The so-called Desolate Beast Empire is a nation established by some ancient relic species possessing ancient bloodlines. Initially, it only accepted beast clans with ancient bloodlines, but later, any beast clan willing to join the Desolate Beast Empire would be permitted.

Gradually, the Desolate Beast Empire became very, very strong.

The entire Desolate Beast Empire is hidden beneath the cliffs at the end of the Wuming Sea, behind Wuming Mountain. As of now, very few human Martial Arts Practitioners have been able to cross the entire Wuming Sea, let alone pass through Wuming Mountain at the end of it.

It should be noted that Wuming Mountain is a volcano over 30,000 meters tall, continuously erupting terrifying volcanic ash and lava throughout the years. Moreover, the fire of this volcano is not ordinary flames, but top-tier earthfire.

In fact, Xiao Qing was able to accidentally enter the Desolate Beast Empire due to immense luck and her possession of the Empress’ memory and the barely activated Empress Bloodline. Otherwise, with her current Martial Arts Realm at the late True Martial Realm, although capable, she would absolutely not survive entering the Desolate Beast Empire.

The Desolate Beast Empire currently has over ten thousand beast species.

However, the most astonishing are the ten ancient relic species that founded the Desolate Beast Empire.

These ten ancient relic species include the Ancient Qilin, Bai Feng, Purple-eyed Demon Tiger, Nine-tailed Immortal Fox, Heavenly Treasure Rat, Ten Thousand Legged Blood Centipede, Ancient Golden Peng, Eternal Mysterious Turtle, Purple Cloud Thunder Whale, and Red Gold Divine Ape.

These ten ancient relic species all possess terrifying ancient bloodlines passed down from their ancestors.

Moreover, the beast clans have an exceptional advantage—their generations live for extremely long periods. A hundred million years could see humans pass through 50, 80 generations of Martial Arts Practitioners, but for these long-living and daunting beast clans, it’s merely 10 or 8 generations; even, for these ten beast clans with ancient relic bloodlines, possibly just 5 generations...

The fewer the generations passed down, naturally, the higher the concentration of the bloodline.

Naturally, their power is also stronger.

Additionally, the Desolate Beast Empire boasts another striking advantage: the 30,000-meter high volcano at the end of the Horizontal Wuming Sea. This volcano not only serves as a gigantic natural barrier against humans but is also a natural, unparalleled treasury of Martial Arts Resources. 𝘧𝓇ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝘣𝓃ℴ𝓋𝑒𝑙.𝑐𝘰𝑚

Every day, the volcano erupts, spewing not only volcanic ash and lava but also a substance known as Fire Crystal.

This crystal contains pure, vast Spiritual Energy.

Back a billion years ago, when the Desolate Beast Empire was first established, the ten ancient relic species discovered this fact and were overjoyed. From then on, these ten beast clans marked the accumulated mountains beneath the volcano, due to lava and volcanic ash, and claimed them as their own.

This essentially means that the ten ancient relic species control all of the Martial Arts Resources in the Desolate Beast Empire.

With strength, terrifying bloodlines, immense background, and control over Martial Arts Resources, it’s conceivable how high the standing of the ten ancient relic beast clans is in the Desolate Beast Empire.

To put it simply, among all the thousands of races within the Desolate Beast Empire, nearly all willingly and fearfully bow at the feet of the ten ancient relic species.

The hierarchy is strict.

And the ten ancient relic species gradually divided into ten regions.

This time, Xiao Qing happened to come to the Desolate Beast Empire, and the area she arrived in belonged precisely to the Ancient Golden Peng Clan.

The Ancient Golden Peng Clan is belligerent by nature. Even among the already combative beast clans, they are considered combat fanatics and extremely arrogant, not having a reputable standing in the Desolate Beast Empire, as everyone fears them, not daring to provoke them. However, the Ancient Golden Peng Clan indeed possesses arrogant and domineering abilities.

The Ancient Golden Peng Clan has three moves that crown the entire Desolate Beast Empire: First is speed; with a spread of its wings, it can travel thirty to fifty thousand meters, incredibly fast.

The next is its claws, the pair of golden claws, if truly mature, would be sharper than usual Divine Artifacts, almost as sharp as ordinary Dao Artifacts.

The third is its defense, layers of golden feathers akin to golden divine armor; ordinary attacks cannot even scratch the Ancient Golden Peng.

Due to the Ancient Golden Peng being so powerful, even within the ten ancient relic species, the Ancient Golden Peng Clan ranks steadily in the top five and even the top three.

The Fire Crystal Mountain occupied by the Ancient Golden Peng Clan is naturally very, very large.

Named Peng Mountain by the Ancient Golden Peng Clan.

Every day on Peng Mountain, at least ten thousand slaves desperately break and move stones, searching bit by bit for Fire Crystals among the rocks. The Fire Crystals found must gather each day in the hands of the slave master, who then pools them monthly to the Peng Mountain Master. The Peng Mountain Master visits the Desolate City, the residence of the ten ancient relic species, once a month and offers these Fire Crystals to the Ancient Golden Peng Clan.

There can be no concealment or slackness, for it’s rumored that many top-tier elders of the Ancient Golden Peng Clan possess terrifying Divine Skills, able to see through endless space, thousands or tens of thousands of miles away, perhaps even from Desolate City, to observe and deduce everything happening on Peng Mountain.

The Peng Mountain Master is a member of the Ancient Golden Peng Clan, but his bloodline concentration is not considered high, colloquially speaking, he’s an outsider.

Under the Peng Mountain Master are the slave masters, generally composed of those beast clans outside the ten relic species within the Desolate Beast Empire, such as the Earth Dragon Clan, Thousand-faced Lion, and others, who serve as the slave masters. The daily tasks of the slave masters include patrolling with the sharp Xuantie Whip, lashing out at any mining slave caught slackening.

As for those most pitiable mining slaves, most belong to the lowest class of beast clans in the Desolate Beast Empire, like the Cannibal Antelope Clan, Triangular Ant Clan, Single-tailed Fox Clan, and others—all pitiful clans whose intelligence hasn’t much evolved, struggling to even take human form.

Of course, some human captives are included.

Human captives are rare, as the current era sees humanity’s Martial Arts flourishing, and their overall strength surpassing the Desolate Beast Empire. Hence, the Desolate Beast Empire does not dare to arbitrarily send clan members out to snatch humans.

Speaking of which, Ning Chaotian appears to be unlucky.

Originally attempting to hide, he flew steadily across the sky toward the end of Wuming Sea. However, lacking strength, he couldn’t possibly reach the end, nor see the 30,000-meter high volcano.

His encounter with a frightening tsunami over Wuming Sea swept him away.

Upon awakening, he found himself washed beneath the volcano, his luck fortunate enough not to drown.

Unlucky for him, he encountered some beast clan members who had sneaked out of the Desolate Beast Empire, resulting in him being captured and brought to the Desolate Beast Empire.

In the words of those beast clan members: This old man was brought right to us!

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