Chapter 2016: Leaving the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect

"I'm here again, still hoping you'll submit to me..."

With a bitter smile, Mu Xu flipped his wrist and took out a jade bottle: "This is Serum Liquid, which can moisten your meridians, making them softer and easier to break through constraints..."

The Stone Flame Beast, because its body is like stone and its internal meridians are extremely hard, finds breakthrough extremely troublesome after adulthood.

The only method is to purchase this Serum Liquid to moisten the meridians within the body.

It could be said that this medicinal herb holds immense attraction for this sacred beast.

Only... it's too expensive!

For this one bottle, he had spent a full half year, completing over fifteen missions, each time a narrow escape from death. If not for good luck, he might have turned to dust by now.

"Serum Liquid can indeed make my meridians more pliable, but if you think that will make me submit, give up the hope. I would rather die than submit to a human..."

The Stone Flame Beast snorted coldly.

"Aren't you afraid I'll kill you?"

Seeing the other's earnestness and that he truly would not submit, Mu Xu looked over helplessly.

"Life holds no joy, death holds no sorrow. I, Stone Flame, a noble sacred beast, would rather die than bow and scrape... Kill me if you will!"

Having said that, the Stone Flame Beast raised its head, turned back into stone, and paid no heed to anything.

"You..."

Holding a longsword, he wished he could chop the creature on the spot, but the other's eyes showed no change, clearly not regarding life or death as anything...

"Fine, I lose. From today on, I will leave the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, and you are free..."

Seeing that the other had no intention of submitting, Mu Xu shook his head in helplessness, his eyes filled with indescribable disappointment. Just as he was about to leave the room, he heard a voice in the air.

"From today onward, the position of Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is passed to Elder Zheng Yang..."

"The Sect Master has changed? But no matter who it is, it has nothing to do with me anymore..."

Taking a deep breath, full of dejection, the voice in the air continued: "...I have made improvements to the beast-taming methods previously studied by you all. Now, disciples of each branch, please go to the corresponding elder to receive the new methods..."

"Improved the beast-taming methods?"

Mu Xu stopped: "I won't be a disciple of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect until tomorrow, meaning I still have the right to learn now. Let's go take a look..."

Though he held no hope, he still found the inner sect elder and began to learn.

The new Sect Master's beast-taming method was very simple, summed up in four words: Don't Be a Simp!

In plain terms, when all kinds of fawning methods fail, you can try beating it to death!

Then appropriately give it the treasures it needs.

"This kind of beating is useless..."

After quickly reading through the taught content, Mu Xu looked helpless.

This method of beating to tame beasts also existed in the sect, and he had tried it, but not only did it fail, it made the creature irritable, nearly smashing itself to death...

In other words, it was useless!

"The Sect Master's new method must be used with this pill..."

Seeing his dejection, the elder handed him a jade bottle.

"A pill?"

Mu Xu uncorked the bottle, looked at it for a while, and became even more confused.

It was just an ordinary healing pill, ineffective even for a Ninth Level Saint Domain cultivator. Giving this to a sacred beast after a beating... would be taken as an insult!

"Just try it."

The elder instructed.

Since he was to be expelled from the sect tomorrow anyway, he had to try anything. Mu Xu gritted his teeth: "I'll go for it!"

Taking the jade bottle to the room, he didn't bother with more words. Following the beast-taming method he had just learned from the elder, he charged fiercely.

With a ground-shaking commotion, the Stone Flame Beast was stabbed all over by the longsword, bleeding profusely, on the verge of death.

"The humiliation you've given me—if you don't kill me, I will repay it..."

Its face twisted, the Stone Flame Beast gnashed its teeth, the whole beast about to explode.

The other was simply humiliating it...

"Shut up!"

Following the new Sect Master's method, Mu Xu gritted his teeth and forced the pill from the jade bottle into the creature's mouth.

At this point, he couldn't care less.

"What are you feeding me? I'll kill you..."

Seeing something being forced into it, the Stone Flame Beast trembled incessantly, letting out an angry roar. Just as Mu Xu thought there was no turning back for either of them, the rock-like sacred beast suddenly shrank, looking at the young man before it with a strange expression.

"Master, I am your dear Little Flame Flame. Don't go... Please take me in..."

"Uh?"

His face twitching, Mu Xu stood frozen.

This... the change was too fast!

Soon, the bonding process was complete. Feeling that with a thought he could communicate with the creature, or even kill it with a thought, Mu Xu still hadn't reacted.

He had tried for a year without success, but following the new Sect Master's method, it was done in over ten minutes...

What was the principle?

But regardless of the principle, the beast that had resisted taming for a whole year was tamed by the new Sect Master's method in one go, proving its wonder.

"Sect Master... I am convinced!"

Thinking of the bitterness of the past year, he fell to his knees with a thud, tears streaming down his face.

From today on, he was utterly convinced by this new Sect Master, with no trace of doubt.

...

The same scene appeared on other peaks.

If before, they only thought the new Sect Master was personally skilled at taming beasts but of little benefit to the sect, now that notion was completely gone.

Now they fully understood why Sect Master Qin had stepped down without a second word...

With such a Sect Master, how could the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect not grow stronger!

"Before, I was unwilling to accept it, but now I realize I am far inferior to him. Having him as Sect Master is truly a blessing for the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect..." Elder Yuan said, filled with excitement.

If the other had not emerged, he would have been the next Sect Master. He had harbored resentment, but now that feeling vanished without a trace, no longer arising.

Such a person was what the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect should have as its leader.

He was far from matching!

...

"Haha, I'll see how Han Jianqiu can still brag in front of me now. My Ten Thousand Beasts Sect also has its own true genius..."

Elder Qin Yuan trembled with excitement.

Before, when Han Jianqiu said the Lingyun Sword Pavilion had a genius who comprehended the Sword Intent of the Gods, he was very envious. Now, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect also had a comparable genius...

Let's see what qualifications the other had to show off in front of him!

"When... the Sect Master finishes his business and returns from the Star-Chasing Sea, I'll have him go and test that new Sect Master of the Lingyun Sword Pavilion. Killing a peak Immortal Lord at the True Immortal realm... impressive as it is, I don't believe he can withstand the siege of four Immortal Lord-level immortal beasts!"

With a cold laugh, Elder Qin Yuan was full of smiles.

Han Jianqiu had praised that new Sect Master to the skies.

But no matter how powerful, he couldn't withstand the attacks of many sacred beasts like the Flood Dragon and Nine-Headed Fire Phoenix Beast!

Moreover, Sect Master Zheng Yang's own strength was also formidable!

As for whether Zheng Yang and that Zhang Xuan were both at the peak of True Immortal with Immortal Lord strength... he had doubted it too, but they were of different ages, different appearances, and different names, so they certainly weren't the same person!

The Abandoned Continent was vast and boundless, with countless geniuses; it was not surprising that one or two emerged.

Wasn't Han Jianqiu being smug?

When the Sect Master finished his business and returned, he would find a way to have him challenge that Zhang Xuan. If he didn't beat the crap out of him, how could it show that their Ten Thousand Beasts Sect had also become strong?

...

On the second day after arriving at the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, Zhang Xuan rubbed his brow and came before Elder Qin Yuan.

In a day and night, he had compiled the beast-taming methods he understood into a manual and distributed it, and also read all the books in the Elder Hall.

As he guessed, the Immortal Lord-level techniques were indeed incomplete, but it gave him a deeper understanding of that level.

It didn't greatly increase his combat power, but at least when encountering a powerhouse of the same level again, he wouldn't be as passive as before.

"Sect Master, you're leaving now?"

Seeing him approach, Elder Qin Yuan said.

"Yes, I have urgent matters that cannot be delayed..."

Zhang Xuan nodded.

"Alright... I'll accompany the Sect Master!" Elder Qin Yuan said.

"No need. With the Flood Dragon and the others following, no one should dare to do anything to me."

Patting the beast pouch at his waist, Zhang Xuan smiled slightly.

Having become Sect Master, he naturally had his own beast pouch, and it was very large. The four immortal beasts were easily placed inside without feeling cramped.

Elder Qin Yuan thought for a moment and finally nodded.

What the other said was correct; protected by four immortal beasts, no one should dare to harm him.

Moreover, his identity and likeness had been entrusted to a few knowledgeable elders not to be disclosed. Now that he was leaving, others would only see an ordinary peak True Immortal, not realizing he was the Sect Master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

"If you won't let me accompany you, I'll send a disciple and an immortal beast to take you along. Sect Master, please don't refuse this time. I can't have you personally driving an immortal beast, can I?"

Elder Qin Yuan laughed.

The news that the Flood Dragon had been tamed by the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect's Sect Master had already spread. If he rode the Flood Dragon away now, others would know he was the Sect Master. So he had to use an ordinary immortal beast from the sect.

"Alright."

Seeing the other's sincerity, Zhang Xuan no longer declined.

Soon, after finishing the arrangements, he didn't linger and flew straight north.

Elder Qin Yuan had found an ordinary early Immortal Lord-level eagle-type beast pet, and the disciple driving it was also at the peak of True Immortal. The two of them and the beast left the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect and traveled swiftly.

They flew continuously for three days.

"Sect Master, not far ahead is Biyuan City, where the Seven Stars Tower of the six great sects is located. It's the largest city within a million kilometers, considered super-first-rate. If you want to buy things at the Divine Communication Hall, this is the place!"

The disciple driving the immortal beast pointed ahead with a smile.

In three days, the two had become familiar, and this disciple had fully understood the identity of the person before him.

"Biyuan City? Seven Stars Tower?"

Zhang Xuan looked ahead and indeed saw a massive city slowly appearing before him, incomparably vaster than the previous Wuhai City.

"Let's go down and take a look."

Having given the order, Zhang Xuan's eyes flashed.

The two hundred high-grade Immortal Essence Pills that the gourd needed... perhaps here, he could gather them!