Volume 1 Volume 6 Chapter 26

Volume 6 Chapter 26: Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, Kylin Little Gold

The demon beasts spoken of by the people are divided into two types. One type is called ancient demon beasts, also known as primal beasts. These demon beasts emerged shortly after the world began, with exceptional conditions. At that time, there were many natural treasures in the world, and the Spirit Qi was thick, which greatly enhanced them. They have passed down their powerful abilities through generations, far surpassing ordinary demon beasts. For example, Zhuyin, the yellow bird, Taotie, and Kui belong to this type of demon beast.

However, although this ancient demon beast is extremely powerful, it first appeared at the beginning of the world, and its body is not perfectly constructed, with low reproductive ability. After millions of years, its numbers have become very rare.

The second kind is the ordinary demon beast, which has appeared within the last hundred thousand years. Although they are also very strong, their power and potential are far less than those of ancient demon beasts. The most obvious evidence is that over eighty percent of the demon beasts that reached the heavenly level in the past hundred thousand years are ancient demon beasts, and all of the top-notch strong ones among the heavenly level are also ancient demon beasts.

In comparison to ancient demon beasts, ordinary demon beasts have the advantage of very strong reproductive ability, even surpassing that of humans.

Originally, only ancient demon beasts could pose a threat to the kylin, so most of the work of the kylin clan focused on controlling the ancient demon beasts, while their control over ordinary demon beasts was much more relaxed. This is why ancient demon beasts are so rare in the world, but ordinary demon beasts are often heard of attacking humans.

All these changes came from the nine-tailed demon fox.

The fox clan belongs to ordinary demon beasts, and they are hated and hunted by all demon beasts because they need to devour a large number of other demon beasts’ cores to advance. Although they have almost the same potential as ancient demon beasts, it is extremely difficult for them to evolve. The vast majority of foxes are killed by other demon beasts when they have six or seven tails.

But this nine-tailed demon fox, even among clever foxes, is much smarter and more cunning than its kind, even surpassing all intelligent beings in the world.

By sowing discord and making other demon beasts fight among themselves, it evolved into a seven-tailed demon fox in less than a thousand years, officially reaching the heavenly level. At this time, other foxes are still struggling with how to evolve into four tails to become Earth level demon beasts.

However, after its success, it was eventually discovered by other demon beasts and surrounded by almost all heavenly level demon beasts at the time. Yet, it managed to escape calmly every time. Not only that, this demon beast, which appears only once in ten thousand years, has an unprecedented ability to imitate. Over the years, it has learned a lot of human techniques and unique skills from other demon beasts, executing them with skill that even surpasses human cultivators and far exceeds other demon beasts of the same level.

In this endless chase and escape, all the heavenly level demon beasts of the Southern Wasteland could not defeat it due to its cunning. Instead, it killed many of them, easily playing with countless lives in the Southern Wasteland, and after devouring a large number of heavenly level demon beasts’ inner cores, nearly one thousand years passed. It finally became the most powerful being among demon beasts—the nine-tailed demon fox!

It took less than two thousand years for it to evolve from a low-level one-tailed fox into a nine-tailed fox, a remarkable miracle in the world of demon beasts.

In fact, if it weren’t for the growth of the nine-tailed demon fox, which killed many heavenly level demon beasts and devoured over twenty heavenly level demon beasts’ inner cores, humans would have had no way to resist the invasion of the demon beasts from the Southern Wasteland.

After it finally evolved into a nine-tailed demon fox, the remaining twenty heavenly level demon beasts in the Southern Wasteland could no longer harm it and were afraid of it. Both sides made an agreement, and the demon beast world finally returned to peace.

Since the nine-tailed demon fox needed to devour nine inner cores from demon beasts of the same level to evolve, it had killed a large number of low and middle heavenly level demon beasts during its journey. Among the remaining twenty heavenly level demon beasts in the Southern Wasteland, surprisingly, more than half were high-level heavenly level demon beasts.

Originally, all the demon beasts thought that the nine-tailed demon fox, having evolved to the highest level, should be content.

But in reality, that so-called peace was just an illusion because the nine-tailed demon fox had greater ambitions!

Although it evolved into a nine-tailed fox, the nine-tailed demon fox had an even bigger goal. It thought that when it was an eight-tailed fox, it had evolved into a nine-tailed fox after devouring nine inner cores from middle-level heavenly demon beasts. Now, as a nine-tailed fox, if it devoured nine inner cores from high-level heavenly demon beasts, could it evolve again into the ten-tailed fox, a being so powerful that no one had ever imagined?

Thus, the nine-tailed demon fox stirred up waves again in the demon beast world, using ambushes and deception to kill nine more high-level heavenly demon beasts. Fierce ancient beasts like the Gluttonous, Yellow Bird, Six-eared Macaque, and Six-winged Golden Garuda were all defeated by it. However, after devouring their inner cores, the nine-tailed demon fox was disappointed to find that although its power had increased again, it was still far from the breakthrough it imagined.

But at this moment, only Zhuyin and Kui remained as the heavenly level demon beasts in the entire Southern Wasteland. Even if they were to be killed, it would not allow another breakthrough; it seemed that for the Spirit Fox clan, the nine tails were indeed their limit of power.

However, this frustration did not last long; it turned its attention to the ruler of the demon beasts—the kylin.

The kylin was not something it could provoke, but at this moment, both "Auspicious" and "Ominous" kylins appeared together. The two kylins fought all day long, which gave it a great opportunity.

Moreover, it had its reasons to confront the kylin. When it was still a two-tailed fox, by chance, it witnessed the battle between "Ominous" and "Auspicious." That battle was incredibly fierce, with both sides heavily injured, their blood merging together. When it licked some of the mixed blood from the two kylins, a few days later, it surprisingly evolved into a three-tailed demon fox without consuming enough inner dan!

The nine-tailed demon fox believed that these two kylins, which had never appeared together in the world, were the hope for its next advancement.

So, during one of the battles between the two kylins, it gathered all twelve remaining heavenly level demon beasts, not knowing how to convince the heavenly level demon beasts led by Kui and Zhuyin that the nine ancient demon beasts that were killed before were done by "Ominous" and "Auspicious," and honestly shared the strange abilities that came from mixing the blood of "Ominous" and "Auspicious."

In the end, under anger and greed, all twelve heavenly level demon beasts were deceived by the nine-tailed demon fox. After a battle between "Ominous" and "Auspicious," it suddenly appeared and defeated them. The nine-tailed demon fox mysteriously obtained the "Spirit Locking Ring" and "Spirit Sealing Talisman," imprisoning them thereafter.

Originally, the nine-tailed demon fox planned to kill "Ominous" and "Auspicious" and consume their inner dan, but the kylin clan had means to destroy their own inner dan. The nine-tailed demon fox feared they would shatter into pieces, so it had to give up, instead imprisoning them here-where the kylin clan originally lived-and together with Kui and Zhuyin, extracted their blood to eat every day.

Just as what happened after the nine-tailed demon fox consumed their mixed blood before, the strength of the heavenly level demon beasts increased over time. However, after several times, the heavenly level demon beasts discovered that perhaps they had consumed too much, the mixed blood no longer had much effect on them.

But the nine-tailed demon fox still did not give up because at this moment, the time for "Fortune" and "Ominous" to give birth had arrived.

The Kylin clan has the ability to reproduce on their own because each Kylin carries a drop of strange essence blood from the moment they are born. As the Kylin grows stronger, this drop of essence blood also grows and eventually becomes the next Kylin.

The nine-tailed demon fox actually took out these two droplets of essence blood from "Ominous" and "Fortune," mixed them together to help them grow, and the new generation of Kylin created from these droplets was Little Gold.

The nine-tailed demon fox believed that this hybrid Little Gold, being a mix of "Ominous" and "Fortune," would surely have the ability to enhance its strength, and might even become stronger and more effective. Even if it didn’t work, "Ominous" and "Fortune" had not yet had the chance to pass down the Kylin clan’s memories accumulated over a million years to Little Gold. If Little Gold did not have the method to self-detonate its Golden Core, once it grew to a certain level, it could also consume Little Gold’s inner core.

However, Zhuyin and Kui did not think about the inner core; they only considered the benefits of Little Gold’s blood and continued to cooperate with the nine-tailed demon fox, completely unaware of how dangerous it truly was.

Little Gold’s growth also surprised the three demon beasts. When Little Gold was just born, it had the ability that drove all demon beasts mad. Its blood, while temporarily unable to enhance the strength of demon beasts, could change an ordinary demon beast’s constitution, making it a king among its kind.

Thinking about the possible effects of Little Gold’s blood when it grows, the three demon beasts became excited.

For these high-level heavenly demon beasts, nothing was more interesting than enhancing their own strength.

This is the life Little Gold experienced after its birth. It had two parents, but they were in a constant battle with each other. Although they had been captured, every day other demon beasts could be seen beating its parents, leaving them covered in wounds, while Little Gold watched as they crawled on their parents’ bodies, continuously drinking their blood. Once a king, it was now imprisoned, bullied daily by the descendants of ancient demon beasts, and sometimes the nine-tailed demon fox would draw some blood for research. Little Gold did not know what fate awaited it. Would it continue to watch itself and its parents being humiliated or be eaten by some demon beast?

The Kylin family had wisdom early on, while Little Gold was just a child. This experience was too cruel for a child.

Such cruel days lasted for twenty whole years until one day, Little Gold suddenly disappeared.