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On this day, Zhaoge’s city gates opened.
A black warship rushed out of Zhaoge towards the Xiyang’s plains.
This warship’s keel was immense, constructed completely from black copper. The warship was extraordinarily gorgeous, engraved with bird patterns. In the center was a large banner depicting the “Shang” character. Then, there were also countless small banners dotting the deck. This boat was known as the “Bird Script,” a famous warship of Yin Shang.
Primordial World was vast, and when armies mobilized, they were often in the millions. Thanks to the fortune of the continuous national territory, battleships were often able to deploy rapidly in their regions.
Below each banner sat a guard wearing black steel armor, motionless like a puppet. On their backs were greatswords.
The boat had at least five hundred banners, and there were more than five hundred guards below them.
These black armored guards were expressionless, as if chiseled from stone. Even their breathing and heartbeats were in unison. If a cultivator were to sense with their Divine Intent, they would notice that these guards indeed breathed and had pulses, and they would also sense that it was not five hundred guards in front of them. Rather, they would sense a something like a colossal giant. Because everyone’s breathing, heartbeat, and even pulse were in complete synchronicity and unison, they were impeccable. Even a Golden Core Realm or Primordial Infant Realm cultivator would be terror-stricken.
These black armored soldiers were known in Yin Shang as the Blackbird Guard. They were raised using countless elixirs and essence blood. They had long lost individuality and become something akin to a machine. Although they did not have cultivation, they imitated the Shaman Clan’s techniques. Compared to Qi Refinement cultivators, they could only be stronger.
Among these five hundred guards, there were twenty-four carefully selected barbarian disciples who exuded enormous pressure even when they were Qi Refinement Ninth Deva.
Shang Shiwu was already unable to breathe. The barbarian disciples awaited orders in the ship’s aft. This was the first time they had boarded the Bird Script ship, and they were already shaken.
Although Qi Lin was also initially shaken for his first time on this Bird Script aerial boat, he immediately recovered his equilibrium and entered a state of calm. He focused meticulously on continuing training the Ten Thousand Beasts Unbounded Banner in his mind.
This time, King Zhou Di Xin personally was on the hunt for the qilin. Beside Guiguzi, also accompanying her were Feilian and Elai as well as five hundred Blackbird Guards.
The Bird Seal Boat shuttled straight through the clouds towards the west at a rapid pace.
Xilai was located at the edge of the Western Wildlands, already past Yin Shang Kingdom territory. That place was a humongous wilderness, more dangerous than the Ten Thousand beasts Barbarian Wildlands. It was said that every kind of beast in the Western Wildlands can be found here, thus, it came to be identified with the single character “lai,” and because it was in the west, it was Xilai. Many cultivators liked to hunt for Strange Beasts in Xilai, to strike fortune. Past this Xilai Wildlands, one would enter the most prosperous and flourishing region of the Great Primordial Western Province, which were split into the “Great Primordial” and the “Western Province.” Yin Shang controlled the barren land of the Great Primordial while the Western Province had a pleasant climate, a blissful realm. The western religion of Primordial World’s Four Religions originated from here.
However, that King Zhou Di Xin did not dare intrude into this place. Although she was conceited and tyrannical, she was also aware that the western religions were under the rule of two of Primordial World’s powerful Divine Names.
Destroying her would be as easy as snapping fingers for them.
This time, Wang Xu had calculated the Holy Beast QIlin would appear in Xilai. Then, it would cross this Great Primordial to enter the Western Province Pure Land.
Di Xin did not want to miss this chance. If she was able to obtain the qilin, then even if a Divine Name came, she could make Yin Shang stand undefeated. Furthermore, she herself would become a ruler that surpassed the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors.
Several strange black birds flew around the Bird Script boat, monitoring the boundless earth.
All of a sudden, there was a bird cry.
A blackbird flew towards the top of the Bird Script boat. Feilian gently lifted her arm, and this large raptor landed on it, chirping.
Then, Feilian released the bird.
These black hawks were used to check the activity in a range of five thousand li. When Yin Shang went into battle, they often deployed black hawks. This way, they could grasp enemy situations completely. For this Xilai qilin hunt, Di Xin also planned to be very guarded. She did not want to allow anyone to ruin this. If there was a noble that wanted to play mischief, she would destroy them first.
“Feilian, how is it?” Di Xin asked.
“Reporting to the Great King, the situation is currently favorable. No activities from any other nobles discovered.” Feilian answered.
Di Xin grunted, then closed her eyes again to sleep.
…
After flying for a long time, the boat suddenly came to a stop.
Qi Lin opened his eyes. The other disciples were all suddenly stirred.
Because Feilian had not issued orders, Qi Lin was unsure what was happening at the moment. Shang Yangjun’s eyes were a bit uneasy, “Yangjun, relax a bit.”
Shang Yangjun nodded and took a deep breath.
Suddenly, the sound of the Blackbird guard shuffling their feet came from the deck above. An array activated over the entire boat. After a long silence, they suddenly heard a howl. This howl was unlike a dragon, phoenix, tiger, ox, hawk, wolf, or even a crane. Rather, it was a kind of extremely solemn sound from faraway.
The cry spread through the depths of the Great Wildlands. The endless mountains shuddered under this howl, as if they were on the verge of collapsing.
This howl was so powerful it surpassed any ability by a hundredfold. Qi Lin had never heard such a formidable voice. Under this howl, the Bird Script ship violently rocked. The sea of clouds seemed to surge with billowing waves that threatened to capsize the boat. Some disciples with unsteady foundations were already shaken to bleeding from their ears, and they lost consciousness.
Qi Lin was also shaken into seeing stars.
So powerful!!
Could this be the qilin’s voice?
Qi Lin’s expression changed.
When the first howl ended, the second followed close behind. This one was even grander, and the boat seemed to flip over. Shang Yangjun’s center of balance was disturbed, and she fell against Qi Lin’s chest. “This is the qilin’s roar!” Qi Lin said.
“Are we actually going to capture such a Holy Beast?” Shang Yangjun sensed a powerful majesty from the qilin’s voice. It made her feel like bowing in deference. To capture this Holy Beast left her even feeling that this was intolerable.
“Don’t say a word.” Qi Lin covered her mouth.
Right now, they needed to cover their pores and restrain their True Qi.
“Damned beast, you refuse to bow to This King!! This King has destroyed the Great Zhou, my Destiny is eternal, that you can swear allegiance to This King is your honor!!”
A grave and stern voice came from outside. This voice faced off against the qilin’s roar, and a vast imposing air also came from this voice. Every word she uttered was insufferably arrogant, surprisingly matching the qilin’s roar. The two voices clashed in the sky.
“Beast. This King shall skin your hide, eat your flesh, drink your blood, and gnaw your bones today, to make your qilin blood run eternal in This King’s body!!”
Di Xin cackled.
Then, they heard blade abilities. Evidently. Di Xin’s army was already battling the qilin.
Although the qilin was one of the Holy Beasts that represented the five directions in Primordial World and was a mount of saints, Di Xin was already conceited beyond imagination and insufferably arrogant. Both sides battled for a long while. Qi Lin and the others felt their organs were about to invert. The force from this battle alone was enough to make one feel powerless.
“Feilian, prepare the Ten Thousands Beasts Unbounded!!”
Just as everyone was about lose consciousness, Feilian rushed into the boat. The woman’s armor and clothes were in a sorry state. Evidently, she was injured. She barked orders that roused everyone: “Hurry and get out there. Prepare the Ten Thousands Beasts Unbounded Banner, you absolutely cannot fail!!”
When everyone heard this, Shang Shiwu and the others immediately used the Boiling Blood Transformation to enter an excited state.
Qi Lin and Shang Yangjun glanced at each other, then immediately dashed out of the hold and stood on the deck. They lifted their gazes and were shaken by the scene before them.
In the sky above the deck, there was a beast completely covered in luminous, shimmering green armor. To describe it with the word “holy” indeed did it no justice. This beast was completely covered in jade-like scales. It had fierce horns, towering majesty, and all of its power surged straight to the horizon like a beacon, focused without scattering. Yet it was also like the light of the polar aurora, shining in all directions through Heaven and Earth, chilling to the extreme, as if the entire region was enveloped in its radiance. It gave off a feeling of serenity and divinity.
This was the Holy Beast Qilin!!!
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