Chapter 171: Inheriting the Eleventh Zodiac’s Talent!!
“Where is the Fallen Species…?”
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Inside the Azure Sky Emperor’s cauldron, within the Dominating Cauldron Palace.
As the golden-haired girl’s first words after waking echoed, everyone froze. The golden, lewd star pattern in her left eye was gone, replaced by a vast, starry sky, countless tiny stars twinkling within, as if the entire cosmos had been compressed into her eye.
At this moment, Jade Lady, the black umbrella Emperor, and Snow Flower, they all stared at the girl’s eye in disbelief, as if sensing another dimension within it, a chilling sensation running down their spines.
And that question… Where is the Fallen Species…
What did that mean?
Did she actually want to challenge Flood!?
A moment later, Lian Xing’s gaze cleared, as if she had just woken up from a dream.
“Eleventh Zodiac…” she muttered, her expression grim.
Her instinctive urge to kill the Fallen Species just now must have been influenced by the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura.
Seeing this, Jade Lady asked with concern, “Lian Xing, what’s wrong with your eye? Are you injured?”
“And that tremor at the Sanctuary Gate…did your pet beast block Flood’s attack?”
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“Lian Xing, your judgment was correct. Thanks to your intervention, the impact of Flood’s first aura wave was reduced by about 20%. Otherwise, even the Dominating Cauldron Palace would have been destroyed.”
“The Dominating Cauldron Palace will compensate you for the loss of your pet beasts…” the black umbrella woman added, no longer hostile.
However, Lian Xing didn’t respond, instead looking around, her expression confused.
[Pet Beasts]
[Shop]
[Settings]
[Log Out]
What…what was going on…?
She had already left that space. Why was the game UI still here!?
Could it be that because a part of the map was inside her, the rules set by that Mechanical Species were still active?
Lian Xing tried clicking on the UI, but there was no response, she couldn’t even open her pet beast panel.
So, she ignored it for now, focusing on reality.
“I’m fine, just a bit disoriented…”
“How many days has it been?”
“Three days since you collapsed, Lian Xing. What happened to your eye? Did that Fallen Species take it…?” Jade Lady asked, relieved that Lian Xing seemed to have recovered.
Hearing this, Lian Xing blinked, confused.
Her eye…?
What was wrong with her eye?
She looked at Snow Flower. Since Snow Flower’s eyes were pure white, with no pupils or irises, they reflected her current appearance.
The star was gone…
Was it because she had absorbed the Eleventh Zodiac’s residual aura?
After a moment of silence, Lian Xing said casually, “Why would a Fallen Species want my eye?”
“I was just rolling my eyes… Can’t you tell…?”
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Hearing this, Jade Lady, her expression hidden behind the mask, paused, then rolled her eyes.
Did Lian Xing think she was an idiot…?
But then, as Lian Xing focused, the star reappeared in her left eye, the starry sky pattern hidden behind it.
So she had actually just… rolled her eyes…?
Meanwhile, ignoring Jade Lady’s dumbfounded reaction, Lian Xing stood up and checked her pet beasts’ status. In the next second, she frowned.
“Except for Biluo, they’re all dead…?”
“This is troublesome…”
“And the Eight-Star Bewitching Moon’s revival cooldown is 200 days? Are you kidding me?” Even her Emperor-Tier Moonlight Rabbit in her previous life, before its Ancient evolution, its revival cooldown had only been 60 days.
Half a year…how was she supposed to survive this Fallen disaster without the Moonlight Rabbit?
Star Sand and the Mist Colt’s cooldowns were about 15 days, and the Golden Leaf’s was 40 days.
But since she had stolen a fragment of the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura, there had to be a way.
Lian Xing quickly regained her composure and turned to Jade Lady.
“When will the lice arrive?”
“Lice? The lice on that Fallen Species?” Jade Lady asked, confused.
“Of course. Do you have lice?”
“About…twenty days…I think? I’m not sure…” Jade Lady was surprised that Lian Xing even knew about the lice.
Although true Fallen Species didn’t have subordinates…
Their bodies were often infested with lice…
Wild pet beasts…
Somehow, they had talents or characteristics that allowed them to withstand a Fallen Species’s aura, so they lived on their bodies, absorbing their chaotic Pet Essence.
Most of these lice were high-ranking criminals in the new world, their nature violent, relying on slaughter to level up. Whenever a Fallen Species arrived in a region, they would take advantage of the isolation and rampage for months, then quickly leave before the Fallen Species moved on.
They saw the Fallen Species they inhabited as gods, but the Fallen Species themselves were unaware of these insects’presence, allowing them to live on their bodies for thousands, even millions of years.
And with the Fallen Species’s terrifying power, no one, no matter how much they hated these lice, could enter their territory to seek revenge.
Compared to the infamous little Fallen Species on the body of Storm, another Emperor-level disaster, Flood’s lice were relatively harmless. At least Jade Lady hadn’t heard of any particularly strong ones among them.
The Seven Heavens should be able to handle them, right…?
“Lice? What are those?” the black umbrella woman asked curiously.
She wasn’t ignorant, it was just that the knowledge in the lower Pet Beast World and the new world was completely different. There was no way for them to access such information.
So, Jade Lady patiently explained it to her.
Since this Pet Beast World was about to be destroyed anyway, revealing some basic information wouldn’t hurt.
Meanwhile, Lian Xing took Snow Flower aside to talk. She bit on Snow Flower’s ice hairpin, restyled her hair into two buns, then secured them with the hairpin. Then, she looked at Snow Flower, which seemed subdued…
Snow Flower clearly knew that the Golden Leaf was gone, so it simply waited quietly beside Lian Xing, not causing any trouble.
“I didn’t expect this to happen. It seems…it’ll be a while before I can send you back…”
“Let’s make a deal~~~”
“You protect me for two months, help me survive this disaster, and after the Golden Leaf revives, I’ll send you back to your world. How about that?”
Hearing this, Snow Flower hesitated.
Two months…
It wasn’t that it thought the time was too long, it trusted this golden-haired girl. After all, she had given it the Golden Leaf at the Sanctuary Gate.
But could this Pet Beast World even last for two months…?
“We don’t have to form a contract. If you change your mind, or if you encounter an unbeatable opponent, you can leave at any time. But unless there’s an emergency, you have to protect me!!” Lian Xing added.
Hearing this, Snow Flower nodded slightly, its expression still tense.
Pet beasts, unlike human Beast Tamers, didn’t lie or deceive. So, seeing Snow Flower’s nod, Lian Xing finally relaxed.
Then, she looked at the black umbrella woman.
“I’m fine now.”
“I’m going back to Bimen Pass to hide for a while—”
“The electronic devices’ signals should all be blocked, so if there’s an emergency, just shout my name at the entrance of the cauldron.”
This is my home, not yours… the black umbrella woman thought, slightly annoyed, but it still nodded obediently.
After all, if not for Lian Xing’s pet beasts sacrificing themselves to block the first wave of the Fallen Species’s aura, even the Dominating Cauldron Palace might have been destroyed.
And according to the battle records from the Seven Heavens…
It was no longer a match for Lian Xing…
That Shining Species Moonlight Rabbit…it had single-handedly suppressed both Snow Flower and Calamity Sun, shocking the Seven Heavens’ intelligence department.
Although that news had been quickly overshadowed by the fear of the Fallen Species’s arrival…
A moment later, after thanking and saying goodbye to Jade Lady, who had been taking care of her, Lian Xing and Snow Flower returned to the entrance of the Emperor’s cauldron.
[Exclusive mark of Moon Rabbit Lian Xing, champion of the 427622 All-Pet Beast Tournament. Do not touch. Damage will be punished.]
“Whoosh——!!!”
In the next second, with a flash of starlight, both the golden-haired girl and the snow woman in the burial shroud vanished.
[427622, the Fallen Species, Flood, descended upon this world, 80% of the land submerged, the Sovereign’s Territory, guarding the Sanctuary Gate, almost completely annihilated, only one Emperor surviving.]
[Seven 2nd-level regions, including the Wind Sand Region, destroyed, Snow Sun in a coma.]
[Youyou Leize, Yun Jianyou reappeared, its aura protecting a thousand regions, the only safe haven from the Fallen Species’s aura.]
[Worry-Free Pond, the Seven Heavens, the City of Awe, their Sovereign-Tier Emperors deployed, establishing a defensive line near the Fallen Species, preparing for the second wave.]
[Moon Rabbit Lian Xing blocked the Fallen Species’s initial aura burst, but was severely injured, her pet beast lineup decimated. Currently under the care of the Dominating Cauldron Palace.]
6th-level region, Bimen Pass.
As a brilliant starlight flickered in the sky, the snow woman in the burial shroud, carrying the golden-haired girl with buns, landed gently. Sensing the chilling aura, the Four Divine Generals of Bimen Pass immediately tensed, ready to fight.
But then they realized that one of the newcomers was Lian Xing.
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“Whoosh!”
In the next second, as the snow woman vanished in a flash, the four girls, their faces flushed, gasped for breath. Although their pet beasts were also Royal-Tier, like Snow Flower, they couldn’t even move a finger before it.
Even the four Marquises of the Beast Tamer Alliance together couldn’t defeat Snow Flower.
Meanwhile, back in the Great Lord Biluo’s former cave…
Lian Xing, placed on the ground by Snow Flower, adjusted her posture and extended her arms.
“Open!!!”
Instantly, a golden, prism-like mirror appeared. Then, a layer of meteorite soil, emanating a powerful aura, covered the ground. If the Mist Colt hadn’t been killed, she would have planted these in its Viral Space. But for now, she could only experiment here.
As the meteorite soil spread, under Snow Flower’s surprised gaze, the Pet Essence in the area began to churn, even a faint Shining aura appeared.
Standing on this soil, Lian Xing immediately felt the game UI become clearer…
The Great Lord Biluo’s slightly panicked voice echoed in her mind, “Master, what’s happening? It’s like you’ve been infected by a Mechanical Species virus!”
“It’s fine, don’t worry, you don’t need to analyze it. It’s not harmful.”
After stopping the Celestial Anchor from analyzing the data…
Lian Xing swallowed hard and opened the shop interface, her heart filled with anticipation.
[Cosmetics]
[Lottery]
[Materials]
[Balance: 99,999,999 crystals]
Seeing the last line, the girl’s eyes lit up.
“As expected, my crystals from my previous life are still here…!!!”
“It’s a pity I can’t access my warehouse with hundreds of millions more…” The shop’s main use was to buy rare materials. Cosmetics and the lottery were useless. Cosmetics were for the Beast Tamer herself, not for her pet beasts, and some of them were too revealing… As for the lottery, that was something only newbies did.
There was a 1% chance of getting a Gold Quality combat skill, a 0.1% chance of getting a Dark Gold Quality combat skill, and a 0.01% chance of getting a Red Quality combat skill. A 5% chance of getting a Purple Quality combat skill, with a guaranteed Purple Quality combat skill every ten pulls.
But with her current level, even a Red Quality combat skill wouldn’t be that useful…
So, Lian Xing opened the materials section.
[Fluorescent Grass: 10,000 crystals, purchase limit: 1 per month, increases a pet beast’s Pet Essence capacity.]
[Winter Stone: 10,000 crystals, purchase limit: 1 per month, increases a pet beast’s ice resistance.]
[Fire Core Stone: 10,000 crystals, purchase limit: 1 per month, increases a pet beast’s fire resistance.]
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[Resurrection Coin: 100 crystals, purchase limit: 2 per month, reduces a pet beast’s revival cooldown by half.]
Lian Xing scrolled to the bottom and bought two Resurrection Coins without hesitation. A moment later, with a flash of light, the Moonlight Rabbit within her stirred slightly.
About 50 days remaining until the Moonlight Rabbit’s revival.
After some thought, Lian Xing bought a large quantity of limited herbs and planted them in the meteorite soil.
“I wonder…exposed to the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura…will these herbs’ quality and effects be enhanced…?” Lian Xing thought, as she tended to her garden like a village girl.
She wasn’t actually farming, just sticking the herbs into the soil.
A few days later…
The golden-haired farmer, staring at her garden noticed a change. The herbs she had bought from the shop, instead of being enhanced, had withered and died, their Pet Essence drained…
And the meteorite soil’s aura had intensified…
“So…I chose the wrong target…” Lian Xing said, her eyes lighting up, then, under Snow Flower’s incredulous gaze, she lay down on the ground and began eating the soil.
She didn’t dare to eat too much, afraid of consuming all the meteorite soil.
So, after eating about a tenth of it, Lian Xing bought more herbs and replenished the soil’s nutrients.
After repeating this several times, the Eleventh Zodiac’s aura within her intensified, and finally, unable to bear the pain in her eye any longer, the star in her left eye was once again replaced by the starry sky pattern.
At the same time, a new ability, like a bloodline memory, appeared in her mind.
[Choose one of the Eleventh Zodiac’s basic talents to inherit.]
[Heavenly Pole: Unlimited vision range, can see any location in the world, removes all range restrictions for pet beasts.]
[Yellow Pole: Can see a portion of a pet beast’s evolution path. Long cooldown after use.]
[Star Pole: Instantly awakens a pet beast. Long cooldown after use.]
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