Chapter 740 Fantastic Beasts
The only thing missing was the Nine-Aperture Creation Embryo of the Tiandao Sect. Only eight innate spiritual treasures were wreaking havoc on the battlefield on the edge of the Emperor's Burial Mausoleum.

The Ten Emperor Families also never let the Nine Heavens Sect monopolize the limelight. The ten imperial artifacts vibrated, and the ten kinds of imperial power spread, which even caused the emperor's tomb in the emperor's burial mausoleum to respond faintly. Some people even saw ten emperors' phantoms appearing in the sky above the emperor's burial mausoleum.

As for the eternal sects in the thirty-five states, they were much worse off. Perhaps it was because these eternal sects had secretly reached some agreement with the Stone Emperor. The cultivators from the thirty-five states, who had a maximum number of nearly one million, all worked without putting in any effort. They were just paddling around in the back, making a huge fuss but not trapping a single innate stone spirit.

The old saint leader of the Tianxu Sect glanced at these ancient sects that were pretending to be so great, sneered, and did not care. However, his guess in his heart became more and more certain.

The powerful cultivators here showed their divine power, and those innate stone spirits and immortal fetuses were not vegetarians either. They had no innate spiritual treasures, nor did they have imperial weapons in their hands, but each of them had a terrifying body. In just a short moment, they caused terrible losses to the Jiutian Sect and the Ten Emperors Family. The powerful cultivators who had worked hard and cultivated for countless hours to grow up were beaten into bloody mist by the innate stone spirits. It was a tragic scene.

Just as the two sides were gradually becoming more and more blood-thirsty, at the bottom of a deep canyon deep in the Emperor's Mausoleum, a disheveled figure was moving with great difficulty.

The figure was none other than Zhang Qian. His injuries had recovered a little at this moment, but they were still serious. He had no idea how many bones were broken all over his body, and the injury on his back was particularly bad. He struggled to get up, enduring the severe pain as he looked around. He discovered that this was an extremely gloomy canyon. The bottom of the canyon was extremely narrow, and at most two people could walk side by side. Looking up, he could not see the top of the canyon at all. A layer of gray fog was hanging over the canyon, blocking his sight.

"What the hell is this place?"

After collecting the body of Tiandao Sect's immortal Taoist body, he tried to stand up. Unexpectedly, as soon as he moved, Taoist patterns that were some hundred feet, some ten feet, or some feet long immediately appeared around him!
The Dao patterns were extremely clear, and emitted terrifying fluctuations of the Emperor, making people feel slightly breathless!
"This is... This is the Dao Mark of the Emperor. Could it be that I have landed near the tomb of an Emperor?"

Seeing these densely packed Emperor Dao Patterns emerging, Zhang Qian didn't dare to move immediately, and even his breathing became quiet, for fear of disturbing these Emperor Dao Patterns. With his severely injured body, he didn't have the strength to contend with so many Emperor Dao Patterns.

"How to do?"

Zhang Qian asked himself, he was a little at a loss, what shocked him even more was that these countless Emperor Dao Patterns seemed to sense his breath and began to approach him silently. Judging from the situation, it wouldn't be long before he would be surrounded by countless Emperor Dao Patterns.

A ten-zhang-long Emperor Dao Pattern can manifest the Emperor's phantom, not to mention the countless Emperor Dao Patterns here.

"Roar……"

Just as Zhang Qian was racking his brains for a way to escape, a low roar sounded in front of him. The roar was like thunder, extremely dull and directly alarmed all the Emperor Dao Patterns around him.

Swish, swish, swish...!
At this moment, countless Emperor Dao Patterns around Zhang Qian rushed towards the place where the roar came from at an incredible speed.

Zhang Qian turned around in horror and saw a very strange beast that appeared not far in front of him. The beast was about ten feet tall and two feet long, with golden scales all over its body and two purple-gold horns on its head. Its entire head was shaped like a unicorn and it had nine tails. Each tail was like a scorpion's barb, with a cold glow at the tip.

Zhang Qian didn't recognize this strange-looking beast at all. The next moment, the beast moved. It swung its nine tails at a speed comparable to that of a dancing sword. Those Emperor Dao Patterns that rushed towards it were hooked by its tails one after another. The strange thing was that these Emperor Dao Patterns seemed like real objects in front of this beast and could not break free at all. Moreover, every time this beast caught an Emperor Dao Pattern, it would open its mouth wide and swallow it in one swoop.

Only then did Zhang Qian realize that this strange beast actually fed on the Emperor's Dao patterns!
Seeing how skilled the opponent was, it was obvious that this strange beast had devoured the Emperor's Dao Patterns a lot. His nine tails were simply magical weapons for capturing the Emperor's Dao Patterns, and none of them could escape.

Seeing such a strange beast, Zhang Qian was curious, but his heart was also lifted up, because he clearly saw that the beast looked at him with a look full of vigilance, curiosity and cruelty.

"It has no intelligence!"

This look made Zhang Qian understand that this strange beast had no intelligence at all, only pure spirituality and hunting instinct!
Seeing that the Emperor Dao Patterns around him were getting fewer and fewer, and all of them went into the beast's stomach, Zhang Qian clearly saw that the other party's eyes changed when looking at him, as if looking at a delicious food. This startled him, knowing that this beast might eat all these Emperor Dao Patterns and then attack him.

"Can't sit still and wait for death!"

With a stern look on his face, Zhang Qian hurriedly began to take various healing elixirs in the hope of recovering from his injuries.

However, to his disappointment, his current physical body was the Jade Body of Heaven, and ordinary elixirs were completely ineffective. Fortunately, his Heavenly Demon Pagoda contained dozens of blood-red hearts that he had collected from the Holy Artifact of Creation.

Those hearts devoured the essence and blood left inside the Holy Relic of Creation, and contained terrifying power essence. Zhang Qian hurriedly manifested the Heavenly Demon Pagoda, and with a thought, a heart was ground into divine light.

The majestic divine light poured down, and Zhang Qian's Heavenly Dao Jade Body made crisp sounds. Under the nourishment of the divine light, his broken bones healed rapidly, and his injuries continued to improve. These hearts were rare items left behind by the Heavenly Dao Sect when they practiced the Blood Demon Avenue in a certain life. After being ground into divine light, they were a great tonic for Zhang Qian's Heavenly Dao Jade Body.

"Roar!"

Suddenly, the strange beast on the opposite side stopped devouring the Emperor's Dao pattern. It sniffed fiercely with its golden nose, and finally looked greedily at Zhang Qian's Heavenly Demon Pagoda. The strange beast had a very sensitive nose and could clearly smell the fragrance of Shen Xi.

Shen Xi’s attraction to this strange beast was even greater than the Emperor’s Dao Pattern.

Dong Dong Dong...!
The strange beast took a step forward and approached Zhang Qian tentatively.

"not good!"

Zhang Qian immediately realized that he had done something stupid. He absorbed the divine light in front of everyone, which attracted the attention of the strange beast.

"Am I asking for this?"

Zhang Qian gave a bitter smile but did not stop. Instead, he absorbed Shen Xi's power at a faster rate to recover from his injuries.

It must be said that the power contained in the divine light made from the heart blood cells was extremely powerful. Before the strange beast could get close to Zhang Qian, Zhang Qian's injuries had almost recovered. Only his back was still aching slightly, but it had no effect.

brush!
Standing up suddenly, Zhang Qian stared at the strange beast, which scared the beast so much that it growled at Zhang Qian.

"Go away!"

Zhang Qian swept out with his imposing power, trying to force the strange beast to retreat. He knew clearly that the Stone Emperor would definitely look for him. Once he fought with the strange beast, the disturbance caused would surely make the Stone Emperor discover it. After all, the Emperor's Burial Tomb was the Stone Emperor's own territory, and he was very familiar with the place. Once he was discovered by the Stone Emperor, Zhang Qian felt that he might not have a chance to escape again.

(End of this chapter)