Celestial Beast Taming

Zhong Yi had never seen a Fate Grid of blue quality or higher on anyone before.

The two people fighting in the swirling yellow sand were attacking with increasing ferocity.

They were willing to sustain injuries themselves just to inflict even more severe wounds on their opponent.

Suddenly, the woman who was losing the fight whipped out a scorpion tail from behind her, shimmering with a dark light. The tail shot out like an arrow and pierced her opponent’s forearm.

Immediately after, the woman with the scorpion tail pulled back, creating distance, and spoke in a cold voice.

"You deliberately ambushed me here. You probably never imagined you’d die by my hand, did you?"

"Now that you’ve been hit with my life-bound scorpion venom, the more you circulate the Energy in your body, the faster the poison will attack your heart."

The man who had been struck stared back, his eyes filled with indignation.

This scorpion venom was truly potent!

After the venom was injected into his arm, half of his body had already gone numb.

The venom carried a bizarre Power of Rules that was causing the Energy within him to gradually spin out of his control.

Before the man could mount an effective response, his head began to grow groggy, and it was as if a black fog had descended over his vision.

Zhong Yi knew it was time for Hong Ji to enter the field and reap the rewards.

Zhong Yi wasn’t the least bit worried that the two were putting on an act. For one, everyone was a stranger in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm; no one would be willing to form an alliance.

Even if they did form an alliance, they would surely be on guard against a sneak attack from their supposed partner.

And for another, if this fight was meant to lure passersby into a trap, their acting was a little too convincing!

Every move in that last exchange had consumed a massive amount of Energy.

The woman appeared to have played her trump card and gained the upper hand.

But with her injuries, unless she had some special means of recovery, there was no way she could continue fighting.

The moment Hong Ji burst out from the sand, she instantly fired off dozens of Bone Swords.

Hong Ji’s appearance was so sudden that half of the dozens of Bone Swords struck the man directly.

Weakened by the potent poison, the man had no way to resist Hong Ji’s assault.

With a slight twitch of her fingers, the Bone Swords that had pierced the man’s body began to rapidly change shape.

Not only were the man’s internal organs shredded by the Bone Swords, but his muscles and bones were also ground into fragments.

If not for his skin holding him together, he would have collapsed into the yellow sand as a pile of mush.

After Hong Ji killed the man, Zhong Yi immediately gained another three points of Divine Origin Value.

The woman who had just revealed her scorpion tail and was about to kill the man herself now stared resentfully at Hong Ji.

"We were dueling here, and you hid in the shadows to launch a sneak attack. The act of a true coward!"

"If you have any guts, wait for me to recover and we can have a fair fight!"

Hong Ji looked at the heavily injured yet fully alert woman as if she were an idiot.

"You, a stinking scorpion, have the nerve to talk about cowards? Rats taste much better than scorpions, anyway."

"This is the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, not some tournament arena."

With that, six tentacles, each over ten meters long, shot out toward the woman like the unfurling petals of a blooming flower.

Her stamina was already depleted, and under Hong Ji’s relentless assault, the woman couldn’t even last five minutes before being pierced through by the tentacles.

Zhong Yi gained another five points of Divine Origin Value. His total now stood at twenty-two points.

’Just eight more Divine Origin Value points, and I can open the Divine Origin Store.’

’I hope there’s something interesting in the Divine Origin Store.’

’And I hope whatever I find isn’t too expensive. It’d be best if I could afford it quickly.’

Zhong Yi remained inside the winding wooden snake, but Hong Ji did not re-enter the construct created by the Endless Wood Demon.

Instead, she walked out in the open on the yellow sand, acting as a target.

Zhong Yi was certain that there couldn’t be many people left in the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm now.

He himself had already obtained twenty-two Divine Origin Value points; the other powerful participants must have acquired a fair amount as well.

Since everyone who entered the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm started with only two points of Divine Origin Value, and when a person was killed and ejected from the realm, they were guaranteed to leave with at least one point, this meant that at most, only one hundred points of Divine Origin Value were available to be plundered.

And that was excluding the possibility of someone leaving with a higher amount of Divine Origin Value.

Lan Po nudged Zhong Yi’s chest with its tail and began to communicate with him using its Spiritual Power.

"Master, that person who was infected by the dream and has been constantly releasing Nightmares is in a fight."

"It’s in that direction!"

As it spoke, Lan Po extended its long tail forward and gave it a very deliberate shake.

The direction Lan Po’s tail was pointing happened to be the way Zhong Yi was planning to go.

"Lan Po, can you sense how many individuals are being affected by the Nightmares right now?"

Lan Po swished its tail twice, sensing carefully for a moment before replying.

"Master, besides the one I affected with the dream earlier, two other individuals are under the influence of the Nightmares."

"One of them has very high Spiritual Resistance, so the Nightmare’s influence on them is minimal."

Zhong Yi nodded upon hearing this. ’The last few opponents in this Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm must all be gathered there,’ he deduced.

At a time like this, even a master of ambushes had no reason to keep hiding in the shadows.

He pressed onward, and after crossing the region of swirling yellow sand, a mountainous terrain of jagged, bizarre rocks appeared before him.

Zhong Yi immediately had the Endless Wood Demon use the Endless Wood to form a large expanse of rock.