Chapter 34: Demon Beasts and Soul Bones

Dream Dao Attainment: Opening Scheme Against Cultivators

Dream-Making Expert

Lin Qi roared, true qi surging forth and stirring up waves as he rushed to put out the fire.

Above this sea that flickered with thunder and storm, the tiny boat looked utterly insignificant.

Yet it was Lin Qi’s only foothold, a shelter of sorts, where he could breathe in and refine qi, regulate his breath and meditate.

If it were gone, even though he was equally confident he could survive in the Storm Ocean, he would be left drifting with no fixed place.

But before Lin Qi could summon a wave to douse the burning boat—

Another thunderous impact.

That Swordfish leapt from the water once more, its hard, sword-like horn crashing heavily into the boat.

Amid dancing thunder and fire, the boat completely broke apart, turning into burning planks that were swept away by the seawater, vanishing without a trace in the blink of an eye.

“Beast, you’re asking for death!”

Lin Qi’s fury turned to laughter. His gaze locked onto the Swordfish. His mind stirred, and he opened his mouth, spewing a fire dragon that roared out and coiled around the Swordfish as it tried to leap back into the sea.

Ninefold True Fire, burning all things to ash.

The Swordfish that had destroyed the boat instantly became a ball of fire, falling into the seawater.

Water and fire did not coexist.

The churning seawater was evaporated into billowing white mist, but the flames did not go out. They continued to burn until that Swordfish was completely reduced to ash before slowly extinguishing.

Lin Qi’s face was expressionless. He was just about to beat his Wind-Thunder Wings and leave when he suddenly detected something, and his mind stirred.

The seawater immediately rolled backward, as if an invisible hand of true qi was lifting it, delivering a sword-like horn—seemingly neither gold nor jade—into Lin Qi’s hand.

This is the horn from that big fish’s head?

Lin Qi flicked it with his finger. The horn hummed, and faint flowing light seemed to flicker within.

Lin Qi observed it closely, and was startled to find that the patterns on the horn seemed somewhat like a variant of some kind of talisman.

Remembering that the big fish had just used its horn to stir up a water mine, Lin Qi suddenly grasped the situation.

Is this a demon beast’s Soul Bone?

All things had spirit.

Since This Realm had Human Race cultivators, it naturally also had Foreign Race cultivators.

For example, the Demon Race.

But demon beasts were not the Demon Race.

The difference was roughly similar to the difference between mortals and cultivators.

It was just that cultivators at most held the mindset that dragons did not dwell with snakes. They would feel mortals were lowly and disdain associating with them, and wanted to enforce the Immortal-Mortal Separation.

But no matter what, at least they would not treat mortals as livestock to be raised for food.

Among the Demon Race, however, only those with spiritual intelligence were demons. Those without—