I'm in Yellow Maple Valley, and I have one equipment slot!

Zhou Yuan concealed his aura, and like an invisible cloud, slowly approached the small island.

Soon after, a colossal creature appeared on a small island in the abyss.

The giant beast was over ten zhang in size, shaped like a lion, and covered with a thick, magnificent dark golden mane that swayed gently in the sea breeze.

Its head was adorned with a pair of short, thick horns, the tips of which gleamed with a chilling light. Its golden, vertical pupils exuded a majesty and arrogance unlike that of ordinary demonic beasts.

Its limbs are as thick as pillars, its claws are as black as iron and extremely sharp, and its body is covered with fine, dark-patterned scales that shimmer with a faint luster in the sunlight.

A long, whip-like tail swayed slowly behind it, each flick accompanied by a sharp, piercing sound.

"Suanni..."

Zhou Yuan's gaze narrowed slightly.

This is royalty among the sea monsters.

Even the dragon race was suppressed by this race!

The Suanni before us, though only at the seventh level, is still a long way from transforming into human form.

However, with his bloodline talent, advancing to the peak of level seven or even transforming into human form would not be a problem.

If we can enslave this beast, its combat power will be comparable to that of a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator when it advances to human form!

Zhou Yuan's mind raced.

Their gaze became more focused.

However, when his divine sense swept across the island, he discovered another aura.

A human cultivator in the mid-stage of Core Formation was concealing his aura and hiding in the dense forest on the island.

The man thought he had hidden himself perfectly, but in front of Zhou Yuan's terrifying divine sense, which far surpassed the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, he was as conspicuous as a campfire in the dark.

Zhou Yuan, hidden in the clouds, looked down and finally saw the person's appearance clearly.

It was a dark-skinned, middle-aged cultivator with an ordinary face, wearing a drab gray robe, lying motionless in the bushes.

He held a formation plate in his hand, and fine beads of sweat appeared on his forehead, clearly indicating that he was extremely nervous.

"Haha! After lying in wait for so long, we've finally caught a level seven demonic beast entering the formation!"

The middle-aged cultivator suddenly burst into laughter, leaped up from his hiding place, and the array plate in his hand shone brightly!

"rise!"

He shouted loudly and made a hand seal to activate it!

In an instant, a golden light barrier appeared out of thin air in the area where the Suanni beast was located, firmly enveloping the giant beast within it!

Within the light barrier, countless golden flying swords materialized and shot towards the Suanni beast like a torrential rain!

The Suanni beast roared, its scales gleaming brightly as it withstood the flying swords.

The power of the killing formation is extraordinary.

Moreover, although this Suanni is a level seven demon beast, it has little combat awareness.

They were forced to retreat step by step.

His body was covered in streaks of blood.

As Zhou Yuan watched this scene, a thought suddenly flashed through his mind.

"Could this Suanni be the young master of the Suanni clan who carried the true fragment of the Brahma Saint in the original story?"

He remembered it clearly—in the original story, the killing of this level seven Suanni beast directly angered the level ten Suanni of the Suanni clan.

The old Suanni spared no expense in expending its essence and blood to activate the Ten Thousand Demon Order, creating a terrifying beast tide that slaughtered eight or nine tenths of the human cultivators in the waters near Qiyuan Island!

And the one who caused all of this was the middle-aged cultivator in front of us.

As for the sacred tablet of Brahma, it is a sacred object passed down through generations of sea creatures.

The sacred fragment carried by the young master of the Suanni clan contained an extremely powerful body-refining technique.

After mastering the cultivation, one can condense a three-headed, six-armed Dharma form. The six arms can simultaneously control multiple magical treasures or form hand seals, and the strength of the physical body will increase dramatically!

Now that they had met, Zhou Yuan naturally wouldn't let this opportunity pass him by.

He stopped hiding and showed himself.

Of course, he changed his appearance—transforming into the look of a long-bearded old Taoist priest, with an air of otherworldly wisdom and unfathomable aura.

At the same time, he released his Nascent Soul stage aura without reservation.

The middle-aged cultivator was fully activating the great formation when he suddenly felt a terrifying pressure descend from the sky. When he looked up, his expression changed drastically!

"I...I've met you, senior!" His voice trembled, and cold sweat poured down his forehead.

Zhou Yuan looked down at him without saying a word.

The middle-aged cultivator's mind raced, and he quickly said, "Senior, this demonic beast... I'll leave it to you! I'll withdraw the formation immediately!"

Without saying a word, he put away the array plate, and the golden light shield instantly dissipated.

As Zhou Yuan watched this scene, a strange feeling suddenly welled up in his heart.

Back when he was hunting the Thunder Whale in the open sea, the Barbarian Beard appeared suddenly in the same way.

Without saying a word, they tried to steal their prey.

And they also wanted to kill him to silence him.

At that time, he could only swallow his anger and flee in a sorry state.

Now, the roles have been reversed.

He took a storage bag out of his storage bag and casually tossed it over.

"There are several hundred mid-grade spirit stones here, as compensation for you."

The middle-aged cultivator took the storage bag, scanned it with his divine sense, and was overjoyed!

This is worth tens of thousands of low-grade spirit stones!

He might not even succeed in hunting demons this time, but now he not only doesn't have to take any risks, but he also makes a lot of spirit stones. It's like a pie falling from the sky!

"Thank you so much, senior! Thank you so much, senior!"

He thanked him repeatedly, turned and ran, disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked at the Suanni.

He thanked him repeatedly, turned and ran, disappearing into the horizon in the blink of an eye.

Zhou Yuan withdrew his gaze and looked at the Suanni.

The giant beast, freed from the constraints of the great formation, was trying to take the opportunity to escape.

However, would Zhou Yuan give it that chance?

A soul-controlling seal shot out, as fast as lightning, and instantly entered the mind of the Suanni!

The Suanni beast's body trembled violently, and a struggle flashed in its golden vertical pupils.

However, its spiritual awareness was far inferior to Zhou Yuan's. In just a moment, its struggle vanished without a trace, and its eyes became docile and respectful.

Zhou Yuan nodded in satisfaction.

As with his previous enslavement of demonic beasts, his divine sense also read some fragments of the Suanni beast's memories during the enslavement process.

The most important piece of information is that this Suanni is indeed the young master of the Suanni clan!

Moreover, it left a soul tablet within the clan. Once it dies, the soul tablet will shatter, and the powerful beings in the clan who have transformed into human form will immediately know.

"Hehe, I guess this is a good deed for me."

Zhou Yuan smiled.

In the original story, the middle-aged cultivator killed the young master of the Suanni, which attracted a beast tide.

This resulted in tens of thousands of cultivators and mortals in the waters near Qiyuan Island being devoured by beasts.

Now that the young master of the Suanni is alive, the beast tide is unlikely to occur.

The Suanni clan would at most think that their young master had gone missing and spend a lot of energy searching for him.

This is much better than death.

Zhou Yuan landed beside the Suanni beast and found a palm-sized piece of bronze under one of its scales.

The bronze plate was dull and unremarkable, with some strange ancient characters engraved on one side and a three-headed, six-armed monster drawn on the other.

Zhou Yuan flipped the bronze plate over and carefully examined the ancient characters.

These characters are very similar to the ancient text on the animal skin book that contains the nameless qi cultivation technique—both are written in demonic script.

As a time traveler, Zhou Yuan naturally knew what this thing was.

True image of the Holy Spirit.

With a thought, he put the Suanni beast into his spirit beast pouch.

He then turned and left the area without lingering.

Haiyuan is located north of Qiyuan Island. After a month of travel, Zhou Yuan arrived at an unfamiliar sea area thousands of miles south of Qiyuan Island.

The reason he did this was because he was worried that the level 10 old Suanni might have special means to sense the location of this level 7 Suanni beast at close range.

With Zhou Yuan's current strength, if he were to encounter that level 10 Suanni, he would surely die!

Staying away from the deep sea is safer.

……

A deserted island.

Zhou Yuan carved out a simple cave in a secluded mountain valley, set up a protective barrier, and sat cross-legged.

He took out the genuine piece of the sacred text and held it in his hand.

The magic power was slowly poured in—

The copper plate emitted a low, clear hum and began to tremble slightly.

Suddenly, a brilliant light shone forth! A hazy yellow beam of light shot out from one side of the copper sheet, striking the opposite stone wall!

An ancient scroll painting suddenly appeared.

In the painting, a humanoid monster covered in scales and with a single horn on its head appears first.

The appearance of the monster was exactly the same as the three-headed, six-armed monster engraved on the back of the bronze plate, except that it only had one head at this time.

With a flash of light, the monster in the painting sat cross-legged on the ground, its hands forming a strange hand seal, its entire body slightly twisted, assuming a peculiar posture.

A short while later, the handprint of the monster in the painting changed, its body twisted again, and it adopted an even more peculiar sitting posture.

Every so often, the humanoid monster would change into a strange posture and hand seal, as if it were practicing some kind of technique.