"Whirr!"
Between heaven and earth, there was a sudden sound of tides, causing countless people in the Heavenly Demon Plain to feel strange.
The Heavenly Demon Plain was located among a group of peaks, with no major rivers or lakes nearby. Where did this sound of tides come from?
Just as everyone was puzzled, they saw a huge river rushing towards this place from the distant sky!
Yes, that great river was actually surging from the sky towards this place!
"Boom! Boom!"
The sound of the surging floodwaters echoing in their ears caused everyone's expression to change slightly. Such a grand momentum meant either a rare treasure was about to be born, or...
Before everyone could guess, they saw a spirit beast resembling a white deer on the great river that flowed horizontally across the sky, stepping on the endless surging great river!
"Hiss!"
All the experts present, even the Nirvana Realm experts from super dynasties who had seen a lot of the world, gasped as they watched the white deer spirit beast stepping on the river from afar.
Suddenly, someone with excellent eyesight vaguely saw a figure on the back of the white deer spirit beast, whose color was completely integrated with the spirit beast, and couldn't help but exclaim.
"There's someone there!"
"With such strength, could it be the Sword Saint?"
As soon as the words Sword Saint were spoken, the entire plain was instantly silent for a moment. Everyone's eyes were cast on the figure riding the spirit beast and stepping on the river in the sky.
Such a shocking scene would be unforgettable for countless people present!
"Da! Da! Da!"
As the four-horned white deer spirit beast stepped on the waves, everyone finally saw the appearance of that figure. Dressed in white, with silver hair flowing, he was truly peerless and graceful, like an immortal descending to earth, without a trace of dust!
Lin Xuan sat on Fu Zhu's back, high above the mid-air long river, condescendingly overlooking the four, no, five huge ancient halls below, a solemn look flashing in his eyes.
Those below seemed to be four ancient halls, but in fact, there was another ancient hall hidden in the dark.
Lin Xuan reached out and gently patted Fu Zhu's beast horn. A dignified look flashed in Fu Zhu's eyes, and then, he raised his front hoof and gently stepped on the long river.
"Boom!"
Instantly, on the long river that was constantly surging in the air but never falling, a huge wave column suddenly burst out, directly rushing towards the ancient hall on the far left of the four ancient halls, above the hall door engraved with a white-handed, red-footed fierce ape.
Seeing Fu Zhu suddenly attacking a void, everyone was dumbfounded, unable to understand what the white deer divine beast, no, unable to understand what the Sword Saint was doing.
But the next moment, everyone was stunned, because the wave column did not directly pass through the void and fall to the ground as they had expected, but seemed to have hit something invisible.
"Boom!"
The huge wave column seemed to have hit a huge reef, instantly exploding in all directions, and countless splashes of water wet the clothes of many experts around.
But at this time, no one cared about the wet clothes. Everyone stared wide-eyed, shocked, at the 'void' that had scattered the wave column, because at this moment, a huge, majestic ancient hall appeared there, standing horizontally in the void.
"There's actually a fifth hall?"
Many people looked at the newly appeared hall and couldn't help but exclaim in surprise. No one had thought that there would be another ancient hall here. After all, the Four Profound Sects had always had only four ancient halls. This was everyone's consensus.
Even the names of the Four Demon Halls were well known to everyone. From left to right, they were the Zhu Yan Hall, the Tao Wu Hall, the Taotie Hall, and the Qiong Qi Hall. The order in which the four ferocious beast phantoms appeared was in the order from right to left of the Four Demon Halls.
Qiong Qi Hall was that dark red ancient hall, as if it had been cast from countless fresh blood, allowing anyone who saw it to feel an overwhelming aura of slaughter rushing towards them.
Taotie Hall was that bizarre, pitch-black, enormous ancient hall, also the largest of the four ancient halls. Its gate was the most chilling of the four, a tightly shut door resembling a gaping maw, always sending shivers down one's spine, as if it were about to swallow them whole in the next moment.
Tao Wu Hall, relatively speaking, seemed much gentler, but this was only in comparison. A tyrannical aura emanated from the dark hall, equally terrifying. On the ferocious beast totem on the hall's door, the eyes that seemed to look down from above appeared to scorn all living beings, displaying an arrogant demeanor.
As for the final Zhu Yan Hall, the crimson hall exuded an aura of brutality. It seemed that its imposing manner was no less than the other three halls, but the deterrent force it gave off inexplicably felt inferior to the others.
However, now, an ancient hall was appearing in the sky above Zhu Yan Hall.
This brand-new ancient hall was constructed from a chaotic, greyish-black, unknown material that resembled both metal and stone. The color of the hall itself gave off an incredibly chaotic feeling.
Of course, the most peculiar aspect was the ancient hall door. The doors of the four halls below all had extremely clear patterns, but uniquely, this newly appeared hall, whose aura was in no way inferior to the other three, had nothing on its door.
However, upon closer inspection, one could seemingly see some strange patterns on the door, as if there was a chaotic, unclear entity present, making it very perplexing.
"The leader of the Four Ferocious Beasts, Chaos!"
Lin Xuan's eyes narrowed slightly as he gazed at the beast pattern on the door that had no eyes, no mouth, and no facial features. He had originally thought that his guess was already quite bold, but now it seemed that it was not bold enough.
As Bo Xuan's friend, and with the Black Eyes' insights, Lin Xuan was very familiar with the power of the Devouring Ancestor Symbol and the Darkness Ancestor Symbol.
The aura of the Chaos beast and the original aura of the Darkness Ancestor Symbol, although different, had great similarities. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they came from the same source.
Furthermore, the aura of the Taotie origin within the Taotie Ancient Hall was even more similar to the Devouring Ancestor Symbol.
Originally, Lin Xuan thought that all the ancient divine beasts were born from the rules of heaven and earth, naturally controlling the power of the rules of heaven and earth, and were extremely powerful.
But from these four clearer auras of origin, Lin Xuan had another feeling. What was before him was not four auras of origin, but another side of heaven and earth—a side filled with slaughter, greed, tyranny, and chaos.
In comparison, the previous auras of the Four Sacred Beasts—majesty, holiness, benevolence, and virtue—were like the yin and yang sides of heaven and earth!
Yin and yang coexist!
One was order, and the other was chaos, two sides of the same entity of heaven and earth!
At this moment, Lin Xuan was pleasantly surprised to discover how shallow his previous understanding of heaven and earth, Qian and Kun, vertical and horizontal, and yin and yang was!
As heaven maintains vigor through movement, a gentleman should constantly strive for self-improvement! As earth's condition is receptive devotion, a gentleman should hold the outer world with broad mind!
But whether it was heaven or earth, they were actually more inclined towards the yang side, the benevolent and impartial side displayed by heaven and earth.
And the true so-called fairness should be balance, like the two ends of a scale. If one end has positive, then there is negative in the place that cannot be seen on the other end!
On the side illuminated by heaven and earth, there is fairness, benevolence, and order. Then, in the hidden places that cannot be illuminated, there will definitely be injustice, selfishness, greed, and chaos...
The two sides of yin and yang are not only the places that can be seen, but also the places that cannot be seen, because this is also the way of yin and yang!
Lin Xuan's eyes were quietly changing at this moment, one as black as ink, and the other as white as light. Then, black and white rotated, like the transformation between yin and yang.
"Roar!!"
Just as Lin Xuan was comprehending, a roar suddenly exploded in the sky. Immediately afterward, Zhu Yan Hall trembled violently.
In the next moment, everyone saw that streams of enormous scarlet aura were rising from Zhu Yan Hall. However, perhaps because of fear of the ancient hall above Zhu Yan Hall, the enormous scarlet aura only gathered below the vast, chaotic ancient hall.
Before long, it condensed into a ferocious giant ape covered in white hair and with four limbs and a crimson face. Its extremely terrifying aura caused the faces of the Nirvana Realm experts around to change.
After the ferocious giant ape appeared, it directly ignored the group of ants around it. Its crimson eyes directly locked onto Fu Zhu above the long river in the sky.
"Roar!!!"
Once again roaring angrily at Fu Zhu, Zhu Yan's massive arms forcefully pounded his chest, waves of ferocious and violent aura sweeping in all directions, causing many powerhouses below the Three Yuan Nirvana Realm to cough up blood.
"Yo!!"
Fu Zhu raised his head and emitted a long and clear beastly cry, directly blocking Zhu Yan's violent and ferocious aura.
Under Fu Zhu's cry, the surging river beneath his feet once again rushed forward, its boundless momentum instantly suppressing all of Zhu Yan's emitted aura back into his body.
After Zhu Yan's aura disappeared, all the powerhouses around simultaneously breathed a sigh of relief. Just a moment ago, they truly felt as if they were about to be torn apart by the ferocious and tyrannical giant ape before them.
Fortunately, the Sword Saint's mount, that spirit beast whose name they didn't know, helped them out.
"Huff huff!!"
Seeing Zhu Yan easily suppressed by him, Fu Zhu directly snorted, seemingly mocking his old opponent.
Below, Zhu Yan stared at Fu Zhu, then looked at the figure with a mysterious and unpredictable aura. In his eyes, originally filled with ferocity, a hint of intelligent fear flashed.
Unlike Fu Zhu, whose last remnant soul was completely condensed by Lin Xuan, Zhu Yan was merely awakened. Much of his power was sealed within the Inheritance Hall, with some scattered throughout this space.
Therefore, facing Fu Zhu, who was no weaker than himself in the past, Zhu Yan was now completely suppressed, and without any power to resist.
Seeing the Sword Saint's spirit beast easily suppress that Zhu Yan ferocious beast, forcing it to withdraw its ferocious might, many people's eyes flashed with surprise.
The Sword Saint's mount was so strong, then the Sword Saint himself, wouldn't he be as legendary as rumored...
But in the next moment, everyone's pupils began to tremble, because, while the Zhu Yan ferocious beast was suppressed and dared not move, the remaining four ancient halls with even more powerful auras began to stir at this moment.
"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!!"
Streams of black gas, dark red gas, and chaotic gas rose from the four ancient halls, constantly gathering above the Lingkong River. In the air, one could vaguely see the phantoms of four massive and powerful ferocious beasts.
Before the phantoms could even take shape, a terrifying and chilling aura swept across the entire land, rapidly sweeping towards the entire Ancient Battlefield.
Throughout the Ancient Battlefield, countless powerhouses sensed those four ferocious auras at this moment, and their expressions instantly changed.
The powerhouses of the seven super sects who had already returned to the Hundred Dynasty Mountain also had their expressions drastically change at this moment. Wu Dao and the others turned their heads in shock to look at the Willow Skirt Beauty, who was also filled with shock at this time.
Even the Willow Skirt Beauty did not expect that her casual remark would actually come true!
Those four auras were incredibly ancient, filled with the vicissitudes of time, yet they could still rival the sect leaders, and even be a bit stronger!
After such a long period, they had only just recovered, and their aura had not yet reached its peak, yet they already possessed such a terrifying aura. Then, what terrifying existences would they be at their peak? Perhaps, even Revolving Wheel Realm experts would not be qualified to face them directly, right?
Northwest Region, outside the Four Profound Sects Inheritance Hall.
As the four entered the hall, many powerhouses sighed and prepared to disperse, but just then, a massive aura suddenly emanated from one of the halls in the Four Profound Sects Inheritance Hall.
Azure Dragon Hall, the deepest part of the endless sea of thunder.
A massive Azure Dragon, almost without end in sight, slowly emerged. Above the Azure Dragon's head, a figure in a Green Shirt sat cross-legged. The man's eyes were tightly closed, his appearance quite handsome, and his face very gentle, exuding an air of refinement. If not for being in this endless sea of thunder, he would probably be mistaken for a scholar.
Suddenly, the Green Shirt man abruptly opened his eyes, a few traces of shock flashing in them. His originally gentle face was also replaced by an unbelievable expression, his gaze directly fixed on the endless sea of thunder before him, as if wanting to see through layers of space and see something clearly.
"This aura, could it really be that the inheritance of the legendary Ancient Ferocious Beasts has appeared? How is this possible?"