Astral Pet Store (WN)

“This is Brother Su,” Yun Wanli said to the first legendary battle pet warrior, “Brother Su is going in to find his battle pet. I just came here to keep him company for a while.” “For his battle pet?” That legendary battle pet warrior didn’t recognize Su Ping; he sized the young man up and down and was even more perplexed. “Brother Su lost his battle pet here? Was Brother Su a guard in the Deep Caves…?”

The legendary battle pet warrior was wondering if something had happened to him.

It was all because he felt Su Ping was merely at the titled rank.

Guarding the Deep Caves was a job limited to legendary battle pet warriors. Titled battle pet warriors… They couldn’t do anything in the Deep Caves other than dying in vain. “You can say so.” Yun Wanli shook his head. Su Ping’s story was complicated; he couldn’t explain in plain terms.

Su Ping nodded to the legendary battle pet warrior and said to Yun Wanli,, “I have to go.”

“Okay.”

Whoosh!

Su Ping flew past the strategic outpost and entered the complex pathway.

The man wearing the golden armor finally relaxed after Su Ping disappeared. He approached Yun Wanli at once and asked, “Brother Yun, how do you know this… malice?”

“Malice?”

The other legendary battle pet warrior didn’t understand. “What do you mean?”

His friend produced a forced smile. “Brother He, you were away for a while. You must have heard about the death of Brother Abyssal Ocean… That malice did it. He also punched a senior legendary battle pet warrior at the Void State!”

“He killed Abyssal Ocean?”

The middle-aged legendary battle pet warrior narrowed his eyes. Legend Abyssal Ocean was an Ocean State Warrior. He himself had spent some years in the Tower; even though he had not reached the Void State, he had been a respected legendary battle pet warrior. That young man was the murderer?

He punched a legendary battle pet warrior at the Void State?

“Mr. Fan was at the Void State; we don’t talk about his death often because his death also shamed the other legendary battle pet warriors of the same rank. You weren’t there but I was. One punch and Fan was gone!” The legendary battle pet warrior wearing the golden armor was still unsettled.

Some legendary battle pet warriors who weren’t there when the chaos at the Tower happened did hear some details about it, but the legendary battle pet warriors at the Void State told people to avoid speaking about it because they wanted to protect their dignity. Being the case, those who were away-like Yun Wanli-only knew that a violent guy had killed Legend Abyssal Ocean, and that guy’s strength was equal to the Void State.

Still, those who had been there in person knew that the young man was even more intimidating than that!

That was why the young man had been able to leave the Tower after he caused such a great commotion!

It wasn’t because they had let the young man leave. It was because… no one had been able to stand up to him!

“Well…” The middle-aged legendary battle pet warrior was at a loss for words. After a while, he finally found his tongue. “I think he’s at the titled rank, right?”

Yun Wanli was also stunned. He had always known that Su Ping was powerful but he didn’t know he could kill a Void State Warrior with one punch!

Su Ping… had been into the Dragon Tower!

That was proof that he was young!

When he went to the Tower, Su Ping might not have even been at the titled rank… The very thought made Yun Wanli shudder with fear. He could not believe such a person existed on the Blue Planet!

Whoosh!

Su Ping was pressing forward at full speed in the darkness.

Wait for me!

Wait for me!

He became more anxious as he thought about how the Little Skeleton wasn’t far away; he wished he could find it the next second.

The place was like a maze, with many forks in the road. The pathways looked different from the last time he had been there. Su Ping felt he had gotten lost.

Whoosh!

He flew onward, searching one pathway after another.

Dead end!

Another fork in the road!

Another one!

Time flew and Su Ping was trying every pathway he found. He would mostly stumble upon dead ends. The search had been in vain thus far.

Su Ping was losing patience; he felt the pathways were changing silently. The first half of a pathway would often seem familiar, then it would lead him to another place! It was as if the maze were a living thing, and the pathways were its internal organs!

After another dead end, Su Ping began to blurt out insults. “Oh, to hell with you!”

He then said, “Come out and help me!”

The Dark Dragon Hound and the Inferno Dragon came out from two swirls which appeared next to Su Ping and their violent rage filled the pathway.

Carrying bolts of lightning and wisps of darkness, the Inferno Dragon and Dark Dragon Hound stood and flanked him as guards.

“Lend me your strength!”

Su Ping wanted to leverage their help.

The Inferno Dragon’s eyes were glistening in a purple color. The dragon roared and passed its energy to Su Ping through the bond of the contract. Su Ping was gaining momentum; his combat strength had instantly reached the legendary rank, even close to the peak of the Ocean State!

But the Inferno Dragon was just sharing one third of its energy!

The dragon was close to the peak of the ninth rank but its energy was several times richer than that of a peak Ocean State creature!

That was the result of repeated training in cultivation sites.

Su Ping’s battle pets had to challenge beasts far more powerful and they were oftentimes in dire need of energy. They had to condense and refine their energy again and again so that they could unleash greater skills!

“Void Sword…”

Su Ping took out his sword. His eyes glistened. His consciousness and his body became one with the weapon and a strange feeling climbed onto his arm.

Destruction!

He moved.

Bang. The wall collapsed, revealing a dark swirl behind the dead end.

“Dark Dragon Hound!” Su Ping said.

The Dark Dragon Hound barked, instantly adding more than a hundred legendary-rank defensive skills over Su Ping and the Inferno Dragon!

Su Ping stepped into the dark swirl.

The turbulent air was peeling off the defensive layers.

Su Ping could faintly tell where the Little Skeleton was by sensing the contract bond.

Boom!

The Void Sword again. The space in front of Su Ping collapsed; there was a void beyond that swirl full of violent and roaring winds.

Su Ping stepped into the swirl with the Dark Dragon Hound and Inferno Dragon.

They fell straight down after coming out on the other end of the swirl. He unleashed astral powers and immediately stabilized himself. He then saw that he had appeared in a vast and boundless world.

Such a vast world was extremely empty. Completely empty.

No landscapes, no flowers; not even the sea nor the ground.

There was nothing but misty clouds.

The Wind Field?

Su Ping remembered the five fields that Ye Wuxiu had mentioned. The Ice Field had been one of them. The gale in the air told Su Ping it was most likely the Wind Field.

It’s difficult for titled battle pet warriors to even stay alive in this place…

Su Ping didn’t do anything to protect himself against the gale. His physical strength was close to that of young Golden Crows; he could also withstand strikes by beings at the Void State without relying on any external help. The gale was like a gentle breeze to him.

Someone’s there…

Su Ping looked to the west.

Without hesitation, he hopped onto the Inferno Dragon and dashed away.

After a while, Su Ping reached a place where the shadow of a building could be seen on the clouds. He saw some wings right under the clouds. It had to be a gigantic bird.

The Mist Bird!

Su Ping was surprised. It was a rarely seen Void State beast king.

Suddenly, he heard a shout, “Who’s there?” Three people appeared; the fastest one reached Su Ping in an instant.

The person was surprised to see it was a human riding an Inferno Dragon; the man was less hostile.

“Who are you?”

The middle-aged man frowned.

The other two had also moved closer. One of them was surprised to see that it was Su Ping.

“Brother Su?”

Su Ping found that man familiar; he seemed to be a legendary battle pet warrior he had met in the Ice Field.

“It is you!”

That person fixed his eyes on Su Ping and said, “I cannot believe that you’re here again. Did you come back to help us?”

“Do you know Li Yuanfeng?” Su Ping wanted to confirm.

The man was a bit speechless. “Ah, Brother Su, you forgot all about me… Li is back and he told us about you. You got out from the Corridor! Awesome!”

He gave Su Ping a thumbs-up along with praise.

Su Ping said, “I’m sorry. I was in a hurry and did quite get your names… I thought you were at the Ice Field. What are you doing here? Is Li here with you?”

“Do you know each other?”

The middle-aged legendary battle pet warrior who had met Su Ping first was still puzzled.

The other legendary battle pet warrior had let his guard down as well. Since this young man is their friend, he must be here to help!

The man who recognized Su Ping said, “This is the Brother Su that Old Li had told us about!”

“Really?”

The other two were startled. They sized the young man up and down, as if he were an exotic animal.

The man who came out from the Corridor? The one at the titled rank?!

Both of them thought that Old Li was making up a story… But the hero of that story was at the moment standing right there!

Not long after, they noticed that Su Ping was… only at the titled rank.

That is, unless he were hiding his rank, using a skill that even they couldn’t see through. Otherwise, it would have been a fact that Su Ping was at the titled rank!

How can a titled battle pet warrior… be so terrifying?! The two still had doubts. It was the Corridor, a place that not even a team of legendary battle pet warriors at the Void State could make back from, not even with careful planning!