Chapter 1495: Chapter 1490: Dead? (Part 1)

They didn’t have to wait more than a few minutes before they understood why.

The Exotic Beast horde in front of them suddenly parted, opening up a passage.

A single Exotic Beast, its body twice the size of the others, strolled over with more than a dozen burly Exotic Beasts whose bodies were also clearly larger than the rest.

Their gray fur was different from the other Exotic Beasts.

In comparison, it looked much brighter and glossier.

Especially that biggest Exotic Beast, which looked like a calf; its gray fur had a faint sheen to it.

Its eyes were different from the other Exotic Beasts too.

The gaze of the other Exotic Beasts was almost all chaos and slaughter.

Its eyes, though, were much more human-like, as if it had gained intelligence.

The dozen or so beside it also had a gaze that differed from the rest, but their intelligence was clearly lower than its.

There was no doubt about it.

Wolf packs have wolf kings.

Then for such a massive Exotic Beast horde, there had to be a Beast King.

This one was their Beast King.

All the Exotic Beasts obeyed its commands.

And precisely because of this, they had been able to act in an organized way, chasing and hunting them without letting up.

Except... why?

What had they done wrong?

They hadn’t done anything at all; out of nowhere they’d been attacked by this horde of Exotic Beasts.

In the end they could only suspect that it was those people playing tricks.

But how did they do it?

Even the old ancestors couldn’t do it—so why could they?!

Besides, those people weren’t even from the four great families.

The more they thought about it, the more confused they got; the more they thought, the less sense it made.

And also, how could there be a Beast King?

Was this some kind of joke?

The forebears had clearly recorded that Exotic Beast hordes were all in a mindless state, nothing but chaos and killing.

Were the forebears lying to them?

They felt it was unlikely that the forebears had lied.

Because for so many years, there had never been any abnormalities in the Exotic Beast hordes.

At the same time, the elders wouldn’t gamble with their lives.

After all, they were the most core disciples of the four great families.

No—that should be three families.

The Beast King, leading more than a dozen burly Exotic Beasts, stopped about fifteen meters away from them.

At this moment the Beast King was still within the massive horde.

Han Kun, Bai Zhan, and Lin Tian exchanged glances.

Trying to suddenly launch a surprise kill on the Beast King would be way too hard.

This Beast King was a bit cunning.

There were still five meters of tightly packed Exotic Beasts in front of it.

If they tried to strike, at least fifty Exotic Beasts in that five-meter zone would rush to block them.

One person could insta-kill five or six, no problem—but that many would take more time.

If they couldn’t break through in time, the surrounding Exotic Beasts would also rush over.

And the Beast King would have time to retreat.

Hoping the Beast King wouldn’t retreat, and would even charge at them instead—

They couldn’t help shaking their heads. That was basically impossible.

This Exotic Beast wasn’t stupid.

It clearly had intelligence.

In terms of individual strength, there was no way it could be their match.

The Beast King was only an elementary King of Soldiers.

Those other dozens were top-tier special forces level.

The rest, the vast majority of them, were elementary special forces level.

While Han Kun and the other two were all Peak Soldier Kings.

And even among Peak Soldier Kings, they belonged to the terrifyingly strong category.

Ordinary veteran Peak Soldier Kings weren’t their match.

They were hailed as the three people in this era with the most hope of breaking through to Innate.

The family had sent them into the Secret Realm precisely so they could lay a solid foundation.

To strive to reach Half-step Innate as soon as possible.

Once they reached Half-step Innate, the next time they entered the Secret Realm, they might well be able to break through to Innate.

However, the next opportunity would take at least ten years—maybe twenty, thirty.

Ten years would already be extremely fast.

If it were ten years, even the youngest, Lin Tian, would be well into his thirties.

So when the Lin family ancestors saw Lin Xi already at Late Innate Stage, you can imagine how incredulous they felt.

Lin Xi was not even twenty years old.

And even for the three of Han Kun, breaking into Innate in their thirties—

To get to mid-Innate, or late Innate—

That would definitely take many, many years; a hundred years wouldn’t be an exaggeration.

And even then, you weren’t guaranteed to break through.

Many peerless geniuses got stuck at Early Innate Stage and never moved forward.

Especially in an era of Spiritual Qi depletion.

Even with Secret Realms within the family—

Even if cultivating inside the Secret Realm was on a completely different level than other Secret Realms—

A depleted era was still a depleted era.

The Secret Realm was heavily affected as well.

A very simple example.

In the era when Spiritual Qi hadn’t yet run dry, this great canyon within their Secret Realm required Late Innate experts to enter as a group—and there was a huge chance they wouldn’t return.

Now, even mid-Innate or Early Innate cultivators could go in, and if luck was good, they might still come out alive.

Of course, that probability was very low.

But it was still better than before, when there was basically zero chance.

This also showed that the depletion of Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi had impacted the Qi and effectiveness inside the Secret Realm.

Cultivation had slowed down.

At the same time, it had weakened the dangers in those hazardous zones.

In other words, the danger had dropped quite a bit.

"Are they coming over or not?!" Someone was scared, sure, but there were also those who had completely thrown caution to the wind.

At worst, you die.

It’s not like no one has died before.

Out of the hundred of them, now there were only twenty left—no, twenty-six.

Among them, some weren’t even on their side.

But, well...

So many had died anyway.

He wasn’t someone afraid of death.

And several of his close friends had died.

Right now he hated this Exotic Beast horde to the bone.

Of course, the ones he hated most were still those people.

Damn it, how did they manage to slip past the ancestors’ investigations?

And what about the Xu family’s people?

How did they impersonate members of the Xu family without anyone noticing?

They had also thought of one possibility.

That the Xu family had suffered a huge incident.

Something like that had to be reported to their family at once.

Otherwise, the family would suffer a massive loss.

Who exactly were those people?

You could say they had never seen them before.

For a group with that kind of strength, which power did they belong to? As core members of Huaxia’s top-tier families, they actually had no clue.

This was freaking unreal.

"How about we go into the canyon?"

Someone voiced that suggestion too.

At this point, you couldn’t really call them cowards.

There was no helping it—if they kept fighting, death was certain.

Even if they could kill some Exotic Beasts, what was the point?

It was obvious there were too many of these Exotic Beasts to count.

And judging by that Beast King, it didn’t care at all.

Nor did those Exotic Beasts care about their own lives.

Otherwise, a group of elementary special forces, they would be able to insta-kill completely.

You had to remember, they were King of Soldiers.

The strength difference in tiers was enormous.

But damn, there were just way too many of them.

And each one acted like it didn’t care about its own life.

How the hell were they supposed to fight that?

If they didn’t get hurt, that would be strange!

At this moment, everyone was waiting for Han Kun and the other two to give the order.

Off to the side, Yan Xia actually wasn’t very scared anymore.

Instead, she was deeply unwilling.

She had only just gained some strength, and so quickly—and more importantly, she had only just gotten herself a man.

And now she was going to die?

Die?

Would that little bastard feel heartbroken?

He definitely would, right!

Then again, maybe not—he had so many women, after all.

Sigh, so complicated!

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