Monsters Die When Killed

Late at night in the Beast God Realm, a solitary moon and a host of stars hung in the sky. Above layers of drifting clouds, a luminescent blue moonlight filled the celestial vault.

A golden streak of light raced above the clouds.

The Golden-winged Roc had cast off all restraints, hurtling toward its target at its fastest possible speed.

Of course, with nine people sitting on its back, it could only go so fast. It couldn’t even keep up with the Spirit Dove controlled by Rafael, which filled Jin Qiong with indignation. ’I refuse to believe it! I can’t even beat a pigeon!’

But setting aside the fact that the Spirit Dove Rafael controlled was already skilled at high-speed flight, it also had an Extraordinary Peak Caster enchanting it with Magic. With that kind of support, even a brick could go supersonic. As a Golden-winged Roc weighing nearly a hundred tons, unless she broke through to the Commander Tier or entered a combat state to unleash her full power, there was simply no way for her to be faster.

"The level of civilization in the Beast God Realm is remarkably uniform. There’s no technological gap between the Five Races at all."

At that moment, the military’s Li Jian was analyzing the intelligence on the Beast God Realm that had been continuously gathered from various drones. It was only then that Su Zhou learned Li Jian had previously been a library administrator for the Daoist Discipline Bureau. No wonder he was so skilled with Talismans; after all, besides reading, drawing, and practicing extensively, there were no shortcuts to that Cultivation Method.

On Li Jian’s personal terminal, a series of largely similar images played: villages, towns, mines, and slave plantations from isolated regions of the Beast God Realm, each ruled by a different race.

Watching these images, everyone keenly observed that although these settlements were each dominated by one of the Five Races, aside from differences in architectural style, the entire world’s technological level was astonishingly uniform. This uniformity was equivalent to a medieval level of technology, possessing basic metal forging techniques, some herbal medicine, and large-scale labor-saving machinery like water wheels and mills.

"This is impossible," Li Jian stated bluntly. He pushed up his black-framed glasses and said seriously, "On a continent nearly the size of Eurasia, the progress of different civilizations can’t possibly be identical. Development is heavily dependent on geography. Some races will always choose to live in places more suitable for advancing technology than others. And from what we can see, these technologies were invented at least a century ago, but then all of them stagnated."

"We have reason to suspect that the technology in the Beast God Realm had actually already broken through the medieval bottleneck. But due to some unavoidable force, its development didn’t continue and was instead frozen at this stage."

"Are you saying that the rulers of the Beast God Realm deliberately suppressed the progress of civilization?"

Lin Chengde was very interested in this topic. Or rather, he was fascinated by the Beast God Realm itself—a world born from a Divine Tree, an Otherworld completely different from Earth! These very differences were why he had risked his life to come here on this mission. Otherwise, as a disciple of the Agricultural Saint, he could have remained safely in the rear, conducting research and waiting for data from the front lines to be compiled.

"That’s perfectly normal," Jin Qiong interjected. Having spent ten years conversing with the Divine Bird Peacock, she naturally understood how these Divine Beasts thought. "When Spiritual Qi was cut off, the Divine Beasts no longer held absolute martial superiority over the Spirit Beasts. They ruled simply through the inertia of a millennium of established thought. If technology had advanced further, to the point of developing gunpowder and complex armor, then even their slight advantage in strength would have vanished. And the Divine Beasts are all in it together. Their apparent conflicts, infighting, and wars are likely just a means to control the population of the lower-class ordinary beasts and Spirit Beasts."

Hearing this, Su Zhou, who had been resting with his eyes closed, couldn’t help but open them. He frowned, his thoughts turning to the National Preceptor.

’The National Preceptor said something similar...’ Su Zhou murmured to himself. ’He said that if he were the Demon Emperor, for the sake of eternal rule, he would have split the vast Anx Dynasty into several smaller nations. He’d then use the flesh and souls produced by their wars to nourish the Divine Tree, rather than devouring them wantonly and provoking the rise of the Hundred Schools’ Righteous Army.’

Although one’s goal was to systematically use flesh and blood to nourish the Divine Tree, while the other’s was to efficiently cull an unmanageable excess population, the core ideology was identical... It was an Order built on evil.

Now that they knew the Divine Beasts were aware of their arrival, and that the Tree of Life had indeed shown no unusual activity for the past several hundred years, some of the Zhengguo Action Team’s anxieties were alleviated. They decided to stop hiding and proceed to the Tree of Life at full speed.

It proved to be a good idea. In less than half a day, they covered a third of the distance and could faintly make out a gradually rising plateau in the distance.

In the beginning, the Beast God Realm was likely a roiling chaos of mud and sand, a world filled with murky water. Then, with the birth of the Tree of Life, Its roots gathered the silt to form the continent, bringing clarity to the world as the waters receded to surround the land. Therefore, the claim that all things were born from the Tree of Life might well be a literal truth.

The central plateau and mountain range of the Beast God Realm was where the surface roots of the Tree of Life lay. Looking down, they could see root after root jutting from the ground like mountain peaks, now completely petrified. The sheer scale of these roots was unimaginable. Some stood two or three thousand meters high, while others formed entire rolling mountain ranges thousands of meters tall. Everything they could see was, in fact, one of Its roots.

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