Chapter 1688: Heaven-Swallowing Lion

"I, I… I am your father!"

The giant lion had originally been fuming with rage.

After finally meeting the child he had been separated from for seventy thousand years, he ended up getting kicked in the rear by this Human Race brat!

How could he not be furious?

But…

His own son was actually calling him an old thing, just like that Human Race brat did?!

"You, you explain the situation first!" Seeing that the giant lion was acting strange, Xiao Jin shrank his head and hid back behind Xiao Fan.

What the other party said was too profound…

It made it hard for Xiao Jin to believe for a moment.

"That's right, don't dawdle, speak up quickly…" Xiao Fan said indifferently.

The giant lion was extremely indignant.

But he was helpless.

He was trapped by the altar.

Moreover, this Human Race brat was terrifyingly strong; he could not do anything to him at all.

"Back then… within the Hongtian Star Domain, after our Heaven-Swallowing Lion race was wiped out, we scattered and fled… After many more years passed, the other races no longer feared our race, believing we no longer posed the threat we once did… So they gave up on exterminating us completely!"

"However… there were not many survivors of our race. Even if we appeared in the open, we could not stir up any trouble, and we didn't even dare to establish a territory for our race…"

"Many more years passed… Gradually, some Human Race beings began planning to capture us to use as mounts!"

"It wasn't just the Human Race… there were also the Demon Race… and even the Yao Race had such intentions, wanting to enslave our race…"

"The survivors of our Heaven-Swallowing Lion race naturally refused, but we were unable to resist and eventually fell back into fleeing… As for me, I was caught by the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces at that time and brought back to the Nine Provinces…" The giant lion's eyes were spitting fire, and he was filled with indignation.

"So that's how it is…" Xiao Fan murmured, then asked: "Then what about Xiao Jin, and what happened afterwards?"

This giant lion was indeed strong.

But he only had the strength of the Zhanming Realm, and he was simply incomparable to the former Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces.

"After I was caught by the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces… he hoped to tame me to become his mount, but I naturally refused… My son is the offspring I had with my wife before I was caught by the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces… But at that time, during the capture and slaughter, I had no choice but to choose to Seal the child…"

"Then… after I was caught by the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces, he didn't know that I had offspring at the time. I used my Innate Divine Ability to keep my son hidden inside my body." The giant lion explained very carefully, his eyes constantly darting over Xiao Jin.

"Inside your body?" Xiao Fan was stunned for a moment, then suddenly understood.

Just a moment ago, when he was fighting this lion, the other party had indeed intended to swallow him into his body!

In that case… it seemed reasonable.

"What happened after that?" Xiao Fan asked again.

"The Nine Provinces were attacked by powerful races from outside the domain… The Witch God Clan and Weiyang Clan of the Hongtian Star Domain joined forces, and there were other races assisting as well. The Nine Provinces were simply no match and were eventually defeated…"

"At that time, the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces was severely injured… I thought I had a chance to escape, but in the end… I was still suppressed by him. He brought me here, placed a Seal on me, and set up a Magic Array… making it impossible for me to leave. Furthermore, under the altar, he set up another Magic Array, making it impossible for this space to be torn open or for spatial displacement to occur… As for my son, I used all my strength to spit him out while he was severely injured and caught off guard, while he was preparing the Magic Array…" the giant lion said slowly.

Hearing the lion say this.

Xiao Fan suddenly understood everything.

Everything was explained.

One cannot tear open the Void Realm here, so… during the Ten Thousand Year Great Calamity, if the other two clans arrived, they probably wouldn't come here?

Even if they did come… ordinary experts probably wouldn't be able to defeat this lion.

Xiao Fan asked all the questions he was curious about.

The results were roughly the same as what he had guessed.

"What was the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces' intention when he Sealed you here back then?" Xiao Fan asked.

"What intention?" The giant lion sneered: "He kept me as a backup plan, hoping that I would help the Nine Provinces fight against those outside the domain! Dream on. If I ever get out, I will immediately slaughter all the living beings in the Nine Provinces!"

"As expected…" Xiao Fan nodded.

This lion was also one of the backup plans.

But this one wasn't obedient!

Xiao Fan thought for a moment and then looked at Xiao Jin.

Could it be that the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces intended to let Xiao Jin integrate into the Nine Provinces?

And then let this coward move this big brute?

This… that's not right, that can't be it!

Xiao Fan felt that he was overthinking it.

It was probably just that the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces didn't know how to deal with this Old Lion at the time.

So he Sealed him here to act as a trump card!

He hesitated for a moment and then asked: "You can't leave here?"

"Nonsense, if I could leave, I would have left long ago!" The giant Yao Beast bared his teeth.

"How can you be allowed to leave?" Xiao Fan asked again.

"This altar is supported by the Origin of the Nine Provinces… Only the Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces can open it!" The giant Yao Beast said.

Then he told Xiao Fan.

The former Human Emperor of the Nine Provinces had tampered with this place.

Even the Heavenly Dao could not detect it.