The Beasts were perhaps the most pitiful race in the universe. For countless years, they had failed to produce a being that could truly stand out among others. There were plenty of such humans, and even those like that among non-human beings, but when it came to Beasts, there were none. Their one true talent, Monty, did not even care about their existence, and they did not know of him.
You could call it bad luck, or perhaps there were some inferior genes. Regardless, the Beasts had always been merely average at best.
The last thing that the Beast race wanted to do was cooperate with a human, but looking at this being, was he truly human? He had a human form, but that was all. In soul and mind, this being was more of a monster than even a Beast.
Ye Li held out his hand, his face obscured. "Then the Beasts can work with me. I promise, you will have a place in the universe untouched, even after I am finished with my plans."
The giant dragon hesitated. Although Ye Li was countless times smaller than it, it did not even feel like an equal.
"You say you have plans. What exactly are your goals?" The Beast asked.
He knew of Chaos beasts and the destruction race, both of which had wished to harm everything. They were common enemies for all living things. The Beast wanted to know if Ye Li was like them, especially since Ying Xiong and the Outsider leader had made it seem so.
Ye Li slightly smiled. "Isn't everyone's goal the same? My goal is to win."
The Beast was moved. A deal was made. When the time came, the Beasts would assist Ye Li.
Of course, the Beasts weren't completely united. Some had become used to this sort of life, one under others. They had learned to live with other beings, even if seen as inferior.
The Dragon, who found this more humiliating than anything else, formulated a plan with Ye Li.
A few million years later, a massacre happened at a Beast alliance meeting. There hadn't been any sort of big commotion until afterwards. Outsiders and members of the Cosmic Sect showed up, but they were far too late. The Giant dragon flew in space with blood covering it. It was clearly extremely angry.
"What happened?" Ying Xiong asked.
The dragon spoke. "That being attacked us. He killed three of our sages before leaving. I tried to use the teleportation array, but he seemed to have sealed off the area."
Ying Xiong was surprised. He didn't realize that the enemy could do that. Sealing off one of his arrays was no easy task. He had developed them for countless years.
After staying for a while, Ying Xiong and the Outsider leader left. They had wanted to either bring the Beast alliance sages with them or stay and defend, but the dragon refused.
His pride would not allow him to be sheltered or protected.
Neither Ying Xiong nor the Outsider leader could change this, and they left helplessly. Ying Xiong began to develop a better teleportation array.
As everyone left, the Beast alliance sages held another meeting.
This time, there was another participant, one who had killed three sages during the last meeting. Ye Li stood alongside the Giant dragon, who had now shrunk down to a smaller size for convenience and to stay hidden.
Besides the Dragon, there were three other Beast sages that believed in the same thing as the dragon.
They were Beasts similar to a frog, a horse, and an eagle. However, none of them were innocent or kind Beasts, despite being similar to normal animals.
They were each truly Beasts, ready to kill at any moment for the sake of freeing the Beast race from subservience and inferiority.
While working with Ye Li would eventually make them inferior once again once he reached the peak, they had received a promise to be left alone on their own, and that was all that mattered. This was already the best situation.
Ye Li pierced each of these beings with Karma, making them officially part of the Unknown. The Beasts did not learn much. They did not know anything about the Unknown or Ye Li's power at all, only that they had a piece of it within them.
Ye Li had read their Karma during the earlier massacre and knew that they would not attempt to betray him.
With this, Ye Li left, intent to grow his power before the next battle. He already had a goal, and that was Ying Xiong.
Yhwh also began to increase his power even further. He knew that Ye Li had surpassed him, but he needed to catch up.
On the same level, he had actually defeated Ye Li before. Although he seemed like a minor character ever since the Cosmic Sect and the Outsiders got involved, he was actually the greatest hope of defeating Ye Li. He just needed to become stronger.
The race of strength continued for tens of millions of years before Ye Li was satisfied in his growth. His strength had neared the peak of the Sage realm. Yhwh too had reached Sage realm level power.
With Ye Li's unique way of fighting, his strength could be said to be even higher. The same could be said for Yhwh.
After so long, the Beast alliance received a message through the Karma within them. They went to a location given and found teleportation arrays. As the message had told them, they waited until a signal was received.
Meanwhile, Ying Xiong moved through space. He had been leaving the Zhou supercluster more often than in the past due to recent events. He passed by a giant creation that had three flat platforms stacking up, each one the size of a galaxy cluster.
As he passed, an attack traveled towards him from the highest level. It was weak. He waved his hand and dispersed the attack, continuing on, but what he failed to see was a Karma spiral within that continued towards him, eventually reaching a small teleportation array on his body.