Beast Taming: I Have an Immortal Mansion

Chapter 274 - 218: A Grand Display of Divine Might

Seeing Jinbao charge toward him, Qu Jianyan didn’t let his guard down. According to the information he’d gathered, Fang Qingyuan’s Tai Chi Bear Beast was a mutated variant.

Although it was only at the Qi Refining Realm, its combat prowess was formidable, enough to rival a Foundation Establishment Demon Beast. So as Jinbao closed in, Qu Jianyan slapped the head of his mount, the Green Water Ring Crystal Beast. In the next instant, a light flashed from the sharp horn on the beast’s head, and seven or eight towering Water Puppets materialized near Jinbao.

High-Tier Water Technique: ’Water Path Puppet’.

These Water Puppets resembled oversized humans, their bodies formed from swirling currents of water. They moved with nimble agility.

They were the perfect cannon fodder, and being composed entirely of water made them an excellent counter to a melee beast like Jinbao. Qu Jianyan’s combat experience was, without a doubt, profound.

Several Water Puppets quickly encircled Jinbao, extending their arms in an attempt to restrain him.

But how could a fierce beast like Jinbao be restrained by these mindless Water Puppets? As their watery arms reached out, Jinbao let out a roar, his body abruptly doubling in size. He swung his paws relentlessly, and within a few exchanges, he had slapped all the Water Puppets into puddles on the ground.

Jinbao’s paws were imbued with Gold Spirit Power. The moment he struck the cores within the puppets, they shattered instantly.

The swift destruction of his Water Puppets made Qu Jianyan frown. Each puppet summoned by his Green Water Ring Crystal Beast should have been able to tie down a late-stage Qi Refining demon beast for a good while. How could seven or eight of them together not even last two rounds against this Tai Chi Bear?

’Fang Qingyuan really is lucky to have gotten such a mutated variant,’ Qu Jianyan thought. ’But the gap in our cultivation levels is an insurmountable mountain.’

Seeing Jinbao’s massive form charging at him, Qu Jianyan once again slapped his Green Water Ring Crystal Beast. The light from its horn flared, at least three times more intense than before.

A Lower-Tier Nine Radiance Technique: ’White Crystal Battle Hero!’

A huge White Crystal Battle Hero, formed of solid ice, materialized from the puddles left by the Water Puppets. Towering and majestic, it stood twenty feet tall, holding a sword in one hand and an awl in the other.

Even in his transformed state, Jinbao stood just under twenty feet tall, a full head shorter than the White Crystal Battle Hero.

Moreover, Jinbao was bare-fisted, while the two weapons in the White Crystal Battle Hero’s hands gleamed with a crystalline white light, looking incredibly sharp.

Techniques at the Nine Radiance level already corresponded to the combat power of the Foundation Establishment Level. Although the White Crystal Battle Hero could only be maintained for an hour, that was more than enough time.

Once the White Crystal Battle Hero and Jinbao were locked in combat, their blows ringing out with loud THUDS, Qu Jianyan finally shifted the bulk of his attention to Fang Qingyuan.

With Cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect, the Cultivator themself was rarely the main threat; it was their Companion Beast one had to watch out for. Qu Jianyan was a prudent man. Only now that Jinbao was occupied did he prepare to deal with Fang Qingyuan.

While Jinbao was on the move, Fang Qingyuan hadn’t been idle. He was circulating his Magical Power to gather the Five Elements Power while pondering something. ’If I win this too easily, will the bookie think Qu Jianyan and I are in cahoots, throwing the match? Will they refuse to pay out?’

’That’s a real problem. So, I’d better make this fight a bit more spectacular.’

With this in mind, Fang Qingyuan took out the Ten Thousand Beasts Qiankun Banner and released the nearly ten thousand Scorpion-tailed Poison Bees from within.

The corner of Qu Jianyan’s mouth twitched at the sight of over ten thousand Scorpion-tailed Poison Bees. Not just any Cultivator could control such a vast number of Spirit Insects. Without an incredibly powerful soul, it would be impossible for them to achieve any effective coordination.

What Qu Jianyan didn’t know, however, was that the one truly controlling these Scorpion-tailed Bees was not Fang Qingyuan, but the Bee Queen concealed within the Ten Thousand Beasts Qiankun Banner.

All Fang Qingyuan had to do now was one thing: cast enhancement techniques on the Scorpion-tailed Bees.

The moment the Seven-Inch Wood Spirit Fish Dragon appeared, the Wood Spirit Power around Fang Qingyuan surged violently. Combined with the power he had already been gathering, the area around him was now an ocean of Wood Spirit Power.

Feeling the Wood Spirit Power before him, Fang Qingyuan broke into a faint smile. He pointed at the Fish Dragon swimming beside him. In the next instant, the light of numerous Wood Element Techniques flashed over the Fish Dragon’s body before rapidly spreading to cover the tens of thousands of Scorpion-tailed Poison Bees ahead.

’Wood Spirit Blood,’ ’Wood Armor Technique,’ ’Wood Silk Replacement Vein Technique’...

A tide of numerous low- and mid-tier Wood Element techniques washed over the Scorpion-tailed Bees. Within moments, the insects’ originally dark brown bodies began to shimmer with a lush green light.

"Go!"

Empowered by the various Wood Spirit Techniques, the Scorpion-tailed Bees surged toward Qu Jianyan’s position at Fang Qingyuan’s command.

Seeing the swarm descend upon him, Qu Jianyan violently poured his Magical Power into his Companion Beast mount. In the next instant, a beam of white light swept across the arena.

A Mid-Tier Nine Radiance Technique: ’Crystalized Aurora!’

The white light acted like a beam of pure annihilation. Anything it touched was instantly crystallized, then shattered into fine crystal dust that dissipated into the air.

Over a thousand of Fang Qingyuan’s Scorpion-tailed Bees died the instant the light touched them. The only reason the rest survived was that the Bee Queen, sensing the danger, commanded them to scatter. Otherwise, the losses would have been even more catastrophic.

Even with bodies as hard as steel and enhanced by numerous Wood Spirit Techniques, the Scorpion-tailed Bees were utterly useless against the Crystalized Aurora.

Any part of a bee’s body swept by the crystallizing light instantly turned cold and shattered into dust. The remaining parts of their bodies, unable to support their own weight, simply fell to the ground.

CLATTER. The ground was littered with the remains of Scorpion-tailed Bees. Some had been hit in non-vital areas and weren’t killed instantly; they could only writhe on the ground, twitching in their death throes.

Losing so many Scorpion-tailed Bees at once was undoubtedly the most painful loss Fang Qingyuan had suffered since he began cultivating them. But he had no time to feel the sting, because the beam of white light was now sweeping toward him.

Fang Qingyuan’s eyelid twitched as the beam swept toward him. His Five Elements Undying Body had not yet reached the Foundation Establishment Level. He wouldn’t dare try to tank a Mid-Tier Nine Radiance technique with the paltry resistance he’d gained from just three months of Cold Pool Water Body Refining.

So, Fang Qingyuan quickly retrieved a handful of seeds from his Immortal Mansion and scattered them in the path of the incoming crystalline beam. The Fish Dragon then sprayed a stream of pure Wood Spirit Power onto them.

Growth, bloom. In a mere instant, a thousand stalks of Bitter Heart Grass sprouted before the crowd. They grew from seeds brimming with life into a fortified wall woven from tough, fibrous stalks.

Yet, even this proved largely ineffective against the crystalline beam. Wherever the light passed, the tough stalks of the Bitter Heart Grass shattered instantly.

Still, it bought Fang Qingyuan a few precious moments. As the crystalline beam burst through the plant wall and was about to reach him, Fang Qingyuan took a deep breath and activated an escape Divine Technique from the *True Scripture of Five Spirits Form-Refining*.

’Sacrificial Decoy.’

A split second later, Fang Qingyuan’s figure reappeared in the distance. Where he had been standing, there was only a stalk of Bitter Heart Grass, sliced neatly in two.

Fang Qingyuan’s expression was grim. According to his intelligence, he had expected the Green Water Ring Crystal Beast to be able to summon a White Crystal Battle Hero.

But this Crystalized Aurora was another matter. The Green Water Ring Crystal Beast shouldn’t have been capable of it—unless the Spirit Beast had already advanced to the Late-stage Foundation Establishment.

’Qu Jianyan, so you had a trump card like this up your sleeve. In that case, I’ll have to go all out, too.’

With that thought, Fang Qingyuan could no longer hold back. The Five Elements Power within him began to churn wildly. In the next breath, his five Illusion Beasts absorbed the spiritual power he had accumulated, their bodies swelling as they transformed into five distinct divine beasts.

A Three-legged Golden Crow, an Earth Elemental Bear, a Black Tortoise Divine Statue, a White Tiger Star Monarch, and a Celestial Dragon Incarnation. The moment these five Illusion Beasts appeared, they stunned the crowd of onlookers. Even Lechuan let out a laugh.

"Clever kid. You’ve been hiding your true strength."

Fang Qingyuan didn’t hear the crowd’s gasps of amazement. All he wanted was to slam Qu Jianyan to the ground. He pointed a finger at his opponent, and in the next instant, the five divine beasts charged.