Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

Chapter 499 - 484: Rust-Stained

Blood Diamond Worms in the earth are like lions on the prairie, roaring across the plains, but once they leave the ground, they become like fish pulled ashore, significantly weakened.

Blood Diamond Worms frantically twist their bodies, trying desperately to struggle back to the surface.

Their struggle is destined to be in vain, as Li Cunxu’s spiritual power is too abundant.

Especially after the event of the ’Celestial Tribulation Hidden Clan’, Li Cunxu’s spiritual power became even more robust.

The remnant spiritual power from the fallen Venerable Kings, fallen Kings, and fallen contract beasts was all absorbed like the sea receiving hundreds of rivers.

Even though seventy percent of the spiritual power was given to Little Mengdie, there was still a lot left.

How much spiritual power does Li Cunxu have now?

Even Li Cunxu isn’t quite sure; he estimates it may probably be more than that of a Monarch Level 6 powerhouse.

The only somewhat regrettable thing is that Li Cunxu has no talent for the fine control of spiritual power; if Li Cunxu had one-tenth of Li Shiji’s talent for fine control, with Li Cunxu’s vast spiritual power, he could sweep through all Venerable King level enemies using only his spiritual power, and even handle some weaker Monarch powerhouses.

Spiritual power only unleashes its true potential when used meticulously.

Li Cunxu’s situation is akin to having a body full of strength but not knowing how to use it.

Possessing brute strength but lacking the technique to utilize it to its fullest.

"Xiaoruan."

Li Cunxu summoned Xiaoruan, who immediately manipulated the weather, launching an attack on the forcibly airborne Blood Diamond Worms.

Punishment Thunder Execution Platform.

Thunderclouds surged, blue lightning interlaced to form an execution blade of a guillotine, which descended from the sky, its thunderous blade slicing through the oppressive sky, landing on the Blood Diamond Worms’ heads.

The Venerable King level 9 Blood Diamond Worm was thus beheaded, killed on the spot.

Punishment Thunder Execution Platform, a thunder attribute Monarch skill, draws upon a trace of the force of divine punishment onto the Thunder Execution Blade, greatly increasing its damage.

This skill, when dealing with Evil God’s Creatures, has a suppressive damage effect, so when dealing with creatures like the Blood Diamond Worms, the damage is further increased.

Despite its tremendous power, Punishment Thunder Execution Platform is seldom used by contract beasts; the skill has a significant drawback as the landing point of the Thunder Blade is fixed, and its charging time is too long.

This means that others can observe the landing point of the Thunder Blade, and by simply staying away from the spot, can easily dodge the attack.

Punishment Thunder Execution Platform is really easy to evade; when unleashed by Monarch level contract beasts, it can easily be dodged by Overlord level contract beasts unless accompanied by other immobilizing skills.

In the presence of Overlord level contract beasts, Punishment Thunder Execution Platform is as easy to dodge as a balloon thrown from a tall building.

The only reason the Blood Diamond Worms were hit was that Li Cunxu’s spiritual power lifted and bound them, preventing them from moving, allowing Punishment Thunder Execution Platform to be effective.

The remaining four Blood Diamond Worms were executed sequentially by Punishment Thunder Execution Platform.

Li Cunxu gleefully collected the spiral drills atop the Blood Diamond Worms’ heads.

The Blood Diamond Worms’ spiral drills are made of Bloodsucker Iron, and weapons forged from Bloodsucker Iron have the characteristics of absorbing blood and self-repairing.

"This metal, the eleventh contract beast could use it."

Li Cunxu planned to prioritize contracting the eleventh contract beast, as cultivating a new contract beast from scratch is quite a time-consuming task.

The eleventh contract slot is an incomplete contract slot, where contracted beasts are destined to be particularly weak; for such feeble beasts to grow stronger, even more time must be invested.

Of course, Xiaoruan is an exception.

Moreover, it just so happens that the candidate for Li Cunxu’s eleventh contract beast is located on the Four Gods Continent.

On the Four Gods Continent, aside from contract beasts polluted and assimilated by the Evil God, there are also some normal contract beasts, albeit very few, and they can only be found on the outer regions of the continent, near the sea.

"Going to the outer regions is quite troublesome for me. I don’t have a map, nor do I know where exactly on the Four Gods Continent I am," Li Cunxu muttered.

"Luckily, the little magic whale comprehended the space domain, which can sense spatial positions, so there’s no worry about getting lost. Otherwise, figuring out directions would be a huge problem."

(Previously, the Void Turtle and Void Seven-Star Ladybug, the space contract beasts used for escape, were placed on Fertile Island after Li Cunxu broke through to Venerable King, as he no longer needed them.)

The sky over the Four Gods Continent is constantly shrouded in clouds, with the sun rarely visible, thus determining direction by the sun is nearly impossible.

And the compass?

On the Four Gods Continent, the magnetic field is chaotic, and a compass is utterly useless, just spinning around aimlessly.

"Oh, right, I still have this in my ring. I was wrong earlier. It’s not that I don’t have a map, it’s that I don’t have a usable map."

Li Cunxu took out a stack of maps from the Celestial Pavilion Ring, which he had collected from the spaces rings of those Bloodsucking Great Demons. Unfortunately, they were completely useless to Li Cunxu.

Because they all shared a single trait: they were blank.

Of course, when the Bloodsucking Great Demons looked at the maps, they weren’t blank.

These maps were specially developed by the Four Evil Gods Sects to prevent the alliance from acquiring maps of the Four Gods Continent and learning the detailed topography. These special maps can only be seen by Evil God Followers; to anyone else, they’re just blank sheets of paper.

Li Cunxu’s spiritual power twisted lightly, cutting the stack of maps in his hand into powder, which scattered onto the ground.

"How should I get to the outer regions?"

After pondering for a moment, Li Cunxu thought of a crude method to reach the outer regions, and that was to pick a direction at random and walk. If he encountered increasingly stronger Bloodsucking Great Demons, it meant he was getting closer to the center of the Four Gods Continent, and all he needed to do was head in the opposite direction.

Using this method, after half a month, Li Cunxu saw the coast of the Four Gods Continent, where red sand beaches and azure sea waters formed a stark red and blue contrast.

Why was the beach red?

Because of the Crimson Blood God’s pollution, one-fourth of the land on the Four Gods Continent had been polluted to a blood-red color.

Li Cunxu followed the coastline, searching for the contract beast he intended to bind.

It didn’t take long for Li Cunxu to find a group.

There used to be plenty of this kind of contract beast.

Even after the catastrophe, many remained.

Because they are too weak, even the Four Gods disdain polluting and assimilating them.

Yet, even if they were polluted and assimilated by the Evil God, it didn’t matter; other contract beasts become stronger, like having their strength tripled after darkening, but for them, the increase in combat power is almost negligible.

Their combat power is as pathetically weak as that of a Slime, enough that an eight-year-old girl could take down a group of them with a sturdy wooden stick.

This contract beast is: Rusted Bronze.

These artifact-shaped contract beasts take the form of rusted bronze objects; their shapes aren’t fixed and include swords, knives, bows, spears, cups, lamps...

There’s even a Rusted Bronze in the shape of a toilet.

The reason Rusted Bronze is lumped into the same category as Slimes is that their rust is genuinely ’rust’.

Their bodies are as fragile as rusted iron, easily broken by an ordinary person.