129: peace talks

Xun Xiuyuan sat before the portal, within the range of the Tiangang Demon Subduing Formation, though the formation was not activated.

Behind him, Li Jun and other human magnates were present, because Xun Xiuyuan had informed them he was about to break through to the Shattering Void Realm. Everyone had come to the portal to prepare, in case the portal expanded enough for Quasi-God Realm experts to enter, so they could respond promptly.

Xun Xiuyuan pondered for a long time, then clicked to absorb Fragment of the Law of Space (Seven). A new understanding of space flooded his mind, but he still hadn't advanced to the Shattering Void Realm.

He then continued to click on Fragment of the Law of Space (Eight). The moment he clicked, a familiar sensation arrived instantly, and a surge of energy poured into his body. Xun Xiuyuan's overall abilities rapidly increased.

Xun Xiuyuan understood that he had entered the Shattering Void Realm.

The portal before him simultaneously trembled, and its expansion speed noticeably quickened.

Beast Domain.

Before the portal.

Venerable Bai's narrowed eyes suddenly opened. He looked at the portal before him; it had expanded again, and at a very fast rate.

He sensed it for a moment, and he still couldn't pass through. He would continue to wait. Looking at the speed of the portal's expansion, he estimated he would be able to pass through very soon.

He also wondered about the progress of the Four Vajras on the other side.

He had waited for hundreds of years, so Venerable Bai was not in a hurry.

The humans on this side also watched the teleportation portal nervously, because they didn't know to what extent it needed to expand for a Quasi-God Realm expert to pass through.

Xun Xiuyuan was currently sitting cross-legged, staring intently at the portal before him.

It wasn't until he saw no sign of the portal's expansion stopping that Xun Xiuyuan signaled the human magnates to leave the range of the Tiangang Demon Subduing Formation.

He only left his Po Kong Realm clone within the formation's range, specifically at the position of the Life Gate.

Xun Xiuyuan said, "My premonition was correct; it will definitely expand greatly. It's very likely that Quasi-God Realm experts will be able to pass through."

Li Jun nodded, then he and Xie An and others entered the formation nodes to control its operation.

A day later, just as the portal's expansion was becoming increasingly slow, a massive white tiger appeared within the portal. As soon as it passed through, it let out a roar that shook the heavens.

Venerable Bai roared to the sky. He had finally entered! He had guarded this place for decades, an incredibly monotonous task, and finally, the portal had expanded enough for a Quasi-God Realm expert to pass through.

He charged forward without hesitation.

Xun Xiuyuan's clone directly rushed towards Venerable Bai. Venerable Bai saw a figure charging at him, and a hint of disdain flashed in his eyes. A Po Kong Realm expert dared to challenge him?

With a single claw, he swatted Xun Xiuyuan's clone to the ground.

The clone showed no other reaction, as if unafraid of pain, and after getting up, it charged at Venerable Bai again.

Venerable Bai was also surprised. This Po Kong Realm expert's physique was very strong; his claw strike had left it completely unharmed.

Venerable Bai immediately launched another claw strike. This time, he used all his strength, aiming for a single, fatal blow.

However, Xun Xiuyuan's clone flashed, directly dodging Venerable Bai's sharp claws, and appeared beside Venerable Bai's large head—a gigantic White Striped Tiger head much larger than Xun Xiuyuan's clone.

Venerable Bai opened his massive maw and bit down. It was well known that the White Striped Tiger clan's most formidable weapon was their mouth; their bodies contained their own space, and once something was sucked into their mouth, its life or death was already sealed.

Xun Xiuyuan's clone remained expressionless, and as Venerable Bai's maw approached, he directly chose to self-detonate.

The Copper Wall Iron Barrier plus the Blood God Body made Xun Xiuyuan's clone possess immense internal energy. Although it was only a Po Kong Realm expert, the power of its self-detonation was no less than that of an ordinary Shattering Void Realm expert's self-detonation.

The massive explosion directly enveloped Venerable Bai's head. The annoyed Venerable Bai roared in fury.

When the explosion ended, Venerable Bai's head was completely unharmed. In the instant of the explosion, Venerable Bai had already shifted his head into another space, only returning after the explosion concluded.

His mastery of the Law of Space was complete, and his application of space was incredibly skilled. Of course, it was only application; he had not yet reached the level of the Dao and could not create space.

Seeing that his Po Kong Realm clone had vanished, Xun Xiuyuan unhesitatingly generated another Shattering Void Realm clone.

Xun Xiuyuan and his clone stood outside the Tiangang Demon Subduing Formation, while the other human Shattering Void Realm experts were positioned at the formation's nodes, ready.

Since the great formation had not activated its killing array, it merely controlled the space in front of the portal.

Venerable Bai could see Xun Xiuyuan before him at a glance.

"Triplets?" Venerable Bai did not shout or kill, but rather asked with considerable interest.

Xun Xiuyuan nodded and said, "Yes, the one who died in battle just now was my third brother."

"That has nothing to do with me; he self-detonated," Venerable Bai explained.

Xun Xiuyuan was very surprised by Venerable Bai's attitude. This alien beast was a bit strange; why would he talk about such things?

Xun Xiuyuan thought this internally, but his hand movements did not stop, and he directly waved upwards.

Li Jun and the others, seeing Xun Xiuyuan's action, immediately activated the killing array of the Tiangang Demon Subduing Formation. Instantly, a barrage of spatial blades flew towards Venerable Bai.

Venerable Bai had long known that the area beneath him was a great formation, though he didn't know what kind. He had discovered that space was sealed when he first entered.

With his spatial attainments, he couldn't shake it, so it must be a formation. Human experts probably didn't have such power yet.

"Where are my clan's children? Were they all slaughtered by your great formation?"

Venerable Bai's roar came from within the great formation.

Seeing that the humans ignored him and continued to control the great formation to besiege him, Venerable Bai charged left and right, but he couldn't break free from the formation's restraints and couldn't leave the great formation.

"My purpose in coming here is for peace talks, peace talks."

Indeed, ever since the passage between the Ghost Clan and the Exotic Beast Clan recently allowed Quasi-God Realm experts to enter, the White Striped Tiger clan had already sent all their Quasi-God Realm powerhouses over.

Venerable Bai had not gone because he was guarding the abyss, but the battle situation at the passage had already been reported back to the Beast Domain.

The Exotic Beast Clan's Quasi-God Realm experts had suffered heavy losses. The Ghost Clan had great immunity to physical attacks, making them very difficult to defeat unless one's strength greatly surpassed theirs.

The Four Strong Clans of the Beast Domain did not have any races specialized in the Law of Fire or the Law of the Soul, making them truly helpless when facing the Ghost Clan. The battlefield was currently in full retreat.

Before entering the abyss, Venerable Bai had reported the expansion of the portal and received information from the clan's old ancestor to recruit the humans.

The idea was to find a way to conscript the Human Clan to fight in the passage.

However, Venerable Bai felt that the human formation's attacks were becoming increasingly fierce. The portal behind him was within reach, yet he couldn't pass through; he was already trapped within the great formation.

So, his words of recruitment turned into peace talks. The Alien Beast Clan indeed had no energy for a two-front war. Although the Human Clan did not yet have powerful experts, their numerical base was there, and fighting them would still be very troublesome.

Just as Venerable Bai was being exhausted by the great formation, Xun Xiuyuan waved his hand again.

Immediately, the formation's attacks subsided.

Xun Xiuyuan said, "Peace talks? Aren't you here to annihilate our Human Clan?"

Venerable Bai, Bai Lun, finally got a moment to breathe. The power of this great formation was truly too strong. Let alone himself, even a peak Quasi-God Realm expert would probably find it very difficult.

"Who told you that I came to annihilate your Human Clan?"

Venerable Bai was a bit bewildered at this point. Don't you know that the Human Clan of the Great World is the most protective of its own? Slaves are acceptable, but to directly annihilate a domain's Human Clan? Even the crazy Ghost Clan probably wouldn't dare to do that.

However, Xun Xiuyuan and the others had always been completely out of contact with the outside world, so how could they know about these intricate details?