How can I have a heart of a demonic god in my body?!

"Er, we had an agreement beforehand. You better hurry and scavenge around; maybe you'll find quite a bit of resources. Seven for you, three for me, I will not go back on my word!"

Chen Yu said shamelessly.

Fu Beiling and the youth in black focused on Chen Yu for a while and then had no choice but to relent.

They indeed had an agreement beforehand, and Chen Yu had not violated it in any way.

Afterward, the three of them began to meticulously scavenge the sand bandit's lair.

Some time later, all the resources and treasures were sorted out, far fewer than they had imagined.

At this moment, it was deep into the night.

Chen Yu and people like Fu Beiling all temporarily stayed inside the sand bandit's lair to rest.

Far away from this place, deep beneath the Gobi desert, there was a mysterious ancient palace.

On the palace floor, a sea of fiery red, flames roared as if it were the hell of blazing fire.

In the center of the grand hall, an elder robed in dark red sat cross-legged amidst the inferno, completely unaffected by the flames.

In front of him, there was a whirling mass of red, searing fire, emitting a terrifying aura that made one's heart tremble.

Suddenly.

The mass of flames in front of him pulsed.

"Dead, this is already the second one!"

The red-robed elder seemed to sense something and furrowed his brows.

Based on related intelligence, the red-robed elder could guess that these two strongholds had both been destroyed by outsiders.

After all, around the periphery of the Red Earth World, there were only weak tribes that didn't have the strength to confront the Fire Demon Sand Bandits.

"These damned outsiders, meddling at such a critical moment... If that's the case, let's just initiate the plan!"

The red-robed elder suddenly stood up, a trace of madness flashing through his profound gaze.

He slowly spread his arms, releasing a strange fire elemental power that surged into the mass of red, scorching flames in front of him.

Gradually, the flames on the entire palace floor roiled ominously.

Boom boom boom!

Before long, the whole palace shook slightly with the roiling flames, as if some terrible force was trying to break out.

Hummm!

Centered around the ancient palace, the entire Gobi desert began to shake slowly.

Many volcanoes within the Gobi thundered, belching thick smoke skyward.

The demon beasts of the Gobi, as if sensing something, panicked and fled towards the distant greenery.

...

Inside a rather luxurious room in the fort.

Whoosh whoosh!

The Fire Scale Beast's body emitted a searing bloodline aura, making the temperature in the room extremely high.

During the previous battle, the Fire Scale Beast had devoured a large quantity of fire cores, and though they were of low quality, the quantity was substantial.

At this moment, the Fire Scale Beast's cultivation had reached the Peak of Refining, just one step away from the Qi Transformation Realm.

Ao ao!

The Fire Scale Beast bellowed repeatedly, demanding fire cores from Chen Yu.

"I'll give you fire cores after you sign a spirit pet contract with me!"

Chen Yu suddenly said.

The Fire Scale Beast, with its exceptional intelligence, understood Chen Yu's intent. It backed away several steps, a look of wariness and anger on its face.

Once it signed a spirit pet contract, its life and death would be controlled by another, and it would have to obey any command from Chen Yu.

With a trace of Fire Qilin blood flowing in its veins, why would it willingly let a mere human control its life and death?

However, it both hated and feared Chen Yu.

"If you're unwilling, then I'll just kill you. I can easily train another spirit pet with the fire cores in my hands!"

Chen Yu's expression was icy cold, and his presence intimidating.

The evil qi in his eyes vaguely formed two Sha Qi Swords, pressing against the Fire Scale Beast's mind and increasing its fear.

Whoo-sh!

Unable to help itself, the Fire Scale Beast summoned its bloodline power, its presence rising, with red fiery light swirling around its body, majestic and commanding.

"Bloodline?"

Chen Yu couldn't help but smile.

Whoo-sh!

Bloodline power also radiated from Chen Yu's body, a layer of blood-red scale patterns gradually appearing on his body. He looked regal and commanding, his potent bloodline power pressing down.

Under the array of methods employed by Chen Yu, the Fire Scale Beast ultimately submitted.

In truth, the quality of Chen Yu's dragon scale bloodline might not be superior to the bloodline within the Fire Scale Beast, but what Chen Yu had drawn was the Blood Dragon Beast Bloodline of Guiyuan Realm Level; the Fire Scale Beast's current cultivation was simply too low.

Buzz buzz!

Chen Yu and the Fire Scale Beast's blood formed a complex blood pattern in the void.

The blood pattern fluctuated, gradually fading and merging into the bodies of Chen Yu and the Fire Scale Beast.

Suddenly, Chen Yu felt a new connection between himself and the Fire Scale Beast. Through this connection, he could greatly influence the Fire Scale Beast, even directly kill it.

"Finally done!"

Chen Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

Had it been a fully grown ancient beast, it would've been nearly impossible to sign a spirit pet contract with it. Those proud ancient beasts would rather die than have their life and death controlled by someone else.

After signing the contract, Chen Yu took out a Postnatal Stage fire core and fed it to the Fire Scale Beast.

Gulp gulp!

Sounds of flames swirling came from inside the Fire Scale Beast; its body grew a bit brighter, seemingly inflating slightly.

Not long after, the Fire Scale Beast digested the power of the fire core, its aura instantly grew, reaching the Qi Transformation Realm level.

Yet, that wasn't the end. Changes were still occurring on the body of the Fire Scale Beast.

For example, the hair on its head and tail ignited with red flames; patterns of flame emerged on its scales; its limbs grew even thicker...

Meanwhile, Chen Yu took out the Demon Bone Stone and fed it to the Iron Moon Strange Insect.

Though the benefits it gained from the battle with the Fire Beasts were not as great as those of the Fire Scale Beast, it still reaped significant advantages.

It had reached the Postnatal Peak and, following this battle, broke through to the Innate stage.

Hiss hiss!

The Iron Moon Strange Insect quickly bored a hole into the Demon Bone Stone, burrowing into it, devouring the essence within.

Right at that moment.

Thud, thud! Thud, thud!

Chen Yu's heart began to beat violently without any warning, giving him a sense of an impending crisis.

"Is there some danger approaching?"

Chen Yu immediately stepped out of the house.

He completely trusted the warning from his heart.

The ground trembled slightly.

Boom!

In the distance, within the pitch-black night sky, a burst of firelight suddenly erupted.

"A volcanic eruption?"

This place was some distance from the volcano; even if it erupted, it wouldn't affect Chen Yu.

But the warning from his heart had not dissipated, and Chen Yu's sense of crisis grew stronger. He suddenly felt that there seemed to be an extremely powerful energy beneath the ground.

"What's going on?"

Fu Beiling and the young man in black also came out of the house.

"What's that?"

The eyes of all three were drawn to the distant volcano.

Below the volcano, they saw one fire beast after another emerge, massive in size, and sprinting towards them.

Those with keener senses could clearly see that these fire beasts were bursting out of the volcano alongside the eruption.

In the dark night, there was a small sea of flames, glaringly bright, painting everything it passed a fiery red.

"A pack of fire beasts!"

The three looked slightly startled.

Unexpectedly, in addition to the sand bandits' den harboring fire beasts, the volcano behind also concealed fire beasts.

"Could it be that the true habitat of the fire beasts is the volcano!"

Chen Yu suddenly thought of something.

The Black Iron Tribe, natives of this area, were unclear about the hiding places of the fire beasts and only knew that the fire beasts were somewhat more numerous near the volcanoes outside the Gobi.

It was indeed very difficult to detect the fire beasts living inside a volcano.

Moreover, the Black Iron Clan Chief had said that fire beasts rarely appeared and had only started to show up more frequently recently.

But now, why were all these fire beasts rushing out of the volcano?

"We need to get out of here fast, these fire beasts are much stronger than the ones we faced before!"

The young man in black was somewhat panicked.

The fire beasts coming out of the volcano were not numerous, even less so than the pack the three had faced before. But they were generally larger, with at least all of them having reached the Postnatal Stage, a level stronger than the previous pack they encountered.

Moreover, within that pack of fire beasts, some had an exceptionally strong presence, having reached the Innate stage, equivalent to the kings of the entire pack of beasts.

With this, the danger level of the entire pack had increased again.

Facing such a pack of fire beasts, not to mention the young man in black, neither Fu Beiling nor Chen Yu had any intention to fight.

"Let's go!"

The three immediately made a decision.

Chen Yu retracted the Iron Moon Strange Insect and the Fire Scale Beast, then started to hurry on his way.

Just then, he saw more crimson flames spewing out in another direction.

Without a doubt, that was another volcanic eruption, accompanied by an outpour of fire beasts.

"What is happening?"

The young man in black felt a chill on his scalp.

Simultaneous volcanic eruptions and a large number of fire beasts emerging—everything was too abnormal.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Without giving it another thought, the three of them hurried on their way.

On the way, Fu Beiling and the young man in black didn't say much before parting ways with Chen Yu.

After all, there wasn't much friendship between them, and Chen Yu had also tricked them once.

The sand bandits' den was a considerable distance from the tribal area, and when Chen Yu had come over, even riding a fiery horse had taken half a day.

Thinking of this, Chen Yu took out the Fire Scale Beast from his storage bag.

As the Fire Scale Beast's strength had increased, so had its size; now, it could just manage to carry one person.

Sitting on top, Chen Yu urged the Fire Scale Beast to make haste.

Having advanced to the Qi Transformation Realm, the Fire Scale Beast was quite fast.

Along the way, Chen Yu found many demon beasts also fleeing.

The Fire Scale Beast exuded a powerful pressure unique to ancient beasts, causing these demon animals to avoid it from afar, not daring to offend it.

In less than half a day, Chen Yu returned to Green Forest.

As Chen Yu had predicted.

At this moment, warfare had erupted between the tribes and the demon beasts.

"What's with these demon beasts? They are attacking our tribe like they've gone mad today!"

"Hold the line, we absolutely cannot let them invade our tribe!"

Along the way, Chen Yu saw many smaller tribes already at war with the demon beasts.

The Black Iron Tribe was located deeper in and had not yet encountered this situation.

"Sir, you've returned!"

The Black Iron Clan Chief personally greeted Chen Yu.

"What is this?"

The Black Iron Clan Chief looked towards the Fire Scale Beast beside Chen Yu, and feeling that strong bloodline pressure, showed a look of surprise.

The rest of the tribe members also turned their gaze to the Fire Scale Beast, with most of them being Fire Dao Practitioners, they could sense the powerful fire-oriented bloodline within the Fire Scale Beast.

"This is an Ancient Beast Spirit Pet I snatched from the Fire Demon Sand Bandits!"

Chen Yu told a lie.

Ordinary people would not have the chance to acquire such a Spirit Pet. If Chen Yu did not explain the origin of the Fire Scale Beast properly, his identity might be called into question.

Therefore, Chen Yu attributed the origin of the Fire Scale Beast to the Fire Demon Sand Bandits.

After all, the power and terror of the Fire Demon Sand Bandits had deeply penetrated the hearts of these tribal folks.

"Things are a bit turbulent right now, Brave Chen, please go inside and rest!"

The Black Iron Clan Leader immediately invited Chen Yu inside.

He had already received numerous calls for help from other tribes.

This beast tide was more severe than any before, and it probably wouldn't be long before the Black Iron Tribe would also face an assault by the beast tide.

Thus, he hoped to retain Chen Yu.