81: Chapter 81 The Beast Tamer Lineage! Secrets of the Great Xia Dynasty!

After realizing that Ouyang Xun was not from The Military, Li Mo breathed a sigh of relief.

Otherwise, if the various Martial God Family factions were to attack The Military, causing internal strife within the country, it would only cause grief to friends and joy to enemies.

In fact, The Military is often very strict in vetting those sent to the secret realm. For instance, with the three of them—Li Mo and the others—Marshal Zhao Zhenyuan had actually investigated their backgrounds thoroughly before deciding to send them into the Xumi Secret Realm.

If anyone had any issues, Zhao Zhenyuan would never have sent them into the secret realm.

This Ouyang Xun must have impersonated someone from The Military and then used some means to evade the vetting procedures of the azure, which allowed him to enter the secret realm.

At this moment, Wu Yuqing suddenly interjected: "Ouyang Xun? I do have some impression of this person!"

Wu Yuqing told Li Mo and the others that this Ouyang Xun had been very low-key on the ship, wearing black clothes and hardly moving about the ship at all.

However, by chance, Wu Yuqing had brushed past Ouyang Xun.

Normally, Wu Yuqing would never have remembered someone just from brushing past them, but the first impression this person left on her was that he was very strong!

As a martial fanatic, she was naturally only interested in the strong!

Wu Yuqing immediately wanted to test her skills against Ouyang Xun, but by the time she had this thought, Ouyang Xun had already disappeared.

Later, Wu Yuqing asked people on the ship and managed to find out Ouyang Xun's name.

Of course, her only goal was to find Ouyang Xun for a spar.

Since Ouyang Xun had left an impression on Wu Yuqing, it meant that if they encountered him in person, they would be able to recognize him immediately.

At this, Zheng Jiahao laughed: "Heh, it seems this love for fighting does have some benefits."

An excited look appeared on Wu Yuqing's face: "It seems that when I find him this time, it won't just be about deciding who is superior, but a fight to the death!"

"I have a request for you all. If you really find this person, do not intervene. I want to take my revenge first!"

Li Mo and the others exchanged glances and immediately agreed to this request.

They certainly had no objections, especially since Wu Yuqing's strength was indeed top-tier.

Not to mention Zheng Jiahao and the others, even Li Mo was not certain if he was a match for Wu Yuqing.

She had created her own SSS-grade sword technique, was able to defeat experts in the Liangyi Realm while in the Blood Transformation Realm, and her Nine Absolute Flying Swords were unrivaled among the younger generation.

If they were to really fight, Li Mo might not necessarily win.

Since that was the case, it didn't matter if Ouyang Xun was left to her.

Li Mo could just deal with those Dark Beasts.

At this time, Li Mo said: "Ouyang Xun is likely not his real name. It would be better if we referred to him as an enemy spy."

However, Zheng Jiahao had a different opinion: "No, I think Ouyang Xun might actually be his real name. When I saw the surname Ouyang, I was reminded of a rumor I read in my family's records. Do you know of the Beast Refiner lineage?"

"Beast Refiner? What's that? I've heard of Beast Tamers, though!" Xu Feng replied hesitantly.

Among those present, only Zheng Jiahao read the most books, so he explained the history of the Beast Refiners to everyone.

These Beast Refiners and Beast Tamers are fundamentally different.

Beast Tamers refer to those who tame Alien Creatures, turning them into their own pets, and then using them for combat or for convenience in daily life.

But Beast Refiners are different; they are keen on refining various materials from Alien Creatures to ultimately enhance themselves.

Actually, this isn't much of a problem, but the issue is that as the Beast Refiner lineage developed, they were no longer satisfied with refining materials from Alien Creatures; they started refining the Alien Creatures themselves!

For example, they would crossbreed two different Alien Creatures to breed a new species of Alien Creature, or try to fuse materials from two different Alien Creatures to create new materials.

This is also the origin of the word "Refiner" in Beast Refiner, much like the alchemists of ancient times.

The ancestor of the Beast Refiner lineage was a person with the surname Ouyang.

He was born approximately two hundred years ago, and at that time, a major event occurred: the appearance of the Dark Ruins, which almost triggered a world-ending crisis.

Although Marshal Chen Han resolved this crisis, a large amount of the Dark Ruins destroyed nearly ninety percent of the land, and a large number of remains from the Dark Ruins were left scattered everywhere.

Originally, this art of Beast Refining was not a forbidden art, but the problem was that the Beast Refiner lineage became increasingly greedy, and in the end, they even set their sights on the Dark Ruins.

They began to study the Dark Ruins, these Alien Creatures that had nearly destroyed the world.

Marshal Yue Wuyun, who was still serving as Marshal at the time, was furious when he learned of this. He led The Military and many of the Martial God Family factions at the time to round up the scattered Beast Refiner lineage, effectively wiping them out and destroying their families!

Do not be fooled by Yue Wuyun's kindly appearance during the recruit trials; one who can reach the position of Marshal cannot be someone soft-hearted.

As the saying goes, "Mercy does not command troops, and righteousness does not manage wealth."

Moreover, greedy families like the Beast Refiner lineage deserved to die.

Unfortunately, this lineage did have some tricks up their sleeves and actually succeeded in resurrecting the dead remains of the Dark Ruins.

The resurrected Dark Ruins went on a rampage, and this was something even Martial Gods found troublesome.

The Military and the various Martial God Family factions suffered heavy losses as a result, and it took a huge price to re-seal those resurrected Dark Ruins.

However, a portion of the Beast Refiner lineage took this opportunity to escape, and their whereabouts have been unknown ever since.

More than one hundred and eighty years have passed since this incident, and in order to avoid causing public panic, it was only recorded in some extremely classified archives.

Zheng Jiahao said slowly: "If anyone could research and create a Dark Beast from the remains of the Dark Ruins, I believe it could only be someone from the Beast Refiner lineage. After all, they were even able to resurrect the Dark Ruins!"

Li Mo could not help but take a deep breath: "You mean that if the Beast Refiner lineage has been passed down, then they hold a grudge of genocide against Great Xia, and perhaps even wish for Great Xia's destruction!"

Zheng Jiahao nodded affirmatively. It was not impossible that those who escaped from the Beast Refiner lineage back then were taken in by the Black Earth Tribe or the Baiou Empire.

They have been lingering on until now, only to be utilized by the Black Earth Tribe, using their own skills to launch a counterattack against Great Xia.

Thinking of this, Li Mo suddenly gasped.

"If that is really the case, then I guessed wrong from the beginning! Their goal is likely not just to seal the Xumi Secret Realm!"

In a cave within the secret realm, a man in black was sitting cross-legged. Before him was a massive pile of dark remains, nauseating like black mud.

And this man in black was casting some kind of secret technique onto this mass of black mud.

In just a short while, a Dark Beast, completely pitch-black all over, was born from that mass of black mud, its bright red eyes causing one to tremble.

But this Dark Beast was not the most terrifying thing; the sentence the man in black casually uttered was what made one's hair stand on end.

"If I produce another one hundred Dark Beasts, this Dark Ruins should be able to be resurrected."