Celestial Beast Taming

The more he fought, the more Luke could confirm that the woman before him didn’t possess a shred of Spiritual Ability.

Yet, when he was hit by that dream-related Spiritual Attack, this young woman had happened to be nearby.

He realized the woman before him was likely in league with the one skilled in Spiritual Attacks.

’They must have formed some kind of partnership!’

As a thought flashed through his mind, Luke spoke, still locked in battle with Hong Ji.

"We’re all meeting for the first time in here. Anyone who trusts someone else is a fool."

"If you’re working with someone, I’d advise you to be a little more on your guard."

Luke felt his words should be enough to persuade Hong Ji.

After all, abilities related to the mind were the most insidious. This young woman, who specialized in fighting by altering her body, surely wouldn’t want to do all the dirty work for someone she just met in this Secret Realm.

Luke thought he might even have a chance to turn her against her partner.

Just as Luke was about to speak again, he heard the young woman in front of him say impatiently,

"So noisy!"

"Master, I’ve learned most of his combat techniques. I need support now, or else I won’t be able to take him down quickly."

"The Blood Rope Armor Insects inside my body are being controlled by him. My body is already starting to stiffen."

Luke’s greatest strength was facing these flesh-and-blood Creatures that relied on physical combat.

Firstly, Luke himself possessed impressive combat skills and wouldn’t necessarily be at a disadvantage when fighting those who excelled at physical and close-quarters combat.

Secondly, the channel for Energy transport in these beings who fought with their bodies was usually their blood.

Luke’s Fallen Power Heart Aspect had already changed back when he first started fighting Hong Ji.

It was just that Hong Ji’s situation was a bit special. She had let the Blood Rope Armor Insects parasitize her body.

All the blood in Hong Ji’s body had been absorbed by the Blood Rope Armor Insects.

Inside her, the Blood Rope Armor Insects would constantly circulate blood, as if they had used their own bodies to reconstruct her blood vessels.

This Energy-infused blood was the source for reassembling various materials during Hong Ji’s battles.

Just as Hong Ji called for help, four Bodhisattvas carved from ice crystals suddenly appeared around Luke.

These Ice Crystal Guanyins had solemn visages, their eyes lowered, and the lotus thrones at their feet were abloom with ice lotuses.

Each of these four Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas had a unique design, but perched on each of their shoulders was an Ice Fox Sculpture with two long tails.

Ever since Ice Glaze saw illustrations related to these Bodhisattvas in the ancient texts of Longya City,

she had been studying her art within the Soul Base, which was being expanded by Zhong Yi’s Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart.

These four Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas were not only exquisitely crafted, but their attack power was also astonishing.

Ice Glaze had rarely had the chance to fight before, but when she truly did,

as a Guardian Beast Contracted by Zhong Yi with a Soul Taming Seed and nurtured with Flowing Soul Soil, Ice Glaze’s strength might be slightly weaker than the prodigies who entered the Divine Origin Slaughter Secret Realm, but not by much.

Ice Glaze appeared behind the four Ice Crystal Bodhisattva statues, having already activated her Extreme Ice Position.

These Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas were a variation of Ice Glaze’s Basic Skill, Ice Jade Fox Sculpture.

When these Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas injured a target, they could plunder the Elemental Energy within the target’s body to replenish the Ice Element consumed by the sculptures.

Luke’s Fallen Power Heart Aspect could designate multiple targets, but only if they all used the same type of Energy.

This was because the Fallen Power Heart Aspect couldn’t alter its form based on two different types of Energy at the same time.

Ice Glaze used Ice Elemental Energy, a completely different type from the Energy used by Hong Ji.

The moment Hong Ji cried out "Master," a suspicion had formed in Luke’s mind.

The instant he saw this Ice Fox, he felt he was very likely correct.

The one who had been attacking him from the shadows was most likely a Guardian Beast Master who could contract multiple Guardian Beasts for battle.

This Two-tailed fox that manipulated the Ice Element was also clearly not skilled in dream-related Spiritual Abilities.

’This Guardian Beast Master has contracted at least three Guardian Beasts!’

To raise three Guardian Beasts to this level, with one of them even able to fight him to a standstill...

Luke found it hard to imagine what kind of astonishing resources this Guardian Beast Master possessed.

Just then, the sensation of dream and reality intertwining struck his mind again.

As Luke fought, a series of flashing, dream-like scenes kept appearing in his mind.

It was as if he were daydreaming!

In Luke’s mind, fighting a Guardian Beast Master wasn’t actually that difficult.

With an Ability like the Instant Energy Body Technique, Luke had killed countless Guardian Beast Masters on the Soul Fighting Platform in the Virtual Source Network.

But now, facing three of this Guardian Beast Master’s Guardian Beasts at once, Luke found he couldn’t even find a trace of the master himself.

And if he couldn’t find the Guardian Beast Master, he couldn’t use any tactics against him.

The Fallen Energy Race was, after all, not a Race that excelled at prolonged combat. His combat skills were excellent, but his stamina couldn’t compare to those Races that specialized in physical prowess.

Sensing the Energy in his body was about to run out, for the first time when facing an opponent of the same Tier, Luke felt a sense of despair.

He fired two consecutive Fallen Energy Flashes, one at Hong Ji and one at Ice Glaze.

The Fallen Energy Flash was nearly instantaneous. Ice Glaze cleverly used two Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas to block the attack for her.

The Energy inside the two Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas was detonated in succession, causing them to explode.

The flying ice shards from the explosion grazed Ice Glaze’s skin but didn’t cause her much harm.

But Hong Ji’s body was wracked by successive explosions, and for the first time in the battle, she was blasted into a barely human shape.

Just then, a green halo clearly containing the Power of Rules descended upon the monstrous, humanoid girl.

The girl’s mangled body actually began to show signs of recovery.

Especially after two multi-faceted crystals shot into her body, the form he had just crippled with a single Fallen Horn Flash recovered completely in a short time.

Luke resentfully spun the black umbrella in his hand, and the chains all retracted back into it.

The black umbrella folded shut, and Luke held it like a long spear.

"I’m done! I surrender! Just give me a quick death!"

"Bro, I’ve already surrendered. At least let me know who I lost to."

"If you haven’t unlocked the Divine Origin Store yet, my Divine Origin Value will be enough for you to buy a Source Material Celestial Shuttle after you kill me."

"Who knows, maybe we’ll have a chance to meet again somewhere else."

After Luke said his piece, he received no response.

What came smashing toward him were the ice-crystal arms of two Ice Crystal Bodhisattvas, their fingers held in a delicate pose.

Luke was beaten until he was on the verge of death, his body tightly bound by tentacles that emerged from the humanoid girl’s body.

Luke suddenly noticed that a patch of rocks not far from him, which had seemed perfectly ordinary, had suddenly vanished.

A handsome young man with a faint smile, sharp eyebrows, and bright eyes was walking toward him, step by step.

Perched on the young man’s shoulder was a Fairy with two pairs of wings.

From the young man’s collar, Luke also sensed a distinct aura of Life.

This meant the young man had at least two more Guardian Beasts that hadn’t joined the battle.

The corners of Luke’s mouth twitched. For the first time, he had the absurd feeling that he was weak!

’Since when was there such a huge gap between me and my peers!?’

Just as Luke was about to speak, the tentacles made of taut muscle had already wrapped tightly around his mouth.

The tip of a tentacle slid down his throat, almost reaching his stomach.

Luke swore to himself that he had absolutely no desire to attack at this point, nor did he have the ability.

He just wanted to greet the opponent who had been tormenting him for days, whom he was only now meeting face to face.

Just then, Luke saw the young man, who had walked up to him, reach out and touch one of the small black horns on his head.

In an instant, Luke, whose entire body was wracked with pain from the beating, shuddered as if an electric current had shot through him.