Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 406 - 103: Shadows

"Can it be played like this?"

The few from the Celestial Essence Realm were utterly baffled when they saw that Ling Yue Sword Immortal also wasn’t planning to take the stage.

In the five duels of the Grotto Heaven, is this to let the Demon Court Saint Child fight four matches!

"This... if I had known, I wouldn’t have bothered gathering intelligence. I lost so miserably, and even if the Celestial Essence Realm eventually wins, given my performance, the quality of the Divine Body Pill I can choose probably won’t be very high." Bai Yuran lamented.

According to the Celestial Essence Continent’s Divine Body Ranking, there is a significant gap between the Divine Bodies ranked 11 to 20 and those ranked 91 to 100.

At the same level, a cultivator with a Taiyang Body can completely overpower one with a Fire God Body.

Bai Yuran felt utterly hopeless, realizing for the first time how useless the Celestial Secrets Secret Technique was.

The intelligence she had gathered seemed utterly pointless, because no matter who the opponent was, this Saint Heir seemed capable of defeating them all instantly.

After all, the pet beast of this gentleman could single-handedly defeat even the Divinity Transformation talents of the Celestial Essence Realm, let alone some "Nascent Soul juveniles" in front of him.

The prodigies of the Sky Sound Realm, wanting to challenge Lin Jing, would probably need to call in someone from the Divinity Transformation Stage.

"You don’t have to regret it; my pet beasts aren’t that numerous, five rounds aren’t enough." Lin Jing offered some comfort as he dispatched his last pet beast.

"This is my last one," 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝙬𝙚𝓫𝒏𝓸𝓿𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝙤𝓶

he said as the Ice Soul Gu he summoned had already ascended the stage.

"Spider?"

When Lv Wangshu and those from the Sky Sound Realm saw that their opponent was an ice spider, they were all taken aback.

"It’s another pet beast?"

Lv Wangshu carried a suppressed frustration in his heart. Regardless of the outcome of this battle, he felt extremely stifled now.

He originally thought the opponent would place great importance on these three points, but it turned out to be another pet beast?

"A Beast Taming Cultivator, huh? It’s my first time seeing such a Beast Taming Cultivator, but let’s end this farce." He was about to muster his power, but suddenly his expression changed. He had unknowingly been poisoned!

The toxin was frantically trying to invade his body. Lv Wangshu quickly used the supreme yang mana brought by the Taiyang Body to suppress it, allowing him to catch his breath.

It was the colorless and tasteless ability of the Wind Plague Gu, transmitted through the air, catching enemies completely off guard.

"What’s happening?" Seeing that Senior Brother Lv was like facing a formidable enemy, the others from Sky Sound realized something was wrong.

At the same time, just as Lv Wangshu suppressed the Wind Plague Gu toxin contracted through skin infection, his mind suddenly descended into chaos. Thoughts of what if he lost emerged, and in an instant, countless consequences of losing the Grotto Heaven contest between the two realms flooded his mind uncontrollably.

First was his realm’s decline, a humiliating return to the Sky Sound Realm, losing the title of the strongest Nascent Soul prodigy, followed by the disappointed gazes from the elders and Palace Masters of the Immortal Palace, excluding him from the list of disciples put under special cultivation... All at once, the Heart Demon poison entangled Lv Wangshu’s heart.

"It’s that spider’s doing." Fortunately, the Innate Dao Body’s clear Dao heart allowed him to suppress the Yin Spirit Gu poison not long after. This Yin Gu poison had already been planted at the moment the Ice Soul Gu and Lv Wangshu locked eyes.

Faced with such a strange spider, Lv Wangshu felt incredibly troubled because the Taiyang Body, known for being impervious to all poisons, could only barely suppress them, unable to immediately neutralize them.

"I heard you are very strong?" The Ice Soul Gu murmured as it looked at the opponent whose expression had significantly changed.

Inside its ice crystal-like body, colorful light spots shimmered, exactly the power of other peculiar Gu.

"...Not an ordinary spider, a poison Gu beast?"

"And its poison lineage is definitely ancestral,"

With cold sweat streaming down his face, Lv Wangshu retreated while two black and white yin-yang fish swam out from his eyes.

"Hold it off."

Two Technique Elemental Spirits were summoned by Lv Wangshu, while he, continuing to suppress the toxins, retreated to a safer distance.

Because he discovered that the two toxins he had just suppressed were changing again, as if they had a life of their own, determined to claim his life.

This was because the Ice Soul Gu had not used only the Yin Spirit Gu poison and Wind Plague Gu poison, but a compound Gu poison, along with myriad poisons and fatal forces!

The myriad poisons Gu force granted transformations to the Gu poison, so that the types of toxins were constantly in mutation,

while the fatal Gu poison force made the Gu poison active, like a living toxin worm dividing and proliferating in the enemy’s body, growing stronger.

The combination of these two great Gu insects directly made the toxins harder to cure and suppress.

Though the Ice Soul Gu was also adept at parasitic corpse control, it was even more skilled at poisoning, especially under the current situation of Nine Gu United.

Against peers of the same level, it was exceptionally effective.

"No, eliminate it!!!" A moment later, Lv Wangshu realized that even his all-defeating Taiyang Body wasn’t enough to suppress the toxins, and he panicked.

What a joke, in this current situation, he would rather face that squirrel and koi fish.

"Damn it, the acquired Taiyang Body is ultimately not as good as the innate Taiyang Body, plus the divine body is yet to be perfected..." he gritted his teeth, finding no time to consider anything else, and could only hope that the two Technique Elemental Spirits could deal with the Ice Soul Gu.

The Technique Elemental Spirits were pure mana, they couldn’t possibly be poisoned, right...

However, his expectations proved to be in vain. The Technique Elemental Spirits which had evolved consciousnes from the basic techniques of "Blazing Sun Technique" and "Shadow Technique" were mocked by the spider right under Lv Wangshu’s nose.

The Ice Soul Gu watched as the yin-yang fish turned into a powerful force of yin and yang, crashing toward it, aiming to extinguish the Technique Elemental Spirit, but had no intention of facing the enemy head-on.

It directly activated the power of the Stone People Gu, performing earth escape to burrow underground, causing the two yin-yang fish to lose their target instantly. After hesitating for a moment, they too followed underground, pursuing one after the other.

"La la la."

The Ice Soul Gu simply refused to engage the yin-yang fish head-on.

"Without the Divine Sense assistance from your master, you cannot pinpoint me underground. Hurry up or your master will be unable to hold on any longer and will be poisoned to death."

The Ice Soul Gu muttered under its breath, and the two yin-yang fish started sweating profusely. By comparison, it was Lu Wangshu on the external arena, desperately suppressing the poison, who was the most despairing, as he continuously searched for antidote pills only to find they were ineffective.

In such a state, channeling Divine Sense to assist the Technique Elemental Spirit would only worsen the poison!

"It’s over."

At this moment, even the cultivators on Tianming’s side, though slow to react, realized Lu Wangshu’s predicament; each one found it hard to believe that the strongest Nascent Soul prodigy from the Tianming Realm was being toyed with so effortlessly by a poisonous spider, unable to resist? What a joke.

This couldn’t even be called a battle.

"Unimaginable!" moments later, the poison in Lu Wangshu’s body erupted violently, causing his vital signs to plummet drastically. Even though the Technique Elemental Spirit continued to chase the Ice Soul Gu, Lu Wangshu himself was directly regarded as defeated by the Grotto Heaven and transferred away.

"Brother Lu!" With Lu Wangshu transmitted back, it represented an absolute defeat for the Tianming Realm side, even though there was still one battle left.

"The Beast Taming Cultivator on the opposite side... is a monster."

"Tian Lian, just surrender quickly in the last match. I can’t suppress the poison anymore... I must seek help from the Ask Dao Elder in the Immortal Palace..." Lu Wangshu completely lost his initial confidence, a shadow cast over his heart.

He hadn’t felt anything while watching others and those pet beasts fight before.

Until he took the field himself did he experience that despair.

"I, I understand." Tian Lian took a deep breath, feeling a shiver down her spine, looking towards the spider vanished on the arena and felt deep fear towards the mysterious Beast Taming Cultivator who had never appeared.

Who on earth was that Beast Taming Cultivator?

"Surrender." Soon Tian Lian ascended the arena; since now Tianming Realm had already lost completely, for Brother Lu’s life not to be ended here, she had to end the battle immediately by surrendering.

After all, even if she won the battle, it would hold no significance; she never thought it would culminate in such an end.

The Celestial Essence Realm...

Not just Tianming Realm, even folks from Celestial Essence Realm felt Lin Jing’s prowess was overly abnormal; the opposite side... certainly had developed strong psychological shadows by now.

Perhaps, Lin Jing might become their Heart Demon later.

They now began to envision Lin Jing entering the Source Realm, facing prodigies from all worlds, based on Tianming Realm’s performance.

"The last match."

The final match, Lin Jing ascended the arena himself; at present, he lacked pet beast support, though it didn’t matter.

"I surrender—" Seeing that the mysterious Beast Taming Cultivator was personally participating in the last match, the Divine Pity Body quickly surrendered.

Nevertheless.

A few seconds after surrendering, what made the Divine Pity Body’s skin crawl was.

The Grotto Heaven, completely indifferent.

"Chose to surrender, huh..." Lin Jing stood on the arena, reaching out a finger, on the finger, a cute little mushroom spun and danced.

"I surrender!!!" The Divine Pity Body’s face changed, but no matter how she shouted, the Grotto Heaven remained indifferent.

After a while, finally, the Divine Pity Body noticed something amiss, staring at Lin Jing in horror.

Illusion!

"Is this, a technique elemental spirit of illusion path?" Her gaze was fixed on the mushroom.

"Smart, realized it, huh, you only shouted surrender in the illusion, but reality, you’re still dumbly standing on the arena, not having spoken, seems under such circumstances surrender is undetectable by the Grotto Heaven rules." Lin Jing smiled slightly.

"You..." The Divine Pity Body felt hopeless, this guy, what sort of abnormal being.

"What do you want."

She couldn’t understand, wasn’t he a Beast Taming Cultivator, yet... His accomplishment in the path of illusion actually reached the level to cultivate a technique elemental spirit.

Monster!

"Relax, I know you’re anxious to surrender because you don’t want that person to die from poison deterioration."

"In this illusion, the time flow is different from outside; now outside, perhaps only a second has passed." Lin Jing stroked his chin.

"Nonetheless, I can also make it so a moment in the illusion, a few hours pass externally, meaning the Tianming Realm prodigy’s life or death is at my whim, Taoist-friend, you wouldn’t want him to die, would you?

If you return in time and let the Immortal Palace’s expert help detoxify, maybe there’s a chance of saving. And if you want to save him, you merely need to answer me a few questions because, after all, our initial goal was to exchange intelligence, wasn’t it?" Lin Jing whispered.