The corpse of Crimson Nine-Heads arrived at precisely the moment Xu Ke was most desperate.

The problem was simple: as the number of exotic beast species grew, the six original heads that had served as the culture medium were gradually being used up.

Though Crimson Nine-Heads was one entity, each of its nine heads possessed a different temperament. Perhaps it was precisely this unusual trait that had caused the cultured exotic beasts to evolve in so many different directions.

Swap in another demonic beast of equivalent power instead, a brown Peng for instance, and the results would likely be nothing alike.

So it could be said that Crimson Nine-Heads had arrived at exactly the right time.

By Xu Ke's calculations, once the number of existing exotic beast species reached a certain threshold, the sheer population...