Chapter 149 - Rock Dragon Emperor

Outside, in the control room of the sea machine kun, Lu Daying was sitting at the back.

He was one of the people in charge of overseeing the survival assessment.

Apart from him, there were master-rank beastmasters from the other major cities who were invited to oversee the assessment as well.

The secret realms were independent dimensions that the outside world couldn’t oversee. Only through the special military-grade mechanical pet, the photoelectric shuttle, which was set up inside the secret realm, could the beastmasters’ movements be monitored to a certain extent. It ensured their basic safety as well.

After all, they were all beastmasters who had reached the survival assessment. Their basic strength met the requirements of being a professional.

Even if they didn’t pass the professional assessment, they were still assets to the cities and the country. It was only a given that the officials would pay a certain price to ensure the lives of these beastmasters and their pets.

“The quality of the beastmasters in this year’s assessment is generally very high,” Lu Daying sighed as he looked at the images transmitted over through the photoelectric shuttle.

The maintenance of mechanical pets in secret realms was very expensive, but they possessed functions and intelligence that ordinary mechanical equipment didn’t have. They could maintain a certain level of contact with the outside world in the secret realm.

As long as they did not go deep into the Land of Hidden Mysterious, they would be of great use in the outer and core regions.

“This golden-toothed saber-tiger can kill a fierce beast of the same level when it has just reached level 3. Not bad, not bad.”

“Oh, the heavenly fragrance illusion clearing herb. Unfortunately, it is an emperor-grade resource that is extremely difficult to obtain.”

“A steel-clawed dragonhawk. Its claws seem to be made of alloy. Could it be the orange characteristic, Diamond Claw?”

“Those who can come to Qixing City to participate in the professional assessment are quite strong…”

“Whoa, could this child be…” Lu Daying looked at the transmitted images, paying attention to all of them.

He would occasionally give some comments and exchange his insights with the few people in charge of the assessment beside him.

At this moment, two old men walked in from outside.

Seeing them, Lu Daying immediately stood up and said, “Elder Bai, Elder Li! You’re here too?”

“How can they not come?” A person in charge at the side said with a smile, “In this year’s assessment, the disciples of these two seniors are competing with each other.”

The two old men smiled and glanced at the people in the room.

Elder Bai asked, “The few of you have been supervising for almost half a day. How’s the situation?”

The few people in charge immediately spoke up one after another.

“How should I put it? Each generation is stronger than the last. During our assessment back then, we only went to a medium-scale secret realm, and we were already complaining incessantly.”

“To be honest, they’re not too bad. About half a day has passed, and only one-fifth of the beastmasters have been eliminated.”

“So far, from what we’ve seen, the number of demon skeleton sword ghosts that have been killed is around thirty. No one has been able to kill an elite for the time being. However, they have gained quite a bountiful harvest in terms of fierce beast killings.”

“Currently, not many have entered the core region. They are all wandering around in the outer region. Their performance in terms of teamwork is pretty good though.”

“Based on my experience, there is a high chance that the Seven Stars of Beidou will appear among these thirty people.”

“…”

The few people in charge discussed animatedly.

Lu Daying naturally joined in. After all, every person in charge had a candidate he thought highly of. It was normal for them to secretly compete with each other.

As a beastmaster of Yaoguang City, the candidates he had his eyes on were naturally the elites of his city.

For example, his disciple, Lu Wanqing, as well as Tian He of the Qixing Investigation Corps, Ming Zhu who was from Yaoguang City though she was attending university in Qixing, and Anping County’s Wang Ye.

It was just that up until now, there had been quite a few beastmasters who had displayed formidable strength.

Although not all young beastmasters in the Xinghai Province had come to Qixing City to take the professional assessment, the vast majority were here.

The reason was simple. The assessment was fair, safe, guaranteed, and could broaden their horizons.

Unfortunately, Lu Daying had only seen his disciple on the screens up until now. He hadn’t seen the others.

There was nothing he could do. There were too many people, and the terrain of the secret realm was too complicated.

It was impossible for the photoelectric shuttle to capture the scenes every moment.

“Alright, alright!” Elder Li smiled, “The Seven Stars of Beidou are the most outstanding seven people in the professional assessment of Xinghai Province every year. No one can be sure until the last moment of the professional assessment. We’re just here to briefly take a look. Or have you encountered anything more interesting?”

“Yes!” At this time, a person in charge who was in his early thirties stood up with a hesitant expression, “I’ve seen several situations that I can’t understand.”

Everyone immediately looked at him.

“Play it and let’s take a look?” Both elders walked over, and the others swarmed forward as well.

The footage was quickly played.

In the footage, a young man wearing a long green robe was seen riding on the back of a white tiger.

He had an indifferent expression while his eyes were closed. It was as if he had no care for the things around him at all. He seemed to be deep in thought or meditating with his eyes closed.

Wherever he passed by, all the fierce beasts seemed to have encountered some kind of terror as they all scattered in all directions.

After that, with a wave of his hand, he simply put all sorts of materials into his bag. It seemed to be as effortless as blowing away a speck of dust.

He could subdue beasts without even fighting!

Even level 3 fierce beasts didn’t dare to get close to him. All of them prostrated themselves and roared.

“That white tiger is a level 3 Emperor class pet, a seven-kills tiger king. It has an extremely murderous aura. However, it can’t possibly have such a deterrent effect on fierce beasts. Unless it uses King’s Prestige, which is exclusive to Emperor-class pets, only then would it be possible to intimidate a fierce beast of the same level. Even so, even if it has some intimidation effect, it shouldn’t be to this extent… This person is called Bai Mo. his talent is Seven-kills Sword, ranked 12th in the Material Talent Sequence. He was born with a Seven-kills Sword and can condense it at will. So far, we haven’t seen him use it.”

The few people in charge nodded their heads repeatedly as they watched, then shook their heads.

“This should be a dual talent,” The two elders looked at each other and nodded slightly.

Elder Bai slowly said, “The Seven-kills Sword is extremely unique in the Material Talent Sequence. It is a twin talent. With this talent, there must be another talent. Bai Mo should also have a talent in the Heroic Soul Talent Sequence. If I’m not mistaken, he should be the descendant of that old senior.”

“The reason of this situation is because this child is raising his beast with his sword. The Seven-kills Sword is being nurtured within the seven-kills tiger king’s body, giving it a powerful aura comparable to the King’s Prestige. When the beastmaster’s talent and the pet become one, it will erupt with a unique strength. In the secret realm, it will be a great deterrent to fierce beasts. It can be said to be foolproof.”

Lu Daying was enlightened.

As expected of the old professor of Qixing University, he was very knowledgeable.

There were too many human talents, and their effects were all kinds of strange. Sometimes, without enough experience and not dabbling much in the area, even a deity-rank would find it difficult to understand all of them.

Then, a few scenes continued to play.

The two elders kept nodding their heads as they watched.

“This, this!” One of them suddenly said, “I don’t quite understand the footage that was transmitted from the sky.”

The photoelectric shutter shot the scene from a higher angle. When it pointed down, they could only see a huge flickering bird.

In the sky, a youth jumped and slashed down.

With that, the sky and the mountain range instantly collapsed as if they had been hit by some invisible force.

In the thick fog, more than ten fierce beasts exploded in the sky like blood-stained fireworks. It was as strange as it was extremely shocking to the eyes.

“Eh? This is…” The two elders were stunned.

“Oh, this is a little interesting. Is this some kind of talent skill?”

“Invisible blades are the most lethal. But why does it feel like the Dimensional Cleave of the Spatial Talent Sequence?”

“No, no, I think it’s more of an invisible wind blade formed from the control of strong wind! But with such a powerful talent skill, the boy must have cultivated his talent to almost level 4, right?”

“Impossible, this person looks familiar. I’ve seen him in the first two assessments. I think his name is Wang Ye, with Deep Memory as a talent. His pet was very strong though… Hmm? How can he be so powerful?”

The few people in charge immediately began to argue.

Lu Daying looked at them with a face full of question marks.

“Wang Ye, this kid… Wasn’t he physically very weak?” Lu Daying was puzzled.

He didn’t understand how the boy had done it either.

“This…” The two old men looked at each other as if they were thinking.

“I’m afraid that he did it with his pet’s soul-type skill?” Elder Bai said uncertainly.

“The hornless white python has Shadowless Line, which can make the sword invisible,” Elder Li said in a low voice, “But what exactly did the Shadowless Line condense into to form such violent wind power and tyrannical strength?”

“Since he has a bird too, that should be Skyful of Feathers, right?” Elder Bai said slowly, “If it’s a combination of two skills, to achieve this, the realms of both skills should be at least…”

The two of them looked at each other, “The great success realm.”

“Interesting.”

“Show us everything you have about this kid.”

Soon, all the footage of Wang Ye appeared.

The more they watched, the more confused they became.

Until they saw Wang Ye casually picking an emperor-grade resource, they were literaaly dumbfounded by what they saw.

Even the two experienced elders were puzzled.

If it weren’t for the fact that the footage was transmitted by the photoelectric shuttle, they would have suspected that someone had synthesized it.

Damn it, since when would an emperor-grade resource send itself into someone’s hands?

On top of that, it was an extremely special resource like the spatial cloud mushroom.

“Hey, he seems to have arrived at the border of the core and outer regions, the Rock King Cave!”

“I remember there’s an extremely powerful rock dragon emperor in that cave!”

“A rock dragon emperor… I also saw a few others going over there! Elder Li, one of them is your disciple! Tianqian University’s Bing Li has also arrived, how interesting! These people have all gathered!”

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Wang Ye didn’t know the name of the Rock King Cave.

Following the information from the simulation, he quickly discovered this unique cave at the bottom of the mountain in midair.

That’s right, it was at the bottom of the mountain!

Moreover, when he discovered it, the mountain range above was spewing out scorching hot lava that was smashing everywhere like a cannon salute.

“With such a huge commotion, no wonder it attracted so many beastmasters,” Wang Ye shrugged. “I’m afraid it won’t be easy to get my hands on this treasure.”

According to the simulation, there was a rock dragon emperor below.

Judging from the simulation, this fierce beast was rather cautious.

“Wait,” Wang Ye suddenly thought of something and looked at the simulation information again, “Something’s wrong! In the simulation, when I arrived, the rock dragon emperor was fighting with other beastmasters. Why did it seal the mountain range right after discovering me? Could it be that it sensed my strength?”

“…” Xiao Jiu.

It chirped at Wang Ye.

“Mm, alright, alright. It sensed your strength, alright?” Wang Ye cleared his throat, “But as a fierce beast, isn’t it a little too intelligent? Could it be that this rock dragon emperor is the same as those fierce beasts in the Infernal Relic? Although it became a fierce beast, for some reason, it hasn’t completely lost consciousness and it’s even guarding a special treasure. Could it be that it was affected by the treasure?”

If that was the case, then the rock dragon emperor couldn’t be considered a real fierce beast.

However, to the beastmasters, they had already identified it as a fierce beast.

Thinking of this, Wang Ye fell silent.

“Let’s go take a look.”