Celestial Beast Taming

[Deceit Beast Quality]: Platinum

Skills:

[Child Spider Aggregation]: During combat, the user can command child spiders to merge, increasing their power. The merged child spider’s combat, web-weaving, and scouting abilities are all enhanced.

[Filling Poison]: It grows a Poison Sac but cannot produce its own toxins. It can choose a venom to fill its Poison Sac with. Both the main body and its spawned child spiders can use the filled venom in battle.

[Parasitic Mother Eggs]: When piercing a target’s body with its chelicerae, it lays a special spider egg. This egg continuously damages the target’s body. When the target is healed, the egg absorbs the Healing Energy to power other unhatched eggs.

[Night of Calamity]: Gathers Dark Elemental Energy into its chelicerae and sacrifices a pair of them to sting a target. The Dark Elemental Energy, carrying a debilitating property, causes the target’s flesh to rapidly decay.

Exclusive Traits:

[Foggy Spider Eggs]: Specialized spider eggs. Microscopic eggs, invisible to the naked eye, are sprayed from the reproductive cavity like a mist. They can travel great distances on external forces, and the child spiders can hatch on their own by absorbing Dark Elemental Energy.

[Clan Perception]: Every hatched child spider is connected to the main body like an eyeball. The child spiders possess sensory detection methods such as sight, hearing, smell, and Energy perception.

[Molting and Rebirth]: When its Origin is damaged, it can molt to reconstruct its Origin and gradually recover from the damage. After each molt, it enters a weakened state for a period of time.

[Spider Slave Control]: It combines its soul with its spider eggs. By injecting these soul-infused eggs into a living creature, the hatched egg will burrow into the target’s brain and temporarily seize control.

Rule Authority:

[Praise of the Enchanting Night]: Targets enveloped by the enchanting night will gradually become lost and lose their senses. When enveloped by the enchanting night itself, it can directly absorb Energy from the moonlight to replenish its own consumed Energy.

After scanning it, a rare look of surprise appeared on Zhong Yi’s face.

If, in Zhong Yi’s eyes, the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess was a Mythical Tier creature worthy of being called an elite...

...then the Night-Cutting Spider was undoubtedly a champion among Mythical Tier creatures.

Although the Night-Cutting Spider’s combat abilities were strong—its Skill, Night of Calamity, allowed it to unleash an attack power far exceeding the Mythical Tier Peak—in Zhong Yi’s view, the Night-Cutting Spider’s true strength lay not in its combat prowess, but in its utility.

The synergy between the Skill Child Spider Aggregation and the Exclusive Traits Foggy Spider Eggs, Clan Perception, and Spider Slave Control was incredible.

It allowed Qin Ruyue to immediately complete reconnaissance upon arriving in any new environment.

It could also continuously gather information about her surroundings.

Moreover, Spider Slave Control could turn the creatures within that environment into her own spies.

Because of its Rule Authority, Praise of the Enchanting Night, the Night-Cutting Spider could directly draw Energy from the darkness to hatch its eggs.

Furthermore, the mist-like spider eggs could absorb Dark Elemental Energy to hatch on their own.

This meant that at night, the Night-Cutting Spider could produce hundreds of thousands of child spiders at once.

The child spiders Qin Ruyue had the Night-Cutting Spider produce had covered both the upper and lower districts of Starlight City.

This was a range that an ordinary Mythical Tier reconnaissance-type Guardian Beast could never hope to match.

Thanks to the Filling Poison Skill, the venom the Night-Cutting Spider filled its Poison Sac with could also be used by its hatched child spiders.

This gave the child spiders formidable combat ability, allowing them to carry out assassinations stealthily with poison.

The only drawback was that since the Night-Cutting Spider couldn’t produce its own toxins, once the venom in its Poison Sac was depleted, it would be difficult to replenish it without disengaging from battle.

The Night-Cutting Spider possessed the Power of Rules, and by using that power to protect its Poison Sac, its Poison Sac could be filled with the venom produced by Shen Xuan’s Order Beast, the Mother of Ten Thousand Erosions.

The lethality of the venom produced by an Order Beast like the Mother of Ten Thousand Erosions was unmatched by other venoms.

Qin Ruyue had added a toxin that acted on the soul to the Night-Cutting Spider’s Poison Sac.

This had unexpectedly prevented Shi Mi from using her Deceit Beast Master Talent, Bone-Melting Centipede Species. Otherwise, Zhong Yi wouldn’t have had Qin Ruyue deal with Shi Mi alone.

As for its Rule Authority, besides reducing its consumption during nighttime battles and allowing it to directly replenish its consumed Energy at night, the Mysterious Night Rule also had the effect of making a target lose their senses and enter a bewildered state.

In Zhong Yi’s opinion, the effect of the Rule Authority Praise of the Enchanting Night was a little weak.

However, when a Deceit Beast absorbed a Rule by devouring the corpse of an Order Beast or a Rule Deceit Embryo, the resulting Rule was inherently weaker than the one originally controlled by the Order Beast.

The restorative ability of the Mysterious Night Rule was an excellent match for the Night-Cutting Spider’s combat and scouting methods as a spider matriarch.

Qin Ruyue was the first Mythical Tier creature the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon had controlled, a feat that had cost it nearly a hundred Moon Eyes Flowers.

After examining the Night-Cutting Spider’s data, Zhong Yi felt that Qin Ruyue was well worth cultivating.

"Can you use your webs to restrain this Bone Element creature? Keep it on the verge of death, but don’t let it actually die."

"I need it left with a breath of life to achieve my goal."

Zhong Yi stated his request to Qin Ruyue without any politeness or concealment.

Hearing this, Qin Ruyue gave Zhong Yi a deep look before replying with certainty.

"I can keep Shi Mi alive by a thread and control her."

"However, I can only guarantee control over her for a week at most."

"The soul-acting toxin I use is very potent, but Shi Mi will develop an immunity after a week."

"At that point, she’ll be able to activate her Soul Power to open her Soul Base, and I’m not sure if she has any healing Bone Pills stashed away."

"Things could get unpredictable then!"

A week was enough time for Zhong Yi to obtain a new Soul Taming Seed and form a Contract with the Fertility Ant Queen.

Once Zhong Yi formed a Contract with the Fertility Ant Queen, he could feed Shi Mi to it.

This would allow the Fertility Ant Queen to produce a Mythical Tier Ant Successor possessing all of Shi Mi’s combat abilities.

Zhong Yi’s recent healing had allowed the Night-Cutting Spider to recover from its injuries.

Under Qin Ruyue’s command, it took less than twenty minutes to tightly bind Shi Mi, who was fused with the Centipede Bone Tomb Princess, in a web.

A strike from Night of Calamity pierced Shi Mi’s neck, completely robbing her of the ability to struggle.

Qin Ruyue commanded the Night-Cutting Spider to produce a few dozen child spiders, ordering them to burrow into the webbing and search around.

Soon, the child spiders emerged from the webbing with two Storage Bags.

Qin Ruyue took the Storage Bags and rummaged through them before handing a fleshy orb, shimmering with five-colored light, to Zhong Yi.

Her expression was somewhat complicated as she spoke.

"This is the Rule Deceit Embryo!"

"This Rule Deceit Embryo was previously absorbed by a Bone Element creature, so I’m not sure exactly what kind of Rule it contains."

"Shi Mi wasn’t in the habit of saving resources; she basically used everything to increase her strength."

"There’s nothing of much value in the two Storage Pouches, just some bone materials for cultivating White Bone Centipedes."

"Many of the bones in here are poisonous, so don’t just take them out casually."

Zhong Yi could use All Things Exploration to examine the Night-Cutting Spider and learn its Rule Authority.

Naturally, he could also use All Things Exploration to examine the Rule Authority contained within this Rule Deceit Embryo.

[Equivalent Replication]: At the cost of oneself or something one possesses and controls, replicate a specific thing that one also controls. The replication follows the principle of equal energy and efficacy.

In Zhong Yi’s opinion, this Rule Authority, Equivalent Replication, was quite interesting.

But for a Bone Element creature to have absorbed it, a Rule Authority like Equivalent Replication didn’t seem very helpful. ’Is a Bone Element creature supposed to use bones from one part of its body to replicate bones growing in another?’ This Rule Authority just didn’t seem like a good fit for a Bone Element creature.

However, the Equivalent Replication Rule Authority would be a perfect fit for Hong Ji to absorb.