Beast Taming: Starting From Zero - Chapter 1379

Chapter 1379. Spirit Body Exchange (It is recommended to read this together with tomorrow’s reading)

In an instant, a spherical blue barrier, hundreds of meters in size, enveloped the entire arena.

The torrential rain was kept out.

At the same time, water began to accumulate at a visible rate at the bottom of the blue spherical barrier, quickly rising to a height of about five meters and continuing to rise rapidly.

Everyone and their pets’ eyes lit up, and they exclaimed in surprise. Many people took out their phones, turned on their cameras and took pictures, and aimed them at the arena.

“Shui Xixing has cast a Water Barrier!” On the commentary stage, Nefertis’s eyes lit up. “A Water Barrier is an upgraded version of Water Domain. Based on Water Domain, it can trap targets in the air as well. Unless destroyed by absolute force, even pets with teleportation and spatial movement abilities cannot escape the Water Barrier!”

As she spoke, she remembered something and added,

“But as a dual-attribute super-tier skill of water and psychic types, it is one of the most energy-consuming super-tier skills. Even if Shui Xixing wins the match after casting the Water Barrier, she probably won’t have much energy left for the next round.”

“It’s right that Xia Huo isn’t considering the next round,” Auror said. “She has already lost two rounds in a row, and she hasn’t even forced Qiao Sang to use her second pet. Finding a way to win this round is the key.” He paused and

continued,

“However, the two characteristics of the Underworld Lord, Mutual Destruction and Life Borrowing, haven’t been activated yet. Even if Shui Xixing casts the Water Barrier, it will still be difficult for her to win this round.”

“Yin Zhong?”

Yin Zhongsi exclaimed curiously, indicating that if teleportation and spatial movement couldn’t leave the water barrier, then Shadow Penetration couldn’t either?

Nephthys said,

“Shadow Penetration can certainly leave the water barrier by entering another world. To some extent, Shadow Penetration is definitely the nemesis of all kinds of barrier skills. However, given the current situation, Xia Huo made Shui Xixing use this move, so I believe there should be a way to keep the Netherworld Lord inside the water barrier.”

On the field, inside the spherical blue barrier, the Water Avatar

transformed into a stream of water, quickly flowing through the air to behind Xiao Xunbao, and swung its fist.

Just as it was about to attack Xiao Xunbao, the Giant Netherworld Lord appeared out of thin air, grabbed its arm, and squeezed hard.

“Bang!”

With a loud bang, the Giant Shui Xixing’s arm instantly exploded.

Countless water droplets splashed everywhere, but the next second, the exploded water droplets seemed to be attracted by something, and re-condensed on the Giant Shui Xixing’s broken arm.

Within the water barrier, even without rainfall, the Water Avatar’s recovery speed would increase… Qiao Sang frowned slightly as she looked at the figure in mid-air that had regained its footing.

Little Treasure Hunter should be able to cross outside the water barrier using Shadow Penetration; she wondered what the opponent planned to do next, using such an energy-consuming skill…

In a flash of thought, the azure water had already filled half of the water barrier.

Above the water level, the giant Water Star, while regenerating its tattered arm, opened its mouth towards Little Treasure Hunter’s location, and a blue energy containing terrifying power instantly condensed deep within its throat.

But before this energy could be fully released, the giant Nether Ring Monarch, condensing a massive black energy ball, slammed it heavily into its head.

With a loud “bang,” the giant Water Star’s head exploded.

But just like the tattered arm before, the splashing water quickly re-condensed back into its head.

At this moment, the water level within the barrier reached the position of the giant Nether Ring Monarch.

The giant Netherworld Ring Monarch glanced down, about to move, but was suddenly frozen in place as if controlled by some force.

Shui Xixing, who had somehow moved to a higher position, was watching it with blue eyes.

Suddenly, Shui Xixing sensed something and vanished instantly.

Two black shadows, like black silk, flashed past from behind, passing where it had been.

By this time, the water within the barrier had already submerged a small portion of the dark demonic shadow.

Freed from its restraints, the dark demonic shadow tried to move.

But just then, the giant Shui Xixing, its head now half-restored, swung its fist and slammed it down.

“Boom!”

Caught off guard, the giant Netherworld Ring Monarch was blasted into the water.

The moment it was completely submerged, the giant Netherworld Ring Monarch vanished.

“Surprise~”

High in the sky, Little Treasure retrieved its shadow and looked left and right, trying to find Shui Xixing.

At that moment, its Beastmaster’s voice reached its ears: “Water.”

Little Treasure immediately looked down at the still rising water.

The water within the aquatic barrier was a deep blue, clearly visible even when pets were fighting inside.

Little Treasure Hunter quickly locked onto Shui Xixing, who had moved into the water.

Little Treasure Hunter could even hear sounds… Qiao Sang’s brain instinctively started working.

A perfect-level aquatic barrier could isolate external sounds; Little Treasure Hunter could hear them, meaning its mastery of the barrier hadn’t reached perfection yet…

Little Treasure Hunter could definitely pass through such a well-mastered barrier using Shadow Penetration. Even if Xia Huo occasionally got carried away in the competition, he wouldn’t be so reckless as to let Shui Xixing use a skill that almost depleted its energy and couldn’t even trap Little Treasure Hunter, knowing that Little Treasure Hunter possessed Shadow Penetration…

Unless the opponent had some way to trap Little Treasure Hunter inside the barrier…

But what could be the way…

Qiao Sang quickly reviewed all the information about Shui Xixing in her mind, but to no avail.

Since she couldn’t think of anything, she’d try!

With that thought, Qiao Sang said,

“Go!”

Hearing her beast tamer’s voice, Little Treasure Hunter immediately activated its energy.

A deep abyss appeared before it.

Just as Little Treasure was about to float in, Shui Xixing appeared out of thin air in front of the black hole, blocking its path, her eyes glowing blue.

Instantly, tons of gravity descended.

“Xunxun!”

Little Treasure was directly “slapped” down.

However, just as it was about to fall into the water, it teleported away and reappeared in another location.

“The Netherworld Lord wanted to leave the water barrier through Shadow Penetration! But Shui Xixing used gravity to stop its departure!” Nefertis shouted from the commentary platform.

Was she planning to use a battle to stop Little Treasure from leaving the barrier…? Qiao Sang pondered for a moment, but something felt vaguely off.

After two rounds of combat, the opponent should have a better understanding of Little Treasure’s strength. Even if they could temporarily stop Little Treasure’s path through combat, they should realize they couldn’t stop it once Little Treasure decided to leave the barrier.

After all, Little Treasure’s reaction speed and movement ability are top-tier among pets of the same level, and it also has a decoy that can attract fire. It should be able to float into the black hole before the water completely fills the barrier.

In a flash, another black hole appeared in front of Little Treasure in another location.

The water avatar resembling Shui Xixing suddenly appeared beside it, swinging its fist downwards.

Little Treasure teleported to a higher position.

At the same time, another black hole appeared in front of it.

Shui Xixing reappeared in front of the black hole, blocking Little Treasure’s path.

Little Treasure teleported once again.

This time, before the black hole even appeared, ripples suddenly spread across the water below. As the ripples spread outwards, hundreds of surging water columns suddenly rose up, instantly reaching a height of over a hundred meters, and frantically attacked Little Treasure Hunter.

“Xunxun!”

Little Xunbao had to stop using Shadow Penetration and move between the surging water columns.

At first, Little Xunbao was a little cautious, but when it realized that its speed was sufficient to dodge the water column attacks, it became more and more excited.

“Little Xunbao.” Qiao Sang noticed that it was getting a little carried away and called out with a twitch at the corner of its mouth.

“Xunxun!”

Little Xunbao’s expression quickly became serious, and it teleported away, dodging a water column that was coming straight at it.

It appeared in a place that was briefly unaffected, its eyes glowing purple.

The next second, hundreds of abyssal black holes appeared in the air at the same time.

This… Everyone and all the pets stared wide-eyed.

On the commentary platform, Auror exclaimed in shock: “Shadow Penetration of this scale, could it be that the Shadow Penetration of the Underworld Lord has reached the profound level?!”

High in the sky, Little Xunbao raised its middle finger at the distant Shui Xixing, turned around and prepared to float into the nearest black hole.

A water column came straight at this moment.

Little Xunbao teleported to a direction dozens of meters away and floated towards one of the black holes.

Shui Xixing appeared out of thin air in front of the black hole, her eyes glowing blue.

A tremendous gravitational pull suddenly dropped.

With a “bang,” Xiao Xunbao was directly “slapped” into the water.

Xia Huo, seeing this, didn’t show any joy, but was stunned for a moment, then realized something

and looked up. She saw that outside the barrier, another black hole had appeared at some point.

“Xunxun~”

Xiao Xunbao appeared outside the black hole, grinning at those below, revealing two rows of exceptionally white teeth.

At the same time, the Netherworld Lord, who had been “slapped” into the water, disappeared.

Another substitute… Xia Huo wasn’t surprised at all.

She stared intently at Xiao Xunbao outside the barrier, giving no commands, nor showing any anger at being fooled.

“The Netherworld Lord escaped the water barrier using Shadow Penetration!” On the commentary platform, Nefertis said, “As expected, the Netherworld Lord that Shui Xixing attacked was another substitute!”

“Actually, you should be careful after the Netherworld Lord teleports, because the one that reappears later might be a substitute,” Auror said.

“That’s right,” Nephthys analyzed. “I think the Netherworld Lord cast so many black holes to make it easier for his main body to invisibly enter.”

“Yin Zhong.”

“Yin Zhong.”

Yin Zhongsi thought for a moment and called out twice, indicating that his main body might not have entered invisiblely. After all, the Netherworld Lord was so dark that if you didn’t keep a close eye on him, you might not be able to see him even when he appeared in front of the black holes.

“Now that the Netherworld Lord has left the water barrier, I wonder how Xia Huo will deal with it.” Auror sighed. “The current situation is very bad for her.”

Something’s not right, something’s not right… Qiao Sang looked at Shui Xixing inside the barrier, then at Xia Huo in the distance, and felt that something was wrong.

The other party was, after all, a student of the Flame Class. It was impossible for him to let Shui Xixing exhaust her energy to use a super-level skill when he knew that Xiao Xunbao had Shadow Penetration, and then not have any follow-up means to stop his opponent.

Where exactly is the problem…

Qiao Sang’s mind flashed through all the information about Shui Xixing again.

She looked outside the barrier.

At this moment, the rain was still pouring down.

Countless raindrops pelted Xiao Xunbao.

The water barrier wouldn’t be cast without reason; if the opponent had cast it, they must have a way to trap Xiao Xunbao inside… Was it a teleportation skill…? Teleportation requires contact, spatial movement requires the target to remain stationary, and Shui Xixing shouldn’t be able to do either…

She remembered that Shui Xixing still had some teleportation skills remaining…

Qiao Sang’s brain raced.

Suddenly, a flash of inspiration struck her.

She knew what Shui Xixing was about to do!

…

In the audience, everyone and their pets witnessed the Dark Ring Lord move outside the water barrier using shadow penetration, and couldn’t help but discuss:

“The Dark Ring Lord is too insidious; it was another substitute that got attacked.”

“What do you mean by insidious? This is called strategy and intelligence. Even if you let other pets with substitutes do it, they wouldn’t be able to pass for it at all.”

“This is truly the first time I’ve seen a substitute that’s so effective.”

“The Dark Ring Lord’s substitute is too unpredictable; how can we possibly identify it?” “

It feels like you need a special skill to identify the real body, or the ability to see through invisible ghost-type pets.”

“The Dark Ring Lord has now moved outside the water barrier. Shui Xixing expended so much energy to create the water barrier, and it still couldn’t hold onto the Dark Ring Lord; it’s probably doomed.”

“Let’s see, Xia Huo should still have a way.”

Suddenly, someone spoke up, “I remember Shui Xixing can use Spirit Body Exchange, right? Do you think it might use Spirit Body Exchange to transfer its position with the Underworld Lord?”

Spirit Body Exchange is a high-level psychic skill that allows a user to identify one attribute from all their attributes as their spirit body. Once identified, it can exchange positions with an opponent of the same attribute, or with anything containing the same attribute.

Previously, Shui Xixing had used Spirit Body Exchange to swap positions with the rain outside the spatial blockade.

“Impossible,” someone next to them said, “The Spirit Body Exchange skill requires identifying the attribute of the spirit body at the beginner level. I remember Xia Huo’s Shui Xixing identified the water attribute as its spirit body. Although it and the Underworld Lord both have psychic abilities, it should only be able to exchange with water-type pets.” “

The water inside the barrier is full!” someone shouted.

The noise immediately stopped, and all eyes turned to the scene.

Inside the water barrier, which was hundreds of meters in size, Shui Xixing looked up and brought its paws together.

“Move!” Qiao Sang said.

Little Treasure Hunt quickly teleported away, reappearing in another location, its entire body drenched by countless raindrops.

Nothing happened where it had been before.

However, the next second, Little Treasure Hunt suddenly vanished again, transforming into the figure of Shui Xixing with its claws joined together.

Simultaneously, Little Treasure Hunt’s figure appeared within the water barrier.

Seeing this, Xia Huo finally revealed a maniacal smile and shouted:

“Explode!” (End of Chapter)