61: What a coincidence!

This sudden scene sent shivers down the spines of the other monsters.

Translated to a human context, this was an extremely terrifying sight.

Imagine someone chatting with you right in front of you, when suddenly their abdomen is brutally ripped open by something unknown.

And out of it pops a dog's head, still dripping blood.

The thought alone is enough to send a chill down one's spine.

"Crunch!"

The sound of teeth snapping through windpipes continued, and the monsters present fell one after another, until only one remained.

Li Haotian and the others slowly approached the monster, stretched their muscles, and smiled.

"Hehe, we left a survivor this time. Let's ask him exactly what's going on."

Wangcai showed no fear, squatting directly in front of the monster and patting its face with his paw.

Little Green, who had just acted, wiped the blood from her mouth, came to his side, and sat down obediently.

She stared at the monster before them with icy eyes.

The latter trembled in fear, looking at the few humans and two dogs before him as if they were the Grim Reaper.

His comrades had all been wiped out in an instant. That dog seemed to transform into countless afterimages in the air, taking a bite out of everyone's neck.

Only sparing him, who was the furthest away.

"Come on, please introduce yourself. What is your name? Which race are you from?"

Wangcai spoke while looking at the monster with a benevolent smile. The monster swallowed hard, too terrified to speak for a moment.

"Hey, I remember humans have a punishment called 'Ling Shi' (Zero Food), right?"

"No, it's Lingchi. It's scraping the flesh off the body piece by piece with a knife, slowly torturing them to death."

Li Haotian added, pulling out a small knife.

He immediately made a few cuts on the monster and sliced off several pieces of flesh.

"Aaaah!"

The monster grimaced in pain, completely daring not to resist.

"I'll talk, I'll talk! I am Dakun. I come from the Purple Beast Clan, a branch of the Beast Race."

The three, including Li Haotian, turned their attention to Lin Tianxuan, who was the most knowledgeable. The latter nodded.

"He's not lying. They are indeed the Purple Beast Clan. I dealt with them tens of thousands of years ago."

With Lin Tianxuan's confirmation, the three humans and one dog's eyes lit up. None of them had encountered these Foreign Races before.

"What is the Realm of the strongest expert of your race stationed in this Secret Realm?"

This was what Li Haotian was curious about. Once they had this information, they could decide whether to act more aggressively or more cautiously in their next moves.

If there were a bunch of Great Emperors stationed here, they would immediately tuck their tails between their legs. If not, then they wouldn't hesitate to act like bandits.

"I don't know! I really don't know! I'm just an ordinary Warrior. The decisions of the higher-ups have nothing to do with me."

Dakun shook his head frantically, his entire head bobbing like a rattle-drum.

"Let's go. You lead the way and take us to visit your Main Base."

Li Haotian grabbed the opponent and yanked him off the ground, then made him lead the way.

The group followed behind him. If the fellow led them to any dangerous place or powerful entity, he would be the first to face the danger.

"The Purple Beast Clan is not very powerful. They hold a relatively low status among the Beast Race, usually tasked with manual labor, like collecting these crystal cores here. This kind of work is done by their labor slaves."

Lin Tianxuan provided knowledge to the group along the way, and everyone nodded, looking enlightened.

"In my era, the Purple Beast Clan didn't seem to have any Great Emperors. I don't know how they've developed now, but ultimately, they shouldn't be particularly strong. Even if a few Great Emperors have emerged, they probably wouldn't be willing to send them into this Secret Realm."

Hearing this, everyone nodded and felt slightly reassured. After all, this was their first time dealing with such a race, so they had to be careful.

Dakun was starting to panic. How did these people know so much about the Purple Beast Clan?

The Purple Beast Clan hadn't waged war against the Human Race for many years. He didn't even know which Domain these humans came from.

The place where the Heavenly Domain is located is merely a Small World within the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. Foreign Races are spread throughout the Heavens, yet the Human Race only controls the Three Thousand Dao Provinces. For so many years, the Human Race's status among the major races has remained mid-tier.

Furthermore, their rapid development momentum has led to resistance and opposition from many races.

Therefore, invasions by major Foreign Races against the Human Race have been frequent in the past few hundred thousand years.

"Just ahead is our Main Base. Please, gentlemen..."

Dakun pointed to the valley ahead, turned back, and tried to beg the group to spare him, only to realize that a hole had appeared in his abdomen sometime earlier. Immediately, he slowly collapsed.

Lin Tianxuan retracted his finger, wiped the blood off it, and showed a disdainful smile.

In his era, the prevailing belief was that "If they are not of our race, their hearts must be different." If they let anyone who wasn't Human Race go, there would surely be endless trouble in the future.

"I can sense that the strongest person in this valley is merely someone who has just stepped into the Quasi-Emperor rank. They are no match for me."

Lin Tianxuan looked at the valley ahead, his eyes completely unmoved. He once led the entire Heavenly Profound Sect to fight against the Foreign Races, and the world viewed them as a model.

It was precisely because of this that he incurred the hatred of the Foreign Races, leading them to ambush him during his Ascension.

Even so, he still didn't regret his actions. These Foreign Races wanted to annihilate the entire Human Race, and without resistance, only destruction awaited the Human Race.

The group walked into the valley, chatting and laughing, feeling no sense of urgency about an impending major battle.

Their team had two Great Emperors, while the opponent was just an unlucky fellow who had just entered the Quasi-Emperor rank. Dealing with him would be effortless.

Soon, the group arrived at the valley entrance, where a large number of Purple Beast Clan members were stationed.

"Hmm? Who captured you? Where is the one who brought you back?"

Li Haotian and the others were confused. After confirming the other party was speaking to them, they were about to react when they heard the other party mutter to himself.

"Seriously, capturing a few for questioning is enough. Now they've brought back so many Human Race members and just dumped them on us without caring. If the Marshal gets angry, that overly ambitious guy is going to be in trouble."

The leading Purple Beast Clan expert showed a look of displeasure and kicked the nearby cage. Immediately, several dusty, disheveled Human Race Cultivators walked out of it.

They had clearly been captured by other Purple Beast Clan experts.

The moment the two groups looked at each other, they froze, because two old acquaintances walked out of the cage: Zhang Lanlan and Luo Hong. Both were wearing shackles on their hands and feet, clearly looking like prisoners.

"What a coincidence. To think I'd run into you before I die."

Zhang Lanlan's smile was somewhat miserable, but her eyes were filled with schadenfreude.