Chapter 3672 — The Elder of the Spirit Beasts
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Wei Zhao nodded. "I've heard Senior Brother Lu and Senior Brother Ku mention it in passing when they had a moment. They say that on the southern island of Cloud Terrace Island, great numbers of high-grade spirit beasts have gathered, each one immensely powerful, and that they have coalesced into a formidable force known as the spirit beast clan!"
"That's right. But do you know how the spirit beast clan came to be? You should understand that in the beginning, all spirit beasts—no matter how powerful—each stood alone, slaughtering one another just as you saw in the outer reaches of this back mountain. They never joined forces, much less coalesced into a vast power." Ghost Thing's voice carried a sigh.
"I'm all ears." Wei Zhao pricked up his ears. This was a golden opportunity to learn about the powers of Cloud Terrace Island; it might well prove useful someday, so naturally he meant to commit it all to memory.
"The formation of the spirit beast clan traces back to a single spirit beast—the most powerful spirit beast in all history. We call him the King of Spirit Beasts."
Awe and reverence beyond all compare filled Ghost Thing's tone as he went on, "His power simply cannot be described in the pale medium of words. You need only know one thing to understand: ten thousand years ago, in order to curb his rise, the three strongest top-tier experts of Cloud Terrace Island joined forces and fought him in a single battle—and in the end, he was never once defeated."
Undefeated—which also meant unvictorious. Yet Wei Zhao still felt a solemn respect, for against the combined might of the three strongest top-tier experts of humanity, not being defeated already meant victory.
Wei Zhao was only an early Foundation Establishment cultivator, barely at the starting line on Cloud Terrace Island, with little notion of how far the strongest could truly reach—but that did not stop him from picturing that battle.
That battle must have been an epoch-making war worthy of epic.
"After that battle, no one could bar his path any longer. One by one he struck down the mightiest spirit beasts of every region, brought them to their knees beneath his feet, and led them to settle the southern island of Cloud Terrace Island, where they held sway over a domain of their own. Only from that time onward did the so-called spirit beast clan come into being," Ghost Thing said with a sigh of emotion.
Somewhat puzzled, Wei Zhao cut in, "Senior Ghost, if the spirit beast clan is all on the southern island, they should be rarely seen elsewhere—so why are there still so many spirit beasts here in the back mountain?"
"Spirit beasts are not like humans. Different species can never coexist peacefully by nature; some are even born to prey on spirit beasts of other species. Put them all together, and it would be absolute chaos. The southern island once descended into turmoil over exactly this problem, but later the King of Spirit Beasts personally put it down and left behind a single rule."
"Spirit beasts of every species may enter the southern island only after reaching a certain grade, when they can fully master the bestial instincts of their nature. Before that, they can only scatter across the lands as before. Take the spirit beasts you saw in this back mountain—they slaughter one another, or battle human cultivators, and the spirit beast clan never intervenes."
"But once they are recognized and enter the southern island, formally becoming members of the spirit beast clan, then mutual slaughter is forbidden. And if human cultivators outside dare to move against them, that is to make an enemy of the entire spirit beast clan—a feud that ends only in death."