Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

Chapter 540 - 525: A Terrifying Scheme

The Fertile Divine Deer transformed into a golden radiance and entered the Desolate Egg.

With the absence of the Fertile Divine Deer, a being comparable to the Divine King, the world suddenly fell silent, leaving only the trembling Desolate Egg.

Li Cunxu stared at the Desolate Egg, watching as its aura grew stronger and its trembling became more intense, seemingly ready to hatch at any moment.

Li Cunxu frowned, saying, "Is it going to hatch as soon as it reincarnates? Isn’t that a bit too fast?"

"It’s not going to hatch; it hasn’t reincarnated yet."

The old chairman’s aged figure slowly emerged from within Li Cunxu, his ethereal form gradually becoming solid.

"After reincarnation, it will enter its weakest period in its history. It fears that the world’s consciousness is aware of its schemes and may strike at it during this time. Therefore, it is pretending to have successfully reincarnated, hoping to deceive the world’s consciousness.

Fertile Divine Deer, am I correct?"

The old chairman gazed at the Desolate Egg and softly spoke.

The apparition of the Fertile Divine Deer emerged from the egg, its expression quite unpleasant, shocked that it had not noticed someone hidden within Li Cunxu all along, speaking:

"Li Yuandao, you’ve been hiding on him, eavesdropping on my conversations?"

"You could say so!"

"You intend to strike at me."

The Fertile Divine Deer sensed the unhidden intent to kill from the old chairman, exclaiming in shock.

What kind of audacity does this person have? Having overheard my words, he should know that I was the next Divine King.

How does he dare to attempt deicide against a future Divine King?

"Since you’ve been eavesdropping, why not wait for me to completely reincarnate before making a move?" The Fertile Divine Deer asked in confusion.

Li Cunxu also looked at the old chairman with puzzled eyes, curious why the old chairman wouldn’t attack during a vulnerable moment.

"Because it’s urgent, and no need."

What... no need.

The old chairman made his move; a massive hand formed in the void, slowly reaching toward the Fertile Divine Deer.

Though the hand’s movement was slow, the Fertile Divine Deer’s heart was in turmoil.

In the face of this hand, its pseudo-divine king power was ineffective, and more terrifyingly, it wanted to dodge, but its body wouldn’t obey.

Restraining a pseudo-divine king like this occurs in two scenarios: either Li Yuandao invoked the leftover power of the Divine King at great cost to forcibly restrain it.

Or, Li Yuandao’s strength surpasses its own.

It had witnessed the power of Five Divine Kings, yet the force restraining it felt unlike any of them, more akin to Li Yuandao’s power, but how could this be possible?

In an era where the godly path is severed, Li Yuandao is destined not to become a god; if he cannot even become a god, how could he possess power beyond a Divine King?

The Fertile Divine Deer was certain that the old chairman Li Yuandao couldn’t become a god, even if he left the Divine Beast World for other worlds.

The Titan Divine King severed the godly path completely; no matter where living beings from the Divine Beast World flee, they couldn’t become gods. This move prevented the world’s consciousness from exploiting loopholes.

Otherwise, the world’s consciousness might forcibly affiliate with a massive world, allowing beings to ascend to gods in the affiliated world, bypassing the severance of the godly path, circumventing the limit of not being able to become gods.

However, the Titan Divine King still underestimated the world’s consciousness; despite the complete severance of the godly path, the world’s consciousness still managed to repair it.

The Fertile Divine Deer said to itself that it was impossible, yet reality wouldn’t pause just because it said it was impossible.

The giant hand clutched the Fertile Divine Deer, squeezing slowly and gradually intending to crush it.

The Fertile Divine Deer was terrified, realizing that Li Yuandao’s methods involved fundamental-level power.

Its current form was merely a manifestation of its power; technically, killing it carried no significance as it could manifest other forms. However, the Fertile Divine Deer sensed that if this manifestation was crushed by Li Yuandao, it would be erased at its core.

Unable to revive by any means.

"Stop! You know of the world’s consciousness, that great enemy, right? With it around, your cherished Human Race won’t have good days. If I reincarnate successfully and become Divine King, joining forces with you, we could eliminate the world’s consciousness."

The Fertile Divine Deer pleaded with its fiercest tone, speaking in the softest words.

Yet, the old chairman Li Yuandao didn’t pause in his actions.

Li Yuandao shook his head, "Your next reincarnation cannot become the Divine King. By becoming the Divine King, you would bring a greater calamity than the Four Gods invasion. Once your Desolate Authority ascends to a Divine King-level power, the world would be profoundly affected, transforming into desolation, barren lands, scarce flora, shriveled minerals, dried rivers, and descending sea levels... All resources would drastically shrink.

The Human Race and pet beasts under your Desolate Authority’s desolation influence would face a death rate of ninety-nine point nine percent."

The Fertile Divine Deer replied, "Those are necessary sacrifices to deal with the world’s consciousness."

Li Yuandao was unmoved, his gaze as tranquil as a deep pool.

The Fertile Divine Deer struggled in the palm of the giant hand, begging, "I cannot die. I am the only hope against the world’s consciousness."

Li Yuandao remained indifferent.

The Fertile Divine Deer suddenly realized, "Could it be that you’ve been influenced by the world’s consciousness, or perhaps you became its puppet long ago? That would explain why you possess the power to kill me."

Li Cunxu heard this and looked at the old chairman with astonishment.

The old chairman, who cared about Li Cunxu as his successor, finally spoke instead of remaining silent.

"What you call necessary sacrifices are futile; even the Bronze Divine King and Titan Divine King failed in the fight against the world’s consciousness. How could you, a future Desolate Divine King without worldly variables, deal with the world’s consciousness?"

The Fertile Divine Deer’s expression froze; internally, it held similar doubts, witnessed the fall of the awe-inspiring Bronze Divine King and Titan Divine King to the world’s consciousness, wondering how it could succeed.

More troubling was its lack of combat prowess compared to the Bronze Divine King and Titan Divine King.

The old chairman continued, "Moreover, haven’t you noticed? Your becoming the Desolate Divine King is precisely what the world’s consciousness desires."

The Fertile Divine Deer refuted, "Impossible, a Divine King-level Authority of Fertility can make the world exceedingly fertile. The more prosperous the world, the stronger it becomes, and as the world strengthens, so does the world’s consciousness, which is one with the world.

The Desolate Authority, contrary to the Authority of Fertility, can make the world barren and weak, and as the world weakens, the world’s consciousness also diminishes in power. How could this be what the world desires?"

Li Yuandao softly replied, "Have you considered that once the world’s consciousness consumes the four gods, what kind of Outer Evil God would dare to come in a world that made four Evil Gods simultaneously fall?

If at that moment, the Divine Beast World weakened due to the Desolate Authority of a Divine King, coupled with the previous consumption of significant origins to deal with the Four Evil Gods, would Outer Evil Gods seize the opportunity to invade?

Just like a bandit seeing a strong man defeat four bandits, originally intimidated and deterred from invasion, yet instantly the strong man is stabbed in the back by his youngest child, the bandits see the strong man weakened and reconsider invasion."

Li Cunxu’s eyes were filled with horror and dread; thus, the reincarnation of the Fertile Divine Deer into the Desolate Divine King was designed by the world’s consciousness to lure more evil gods.

The world was far too clever, far too terrifying; to feast on Evil Gods, it began plotting the next Evil God feast even before savoring the current one.

Numerous worlds succumbed to evil corruption, descending into ruin, countless beings shivered with fear, revered Evil Gods become like sheep waiting to be slaughtered under the world’s consciousness scheming.