Chapter 152: Begging for Mercy

"What is this place?"

For reasons unknown, the Taotie had gone berserk, stirring up towering waves within its stomach that forced Qu Yiqiu to flee straight back into her spatial dimension.

She had only stayed inside the space for half a day. When she stepped out to see if the Taotie had calmed down, a single step nearly plunged her straight into the endless void.

At that moment, what shocked her even more was that the Taotie's normally indestructible, massive body was crisscrossed with numerous wounds, as if carved by blades.

Little Yan suddenly opened its eyes and drilled out from between her eyebrows. "These are wounds sliced by a space storm!"

In a flash, Little Yan had already circled the Taotie's mountain-like body.

Qu Yiqiu's pupils dilated instantly. "A space storm? Does that mean we are no longer in the Bailing Secret Realm or the Dome Continent?"

Little Yan looked around, his face solemn. "That's right. We've arrived in another world."

"It's so quiet here!" Qu Yiqiu peered into the distance and finally spotted an island far away.

The island drifted in the void, serene and tranquil, devoid of any bustling noise.

For the first time, Little Yan jumped down from his plump eyeball and landed on the Taotie's body.

Qu Yiqiu was stunned for a moment. "A space storm is so powerful that it actually injured an ancient ferocious beast like the Taotie to this extent!"

One had to know that when her upgraded Indigo-Purple Sparrow-Phoenix Flame was used to burn the Taotie's liver and spleen, it hadn't left a single mark on him, merely causing him to feel waves of intense stinging pain.

With rare seriousness, Little Yan said, "I've only ever seen a space storm from afar once. Back then, my previous owner intended to take me across to a higher realm, but we accidentally fell into a lesser chiliocosm. I witnessed a cultivator at the half-step Tribulation Transcendence stage encounter a space storm. In the blink of an eye, the space storm shredded him into pieces, leaving him not even a chance to resist."

"Half-step Tribulation Transcendence?" Qu Yiqiu's mouth dropped open in shock.

Beyond the Deity Transformation stage lay Tribulation Transcendence and ascension.

For such a person to have zero resistance against a space storm showed just how terrifying it truly was.

"Roar..."

A dying, feeble sound came from the Taotie's enormous mouth.

Qu Yiqiu saw its wings twitch imperceptibly before immediately sagging down again.

"He's not going to make it." Little Yan beckoned his plump eyeball over, sat cross-legged upon it, and looked indifferently at the dying Taotie.

"Roar... Roar..." As if hearing those words, the Taotie let out a weak and powerless mournful cry, its copper-bell-sized eyes actually shimmering with watery light.

Qu Yiqiu was taken aback. "Do ferocious beasts even cry?"

She was genuinely just curious.

Would a ferocious beast's tears possess any special efficacy?

Before Little Yan could answer her question, Qu Yiqiu nimbly whipped out several large jade bottles and hung them beneath the Taotie's lower eyelashes.

"We can't let them go to waste! Every part of an ancient ferocious beast is a treasure!" Qu Yiqiu's eyes shone brightly, gleaming with excitement.

Little Yan almost tumbled off his eyeball. He massaged his forehead and said, "Master, a ferocious beast's tears must be malevolent items. I don't believe he's actually sad; this must be a trick to deceive people!"

Qu Yiqiu frowned slightly. "Malevolent items? That means they still have some use, then."

Little Yan nearly collapsed again. "Master, aren't you a righteous cultivator?" He blinked his adorable eyes wide and flew to Qu Yiqiu's side.

At that moment, the dying Taotie could not help but flash a murderous look in his eyes. The precarious tears hanging on his lashes were instantly sucked back into his eye sockets by his sheer willpower.

He absolutely could not let this shameless woman harvest his tears!

Qu Yiqiu rubbed her eyes. Just now, did she just see resentment in the Taotie's eyes?

"Sigh!" Qu Yiqiu let out a helpless sigh, shook her head, and said, "Little Yan, you're still too naive. The outside world isn't that easy to get by in! In this day and age, if you want to be a pure righteous cultivator, you have to keep a few demonic cultivation tricks up your sleeve. That way, no one will dare to mess with you easily! If no one messes with you, there'll be no killing! With no killing, I'll naturally remain a pure righteous cultivator!"

Little Yan rubbed his head. He felt like what she said wasn't quite right, yet somehow her logic made a twisted kind of sense.

Clenching his little fists, Little Yan recalled Yan Xi's miserable encounter back in the secret realm and silently agreed that this world was indeed far too vicious!

If the Taotie hadn't been heavily injured at that moment, he definitely would have swallowed her whole the second she finished speaking!

Cunning humans, not a single one of them was any good!

"Hey, why did you stop crying?" Qu Yiqiu mercilessly slapped one of the Taotie's wounds.

"Roar............"

Anger blazed in the Taotie's eyes.

Qu Yiqiu took a few steps back, stroked her chin as she surveyed the Taotie's entire body, and muttered, "He's so huge. I've never dissected the corpse of such a massive ferocious beast before. Where should I start?"

"How about starting here?" Little Yan pointed right at the Taotie's massive skull.

The Taotie's eyeballs rolled frantically. Where on earth did this little brat pop out from? He actually dared to stand on his head and even talked about cracking open his skull!

And that woman was even more hateful; she wanted to flay his skin off alive!

"ROAR!!!"

The Taotie mustered every ounce of his strength to struggle, but his roar was as delicate as a kitten's. Under the gazes of Qu Yiqiu and Little Yan, his wings gave a pitiful, feeble flap before drooping limply, sending streams of fresh blood gushing out.

"Don't waste it!" Looking heartbroken, Qu Yiqiu hurriedly tossed out several large jade bottles, dashing forward to catch the flowing Taotie blood.

"Master, give me a few jade bottles! There's more over here!" As Qu Yiqiu's little lackey, Little Yan dutifully helped her keep an eye on this precious prey without a second thought.

The ancient ferocious beast Taotie was suffering unprecedented humiliation and injury right here!

Tears uncontrollably flooded his eye sockets once more.

With a pitiful roll of his eyes, the Taotie fixed his gaze upon Qu Yiqiu.

"Human, spare me!"

Qu Yiqiu's eyes widened. "You can speak?"

A mouthful of old blood surged up to the Taotie's throat. Enduring it, he rasped, "Human, this deity is an ancient ferocious beast who has lived for tens of millions of years. Naturally, I learned your language long ago."

Without even glancing at him, Qu Yiqiu turned to Little Yan and asked, "Should we kill him first before dissecting? Or when will he die completely?"

Frowning, Little Yan pondered seriously and said, "Master, if we use the Indigo-Purple Sparrow-Phoenix Flame to burn him to death from the inside, it won't damage his flesh!"

The Taotie: "..."

"Good idea!" Qu Yiqiu's eyes lit up. She turned around and made a move to fly straight into the Taotie's mouth.

"Wait, wait! Immortal, spare my life!!" The Taotie blinked frantically, squeezing out a few droplets of tears as he pitifully begged her for mercy.

Qu Yiqiu's expression shifted abruptly. Sneering, she said, "When you slaughtered so many of my fellow humans, did you ever think about sparing them?"

The Taotie's pupils constricted. With a flicker in his gaze, he muttered in a muffled voice, "Spare me! Eating humans is my nature. As a ferocious beast, I simply cannot control my appetite! Human flesh is just too fragrant, too tempting!"

With a stern and cold gaze, Qu Yiqiu slowly shook her head. "Having committed such heinous sins, even if I were to spare you, the human brothers beneath the earth would never let me off the hook!"

Terror flashed in the Taotie's copper-bell-sized eyes. "No!!!"