Stranger Danger-Chapter 1773: Has Intelligence, But Not Much

“What’s happening?”

Ye Qing eventually returned to Feng Qingyou’s side with a puzzled expression. It was clear that she knew this would happen.

Feng Qingyou explained, “The Hanging Tree is spiritual. Its position in the sky is eternally fixed. It is impossible to reach it unless one uses the tree path.”

“So, you’re saying we need to climb the tree?” Ye Qing asked.

Feng Qingyou nodded.

“How is this tree still so troublesome even though it’s near death?”

Ye Qing was annoyed, but there was nothing he could do about it. He could only climb the tree.

And so the duo started climbing up the tree trunk. The tree trunk was as straight as a spear and as smooth as a mirror. There were no branches they could grab, nor any indentation they could dig their bodies into. If they weren’t Sages, it would have cost them a significant amount of time and energy to climb up the tree.

At least the distance between them and the tree was definitely shortening.

A teatime later, they finally arrived at the palace. The signboard said, “Myriad Beast Divine Palace”.

It was short and clear cut. It was obvious whose domain this was.

The palace had long since lost its spirituality and power, but the moment they set foot on the palace grounds, the words on the signboard abruptly transformed into a massive eyeball.

The eyeball was gold-colored and large like the sun. It had a vertical pupil like a dragon’s or a snake’s. It looked regal and dignified.

The next moment, the eyeball looked down on Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou, and a thunderous voice and crushing pressure spread across the Myriad Beast Forest Ascension Heaven.

“Who dares to enter the Myriad Beast Divine Palace without permission?”

“Junior Ye Qing requests a meeting with the Myriad Beast Divine Lord!” Ye Qing responded with a salute.

“Who dares to enter the Myriad Beast Divine Palace without permission?” the voice repeated itself in the exact same tone.

You only know that one line? What a waste of my theatrics, Ye Qing mentally ranted before replying, “It’s a me, your grandfather!”

“You dare commit blasphemy against the Myriad Beast Divine Sovereign? You deserve death!” However, as soon as Ye Qing said this, the voice grew enraged, and the eyeball shone brightly. Amidst the golden light, myriad beasts came to life and formed a stampede. They charged straight toward the duo.

“Oh? It was a trick?”

Ye Qing raised his eyebrows slightly and curled his lips into a smirk. Then, he threw out a punch.

“Annihilation Hammer”

Fist intent shot to the firmaments, and heaven and earth fell silent and desolate.

In one punch, the beasts crumbled, the golden light perished, and the eyeball flickered like a candle flame being beset by a storm. It looked like it was on the brink of disappearing.

“Impudent, disrespectful intruder! You deserve death!”

The pupil blinked, and a silhouette stepped out of the eyeball. The silhouette looked small, but he was brimming with great power. A halo floated behind his head and unleashed ripples of light.

Dragons and phoenixes danced, and myriad beasts howled amidst the ripples. It looked quite impressive.

“The Myriad Beast Divine Lord?”

The silhouette definitely looked impressive. He was probably a wisp of the Myriad Beast Divine Lord’s spiritual intent.

“Myriad beasts! Descend!”

As if he was making a heavenly decree, the dragons, phoenixes, and beasts turned real and descended from the sky.

The divine dragon was wreathed in a storm, whereas the phoenix scorched the nine firmaments with its fire.

The profound turtle kicked up a flood, whereas the white tiger rode on winds of metal.

The kui bull summoned lightning and thunder, and the nine infants spat rivers and streams.

The white gadfly moved mountains and hills, and the demonic ape shook the stars.

The xiaotian[1] swallowed the sun and the moon, and the kun whale devoured rivers and seas.

The great peng rose together with the wind, and the zhengning threw the world into chaos.

......

For a time, countless powerful beasts of legend appeared one after another and charged Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou.

As expected of the Myriad Beast Divine Lord.

Ye Qing paid the Myriad Beast Divine Lord a mental compliment before lowering his fist by three inches. At the same time, immense fist intent descended one meter like the collapse of heavens.

If the sky fell by a meter, then even celestials, Buddhas, gods and demons must bow their heads before me, no?

Rumble! 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

Divine dragons fell, phoenix wings snapped, profound turtles broke, and white tigers lost their heads.

In just the blink of an eye, the ancient beasts were annihilated to the last.

Not done yet, the fist intent poured down on the Myriad Beast Divine Lord like a waterfall of heaven.

The boundless halo behind the deity’s back shattered, and his head bowed involuntarily.

When a deity bowed their head, heaven and earth raged in indignation.

The entire Myriad Beast Forest Ascension Heaven started rumbling. The forest swayed without wind, and the myriad beasts stood without strength.

Literally, the mythological beasts that had died for heavens-know-how-long somehow rose to their feet one after another. Terrible, angry growls rumbled in their chests.

“You dare!” the spiritual intent uttered.

“He has some intelligence, but not much...”

Ye Qing shook his head. He was planning to greet the Myriad Beast Divine Lord as a junior, but it was clear that the intent was... limited.

In that case, there was no point in acting or playing meek.Before the spiritual intent could finish its threat, Ye Qing turned his fist and punched downward.

Thump!

When a divine being struck a gong, all living beings must bow their heads. A thump even louder than the roars of the beasts silenced it all. The forest stopped swaying, and the beasts that just climbed to their feet collapsed to the ground like wheats.

At the same time, the spiritual intent of the Myriad Beast Divine Lord was annihilated as well.

When the Myriad Beast Divine Lord’s intent was destroyed, the signboard also dimmed and crumbled soundlessly into dust.

“We can head in now.”

The Myriad Beast Divine Lord’s spiritual intent was actually pretty strong. It was at least as strong as a Sage. However, its intelligence was severely lacking, so it was no match for Ye Qing as a matter of course.

The duo did not encounter any more resistance after eliminating the Myriad Beast Divine Lord’s spiritual intent. They successfully entered the Myriad Beast Divine Palace without trouble.

The Myriad Beast Divine Palace didn’t look big from the outside, but appearance could be deceiving. Its internal space was massive and empty. More accurately, there wasn’t a living soul in sight—excluding himself and Feng Qingyou, of course.

“This is probably the Myriad Beast Divine Lord’s treasury.”

At a side hall, the duo looked at the pile of treasures, valuables, Strange Artifacts and other divine objects in front of them with pity.

It was because the items had lost their spirituality after gathering dust for heavens-know-how-long. They were basically useless now.

It wasn’t just their treasury either. The pill making hall, the library, the diner, the bedroom and more were suffering from the same problem.

To be fair, the Myriad Beast Divine Lord was definitely one of the big bosses of the Divine Court. Anyone could tell that he had a lot of good stuff. However, not even the best item could stand against the erosion of time. The large majority of them had turned into valueless garbage, and the few that hadn’t had lost most of their spirituality and suffered major damage to their essence. They possessed some power, but it wasn’t very useful or valuable to say the least.

“I don’t think there’s anything else of value here. Let’s leave.”

The reason they came to the Divine Court was one, to search for White Robe Demon Master and two, to collect opportunities. Since the Myriad Beast Forest Ascension Heaven could offer neither, there was no need to linger.

And so the duo left the Myriad Beast Divine Palace and climbed further up the Hanging Tree.

A big boss who commanded one of the Thirty Six Heavens such as the Myriad Beast Divine Lord could of course travel to another heaven without needing to climb the Hanging Tree. Unfortunately, everyone else could not boast the same privilege.

They would need a certain level of permission and use the common path.

In the Myriad Beast Forest Ascension Heaven, the common path leading to another heaven was the Hanging Tree.

All Ye Qing and Feng Qingyou needed to do to enter another heaven was to climb to the very top.

It wasn’t long before they reached the top.

1. Xiaotian Quan (Chinese: 哮天犬 or 嘯天犬; pinyin: Xiàotiān Quǎn; lit. 'Howling/Barking Celestial Dog') is a Chinese mythological beast and companion of the Chinese god Erlang Shen. ☜