A gigantic tiger head appears in the sky, almost blocking it entirely. The giant tiger roars, "No sacred fruit? Nonsense, I'll eat you all!"

The six waiting beast kings outside are enraged. To compete for the distribution of the sacred fruit, their best members must fight to the death. Now, they're told there's not a single fruit left?

This is outrageous!

The seal opens from the outside, causing the originally circular mountain to shift outward, creating several entrances in all directions. A blue dragon flies in from the western entrance, its long tail sweeping down directly towards the Butterfly Beast Tribe kneeling beneath the altar.

“If you kill them, you won’t get any answers,” a man with delicate features and luxurious clothes, shaking a colorful feather fan, says from behind.

The man’s clothes bear a peacock pattern, reminding Su Tingyun of peacocks.

Hearing the man’s voice, the force in the dragon’s tail weakens, yet the Butterfly beasts are still sent flying. Already severely burned by flames, several of them cough up blood and faint upon being struck by the dragon’s tail.

Su Tingyun feels a heavy blow in her heart. She watches the fallen Butterfly Beasts, the blood on the ground, and the broken wings, then her gaze silently falls on the unconscious Big Bai.

Big Bai's primordial spirit is becoming even more violent, and her body temperature continues to rise, causing the spiritual energy around them to grow warm.

“These useless creatures dare to steal the sacred fruit?” A golden phoenix circles in the air. “Fox, you must be the one who stole the sacred fruit!”

Jiu Yue's expression changes as she coldly retorts, “I haven't left. Can’t your dog's nose tell if the sacred fruit is on me?”

A large black dog lands from the sky, its nose wet as it sniffs around the area, circling the valley but finding nothing.

“Nothing?” The golden phoenix above demands, and the black dog nods. The phoenix then says, “Nine-tailed fox, is your fox odor so strong that it masks the sacred fruit’s scent?”

Xuanyuan Wentian translates the beast kings' words vividly, even laughing as he does so. However, Su Tingyun can't laugh, her face full of anxiety and her heart heavy with worry.

The beasts possess intelligence similar to humans; they fight, exclude, and kill.

The remaining conscious Butterfly beasts huddle together, no longer in human form but all as butterflies. The largest is the size of a child, and the smallest no bigger than a coin.

The largest one is the female Butterfly beast leader from before. She tries her best to shield the others with her tattered wings.

But in front of the beast kings, she is as insignificant as an ant that can be crushed at any moment.

“We didn't steal the sacred fruit. I saw a red shadow on Guanding Mountain. It also came out of Mirror Lake,” the Butterfly beast cries.

“Who else but your Butterfly Tribe could enter? That red shadow must be one of your people. Hand it over!” demands a blue-black tortoise, on it’s back is a woman with a human body and fish tail, frowning but silent.

“Priestess Jiu Yue, the Butterfly Tribe doesn’t have the capability. The sacred fruit’s disappearance must be connected to you,” the Peacock Man says, waving his fan and smiling at Jiu Yue.

At this moment, the giant tiger roars again, “I don’t care. The sacred fruit is with you. If you don’t hand it over, I’ll eat you all!”

With that, it opens its bloody mouth, lunging at the Butterfly beasts…