Celestial Beast Taming

Hong Ji’s left hand twisted into a bizarre shape. The Blood Thread Puppet, which she had always carried on her person like a doll, appeared at her waist.

Four holes appeared on Hong Ji’s left forearm, and four rapidly writhing, blood-red tentacles surged out from them.

They coiled tightly around Prince Snow Ape’s incoming right fist.

Using the force of the Prince Snow Ape’s punch, Hong Ji swung like she was on a swing set, her right palm plunging into the Prince Snow Ape’s weak spot at a twisted angle.

Prince Snow Ape let out a furious roar. Completely ignoring the slick, viscous tentacles wrapped around its right arm, it swung both arms down to smash the Hong Ji in its grasp.

Hong Ji did not pull out the bone spike that had pierced Prince Snow Ape’s weak spot. Instead, her body swayed gently, and layers of bone plates formed on her skin.

Each swing of Prince Snow Ape’s arms shattered one or two layers of the bone plates.

But the bone plates formed at roughly the same rate Prince Snow Ape could shatter them.

As a result, Prince Snow Ape couldn’t truly harm Hong Ji for the moment.

Shen Xuan watched the Prince Snow Ape, its eyes looking like they would burst and its expression savage. ’He looks like some kind of face contortionist,’ he thought.

Its already ugly and ferocious features were twisted into a somewhat comical grimace, its eyes looking as if they would pop out of their sockets.

’Logically speaking, this shouldn’t be the reaction even if its weak spot was attacked.’

Shen Xuan did not order the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother to join the battle, as it would almost certainly hit Hong Ji by mistake in such close-quarters combat. After all, he couldn’t predict Hong Ji’s movements.

Shen Xuan silently had the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother recover its Energy in his Soul Base. If Zhong Yi needed his help later, he could use his Beastmaster Talent, Poison Burst Reckoning, in conjunction with the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother to land the finishing blow.

Prince Snow Ape’s attacks grew more and more frantic, and its strength increased.

Meanwhile, the speed at which Hong Ji could generate bone plates could clearly no longer keep up with the Prince Snow Ape’s pummeling.

Hong Ji took two of Prince Snow Ape’s punches head-on, and the left side of her body was beaten slightly out of shape.

Only then did she plant both feet on the Prince Snow Ape’s abdomen and kick off, retreating abruptly.

Shen Xuan and Zhong Ling had thought Hong Ji had stabbed Prince Snow Ape with a single bone spike. They never imagined that as she kicked off and retreated over ten meters, she would pull a thick, ten-meter-long bone chain from inside the Prince Snow Ape’s body.

The bone chain was covered in dense, backward-facing barbs that looked like the teeth of some kind of Demon.

Several ghastly maws were also spaced out among the teeth, and they were currently chewing rapidly.

As the bone chain was pulled out, a bloody hole large enough to easily fit a grown man’s two fists appeared on Prince Snow Ape, near its shoulder blade, just below its neck.

Through the hole, one could see the muscles inside twitching violently. But the hole was simply too large; no amount of muscle contraction could stop the bleeding.

Only Zhong Yi knew the true significance of the nearly forty seconds Hong Ji had just endured in Prince Snow Ape’s grasp.

After piercing the Prince Snow Ape’s weak spot, that spike had frantically searched at extreme speed.

It had slithered like a venomous snake through one weak point after another, burrowing deep inside the Prince Snow Ape’s body and rapidly undergoing specialized growth.

The Prince Snow Ape was still able to stand, but half of its internal organs had already been devoured by Hong Ji’s specialized Bone Whip.

Hong Ji didn’t wait for the Prince Snow Ape to slowly bleed to death, nor did she inject it with the Ten Thousand Corrosive Poison Mother’s venom.

Hong Ji rarely encountered such a strong opponent.

Not since leaving the Horned Demon Secret Realm had Hong Ji experienced such a blood-pumping battle.

Faced with such a fierce meal, Hong Ji felt the delightful urge to tame it.

This pleasure was much like a cat that has caught a mouse and doesn’t eat it right away.

Instead, it will toy with and torture the mouse, its food.

Just now, Hong Ji had taken several of Prince Snow Ape’s punches head-on, and her body was seriously injured.

But Hong Ji didn’t need any healing from Zhong Yi. As the materials inside her body reassembled, her injuries recovered instantly.

All that had been consumed were the very materials that had formed her body!

Looking at the restored left side of her body, Hong Ji raised her left arm high.

In the blink of an eye, her tender, fair-skinned left arm was covered in layer after layer of writhing, purplish-black muscle.

As the muscles writhed, they sprouted all sorts of hard, sharp materials: the horns of Horned Demons, the teeth of Giant Horror Demons, the fangs of Ice Storm Apes, and more.

The Cardiac Muscles attached to Hong Ji’s arm were all different colors, clearly originating from different Demons and Guardian Beasts.

This arm that Hong Ji had specialized, which resembled a mace, was about seven meters long.

Originally, Hong Ji’s 1.6-meter height made her look like a small doll compared to the four-meter-tall Prince Snow Ape.

But now, the specialized arm Hong Ji had created was even larger than the Prince Snow Ape’s entire body.

Hong Ji violently slammed her specialized arm down on the heavily wounded Prince Snow Ape.

Facing Hong Ji’s first slam, the Prince Snow Ape raised both fists to meet it.

Its fists managed to block the blow head-on.

But the moment it made contact with the Prince Snow Ape’s fists, the Cardiac Muscles on Hong Ji’s arm began to vibrate at a high frequency.

The long horns of Horned Demons, the sharp teeth of Giant Horror Demons, and all the other sharp, pointed materials began to spin at high speed like a meat grinder, slicing into the Prince Snow Ape’s fists.

The slamming continued. One blow, two blows, three blows.

By the third blow, Prince Snow Ape’s arms had been ground into a bloody paste nearly all the way to its shoulders.

Hong Ji had already slowed her assault during the second slam.

On that mace-like arm, she had specialized many large mouths that looked like suction cups.

They devoured all the flesh and blood that had been sheared off the Prince Snow Ape, consuming it completely.

Hong Ji had always been reverent toward her food, and she was exceptionally serious as she savored the taste of the Prince Snow Ape.

But in the eyes of Shen Xuan and Zhong Ling, Hong Ji’s "savoring of a delicacy" was a form of slaughter terrifying to the extreme.

Zhong Yi was slightly surprised that Hong Ji had killed the Prince Snow Ape without much effort.

However, she didn’t attribute this result to Hong Ji’s surprise attack.

Judging by the power displayed in Hong Ji’s final few slams, Hong Ji, at Mortal Beast Tenth Level Silver Quality, had easily crushed the Extraordinary Tenth Level Prince Snow Ape.

If one had to rate the Prince Snow Ape by Guardian Beast standards, it would be equivalent to an Extraordinary Tier Silver Quality Guardian Beast.

It was even stronger than a normal Extraordinary Tier Silver Quality Guardian Beast!

Hong Ji’s current combat power wasn’t just a matter of crossing a single Major Tier anymore.

After completely devouring the Prince Snow Ape, Hong Ji once again reassembled her Fur Long Skirt.

Her Fur Long Skirt became even thicker and smoother than before.

Hong Ji had already used the Prince Snow Ape’s fur to replace the fur from the Snowstorm Apes and Ice Storm Apes.

"Master, that Demon called Prince Snow Ape tastes wonderful. It’s the most delicious thing I’ve ever eaten."

Hong Ji was full of praise for the Prince Snow Ape’s flavor.

But hearing Hong Ji’s words, ’Even Zhong Yi couldn’t help but marvel at her... peculiar taste.’

Zhong Yi checked the Secret Realm Exploration Level. It had already reached ninety-nine percent.

Before Zhong Yi could lead Zhong Ling and Shen Xuan any further, the infusion of cold air stopped with the death of the Prince Snow Ape.

The snowy platform, which covered an area of at least four to five hundred square meters, began to collapse.

Beneath the platform was a cave, and a magnificent scene appeared before Zhong Yi, Shen Xuan, and Zhong Ling.

The cave was like a giant projector. A massive ape, over a hundred meters tall with rich golden fur covered in silver-blue patterns, was visible.

It was stroking a cedar tree that was far more majestic than any mountain peak.

Hanging from this cedar were many exquisite, translucent pinecones. Each pinecone alone was about the same size as the golden ape.

The giant ape bowed reverently beneath the cedar tree.

As if in response to the golden ape’s worship, the cedar tree, more majestic than a mountain, dropped a single pinecone.

The golden ape picked up the pinecone from the ground and returned to its own magnificent cave in a prostrate posture.

After breaking open the pinecone and eating a few pine nuts that glowed with a blue-gold luster, its belly quickly began to swell.