Li Yao left the stone chamber and continued to venture deeper inside.
Suddenly, the ground began to tremble.
Li Yao's eyes lit up: "The Fire Qilin has finally appeared!"
Chapter 232 The Qilin says, "This human is too fierce."
Rumble...
The entire cave trembled violently.
A deafening roar approached from afar.
The fire qilin deep within the cave charged madly toward Li Yao's location at an astonishing speed.
Soon, a giant beast appeared before Li Yao's eyes.
This colossal beast is none other than the guardian of the dragon vein: the Fire Qilin.
In the world of Fengyun, there are four divine beasts: the Divine Dragon, the Phoenix, the Dragon Turtle, and the Fire Qilin.
According to the original story, the most powerful of them should be the dragon.
In the original story, Indra gathered seven masters and seven divine weapons, and only by using the fusion of man and god could he successfully slay the dragon.
In the later stages of the Fengyun era, those who obtained the Dragon Essence of the Divine Dragon experienced a surge in strength, becoming inhuman beings.
This is enough to show that the dragon's strength ranks first among the four divine beasts.
As for the phoenix, it first appeared in the Qin Dynasty.
At that time, Indra led 30,000 elite troops of Qin Shi Huang to besiege the Phoenix's lair.
Because of the terrain, the phoenix's divine power could not be exerted, which is why it was killed by a hail of arrows.
Thus, Indra obtained the essence of the phoenix, which granted him immortality.
Unfortunately, while phoenix blood grants immortality, it cannot preserve youthful appearance forever.
Therefore, Indra kept himself frozen in ice, and then plotted to slay the dragon and seize its essence.
The third is the Dragon Turtle, the most mysterious mythical beast.
The last of the twelve terrors: Xiao Sanxiao, who possessed the blood of the dragon turtle, has lived for over four thousand years without dying.
Xiao Sanxiao's strength is unfathomable; even Di Shitian is no match for him.
The last mythical beast is the fire qilin before us.
Although the Fire Qilin ranks last in strength among the four divine beasts.
However, the Fire Qilin's potential strength should not be underestimated.
Its scales created the Fire Kirin Sword, one of the ten divine weapons of the time.
Its blood caused the Nie family's mad blood disease; once the mad blood takes effect, their strength increases dramatically.
Its blood also created the sacred fruit, Blood Bodhi, which has the effect of 'healing serious injuries and increasing power even without injury'.
In addition, the Qilin Arm that Yu Yue gave to Bu Jingyun also came from its blood.
Moreover, the Fire Qilin can breathe fire and swallow gold; even the most skilled martial artists will be reduced to ashes by its terrifying flames.
Therefore, Bai Xiaokuangsheng listed the Fire Qilin as the first of the Twelve Fears.
This clearly demonstrates that the Fire Qilin is extremely powerful.
At this moment, the fire qilin galloped over on its fiery hooves, like a god descending to earth.
It was as tall as two warhorses, majestic and imposing, covered in golden-red scales with bright flame patterns between the seams, and combined the head of a lion, the antlers of a deer, the eyes of a tiger, the body of a deer, the scales of a dragon, and the tail of an ox into one.
Its scarlet eyes, filled with a frenzied and chaotic energy, stared intently at Li Yao.
"roar!"
The fire qilin roared.
Flames spread like clouds, bursting forth throughout the cave.
Even the surrounding air was scorched into a blur by the fiery clouds filling the sky.
boom!
Li Yao unleashed a punch, and an overwhelming aura dispersed the flames that filled the sky.
The fire qilin's eyes blazed like torches, flashing with light, and an even more ferocious beastly nature erupted from them.
"roar!"
The fire qilin snorted a few times, roared furiously, and pounced on Li Yao like a tiger pouncing on its prey.
"What a beast!"
Li Yao was not surprised but delighted. He neither dodged nor avoided the attack and threw a punch at the head of the fire qilin.
In fact, the reason why the Fire Qilin appeared was because it deliberately released a powerful aura.
He deliberately lured the Fire Qilin to appear, with only one goal: to subdue it.
After he entered the Refining God Realm, in addition to the two new functions of storage space and weapon smelting, the system also introduced another new function.
That is: a mount.
In all the worlds, once he subdues a spirit beast or exotic beast, he can make that spirit beast or exotic beast his mount.
Once it becomes his mount, he can take it away from this world and put it into the system or summon it at any time.
He had his eye on the Fire Qilin long ago because of its imposing appearance.
Bang!
A loud bang.
The fire qilin's head was struck squarely by Li Yao's punch, and its tall body flew backward, crashing heavily to the ground.
"roar!"
The fire qilin's eyes blazed with fury, and it angrily charged at Li Yao again, its fiery hooves pounding the ground.
boom!
Li Yao did not dodge and threw a punch.
Unexpectedly, the fire qilin was quite clever. The moment it rushed in front of Li Yao, it leaped up and then plummeted down, trying to crush Li Yao to death.
"What a clever beast!"
Li Yao retracted his fist, then grabbed the Fire Qilin's two hind hooves and threw it heavily to the ground with an over-the-shoulder throw.
"Woohoo..."
The fire unicorn grunted.
This time, it was hurt from the fall, and after getting up from the ground, it turned around and ran away.
"Trying to run? No way!"
A smile appeared on Li Yao's face, and then he flashed in front of the Fire Qilin.
"Roar! Roar! Roar!"
The roar was like muffled thunder, making people's eardrums ache.
The fire qilin charged towards Li Yao like a primordial beast.
Li Yao leaped up and mounted the neck of the blazing fire unicorn.
His clothes, protected by the true energy of the Great Dao, were not burned by the flames at all.
He clamped his legs tightly around the fire qilin's neck, gripped one of its horns firmly with one hand, and kept pounding the fire qilin's head with the other.
"Submit to me and become my mount, and I will spare your life!"
Li Yao pounded on the ground while shouting.
He had excellent control over his strength, so he wouldn't harm the Fire Qilin, but he could inflict great pain on it.
Although the Fire Qilin is not human, it has lived for thousands of years and is a divine beast, so it can understand human language.
When it heard that Li Yao actually wanted it to be his mount, it realized it was simply delusional.
It is a noble mythical beast, and only people of high status and extraordinary character are qualified to become its master.
What right does this human have to be its master?
Moreover, it has become accustomed to freedom.
It doesn't want to be someone else's mount, being ridden around all day.
So it frantically shook its head and thrashed about, trying to throw Li Yao off its neck.
Unfortunately, the person on its neck seemed to be rooted to the spot, and no matter how it tried to shake them off, it couldn't get rid of them.
What's worse, the person on its neck will rain down punches on its head, leaving it dizzy and seeing stars.
"roar!"
It rampaged through the cave, using every means at its disposal to try and get rid of the person on its neck.
However, it was all in vain each time.
The person on your neck can't be shaken off no matter what.
How awful!
It was truly suffering inside; why did so many humans enjoy beating it?
For thousands of years, every now and then, humans would come and beat it up.
Although most humans were driven away by it.
However, some humans are indeed difficult to deal with, causing it to suffer many injuries and lose a lot of blood. To this day, it is still missing a piece of its scale.
Now, another human has come along, not only attacking it but also demanding that it become his mount.