I refuse to accept this! In my imagination, Max should be coming to see me riding on a seven-colored cloud!

Eric Carter cursed inwardly, but he was still very pleased. You can't judge a person by their appearance—no, you can't judge a dog by its appearance. With Max going all out, it was at least a super powerhouse at the Earth Immortal level. With it here, the beast tide was nothing to worry about.

Thinking this, he quickly said to Grace Bennett, “Stop flying, let’s go down!”

“Why?” Grace Bennett couldn’t help but frown. If they were surrounded by the beast tide, it would be hard to escape.

Emily Cooper also looked at him in confusion.

To this, Eric Carter smiled calmly and said, “The demon king you mentioned has already arrived!”

According to Grace Bennett, the demon king capable of causing a beast tide was probably Max.

Max seemed to have a skill called the Canine King’s Command, which probably referred to controlling the beast tide.

Grace Bennett and Emily Cooper both shuddered. Could it be that Eric Carter knew that demon king?

As for Max, they simply ignored it. It looked just like a pug—no matter how you looked at it, it didn’t seem like a demon king.

Just like that, Grace Bennett carried Eric Carter and Emily Cooper down to the ground. Max came up to Eric Carter, who squatted down and patted its head, his face full of excitement. This scene looked extremely strange in the eyes of Grace Bennett and Emily Cooper.

Earlier, Max had sent a voice transmission to Eric Carter, which they hadn’t heard, so they couldn’t understand why Eric Carter was being so friendly to this seemingly ordinary black dog.

“You guys... finally... stopped flying...”

David Cooper ran up to the three of them and stopped, bracing his hands on his knees and panting heavily. This guy had actually forgotten that a huge beast tide was still closing in behind him.

“With it here, we don’t need to run anymore.” Eric Carter stood up and smiled. Max circled around him, looking no different from an ordinary house dog, showing no sign of a divine beast’s demeanor.

“That thing? Just a mongrel black dog!”

David Cooper sneered. Anyway, with Grace Bennett here, he wasn’t afraid. As long as he stuck with Grace Bennett, he’d be safe.

This woman could even easily suppress someone as powerful as Henry Clark!

When Max heard David Cooper dare to call it a mongrel black dog, it immediately stopped, its eyes turning icy as it stared at David Cooper. David Cooper felt a terrifying killing intent surge toward him like a tide, his whole body turning cold as if he were in an ice cellar, unable to utter a word.

How could this be...

David Cooper stared at Max in terror. He felt an even more terrifying pressure from Max than from Henry Clark or Grace Bennett. With a thud, he dropped to his knees and kowtowed to Max.

“Senior brother, what’s wrong?” Emily Cooper frowned and asked. Max’s pressure was only directed at David Cooper; she didn’t feel anything.

David Cooper knelt on the ground, drenched in cold sweat, completely unable to hear Emily Cooper’s words.

Instead, Grace Bennett frowned and looked at Max. She sensed a trace of danger from Max.

Fortunately, Max was very close to Eric Carter and wasn’t an enemy.

“I’m telling you, show some respect to Max, or I’ll have it tear you apart!”

Eric Carter snorted coldly. The divine beast of the Heavenly Court’s God of War—how could a mere mortal slander it?

David Cooper didn’t dare speak, only able to prostrate himself on the ground, trembling uncontrollably.

Seeing her senior brother so spineless, Emily Cooper couldn’t help but cover her forehead, her face full of disdain.

At this moment, that group of cultivators ran over.

“The beast tide is coming, why are you all still standing there?”

“Damn it! Ignore them! They’re just waiting to die!”

“Run! I don’t want to die here!”

“Yeah, don’t bother with them!”

Eric Carter glanced over. There were eighteen cultivators in this group, all at least at the seventh level of Qi Refining. Judging by their clothes, they weren’t from the same faction.

Chapter 10: Heaven’s secrets must not be revealed

“Huh? Junior sister Emily, what are you doing here?”

A female cultivator suddenly stopped and asked. Although she was rather plain-looking, she wore the signature yellow robe of the Xuanling Sect, and her cultivation was at the eighth level of Qi Refining, one level higher than Emily Cooper.

Emily Cooper’s eyes lit up when she saw her. “Senior Sister Thompson, I didn’t expect to run into you here!”

“There’s a beast tide ahead too!”

“Oh my god! We’re surrounded!”

The cultivators had just run past Eric Carter and the others when they stopped. They saw the silhouette of the beast tide on the horizon ahead. Now, only the direction toward the forest was free of beasts, but if they turned and ran for the woods, they’d probably be trampled to death before they even got there.

For a moment, the cultivators all fell into despair. The female cultivator called Senior Sister Thompson came up to Emily Cooper and sighed, “Little junior sister, we can’t escape. Why did you come out here? Why didn’t you just stay in the sect?”

Eric Carter was getting annoyed by their noise, so he snapped impatiently, “All of you shut up! You’re not dead yet!”

Beside him, Max lifted its head, a look of disdain in its eyes.

The cultivators all looked at Eric Carter in unison. Dressed in the uniform of the imperial guards, Eric Carter was quite impressive, especially with the aura he exuded after breaking through to the Foundation Establishment stage, which made the Qi Refining cultivators secretly shocked.

Who was this young genius from which sect?

But with disaster looming, no one cared about his identity.

“Damn, the beast tide has us surrounded. Do you really think we can survive?”

“Damn that demon king for bringing so many demon beasts.”