Published: August 28, 2025
Chapter 480: The Great Battle Begins
“Split it evenly with you?” Upon hearing this, Ji Yin's dark face furrowed slightly, seemingly somewhat tempted.
For Ji Yin, as long as he could claim a share from Han Li, his nominal disciple, no matter how the treasures were divided, his portion would never be too small.
But before Ji Yin could ponder deeply on whether this was feasible, Barbarian Huzi, standing at the front, arrogantly threw his head back and laughed loudly.
“Split the Void Heaven Cauldron evenly? Wan Tianming, your imagination is impressive! If you want to snatch food from my mouth, first see if your claws are tough enough!”
After saying this, Barbarian Huzi wasted no time and gave a signal. The giant leopard lying in front of him suddenly stood up. With a low roar, its third beast eye on its head suddenly opened wide, shooting out a column of earthy yellow light straight at Wan Tianming.
“Beast, you're asking for death!” Wan Tianming roared angrily.
He hadn't expected Barbarian Huzi to ignore his suggestion completely and start fighting immediately. But no matter how you looked at it, with the Cold Flood Dragon and Departure Tortoise assisting on his side, their strength was somewhat superior.
This made Wan Tianming flustered as he released a purple light that collided head-on with the yellow beam, intercepting it.
But the moment the purple light met the yellow light, the yellow blades exploded.
Then, with a clinking sound, after the purple light vanished without a trace, a pale white object fell from mid-air.
Before anyone could see what it was, the object shattered instantly.
Only then did everyone take a closer look and realized it was just an ordinary piece of broken stone. Most people were stunned and somewhat confused.
However, upon seeing this, Wan Tianming's expression changed several times in an instant. His eyes narrowed sharply, and he said in disbelief:
“Mutation technique! Your three-eyed leopard is a mutated spiritual beast!”
The moment the words “mutated spiritual beast” were spoken, both the righteous and demonic sides present showed shocked expressions.
“Mutated spiritual beasts” and “savage mutants” might sound similar at first, but in reality, they were worlds apart.
“Savage mutants” refer to certain rare spiritual beasts from ancient times that, over the course of time, changed habits and appearances for various reasons, thus forming a new species that bore some traits of ancient spiritual beasts but was completely different.
Such beasts were extremely rare and their numbers were limited, making them very difficult to find.
Mutated spiritual beasts, however, were different. Each was a unique existence.
They were some spiritual beasts that, during their advancement process, underwent unpredictable mutations for unknown reasons, causing their abilities to change drastically.
Such mutations varied in value, but some mutative abilities were extraordinarily unique and powerful, even enabling feats beyond ordinary spells.
One such ability, to turn most magical artifacts and treasures into stone, was among the more famous.
This ability was so formidable that a foundation formation stage cultivator once used the power of his mutated spiritual beast to wipe out three or four fellow foundation formation cultivators in one go, shaking the entire Chaotic Star Sea.
Since then, the immortal cultivation world collectively referred to these strange abilities of mutated spiritual beasts as mutation techniques, to distinguish them from ordinary spells.
Barbarian Huzi's three-eyed leopard originally only emitted fire attacks from its third eye, but now it shot out this beam capable of instantly petrifying Wan Tianming’s unknown magical artifact or treasure.
This was definitely a result of the spiritual beast’s mutation.
This left everyone present stunned.
It should be known that the appearance of mutated spiritual beasts was an event as rare as one in ten thousand, and only occurred in high-level spiritual beasts of grade four and above.