Beast Tamer Ascension
Book 4: Chapter 88: Defeat

Vol 4 Chapter 88: Defeat

The power of this Immortal Palace Teleportation Treasure lay in its unpatterned spatial teleportation—so chaotic that even a Void Mystical cultivator couldn't stop it, and even the one activating it couldn’t control the result.

That was how the artifact was designed, so the Weapon Spirit had no way of precisely directing the teleport—only random transmission was possible.

Still, being the final artifact spirit created by the Immortal Palace, it had its own unique insights into controlling such treasures, far superior to any human cultivator.

Even though it couldn’t determine the final location of the compass teleportation, the Mechanical Tortoise could still take others along with it—and make sure they landed at the same location together.

“Not good!”

The Grand Elder of Wu God Hall saw the strange tortoise about to use spatial magic to take the Holy Son away and instantly pushed his power to the limit!

Anxious and desperate to block the teleportation, he tried everything, but the power of the Immortal Palace treasure was simply too absurd. Even a Void Mystical Stage powerhouse couldn’t do a thing. All he could do was watch helplessly, eyes bloodshot, as his Holy Son was abducted by a tortoise.

“Lord Wu God, something terrible has happened!”

“His Highness the Holy Son has been taken by a demonic turtle!”

With no other choice, the Grand Elder of Wu God Hall took out the emergency contact treasure gifted by the Wu God. Meanwhile, Wu God himself, who had been reinforcing the world barrier, immediately stopped his work.

“Why the panic? He has my life-saving Witch Soul on him. His life isn’t in danger... Let me see what’s going on.”

Thanks to the Witch Soul, Wu God could accurately pinpoint his location. Otherwise, even with Dao-Seeking power, finding someone in the vast world of cultivation would be like finding a needle in a haystack.

After some time, Wu God located them in the Qingzhou region. There he found a Nascent Soul Mechanical Tortoise shaking a quasi-immortal sealing treasure and continuously stuffing it with all kinds of poisoned magical items to exhaust the Holy Son’s power...

“This turtle...”

“This treasure...”

Wu God’s face darkened as he turned to the Demon Court Lord, who was still earnestly reinforcing the world barrier, and said, “Your Holy Son… what’s his meaning behind this?”

“Huh?”

The Demon Court Lord looked at him, puzzled. “What’s wrong? I don’t know anything. Is he in danger?”

She quickly used the “Imperial Weapon” and “Tiger Fang” to lock onto Lin Jing’s true location—both of which bore her personal mark.

“Isn’t he quietly and obediently cultivating?” Sensing that Lin Jing was currently in the Immortal Prison Mountain of Qingzhou, the Demon Empress was confused.

“Still pretending! That turtle pet of his ran off to Yunhai Mountain Range and captured the Holy Son of Wu God Hall with a quasi-immortal artifact!” Wu God exploded.

Having his Holy Son taken down solo by a single pet of the Demon Court Holy Son—if it were up to him, Wu God really didn’t want to confront the Demon Empress.

But not knowing Lin Jing’s intentions and out of concern for the Holy Son’s safety, he had to at least communicate with her.

After all, if he—an elite of Dao-Seeking Realm—stepped in while the Holy Son wasn’t in real mortal danger, it wouldn’t look good.

Ultimately, this was still a clash between the younger generation.

Dmn it. Wu God had thought that now that the Demon Court Holy Son had reached sixth place, he wouldn’t be eyeing ninth. Who knew that bstard wanted his pet to climb into the top ten on its own… Wu God was fuming.

“Oh, I see.” The Demon Empress put on a sorrowful expression. “So he got captured by a pet... Well then...”

“Maybe your Holy Son wanted to voluntarily step down from the rankings. Don’t blame me. I didn’t interfere. And if there's any real danger to the Holy Son’s life...”

“Well, that’s when us elders get involved. For now, let’s just keep reinforcing the barrier. We’re almost done with the upgrades...”

Wu God’s face got darker and darker.

The real issue now wasn’t the Holy Son’s safety.

It was that if the Destiny Gold List really showed the Holy Son of Wu God Hall getting solo-defeated by the Demon Court Holy Son’s pet, Wu God would never live it down.

“Relax. Don’t be so petty. This emperor helped you guys wipe out the Gu God Sect, didn’t I? And even if he gets kicked out of the top ten, wouldn’t it just be the Totem Holy Son of the Snow Plains replacing him? It’s just going from ninth to tenth. Not a big deal,” said the Demon Empress with a wave of her hand.

Wu God looked toward a certain location in the outer void, where four Snow Plains Demon Emperors were also busy reinforcing the world barrier.

Those four Demon Emperors had once been at odds with the Ancient Kingdom. Before the coming of the Golden Era, they were even in open conflict.

But in the end, the Snow Plains chose to ally with the Demon Court, entering into a “Pact of Alliance,” and paid a massive protection fee. That stopped the war between the Ancient Kingdom and the Snow Plains.

Of course, the most critical factor was that the Second Generation Ancient Emperor had no interest in war with the Snow Plains anymore.

Compared to the impact of the Golden Era and the looming threat of the Heavenly Demon Realm, territorial expansion of the Ancient Kingdom was now trivial.

Temporarily setting aside old grudges with the Snow Plains and getting their help to strengthen the world barrier was actually a win for the Ancient Kingdom. After all, if any foreign enemies breached the world, the Tianyuan Ancient Kingdom would be the first to suffer.

As for the cultivators and civilians who died due to his wars? The Second Generation Ancient Emperor believed that was inevitable. There are no eternal enemies—only eternal interests. Sacrifices must be made for the glory of the Ancient Kingdom.

Qingzhou.

Perhaps due to spatial inertia, the Mechanical Tortoise and the Holy Son of Wu God Hall were randomly teleported here.

Once it realized it had landed in Qingzhou, the Mechanical Tortoise chose to continue tormenting the Holy Son inside the bottle while also going to find Lin Jing’s true body.

Before long, it noticed that the Holy Son had already lost consciousness inside the bottle. So it let him out, poked him a few times, and confirmed that he had indeed been defeated.

Then it focused its spiritual power into its eyes and stared blankly up at the Destiny Gold List in the sky.

The Holy Son of Wu God Hall was still sitting in the ninth position.

It had defeated him, yet didn’t make it onto the list.

“#￥%#￥%” Seeing this, the Mechanical Tortoise cursed loudly at the Destiny Gold List, recalling what Lin Jing had once said:

“Because your life essence is that of a mechanical beast, it’s unclear whether you can appear on the Gold List... If we go by artifact spirit age, you’re an old ghost. But by material freshness, you’re still a baby. And as a mechanical construct, you don’t have a ‘Golden Cultivation Age.’ Who knows how the list will judge you.”

Now the Mechanical Tortoise understood—the Destiny Gold List never planned to include “mechanical lifeforms” as a valid category.

Enraged, the Mechanical Tortoise stuffed the Holy Son back into the treasure bottle and headed straight for Immortal Prison Mountain...

Since it couldn’t get on the list itself, it might as well drag the Holy Son back and let the Pineleaf Mouse, Dragon Carp, or Ice Soul Gu defeat him instead... At least that way he’d be useful.

The only question was—could any of these “senior fellows” beat him as easily as it had?

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