"Minxia!"

Seeing his beloved daughter falling into the beast's maw, Duke An's eyes were bloodshot with rage.

He kicked away several Green-eyed Stone Beasts, but alas, An Minxia had already vanished without a trace.

"Damn it, it's you who caused the death of my daughter; I want your life in return." Duke An clearly saw that a disciple of the Fire Control Sect kicked his daughter into the mouth of a Green-eyed Stone Beast.

"What big words, old lady would like to see who in front of this old lady can demand a life from our Fire Control Sect people." Elder Huo Yan, Boss He, Third Brother He, and several people from Kaijiang Prince Manor charged out together.

Seizing the trampled Spirit Field and the losses suffered by Crown Prince Hong's group, Elder Huo Yan and Boss He also secretly rejoiced.

Elder Yue from Kaijiang Prince Manor lowered his head and solemnly instructed the people behind him,

"Without my command, no one is to act rashly and touch anything within the Taiyi Secret Realm."

Elder Huo Yan and the others also had some bad luck; they accidentally bumped into people from Kaijiang Prince Manor inside the Water Mist Prohibition Barrier and were delayed.

They also feared they were too late, and the treasures within the Taiyi Secret Realm would be snatched away by others.

Now it seems that things inside the Taiyi Secret Realm aren't so easily tampered with.

Nobody knows when the Green-eyed Stone Beasts might suddenly pop out from any corner.

"Duke An, don't act rashly. County Lord An has her own lucky stars and might not be dead. Let's enter the secret realm first; there's still a chance we can find her." Crown Prince Hong consoled Duke An, as it was only because Duke An insisted on protecting him that they were caught off guard by the Fire Control Sect.

Elder Huo Yan and Boss He had already learned from several disciples that Bo Qing and Ye Lingyue had already left the Spiritual Medicine Field.

"Let's go." The people from Kaijiang Prince Manor didn't linger and swiftly headed deeper into the secret realm.

Elder Huo Yan, Boss He, and others did not want to fall behind and hurried after them.

"I must kill him, to avenge Minxia." Duke An listened to the advice, but in his heart, he knew clearly that since his daughter fell into the mouth of a hungry Bimu Stone Beast, her chances of survival were slim.

He stared furiously at Wu Zhong's back, secretly swearing a vow.

Drip, drip—

Something was dripping onto her cheek.

Hearing Ghost Emperor Wu Chong's voice and being scared out of her wits, An Minxia accidentally fell into the beast's mouth.

She had thought she was surely going to die this time.

Who would have thought that the Green-eyed Stone Beast wouldn't immediately rip her to shreds but instead carried her in its mouth, quickly bounding out of the forest.

An Minxia felt a severe pain in her abdomen; the Green-eyed Stone Beast carried her and ran all the way, eventually arriving in front of a series of stone halls.

Some of the stone halls had about one-third collapsed due to years of neglect and had become the dwelling place of the Green-eyed Stone Beasts.

In her extreme fear, An Minxia became calm instead.

She realized that she was still holding a Thunder Bomb in her hand; originally, she wanted to throw the Thunder Bomb at that witch Bo Qing from the Demon Sect to blast her face into a bloody mess and see how she would seduce men.

Amidst the roar of Stone Beasts, An Minxia knew that she had been taken to a gathering place of Green-eyed Stone Beasts.

Either turn to stone by the group of Green-eyed Stone Beasts or be torn to shreds; rather than succumb to those fates, she might as well fight back.

Exhausting her last bit of Primordial Power, An Minxia punched at the rock of the Thunder Bomb and threw the Thunder Bomb she held.

Her body suddenly kicked back, and she flew out of the beast's mouth, as a Thunder Bomb rolled into the Stone Beast's mouth.

Boom——

Several Stone Beasts exploded into pieces, with their sticky blood and remains crashing onto An Minxia's body.

Gasping for air, she grabbed a bottle of healing Elixir Pills and stuffed them into her mouth, chewing hastily before sitting up.

It took some time meditating cross-legged before An Minxia finally regained her strength.

Where is this place?

An Minxia looked around.

The Green-eyed Stone Beast had been blown to death by her and lay nearby.

Remembering how she nearly met her end at the jaws of this beast, An Minxia couldn't contain her anger and jabbed the corpse of the Green-eyed Stone Beast until it was battered beyond recognition.

There was nothing on the walls, just a stone bed for meditation, along with some simple daily necessities and dry food.

It seemed that she had been brought to a Taiyi Sect disciple's training room by the Green-eyed Stone Beast.

Due to the passage of time, everything here had weathered away and was no longer usable.

Beside the stone bed, An Minxia noticed a line of characters.

The words were carved with a dagger, and after reading them, a smile appeared on An Minxia's previously disheartened face.

"The Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique. It seems like even the heavens want to assist me; these Green-eyed Stone Beasts, so that's how they came to be."

According to the records on the stone bed, this stone chamber wasn't a room for an ordinary Taiyi Sect disciple but rather belonged to one of the Taiyi Sect elders.

This elder, after years of enlightenment, created a Fifth Tier Martial Arts Technique known as the Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique.

Disciples who practiced this Martial Arts Technique could devour the spirit core of Spiritual Beasts and convert the Primordial Power within the spirit core for their own use, obtaining the same natural Beast Skills as the Spiritual Beasts.

For this purpose, the elder captured numerous Green-eyed Stone Beasts from the mountains and conducted his Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique training in secret.

Eventually, he successfully cultivated the Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique. After devouring the spirit core of Green-eyed Stone Beasts, he gained the power to transform into a Green-eyed Beast himself, and he petrified a rival Taiyi Sect elder.

As a result, the Sect Leader of the Taiyi Sect punished this elder with life-long solitary confinement in the stone chamber.

Being unwilling to let his Martial Arts Technique be lost to time, the elder recorded it on the stone bed, waiting for someone determined to discover it.

An Minxia walked over to the corpse of the Green-eyed Stone Beast.

Suppressing the urge to vomit, she reached out her hand and fumbled inside the Stone Beast's abdominal cavity until she finally found a spirit core the size of a longan.

The newly deceased Green-eyed Stone Beast's spirit core still contained a vibrant ball of greenish Primordial Power.

According to the Taiyi Devouring Beast Technique mentioned, this Technique has three forms: the first is to devour the spirit core; the second allows one to swallow a Spiritual Beast whole; and the third, to devour multiple Spiritual Beasts.

The more spirit cores or Spiritual Beasts one devours, the more power the Cultivator gains. The Taiyi Sect elder was able to kill a fellow elder only after devouring the spirit cores of several Green-eyed Stone Beasts.

"Petrification… Once I have cultivated this Technique and devoured this spirit core, I'll possess the Green-eyed Stone Beast's ability to petrify. Then, what about Ghost Emperor Wu Chong, the Witch Bo Qing, and... that bitch Ye Lingyue, they'll all have to die one by one!"

An Minxia couldn't wait to think that if Ye Lingyue were turned into stone, Prince Feng would belong to her.

Unable to wait any longer, she swallowed the Green-eyed Stone Beast's spirit core into her stomach.