Astral Pet Store (WN)

Something is wrong!

Su Ping was watching Nie Huofeng and the Curse-Winged Beast’s battle in the secondary space while standing outside.

Even though Nie Huofeng had won the first clash—and the Curse-Winged Beast’s spell force on the wings didn’t hurt him, which was a testament to the first-generation Tower Master’s great strength—their conversation gave Su Ping a bad feeling.

Their dialog in the second space was a telepathic one, because that region was essentially a vacuum and no sound could be transmitted.

So, it was impossible for Su Ping to tell what they were talking about by reading their lips.

Nie Huofeng currently didn’t seem as casual as before; the Curse-Winged Beast, on the other hand, looked as though it were a completely different creature. It had an extremely relaxed appearance!

They were both standing still, but their change of expressions indicated a telepathic communication.

What did the Lord of the Deep Caves say to shock Nie Huofeng so?

Su Ping had a grave look as he thought of many things. He began to feel nervous and wary.

If Nie Huofeng fell, it would mean the doom of humankind!

The nearby Heavenly King of Good and Evil and the empress also wore grave expressions. They had also noticed the anomaly, but they weren’t sure what it was about just yet.

The Lord of the Deep Caves had been flung back and suppressed earlier, which made their heart grow heavy.

Another clash happened in the secondary space while they were wondering what was going on.

The Curse-Winged Beast flapped its wings, and the locking spell force that looked like a scripture appeared again, except that it was black and demonic this time.

The scripture roamed in the secondary space, and a tremendous amount of blood flowed out of the void, gathering until it formed a bloody ocean.

The Curse-Winged Beast stood at the top of the bloody ocean, and the gigantic Demon Swallower roared. Hundreds of claws reached for Nie Huofeng from the bloody ocean.

Nie Huofeng bellowed and hurled out the fiery spear again. After a booming sound, the spear flew straight towards the Curse-Winged Beast, almost breaking the secondary space.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The claws on its way tried to stop it, but they were all blown up.

The spear was unstoppable as it pressed on, wreathed in sacred and white flames. However, dark runes appeared when it was about to hit the target, blocking the attack as if they contained mysterious powers.

The spear then instantly lost its momentum, even though it had shattered a lot of those dark runes!

The scorching flames on the spear had also died down.

Roar!!

The gigantic mouth behind the Curse-Winged Beast emerged like an ultimate demon and swallowed the spear.

In the blink of an eye, the law-made spear had been swallowed.

“Explode!”

Nie Huofeng waved his fist angrily upon seeing that, and dazzling light shone inside the massive mouth. However, the attack failed to penetrate the mouth, disappearing after a dull noise.

Nie Huofeng looked awful after witnessing such an outcome; the mouth wasn’t torn apart as he expected, and it even consumed his spear.

At the same time, the Curse-Winged Beast roared excitedly and charged at Nie Huofeng on the rising bloody ocean.

“You will answer for what you did to me in the past thousand years!”

The casual and indifferent attitude had left the Curse-Winged Beast’s face. It roared furiously, with infinite hatred and fury in its eyes.

Nie Huofeng slightly changed his expression and gathered an ocean of flames again. The flames burned up the claws that extended from the bloody ocean. He took a deep breath and poked the fiery rune between his eyebrows; red cracks were immediately spread out from his forehead and spanned all across his body.

It seemed that his body was full of overflowing magma.

Roar!!

He raised his hands quickly, and all the flames over his body were gathered in his hands, forming a fast-spinning fiery wheel.

“Law of Fire: Radiating Sun!”

Nie Huofeng roared, and the wheel of fire in his hand unleashed a dazzling light, as if it were going to burn up the sky. Space fell apart in the area surrounding the wheel, and the chaotic spatial blades darted from the tertiary space to Nie Huofeng’s face, inflicting cuts!

However, what flowed out of the wounds was not blood, but burning flames!

His blood seemed to have been entirely replaced by lava and flames!

That was his lava body!

After a boom, the wheel was thrown out, and the entire secondary space was cut apart by it in the blink of an eye!

The Curse-Winged Beast, which was rushing over at a high speed, quickly rolled the bloody ocean in its way. In the meantime, a thick and black demonic aura was spread out from its body, forming a demon domain.

There was mist inside the domain, which produced demon shapes that wandered like ghosts and snarled ferociously.

Ancient runes were sprawled out over the beast’s wings, all full of mysterious power. The beast looked much stronger the moment they surfaced!

The cracks in the secondary space were expanded to thousands of meters long as they battled. The sky above the battlefield was completely torn, as if it were nightfall!

The great battle left everyone astounded; the people behind the defense lines were speechless.

It was beyond their imagination; no words could describe what they felt!

It was almost a battle between a god and a devil!

The beasts beyond the wall also trembled in fear because of the battle. The Fate State wild beasts who were fighting Gu Siping and the others weren’t able to fight devotedly while being disrupted by the weird phenomena.

“Is this what a Star State battle looks like?”

Ji Yuanfeng slapped away a Fate State demon king, then stared at the brilliant ocean of blood and the divine wheel in the secondary space, too shocked to say anything.

He was only one step away from the Star State!

However, that last step was exactly the most challenging one!

On the other side, Gu Siping was so excited by the scene that he fought even more fiercely, eyes bloodshot.

The empress, the Heavenly King of Good and Evil and the sea dragon were just as stupefied as Ji Yuanfeng was.

Su Ping, on the other hand, furrowed his eyebrows.

That scene was indeed much more shocking than Fate State battles. However, he had seen too many of them, and he wasn’t really impressed at the moment.

After all, he had seen battles that were hundreds and thousands of times more horrifying.

The secret technique that Nie Huofeng had just used was extremely powerful. He was probably fighting while going all out. Still, Su Ping didn’t know if he could win.

Boom!!!

The divine wheel and the ocean of blood collided. The wheel slashed the ocean apart and moved forward. It encountered the Curse-Winged Beast’s demon domain, instantly making all the ghosts within the domain cry in pain.

Although no sound could be heard, everybody saw how intense the battle was.

The demon domain was also broken soon after. Once it was broken, the Curse-Winged Beast revealed its true appearance. It was a thousand meters tall, standing in the bloody ocean like an ancient devil. It was twice as tall as the highest walls of the defense lines!

The battle pet warriors deployed on the walls discovered, to their shock, that they had to look up to see the enemy.

The magnificent walls looked like two short doorsteps!

After a resounding boom, the Curse-Winged Beast waved its law-covered claw again and smashed the divine wheel. Energy gushed out, and the divine wheel exploded. The massive creature was flung back to the end of the secondary space, causing another crack that was ten thousand meters long!

The Curse-Winged Beast quickly rose from the ground. The claw it had just waved had already been severed; only the arm was left.

It stepped forward into the bloody ocean towards Nie Huofeng as if on a rampage.

Nie Huofeng vomited blood as if he was heavily wounded the moment the divine wheel was destroyed. The scorching cracks over his body were gradually closed. Once he saw the Curse-Winged Beast running toward him, he quickly brandished his hand with shock and regret in his eyes, causing a crack.

That was the tertiary space!

Star State beings were capable of entering the tertiary space. However, that place was quite dangerous to them; they would have to carefully dodge any spatial turbulence.

A spatial turbulence carried the power of laws and was extremely destructive.

Nie Huofeng opened a crack to the tertiary space; he slid into it, and the cracks on his body started to close. The bloody ocean that rushed at him crashed into nothingness and collapsed.

Roar!!

The Curse-Winged Beast roared furiously like an enraged ape.

However, it managed to hold itself back and decided not to break into the tertiary space.

Nie Huofeng had escaped to the tertiary space exactly to prevent it from chasing him. The tertiary space was so dangerous that both would very likely die, even if the Lord of the Deep Caves managed to kill him first.

…

“Well…”

Su Ping’s expression had a dramatic change when he saw that happen on the battlefield.

Nie Huofeng had been defeated!

He had also escaped!

The rampant Curse-Winged Beast, the Lord of the Deep Caves, was left behind!

Su Ping felt like his head was about to explode. The possibility that worried him most had come to pass. Nie Huofeng lost!

Damn it, damn it!

Without saying a word, Su Ping turned around and ran!

Whoosh!

He rushed at the highest speed possible and flashed consecutively!

“Just run!”

While flashing away, Su Ping roared at Ye Wuxiu and the others who were still rooted on the spot while standing at the rear.

Those people hadn’t realized what was going on yet; they were completely intimidated by the great battle.

Gu Siping—who was at the moment fighting the beast tide—was going to berate Su Ping after hearing his roar. Are you going to defect? Do you want to be sentenced to death?

But the next moment, he suddenly realized what was going on, which was as if cold water were poured over his head.

There could be only one reason for Su Ping to be running away.

He raised his head…

At the same time, the Curse-Winged Beast also lowered its head to look down at Gu Siping with its ferocious and murderous eyes.

Gu Siping instantly began to tremble as if he were in the freezing cold.

He found that Nie Huofeng was not in the secondary space anymore!

What…?

On the other hand, Su Ping was already running!

That was his only option; it was impossible for him to fight against a Star State enemy who was a major level above him!

Even though this Star State enemy was wounded, it would be impossible for him to defeat it.

Run!

I’ve got to get back to the store!

I’ll be safe there!

Those were Su Ping’s only thoughts.

He was willing to save others and shoulder more responsibilities if possible, but how could he save anyone if he also perished?

He didn’t want to die!

Even though he had died countless times in the cultivation site, that only made him cherish his life even more; he knew how important his life was!

He had been through the agony of death again and again exactly because he didn’t want to die in real life, because he would be completely gone after dying once!

Boom!

Moving at full speed, Su Ping was within the walled perimeter in the blink of an eye. He had already recalled the Inferno Dragon and the Dark Dragon Hound to the contract space.

That was the advantage of the system’s contract, which had a much greater effective range than the traditional contracts used on the Blue Planet.

Back in the field, Ye Wuxiu and the others also realized what had just happened the moment Su Ping roared at them; all their faces turned pale.

Nie Huofeng had been defeated!

That meant that they were doomed!

Run!

Ye Wuxiu was the first to turn around and follow Su Ping.

Staying there would be suicide. After having witnessed the might of the Star State in the recent battle, they knew that they weren’t different from bugs in front of the enemy.

Even if they were to sacrifice themselves, it would be impossible to shake the horrifying Lord of the Deep Caves!

Many legendary warriors turned around and fled. Unfortunately, some had a mental breakdown and stood where they were, abandoning their struggle.

Ji Yuanfeng also ran. He didn’t want to die. He would rather be humanity’s sole survivor!

“No…”

Gu Siping realized what was going on and wanted to flee, but he found that he was frozen. Then, he saw that the horrifying shadow stepped out of the secondary space.

An enormous claw shadowed everything and caught Gu Siping.

“Spare me, please spare me. I’m willing to do anything. I can serve you… I know the locations of ultimate treasures that you can surely get with your might. I can take you there…” Gu Siping was terrified that his eyes almost popped out as he looked at the giant head that was getting closer and closer.

He had completely lost his majestic demeanor when he commanded the battle earlier, and his usual manners as the Tower Master.

He abandoned all his disguise and pride since he was caught in a real desperate situation, a life-and-death horror. He became as humble as an ant, hoping that he could inspire some pity and survive by doing that!

He really didn’t want to die!

“Nie Huofeng has run away, so I’ll quench my fury with your blood!” declared the Curse-Winged Beast. Another important reason why he didn’t hunt Nie Huofeng was that it was determined to wipe out human beings—the species that stepped over its head for a thousand years—from the face of that planet!

Besides, it had something else to take!

A thousand years’ worth of astral power!

It didn’t believe that Nie Huofeng would quell the urge to compete for it when the astral power was released!

It was impossible for the guy to quickly heal his heavy wounds in the tertiary space; he would be killed the moment he stepped out!

After thinking about that, the grand creature became even more earnest. It roared, “Relay my order to all my subjects. Stampede over them!”

Its roar traveled through hundreds of kilometers!

Even the beast tides in the other three directions heard the loud and majestic roar!

Such a loud call alerted all the people who were behind the defense lines. All their expressions changed.

The wild beast had survived the great battle, and the human who fought it had escaped. Who could possibly stop it now?

The height of the Curse-Winged Beast alone was devastating enough. The walls that humans had built were only six hundred meters tall, which only reached its waist.

The six hundred meters was already the best defensive altitude that the specialists had calculated, and it wasn’t easy to build the walls.

The people behind the defense lines were so frightened that they couldn’t think, just by considering the prospect of facing the Lord of the Deep Caves which looked like an unparalleled devil. Many of them were even wailing in desperation.

…

In the other three directions.

“It’s the boss’s voice!”

“The battle noises could only have been caused by the boss. It said that a Star Stage expert might be hidden among the humans. So, has it already killed the man?”

“Horrifying…”

“Time to charge. Hahaha. Those ants don’t have much meat, but they probably won’t taste bad if we eat several of them at the same time!”

“Kill them all! Kill them all!”

The beast tides in the other directions became excited. They charged under the command of the Fate State beasts and rumbled toward the human settlement.

The updates related to those beast tides were instantly transmitted to the Tower. The highest priority alarm resounded in the intelligence department.

“The beast tides on the other sides are also taking action…”

“There are no more legendary warriors. All of them are running…”

“We’re doomed…”

Some of the clerks who were responsible for delivering reports inside the intelligence center were devastated.

How could they fight against enemies when the legendary warriors were fleeing?

They could see the thousand-meter-tall beast from their workplace in the base city!

Was it really something that human beings could defeat?

All the warriors behind the defense lines had lost their will to fight.

They had completely lost hope.

However, some people were still shining and burning. They summoned all their astral power and were ready to fight.

“I’m going to have them pay a heavy price even if I must die!”

“I’ll make sure that at least one of them dies with me!”

“Kill them!!”

The roars gradually woke up some of the desperate people. Soon after, the battle pet warriors on the walls gathered the last bit of their strength and prepared for their last stand!

Whoosh!

Someone was quickly traversing the sky, who was none other than Su Ping.

He had already returned to the walls before anyone else realized what was going on. He sprinted from the walls, and then returned to the Longjiang Base City behind the defense lines.

He went straight back to his shop.

Right behind Su Ping, the other legendary warriors had also made an awkward escape, back to the walls.

The battle pet warriors on the walls had hope again when they saw them arrive. Someone roared, “Legendary warriors, let’s fight together!”

“Legendary warriors, please protect us!”

“Legendary warriors, let’s fight together!”

Their roars made all the arriving legendary warriors show awful looks.

Yuan Tianchen heard the plea of a titled warrior who wore a military uniform, right when he was flying past. He felt despondent as he flashed away.

How could he possibly fight the enemy if the first-generation Tower Master couldn’t?

Didn’t they see how monstrous the Lord of the Deep Caves was?

Who could defeat it?

The only option was to run!

Many legendary warriors ignored their pleas and ran to the back of the defense lines, ready to look for opportunities to escape from the hopeless battle. However, they weren’t sure if they could really make it out.

Hearing the imploring battle pet warriors, Xue Yunzhen gritted her teeth and stopped. “F*ck, I’m done running. We can’t even run away. I’ll just fight them!”

Her beautiful legs came to a sudden halt in midair and landed on the walls.

She felt depressed when people expressed their gratitude. As it turned out, the battle pet warriors who weren’t even at the legendary level were actually more determined to fight.

They might be acting fearless because they didn’t know how strong their enemies were. Nevertheless, their fighting will was still motivating!

Why bother running if it was impossible to escape?

Ye Wuxiu’s expression quickly changed when Xue Yunzhen stopped. He roared, “What are you doing? Planning on killing yourself? How can you fight that Star State beast? There are so many Fate State beasts too! Let’s break out of here with Boss Su later. At least some of us will survive. Do you really want humankind to be eradicated?”

Xue Yunzhen was stunned; she looked awful.

“We need you! In any case, we have to break out!” On the other hand, Xiang Fengran flew past Xue Yunzhen and turned his head angrily. “We’re not running; we’re simply rushing for a new hope. No matter how other people see us, we cannot let the embers die out!”