Chapter 608 - 604: Supreme Authority
Several fierce beasts surrounded the Sixth Elder in the middle, and they lunged forward to bite.
This Sixth Elder’s fire superpower was indeed strong, and the flames he spewed carried a scorching heat.
In fact, these beasts instinctively feared fire.
Normally, such fire abilities would indeed restrain them.
But under the control of Xiao Jihan’s Beast Taming Technique, these beasts only knew how to attack, and not one was scared away by the flames.
Some of the beasts used their bodies to withstand the ravages of the flames, even though they were burned time and again until their skin split and flesh tore, not a single beast retreated. While controlling the beasts in battle, Xiao Jihan also observed the Sixth and Eleventh Elders.
He finally discovered their weaknesses.
Seizing the opportunity, he gathered his Ice Ability, transforming it into several sharp ice spikes that precisely pierced the joints of the two elders’ bodies.
In this way, it could slow down their movements.
Otherwise, they moved too fast and reacted too sensitively for the beasts to truly harm them despite their frenzied assault.
Only when their movements slowed could the beasts harm them.
Since they had become puppets and wanted to harm Da Bao, their lives were no longer to be spared.
Although Xiao Jihan was usually cold and indifferent, he would never be merciful when it came to people he truly cared about.
"Ah..."
The ice spikes precisely hit the mechanisms of the Sixth and Eleventh Elders, causing them to cry out in pain.
If not for the beasts’ restraint and their distraction, his ice spikes could not have hit them.
The severe pain in the joints made their actions sluggish.
Xiao Jihan seized this opportunity, gathering all his Blood Power to guide the beasts in launching a fierce attack, finally suppressing the two elder puppets, whose power had originally surged, in place.
With them suppressed and restrained, their fire superpower could not be fully exerted, and the flames on their bodies gradually dimmed.
Xiao Jihan’s face was pale and colorless at this moment, and sweat dripped from his forehead.
He was an Ice Ability user, so normally he wouldn’t sweat like this.
But by forcibly using Blood Power to exert the second and third levels of the Beast Taming Technique, his state and body were pushed to the brink of collapse.
"Puff..."
At this moment, he coughed up a large mouthful of black blood with fragments of his internal organs, his body was in severe pain, and his form was shaky.
But he held himself together, relying on sheer willpower to keep from collapsing.
If he fell, the beasts would lose control.
In his current state, he couldn’t support them in battle any longer.
With his last ounce of strength, Xiao Jihan killed the two elder puppets turned into puppets.
He even accurately found the Gu Worm inside one of them, killed it directly, and eliminated future troubles.
Moreover, he issued the final command for the beasts to return to the forest, knowing that if he delayed, he wouldn’t be able to control them, and they would go on a rampage.
"Young Master Xiao, how are you?"
The fallen Seventh and Ninth Elders, although utterly exhausted, were still conscious.
They, of course, witnessed the battle just now, understanding that Young Master Xiao saved the little master and them.
Otherwise, the consequences would have been unimaginable.
But Young Master Xiao didn’t look well.
Xiao Jihan’s ears buzzed, and he could no longer hear sounds clearly.
The Blood Power within him was already exhausted, and his Ice Spirit Root had become dim and lifeless, the severe internal injuries making even breathing painfully excruciating.
"Cough cough..."
Blood continuously oozed from the corner of his mouth.
He wanted to return to his room to find his wife.
But he found himself unable to move.
In a daze, he felt as if his blood had turned into boiling lava, scorching everything within his body, causing his consciousness to blur.
It even seemed that Xiao Jihan had entered a strange ethereal realm, with the sounds of thunder, rain, even the sounds of battle gradually fading away.
The scene before him began to change.
Vaguely, he sensed that he was witnessing the transformation of his Ice Spirit Root, which, though dim and dull before, seemed to be glowing anew under the nourishment of Blood Power, perhaps even more brilliantly than before.
The aura of the Ice Spirit Root became even purer.
He seemed to see countless ancient legendary giant beasts moving through the forest, and his ears seemed to hear obscure, ancient whispers.
Listening to those ancient whispers, his bodily pain seemed to weaken gradually.
It was an incredibly magical feeling.
Was this an illusion, or was he dying?
He could no longer tell, relying only on his last bit of will to struggle to remain conscious.
He had only one strong thought, which was to protect Da Bao and return to find his wife.
But even his last shred of consciousness seemed about to vanish.
Just as this will was about to dissipate, his awareness on the verge of merging into darkness, even his breath ceasing, suddenly something seemed to change.
Xiao Jihan’s exhausted Blood Power erupted like a dormant volcano.
The lava carried with it surged frantically, rushing through his body.
So much that every drop of blood within Xiao Jihan trembled minutely, resonating with the ancient, obscure whispers from before.
This seemed like an ultimate power.
The air around Xiao Jihan seemed to ripple like water waves.
The previously rolling thunderclouds parted, revealing starlight above Fox King Hall, causing the thunder to seem to fade away.
An indescribable magical power with a mystical glow crossed the void, descending upon him like a gentle breeze and rain.
This power, like a key, seemed to unlock the hidden secrets within Xiao Jihan.
When he forcibly activated his Bloodline Power under extreme conditions, the Divine Blood within him was completely unleashed.
To be precise, when forced to apply Beast Taming Technique to its limit, the dormant Divine Blood within him could be fully activated.
The power of Divine Blood caused a silvery glow to radiate from Xiao Jihan’s entire body.
This silvery glow carried an indistinctly chilling aura.
It was the pressure that should belong to the Blood Power of the Ice Wolf Beast God.
The power of the Heaven and Earth Laws belonging to the Ice Wolf Beast God appeared.
The divine light belonging to the Ice Wolf Beast God descended from the Divine Domain.
Soon after, an illusory and solemn luminous path slowly unfurled before Xiao Jihan.
At the moment he saw this path, Xiao Jihan was shocked; he had seen Hua Linye’s Ascension Road before, so he was not unfamiliar with such a spectacle.
It was indeed the Ascension Road.
He never expected his own Ascension Road to unfold at this moment.
Previously, the thunder roared constantly.
Yet at the instant the Ascension Road appeared, it silently retreated, seemingly in awe of this supreme aura.
The thunderclouds automatically avoided the sky above Fox King Hall, and divine light belonging to the Divine Domain shot down from the depths of the starry sky, precisely enveloping Xiao Jihan.
Xiao Jihan felt his entire body stiffen.
When bathed in this light, he seemed to be imprisoned by it as well.
He couldn’t move; only a powerful force of attraction emanated from the Ascension Road before him.
Clearly, once the Ascension Road opens, there’s no choice but for him to step onto it along with the light, which means he can only proceed to the steps of the Ascension Road and nowhere else.
To Xiao Jihan’s amazement, when shrouded in this light, the severe internal injuries on his body healed at a visibly rapid pace, the broken meridians reconnecting and completely recovering, even more refined than before.
In Fox King Hall, the few elders lying weakly on the ground had their injuries quickly ameliorated under this light.
Originally unconscious elders slowly opened their eyes after waking up, stunned by what they witnessed.
They immediately checked Da Bao, relieved only upon confirming his safety.
Of course, the conscious Seventh and Ninth Elders watched the whole scene in shock.
Understanding that Young Master Xiao, like their previous Fox King, was about to enter the Divine Domain?
In this world, there were no longer beast gods, and now the appearance of Ascension Roads in succession meant the return of the beast gods and the restart of the laws of the Beast World?
"Xiao’s father."
At this moment, Da Bao also awoke. Previously knocked unconscious and later fed an elixir by Xiao Jihan, his body improved, regaining consciousness.
While he had not fully awoken, he faintly perceived what had transpired.
Now bathed in divine light, most of his physical injuries had healed.
Witnessing the scene, his expression changed; he hurriedly stepped forward to grasp Xiao Jihan’s sleeve.
"Xiao’s father, don’t go."
He knew it was Xiao’s father who saved his life. From as far back as he could remember, it was Xiao’s father who cared for him and was good to him.
In his heart, he truly depended on Xiao’s father.
He didn’t want to be separated from him.