The White Tiger, lord of killing and warfare, naturally possessed the ability to absorb endless Innate Geng Metal Qi and cultivate supreme killing divine abilities. Therefore, although the White Tiger Ancestor was slightly weaker than the Dragon, Phoenix, and Qilin races in terms of cultivation, his destructive power was in no way inferior. Thus, with the White Tiger Ancestor's appearance,
Taotie immediately encountered a formidable foe.
Before long, under the siege of a crowd of White Tigers, Taotie began to sustain wounds that penetrated deep into its bones.
However, this did not make the less intelligent Taotie fearful or cause it to flee. Instead, it ignited its ferocity. It soon erupted once more, trading its own life for the lives of White Tigers, who were inferior to the White Tiger Ancestor.
Even at the cost of being severely injured by the White Tiger Ancestor,
It fearlessly devoured his children.
How to put it, this kind of tactic was something the White Tiger Ancestor had never encountered before. Not having encountered it meant he was not prepared, and it also meant that Taotie's reckless and irrational behavior was successful.
As its children were devoured by Taotie, the White Tiger Ancestor instantly went berserk. He became even more frenzied, disregarding the damage to his essence, and desperately wanted to rip open Taotie's belly to rescue his offspring.
However, Taotie's stomach was its most vital part. Moreover, having already devoured the White Tiger Ancestor's children, there were no other targets for consumption. Naturally, it was on guard. Thus, the White Tiger Ancestor ultimately failed, merely inflicting a few more bone-deep wounds on Taotie. In the end, lacking a deep understanding of Taotie and being overly worried about his children, the White Tiger Ancestor made a foolish decision. He directly charged into Taotie's stomach.
And then he completely lost his reason.
For upon entering Taotie's stomach, he watched with his own eyes as his children were instantly dissolved by the terrifying devouring laws within, their essence largely gone. Even with his immediate use of his Innate Spiritual Treasures to shield them, he could not fully protect his children. It could be said that within Taotie's stomach, apart from himself, the White Tiger Ancestor,
No other White Tiger remained intact.
Those with lesser cultivation were left with only a trace of Geng Metal essence and a few hard bones. The eldest son, the strongest among them, had lost all his fur and flesh had withered. Only his heart was still beating, and his true spirit still held a faint breath.
Seeing this scene, how could the White Tiger Ancestor not go mad?
Let alone him, even the Ancestral Dragon, with countless descendants, would go mad if his direct lineage were reduced to this. For these top divine beasts, while mixed-blood descendants could be numerous, pure-blooded direct descendants were rare. The White Tiger Ancestor had expended nearly half of his essence and blood, cultivating for thousands of Yuanhui, only to finally give birth to these few pure-blooded offspring.
Furthermore, after such a long period of coexistence,
Their bond had become unimaginably deep.
However, although the White Tiger Ancestor was enraged to the point of madness, he had not completely lost his mind. He first collected the corpses of his deceased children. Then, he quickly took out the best life-preserving spiritual items to protect the two descendants who still had a faint breath of life. Only then did he begin to frantically attack Taotie's stomach, intending to destroy Taotie from within.
To avenge his children.
But he soon discovered that his plan was ineffective. Taotie's stomach had already transformed into law. The attacks he launched, which could injure Taotie's physical body from the outside, were completely unable to harm its stomach from within. Any attack would be instantly devoured by Taotie's stomach and transformed into energy.
Even his Innate Spiritual Treasures were being corroded.
It was only at this moment that the White Tiger Ancestor suddenly realized something was amiss, realizing that his decision was a mistake, not only costing his children their lives but also putting himself in danger.
He knew too little about this ferocious beast.
However, the White Tiger Ancestor did not become dejected and give up hope. After a moment of thought, he took out all his protective Innate Spiritual Treasures to shield himself. Then, he took out a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure that was slightly useless to him, hurled it directly into the area with the most terrifying devouring force, and detonated it. At the same time, he gathered all the divine power within his body and, after the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure self-destructed, launched a full-powered attack on a weak spot in Taotie's stomach, successfully breaking through it.
And along with it, he broke through Taotie's spine.
And escaped from its spine.
At that instant, the White Tiger Ancestor also took the opportunity to throw all the mid and low-tier defensive Innate Spiritual Treasures that had been damaged by the explosion of the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure into Taotie's unhealed wounds.
He detonated them again, and then turned to flee.
It wasn't that he didn't want to completely kill Taotie. It was primarily because he was more concerned about his two descendants who still had a faint breath of life. For the White Tiger Ancestor, saving his two children was clearly more important than killing Taotie.
Besides, Taotie had clearly been severely injured by him.
After he settled his two children and ensured their safety, he could turn around and kill it later. It wouldn't be too late.
Unfortunately, the White Tiger Ancestor still underestimated Taotie's tenacious vitality. The self-detonation of a top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure in its stomach, along with the resulting damage, was indeed a terrifyingly severe injury for Taotie. The subsequent self-detonations of the mid and low-grade spiritual treasures were also the same.
However, although these Innate Spiritual Treasures were destroyed, their remaining fragments, including the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light and a trace of Immortal Essence they contained, were all great tonics.
They were useless to ordinary Innate beings and ferocious beasts,
But they were extremely beneficial to Taotie.
The White Tiger Ancestor's immediate departure allowed the severely injured Taotie to rapidly recover with the help of the remnants of the Innate Spiritual Treasures. In particular, the Innate Indestructible Spiritual Light contained within those Innate Spiritual Treasures imbued Taotie's body with some characteristics of Innate Spiritual Treasures.
Following this, Taotie directly charged into the Western Extremities, the base camp of the White Tiger clan, causing widespread destruction. It even devoured all of the White Tiger clan's Innate Formations, stored treasures, and even Innate Geng Metal essence before making a潇洒 departure.
As for where the White Tiger Ancestor went?
After returning to the Western Extremities, he discovered that his two children's injuries were too severe to be treated. However, he was unwilling to abandon their lives.
Therefore, he soon sealed his remaining descendants, who had a thinner bloodline, within the Geng Metal Grotto-heaven. He then took his stored top-grade treasures and went to seek the help of the Creation Daoist, who was skilled in the laws of creation, hoping he could help heal them.
When Taotie recovered and attacked the Western Extremities, he was still on his journey and naturally could not intervene.
Moreover, he had taken all the good things with him, and the remaining descendants were protected. Therefore, even though the White Tiger Ancestor sensed that something had happened in the Western Extremities, his concern for his children ultimately prevailed, and he did not return.
He remained determinedly on his way to the Sacred Land of Creation.