Chapter 1733: He’s a Human!

Boom!

Chi Yan felt endless confusion in his heart, but he knew that this was not the time for questioning. Just as he heard the man’s cold snort beside him, an extremely blazing aura erupted.

Immediately, Chi Yan’s eyes narrowed, as a gigantic, fiery red rat, tens of meters large, appeared in front of him. From its rat body emanated a peculiar, familiar blaze.

"Is this the true Flame Fierce Holy Rat?"

Seeing this giant rat, whose aura bore some resemblance to his own but looked quite different, Chi Yan’s eyes were filled with excitement, for he knew that one day he could evolve to such a level.

The Fire Cloud Rat is just a low-level manifestation of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat. Although it is much stronger than ordinary Vein Demons, it cannot evolve into a true Flame Fierce Holy Rat without reaching the Holy Demon Level.

Only by evolving into a true member of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan can one be considered to have reached the level of a Nine-layered Dragon Cloud expert, which had been Chi Yan’s lifelong pursuit since he was young.

It was only at this moment that Chi Yan truly witnessed the real body of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat. The aura emanating from that giant rat made him feel passionate.

Yet, the expert of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan didn’t pay much attention to Chi Yan’s thoughts. Amidst the horrified gazes of many human cultivators, the massive rat body swiftly moved and rapidly approached Yu Tang’s back.

The Flame Fierce Holy Rat, radiating a peculiar blazing aura all over its body, opened its giant mouth the next moment, and shockingly swallowed the somewhat stunned Heavenly Realm Late Stage expert Yu Tang whole into its belly.

Don’t let Yu Tang’s former arrogance fool you; he had no power to resist against a Flame Fierce Holy Rat that had already reached the Holy Demon Level.

Within the Flame Fierce Holy Rat’s body lies a self-contained space. The moment Yu Tang was swallowed into the mouse belly, all the blood, flesh, and bones of this human cultivator were incinerated into ashes, making survival impossible.

"Burp!"

Moments after, the Flame Fierce Holy Rat seemed to burp, and a fancy Waist Storage was spat out, coincidentally landing right at Chi Yan’s feet.

"Everyone, run quickly!"

Seeing the gaze of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat turning over, one human cultivator at the Heavenly Realm Middle Stage suddenly snapped into reality, his hackles stood up in fright, and he shouted while turning to flee.

"I told you, not one human here today can survive!"

A cold voice transmitted from the mouth of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat, and the sky over the dense forest seemed to rain fire.

Swish, swish, swish...

Endless flames fell from the sky, precisely landing on the human cultivators, without exception. Moments later, there were countless fiery figures in the forest.

"Is that... Burning Flame?!"

Seeing those human cultivators turned into fiery figures, Chi Yan’s heart surged with delight. His mouse eyes flickered with amazement, as he sensed a familiar aura from those flames.

Chi Yan could only spew two or three mouths of Burning Flame at a significant cost, but that self-proclaimed expert of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan could casually unleash so many Burning Flames—truly terrifying.

Across the mountains and fields, the sounds of miserable screams came to an abrupt halt, and all the human cultivators in the forest turned into piles of ashes, scattered in the mountain wind and no longer traceable.

It’s unfortunate these human cultivators, who ambitiously sought the Fire Cloud Rat, faced such an outcome; perhaps this is what they call dying for wealth like birds die for food.

But who the hell would have thought that pursuing a low-level Holy Grade Sky Demon Fire Cloud Rat, especially in the Human Territory, would attract a great figure from the Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan?

In the hands of such a super expert, these Heavenly Realm human cultivators were utterly vulnerable, like mud chickens and mangy dogs, quickly meeting their demise.

On the Continent, weak are prey to the strong. If you want to gain power, you must pay the corresponding price. However, the price these human cultivators paid was their lives, and they can’t really blame anyone.

Swish!

After countless Burning Flames incinerated the human cultivators into ashes, the immense fiery red rat body transformed and reverted to the somewhat wretched-looking short-statured mouse-whiskered man.

If those dead human cultivators had consciousness, they would no longer consider this person a typical human cultivator, but rather a dignified Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan’s Holy Demon expert.

"Hey, are you truly of the Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan?"

Just after the Holy Demon expert reverted to human form, a somewhat impolite voice came from behind, causing him to immediately turn around.

"Holy Descendant, I am called Zi Geng, a guard of the Holy Descendant Hall!"

Upon Chi Yan’s inquiry, the self-proclaimed Flame Fierce Holy Rat Clan expert, Zi Geng, hurriedly returned with a gallant look and bowed respectfully to the former, also revealing his identity.

"Holy Descendant Hall? So I’m not the only Holy Descendant?"

Chi Yan had been following Yun Xiao for many years, and his mind was quite sharp. He caught a keyword from Zi Geng’s words and immediately asked about it.

"Yes, the Holy Descendant Hall has a total of ten Holy Descendants, all candidates for the next Clan Leader of the Fire Holy Rat Clan!"

What Zi Geng said next made Chi Yan’s eyes shine brightly, memories flooding his mind, making it impossible for him to hold back any longer.

"Now, can you tell me who my parents are, and why they abandoned me on the Hidden Dragon Continent?"

When Chi Yan said this, his mouse eyes stared unblinkingly at Zi Geng, with a strong sense of resentment in his tone towards the parents he had never met.

Back when Yun Xiao discovered Chi Yan, he sensed the Fire Cloud Rat bloodline within him, which piqued his intense curiosity at the time.

Because the Fire Cloud Rat clan is rare even on the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, not to mention on the Hidden Dragon Continent. For a Fire Cloud Rat to appear there, how astonishing would that be?

Now Chi Yan even knew that he was a "Holy Descendant" and a candidate for Clan Leader; the amount of information contained in that was enormous.

In the Fire Holy Rat Clan, bloodline inheritance is the most important, and some powerful bloodlines are typically passed down from prominent figures within the clan.

Anyone who can become a Holy Descendant among the Fire Holy Rat Clan members cannot have a simple background, a fact that Chi Yan was very aware of, hence his question.

Since he is one of the ten great Holy Descendants of the Fire Holy Rat Clan, it is impossible for him to be a native Fire Cloud Rat of the Hidden Dragon Continent.

Moreover, for Zi Geng to arrive so promptly, one could assume that he sensed some aura as soon as Chi Yan entered the Nine-layered Dragon Cloud, right?

"This... sigh, Holy Descendant, these matters will be clear once you return to the clan with me!"

Upon hearing Chi Yan’s question, Zi Geng looked quite troubled, as if he wanted to speak but hesitated, ultimately unsure of what to say and instead offered a proposal.

"Return to the clan?"

Hearing Zi Geng’s suggestion suddenly, Chi Yan was initially taken aback, then slightly shook his head, as a plain-clothed figure holding a wooden sword reappeared in his mind.

"I want to find Brother Yun Xiao, I can’t go back to the clan with you just yet!"

The figure that appeared in Chi Yan’s mind was naturally Yun Xiao. Compared to the Fire Holy Rat Clan that he felt nothing for, perhaps Brother Yun Xiao was the only family in his heart?

"Yun Xiao... Brother?!"

Hearing Chi Yan’s response, Zi Geng was stunned, murmuring blankly and then asked, "Have you encountered other members of the Fire Holy Rat Clan?"

Zi Geng knew more about the situation than Chi Yan, and he also knew that even if this one did not know his own background, the noble subconscious bloodline of the Fire Holy Rat would not allow him to casually acknowledge someone as "Brother."

"No! He is a human!"

As Zi Geng’s thoughts spun, Chi Yan shook his head. His words made Zi Geng feel completely disordered, unable to comprehend how this situation came to be.

A noble Fire Holy Rat with a Holy Descendant bloodline acknowledged a human as a brother; this was something Zi Geng absolutely could not understand, even if that human was much more powerful than Chi Yan.

"He is my only family!"

Seeing the shock and disbelief in Zi Geng’s eyes, Chi Yan emphasized heavily, indicating that compared to the parents he never saw, Yun Xiao was undoubtedly closer to him.

"Holy Descendant, what is your human... brother’s cultivation level?"

Zi Geng reluctantly accepted the fact, immediately asking the next question. However, when he spoke of "Brother," he still felt very awkward, but eventually completed the sentence.

"When we parted on the Chongxiao Stairs, he should have been at the Heavenly Realm Middle Stage!"

Speaking of Yun Xiao, Chi Yan seemed vibrant, but upon saying this, Zi Geng’s expression became even stranger.

"He... Heavenly Realm Middle Stage?"

Zi Geng seemed to hold back with some difficulty, originally thinking that for a human to be recognized as a brother by a Fire Holy Rat Holy Descendant, they must at least be a strong expert in the Holy Vein Three Realms. Yet, he never imagined the person was only at the Heavenly Realm Middle Stage.

It should be known that Chi Yan himself was already a Low Level Holy Grade Sky Demon, and with his Fire Holy Rat bloodline, a human cultivator at the Heavenly Realm Middle Stage might not even be his opponent.

"With that cultivation, how can he be the brother of a Holy Descendant of the Fire Holy Rat Clan?"

Zi Geng, already somewhat dissatisfied, inadvertently spoke in a gloomy tone. However, what he failed to notice was that upon these words being uttered, a flash of anger crossed the eyes of the Holy Descendant.