Beast Tamer Ascension
Book 4: Chapter 106: Tianming Immortal Palace

Vol 4 Chapter 106: Tianming Immortal Palace

Tianming Cultivation Realm.

Immortal Palace.

As the ancient ruling upper realm power of the Tianming Cultivation Realm, all cultivation sects in this realm were essentially just affiliates of the Immortal Palace.

All the prodigies within those other sects aimed to be chosen by the Immortal Palace and enter it to cultivate.

And the cultivation progress and condition of these prodigies were constantly monitored by many powerhouses within the Immortal Palace.

Being chosen by a Small World was a big deal, even in an Immortal Palace full of elite geniuses.

Especially this time—it was a Two-World Small World, one that hadn’t appeared in tens of thousands of years!

“Grand Elder!”

The arrival of this Small World startled several elders at the Seeking the Way stage, and even now, while both Palace Masters were away on the Pangu Continent, the Grand Elder, who currently held the greatest authority in the Immortal Palace, was disturbed enough to leave seclusion.

“Still haven’t come out yet?”

The Grand Elder looked at the robed elders before him and asked.

“Not yet, but it should be soon,” said an early-stage Seeking the Way elder who stepped forward.

“Elder Fu, which disciples were chosen by this Two-World Small World?” the Grand Elder asked.

Elder Fu replied, “All five are core disciples. Among them is Lü Wangshu, the one you’ve favored, Grand Elder! And also that Rare Beast I picked up from outside is among them!”

“Is that so?” The Grand Elder stroked his beard and said, “That Lü Wangshu—he reached Nascent Soul Great Perfection in both his true body and avatar within a hundred years, and completed both the Lunar and Solar Physiques. He’s indeed an excellent seedling.”

“If nothing goes wrong, he should be able to earn one of the spots to enter the Origin Realm in the next batch from the Tianming Realm.”

“If he achieves something in the Origin Realm, then one of us may even take him as a disciple and pave his path to Seeking the Way.”

“Indeed,” Elder Fu said emotionally, “With him, we should have secured victory in this Two-World Small World. I just wonder how much intelligence we managed to gather on the Tianyuan Realm. It also bears the legacy of the Immortal Palace, yet to this day hasn’t been found by the Cultivation Alliance... Could it already have been taken by the Heavenly Demon Sect…”

The Seeking the Way elders all nodded slightly. The two realms’ Immortal Palaces didn’t share completely overlapping inheritances—they each had their specializations.

At present, the Tianming Cultivation Realm wasn’t considered particularly powerful within the Cultivation Alliance.

If they could establish contact with the Tianyuan Realm, and the two Immortal Palace legacies joined forces, their influence in the Cultivation Alliance would surely rise...

Soon, five beams of Small World light vanished at five mountain peaks within the Immortal Palace range.

Each peak housed a core disciple. As the beams dispersed, the Seeking the Way elders quickly extended their spiritual sense.

A moment later, Elder Fu’s expression changed—he discovered that the Rare Beast, Zhuo Mu, hadn’t returned!

That could only mean one thing: it had died in the Small World!

“What’s this!” The Grand Elder's face also changed—he saw that Lü Wangshu, the top Nascent Soul disciple of the Immortal Palace, had returned barely conscious, his entire body afflicted with poison!

“Come!” With a wave of his hand from the clouds, Lü Wangshu was lifted into the air and brought before the Seeking the Way elders.

“It’s Gu poison,” one of the junior elders said, surprised. “Extremely violent Gu poison—hard to suppress without Void Mystical power, and only Seeking the Way power can neutralize it.”

As he spoke, he waved his sleeve, and Lü Wangshu’s complexion visibly improved. At the same time, the other Tianming Immortal Palace prodigies who returned from the Small World were also pulled up by the Seeking the Way elders.

These Nascent Soul prodigies had never seen such a scene. Usually, when someone returned from a Small World, only a Void Mystical Stage elder might come to ask a few questions. But this Two-World Small World had drawn in all these Seeking the Way elders!

“You lost?”

Judging by the disciples’ state, the elders could tell—the Tianming side had likely lost in the Two-World Small World battle!

Their faces darkened. What a bunch of useless trash.

“Grand Elder,” Lü Wangshu said anxiously after waking, clearly panicked that the Grand Elder had personally treated his poison.

“Recover well,” the Grand Elder said disappointedly as he glanced at Lü Wangshu. No matter how talented he was, a loss was still a loss. In the Immortal Palace, there was no such thing as “do better next time.” With so many geniuses from an entire realm gathered here, if you failed, you would be replaced, and the resources would go to someone else.

“We beg the elders’ forgiveness for our incompetence. We lost the Small World battle,” the disciples knelt and confessed their failure.

“Sigh.” A few elders who had been full of confidence could only shake their heads. This batch of disciples was indeed disappointing—far inferior to the last one.

Elder Fu looked at them coldly and asked, “So Zhuo Mu died in the Small World? Did the Tianyuan Realm produce an Immortal Physique or something? A Nascent Soul youth with an Immortal Physique?”

“You’re Tian Lian, right? You tell us.”

Elder Fu looked at the Heaven’s Mercy Physique, who was in the best condition. Tian Lian immediately responded:

“...Elder, it wasn’t an Immortal Physique. It was a Beast Taming cultivator who trained in the Human Control Technique… an absolutely ridiculous Beast Tamer.”

“A Beast Tamer?” Even the Grand Elder looked baffled. A Beast Taming cultivator was able to crush elite prodigies hand-picked by the Immortal Palace from various sects???

The Human Control Technique—wasn’t that a low-ambition technique favored by pampered second-generation cultivators with too much money and no drive?

“Yes, a Beast Tamer… Senior Brother Lü’s poison injury was caused by a poisonous spider sent out by him.”

“Junior Brother Zhuo Mu was also killed by a koi spirit dispatched by him—he was refined alive into a pill.”

“And Junior Brother Yuan Liu was injured by a squirrel spirit that threw a demon core at him…”

“Wait—are you saying all of you were defeated by the same Beast Tamer?” Elder Fu thought he might’ve misheard.

Tian Lian gave a bitter smile. “Each of his pet beasts had the power to crush us. He didn’t even need to act himself—just dispatching them one by one was enough to overwhelm us.”

“What kind of joke is this?” The Grand Elder frowned. This was even more absurd than facing a few Immortal Physiques.

Since when could a Beast Tamer reach this level?

Or rather, if someone had the talent to command such monstrous beasts, why waste it on practicing the Human Control Technique?

Next, the Seeking the Way elders dug deeper into the details of the Small World battle—and the more they listened, the angrier they got.

It seemed the Tianyuan Realm’s Immortal Palace legacy had been broken, and even in that state, their disciples still suffered such a crushing defeat???

Not only did they lose, but they didn’t even bring back any useful intelligence.

“You are the worst group of core disciples I’ve ever seen,” the Grand Elder said calmly. “Your Senior Brother Shangguan is already in the Origin Realm and has refined an acquired Immortal Physique through Immortal Source. Several other senior brothers have also gained significant rewards and are now competing with Heavenly Demon Realm prodigies for more Immortal Source to strengthen Tianming!

“Given your current state, how can the Immortal Palace feel secure sending you to the Origin Realm to contend with prodigies from across the realms?”

“Starting today, the four of you will go to Soul-Burial Valley for closed-door cultivation. If you can’t find your own way out using your own strength, your qualification to compete for the Origin Realm slots will be revoked!”