With both cultivators finally gone 6 beams of light appeared around the child, the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Black, Tortoise, Vermillion Bird, Qilin and finally a huge Bashe appeared all clearly guarded beforehand and expecting this situation from the start, the 4 symbols didn't wait for even a second more before they created an array to combine their powers and completely obliterate the child in front of them.
In a fluid motion none of the sacred beasts were able to follow the Bashe appeared in front of the child and completely devoured the attack aimed for it, saving the child and showing the Bashe's dominance in front of the 4 sacred beasts, watching all this the Qilin could only cackle at the beasts "Are the 4 sacred beasts truly that much weaker than one old demonic beast? What a sight it is to behold!" Before anyone could retort the childish provocation a load thunderous roar came out of the Azure Dragon whose pride had been greatly damaged.
"Calm yourself Azure Dragon, I come here for the boy is of a snake's bloodline and thus mine to claim, do any of you disagree to my claim? Don't forget you and your clan's conditions right now" The Bashe said to the sacred beasts in front of him very simply with a sinister smile, they were all already drained due to their prior agreement with the Heavenly Dao with which they could accelerate their cultivation through.
"Bashe, you would not dare to fight all of together regularly, but now you find your courage? What convenient timing you have, truly the fisherman that waits the most will also reap the most are you prepared to go to war with us 4 Sacred Beasts and the army that will come afterwards?" the Azure Dragon said very sharply, unimpressed with the stance of the humongous snake that towered over the 4 of them.
Not even saying a word the Bashe opened his mouth and directly swallowed the Vermillion Bird, clearly it was not a time to start a conversation and while that happened the White Tiger rushed over to strike the Bashe but before it could get in range it was charged by the Qilin and pushed into the Black Tortoise, stunning both of them, before anything could continue the Qilin created a barrier of fire around it and the 2 sacred beasts so that they would not interfere with the fight that was about to start.
The Azure Dragon Shook its head and opened its mouth at the Bashe, shooting lightning directly into his right eye, the Bashe had its guard down due to gorging on the bird, but was able to slant its head, losing its right eye but not outright dying and so what he did next was constrict the dragon very easily simply due to the size difference, while the dragon did have have hands, in this situation it was entirely useless and he was also swallowed.
Back to the Qilin it could easily be seen that the White Tiger was slowly hurting the Qilin thanks to the coverage of the Black Tortoise, as soon as the Qilin had become more tired the White Tiger pounced on him, holding him down, get ready to beat his neck but just as he was about to something terrible happened, for a split second it turned it head to see the Black Tortoise that kept it safe about to be completely devoured by a one eyed Bashe he seemed out for blood.
Having lost all will to fight after that scene it began begging to be spared by the Bashe who just looked at it before biting it, poisoning it and making sure that it would be compliant in his demands of it and would not spread the news, picking up the Qilin and placing the baby in the care of the White Tiger it signaled the White tiger to follow him back to the snake den.
After going underground for an hour they had reached the back of cave, "White Tiger are you able to produce milk or have any leftover? If so make and give as much as you can, this will allow you the chance at freedom that you will probably never have again" the Bashe said simply, watching the White Tigers every move with its guard up, "Yes sir, I am able to give you 700L right now, please have mercy on me" the White Tiger says in submission, not interested in sharing the fate of the other 4 sacred beasts and handed over its spacial ring in hopes of appeasing its new master.
The Bashe simple smiled at the ring before decisively striking the White Tiger and swallowing her whole too, now having 4 sacred beast bodies and more importantly their souls, having gone through all this trouble and hardship he quickly left the room with the child to let the Qilin rest more while it moved the important packages to its master.
After a long travel it finally came into a completely black room and regurgitated all 4 sacred beast bodies without a single scar or damage to them, after waiting for a while an eerie red presence made itself known, a creature that looked like a snake surrounded by skulls of various races in an ethereal form "Well done, I am unable to the tasks assigned to myself sadly but you have done perfectly" the Bashe simply bowed its head at the oppressive figure in front of it and while it was doing that the unidentified snake simply took the souls of the 4 sacred beasts straight from their bodies and went into the conscience of the child where the eerie white snake was again simply curled up, the snake put the 4 sacred beasts into 4 corners with the white snake being the center and shouted "Seal Of The 4 Pillars!" saying it with as much force as it could muster the snake watched the white snakes left eye lose its red sclera and then fall to the ground unconscious, as soon as that happened it went into the seal and drop an extremely dense red drop of QI into the snakes left eye and then ran out the 4 pillar seal, refocusing the seal onto the left eye, forcing it closed for as long as possible.
"Take the child back and drench it 3 times every day in a mixture of the 4 sacred beasts corpses, only he is allowed to do this, all others would most likely die from it, if you want their cores than you can personally keep them to improve your cultivation but your already approaching the limit of this domain soon, I would instead recommend you give the cores to the child and you go into seclusion, this battle might have given you new insights that were not there before, ponder on them to further your training the fastest and after 5 years bring the child back here to take my inheritance" the words shocked the Bashe greatly as it did not expect to gain so much insight from its distant ancestor, understanding that the ancestor didn't want them there anymore he took everything back with him to where the Qilin was now resting, when it appeared there it saw that the Qilin was already up
"I see you've awoken, we have now killed the 4 symbols, while their clans don't have proof it will still greatly sour our relations with them" Bashe said very straightforward "I understood what was expected when we started this, they have always looked down on the demonic beasts it is best to knock them down to a tier below our clans, what rewards are you looking from me? I don't mind giving everything my clan has to offer for killing those 4" the Qilin said humorously.
"I need 700L of your milk and I also require your blood essence, the more the better" the Bashe said, it was a very serious thing to ask for, the blood essence is what held the innate talents of most creatures, while rare if a different beast drank enough and also had enough luck they could gain that said talent, become a new clan on their own "That's fine but at least tell me who you will nurture through these resources, from recent news I have not heard of any recent snake prodigies" the Bashe simple looked at the child and then back at the Qilin with the Qilin following his line of thought at the end "are you sure? You claimed him of your bloodline but that doesn't mean he has any talent" the Bashe simply laughed at the Qilin, took the child and then left.