Chapter 1445: Submit to Me!

"You..."

Withdrawing his longsword, Zhang Xuan happened to witness this scene and couldn't help but freeze in place.

"Thank you for the medicine. I know your purpose—sounds nice, helping me take revenge, but in truth, don't you still want me to submit to you? Let me tell you plainly: that's impossible!"

Channeling the Kirin Flame within, he refined the medicinal pill. The Qilin Beast looked over and chuckled lightly: "We Qilin beasts are immensely proud. How could we submit to an ordinary human?"

No matter how eloquent the other party was, wasn't it all just to make it submit?

It wouldn't even submit to the Zhang family head, so submit to a mere Domain Realm kid?

What a joke!

The reason it had wasted so much time with him was simply that, trapped for so long with no one to talk to, it felt a bit lonely. Who would have thought this fellow would unexpectedly bring it an unforeseen gain?

That Infernal Azure Dragon Beast—it had observed carefully earlier. Although it had already reached the peak of Saint Realm 8th Layer, that slight gap made breaking through as hard as reaching the heavens.

Yet after swallowing this pill, it succeeded immediately... Thus, it could confirm that the medicines in the jade bottle, even if not as potent for it, would certainly not be weak!

Breaking through a small level should be no big problem!

"My medicine..."

Ignoring its confident words, Zhang Xuan looked over, his face full of anxiety.

"I've swallowed it. Want me to give it back? No way..." Grinning, the Flame Qilin Beast lifted its eyelids.

Who told you to show off in front of me?

I'm not a master teacher who follows rules with you. What's grabbed is mine...

"That's not what I meant..."

Zhang Xuan shook his head.

"Whatever you meant... Since I've eaten your medicine, I can spare you. Get out of here now, or if you keep blabbering, I won't be polite..."

Waving its hoof, the Flame Qilin Beast flicked its thick tail and slowly walked back to where it had been sleeping.

"I..."

Unconcerned about whether the beast would turn hostile, Zhang Xuan quickly said: "What I mean is not that you stole my medicine... but that I only had one pill for helping a sacred beast break through..."

"One?"

The Qilin Beast turned its head, puzzled: "Then... what were the other medicines in your jade bottle?"

"Those were... poison!"

Zhang Xuan said hastily.

"Poison?" The Qilin Beast was stunned, then grinned: "If you don't want to give it to me, you don't have to lie like that. Do you think calling it poison will make me spit it out? Let me tell you the truth: I've already refined those medicines..."

It could understand the other party being stingy with the medicine, but to say something so ridiculous?

Before eating, it had specifically scanned with its divine sense. The pills were exactly the same as the one it had seen before, no difference at all. If they were really poison, its beast pet wouldn't have broken through—it would be dead by now!

Besides, who had ever heard of putting cultivation-enhancing medicine and poison in the same bottle?

Can't even lie properly!

"Refined? It's over..."

As it finished speaking, it saw the young man across from it turn pale, looking utterly dejected.

"Get lost. I won't kill you..."

Too lazy to waste more words, the Qilin Beast snorted and was about to turn around when suddenly its body stiffened, and a violent pain surged from within.

Crack! Crack!

It felt as if its heart were being torn apart. A peculiar current drilled into the finest blood vessels, devouring its nerves, threatening to kill it alive.

Eyes wide, the Qilin Beast panicked.

Kirin Flame could incinerate everything. Ordinary poisons would be burned to ashes before entering the body. Why was it suddenly in such pain?

Sizzle, sizzle!

As it wondered, the pain inside grew fiercer, spreading like a flood.

Thud!

It collapsed to the ground, unable to stand.

"It's those medicines I just ate..."

Pupils contracting, the Qilin Beast suddenly understood the source of the pain. Its teeth chattered, and its body shook violently.

Though it didn't know why it hurt, the source was easy to find: it was the medicines it had swallowed.

These pills had melted inside, turning into streams of peculiar energy that penetrated the most delicate parts of its body, eroding like deadly poison, ready to kill it at any moment.

"You... poisoned me!"

Turning its head in fury, the Qilin Beast glared at the young man, its eyes blazing with anger.

Now it understood everything.

He must have deliberately dropped the jade bottle on the ground, letting it steal...

This way, he neither compromised his dignity as a master teacher nor forced it by personally administering poison, so it couldn't hold a grudge...

Indeed, when master teachers are shameless, they are more terrifying than any profession!

"You stole it and ate it yourself. I did say it was poison..."

Zhang Xuan spread his hands helplessly.

"You..."

Trembling with rage, the Qilin Beast was speechless.

He was right. He had only placed the bottle beside him; it was the beast that had secretly taken it, and it was the beast that hadn't believed him, not thinking it was poison...

There was nothing morally wrong with his conduct, yet it was poisoned and could die at any moment...

"Give me the antidote..."

Teeth chattering, the Qilin Beast glared viciously.

Since he had these medicines, he must have an antidote.

"I don't have an antidote, but I know a way to alleviate it... If you submit to me, I can help you!"

Looking troubled, Zhang Xuan said.

"Submit? You're dreaming..."

Making it eat poison and then demanding submission? The Qilin Beast nearly exploded. With a roar, its eyes blazed with murderous intent: "Even if I die, I'll take you with me..."

Boom!

It leaped up abruptly, its hoof striking through the air.

The entire cage was instantly filled with flames. A tremendous force tore a black rift in space, spreading toward Zhang Xuan.

Thud!

Before it could reach him, it fell from the air, convulsing on the ground, foaming at the mouth.

The poison was too strong; it couldn't withstand it.

"Submit. If you don't, you'll die..."

Zhang Xuan looked over.

"Want me, a sacred beast with Kirin bloodline, to submit? Dream on..."

The Qilin Beast gritted its teeth.

The Kirin clan, ancient sacred beasts. Though its bloodline wasn't pure, submission was absolutely impossible!

It would rather die than do it!

Otherwise, why would the Zhang family have captured it for three years with no success?

"Then there's no way..."

Zhang Xuan shook his head and was about to continue persuading when suddenly he felt an immense pressure bearing down from above, making it hard to breathe.

He quickly looked up and saw dark clouds gathering in the sky, countless thunderbolts rending the air as they slowly converged.

"This is... the Saint Realm 9th Layer's Universe Void Tribulation?"

His pupils contracted.