Akane's face went pale as winter snow as the full implications crashed over her.

Her golden eyes darted between the prostrated forms of her tribe members, her mind racing with impossible calculations.

"N-no, how is this even possible—!?" Her gaze snapped back to Tianlong, whose naked form radiated power that made her ancient bloodline sing with recognition and terror.

Unbeknownst to her, it was his Bee-stinging aura which was poking the side of her beast form. Though it couldn't control her like the others yet, it was enough to make her feel something—and that something was processed by her brain as some kind of inexplicable feeling or presence.

"You dare—" she began, her nine tails lashing with fury as she prepared to reassert control over her subordinates.

Fox bloodline pressure erupted from her form like a spiritual hurricane—the ancient authority of the royal fox clans, a power that could command absolute obedience from any lesser fox spirit.

Her silver and gold aura blazed like a second sun as she channeled centuries of pure bloodline cultivation.

"WHAT ARE YOU ALL DOING?" she roared, her voice carrying the weight of divine mandate. "SNAP OUT OF IT NOW!"

For a moment, the pressure worked. Two or three of the nearest fox spirits lifted their heads slightly, their forms trembling as they fought between conflicting authorities.

But then they looked at Tianlong again, and her control shattered like glass.

Even though her bloodline was strong, if compared between both Tianlong and her abilities, her call was more like a parent telling their children to come back—while Tianlong was a man leashing those children with a rope and pulling them forward, leaving the children unable to tell their parents anything.

In the end, just like how any parents would feel, it created a misunderstanding for her—that her tribe members were not even listening to her.

But actually, all of those fox beasts were pressured by the absolute control of his ability to influence lower cultivators into servitude. And those stronger than him, or equal, couldn't retaliate due to their bodies not listening to them under the beast-taming aura.

'Tch, you want another show?' Tianlong shook his head as if trying to keep his consciousness in check.

Naturally, he was wounded. There was a spear piercing his abdomen, blood gushing out. He pulled it out with force, causing it to turn into golden mist before grabbing his wound—which he could have healed. But wanting to show his golden blood to that smart woman, who still wasn't able to reach the conclusion, only made him more frustrated.

But naturally, he could understand. After all, the tribe members with whom they had lived for more than thousands of years were suddenly listening to a naked man and licking his body. What would any sane tribe leader do?

The fox spirits pressed themselves even lower to the ground, some actually whimpering with the strain of resisting their matriarch while being utterly unable to disobey the far greater call emanating from the naked man before them.

"Impossible..." Akane's voice cracked with shock and rage. "My bloodline pressure... it's not working..."

Her body began to tremble visibly as the full reality struck her. She was a nine-tailed kitsune of the royal lineage, a direct descendant of the upper realm's Moon Fox Dynasty.

Her bloodline was among the purest in existence. She was a direct branch lineage of the royal family and was once referred to as the Princess of the Moon, her authority over lesser fox spirits absolute and unquestionable.

Simply because not only was she a nine-tailed beast, but her bloodline itself was the purest.

For her control to fail meant only one thing—she was facing someone whose bloodline was even more pure than her own.

"WHERE DID YOU GET THAT FOX-KIN?" she shrieked, her composure completely shattered as she rounded on Yu Xiang with killing intent blazing in her golden eyes. "TELL ME NOW!"

Yu Xiang's body instantly trembled under the crushing spiritual pressure, her knees nearly buckling as waves of ancient authority crashed over her.

The Core Formation cultivator found herself struggling to even breathe in the presence of such overwhelming power.

"I-I don't know what you mean—" she gasped, but Akane cut her off with a snarl of pure fury.

"DON'T LIE TO ME!" The fox matriarch's nine tails spread wide behind her like a battle fan, each one crackling with enough spiritual energy to level mountains. "Only someone from the Imperial Fox Bloodline could override my authority! Only someone with direct lineage to the Celestial Fox Ancestors!"

Her golden eyes blazed with impossible rage and growing terror as she stared at Tianlong, who stood calmly among the prostrated fox spirits like a king among devoted subjects.

"But that's impossible in this lower realm!" she continued, her voice rising to near hysteria. "The Imperial Bloodline should be—!?!"

The moment Akane's furious shriek reached its crescendo, Tianlong's eyes suddenly snapped wide with what appeared to be desperate recognition.

His naked, bloodied form trembled as he lifted his head, golden blood still trickling from the spear wound in his chest.

"Don't hurt her, you traitors!" His voice rang out with desperate authority, cutting through Akane's interrogation like a blade through silk.

The clearing fell into stunned silence at the unexpected outburst.

Tianlong's crimson-gold eyes blazed with what looked like righteous fury as his aura suddenly exploded outward—not the Beast-Taming Aura this time, but his raw Great Vehicle realm presence mixed with carefully crafted divine bloodline fragments.

Golden light erupted from his form like a miniature sun, and when he raised his hand toward the prostrating fox spirits, his voice carried the commanding tone of absolute imperial authority.

"My fellow citizens!" he roared, his naked form radiating power that made the very air shimmer. "Attack the traitor bloodline of that treacherous Armidian Vehan!"

The name hit Akane like a physical blow.

Her world went completely silent.

Her golden eyes widened to impossible proportions, pupils dilating with shock so profound that her entire body began to tremble. The nine magnificent tails behind her suddenly went rigid, every strand of fur standing on end as the impossible name echoed through her mind.

'Armidian Vehan...' The name that had haunted her nightmares for millennia. The tyrant who had murdered his own brother—her beloved—to claim the throne of the Celestial Fox Dynasty.

The usurper whose reign of terror had forced her and her daughter into exile in this forsaken lower realm. After, he came to know about her preparing for revenge for her husband's death.

She had used all means possible to exert her control. It accumulated with the seven commanders under her to create a coup—but all of that failed due to betrayal, leaving her with no chance but to be captured and punished, serving as the guard to this ancient realm within the lower realm.

"No..." she whispered, her voice barely audible. "That name... how do you know that name?"

But Tianlong wasn't finished with his performance.

After all, how could he? His real need, his value as a transmigrator who had read this whole world as a novel, was finally emerging.

At his command, the fox spirits that had been prostrating themselves suddenly surged to their feet, their eyes blazing with artificial fury as the Beast-Taming Aura compelled them to follow his orders.

They turned toward Akane with bared fangs and bristling fur, moving as one unified force of righteous vengeance.

"GRRRAAAHHH!" The largest five-tailed fox roared as it lunged toward its own matriarch, followed by the rest of the pack in a coordinated assault.

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