Chapter 0365: The Thousand-Eye Illusion Beast

After fifty years of journeying forward, Huang Long and the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx finally arrived at the Nimen Mountain Range.
“Let’s go down,” said Huang Long, looking at the Nimen Mountain Range below.
The Nimen Mountain Range consisted of countless peaks spanning tens of millions of miles. Powerful primal beasts often hid in these vast mountains, making the ground much safer than the air.
The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx obeyed and found a mountain peak to land on.
“Master, this Nimen Mountain Range is indeed strange,” said the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx after landing, its green eyes vigilantly scanning the surroundings as flames erupted from its body.
Huang Long nodded. The Nimen Mountain Range was too quiet. This was an ancient forest, and such silence seemed eerie.
Huang Long stood there, activating his Heaven-Seeing Eyes. A beam of light flashed from his forehead, scanning the surroundings.
“Bad!” Just as Huang Long activated his Heaven-Seeing Eyes, he sensed danger. He mounted the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx and dashed away. As they dodged, a loud explosion sounded, and a massive creature emerged from the ground where they had stood.
When Huang Long saw the beast clearly, he gasped in shock.
The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx also exclaimed, “What a huge thing!”
Before Huang Long and the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx was a eight-clawed beast the size of a mountain. Its surface was pitted, with countless eyes, each emitting a sinister glow. It had no tail. The mountain peak where they had stood earlier had disappeared—apparently, it was actually this beast.
Huang Long frowned. From his knowledge of primal beasts in the Netherworld, he couldn’t identify this beast. Moreover, it had managed to evade their senses earlier, indicating strong abilities to conceal its presence. It surely wasn’t an unnamed primal beast.
Huang Long turned to look at the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx.
The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx understood the question in Huang Long’s eyes and said, “Master, this is the Thousand-Eye Illusion Beast, a Earth-type primal beast.” It then watched the beast warily, adding, “Be careful. Once this Thousand-Eye Illusion Beast reaches the rank of Upper God, its illusions become extremely powerful, and its ability to hide makes its attacks unpredictable.”
“An Earth-type illusion beast?!” Hearing this, Huang Long examined the Thousand-Eye Beast more closely.
Among primal beasts, there were mutated primal beasts that could launch soul attacks, just like human soul masters. Mutated primal beasts were rare, but there were even rarer ones—illusion beasts!
Illusion beasts possessed illusions not as a result of understanding certain laws, but as an innate talent.

This kind of talent is truly extraordinary. Illusions are not merely about changing the surroundings; the stronger such illusion beasts are, the greater their talent for illusions. When they use these illusions, they can affect the minds of god-tier warriors and even confuse their souls, causing them to die unnoticed. Ordinary god-tier warriors would turn pale at the mere mention of it. However, these illusion beasts are extremely rare—perhaps one mutated primal beast exists among one million primal beasts, and even one hundred billion primal beasts might not yield a single illusion beast. The Yellow Dragon had entered the Netherworld for over eight hundred years and had hunted countless primal beasts, but this was the first time he had encountered such an illusion beast. “Hehe, I didn’t expect you to recognize me as the Thousand-Eyed Illusion Beast!” The earth-type primal beast hummed with laughter as it looked at the Yellow Dragon and the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx. Its laughter was harsh, like the wails of ghosts and howls of wolves, while countless eyes on its body glowed green. “Master, be careful! This Thousand-Eyed Illusion Beast is using illusions!” Seeing the countless green-glowing eyes on the beast’s body, the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx stepped back and warned them. At the same time, flames surged across its body, and gusts of wind swept out, protecting an area of a hundred miles around them. As the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx retreated, the scenery in a radius of ten thousand miles changed, turning into darkness that felt like falling into an abyss. The Yellow Dragon’s gaze was clear—it seemed this Thousand-Eyed Illusion Beast relied on these eyes to cast illusions. As darkness enveloped the surroundings, the giant thousand-eyed beast raised its head and roared. A strange force spread in all directions from its body, creating ripples. This mysterious force was similar to a soul master’s soul attack. Seeing this, the Yellow Dragon’s eyes sparkled, while the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx roared in anger and launched its own soul attack. The two invisible forces collided, producing a loud crackling sound across tens of thousands of miles. “You guys… are you unharmed?” The thousand-eyed beast exclaimed in surprise, then looked at the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx in astonishment. “A mutated primal beast.” But since the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx had had its appearance altered by the Yellow Dragon, the thousand-eyed beast failed to recognize it as the Chaos Primal Beast. So it was merely surprised; otherwise, it would have been far more than just surprise. “Good, hehe. I didn’t expect it to be a mutated primal beast. I, Eden, haven’t devoured one in tens of thousands of years. Trying a mutated primal beast this time might be interesting.” The thousand-eyed beast smacked its lips, its countless eyes glowing with intense excitement as it stared at the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx. “Devour?” The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx looked at it and also smacked its lips, its beast eyes burning with passion. “If I devour you and then combine it with the secret techniques of the Dragon Lynx clan passed down from ancient times from my memories, there’s a 90% chance I can develop the ability to cast illusions!”

Some Royal Primal Beasts possess inherited memories, which contain certain secret techniques. In the mind of the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale, there indeed was a secret technique: if it consumed an Illusory Beast, it had a 90% chance of developing its own illusion skills.

“The Dragon Scale Clan?” The Thousand-Eyed Giant Beast stared at the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale in confusion. At that moment, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale had taken the form of a mutated tiger-type Primal Beast.

Yet just as it was puzzled, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale launched its attack.

With a mighty roar, it transformed into a green streak and vanished into the air.

Yes, it disappeared.

After reaching the rank of Supreme God, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale could use the wind-based technique “Swift Movement,” which allowed it to vanish from space within a limited time and range, rendering it invisible and undetectable even by the inner eyes or divine senses of peers.

“Disappeared?” A badpremonition flashed through the Thousand-Eyed Giant Beast’s mind.

In its understanding, mutated tiger-type Primal Beasts should not possess such speed.

Meanwhile, when the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale attacked, the Yellow Dragon also took to the air. With a thought, a giant umbrella appeared high in the sky.

As the umbrella appeared, surrounded by brilliant light, a thunderous bell sound rang out. Rounds of milky-white light spread outward, and a golden bell flew out—none other than one of the six treasures of the umbrella: the Thunderous Bell. Soon after, other treasures like the Illusory Sky Seal and the Primordial Map also emerged from the umbrella.

After entering the Netherworld, the Yellow Dragon rarely used treasures when hunting Primal Beasts or fighting enemies, as millions of mutated Primal Beasts were more effective for such tasks.

With its current strength as a late-stage Golden Immortal, the power of these treasures paled in comparison to that of millions of mutated Primal Beasts.

However, this Supreme God-level Thousand-Eyed Illusory Beast, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale—a Primal Beast of Chaos—was sufficient to handle. Thus, the Yellow Dragon did not summon the millions of mutated Primal Beasts but instead brought out the umbrella to isolate the area and prevent the noise of the battle from alerting the surrounding Primal Beasts.

Of course, from time to time, the Yellow Dragon, who was watching from the side, would activate treasures like the Thunderous Bell and the Illusory Sky Seal to complement the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale’s attacks.

“You… you’re a Primal Beast of Chaos, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale?!” After a long battle, as the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale repeatedly used its secret techniques to attack, the Thousand-Eyed Giant Beast finally realized that this mutated Primal Beast was not a tiger-type beast but indeed the Primal Beast of Chaos, the Wind-Flame Dragon Scale!

Yet barely had it spoken when suddenly, storms like flames swept in from all directions, engulfing it.

With a loud crash, the Thousand-Eyed Giant Beast collapsed, and the ground trembled violently.

“It’s too late to know now.” The Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx approached the Thousand-Eyed Beast, its emerald eyes flashing, while the Thousand-Eyed Beast reluctantly closed its countless eyes. At that moment, the two giant coral horns on the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx’s forehead began to glow, and then two beams of light enveloped the Thousand-Eyed Beast. Energy streams continuously flowed from the horns into the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx’s body. After a while, suddenly, the entire Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx was covered in brilliant light as it let out a loud roar; the Thousand-Eyed Beast, meanwhile, shrank and withered. Yet it wasn’t completely dead—just barely alive, on the verge of dying at any moment. Earlier, the Yellow Dragon had learned from the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx that it didn’t necessarily have to kill the Thousand-Eyed Beast to consume it. After all, the Thousand-Eyed Beast was a phantom beast. If it could be tamed, the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx could use its secret technique to devour and melt it, creating illusions—which would be even better. The Yellow Dragon went to the Thousand-Eyed Beast, emitted a burst of divine energy to pull it back from the brink of death, then imprinted its consciousness in its mind using the method of divine imprinting, bringing it to the Pavilion of Immortals. From then on, among the million mutated primal beasts, another fierce warrior was added: the supreme divine phantom beast, the Thousand-Eyed Phantom Beast! With the soul attacks of the million mutated primal beasts combined with the illusions cast by the Thousand-Eyed Phantom Beast, such attacks were undoubtedly even more difficult to defend against. After capturing the Thousand-Eyed Phantom Beast, the Wind-Flame Dragon Lynx also entered the Pavilion of Immortals, as it needed some time to merge its secret techniques through seclusion. “It’s a pity there’s only one Thousand-Eyed Phantom Beast,” the Yellow Dragon said, retracting its sky-piercing umbrella and using its divine senses to scan the surroundings before sighing. If there were more phantom beasts in its army of primal beasts, then not to mention level-seven Underworld Kings, even facing level-eight Underworld Kings, it would have a chance to fight. But only the Yellow Dragon could think such things. Phantom beasts… a whole group?! “According to Aiselle, the Green-Scaled Cloud Lion should be nearby,” the Yellow Dragon said. With a flash, it flew to an ancient tree, activated its All-Seeing Eye, but found nothing, frowning. “Could the Green-Scaled Cloud Lion have moved away?” it thought to itself. Primal beasts usually stayed in one place for a long time, but exceptions existed. If those dozen or so Green-Scaled Cloud Lions really had moved away, then it would have come all this way for nothing. Could this trial really be impossible to complete? Just then, sounds like lion roars came from afar. “Green-Scaled Cloud Lion?” The Yellow Dragon’s heart stirred, and it rushed toward the sound.