You're just a single demon beast? I have a whole army of beast tamers!

Qin Beast did not respond; its figure had already swept towards the stone mountain.

This time, he no longer held back his speed; the wind whistled beneath his feet, and he was like a pale blue arrow, instantly sweeping across ten miles of wasteland.

At the foot of the rocky mountain, a pseudo-immortal in black was examining an array plate when, as if sensing something, he suddenly turned around.

Before he could even see who it was, a chill ran down his spine.

Qin Shou struck him with a palm, the spatial laws at his palm slightly distorted, and before the cultivator could even scream, half of his body was as if it had been torn apart by an invisible force.

"Who!" another person shouted, raising his hand and throwing out a black bead.

The orb exploded in mid-air, transforming into dozens of black python phantoms that opened their mouths to bite at the Qin beast.

Qin Shou didn't even look. With a flick of his left sleeve, the Law of Metal manifested hundreds of golden rays as thin as hair, shredding the black python to pieces.

With a swift movement of his feet, he was already in front of the cultivator. His right hand, with five fingers like hooks, gripped the man's throat and, with a slight exertion, snapped his neck.

Just as the cultivator's soul was about to escape, the Qin beast opened its mouth and spat out a bolt of lightning, which shattered the nascent soul into a wisp of smoke.

In less than two breaths, the two men on the outside were dead.

The commotion immediately alerted the others on the rocky hill.

Lu Yuanji was the first to walk out of the largest stone house, followed closely by four cultivators.

This man was tall with a slightly dark complexion and very broad shoulders, and he was only wearing a dark red armor.

He saw Qin Shou, his brows furrowed at first, then relaxed:

"Where did this fake immortal come from, daring to kill someone from my Ten Thousand Demons Profound Sect?"

Qin Shou ignored him and simply pushed the corpse in his hand away.

When the body hit the ground, it kicked up another cloud of dust.

"You're courting death!" A cold glint flashed in Lu Yuanji's eyes as he charged down.

His movement caused a muffled explosion in the surrounding air, the sound of air being torn apart by the law of force.

Qin Shou felt an invisible force pressing down on him, and the ground beneath his feet cracked inch by inch.

He remained expressionless, tapped his toes, and retreated three zhang diagonally backward.

Lu Yuanji punched the spot where he had just landed, causing the entire stone mountain to tremble and leaving a crater half a meter deep.

"The Law of Force is indeed quite formidable," Qin Shou said calmly.

Lu Yuanji was furious. He clasped his hands together, and a dark gold short axe appeared in his palms.

As soon as the axe was drawn, the spiritual energy of heaven and earth around it surged toward it, clearly indicating that it was a celestial artifact.

He raised his axe high and chopped it down at the Qin beast.

The Qin beast did not retreat.

He raised his right hand, and the laws of space appeared in his palm. The air within three zhang around him seemed to be held in place by an invisible hand.

Lu Yuanji felt his entire arm become heavy halfway down with that axe, as if he had sunk into an unseen swamp.

"What!" His expression changed, and he frantically tried to break free by activating his immortal spiritual power.

But the Qin beast was already in front of him.

The Twin Blossoms of Withering and Flourishing displayed their power in the Immortal Realm for the first time.

A faint gray aura emanated from his left hand, while his right hand shimmered with a bluish-green light. He crossed his hands and pressed them towards Lu Yuanji's chest.

The gray mist entered his body first, and Lu Yuanji felt as if something had been sucked out of him. His face turned ashen, and wrinkles appeared at the corners of his eyes like a spider web.

Then, a greenish-blue light covered his chest, completely disrupting his vitality.

Lu Yuanji opened his mouth, but no sound came out. His burly body leaned back and fell straight down.

The dark gold short axe fell to the ground with a "clang".

The remaining four cultivators were already terrified.

Some people turned to run away, but Qin Shou didn't give them the chance.

He stomped his foot, and his figure split into several afterimages. One person was turned into charcoal by the lightning at his fingertips, another person was shattered in the spatial crushing, and the third person was trapped in an invisible illusory mist and had his head smashed by Qin Beast's palm.

Just as the last man had escaped a hundred feet, a pale golden beam of light suddenly descended from the sky, pinning him to the ground.

From the start to the end, it took less than ten breaths.

The wasteland fell silent again, with only the pile of rubble at the foot of the rocky hill still gently sliding down.

Shen Liuli walked over from a distance, her steps somewhat unsteady.

She looked at the corpses scattered on the ground, then at Qin Shou, and after a long while, she spoke:

"Husband, you're too strong."

Qin Shou was squatting beside Lu Yuanji's corpse when he found a storage ring.

He stood up, wiped the storage ring on his sleeve, and then said:

"He underestimated his opponent. Otherwise, that axe wouldn't have been so easy to catch."

Even if you don't underestimate your opponent, you won't last more than a few moves.

Shen Liuli shook her head. "Those gray and blue colors you used just now, are they your self-created divine abilities?"

"The cycle of life and death is intertwined." Qin Beast nodded.

Shen Liuli didn't ask any more questions.

She walked to a dark blue boulder at the foot of the rocky mountain, pressed her spiritual power onto the surface of the rock, and the boulder slowly sank into the ground, revealing a sloping stone staircase leading downwards.

"The entrance to the secret realm has opened."

She turned to look at Qin Shou, "Let's go inside."

Qin Shou glanced at the deep stone steps, then scanned the surroundings with his divine sense to confirm that there were no other survivors before following Shen Liuli down the steps.

The stone steps were not long. The two walked one after the other for about half an incense stick's time before disappearing into a thick, impenetrable gray fog.

Shen Liuli walked ahead at a slow pace, occasionally stopping to shine the token in her hand into the air, causing the surrounding mist to automatically recede several feet.

"Our Shen family has only entered this secret realm three times in total."

As she walked, she said, "Every time I only get to the first level."

It's not that we can't break through, it's that we dare not go any further.

Qin Shou followed beside her, his gaze sweeping over the stone walls on either side.

The wall is carved with many blurry animal shapes, including giant birds with outstretched wings, ferocious apes treading the ground, and several strange beasts whose names I do not know. The lines are rough, yet they exude a fierce aura.

"What is the first level?" he asked.

"A Palace of a Hundred Beasts."

Shen Liuli said, "There are forty-nine stone pillars inside the hall, and each pillar is engraved with a kind of monster totem."

Those who enter the hall must simultaneously activate the power of five or more laws and resonate with the five stone pillars according to the five elements in order to open the next level.

"If you don't have enough laws, you can't even get through the door."

"Five types?" Qin Beast was somewhat surprised.

"Not bad." Shen Liuli glanced back at him. "That's why I felt relieved when I saw that you only showed your water and fire elements in Wucang Immortal City."

If outsiders knew that you could simultaneously utilize the Five Elements Laws, some people would have already become restless.

"This place is practically made just for me," Qin Shou said in a low voice.

Shen Liuli did not deny it: "So I feel more and more that this secret place is destined for you."