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A thoughtful look flashed in Yun Qi's eyes, and he suddenly asked, "Mr. Mellen, you said before that much of your information came from the dragons in the Starry Universe, which is why you made your current guess."

"So, since the dragon was once the supreme god of the Heavenly Dragon Clan and the mastermind behind the fusion of the universe, why would he reveal this information to you?"

Mellen said, "At first, I was also a little confused, thinking that the dragon had unintentionally revealed this information to me. But after I came to the Beast Universe, I gradually had some different thoughts. The dragon did indeed deliberately leak this information to me. As for the reason..."

"Perhaps in the dragon's eyes, I belong to the starry universe."

Seeing that everyone was still somewhat puzzled, Murren had no intention of playing the riddle-maker and continued, "Don't forget, the fusion of the universe has a primary and a secondary aspect!"

These words struck everyone's hearts like a thunderbolt.

"Although the strongest beings in the Beast Universe and the Starry Universe have jointly promoted the merging of the two universes, it is still uncertain which universe will ultimately become the dominant one."

"Without a doubt, if the final result of the fusion of the universe is that the Myriad Beasts Universe is the main one, then the gods of the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan, who are the promoters here, will reap the greatest benefits, and vice versa."

"I think the dragon has already made its choice and is ready to stand on the side of the starry universe."

"That's why he revealed a lot of information, allowing me to guess their plans in order to hinder the Xuanfeng and Youhu clans."

"As for why they only gave hints instead of telling me the answer directly, it must be because these supreme experts set up some kind of constraint on each other when they made the plan."

Mellen's speculation was clear and reasonable. Coupled with the clues they had noticed before but had either intentionally or unintentionally ignored, they immediately realized that this was the truth!

After a long silence, Yun Qi looked at Mellen and asked seriously, "So, Mr. Mellen, what is your position? From what stand do you want to tell us these things?"

"Do you want to use us to hold back the Xuanfeng and Youhu clans? If so, wouldn't it be easier to achieve this by concealing the truth and deceiving us with other lies?"

What exactly do you want?

Mellen chuckled softly and said calmly, "If I said I wanted to save the world, would you believe me?"

Everyone fell silent.

After a long silence, Yun Qi asked, "You want to stop the merging of the universes?"

Mellen shook his head, then nodded, and said, "Even the strongest beings find it difficult to interfere with the operation of large universes like the Myriad Beasts Universe or the Starry Universe. To achieve their goals, they must plan and push things forward little by little."

"It's like they can't create an avalanche out of thin air, but they can stand on the snow-capped mountain and exert some force, and through a series of chain reactions, eventually create an avalanche."

"Therefore, those supreme beings need to spend millions of years planning step by step, allowing their plans to take shape, ferment, and finally explode."

"Similarly, when an avalanche has already occurred, even if it is only in its early stages, it is no longer something that can be stopped by the power of an individual. To save the countless beings in both universes, only by gathering the power of all beings can we move the overwhelming momentum and create that insignificant possibility."

The ancestral god of the bull race asked, "But why? You should also be able to reap benefits from the fusion of the universe, right? Why are you stopping me?"

"So, didn't I say it before? It's to save the world!" Murren said calmly.

No one spoke, but it was clear that they did not believe the answer.

Mellen suddenly laughed and said, "Alright, then just consider me as dragging down the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan."

As Murren had said before, they still didn't quite believe it, but they couldn't be sure if Murren was just being deliberately mysterious, so they could only maintain a skeptical attitude.

Mellen shook his head and said, "Gentlemen, I think we should focus on the important thing. What we should be concerned about now is not my purpose, but how to act in order to survive the catastrophe of cosmic fusion and drastic rule changes, isn't that right?"

Yunqi asked, "What do you want to do?"

Mellen's lips curled slightly as he said, "First of all, we need to be clear about one thing: with our strength, we are simply no match for the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan. I think everyone agrees on that, right?"

Yunqi asked, "You can't do it either? Didn't you say..."

Mellen waved his hand to interrupt Yun Qi, saying, "I did say that the dragon led me to the Myriad Beasts Universe to hold back the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan, but holding them back and fighting them are completely different concepts. Of course, I am confident that I can protect myself under the two supreme gods, but that's all."

"Once the two supreme gods get serious, or even if only one of them gets serious, I will have no choice but to run away and try to escape the universe of beasts."

Mellen's words made everyone even more somber.

Mellen continued, "However, you can rest assured that the facts have proven that the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan do not take us seriously, which has given us the opportunity to grow and develop."

"As it turns out?" Yun Qi looked puzzled.

Mellen explained, "I sealed off the Eagle Clan's secret realm, hoping this extreme action would cause some change, but nothing happened."

Everyone fell silent. They all knew that the Eagle Clan was a loyal henchman of the Xuanfeng Clan. Back in the era of the Council of Ten Thousand Beasts, the Eagle Clan had fought many battles for the Xuanfeng Clan.

But what about now?

The fact that the entire clan's secret realm was sealed by Melen, yet there was no response whatsoever, is enough to explain the situation.

If they don't even care about their loyal henchmen, why would the Xuanfeng and Youhu clans care about anyone else?!

At this point, the ancestral god powerhouses of the lower-level divine beast races seemed to have been persuaded by Mellen. The ape ancestral god powerhouse said, "Lord Mellen, tell me, what should we do?"

Melon nodded slightly and said, "First, and most importantly... expansion! Do everything in your power to expand the strength and influence of your respective tribes. If you can recreate the Council of Beasts of yesteryear, that would be the best!"

"Expansion...?" asked the Lion Clan Ancestral God. "What's the point? The reason why the Council of Beasts was able to rule the Beast Universe was mainly because of the existence of three superior divine beast clans. Now, we are the only ones, and we are simply unable to recover to the level of the past."

"So didn't I say..." Mellen looked around at everyone and solemnly said, "To gather the power of all living beings to fight against future disasters, although the chances are slim, they are by no means zero!"

"We need to engage in some degree of 'pulling' before the situation completely spirals out of control."

"Don't worry, even if we still can't escape the fate of cosmic fusion in the end, I have a backup plan, which is to create a secret space that can resist the rule catastrophe. But if we do that, the number of people we can save will be very limited."

"Moreover, even a backup plan requires the collective will of all people."

The crowd nodded slightly, barely accepting Mellen's statement.

Mellen said, "Alright! From today onwards, we officially form an alliance, and the name of the alliance will be... Fire Seed. A single spark can start a prairie fire. Even if we are unable to ignite a prairie fire in the end, we hope to leave some fire seeds for all living beings in the Beast Universe."

No one objected to this.

Mellen continued, "Although I have made the attitudes of the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan very clear, in order to prevent anyone from doing something foolish, a corresponding contract is still very necessary."

As he spoke, Melen unfolded the contract he had prepared long ago, which was inscribed with many terms. The core principle was naturally not to betray the Fire Seed Alliance, not to side with the Xuanfeng Clan and the Youhu Clan, and to save all living beings in the Myriad Beasts Universe as much as possible.

After showing the contract, Mellen was the first to sign his name on it without hesitation.

Seeing this, the others breathed a slight sigh of relief. This at least proved that Melen's words about wanting to save all living beings in the Beast Universe were indeed true. Regardless of Melen's real purpose, as long as this condition existed, their goals were aligned.

Because the powerful ancestral gods present, and the lower-level divine beast races behind them, are also among the beings of the Myriad Beasts Universe.

Without further hesitation, everyone left their marks on the contract.

At this point, Melen has completed his alliance and consolidation, gathering the power of eight lower-level divine beast clans, and his forces are poised for a new round of explosive growth.

Chapter 760 Six Ultimate Powers

Time flows forward like a river, unstoppable.

After gathering the eight lower-level divine beast clans, Melen essentially gathered 30% of the original Beast Council's basic strength. Of course, this '30%' still needs to be discounted, since the eight lower-level divine beast clans are far from recovering to their peak.

Even so, with the eight lower-level divine beast clans working together and sharing resources, the Fire Seed Alliance still flourished at an unimaginable speed.

Feeling the power under his command constantly expanding in the Beast Universe, the increasing power every moment can leverage the power of more living beings. Under this power, the rules of the Beast Universe itself will be distorted and altered!

However, these alone are far from enough to fight against the three superior divine beast clans!

Even if we include the Celestial Dragon Clan, who might be a traitor, it's still not acceptable!!

After all, the strongest beings are truly at the pinnacle of the universe, possessing an overwhelming advantage in strength within the Myriad Beasts Universe.

More importantly, the Council of Beasts, as the former supreme ruling power of the Beast Universe, possessed far more valuable resources than the Starry Universe, which had not yet unified itself, could imagine.

Based on the information Melen collected from the nine lower-level divine beast clans, including the Eagle Clan, it can be inferred that the Council of Beasts once possessed six ultimate powers...

Souls of Beasts: The Final Forge!

Eternal Corridor: Egg of the Time Beast!

Totem of All Beasts: Pillar of Ancestral Origin!

The Mother Nest of Life - The Ceremony of Returning to the Void!

The Chain of Cause and Effect: A Bond of Fate!

Dimensional Beast Tomb - Eternal Cemetery!

These six ultimate powers are each governed by one of the three superior divine beast clans, and each of them has the potential to rival or even contend with gods at least on some level!

【Soul of All Beasts - Final Furnace】: In essence, it is a soul furnace forged by the sacrifice of billions of beast spirits, imprisoning the resentment and divinity of all extinct species.

The abilities they possess are 'Devouring Evolution', 'Causal Backlash', and 'End Projection'.

Devouring Evolution: It can absorb the soul of any creature, transform it into furnace fuel, analyze the ultimate form of that species, and reproduce and drive it with the power of the furnace flames.

Causal backlash: Those who attack the furnace will have their bloodline and descendants instantly traced back to the furnace, and their souls and bloodlines will be eternally burned by the furnace's flames until they perish.

End Projection: Release the 'Extinction Power' stored in the furnace, enough to degrade a star field to a barren state before the birth of life.

【Eternal Corridor - Egg of the Time Beast】: A giant egg suspended in the spacetime rift of the universe of all beasts, its outer shell engraved with the genetic map of all the ancestors of beasts.

The abilities they possess are 'Time Loop', 'Bloodline Reboot', and 'Entropy Lock'.

Time Loop: Any attack targeting it, or protected by its power, will be devoured by the 'Time Beast' sleeping in the egg, transformed into hatching energy, and the result will be fed back to the attacker just before the attack occurs.

Bloodline Reset: The egg contains the embryo of the 'Time Beast'. Once the 'Time Beast' hatches, it can reset the bloodlines of all life forms in the universe to their original state.

Entropy Lock: Fragments of the eggshells shed by the 'Time Beast' can be made into weapons. Targets hit by these weapons will have their time accelerated infinitely, instantly aging into dust.

These two ultimate powers are in the hands of the Xuanfeng clan. It is worth mentioning that they can only be fully effective against beings at the Ancestral God level and below. When used against ninth-tier supreme powerhouses, they will be greatly weakened.

What's even more noteworthy is that the 'Time Beast' is only in an embryonic state. Theoretically speaking, even exhausting the energy of the entire Myriad Beasts Universe wouldn't be enough to hatch it.

【Ten Thousand Beasts Totem - Pillar of Ancestral Origin】: It consists of nine giant pillars that run through the galaxy, with the epic stories of the rise and fall of all races in the Ten Thousand Beasts Universe carved on their surfaces. The 'conceptualized beast form' of the earliest ancient beasts dwells atop the pillars.

The abilities they possess are 'Rule Manipulation', 'Civilization Plague', and 'Ancestral Spirit Descent'.

Rule alteration: When the nine pillars resonate, the fundamental rules of the Myriad Beasts Universe can be forcibly modified.

The Plague of Civilization: Releases a 'Beastly Plague' that causes intelligent beings within the infected area to degenerate into beasts in terms of intelligence and spontaneously submit to the Beast Totem.

Ancestral Spirit Descends: Summons the 'ancient beasts of civilization' sealed within the pillars; their very existence distorts the logic of reality.

【Life Nest·Return to Nothingness】: This is a living star system, with a pulsating fleshy planet at its core, its surface covered with cavities that nurture beast eggs.

The abilities they possess are 'Gene Torrent', 'Assimilation into the Void', and 'Unity of All Beasts'.

Genetic Torrent: The Mother Nest can spew out 'life essence,' and planets within the infection range will spontaneously evolve into beast-like civilizations that obey the Mother Nest.

Assimilation into the Ruins: The Mother Nest's gravity will slowly extract the planet's 'life entropy'. The drained planet will collapse into a beast's tooth, becoming the Mother Nest's strategic reserve.

All Beasts Return to One: When faced with an insurmountable enemy, the Mother Nest will devour all Beastmasters and their pets, fusing all power to evolve into its final form... 'Throat of the End,' an indescribable beast that feeds on cosmic debris.

These two ultimate powers are in the hands of the Celestial Dragon Clan, and can only be fully effective against Ancestral Gods. The difference is that the final form of the Life Nest, the 'Throat of the End,' has the power to briefly contend with the strongest beings, but using it will come at a huge cost.

【Chain of Cause and Effect - Bond of Fate】: A chain woven from countless soul contracts, with links made of 'Fangs of Destiny', and the end connecting the causal lines of all beast tamers and their pets.

The abilities they possess are 'absolute domination', 'causal grafting', and 'destiny loop'.

Absolute Domination: Can strip any Beastmaster of their power at any time through chains, or force their contracted beast to turn against its master.

Causal grafting: Transfers the damage that the designated protector is to suffer to any contracted beast, and can even designate a certain race to bear the devastating blow.

Fate Loop: The soul of a target marked by chains will not dissipate upon death, but will enter the cycle of the universe of beasts. Even if it is reincarnated, it will never be able to escape control.

【Dimensional Beast Tomb - Eternal Cemetery】: A high-dimensional space superimposed on the real universe, burying the remains of all species deemed 'useless' by the Council, including groups or individuals.

The abilities they possess are 'Existence Annihilation', 'Corpse Resurrection', and 'Dimensional Collapse'.

Existence Erasure: Once the target is sent to the graveyard, all traces of its existence will be erased from the Beast Universe.

Corpse Resurrection: Corpses in the graveyard can be summoned as 'Reverse Life Beasts', monsters that can ignore most of the rules of reality and cannot be truly killed.

Dimensional collapse: The cemetery itself can be detonated, causing a localized area of ​​the real universe to permanently fall into two dimensions, turning into a mural.

These two ultimate powers are in the hands of the Ghost Tiger Clan, but the Ghost Tiger Clan rarely, or rather, almost never, actively uses their powers.

Of the six ultimate powers, the four held by the Xuanfeng and Youhu clans were basically intact, while the two held by the Tianlong clan were either destroyed or severely damaged.

Among them, the [Tomb of Ten Thousand Beasts - Pillar of Ancestral Origin] has some connection with Mellen. He obtained a stone carving in the Star Ring Academy Library that gave birth to a bookworm. The totem worshipped by the tribe recorded on the stone carving was a huge stone pillar, which was one of the nine broken Pillars of Ancestral Origin.

Now, the bookworm has been trained by Mellen into a book butterfly. Although it does not yet possess the powerful ability to take people through past history, it is still easy to recreate the various images from that time in order to find the ruins of that tribe.

Following this line, we might be able to unearth some of the ancestral pillars.

The [Mother Nest of Life - The Ritual of Returning to Nothingness] was destroyed on the battlefield of the invasion, turning into a pool of chaotic life soup. Any life that approached it would involuntarily lose its life essence until it was completely integrated into the life soup.

Now that internal efforts have reached their limit, if Mellen wants to further accelerate the expansion of his power, he needs to find some external forces. The [Ten Thousand Beasts Totem - Pillar of Ancestral Origin] and the [Life Nest - Myriad Things Return to Nothingness Ritual] are the best choices.

Finding them will not only greatly enhance the power in Melen's hands, but also allow him to understand the deeper essential rules of the universe of beasts by analyzing them.

Furthermore, there is another important point: initially, only six races—wolves, eagles, cats, snakes, bears, and bulls—followed the dragons in invading the Starry Universe. The lion, ape, and elephant races were actually deliberately left in the Beast Universe. After all, in the face of the Starry Universe's invasion, the Beast Universe also needed some cannon fodder to be consumed.

Unsurprisingly, the inherited artifacts of the lion, ape, and elephant races were also lost on the battlefield of the invasion. If they could be found, the speed at which the three races would increase their strength would be further accelerated.

Therefore, collecting these became what Mellen needed to do next.