Chapter 268: Seven Star Beast God Circle

“Beast Taming Sect, Xu Qingyao.”

Facing Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ inquiry, Xu Qingyao replied indifferently. This simple response immediately caused Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ face to turn pale.

“This day… has finally come…”

Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts felt deep regret in his heart. Back when the Beast Taming Sect was sealed by the Ancient Kingdom, he had dispatched the Deputy Sect Leader and two True Disciples to the Ancient Kingdom, intending to annex the Beast Taming Sect.

Of course, that matter had ultimately ended in failure.

If it had ended there, it wouldn’t have been a big deal.

Who could have known that news would later spread from Qingzhou that the Demon Court Saintess was the adopted daughter of the Beast Taming Sect’s Sect Master?

Furthermore, this Demon Court Saintess had even annihilated a Soul Transformation level power just to settle a score for the Beast Taming Sect.

This directly caused Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts to worry. Although the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s attempt to annex the Beast Taming Sect hadn’t caused any substantial damage or involved oppressive force at the time, that was just the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s wishful thinking. From the perspective of the Demon Court Saintess, she might not see it that way.

After all, as the Sect Master’s daughter, she would likely inherit the Beast Taming Sect in the future. In other words, the Beast Taming Sect was her own territory. Trying to undermine her territory in Qingzhou was nothing short of a death wish.

“I wonder what brings Your Highness the Saintess here—” Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts said politely.

“Submit, or perish.” Xu Qingyao got straight to the point.

Hearing this, Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts’ expression changed.

At this moment, a group of Nascent Soul experts from the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect also arrived. However, facing the Demon Court’s side, their Aura was completely overwhelmed.

“I will allow the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to retain its existing Legacy. You only need to become an affiliate and hand over half of the resources produced by the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect every ten years.”

“Sect Leader!!” Deputy Sect Leader Miao Ling looked at Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts with a face full of terror, fearing the old man might do something rash. Although the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect had its Sect-guarding Magic Treasure and mountain-protecting array, these were completely insufficient to resist the Demon Court Saintess’s resolve.

After all, these women were existences capable of mobilizing Void Profound combat power.

All their actions were viewed as part of the Yao Race’s revival and received full support from the Demon Court.

It could only be said that it was a mistake for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect to provoke the Beast Taming Sect from the very beginning.

“Fine… my Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is willing to submit to the Demon Court and become an affiliated power of the Demon Court—” The Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect sighed, feeling that the Sect was ruined under his leadership. A Sect primarily following the Dao of Beast Taming had actually become a subordinate to a Yao Beast power.

“Who said you were to become a subsidiary of the Demon Court? From today onwards, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect will be a subsidiary of the Beast Taming Sect. Elder Li, from this day forth, you are the Beast Taming Sect’s envoy to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect. Sect Leader of Ten Thousand Beasts, please have all experts at the Nascent Soul Stage and above hand over a wisp of their Nascent Soul.”

“If the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect causes no trouble within a hundred years, the Nascent Soul Wisps will naturally be returned to you.” A Nascent Soul is composed of a Cultivator’s soul and magic power. Although losing a wisp of the Nascent Soul is negligible for a Nascent Soul Cultivator, the soul is a whole. If that wisp is damaged, the entire Nascent Soul will suffer trauma, ranging from a drop in cultivation to the destruction of the Nascent Soul.

“You— *sigh*—”

Hearing Xu Qingyao’s excessive demand, the many Nascent Soul experts present could not accept it. However, as Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts was the first to hand over a soul wisp, the remaining Nascent Soul Elders could only follow suit.

“Your Highness the Saintess, are you satisfied now?”

Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts understood that preserving the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Legacy was the most important thing right now.

As long as the green mountains remain, one need not worry about firewood.

“The Venerable is a smart man. You won’t regret today’s decision. Following the Beast Taming Sect will definitely be better than the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s independent development!” Xu Qingyao laughed heartily, then handed the soul wisps to the flattered Elder Li.

Immediately after, she reached out her hand. In the next instant, seven beams of treasure light shot into the sky from seven positions within the Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain.

Seeing Xu Qingyao being so greedy, Venerable Ten Thousand Beasts could no longer sit still: “Your Highness the Saintess, that is my Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Sect-guarding treasure!!!”

“No need to worry. From today onwards, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect will also enjoy the protection of the Demon Court. You are merely worried that after I take the Sect-guarding treasure, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect will be no match for the Flower Sect and Thousand Illusion Mountain. If those two Sects dare to move against the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, I will personally deal with them.”

After Xu Qingyao finished speaking, seven Ten Thousand Beasts Circles had already appeared in her hand.

Following that, she threw the seven Ten Thousand Beasts Circles to Lin Jing.

This was the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect’s Sect-guarding Magic Treasure, the Seven Star Beast God Circle.

The so-called Seven Star Beast God Circle was a set of Magic Treasures composed of seven “High Grade Ten Thousand Beasts Circles.”

Ordinary High Grade Magic Treasures were standard equipment for Soul Transformation experts.

However, the Seven Star Beast God Circle, composed of seven High Grade Magic Treasures, could not be activated by a single Soul Transformation Cultivator alone. It required the collective strength of the Sect to activate, and its combined power was comparable to a Top Grade Magic Treasure.

“This is it.” Lin Jing was satisfied as he held the Seven Star Beast God Circle. With this, he could slowly refine the Billion Mosquito Swarm.

Of course, with his current strength, he definitely couldn’t activate seven High Grade Ten Thousand Beasts Circles simultaneously. However, the Billion Mosquito Swarm wouldn’t appear all at once anyway; they needed to be hatched bit by bit, so slow refinement was fine.

Furthermore, Lin Jing had mastered the “Three Heads Six Arms” technique. With this treasure-controlling technique that allowed for the perfect handling of multiple Magic Treasures, if he could find a way to cultivate Three Heads Six Arms to Perfection, it wasn’t impossible for him to exert ten or twenty percent of the Seven Star Beast God Circle’s power in his integrated state.

“It came without any effort at all—the Magic Treasures to go with Three Heads Six Arms are now complete. One for each hand, with one to spare.”

While Lin Jing was gratified, the Sect Master of Ten Thousand Beasts seemed to have resigned himself to fate and said, “The Seven Star Beast God Circle can be gifted to Your Highness the Saintess, but the beast tide sleeping within…”

“The beast tide will be returned to you later.” Lin Jing spoke. Within the Seven Star Beast God Circle, there were still countless Yao Beasts sleeping. These Yao Beasts were in a state of slumber due to a special secret method and had been sleeping for countless years; they were the trump card accumulated by the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect over the ages.

When the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect faced a crisis of extermination, they would use the power of the entire Sect to awaken and control these Yao Beasts to launch a counterattack against the enemy.

However, facing the Demon Court, whose strength was several dimensions higher, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect didn’t even have the thought of resisting.

The Demon Court’s visit to the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect naturally attracted the attention of the other three major forces of the Senluo Province.

Senluo Hall, Flower Sect, and Thousand Illusion Mountain!

Each of the three forces had Soul Transformation experts who arrived in the vicinity immediately to see what was happening.

Among them, the Soul Transformation experts of Senluo Hall and the Flower Sect only saw the tragic scene of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect being annexed by the Demon Court and couldn’t help but sigh at the cruelty of the Immortal Cultivation World.

As for the Soul Transformation Old Ancestor of Thousand Illusion Mountain, a golden-haired girl who looked to be in her early teens, she had a look of confusion on her face.

“The one wearing the Fire Cloud Pill Robes seems to be an illusion? This person’s mastery of the Illusion Dao is actually so powerful, not much inferior to my old self.”

“It’s actually the Layered Illusion Technique.”

She couldn’t help but take another look, and subsequently became the first person to see through Lin Jing’s illusion since his mastery of phantom arts reached Perfection.

Under her gaze, Lin Jing’s identity as ‘Thousand Illusion Mountain Disciple Yellow Universe’ beneath the Fire Dragon Pill Master illusion was exposed to the Thousand Illusion Mountain Old Ancestor. Then, beneath the Yellow Universe identity, the true face of the Beast Taming Sect’s Longevity Physique, Lin Jing, was also exposed to her eyes.

The illusion that even Void Profound experts could not see through did not last more than a few minutes in the eyes of this Soul Transformation expert who possessed a special Phantom Body and specialized in the Illusion Dao.

“The traitorous Disciple Yellow Universe that Illusory Duke Guangming said he would introduce to me as a Disciple??? Wait, no, Lin Jing of the Beast Taming Sect?” The Thousand Illusion Mountain Old Ancestor’s heart shook several times. Then, Lin Jing also suddenly realized his illusion had been seen through. His heart jolted as he looked in a certain direction.

In the next instant, the Thousand Illusion Mountain Old Ancestor turned and fled, realizing she had seen something ‘dirty’ that she shouldn’t have.