Chapter 599: Chapter 356: The Little Nian Beast Unleashes Its Divine Power, The Return of the Great Monarch (Double Chapter)

The fierce flames hadn’t dissipated yet, and his body was covered in a purple-red blaze, ensuring he wasn’t naked before their eyes.

"Transformed into human form during the battle?" the Rat Demon was stunned, "What is the Little Nian Beast thinking?"

"Showing weakness?" the Mad Bull Demon frowned, "But the Cyan Snake is not someone easy to deal with."

The Rainbow Horse Demon lifted its odd-colored eyes, staring motionless at the human-form Little Nian Beast, ready at any moment to use a spectrum of light to stop the Cyan Snake Demon.

The next second, the Little Nian Beast suddenly raised its right hand, spreading beast-like claws from its fingertips in the direction of the approaching Cyan Snake Demon. It then slashed through the air, creating a dark rift, which generated a violent suction.

"Going head-to-head with me?"

At that moment, the Cyan Snake Demon’s body became covered in layered scales, each imbued with poison. Suddenly, the scales turned transparent, and its body completely vanished from its original spot.

This was a racial ability honed by the Cyan Snake Demon over centuries of hunting, allowing its body to become air-like and evade enemy strikes.

But it was of no use. Even with preparation, its transparent body still plunged into the space rift. The rift then closed, and it vanished from sight.

[Space Claw: Create a spatial rift leading to an independent space where you can enter or temporarily transfer your enemy. After the duration, the enemy returns to reality automatically.]

"Is this... a spatial ability?" Unable to contain the surprise in its eyes, the Rainbow Horse Demon leapt up from its gigantic mat.

At this moment, the Little Nian Beast turned, casting a cold glance at the Rainbow Horse. It assumed the Rainbow Horse Demon was also planning to challenge it, so it clenched its right hand into a fist and thrust it into a black, round spatial rift.

In an instant, its fist appeared fifty meters away, beneath the chin of the Rainbow Horse Demon.

"Shoryuken—!" the Little Nian Beast shouted, imitating the "Rising Dragon Fist" from "Street Fighter," thrusting its entire arm into the spatial rift, delivering an uppercut upward, crashing into the Rainbow Horse Demon’s chin!

The Rainbow Horse Demon snapped back to its senses, its eyes betraying some astonishment.

If it were a common human punch, it naturally wouldn’t trouble this colossal horse. But this was the Little Nian Beast’s punch. Even in human form, the Little Nian Beast’s power far surpassed the ordinary Catastrophe Level, capable of matching up against the yet-to-be-crowned Four Great Bee Lords.

At that moment, the Little Nian Beast’s uppercut smashed into the Rainbow Horse Demon’s jaw, causing the bones and flesh to ripple like a tide, and then the entire horse’s head was thrown high with a screech, spittle flying out.

[Air Strike: Allows the Little Nian Beast in human form to insert its limbs into a spatial rift, instantly appearing within a fifty-meter radius, launching an unexpected assault on the enemy.]

"Done playing?" the Little Nian Beast snorted, withdrawing its fist from the spatial rift.

Using the lingering embers in the air to cover its form, it quickly transformed back into its Nian Beast state, once again becoming that bouncing little lion, a flicker of flame rising from its head.

The rift that had previously closed suddenly reopened, like some strange creature opening its chaotic maw, spitting out the Cyan Snake Demon.

The Cyan Snake Demon braced its tail against the ground, quickly springing back to the mat.

At this moment, aside from the Dragon Cat Demon lying aggrievedly on the mat, wagging its tail, the other seven Zodiac Demons all looked at the Little Nian Beast in astonishment.

"I was asking you... still testing me?" the Little Nian Beast sat squatting on the ground, raised its paw to cover its mouth, and yawned, then scratched the fur on its head.

The Cyan Snake Demon remained silent, completely unclear about what had just happened.

"No more testing," the Rat Demon stroked its whiskers, "The strength of the Little Nian Beast Lord is indeed not what it used to be... Not only can it flexibly utilize Demon Flame, but also push spatial abilities to such progress, worthy of being the Great Monarch’s child."

The Spiritual Monkey Demon took a bite of a peach, swallowed the huge fruit whole, and then clapped the peach remnants off its hands.

The Aries Demon suddenly spoke, "Let’s leave it at this. Don’t make things too difficult for the Little Nian Beast Lord. It was indeed wrong to leave for ten years on its own, but now that it’s back to help us, isn’t that also a way of redeeming itself?"

The Little Nian Beast curiously looked at the kindly-faced Aries Demon, surprised that someone would speak on its behalf.

Though from their perspectives, the battle during the Year Beast Lake hunt was indeed triggered by the Little Nian Beast running away from home.

However, from Ji Minghuan’s viewpoint, regardless of whether he formed the "Little Nian Beast" entity or not, the conflicts between the factions were inevitable; the Little Nian Beast’s appearance merely altered the justification for the strife.

So he saw no need to feel guilty about it, nor did he need to apologize humbly to these beings.

Just as he hadn’t considered Xia Pingzhou’s family his own because, without the creation of the second entity, Xia Pingzhou would never exist.

Even if the family Jack the Ripper killed had been exterminated, there wouldn’t have been a "Xia Pingzhou" to feel anger, much less seek revenge.

Similarly, Su Ying’s death was the same; in Ji Minghuan’s eyes, he had no obligation to avenge Gu Wenyu’s mother.