Beast Tamer Ascension
Book 4: Chapter 103: Shadows

Vol 4 Chapter 103: Shadows

“You can do that?”

Several cultivators from the Tianyuan Realm were stunned when they saw Cold Moon Sword Immortal also not going up.

Five rounds in the Pocket Heaven—are they really going to let the Holy Son of the Demon Court fight four of them?!

“If I had known, I wouldn’t have bothered gathering intelligence… I lost so badly. Even if Tianyuan Realm wins in the end, with how I performed, the Divine Physique Pills I’ll be allowed to choose from probably won’t be high-quality…” Bai Yuran sobbed.

According to the Tianyuan Continent’s Divine Physique rankings, the difference between those ranked 11–20 and those 91–100 was massive.

At the same cultivation level, a Solar Physique cultivator could easily beat down a Fire Physique cultivator.

Bai Yuran was on the verge of tears. It was the first time she’d ever felt the Heavenly Divination Art was useless.

The intel she gathered seemed totally worthless—because no matter who the opponent was, that Holy Son of Longevity still kept one-shotting everyone on sight.

Come to think of it, this guy’s pet beasts had even soloed Divine Transformation geniuses in the Tianyuan Realm. Why would a bunch of “Nascent Soul brats” be any different?

For the Tianming Realm’s geniuses to match Lin Jing, they’d probably have to bring in someone from the Divine Transformation Stage.

“You don’t need to regret it. I don’t have that many pet beasts. Five rounds aren’t enough for me anyway.” Lin Jing offered a bit of comfort as he sent out his final pet beast.

“This is the last one I’ve got.”

As he spoke, the Ice Soul Gu he summoned had already stepped onto the arena.

“A spider?”

When Lü Wangshu and the Tianming Realm saw that the opponent was a spider, they all froze for a second.

“Another pet beast?”

Lü Wangshu felt suffocated regardless of the outcome of this match.

He had assumed the opponent would take this three-point round extremely seriously—and it’s just another beast?

“A Beast Master, huh. First time seeing a Beast Master like this. Well, this farce ends now.” He was just about to circulate his power when—suddenly—his expression changed.

He had been poisoned without even realizing it!

The toxin surged wildly, attempting to invade his body. Lü Wangshu quickly used the intense Yang energy granted by his Solar Physique to suppress it, finally managing to catch his breath.

It was Wind Plague Gu—colorless, odorless, airborne. Virtually impossible to guard against.

“What’s happening?” Seeing Lü Wangshu go on high alert, the other Tianming cultivators realized something was wrong.

At the same moment, just as Lü Wangshu suppressed the toxin from Wind Plague Gu that had entered through his skin, his mind began to spiral.

What if I lose?

In an instant, the consequences of losing the two-realm Pocket Heaven battle flooded his thoughts. He couldn’t stop imagining.

Falling in realm, returning in disgrace to the Tianming Realm, losing his title as top Nascent Soul genius, getting disappointed stares from Immortal Palace elders and the palace master, being removed from their list of favored disciples…

In that moment, the poison of the Yin Spirit Gu had gripped Lü Wangshu’s heart.

“That spider… it’s the culprit.”

Luckily, as someone with the Innate Dao Physique and a clear Dao heart, he quickly suppressed the Yin Spirit Gu’s effects.

The poison had been planted the moment Ice Soul Gu locked eyes with Lü Wangshu.

Facing such an eerie spider, Lü Wangshu felt completely outmatched.

Even with his so-called toxin-proof Solar Physique, he could only suppress the poison—he couldn’t neutralize it.

“I heard you’re pretty tough?” Ice Soul Gu looked at its opponent, muttering in a childlike voice.

Inside its crystalline body, shimmering motes of light in all colors sparkled—that was the power of its various Gu.

“…It’s a special kind of spider. A toxic Gu?”

“And its venomous bloodline—definitely Ancestral grade.”

Sweating heavily, Lü Wangshu backed away, and black and white Yin-Yang fish emerged from his eyes.

“Distract it.”

He summoned two spell spirit forms, then retreated further to focus on suppressing the toxins.

But to his horror, even after suppressing both the Wind Plague Gu and Yin Spirit Gu toxins, the poisons started changing form—as if alive—vowing to destroy him.

That was because Ice Soul Gu didn’t just use those two poisons. It was a compound venom, strengthened by Ten Thousand Poisons Gu and the Doom Gu!

Ten Thousand Poisons Gu gave the toxins the ability to mutate constantly.

Doom Gu gave the poison vitality—like living venom insects, multiplying and evolving inside the enemy’s body.

These two powers made the toxins incredibly hard to cure or suppress.

Although Ice Soul Gu could also control corpses, its specialty was poison—especially now that it had fused nine Gu into one.

It was devastatingly effective against peers at the same level.

“No—I have to destroy it!!!”

After a while, Lü Wangshu realized that not even his Solar Physique, supposedly the bane of all evils, could hold off the poison. Panic crept in.

Are you kidding me? In this situation, I’d rather face that squirrel or the carp!

“D*mn it! My acquired Solar Physique still can’t compare to an innate one. And my Divine Physique isn’t even perfected yet…” He clenched his teeth. There was no time to think.

All he could do was hope his two spell spirits could take down the Ice Soul Gu.

After all, spell spirits were made entirely of mana—there’s no way they could be poisoned, right?

But he was dead wrong.

Those two spirit forms, evolved from the basic Sunfire and Shadow arts into sentient Yin-Yang fish, got played like fools right before Lü Wangshu’s eyes.

Ice Soul Gu didn’t even intend to fight head-on.

It activated the Stone Man Gu’s power and burrowed underground.

The two Yin-Yang fish, having lost their target, hesitated for a second and then dove underground in pursuit.

“La-la-la~”

Ice Soul Gu refused to confront them directly.

“Without your master’s divine sense to assist, you’ll never track me down underground. Hurry up—if you don’t, your master’s gonna die from the poison.”

Ice Soul Gu rambled on while the two Yin-Yang fish started sweating profusely.

But compared to them, it was Lü Wangshu on the arena who was in the most despair.

He frantically searched for antidotes—but none worked.

And trying to project his divine sense to assist the spirit forms would only make the poison worse!

“It’s over.”

At that moment, even the slowest cultivators from the Tianming side could see what was happening.

Their top Nascent Soul genius was being toyed with by a toxic spider—completely unable to fight back?!

What kind of joke was this?

This couldn’t even be called a battle.

“Unbelievable!”

Moments later, the poison in Lü Wangshu’s body erupted.

His life force plummeted rapidly.

Even though the spirit forms were still chasing Ice Soul Gu underground, he was deemed defeated and teleported away by the Pocket Heaven.

“Senior Brother Lü!”

Lü Wangshu being teleported meant the Tianming Realm had officially lost, even though one round remained.

“That Beast Master on the other side… is a monster.”

“Tian Lian, just forfeit the final match. I can’t hold the poison back anymore… I need to get help from a Dao-Seeking elder at the Immortal Palace…”

Lü Wangshu had lost all his earlier confidence. A shadow had taken root in his heart.

Watching others fight those pet beasts hadn’t seemed that bad.

But after experiencing it himself—he felt nothing but despair.

“I… I understand.”

Tian Lian took a deep breath, scalp tingling. She looked at the spider that had disappeared from the arena and felt an overwhelming dread toward the Beast Master who had never even fought.

Who was that guy?

“Concede.”

Soon, Tian Lian stepped onto the arena.

Since the Tianming Realm had already lost, the only way to keep Senior Brother Lü from dying was to end this immediately—by conceding.

Even if she won, it was meaningless now.

She never imagined things would end like this.

Tianyuan Realm…

Forget the Tianming Realm—even Tianyuan cultivators themselves were shocked at how absurd Lin Jing’s power was.

The opponents were definitely left with a deep psychological scar.

One day, Lin Jing might become their inner demon.

From how the Tianming cultivators performed, they could already picture Lin Jing entering the Origin Realm and facing geniuses from all realms.

“The final round.”

Lin Jing stepped onto the arena himself. He had no more pet beasts left—but that didn’t matter.

“I concede—!”

Seeing that the final round was against that bizarre Beast Master himself, the Heaven’s Mercy Physique conceded instantly.

But—

Seconds after conceding, she realized with horror—

The Pocket Heaven did nothing.

“You chose to concede, huh…” Lin Jing stood calmly on the arena, holding out his hand. A chubby little mushroom danced on his fingertip.

“I concede!!!”

The Heaven’s Mercy Physique’s face changed—but no matter how loudly she shouted, the Pocket Heaven showed no reaction.

Moments later, she finally realized what was wrong. She looked at Lin Jing in shock.

An illusion!

“This… is a spell spirit of the Illusion Dao?” Her eyes locked on the mushroom.

“Smart. You figured it out.” Lin Jing smiled. “You’re only shouting ‘I concede’ inside the illusion. In reality, you’re just standing there silently. Which means, the Pocket Heaven doesn’t recognize your surrender.”

“You…” The Heaven’s Mercy Physique was in despair.

What kind of freak was this guy?

“You’re a Beast Master… and you’ve also cultivated Illusion Dao to the level of forming a spell spirit?!”

Monster.

“Relax. I know you want to concede quickly to keep that guy’s poison from worsening.”

“In this illusion, time flows differently. Outside, maybe only a second has passed.” Lin Jing stroked his chin.

“But I could just as easily make it so that hours go by outside while just moments pass in here. Which means—whether that Tianming genius lives or dies is up to me.”

“Fellow cultivator, you don’t want him to die, right?”

“If you want to save him, and rush back to ask an Immortal Palace expert to detoxify him—there may still be time.”

“And to do that, all you need to do is answer a few questions.

After all, wasn’t our original goal… to exchange intelligence?”

Lin Jing’s voice was low and calm.

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