"It's a savage beast!!!"

Ruan Lan exclaimed in shock.

The chaos caused by savage beasts could unite all Holy Lands and races of the Four Immortal Domains, setting aside past grudges to join forces and exterminate them. This shows how terrifying the savage beasts are.

Ruan Lan had heard about savage beasts from her senior sister and others, but this was the first time she saw one in person.

"Oh no, it's as powerful as a Venerable, you're no match for it, retreat quickly!"

Sister Qi urged in panic.

Ruan Lan hesitated for just a moment, then gripped the Formation Chessboard and faced forward.

Because she saw it.

The three-meter-tall savage beast had already charged into the village, smashing buildings into ruins, instantly causing several villagers to die or get injured.

A baby girl, still in swaddling clothes, was hooked by the claws of the savage beast. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

The savage beast raised its neck, opening its bloodthirsty mouth to swallow the crying baby, its blood-red pupils filled with savage violence.

"My child!"

A young mother screamed in despair, unbelievably raising a farm tool to strike the savage beast.

The outcome was predictable.

The savage beast's body was so strong that it shattered the farm tool directly; its massive head tilted slightly, seeing the overconfident woman, its tail swept across.

"Boom!"

Dust and smoke spread.

Amidst the deafening roar, the woman's body trembled continuously.

She saw numerous shimmering barriers around her, blocking the savage beast's tail, but the barriers were rapidly shattering and obviously could not hold for long.

"Run!"

In the distance, Ruan Lan's face was pale.

In an instant, she summoned five Starlight Arrays focused on defense, which was not easy for her as a Little Golden Core.

After all, this was a savage beast comparable to a Venerable Realm cultivator!

Fortunately, Ruan Lan was an Array Master, possessing the Star Origin Sect's inheritance; otherwise, it would have been impossible to save anyone.

"Miss Ruan, the child...my child." The woman clearly knew Ruan Lan.

"I'll try my best!"

Having said that, Ruan Lan activated two more formations.

One was the Zhoutian Star Fighting Formation.

The other was a primary slaughter array of starlight.

The two formations operated simultaneously, unexpectedly shattering the savage beast's arm that was holding the child.

"Roar!!!"

The intense pain made the savage beast hunch its body.

Ruan Lan swiftly flew forward and caught the falling baby, breathing a sigh of relief:

"It's okay now."

The baby, seemingly knowing she was now safe, stopped crying immediately.

"...We're in trouble."

Sister Qi's voice became slightly heavy, her Divine Sense perceiving clouds of dust rising in the distance, accompanied by earth-shattering booms.

Those were footsteps.

As they approached, Ruan Lan understood what Sister Qi meant; nearly twenty more savage beasts were closing in on the village!

"Hiss."

Ruan Lan felt a chill run down her spine; she had used all her strength to launch a long-distance formation attack to sever one of the savage beast's arms.

Now there were seventeen more savage beasts...

Through perception, Ruan Lan found that the level of these seventeen savage beasts was stronger than the previous one.

"Comparable to Celestial Venerables!"

Sister Qi's words made Ruan Lan can't help but shout towards the direction of Heavenly Court's back mountain: "Senior Sister, Sword Sister!!!"

When you can't win, call for reinforcements.

Ruan Lan didn't feel ashamed; isn't life more important than face?

With her shout, a golden flash ensued.

"Puff puff puff"

Eighteen consecutive light sounds.

In the next moment, the bodies of eighteen savage beasts exploded, spraying blood and remnants everywhere.

However, the attacker was not the Qingfeng Sword, nor Senior Sister Yu Guiwan, but a vague object enveloped in golden light.

As the golden light dissipated, Ruan Lan saw it was a cauldron, from which golden light was spilling, and faintly, Dao laws could be seen circulating.

"Eight Desolate Cauldron?"

Ruan Lan rejoiced: "Why are you here!"

The Eight Desolate Cauldron had once been a guest at the Heavenly Court with the Great Emperor Jin Shi; Ruan Lan had met it once.

"Here to find Xu Pingan," the Eight Desolate Cauldron said in a deep voice.

"What do you want with my nephew?"

The Eight Desolate Cauldron did not speak; only the Dao laws circulating within it paused momentarily, with a hint of sadness spreading.

"Alright, alright."

Ruan Lan gestured with her hand: "Let's clean up the nearby savage beasts first."

Speaking of joining forces.

In fact, it was just the Eight Desolate Cauldron killing wholly; around them, there were still hundreds of savage beasts, one of which was comparable to the Immortal Venerable Realm!

Unfortunately.

It encountered the Emperor Artifact, Eight Desolate Cauldron.

Ruan Lan busied herself with comforting the villagers, thereafter returning with concern to the back mountain to report the situation to her senior sister.

Yu Guiwan showed worry.

The village at the foot of the mountain, where mortals lived, was saved by the Eight Desolate Cauldron from savage beasts; but what about other places in the Immortal Domain?

"It's alright, I'll handle it."

A calm voice rang out.

Xu Lai opened the door, clad in robes as white as snow; his mere presence caused the previously low-spirited Eight Desolate Cauldron to tremble violently:

"Resurrection!?"

"See!"

Ruan Lan quickly said: "I'm not the only one who thinks so."

"This is not a person."

The voice of the Qingfeng Sword Spirit sounded indifferently.

"Qingfeng Sword sister..."

The voice of the Eight Desolate Cauldron choked up directly.

It had been under enormous pressure recently; after Li Shenhuang's fall, it had searched for days in Heaven Beyond Heaven to barely find a small piece of the Great Emperor's corpse, which it took back to the ancestral land of the Six-winged Divine Clan in the Northern Immortal Domain for burial.

Upon seeing the Qingfeng Sword afterward.

The Eight Desolate Cauldron felt a comforting sense in its hollow heart, just as it wanted to say something, a cold voice interrupted:

"Scram."

"...Uh."

The Eight Desolate Cauldron choked, changing the topic: "Great Emperor Qingfeng, my Great Emperor, before leaving, hoped to accept Ping'an as his heir."

Xu Lai looked at his son: "Ping'an, what do you think?"

Xu Pingan shook his head: "I want to learn the sword from my father."

"..."

The Eight Desolate Cauldron suffered a double blow.

But the Great Emperor also said it was a ruse; this was a long-term matter, not to be rushed.

"Little junior brother, do you have a way to deal with the savage beasts?"

Yu Guiwan asked worriedly: "Your body though..."

"Recovered."

Xu Lai nodded.

He hadn't expected that in just a few days of rest and recuperation, his level had not only recovered to its peak but had advanced further.

It's just that Xu Lai was not sure precisely how powerful he had become, but it likely still fell within the broad scope of the Emperor Realm.

"How will you deal with the savage beasts then?"

"Find the royal clan bloodline of the savage beasts; if it can't be found, kill them all."

Xu Lai closed his eyes, unleashing a burst of Qingfeng Sword Intent.

In Xu Pingan's admiring gaze, the sword intent split into thousands, then further transformed into millions of sword intents.

These million sword intents continued to split, filling the sky with Qingfeng!

In the next moment, countless sword intents dispersed towards the 999 realms of the Eastern Immortal Domain.

Each time a savage beast was killed, the sword intents continued to split and traced through the savage beast's blood to search for nearby ones.

Though the sword intents' killing power rapidly diminished during continuous splitting, these were, after all, personally unleashed by an Emperor Realm.

Without strength sufficient to rival the Quasi-Emperor Realm, there was no defense against it.

Even if they managed to hold, an imprint would be left within, heralding the arrival of the deadly Emperor Artifact, the Qingfeng Sword.

In less than a day.

Not a single savage beast remained in the 999 small realms of the Eastern Immortal Domain; the sky-filling sword intents dissipated.

Xu Lai then unleashed three more sword strikes, directing them towards the west, south, and north of the Immortal Domains. His complexion turned ashen like paper, evidently greatly exhausted.