Divine Beast Adventures

by Srtyi

The world experienced a cataclysmic change, and countless spatial gateways appeared out of thin air. Exotic beasts of all shapes and sizes swarmed out of those aforementioned spatial gateways, forcing the humans to face the crucial moment for their survival. In order to search for a chance at survival, brave warriors from the army and scientific researchers risked their lives and

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Chapter 379: Limelight. The Zhen Family's Confidence

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Zheng Hongru and the others took turns speaking to Zhang Che. In the end, Xiao Yi asked with uncertainty, "Uhm, Brother Che, are you really the one who's fighting the Bei Du's Zhen family in an arena deathmatch?"

Up until now, they were still in disbelief that this Zhang Che they knew was THAT Zhang Che.

It was understandable. Back when they took the combined university enrollment exam together, although Zhang Che was much stronger than any of them, he was only a Tier Three beastmaster, after all, and his strongest subdued beast was only at dark gold-quality.

How much time had passed since then? Zhang Che couldn't possibly have risen to Tier Five, or even Tier Six beastmaster, not to mention owning many powerful subdued beasts, right?

From what they learned from the rumors, the Zhang Che who was going to fight the Zhen family was extremely likely to have epic-quality subdued beasts!

Epic-quality subdued beasts! For Zheng Hongru and the others didn't even dare to dream about that!

"Hmm? This matter really did spread everywhere. That's right. I am that Zhang Che," he acknowledged, chuckling. There was no need to hide this matter from them. In any case, it would be public knowledge two days from now.

"Brother Che, it really is you!?"

On the other end of the call, Xiao Yi and the others' excitement was clear. It was obvious they had gathered their heads together in front of the personal terminal and heard Zhang Che's answer.

"That… Brother Che, aren't you a mid-tier beastmaster already, then?" they asked in anticipation, and a little shock.

That was a given if they thought about it. If Zhang Che hadn't become a mid-tier beastmaster, how could he fight the Zhen family in an arena deathmatch?

"Mhm, right, I'm already a Tier Six beastmaster."

Zhang Che didn't explain his strength in explain. He only talked about the conflict with Zhen family briefly, and indicated that the arena deathmatch was inevitable. At the same time, he also assured them and told them not to worry. He was confident in obtaining victory in this duel.

After hearing Zhang Che's story, the astonishment in their hearts could be imagined.

"Brother Che, you have to tell us when the time and location of the match is decided. We're coming to cheer for you!"

In the end, they asked if they could be there to support him. Zhang Che nodded and agreed to it. This was their sentiment. It wasn't nice to reject them.A thousand kilometers to the west of Qin Zhou, at the endless spread of desolate, barren Gobi desert…

Under the watchful eyes of the masses, the fourth of October, Year Thirty-Six of the New Era arrived quickly.

Currently, an elite squad made up of the army and the government's forces was stationed here, securing a perimeter several kilometers wide.

This area was relatively flat, with barren hills in the surroundings, which allowed the people around to see the situation inside.

Looking from the sky, this place was like a huge, natural arena. The flat area in the middle was where the ring was, and the surrounding hills were the elevated spectators areas.

At this time, many factions big and small from Hua Xia were gathered on the hills.

It was currently about half an hour before noon. Zhang Che was in the Huang family's camp, surrounded by a bunch of his close friends and family.

Huang Juyun, Huang Tielan, Sun Lan, and his extended family were the relatives. As for his friends, Luo Wenjun and Zheng Hongru's group were all present.

What surprised Zhang Che was that even Zhang Yujie from Qian Wei City had come. According to him, Zhang Che saved his life back then at the area outside of the secret plane. Now that Zhang Che had met with such a huge matter, naturally he had to come support him. Although he wouldn't be able to provide any help, he had to come cheer him on. No matter what, Zhang Che was a talent from Qian Wei City, right?

Zhang Che thanked each and every one of them for their support. In the end, he sat down quietly under a gigantic umbrella, waiting for the start of the duel.

Although it would be the most important fight in his life very soon, Zhang Che didn't feel very nervous about it.

Truthfully speaking, when he compared the incidents, this time wasn't as dangerous as when he fought the Earthen Rock Demon. There truly wasn't much for Zhang Che to be worried about.

As for whether the Zhen family would have some sort of killer move, Zhang Che didn't mind at all.

Technological weapons were forbidden in arena death matches. If they violated the rules, they would surely be severely punished by the Hua Xia officials. The Zhen family couldn't afford to bear such consequences.

If they really dared to disregard everything else and act against him, there was no need to initiate the arena deathmatch to begin with. They would directly use any methods available to deal with Zhang Che, and perhaps they might really kill him!On the other end of the desert was the Zhen family's camp.

They only learned that the Huang family had set this place as the location of the duel yesterday afternoon. They pretty much had to rush here during the night.

Similar to the Huang family, Elder Zhen didn't come. Only their second and third generations were here, with Zhen Manting in charge.

Of course, their absence didn't mean that the elders wouldn't be able to watch the upcoming battle.

At present, in the outer space above this area, three military spy satellites were operating concurrently, sending video feed of the situation in the area back to Bei Du. Anyone with a certain status would be able to watch the situation there in real time.

In the camp, the Zhen family members were gathered together, with Zhen Manting sitting at the helm. An expression that hinted everything was in her control showed on her face as he said, "For the Huang family to have set this place as the location, they must have got their hands on an earth-attributed epic-quality subdued beast through some channel unknown to us, and want to use the geographical advantage to fight for a better winning chance. But, they have no idea what our preparations are like. It's not so easy for them to get what they want!"

After a short pause, Zhen Manting shifted her gaze to a middle-aged man with a cold expression, asking, "Zhen Liu, you don't need to be in a hurry to attack when the fight starts. See what methods that brat Zhang Che has, and when he has exhausted every means possible, kill him off in a lightning-fast manner. At that time, I want to see what the look on Huang Juyun's face will be!"

"Rest assured, Eldest Miss! With that secret weapon in hand, let alone that brat being only a mid-tier beastmaster, even a high-tier beastmaster wouldn't be able to escape death!" A faint smile showed on Zhen Liu's cold face. He didn't put this arena deathmatch to heart at all.

The Zhen family had lost many elites before finally getting their hands on that secret weapon. Over the years, it had displayed unimaginable usefulness in helping the Zhen family rise up to become a first-rate clan.

It wouldn't be difficult for a great killing tool like that to kill a mere mid-tier beastmaster!

"You can't be too careless, either. Since Huang Juyun dared to let that brat Zhang Che accept the battle, they probably have some hidden aces up their sleeves, too. We mustn't meet with an unexpected failure," Zhen Manting shot a glance at Zhen Liu, scaring him into quickly lowering his head.

He replied respectfully, "Yes, rest assured, Eldest Miss. I'll be careful. I won't give any chance to that brat."

"Mhm. When the fight starts, you must pay attention to your feet. I guess the Huang family must have gotten an earth-attributed subdued beast. Perhaps you will be ambushed from underground. You have to watch out for that."

No one was a fool in the world. With Zhang Che and the Huang family setting the stage here, they immediately guessed Zhang Che's plans.

Other than not know exactly what Zhang Che's subdued beast was, the Zhen family could be sure that there was an earth-attributed subdued beast, and it was possibly an epic-quality one.

Of course, just like how the Zhen family had absolute confidence in their hidden ace, Zhang Che similarly believed that he could easily kill the Zhen family's representative beastmaster and obtain the final victory, in addition to keeping his life intact.

Unlike the peace and quiet in the Zhen and Huang camps, it was currently very lively in the many camps around the surrounding barren rock hills.

Nearly every faction with the qualifications to come observe the battle had sent people here, especially individuals and factions who had placed huge bets on this battle. Naturally they wanted to witness their champion claim victory in person, enjoying the feeling of making a fortune on the spot.

As for the large lottery companies in Bei Du, and even the Hua Xia region, they had similarly sent staff here to bear witness to this event.

Although these lottery companies earned from this arena deathmatch by drawing commissions from the bets, and their revenue wouldn't be affected no matter which side won, this didn't stop their internal staff from partaking in the betting as well. Naturally they wanted to come watch it live.

This was a rare event in Hua Xia. An arena deathmatch between mid-tier beastmasters wasn't a common occurrence in the past few years.

After all, mid-tier beastmasters were already considered elites of the clans. How could they possibly send them out for a life-or-death battle so easily?

Once an arena deathmatch involved mid-tier beastmasters, they had to be equipped with legend-quality or higher subdued beasts. If they lost, the losses would be too huge. Even large clans might not be able to bear it.Time slowly passed. Soon, it was 12 PM sharp.

Under the eyes of everyone present, the representatives from both sides took turns to enter the stage. Each side occupied an end of the expansive desert area, staring down their opponent from over a kilometer away.

Zhang Che stood on the hot sand and rocks. With a wave of his hand, several rays of light shot out from his brow.

The Winged Dragon Wind God and the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise suddenly rushed forth from left and right respectively. The former flew against the wind into the sky. In a five hundred meters radius around it, the violent wind elements could be seen stirring, sweeping up countless grains of sand, while the latter lay silently on the ground, nothing unusual to be seen.

The Zhen family had surely investigated the information regarding those two beasts. Zhang Che thus decided to summon them right from the get go.

Other than that, a purple gold light wrapped around Zhang Che and turned into purplish-gold armor, covering him from head to toe.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon ferried Zhang Che on his back, hovering about a dozen meters off the ground.

Zhang Che didn't summon the rest of his subdued beasts and pets.

In battles involving epic-quality beasts, beasts that were legend-quality and below wouldn't be able to display much combat strength, and were easily killed instead.

As for the Earthen Rock Demon, it was Zhang Che's "killer move". Naturally it would only be useful if he summoned it at the key moment!

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Chapter 380: Fight Commences

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After seeing Zhang Che summoning two epic-quality subdued beasts in one go, in addition to owning a set of legend-quality armor, and even his mount being legend-quality, Zheng Hongru's group of four, who came to cheer him on, felt their hearts shaking.

Not too long ago, Zhang Che was still someone they could try to catch up to. The four of them had just risen to Tier Three beastmaster recently, and yet Zhang Che was already a Tier Six beastmaster, owning a bunch of extremely powerful subdued beasts!

The gap between them was simply as vast as the heaven and earth.

"Brother Che is too awesome!" the four of them exclaimed at the same time.

At their side, Luo Wenjun, who understood the Zhen family's strength very well, hated the fact that his Wind God Leopard wasn't one star rank lower. Otherwise, he could have lent it to Zhang Che, increasing his chances of winning…On the side of the Zhen family's camp, Zhen Manting revealed an amused smile upon seeing Zhang Che summon the Winged Dragon Wind God and the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise.

"Heh, looks like this kid is really holding something back."

Zhen Manting didn't mind it at all. The fact that Zhang Che had chosen the desert as the location of the duel without a doubt that he had an earth-attributed epic-quality subdued beast in reserve, and he was planning to use it as a surprise attack later on.

"Too bad. No matter what hidden card you have up your sleeves, it's useless. You're sure to die here today!"

After seeing Zhang Che summon his subdued beasts, Zhen Liu brought out his own subdued beasts unhurriedly.

He too summoned two Original Combat Body-type epic-quality subdued beasts. The two beasts were at his front, to the left and right, their formation mirroring Zhang Che's Winged Dragon Wind God and Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise.

Afterwards, two five-colored rays shot out from his brow, and materialized into a set of armor and a flying mount.

Naturally the Zhen family was already aware that Zhang Che had a legend-quality subdued beast with a monstrous attack skill. It was why they had prepared this legend-quality armor for Zhen Liu, which emphasized physical defense. It could withstand most physical attacks from those of the same level and quality.

As for the flying mount, naturally it was to guard against Zhang Che's killer move.

With such a comprehensive defense, Zhen Liu felt that Zhang Che wouldn't be able to do anything to him, no matter what tricks he had up his sleeves.

His killer move was one of the most powerful secret weapons of the Zhen family. Would this brat in front of him be able to withstand such an attack?

Zhang Che could sense the confidence coming from Zhen Liu from over a kilometer away. He narrowed his eyes slightly, growing a little more wary inside. -It seems like the Zhen family has a very fearsome trump, too. I really can't be careless in this battle…-After seeing the subdued beasts summoned by the fighters, the spectators immediately erupted.

They didn't know if it was just a coincidence, but the subdued beasts they summoned actually turned out to be the same types: two Original Combat Body-type epic-quality beasts, a legend-quality armor, and a legend-quality flying mount.

This became very interesting!

Judging by the current situation, the two were evenly matched. No one could truly tell who would be the one emerging victorious in the end.

Although the two were surely hiding their aces, perhaps even those were evenly matched?

If that was true, today's battle would definitely be a spectacle to behold!Zhang Che didn't show any change in emotions when he saw the subdued beasts his opponent had summoned.

Zhang Che looked with slightly narrowed eyes, then waved his hand. With the two epic-quality subdued beasts in front of him and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon behind, he directly rushed forward.

He didn't have any time to waste here; naturally he wanted to end it as soon as possible.

As long as the Winged Dragon Wind God and the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise kept their opponents at bay, Zhang Che would be able to cut down the other party with the scarlet sword.

A legend-quality armor shouldn't be very useful against the scarlet sword. If his opponent's armor was at epic-quality, however, Zhang Che really didn't dare to guarantee the scarlet sword could pierce it."Haha, it's finally starting!"

"Hurry, start recording this! Such spectacles aren't frequently seen. Film it and keep it as a commemoration; perhaps you can even sell it!"

"Don't be silly. Who do you think they are? I dare you to try recording this; I guarantee you won't walk out of this desert alive!"

The spectators erupted into discussions here and there.Huang Juyun stood atop on a hill. Seeing Zhang Che rushing towards his opponent first, he couldn't help but furrow his brow. As expected of a youngster, he couldn't keep it in!

By doing so, wouldn't Zhang Che be giving his opponent a chance to counter him?Zhen Liu narrowed his eyes, a hint of mockery flashing across his face as he watched Zhang Che's epic-quality subdued beasts flying towards him, especially the Winged Dragon Wind God. Dust was swept up everywhere it went.

"I'll see what methods you have first, or you won't even make peace with your death!"

Zhen Liu waved his hand. The two epic-quality subdued beasts in front of him charged forth, too.

At the same time, in order to guard against the underground ambush from Zhang Che's earth-attributed subdued beast, Zhen Liu ordered his mount to rise into the sky, flying a few hundred meters in the air.The lands were bloody red under the purplish-red sky.

Scarlet boiling magma were gushing out inside countless volcano craters. Smoke and dust rose and filled the skies, shrouding the lands in a cloud of darkness.

At the top of an enormous mountain was a wide platform.

At the center of the platform was a gigantic multi-colored demonic flower, floating in the air. The bright petals were in full bloom, emitting a fascinating charm.

Around the platform, all kinds of strange-looking creatures were gathered in a circle. Each of them was exuding a terrifying aura. The volcanic ash was unable to fly in the direction of their gathering, forcibly leaving a part of the sky untainted and allowing the purplish-red rays to shine through.

Around the demonic flower were a group of white, black, and yellow-skinned humans from Mercury. An unusual, devilish glint shone in their eyes. Every one of them was naked, and standing in a complicated, mysterious formation, surrounding the demonic flower that floating in the air.

The bizarre creatures surrounding them suddenly opened their mouths at the same time, producing a mixture of noises. In the end, the noises came together and formed a weird musical composition filled with demonic powers, ringing through the lands.

The demonic song grew louder and louder. The petals of the blooming demonic flower at the center of the platform started dancing, although no wind was blowing.

After the petals started dancing, thin threads of various colors visible to the naked eye suddenly shot out from the petals, and wove around one another methodically, forming a huge net. The net surrounded the naked humans of various ethnicities as well as the strange-looking creatures further outside.

Wave after wave of raging energy gushed out from the strange creatures in the outermost ring, travelling along the threads, and quickly entering the bodies of the naked humans.

The violent energy run rampant in the humans' bodies, and their exposed figures swelled up. Their veins were puffed out, as if huge earthworms were coursing through their blood vessels, giving them a frightening appearance.

At the same time, waves of exotic energy were also coursing through the threads from the countless petals of the demonic flower, entering into the bodies of the humans.

Gradually, a mysterious energy aura formed on the platform.

As the energy aura gradually grew stronger, an invisible pressure spread out to the surroundings. The volcanic ash that permeated the skies were actually blown away. An invisible tunnel had appeared above the platform, connecting to the heavens.

The humans around the demonic flower could no longer withstand the raging energy inside their bodies, and blood started trickling out of their orifices. A silent cry suddenly rang out from inside the demonic flower. The energy aura on the platform suddenly erupted, then an enormous mysterious energy suddenly rose to the sky. In the end, it formed a black vortex a few dozen meters above the platform.

Suddenly, it seemed like a gap had cracked open the purplish-red sky above their heads. A purplish-red beam of light shot straight down from the opening, and into the black vortex above the platform.

It was like the black vortex had taken a stimulant, and it started spinning quickly. The black, blurry spiral was contracting, emitting incredibly mysterious waves of energy, like it wanted to tear the space apart.

Sensing the instability in the space around them, the strange-looking creatures at the outermost ring revealed feverish glints in their eyes. Afterwards, they opened their mouths and spat out a mouthful of blood essence of various colors, which turned into incredibly pure energy, then travelled along the network of threads.In the endless wilderness all over the globe in Mercury, strange glints of light reflected in the eyes of numerous humans sitting at various desolate corners of the world.

At a certain moment, a wave of violent energy suddenly erupted from the bodies of those humans, each located thousands of kilometers away from one another. Afterwards, their bodies exploded and turned into black-colored mists of blood.

The blood mists didn't spatter about. Instead, it was like they were under the control of an invisible energy, and each of them formed a strange pattern in the air.

Within those strange patterns, an inexplicable energy connected to a distant world. It actually tore through the space at each of the locations, constructing mysterious spatial tunnels leading to an unknown land.At the other end of the mysterious land, above the platform at the enormous mountain, the black vortex suddenly contracted, then erupted completely, turning into many smaller vortexes, scattering outwards with the platform as the origin, and forming a strange new pattern in the air.

A massive invisible energy spread from the strange pattern, instantly wiping away the volcanic ash in the surroundings.

Rays of magenta light shone up in the purplish-red sky. With the tallest mountain as the center, countless strangely-shaped creatures dotted the uneven ground, as well as the skies.

The mysterious creatures were everywhere, like an endless army about to go on a conquest.

Killing intent surged in the air from the huge army…

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Chapter 381: Steamroll. Crack

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"Zhang Xiaoche, you have to win!"

Seeing the distance between Zhang Che and the beastmaster representative from the Zhen family getting closer and closer, and the clash imminent, Huang Tielan, who took an absence of leave to come spectate, clenched her fists, her face tightening.

Although Zhang Che had told her not to worry repeatedly and that he would be the one having the last laugh, Huang Tielan couldn't help but worry when she saw the similarly powerful subdued beasts of the Zhen family's beastmaster.

Huang Juyun seemed to have sensed his daughter's anxiety. He turned his head towards her and patted her head, consoling her with a smile, "Relax a little, Lanlan. You have to believe in that kid. He will do it!"

Honestly, at this moment, even Huang Juyun himself didn't know how this battle would end.

The Zhen family were obviously no fools. After learning of the location of the duel, naturally they realized Zhang Che would have an earth-attributed epic-quality subdued beast on him, and would use it at the crucial moment as an ambush.

So, they had made sufficient preparations. Not only did they prepare a legend-quality armor, they also equipped their representative with a legend-quality aerial mount to fly high up in the air, avoiding any sneak attacks from underground.

"Mhm, daddy, I believe Zhang Xiaoche will win for sure!" Huang Tielan nodded heavily. She raised her binoculars, looking at the arena below.

It was best for the father-daughter duo, who were confident in Zhang Che's strength. Zheng Hongru's group, on the other hand, was ghostly pale. They were very worried about whether Zhang Che could successfully emerge victorious in the upcoming battle.

They really wanted to help this brother who had once helped them immensely. However, in this mid-tier beastmaster duel, which easily touched upon the use of epic-quality subdued beasts, what could they possibly do?

-We have to work hard, and hopefully we can be of help to Brother Che in the future!- The four of them exchanged glances, noticing the determination in each other's eyes.A thousand meters was neither close nor far. The epic-quality subdued beasts from both sides in the arena soon clashed.

To be more accurate, it was the False Domains of the epic-quality subdued beasts that clashed, giving off a feeling that heaven and earth were flipped around.

At Zhen Liu's command, the subdued beast that engaged the Winged Dragon Wind God was a rare wood-attributed subdued beast. In its False Domain, vines sprouted out of nowhere in the sandy ground, forming a green defensive wall, and the Winged Dragon Wind God's Tempest Field False Domain was unable to display any might.

The rampaging wind elements, together with the sand and rocks it swept up, slammed into the green wall, like a violent wave crashing onto the reefs, shattering in an instant.

On the other side, facing the fast-moving Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise, the red light of the False Domain of Zhen Liu's other epic-quality subdued beast swirled up into the sky. In that red light, faint scarlet flames could be seen, burning the sandy ground so hot that the sand started melting.

Zhang Che furrowed his brow. It seemed like the Zhen family had made very thorough preparations. They actually went through the trouble and found two epic-quality subdued beasts whose attributes countered his own. They truly were very influential. As expected of a first-rate large clan of Bei Du!

But, so what? He wasn't relying on those two subdued beasts to win him the fight to begin with!

"Less than five hundred meters now!" Zhang Che judged the distance between him and Zhen Liu. His eyes narrowed. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon under him suddenly dove to the ground, stirring up the sand.

Zhen Liu sat on his aerial beast, hovering several meters in the air, showing a look of disdain in his eyes.

"Kid, we've already seen through your tricks. Are you still trying to use them and humiliate yourself?" He didn't believe Zhang Che could do anything against him now that he was high up in the sky.

In the next moment, however, Zhen Liu's eyes went wide.

On the back of the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon who have dove to the ground, a rainbow ray shot out from Zhang Che's brow and materialized into a massive stone giant, abruptly joining the Winged Dragon Wind God's battle.

A huge rock spear shining with a fascinating light suddenly appeared in its hand, and the giant directly hurled it at the epic-quality subdued beast that was fighting against the Winged Dragon Wind God at lightning speed.

The moment the Earthen Rock Demon appeared, its strongest attack skill was used, and it wasn't even targeting Zhen Liu himself, surprising him.

Immediately, Zhen Liu creased his brow, his heart tightening.

The wood-attributed subdued beast was caught unprepared. The False Domain's green wall was directly punched through by the Lightning Rock Spear. The rock spear's tremendous momentum wasn't reduced in the slightest, and directly struck the wood-attributed beast beyond, severely injuring it.

"This is you looking to die, don't blame me for this!"

Naturally Zhen Liu didn't dare to lose an epic-quality subdued beast carelessly. He waved his hand in a hurry, recalling the heavily injured subdued beast.At the same time, the sound of people sucking in their breaths could be heard from the surrounding spectators. Some people cheered, and some cursed out angrily.

"Amazing! An epic-quality subdued beast was taken care of just like that! Looks like I placed my bet correctly, hahaha…"

"Is that freaking guy from the Zhen family stupid? Didn't he know to guard against his opponent? Now one of his epic-quality beast is incapacitated. I'll see what you're going to do now, idiot!"Back in the ring, Zhang Che didn't care what the others were thinking. He directed the Earthen Rock Demon to use its other skill. Immediately, countless sharp earth spikes rose from the ground, forcing the fire-attributed subdued beast hovering in the air to fly higher.

Meanwhile, the Winged Dragon Wind God also released its skill. A devastating tornado was born out of nowhere, sweeping towards that fire beast.

At the same time, the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise also activated its Water Screen Splendor skill. A massive screen of water rose up, attacking the fire-attributed subdued beast.

Seeing this, the spectators were in an uproar. None of them had expected that Zhang Che's sudden usage of his reserve epic-quality subdued beast would immediately tip the scales of the battle so heavily. It seemed like Zhen Liu's defeat was guaranteed, with no way of retaliating.

The crowd started finding it odd. It was impossible that the Zhen family didn't have a reserve beast. Why didn't Zhen Liu use it?

At this crucial moment, once his fire-attributed subdued beast was also heavily injured, it would become impossible for him to have any chance of victory in this life or death match.

"Daddy, Zhang Xiaoche is going to win!"

Seeing Zhang Che gaining the upper hand instantly, Huang Tielan couldn't help but feel ecstatic. Her voice carried a tone of happiness.

Huang Juyun, however, furrowed his brow, wondering if Zhang Che revealing his trump card so early was a little too hasty of him.

His opponent was someone of the Zhen family. Heavens knew what kind of tricks they had prepared!

As the saying went, an expert observes the tricks, while the amateur only looks at the spectacle. In this arena deathmatch that everyone was paying attention to, it was apparent which side the crowd belonged to.

Although most people were of the opinion that Zhang Che's victory was assured, those who truly understood the situation knew that Zhang Che had acted a little recklessly.

Once Zhen Liu showed his hand, with Zhang Che's three epic-quality subdued beasts exposed, and their skills used, how was he going to defend?

Although it seemed like Zhang Che was steamrolling Zhen Liu, many of them weren't optimistic with how the battle was going to develop.

This was like two armies clashing, where one side had suddenly sent out all its reserve army. Although it seemed like they were heavily pressuring the other army, the enemy's reserve was still hidden. As long as they weren't instantly defeated, it was obvious which side held the upper hand afterwards.

Zhen Liu thought so, too. Killing intent flashed across his eyes. He was no longer interested in seeing Zhang Che's performance. He felt that it was time to end this game of cat and mouse!

Unbeknownst to Zhen Liu, Zhang Che was thinking the exact same thing.

No, Zhang Che thought that way from the very beginning. That was why he used his "killer move" from the start unhesitatingly, forcing Zhen Liu's epic-quality subdued beasts back.

Exactly who was calculating who? It was impossible to know…In the queer, unknown lands…

Black doors suddenly appeared one after another above the strange pattern. Those black doors gradually materialized out of nothing, and started absorbing the overflowing energy at the platform madly.

In the outer circle, crazed looks showed in the eyes of every one of those strange creatures with shocking auras. They spat out mouthfuls of different-colored blood essences at the same time, all of which turned into an endless source of energy, coursing towards the black doors along the network of threads.

Gradually, the black doors fully materialized, like black metallic portals standing in the air.

Creak..! A heavy, yet low and unhurried noise rang out. The largest black door in the center suddenly split open a tiny gap. Afterwards, it firmly opened in both directions, revealing a mysterious spatial tunnel behind.

A wave of feverish auras suddenly erupted from the huge army spread across the lands and skies. The creatures all looked towards the spatial tunnel behind the largest black door at the same time. They could no longer wait!At the same time, in various uninhabited locations on Mercury, the strange patterns formed from the blood mist gradually started to communicate with the far off unknown lands. They were like coordinates, guiding the massive energy from the unknown lands to gush over from an endless distance.

Gradually, waves of invisible forces crossed the endless reaches to where the blood mist patterns were waiting.

Although those massive forces weren't able to push through the barrier of space immediately, they were booming and fluttering like waves on the sea, wave after wave crashing against and assaulting the spatial barrier non-stop.

After an indeterminate amount of time, the battering forces grew even stronger, and the spatial barrier on this side of the world was no longer able to withstand it. In the end, cracks invisible to the naked eye appeared at the areas with the blood mist patterns!

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Chapter 382: Unexpected Reverse Kill

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"Brat, you want to die faster? I'll grant your wish!"

Seeing Zhang Che's three epic-quality subdued beasts surround and beating on his remaining epic-quality subdued beast, a surge of killing intent shone in Zhen Liu's eyes. He waved his hand once more, recalling the fire-attributed epic-quality subdued beast, too.The crowd was stunned when they saw this.

Exactly what kind of situation was going on between these two? One of them summoned his spare epic-quality subdued beast without a care, while the other acted incredibly cooperatively and recalled both his powerful subdued beasts. Was he not afraid that his opponent would kill him?

Could it be that this representative from the Zhen family was bribed by the Huang family?

Impossible! This was a life or death match. Who would sell their lives away to the enemy?

Even so, far off in the Zhen family's camp, Zhen Manting and the others revealed faint smiles on their faces, as if victory was right in their grasp.

The two epic-quality subdued beasts were only for show, to confuse Zhang Che. Now that this kid had revealed his cards, he could do nothing but wait to get captured!Zhang Che didn't think so, however. A sharp killing intent flashed across his eyes when he saw Zhen Liu recalling the two epic-quality subdued beasts. Riding on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, he and the Winged Dragon Wind God were side by side as they rushed towards Zhen Liu, who was still up in the air.

Once he came within a hundred and fifty meters, the scarlet sword could reach its target in a flash, cutting him down!

Seeing Zhang Che charging straight at him, Zhen Liu didn't show any signs of worry.

He sat on his aerial beast's back peacefully, looking at Zhang Che, who was approaching from the bottom up, with a calm expression, as if he was looking at a dead person.

Three hundred meters… two hundred fifty meters… two hundred meters…

Almost there!

However, right at that moment, a rainbow ray suddenly shot out from Zhen Liu's brow, quickly turning into an exquisite little golden hand bell.

No, that wasn't a hand bell, but a miniaturized church bell!

Many profound patterns were carved onto the golden bell. One look and you could tell it was no simple object.

Zhang Che's complexion fell abruptly. He immediately thought of sound wave attacks.

If this thing really was a beast card weapon that used sound wave attacks, how was he supposed to withstand it?

That was a mid-tier epic-quality beast card weapon! It was totally different from the Mutated Puffersword he had used before. It would be countless times stronger than that!

-So this is the Zhen family's real ace in the hole?

-Run!-

He was right about to get within a hundred and fifty meters of Zhen Liu. However, Zhang Che didn't dare to gamble whether he had the chance to summon the scarlet sword.

The best outcome would be the scarlet sword killing Zhen Liu with a single slash, and then his brain would be shattered by the sound waves produced by the epic-quality beast card weapon. It would only be taking Zhen Liu with him to the grave.

Zhen Liu was only a pawn of the Zhen family, or even a suicide warrior. Perhaps he wasn't afraid of dying! But, Zhang Che wasn't willing to exchange for the life of someone like that with his own.

As such, he quickly ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to turn around without any hesitation, diving down.

It was only at this moment that Zhang Che truly realized what kind of foundations a deep-rooted large clan would have. They weren't something he could compare to!On the hill where the Huang family's camp was, when Zhen Liu took out that little golden bell, Huang Juyun's complexion immediately turned extremely ugly.

-So that's the hidden card the Zhen family prepared?!-

Although he didn't know what kind of attacks this little bell used, Huang Juyun was sure that this was an extremely dangerous beast card weapon. No matter how strong a person was, they wouldn't be able to withstand it without the relevant defense in place.

If possible, Huang Juyun really wanted to just admit defeat. Even if he had to compensate the Zhen family a large amount of purple crystal points, he was willing to do so.

Alas, it was obvious the Zhen family wouldn't agree to it.

"Hopefully the kid can surprise me and tide this over…"Seeing Zhang Che turning tail to run without any hesitation, Zhen Liu finally revealed a smile that declared everything was within his control. He chuckled, "Brat, do you think you can run from this?"

Done speaking, he aimed the little golden bell in Zhang Che's direction, then used his other hand and quickly flicked the bell thrice.

In the next moment, a terrifying invisible energy gushed out from the golden bell, instantly catching up to the escaping Zhang Che and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon he was riding.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon cried out sadly, and suddenly lost control of his body, falling towards the ground. Meanwhile, Zhang Che suddenly froze for a split second. Afterwards, he fell forward without any warning and laid down on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's back, his status unknown.

Well, he was probably still alive… , was the only thought the crowd had in mind.

If Zhang Che had died just like that, his subdued beasts would have turned into streaks of light and dissipated at the same time, leaving not a trace behind…"Zhang Che!"

"Brother Zhang!"

"Brother Che!"

A few shocked cries rang out from the Huang family's camp. Huang Tielan trembled in fear, two trails of tears rolling down her cheeks. She suddenly turned around and hugged Huang Juyun's arm, weeping, "Dad, let's just admit defeat, okay? If this goes on, Zhang Che will really die!"

Huang Juyun's face was ghastly pale, his brow deeply furrowed. He could only smile bitterly and shake his head when he heard that. With things having progressed to this point, what use was there in admitting defeat? Would the Zhen family spare Zhang Che?

Huang Tielan was only speaking from impulse. Naturally she knew it was impossible for them to admit defeat in this situation. Thinking of how Zhang Che might die right in front of her eyes, Miss Tienan felt like the world was crashing down on her. Her body went limp, and she fell to the ground.

"Lanlan!" Huang Juyun cried out in shock. He hurriedly held Huang Tielan up, and he saw the look of desperation on her face. He was at a loss, not knowing how he should console her. He could only sigh and beckon for two female soldiers to bring her to go rest.The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon finally crashed heavily to the sandy ground with a loud bang, raising a shower of dirt and dust.

The Winged Dragon Wind God and the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise let out furious roars, charging towards where Zhang Che had fallen from the other side, wanting to protect their master.

Even so, it was already too late.

Even as the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was falling, Zhen Liu had quickly given chase on his aerial beast.

"Hmm? This kid's mental fortitude is so tough! He actually didn't die right away after suffering such a severe mental attack! He mustn't be left alive, indeed!"

The killing intent in Zhen Liu's eyes grew fiercer. He raised the little golden bell in his hand once more. After coming within two hundred meters of Zhang Che, he bent the fingers in his free hand again.

After thinking for a moment, he didn't launch his attack immediately. The intensity of the golden bell's attack varied with the distance between it and the target. It had already failed to kill Zhang Che at this distance, and thus, Zhen Liu wanted to get a little closer before attacking.

However, just as he was about to attack, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon under Zhang Che suddenly turned into a mass of five-colored light and returned to his brow. As it did, a scarlet light streaked across a hundred and fifty meters at lightning speed and whirled around Zhen Liu's neck.

His legend-quality armor was actually unable to withstand the scarlet streak of light's attack in the slightest. Zhen Liu's head was sliced off cleanly along with his helmet, and a pillar of blood shot upwards, launching it almost two meters into the air.

Zhen Liu's body suddenly froze. His finger was less than a millimeter away from the golden bell. On his flying head, a look of disbelief was visible.

-How is this possible? How can this kid be unharmed after such a powerful mental attack? According to the clan master's investigation, wasn't this kid's killer move that earth-attributed epic-quality subdued beast from before? What was that scarlet streak of light…-

Zhen Liu's consciousness quickly faded into darkness.

A miserable cry rang out. Underneath his stiffening body, the legend-quality flying beast suddenly turned into a streak of light and quickly dissipated, along with the golden bell.The scarlet light that sliced off Zhen Liu's head circled around like lightning and flew back to Zhang Che's brow.

Still wearing his purplish-golden armor, Zhang Che stood quietly on the sandy ground, looking like an armored god of war descended from ancient times.

No one knew that at this moment, Zhang Che was covered in a layer of cold sweat.

Luckily, the golden bell didn't employ sound wave attacks. Otherwise, even if he wasn't killed by his opponent, he would have had to pay an extremely heavy price to emerge victorious.

-A mental attack… hehe…-In the Zhen family's camp, Zhen Manting directly shot up from her seat under the umbrella when she saw the reversal. Her complexion turned extremely ugly, crying out, "Impossible!"

How was that kid able to withstand the mental attack from an epic-quality beast card weapon? This didn't make sense at all!

Let alone a mere mid-tier beastmaster, even a high-tier beastmaster could do nothing but succumb to such a queer attack. How was he unharmed!?

What struck even more fear in Zhen Manting was the scarlet streak of light that flew out from Zhang Che's brow.

"That thing… why does it resemble the extremely rare spiritual sword fragments from the secret planes? But, since when can a person control a spiritual sword fragment with such speed?"

Although there weren't many people who possessed spiritual sword fragments, they weren't few in number, either. The Zhen family was even in possession of two spiritual sword fragments!

Even so, those things known as spiritual swords weren't very powerful if they attacked on their own, despite their reach. If you wanted to control them, however, the amount of mental energy you had to exhaust wasn't something a mid-tier beastmaster could keep up. Even a high-tier beastmaster could only control a spiritual sword fragment to attack within several dozen meters of them, at the most.Huang Tielan, who had originally gone limp and needed Huang Juyun to support her, and was about to get helped by two female soldiers to go rest, suddenly opened her eyes wide. Afterwards, she suddenly regained her strength and, nearly jumping in excitement, she exclaimed, "He won?!"

"This kid, there's really a ton of secrets on him!" Huang Juyun couldn't help but show a satisfied smile.At the same time, on the hills around the arena, the spectators erupted into a commotion again. Such an unexpected reversal had astonished countless people!

Judging from the original situation, Zhang Che was sure to die. Who would have expected him to turn the tables at the last moment, and quickly complete his reverse kill? There was no way anyone could have anticipated such a result!

A deathmatch that should have been decided by Original Combat Body-type epic-quality subdued beasts had, in the end, turned into a fight where the main characters were mysterious weapons!

No matter who they placed their bets on, and whether they had earned a fortune, or lost everything down to their pants, everyone present had to admit that this arena deathmatch was definitely the most spectacular battle they had ever witnessed in their lives!When the referee team formed by the government council and the military announced Zhang Che as the winner of the arena deathmatch, everything was settled.

Just as the crowd was experiencing a mix of joy and sorrow, a strange, ominous fluctuation suddenly swept across everybody present. Anyone who was an official beastmaster clearly felt it.

What was going on…?

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Chapter 383: Door of Apocalypse. Demonic Invasion

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In the strange, unknown world…

The originally thick and disorderly volcanic ash that had spread through the skies was stirred up by a massive force, and scattered to the sides.

Endless numbers of densely packed strange creatures were gathered under the purplish-red sky. Their numbers were simply uncountable.

The strange pattern in the sky above the platform grew bigger and bigger up on the peak of the tall mountain. In the end, it started absorbing the aura emitted from the bodies of the massive horde.

Gradually, the smaller black vortexes packed together like honeycombs grew stronger. In the end, they turned into huge black tunnels in the space, connected to a distant world.

Seeing the black tunnels gradually stabilizing, the creatures around them grew frenzied and roared out one after another, the noise enveloping the heavens and earth.

As the black tunnels in the space stabilized, the countless petals of the gigantic demonic flower in the middle of the platform started dancing again. A massive wave of energy spread from inside the demonic flower, entering the countless black tunnels in the surroundings and fully stabilizing them.

After completing all this, the demonic flower seemed to have exhausted its energy. The petals quickly closed in and became a huge flower bud. It lost its ability to float in the air, and it slowly drifted to the ground in the center of the platform.

In a circle around the demonic flower, several dozen of those powerful strange creatures cried out sadly one after another. Afterwards, a frenzied look showed in their eyes again, and they suddenly opened their mouths, spitting out large mouthfuls of blood essence. The blood came together, forming a mass of incredibly pure energy, and sprinkled over the flower bud. The flower, which had dimmed in color after exhausting its energy, looked a little livelier.

The humans that acted as nodes in the energy network suddenly exploded simultaneously. A wave of energy that originated from deep in their bodies erupted, turning into countless dots of light, and flew into the black tunnels around them.

The doors of the black tunnels started opening!On Mercury, ripples spread out in space at many remote lands. Afterwards, the cracks with those little strange patterns at the center appeared in the spaces quickly expanded, and finally solidified.

Large black doors suddenly appeared at where the space failed to resist them.

At that moment on Mercury, a tremendously powerful force suddenly enveloped the planet. Energy waves more fluid than water instantly swept across the bodies of every beastmaster, drawing out a tiny hint of an unknown energy.

The energies gathered together and turned into many complicated and profound talismanic runes.

The profound runes were invisible to the eye, and undetectable by the senses. They instantly fell into the newly appeared black doors.

In the strange world, as the black spatial tunnel doors opened, the countless strange creatures in the surroundings quickly gathered into neat formations, pouring into every black door like flows of water.

At this moment, however, a powerful restriction suddenly appeared in the tunnels, keeping those strange creatures that were above a certain threshold in strength outside. Only those who were weaker than the imposed limit could enter through the tunnel and head towards the other end.

On the platform atop the huge mountain, the several dozen most terrifyingly powerful strange creatures let out furious roars one after another when they felt the restriction in the tunnels. Waves of devastating energy powerful erupted from their bodies, slamming into the tunnels.

Even so, the restriction in the tunnels only shone for a moment, before returning to calm.

The several dozen powerful creatures could only let out furious roars filled with unwillingness, unable to do anything about it. They shifted their gazes back onto the huge flower bud at the center of the platform. However, the flower bud had already fallen into slumber, and showed no reaction.In Mercury, at the desert to the west of Qin Zhou, Hua Xia…

Just as the crowd was starting to discuss about the spectacular battle, guessing what kind of terrifying weapon that little golden bell in Zhen Liu's hand was, and why the scarlet light that shot out from Zhang Che's brow was so powerful, an invisible ripple swept across every beastmaster. Although it was weak, their sharp senses took notice of it.

The whole area immediately fell silent. An inexplicable look of shock painted their faces, not knowing what exactly had just happened.

Zhang Che had naturally felt that inexplicable change, too, and it was likely that with the golden vortex, what he felt was more obvious than the others. It felt like a certain mysterious energy was peeled off him as the ripple swept through him.

-Exactly what just happened?- Zhang Che was shocked. He swept his gaze around. When he saw everyone else had the same look on them, he no longer hesitated and directly recalled the Jade-Shelled Mystic Tortoise, then flew back to the hill where the Huang family's camp was located, riding the Winged Dragon Wind God.

Throughout the desert, no one cared about the duel. Instead, they gathered into small groups with the people they knew and summoned their subdued beasts, forming a defensive perimeter, ready to face whatever changes that might appear.

"Xiaoche, are you alright?" Huang Juyun asked worriedly when Zhang Che came back.

Although Zhang Che had flipped the tables on Zhen Liu and killed him swiftly, he had indeed fallen unconscious momentarily from Zhen Liu's attack earlier. It would be bad news if there were any hidden injuries left behind.

That faint ripple from the heavens and earth didn't represent any good news, either. Heavens knew what was going to happen next!

"I'm fine, Uncle Huang. Don't worry."

Huang Juyun and the surrounding people immediately relaxed a little… and then, Huang Juyun's personal terminal suddenly vibrated violently.

He creased his brow, guessing that it was related to that ripple from earlier. He hurriedly opened up his personal terminal, and his face instantly sank.

It was someone high up in the military contacting him.

After a few simple words, the dark cloud around Huang Juyun's face reached the point that rain was ready to fall from it. He immediately walked towards the camp with quick strides, and he ordered a few communications soldiers to start up a machine. An image immediately showed on the screen through an encrypted signal.

He didn't know where the image was from, but from the angle, he could tell it was taken from the satellite.

That wasn't the main point, however. In the center of the image, a cold, majestic black door was opened about a hundred meters up in the air.

The black door itself was over a hundred meters tall, and about fifty to sixty meters wide. All kinds of strange creatures were swarming out from the pitch black door.

Seeing this, everyone around couldn't help but suck in a breath of cold air!

That door was definitely not a spatial gateway that connected to the beast world. Didn't that mean that the powerful creatures from another world were about to descend upon Mercury?

Judging from the looks of the densely packed creatures coming out from the black door, they very much resembled those demonic creatures from legends, movies, and books. As they poured out crazily, a black fog spread and covered the skies, turning the place into something from the underworld.

"This is…" Zhang Che immediately thought of the black door that sucked him into a spatial tunnel when he saw the huge black door from the image.

Could it be that the place the black door was connected to was the world behind the demonic flower?

If that was true, then this was simply an apocalypse-like calamity for Mercury!

He didn't know whether there was only one of those black doors, or…

Huang Juyun saw through what Zhang Che was thinking. He said with a grave expression and a solemn voice, "I just received news from the military. These black doors appeared in many remote locations across Mercury, numbering a total of a hundred and eight!

"Also, an endless swarm of those strange creatures are quickly pouring out from each of those doors, spreading out quickly."

The looks on everyone's faces changed tremendously. Was this… a demonic invasion?

This wasn't happening only at the Huang family's camp. Every faction at the desert quickly learned of the cruel news. An incredibly heavy atmosphere immediately shrouded the desert. Everyone lost their voices, desperation filling the bottom of their hearts.

The once-a-decade beast swarm already caused huge losses for Mercury. If another world invaded as well, it could be well imagined how difficult the living situation in Mercury would become!

"Everyone pack your things. Get ready to return right away!" Huang Juyun ordered with a loud, stern voice. His expression was still undergoing changes.

With such huge changes, as one of the central forces of the army, he definitely had to rush back to the military for a conference. Afterwards, he still had to hurry back to Qian Wei City and gather the elite forces to deal with the attack from those demonic creatures.

There was no one discussing about the duel. Compared to such a huge change, the life and death match between Zhang Che and Zhen Liu was nothing more than child's play. No one would put it to heart.

Of course, as the losing side, perhaps the Zhen family would care.

After all, following Zhen Liu's defeat, the Zhen family had not only lost a few powerful subdued beasts, the heavy bets they placed on themselves for this battle were destined to fall into the pockets of others. The hit to their clan was an incredibly heavy one!About half an hour later, a series of passenger planes rushing over from the military zones nearby landed at the flat grounds in this area, bringing all those present away.

At the same time, news of the appearance of the black doors and the invasion of the demonic creatures had spread throughout Mercury. Every region was urgently mobilized, organizing the gathered beastmasters from every city, and sending people into the various beast worlds behind the spatial gateways to spread the news to every beastmaster they could contact.

Facing the countless demonic creatures that were pouring out from those black doors endlessly, there was no method other than for the humans on Mercury to unite all the beastmasters to resist them.

Of course, in the very beginning, it would probably be the military who went to test the waters. Once they were unable to resist those demonic creatures, the common beastmasters would have to be mobilized and fight for the survival of humanity.In the control cabin of a large passenger plane, Zhang Che, Huang Tielan, Luo Wenjun and the others were seated with heavy expressions on their faces, looking at Huang Juyun talking with army command through a communication device.

After a while, Huang Juyun's face seemed to relax a bit. After ending the call, he turned to them and said, "The latest news is that the exotic beasts that were driven away to the remote lands are fighting against those demonic creatures!"

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Chapter 384: Return Trip. Confrontation

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Exotic beasts were actually fighting those demonic creatures? That was definitely an inspiring piece of news!

The worst scenario would be the demonic world's army teaming up with the exotic beasts to attack humanity's inhabited lands. The results would simply be unthinkable.

A slightly better scenario would be the two parties ignoring one another. However, they would surely attack humanity separately, which would also be terrible news for humanity.

Now that those exotic beasts scattered around the remote lands had actually attacked the demonic creatures on their own, it would alleviate some of the pressure on humanity.

Zhang Che couldn't help but recall the time he saw the woman walking out of a demonic flower in the beast world in the Bei Mei region. In the end, didn't a frighteningly powerful huge golden dragon fly to them, in search of something? From the looks of it, the beast world and the demonic world were like water and fire, unable to reconcile.

After hearing what Huang Juyun said, everyone's face lit up. With that, it wouldn't be such an easy matter for the demonic army to come charging out from those remote lands.

After all, the exotic beasts driven far away from the inhabited lands were all extremely powerful. Some of them were even high-level and high-quality terrifying existences. Even if they were overwhelmed by the demonic creatures in the end, they could weaken the demonic forces to a large degree.

Of course, if the exotic beasts were unable to halt the demonic creatures at all, humanity on Mercury only had one last solution: to migrate their entire population into the beast worlds, and slowly plan from there, to see if they could seize their homeland back.

After all, in the beast world, the exotic beasts only fought for themselves. Humanity only had to stay clear of the safety zone before the beast swarm came and their safety would pretty much be ensured.

Not only that, at that time the beast swarm could even become the greatest aid for humanity to reclaim Mercury.

Of course, if the situation hadn't developed to that extent, no one would be willing to abandon their homeland and hide in the beast world.

After relaying this piece of news, Huang Juyun signalled to the soldiers at the side with a wave of his hand. They quickly went to work, and soon a video of a fierce battle showed on the screen.

It was still showing the location from before.

This time, the area was filled with a thick, black demonic aura. Closely packed demonic creatures were still pouring out from the black door hidden behind the veil of the demonic aura endlessly.

In the surroundings, the exotic beasts that were originally resting nearby seemed like they had seen their arch-nemesis. They quickly gathered and launched a crazed attack on those demonic creatures without a care for their lives.

"Hmm? Why do I feel like those demonic creatures are all fodder? There aren't any overly powerful ones among them?"

Zhang Che quickly discovered something amiss after watching for a short while.

Logically speaking, there had to be some terrifyingly powerful commander-level existences among those demonic creatures for them to be able to break through the spatial barrier and cross over to Mercury from the distant world, right?

However, seeing the iminent battle on the surveillance feed, although the demonic creatures far outnumbered the approaching exotic beasts, their individual strength was truly nothing worth mentioning. The strongest among them were probably only the equivalent of mid-tier legend-quality exotic beasts, and those were few and far between.

On the other hand, many of the exotic beasts driven off to the remote lands were at least mid-tier legend-quality, and so were pinning the densely packed demonic creatures down in that area, leaving them unable to spread further.

Although this was only the situation at one specific location, the other places with doors connected to the demonic world should be in similar situations.

"Right, there's something very wrong about this. It's truly baffling. Since the demonic world can force its way through the spatial barrier and transfer such a massive army here, why didn't they send those powerful commander-level creatures?"

Zhang Che wasn't the only one who found it strange. Everyone present was also confused. They couldn't fathom exactly what was going on here.

Huang Tielan suddenly said, "Say, do you think it's because of the spatial barrier? Perhaps the powerful creatures from the demonic world tried to cross over, but a larger tunnel needs to be opened, and the spatial barrier leading to Mercury is too strong, not allowing them to widen the tunnel enough for them to do so?"

After thinking for a bit, it seemed to make sense. But if that was the truth, they had no way to find out.

No matter what, humanity on Mercury had avoided a crisis.

Everyone couldn't help but heave a sigh of relief. Afterwards, they had a frightening thought. Luckily those doors that lead to the demonic world didn't appear near or within the inhabited areas. Otherwise, without those powerful exotic beasts to confront them, heavens knew how big of a disaster it would be when those demonic creatures swarmed out.

Although given those demonic creatures' strength, it shouldn't be too difficult for humanity to defeat them, the price they would have to pay wouldn't be low, either.

Naturally they had no idea that certain conditions had to be fulfilled for the demonic world to open a tunnel to Mercury. The most important element was those individuals who were taken by the demonic flowers.The carrier planes landed in Qin Zhou's military zone. Afterwards, everyone returned to their respective homes.

Although the sudden demonic invasion seemed to start off strong and finished weak, and it seemed like the exotic beasts had stopped them, no one could be sure about how things would develop from then on. They still had to prepare themselves. Otherwise, if a day came when the demonic army broke through the exotic beasts' line of defense and invaded human cities, it would be too late for them to deal with it.

After saying goodbye to Luo Wenjun and Zheng Hongru's group, Zhang Che and Huang Tielan boarded a sky shuttle headed for Bei Du City.

As for Huang Juyun, he had to rush his way to Qian Wei City immediately and take command. After all, the demonic world's invasion was a huge matter. The army had to respond and prepare right away, and they had to liaise with the government to formulate a plan with the civilian beastmasters. There was a bunch of work waiting for him.

The sky shuttle glided along the runway and the tip of the plane tilted upwards, soaring into the sky. It flew straight east.

Zhang Che and Huang Tielan sat next to each other in the spacious seats, chatting softly. The seats around them were all occupied.

Usually, the flights from Qin Zhou to Bei Du wouldn't have this many passengers. It was probably because of the opening of the demonic world's door.

The two talked casually. Zhang Che suddenly sighed.

"What happened?" Miss Tienan immediately turned to look at him nervously. She asked, worried, "Is it because of the demonic world's door opening? Don't worry so much, alright? Even if the exotic beasts really can't hold them back, there's still the army, right? It won't be your turn to worry."

Zhang Che blinked his eyes a few times, before replying, "You're thinking too much. I'm not worried about that."

"Then what is it?"

"I feel like the airline companies' business isn't very good."

Huang Tielan was a little confused. She looked around them. This flight was basically filled up. What did he mean by the business wasn't doing very well?

Moreover, even if the airline company's business wasn't good, it didn't concern Zhang Che, right?

Just as she was thinking about that, Zhang Che suddenly chuckled with a low voice, "Say, wouldn't it be great if the airline's business was a little better and we had to share a seat?"

"Zhang! Xiao! Che!" Miss Tienan immediately realized what Zhang Che meant. Her cheeks quickly flushed red as she glared at him. She bit her lip, not saying a word.

Suddenly, she stood up from her seat, twisted her waist, and sat down on Zhang Che's lap. She cupped her hands around Zhang Che's neck, her face red and said in a hushed voice, "You rogue, you're having it too easy."

Zhang Che was stunned. He was only joking. He didn't expect Miss Tienan to act so cooperatively this time, and even ignored the gaze around them. How bold of her!

He made use of the opportunity and hugged her waist. Feeling the heat coming from her long legs, Zhang Che suddenly felt a rush.

Miss Tienan was originally empathizing with Zhang Che for his rough battle earlier, and wanted to comfort him. She didn't expect this brat to have different thoughts right away…

Zhang Che: I'm innocent!… she immediately reached out two slim fingers and pinched his waist fiercely.

"Don't think too much, I tell you. Forget about laying your hands on me before marriage!"

Zhang Che was speechless. -I really wasn't thinking of anything. That's just my natural response, okay?-

He flexed his arms, holding Miss Tienan tightly in his embrace, then directly buried his head in her proud chest, rubbing against her and saying, "I know. I'm a very honest man. It's not like you don't know that."

"Zhang Xiaoche."

"Hmm?"

"Promise me. Don't go risking your life again, okay? I was really very, very worried for you this time."

Zhang Che wanted to say that he was strong and nothing would happen to him. However, feeling how worried she was in her tone, he nodded and replied softly, "Mhm, I promise you I'll try my best to not get into trouble. I won't let you worry about me."

However, Zhang Che sighed inside. -In this day and age, even if I don't go risking my life, won't those dangerous things just come find me on their own?-

Going forward, he had to continue to strengthen himself, giving Miss Tienan a sense of security, and letting her not worry so much.Near dusk, the sky shuttle landed in Bei Du airport. Liu Gang was there to receive the two in a beastly car. At the same time, he had the latest news regarding the demonic creatures and the exotic beasts.

According to the observation from the satellites in outer space, the battles between the demonic creatures and the exotic beasts in the surroundings of the hundred and eight doors to the demonic world across the globe had mostly come to a stop, with both sides in a standoff.

At only three places were the exotic beasts in the surroundings not strong enough, and the demonic creatures had started to spread out.

Even so, those areas were far from inhabited areas. Even if the demonic creatures spread out, they would similarly be surrounded and attacked by the exotic beasts scattered over a larger area. It wouldn't be easy for them to arrive at the inhabited areas.

Moreover, armies across the globe had mobilized their units quickly. Once the demonic creatures in those areas spread out, the military forces organized by the Alliance would immediately move out to strike at them.

Without powerful commanders to lead them, it was basically impossible for those demonic creatures to break through the encirclement. After all, scientific weapons were still very effective against cannon fodder!

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Chapter 385: Harvest. Video [2 in 1]

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The car drove out of the airport. During the drive back, the pedestrians and cars all seemed to be in a rush.

News of the demonic world's invasion obviously could not be kept secret. By now, the common citizens already knew about it.

Although the demonic army was held off by the exotic beasts left on Mercury, and they wouldn't be able to break through the perimeter any time soon, what about in the future?

The number of exotic beasts in Mercury was limited, after all, while the demonic creatures that poured out from the planar gates could only be described as endless.

Once the exotic beasts in those remote areas were slowly reduced to nothing by the demonic army's overwhelming numbers, the demonic army would surely start attacking human settlements.

Also, that time would certainly not be very far off.

Therefore, the government and the army weren't the only ones who had started preparing themselves. Even the civilian beastmasters had taken their own initiative to do something, be it raising their own strength, or forming teams with people they knew to prepare for the upcoming great battle.

Not only that, many people were feeling annoyed that the fifth beast swarm would come in only about three years!

If the beast swarm came sooner, although the cities would be subjected to fierce attacks again, the demonic army would similarly be under attack! Who knew? Perhaps the endless swarm of exotic beasts would directly force the demonic army to withdraw!

Moreover, with that, the humans could even borrow the strength of the demonic army to weaken the beast swarm, and push back their attacks sooner.

However, only a fraction of people were hoping for that.

According to past experience, the beast swarm would only come once a decade. There were still more than three years to go before the fifth beast swarm attacked.The car drove on, and finally returned to the villa district Zhang Che lived at.

After learning of Zhang Che's victory in the arena deathmatch and his immediate return, Xi Muyun and the others closed shop early and everyone had gathered at the main gate, receiving Zhang Che for his triumphant return.

Having won the arena deathmatch, it meant that his and the Zhen family's feud had been resolved… on the surface, at least.

In the future, if the Zhen family were unresigned to the results and wanted to take revenge, they would have to think twice, and could only do so in the dark.

After all, Zhang Che was no longer the same as before. He was no longer an insignificant man anyone could toy with as they wished.

After Zhang Che got out of the car, he saw his mother standing in the courtyard, smiling. He couldn't help but feel a complicated mix of emotions. He said, choking on his words a little, "Mom, I'm back! Sorry for worrying you!"

Sun Lan nodded with a faint smile, her eyes slightly reddened. She tried her best to suppress her emotions and replied, "You're back. That's all that matters."

Actually, she came to realize that as her son grew stronger and stronger, how could it be possible to not face all kinds of danger?

Instead of always showing a worried expression, it was better to support him. In any case, she couldn't change a thing, especially now that the demonic world had invaded Mercury. As a powerful beastmaster, Zhang Che would surely have to step onto the battlefield. This was the responsibility of an expert of humanity.

"Aunt, Great-aunt, let's not stand around in the courtyard. We should be happy that Zhang Che won." Huang Tielan quickly smoothed out the situation after getting out of the car, and the group entered the living room of the villa, laughing.

All kinds of delicacies already filled the dining table.After dinner, Zhang Che drove Miss Tienan home.

The truth was, he really didn't want her to go home, but the circumstances didn't allow that.

"Right, are you going back to school for lessons tomorrow?"

Huang Tielan found the question a little strange. She had only applied for two days of leave. Of course she had to return to school tomorrow.

"Why not you take another day of leave?" Zhang Che suggested, leaving her feeling odd.

She blanked out for a moment, then her face quickly blushed red and she reprimanded him delicately, "Zhang Xiaoche, what are you thinking? I have to go to class tomorrow!"

Zhang Che cried out his innocence inside. This time, he really wasn't thinking anything strange. But, the key thing was, it was useless even if he was thinking dirty. Miss Tienan was simply too unmoving in her stance. He had no way to proceed.

He sighed, showing a hurt expression. He turned to look at Huang Tielan, trying to look put upon, asking her, "In your heart, am I someone like that?"

"Mhm, you are!" Miss Tienan answered without hesitation.

Zhang Che: …

"Actually, I wanted to tell you that we've struck it rich this time, and are going to collect money tomorrow."

After hearing that, Huang Tielan was stunned for a moment, then her eyes shone with excitement. She quickly asked, "You're saying, you bet on the arena deathmatch?"

-Good girl, you're quick on the uptake!-

Seeing Zhang Che's lips drawing back into a faint smile, Huang Tielan grew even more excited. She subconsciously suppressed her voice and asked, "Zhang Xiaoche, how much did you bet?"

-Miss, is this necessary? Are you afraid of the pedestrians outside overhearing us? Even if we did some vigorous exercise in this car, no one would notice anything!-

Of course, Zhang Che was only thinking to himself. He would never say that out loud, even if he was beaten to death.

"Hmm, not much. Fifty-five million."

"Fifty-five million purple crystal points!?"

Naturally Huang Tielan wouldn't think it would be in dollars. Fifty-five million dollars was only worth about a four-star gold-quality beast card. To the commoners and low-tier beastmasters, it was indeed a huge sum. But to Zhang Che, it was an insignificant sum!

Miss Tienan yelped audibly. She immediately thought of the odds of the arena deathmatch. Without even having to calculate, she knew the final amount.

"So, excluding your capital, you earned over two hundred million purple crystal points!"

This amount truly shocked her. However, she was the sole princess of the third generation of the Huang family, after all. Although it was impossible for her to see such a huge amount in her daily life, she didn't feel too overwhelmed.

"Not that much. There's still tax and miscellaneous fees to be deducted. I'll probably get around two hundred million in the end," Zhang Che smiled, as if he was talking about something insignificant.

"Two hundred million!" Huang Tielan narrowed her eyes. "Zhang Xiaoche, we won't have to worry about money for purchasing ingredients for concocting cultivation fluid anymore!"

Mhm, as someone who dreamed of becoming the best beast card cultivator in the world, nothing was more important than being able to purchase all kinds of ingredients without a care to concoct the cultivation fluids."Zhang-shao, these are… for us?"

In the main hall of the villa with the laboratory, Liu Gang's squad looked at the two epic-quality beast cards, so shocked that they were unable to say a word.

What were those two epic-quality beast cards? Of course they had guessed it, but they could never imagine Zhang Che would gift them the cards.

"Mhm, I made quite a few enemies outside. When I'm not at home in the future, I'll have to rely on you to ensure my mother's safety."

After going through this arena deathmatch, Zhang Che was sure that his identity and information would be leaked. The Miyazaki Clan and the mysterious faction from Bei Du would learn about it. The two factions were set up hard by Zhang Che. Who knew when they would come take revenge in the future?

In order to ensure his mother's safety, Zhang Che had decided this from the start. He'd hand the two beast cards to Liu Gang's squad after the arena deathmatch.

With that, they'd have the strength to defend against the attacks of the experts that might be sent here.

Liu Gang and the others were shaking with excitement.

Even though Zhang Che only gave them the two epic-quality beast cards to protect his mother, if they weren't trustworthy, would anyone give them beast cards of such level?

Impossible!

Liu Gang's squad stuck out their chests and declared loudly, "Rest assured, Zhang-shao. Unless the three of us are dead, we won't let anything happen to your mother!"

"Good, I believe in you guys!" Seeing he had achieved his objective, Zhang Che nodded, smiling, "But you don't have to be too uptight about this normally. Just paying a little more attention will do. This is Bei Du, after all. Even if they wanted to do something, they won't dare to do it openly."After Zhang Che left, Liu Gang and the others looked at the two epic-quality beast cards on the table. None of them made a move. Afterwards, Yi Chong and Pang Dazhi looked at their squad leader, Liu Gang, and said, "Squad leader, why don't you hold on to the two beast cards?"

Liu Gang shook his head, however, and suggested his own idea, "No, let's not have a clear distribution. Whichever two of us are in charge of protecting Zhang-shao's mother will be holding on to the beast cards."

Yi Chong and Pang Dazhi immediately nodded in agreement.

After all, they had to take turns to rest. It wasn't safe to put the two beast cards on any one person. Taking turns to hold onto the cards was the best option!The next morning, Zhang Che gave a call to Huang Tielan after he woke up, indicating that he would drive to go fetch her, and invited her over for breakfast.

In the end, while on his way to the Huang family's ancestral house, Zhang Che suddenly received a call from Luo Wenjun.

"Hahahaha, Brother Zhang, this time I really have to thank you properly!"

Luo Wenjun's signature boisterous laughter could be heard the moment the call went through. Obviously he was in a great mood.

"This brother just went to those lottery companies. Guess how much I earned this time? Hahaha, a total of a hundred and sixty million purple crystal points! Let's split it fifty-fifty as we agreed on. I have already transferred that eighty million to your account!"

Truthfully speaking, if Zhang Che hadn't reminded and assured him, Luo Wenjun really wouldn't have dared to place such a heavy bet. If anything had gone wrong, he'd be left with nothing!

However, after getting Zhang Che's assurance, Luo Wenjun saw that Zhang Che was fully confident of winning, and trusted him this time, betting his entire fortune. In the end, Zhang Che had indeed obtained the final victory!

"Ugh, this…"

Zhang Che didn't expect Luo Wenjun to really give him half his winnings. Just as he wanted to reject his kind offer, Luo Wenjun said firmly, "No need to say anything more, Brother Zhang. I'm a man of my word. I won't go back on it! Moreover, if you hadn't reminded me, I wouldn't have earned a cent! It's already like a dream for me to receive eighty million purple crystal points!"

Hearing Luo Wenjun saying this, Zhang Che knew it was impossible for him to say no.

Alright then, he got another eighty million purple crystal points, just like that. Zhang Che actually felt a little excited about that.

After receiving his prize, in addition to this huge sum, and his original capital, his total assets would be around three hundred and fifty million purple crystal points!

Speaking in terms of just cash, in the whole of Hua Xia, perhaps even Mercury, he should be one of the richest now, right?After passing the security check, Zhang Che drove into the Huang family's ancestral house. He greeted Grandpa Huang and the others, then straight away "abducted" Miss Tienan out of the house, going straight to the headquarters of the various lottery companies in Bei Du.

Actually, Zhang Che could totally receive his winnings through his personal terminal on the web.

However, out of bad taste, he'd rather make a trip himself and go collect in person.

Regrettably, there wasn't any actual currency for purple crystal points. Otherwise, Zhang Che really wanted to ask them to pay out in cash, piling them up. What a grand sight it would have been!

"Zhang Xiaoche, after we got the money, let's not go anywhere else, but shop for high-grade ingredients in preparation for the future, alright?"

At present, all Miss Tienan was thinking of was to stock up on all kinds of high-grade ingredients. When she became a highly-ranked beast card cultivator in the future, she wouldn't have to worry about the lack of ingredients.

Of course, those ingredients that couldn't be bought were not included.

"Sure, we'll buy as much as you want!"

Money was a man's courage. Zhang Che waved his hand to promise her without any hesitation.

Moreover, he was planning on that originally. It was time to start stocking up on all kinds of high-grade ingredients. Otherwise, it was likely that many ingredients would be lacking when he wanted to level up his subdued beasts in the future and he went looking for the ingredients at the last minute.

Preparing himself early would make sure there wouldn't be any future troubles!

Afterwards, the two had breakfast together, and made their way around Bei Du City without rest. They collected their winnings and capital back, and the sum in Zhang Che's purple crystal account kept going higher and higher. His smile was so wide that his eyes couldn't be seen.

In the end, after busying himself for half a day, he finally collected all his winnings. Zhang Che's purple crystal account finally stopped at three hundred forty-something million.

Although he had calculated he would have this much money some time ago, Zhang Che still hugged Miss Tienan tightly, displaying his excitement.As Zhang Che and Huang Tielan were done collecting their winnings and were going to buy the high-grade ingredients, the various military zones in Hua Xia had called for an urgent meeting.

In the conference room in Qian Wei City's military zone, all the officers who were ranked Major and above were present.

Huang Juyun, who was in charge of affairs in Qian Wei City's military, was sitting at the head seat, looking at the imagery on the large screen in the conference room with a dark expression.

In the video, which was showing an unspecified demonic gateway, closely dotted demonic creatures were engaged in a fierce battle with exotic beasts.

Well, that wasn't the main point. The main point was that the video clearly showed that both sides would leave corpses behind after their death. The exotic beasts didn't care for the demonic creatures' corpses, but the demonic army snatched the exotic beasts' corpses and transported them all into the black fog behind them that shrouded the sky…

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Chapter 386: Chapter 386 – The Military Attacks. Allied Conference [2 in 1]

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

Although the black fog filled the air, making it impossible to see what was happening inside, Huang Juyun and the officers present could vaguely guess that the demonic creatures were probably transporting the exotic beasts' corpses through the demonic gateways to the world they were originally from.

As for why they were transporting the exotic beasts' corpses, no one knew. In any case, it wasn't something good!

The video ended. The conference room was silent.

Huang Juyun took a deep breath, then gave the order, "After I return to Bei Du, you have to train hard to prepare for bad times. Although the demonic creatures that have entered Mercury are still rather weak, no one can say for sure what will happen in the future.

"Perhaps, this will be an even bigger threat than the beast swarm.

"As soldiers, we are burdened with the responsibility to protect the people. We mustn't take it easy!"

Everyone stood up at the same time, replying resolutely, "Rest assured, General. We'll train hard and be prepared for battle!"

Huang Juyun gave them a slight nod. He swept his gaze across everyone's faces, then walked out of the conference room with long strides and headed straight to the airport in a vehicle.

Along with the sending of the video, there was also an urgent order from the army.

The Alliance government was very mindful of the situation of the exotic beasts' corpses being taken away by demonic creatures. They had given orders to the various regions, requesting the military to quickly make a move and first launch probing attacks on locations where the demonic gateways were, and if possible, try to thoroughly destroy the demonic gateways.

None of the regions dared to be careless about this. Their respective militaries quickly convened meetings, and summoned the commanders of the various cities to investigate the plausibility of this operation collectively.

Huang Juyun's return trip to Bei Du was exactly to attend the general military conference.Beneath the black fog that was hidden from the military's satellite, the corpses of the exotic beasts were being transported to the black door.

Within the demon world, inside the tunnels scattered closely together across the skies, countless demonic creatures were transporting the exotic beasts' corpses. They were lined up in neat rows, walking towards the gigantic mountain in the middle, placing those corpses at the foot of the mountain.

On the platform, the dozens of the strongest creatures were working together and laying down a strange and mysterious array.

Following the array's completion, a demonic energy shrouded the mountain. Afterwards, the exotic beast corpses at the foot of the mountain melted one after another, turning into energy in its purest form. They were like countless tiny streams, pouring into the gigantic flower bud in the center of the platform.

Although the amount of energy produced from the melting of a single corpse was extremely low, when all of them were pooled together, they turned into a thick pillar of energy that directly enveloped the gigantic flower bud.

Seeing this, the dozens of terrifying creatures didn't show any signs of happiness on their sinister, or demonic faces.

Those exotic beasts were too weak!

Even though the number of exotic beast corpses were extremely impressive, the level of energy was very low. Compared to the massive amount of energy the flower bud needed, it was truly insignificant.

The huge tree trunk-like beam of energy poured down, but the flower bud showed almost no reaction at all. It still seemed like it was barely hanging onto life.

The terrifyingly powerful creatures couldn't help but shoot their gazes towards the closely dotted black tunnels suspended in the air. They very much wanted to combine their strengths together to smash through the spatial restriction in the tunnels, but they knew that it was almost impossible by just relying on their strengths alone.

However, not being able to send stronger fighters over meant that they wouldn't be able to obtain the corpses of stronger exotic beasts. In turn, it would take an extremely long time for the flower bud to recover.

The powerful creatures looked up the purplish-red sky, their faces sunken like dead water.For the common citizens, the demonic world's invasion was simply a nightmarish piece of news.

The once-a-decade beast swarm was frightening enough. Heavens knew how many people would die during every beast swarm, yet now, before the first wave had tided over, an even more ferocious beast had found its way to them.

Luckily, from the observations on the demonic gateways over the past two days, the government had spread information on their discovery to the common citizen.

The invading demonic creatures weren't as terrifying as they had imagined. As of now, they couldn't even break through the encirclement of the exotic beasts.

In their notice to the citizens, the army had also declared their intention to make a move against those demonic gateways. They hoped to thoroughly eradicate the invading demonic army, and try to destroy the black doors, preventing future troubles.

Of course, the people didn't place too much hope on the latter part. Were things related to space and time so easily destroyed?

Let alone others, just consider the spatial gateways leading to the beast worlds scattered across the globe. Since when had a single one of them been destroyed?

In the early days, humanity on Mercury had tried all kinds of methods, including constructing a steel wall around the spatial gateways, or even detonating a nuclear warhead at them, etc. However, in the end, the spatial gateways remained undamaged. When the time came for the beast swarm, the exotic beasts from within still poured out from the gates ceaselessly.

The steel walls were like cardboard to the stronger exotic beasts, torn down without much effort. They weren't of any use whatsoever.

As for the spatial gateway which had a nuclear warhead detonated atop it, countless exotic beasts swarmed out of it, too, and they weren't affected by the leftover radiation, either.

Well, perhaps there was a certain effect on them, but if so, it was so miniscule that there weren't any notable changes.

Since nuclear detonations weren't able to destroy the spatial gateways, humanity had thoroughly forsaken the idea of using them to wash the lands. It would simply be drinking poison in an attempt to quench one's thirst.

Even if it managed to repel one beast swarm, what about the next? After using nuclear warheads, the environment on Mercury would be greatly affected. If they were used too frequently, heavens knew what environmental changes there would be…In order to store the many ingredients they were about to buy, Zhang Che and Miss Tienan didn't go directly to the ingredients trading hub. Instead, they first went to rent a large freezer warehouse.

Without fulfilling the required storage conditions, many ingredients would quickly deteriorate.

Although it cost over ten million dollars, the current Zhang Che didn't mind at all.

When that amount was converted into purple crystal points, it was only at four digits. Compared to his astronomical wealth, it really was nothing.

After renting the space, the two drove to northern Bei Du.

This time, they didn't buy common ingredients. The ones they looked for were all those ingredients that were extremely limited, yet had many uses.

Supply for those ingredients couldn't meet the demand for them. If you only started looking for the ingredients when you needed them, they would probably be impossible to find on the market. As such, they were Zhang Che's first objectives.

As for those common ingredients, there was no need to buy them. Who would go stockpiling something that could be bought at anytime?

The various high-grade ingredients were rare, and their prices were so high that they gave him a scare.

In only half a day's time, Zhang Che spent close to ten million purple crystal points! That sum of money could buy them a few mid-tier legend-quality beast cards!

Even so, Zhang Che didn't feel any pain at all, because the ingredients he bought were listed on the recipes for his legend-quality babies to rank up.

If they were needed for legend-quality beast cards to rank up, it was totally normal for those ingredients to be pricier. He already considered it good luck to be able to buy them.As the two were engaged in a buying frenzy, militaries in the regions across the globe that were still in daylight had arranged for large amounts of fighter jets to start advancing to the nearest demonic gateways.

Although they said in their notice to the civilians to not worry, everyone knew exactly what kind of danger awaited them.

What kind of secrets were behind the demonic creatures' transportation of the exotic beast corpses? No one knew. However, after discussion among the government higher-ups, they had a preliminary estimate.

First, the invading demonic creatures might need to consume the corpses of the exotic beasts to grow stronger.

If that was the case, there wasn't much pressure to humanity on Mercury.

An increase in strength wasn't something they could achieve overnight. Even the demonic creatures weren't an exception to this law.

Second, perhaps the spatial tunnels opened by the demonic creatures were under some form of restriction, leaving the truly powerful ones unable to cross the spatial tunnel into Mercury.

After all, how could the demonic world, which had managed to open a spatial tunnel, not have any truly powerful creatures among them?

Facing such a situation, the demonic creatures transporting the exotic beasts' corpses might be for the purpose of lifting the restrictions of the spatial tunnel, and in turn allowing their stronger creatures to enter Mercury.

If that was really the case, then it would be dangerous.

Once those unstoppable demonic creatures invaded Mercury, the result would be unimaginable.

It was precisely because of such guesses that the military had chosen to attack the locations where the demonic world was invading. Of course, it would be for the best if they successfully destroyed the spatial tunnels. If not, they had to slaughter the demonic creatures that were already in Mercury, stopping them from transporting ever more exotic beast corpses back.At the endless ice plains several thousand kilometers north of Hua Xia…

A demonic gateway was located here. Due to the number of exotic beasts in this area being lower, the invading demonic army here had started to gain the upper hand in their battle against the exotic beasts. As a result, more exotic beast corpses were produced here.

If it wasn't for some extremely powerful commander-class exotic beasts occupying the area, perhaps the demonic creatures would have broken through the encirclementand quickly invaded south, dealing a huge blow to the cities in northern Hua Xia.

It was currently close to dusk. Fortunately, the weather was pretty good. The skies were clear, and visibility was great.

High up in the sky, a spread of black dots suddenly emitted a wave of buzzing sound, flying from south to north at high speed.

As those black dots grew nearer, the buzzing sounds also grew louder.

This time, Hua Xia's military had mobilized over a thousand fighter planes and formed an incredibly huge fleet, covering the sky.

Among them, a third of the fleet was comprised of the most advanced fighter jets, while the rest were bombers carrying large amounts of explosives, and were similarly the latest models.

The fighter jets were flying at Mach 4 speed. Setting off from a few important military bases in northern Hua Xia, it only took them about two hours to arrive at the skies above the ice plains.

The first to be drawn to the fleet of aircraft wasn't the demonic army, however. Instead, it was all kinds of flying exotic beasts at the outskirts.

These exotic beasts stranded on Mercury were incredibly familiar with humanity's aircraft. After sensing the threat, they actually flew high up into the air at the same time.

In the conference room in the military headquarters in Bei Du, everyone's faces were unusually grave.

Fortunately, the military had long devised a solution for such situations.

Facing the ambush of those flying exotic beasts, the fleet of aircraft did not meet them head on. Instead, they rose their altitude and made use of their speed, which exceeded most flying beasts, to continue on their way.

From a certain perspective, the exotic beast remnants could now be considered allies of humanity. It was better if they avoided conflict with them.

As for the tiny fraction of flying beasts that were really fast, they were showered with concentrated rounds of missiles and retreated with ashen faces, no longer daring to chase them.

Exotic beasts were afraid of dying, too, especially the powerful high-tier exotic beasts. They were much more aware of pushing their advantage and keeping away from harm than the ordinary low-tier exotic beasts. Seeing they were in a bad spot, naturally they wouldn't rush up stupidly.

Soon, the fleet of aircraft flew over the exotic beasts' encirclement and arrived at the skies above the demonic gateway.

"Each formation is free to attack, watch out for your own safety!"

Following the command of the Major in charge of this operation, the fleet of aircraft suddenly spread out and formed smaller groups, launching a quick attack on the closely dotted demonic creatures below.

For a period of time, missiles came flying out of the bellies of the various aircraft models, dragging tails of flames behind them, and fell into the demonic army below at speeds several times faster than the speed of sound.

Loud rumblings rang out continuously from the explosions. Large masses of fiery light could be seen erupting as they detonated, and clouds in the shape of little mushrooms rose to the skies.

At the same time, the bombers that came flying to the skies above this area dropped units of bombs, targeting the areas that were shrouded in the layer of black fog.

Amid the concentrated explosion noises, countless demonic creatures were blown to bits, and some of them were directly burned to ash.

From that, they could tell that the demonic creatures weren't very strong.

To put it in perspective, attacks like that were unable to hurt mid-tier legend-quality exotic beasts at all. However, a wide spread of demonic creatures had fallen to them. Obviously their strength was a little low.

If it wasn't for their advantage in numbers, they really wouldn't be able to withstand the attacks of the surrounding exotic beasts.

The demonic creatures' response wasn't slow, either. A fraction of them who were capable of flight quickly rose to the skies, wanting to strike down the aircraft that were causing such heavy casualties among them.

However, the aircraft came prepared. Some smaller squadrons immediately separated from the fleet and each took care of an area, launching miniature missiles.

Brilliant fireworks started blooming in the skies. The demonic army that came flying up quickly suffered heavy casualties, and was unable to break through this deadly net of steel and fire.

Following the explosions of the heavy missiles, the black fog in the central area below started scattering, revealing the enormous black door that stood a hundred meters in the air.

In Bei Du's military conference room, everyone present widened their eyes, looking at the screen.

However, what depressed the high-ranking officers was that the black door wasn't affected by the bombardment at all. Even though the missiles kept exploding against it, the black door remained undamaged.

Although they were expecting it, their hearts fell when they saw the reality.

The heavy bombardment lasted for over an hour, until all the missiles in the bombers were dropped. The fighter jets only kept a small portion of their missiles for defensive use before the attack finally stopped.

The demonic army's gathering point below had truly turned into a Purgatory.

The smoke of war permeated the air. Incomplete corpses lay everywhere. Looking from the satellite images, at least half of the demonic army fell.

However, no one felt happy about such a pleasant result.

As long as the demonic gateway remained standing, demonic creatures would continue invading endlessly. Humanity would still have to bear the huge pressure of surviving.

The fleet of aircraft returned. The exotic beasts in the surroundings that had stopped their assaults started attacking towards the demonic gateway again.The military's attack results weren't announced to the public.

That night, the army and government had called for a large-scale joint conference during the night. It didn't matter if the base commanders were unable to make their way to Bei Du from their respective cities, because the conference was done through a video conference. Everyone could participate regardless.

The reason for the conference was to discuss how they were going to handle the demonic army's endless invasion. It was obviously impossible to solely rely on the exotic beasts.

Although the situation now seemed like the exotic beasts held a huge advantage, they were alone on Mercury, with no reinforcements to replenish their numbers. The demonic army, however, could keep sending soldiers in through the spatial tunnels.

As time passed, the scale of victory would naturally tip towards the demonic army's side.

Also, due to the unknown dangers posed by the demonic creatures' transportation of exotic beast corpses, humanity couldn't sit by and watch as they continued developing.

Heavens knew what changes there would be in the end, when the demonic creatures had obtained enough exotic beast corpses!The conference lasted through the night. The contents discussed were unknown to the ordinary citizens.

After the meeting was adjourned, everyone's complexion was ugly, no matter if they were from the military or the government.

After Huang Juyun left the meeting, first he went home and rested for a few hours. Afterwards, he immediately contacted Zhang Che and asked him to make a trip over to the Huang family's ancestral home.

At present, Zhang Che was in his beast card shop, Premium House. Seeing a scene that was as busy as a market, he felt elated inside. Ever since he had brought a large amount of beast cards back, especially the twenty-some Nirvana Snake beast cards, the shop's business had boomed.

He didn't expect his father-in-law to give him a call at this time. From his tone, Zhang Che sensed that this matter wasn't simple.

-Could it be that there are some unforeseen events in the demonic world's invasion?-

Zhang Che hurriedly left the shop and got into his car, driving to the Huang family's ancestral house to the east.

His father-in-law didn't say anything specific during the call. He only told Zhang Che to quickly make his way over. However, the more it was like that, the more serious Zhang Che felt this matter was.

Indeed, when he arrived at the Huang family's ancestral house, he saw the heavy expression on Huang Juyun's face. The latter waved at him, telling him to sit down in the study, and directly said, "Xiaoche, prepare yourself for the next few days. I have a mission for you."

Zhang Che's expression turned serious. He didn't ask what the mission was, and only nodded heavily.

Huang Juyun continued, "Yesterday afternoon, the military launched a quick strike operation. Although we obtained great results from it and eliminated large amounts of demonic creatures, the black door is like the spatial gateways leading to the beast worlds, and could not be destroyed.

"After the allied conference last night, and in order to prevent more demonic creatures from flooding into our world, we have decided to select a portion of powerful fighters from the army, and to enlist a portion of powerful beastmasters at mid-tier or higher and form an allied team to head towards the demonic gateways closest to us and suppress the invading demonic creatures."

Zhang Che knew that he was part of the civilian enlistment. He nodded, not rejecting Huang Juyun.

Let alone that this was the combined decision of both the military and the government, and so being impossible to reject, this matter was directly related to the survival of humanity. As a powerful mid-tier beastmaster, this was truly his responsibility.

Seeing Zhang Che having no intention of refusing, Huang Juyun couldn't help but sigh in relief. At the same time, he also grew worried.

If possible, Huang Juyun didn't want for this kid with great potential to take part in such a mission, either. Danger wasn't the main reason, however. Some places in the beast world was even more dangerous than this.

Most importantly, in the next few years, until the arrival of the fifth beast swarm, those who were involved in this mission would have very little time to go train themselves in the beast world.

Even if they took turns for time off, it would be very good if he had two or three months of leave in a year.

For the current Zhang Che, this would have too much of an effect on his growth.

There was no choice, however. Huang Juyun didn't dare to act selfishly at this crucial moment concerning humanity's survival, and let Zhang Che avoid the draft.

It was fine if Zhang Che had been only an ordinary mid-tier beastmaster. He could still have hidden his strength.

However, the key thing was that he had just left an extremely deep impression on the higher-ups just a few days ago during his victory in the arena deathmatch. How could he possibly hide from enlistment?

"As for your training, you don't have to worry. At that time, I'll fight my hardest to get more days off for you. Perhaps you'll only have to go to the frontlines for a period of time before you can end this mission. After all, genius beastmasters like you can't waste your precious time in those places. When a bigger crisis comes, you'll only be able to display more use if you develop quickly."

Although Zhang Che had agreed to this mission without any hesitation, Huang Juyun still consoled him.

The allied conference had too many implications. So, these matters weren't fully considered.

When the situation at the demonic gateways was under control, neither the government nor the military would want to have genius beastmasters like Zhang Che waste their time there.

After all, if he was allowed to continue developing, Zhang Che would surely become a cornerstone among the beastmasters. No one was willing to see him stagnate here.

Well, probably with the exception of the Zhen family…

Zhang Che chuckled and said, "It's fine, Uncle Huang. I want to see for myself what kind of existences are those demonic creatures, too. It can be considered preparing for the future. With this experience, I won't be totally clueless in future fights against them."

These were Zhang Che's heartfelt words.

Earlier, Huang Juyun had told him about some matters related to the demonic world's invasion. He had some knowledge regarding the demonic world's forces, and knew that what they were seeing now was no more than an appetizer for what was to come.

In the future, stronger demonic warriors would surely invade their lands. To be able to gain some understanding of those invaders would be extremely helpful for future battles.

"Mhm, I'm glad you can understand," Huang Juyun nodded, "Go back and rest for two days, and prepare yourself. You might have to leave for a very long period of time…"

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Chapter 387: Captain. Advance North

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Over the next two days, Zhang Che drove around all of Bei Du, visiting every place that sold high-grade ingredients. He spent another ten million purple crystal points or so, purchasing every high-grade ingredient he could find.

He even checked with his data eyes, and discovered that the ingredients needed for his legend-quality babies' ranking up were pretty much secured.

Well, it was impossible to have everything on the list. Some extremely rare ingredients couldn't be bought in just a few days' time. Even so, Zhang Che was very satisfied.

Now that he had stockpiled the basic ingredients, in the future he only had to look for the rarer ingredients slowly and his legend-quality babies could rank up.

Even if legend-quality subdued beasts didn't advance in quality, and only ranked up in level, their overall strength would more than double. It had a huge effect on their combat strength!On the morning of the eighth of October, Year Thirty-Six of the New Era…

Zhang Che had once again received a notification from Huang Juyun. Soon, a major drove to his place to pick him up, bringing him directly to a base in Bei Du city's military district.

After arriving there, Zhang Che realized there weren't many other beastmasters there. At present, they were gathered in small groups in the plaza, numbering between three and four hundred of them.

-This shouldn't be… Didn't they say they wanted to enlist a large amount of mid-tier beastmasters? Why are there so few people?-

Soon, Zhang Che saw his father-in-law walking out of the camp. He immediately got out of the car and went up to greet him. "Uncle Huang!"

Huang Juyun nodded. He seemed to have seen through the doubt in Zhang Che's eyes and smiled, explaining, "This time, the ones gathered here are the strongest of the batch. That's why there aren't many people here.."

Zhang Che understood then. No wonder there were so few beastmasters here. It turned out that there were other beastmasters gathered at another location!The two chatted for a short while. No other cars came up the road to the military camp, and the time reached 10 AM.

Huang Juyun signalled Zhang Che. Afterwards, under the escort of a few officers, the former walked up to a platform at the side of the plaza, and he swept his gaze across the crowd. The gathered beastmasters who were originally talking in low voices immediately quieted down.

"Everyone here is a young talent of our Bei Du City. I believe I don't have to say much about what the mission this time is; you should already know the situation by now.

"I only ask one thing from all of you. That is, since you have joined in on this mission, you have to obey orders. Don't bring in the bad habits you have from society!

"What you are going to face might be the greatest enemies of humanity in the future. Any carelessness might bring you, or even the whole team, great danger!

"I hope everyone here will remember this!"

No one in the crowd made a sound.

From a certain perspective, the beastmasters enlisted here were considered good people. At the very least, they haven't done anything bad on Mercury.

After a short pause, Huang Juyun continued, "This time, we've gathered all of you here to form kill-teams that will specifically handle the stronger forces among the demonic creatures, and at the same time, support the other squads. So, later on we'll split you up into ten groups.

"If any one of you is willing to become the captain of your group, you can step forward now. After the completion of this mission, the captains will receive extra rewards."

After adding in the last sentence, Huang Juyun suddenly looked towards Zhang Che in the crowd.

Zhang Che was stunned. -Does father-in-law want me to be a captain?- After seeing Huang Juyun's subtle, near unnoticeable nod, he could only step forth speechlessly.

In the end, he realized he was the first freaking guy to step out!

Although, if he had to be a captain, so be it. He didn't have to listen to the poor commands of others this way. If any sudden changes occurred during the battle, he could quickly react to them.

Seeing Zhang Che being the first to step forward, Huang Juyun smiled in satisfaction. He planned for this future son-in-law to take up his mantle in the future. Training him for it now was very beneficial.

After all, other than exotic beasts, humanity would also have to face the seemingly even more cruel demonic creatures in the future. No matter how strong an individual was, how could it compare to the cooperation of a team?

Well, unless this prospective son-in-law owned a divine-quality or higher subdued beast, of course! That was a different matter…

However, were divine-quality exotic beasts so easy to hunt?

Let alone divine-quality, even high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts had barely been hunted by humanity all these years. Even with Huang Juyun's high authority, allowing him to see many confidential files, he knew that divine-quality subdued beasts were extremely rare.

Beastmasters who owned divine-quality subdued beasts were all cornerstones of humanity! Which of those figures didn't finally grow to that stage through many years of effort and extraordinary luck?

Huang Juyun was also aware that Zhang Che's luck was much better than others. However, he was too young of a star. If it was in the past, Huang Juyun wouldn't mind letting Zhang Che develop on his own, but now that the demonic world had invaded, in addition to the threat of the beast worlds, there were too many variables.

In order to ensure Zhang Che's safety, it was better to let him develop in the military.Zhang Che naturally didn't know all the considerations his father-in-law had for him. Otherwise, he would surely tell him loud and clear that he already had a divine-quality beast, and it was a super divine-quality, to boot!… well, it was still an infant right now, and heavens knew how many months and years it would be before it matured. Regardless, that was a super divine-quality baby, wasn't it?

None of the beastmasters present thought they were inferior to the others. Seeing Zhang Che stepping forward, more people quickly did the same.

In the end, more than twenty mid-tier beastmasters gathered around Zhang Che in the blink of an eye. Huang Juyun had asked for ten captains, and now he had more than twice the amount he asked for.

Everyone had originally thought that the twenty-some people would have to spar with one another to decide the final ten captains. In the end, Huang Juyun nodded and smiled, saying, "Alright, there's no one else stepping forward. Then we'll split everyone here into twenty-three squads, with the twenty-three people in front here as the captains. Assemble immediately, we'll set off in half an hour's time!"

The crowd burst out laughing. Hadn't they said to split into ten groups originally?

After a short allocation, the twenty-three squads were quickly formed. Every squad had about fifteen members. After receiving their supplies and the necessarily equipment in the base, they got in transportation vehicles and drove off towards the nearest military airbase.Each squad was in one transportation vehicle. Zhang Che got to know his squad members briefly in the vehicle, in case he didn't even know what his subordinates' names were when the time came.

Of course, Zhang Che couldn't remember everyone's names right away. He could only slowly familiarize himself with them in the upcoming days.

Since Zhang Che was the first to step forth, their squad was referred to as Squad One. There were fifteen members, in addition, eleven men and four women.

After introducing themselves to one another, a female member named Li Xin suddenly looked at Zhang Che, her eyes shining, and asked with anticipation, "Captain, are you… that Zhang Che who fought in an arena deathmatch against the Zhen family a few days ago?"

The arena deathmatch had caused a huge sensation in Bei Du for a period of time. Although most people had never seen what Zhang Che looked like, from the way he spoke with Huang Juyun earlier, everyone had garnered a little something.

When Li Xin voiced out her question, everyone's gazes immediately fell upon Zhang Che.

-Hmm, am I that famous in Bei Du now?- Zhang Che didn't answer directly. He only smiled and nodded, acknowledging it.

"Woah, you really are!" Li Xin nearly jumped out of her seat in excitement. She said happily, "What a relief. I was worried it would be dangerous on this mission. Now that we have captain, we'll surely be fine!"

The others also showed relieved smiles.

Being able to slay a mid-tier beastmaster with two epic-quality subdued beasts in one move, Zhang Che's strength was noted by those who knew about the matter. Some of them had even guessed that Zhang Che had a fighting chance against high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts!

They would surely be much safer with such a strong captain!

Although the officials had promised an extremely high reward for this mission, everyone was worried inside. If they encountered some danger and lost their lives, what use was it, no matter how high the rewards were?

Facing this situation, Zhang Che was very satisfied, too. Since they knew about his strength, he didn't have to worry about them not obeying his orders.At noon, a fleet of transportation aircraft took off and headed north under the escort of squadrons of fighter jets.

In addition to twenty-three squads of Zhang Che and the others, which would act as the sharp knives, there were another thousand mid-tier beastmasters from both military and civilian. They would be the main fighting force, coordinating with the aerial strikes to eliminate the demonic army around the demonic gateway in the northern ice plains.

In the end, this was actually a drill for the mid-tier beastmasters, to familiarize them with the demonic creatures' fighting style and strength, and better prepare them for the crueler battle in the future.

It wasn't just Bei Du. All of Hua Xia, and even all of Mercury, were in similar situations.

If they didn't use this opportunity to drill their people while the demonic creatures were still weak, when the more powerful demonic creatures invaded in the future, how were they going to get used to the fighting style of the demonic creatures?

Also, if they could wipe out the demonic creatures that had already invaded Mercury, or drive them away, the beastmasters could cooperate with the military to block off the demonic gateway, preventing more demonic creatures from crossing over.

Once the demonic creatures on Mercury were thoroughly eradicated, they would be unable to obtain more corpses of exotic beasts. No matter what conspiracies they had, they wouldn't be able to act on them!After more than two hours of flight, the convoy finally arrived at the icy plains in the north…

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Chapter 388: Drop from the Sky. Clearing Exotic Beasts

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At the place where the demonic gateway was located, the tragic scene from the heavy bombardment had recovered quite a bit.

Obviously, the remaining demonic creatures, as well as those who newly crossed over the gateway, had cleaned up the surrounding area.

At the moment, the nearby exotic beasts still had the area surrounded.

It was like there was an irreconcilable grudge between the two sides. Only when one of them was completely destroyed would this war finally come to an end. Originally, their war was something humanity would love to see. However, their arena happened to be on Mercury.

The aircraft didn't fly directly to the warzone. Instead, it stopped about a hundred kilometers away.

Aboard the plane, Zhang Che and the others were currently listening to the mission assigned to them by the military.

"Remember, the main mission of the twenty-three squads here is to support the main force in killing the stronger exotic beasts and clearing a path to the core area, preventing casualties among the ordinary beastmaster groups.

"There's three more minutes before we drop off. Please ready yourselves."

Zhang Che and the others hurriedly packed their own equipment and items, waiting for the cabin door to open.

Those who joined in on this mission were Tier Four beastmasters at the very least, and were the more competent ones of the batch. How could they possibly not have flying beasts?

So, in order to prevent any unwanted accidents during the landing, the aircraft wouldn't bring them directly to the ground. Instead, they would jump off from a thousand meters in the air and each of them would summon their own flying beast to descend.

In any case, the airplane had switched over to helicopter flying style, hovering in the air. There wouldn't be any danger in them jumping off from the aircraft.

Three minutes passed by in a flash. On command, the cabin door suddenly opened. As the acting captain, Zhang Che was the first to jump out. With a wave of his hand, a five-colored ray shot out. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon appeared under him in the nick of time, catching him easily.

Looking up from the ground, the aircraft opened their cabin doors one after another. Beastmasters came jumping out of them rapidly and rode down on their respective flying subdued beasts, arriving at the ice plains on the ground quickly in an organized manner.

The commotion here had finally alarmed the exotic beasts ahead.

Soon, a large group of exotic beasts quickly came towards them, be it by running or flying.

Although the demonic creatures were the arch-enemies of the exotic beasts, the latter weren't friendly to humanity, either. Otherwise, the conflict between them would have been resolved many years ago.

"Attention everyone, attention everyone! The fighter jets ahead will buy you ten minutes of time. After ten minutes, the convoy will withdraw!"

As the high-efficiency loudspeakers on the transportation aircraft rang out, miniature missiles were launched out of the bellies of the fighters ahead, leaving trails of flames behind them as they flew towards the exotic beast groups that were charging over from the area ahead.

Amid the noise of the explosions, all the descending beastmasters quickly formed into their groups. Afterwards, all kinds of subdued beasts were summoned, forming a massive army of subdued beasts to push forward.

The mid-tier beastmasters gathered from both civilians and the military numbered several thousand, and their subdued beasts totaled tens of thousands. They were closely packed together, seemingly without end in sight.

The twenty-three squads Zhang Che belonged to were among the army, ready to take on the stronger exotic beasts that ordinary beastmasters had trouble dealing with.

The waves of explosions soon ended.

After a round of concentrated bombardment, the remnant exotic beasts were greatly reduced in numbers. However, what was left were all the relatively stronger ones. Every one of them let out furious roars, continuing their charge towards the army of beastmasters on the ground.

Zhang Che looked at all the different exotic beasts ahead with narrowed eyes. He looked back toward the squad members behind him and said, "Everyone, follow me closely. Don't fall behind!"

Since they already knew Zhang Che's identity, despite not being familiar with one another, none of them had any doubts about his orders. They acknowledged in unison, "Yes, captain!"

Going forward, who knew how dangerous the battle would be? With such a strong captain leading them, naturally he would be the core of the team, and the squad members would follow closely, to prevent getting surrounded by the powerful exotic beasts.

The distance between the beastmaster army and the exotic beasts grew closer and closer. Everyone could already see the exotic beasts' appearances vividly.

"Sharp knives teams, attack!" came the command from the wireless earpiece. The twenty-three squads immediately came forth from within the massive army, leading the charge against the exotic beast army.

The exotic beasts that were charging at the front were naturally among the stronger ones.

Those exotic beasts couldn't be allowed to charge into the much weaker mid-tier beastmasters. They had to be dealt with by Zhang Che and the rest of the twenty-three squads.

"Everyone, maintain the formation, charge with me!"

Zhang Che didn't summon the Earthen Rock Demon. He only brought out his legend-quality babies. As he gave the order, Zhang Che engaged the few exotic beasts ahead with more extraordinary auras.

Moments earlier, he had taken a rough glance at the horde, and he didn't discover any epic-quality exotic beasts among them, leaving him much calmer.

Epic-quality exotic beasts naturally wouldn't appear so easily. Otherwise, with the strength of the demonic creatures, perhaps humanity wouldn't even have to make a move before they were all driven back.

Seeing Zhang Che charging ahead with a bunch of powerful subdued beasts, the eyes of the fifteen squad members behind him shone. Each of them led their subdued beasts and followed Zhang Che's charge. They felt very fortunate to be able to follow Zhang Che into action!

This man was a fierce one with epic-quality subdued beasts! They definitely wouldn't find themselves in overly dangerous situation following him, unless they were careless enough to fall behind. As such, the fifteen squad members were all very mindful of losing track of him.

While running, Zhang Che seemed to sense the nervousness in his squad members. He yelled out, "Everyone, don't worry! Just leave the powerful exotic beasts to me if we come across them later. You're mainly responsible for clearing those that slipped away!"

"Yes, captain!" the voices of the fifteen squad members came together, faintly overwhelming the surrounding noise.

It wasn't only Zhang Che's squad that had rushed forward. All twenty-three of the sharp knives team were directing a large group of subdued beasts under the leads of their respective captains, stabbing straight at the exotic beast army ahead like twenty-three sharp daggers.

The sharpest knife of them all was Zhang Che's squad!

Despite having to be mindful of his squad members' pace and not letting the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon display his speed advantage, Zhang Che was the first to charge into the exotic beast army ahead.

A roaring five-star dark gold-quality huge white bear was the first to run up to Zhang Che. It let out a bellow and spat out a mass of dirty yellow light, blasting it towards Zhang Che.

Obviously it knew that as long as it got rid of Zhang Che, this squad would be severely weakened!

However, the Mutated Giant Ape used his own body to block this elemental attack without a care. A dark and gloomy light flashed on his fur, and he took no damage.

In the next moment, he displayed nimbleness extremely unfitting his large size and suddenly rushed up to the huge bear. He threw a violent straight punch at its face, instantly bursting that fellow's head. Its corpse fell to the ground, no longer moving.

As an outstanding boxer, the Mutated Giant Ape's fists were terrifying weapons. Facing exotic beasts than were lower in both level and quality, it would be a clean one-hit-kill.

"Captain's subdued beasts are so strong!"

His squad members were shaken at the sight. Just this Mutated Giant Ape's offensive strength was stronger by the strongest subdued beast they had by quite a margin!

"Follow me, protect our flanks!"

Zhang Che didn't care what they were thinking. His gaze was already set on a six-star legend-quality exotic beast ahead!

It was a gigantic insect-type exotic beast that somewhat resembled a mantis. Its body was between six to seven meters long, its speed excellent. However, it wasn't charging at the front. Obviously it was an exotic beast that excelled in sneak attacks.

However, Zhang Che didn't give it any chance to launch a sneak attack. The Mr Horny in his hand… no, the Horned Electric Python suddenly radiated an electrical light, quickly blasting at it.

Crackle! Thunder boomed. The lightning struck the mantis-like exotic beast directly. The flickering snakes of lightning instantly encircled its body.

However, the fellow was a six-star legend-quality exotic beast, after all. Although it suffered the electrical attack, it didn't receive too heavy of an injury. Its figure flashed, instantly disappearing from where it stood, and turned into a blurry afterimage, drawing an arc in the air and pouncing at Zhang Che at great speed.

However, Zhang Che didn't even spare a glance at it. He only mumbled to himself with a hint of regret, "A pity they don't drop beast cards on Mercury. What a huge loss!"

A scarlet light flew out from Zhang Che's brow. It streaked across the air like lightning, then immediately flew back to his spiritual sea.

The six-star mantis-like exotic beast, on the other hand, suddenly froze in mid-air, a large hole having appeared on its forehead. A gloomy green fluid gushed out from the hole, and its corpse fell to the ground heavily.

" Si… is this the secret weapon captain used to slay the Zhen family's representative back then? It's unimaginably powerful, indeed! A legend-quality exotic beast lost its life in an instant, just like that!"

The jaws of the squad members behind him loosened from shock, gaining a whole new perspective of Zhang Che's strength.

Of course, they didn't forget Zhang Che's instructions. Each of them directed their own subdued beasts to slay the weaker exotic beasts at their flanks, allowing Zhang Che to concentrate on killing his way forward.

They even suspected that they weren't needed. Just their captain alone could slaughter his way around within this exotic beast army.

"What a huge pity. I heard the captain's girlfriend is the daughter of Bei Du city's Huang family. Otherwise, I'd surely snatch him for myself!" Little stars twinkled in Li Xin's eyes, her heart nearly rippling with amorous feelings.

Such a young, handsome, and at the same time, powerful beastmaster was simply the ideal lover in the hearts of every girl!

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Chapter 389: Forcing Through the Exotic Beast Horde

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Unbeknownst to Zhang Che, the squad members behind him were starting to develop a sense of fan worship towards him.

His gaze was always looking ahead. His capable babies were spread out in a fan shape, purposefully picking exotic beasts that were five-star dark gold-quality and above as their opponents.

As for the rest, the fifteen squad members behind him weren't here just for show, either. Every one of them had at least two mid-tier dark gold-quality subdued beasts. Dealing with those that slipped through Zhang Che's net truly wasn't difficult for them.

After killing every high-quality exotic beast, Zhang Che couldn't help but feel his heart bleeding.

Every one of them was worth money!

If they were used to buy high-grade ingredients, it would have been enough for one or two of his babies to rank up!

Fortunately, the satellites in outer space would record everything. When the battle was over, there would be soldiers coming to clear up the area, and register the kills everyone made, then reward them according to the worth of the exotic beast corpses.

Even so, the value of the exotic beast corpses were much lower than beast cards. Zhang Che couldn't help but feel his heart ache over this, especially since his babies were extremely efficient at killing them.

With almost every breath he took, an exotic beast would fall to the attacks of one of his babies. Those exotic beasts were specifically chosen, every one of them at least five-star dark gold-quality.

If it were in the beast world, that would be more than a hundred thousand purple crystal points!

"Damn it, I don't care anymore. I'm not the only one suffering heavy losses!" In the end, Zhang Che decided to not think about this hurtful matter. He directed his babies to slaughter their way forward.

"Captain, wait for us! We're almost falling behind!" Li Xin's huffing voice reached his ears just as Zhang Che was making a rush forward.

When he looked back, he nearly slapped his palm on his head.

Although the relatively stronger exotic beasts were all slain by him, the surrounding exotic beasts rushing up to them from the sides weren't small in number, either. The fifteen squad members could barely keep them at bay, let alone keep up with Zhang Che's pace.

Left without a choice, Zhang Che could only have the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon slow down. At the same time, he had the Scarlet Flame Drake and Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus turn back to support Li Xin and the rest.

Looking down from the sky, the exotic beasts and the beastmaster army were deeply engaged in battle. Within the mess, twenty-three squads were like twenty-three spears, piercing deep into the exotic beast horde, each of them picking on the stronger exotic beasts to execute.

As for the weaker beastmaster squads, they didn't push their way forward chaotically. Instead, they were split into small teams, using a more defensive formation to advance slowly and steadily.

After all, people weren't familiar with the summoned beasts, with the exception of their own squadmates'. If they accidentally treated others' minions as exotic beasts and killed them, wouldn't it become a huge joke?

As such, employing this method where each squad were battling on their own, the beastmasters could best display their strength, and yet not turn the situation into a mess.At the military district in Bei Du, in a command center, many generals were gathered to watch the push.

A wide screen was hung on the spacious wall, subdivided many times, showing those in the center the whole situation at the northern icy plains clearly.

A certain video feed was enlarged, showing a certain spearhead team penetrating deep into the exotic beast horde. Each of the subdued beasts of that squad's leader was stronger than the next, slaying every strong exotic beast that came close. It looked like there was no one who could match them.

Under such fierce attacks, this squad didn't encounter the slightest hint of danger, moving swiftly within the beast horde as if they were taking a stroll in their courtyard.

A middle-aged general looked at Huang Juyun, saying in a half serious, half joking manner, "General Huang, I'm so envious of you having such a great daughter!"

After the life and death battle with Zhen Liu, Zhang Che was now extremely well known among the circles of the higher-ups. After all, although beastmasters in their late teens like him and already so strong weren't completely unheard of, they were extremely rarely seen.

As long as people like him didn't fall halfway, they would surely become a pillar of any large clan, or perhaps even become a cornerstone of all of humanity. To say that those present weren't envious of Huang Juyun having such a prospective son-in-law would be impossible.

Huang Juyun was originally worried about whether Zhang Che could complete this mission well. Now that he saw Zhang Che directing his subdued beasts and slaughtering those high-quality exotic beasts at the front line, while at the same time maintaining a good distance between him and his squad members behind, not letting them getting into danger, he felt reassured.

His performance was extremely high!

"Hahahaha, I can't help it! Our Lanlan has a good eye and took a liking to this brat Zhang Che before he even showed what he was capable of. This is an innate gift; your girls can't learn that!"

Well, Huang Juyun naturally had a reason to feel proud.

Zhang Che wasn't the only one who had earned a fortune from the arena deathmatch. When Huang Juyun saw his prospective son-in-law acting so confident and seemingly not putting the duel to heart, he mustered the courage and placed a heavy bet. In the end, he gained tens of millions of purple crystal points!

After receiving his prize, he was both excited and regretful. If he had known earlier, he would have put up the remainder of the huge spiritual jade as collateral and earned a huge fortune off it.

"Damn you, Huang Juyun! Are you saying our daughters are blind?"

A wave of laughter burst out in the hall. The generals didn't show any anxiety at all, and started chatting and joking among themselves.

From the satellite's surveillance feed, this operation was simply extraordinarily successful.

As of now, other than some of the squad members' subdued beasts suffering injuries of various degrees, there weren't any casualties among the twenty-three spearhead teams.

Not only that, since the strongest exotic beasts ahead were basically all killed, the main force behind them didn't have many casualties. Their losses were totally within the acceptable range.

Of course, it would be impossible to achieve zero casualties in such a large-scale battle, unless everyone was as strong as Zhang Che and could directly steamroll over their foes.

Obviously, Zhang Che himself didn't have the strength to directly steamroll forward, either. At the moment, he had encountered the strongest exotic beast since entering this battleground.

It was a five-star epic-quality exotic beast, a huge tortoise as large as a hill!

This huge tortoise's False Domain was actually the rarely seen pure defensive type. Not only did it increase the tortoise's defense by a large degree, it also strengthened the nearby exotic beasts, who were surrounding Zhang Che's squad.

"Everybody be careful, protect yourselves!"

Zhang Che creased his brow slightly. A rainbow light shot out from his brow. The Earthen Rock Demon immediately appeared in the battleground, drawing the gazes of nearly every exotic beast and the beastmasters nearby.

After all, this giant stone man that stood dozens of meters tall was like a skyscraper. It was impossible not to draw the attention of others.

"So this is captain's epic-quality subdued beast? It really is so powerful that it leaves others in despair!"

Although the Earthen Rock Demon's Gravity Field didn't directly affect Li Xin and the others, they still felt the terrifying pressure it exerted. Their faces paled a little, subconsciously thinking that if they encountered such a powerful exotic beast, they wouldn't be able to resist it at all. A stomp from it would turn them into meat paste.

"Shatter that tortoise shell!"

Zhang Che didn't have time to waste here. He directly ordered the Earthen Rock Demon to charge at the huge tortoise ahead.

The Earthen Rock Demon emitted a silent roar and trudged forward on its massive legs. On its way, many exotic beasts failed to avoid it in time, and were either turned into meat paste, or knocked flying, their bones and veins broken.

The huge tortoise had obviously realized the danger, too. It directly turned around and crawled to the back of the exotic beast horde.

The fellow actually ran without a fight!

Don't underestimate it, thinking that it wouldn't be fast moving on all fours. In fact, its speed wasn't inferior to some flying beasts!

However, how could the Earthen Rock Demon let it escape just like that? A splendid light rose from the ground along its legs, and a huge rock spear shining with lightning immediately appeared in its hand.

In the next moment, there was a loud crack of thunder. Everyone only saw a tunnel of flesh and blood in the air ahead. Countless exotic beasts that stood in the path of the Earthen Rock Demon's attack were blown into mists of blood. The rock spear's momentum remained unaffected, striking the huge tortoise's shell in the blink of an eye.

A deafening explosion rang out. The terrifying rock spear struck the huge tortoise's incredibly tough shell, instantly shattering it.

The huge tortoise let out a miserable cry, a large hole appearing in its body. Yet even with such an injury, it actually didn't die on the spot!

"As expected of an epic-quality exotic beast. Its defense and vitality is astonishing, despite being a star tier lower than the Earthen Rock Demon," Zhang Che sighed, then directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly ahead.

The huge tortoise, having suffered such a heavy injury, was obviously unable to use its False Domain any longer. The threat it posed to Zhang Che directly fell by ninety percent. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon quickly drew closer. The scarlet sword flew out of Zhang Che's brow, entering the huge tortoise's back through the wound and sliced around, instantly ending its life.

After slaying the huge tortoise, Zhang Che felt his heart aching so badly he couldn't breathe.

If there wasn't anyone around, he would have tried to use the rainbow crystal to tame this huge tortoise. Alas, he would never dare to expose his secrets in such a setting. He could only watch as the huge tortoise's vitality slipped away silently.

After killing this huge tortoise, no other powerful exotic beast appeared. Zhang Che didn't recall the Earthen Rock Demon, either. He had it act as the vanguard, while his other subdued beasts and pets followed behind, directly clearing a path through the exotic beast horde.

Seeing the closely packed demonic army ahead in his sight, Zhang Che couldn't help but narrow his eyes slightly.

Killing all those exotic beasts gained him some soul force points, at least. He wondered what kind of rewards he would get for killing those invading demonic creatures?

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Chapter 390:

Encircle. First Contact with Demonic Creatures

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Edited by Aelryinth

Back in Bei Du's military district command center…

"Oh boy, is that a… spiritual sword fragment?" The generals were all knowledgeable people with vast experiences. When they saw the scarlet light flying out of Zhang Che's brow, there were people among them who instantly recognized it.

During the life and death duel, Zhang Che slew Zhen Liu too quickly. These huge figures from the military didn't pay too much attention, and so not many people knew about it.

Also, although many people had their own guesses after taking only a quick glance, no one dared to be sure.

Now that Zhang Che had used it again, they could finally confirm it. That scarlet light was indeed a spiritual sword fragment!

However, from what they knew, a spiritual sword fragment didn't seem to be that powerful, did it?

Slaying the epic-quality huge tortoise could be attributed to it having suffered a heavy injury. The shell on its back was already shattered, so killing it with the sword didn't count for much. However, Zhen Liu had been wearing a six-star legend-quality armor, yet was decapitated with a single slash. That was too shocking!

What further confused them was that even high-tier beastmasters with spiritual sword fragments could only wield them within a few dozen meters around themselves before hitting a limit with their control.

Zhang Che's spiritual sword fragment, however, had an attack range of over a hundred meters!

"Old Huang, I didn't know your family was treating this prospective son-in-law so well!"

The generals thought the Huang family had provided Zhang Che with the spiritual sword fragment. Otherwise, where would a kid with such an ordinary background find himself a spiritual sword fragment? Not to mention being able to control it so masterfully!

Naturally it had to be because the Huang family had paid a huge price to develop him to this degree. After all, everyone knew that the Huang family's research on beast world spiritual herbs was among the top in all of Hua Xia.

" Ai , it can't be helped. The boys aren't living up to expectations. I can only depend on my son-in-law." Huang Juyun feigned a helpless look, while he kept cursing inside. -Since when did my Huang family have a spiritual sword fragment? It's that kid's extraordinary luck, finding it in the secret plane, alright?!-

Of course, he would never admit that aloud. He was also shocked by the range and might of Zhang Che's spiritual sword fragment. He was guessing to himself that it was probably caused by Zhang Che's abnormal rise in mental strength after reverse-killing the demonic flower when he was almost taken over.

As everyone knew, people had to be high-tier beastmasters to better wield a spiritual sword fragment at the very least, since their mental strength would be far greater than ordinary beastmasters.

Meanwhile, Zhang Che had come across a series of fortuitous encounters and gained such great mental strength. Naturally this wouldn't be too strange for him.On the icy plains…

Following Zhang Che clearing a path through the exotic beast horde, the other twenty-two squads also bored their way through, one after another.

However, compared to how Zhang Che's squad was in a leisurely, relaxed state, the other squads were doing much worse. Although they didn't have any casualties, they had more or less lost a few subdued beasts, and some of their beastmasters were injured.

Seeing the state the other squads were in, the squad members under Zhang Che had a clearer comparison of his strength.

With that, they had simply started worshipping Zhang Che in their hearts, especially the women in the squad. Their gazes toward Zhang Che were simply filled with twinkling little stars.

After forcing a way through the exotic beast horde, they could see the closely packed demonic creatures a few hundred meters ahead.

Those demonic creatures came in all shapes and sizes. The only similarity among them was they were all black.

Zhang Che took a look at them, and all he saw was a spread of darkness, like a black forest laying before him.

Of course, it didn't mean that there weren't any other colors on them, only that they were predominantly black, making a strong visual impact.

"Attention to all squads, attention to all squads. Work together with the main force to eliminate the remaining exotic beasts. You're not to launch an attack forward on your own!" the commanding officer's voice came through the wireless earpiece swiftly.

Zhang Che and the others immediately looked back. They saw the main force had pushed their way in, and had punched the closely packed exotic beast horde full of holes, like a sieve.

After losing the powerful exotic beasts which the twenty-three squads slew, the battle had fallen into a deadlock.

"Go, we'll kill our way back!" Zhang Che shouted. Riding on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, Zhang Che led his powerful babies and quickly slaughtered his way backwards.

The fifteen squad members cried out in acknowledgment, following behind him.

They couldn't not follow him! If they fell behind and encountered a few powerful exotic beasts, although they might not die, they would possibly lose some of their subdued beasts! It wasn't worth it!

The twenty-three squads quickly turned back and pounced on the stronger exotic beasts they could find, immediately alleviating the pressure on the main force to a large degree.

Gradually, the exotic beast started fleeing erratically.

Humanity wasn't the exotic beasts' arch-enemies, after all. They wouldn't sacrifice themselves mindlessly after finding themselves overpowered. Naturally they would scatter and run for their lives.

Facing the defeated exotic beasts, the higher-ups issued another command. "Let them go!"

After close to an hour of battle, casualties had appeared among the main force. Naturally it wasn't necessary to risk sacrificing more of their men in pursuit of those escaping exotic beasts.

Even a rabbit would bite when cornered, not to mention a desperate exotic beast!Another half an hour passed. There were no longer any exotic beasts left standing on the battleground. All kinds of exotic beast corpses lay on the bloodied ground, a thick smell of blood rushing up to the skies.

Luckily, every beastmaster here were veterans of the beast worlds. They didn't show any signs of discomfort at this.

Moreover, they were all wearing beast card armors. Their bodies didn't come in direct contact with the flesh and blood of the exotic beasts. Naturally they didn't feel uncomfortable.

The suffocating smell of blood gradually spread to the surroundings, stirring up the demonic army opposite them.

So many exotic beast corpses were spread out on the ground, one could imagine how attractive they were to the demons.

As the demonic army grew restless, the beastmaster teams quickly reorganized themselves.

The twenty-three squads received further orders. They were pretty much the same as before: find and kill the stronger members of the demonic army, and ensure the main force's formation wouldn't be broken.

However, this time they weren't allowed to advance prematurely, and could only be at the front of the main army.

After all, this was the first time the beastmasters were facing off against demonic creatures. They had no understanding of their opponents' strengths and characteristics in battle at all. If Zhang Che and the others advanced too deeply and something happened to them, the losses would be too huge.

Zhang Che saw the demonic army a few hundred meters ahead standing in battle formation. His brow creased, and he turned behind and instructed his squad members, "Everyone be careful later on. Demonic creatures are unlike exotic beasts. They know about staying in formations and cooperation. I presume it won't be too easy of a fight."

"Understood, captain!" the squad replied in unison. Seeing the dark spread of demonic army ahead, they too were feeling nervous.

-Hmm, for safety's sake, I have to stay close to the captain later!-

A gust of southeasterly wind blew the thick smell of blood towards the demonic army's camp. The spread of darkness immediately went into motion, swarming towards the beastmaster army.

"Everyone prepare yourselves!" Zhang Che's eyes narrowed. This time, he didn't dare to get careless. He summoned all of his legend-quality subdued beasts and pets. Even the Unicorn, who was lacking in attack strength, was summoned to take care of any injuries that might appear among his squad members and the nearby beastmasters.

Facing these unknown enemies, he couldn't be too careful!

As the demonic army drew closer and closer, everyone's breathing quickened. A variety of subdued beasts formed a few lines of defense, resisting the demonic army ahead.

Other than the footsteps and furious roars of the demonic army, not a sound was produced on the side of the beastmaster army. Even the summoned beasts were silent, bracing themselves for the clash.

Finally, a row of demonic creatures with black wings and savage heads suddenly flew up from the black tide ahead, rushing straight at the beastmaster army at the front.

In front were naturally the twenty-three spearhead teams.

"Everyone, guard our flanks. I'll take care of the front!" Zhang Che shouted. His babies were lined up neatly in formation, sealing the advance path. The Earthen Rock Demon stood right in the middle, like a mountain of stone.

The black-winged demonic creatures were extremely fast, crossing a hundred meters in the blink of an eye. They were within five hundred meters of the beastmaster army very quickly.

"Feel out their strength!" Zhang Che gave the Earthen Rock Demon an order to launch a probing attack. In the next moment, a gigantic rock spear suddenly appeared in its huge hand. With a swing of its arm, it hurled the spear forward.

A loud sonic boom rang out, heard by everyone within a thousand meters. The rock spear instantly streaked a few hundred meters, directly punching through a black-winged demonic creature's body. Without losing any momentum, it kept going and skewered three more of the black-winged creatures.

Seeing the Earthen Rock Demon's attack achieving merit, a wave of cheers immediately rang out from the beastmaster army behind.

Its attack had drawn the first blood in this battle!

Afterwards, the twenty-three spearhead teams' powerful subdued beasts all made their moves, one after another. All kinds of elemental attacks shot forth, covering the heavens and earth.

The crowd watched as the black-winged creatures fell from the sky, one after another, like dumplings thrown into a pot of soup.

However, the black-winged creatures were too numerous. Many of them passed through the net of elemental attacks, continuing their charge towards the beastmaster army. A hundred meters away, they suddenly spun around in mid-air, and sharp bone spikes shot out from their backs, like a heavy volley of arrows raining down.

The volley of bone spikes were extremely fast. They actually broke through the speed of sound and produced a sharp reports, shrouding the line of subdued beasts in front.

At this moment, Zhang Che didn't have the mind to care whether his babies could withstand those bone spike attacks. He stood dumbstruck on the spot…

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After the Earthen Rock Demon's rock spear punched through a few of the black-winged demonic creatures' bodies, Zhang Che actually sensed a few waves of familiar energy quickly flying back to him from the front. Afterwards, the energies entered his spiritual sea and blended into the golden vortex.

Although those energies were very faint, much weaker than what he obtained from killing the strange creatures back in the secret plane, Zhang Che felt their existence regardless.

-What's happening? Could the secret plane be related to the demonic world?- Zhang Che thoughts immediately wandered in that direction as he felt himself absorbing the energy.

Although those strange creatures he encountered in the secret plane seemed very different from the demonic creatures, Zhang Che couldn't deny that the latter provided him with the same energy after his babies killed them.

-Don't think so much. It's a great thing as long as I can strengthen the golden vortex!- Zhang Che blinked a few times and stopped thinking about it.

At this moment, the black-winged demonic creatures ahead that had passed through the net of elemental attacks had shot a huge volley of bone spikes, raining down on the summoned beasts in front. Some of the bone spikes with a further reach had even caught Zhang Che within their attack range.

"Captain, watch out!"

Seeing Zhang Che acting absent-minded during battle and seemingly forgetting to block those bone spike attacks, Li Xin quickly cried out loudly from behind him.

"I'm alright, you watch out!" Zhang Che replied quickly. The Earthen Rock Demon suddenly took a step in his direction. The Gravity Field quickly enveloped the area, making the bone spikes losing their momentum and fall to the snowy ground.

-My babies, slaughter them! The more the better!-

Since those demonic creatures brought such benefits to Zhang Che, naturally he no longer hesitated. He immediately gave the order to his babies to massacre them all.

All of a sudden, with the exception of the Unicorn staying by Zhang Che's side, his army of legend-quality subdued beasts and pets pushed forward one after another, each releasing their own elemental attacks, shrouding a large spread of black-winged demonic creatures ahead.

Those black-winged demonic creatures were only as strong as four-star gold-quality exotic beasts. How could they possibly withstand a bunch of attacks from mid-tier legend-quality beasts? A whole spread of them died right away, falling from the sky.

At the same time, at the front of the army of summoned beasts, a row of powerful subdued beasts initiated attacks one after another, killing those black-winged demonic creatures to the point that there was no semblance of an army. In the end, only a few of them managed to retreat back into the ranks of the main demonic army.

Seeing those demonic creatures' corpses on the ground, Zhang Che felt his heart aching. -Why can't I get that mysterious energy if they weren't killed by my babies?

-If they were all my kills, even if each of them gave very little energy, it should be enough to strengthen the golden vortex by a little, right?-

If he didn't have to be responsible for defense in this area, Zhang Che really wanted to charge right into the demonic army and massacre them.

"Hmm? Something doesn't feel quite right?" Zhang Che felt something amiss amid his grief.

-Right, in that wave of attacks, countless demonic creatures were killed. Why didn't the other beastmasters show any reaction?

-Is it because the demonic creatures have too little energy in them, and thus went unnoticed after their spiritual sea had absorbed it?

-Impossible! Anything that touches upon the spiritual sea, no matter how miniscule, can't possibly go unnoticed. A beastmaster's spiritual sense is incomparable to ordinary people; they will immediately notice any slight changes.

-In other words, I'm the only one that can absorb the strange energy in those demonic creatures!-

Zhang Che quickly realized the key to the matter. Everything was probably caused by the golden vortex in his spiritual sea!

Since those demonic creatures had too little of that strange energy in their bodies, only he, who had the golden vortex, could absorb them, while the other beastmasters couldn't even sense the energy, and were thus unable to absorb it.

"Looks like coming here is the right choice. Mhm, I have to remain here longer, and hopefully reach a stage where the golden vortex achieves a qualitative power up. If the range of my control over the swords reaches over five hundred meters, I will no longer have to get beaten up when I encounter epic-quality exotic beasts!"

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly, feeling an indescribable sense of excitement.Having repelled the first wave of the demonic army, they had basically probed the strengths of those creatures. The higher-ups soon issued the next command.

All-out attack!

At the same time, a wave of concentrated buzzing was heard above them. The squadrons of fighter jets were in formation once more, flying towards the demonic army ahead. Missile after missile whizzed through the air, falling into the demonic army, giving rise to countless balls of flames.

After all, the higher-ups were worried that an orderly demonic army would be too much for the beastmaster teams to handle. Bombarding them with a wave of missiles would not only wreck their formation, it would also deal them a huge blow.

"Follow me closely!"

After receiving the order to attack, a glint of excitement shone in Zhang Che's eyes. He turned to his squad members with the order, then immediately mounted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, directing his babies to charge forward.

Of course, he didn't dare to rush too far forward. He maintained a safe distance with the other teams at the sides, to facilitate better support in case there were any changes.

The Earthen Rock Demon was indeed worthy of being an epic-quality subdued beast. Although it wasn't very fast, its attack method was terrifying. As it ran, rock spear after rock spear kept appearing in its hand, and it was tossing them nearly every second.

With every rock spear it threw, a gap opened in the demonic army ahead.

Even though the creatures gathered at the front of the demonic army were lizard-like creatures with thick, tough scales, they were unable to block the rock spear attacks at all. Every attack would punch a big hole through them, flesh and blood splattering in all directions.

Feeling the strands of strange energy flowing into the golden vortex again, Zhang Che's eyes narrowed in excitement.

All of a sudden, the Earthen Rock Demon became the focus of the battle, drawing the gazes of both sides.

The twenty-two other teams at his sides were all highly competent mid-tier beastmasters. Their gazes were burning at the sight of what it could do.

Having an epic-quality subdued beast was an entirely different realm, indeed! That attack power was simply ridiculous!

Some of the more well-informed ones couldn't help but guess inside, -Didn't that kid have three epic-quality subdued beasts? Why hasn't he summoned them all by now? Does he think that he can handle every situation with just this one epic-quality subdued beast?-

As a matter of fact, the Earthen Rock Demon could really handle the situation right now.

When it charged right into the middle of the demonic army, it simply disregarded the demonic creatures' attacks by relying on its stone body's tough defense. It raised its feet, stomping down on them in a frenzy.

This was truly trampling on them in every sense!

Due to the heavily concentrated demonic creatures, every stomp of the Earthen Rock Demon would catch a few unlucky ones.

That scene was just like human stepping on insects. Every step would crush their bodies, flesh and blood splattered. Seeing it gave off a strange sense of beauty.

The commanders of the demonic army at the back noticed the situation here. A group of huge demonic beasts comparable to tyrannosauruses in size suddenly rushed out from the back of the army, directly surrounding the Earthen Rock Demon.

The Earthen Rock Demon wasn't afraid of them. It let out a silent roar, activating its other skill. Countless holes suddenly opened up in the icy ground that was stomped out of shape, and sharp rock spikes shot up from the ground.

The demonic creatures nearby weren't able to dodge in time. A large swathe of them were immediately impaled, providing a huge amount of strange energy to Zhang Che. He was so happy that his eyes turned into slits.

However, the Earthen Rock Demon's wide-area attack didn't yield much result against those dinosaur-sized demonic creatures.

A wave of clanking noises similar to metal clashing rang out when the rock spikes struck the abdomen of those demonic creatures, producing countless sparks.

Zhang Che was suddenly dumbstruck. "Oh shit, those demonic creatures' defense is so high!"

Although wide-area skills were much weaker than single target skills, it was the skill of an epic-quality subdued beast, after all. Even mid-tier legend-quality exotic beasts wouldn't get out of this unscathed after being hit by that!

Without a doubt, those savage creatures' defensive strength was comparable to an epic-quality exotic beast!.

This wouldn't do. If the Earthen Rock Demon was pinned down here, it would become much more difficult for Zhang Che's other babies to win against those terrifying demonic creatures.

A cold glint shone in Zhang Che's eyes. He immediately directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly forward, shocking his squad members, their eyes widened in surprise. They could only follow Zhang Che's lead and charge forward.

-Captain, you're too reckless! What use is there for you to rush forward when even your epic-quality subdued beast has difficulty killing those demonic creatures?- was what every squad member was thinking. Fortunately, they were intimidated by Zhang Che's strength and none of them dared to say it aloud.

Of course, part of the reason was because they trusted Zhang Che so much that it had reached the degree of blind faith. Since the captain dared to rush forward, he must have some kind of plan, right?

Well, Zhang Che's plan was very simple.

When the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew to the Earthen Rock Demon's side, a scarlet light suddenly shot out from Zhang Che's brow, streaking into one of those demonic creature's mouths like a bolt of lightning.

That demonic creature roared out. It suddenly spat out a huge mass of flesh and blood, its body started wavering, and it collapsed to the ground.

Zhang Che revealed a hint of a smile at the corner of his mouth. As expected, those big guys' agility was a little lacking. He could easily control the scarlet sword to enter their bodies through their weak points, then stir their insides into a mess and therefore easily kill them.

As that demonic beast fell, the scarlet sword immediately flew out of its bloody mouth and streaked towards another demonic beast like lightning.

As the demonic beast's life was extinguished, the rainbow crystal in Zhang Che's spiritual sea suddenly produced a strong vacuum. A mysterious conduit was established, directly absorbing a mass of pure energy from the demonic beast's corpse.

Zhang Che was immediately both shocked and pleased. He didn't expect to receive two surprises today!

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Chapter 392: The Demonic Army Running in Defeat

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"Woah, it can even be used like that!" The squad members behind gaped when they saw the scarlet sword entering the demonic beast through its mouth, wreaking mayhem on it from inside, and killing it.

Everyone obviously knew that the insides of those demonic beasts' bodies were their weakness. However, to actually attack the inside of their bodies wasn't something so easily done, and yet Zhang Che did it!

"Be careful of our flanks!"

While they were distracted, a large group of demonic creatures quickly surrounded them from the sides.

One of the squad members reacted to this and cried out loud. It was only then they snapped out of their admiration and worship of Zhang Che and guarded his flanks, not allowing those demonic creatures to harass him.

At present, Zhang Che had fallen into shock once more.

Earlier, when he first slew those demonic creatures, just the fact that the golden vortex absorbed a little bit of the mysterious energy had surprised him. He didn't expect the rainbow crystal to gain something, too.

Earning double the experience was too much of a surprise!

He felt it carefully, and discovered that mass of pure energy wasn't actually absorbed by the rainbow crystal. Instead, it was condensed into a tiny dot of light, hovering right under the rainbow crystal.

Zhang Che found it strange. -What does that mean? Could it be that the energy from that demonic beast has some special use?-

Alas, Zhang Che didn't have the time to study this properly now that he was fighting on the battlefield.

After killing one of the big demonic beasts, the rest of them were quickly surrounding him.

Zhang Che didn't retreat. His babies weren't there for decorative purposes.

The Earthen Rock Demon was the first to react. Its leg was as thick as a pillar, and it suddenly rose and kicked fiercely at a demonic beast. It cried out miserably as it directly flew backwards, falling on a bunch of ordinary demonic creatures.

The Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus swung its thick tail, and a demonic beast was swept to the ground. Afterwards, the Steel-Armored Tyrannosaurus bit down at its neck and tore at it violently. Half of the flesh on its neck was torn off, and its vertebra broke in two.

The most visually pleasing one was still the Mutated Giant Ape's attacking style.

That fellow transformed into a martial arts grand master, weaving his way between a few demonic beasts. His fists struck out continuously, forcing back those demonic beasts and making them spit reddish-black blood from their mouths.

About a dozen of those demonic beasts were held back together by the most capable babies, leaving them unable to get close to Zhang Che at all.

As for the Scarlet Flame Drake and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, the teamwork between the two of them had reached a high level long ago. Ice and fire attacks spread out, sweeping in an arc, exterminating a huge swathe of the ordinary demonic creatures ahead.

Strand after strand of mysterious energy, as numerous as the hairs on a cow, came flying into Zhang Che's brow, quickly blending into the golden vortex.

Regrettably, the amount of mysterious energy on each demonic creature was far too little. Zhang Che couldn't feel the golden vortex becoming the slightest bit stronger.

-Do I have to freaking kill every demonic creature here before the golden vortex grows a little?- Zhang Che cursed inside as he controlled the scarlet sword, making it fly into the mouth of another demonic beast.

This was like a person who was about to die of thirst only getting a drop of water in their mouth every time they swallowed. It wasn't helping at all!

From the looks of it, it was better to hunt the demonic beasts who were obviously much stronger. When their energy had accumulated to a certain extent, he could try to see how useful it was.

Whoosh! The scarlet sword flew out. Another demonic beast lost its life. Immediately, another mass of pure energy was sucked out by the rainbow crystal. That tiny dot of light instantly doubled in size… and was still an unimpressive dot of light.

This accumulation speed was also incredibly slow…

Zhang Che sighed. He could only continue controlling the scarlet sword to slay the dozen or so wounded demonic beasts ahead.

Finally, the accumulation of energy light below the rainbow crystal grew to more than ten times its original size. Currently, it was as big as a green bean.

As of now, all of the beastmaster teams were fully engaged in battle against the demonic army.

They were the most elite of the mid-tier beastmasters from Bei Du City, after all. Every one of them had at least a four-star gold-quality subdued beast. By forming them into an army, under the command of the military they displayed unimaginable combat strength.

Due to the lack of strong individuals among the demonic army, they fell into a disadvantaged position across the board. They were repeatedly beaten and forced back.

Not only that, there wasn't a single casualty among the thousands of beastmasters. At the most, they only lost a few subdued beasts here and there, not enough to affect their overall strength.

Zhang Che and the rest of the twenty-three spearhead teams had displayed great strength in this battle. Any large demonic beasts with thick hides and tough flesh were held down by them, unable to get to the beastmasters teams behind them.

As the main force pushed their way forward, the pressure on Zhang Che and the rest was also greatly reduced. They didn't have to face the huge demonic army by themselves. They only had to find the stronger ones among the demonic army and slay them!As time slowly passed, there still wasn't any noticeable change to the golden vortex. The energy light gathered below the rainbow crystal, however, had grown to the size of a peanut, shining brightly in his spiritual sea.

Just as the beastmasters thought they would eliminate all of the demonic army smoothly, the commanding officer's cautious warning was suddenly heard in everyone's wireless earpiece.

"Attention all units, the demonic army is about to counterattack! Attention all units, the demonic army is about to counterattack!"

Obviously the demonic army wasn't willing to be defeated just like that. When the cannon fodder-like ordinary demonic creatures had receded like the tide, the stronger creatures at the back quickly charged forward without any regard for their life or death.

The spearhead teams had also received an order telling them to not take any further risks. They were to hold their ground and fend off this wave of the demonic army's counterattack.

In the end, the demonic army's counterattack was futile.

The beastmaster army fought defensively, not advancing prematurely at all. They slowly pushed forward, bit by bit, leaving the demonic army unable to retaliate properly.

The satellites and jets above were observing the situation clearly. Once the demonic army tried to gather their stronger creatures to penetrate into the beastmaster teams, they were immediately bombarded by the squadrons of jets. Missiles rained down from the sky as if they were free, leaving the demons unable to gather their forces.In the end, the demonic army was forced back and squeezed within fifty meter radius around the black door, their casualties heavy.

Meanwhile, the beastmaster army had only lost some subdued beasts. In terms of manpower, they basically lost no one.

What left the demonic army helpless the most was that after they killed the subdued beasts, they directly turned into glowing lights and dissipated, not leaving any useful corpses behind.

In the end, the demonic army could no longer withstand such losses, and started retreating into the black door.

Seeing this, everyone cheered out loud.

Regardless if the demonic army would make a comeback in the future, they were driven out of Mercury for now. The huge crisis they presented was temporarily resolved.

-Damn it, don't run! I haven't earned enough experience!- Zhang Che immediately grew anxious when he saw the demonic army retreating into the black door.

After such a long battle, he could sense that the golden vortex was about to absorb enough of that mysterious energy to bring about a substantial power-up!

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Chapter 393: The Uses of the Demonic Beasts' Energy

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Zhang Che was really very depressed. Seeing the golden vortex on the verge of a qualitative upgrade, and the demonic army actually ran away…

He immediately grew furious. He directed his babies to chase after them in a craze, wanting to kill as many as possible before the demonic army fully retreated.

The best result would be if the golden vortex grew!

There was obviously a hierarchy among the demonic tribe. When retreating in defeat, the stronger ones were the first to withdraw, directly letting the cannon fodder in front stop the beastmaster army's advance.

Even the stronger demonic beasts were higher in status than the ordinary demonic soldiers, following them into the black door.

As a result, despite Zhang Che's babies killing many demonic soldiers, the amount of mysterious energy he got was extremely small. It wasn't enough for the golden vortex to power up.

In the end, Zhang Che went chasing after the demonic creatures personally on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. The scarlet sword flew out, madly harvesting the demonic cannon fodders' lives like a reaper's scythe.

When all of demonic army had entered the black door, the battlefield was covered in the corpses of the various demonic creatures. The smell of their blood was so pungent it would make normal people faint.

This battle was won so easily. Everyone cheered at their victory.

Originally, everyone thought there would be an unending wave of demonic creatures coming out from the black door as reinforcements. Unexpectedly, not only was there no back up, they retreated in defeat without any hesitation instead. It truly surprised them.

However, those who were in the know were able to guess what happened. It was mainly due to the demonic army being unable to obtain any corpses after killing the beastmasters' summoned beasts, leaving them no reason to stay.

With that, the military higher-ups' theory was confirmed.

After the demonic army realized they were unable to send their most powerful creatures over, their main objective was to obtain the corpses of exotic beasts and achieve some kind of goal.

Given that the exotic beasts nearby were either killed or driven away by the humans, and the demonic army had to suffer bombardments from the sky in addition to facing off against the powerful beastmaster teams, naturally they'd choose to retreat after measuring the pros and cons."What a pity, just that little bit more!"

While everyone around him was cheering for their victory, Zhang Che was the only one who couldn't bring himself to smile.

If he could have killed a tiny portion more of the demonic army's cannon fodder, Zhang Che was sure the golden vortex would complete its accumulation of energy and power up.

Alas, he was just that tiny bit away from reaching that point.

Li Xin, who had been paying attention to Zhang Che, saw the bitter smile on his face. She walked up to him and asked curiously, "Captain, are you not happy with the demonic army retreating?"

-Unhappy? Of course I'm unhappy! It would be strange if I was happy!-

Of course, Zhang Che couldn't say that aloud. He nodded with a grave expression, replying, "Ai, we killed too few demonic creatures. If I were stronger, I'd be able to kill more of them. That way, I could have weakened the demonic army further. How regrettable…"

Li Xin's eyes were immediately filled with little stars. -Captain is like the role model of humanity. He killed so many demonic creatures, and yet he still blames himself for not killing more of them! If everyone had the same mentality and resolve as him, humanity wouldn't be in much danger even if the demonic creatures dared to invade us again!-

How could she possibly know that Zhang Che didn't care about the safety of humanity? As long as he could become strong enough to protect his friends and family, it was enough for him!

Later, when the troops started clearing the battlefield, Zhang Che was still brooding over the matter. He couldn't help but think that if he didn't have to stay here to guard the black door, could he go to where the other demonic armies had yet to retreat and farm more of them?

After all, the scarlet sword was the strongest attack Zhang Che could personally use, second only to the Earthen Rock Demon.

If the golden vortex could grow stronger once more… even if it only doubled the scarlet sword's range, it would be able to attack within a three hundred meter radius!

Since the demonic army had retreated, they only had to clean up the battlefield, stay guard here and wait for the military to send people to take over.

Although the black door was indestructible, just like the spatial gateways, the military could set up layers of defense, building powerful defensive structures.

As long as there weren't any powerful creatures as strong as epic-quality exotic beasts in the demonic army's next invasion, they would be unable to break out of the black door.After the battle ended, the beastmaster army took turns to reorganize themselves.

Zhang Che and the others from the spearhead teams were also given time to rest. They found a clean area on the icy plains and set up camp, everyone taking out rations and starting on a simple dinner.

At the same time, all the military zones in northern Hua Xia that were close to the icy plains were mobilized urgently. Squadrons of transportation planes came flying to the icy plains carrying large amount of supplies, ready to start building defensive structures.

After delivering the supplies, the transportation planes were also given the important task of ferrying the demonic creatures' corpses back.

Although it was still unknown what uses there were for the demonic creatures' corpses, after conducting research, their value would be determined.

The only regrettable thing was that the demonic creatures were all unafraid of death. As a result, there were extremely few of them captured alive, totalling less than four digits of them.

It went without saying that the research institutes all over Hua Xia would fight for the rights to obtain some of this batch of demonic creatures.Night came. Zhang Che lay in his tent, counting his gains for today.

First was the golden vortex. Nothing more needed to be said about that. Although Zhang Che could feel that the mysterious energy it absorbed had reached a critical point, it was still slightly lacking in the end. So, there was no qualitative changes to it. The range of his control over the scarlet sword remained around a hundred and fifty meters.

Next was the large amount of energy the rainbow crystal had absorbed from the demonic beasts that Zhang Che and his babies slew. They had formed an egg-sized mass of light underneath the rainbow crystal.

Before this, Zhang Che hadn't had the time to study what uses this mass of energy had. Now that he was finally resting, he could no longer endure it. He immediately started studying it carefully.

It was obvious this energy wasn't something the rainbow crystal needed. Otherwise, it wouldn't have gathered the energy and put it aside.

-Could it be that the rainbow crystal prepared this energy for me, to upgrade my physique?- Zhang Che first thought of this possibility.

In the end, after some attempts, the blob of energy showed no reaction at all.

-Strange. Is it prepared for the babies, then?- Zhang Che then thought, feeling pleased.

If that was true, didn't it mean that he could shorten the time needed for his pets and subdued beasts to grow stronger?

Ranking up from gold-quality to dark gold-quality already required ninety days of time. There wouldn't be any further upgrades in the near future.

If he could shorten this time, wouldn't that mean that Zhang Che would experience a huge increase in strength soon?

Thinking of that, he immediately started trying to guide the energy to the masses of light representing his pets below.

"It moved! Is it really possible?" Zhang Che grew very excited. Under the direction of his will, the mass of energy had really started moving!

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Chapter 394: Hope for the Rapid Growth of the Super Divine Pet

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"It's really moving!" Seeing the mass of energy under the rainbow crystal moving to his will, Zhang Che was ecstatic.

From the looks of it, his theory might prove to be true!

The energy absorbed by the rainbow crystal could really be used on his pets and subdued beasts, giving them the possibility of growing quickly!

However, should he have a pet or a subdued beast grow quickly?

Zhang Che's head started aching.

How should he choose? This was a very troublesome question!

Of course, there was no need to consider anyone below legend-quality. Even if the energy would allow them to rank up instantly, the overall increase in their strength wouldn't contribute much.

However, if he was to choose a pet or subdued beast at legend-quality or higher, Zhang Che felt that this amount of energy might not be enough to let them rank up.

What should he do?

Zhang Che really wanted to grab a handful of snow and mold it into a die, then assign his legend-quality babies numbers and just apply the energy on whichever number the die landed on.

In the end, he didn't do that. His gaze suddenly swept across and settled on the Umbra Wind God Leopard, who had been kept in his spiritual sea all this time.

Since it wasn't worth raising anything weak, yet the stronger ones might not advance, why not dump the energy into the Umbra Wind God Leopard?

As things would have it, the little fellow hadn't even risen from silver to gold-quality after such a long time, for some unknown reason. Its level had remained unchanged, too. It made Zhang Che feel like he didn't have this pet to begin with.

Done thinking, Zhang Che immediately guided that mass of demonic creatures' life energy to the Umbra Wind God Leopard.

The moment they drew closer to one another, the mass of light representing the Umbra Wind God Leopard immediately produced an incredibly strong suction, sucking in and absorbing the demonic creatures' life energy.

"It's done! Let's see how much of a power up this fellow gets after digesting the energy!" Zhang Che pumped his fist to himself, feeling incredibly happy.

Putting his other pets and subdued beasts aside, as long as the Umbra Wind God Leopard could fully mature, Zhang Che didn't have to be afraid of anything.

It would be a nine-star super divine-quality pet! Let alone the present, even ten or twenty years into the future, there shouldn't be any beastmaster on Mercury with such a subdued beast!

Not only that, Zhang Che thought that even if the powerful individuals of the demonic forces were to cross the black door and invade Mercury, he would have the strength to deal with them. He didn't have to worry about not being able to protect his close ones if Mercury fell…

The Umbra Wind God Leopard was indeed worthy of being a strong beast capable of growing into nine-star super divine-quality in the future. After only ten minutes, the mass of the demonic creatures' life energy was fully digested.

Zhang Che cheered inside. He immediately checked on the leopard's current attributes.[Umbra Wind God Leopard] [Newborn]

Level: Two Star (Level 12) [Able to Reach Nine Stars When Fully Grown]

Quality: Gold [Able to Reach Super Divine When Fully Grown]

Characteristics: Darkness and Wind Dual-Attributed Beast. Has Perfect Control of Dark and Wind Energies When Matured

Weakness: Restrained by Light Attributed Beasts of Equal Level and Quality

Innate Attribute: Dark and Wind Elemental Mastery. Able to Borrow the Powers of Both Elements to Take Flight, Attack, Defend, and Conceal Itself. [Is Too Weak Currently, Unable to Display the Full Extent of the Effects.]

Skill: Unawakened

Domain: Unawakened"Not bad. It grew, as expected!" After a quick glance, Zhang Che was so happy his eyes couldn't be seen.

After devouring that mass of demonic creatures' life energy, the Umbra Wind God Leopard had risen from one-star to two-star, and his quality had also risen from silver to gold-quality.

However, why were his Innate Attributes unable to be used to their full extent, even though he was already at gold-quality?

Not only that, his skill was unawakened, too! What was going on? Zhang Che was thoroughly confused. Could it be because this little thing was still in his infancy?

Then, how big did the Umbra Wind God Leopard had to grow to before he was past his infancy stage?

Zhang Che had no idea. However, he now had a direction to work towards!

Today, he and his babies killed less than fifty of those demonic beasts in total, and the energy he had harvested was sufficient to let the Umbra Wind God Leopard advance a tier in both level and quality. If he could keep hunting those demonic beasts, he didn't dare to make a guess on what his pet's growth would be in the end, but at the very least, it shouldn't be a problem to get through his infancy stage, right?

Also, after this experience, Zhang Che realized something.

Perhaps the rainbow crystal's energy wasn't able to benefit newborn beasts! For them to grow up, it could only be through consuming the flesh and blood of exotic beasts with similar attributes.

Or, letting the rainbow crystal absorb the life energy of demonic creatures and let them take it as "supplements".

If he wanted to advance through the first method, the amount of time and effort needed would be massive. It would be impossible without taking a long time.

-In that case, I need to make a trip to the other places where the demons are invading from!- Zhang Che decided to himself. When the situation here was fully stabilized, and not so many teams were required to guard against the demonic army's counterattack, he'd immediately request of his future father-in-law to go to the other invading points of the demonic forces.

There were a total of a hundred and eight invasion points across the globe. It was impossible for every location to have that many beastmasters there driving the demonic army away. Most places would be relying on the nearby exotic beasts to fend them off.

It shouldn't be hard for him to find such a place…At night, in Bei Du…

Huang Tielan wasn't self-studying in school. The teachers had allowed her, as an outstanding student, to not be required to attend revision sessions in school. After Professor Sun Qilong learned that her family had a relevant lab, he supported her choice even more.

Every beast card cultivator slowly grew up through countless experiments in the lab. Without going through all the experiments, it was useless even if you had all the ingredients and had memorized the appropriate recipe.

There were just too many types of beast cards in the world, but there were far too few beast card cultivation recipes fully developed. Other than being useful for reference purposes, they weren't of any substantial help.

Ever since she learned about the demonic invasion, Huang Tielan worked even harder. In the past, during the nights she would be in her room reading up on relevant information to brush up on her theoretical knowledge.

However, now that she felt that atmosphere that said time waited for nobody, and she wanted to become an official beast card cultivator even sooner.

As such, she returned to the lab in their villa. She placed a wide range of ingredients on the experimental table in an orderly manner and started trying to concoct cultivation fluid.

This day, she had finally succeeded in deducing the concoction recipe for a low-tier low-quality beast card, making her ecstatic to no end. After school, she immediately rushed out and went to buy all kinds of required ingredients and started concocting it for real.

"If Zhang Xiaoche knew that I have successfully derived a recipe, would he be especially surprised? Too bad… he should be at the northern ice plains right now, battling the demonic army. I'd better not disturb him."

It didn't matter, however. Miss Tienan was thinking that if she told this news to Zhang Che after she successfully concocted the cultivation fluid and ranked up the low-tier low-quality card in her hand, he'd be even more surprised!

Hiding her excitement, Huang Tielan started working on processing the necessary ingredients that needed extracting, then started the actual concocting…An hour later, Huang Tielan looked at the clear, faint pink cultivation fluid in front of her, and pumped her fist in the air!

Concoction of the cultivation fluid was a success! There shouldn't be any accidents for the remainder of the process!Another half an hour later, she took the beast card out from the cultivation fluid, which had now become a clear, transparent liquid, and saw that the originally one-star beast card had become two-starred!

Despite knowing that her success was pretty much guaranteed, when the beast card finally ranked up in star tier, Huang Tielan couldn't resist cheering softly, "I did it, haha, I finally did it!"

This signified that she had officially become a primary beast card cultivator. Although she was only a newbie that had just crossed the entry barrier. However, she was still a beast card cultivator, wasn't she?

Although this achievement seemed insignificant at first glance, Huang Tielan's classmates had barely touched the corners of deriving concoction recipes!

"Hmm, it's already this late. Zhang Xiaoche should be done with battling and is resting now, right?" How could she be the only one celebrating such a joyous matter?In the end, Huang Tielan finally couldn't hold it in and phoned Zhang Che.

At present, Zhang Che had just entered dreamland, and was woken up by the vibration of his personal terminal.

"It's so late; who is it that has nothing better to do than interrupting someone else's sleep?" Zhang Che grumbled in frustration. He forcibly opened his eyes and opened up his personal terminal.

-It's so late now. Perhaps someone is looking for me regarding some important matter?- He brought his left wrist closer, and realized it was actually a call from Miss Tienan.

"Zhang Xiaoche, I have become an official beast card cultivator!

"How is it? Are you surprised? Amazed, even?!"

Zhang Che was speechless. "Haha, congratulations! But, it's already this late. You'd better go to bed early… hello?"

Miss Tienan hung up, huffing in anger. She grumbled, "That guy, he must have been woken up by me. He's not showing any sincerity, not one bit!"When he woke up the next morning, there weren't any strange movements from the black door where the demons were invading from.

After their utter defeat yesterday, and not gaining anything from it, they probably wouldn't send anyone over in the near future.

In any case, humanity on Mercury couldn't do a thing to the black door. The demonic army would surely make their comeback when they found a way to transfer their most powerful warriors over.

Now that it was peaceful here, naturally Zhang Che didn't want to remain here any longer. He immediately called Huang Juyun and made his request known.

"What? You wish to continue battling at other invasion points?" Huang Juyun jumped up in shock when he heard Zhang Che's request.

However, he reacted to the request right away. This brat must have obtained some benefits during his battle with the demonic army, and so was taking the initiative to ask to go to the other invasion points to gain more benefits!

"Alright, if you want to go, go. I'll arrange it. You've really offended the Zhen family, anyway. Although they wouldn't dare do anything to you in the open, you have to guard against whatever tricks they might pull in the dark. With you going to the demonic army battlefields, they won't dare take any actions, and you can even build up your reputation there.

"With that, even if the Zhen family wanted to take any actions in the dark in the future, they would have to think twice."

-Hmm? So there's this benefit, too?- Zhang Che realized after hearing Huang Juyun say that.

Indeed, if he kept hunting the demonic creatures, he truly would accumulate a reputation for himself among the beastmasters. Although that might not be enough to make the Zhen family give up on him, at the very least, they would be more apprehensive!

"Thank you so much then, Uncle Huang!" Zhang Che hurriedly thanked his father-in-law. He could see hopes of the golden vortex experiencing a qualitative change, and the Umbra Wind God Leopard quickly maturing!

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Chapter 395: Ideal Warrior. A Heavenly Demon's Sacrifice

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Zhang Che realized his father-in-law was very supportive. Not long after ending their call, an officer came looking for him and brought him onto a transportation plane loaded with demon corpses, that was returning to Bei Du.

Bidding farewell to his squadmates, Li Xin and the others had unwilling looks on their faces.

They had originally thought that they could continue working together under this captain. In the end, he was returning to Bei Du so soon, while they had to continue guarding here for a period of time, until the military was done building the defenses up.

Li Xin mustered her courage and asked Zhang Che for his contact. Afterwards, the other squad members also asked for his personal terminal number, promising to get together in Bei Du in the future when they had the time.

After all, they were squadmates who fought by one another's side. This friendship was much deeper than acquaintances you knew for decades.When Zhang Che returned to Bei Du's military district, Huang Juyun was waiting for him outside the airbase.

"Among the invasion points closest to Hua Xia, there's one each in the northwest and southwest. Both of them are on Hua Xia soil. However, the battle for the one in northwest started yesterday. It should be nearing the end now.

"At the one in the southwest, on the other hand, the nearby exotic beasts were too strong. As a result, we have yet to take any actions. We'll see how it goes after some time.

"If you want to continue hunting demons, I suggest you go to the Bao Island in the east. There's an invasion point in the middle of the archipelago nearby. At present, our army has already arranged for large amounts of manpower to prepare to clear the area. You can still make it if you go now."

After Huang Juyun analyzed the invasion points within Hua Xia for Zhang Che, he continued, "Of course, there are many more locations across the globe, but due to the complications of the factions around, some time is needed to organize a strong beastmaster army. You can go to those places as well when the time comes, but you'll have to be careful of your own safety."

Huang Juyun had basically guessed that Zhang Che must have obtained some unknown benefits when killing demonic creatures. Otherwise, why would he be so concerned about this? Since it was the case, he was happy to help Zhang Che by getting all this information.

When Zhang Che heard all that, he felt overjoyed. -Doesn't this mean that I'll have many opportunities to hunt the demonic creatures? With this, the golden vortex will surely absorb enough of that mysterious energy and undergo a qualitative change. My range of control over the scarlet sword will become wider, and faster!-

As for whether the Umbra Wind God Leopard would get sufficient life energy from the demonic creatures and grow past infancy to a stronger stage, Zhang Che wasn't confident of it. He could only see how it went.

However, there were so many invasion points across the globe! As long as he worked hard and tried to kill as many of the stronger demonic beasts as possible, it shouldn't be a problem to get the Umbra Wind God Leopard to mid-tier epic-quality. Perhaps he could go even higher?

"Thank you, Uncle Huang! I'll go to the Bao Island first, then! We'll talk about the others after that. Oh, right, Uncle Huang, can I participate as an individual? After all, I want to hunt as many demonic creatures as possible. If I have a squad with me, it'll restrict me somewhat."

"Alright, I'll talk to the commander in charge of the operation at Bao Island. It won't be a problem as long as you don't affect their encirclement plans," Huang Juyun replied with a nod.

He was even more sure that this kid must have obtained huge benefits after killing the demonic creatures. Why would he be so passionate about this otherwise?

However, it was even better this way. As long as Zhang Che quickly grew stronger, his family's status would also solidify. Perhaps they might even rise up to the next level as a result!

Rushing for time, Zhang Che went all in, too. Through the Huang family's connections, he spent five thousand purple crystal points and reserved a sky shuttle at Bei Du airport for himself to fly straight to the archipelago near Bao Island.

Given Zhang Che's wealth of over three hundred million purple crystal points, spending a few thousand couldn't even be considered a drop in the bucket at this time. Compared to the huge benefits he would soon receive, Zhang Che wouldn't flinch if he had to spend tens of thousands of purple crystal points!About noon, the flight Zhang Che had reserved arrived at the skies above his destination.

When Zhang Che directly jumped out of the flight cabin from ten thousand meters in the air and descended atop the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, the battle on the archipelago was already in an intense state.

The area was surrounded by the sea. The land and aerial exotic beasts weren't very strong, while the terrifyingly powerful water exotic beasts couldn't leave the water for too long. So, the beastmaster army organized by the military cleaned up the exotic beasts in this area very easily, and engaged in battle with the demonic army.

Seeing Zhang Che falling from the sky and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon catching his fall immediately after, the military officer who was informed about it couldn't help but draw his lips back into a smile.

-What a model warrior this fellow is! He had just participated in the battle in the north, and he immediately came to the east on a sky shuttle! From the looks of it, it was a reserved flight? What a guy!-

Although it wasn't too much for anyone present to reserve a sky shuttle for themselves, a few thousand purple crystal points was not a small sum, either!

A three-star gold-quality beast card was only worth a thousand purple crystal points at the most!

Naturally Zhang Che didn't know that he had already become a figure like Lei Feng in those beastmasters' hearts. While in the sky, he could clearly observe where the higher-level demonic beasts were gathered within the demonic army, and he quickly ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to rush toward them.

In any case, since the demonic army was under some unknown restraint, there weren't any overly powerful individuals present there. Zhang Che really wasn't afraid of encountering any danger.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's quick descent alarmed the demonic army below. A huge group of black-winged demonic creatures immediately rose to the skies, engaging him head on as a pack.

Zhang Che looked at them in disdain. -They're looking down on me too much, aren't they? I'll kill however many of these cannon fodder come my way! I don't even need my subdued beasts and pets, just me alone will suffice!-

If the demonic army below had known what Zhang Che was thinking, surely they'd vomit blood in anger.

-If it wasn't for the restriction set in the spatial tunnels, the powerful warriors in our demonic army would easily smack a bunch of weaklings like you to death with a casual slap!-

When the pack of black-winged demonic soldiers came flying within a hundred and fifty meter radius of Zhang Che, a scarlet light immediately shot out from his brow and swept around him like lightning.

In the next moment, a rain of demonic soldiers fell from the sky.

Seeing the bad situation ahead, the demonic soldiers in the back immediately turned around and fled back to the demonic army. They wouldn't continue sending cannon fodder Zhang Che's way mindlessly.

"It's useless even if you turn back. I'm destined to massacre you lot today!"

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. He was now wearing the six-star legend-quality Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor, and the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon underneath him was bringing out his fastest speed. In just a few breaths' time, they were in the skies above the demonic army below.

With a loud bang, a rainbow light transformed into the Earthen Rock Demon and landed heavily on the ground. A large number of demonic soldiers were caught unprepared and were stomped into meat paste.

"Shit, what's that subdued beast? It's too strong!" The beastmasters surrounding the demonic army couldn't help but jump up in shock when they saw the Earthen Rock Demon appearing all of a sudden.

It was a freaking giant stone man standing a few dozens meters tall, and was epic-quality, to boot! It was as cool as could be!

It was the first time in the lives of the majority of the thousands of beastmasters present that they had seen an epic-quality subdued beast.

After their shock died down, they immediately cheered out loud.

With an ideal warrior like Zhang Che, someone who owned a bunch of powerful subdued beasts joining them, the battle would surely become much easier. At the very least, there would be far fewer injuries or casualties among their subdued beasts. How much money would be saved!?

Obviously, just the Earthen Rock Demon appearing wouldn't properly demonstrate how powerful Zhang Che was.

When the Earthen Rock Demon had properly hammered a nail into the demonic army, Zhang Che then summoned out the rest of his legend-quality subdued beasts and pets. They spread out in a circle and started massacred their way out.

If they didn't strive to kill as many of them as possible now, it would be very bad news for Zhang Che if the demonic army realized the bad situation they were in and retreated!In the demon world, the densely packed demonic soldiers and beasts that dotted the surroundings had started to scatter in all directions.

At the same time, large amounts of defeated soldiers were retreating from a few of the hundred and eight black tunnels in the air.

Those few tunnels were all connected to the areas closest to the strongest regions in Mercury, and had all suffered fierce attacks from the various militaries, leaving them no choice but to withdraw due to heavy casualties.

Not only that, the demonic army had only managed to kill a handful of beastmasters across those few locations. It wouldn't be a stretch to say that humanity's beastmaster army had obtained a complete victory!

After all, even if they lost many subdued beasts, as long as the beastmasters themselves remained largely intact, it would be very easy for them to replenish their fighting force.

The absolute powers of the demonic world had paid a heavy price for the sake of this invasion, and they had even made thorough preparations for it. Who would've thought the results would turn out with such a strong start, but such a weak ending?

On the platform at the top of the enormous mountain, the upper echelon of the demons were all silent, their complexions extremely black.

After who-knew-how-long, a flash of determination suddenly shone in the eyes of one of the strongest demons, one with a phantom-like figure. It said something to the others out loud, and a mass of great power suddenly erupted.

"Kuluokabasa!"

Seeing this great demon's action, the nearby demons' demeanors suddenly changed. Every one of them quickly cried out loud, wanting to stop it.

However, it was already too late.

As that energy erupted, the phantom-like demon's body suddenly exploded and turned into a hundred blurry lights, drifting into each spatial tunnel. The remaining great demons' eyes gaped, feeling very worried inside as they watched the blurry lights fly into every spatial tunnel.

After a short while, the restriction in the spatial tunnel didn't activate, and the hundred blurry lights disappeared from their senses.

"@#%*%!", the great demons roared in excitement when they saw those blurry lights successfully passing through the spatial tunnel. They seemed to have glimpsed a ray of hope!

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Chapter 396: Vortex Upgrade. The Demon's Takeover

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To the northeast of Bao Island…

With Zhang Che joining the battle, he immediately drew the attention of a bunch of demonic creatures.

However, Zhang Che remained unafraid. He was currently even fretting about not killing enough demonic creatures for the golden vortex to undergo an upgrade!

At present, the demonic creatures weren't trying to retreat at all, which was exactly what he wanted.

What was there to be said? He'd just slaughter them all!

Due to the restraint from the spatial tunnel, the pitiful demonic army was unable to send their strong individuals over. They were no match for Zhang Che's powerful babies at all, and could only watch as their elites were slaughtered one by one.

Zhang Che didn't let such a good opportunity slip by, either. He directed the scarlet sword, flying around him in a hundred-meter radius like a bolt of red lightning, striking back and forth.

Everywhere the scarlet sword flew past, the demonic creatures would be slain cleanly one after another. The demons' reddish-black blood spattered everywhere, and countless severed limbs scattered across the ground.

Zhang Che felt so excited that he wanted to cheer out loud when he felt thread after thread of those near-unnoticeable mysterious energy flying into his spiritual sea and being absorbed by the golden vortex.

"Come, come, the more the better!"

The officers of the demonic army had obviously noticed the tough foe that was Zhang Che. They gave an order, and a batch of huge and savage demonic beasts immediately emerged from the army and rushed towards his location.

Even so, the Earthen Rock Demon and the rest of his capable subdued beasts and pets weren't vegetarians.

Seeing those demonic beasts trying to break through their defensive perimeter, they immediately unleashed their godly might, leaving those demonic beasts unable to advance any further.

" Tsk, tsk. These demonic creatures are really friendly. They knew I'm in desperate need of their life energy to raise the Umbra Wind God Leopard, and they immediately sent so many demonic beasts with pure life energy to me. I can't not accept their kind sentiments!"

Despite the stronger demonic beasts being few in number, Zhang Che no longer cared about those cannon fodder-like demonic soldiers. He quickly ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to charge forward, and he directed the scarlet sword to change its targets to those demonic beasts instead, killing them mercilessly.

Those powerful demonic beasts were a rare species. Not many of them were visible within the demonic army. Not only that, once the demonic army realized they were in a bad spot, the troops they would withdraw first included those powerful demonic beasts. It wasn't such an easy matter for Zhang Che to quickly accumulate their life energy.

Now that he had such a good opportunity, naturally he wouldn't let it slip.

As a result, after only a few minutes, the few dozen demonic beasts were wiped out by Zhang Che and his babies. Underneath the rainbow crystal in his spiritual sea, a fist-sized energy ball of light had accumulated once again.

"It's not enough… I need it to be at least double the size for the Umbra Wind God Leopard to grow again!" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. He wasn't interested in massacring the nearby demonic soldiers. Instead, he observed the battlefield, looking out for those larger demonic beasts.

While he was observing around him, a mass of faint light suddenly slipped out of the black door, and silently hid itself within the large demonic army. On the battlefield, not a single person noticed this negligible event.

Even Zhang Che was fully focused on searching for large demonic beasts. He also didn't notice the brief appearance of that mass of light.

Although Zhang Che was searching for large demonic beasts, the Earthen Rock Demon and his other babies weren't slacking off on killing the demonic soldiers. They were like fierce tigers that found themselves among a pack of dogs. Not only that, they were the kind of fierce tigers with cheats activated, killing without any pause. No one could stop them.

Before Zhang Che realized it, the golden vortex had absorbed enough mysterious energy. It suddenly spun violently in his spiritual sea.

Zhang Che could help but light up, his eyes shining in anticipation.

This time, hopefully the golden vortex would undergo a qualitative change after powering up!

As the golden vortex spun fiercely, its color became increasingly resplendent. It seemed like countless galaxies were moving inside it, looking very mysterious.

When the fluctuations ended, the golden vortex had nearly doubled in size, and its color became even more brilliant, yet profound.

Zhang Che felt inexplicably moved. He focused his mind onto the golden vortex, and an incredibly profound feeling rushed up to his head.

He felt like everything within a three hundred meter radius was within his grasp!

He "looked" towards the Earthen Rock Demon near him. From that fellow's movements, he immediately predicted its next target.

Indeed, a moment later, the Earthen Rock Demon took a step forward with its extremely thick right leg along the path he foresaw and stomped on a group of closely packed demonic soldiers with a loud bang, turning those pitiful demonic soldiers into a pile of meat paste.

"Hmm? There's actually such an ability?" Zhang Che felt overjoyed.

Didn't this mean that he could analyze his enemies' next move to a certain extent, allowing him to react accordingly when they were about to strike, and launch a counterattack from an unexpected angle? (TLN: That's Observation Haki, no doubt.)

Zhang Che wasn't a mid-tier beastmaster who lacked fighting ability on his own. With his new-found ability, the scarlet sword's destructive power grew a level. Perhaps he would have a fighting chance against epic-quality exotic beasts on his own!

Of course, the prerequisite was that the scarlet sword was powerful enough to be a threat for epic-quality exotic beasts!

At this moment, Zhang Che discovered the tracks of a few large demonic beasts. He immediately ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon in their direction, not caring that he wouldn't be under the protection of any of his babies.

"That kid has gone crazy!" A few military officers in the aircraft hovering in the sky a short distance away from the battlefield widened their eyes at the sight of this.

Although they acknowledged that Zhang Che was very strong, would he really not come into any danger charging deep into the demonic army on his own?

Although there weren't any terrifyingly powerful existences within the demonic army, that was only speaking in terms of relativity. Without the protection of any subdued beasts, he might really find himself in danger!

The phrase that an army of ants could kill an elephant wasn't just a saying! Even so, at this moment, it was already too late for them to try to stop him.

Zhang Che had already flown past the defensive perimeter his babies had set up. The human and dragon duo flew straight and penetrated deep into the demons' camp.

"Nuluba!" a demonic officer deep in the demonic army cried out loud when it saw Zhang Che's reckless action. A cold glint shone in the savage vertical eye on its forehead..

All the powerful demonic soldiers nearby let out wails that sounded like the cries of ghosts one after another, and moved to surround him.

"I'll use you lot to try out the scarlet sword's real powers after the golden vortex's upgrade!"

Zhang Che was fearless. His eyes narrowed slightly, focusing his mind on the golden vortex once more.

The profound state rushed up to his head again. Immediately, Zhang Che could see the demonic soldiers' next moves. The scarlet sword flew out with a whoosh, weaving around the army like a fast and nimble golden lightning snake.

After the golden vortex powered up, not only did the scarlet sword's range double, its speed had also increased, reaching nearly Mach 10 speed!

That was over three thousand meters in a second! Within a three hundred meter radius, the scarlet sword truly could attack anywhere the moment Zhang Che willed it to!

Miserable shrieks were heard consecutively. Facing the incredibly nimble, yet fast as lightning scarlet sword, although each and every of the demonic soldiers were as strong as mid-tier legend-quality exotic beasts, their defenses weren't comparable to actual exotic beasts. The scarlet sword streaked past lightly, and their bodies were immediately cut in half.

"So strong!"

"Who is that guy? He looks like a mid-tier beastmaster at best, but why do I feel like we're worlds apart?"

"Fantastic! The battle today will become much easier!"

The beastmasters on the field cheered when they saw Zhang Che displaying the might of a god, slaying the demonic soldiers as if he was butchering poultry.

Originally, everyone was worried the demonic army would gather their strength for a counterattack, becoming a huge trouble for them and causing large numbers of casualties.

From the looks of it now, with the added participation of this model warrior, they have no need to worry anymore.

Right now, Zhang Che was like the incarnate of the god of killing. He directly smashed through the encirclement of the group of powerful demonic warriors and slaughtered his way to the savage demonic beasts.

At the same time, the faint light that came out from the black door had purposely avoided where Zhang Che was very cautiously. It was like a wisp of green smoke, weaving past the demonic soldiers and passing through the summoned beasts' defensive line, flying to the beastmasters at the back.

Nobody had noticed this extremely faint light. After all, the ones involved in this campaign to eradicate the demonic army were only mid-tier beastmasters.

Suddenly, this light shot straight towards a young man, silently entering his body like a drop of water falling into the ocean.

In the next moment, the man suddenly stood dazed on the spot. Even his subdued beasts had stopped in place. Afterwards, the nearby demonic soldiers seized the opportunity and quickly tore them to shreds, turning them into streaks of light and dissipated.

"Wang Bo, what are you spacing out for? Your subdued beasts are all dead!"

The man known as Wang Bo seemed to snap out of his daydream and showed a look of frustration. He said in grief and indignation, "Argh, damn it! I was too engrossed in watching that guy and forgot to direct my subdued beasts to fight! This is bad… I lost so much. It's like I came here for nothing!"

"Who told you to get distracted while fighting? Forget it; you back down first and go rest behind. You won't be able to contribute anything in the battle anyway. It's safer for you to withdraw," his companion advised, feeling sorry for him.

This fellow's luck was really bad. Although the beastmasters that had joined in on the campaign to eradicate the demonic army would receive ample rewards in the end, he had lost all his subdued beasts. He would surely lose more than he gained.

Unbeknownst to the companion, Wang Bo's soul had just been replaced… well, to put it more accurately, it was taken control of.

However, as time passed, Wang Bo's soul would disappear in the end, and his body would change owners.

Translator's Note:

I forgot to mention this last chapter, but Bao Island is most likely referring to Taiwan.

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Chapter 397: The Angry Miss Tienan

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Wang Bo had a frustrated look on his face, carrying a slight hint of regret as he walked to the back of the army camp unwillingly and sat down. About a hundred unlucky beastmasters were already gathered here due to their subdued beasts getting wiped out and having no choice but to withdraw.

He didn't try to talk to anyone, only sitting on a rough rock with his legs tucked in. His head was lowered, seemingly still drowning in his feelings of frustration.

Nobody noticed that Wang Bo's gaze was in fact emitting a hint of a strange splendor. In the end, he unintentionally curled his lips up into a very faint smile.

"The people in this world actually have such weak minds?"

The demon that had successfully taken over Wang Bo was originally worried that it wouldn't be easy for him to succeed in his mission. Unexpectedly, he didn't even have to put in much effort and quickly took control of this mid-tier beastmaster. Not only that, he even retained most of his memories.

He quickly skimmed through Wang Bo's memories. Afterwards, he couldn't help but furrow his brow slightly.

"Beast worlds… this is what humans refer to that world as? A little interesting…", "Wang Bo" mumbled indistinctly to himself, then turned his head around to look at the battlefield behind him.

Over there, many demonic soldiers and beasts were being massacred. Even so, his expression was one of indifference while watching the scene before him.

In the demon world, those low-levelled fighters were abundant. If they were massacred, so be it. It really was nothing to him.

When he found a way to lift the restrictions in the spatial tunnel in the future, all of this would be paid back.

Afterwards, he swept his gaze across Zhang Che and settled on him, his eyes narrowed slightly.

"A spiritual sword fragment, huh? And it's even a spiritual sword fragment that is being restored. This human kid is interesting…" he sighed. A hint of killing intent flashed deep in his eyes, before quickly retracting it. He knew that these bodies he had taken over were still too weak for now. Unless he had no other choice, it was better to not come into contact with humans with spiritual sword fragments in their possession, in case of any unwanted accidents."Hmm? Why do I feel like someone has set their eyes on me?" Zhang Che suddenly creased his brow as he was directing the scarlet sword to slaughter the demons, vaguely feeling like something was amiss, but he couldn't put his finger on what exactly was wrong.

Shaking his head, Zhang Che sped up once more. The scarlet sword swept across a few powerful demonic beasts he had discovered. Afterwards, he no longer had the time to search for his next targets. Instead, he switched his aim to the masses of demonic soldiers nearby.

The one-sided battle didn't last too long. Not long afterwards, the demonic army in the back started retreating urgently and entered the black door behind them in batches.

"They're withdrawing, the demonic army is withdrawing!" the beastmasters on the battlefield cheered.

Only Zhang Che had an aching look on his face. -They are all experience points! Won't I be left with nothing if they left just like that?-

He was unresigned. Although the golden vortex had powered up, the scarlet sword was only as strong as a mid-tier epic-quality beast. If he encountered a stronger beast than that, he would still be helpless.

Moreover, the life energy accumulated underneath the rainbow crystal in his spiritual sea was only about the same size as what he had gathered previously. It was probably impossible for the Umbra Wind God Leopard to grow again from just that.

What should he do if he was unresigned? Continue killing them!

While the demonic army hadn't fully retreated, he'd kill as many of them as he could!

As such, in the remaining time, Zhang Che was akin to a crazy devil, directing his capable babies and the scarlet sword to kill their way through to the back of the demonic army.

This reckless slaughtering let Zhang Che find another opportunity to kill a group of large demonic beasts. Although the accumulated amount of energy wasn't enough for the Umbra Wind God Leopard to advance, it was a decent harvest nonetheless.Finally, the demonic army fully retreated into the black door. The battlefield immediately erupted in an earth-shaking cheer.

Zhang Che wasn't cheering. Not only that, he didn't even bother to greet the officers in charge here and rose to the skies on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, flying west at great speed.

Realizing that the demonic army at every invasion point would start retreating the moment the situation went south for them, Zhang Che would have to work even harder to obtain greater benefits!

However, before he flew back to the nearest large city, Huang Juyun sent him a piece of 'good news'.

Today, at every invasion point across the globe, regardless of whether humans had attacked those points, the demonic army had started retreating, seemingly giving up on their invasion of Mercury.

Zhang Che was dumbstruck, left speechless for a long while after the call ended.

This was undoubtedly a piece of good news for humanity on Mercury. However, to him, this was horrible news!

He hadn't earned enough experience points! How dare the demonic armies retreat? He was originally planning on making a trip to the invasion point in northwest Hua Xia, but from the looks of it now, it wasn't necessary.

"What exactly is happening? Why are the demonic armies at every invasion point retreating all of a sudden?"

Zhang Che felt like something strange must have happened. Even so, he had no way of learning the specifics, and could only shake his head helplessly.After the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had flown to the nearest big city, Zhang Che bought a sky shuttle ticket and returned straight to Bei Du.

The current time was about four in the afternoon. Zhang Che would be back in Bei Du in slightly less than four hours.

Before the sky shuttle flight entered outer space, Zhang Che hurriedly made a call to Miss Tienan.

"Hello." After the call connected, Miss Tienan said hello evenly and didn't continue talking.

Zhang Che quickly realized something was wrong. -What's going on? Judging from her voice, something seems off?-

"Ha, uhm, I'm coming back soon. I'll arrive at Bei Du in about four hours. At that time, let's go have a meal together, to celebrate you becoming an official beast card cultivator…"

Before Zhang Che could finish his words, Miss Tienan directly cut him off. "Not interested."

This time, Zhang Che was finally certain that Miss Tienan seemed to be angry…

However, he didn't recall offending her in any way. Could it be because it was that time of the month for her?

" Aiya, how can you be not interested in such an important matter? Let's settle on that. When I return, we'll go to a romantic place and have a candlelight dinner. How about it?"

Well, it was said that girls' mood swung very easily during that time of the month. So, Zhang Che decided to coax her properly.

"Hurhur…"

Zhang Che found it even stranger now. -It's not making any sense! Even if she's on her period, she doesn't have to be so angry with me, right?-

"Uh, what does that hur hur mean?"

"Hur hur means hur hur."

On the other end of the call, Huang Tielan sensed the predicament Zhang Che was in, and nearly burst out laughing. However, she managed to hold on and kept a straight face. She smiled coldly, "Also, what's so important about that? To put it nicely, I only became an official beast card cultivator. I'm just a newbie. What's there to celebrate?"

Zhang Che finally realized what was wrong. -I'm so freaking dense!-

Yesterday night, he was sound asleep when Miss Tienan called him, waking him up. In the end, he didn't pay enough attention to this matter and had thus annoyed her. It made sense that she was angry.

-This won't do. I have to make amends!-

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Chapter 398: Herbal Research Institute

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How was he supposed to make amends?

Zhang Che was immediately hit with a headache. No matter if it was in his previous life or his current life, he had no experience with pursuing girls, let alone coaxing them. It was a completely new subject for him, with zero hours of study to his name!

Send her flowers? Apologize?

They didn't seem useful…

After thinking for a long time, Zhang Che sighed helplessly. He really couldn't think of a safe solution.

If he knew this was going to happen, he would have taken some courses like "Thirty-six Strategems to Dating girls", or something.

"Forget it. When we get to the mountain, there'll be a way through. When the boat gets to the pier, it'll go straight with the current. Why think so much…" (TLN: Meaning everything will turn out to be fine.)

Zhang Che, fully aware that he didn't have a single romantic bone in him, shut his eyes for a quick rest in the end, not thinking about this matter.At Bei Du…

Huang Tielan stood in the lab, looking at the pile of ingredients on the table. However, her mind was somewhere else. From time to time, she would look at the personal terminal on her left wrist. Time slowly ticked away by the minutes and seconds, but in the end, Zhang Che never called her back to apologize.

"Zhang Xiaoche, you idiot!" she grumbled hatefully under her breath, her chest quickly rising and falling. She wasn't in the mood to continue concocting cultivation fluid. She stomped out of the lab and had Liu Gang drive her to the airport.

Being angry was one thing. Of course Miss Tienan still had to go fetch him at the airport…Night fell. Zhang Che had returned to Bei Du again.

On his way out from the passageway, Zhang Che's brows were knitted all the time. He truly had no idea what to do.

-How exactly do I coax girls? I'm waiting online, urgent!-

However, when he walked out to the main hall, ready to look for a taxi for hire, he suddenly froze on the spot, and displayed an overjoyed expression.

-I knew it. How can our Miss Tienan be like those ordinary girls?-

He saw Huang Tielan standing outside in the main hall. He hurriedly put on a fawning smile and walked up to her with quick steps.

Zhang Che walked up, smiling ingratiatingly and said with a guilty conscience, " Aiya, I've missed you so much!" Afterwards, he reached out towards Miss Tienan, trying to hug her.

In the end, Huang Tielan sidestepped away, avoiding his touch and turned around to walk out.

"Let's get back quickly. It's already this late. You have to sleep and rest."

-Is it late? I don't think so? It's only slightly past eight. It's not even an hour since the sky turned dark!-

Zhang Che was confused for a moment. He immediately understood the situation and revealed a bitter smile, chasing after her.

-Ai, I have to make up for my own mistakes, even if I get stabbed full of holes…-

Afterwards, Zhang Che used every trick in the book he could think of, feeling like it was even tougher than battling against an epic-quality beast, before finally getting Miss Tienan to forgive him for now, agreeing to go out for dinner with him. He finally let out a long sigh of relief.

However, this had also taught Zhang Che a lesson. From now on, he mustn't take any matters relating to her lightly, or he'd only be asking for it.

It made sense when he thought about it. Becoming an official beast card cultivator had always been her dream, and Zhang Che tried to brush it off with a simple congratulations when she achieved it. Who wouldn't be angry if they were in her shoes?The next day, Zhang Che received a call from his father-in-law, telling him to come over to the Huang family's ancestral house.

When Zhang Che entered his father-in-law's study, Huang Juyun's first sentence took him by surprise. "Remember the scarlet-gold lotus and the snow lotus you gave us before?"

-What's going on? Is there progress on the research on the two spiritual herbs?-

Thinking of that, Zhang Che's eyes immediately lit up with a hint of happiness.

Before Zhang Che could reply, Huang Juyun noticed the look on him and knew what he had guessed. He smiled with a nod, continuing, "The herbal research institute has produced some results. They used the fluid from the two spiritual herbs as the main ingredient and developed a type of pill that can greatly improve the toughness of the consumer's body.

"After some tests, they found out that ordinary mid-tier beastmasters are unable to withstand the medical properties of these pills, but I thought that your spiritual strength is beyond normal standards anyway. It should be fine for you, and so I prepared a few pills for you.

"Of course, to be safe, you eat a tiny bit of it first to try out the effects. If your body is able to take it, then you can continue consuming them. If not, that is fine, too. It's not too late to consume them after you've reached Tier Seven beastmaster."

Zhang Che's eyes immediately sparkled. Others might be unaware, but would he be unclear? Although his physique couldn't be compared to the very experienced high-tier beastmasters, it shouldn't be a problem for him to withstand the medical efficacy of the pills.

After all, even Liu Gang's squad, who were all Tier Seven beastmasters, had physiques that might not be on par with Zhang Che's.

As for his mental aspect, Zhang Che had even less to worry about. He might be inferior to high-tier beastmasters when it came to using his spiritual strength to sense his surroundings, but when it came to the width of their spiritual seas, he was confident that there weren't many who could compare to him.

"I'll give it a try, then."

Although they both were very confident about this, Zhang Che wasn't a high-tier beastmaster, after all. So, Huang Juyun didn't dare to let him consume the pills here directly, in case anything went wrong. It would be too late for regrets then.

Under the escort of a team of guards, the two were driven to the Huang family's Herbal Research Institute in the Bei Du suburbs.

The place was equipped with the most comprehensive medical machines. If Zhang Che felt unwell anywhere after taking the medicinal pill, he could be given the appropriate medical treatment right away.

Of course, even if Zhang Che didn't come to the research institute, he still had a healing-type beast, the Unicorn!

It was just that none of them had any experience regarding such situations. Heavens knew if the Unicorn could heal the internal injuries caused by the consumption of the medicinal pill…

It was fine if it could. Otherwise, it was too dangerous!

The Huang family's Herbal Research Institute was located in the mountainous region of Bei Du's eastern suburbs. The research institute spanned a few hills, and was cordoned off as a restricted military area. Even when Huang Juyun brought people here, they had to pass through three strict security checks before they finally entered the core area of the research institute.

The research institute's underground areas were naturally where the medicinal pills were studied and developed. As for the exterior areas, they could be considered experimental farms. All kinds of spiritual herbs they had gathered before were planted and cultivated on the lands above.

Before entering underground, Huang Juyun also led Zhang Che to a sloped hill with especially tight security.

A variety of spiritual herbs of mid-grade or higher were cultivated on this hill. Not only that, their growth was countless times better than in other places, where they looked like they were half-dead.

The reason for that was none other the huge spiritual jade buried in the earth under this hill, providing the spiritual herbs planted in the earth above it with an endless source of pure energy.

Seeing the extremely well-grown spiritual herb field, Huang Juyun felt a surge of emotions inside, lamenting, "Speaking of which, it's all thanks to the spiritual jade you found. Otherwise, many spiritual herb species we have here would be on the verge of dying, and we'd be forced to use them prematurely. In such cases, it would become incredibly difficult to bring out the medical efficacy of every spiritual herb to the fullest!"

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Chapter 399: Ice and Fire Body Tempering. A Body of Steel

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Aside from his laments, Huang Juyun recalled having to cut two small pieces of spiritual jade off in order to purchase the two epic-quality beast cards.

The two pieces were each over a cubic foot in size! They could be considered first-grade spiritual jades on their own! Just thinking about it made him feel an ache.

Luckily, Zhang Che grabbed the victory in the end. All of the investments were worth it.

Zhang Che didn't know the grief his father-in-law was feeling inside, however. Looking at the garden full of spiritual herbs, he could clearly feel the waves from them thanks to his senses being amplified several times over by the golden vortex.

All of those spiritual herbs were good stuff. If any of them were circulated in the market, they were sure to have people fighting for them. Many dedicated mid or low-tier beastmasters might not even have seen this many superior spiritual herbs in their whole lives.

"Hmm? That is…" Zhang Che's eyes suddenly widened as he scanned the area.

It wasn't surprising that the snow lotus he brought back from the Bei Mei region was being cultivated here. That snow lotus was a rarely seen high-grade spiritual herb; naturally it was qualified to be cultivated in this herbal garden.

What surprised Zhang Che was the scarlet golden lotus he brought back from the beast world previously. It was also growing healthily in a corner of this garden, and was now fully golden scarlet in color, its petals fully bloomed.

Perhaps, sometime in the future, a lotus seed head would grow from the scarlet golden lotus?

Seeing Zhang Che looking surprised at the scarlet golden lotus, Huang Juyun couldn't help but smile. "When you brought the herb back, its vitality hadn't fully waned. The researchers simulated a lava terrain and kept it alive. When you brought back the spiritual jade, we immediately transplanted it over here. Looking at its growth, it's pretty decent."

Zhang Che came back to himself, nodding his understanding. Afterwards, he thought of another question. He turned to Huang Juyun and asked, "Uncle Huang, is it possible to keep producing those pills endlessly?"

Previously, Huang Juyun had already said that the main ingredients of those pills were the saps from the ice and fire lotuses.

With the huge spiritual jade buried underground, there was no worry of those two spiritual herbs being squeezed dry. Naturally they could obtain as much as they wanted.

According to Huang Juyun, those pills had great effects on the human body. If they could keep producing them in batches, the Huang family's status would surely soar.

Alas, Huang Juyun shook his head with a bitter smile, saying, "It's not that easy. The sap is the spiritual herbs' life essence. Even though the spiritual jade can quickly restore their energy, they are wilted for a period of time after every extraction of their sap. According to the research institute's estimation, this period is at least a month. So, stop daydreaming, kid. The drops produced by these two spiritual herbs aren't even enough for ourselves. It's impossible to sell them."

Zhang Che couldn't help but sigh. They actually needed more than a month to recover! Indeed, his idea wasn't feasible…In the underground building…

When Zhang Che saw a fingertip-sized unknown object with an uneven shape inside a transparent glass bottle, his eyes nearly popped out, exclaiming in shock, "This is the so-called medicinal pill they developed?"

-If this can be called a medicinal pill, then the grime I rubbed off my body can also be sold for money, okay!?

-But, father-in-law wouldn't be using my life as a joke, would he?-

After thinking for a while, Zhang Che looked at the various medical equipment around, then opened the bottle and poured that fingertip-sized pill with a messy color out onto his palm.

Now he could feel its extraordinary nature. He sensed a wave of vigorous energy the moment its scent spread, his nose catching a whiff of the thick fragrance.

"This thing really seems quite remarkable…"

Zhang Che didn't hesitate. Under the gazes of everyone around him, he swallowed the defective-looking pill. Afterwards, he focused on himself, putting his attention into the golden vortex, ready to respond to the aftereffects of the strong medical properties.

A loud rumble rang out, as if a miniature warhead had detonated in Zhang Che's stomach. A wave of energy suddenly erupted, surging inside him and spreading to every part of his body.

"It doesn't seem as violent as what I had imagined..?"

Sensing the changes in his body, the worry on Zhang Che's face was alleviated a lot.

It was probably due to his body being altered by the demonic flower, in addition to him consuming those dragon eggs. Zhang Che's physique was actually much tougher than ordinary people. There really wasn't much of a difference between him and high-tier beastmasters.

Outside the room, Huang Juyun also breathed out a sigh of relief when he saw Zhang Che's relaxed smile. Showing this result, Zhang Che could obviously consume this type of medicinal pills frequently in the future.

Zhang Che no longer had the mind to care about anything else. As the surge of energy spread through his whole body, the ice and fire, yin and yang contrasting energies started tempering his body through a mysterious method.

Logically speaking, this deep tempering should be accompanied by excruciating pain. However, when the rainbow crystal helped Zhang Che purge the remnants of the demonic flower's energy in the past, it had already thoroughly refined his body. He no longer had to feel the torture of pain now.

As such, he nearly moaned out in pleasure.Outside the room, Huang Juyun and the crowd of researchers were stunned by the sight.

This didn't make any sense to them! Even Tier Seven beastmasters would cause a scene from the pain when they first used the ice and fire body tempering pill. Why did it seem like this kid wasn't affected at all?

How strange!

After being in a state of shock for some time, Huang Juyun gradually got used to it and showed a calm expression. The researchers at his side, however, were still so shaken that they couldn't speak.Zhang Che didn't care what they thought. As proven, his spiritual strength was strong enough to guide the surge of energy through tempering his body. The energy would not go out of control, or damage his body.

After the incomplete pill's medicinal efficacy was exhausted, Zhang Che suddenly stood up. When he moved his limbs, crackling came from every joint in his body, like someone was frying beans.

"I wonder how many more of this ice fire body tempering pills there are in the lab… It would probably be impossible for me to get them all, but I can at least use half of them!"

With that, Zhang Che was confident he could temper his body to a stronger degree. Perhaps he could refine his body to a state of indestructibility..?

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Chapter 400: Target: Tier Seven

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Seeing Zhang Che absorbing the incomplete medicinal pill's energy fully without any complications, Huang Juyun's eyes immediately shone brightly. "Good. I knew this kid's physique was not bad. It went just as I expected!"

This kid's spiritual strength was indeed extraordinarily high!

However, when Zhang Che walked out of the lab, the group of researchers quickly gathered around him to check on his vital signs. Although it seemed like he was fine on the outside, this matter was related to his well being. It was better to do a proper check up.

The results were naturally all normal. As of now, Zhang Che's physique was so good it was terrifying. All vital signs were at peak values.

The researchers who helped Zhang Che with the check-up even thought to themselves, -Is this kid a freak? Which mid-tier beastmaster have physiques this insanely tough? Even many Tier Seven beastmasters have inferior physiques to him!-

They weren't aware of Zhang Che's past, but Huang Juyun was. As such, naturally he didn't feel strange about it, only surprised that Zhang Che's spiritual strength was that strong, too.

"How is it? Do you want to consume the complete pill right away?"

Zhang Che smiled faintly, his face filled with confidence. He replied, "Yes I can, Uncle Huang!"

"Good!" Huang Juyun clapped. He nodded heavily, "Pay close attention to yourself. If anything feels off, shout out immediately."

Zhang Che returned to the lab once more. After the preparations were done, he took out a complete ice and fire pill.

The complete ice and fire pill was as large as a longan fruit. It emitted a thicker medical fragrance, much better than the incomplete pill from before.

Zhang Che blinked a few times, then opened his mouth and threw the pill in.

As the pill entered his stomach, a surge of medicinal strength immediately erupted. Zhang Che didn't dare to be careless. He used his strong spiritual sense to guide the energy, spreading it to every corner of his body, slowly strengthening the toughness of his muscles and the hardness of his bones.

Huang Juyun and the researchers stood outside, watching the situation in the lab through the glass wall. They saw a heat wave rolling on Zhang Che's body, as if countless ferocious beasts were rampaging inside him. His veins swelled up like huge earthworms.

However, none of them showed any signs of worry on their faces.

They had checked on Zhang Che's physique earlier. They knew this kid's physique had reached such a superhuman level that an energy rush of this degree shouldn't be a problem.

After an indeterminate amount of time, Zhang Che opened his eyes. He felt like he was in his best condition ever, as if every cell was under his control.

He sniffed at a sudden foul odor. Zhang Che furrowed his brow slightly. He lowered his eyes, and saw that his skin was actually covered in a layer of reddish-black filth.

"Is this the impurities and dirty blood excreted after absorbing the ice and fire body tempering pill?" Zhang Che didn't expect the effects to be this good. Even the impurities in his body were expelled from his body.

"A pity that the sap produced by the ice and fire lotuses is too little, in addition to the fact that the pills aren't being supplied to only me. It won't be so easy for me to gain a body as tough as diamond…"

In truth, Zhang Che had two legend-quality armors with different defensive properties. Whether he was facing physical or elemental attacks, he had the appropriate solution for them. It was impossible to penetrate his armors' defenses without an attack from a divine-quality beast or higher.

However, Zhang Che was too weak himself. Even though he had superb armors, if his body was unable to withstand the shock of the attacks, his bones would break easily, and his organs might even be damaged.

If he had enough ice and fire body tempering pills, however, everything would be different. Zhang Che only had to keep tempering his body, and a day could finally come where his body was strong enough to withstand the residual effects of those powerful attacks.

Not only that, it wouldn't be impossible for him to receive an attack directly from an epic-quality exotic beast, either!

In the end, the crux of the matter was that the ingredients for producing the ice and fire body tempering pills were too rare. It was impossible to mass produce them.

"Forget it. Thinking too much about it doesn't help at all. Getting a dozen or so pills every month or two is enough. Although I won't reach the level of invulnerability, it shouldn't be a problem to temper my body to the extent of being able to withstand shots from small caliber firearms."

As long as his body became tougher, in addition to his tough beast card armors, what was there for Zhang Che to fear?

The ice and fire body tempering pills could only be taken once a day at most. Otherwise, it would cause irreversible hidden injuries to his body. As such, Zhang Che didn't continue with another pill.

After walking out from the lab, a little suet jade bottle was added to his spatial storage equipment. There were seven ice and fire body tempering pills contained in the bottle, which was pretty much all the stock remaining in the lab.

"Going forward, I'll have someone send you the pills every month. Although it is definitely not enough for you, it's better than nothing."Once they were back in the car, Huang Juyun asked Zhang Che, "What are your future plans?

"At present, although the demonic armies have withdrawn from every invasion point, their comeback is guaranteed to happen, only it is unknown when that will be. I feel like it is necessary for you to raise your beastmaster tier to high-tier.

"Mhm, I will have my subordinates sort out the information about the beast worlds across Hua Xia. I'll find you a few suitable places for training. Otherwise, who knows how long you'll take to get to Tier Seven?"

Zhang Che was overjoyed when he heard this.

Of course he wanted to advance to a high-tier beastmaster as soon as possible! But, just thinking about it was useless. He couldn't find some suitable leveling areas; either there were too few mid-tier exotic beasts, or there would be powerful existences around. It was too dangerous.

If he slowly ground his level up like ordinary beastmasters, heavens knew how long it would take him to achieve high-tier beastmaster. Half a year, or perhaps even a whole year, wouldn't be an exaggeration!

"Hah, in that case, thank you, Uncle Huang! I was just fretting over being unable to find places with many mid-tier exotic beasts!"

Huang Juyun chuckled. He continued, "Alright, you rest up for a few days first. When my men are done sorting the information, I'll have them send it to you."

There were countless spatial gateways within the borders of Hua Xia. Huang Juyun could only obtain the information by using his connections in the military. Afterwards, he had to consolidate them and sort them accordingly, and from there, find out places suitable for Zhang Che to go to.

With all these miscellaneous matters added together, how could it be done without a few days' time?

Zhang Che was happy to rest a few days at home, too. He'd take an ice and fire body tempering pill every other day to refine his body, and at the same time, help Huang Tielan obtain a large amount of low-tier beast cards. He'd use his data eyes to look up and write down the most optimal beast card cultivation fluid's concoction recipe for her.

Now that Huang Tielan had become an official beast card cultivator, she had to keep practicing. So, whenever she had no classes, or during the nights, she'd return to the lab and carry out her experiments enthusiastically.

Mhm, with that passion, Zhang Che believed she would get better and develop into an experienced beast card cultivator in a very short amount of time!

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Chapter 401: Private Sky Shuttle

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Zhang Che spent the next two days leisurely.

On Huang Juyun's side, the information regarding the various beast worlds was not ready yet. However, today he brought Zhang Che a piece of exciting news.

"Xiaoche, are you interested in buying a private sky shuttle?"

Zhang Che went into a daze when he heard this.

-Is father-in-law teasing me? Would this kind of advanced technology be unrestricted and allowed for private purchases?-

However, after thinking about it for a bit, it didn't seem like it should be restricted, either.

There were no weapons system on the sky shuttles. There truly was nothing to be apprehensive about. Weren't there many mid-tier beastmasters who directly flew across the globe on their aerial beasts?

Speaking of danger, with the exception of nuclear warheads, modern equipment was really incomparable to powerful beastmasters.

After all, if a powerful mid-tier beastmaster went crazy and caused chaos in the cities, the destruction they could cause would be unimaginable if no one stopped them in time. A district might be brought to ruins in mere minutes, leading to countless deaths.

So, his father-in-law was probably not just teasing him, right?

Zhang Che was immediately moved!

A sky shuttle that belonged to him! Wouldn't that mean he could set off whenever he wanted, wherever he wanted, without having to accommodate those airline companies?

"Uncle Huang, you have a way to buy one?"

It went without saying that Huang Juyun surely had a way to buy one since he brought the matter up. Otherwise, why would he make the call?

"Mhm. Hua Xia Airlines just happened to design a new model of sky shuttle. In order to make up for the huge investments in their research, they decided to venture into private flights and accept purchase orders. Won't you be moving around frequently soon? I thought it'd be much more convenient for you if you had a private sky shuttle.

"Alright, we'll talk about this in detail when we're at Hua Xia Airlines. Wait at home first. I'll come meet you shortly."

After ending the call with his father-in-law, Zhang Che was feeling very excited.

Like Huang Juyun had said, it would be much easier for Zhang Che to travel across the lands if he had a sky shuttle of his own. He would be able to save a large amount of time, and his safety was guaranteed.

As of now, exotic beasts that could catch up to the sky shuttle were basically non-existent.

Even if there were, the sky shuttle could fly to outer space, shaking them off.The Hua Xia Airlines' headquarters wasn't inside Bei Du City, but in an industrial satellite city to the northwest of Bei Du. The whole city was basically built for industrial services, and had a low population. Even so, the security was unusually tight.

Despite the fact that Huang Juyun and Zhang Che were in a custom luxurious car that ordinary people could never afford, they still had to go through several security checks before they were allowed to pass.

The two were directly led to the airline company's office building.

As the airline company had no plans of selling sky shuttles previously, they didn't have a specialized sales department. The person attending to Huang Juyun and Zhang Che was an engineer who was personally involved in the design and production of the new sky shuttle model.

"Hello, Engineer Li. I am Huang Juyun from Bei Du. I contacted your company previously, and we're here today to take a look at the new sky shuttle model."

Huang Juyun was the first to reach out his hand, shaking this engineer surnamed Li's hand warmly with a smile.

After a short chat, Huang Juyun introduced Zhang Che to the engineer. "This is my prospective son-in-law, Zhang Che. You can just call him Xiaozhang."

Engineer Li nodded. He didn't act too politely, and went straight to the point, saying, "Since you're here to view the goods, let's go to the warehouse directly. It just so happens that the first new sky shuttle unit is still in the warehouse. If you're satisfied with it, you can buy it directly."

Zhang Che and Huang Juyun were overjoyed. Afterwards, they couldn't help but find it a little strange. Could it be that Hua Xia Airlines was going to manufacture a large number of sky shuttles? Otherwise, why would there be a warehouse inventory, not to mention allowing direct purchases so casually?

Well, it didn't seem very likely to be because of the Huang family's status, either. The Huang family couldn't be considered a first-rate clan in Bei Du City. They didn't have that much influence. At the most, they would be able to get the product as soon as possible after placing an order.

Harboring doubts, the two followed Engineer Li and took an electric sightseeing bus. They passed through a few tall buildings and two more check points before arriving at the airline company's warehouse area A.

After entering the warehouse that held the sky shuttle, Zhang Che and Huang Juyun's gazes were immediately drawn to a machine surrounded by glass walls.

Unlike the slightly awkward, squarish appearance of the sky shuttles used in commercial flights, the new model had a beautiful streamlined appearance. It was about fifty meters long, ten meters tall, and the widest area was about thirty meters across.

The shell of the plane was greenish-purple in color, with a decent visual impact.

-Hmm? Right, is there only one sky shuttle here?

-We came here and they happened to have just one plane in stock. Isn't this too much of a coincidence?-

Zhang Che and Huang Juyun looked around, but the surrounding areas were blocked off by the walls, leaving them unable to see what it was like in the other areas of the warehouse.

Engineer Li probably realized what the two were thinking inside. He smiled faintly and explained, "You don't have to look around. After the design was finalized, our company only manufactured one of them. The rest are still on the assembly line. It will be some time before they're worked on."

Zhang Che found it strange. He immediately asked, "Uh, why don't you manufacture a few more? Didn't you say the higher-ups are letting go of the flight routes? Shouldn't there be many people who are coming to buy their own sky shuttles?"

"Build a few more?" Engineer Li widened his eyes. He pointed at the sky shuttle in front of him, saying, "We want to do that too, but we have already exhausted all of our cash flow to build this perfect new model. We can only wait until this unit is sold before we can continue working on others."

Seeing the confused looks on Zhang Che and Huang Juyun's faces, Engineer Li continued explaining, "Do you know how much purple-gold crystal is added to just this sky shuttle alone? Over five tons worth!

"If nothing else, its defenses could withstand the physical attacks of a mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast without suffering much damage. Even a divine-quality exotic beast wouldn't be able to destroy the plane in one hit. The safety factor is simply incomparable!

"Also, in order to make the first private sky shuttle's design as perfect as possible, we also added large amounts of other rare minerals from the beast world, and applied the most advanced technology available.

"The take off and landing, for example. This sky shuttle doesn't need to rely on huge airports. It can take off and land vertically on a large piece of flat land."

"…" Both Zhang Che and Huang Juyun's mouths were slightly agape when they heard Engineer Li's explanation.

Their first reaction wasn't in admiration of the sky shuttle's incredible attributes, or how awesome it was. Instead, they were surprised by how many resources the airline company had invested into producing a single unit of the perfect private sky shuttle.

Well, with a little bit of calculation, the production costs of this private sky shuttle would be no less than a hundred and fifty million purple crystal points!

How many people in this world could afford to spend that much money?

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Chapter 402: Dijiang's First Voyage. Pursuing Exotic Beasts

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It was no wonder the Hua Xia Airline contacted Huang Juyun. It seemed they knew the Huang family and Zhang Che had earned a fortune in the arena deathmatch, and had naturally treated them as a customer with the highest buying potential.

Truthfully speaking, it wasn't like there wasn't anyone else in all of Hua Xia who could afford such an expensive sky shuttle.

Although a hundred million or two was an astronomical sum, the first-rate large clans would be able to fork it out given some time to raise the funds.

However, that much money would be able to fully equip a powerful high-tier beastmaster team if it was spent on purchasing beast cards. Who would be willing to spend it so casually on a big toy like this?

To a certain degree, the private sky shuttle really was truly just a big toy.

Although it was fast, and had a guarantee for safety, the market price was a little too shocking. Almost no one could bear to spend such a huge sum.

Indeed, it was almost too much, because Zhang Che was a little moved after hearing Engineer Li's introduction.

Coincidentally, he had a huge sum of purple crystal points, and he didn't need to spend on other areas.

If he bought the sky shuttle, he would be saving a lot of time on his travels, while being assured of his safety. Zhang Che wanted to raise his strength in the shortest time possible, so it really seemed to be a very decent tool to have.

"Um, Engineer Li." Although Zhang Che was tempted, he didn't show any signs of it on his face. He looked at Engineer Li, 'frightened', and asked, "Based on what you said, wouldn't the sky shuttle's price be very intimidating?"

"How can you only focus on its price?" Engineer Li said with widened eyes, "Such a perfect private sky shuttle is superior to all the other planes you see in every aspect. An oceanic amount of rare materials were invested into it. The price of only two hundred and thirty-three million, three hundred thousand purple crystal points is really the best offer you could get!"

-Ugh, 233.3 million…- Zhang Che couldn't find the strength to curse…

"Engineer Li, isn't this too expensive? From your introduction, this sky shuttle's cost seems to be only around a hundred fifty million. You trying to earn so much from us in one go is a little too much!" Huang Juyun furrowed his brow.

Hua Xia Airlines was considered an old acquaintance of the Huang family. They were the ones who informed Huang Juyun of this good news, but he didn't expect the sky shuttle's selling price to be so expensive.

That much money could buy a few mid-tier epic-quality beast cards! Who would be willing to spend it here unjustly?

"Hey, how can it be too much?" Engineer Li's eyes widened once more. He said agitatedly, "A hundred and fifty million is only the material cost! Other than that, what about the workmanship? Research and development costs? And a bunch of other costs! All that together is over two hundred and thirty million!"

After saying so much in one breath, he paused for a moment, then continued, "Look, us selling something with a cost price of two hundred thirty million purple crystal points to you at two hundred thirty-three million, three hundred thousand isn't too much, right? We're only earning a few million purple crystal points; it's not even enough to pay the workers' wages!"

Huang Juyun furrowed his brow deeply, wanting to forego the deal.

In the end, Zhang Che suddenly opened his mouth and offered, "A hundred sixty-eight million and I'll buy it."

Engineer Li's eyeballs nearly popped out from their sockets. He walked a few steps up to Zhang Che with a look that suggested he wanted to eat him alive, the veins on his forehead twitching, and said, "A hundred sixty-eight million, are you here to waste our time? You think you can buy such a good private sky shuttle with that sum? I'll tell you, this was made with the newest technology. It can reach a maximum speed of twenty-four thousand five hundred kilometers per hour within the atmosphere, and over thirty thousand kilometers per hour in outer space!

"Also, the sky shuttle uses an energy mineral originating from the beast world as fuel. A kilogram of the mineral can sustain fifty thousand kilometers of flight at economic cruising speed!

"Moreover, the sky shuttle uses the latest artificial intelligence system. A person is enough to operate it, without having to hire a crew. It's so convenient that it's unimaginable!

"Furthermore, this sky shuttle is equipped with a smart detection system. It can detect whatever problems the plane might have and notify the authorities… But don't worry, I can assure you that you wouldn't need it for flights within five million kilometers distance, unless you receive external attacks.

"Think about it. Do you reckon a sky shuttle with such a safe, highly functional, and avant-garde design combined into one, can be bought with a hundred million-plus purple crystal points?"

Zhang Che was nearly convinced by Engineer Li.

-Right, this thing is covered in merits from head to toe! It seems like I'm the one losing out if I don't buy it!

-Wait, that's not right! Isn't this guy an engineer?

-Why do I feel like he's more of an excellent sales person? I was nearly tricked by him!-

Zhang Che cleared his mind, not getting himself influenced. He stuck out two fingers and said, "Two hundred million. Not any higher!"

Engineer Li immediately showed an expression that suggested he was humiliated. He shook his head, ready to walk outside. Just as he took his first step, he couldn't help but sigh, saying, "Kid, let's be sincere about this. Two hundred thirty million purple crystal points. I can make the decision to sell it to you if you want. Otherwise, we can only contact other potential customers. I believe someone out there can appreciate its merits."

-Hmm, this old man is actually threatening me!-

Zhang Che knew that he was a little too inexperienced. Engineer Li had probably taken notice of his interest in the sky shuttle, and thus dared to offer such a ridiculous price.

Even so, Zhang Che truly couldn't be bothered with haggling.

He offered once more, "Two hundred twenty million. If not, forget it. Also, I have two conditions."

Engineer Li's eyes lit up a little. Afterwards, he shook his head slightly and sighed, "This young man… you're not prompt at all… Forget it, why did I have to find you pleasing to the eye? Speak about your conditions. If it's too much, I don't have to worry about not being able to sell this sky shuttle to the others, either."

"First, I want you to give us a hundred kilograms of energy minerals!"

Engineer Li's eyelids twitched. He groaned and shook his head, saying, "A hundred kilograms is too much. There's too little of this energy mineral, and refining costs are too high. Fifty kilograms. I can't give any more than that!"

Fifty kilograms was not bad. He could fly for two million five hundred thousand kilometers at cruising speed.

So, Zhang Che nodded. "Fine. Fifty kilograms, then. Second, I hope to install five high-efficiency laser emitters on the plane. At the very least, they need to be able to heavily injure high-tier epic-quality exotic beasts at short distances. Don't tell me you don't have it; since you can even find the energy minerals, I don't believe you haven't done research on the relevant laser weapons."

"You must be joking! Since when is there such a powerful laser weapon?" Engineer Li's eyes nearly popped out. -How did this kid know about that?-

However, he quickly realized in the next moment that this kid was actually trying to bait information out of him!

On second thoughts, giving it to him was fine. At present, the laser weapon technology wasn't mature enough. The energy dispersion was too great, and could only be a threat at close distances. If the distance was too great, the power would plummet by a huge margin. Its practicality wasn't high.

Seeing Zhang Che looking at him with a grin, Engineer Li pondered for a while with creased brow, then finally said, "Only two at most. You still have to apply for a permit from the military…" Well, the Huang family was from the military. He could probably skip this procedure…"This type of laser has a very high energy consumption. This sky shuttle's energy conversion system can't support that many.

"Also, energy weapons of this level will exhaust about a kilogram of energy mineral per shot. I'm afraid you can't afford to use it."

Zhang Che was speechless after hearing what Engineer Li said. One shot would consume a kilogram of energy mineral? This wasn't taking a shot, that was simply burning money!

"Alright, just two is fine!" Zhang Che nodded. He wasn't planning to rely on the sky shuttle to hunt exotic beasts, because killing exotic beasts on Mercury with technological weapons wouldn't leave a corpse behind, anyway. Unless he was in a dangerous situation, he wouldn't use the laser weapons.

A single shot of the laser would cost him ten thousand purple crystal points! No matter how many purple crystal points he had, he couldn't spend them like that!The two soon came to an agreement. Zhang Che paid Hua Xia Airlines ten million purple crystal points as a deposit. Afterwards, he'd get his private flight in two days or so.

During those two days, Hua Xia Airlines had to work with military engineers to install the two laser units onto the plane.

Although the original design of the sky shuttle had a weapons system, it wasn't the latest laser tech, so some areas needed to be modified. Being able to fix it in two days was already pretty good.

Even though he had to spend two hundred twenty million purple crystal points, Zhang Che still had over a hundred million purple crystal points lying around in his account. This guy was simply oozing wealth.

This was money he won from a bet, after all. Zhang Che really didn't feel the ache spending it. Compared to safety and efficiency, what did money count for? He was confident he'd earn it all back within a year!

Huang Juyun didn't have an opinion on this, either. After all, the money didn't belong to the Huang family. Zhang Che was only his prospective son-in-law. Huang Juyun really had no grounds to stop Zhang Che from spending his own money.

Moreover, that bit of money didn't count for anything compared to Zhang Che's safety!Two days later, on the 14th October, Year 36 of the New Age…

Zhang Che came to Hua Xia Airlines once more. After settling the outstanding bill, the sky shuttle, named Dijiang, officially belonged to him! (TLN: Dijiang means Emperor River.)

Like Engineer Li had said, Dijiang-hao's operation was indeed very smart. During his day and a half of training, Zhang Che gained a complete grasp of the functions. Although he hadn't reach an expert's level, there would be no problem for him to handle ordinary takeoffs, landings, and even attacks!"Let's take a flight, then!"

Over the past few days, Huang Juyun's men had checked through most of the information in the beast worlds within Hua Xia's borders, and had marked down more than twenty places suitable for Zhang Che to grind experience.

Now that Dijiang-hao's modifications were done, he could take off directly from here and head to the nearest beast world to kill monsters and level up! (TLN: The 'hao' in Dijiang-hao is like a suffix, used similarly for rockets, ships.)

Feeling incredibly excited, Zhang Che sat in Dijiang-hao's cabin, operating the sky shuttle to glide out of the warehouse through the smart system. Afterwards, the plane's vertical takeoff system began to work.

After only a minute, Dijiang-hao lifted off from the ground, and more engines were put to work. The plane accelerated from a hundred meters up in the air and quickly soared into the sky.

While giving the intelligent system a new order, Zhang Che looked down through the latest nano glass material. He realized the outline of the whole of Bei Du was about to enter his sight.

" Si… this acceleration is really astonishing! It's not inferior to those traditional rockets!" Zhang Che sighed in admiration. When the sky shuttle was about ten thousand meters above ground, he chose to go to Cang Long City, about four thousand kilometers south of Bei Du, and set it as the destination on the smart system.

In about ten minutes or so, he'd reach Cang Long City!

Even the latest fighter jets would need over an hour to travel four thousand kilometers! It went to show how frighteningly fast Dijiang-hao was!

Of course, Dijiang-hao being able to reach such astonishing speed was highly related to the use of precious minerals. Ordinary fuel wouldn't be able to support such fast flight.

"Warning! Warning! Unknown lifeforms detected tailing Dijiang-hao!"

"Warning! Warning! Unknown lifeforms detected tailing Dijiang-hao!"

Unexpectedly, after flying for less than three minutes, Dijiang-hao's alarm system issued a sharp warning.

On the screen in front, two black dots were rapidly closing in from tens of kilometers behind Dijiang-hao. Judging from their speed, they weren't any slower than Dijiang-hao!

"What the heck, I struck the jackpot!" Zhang Che's eyes rolled so far back he couldn't see anything.

-Do I have to be this lucky? The first flight on Dijiang-hao and I encountered such powerful exotic beasts, and it wasn't even far from Bei Du City!-

Zhang Che really wanted to roar to the skies, "Who else has such 'good' luck other than me!?"

For the two exotic beasts to be chasing Dijiang-hao at cruising speed, they must be flying at least twenty thousand kilometers per hour!

Either they were exotic beasts that were especially gifted with speed, or they were at least divine-quality!

The latter didn't seem very possible, because there were many cities within a few thousand kilometers radius. If such a powerful exotic beast was around, there would have been a huge commotion about them long ago.

Even if it was only an exotic beast with a talent for speed, they had to be at least mid-tier epic-quality beasts to achieve such terrifying speeds, right?

Well, didn't Engineer Li say that Dijiang-hao's defenses could withstand the attacks from mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts?

In that case, Zhang Che was at least in an unbeatable position. If he truly couldn't defend against them in the end, it would be fine flying into outer space to escape.

Moreover, this wasn't an ordinary commercial sky shuttle! Zhang Che had requested that the airline company install two high efficiency lasers! To exotic beasts without any elemental defense barriers, this type of pure energy weapon was simply their natural counter!

-Should I try to see if I can shoot down those two exotic beasts?- Zhang Che decided to almost instantly!

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Dijiang-hao's attacking and defensive strength was unproven. Naturally Zhang Che wanted to test and see if he could kill those two exotic beasts.

In any case, even if it couldn't take the exotic beasts down, Zhang Che could operate Dijiang-hao and have it fly into outer space. The two exotic beasts wouldn't dare to give chase.

"Warning! Warning! Unknown lifeforms detected behind Dijiang-hao!" Dijiang-hao's radar was still issuing warnings.

Zhang Che slapped down on the warning button, stopping it from disrupting his own judgment. He operated Dijiang-hao, slowing it by a tiny bit, as if he hadn't realized the danger lurking behind him, and continued flying south.

The two exotic beasts were truly astonishingly fast. Even though Zhang Che had lowered Dijiang-hao's speed, it was still fifteen thousand kilometers per hour, at over Mach 12 speed.

No ordinary exotic beasts, even divine-quality ones, would find it easy to achieve such shocking speeds, and yet those two beasts actually did it!

As the two exotic beasts gradually closed in, Zhang Che studied the surveillance camera facing behind, and he finally saw their true appearances.

Although they were still pretty far apart, the screen displayed the two's slim silhouettes.

"Hmm? They actually have no wings?" Zhang Che was really shocked! Exotic beasts with no wings were actually able to fly at over Mach 10!

It didn't make sense! Could it be a flood dragon species exotic beast?

It was unlikely. If they truly were of the flood dragon species, would they be doing something like ambushing? They would have attacked the nearby cities long ago, and raised a huge commotion!

The two exotic beasts continued closing in. To his surprise, Zhang Che realized a layer of dark light was enveloping their slim bodies. It was exactly this layer of dark light that allowed them to fly at such a frightening speed, and not make much noise.

That layer of dark light seemed to ignore air resistance. Zhang Che didn't see any of the rippling around their flight path that was usually present after going supersonic.

"It looks like those two are exotic beasts with unique flight abilities…" Realizing that, Zhang Che was instead less worried than before.

Since they didn't achieve such high speed with pure strength, it proved that the two exotic beasts weren't divine-quality. Since they weren't, Dijiang-hao's armor could totally withstand their physical attacks.

As for energy attacks, Dijiang-hao wasn't afraid, either.

The surface of Dijiang-hao was coated with a layer of the latest heat-resistant lamination. It could, to a certain degree, nullify the damage of energy attacks.

Moreover, Dijiang-hao wasn't the type of traditional sky shuttle that could only be beaten on passively. It was outfitted with lasers. Their attack range definitely surpassed that of most exotic beasts' energy attacks.

"Just a little closer… once they're within three thousand meters, the lasers can display at least half their full power. At that time, it will be a huge threat to those two exotic beasts!"

Zhang Che watched as the two exotic beasts behind quickly drew closer, his eyes narrowed.

He didn't believe those two fellows' elemental attacks could reach three thousand meters. If that was the case, he could only operate Dijiang-hao at overclock capacity immediately and enter outer space as soon as possible to avoid the danger.

-It should be impossible. Ordinary epic-quality exotic beasts only have a maximum attack range of about a thousand meters, and half their strength would be lost.- Zhang Che thought, not daring to say it aloud.

If he accidentally jinxed it, the results wouldn't be pretty.

The two silhouettes finally came within five thousand meters.

"This is…" At this moment, Zhang Che finally got a clear look at the rough appearances of those two exotic beasts, and was extremely surprised.

"Weren't they the terrifying exotic beasts I saw in the sky when I was going to Tian Xing City?"

Zhang Che remembered the scene vividly. A few of these exotic beasts caused a formation of planes to explode into balls of flames.

At that time, that group of exotic beasts even tried to pursue the sky shuttle Zhang Che was in after destroying the planes, forcing the sky shuttle to immediately fly into outer space, and barely avoid that crisis.

He didn't expect to encounter these exotic beasts again here!

"They're definitely epic-quality!" Zhang Che composed himself, getting a rough idea on the two exotic beasts' quality. "Tsk, tsk. A pity that exotic beasts on Mercury won't drop beast cards after they're killed. I'd be rich otherwise!"

Zhang Che felt like he was capable of killing those two exotic beasts, and was already lamenting about not getting beast cards from them.

Speaking of the exotic beasts' corpses, Zhang Che couldn't help but remember when he was battling in the northern icy plains a few days ago. He had killed many powerful exotic beasts there, too. Although the government had agreed to purchase those corpses from them for research purposes, Zhang Che still haven't gotten his rewards.

No matter which world it was, the efficiency of certain departments were really the same…

Four thousand meters… three thousand meters!

They had finally come into his attack range!

Zhang Che immediately focused his attention and aimed the two lasers through the targeting radar, locking onto those two exotic beasts. However, his hand was frozen above the firing button, not pressing down.

Since he was sure the two exotic beasts wouldn't be any threat to Dijiang-hao, Zhang Che naturally wanted to wait until they got a little closer before firing. That way, he had a higher confidence of taking them down in one shot.

The high efficiency laser truly exhausted too much energy. Every shot he took would deplete a kilogram of energy minerals. Having to take another shot would be a waste!

It was only when the two exotic beasts came within a thousand meters that Zhang Che pressed down with his finger.

In the next moment, the long-ready lasers fired at the same time. Two burning beams of light lit up in the sky, instantly hitting the two figures.

Two extremely sharp creaking noises, like rocks being dragged on glass, rang out. They actually penetrated Dijiang-hao's shell, directly entering Zhang Che's ears.

"Their cries are so freaking unpleasant!" Zhang Che grimaced. He raised his hands to rub his ears, but his eyes remained focused on the surveillance screen.

Under the two burning beams of light, huge holes appeared on the two exotic beasts' bodies.

No flesh and blood came out. Everything had evaporated. They were like paper burned with high speed flames, leaving only a big hole behind.

"As expected, Engineer Li didn't lie to me!"

Zhang Che's eyes shone. It seemed like the two kilograms worth of energy minerals were well spent. The powers of the high efficiency lasers had truly exceeded his imagination! A single shot of it could heavily injure mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts!

"Damn, trying to run away? Not so easy!"

While Zhang Che was feeling full of himself, the two heavily injured exotic beasts had quickly turned around and sped off to the west.

Zhang Che cursed inside and immediately turned Dijiang-hao to give chase.

The advantage of Dijiang-hao using the new energy was on display. Its acceleration simply left one in shock. After only a few seconds, its speed increased by over fifty percent, reaching more than twenty thousand kilometers per hour.

"You can't get away!" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes slightly. The laserss had already locked onto the two exotic beasts' heads. As his finger pressed down on the firing button, the two fully charged weapons shot out two burning beams of light again.

Although the two exotic beasts had sensed the great danger approaching, and were about to move in an irregular pattern, how could their speed compare to the speed of light?

Without any warning, two beams of light shot past them. The two exotic beasts instantly lost a fraction of their heads. This was only because Zhang Che wanted to keep their corpses and chose not to directly kill them.

Even so, the two exotic beasts were on the verge of death, spinning as they plummeted to the ground.

"Almost done!" Zhang Che cheered softly, feeling a sense of relief inside.

Immediately, he slowed down, following the two exotic beasts closely as they fell.

Once he killed them, they would be the corpses of epic-quality exotic beasts. Despite being in sub-optimal states, they were still very valuable. Zhang Che wouldn't waste such high-grade trophies.

After catching up to them, before they crashed to the ground, Zhang Che opened up a tiny opening on Dijiang-hao. The scarlet sword shot out like lightning, punching through their heads.

Fortunately, there wasn't a human settlement below them. The two exotic beasts' corpses directly crashed onto a flat grassland, alarming the nearby weak exotic beasts and sending them scurrying away quickly.

After a short moment, Dijiang-hao slowly descended from the sky.

Zhang Che opened the cabin door impatiently and jumped out. He was so shocked by the sheer size of the bodies that he couldn't utter a word.

Earlier when they were up in the sky, there was nothing for reference, and they were far apart, thus he didn't feel the two exotic beasts were big. Now that he got a closer look, he realized the bodies were actually over fifty meters long!

Before he could look closely at the two exotic beasts' appearances, in his spiritual sea, the ball of light representing the Umbra Wind God Leopard quickly stirred, transmitting his elated emotions to Zhang Che.

"Hmm? What's going on? Does this little fellow want to consume the corpses of these two exotic beasts?"

Zhang Che had never come across such a situation. In the past, he slew countless exotic beasts of all species and types in the beast world, and yet the little fellow had never shown any reaction.

Could it be that this little fellow was a very picky eater, and the corpses of ordinary exotic beasts were unable to interest him at all?

Or, perhaps the two exotic beasts were like the Umbra Wind God Leopard, possessing the dark and wind attributes?

The possibility seemed likely! Otherwise, why would they be so frighteningly fast? Perhaps that was a blessing from their wind attribute!

Also, there was always a layer of dark light around their bodies. It was very likely to be energy from their dark attribute!

Back then, they had probably used the skills from their dark attribute to instantly destroy the planes, making them explode at the same time.

Realizing that, Zhang Che was relieved. A ray of light shot out from his brow as he summoned the little Umbra Wind God Leopard.

The Umbra Wind God Leopard, which looked like a big, ugly black dog, whimpered happily the moment he appeared, and rushed up to the corpses of the exotic beasts, wagging his greenish-black tail like a windmill.

Zhang Che's face turned dark. -You're a freaking nine-star super divine-quality exotic beast, not a puppy!-

The Umbra Wind God Leopard didn't care what Zhang Che was thinking. He vented his excitement, then opened his mouth wide and bit down on the neck of one of the exotic beasts' headless corpses.

Zhang Che felt a numbing ache in his gums watching this. -That's the corpse of an exotic beast at mid-tier epic-quality at the very least. Can your little teeth chew through it?-

However, the scene that unfolded next left Zhang Che's jaw hanging. His face looked like he had just seen a ghost, his eyes filled with disbelief.

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Chapter 404: 404 All of a Sudden

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At the Bao Islands, in the suite of a certain hotel…

On the spacious bed, two white meat worms were rolling around.

All kinds of indescribable noises echoed in the room. The scene was so hot it was comparable to the adult videos from Japan.

Suddenly, the woman let out a horrified scream. Her body stiffened, her eyes suddenly losing all signs of life. Her skin seemed dehydrated, quickly withering.

After a short while, Wang Bo crawled up from above the woman's body with a disgusted expression. An evil light flashed across his eyes, and a thick aura of vengeance erupting from his body, nearly tearing his skin open.

Wang Bo creased his brow. A flash of red light shone in his eyes. The aura of vengeance suddenly disappeared without a trace.

"How is this human's body so weak? I only replenished yin energy nine times and there's already signs of breaking down. A pity that it will be much more difficult for me if I want to take over another body, otherwise…"

A brutal glint shone in his eyes. He looked at his naked body in extreme disdain, then let out a soft sigh helplessly.

Wang Bo looked at the woman's dried up corpse on the bed once more. With a snap of his fingers, a black flame suddenly appeared and fell onto the woman's corpse, burning it into faint ash in the blink of an eye.

In the next moment, he waved his hand. A slight breeze seemed to blow through the room. The ashes on the bed automatically rolled off, scattered to every corner in the room, not leaving any traces behind.

Well, there were traces… of a few stains on the bed, looking very eye-catching.

Wang Bo had an expressionless look as he slowly put on his clothes. He opened the door and walked out. On his way, it was like no one noticed his presence.

"The human world is really strange. It's completely different from the records left behind in ancient times. I actually can't sense my other clones! It seems like it will be difficult for me to complete my plan," Wang Bo mumbled softly as he walked out of the hotel lobby, blending into the sea of crowd.Zhang Che's eyes were agape, in disbelief of what he was seeing.

Originally, he thought the Umbra Wind God Leopard's teeth would break. Instead, the exotic beast's corpse was immediately covered in a mysterious energy at the neck when the little fellow bit down. The scales and flesh melted mysteriously, turning into a mass of pure energy, and was drawn into the Umbra Wind God Leopard's mouth.

"Meow!…" the little thing cried out happily. Zhang Che's legs went limp from fright, nearly falling on the ground.

"This is hopeless… What are you exactly? A dog or a cat?"

This fellow was obviously a young nine-star super divine-quality powerful exotic beast. When did it learn to wag its tail like a dog, and meow like a cat?

This made no sense. It truly made no sense!

Of course, these were but tiny matters. No matter how eccentric this little fellow's actions were, nothing was more shocking than the abilities he had displayed.

This fellow was only at two-star gold-quality at present, and its skills weren't even awakened yet. Why did it possess such a terrifying ability?

It directly turned the corpse of an epic-quality exotic beast into energy and absorbed it in full, not wasting a single hair of the corpse!

Even epic-quality exotic beasts didn't have such abilities, right?

Indeed, a super divine-quality exotic beast was that extraordinary!

As he sighed in admiration, Zhang Che watched as the Umbra Wind God Leopard's little mouth opened wide, quickly melting the exotic beast's corpse from the neck down. Every part of the body was turned into a mass of pure energy, and was swallowed into that little body in big mouthfuls.

Not even five minutes later, the unknown exotic beast with a body length of over fifty meters was fully turned into energy, all swallowed into the Umbra Wind God Leopard's stomach.

Zhang Che looked at the Umbra Wind God Leopard's stomach in horror. It seemed a little more swollen than before?

However, he wasn't paying attention before. He didn't know if it was like that from the start.

"Compared to this little thing, what does my appetite count for? What is a glutton? This is!"

Zhang Che's horizons were truly widened!

Despite the corpse being turned into energy, the Umbra Wind God Leopard had to eat for five minutes before he devoured the whole thing. It went to show how strong the exotic beast was.

Even so, after the little fellow was done eating, he only did a little burp, not feeling bloated at all. Afterwards, he charged over with renewed effort to the other exotic beast's corpse and bit down.

"This fellow's appetite is really huge! I'm afraid this time it won't take five minutes, right?"

It was like Zhang Che could visualize the second corpse turning into a mass of pure energy and sucked into the little fellow's stomach.

However, in the next moment, a crisp snapping sound rang out, shocking Zhang Che. He nearly jumped from fright.

He saw the Umbra Wind God Leopard chewing happily on a mouthful of the exotic beast's flesh mixed with scales. Zhang Che was thoroughly dumbstruck.

This little fellow might be small, but it had many tricks!

Could it be that just absorbing the energy didn't have much taste, and now he wanted to eat it with the original flavor and experience the delicious flesh and blood?

But, if he ate like this, how long would he take to finish eating the whole corpse?

Seeing the Umbra Wind God Leopard eating happily, Zhang Che couldn't help but rush him, "Don't waste any time. Quickly finish it. We still have to rush for time."

"Wuwu…", the little fellow looked back and rolled his eyes at Zhang Che. Afterwards, he went back to biting down at the corpse, but this time, he didn't chew, and instead swallowed the flesh directly.

Although not much of the corpse's flesh was bitten with every bite, the huge corpse quickly shrank. After only about ten minutes, that gigantic corpse that weighed close to a hundred tons was cleaned up by the Umbra Wind God Leopard!

This time, he definitely finished eating the corpse!

After burping a few times more, the Umbra Wind God Leopard suddenly turned into a mass of light and directly flew back to Zhang Che's spiritual sea, laying silently underneath the rainbow crystal, unmoving.

"Sleeping right after eating… It looks like you're neither a dog, nor a cat. You're simply a freaking lazy pig!"Zhang Che was originally looking forward to the Umbra Wind God Leopard ranking up in either level or quality. In the end, he returned to Zhang Che's spiritual sea without any warning, and didn't show any changes, either, leaving Zhang Che with a headache.

From now on, Zhang Che couldn't depend on killing powerful demonic beasts to accumulate life energy for the Umbra Wind God Leopard. If he depended solely on feeding his pet, the Umbra Wind God Leopard's appetite seemed a little too much; heavens knew how many exotic beasts with the same attributes he would have to eat to rank up?

Actually, Zhang Che wasn't afraid of how big the Umbra Wind God Leopard's appetite was. The crux of the matter was that the fellow seemed to be only interested in high-quality dark and wind attributed exotic beasts. It wouldn't be easy to prepare food for him!

High-quality exotic beasts were already very rare. They even had to be dark and wind attributed. That was too much to ask!

"I remember there seemed to be more than two of those dark exotic beasts when they attacked the squadron..?" Zhang Che rolled his eyes, thinking. Afterwards, he quickly returned to Dijiang-hao, taking off into the sky. He circled around the area within a few thousand kilometers, hoping to attract the remaining dark exotic beasts to him.

However, after flying around in the area for an hour, Zhang Che discovered the remaining few dark exotic beasts seemed to have vanished into thin air, not finding a single one.

It was obvious the other dark exotic beasts were no longer active in this area.

Given the size of Mercury, it would be impossible for Zhang Che to find them without great luck, even if he had three or five years' time to do so.Left without a choice, Zhang Che could only give up on this idea. He changed his direction and continued on his way to his original destination of Cang Long City.

Proper matters were more important. First he'd raise his beastmaster tier to Tier Seven, then think about these matters.

In any case, even if he slew the remaining few dark exotic beasts, Zhang Che guessed that the Umbra Wind God Leopard might not become much stronger.

The higher the potential an exotic beast had, the more difficult it was for it to rank up!

Zhang Che wasn't counting on the little fellow to have any significant increase in strength within the near future.

That was totally impossible.At the Bao Islands…

Wang Bo sat in his room. On the television, news was being reported.

"Next we'll report a piece of news: according to our city's Public Safety Office under the City Administrative Hall, in recent days, nine young women have gone missing in the city.

"After investigations from the Public Safety Office's investigators, the nine women were found to have a point in common shortly before their disappearances: they used their identity cards to check into hotels.

"The next day, when the hotel's staff were about to clean up, they discovered the women have gone missing, and the investigators from the Public Safety Office have discovered from the hotel's surveillance that there were no records of them leaving their room.

"Here are the photos of the nine women. If any citizen discovers them, please contact the Public Safety Office right away."

Wang Bo revealed a smile containing a hint of disdain at the corner of his lips. He turned off the television and stood up. "I've digested most of the energy. It's time to look for the next prey!"

Meanwhile, in a conference room in Yapeng City's Public Safety Office, the nine missing women's information were shown on the screen on the wall.

A middle-aged man with a squarish face, wearing a black uniform, turned to look at a female police officer and said, "Xiaowen, let's hear about the results of your lab tests."

"Yes, Bureau Chief!"

The short-haired, capable and experienced Xiaowen stood up. She opened a file and introduced calmly, "The only common point between these nine missing cases was that in their respective hotel rooms, there were obvious traces of sexual intercourse on the bed sheet. After some lab tests, it was found that the traces only belonged to the women, and no other elements were found.

"So, for now, if we don't obtain any new trails, there's no way for us to continue investigating."

Those in the conference room couldn't help but feel shocked. Since there were traces of sexual intercourse, why was there only traces of the woman's bodily fluids found?

Could it be that those women all checked into a hotel room alone to pleasure themselves and disappeared mysteriously afterwards?

What a joke! No one would believe that as the truth no matter how stupid they were!

This series of missing person cases seemed to be a really tricky one…

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Chapter 405: The Unresigned Miyazaki Clan

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

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Dijiang-hao cruised a few rounds in the sky, but Zhang Che didn't discover any traces of the other dark exotic beasts.

Left without a choice, he could only fly toward his original destination, Cang Long City.

As per the information Huang Juyun prepared for him, Zhang Che came directly to the vicinity of a small town about seventy kilometers to the northeast of Cang Long City. Indeed, he saw a spatial gateway standing in a small valley.

Next to the spatial gateway was a military camp. Zhang Che parked Dijiang-hao at a piece of empty land in the military camp without having to pay a fee.

It couldn't be helped; his future father-in-law's family was very well-connected in the military. If it were anyone else, let alone parking the sky shuttle in their territory, they would be warned by the military the moment they entered the air above the camp.

It had to be mentioned that a private sky shuttle was a very flashy piece of equipment.

When Zhang Che landed, Dijiang-hao's streamlined figure drew the eyes of everyone around the spatial gateway. Each of them stood on the spot, watching as Dijiang-hao slowly landed in the empty plaza in the military camp.

"Damn, the rich really can do whatever they want. He actually drove a private sky shuttle to come to the beast world. When I've struck it rich myself in the future, I'll buy such a flashy plane myself, too!" a young man in his twenties said angrily as he watched Zhang Che walk out of the sky shuttle's cabin, his eyes filled with envy, jealousy, and hatred.

"Stop daydreaming. Forget about affording such a thing in our lives!", the young man's companion smacked the back of his head and pulled him to the spatial gateway.

The young man immediately grew angry. "How is this daydreaming? I'll tell you. What difference is there between a man and a salted fish if he doesn't have a dream to work towards? Isn't it just a private sky shuttle? Wait until I advance to mid-tier beastmaster; I'll only need to obtain a few mid-tier beast cards and I'll go buy one right away!"

His companion looked at him as if he was looking at an idiot, asking, "You want to buy a private sky shuttle with just a few mid-tier beast cards? You better go back to sleep! Have you heard of anyone owning a private sky shuttle? Let me tell you. Don't even think about getting such luxurious items if you don't have billions of dollars!"

"Billions of dollars? Seriously?" The young man finally gaped in shock, speechless.

Zhang Che had actually overheard their discussion. It wasn't that they were speaking loudly, however. Instead, Zhang Che's senses had become much sharper after the golden vortex had powered up.

They were less than a hundred meters apart. It was impossible for Zhang Che not to hear them!

-They want to buy this kind of a sky shuttle with only billions of dollars?

-Really, poverty has limited your imaginations…-

Of course, Zhang Che wasn't interested in telling them the truth that a few billion dollars wouldn't even buy them a layer of Dijiang-hao's armor. That wasn't being reasonable, but slapping them in the face.

Zhang Che wouldn't do such a thing. He wasn't that bored yet…

As such, under the envious gazes of the people nearby, Zhang Che crossed the spatial gateway as if no one was near him and began his levelling trip.

Well, that was what he thought.

Not long ago, Zhang Che was still a greenhorn who didn't even dare stray too far away from the safety zone. Now, he was already someone who could wander around the beast world like it was his own backyard, not fearing the exotic beasts so powerful in the eyes of others.

"It feels like many years have passed. Who would've thought that it's only been a few months? In the beginning, I was only thinking of earning money to cure mother's illness, and now I've attained such achievements before I knew it!"

Zhang Che narrowed his eyes as he summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. He held a map in his hands and quickly flew directly east in the beast world according to the route marked out on the map.

At present, he was strong enough to protect himself and his close ones. He didn't have to deliberately disguise himself.

As he flew towards his destination, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's distinctive figure had the beastmasters below looking up in admiration.

Not only that, many beastmasters who were hunting exotic beasts couldn't help but show incredibly cautious looks when they saw the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flying over their heads, worried that this very powerful beastmaster would come snatch their prey.

After all, would a beastmaster riding a dragon be someone simple?

Naturally Zhang Che wouldn't go snatching their prey. Those exotic beasts, which were only mid-tier gold-quality at the most, could no longer enter his eyes.

Let alone mid-tier gold-quality, Zhang Che couldn't be bothered to snatch their prey even if it was a mid-tier legend-quality exotic beast.

They were all citizens of Hua Xia. Zhang Che couldn't bring himself to do that. That was too shameful!

(Editor's Note: Yes, this is total hypocritical BS, and a VERY selective memory…)

Following the directions on the map, Zhang Che rode the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, avoiding a few dangerous, unknown lands, and flew over two thousand kilometers before finally arriving at his destination.

As per the information from his future father-in-law, this area was filled with mid-tier exotic beasts, with no lack of dark gold, or even legend-quality beasts! He couldn't ask for a better levelling spot.

Looking into the distance, he indeed saw all kinds of exotic beasts spread out on hills. He could sense a stronger aura from several of the places.

-Very good! Father-in-law really put great effort in this!-

"The sumptuous feast starts now!" Zhang Che directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to descend to a low altitude as he said that. With a wave of his hand, he summoned all his powerful pets and subdued beasts.

When the Earthen Rock Demon's massive figure appeared, the nearby exotic beasts were terrified and started scampering away in all directions.

The pressure from a epic-quality beast was too much!

Those exotic beasts immediately knew this area was taken over by a powerful existence when they felt the Earthen Rock Demon's aura. If they didn't leave now, they might not get another chance to.

"Tsk, tsk . You won't get away!"

Zhang Che's lips drew back into a smile. He waved his hand, and the bunch of capable babies scattered, each heading in a separate direction to pursue the exotic beasts.

With the exception of some extremely fast flying exotic beasts, how could the exotic beasts in this area, which were only mid-tier level, escape the pursuit of a bunch of legend-quality subdued beasts and pets?

All kinds of horrified cries rang out within a dozen kilometers. Mid-tier exotic beasts were brought down one after another, either turning into mangled corpses or streaks of light.

Some of the streaks of light that resembled flames directly dissipated, while the others condensed inwards and turned into beast cards of different colors.

Zhang Che wasn't idling around waiting. With the scarlet sword's attack range reaching three hundred meters, his hunting speed was superior to even the Earthen Rock Demon. A sweep of his blade would clear a wide area, as if he was only mowing grass.The next day, a passenger plane landed at Cang Long City's airport.

Miyazaki Musashi walked out of the airport expressionlessly and called for a taxi with his well-practiced Mandarin, rushing towards a certain area in the suburbs.

The taxi driver was originally not willing to leave the city, worried that it was too dangerous. However, Miyazaki Musashi only shot a glance at him and made him tremble. A layer of cold sweat soaked his back, and he quickly drove to his passenger's destination.

After arriving, Miyazaki Musashi tossed out a low-tier beast card. He didn't care about the ecstatic look on the driver's face. After determining the directions, Miyazaki Musashi headed towards the spatial gateway Zhang Che went to.

His pace seemed to be very slow, but every step he took would cross over two meters. Soon, he arrived at the military camp next to the spatial gateway.

"So this is Hua Xia's newest private sky shuttle? What a pity…" Miyazaki Musashi subconsciously cast a glance at the beautiful Dijiang-hao parked in the military camp, then crossed the spatial gateway without a word.

After entering the beast world, Miyazaki Musashi didn't go look for Zhang Che blindly. Given how vast the beast world was, let alone him not knowing which direction Zhang Che went in, even if he knew, it was impossible to find him.

He only settled down in a shop within the safety zone and waited patiently.

"No one can continue to live freely after offending the Miyazaki Clan. No one!"

When he thought of how Zhang Che was the reason that the Miyazaki Clan fell from a first-rate to a second-rate clan, and perhaps not even a second-rate clan, a deep cold glint flashed in Miyazaki Musashi's usually calm eyes.

The news of Zhang Che killing a descendent from the Zhen family, and subsequently engaging the Zhen family in an arena deathmatch was too widely spread. As a clan with extremely deep foundations in Japan, it wasn't hard for the Miyazaki Clan to learn such information, despite being in a worse position than before.

Not only that, even the matter of Zhang Che purchasing a private sky shuttle from Hua Xia Airlines was investigated thoroughly by the Miyazaki Clan.

This time, it was done through the observation via satellite, capturing Zhang Che flying Dijiang-hao to Cang Long City. Miyazaki Musashi came tailing behind him.

He believed that Zhang Che probably wouldn't stay here for too long.

Of course, even if Zhang Che would be staying here for a long time, Miyazaki Musashi was totally patient enough to wait for him in the safety zone.

Zhang Che had hurt the Miyazaki Clan too deeply. Even though he was now a great figure with huge influence among the mid-tier beastmasters in Hua Xia, in addition to having the Hua Xia military behind him, the Miyazaki Clan was determined to silence him, no matter what price it took.

The room Miyazaki Musashi rented was on the third story of this ad hoc inn. It provided him with a wide view. Standing there, he could see the situation of the entire safety zone.

He didn't go to his room to rest. Instead, he moved a chair out and sat in the wooden corridor, his eyes slightly narrowed, focusing his attention on the distance like he was enjoying the scenery.

Although Miyazaki Musashi's actions were a little weird, the beastmasters who entered the beast world might run into danger at any moment. No one would take notice of his eccentrical actions. In any case, he wasn't bothering anyone.The sky gradually darkened. Miyazaki Musashi maintained his sitting posture, and just like that, sat for half a day. His eyes were half open, half closed, looking like he was about to fall asleep.

Finally, when darkness had fully shrouded the lands, and lights were on in every corner of the safety zone, Miyazaki Musashi stood up. He walked down the stairs and went to enjoy a simple dinner.

As a powerful beastmaster, Miyazaki Musashi wasn't lacking in patience. After his dinner, he went back upstairs and sat down in the corridor for a long time, then returned to his room to rest for the night.

It was already night time. No one would dare move around casually in the beast world.

Miyazaki Musashi wasn't worried Zhang Che would rush back during the night. He believed that as an experienced beastmaster, Zhang Che wouldn't take such risks.

Very few beastmasters would dare to roam around during nights in the beast world!

It wasn't only because of the many hidden dangers during the nights in the beast world. The main reason was that there were no moon or stars in the night sky to provide illumination. The lands were fully covered in darkness. No matter how good a person's sense of direction was, they would get lost without realizing it.

Losing their way in the beast world during the night wasn't something fun. If they were ever so slightly careless, they might intrude on a powerful exotic beast's territory. Once they were ambushed, how many people dared to guarantee they'd be able to retreat in one piece?

Even Miyazaki Musashi didn't dare to act so recklessly, even as a powerful high-tier beastmaster. He believed Zhang Che wouldn't dare, either.

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Four days passed in the blink of an eye.

During those four days, other than not daring to move around at night, Zhang Che spent the rest of his time massacring the mid-tier exotic beasts nearby. He encountered some high-tier exotic beasts occasionally, but their quality wasn't very high. They were only gold-quality at most.

Between the two killing machines of the Earthen Rock Demon and the scarlet sword, even high-tier dark gold-quality exotic beasts weren't scary to Zhang Che. He didn't put these high-tier exotic beasts to heart at all.

It was the exact opposite. After killing those high-tier exotic beasts, Zhang Che would obtain a decent amount of soul force points. They were extremely helpful towards his quest of advancing to a high-tier beastmaster.

"Tsk, tsk. If I can encounter a large batch of high-tier exotic beasts whose qualities aren't above dark gold, the time I need to reach Tier Seven beastmaster would at least be halved!"

After slaying a few high-tier exotic beasts in succession, Zhang Che was so happy his eyes turned into slits.

Not only that, he was even hoping to find a big group of high-tier exotic beasts to kill. That would be the most perfect scenario!

However, in such relatively safe areas, it wasn't so easy to encounter large amounts of high-tier exotic beasts, unless Zhang Che was brave enough to venture deeper into the beast world. Perhaps he might find just what he was looking for!

Of course, Zhang Che's brain wasn't damaged by any means. He would never choose to venture deeper.

Within the information provided by his father-in-law were extremely terrifying existences present in the extreme depths of the beast worlds. Although Zhang Che was now able to take on powerful exotic beasts, and he might encounter large groups of high-tier exotic beasts if he went deeper into the beast world, it was more likely for him to encounter an exotic beast so powerful that he had no chance of winning against it. That would be akin to heading to his own death.

"During these past four days, I have killed almost all of the mid-tier exotic beasts in this area. Although there are still a few around here and there, there's no need for me to continue wasting time here."

After deliberating for a while, Zhang Che decided to return.

The amount of soul force needed to break through from Tier Six to Tier Seven was too terrifying. It wasn't something he could hope to achieve in a month or two. Zhang Che didn't want to waste his time looking for those leftover exotic beasts.

There were still dozens of other locations with especially high populations of mid-tier exotic beasts in the information his father-in-law gave him. Zhang Che only had to make good use of his time to sweep through those places. Although he might not necessarily achieve Tier Seven after doing so, he should get very close to it.

"Since it's like that, let's go."Although it was already around 2 PM, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon wasn't slow. He could totally make it back to the safety zone before dark.

Streaks of five-colored or rainbow light flew back to Zhang Che's brow. Riding the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, he determined the direction and quickly made his way back.

However, after flying for some time on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, Zhang Che couldn't help but crease his brow.

-Freaking hell, I think I'm a little lost!-

He took out a map and looked closely at it. In the end, he confirmed that he was indeed unable to tell where he was.

It was fine, however. Zhang Che might not be able to find his way back, but he still had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon.

"Let's go, it's up to you now!" Zhang Che put the map away and patted the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's neck helplessly, letting the fellow lead the way back.

Based on past experiences, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was totally capable of remembering the way. Although the route they chose might be different, they were surely able to return.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew over mountain range after mountain range, river after river. In the end, Zhang Che gradually discovered some familiar places. It seemed like this fellow was very sensitive to directions and wouldn't make a mistake!

"Hmm, I seem to have some impressions of this place, too. Looks like this way is the correct way back!"

When they passed by a swamp, Zhang Che revealed a happy smile.

The more familiar places they came across, wouldn't that prove he was getting closer to the safety zone?

"Not right, this place is…"

As the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew right into the swamp land, Zhang Che's brow suddenly furrowed. Afterwards, his eyelid twitched, feeling so scared that his heart nearly leapt out of his mouth.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon only knew to keep flying in the direction back, and he actually forgot that there were several areas marked as dangerous on the map that they mustn't enter!

"Stop!" Zhang Che's heartbeat was racing. He hurriedly instructed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to stop, then took out the map once more. After looking through a while, he showed a terrified expression.

"Damn it, hopefully my luck this time isn't too bad. Quickly steer away from this place!"

However, just as the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon changed his direction and continued his flight, a shocking cry was suddenly heard from the swamp. An exotic bird covered in black feathers that resembled a phoenix from the legends suddenly rose from the center of the swamp.

"Quickly go! Hopefully that fellow didn't notice us!"

Despite being several kilometers away, Zhang Che could sense the terrifying aura emitted from the black phoenix clearly. He was so scared that he was trembling. He directed the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly close to the ground and in the direction of the safety zone.

However, that black phoenix let out another sharp cry, then immediately came chasing in Zhang Che's direction, its speed several times faster than the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon!

"Shit, shit! We offended a terrifying thing just like that?" Zhang Che was shaking in fear. Ordering the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to bring out his potential and fly at supersonic speed, his brain spun quickly, trying to think of a solution to this matter.

That black phoenix was a divine-quality exotic beast without a doubt. Despite the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon erupting his potential, he was still much slower than the black phoenix. The black phoenix would probably catch up to them in less than three minutes!

"That black phoenix must be drawn to the aura Hanming is emitting. But, if I recall Hanming, will it really stop chasing us?"

There was surely a huge force of attraction between dragons and phoenixes!

Zhang Che immediately reacted to this. They were probably locked on by the black phoenix the moment the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon entered this swamp land.

He didn't dare to gamble that the black phoenix wouldn't continue chasing if he recalled the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. However, even if he had the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon continued running, there was no chance they could escape!

"No, no, no. Calm down, calm down. There must be a way!"

Large beads of sweat rolled down Zhang Che's forehead. He could feel that terrifying aura behind them getting closer and closer!

However, he must keep his composure, or they'd really be done for!

"Myriad Transformation Lizard!" In the end, Zhang Che thought of the attribute on the Myriad Transformation Lizard beast card which he had nearly forgotten: exotic beast transformation!

As long as he chose an exotic beast as the template, Zhang Che could make use of the ability to transform into that exotic beast, gaining its basic attributes.

But, where was he supposed to find an exotic beast to use as a template at this time?

"I wonder if my own subdued beasts and pets work?"

Just a few seconds later, however, Zhang Che was dejected. He was unable to use his own subdued beasts and pets as templates, and as a result, he couldn't use the Myriad Transformation Lizard card's exotic beast transformation to disguise himself.

"Shit, where do I find exotic beasts around here!?"

Zhang Che's head was covered in sweat from anxiety, his eyes wide. He started looking carefully in the swamp ahead.

"There!" After a short search, a flash of hope shone in his eyes. A bunch of face basin-sized green frogs were resting in a pond about a thousand meters to his front and left.

It was surely impossible for such big frogs to be ordinary animals. They should be exotic beasts, no doubt about it!

Zhang Che had no other choices; the black phoenix was drawing closer and closer to them.

Just as this thought appeared in his mind, Zhang Che quickly ordered the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to fly to the sky above the pond, and directly recalled that fellow back into his spiritual sea.

Zhang Che was thrown forward by inertia, drawing an arc in the air before falling toward the pond below.

That terrifyingly powerful black phoenix was less than three thousand meters behind him!

-Transform!-

Zhang Che's gaze was locked onto one of the flustered green frogs, setting it as a template. He screamed inside and used the Myriad Transformation Lizard's exotic beast transformation ability.

A mystical force burst forth from inside Zhang Che's body. His body, which was still in the air, suddenly twisted, and really transformed into one of those face basin-sized green frogs, falling into the pond with a splash.It was already the third day. Other than eating and sleeping, Miyazaki Musashi remained at the corridor of the third story of that simple wooden building, awaiting Zhang Che's reappearance.

Despite being a high-tier beastmaster and having a physique far superior than ordinary human's, Miyazaki Musashi felt fatigued after persisting at his duty for three days in a row.

However, he didn't show any of his fatigue on his face. His spirited eyes kept sweeping across the beastmasters who had returned to the safety zone from all directions.

Suddenly, Miyazaki Musashi's pupils contracted slightly. Afterwards, his unrippled face revealed a very faint smile.

The sky was gradually turning dark.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was flying back from the east of the beast world, ferrying Zhang Che on his back.Even now, Zhang Che was still feeling some lingering fear in his heart!

Luckily, when he really transformed into a green frog, that black phoenix indeed stopped chasing after him, and he escaped that crisis.

However, it wasn't like Zhang Che didn't pay a price for it.

The Myriad Transformation Lizard's exotic beast transformation template couldn't be erased after establishing them. That green frog was only a one-star bronze-quality exotic beast; any exotic beast could easily claim its life.

Such a trash exotic beast actually occupied one of the three template spots! It could well be imagined how depressed Zhang Che felt inside.

"Forget it. It saved my life; I better learn to be content about this," Zhang Che shook his head, consoling himself. At the very least, the green frog was the lowest of garbage. If he ever encountered those unimaginably powerful exotic beasts again, he could still use it to escape. Those terrifyingly powerful creatures would never bother themselves with an ant-like existence like a one-star exotic beast.

When he finally returned to the safety zone, Zhang Che let out a long sigh of relief. After recalling the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, he quickly walked towards where the spatial gateway was.

At present, there were quite a number of beastmasters returning from every direction of the beast world. The safety zone was bustling with noise, shoulders rubbing everywhere.

Zhang Che weaved through the crowd quickly, not bumping into anyone. It went to show how nimble he was.

At this moment, Miyazaki Musashi was walking a short distance away from Zhang Che. However, naturally he wouldn't choose to strike in the safety zone. Otherwise, the Miyazaki Clan would be done for, even if he managed to escape in the end.

Beastmasters were forbidden from fighting inside the safety zone. This was an iron-clad rule across the Alliance. Anyone who dared violate the rule would be severely punished!

If someone went above and beyond, committing murder in the safety zone, the consequences would be even more serious. No matter how strong they were, unless they ran into the beast world and no longer came back, they would never escape punishment!

Miyazaki Musashi naturally wouldn't take his life and the Miyazaki Clan's future lightly. In truth, his trip here wasn't to kill Zhang Che.

At this moment, Miyazaki Musashi was carrying a strange exotic beast that somewhat resembled a sable and a squirrel in his arms. When he finally came within a few meters of Zhang Che, that exotic beast suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a mouthful of air with a pungent smell at Zhang Che.

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. This little thing is too naughty. I'm really sorry, brother!"

Zhang Che covered his nose in response. He turned to look at his side, his eyes burning with anger. He saw a middle-aged man looking back at him apologetically, expressing his regret profusely with his head lowered, and even slapping hard on the subdued beast in his arm.

"I say, you better put that thing away. If you encounter someone with a bad temper, I'm afraid you'll be in for some hard times!"

Zhang Che couldn't bring himself to say anything bad after seeing the middle-aged man apologizing so sincerely. He only warned the man, telling him not to commit such mistakes again, and he continued on his way towards the spatial gateway.

After Zhang Che crossed the spatial gateway, the apologetic smile on Miyazaki Musashi's face suddenly vanished without a trace. The corner of his lips raised slightly, a mysterious glint shining in his eyes.

"Zhang Che, you won't get away!"

Just like that, Miyazaki Musashi walked to the spatial gateway along with the human flow, still carrying the little subdued beast, and exited.The night went by peacefully.

The next morning, Zhang Che walked out of a hotel in the commercial district next to the military camp and took to the skies on Dijiang-hao, flying further south of Hua Xia.

Miyazaki Musashi, on the other hand, returned to Cang Long City and waited for two hours there. Afterwards, he received a text message on his personal terminal and with a smile, walked towards the airport.

Zhang Che flew Dijiang-hao for a short while, and arrived at a city two thousand kilometers south of Cang Long City. As he entered the beast world to the west of that city, Miyazaki Musashi took an airplane and followed his trail there.

At noon, Miyazaki Musashi headed to the outside of the spatial gateway. He swept his gaze around and settled on the flashy Dijiang-hao sitting in the military camp. A strange smile flashed across his face, and he crossed the spatial gateway with long strides.

After entering the beast world, that little subdued beast appeared in Miyazaki Musashi's arms once more. Afterwards, they picked a direction and Miyazaki Musashi summoned a flying beast, mounted it, and quickly took off.

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Chapter 407: Great Minds Think Alike

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The flying beast Miyazaki Musashi was riding was a peculiarly-shaped bird.

The big bird's head resembled half a bitter gourd. It had no feathers, but was covered with multiple lumps of meat of various sizes. Its pupils were vertical; at first glance it seemed like it was filled with a sense of evil.

Its crocodile-like huge jaws added some savagery to its appearance.

The big bird's neck was like a snake; long and slender, and covered in a layer of red and black ring-shaped scales.

Its body was a little more normal-looking. There wasn't much difference from ordinary birds, only that it had three short and thick talons below its belly, and the tip of its talons were shining with a deep blue coating. One look and you knew they contained lethal poison.

The big bird's flying speed wasn't high, but it definitely wasn't slow either, almost reaching three hundred meters per second, extremely close to the speed of sound.

A strong wind blew against Miyazaki Musashi. His clothing fluttered violently, producing loud noises, but he didn't show any signs of discomfort on his face.

From the minute rise and fall of his chest, one could tell that the wind of this level wasn't able to affect his breathing at all.

The superhuman physique of a high-tier beastmaster was displayed to the fullest here.

The sable-like little beast in Miyazaki Musashi's embrace kept sniffing, providing him with the direction to go in.

"Zhang Che, you won't get away this time! I'll repay you with ten times the humiliation you gave to our Miyazaki Clan!" Miyazaki Musashi's eyes narrowed, a cold, dreadful glint shining faintly in his pupils.About three thousand kilometers to the southwest of this beat world, a steep mountain range was divided by a few rivers. The terrain was extremely complicated.

The river flowed rapidly. Countless vapors rose, forming a layer of mist of uneven density in this area. The mist was shaped by the chaotic air currents between the mountains, flowing around the area, making it look like a paradise.

At present, Zhang Che was riding on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, hovering high up in the air. He had an apprehensive look on his face.

On his way here, there were plenty of dangerous areas marked on the map. In order to avoid the same mistakes from before, Zhang Che didn't let the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon fly too quickly, in case that fellow didn't recognize the route here, too, and directly flew back in a straight line. That would be a tragedy.

"But, the exotic beast population in this area is really incredibly dense! There are all kinds of species from the land, air, and water!"

It was precisely due to the complicated terrain in this area that all kinds of exotic beasts were present here. As a result, the exotic beast population here was considerably denser than in other areas.

To Zhang Che, this was of course a piece of great news!

As long as there weren't any exotic beasts so strong that he couldn't win against here, then the more exotic beasts were here, the better for him! That way, his soul force points would accumulate faster, allowing him to reach Tier Seven earlier!

"Well, let's start harvesting the experience points here!"

Although Zhang Che really disliked this kind of one-sided slaughter, he had no choice. He could only use this kind of method to hunt exotic beasts if he wanted to raise his beastmaster tier.

If there were other methods to break through, of course he wouldn't want to waste his time doing this!

With that extra time, he could stay in Bei Du and accompany Miss Tienan. How satisfying would that be!?

Moreover, he wasn't considered weak. It would be very pleasant for him to specifically go looking for mid-tier legend or even epic-quality exotic beasts to hunt for their beast cards, too.

Alas, there was no way out. If he wanted to become stronger, he could only break through to high-tier beastmaster as soon as possible. It was only that way that he would gain the strength to slay divine-quality exotic beasts, and gain the ability to wield the highest quality beast cards.

After lamenting inside, Zhang Che summoned all his powerful babies as usual. Everyone shared the work, forging their way forward in this extremely complicated area through the land, air, and water.

Since the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was the only one among Zhang Che's subdued beasts and pets who could deal with water-based exotic beasts, Zhang Che dismounted the dragon, liberating him, and instead rode on the Purple Jade Condor to charge ahead.

In any case, by relying on the scarlet sword and the Horned Electric Python, his strength was not inferior to a mid-tier epic-quality exotic beast. He no longer had to borrow the combat strength of Original Combat Body-type subdued beasts, and could take action on his own. It didn't make much difference what kind of mount he was using.

The exotic beasts in this area had no idea that a bunch of violent brigands had charged in. Not only were they going to disrupt their carefree lives, they even wanted to take their lives!

His group of babies charged in from a few directions, and Zhang Che rode the Purple Jade Condor, flying between the mountains and rivers, holding the Mr. Horny in his hand… Zhang Che creased his brow. He looked at the Horned Electric Python in his hand, thinking to himself, -Damn it, why do I always refer to this thing as Mr. Horny? I must have really been influenced by those few restricted period videos I watched when I was young!-

Zhang Che shook his head. In order to calm himself, he focused his attention on the golden vortex, entering that profound state. It was like he activated the view of god, taking in the view of everything around him in a three hundred and sixty degree sphere.

Doing that, not only did he manage to forget about Mr. Horny, he also discovered the few mid-tier exotic beasts near him, and he sent a few bolts of lightning from the Horned Electric Python at them.

A few consecutive rumblings of thunder were heard. Zhang Che successfully slew the exotic beasts, but at the same time he had also alarmed the exotic beasts in the area. They immediately ran through the mountains, and the aerial exotic beasts immediately took to the skies from the watery areas or woods below, scattering.

"What a move of beating the grass to scare the snake! I'm too freaking smart!" Zhang Che didn't think he'd get such an effect after using the Horned Electric Python to attack. He immediately broke out into a wide smile.

Now he didn't have to take the time to go looking for them!

Zhang Che didn't bother with the exotic beasts that were running around mindlessly in the mountains.

His subdued beasts and pets were mostly comprised of land-based creatures. Once those exotic beasts showed themselves, of course they could forget about getting away.

The aerial exotic beasts flying around in the sky, however, were different. Since the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had to concentrate on dealing with the water-based exotic beasts in the network of waters around here, Zhang Che could only give chase himself on the Purple Jade Condor.

Although the Purple Jade Condor was much slower than the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, fortunately Zhang Che could attack in a three hundred-meter radius with the scarlet sword, and he didn't let too many aerial exotic beasts get away.

The whole area immediately turned to chaos, cries ringing out everywhere.Miyazaki Musashi was flying on his strange bird. While flying southwest, he furrowed his brow deeply, feeling suspicious inside. "Why did this kid come to such a dangerous area? Is he not afraid of dying?"

After advancing about a thousand-some kilometers, Miyazaki Musashi had faintly sensed three extremely dangerous areas. Even he didn't dare to face the powerful existences inside those areas casually. How did Zhang Che, a mere mid-tier beastmaster, find the guts to come here?

However, that kid was obviously not simple, either. He actually avoided the territories of those ferocious creatures cleverly three times in a row, not alarming them. It seemed like he had a subdued beast that excelled in sensing dangers.

As such, Miyazaki Musashi became even more curious of Zhang Che's intent on this trip.

"Could it be that there is some treasure in these lands? It'd be best if that is true. I'll have you lose both your fortune and life, to make up for the losses our Miyazaki Clan suffered!"

Finally, after flying southwest for heavens-knew-how-long, a spread of mountain range with many rivers appeared in Miyazaki Musashi's sight. The little beast in his arms suddenly cried out a few times excitedly.

"He's right ahead!" Miyazaki Musashi raised his brow, a trace of killing intent shining in his eyes. He immediately had his mount fly lower, sticking close to the forest below and going forward.

On his way, Miyazaki Musashi saw many traces of combat. There were even faint blood stains left on the scene.

Blood stains wouldn't remain after the death of exotic beasts. So, this meant that… either Zhang Che or his subdued beasts were injured?

This was indeed the best news he could get. He only hoped that Zhang Che wouldn't die so easily!

A smile hung on the corners of Miyazaki Musashi's lips. In the next moment, however, he couldn't help but freeze on the spot.

"Wh-why are there exotic beast corpses!?" Miyazaki Musashi furrowed his brow. He subconsciously had his strange bird slow down.

Something must be amiss when there was an anomaly. Facing this unknown phenomenon, of course he had to be more cautious.

He never suspected this was the handiwork of a pet. When Zhang Che returned from the beast world yesterday and crossed the spatial gateway, he was all alone with no pets at his side!

Now that large amounts of exotic beast corpses had appeared here, and judging by the degree of mutilation of those corpses, the exotic beasts had obviously met with extremely terrifying attacks.

After thinking for a long while, a light shone in Miyazaki Musashi's eyes.

"Like I thought, why would that kid come all the way here? It looks like there is really some extraordinary treasure here being born into the world, and it gave rise to a huge battle between exotic beasts. This kid is here to pick up scraps!"

He felt that this scrap would eventually enter his pocket!

(TLN: Exotic beasts and pets will leave corpses and blood stains behind after they kill others, while subdued beasts killing exotic beasts will make the exotic beasts turn into streaks of light, not leaving any blood behind.)It went without saying that Zhang Che didn't know what Miyazaki Musashi thought. As of now, he and his babies had slaughtered most of the mid-tier or higher exotic beasts within several kilometers. Zhang Che narrowed his eyes, surveying the surrounding steep mountains and complicated network of rivers.

"This kind of terrain is usually where spiritual qi gathers. Since so many exotic beasts are resting here, it should be easy to grow some decent spiritual herbs, right?"

Zhang Che felt this was more likely the more he thought about it. Afterwards, he slapped his forehead in frustration!

-Damn it, I forgot about this yesterday. What a huge loss!-

Thinking of that, Zhang Che didn't continue advancing. Instead, he summoned the Gluttony Monkey and had him use his skill, searching the surrounding five-thousand-meter radius.

Unknown to either side, both parties actually thought of spiritual herbs based on the things they saw under different circumstances…

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Chapter 408: Discovering Another Spiritual Sword Fragment!

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

"Zhizhi, zhizhi!" the frisky monkey cried out happily when he finally got the chance to take a breather outside, not hearing Zhang Che's instructions.

"Hurry, help daddy find spiritual herbs, and I'll give you snacks tonight!" Zhang Che patted the back of the frisky monkey's head lightly, directly tempting him with delicious food.

After hearing about getting snacks, the frisky monkey's eyes were immediately shining with two rays of light. Afterwards, he quickly closed his eyes and activated his skills.

A full minute later, the frisky monkey suddenly opened his eyes again and jumped on the spot. He extended his arm, pointing at the mountain range to the west and cried out excitedly, "Zhizhi, zhi, zhizhizhi!"

Zhang Che raised his brow, then asked in surprise, "What is it? Are there many spiritual herbs over there?"

At the same time, he thought to himself, – I knew it! With how the mountains and rivers are gathered here, there'll surely be spiritual herbs present! Now that the frisky monkey investigated it, it is indeed so!-

However, the frisky monkey shook his head fiercely and cried out, "Zhizhi!", then stuck out his middle finger at Zhang Che.

"You freaking..!" Zhang Che was infuriated! -Is this fellow blaming me for not letting him come take a breather outside for so long, and purposefully making a fool out of me?

-Hmm? Not right!-

Zhang Che suddenly had a flash of inspiration. He looked at the frisky monkey with widened eyes and asked anxiously, "You're saying there's not many spiritual herbs, but only one?"

"Zhi!" the frisky monkey nodded with a wronged look on his face. -I clearly showed you with my finger. Why won't you believe me?

-Even if that is the case, forget it. But you even looked like you're going to hit me! How hurtful!-

Pa! Zhang Che patted the frisky monkey's head lightly, scolding in jest, "Don't you know to 'zhi' just once to indicate there's only one spiritual herb? What did you mean with that middle finger gesture? Do you not know it means to curse at someone?"

The frisky monkey nodded understanding. -I can't speak! Of course I can only gesture to show you! Who knew gesturing my fingers would mean I'm cursing at you? What injustice…-

"Alright, alright, don't feel wronged. Remember to not make such vulgar gestures anymore." Although Zhang Che was still suspicious whether that fellow did it on purpose, it wasn't the time to pursue this matter. After saying some words of consolation, Zhang Che continued, "Go, go, go! Let's quickly go look for that spiritual herb!"

Given how excited the frisky monkey had acted, that spiritual herb was definitely not low-grade stuff! Perhaps, it was a spiritual herb of a higher grade than the ice or fire lotuses!

If that turned out to be true, he'd really struck it rich!

"Zhizhi, zhizhi!" The frisky monkey grew excited again after Zhang Che steered the topic back to the spiritual herb. He jumped onto the Purple Jade Condor's back, then pointed in a direction with an impatient look on his face.

Zhang Che was very happy about this. The more excited the frisky monkey seemed, the more it proved that his guess was closer to the truth!

-Exactly what kind of spiritual herb is it?- Zhang Che felt his heartbeat accelerating. He quickly recalled his babies, changed his mount to the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, and flew towards the mountain range to his west.

A few thousand meters was neither far nor near. Given the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's speed, they only needed a few breaths' time to reach their destination.

In front of them was a seemingly ordinary small mountain. Looking at it from the big picture, and in such terrain, it truly wasn't anything of note.

However, Zhang Che clearly sensed something about this small mountain seemed to be different than the other places. However, he couldn't put into words what exactly was different. He wasn't well-versed in feng shui, either. Naturally he couldn't tell what was special about this mountain.

Even so, he was sure the spiritual herb on this mountain the frisky monkey had discovered was extraordinary.

The reason was simple: a powerful exotic beast was hiding on this mountain!

Despite it purposefully concealing its aura, Zhang Che's noticed its presence with the help of the golden vortex.

"It's a little tricky. Judging from its aura, it seems to be an epic-quality exotic beast. But, ordinary mid-tier epic-quality exotic beasts definitely won't make me feel this much pressure…"

"Could it be divine-quality?

"Probably not. If it's a divine-quality beast, it would've jumped out and finished me off long ago.

"In other words, this exotic beast isn't at divine-quality, and it is currently guarding that soon-to-be mature spiritual herb and isn't willing to come out and fight me. So…"

Just as Zhang Che was hesitating whether to enter the small mountain to scout things out, his sharp senses suddenly noticed some creature seemed to be approaching him from behind.

"What is it?"

Faint killing intent was concealed under that slow approaching aura. Zhang Che couldn't help but feel his chest tighten. He immediately focus his mind onto the golden vortex, observing his surroundings within three hundred meters from a godly perspective.

In that profound state, Zhang Che discovered a faint silhouette in the woods about two hundred meters behind slowly approaching in his direction.

It might be impossible to notice this silhouette with the naked eye, but Zhang Che could clearly see that it was a middle-aged man riding a bird-type subdued beast with a peculiar appearance. They were carefully flying in his direction with very faint killing intent. It felt like an uncontrollable beast about to erupt at anytime.

"Hmm? That man looks a little familiar!" Zhang Che felt a trace of surprise. Afterwards, he recalled that middle-aged man was the one who had bumped into him in the safety zone when he was returning from the beast world in Cang Long City.

He also quickly remembered that the little beast in that middle-aged man's arms covered him in its stinky breath yesterday, nearly suffocating him.

Looking back at it now, that fellow had long planned to use such a method to track him!

Indeed, nothing was too bizarre in the beast world. There was actually an exotic beast that was that proficient at tracking! It had already been a full day, not to mention Zhang Che had showered and changed his clothing, and yet it could still follow his trail all the way here based on scent. It was truly terrifying!

-This man is a high-tier beastmaster!- Zhang Che quickly realized the middle-aged man's strength after feeling out his suppressed aura. -Since when did I offend such a powerful high-tier beastmaster?-

Zhang Che immediately thought of the Zhen family. He cursed inside, -The Zhen family are indeed unresigned. They actually sent out a high-tier beastmaster skilled in tracking to assassinate me! When I return, I'll definitely settle the scores with them!-

"Ha, little fellow, are you sure there's a high-grade spiritual herb in here?" Zhang Che suddenly laughed excitedly, caressing the frisky monkey's head lovingly. Riding on the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, they flew towards the small mountain ahead.Behind them, Miyazaki Musashi, who had originally closed in to a hundred-some meters from Zhang Che and was ready to strike, suddenly froze for a moment. Afterwards, the corners of his lips curled up, his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Fine. I'll let you live a little longer. Later I'll snatch your spiritual herb before killing you. I'll have you die in desperation and pain!"

His silhouette flashed, entering the small mountain, trailing Zhang Che from a safe distance…It had been described as a small mountain, but that was only relative to the nearby mountains. Actually, the mountain wasn't small by any means, standing several hundred meters high, and occupied kilometers of ground.

As the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon flew into the mountain, they immediately angered the exotic beast guarding the spiritual herb.

A furious roar immediately rang out from inside the mountain, seemingly warning the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon who had intruded upon its territory. The loud noise shook the lands and trees, causing some half-withered leaves to fall.

"Hmph, hmph, you want to kill I, Fisherman Zhang? Not so easy!" Zhang Che's lips drew back into a mischievous smile when he heard the extremely furious roar. Taking the opportunity of when the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon entered the dense mountain forest, Zhang Che quickly recalled both the dragon and the frisky monkey. Afterwards, he transformed into a face basin-sized green frog, and disappeared into the dense forest.

Since a powerful exotic beast was guarding the spiritual herb, there definitely wouldn't be any other exotic beasts around. Although the green frog Zhang Che had transformed into was a little too weak, he didn't have to worry about encountering other dangers.

Also, after his transformation, he didn't have to worry that the powerful exotic beast would notice the negligible signs of life he emitted. For the same reason, he should also fool that high-tier beastmaster from the Zhen family!Indeed, after Zhang Che transformed into a green frog, Miyazaki Musashi immediately lost track of him.

However, he wasn't concerned about this right now. Instead, he looked deep into the small mountain with a grave expression. He finally revealed his powerful aura, its intensity increasing bit by bit.

"A high-tier epic-quality exotic beast, huh? Perfect. Looks like today is my lucky day. Not only can I take down our sworn enemy, I can also obtain a high-grade spiritual herb and a high-tier epic-quality beast card. I'm truly blessed by Amaterasu-omikami!" (TLN: Japanese Sun Goddess)

As the strongest beastmaster of the Miyazaki Clan, he knew that a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast wouldn't be easy to deal with, especially an eight-starred epic-quality exotic beast or higher. They were extremely terrifying! However, Miyazaki Musashi had his own tricks. He wasn't afraid at all.Just as Miyazaki Musashi fully revealed his high-tier beastmaster aura, the exotic beast inside was finally thoroughly enraged.

-Bloody hell, you think I'm easy target and formed a team to snatch my spiritual herb, huh!?

-Fine, I'll show you if my spiritual herb is so easy to snatch!-

Although it lost track of Zhang Che's aura all of a sudden, the exotic beast didn't care. It sensed that the more powerful aura behind was much more difficult to deal with than Zhang Che. If it wanted to protect the spiritual herb, it had to get rid of the stronger invader.

In the next moment, a deeper, more furious roar was heard. Deep in the dense forest of the small mountain, an exotic beast resembling a qilin, covered in green fur from head to tail, suddenly rose to the skies. It was surrounded by a clear wind, and flew in Miyazaki Musashi's direction. (TLN: Qilin/Kylin/Kirin is a mythical Chinese animal.)Hiding in the grasses in the woods, Zhang Che felt that dense innate wind element, his eyes shining with light.

-It's actually a wind-attributed high-tier epic-quality exotic beast!

-If I can get any of my pets to kill it, then feed its corpse to the Umbra Wind God Leopard, will it enable that little thing to directly get through its newborn phase, let him start absorbing the rainbow crystal's energy and quickly mature?-

Of course, it was impossible for Zhang Che's pets to slay such a creature by themselves. However, that didn't matter. His Fisherman Zhang alias wasn't just for show!

When he thought up until that point, a sink-sized green frog suddenly jumped nimbly onto a tree and continued jumping away.Outside the small mountain, Miyazaki Musashi already had his aerial beast stop in place. He looked at the qilin-like high-tier epic-quality exotic beast flying up from the mountain with a grave expression, his aura erupting with no reservation.

He knew that this exotic beast wasn't simple. A fierce battle would probably ensue.

-Regrettably, unless this fellow is at divine-quality, there's no way it can win against me.-

However, when he recalled Zhang Che was probably spying from somewhere in the mountain forest, Miyazaki Musashi couldn't help but crease his brow slightly.

That kid must have seen him after all the commotion. Perhaps he was hiding somewhere waiting to watch a good show…

In order to prevent that kid from becoming a fisherman and fishing in his troubled waters, Miyazaki Musashi decided to end this battle quickly and decisively.

Thinking of that, he looked at the exotic beast approaching from afar, his eyes emitting a thick killing intent.

The qilin-like exotic beast was even more furious when it felt Miyazaki Musashi's unconcealed killing intent. It let out another roar and manipulated the wind elements, directly charging at him.

When it came within seven hundred meters from Miyazaki Musashi, many high-speed chaotic air currents suddenly swept around its body.

Miyazaki Musashi immediately felt the powers of a False Domain closing in on him. His pupils contracted slightly.

"Its False Domain is actually able to envelope an area close to seven hundred meters radius. That thing is at least at eight-stars!"

In the mountain forest below, a wide spread of area was within the terrifying exotic beast's False Domain. However, that fellow seemed to be worried about affecting the spiritual herb behind it. As such, the strength of its False Domain was being controlled perfectly, not hurting a single tree or blade of grass of the mountain forest.

However, the intense pressure of the False Domain couldn't be held back. The limbs of a certain green frog jumping around below turned stiff, and it fell from the tree branches.

Zhang Che tumbled a few rounds in the grass, cursing inside, -Luckily your daddy didn't climb too high, or I would've fallen to my death!-

At this moment, the qilin-like exotic beast's False Domain had thoroughly enveloped Miyazaki Musashi. Gusts of clear wind nearly invisible to the naked eye blew over. They seemed pretty harmless, but Miyazaki Musashi's face darkened slightly. A rainbow light shot out from his brow, turning into a set of armor that covered him fully.

At the same time, he recalled the little subdued beast in his arms. That little fellow wasn't strong; it wouldn't be able to withstand the ripples of the upcoming battle.

Dang dang dang dang!

The near-invisible clear winds suddenly swept against Miyazaki Musashi's armor, producing a concentrated wave of crisp noises. Wave after wave of force slammed into him, knocking him about and causing him to waver slightly.

"I can't wait any longer!"

A cold glint flashed in Miyazaki Musashi's eyes. Spurring the strange-looking bird, he actually charged directly towards the exotic beast, ignoring the attacks from the False Domain's powers.

When they got within a hundred meters of that exotic beast, a white streak of light emitting a sharp aura suddenly flew out from Miyazaki Musashi' brow, slashing at the exotic beast like a bolt of lightning.

At present, Zhang Che had already gotten away from the area affected by the exotic beast's False Domain and climbed to the top of another tree. His eyes were agape, staring at the fight from several hundred meters away. His two headlight-like eyeballs nearly fell out of their sockets.

"Spiritual sword fragment! This man actually possesses a spiritual sword fragment, too!"

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"Spiritual sword fragment! This guy actually has a spiritual sword fragment, too!" Zhang Che's eyes nearly fell out of their sockets at the sight of this. He truly didn't expect to find another spiritual sword fragment on another beastmaster so soon.

Although he knew there'd surely be other beastmasters with spiritual sword fragments given how many secret planes had opened over the years, he never expected this high-tier beastmaster the Zhen family had sent to assassinate him would possess something that great.

This forced Zhang Che to feel suspicious.

During the arena deathmatch, the Zhen family had wagered almost all their fortune! Since they had a spiritual sword fragment, why didn't they let Zhen Liu use it back then?

After all, it was something that could turn the tide of battle. There was no reason for the Zhen family not to use it!

Then, the only possibility was that this middle-aged high-tier beastmaster before his eyes wasn't sent by the Zhen family!

When he thought of that, Zhang Che's eyes widened even more.

-Freaking hell, I don't think I offended any factions other than the Zhen family, did I?- Zhang Che thought hard, but he couldn't figure out which faction sent this middle-aged high-tier beastmaster to kill him.

Not only that, they spent much effort simply to catch up to him! If they didn't have a deep hatred for him, who would spend this much effort to track him all the way here?

"Since you want to kill me, you'd better be prepared to get reverse-killed by me! I, Fisherman Zhang, might not be very strong, but these exotic beasts are my friends. Try winning against them first!"

Zhang Che didn't think this high-tier beastmaster could easily take down a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast, despite having a spiritual sword fragment. At the very least, both sides would be beaten half-dead before they scored a victory.

At that time, no matter which side had emerged victorious, Zhang Che could clean up and pick up the scraps from there.

Done thinking, Zhang Che's frog mouth drew back in joy. He accidentally loosened his grip on the tree branch and scrambled for a bit to prevent himself from falling.Miyazaki Musashi knew that he had no way to quickly slay the exotic beast by just relying on his subdued beasts. As such, he directly brought out his final hidden ace.

An extremely sharp sword aura was faintly revealed in the white ray of light. It directly streaked through the qilin-like exotic beast's False Domain, unaffected by its power as it crossed the hundred-some meters, and slashed at its neck.

The qilin-like exotic beast roared out in anger and surprise. It suddenly opened its mouth and spat out a little whirlwind.

The whirlwind instantly expanded after coming in contact with other winds, turning into a terrifying tornado that connected the heavens and earth, hiding the qilin-like exotic beast behind it.

Even so, Miyazaki Musashi revealed a faint smile in contempt. "It's useless. Do you think you can defend against a spiritual sword fragment's attack with that?"

Indeed, in the next moment, the white light silently penetrated the terrifying tornado, slashing at the qilin-like exotic beast's neck, instantly cutting through its scales and producing a long, narrow wound. Fresh blood spurted out like a high-pressure fountain, gushing out from the wound.

"Hmm? That guy's use of the spiritual sword fragment is pretty good." Zhang Che watched Miyazaki Musashi's attack intently, not blinking his headlight-like eyes at all.

He truly didn't expect the middle-aged man to actually control the spiritual sword fragment enough to attack a target from over a hundred meters away. Before his golden vortex powered up recently, he could only attack about that far, too…

-Could it be that he has something similar to the golden vortex, too?

-Impossible! The golden vortex was formed with the help of the rainbow crystal by converting large amounts of mysterious energy. Other people wouldn't have such a profound object!

-Then, it should be that the high-tier beastmaster's spiritual strength has undergone a qualitative change, which explains why he has such a strong ability to control the sword fragment.-

-I wonder if the golden vortex will power up once more after I advance to Tier Seven beastmaster and my spiritual strength undergoes a qualitative change, too? If so, wouldn't that mean my control of the scarlet sword would allow me to strike a target several hundred meters away?-

The more Zhang Che thought about it, the more he felt that was the reason. His heart was fired up instantly.

It seemed like he should continue working hard to achieve Tier Seven beastmaster as soon as possible!

Of course, what was important now was to resolve the trouble in front of him. Running was definitely not an option for him.

A high-grade spiritual herb was somewhere in the mountains waiting for him, and this high-tier beastmaster was a ticking time bomb. Unless Zhang Che got rid of him, given the man's terrifying tracking abilities, he could forget about hunting exotic beasts to level up in peace.After receiving an injury all of a sudden, the qilin-like exotic beast let out another furious roar.

It knew that it had to close the distance and aim for close-quarters combat if it wanted to win against this two-legged creatures who had come to snatch its spiritual herb. It had no way to attack him from so far away, but that man's mysterious weapon was a huge threat to it!

It was a high-tier epic-quality exotic beast with the power to control the wind Element, after all. In the next moment, the air flow shifted strangely, and it was like the qilin-like exotic beast had teleported, moving over a hundred meters in an instant, appearing directly in front of Miyazaki Musashi. It raised its front claws, swiping down ferociously at him.

As the qilin-like exotic beast suddenly pounced, countless tiny air currents turned into sharp wind blades, sweeping towards Miyazaki Musashi.

Miyazaki Musashi remained unmoved. The flying mount underneath him quickly retreated. A fraction of those wind blades struck his armor, producing a wave of crisp clanking noises, but were unable to penetrate the armor's defense.The most threatening attack, the qilin-like exotic beast's claw swipe, hit nothing but air, completely missing him.

The qilin-like exotic beast wanted to continue attacking, but it sensed a sharp sword aura slashing at the back of its head.

The qilin-like beast was extremely apprehensive of the spiritual sword fragment after being injured by it. It could only roar furiously and move to the side to dodge the attack.

However, Miyazaki Musashi's control of the spiritual sword fragment had reached a brilliant level. Even though the qilin-like exotic beast moved away very quickly, it failed to dodge the attack completely. The spiritual sword fragment struck the side of its head and cut off one of its ears at the root.

The qilin-like exotic beast was enraged. It had tried everything it could, wanting to pounce at Miyazaki Musashi and continue attacking him, but was stopped by the white sword time and time again. At the same time, countless wounds, big and small, began to appear on its body.

Although none of those wounds were fatal given how tough the defenses of its scales were, fresh blood poured out from them as if it was free. If this situation dragged on, it would probably die from severe blood loss.

Finally, the qilin-like exotic beast felt fear.

After another attempt at pouncing at Miyazaki Musashi's direction, the surrounding air flow quickly shifted to envelop its body, and it ran off to the small mountain behind it.

"You won't get away," Miyazaki Musashi smiled, shaking his head. His mount quickly gave chase. The white sword was like a shadow, sticking close to the qilin-like beast's vitals, forcing the exotic beast to keep roaring furiously, but the creature remained helpless against it.Several hundred meters away, Zhang Che was watching all this closely.

"This guy's control of the spiritual sword fragment is passable. It looks like his spiritual strength is very high. But, why do I feel like that white sword's sharpness is higher than mine?

"That shouldn't be… Both my spiritual sword fragments have the essence of that ferocious beast's skeleton. Logically, they should be sharper than his spiritual sword fragment…

"Could it be because of their attributes?"

That's right; Zhang Che finally realized that when that spiritual sword fragment attacked, it was accompanied by an extremely sharp aura. Putting it together with the sword's color, perhaps it was a metal-attributed spiritual sword fragment?

Well, that should be close to the truth!

The metal attribute focused on offensive ability. So, it was nothing strange that the spiritual sword fragment was especially good for attacking.

-It'd be great if I can get my hands on that spiritual sword fragment!- Zhang Che's eyes were shining with a resplendent glint, feeling moved inside.

However, he wasn't confident he could win against the man. From the look of things at the moment, it was very unrealistic for Zhang Che to snatch the spiritual sword fragment for himself.

While he was thinking about all this, the qilin-like exotic beast was quickly retreating in his direction.

Realizing this, Zhang Che hurriedly jumped off from the tree and reverted his transformation, putting on the Purple-Gold Demonic Armored Worm armor.

The green frog's level and quality was too garbage. Zhang Che didn't dare to guarantee he would still be alive if the exotic beast's False Domain swept over him in that form.

At that moment, a blinding white sword light quickly flashed by. The white sword directly penetrated the qilin-like exotic beast's head, heavily injuring it.

The qilin-like exotic beast's False Domain vanished. It directly fell from the sky, falling towards the mountain forest area Zhang Che was at.

"It actually didn't die right away from that? A chance!" Zhang Che was wild with joy inside. A five-colored ray shot out from his brow. The Mutated Giant Ape jumped up directly towards the falling qilin-like exotic beast and activated his skill, unleashing a flurry of punches madly at it, every punch striking the wound on its head.

The Mutated Giant Ape's skill would double in power with every punch. Although the initial few punches didn't do much damage to the exotic beast, after the last few punches, the heavily injured exotic beast cried out miserably and lost all signs of life.

"Nice! The Umbra Wind God Leopard can have another good meal!" Zhang Che narrowed his eyes excitedly. He immediately summoned the Purple Crystal Tortoise and sucked in the qilin-like exotic beast's corpse into its spatial dimension. Afterwards, he quickly recalled the two babies and summoned the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, directly running deeper into the mountain forest.

"Damn it!" The Mutated Giant Ape killing the qilin-like exotic beast was simply too fast and too sudden. Miyazaki Musashi couldn't react to it in time and saw the exotic beast had disappeared before he realized it.

Due to his field of vision being obstructed, he didn't see the process of Zhang Che stowing the qilin-like exotic beast's corpse away. He thought the kid had killed the exotic beast he had heavily injured and taken the beast card away.

This was too much! He couldn't tolerate it!

Let alone the fact he had failed to kill the kid, he even let him snatch the kill he had whittled down so painstakingly! Miyazaki Musashi's anger shot through the roof. Spurring his flying mount, he continued pursuing Zhang Che!

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Chapter 410: Sword Fight, Helper, and Underhanded Kill

Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales

Edited by Aelryinth

"Just come at me if you can!"

Zhang Che wasn't afraid of this man. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon was flying at top speed, heading deeper into the mountain forest without any care.

"You're dead meat, Zhang Che!" Miyazaki Musashi roared, his eyes red. The peculiar-looking bird underneath him suddenly expelled a powerful jet of air from its rear end, increasing its speed considerably.

The peculiar bird's speed was already on par with the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon. Now that it was pushed ahead by the jet, it surpassed the speed of sound and produced a violent boom, chasing after Zhang Che.

Zhang Che couldn't resist turning his head around to take a look when he heard the rumble from behind, and was instantly given a shock.

"Damn, such a sly fellow! He actually hid his real strength while battling that exotic beast!"

Zhang Che wasn't surprised that the middle-aged man called out his name, however. It would only be strange if he didn't even know Zhang Che's name after trailing him all the way from Cang Long City.

"But, why do I feel like that fellow's intonation is a little off…?"

Zhang Che was focused on running for his life, and couldn't point out what exactly was off. In any case, he felt that although the middle-aged man's Mandarin was extremely well-practiced, it gave off a slightly strange feeling.

Perhaps, he was affected by his dialect from somewhere…?

After Miyazaki Musashi's peculiar bird brought out its supersonic speed, they quickly closed to within two hundred meters of Zhang Che in only a few breaths' time.

At this time, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon still hadn't brought out his potential.

"Surrender yourself, Zhang Che!" Miyazaki Musashi roared. The white sword shot out from his brow once more, slashing straight towards the back of Zhang Che's head like a bolt of lightning.

Zhang Che was furious. -You think you're the only one that knows swordplay!?-

While instructing the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon to use his potential to bring up their speed, Zhang Che turned his head around and summoned a scarlet light from his brow, receiving the attack from the rapidly approaching white sword.

"Do you think I have no idea that you have a spiritual sword fragment as well? Today I'll show you the real…" Seeing Zhang Che finally couldn't hold it in anymore and brought out his spiritual sword fragment, Miyazaki Musashi sneered coldly. He directed his own spiritual sword fragment, intending to veer pass Zhang Che's and directly cut him down. In the next moment, however, his face stiffened, and his eyes went wide, like he just seen a ghost.

He saw that his spiritual sword fragment had clearly avoided Zhang Che's, but a violent spark erupted in the air all the same. There was an explosion, and the two spiritual sword fragments were forced apart.

"How is that possible!?" Miyazaki Musashi was in disbelief. -How can a mid-tier beastmaster control his spiritual sword fragment so freely and stop my attack!?-

Ahead of him, the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon had erupted his potential and sped up, barely avoiding being caught by Miyazaki Musashi.

Zhang Che didn't show any excitement after blocking his foe's attack. Instead, his brow was furrowed.

"As I expected, his spiritual sword fragment is metal-attributed, specializing in killing. Also, the quality of his spiritual sword fragment seems to be really decent. If this continues, mine will surely be damaged…"

Although he thought that, Zhang Che had no choice but to direct the scarlet sword to defend himself a few more times while facing Miyazaki Musashi's continuous attacks with his white sword.

Every clash of the swords made Zhang Che feel a little more bitter inside. He could feel that if this continued, his scarlet sword might be damaged.

After all, the quality of his opponent's spiritual sword fragment was slightly better, in addition to his superior spiritual strength. If Zhang Che didn't have the golden vortex, he could not hope to be a match for him.

"I can't continue like this! Otherwise, once my sword is damaged, I will have no way to defend against his attacks!"

To put it plainly, it was the suppression of a high-tier beastmaster against a mid-tier beastmaster. Zhang Che couldn't rely on his subdued beasts to claim victory over his foe, so he had no way to defend himself.

"Perhaps I can have the golden vortex erupt again and wield both swords at the same time? Combining both my spiritual sword fragments should be enough to cut down this man…"

However, when he thought of the golden vortex falling into a deep slumber after erupting, Zhang Che couldn't bring himself to do it.

His strength would fall drastically if he couldn't wield the spiritual sword fragments. If he encountered any other dangers in the future, he would have no method to save himself.

More importantly, after the golden vortex erupted, it wouldn't be easy for Zhang Che to awaken it again. He was merely lucky the last time. Heavens knew how long it would be before he woke it again. In the end, Zhang Che felt that doing so wasn't worth it.

"Hanming, please do your best! In any case, as long as you don't die, you'll recover!"

Zhang Che felt his heart ache after fending off Miyazaki Musashi's attacks a few more times. He could only keep urging the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, hoping for this fellow to try harder to speed up a little more.

Being deep in the beast world, as long as they could hold out for some time, Zhang Che would naturally have a way to set up that middle-aged man.

The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon understood Zhang Che's anxiety. He fanned the abyssal cold aura in his body without any care for his life, and further increased his speed, pulling their distance from Miyazaki Musashi to more than two hundred meters away.

Although it wasn't much, they had escaped from the attack range of Miyazaki Musashi's white sword.

Miyazaki Musashi's eyes turned red from anger, but he had no alternatives. He could only grit his teeth and continue chasing.

He knew Zhang Che had spurred his aerial mount's potential. It wouldn't be able to keep this up for long before it was exhausted!

"I'll see how far you can run!"Just like that, one ran, while the other chased. Before they realized it, they had flown several hundred kilometers into this area. The mountains around them became increasingly steep. Fast-flowing rivers wove between the mountains, the rushing clearly audible.

Finally, Zhang Che sensed something extremely fearsome deep in the huge mountain ahead.

"Hurry, fly over there! Fly there and we'll be safe!"

An incredibly excited light was shining in Zhang Che's eyes. He finally found a helper after running this far!

Large amounts of deep blue mist were gushing out of the surface of the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon's crystallized body. He didn't care about the injuries on his body and increased his speed to nearly Mach 2, instantly outdistancing Miyazaki Musashi by nearly a thousand meters.

"Is that kid looking to die? He actually ran to this kind of a place?" Miyazaki Musashi kept chasing, his eyes still red from anger. By the time he felt something was amiss ahead, it was already too late. A tiny silhouette suddenly rose to the skies from the mountain top ahead.

It was an avian exotic beast, its body only about as big as a swan, fully green in color. There was a tuft of rainbow feathers on its head, surrounded by a faint, blurry halo.

As that green bird flew up from the mountain, an extremely terrifying pressure suddenly swept in their direction like the tide. The Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon and Miyazaki Musashi's flying mounts froze in fear, and their speed fell drastically. Afterwards, all of them fell towards the valley below.

"Shit, what exotic beast is that? It's so frightening!" Miyazaki Musashi trembled in fear. He wanted to order his flying subdued beast to turn and run, but the peculiar bird was acting like it had seen a ferocious tiger and had lost its ability to move, falling straight down.

Several hundred meters ahead, Zhang Che instead revealed an overjoyed expression. -Very good, my helper is finally here!-

He quickly recalled the Darkfiend Abyssal Dragon, who was badly injured and shaking in fear. He fell directly towards the fast-moving river below, falling into the water with a plop, and did not surface again.

The green bird that was originally over a thousand meters away on the mountain top ahead suddenly appeared in the area above Zhang Che. The halo around the tuft of rainbow feathers on its head shone brightly for a moment. Miyazaki Musashi and his mount were still falling, and suddenly froze in mid-air, unable to move.

"Damn, what kind of ability is this!?" Desperation flashed in Miyazaki Musashi's eyes. Facing such a terrifying power, he realized he would most likely not make it through this crisis.

Even though he would die here, Zhang Che wouldn't make it out alive, either. But, the script he originally had in mind wasn't like this!

He should have chased Zhang Che thousands of kilometers and succeeded in killing him! Not only would he have avenged the Miyazaki Clan, he should also have obtained a spiritual sword fragment and grown much stronger. When he returned, he would have helped the Miyazaki Clan regain their former glory!

"Cut it down!" Miyazaki Musashi wasn't willing to die here. He roared furiously, his spiritual strength erupting. The white sword shot out from his brow once more, directly crossing a hundred-some meters and slashing at the mystical green bird.

However, a rainbow light flashed in response. Miyazaki Musashi lost control of the white sword, which stopped in midair. Their spiritual link was completely cut, and it directly fell into the woods below.

"No!" Miyazaki Musashi roared in desperation. Another flash of rainbow light swept past him, along with his flying mount. Their bodies shattered in the air, turning into countless scattered pieces.

A powerful high-tier beastmaster was actually slain by that unimpressive-looking green bird with just three attacks!In the fast-flowing river a few hundred meters away, a sink-sized green frog was hugging a piece of wood, barely keeping itself afloat on the water. It watched as Miyazaki Musashi and his mount disintegrated in the air, incredibly astonished.

The green bird's attacks were actually that terrifying! Perhaps it wasn't something as simple as divine-quality?

Without a doubt, if it was an exotic beast simply at divine-quality, it shouldn't be that terrifying!

A super divine-quality beast…!After killing Miyazaki Musashi, the green bird turned back and swept its gaze across the river, scaring that green frog so badly that its heart nearly stopped.

In the end, that terrifying green bird didn't put an ant-like existence like the green frog in its eyes. It let out a crisp chirp and instantly disappeared, returning to the mountain forest in the distance.

After a long time, having confirmed that the terrifying green bird had really left, the green frog suddenly let go of the rotten piece of wood and quickly swam ashore, jumping towards where the white sword fell earlier.

-I'm rich! I'm rich!…- Zhang Che yelled inside crazily. His headlight-like eyes were nearly shining with golden light.

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