Celestial Beast Taming

A Fate Grid was an ephemeral concept, a combination of one's fortune and potential, according to the Soul-Controlling Flower's explanation.

Fate Grids were divided into six tiers: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Orange, and Red.

A Green Fate Grid was the second-to-last tier, indicating that Du Ren would never encounter any great opportunities in his entire life.

The Blade Wing Race was a people with a strong affinity for the Wind Attribute, as could be seen from the three abilities Du Ren had mastered.

Besides mastering the Stepping Wind and Shadow Exchange, a Body Technique that utilized the Wind Element, Du Ren also possessed the Wing-Cutting Technique and the Sword Wing Illusion Body, both of which he could use thanks to his Bloodline ability.

Zhong Yi didn't know what level of Secret Technique the Wing-Cutting Technique and Sword Wing Illusion Body were considered within the heritage of the Blade Wing Race.

But in Zhong Yi's opinion, neither was particularly strong.

Du Ren, who was now rushing toward him, knew nothing about Zhong Yi. But Zhong Yi had already figured Du Ren out completely.

A member of the Blade Wing Race who had condensed two Blade Wings possessed the ability of short-distance flight.

Du Ren hadn't revealed the Blade Wings formed from his Bloodline right at the start, clearly holding back his true strength.

Zhong Yi activated his Soul Power, and Hong Ji appeared directly in front of him.

Besides Hong Ji, a pure white cat with four-colored pupils also appeared in Zhong Yi's arms.

Seeing Hong Ji, who bore a strong resemblance to Zhong Yi, suddenly appear, Du Ren's charge faltered for a moment.

For a moment, he couldn't tell if his opponent had used some special Clone Secret Technique...

...or if this girl who had appeared out of nowhere was the young man's Guardian Beast!

When Du Ren's gaze fell on the mystical white cat with four-colored pupils in Zhong Yi's arms, his heart sank. 'This is bad.'

'After a ten-win streak, I actually get matched with a Guardian Beast Master!'

By now, Du Ren had closed the distance with the young man before him.

Choosing the path of a Guardian Beast Master, aside from requiring more resources, meant that Guardian Beast Masters themselves didn't possess much combat ability before reaching the Sixth Level.

Without relying on their Guardian Beasts, a Guardian Beast Master's individual combat prowess came primarily from the feedback of their Beast Pattern.

Guardian Beast Masters couldn't cultivate any Secret Techniques. If they did, the Energy of the Secret Technique contained within their body would likely clash with their Beast Pattern.

A minor conflict would result in the body's collapse. A severe one would cause both the Guardian Beast Master and their Contracted Guardian Beast to die instantly from the clash of Energy.

Du Ren held back no longer. Two sharp, narrow, mirror-like Blade Wings, each nearly three meters long, appeared behind him.

Du Ren kicked off the ground and leaped high, preparing to bypass Hong Ji and attack Zhong Yi directly.

Just then, Du Ren saw the human-shaped Guardian Beast—the one who bore a strong resemblance to his opponent—suddenly move.

Six tentacles, each over twenty meters long, shot out from her back and lashed violently toward him.

The tentacles were composed entirely of muscle tissue and various bones; Du Ren dared not let them strike his body.

He hastily executed the Body Technique, Wind Stepping Transformation, releasing a large amount of Wind Element into the scorching surroundings.

Using Wind Stepping Transformation, he teleported around to dodge Hong Ji's attacks.

During this period, Hong Ji had been continuously devouring the corpses of Demons and Guardian Beasts. Even though her body had reached its limit for absorbing new materials at her current Tier and Quality, Hong Ji could still filter and replace the materials she had already absorbed.

At the same time, Hong Ji was constantly refining how she used these materials.

Initially, the tentacles released from Hong Ji's body were like a grotesque mass of corpses.

Now, Hong Ji used metallic materials for the tentacles' bones, and the muscles attached to them had all been replaced with incredibly explosive cardiac muscle.

Sharp teeth and claws studded the tentacles like ornaments, effectively increasing their lethality.

Hong Ji could control each individual cardiac muscle composing the tentacles.

The sudden contraction of a few cardiac muscles could make a tentacle change direction at an extremely bizarre angle.

Even with Wind Stepping Transformation, Du Ren still struggled several times to evade Hong Ji's tempestuous assault.

He quickly executed the Wing-Cutting Technique, hacking at Hong Ji's flailing tentacles with his Blade Wings.

The Blade Wing Race excelled at offense. When using the Wing-Expanding Technique, every strike from the Blade Wings would unleash a flurry of consecutive slashes.

As a result, two of the tentacles began to show signs of snapping under Du Ren's assault.

In the end, however, only one tentacle was severed by the Blade Wings.

The other two wounded tentacles quickly mended their slash marks under Hong Ji's manipulation.

Hong Ji's regenerative ability filled Du Ren with a profound sense of powerlessness.

Gritting his teeth, Du Ren detached his Blade Wings and sacrificed them.

The two Blade Wings transformed into copies of Du Ren's form, and three figures of Du Ren charged toward Zhong Yi.

At this point, Du Ren paid no more heed to Hong Ji's attacks.

In Du Ren's mind, the only way to win this duel was to kill the Guardian Beast Master, who was holding a cat like some young nobleman.

Du Ren, who had been focused, suddenly felt his mind grow hazy.

It was as if he weren't in a battle, but was instead soaking comfortably in a hot spring, waiting to attend the Blade Wing Race's annual festival.

The moment that feeling arose, Du Ren's internal alarm bells went off. 'Not good.'

But his taut concentration had finally slackened!

Du Ren failed to notice that the white cat in Zhong Yi's arms was watching him, its eyes glowing.

An invisible Spiritual Force Field had long since been released from the cat's pupils, subtly influencing him.

At that moment, Zhong Yi didn't command Hong Ji to kill Du Ren immediately. Instead, he had Hong Ji use her Basic Skill, Battle Skill Mastery, to learn and master the combat techniques of the Blade Wing Race. He also wanted her to absorb the excellent combat instincts of Du Ren, a genius of his race.

Du Ren had no effective means of Spiritual Defense and couldn't break free from the effects of Lan Po's Basic Skill, Weaving Dreams.

Du Ren realized that when he was first affected by the mental attack, not only was he not killed, he wasn't even injured.

This led Du Ren to believe that the opposing boy's female Guardian Beast was about to run out of Energy.

But after a long-drawn-out fight, even as his own Energy was about to be depleted, his opponent still had plenty to spare.

At that moment, Du Ren felt like a mouse being toyed with by a cat.

Just then, Du Ren heard the girl who had been fighting him with all sorts of vicious methods speak.

"Master, I've learned everything I needed to!"

The female Guardian Beast had barely finished speaking when he heard his opponent—the one standing not far off, holding a cat like a spectator—speak in a clear voice.

"Hong Ji, end the duel."

As the young man finished speaking, a tentacle shot through his chest like a harpoon, leaving a gaping hole.

Then, Du Ren lost consciousness.

The scene before him gradually dissolved, and Zhong Yi reappeared on the Soul Fighting Platform.

[Congratulations on defeating your first opponent and winning your first Soul Fighting Ranking Competition match.]

[Your current Soul Energy is sufficient for a second Soul of Battle duel.]

[Would you like to match with a second opponent immediately?]

The battle against Du Ren had been a completely one-sided slaughter.

For Zhong Yi, the duel held no challenge whatsoever.

Since he still had enough Soul Power for another duel, Zhong Yi decided to immediately start matching for his second Ranking Competition match.

He didn't even bother using the Soul Fighting Bracelet on his wrist to check Du Ren's information.

The opponent information the Soul Fighting Bracelet could provide, besides a name, was just their number of matches and their point total.

An opponent's match history and point total were meaningless to Zhong Yi.

He had already gained a complete understanding of Du Ren as an opponent during their fight.

Du Ren, on the other hand, had just been pulled from the battle. Without even leaving the Soul Fighting Platform, he immediately used his Soul Fighting Bracelet to look up Zhong Yi's information.

When he saw that Zhong Yi had never fought a Soul of Battle duel before—with a match count of 0 and a point total of 0...

...Du Ren stared at his own record of 217 wins, 186 losses, and 56 points, and his mind fell into chaos.

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