Chapter 0369: Nimeng Fruit

In the Nimeng Mountains, a group of palaces stood atop a peak to the south.
“Boris, what does this mean?!” On top of the palace hall, Cliff glared angrily at the gray-haired, muscular man below.
They had succeeded in seizing the Nimeng Fruit, but upon returning, they found Boris sitting on their throne. As soon as they arrived, tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions surrounded them.
Betrayal?! It understood the situation instantly, yet it still couldn’t believe its brother would betray it! The words of the two-headed demon tiger, Xil, had proven true.
“Haha, big brother, as the saying goes, the fittest should rule. You’ve been king of our Azure-Scaled Cloud Lion clan for billions of years. Well, maybe it’s time to make way for your brother.” Boris laughed heartily, revealing no intention of hiding his plans.
Cliff’s blue eyes burned with anger as his blue lion fur bristled.
“Big brother, you’re still the same!” Boris laughed. “Haven’t you realized the situation? It’s better if you don’t resist. Maybe I’ll spare your life. But if you dare resist, don’t blame me for not showing brotherly loyalty!”
“Hahahahaha!” Cliff laughed angrily in retaliation. “Brotherly loyalty? What kind of brotherly loyalty is that? You really are my good brother! Spare my life? So I should thank you?!”
Boris’s smile hid his menace. “We’re brothers—why be so formal? No need to thank me.”
Cliff was filled with rage, his murderous intent overwhelming. He glanced at the tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions around him. “How dare you all betray me with Boris? According to our clan’s rules, traitors shall suffer eternal soul punishment!” He emitted a terrifying pressure.
“Tsk tsk tsk! What arrogance! Clan rules? Cliff, is there something wrong with your brain? Do you still think you’re the clan leader, the king of the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions?” Boris turned to his subordinates and shouted, “Who is your king?!”

“Boris!”
“Boris!”
Tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions raised their heads and shouted in unison, their voices echoing through the grand hall.
Boris laughed heartily, raising a hand to silence the lions, then said with a smug expression, “Cliff, how about that? Do you understand now?” He then laughed mockingly, and the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions around him joined in.
“I originally wanted to spare you,” Boris said in a cold chuckle after stopping laughing. “But since you were so ungrateful, well, I’m sorry.”
At that moment, tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions prepared to strike at Boris’s command.
“Do you also want to die with Cliff?” Boris pointed at the sixty-some supreme god-level Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions surrounding Cliff. These lions had previously followed Cliff to steal the Nimeng Fruits and thus escaped punishment. However, they still represented a significant force. If they truly rebelled and fought, Boris knew his side would also suffer heavy losses. If he could force them to defect, it would be “the best of both worlds.”
Many of the sixty-some supreme god-level Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions around Cliff showed hesitation.
“If you agree to submit, I won’t hold you accountable for your past mistakes. You can still remain guardians of our Azure-Scaled Cloud Lion clan. Otherwise, you’ll be traitors like Cliff and be punished as such!” Boris pressed further, threatening them with treason.
Treason was a grave crime, and under normal circumstances, no one would dare to bear it.
Sure enough, after Boris spoke, most of the sixty-some supreme god-level Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions showed signs of interest.
“Don’t listen to Boris! Even if you go now, once he kills us, he’ll turn around and exterminate you too,” Cliff urged urgently. “Boris is the real traitor! Let’s escape from this hall together and unite our forces to punish this traitor for his rebellion!”
“Hehe, quite the spectacle,” Brad, who was hidden in the form of a yellow dragon, sneered from above the hall.
They had come to clean house but ended up witnessing such an amazing “performance.”
So, the two stayed hidden, watching the drama without intervening directly.
“This is karma,” said the yellow dragon. “In the Pangu World, there is the concept of karma. Among all living beings, aside from the Immortal Hunyuan who is beyond karma, everyone else is bound by it.”

“Causality,” added Bradd, glancing at Yellow Dragon. Though he recognized Yellow Dragon as their master, the more he thought about him, the more mysterious and puzzling he seemed. Was Yellow Dragon’s arrival in the Nimeng Mountains just a coincidence, or did he have some purpose here?

“Cliff, Boris, leave them to you,” said Yellow Dragon. “As for the rest, leave it to me.”

Bradd was stunned. Were Cliff and Boris going to fight each other to the death? Then he nodded. “Okay.”

Inside the grand hall, Boris pointed at Cliff angrily, “Cliff, even at the brink of death, you still want to drag others down with you!”

Just as Cliff was about to reply, a cold laugh suddenly rang out above the hall. Startled, both Boris and Cliff looked up. Then, under the gaze of tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions, two figures appeared.

“You, you, it can’t be?! Impossible?!”

When Cliff and Boris saw the face of one of the two figures, they couldn’t believe it and screamed in shock.

At that moment, many of the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions also let out alarmed cries.

“Impossible?” Bradd looked down at Cliff and the others, sneering. “What’s impossible?”

“M, Lord Bradd!” Cliff and Boris’s tongues trembled.

“Chieftain, who is this person? He dares to enter our Cloud Lion Hall. Should I go up and kill them?!” said one of the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions beside Boris.

Bradd had imprisoned them in the valley’s stone forest for over 20 billion years, so many of the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions didn’t even recognize him as the former ruler of the Nimeng Mountains.

“Who am I?” Bradd laughed instead of getting angry. Pointing at Boris, he said, “Boris, are you two so scared just by seeing me? What’s there to fear? Your own clan isn’t scared, yet you two, who compete to be the chieftain, the king of the Cloud Lion clan, are scared? How can that be?”

Bradd was joking, but Cliff and Boris’s faces turned deathly pale; they had no mood for jokes. Only those who knew Bradd well understood his terror!

Back then, they were merely subordinates of one of Bradd’s generals!

Even when they were mid-tier gods, Bradd had already become famous as “The Demon Crow” throughout the 1 billion-mile radius around the ancient Nimeng Mountains forest.

Bradd’s true form was the Golden-Winged Silver Crow, an elemental beast of the gold element.

“L, Lord Bradd, please, spare us! We know we were wrong!” Cliff knelt down, trembling, and pleaded in front of tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions.

Although he didn’t know how Bradd had gotten out of the Valley of Stone Forests, he knew that resisting would mean no chance of survival.
Bradd, once the king of the Nimeng Mountains, was said to have single-handedly wiped out an entire nearby Silver Wolf tribe billions of years ago before ruling the Nimeng Mountains. At that time, the Silver Wolf tribe numbered millions, with countless higher gods—far more powerful than the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions they were now!
When Boris saw Cliff kneeling and begging for mercy, he realized what was happening and quickly knelt down as well, pleading for mercy with cold sweat on his forehead.
Soon after, many of the higher gods among the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions also knelt down. The rest, who had never heard of Bradd’s name, saw their two leaders kneeling and followed suit.
“Wrong? Then tell me, where exactly are you wrong?” Bradd sneered at Cliff and Boris, who were kneeling below.
“We’re wrong for betraying Lord Bradd!”
“We’re wrong for stealing the Nimeng Fruits!”
……
Cliff and Boris rushed to list all their mistakes. Eventually, when they ran out of things to say, they stopped, looking at Bradd anxiously.
Bradd shook his head. “You’re not wrong.”
Cliff and Boris were stunned. Not wrong? But just as they were confused, suddenly a flash of light surrounded Bradd, and two streams of gray energy sliced through their throats in an instant.
Their eyes widened as they collapsed.
Silence fell over the grand hall, broken only by two muffled sounds.
“It’s my fault,” Bradd said slowly as the two fell.
Everything happened so suddenly. Tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions stared in shock as their two leaders suddenly died, followed by cries of panic.
“Everyone, run!” Someone shouted, and chaos erupted in the hall.
“Youth Master,” Bradd said after killing Cliff and Boris, returning to the Yellow Dragon.
The Yellow Dragon nodded, watching tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions scatter in all directions. Shaking his head inwardly, he summoned millions of mutated beasts to launch a soul attack.
A short while later, the hall was quiet again. Tens of thousands of Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions, including Cliff and Boris, were trapped inside the Five Pits Divine Cauldron by the Yellow Dragon.
“Let’s go,” the Yellow Dragon said after finishing everything.
“Yes, Youth Master,” Bradd replied, and the two vanished in a flash.
By killing a hundred higher gods among the Azure-Scaled Cloud Lions, the Yellow Dragon had completed his trial!

“Young master, that Nimeng fruit is now in KunNimeng fruit is now in KunNeil’s hands. I’ll go and retrieve it. Although it’s not very im’s hands. I’ll go and retrieve it. Although it’s not very important to me, it’s quite useful for your cultivation,” said Bradd as they left the Bi Lin Cloud Lion Hall.