Chapter 1591 1584: Ruled by Beasts (7)

Chapter 1591 1584: Ruled by Beasts (7)

Wei Si blinked as he directed his inquiring gaze over. The star-munching beast was gargantuan and extraordinary, yet Wei Si's brain was fixated on trying to identify its lineage. There wasn't a trace of fear within his gaze.

Yue Songli was enthralled by the beast. Eventually, her breath that had stagnated by wonder flowed through her chest, causing a stimulating scene of the rise and fall of great mountains. When she took steady exhales, her mind settled down as a glint of resolve flared within her eyes.

"Wei Wuyin mentioned earlier that there were three beasts that ruled the Sky Heart Galaxy: the Rocs, Almirajs, and Hyenas. I think this is a Hyena."

"Hyena?" Wei Si and Qing Qiumu were stunned; the latter had disbelief written across her face. When she examined the beasts once again through her empowered perception, she discovered that the beast did look very similar to the literary descriptions of hyenas she had read.

"An existence that is neither canine nor feline, of a lineage born from twisted mutations of the primordial, blessed by the divinity of laughter, and cursed by the divinity of hunger. This was the description I had read," Qing Qiumu voiced with awe reverberating within each syllable. While there was colorful language and exaggerated meanings within, the indistinct truths often revealed by the literature of the Myriad Yore Continent were hard to ignore. Similarly, the story told of the birth of a Fire Phoenix was just as majestic, if not more so, and there was a clear relation between Fire Phoenixes and Vermilion Birds.

Meanwhile, Wei Si sunk into a daze as if he was extrapolating knowledge from the depths of his soul. The Spartan lineage was exceptional, and their inheritance contained incredible depth and knowledge. However, not all of it was freely accessible to Spartans who had yet to undergo the appropriate awakening, requiring them to return to their homeland. Wei Si had put that off to travel the stars with his cousin. A choice that he hadn't regretted since he made it.

"Hyenas...Taotie..." An obscure link existed within his mind, incomplete yet certain.

"Taotie?" Qing Qiumu was broken out of her stupor. If there was an existence that could be described by the Myriad Yore Continent's literature as a divinity of hunger, then a Taotie was certainly best fitting.

Yue Songli was ignorant of both names, but her entire body was telling her to act.

She took a step forward, prompting Wei Si to snap out of his daze and stare at her. "Big Sis Songli, it's best that we stay away for now."

However, Yue Songli clenched her fists and fixed her gaze on the chomping hyena lying on a cloudy bed of stars. "I have to go," she circulated her mystic power, took a step forward, and began to fly off from the asteroid toward the hyena!

"Wait!" Wei Si wanted to grab her but was halted by an invisible hand.

Yue Songli turned back and smiled comfortingly, "I'll be okay." She turned her head to see the gigantic hyena once again enjoying its meal, not caring about them in the slightest. She took a deep breath and her mystic aura erupted as she accelerated toward the hyena.

Meanwhile, Wei Si eyed his hand and then no longer interfered.

"How strong do you think that it is?" Qing Qiumu asked. She was unable to assess its strength, and she was keenly aware that size didn't directly correlate to strength, and for beings at the Mystic Ascendant Realm, eating a Solar Star wasn't too impressive. They could destroy them with ease and create them as well. In the eyes of a mortal, they were all like divinities with means far exceeding their imagination.

She had asked a while ago, and Yue Songli had confessed that her cultivation had reached the pinnacle of the Soul of Mysticism Phase, and she could ascend into the Demi-Mortal Phase at any time, only holding back due to Wei Wuyin's repeated urgings toward fortifying a strong, stable foundation. While she could advance, the truth was that her cultivation base was lacking. After her capture by Trueborn, she was tasked with advancing rather than consolidating and reinforcing, and while she was originally slightly stronger than the average Soul of Mysticism Phase cultivator of the Grand Cyclic Stellar Region, in the grand scheme of the vast world of cultivation, that wasn't saying much.

If the expo felt like a wave of water, then this felt like a cascading waterfall! It was terrifyingly strong and clear to his senses!

The excessive cost aside, Wei Wuyin was glad that his Karmic Luck was finally triggered. However, estimating the cost of this opportunity, he started to realize why the Heavenly Daos were unable to find appropriate opportunities for him. This hyena of mutated bloodline intermixed with the faint traces of a Star-Devourer, or at least an existence with similarities to one, was only at the Mystic Overlord level of strength.

Currently, with his Minor Authorities and the level of his Alchemic Dao, the only opportunities suitable for him were likely designed for Blessed at the True Sage or greater. Not only was that exceedingly rare in the regions he visited, but doing so might require a lot of hidden moves to be made by the Heavenly Daos beforehand to set up something of that level if it wasn't a blessed land of cultivation or something more spontaneous.

Not even an Edict Seed was sufficient given his grasp of six complete Laws, and especially not the Ice Edict Seed since he could be considered to already have the Minor Authority of Origin, which embodied the elemental forces of the world and so much more.

"Good luck, my passionate painter," Wei Wuyin said softly as Yue Songli's flying figure was reflected in his gaze, her body wreathed in the blessing of the Heavenly Daos as it slowly encroached toward the hyena.

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Ming Shufeng halted her steps as she gazed at the sky above her. She could keenly feel the descent of the heavens somewhere near, and it was utterly massive, and very, very far away. She pouted slightly. If she was closer, she could try to profit.

"Hahaha! Look at me! Hehe!" A young boy was riding Xiao Bai as he giggled. The boy had furry ears and a long tail, his face angular, and his hair was a soft golden brown as tufts of fur were on his forearm and hands, including his lower leg and feet. He had the eyes of a hyena, large and dark.

Meanwhile, there were other kids of similar appearance, both girls and boys, who were playing around Xiao Bai, touching his wings and sides with awe. "So soft!" A young girl cried.

They weren't speaking in the common mortal language, but seemingly a language mixed with high-pitched giggling and verbal grunts and clicks, but the two had already a unique spiritual spell to decipher their language, so it was no different than any language in their ears.

Su Mei, Ming Shufeng, and Xiao Bai found themselves on a planet inhabited by beastmen of the hyena lineage. Their cultivation bases weren't very advanced, and their small villages were made of dry wood and humanoid bones as foundation for their houses but after a display of intimidating aura and speaking in their language, the beastmen showed kindness and trust that was unexpected.

Perhaps they knew that they couldn't defeat them and they had no hostile intentions.

Ming Shufeng frowned and walked toward Su Mei. "Where's the humans?" She asked. Where there were beastmen derived from a specific lineage, there was often that specific lineage being the majority with the beast themselves being the minority. However, the entire village was beastmen, and their bloodline auras weren't uneven, favoring beasts after breeding. This meant they were all first or second-generation beastmen!

"..." Su Mei observed thoughtfully.

Suddenly, the beastmen all shivered in unison.

"Mother is coming!" The children shouted.