Chapter 138: Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s Debut!!!
“The test begins. You can now deploy your pet beasts into the virtual map through the devices. Four per person, no more.”
As the Hidden Moon Marquis finished speaking, the participants began deploying their pet beasts, most of them wary of Lian Xing and Dead Ash. They wondered how Moon Rabbit would distribute her lineup this time, and what Dead Ash’s true lineup was, besides the Ancient Juvenile Species, Extinction.
Under everyone’s gaze, Lian Xing’s four pet beasts appeared in a corner of the map: Heaven-Gracing Curtain, Cloud Dream Calamity, Star Sand, and a plain-looking, green eye mask floating in the air. Surprisingly, the Red Prison Palace Master and Calamity Sun weren’t present. Instead, she had chosen a new Mid-Tier pet beast.
Was that…the Mid-Tier Mechanical Species, Azure Shadow Device…?
Seeing the newly appeared Azure Shadow Device, everyone looked confused.
However, the Hidden Moon Marquis’s breath hitched. It instantly recognized the Azure Shadow Device’s previous form, then looked at Lian Xing in disbelief.
No…it couldn’t be…
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“…”
“Boom!!!!”
Suddenly, a terrifying aura swept through the venue. A powerful pressure erupted, centered around the Ancient Juvenile Species and its two companion pet beasts, drawing everyone’s attention.
Floating behind Extinction was a helmet, its body shimmering with a silvery-white light, two large, buffalo-like horns protruding from the top. And behind the helmet was a silvery, slime-like elemental figure, its lower body buried underground, only its upper body visible.
Finally, there was a cracked pet beast egg, half of its shell missing.
Royal-Tier — Weapon Species — Silver Horned Brute, an armor-type Weapon Species!!
Royal-Tier — Elemental Species — Alluring Maiden’s Restraint, a support-type Super Rare Species!!!
And the last one…unidentifiable, likely a hybrid.
Their levels were high…
Seeing these three pet beasts, Lian Xing felt a surge of unease…
If they were to fight alongside the Ancient Juvenile Species, they could easily boost Extinction’s power to another level!!!
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“Wait, so she’s actually a Royal-Tier Beast Tamer!?” Lian Xing thought, surprised.
She had assumed that Dead Ash only had Extinction, the Ancient Juvenile Species. So she had been secretly training in other regions?
At this moment, as Extinction and its two companions faced off against Lian Xing’s pet beasts, Dead Ash walked over to Lian Xing and whispered, “Actually, I really want to get revenge right now.”
“But the Limit-Breaking Seeds are more important, so I’ll spare you…for now~~~”
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“…”
“Marquis! Dead Ash is trying to assault me in reality! She’s trying to influence the pet beasts in the test!!!” Lian Xing suddenly shouted after a few seconds of silence.
Dead Ash was dumbfounded, speechless.
At this moment, all the other participants looked at them with strange expressions.
Standing on the stage, the Hidden Moon Marquis didn’t think Dead Ash would do something so vulgar in public, but considering their sensitive relationship, it still said, “Please maintain a certain distance between yourselves.”
Just like how Lian Xing had ambushed the Cycle of Calamity remnants in the Baiyue Province league…
There had been cases of Beast Tamers attacking and even killing their rivals while their pet beasts were battling, taking advantage of their vulnerability…
Whether it was true or not…they had to be cautious…
Hearing the Hidden Moon Marquis’s command, Dead Ash, her face pale, took a few steps back, her body stiff. Then, she glared at the golden-haired girl, who looked innocent and wronged…
“Moon Rabbit, just you wait!!!”
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“…”
“Give me all your Limit-Breaking Seeds, and I’ll surrender, letting you do whatever you want… How about that?” Lian Xing suddenly asked.
“Not interested. Even if you gave me all of yours, I still wouldn’t spare you…” Dead Ash replied, her voice threatening.
“Wow, so scary! Coming from the loser. Please…have mercy on me~~~”
Hearing this, Dead Ash’s face twisted in anger.
And Lian Xing, after teasing Dead Ash for a while, turned her attention to the test.
The first round, the Attack Power test, the most straightforward and simple round. Not only the Interdimensional Grand Finals, but even many smaller regions used this test, including the first round of the Qingyao Sea qualifiers.
However, seeing the familiar mechanical conch shell, Lian Xing smiled inwardly.
So the Beast Tamer Alliance was also using the Great Lord Biluo’s creation for the test…
In that case, she could adjust her strategy~~
“Boom!!!!”
Under everyone’s gaze, the Ancient Juvenile Species’s attack shattered the virtual map. The world spun, a terrifying shockwave sending all the pet beasts present tumbling backward, their expressions filled with shock and fear.
Back in Qingyao Sea, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain had destroyed the Great Lord Biluo’s mechanical creation with a single attack.
However, this time, the mechanical device’s durability was clearly much higher. Extinction’s full-power attack had only created a dent…
[Score: 942]
1000 points was the threshold for Monarch-Tier.
However, Extinction hadn’t used a bloodline combat skill or any equipped combat skills, just a normal attack, and it had already far surpassed the limits of an ordinary Royal-Tier pet beast…
If support pet beasts were allowed in this test, Dead Ash would have been more cautious, perhaps deploying Calamity Sun or the Red Prison Palace Master. Unfortunately, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain, fighting alone, even with its Green Quality combat skill, couldn’t possibly surpass Extinction.
Lian Xing knew this.
Even with its full power, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain could probably only achieve a score of around 800.
But at this moment, looking at the smiling golden-haired girl, the Hidden Moon Marquis on stage felt a surge of unease…
Soon, seeing that Lian Xing wasn’t sending out her second pet beast, Moon Princess, Chiyu, and the other Beast Tamers also stepped forward to take the test. After over 30 participants, Extinction was still in first place, far ahead of the others. Chiyu, even with her awakened Flame Dancing Red Eyebrow, had only scored 750 points. The Soul Hunters captain, just over 700, was in third place, and Moon Princess’s support pet beast was fourth.
The other participants’ scores were pathetic…
They had simply given up after seeing Extinction, saving their main pet beasts for the later rounds.
Finally, after all 34 participants had finished, Lian Xing casually deployed her pet beast.
Under everyone’s gaze, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain didn’t move. Instead, the Mid-Tier Azure Shadow Device floated forward.
Seeing this, the Hidden Moon Marquis facepalmed.
So it was like this…
Her premonition had been correct…!!!
She shouldn’t have used the Great Lord Biluo’s mechanical creation for the test.
But it was too late now…
A few seconds later, under everyone’s gaze, the Azure Shadow Device attached itself to the mechanical conch shell. And then, although the conch shell itself seemed unaffected, a number—[10000000000000]—suddenly appeared on the display.
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“???”
“Cheating! She’s cheating!!!” Dead Ash shouted.
What the hell was this ridiculous number? Did she think the Great Lord Biluo’s creation was hers now?
With that kind of attack power, even an Emperor would be instantly killed…!!!
However, under everyone’s puzzled gazes, the Hidden Moon Marquis’s expression was complicated…
Undoubtedly, Lian Xing had cheated, performing an act that was beneath even a newborn…
But if you used a school exam as an analogy…
She hadn’t cheated by copying or looking at someone else’s answers. She had simply used her superpowers to travel back in time after the answers were revealed and then submitted a perfect score…
How could you even judge such cheating!?
It wasn’t Lian Xing’s fault. It was the Beast Tamer Alliance’s mistake for using the Great Lord Biluo’s mechanical conch shell.
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“The protest is invalid. Moon Rabbit’s score is valid,” the Hidden Moon Marquis declared after a moment of hesitation, her voice filled with resignation.
Hearing this, Dead Ash and the other participants were dumbfounded, while Zi Meng, who had figured it out, simply shook her head and sighed.
It wasn’t technically cheating, but it was still shameless…~~~
It was like giving Lian Xing the answers to her own test…
After all, how could the Great Lord Biluo not know the access code to its own creation?
Lian Xing smiled at the silver-haired girl, whose body was trembling, her eyes unfocused.
“Calm down, don’t anger yourself to… miscarriage~~~”
“Moon Rabbit…!!!” Dead Ash’s body trembled with rage, her hands and feet turning cold.
In this awkward atmosphere, the second round of the test, Intelligence, began. This round was special. It wasn’t a one-on-one test, but a simultaneous test for all participating pet beasts after the Beast Tamers had chosen their lineups.
Dead Ash, who hadn’t expected Extinction to lose in the first round, immediately ordered her remaining three pet beasts to go all out. This time, she deployed the silvery, elemental figure, Alluring Maiden’s Restraint.
Zi Meng, the purple-haired, blind girl, the captain of Shining Girls, after pondering for a few seconds, smiled faintly and deployed her only main battle pet beast, the Fivefold Samsara.
And Lian Xing’s strategy was once again unexpected…
She had deployed the Cloud Dream Calamity.
Wait…not having the Cloud Dream Calamity participate in the final Resistance to Powerful Auras test, but in the Intelligence test…?
Then how would she allocate her pet beasts for the remaining two rounds?
Star Sand for Growth Potential and the Heaven-Gracing Curtain for Resistance to Powerful Auras?
This arrangement was strange…!?
But there was no way she would let the Heaven-Gracing Curtain participate in the Growth Potential test. With its rarity, it would definitely fail miserably…
As they waited anxiously, the Intelligence test finally began.
The Hidden Moon Marquis’s voice echoed through the virtual map, “Now, listen carefully, everyone. Repeat after me in your minds.”
“Mooncake, moon, mooncake, moon, mooncake, moon, mooncake, moon.”
“Now, within three seconds, answer this question with your aura.”
“Calamity Sun, one of the 72 Legends, did it shoot down the mooncake or the moon?”
Hearing this question, the Beast Tamers present were speechless…
Did she really think their pet beasts were idiots…?
No way, no way, there couldn’t possibly be a pet beast that would answer mooncake, right?
The answer was obviously moon…!!!
A few seconds later, the results were revealed.
[Correct Answers]
[1. Fivefold Samsara: Sun, Time: 0.0001 seconds]
[2. Cloud Dream Calamity: Sun, Time: 1.2613 seconds]
[Incorrect Answers]
[3. Inverted World: Moon]
[4. Golden Edge Giant Spirit: Moon]
[Moon]
[Moon]
[…]
[…]
[30. Moon]
Almost all the answers were moon…
Until the 31st answer, the true heavyweights…
[31. Wing-Hiding Black Sky (Daughter): Mooncake]
[35. Alluring Maiden’s Restraint: Mooncake]
At this moment, seeing the results, the entire venue fell silent.
Many Beast Tamers lowered their heads, lost in thought.
So…not only their pet beasts, but even they, the Beast Tamers, were idiots…
And Lian Xing turned to look at Dead Ash, a hint of pity in her eyes. “It seems…your pet beasts really like mooncakes…”
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This time, Dead Ash didn’t retort, instead lowering her head even further.
Seeing this, the Hidden Moon Marquis sighed.
“In the Interdimensional Grand Finals, everyone must be careful with the Intelligence test. Not only maturity, but pet beasts also need a certain level of knowledge, experience, and common sense…”
“Sometimes, even the Beast Tamers themselves are tricked. It would be a shame to have a champion-level contender eliminated in the qualifiers because of this.”
“Alright, in this round, Zi Meng receives three Limit-Breaking Seeds, Moon Rabbit receives two, and the rest…nothing.”
“Next, the third round, the Growth Potential test.”
Unlike the other idiots, Lian Xing was one of the few Beast Tamers who had instantly known the correct answer. She had memorized all the legends and stories, how could she make such a stupid mistake?
Even so, the Cloud Dream Calamity’s mature judgment and experience had still surprised her, being one of only two pet beasts to score, along with the Fivefold Samsara, which had cheated in this round.
But the next round was the main event…
The Growth Potential test, the ultimate test in every region.
Rarity, growth rate, special evolution forms, bloodline combat skill potential, battle intent, and willpower…
All these factors were considered to determine a pet beast’s growth limit…
However—
At this moment…
Under everyone’s incredulous gaze, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain, its body covered in pure white fur, emerged from Lian Xing’s lineup.
At this moment, everyone was stunned.
What…? Not Star Sand, but the Heaven-Gracing Curtain!?
Even with perfect evolution and a bloodline combat skill, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s ordinary rarity couldn’t possibly compete with the Super Rare Species that made up almost half of the participants!!!
If Star Sand, a Legend with unparalleled rarity, had appeared, it could have declared the deaths of all these mongrels…
Meanwhile, Dead Ash silently deployed her cracked pet beast egg.
The other participants also deployed their rarest pet beasts.
This round was the most dangerous, a true gathering of elites…
For the Heaven-Gracing Curtain to stand out among so many Super Rare Species…it was like climbing Mount Everest…!!!
But just then…
Looking at the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s lonely figure, Zi Meng, the purple-haired, blind girl, swallowed hard, a chill running down her spine.
“Lian Xing…”
“Don’t evolve it any further…”
“Neither you nor the Beast Tamer Alliance can bear the consequences…” Zi Meng muttered to herself.
At this moment, she was truly afraid of the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s evolution path.
Although she didn’t know what Lian Xing was thinking, how she had stumbled onto this path…
This was definitely not a path that could be controlled…!!!
Finally, the test began.
One by one, the pet beasts placed a part of their bodies on a special crystal, their life crystals resonating with it, the emitted light determining their score. As expected of the elites from a 2nd-level region, the light from almost every pet beast was incredibly bright.
But the moment Dead Ash’s pet beast egg appeared, everyone’s expressions froze.
“Boom!!!!!”
Like an abyss, a dark, lightless shadow enveloped the entire area, bottomless and despairing , extinguishing the auras of all the other pet beasts, the world around them fading…
All the nearby pet beasts began to retreat.
Even Star Sand, surrounded by beautiful Rare Elemental Species, its body shimmering with golden light, looked uncomfortable…
Seeing this, all the participants looked at the silver-haired girl with an impassive expression in disbelief.
Wasn’t one Ancient Juvenile Species enough?
What the hell was this monster!!!
Even the Hidden Moon Marquis on stage, its expression turning serious, couldn’t help but wonder…
What exactly was this pet beast egg…? Even the Beast Tamer Alliance’s higher-ups didn’t know. But they knew one thing.
Extinction, the Ancient Juvenile Species, had tried to consume this egg, which had led to its accidental contract with Dead Ash…
Actually, this pet beast egg, which hadn’t shown any signs of hatching in ten years, was Dead Ash’s true, original companion pet beast!!!
A few seconds later, under the shocked and terrified gazes of the pet beasts, even after the egg floated away, the shadow in the sky didn’t dissipate, like a demon god descending…
Almost all the pet beasts were intimidated by this aura, none daring to continue the test.
However, at this moment…
Under everyone’s gaze—
The Heaven-Gracing Curtain, its body covered in snow-white fur, emerged from the frozen group of pet beasts. It seemed completely unaffected by the oppressive aura, walking towards the testing crystal, its steps firm.
At this moment, almost all the Beast Tamers present looked at the calm golden-haired girl, their expressions puzzled.
Having the Heaven-Gracing Curtain participate in the test right after that…?
Wasn’t Lian Xing worried about the psychological damage it would cause, second only to a defeat…?
At this moment, looking at the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s unwavering figure, Lian Xing’s starry eyes narrowed into a proud smile.
“Yes, there’s no need to be afraid. It’s just another newborn with a higher concentration of Ancient blood. It’s nothing~~~”
“Remember your own evolution, the path you’ve walked, the joy and satisfaction of defeating the Ancient bloodline.”
“Undefeated so far…what do you want to become?”
“How far do you want to evolve to be satisfied…?”
As Lian Xing’s encouraging words echoed, under Zi Meng’s sweaty and anxious gaze, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain gently touched the testing crystal with one of its ears.
At this moment, silence fell.
The entire world seemed to become ethereal…
The Pet Essence froze, time stopped.
Like a flashing slideshow, several scenes appeared in the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s mind.
Restarting from Moonlight Drive, choosing the Biological Species path.
Throwing Calamity Sun for the first time.
Defeating a Royal-Tier pet beast for the first time.
Using a Green Quality combat skill for the first time.
Defeating an Ancient Juvenile Species for the first time, the impactful evolutionary insight.
From Moonlight Rabbit to Giant Moonlight Rabbit, to Moon-Embracing Jade Hammer, and now, Heaven-…
Heaven-…
Heaven-…
Wait, Heaven- what?
In this beast-taming world, pet beasts’ names weren’t given by their parents or masters, but…understood by the pet beasts themselves the moment they were born. This was why, based on their self-awareness, even the names of newly appeared hybrids would be displayed by the devices.
But at this moment, for some reason, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain had suddenly forgotten its true name.
Its understanding of its own name was becoming blurry…
When had this change begun?
Was it the moment it defeated the Ancient Juvenile Species?
Or the moment it achieved perfect evolution?
Or…
Was it predestined from its very first evolution?
And finally, at this moment, the door to the end of its evolutionary path opened…
[Shining · Awakening]
A faint line of text appeared on its pet beast panel.
But it only lasted for a split second, then vanished, as if it had never existed.
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“Boom!!!!!!!!!!!”
In the next second, a blinding white light, after a long silence, erupted, piercing through the clouds. The wind howled, the earth shook.
Centered around the Commander-Tier Moonlight Rabbit, a deafening shockwave erupted, dispelling the oppressive shadow cast by the pet beast egg. At this moment, under the Moonlight Rabbit’s pure, white aura, all the other pet beasts in the testing space began to retreat.
The participants couldn’t even open their eyes to look directly at it.
Even Extinction, the Ancient Juvenile Species, its pupils constricted sharply.
It had a feeling…
Although this Heaven-Gracing Curtain still looked like the Heaven-Gracing Curtain…
Something about it had changed…!!!
A few seconds later, the storm subsided.
The Heaven-Gracing Curtain silently retracted its ears, as if nothing had happened, and returned to its team. And after a moment of stunned silence, the remaining participants and pet beasts looked at the rankings, their expressions filled with shock.
As expected, after that brief, brilliant burst, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s name was now at the top of the list, surpassing even Dead Ash’s unhatched Ancient pet beast egg!!!
So…just now…
What had this Heaven-Gracing Curtain done…?
At this moment, not only the silver-haired girl with the grim expression, but even the Hidden Moon Marquis on stage struggled to hide her shock…
That flawless aura…
It was like a mythical creature…
Just now, even she, an Emperor-Tier Beast Tamer, hadn’t been able to recognize it, but she could clearly sense the inferiority emanating from her own pet beasts.
Submitting to Ancient Species.
Fearing Fallen Species.
This was common sense in the pet beast world, an instinct ingrained in their bloodlines.
But at that moment, all the pet beasts present, facing this near-perfect being, they had felt a sense of inadequacy…!!!
And Lian Xing, looking at the Heaven-Gracing Curtain’s panel with a satisfied expression, noticed that almost nothing had changed, except for two new words.
[Awakening]
At this moment, the Heaven-Gracing Curtain had activated Awakening…!!!
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