Chapter 3674 — The King of Spirit Beasts
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Precisely. Only between spirit beasts of the same tier does strength decide who's stronger and who's weaker. Otherwise, there's no need to fight at all—the lower-tier spirit beast will already be cowering in fear on its own."
Ghost Thing paused, then added: "But that rule applies only to spirit beasts below the Heavenly Dao. Once a spirit beast's strength grows to the Heavenly Dao—that is, above the Foundation Establishment stage—and it possesses exceptionally high intelligence, it can break through this hierarchy of suppression. In other words, even a spirit beast born to a lower tier, so long as its strength is great enough, can still slay a higher-tier spirit beast weaker than itself."
Take the several powerful spirit beasts Wei Zhao had encountered before: the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle was innately of a higher tier than the Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard, and generally speaking, its strength would also be far greater than the leopard's.
But one had to understand that even a mighty spirit beast like the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle was not born with the formidable strength of the mid-Foundation Establishment stage. In its fledgling period, its strength might be merely Earth-tier or even lower. At such a time, if it encountered a Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard below the Heaven-tier Great Perfection, then even if its true combat power exceeded the other's, the leopard could still rely on its innate spirit beast aura to frighten it into retreat.
But if both had broken through to the Heavenly Dao and reached adulthood—suppose the Nine-Tailed Cloud-Piercing Leopard possessed strength at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage, while the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle had the slightly lesser strength of the early Foundation Establishment stage—then the leopard's spirit beast aura would no longer be of any use, and the Ghost-Eyed Golden Eagle could rely on its formidable strength to turn the tables and kill it.
"But doesn't that make the King of Spirit Beasts' descendant even more useless? Since the hierarchy of suppression only works below the Heavenly Dao, those powerful spirit beast elders wouldn't need to give a damn about him at all, would they?" Wei Zhao was all the more bewildered after hearing this explanation.
"No. This rule of hierarchical suppression I've told you about applies to all spirit beasts—but the King of Spirit Beasts is the sole exception. He is a being who stands above all rules; his bloodline is innately that of the king among spirit beasts!" Into Ghost Thing's flat tone there suddenly crept a note of fervor and awe.
"Above all rules—an innately born king?" Wei Zhao's heart quivered.
"His bloodline innately overwhelms every spirit beast. Even mighty spirit beasts above the Heavenly Dao stage—even we elders—before his bloodline, have no choice but to bow and submit. So as long as we can find his descendant and awaken the bloodline, then even the weakest Yellow-tier spirit beast could suppress the entire Spirit Beast Clan and leave no one harboring any disloyal thoughts!" Ghost Thing said excitedly.
"That... that's really something else!" Wei Zhao could not help gaping.
Strong or weak, it overwhelmed every spirit beast!
This absurd hierarchy of suppression—it was practically like cheating! To be able to suppress the entire Spirit Beast Clan from birth—was there anything in this world more outrageous, more shameless than that?
Put that way, not just the Spirit Beast Clan—the whole spirit beast world was practically the King of Spirit Beasts' own backyard! So long as his bloodline carried on, every spirit beast from top to bottom would have no choice but to work for his family, with absolutely no chance of turning the tables!
This King of Spirit Beasts was truly extraordinary! (To be continued...)
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