The one transmitting the Divine Sense message was Sikong Jiu.

During the half-year Xu Lai spent in seclusion in the back mountain, the Heavenly Court entrusted Baize and Taotie with the responsibilities, while the task of finding the Beast bloodline was assigned to Sikong Jiu.

"So quickly?"

Xu Lai was somewhat surprised.

He originally thought it would take at least three to five hundred years to find the Beast Royal Clan bloodline, but before even a year had passed, they had discovered its whereabouts.

"In the Red Sail Star System."

Sikong Jiu said, with a complex tone, "Specifically, let’s wait until Your Majesty arrives before discussing it in detail."

Xu Lai did not respond further.

After reinforcing the Defensive Array of the Heavenly Court’s back mountain, only then did Xu Lai head towards the Red Sail Star System.

...

Li Star.

A barren star without any high-realm cultivators or notable Spirit Plants or high-quality Spirit Stone veins.

Therefore, within the Red Sail Star System, Li Star was virtually forgotten.

Still, the Heavenly Court symbolically stationed several thousand Heavenly Soldiers here and constructed a small-scale Celestial Siege.

Though described as small, the Celestial Siege was as vast as the territory of Earth’s Hua Country.

However, non-Heavenly Court members were not permitted inside, so the population density remained low, and the Celestial Siege was quite empty.

Xu Lai arrived silently, and even the Heavenly General stationed there was unaware of the Great Emperor’s presence.

Inside the dungeon of the Celestial Siege.

Sikong Jiu sensed the familiar presence approaching and said, without lifting his head, "It’s the one inside."

Xu Lai looked over.

In the corner of the cell, a figure was trembling, eyes clear yet filled with fear and confusion.

From the outside, she appeared indistinguishable from a human woman, but a careful use of Divine Sense would reveal something amiss.

Her blood was golden, exuding an aura of the wilderness and the Royal Clan’s oppression.

Her bloodline carried the soul imprint from the Great Emperor Tiangui, passed down through countless generations.

Strangely enough, the boundary of this Beast Royal Clan’s bloodline only reached the Venerable Realm, so weak that it cast doubt on the authenticity of her identity.

"How did you find her?" Xu Lai asked.

If not for Sikong Jiu’s information, he admitted to himself that he wouldn’t notice anything unusual even if he walked past this Beast Royal Clan bloodline.

Because she resembled a human far too closely.

"I searched over a hundred suspected locations but never found the Beast Royal Clan’s bloodline. Eventually, I decided to look for clues at the Tian Gui tribe."

Sikong Jiu shrugged, "Even though the probability was slim, finding any clue would be beneficial. Then, I saw her sneaking around inside the Tian Gui tribe’s ruins."

Xu Lai found it absurd.

The Heavenly Court had invested immense manpower and resources to find the Beast Royal Clan’s bloodline, and it was discovered so easily?

"Isn’t that unnaturally simple?" Sikong Jiu asked.

"Precisely because it’s so simple that it seems normal—which is probably just a coincidence." Xu Lai replied.

In this world.

Unbelievable coincidences happen every moment.

For instance, the premature appearance of the Blue Giant Jellyfish occurred simply because Ruan Lan coincidentally visited Peach Blossom Star and offhandedly commented on wanting to taste the local Peach Blossom Fish.

Which led to a series of chain reactions that resulted in today’s situation.

"I still sense something amiss; we must be cautious. Perhaps it’s a backup plan left by the Tian Gui."

Sikong Jiu muttered quietly.

Xu Lai shook his head, "No matter how farsighted the Tian Gui’s plan is, it wouldn’t extend to this point."

Sikong Jiu thought for a moment, then nodded, "True enough."

"Can it talk?"

As Xu Lai spoke, the female figure in the dungeon trembled even more violently, retreating further, though there was nowhere to go.

Because from this man, she felt an indescribable fear.

"Strange, she was pleading for mercy just now."

Sikong Jiu opened the dungeon door, reaching out, only to hear a voice full of despair begging: 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"Don’t kill me, don’t..."

"You’re afraid of me."

Xu Lai squinted his eyes.

The woman said nothing, her lips quivering.

"Kill her then."

Xu Lai waved his hand. As long as the Royal Clan bloodline existed, he could sense the presence of other bloodlines and could eradicate them directly.

"No!"

The woman suddenly fell to her knees, her head banging heavily against the ground: "Please don’t kill me, have mercy, have mercy..."

"Bang"

"Bang"

"Bang"

The sound of her head hitting the ground echoed continuously.

Xu Lai watched impassively, while Sikong Jiu, becoming impatient, said, "If you don’t want to die, start talking, explain your identity."

"My name is Chi Yue. I am the king of the Barbaric Beast Tribe." Chi Yue’s face was deathly pale.

"Do you know what your clansmen have done?"

Xu Lai squinted his eyes, his killing intent rising.

Chi Yue trembled, "I truly don’t know, Elder... what have they done?"

Sikong Jiu sneered, as if hearing a colossal joke.

"I am truly unaware. Our Royal Clan line has been imprisoned by the Great Emperor Tiangui for generations within a Barrier, like... like livestock, utterly deprived of freedom. The restrictions prevent us from knowing about the outside world. We are unaware of the Beast Clan’s whereabouts."

Chi Yue’s face showed humiliation: "I only realized the Tian Gui cultivator guarding the Barrier entrance had been gone for a long time, so I secretly escaped."

At this point.

Chi Yue’s tears began to fall: "I hadn’t run far before being captured. I really know nothing."

"..."

Sikong Jiu furrowed his brows deeply.

The ancestor of this one, though defeated by many of the Emperor Realm during the First Era, was as formidable as the Great Emperor Xianghuo, definitely not weak.

Sikong Jiu couldn’t accept how the descendant of the once fierce and unparalleled Beast Queen had fallen so low.

Being merely Venerable Realm was one thing.

But the current king’s cowardice and timidity completely destroyed the honor of her ancestors.

Xu Lai rubbed his temples.

This king of the Barbaric Beast Tribe was even less impressive than the ordinary Barbaric Beasts he had slain, who fought bravely and fearlessly.

He briefly recounted the troubles the Barbarians had caused in the Immortal Domain.

Chi Yue was dumbfounded, her tears falling incessantly, she wept and sobbed:

"I failed to protect my people, I’ve shamed not just my ancestors, I’ve shamed the Royal Clan bloodline..."

"If the old Barbarian King saw you like this, he’d revive in anger, stop crying!"

Sikong Jiu grew increasingly frustrated, still doubting Chi Yue’s claims, he directly used the Secret Technique to probe her memory.

"What did you find?" Xu Lai asked.

"She didn’t lie, the Tian Gui really are beasts."

The memories Sikong Jiu saw were a million times more tragic than what Chi Yue had described herself.

First Era.

The Tian Gui imprisoned ordinary Barbarians, depriving them of reason, leaving only their primal instincts for frenzied reproduction.

The imprisonment lacked food, so those few Barbarians who survived by consuming their kind were not only ferocious but incredibly powerful.

The Tian Gui tribe’s cultivators used Secret Techniques to put these surviving Barbarians into a slumber, sealing them in various places across the Four Immortal Domains, awaiting the era of the Emperor’s Fall.

The cycle continued with another batch of ’cultivation’ following the previous.

The Beast Royal Clan’s bloodline, imprisoned separately in a small Barrier, suffered an even grimmer fate.