Beast Tamer Ascension
Book 4: Chapter 90: The Collapsing Holy Son

Vol 4 Chapter 90: The Collapsing Holy Son

“Impossible, absolutely impossible…”

Several hours later.

Slightly recovered, the Holy Son of the Wu God Hall began to fiercely battle the Ice Soul Gu.

The Holy Son prided himself on his wealth of experience fighting Gu insects, but the Ice Soul Gu’s power was far beyond what he had anticipated.

He had never seen a Gu that, without even reaching the Nascent Soul Transformation Stage, could parasitize and control the corpse of a demon ancestor—especially one at the peak of the Void Mystical Stage!

“Raaawr~~” In the end, Ice Soul Gu chose to control the corpse of the Heavenly Lion Ancestor, a peak-tier demon ancestor from Qingzhou under the Dao-Seeking Stage.

Normally, even with its current Nine Gu Unity, the Ice Soul Gu wouldn’t be able to perfectly control the corpse of a Void Mystical peak beast. But its bloodline was no longer just that of a Rare Gu.

Its avatar had been refined using the bloodline of an Undying Rare Beast fused with the blood of the Dao-Seeking Gu God. With the avatar’s power supporting it, and the Ice Soul Gu now possessing a portion of death origin, it handled the corpse with surprising ease.

Facing the terrifying physical might of the Heavenly Lion Ancestor, the Holy Son once again felt the same helplessness he had experienced when facing a quasi-immortal artifact.

Though the Heavenly Lion Ancestor was dead, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse. Beasts were known for their physical strength—dead or alive, their sheer body power could still crush an early-stage Nascent Soul cultivator into despair.

Beautiful!

The massive lion slammed its paw down, and the Holy Son’s dharma body was sent flying several kilometers like a rolling mountain.

“Raaawr~~!” Ice Soul Gu pressed the attack.

Though it could control the corpse of a Void Mystical demon ancestor, the rate at which its strength was draining was frightening. In this state, it could only maintain control for a few minutes—within that time, it had to settle the match with the Holy Son!

“Alright then…”

Meanwhile, atop a mountain peak, seeing that the Ice Soul Gu was suppressing the Holy Son as well, the Mechanized Turtle finally understood.

As expected—every one of Lin Jing’s pets was a total freak.

...

Not long after.

The Destiny Golden Ranking shifted.

This time, it was a change in the top ten. Every cultivator sensed it immediately.

When they focused mana into their eyes to gaze upon it, one by one, expressions of disbelief appeared across many faces.

On the Destiny Golden Ranking, rank nine: Ice Soul Gu. Cultivation: Half-Step Nascent Soul Transformation. Reason for listing: defeated the Holy Son of the Wu God Hall, Ta Wu.

“Ridiculous. What the h*ll is going on?”

In a snow-covered land, deep within a totem shrine, the burly Totem Holy Son stepped into the blizzard, staring in disbelief at his fall from the top ten.

“That guy Ta Wu... was defeated by... the Demon Court Holy Son’s pet—a mere Rare Gu??”

What he couldn’t accept was that because of the other’s defeat, he himself was knocked out of the top ten!

Ice Soul Gu making it onto the list alone caused an uproar across Tianyuan Continent.

The Wu God Hall and Gu God Sect had clashed for nearly ten thousand years. No one ever expected the Holy Son of Wu God Hall to be solo-killed by a single Rare Gu.

“...”

In Sea God Palace, Misty Forest, some top talents who’d previously resented their factions paying Lin Jing protection fees to secure ranking spots now fell silent, staring thoughtfully at the shifting Golden Ranking.

What a f***ing joke. If Ice Soul Gu can enter the top ten by itself, after Lin Jing entered with his Heavenly Demon Physique by burning life force, then... what about us?

They heard that a Gu insect needed to merge with a vessel to fully exert its strength. Now, these elites couldn’t help but imagine—how terrifying would Chen Xing be if he fused with his Chen Xing Gu?

Back then, Lin Jing had supposedly defeated the Martial Emperor’s heir purely with his own strength—without using his pets much at all.

“This Demon Court Holy Son…”

The moment it entered the ranking, Ice Soul Gu immediately felt the Dao comprehension boost and couldn’t help but be amazed.

Most of Ice Soul Gu’s powers were inscribed into its bloodline—already refined to the extreme through countless reincarnations. All it needed was to steadily enhance its bloodline, and its abilities would automatically improve.

Very few Rare Gu would bother cultivating other powers. But now, Ice Soul Gu felt that its innate abilities were no longer enough.

“Sword Dao... Sword Dao…” Ice Soul Gu decided: from today, it would begin cultivating the “Primal Sword Dao” that Lin Jing wanted it to learn.

With the Primal Sword Intent gifted by Thunder Dragon Ancestor, it believed it could master it soon.

Aside from that, Lin Jing also carried a life-saving Sword Intent at the Dao-Seeking level, gifted by Feng Ning. That too would be a good reference.

Not long after, Ta Wu—the Holy Son who had been defeated by Ice Soul Gu—recovered from his despairing injuries once more.

He had lost.

Lost terribly.

Just as he was about to return to the Wu God Hall in the Cloud Sea Mountains, carrying his shame, another carp blocked his way.

“Blorp...”

Dragon Carp stared at the Holy Son with a dazed look. The meaning was clear—after Ice Soul Gu, it was now the carp’s turn to challenge him.

“Lin Jing’s Flame Rare Beast, the Dragon Carp...” The Holy Son’s expression changed.

What the hell—after the turtle, and the spider, now even a carp wanted to fight him?

“Late-stage Nascent Soul? You think you’re worthy?” The Holy Son snapped.

A turtle that could control a quasi-immortal artifact was bad enough.

A Rare Gu that could command a peak Void Mystical demon ancestor’s corpse was worse.

And now, even a late-stage Nascent Soul carp wanted to beat him?

Originally just at mid-stage Nascent Soul, Dragon Carp had now broken through to late-stage by devouring a ton of cultivation pills.

Unfortunately, time was still a bit short—otherwise, it would have preferred to reach peak Nascent Soul before challenging the Holy Son.

Still, late-stage was good enough.

After all, it had spent a long time mastering control over its immortal flame.

“Crack...”

Facing the Holy Son’s contempt, Dragon Carp narrowed its eyes.

The pressure of its ancestral-level bloodline began to spread—just that alone already rivaled the Holy Son.

After all, even if the Holy Son kept progressing, Void Mystical peak was likely his ceiling. His chances of reaching Dao-Seeking were slim.

But ancestral-level bloodlines were destined to become Void Mystical demon ancestors…

And that was just the beginning.

From that bloodline emerged a top-tier beast flame—Dragon Scale Flame.

Then came Youmo, a top-tier ghost flame birthed through the slaughter of many Void Mystical, Nascent Soul Transformation, and countless Nascent Soul beings.

Then Zhushui Flame, a time-attribute beast flame, and Heavenly Thunder Flame, a lightning-based special flame.

Even scarier—the quasi-immortal fire from Burial Immortal Volcano, Solar Essence Flame, appeared.

And more powerful flames like Regenerative Lotus Heart Flame and Crystal Blaze appeared one after another, forming fireballs behind Dragon Carp.

The Holy Son’s expression instantly changed.

At this moment, any one of those flames alone could pose a threat to him.

Especially that quasi-immortal Solar Essence Flame, successfully refined with the help of the Demon Emperor—seeing it, the Holy Son was certain:

This carp really could challenge him across levels.

But what made him mentally collapse was that all those terrifying flames…

Were now merging.

Into one.

Releasing a wave of power that sent chills down his spine—this power was far more terrifying and pure than even the tribulation he had once seen the Wu God Hall’s Grand Elder undergo.

“An immortal-grade flame?”

In that instant, he finally understood why this carp, even at early-stage Nascent Soul, had once defeated the Sun Temple’s top disciple at full-stage Nascent Soul.

“Monster!” he cursed under his breath, turning and fleeing.

He’d rather be smashed by a quasi-immortal artifact or flattened by a demon ancestor’s corpse than be burned by an immortal-grade flame that should never have existed in the lower realm!