However, Xia Youchen should be very satisfied with this result. His mummy-like face showed a hint of pride and relief.

In reality, with his strength, he couldn't command so many beasts at once. He'd spent nearly a thousand years extracting those beast blood beads from the bodies of the beasts one by one. His ability to command thousands of beasts at once was, of course, due to the might of the ancient Qiongqi beast.

This thousand years of waiting had not been in vain; he had finally achieved his wish. He would become the most powerful Beast Taming Sword Saint in the history of the Holy Court Continent.

Chenxing Academy, just wait, soon I will eradicate you completely and make you disappear from this world forever.

The magnificent scene before him made Xia Youchen feel heroic and murderous at the same time.

"Be careful! He just ordered the beasts to kill us all. Let's rush out." The others didn't understand Xia Youchen's chant, and seeing the beasts' actions, they panicked, not knowing what to do. However, Mu Hanyan understood the implication of Xia Youchen's words and quickly warned the others.

"What!" The young swordsmen's faces changed drastically.

"If it were just these beasts, there might still be hope, but Xia Youchen, even Qu Fengting couldn't stand up to him. How could we possibly break out?" a swordsman said in despair. Faced with absolute strength, an unstoppable force, even the most resolute heart would waver, and any courage would be shattered. He was ready to die.

"Didn't you hear him say that only if we die from the attack of strange beasts can our essence and blood belong to Qiongqi. If he kills or injures us, the effect will be greatly reduced, so he won't take action." Mu Hanyan said immediately.

Mu Hanyan didn't understand the art of taming beasts, nor did she know why such a saying existed. However, based on her previous life's cultivation as a Sword Saint, she did know that the higher the level of cultivation, the stronger the swordsman's mental power. For beginner swordsmen, the usefulness of mental power wasn't yet apparent, but at the level of Sword Master and above, whether cultivating higher techniques or comprehending stronger sword skills, greater mental power was required. If one wanted to have a lingering afterlife like Mu Tianlie, or to have an immortal soul like Xing Huan Qianji or Xia Youchen, then one would need an incredibly powerful mental power.

This Qiongqi is now in the state of a dead soul. Xia Youchen wants to enhance its strength and then rely on the contract to restore itself. What he needs should be more than just the usual essence and blood. He also needs their spiritual power. Therefore, the strange beast must do it himself to fully absorb their spiritual power.

Of course, this is just her guess, and it cannot be proven at the moment whether it is true or not.

"Yes, how could I forget about this? Let's fight our way out." The swordsman also remembered what Xia Youchen said. The despair of being absolutely powerless to fight back was gone, and his courage doubled.

Before the beasts could launch an attack, the remaining hundred or so swordsmen, clutching their swords, charged out of the cliff. As long as they could reach the entrance to the crack in the cliff, using the terrain, they could at least delay the enemy for a while, which was better than just sitting there and waiting to die.

Hey! Xia Youchen looked at Mu Hanyan in surprise.

Of course, he could hear what Mu Hanyan said to the young swordsmen.

The chant he just sang was in the legendary language of psychic beasts. This ancient language had long since disappeared in the long river of history. At the beginning, he had learned a little from a fragment of an ancient book by chance, and with the help of his own strength as a sword saint, he learned the method of taming beasts.

I originally thought that no one in the world could understand the language of psychic animals, but I didn't expect that there was actually someone who could understand the language of my contract.

Who on earth was this person? How could he possibly understand the language of psychic beasts? Xia Youchen's heart suddenly became excited.