"Roar…" A deafening roar echoed deep inside the immense forest.

A humongous—almost 35-meters-tall—beast stood below a little hill. It stood straight with its head up and was almost on an equal level with the hill.

The giant beast had eight arms, each one nearly as long as half of its body if it fully extended them. All of a sudden, it turned to look and grabbed a giant python below it.

It was a roughly 25-meters-long python, but it was nothing compared to the Eight-armed Giant Beast.

As soon as the beast grabbed the python, it opened its bloody enormous mouth and bit the python into two without sparing a glance at it. The python dared not struggle when it was seized, but the immense pain got rid of its fear, hence it bit the giant beast's arm.

Nonetheless, the Eight-armed Giant Beast seemed to have not felt anything at all. It chewed with its big mouth and devoured the giant python in the blink of an eye.

The giant beast later lowered its head to look around as though it was not satisfied. Numerous ferocious beasts were crawling around it, but they shuddered with fear and were terrified to their bones, thus they dared not escape.

Following that, the Eight-armed Giant Beast let out a thundering roar as it was pleased.

Nevertheless, when it was halfway shouting, a flash of red light was seen in the sky.

The light was as fast as lightning, its unparalleled speed surpassed time and space. It landed on a faraway hill swiftly, causing the rather large hill to crumble.

Upon seeing this, the Eight-armed Giant Beast halted and widened its eyes. Feeling suspicious, it observed the collapsed hill as if it found it strange.

Another red light soared from the ruins into the air after a brief moment.

It was a parrot-sized bird, which was covered in fire-like red light. Although its size was not worth mentioning as compared to the Eight-armed Giant Beast, the moment it zoomed into the sky, ferocious beasts near and far lowered their bodies as if they did not have the guts to look at it.

"Sir, have you found the way out?" The Eight-armed Giant Beast hesitated for a while before it asked with respect.

The little bird lowered its head and glared fiercely at the beast.

"Thus." The Eight-armed Giant Beast fell to its knees without further ado. The instant it lowered its massive body to the ground, many unlucky ferocious beasts were crushed into meat paste, but none of them dared to cry at all.

The little bird finally looked away. It naturally carried a noble yet indescribable aura.

"It's a piece of cake for me if I'd like to leave," the little bird responded proudly, "but I've come because I traced the Sky-devouring Evil Remnant, and it's here. Since it was brought to this small world by the Interspatial Oscillation, I won't leave until I capture it and kill it."

"Sir, you're extremely wise," the Eight-armed Giant Beast remarked loudly and nodded, but it secretly cursed at the bird, 'You made it sound so nice, but you're actually forced to stay here because you're still immature, so you can't break the oscillating space. If that isn't the case, given your jumpy character, you wouldn't stay in this small worthless world, which has minimal spiritual Qi, for such a long time.'

"Oh right, didn't you say you came to this world because of a task? Why aren't you doing it?" The little bird turned around and asked.

"Since you're here, I obviously have to serve you. As for my task, I can do it any time I want," the Eight-armed Giant Beast answered with a bitter face.

On the other hand, the little bird looked up at the sky but seemed to be uninterested after a while. It asked the giant beast, "Hey, what's your task? Tell me about it."

Even though the Eight-armed Giant Beast did not want the little bird to meddle in its business, it dared not disobey the bird. "Sir, my task is to annihilate the different races in this world to purify it and to claim it as our territory."

The little bird glanced at it disdainfully, "A useless thing like you is trying to heave a world's foundation?"

"I clearly can't do that, but as long as I cleanse the different races, an Almighty Being from the upper realm will cast the magic," the Eight-armed Giant Beast quickly explained.

"Did you previously beg me to open the interspatial passage to transport beast herds for this?" The little bird blinked and asked.

"That's right."

The little bird's eyes lit up. "It sounds interesting. Come, come, come, I'll travel with you." It then flapped its wings and landed on the giant beast's head.

It was small, but the giant beast froze right away, so much so that it quivered with fear.

Furious, the little bird stomped on the giant beast's head and shouted, "What kind of high-ranked spirit beast are you? You're so useless!"

"Sir, your Blood Meridian Pressure is too strong. I can't take it…" The Eight-armed Giant Beast howled in grief.

The little bird titled its head and pondered before it said, "Ah, being too powerful is troublesome too! Fine, I'll take you as my mount, so open a path for me!"

"Thank you, sir!" The giant beast's eyes glowed as it was elated, and it immediately thanked the bird.

With that, it exerted force through its legs and jumped up as though it fully recovered its power.

The little bird looked in front and shook its wings, causing an invisible power to be generated about 360 meters ahead.

Peculiar powers circulated in the void over there, slowly turning into a tornado-like, large hole. By looking from their end, an entirely different place could be seen in the hole.

When the Eight-armed Giant Beast roared madly, the ferocious beasts got up and swarmed into the hole.

At last, the giant beast took big strides into the hole along with the little bird on its head.

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Changlong County's prefecture was in a tense situation at the moment.

A beast herd came out of nowhere and surrounded the entire city. Under the circumstances, the people front nearby villages had either been killed or had fled to the prefecture.

Standing on the city walls, even Supreme Great Ancestors were appalled when they looked at the endless beasts far away.

Elder Universe did not join the gathering that day, but he could not care only for himself this time.

He stood at the front of the city and stared quietly into the distance.

"Senior, can you tell how they emerged?" Deng Xiyuan asked carefully.

His face took on a ghastly look after he was informed that the prefecture became a lone city. Since they managed to invite Elder Universe, who experienced the previous disaster, the governor naturally wanted to gain some information from the elder.

Despite that, Elder Universe wondered for a long time but shook his head in the end. "For generations, the beast tide started from the forest's border and spread further until it swept the world. They never showed up out of nowhere in the Human's territory; this has never happened before."

Deng Xiyuan asked with a bitter smile, "Senior, in your opinion, how did they manage to do this?"

Elder Universe shook his head without any hesitation. "I don't know."

"Have they become smarter?" Fang Zhaoyang questioned with a frown.

"This isn't the first beast tide, so they couldn't have just become smarter." Elder Universe could not help but laugh, then he added after a pause, "In my opinion, perhaps the spirit beast that descended this time has a secret treasure that can open up an interspatial path."

"Spirit beast? Secret treasure?" Other than the Ni family's great ancestors, the other people looked at each other in disbelief.

The Humans had only triumphed over the ferocious beasts and drove them away because they could use tools and pieces of smithed equipment. This was their first time hearing about a spirit beast using a secret treasure.

Elder Universe shook his head and noted, "I've never seen something like that before, but it was the previous imperial family's supreme elder who said that a spirit beast can use secret treasures."

The other people looked grim, and they felt intense chills when they looked at the ferocious beasts from a distance away.

On the spur of the moment, Elder Universe looked up. His murky eyes looked sharp at once.

"Be careful, they're coming."

As soon as he spoke, the beasts roared from afar one after another, but there was an odd rhyme to it.

Everyone else looked at each other and somehow began to feel stronger chills in their hearts.

If the ferocious beasts were charging at the high walls, they would not be too worried.

However, they were controlling themselves and did not attack the city recklessly. As such, the people were concerned.

Elder Universe inhaled deeply and uttered word by word, "Spirit beast…"

"What?" The others were surprised.

"The spirit beast is just outside!"

A tense atmosphere filled the air, so much so that the battle-seasoned powerhouses from inherited clans were taken aback too.

Everyone knew the huge scene was the spirit beast's doing, but the fact that the beast appeared so soon was unprecedented.

The people started to realize that the Humans' disaster this time was entirely different from the ones in the past.

Was it good or bad?

Ni Jingshen sighed and said, "Go and get Liangce."

When the other people looked at him at the same time, he stated with determination, "Everyone, I'll summon Yinghong today. Once the spirit beast is spotted, let's protect Liangce and Yinghong on their way there."

Fang Zhaoyang hesitated for a while and commented, "Brother Ni, Miss Yinghong has only been cultivating for a short period, right? I'm afraid she won't be able to force the Iron Blood Loyal Heart's full potential!"

Ni Jingshen forced a smile and looked at the densely packed beasts, which were slowly approaching them. "I know, but I'm afraid… We can't afford more time."

Without warning, the beast herd seemed to have received some sort of order; they accelerated toward the towering city walls.

The mountains and plains were occupied by legions of beasts, nobody could tell how many there were...