Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 404 Shadow
"Can you still play like this?"

The group from Tianyuan Realm were utterly bewildered when they saw that Lingyue Sword Immortal was not planning to take the stage.

There are five battles in total in the cave, so you're making the Holy Son of the Demon Court fight four of them?

"This... I should have known better than to go and gather intelligence. I lost so badly. Even if Tianyuan Realm wins in the end, given my performance, the quality of the Divine Body Pills I can choose from probably won't be very high." Bai Yuran cried.

According to the Divine Body Ranking of Tianyuan Continent, there is still a significant difference between the divine bodies ranked 11-20 and those ranked 91-100.

At the same level, a cultivator with a solar-type divine body can easily defeat a cultivator with a fire-type divine body.

Bai Yuran was on the verge of tears, feeling for the first time that the Heavenly Secrets Technique was so useless.

The intelligence she gathered seemed utterly useless; after all, regardless of who the opponent was, this Immortal Saint seemed to be able to kill anyone who showed up.

Thinking about it carefully, it makes sense. This guy's pet beast can even solo a Nascent Soul genius from the Tianyuan Realm, let alone some "Nascent Soul brats" in front of him.

If the geniuses of Tianming Realm want to challenge Lin Jing, they'd probably have to call in a Nascent Soul stage expert.

"You don't need to regret it. I don't have that many pets. Five rounds won't be enough," Lin Jing comforted him, while sending out his last pet.

"This is the only one I have left."

As he spoke, the Ice Soul Gu that Lin Jing had summoned had already stepped onto the arena.

"spider?"

When Lü Wangshu and the Tianming Realm side saw that their opponent was an ice spider, they were all stunned.

"Another pet beast?"

Lu Wangshu was holding his breath, feeling extremely frustrated regardless of the outcome of the battle.

I thought the other party would value these three points highly, but it turns out to be just another pet beast?
"A beast-taming cultivator? This is the first time I've seen one. But let's end this farce here." He was about to circulate his energy when suddenly his expression changed. He realized that he had been poisoned without even knowing it!

The toxins were frantically trying to invade his body, so Lü Wangshu quickly used the supreme yang power brought by the Sun Body to suppress them, which allowed him to catch his breath.

It is precisely the ability of the colorless and odorless Wind Plague Gu, which spreads through the air, that makes it so difficult for enemies to defend against its poisoning.

"What happened?" Seeing that Senior Brother Lü was on high alert, Tianming and the others realized that something was wrong.

At the same time, Lu Wangshu had just suppressed the poison of the Wind Plague Gu that had infected him through his skin when his mind became chaotic. Suddenly, the thought of what would happen if he lost arose. In an instant, countless consequences of losing the battle between the two worlds filled his mind, and he began to have uncontrollable wild thoughts.

First, his cultivation level plummeted, and he returned to the Heavenly Cry Realm in disgrace, losing his title as the strongest Nascent Soul prodigy. Then, he was met with disappointed glances from the elders and palace masters of the Immortal Palace and was excluded from the list of disciples that the Immortal Palace was focusing on cultivating. In an instant, the poison of inner demons entangled Lü Wangshu's heart.

"It was that spider's doing." Fortunately, with his innate Dao body and clear Dao mind, he suppressed the Yin God Gu poison again in no time. The Yin Gu poison had already been planted the moment the Ice Soul Gu and Lü Wangshu locked eyes.

Faced with such a bizarre spider, Lü Wangshu felt extremely troubled, because even someone with a constitution that was supposedly immune to all poisons could only suppress the toxins and could not immediately neutralize them.

"I heard you're very strong?" Ice Soul Gu muttered to itself, looking at its opponent whose expression had changed drastically.

Within its icy, crystal-like body, multicolored light spots shimmered, representing the power of other strange Gu.

"...Not an ordinary spider, is it a poisonous gu?"

"Moreover, the poison-type bloodline is definitely at the ancestral level."

Lu Wangshu retreated, covered in sweat, while two yin-yang fish, one black and one white, appeared in his eyes.

"Restrain it."

Lu Wangshu summoned two magical spirits, while he himself retreated to the back to continue suppressing the poison.

He discovered that the two toxins, which he had just suppressed, had suddenly changed again, as if they were alive and determined to end his life.

This is because the Ice Soul Gu contains not only Yin God Gu Poison and Wind Plague Gu Poison, but a complex Gu poison, as well as the power of all poisons and death!

The power of the Myriad Poison Gu grants the Gu poisons transformations, causing the types of toxins to constantly mutate.
The deadly Gu poison's power activates the poison, making it multiply and grow stronger like a living venomous insect within the enemy's body.

The combination of these two Gu worms makes the toxins even more difficult to treat and suppress.

It can be said that while the Ice Soul Gu is also adept at parasitizing and manipulating corpses, it is still more skilled at playing with poison, especially now that the nine Gu have been combined into one.

It is especially useful when facing other top talents of the same level.

"No, deal with it!!!" A moment later, Lü Wangshu realized that even his Sun Body, the bane of all evil, was not enough to suppress the poison, and he panicked.

What a joke! In this situation, he'd rather face the squirrel and the carp.

"Damn it, the acquired solar body is ultimately inferior to the innate solar body, and the divine body is not yet perfect..." He gritted his teeth, not having time to think about anything else, and could only hope that the two magical spirits could solve the Ice Soul Gu.

The elemental spirit of magic is composed purely of magical power; it can't be poisoned, can it...?

However, his expectations were ultimately wishful thinking. This magical spirit, which had been sublimated from the two basic Yin-Yang spells, "Blazing Sun Technique" and "Shadow Technique," was completely fooled by the spider right under Lü Wangshu's nose.

The Ice Soul Gu, seeing the magical spirit that had transformed into a yin-yang fish and was sweeping towards it with powerful yin-yang energy, attempting to annihilate it, had no intention of confronting it head-on.

He directly activated the power of the Stone Golem Gu, using Earth Escape to burrow underground. The two Yin-Yang fish immediately lost their target, paused for a moment, and then followed him underground, chasing after him one after the other. "La la la."

The Ice Soul Gu avoids direct confrontation with the Yin-Yang Fish.

"Without your master's divine sense, you couldn't have locked onto me underground. Speed ​​up, or your master will soon be unable to hold on and will be poisoned to death."

The Ice Soul Gu muttered incessantly, and the two Yin-Yang fish began to sweat profusely. Compared to them, Lu Wangshu, who was struggling to suppress the toxins on the arena outside, was the most desperate. He kept searching for antidote pills, but found that none of them worked.

In this state, releasing one's divine sense to assist the magical spirit will only exacerbate the poison's deterioration!

"It's over."

At this moment, even the slow-witted cultivators of Tianming could see Lü Wangshu's predicament. They were all incredulous. The strongest Nascent Soul prodigy of Tianming Realm was being toyed with by a poisonous spider and was powerless to resist? What a joke!

This cannot even be called a battle.

"Incomprehensible!" After a moment, the toxins in Lü Wangshu's body erupted rapidly, causing his vital signs to plummet. Even though his magical spirit was still chasing the Ice Soul Gu, he was directly regarded as defeated and teleported down by the cave heaven.

"Senior Brother Lü!" Lü Wangshu's return signified a complete defeat for the Tianming Realm, even though another battle was yet to come.

"The beast-taming cultivator opposite us... is a monster."

"Tianlian, in the final match, I must quickly concede. I can't suppress the poison anymore... I must seek help from the Dao Inquiry Elder in the Immortal Palace..." Lu Wangshu had completely lost his initial confidence, and a shadow had been cast over his heart.

I had just been watching the other people and their pets fight, and I hadn't really noticed anything yet.

It wasn't until I experienced it myself that I truly understood that despair.

"I...I understand." Tian Lian took a deep breath, her scalp tingling. She looked at the spider that had disappeared from the arena and felt a deep fear of the beast-taming cultivator who had never participated.

Who exactly is that beast-taming cultivator on the other side?

"Admit defeat." Soon, Tian Lian stepped onto the arena. Since Tianming Realm had already lost completely, in order to prevent Senior Brother Lü from dying here, she had to end the battle immediately, which meant admitting defeat.

After all, even if she won the battle, it would be meaningless. I never expected it to end like this.

Tianyuan Realm...

Let alone the Tianming Realm, even the people of the Tianyuan Realm themselves felt that Lin Jing's strength was too abnormal. The other side... must have developed a strong psychological shadow at this moment.

Perhaps, in the future, the forest will become their inner demon.

They have already begun to imagine, based on Tianming Realm's performance, what it would be like for Lin Jing to enter the Origin Realm and face the geniuses of all realms.

"The last one."

In the final match, Lin Jing stepped onto the arena by himself. He no longer had the help of his pet beast, but that didn't matter.

"I concede—" Upon seeing that the strange beast-taming cultivator himself was going to take the stage in the final match, Shenlianti quickly conceded defeat.

but.

A few seconds after admitting defeat, what made Shen Lian's body shudder was...

The cave remained unresponsive.

"Have you chosen to concede defeat...?" Lin Jing stood on the arena, extended his finger, and on his finger, a cute little mushroom spun and danced.

"I surrender!!!" Shen Lianti's expression changed, but no matter how she shouted, Dongtian did not respond.

After a moment, Shenlianti finally noticed something amiss and looked at Lin Jing with a horrified expression.

Fantasy!

"This is... the elemental spirit of the Illusionary Path?" Her gaze was fixed on the mushroom.

"Smart, did you realize that you only shouted out your surrender in the illusion, while in reality you are still standing blankly on the arena without saying a word? It seems that your surrender under these circumstances has not been detected by the rules of the cave heaven." Lin Jing smiled slightly.

"You..." Shen Lianti was in despair. What kind of monster was this guy?

"What do you want to do."

She couldn't understand it either. Wasn't the other person a beast tamer? How could he... have reached the level of cultivating magical elemental spirits through the cultivation of illusionary arts?

monster!

"Don't worry, I know you're eager to admit defeat because you don't want that person's poison to worsen and kill them."

“Time flows differently in this illusion than in the outside world. Right now, only about a second has probably passed in the outside world as well.” Lin Jing stroked his chin.

"However, I can also do it. In the illusion, a moment is equivalent to several hours in the outside world. In other words, the life and death of that genius of Tianming Realm is in my hands. Fellow Daoist, you don't want him to die either, do you?"
"If we return in time and have the powerful figures of the Immortal Palace help detoxify him, there might still be a chance to save him. And if you want to save him, you only need to answer a few questions for me. After all, wasn't our initial intention to exchange information?" Lin Jing whispered.

(End of this chapter)