David tightened his grip on the sword slightly.
A crack appeared in the void ahead.
A claw emerged from the crack.
The claw was a hundred feet long, and its entire body was grayish-white, as if it had been forged from dead mountain rocks and broken stars.
The knuckles were jagged, covered with a layer of dark scales, each scale having tiny cracks from which a faint light seeped.
Then, his entire body squeezed out of the crack—
It was an enormous, bizarre beast.
Its length is unknown, spanning thousands of miles, and it dwells in the cracks of the void, like a moving black continent.
Its head had more than a dozen vertical pupils, each as large as a city, with a faint green light flowing slowly in the pupils, reflecting the tiny David below.
Its body was covered with dense, void folds, each fold containing tiny, wriggling beasts, like its offspring or tumors growing on its body.
Void Primal Beast King.
David looked up at the enormous creature, remained silent for a few moments, and then suddenly cursed, “You son of a bitch, do you even have the guts to call your parents?”
The Beast King seemed to understand his words, and its dozen vertical pupils narrowed simultaneously, unleashing an overwhelming sense of oppression.
The oppressive feeling even caused the protective chaos around David to groan under the strain—this beast king, in terms of aura, had already vaguely reached the edge of a Celestial King.
David gripped the Dragon-Slaying Sword tightly and took a deep breath.
He did not back down.
The Beast King made the first move. It opened its massive maw, and a grayish-white beam of light shot out from it. The beam was as thick as a small mountain, and wherever it passed, the void was instantly annihilated into nothingness, heading straight for David.
David parried with his sword.
The Dragon-Slaying Sword took the blow head-on. The dragon patterns on the sword flashed wildly, and a tremendous force traveled from the sword to his arm, sending him flying dozens of miles away.
Two deep furrows were carved out of the void by his feet, and the primordial chaos was shaken and rippled.
David regained his balance, a trace of blood trickling from the corner of his mouth.
He caught the attack, but not completely. The Beast King’s power far exceeded his expectations, and coupled with the constant erosion of his energy by this void’s home ground, he found himself subtly at a disadvantage.
Having succeeded in his attack, the Beast King pressed his advantage and unleashed another beam of light.
David raised his sword to block again, but this time he learned his lesson and dared not take the direct hit head-on. He dodged the pillar of light with a swift movement, and his Dragon Slayer Sword slashed diagonally at the side of the pillar of light, cutting off most of it. The remaining force still made his blood surge.
At the same time, the strange beasts around him were not idle either. They pounced on him, tearing at his protective chaos and gnawing at his Dao aura.
David was entangled by the Beast King and torn apart by the horde of beasts, leaving him in a sorry state.
Several times he tried to break through the encirclement, but was blasted back by the Beast King’s terrifying pillar of light. Although the Dragon Slayer Sword was sharp, the Beast King’s body was formed from the very essence of the void. When he slashed at it, it only left a shallow groove, which healed completely in the blink of an eye.
His all-out sword strike, aimed at that continent-sized body, felt like poking a city wall with a toothpick.
“Damn it, its skin is so thick, it’s even more troublesome than that dragon I killed back then!”
David wiped the blood from the corner of his mouth and cursed loudly.
He finally understood. This beast king was practically immortal in this void crevice.
His cultivation level as a first-grade Immortal Lord would be enough to make him invincible in the outside world, but in this godforsaken place, he was completely suppressed on his home turf.
If this drags on, he might really be doomed here.
A ruthless glint flashed in David’s eyes.
He raised his hand and slapped the storage ring, shouting in a low voice, “Wangcai! Time to get to work!”
A flash of light appeared in the storage ring, and a burst of fire shot out from it.
As soon as the firelight appeared, the entire dark crevice suddenly brightened a bit.
The flames rapidly expanded in the air, transforming into a crimson Qilin.
The Qilin was several zhang long, its entire body was surrounded by blazing flames, its four hooves trod on fire, its mane flowed like flames, and its two copper bell-like eyes were wide open.
Upon emerging, he was immediately startled by the sight of countless strange beasts filling the sky and the ground. A low roar escaped his throat, and flames scattered, slightly distorting the void within a hundred feet in radius.
The little fire unicorn has grown quite a bit.
Even when it grew up, the little fire qilin was still as small as an ant in front of the beast king.
However, as soon as the little fire qilin appeared, the strange beasts became obviously restless—the qilin true fire was extremely yang and fierce, and was the natural enemy of these yin and filthy creatures.
“Don’t just stand there, what are you looking at!”
David, wielding the Dragon-Slaying Sword, cursed, “Burn them! These beasts eat Daoist essence, and your Qilin True Fire is especially effective against Yin and evil. Burn their very essence! Burn them to death one by one!”
Upon hearing this, the little fire qilin’s big eyes lit up, and with a leap of its four hooves, it transformed into a streak of fire and plunged into the beast horde.
The Qilin True Fire spread out, and the crimson sea of fire swept across a radius of a hundred miles.
The void beasts that remained solidified trembled silently upon touching the flames.
They writhed violently in the fire, the source of darkness being slowly roasted and evaporated by the true fire, turning into wisps of smoke that dissipated into the void, never to be reassembled.
Finally, these unkillable beasts began to truly die.