Beast Taming: Abyssal Descent-Chapter 338 - 296: Guerrilla Tactics, Encroaching on the Ghost Village
"In the Great Xia Empire, with the Great Sage Equal to Heaven and the Daoist overseeing, along with the protection of the Celestial Sword Bureau, even if the Demon Cave Secret Realm truly breaks its seal, releasing a myriad of ghosts, they will most likely suppress it."
As Mo Qingchen finished speaking, Grey Wolf gave a knowing glance from the side.
After all, they weren’t people of this world; they entered the Demon Cave Secret Realm just to train Tom and Jerry.
No matter what, they’re hunting demons in the Secret Realm, aren’t they?
Even if the Secret Realm breaks its seal, they couldn’t be blamed.
So they only need to do their best and leave the rest to fate!
Having made their decision, Grey Wolf immediately started having [Wolf King] map out their hunting routes.
Avoid those Ghost Towns, and start the hunt from the Ghost Village.
Thus, the time for Tom and Jerry’s performance began.
Various enchanted weapons were brought out recklessly, and crucially, these weapons only showed their full effect in their hands.
For example, Tom created a blue-flaming Gatling Bodhisattva, and Johnny tried it, but the storm of metal bullets passed harmlessly through the rushing horde of ghostly spirit bodies.
It caused no harm to the ghosts, but instead, Johnny Blaze was chased up and down by dozens of ghosts.
He was eventually torn to pieces, only regaining control by triggering his Evil Spirit Knight mode, burning the ferocious ghosts that shredded his flesh to ashes, finally avenging his ’death.’
And when this blue-flaming Gatling Bodhisattva returned to Tom’s hands, it became a true nemesis of spirit bodies.
Hundreds of fierce ghosts came surging in, bringing along billowing black smoke death aura, roaring, howling, ready to tear Tom apart.
A frightened cat didn’t hesitate to lift the Gatling Bodhisattva, and against these charging ghosts, just "rat-tat-tat..."
First, one after another, the fierce ghosts were turned to dust by the metal storm of bullets, then torn into countless soul fragments, dead beyond dead.
If Tom the cat put all his thoughts into hot weapons, entering bombing mode, treating the ghosts as corporeal monsters and bombing them to pieces,
then Jerry the mouse put all his thoughts into various mysterious measures, entering a demon-slaughtering mode, treating various ghosts as demons, and purifying them with various exorcisms till none remained.
Village after village, one ghost village hunt at a time, where in most villages, ghost numbers stayed below five hundred.
Among these ghosts, the strongest reached no more than Tier Six.
Ghosts reaching Tier Four or above were about twenty or thirty in a village.
The rest were all Tier Three or below ordinary types.
Thus, even destroying a Ghost Village didn’t significantly reward them with experience points, only amounting to around 40,000 in total.
It’s important to know that Tom and Jerry are bound together; leveling them requires synchronized progression.
So, a usual beastmaster, advancing from Level 50 to Level 51, needs 1,000,000 experience points, but they require over 2,000,000 due to their bond.
Looking at their speed clearing the ghost villages, essentially, they required two and a half to three hours to clear a village.
Thus, running non-stop twenty-four hours a day, Tom and Jerry got no break at all and could only clear at most nine villages a day.
This yielded them about 360,000 experience points daily.
Since entering the Demon Cave Secret Realm and starting their ghost village hunting mode, they’ve been busy for over five days, and the two little guys managed to level up once.
"The leveling speed is a bit slow, Grey Wolf, what’s the current status of the initial seal we asked you to monitor in the Demon Cave Secret Realm?" 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂
These days, while Tom and Jerry continued ghost hunting, the others weren’t idle either.
Especially Carter Shire and Johnny Blaze, transforming into Evil Spirit Knight form, one riding a Nightmare Mount, the other driving the Soul War Chariot, they charged directly into the ghostly fog.
[Wolf King]’s detection range covered a thousand miles and could guide them.
Therefore, the two Evil Spirit Knights began their journey of hunting Tier Seven Ghost Generals and Tier Eight Ghost Generals.
The Hellfire on the Evil Spirit Knights can burn souls, proving to be nemesis for ghosts, along with the undying trait.
Even transforming, their power just barely reached Tier Seven levels yet was capable of dealing lethal damage to Tier Eight ghosts.
Hence, guided by [Wolf King], they charged directly into those Ghost Towns, with Hellfire burning on their bodies, into ghost hordes, kidnapping the leaders first, directly slaying the Ghost Generals.
As for Tier Eight Ghost Generals, none were found in those villages or towns.
In five days, having destroyed five or six Ghost Towns consecutively, they slew as many as twelve Ghost Generals, yet not a single Tier Eight Ghost General was encountered.
This made Mo Qingchen and the others realize that the appearance probability of Tier Eight ghosts must be exceedingly low, otherwise, their quantity wouldn’t be so sparse.
It slightly eased their original worries.
Being besieged by a group of Tier Eight ghosts is really deadly, especially when they only have two truly powerful individuals, and the highest among the others is just at Tier Seven.
As for Mo Qingchen himself, despite having stacked attributes higher even beyond Tier Nine Guardian Beast’s limit attribute value by much, he simply couldn’t fully utilize all those attribute points!
This is also the common issue with Beastmasters, being unable to exploit their own attribute advantages.
Of course, this refers to the super-geniuses, who can contract beasts with incredibly cool talents, thus reflecting attribute values, deeply stacked upon themselves.
But without rigorous training or applicable operational methods, they could only use brute methods, straightforwardly, unable to fully exploit all attribute values.
Mo Qingchen is considered fortunate, having high attribute values, yet he also cultivated in other power systems.
In the magic side, Thunder Magic, except only mastering a limited amount, could barely exert some power.
However, he is much better than those genius Beastmasters who didn’t cultivate other power systems at all.
Moreover, the guy is also currently practicing the Sword Immortal path, further having obtained a treasure Spirit Sword from the Celestial Sword Bureau and the Daoist, which he could claim as his Lifebound Immortal Sword.
Following the regular path of cultivation, one day he could erupt all his attribute values through Sword Immortal inheritance.
But all of this necessitates time accumulation.
And at this moment, what they lack the most is time.
As for what is said about Concept Undying, what if these ghosts collect your corpse?
Concept Undying doesn’t mean invincibility; after being killed, in a few seconds, you could resurrect on the spot.
And then a group of ghosts would tear you to pieces again; dying repeatedly like this, no matter what being isn’t prone to collapse, causing psychological shadows.
And if there aren’t many Tier Eight ghosts, it’s just a gang of Tier Seven ghosts, then wouldn’t they have ways to deal with it?
Mainly, this battle’s difficulty is vastly different, like heaven and earth, the gap is huge.
It’s like having two modes, the former being hell difficulty, the latter hard mode.
"Boss, the seal at the entrance is still continuously diminishing.
Generally, every twenty-four hours, a team of seventy-two ghosts examines the seal.
Exactly what this ghost team is doing to the seal remains unknown.
The deployed insect surveillance robots automatically cease operation when within five hundred meters of the seal.
Whether it’s images captured or sound recordings, they can’t be conveyed back.
The ghost team’s strength isn’t weak either, according to [Wolf King]’s detection results.
Leading is a Tier Eight Ghost General, nine Tier Seven Ghost Generals, and the other sixty-two are all Tier Six fierce ghosts."
