Chapter 73: Entrusting the Orphans

Chapter 73: Entrusting the Orphans

The three fifth-grade spirit beasts stood back-to-back, supporting each other. Faced with Zhanyue’s lightning-fast methods, they were all afraid.

A giant snake over ten meters long flicked its enormous tongue, watching Zhanyue warily. To its left was a huge toad, as big as a small mountain, pitch black all over, with poison sacs secreting purple liquid – undoubtedly a terrifying poisonous creature. To the snake’s right was a centipede with a hundred feet, arching its body over three meters high, fire-red all over, with eyes like gemstones.

The old black cat struck first. It harbored deep hatred for these beasts. It had been the demon king of this area, but these subordinates took advantage of its failed breakthrough to unite and try to kill its entire family. It charged towards the giant snake, its terrifying figure turning into a black light, instantly leaving a bloody mark on the snake’s face. But the fifth-grade python’s skin was thick and tough; this small wound couldn’t threaten its life. It swept its tail, which the black cat nimbly dodged.

The giant toad and centipede wanted to help, but Zhanyue attacked at this moment.

“Your opponents are me,” Zhanyue revealed a slight smile, hoping these two creatures could give him some pressure.

The toad opened its mouth, spitting out a terrifying air cannon carrying purple poison gas.

“Activate poison gas protection formation,” the armor automatically reacted. Formation lights flickered on its surface, the helmet transformed to add a mask-like protection, covering Zhanyue’s mouth and nose. At the same time, a light screen formed around him. As Zhanyue dodged the air cannon, the light screen also blocked the purple gas.

With a flash, Zhanyue jumped to a high point above the toad’s head. Roaring flames entwined the ji halberd in his hand.

“Flame King Blast!” Zhanyue was now adept at using this ultimate skill with weapons. The terrifying ji halberd left his hand, turning into a horrifying meteor fire cone, falling straight to the ground, pinning the toad down with one strike. Solar Essence Fire burned its internal organs, and the fifth-grade toad instantly became a charred corpse.

As the toad died, the purple centipede burrowed into the ground at an extremely fast speed.

“Digging into the ground to escape?” Zhanyue revealed a disdainful smile.

The centipede hadn’t run away, but suddenly emerged from beneath Zhanyue’s feet. However, it pounced at empty air; Zhanyue wasn’t standing there. Just as it was confused, a terrifying force erupted from underground. The ji halberd, carrying endless power, cut the centipede in half at the waist. Purple poisonous blood splattered everywhere, but Zhanyue, who had retreated underground, was completely unaffected.

Zhanyue took out the spatial ring he got from the Red Lotus Trial. The spatial laws inside that ring were the same as those of these secret realm spirit beasts, but he didn’t know how strong the spatial laws were and whether they could accommodate these spirit beasts.

With a thought from Zhanyue, the two little beasts didn’t resist and were instantly collected into the ring.

“They can really be put in?” Zhanyue was overjoyed. A spatial ring that could hold living things must have very profound spatial laws. Unfortunately, this ring’s spatial laws were adapted to the secret realm space; he couldn’t put things or living beings from the outside world into it. “I’m still a bit greedy,” Zhanyue couldn’t help thinking. The ring the Holy Maiden gave him was far less powerful than this one, but that ring was adapted to the outside world and was also very important to him.

Seeing that Zhanyue could carry the two little ones with him, the old cat demon also breathed a sigh of relief. This human had many secrets; it wouldn’t be bad for its two children to follow him.

“I swear to the heavenly way that I will do my best to protect and care for these two little ones,” Zhanyue said.

Seeing Zhanyue make the oath, the old cat demon’s last breath was about to dissipate. Zhanyue released the two little ones, and the old cat demon looked at them reluctantly, finally licking them, its eyes full of attachment and reluctance to part.

“Cat demon senior, how... how do I use these soul bones and soul cores?” Zhanyue originally didn’t want to interrupt their final tender moment; this was a bit too mood-breaking. But he knew that if he didn’t ask now, he might not be able to use the soul core even if he got it.

The old cat demon didn’t blame Zhanyue, answering with intermittent divine thoughts: “Use soul power to communicate, find the right frequency, resonate with it, then... then you can... Don’t forget your oath, they are... entrusted to you... to take care of.”

After saying this, the old cat demon closed its eyes. Its entire demon body flashed with golden light, leaving behind only a chicken egg-sized beast core covered in golden patterns. The old cat demon had even fused its entire body’s power into the beast core, ultimately not even leaving a corpse behind.

The two little cats looked at the beast core in bewilderment. Zhanyue put it away and picked up the two little cats.

“Little ones, from now on, you’re with me.”