The King of Beast Trainers
Chapter 931 - 469 if not breakthrough, it’s just playing_3

Chapter 931: 469 if not breakthrough, it’s just playing_3

Yun Bao was handed Mr. Husky’s new sword by Lu Ran for fostering, instructing Yun Bao to advance the Nine-Colored Stone Sword to level 90 Lower Legend as fast as possible.

Dark Crow and King of Sudden Death were, naturally, working in conjunction with Lu Ran on mastering the Soul Evolution technique.

As for Mr. Husky, this creature was wickedly powerful, now leveraging its extraordinary intuition and various energy techniques such as Energy Flow, Projection, Shaping, and Compression, honing them all to the third stage, becoming robustly unstoppable. Lu Ran chose to let it roam free!

He didn’t set fixed training tasks for Mr. Husky, relying instead on its own insight, which often brought Lu Ran some surprises.

The dark starry sky.

Lu Ran, while researching Soul Evolution and fostering new Soul Avatars, planned his future path as well as the three-stage evolution of the Pet Beasts, particularly the final evolution available within the benefits of Infinite City.

"After reaching epic level, I can learn a new Beast Training Technique."

"During a month’s travel on the Star-Moon Continent, Tree King approached me. During this time, she had conquered all of the Legendary Secret Realms of Star-Moon, bursting forth numerous top-grade skills for me to choose from."

"Eventually, I chose this one."

[Name]: Beast Training Skill Card (Scapegoat)

[Introduction]: The Beast Trainer who practices this technique can, upon their own death, sacrifice the life of a contracted Pet Beast to resurrect themselves. Following resurrection, depending on the sacrificed Pet Beast’s quality, their Attributes will somewhat decline, leaving them weakened.

"The reason I chose this one is because it can perfectly pair with another skill card I obtained from my first venture into the Legendary Secret Realm."

[Name]: Beast Training Skill Card (Guardian Contract)

[Effect]: As long as the Beast Trainer is not dead, the contracted Pet Beast will possess an unkillable vitality, extremely difficult to slay—deemed undying. If the Beast Trainer dies in battle, the Pet Beast will burst forth with ten times the fighting power, crushing all enemies, though the Pet Beast will also bear the corresponding load afterward!

"The Final Secret Realm is different from other Secret Realms; it harbors extreme danger, and death there means true death, despite any Life Link. Hence, the previously unlearned Guardian Contract suddenly becomes the best choice."

"The most crucial point—if the Beast Trainer dies in battle, the Pet Beast will unleash ten times the fighting power."

"Of course, I can’t actually die in battle, but if I master the Scapegoat, I could then contract two Soul Avatars to die in my place!"

"If the situation turns dire by then, I could feign death to stimulate the combat power of all Pet Beasts, which might become the key moment to turn the tides. Afterwards, resurrect through Scapegoat. I’m not sure if this ’bug card,’ with ten times the fighting power, will work."

"But regardless of whether the bug card works, Scapegoat and Guardian Contract are both two levels of security for challenging the Final Secret Realm."

"On the aspect of combat power, having exclusive Soul Evolution is quite sufficient."

Lu Ran pondered for a long time about the eighth and ninth skill slots but decided to prioritize survival because only by staying alive can one deal damage!

For his part, Lu Ran was more or less arranged, unless a more superior Beast Training Technique emerged thereafter.

And for the three-stage evolution of his Pet Beasts, Mr. Husky was still lacking one Attribute, which Lu Ran was still fervently searching for.

On the side of King of Sudden Death, the Sun-Moon Convergence Attribute was ready, but a suitable direction for fostering hadn’t been chosen yet. The Dragon Clan attributes of King of Sudden Death were almost entirely overlaid by Thunder and Lightning, and its Galaxy attributes were basically enveloped by Rock.

The two Attributes did not conflict, therefore he couldn’t evolve through Sun-Moon Convergence fusion.

For the evolution of King of Sudden Death, Lu Ran planned to not rush; upon entering the timeline of the Mechanical Era, while searching for No. 18’s Main God opportunity, he would concurrently search for the three-stage evolution opportunity for King of Sudden Death.

Simply because... the Mechanical Era represents the pinnacle epoch of the Star-Moon’s exploration in aerospace; many rare stars outside the Star-Moon World had already been developed by the Republic during the Mechanical Era, destroyed in that great war.

In that era, there would surely be stars that fulfill King of Sudden Death’s needs, fostering its Dragon Clan and Galaxy into opposing Attributes.

The third-stage evolution Attribute for Dark Crow was also ready.

[Super Trait Crystal (Death Sacrifice)]: A Pet Beast that fuses this Attribute can use its own Vitality for sacrifice. The closer the state after sacrifice to death, the stronger the sacrificed Vitality, and the greater the Soul Power!

This was a Super Trait Crystal acquired during a world battle, and such crystals are generally very robust. In Lu Ran’s team, speaking of which Pet Beast couldn’t do without Soul Power, it definitely was Dark Crow. Its core of Word Spirit was Soul Power, the soul of language.

If it fused this Attribute, coupled later with the undying Vitality from Guardian Contract and the Life Link with Liu Hua, it would have endless Vitality to sacrifice, allowing the effects of Word Spirit to perform at their peak.

Yun Bao already underwent three-stage evolution.

Liu Hua was missing the most Attributes for her three-stage evolution.

No. 18 wasn’t much different, still lacking 2 Attributes.

Lu Ran already had a few Attributes on standby—those dropped in level 8 and level 9 Abyssal Secret Realm. If a Pet Beast’s evolution opportunity approaches without finding a more suitable one, and if Infinite City doesn’t update with new Secret Realms, Lu Ran planned to select from the Trait Crystals dropped in Common Secret Realms.

"First, evolve the Dark Crow."

"Which will be in the next Breakthrough Secret Realm."

"However, in this Breakthrough Secret Realm, I can only complete the ’Legendary Task’; I cannot complete the ’Breakthrough Task’."

"Otherwise, I would advance to ’Legendary Level’ and would no longer be able to enter the Breakthrough Secret Realm. That would mean I wouldn’t be able to enter Ancient Blue Star or the Mechanical Era."

"This time, I must control myself."

"Before I have harvested enough resources for each contracted pet beast to enter the realm of the Main God, I mustn’t break through to the Legendary Level. Just roaming through various Breakthrough Secret Realms and harvesting resources!"

Lu Ran’s next destination, the Breakthrough Secret Realm, was an era ravaged by the Evil God Clan.

Based on the archaic discussions he had with Ghost Mother, he roughly outlined the timeline.

The twilight years of the Empire.

The Empire faced internal strife and external threats, among which, the Evil God Clan was a major external foe, a situation that had persisted for a long time.

However, before the Evil God Clan could annihilate the Empire, the Dream-Wish God awoke and the Empire fell by its hands.

Though the Empire was destroyed, it didn’t mean the end of the Human Tribe; instantly, the continent plunged into extreme chaos.

Warlords carved out territories!

Humans returned to a state where sects, families, and various martial forces banded together for warmth.

Due to the existence of the Dream-Wish God, no one dared to rebuild the Empire.

In this state, the Evil God Clan found an opportunity; although the Imperial royal family in the last stage was weak, they could at least unify most forces to counter external threats. Now, divided, the humans were no match for the other tribes.

The expansion rate of the Evil God Clan doubled; countless members of the Human Tribe fell to become puppets of the Evil Gods.

It was then that Ghost Mother felt the Evil Gods had overstepped; the Evil Gods tried to challenge the Main God by expanding their affiliations and followers. If this continued, all races on the continent would be corrupted by the Evil Gods, affecting the ecological niche. Thus, the Ghost Mother eventually sealed the Evil Gods, cutting off their path to becoming a Main God.

If there was anything interesting about this era, it would be the birth of the second Legendary Level human, the Legendary Beast Trainer Ji Yuan.

This guy.

Despite his secretive identity, through his affiliations, Lu Ran still figured it out.

He was a genius born in the rebel armies during the late Empire, the son of the original founder of the Rebel Army, and ultimately he became a legend and the new leader of the Rebel Army, his talent suppressing his contemporaries and even breaking through the limits set by the Beast Gods.

However, since the Empire had already perished and to avoid provoking the Dream-Wish God, the Rebel Army did not immediately establish a nation but instead renamed themselves ’Beast Training Place.’ They operated as a sect upon the continent, serving as the righteous leaders for the Human Tribe.

When Lu Ran entered the Plant Era’s Breakthrough Secret Realm, Infinite City arranged for him to be a disciple of an ancient Beast Training force, ’Beast Training Place,’ which was actually the transformed form of the Rebel Army.

However, although Lu Ran had borrowed the identity of the Beast Training Place, he actually disliked this entity.

Even though it was an enemy of the Chaos Dragon God, Lu Ran had absolutely no intention of resurrecting this Legendary Beast Trainer.

Because he learned from his affiliations that the Death Divine Sect, which he had once joined—the Necromancy Cult—was the very downfall of the Beast Training Place.

Compared to the Beast Training Place, Lu Ran obviously had deeper connections with the Necromancy Cult.

The reputation of the Necromancy Cult on the Star-Moon Continent was always poor, and its destruction at the hands of the leading righteous Beast Training power, the Beast Training Place, seemed justifiable; yet, Lu Ran didn’t forget his own identity, the Holy Son of the Necromancy Heresy.

So, if he encountered the Legendary Beast Training, Lu Ran was more inclined to eliminate him—shattering him!—considering it revenge for the Necromancy Cult.

Resurrecting, impossible.

Rather than that, resurrecting the Necro Master.

"Just choose the right timeline."

"Perhaps there will be another chance to meet."

"The chance for resurrection in the Legendary Task can be reserved for the Necro Master!" Lu Ran thought to himself.