Chapter 435: Chapter 422: A Desperate Situation?
The group in the Different Space, having narrowly escaped death, finally dared to let out a slight sigh of relief.
Many collapsed weakly to the ground, gasping for air, their faces still etched with absolute terror.
Elder Huo peered grimly through a spatial fissure, watching the terrifying entity retreat into the distance, his brow deeply furrowed.
Despite his lifetime of experience, he couldn’t identify what that thing was at all.
Gu Ming broke out in a light cold sweat; he had, after all, glanced back at the creature.
Just one look had left a deep impression on him.
However, his reaction wasn’t as extreme as another team member’s.
Elder Huo was also puzzled, but with the danger not yet passed, he didn’t ask any questions.
Only after Elder Huo’s Perception confirmed it had truly left and its aura was gone from the area did he have the spare energy to check on the students.
Most of them were sweating, but their wills were firm, and they hadn’t been completely terrorized. They began comforting their own Pet Beasts, helping them regulate their mental states.
But among the crowd, one person was clearly not okay.
He was a deputy monitor from Gu Ming’s Cultivation Technique Class named Luo Yuan.
At this moment, Luo Yuan’s face was ashen. He was curled up in a corner of the Different Space, clutching his head tightly with both hands.
He was trapped in an immense, all-consuming fear, his lips trembling as he muttered ceaselessly to himself.
His Pet Beast had also suffered a severe Spiritual Shock and was thrashing about in a panic.
It wasn’t until several fellow Beastmasters intervened that they managed to subdue it together, forcing it to quiet down.
Its master, however, was clearly on the verge of a mental collapse, his state extremely unstable.
Elder Huo took all of this in.
He noticed that Gu Ming had also looked back, but he was different from the others who were still shaken.
After a brief moment of lingering fear, Gu Ming had quickly composed himself and regained his calm.
’Could it be that student Luo Yuan’s mental state is too weak to withstand the Fierce Beast’s Spiritual Shock?’
Elder Huo mused to himself but felt it wasn’t the right time to directly ask Gu Ming how he had resisted it.
After all, in his opinion, the monster’s terrifying Power was not something Low-star Beastmasters could withstand on their own. They would surely need a Spiritual Pet Beast to cast Defense Skills for protection.
In the end, he could only attribute Gu Ming’s unusual performance to his exceptional Spiritual Talent, perhaps possessing a level of Resilience beyond that of an ordinary person.
Elder Huo didn’t know that Gu Ming had already run multiple simulations of the third sublevel in his dreams.
During those simulations, he had encountered all sorts of similar Illusion Realms and Spiritual Attacks.
It was precisely because he had repeatedly "tasted" these kinds of attacks that he had gradually built up a powerful Spiritual Resistance.
The terrifying entity born from the black mist just now, while incredibly shocking, felt strangely familiar to Gu Ming.
It seemed somewhat similar to a monster he had encountered in his simulations.
It was just that he had insufficient information at the time, so the system’s simulated black mist was nowhere near as frightening as the real thing.
Gu Ming discreetly glanced at the system’s pop-up text area and saw the reason.
[Your team has encountered the ’Terror Executioner’.]
[In a life-or-death moment, Time Dragon Cyan Treasure used Talent Retrospect to rewind time by several seconds.]
[Elder Huo promptly activated the Array Plate Space, allowing the entire team to Escape into the void for Concealment, narrowly avoiding disaster.]
[According to records from several major expeditions, the ’Terror Executioner’ is an ancient Spirit Beast native to the Yichuan Ruins. It has appeared in the Combat Memory Essence of the Primordial Dream Butterfly.]
[Although it was defeated by the Primordial Dream Butterfly in the last era, its spirit had already approached ascension. Thus, a remnant of it remained deep underground after its death, and it never truly perished.]
[With the Spiritual Qi Revival of the new era and the influx of life auras into the ruins, one-thousandth of its soul consciousness has awakened.]
[Terror Executioner physical data has been recorded (incomplete version).]
[Encountering the Terror Executioner means its revival nest is not far away.]
[The area around the nest usually contains extremely rare Combat Memory Essence and Peerless Spiritual Medicine. Your choice is...]
Gu Ming took a deep breath. Following the system prompts, he mentally reviewed the black mist dream and the Primordial Dream Butterfly’s battle he had experienced during his rest.
’So it was the monster that appeared at that moment.’
However, after carefully recalling that experience, Gu Ming’s expression turned strange.
The creature the system described as so formidable...
...in the Primordial Dream Butterfly’s combat memory, had its spirit controlled in a single encounter.
Then, the Dream Butterfly flapped a wing, turning it into black dust as easily as if squashing a mob monster. It wasn’t even a worthy opponent.
This...
Gu Ming didn’t know whether to classify that thing as a powerful Spirit Beast anymore.
Perhaps it was because his own Star Level was too low that the pressure felt so immense.
Gu Ming read the information from thirty-two years in the future, his mind stirring.
’An Ancient Fierce Beast, with only one-thousandth of its soul.’
’Its Power is less than one-thousandth of its former self.’
Although the system didn’t specify its exact Star Level...
...the despair-inducing pressure led Gu Ming to vaguely guess that at its peak, its Power probably far exceeded the Eight-star level. Otherwise, it would never have horrified someone like Elder Huo.
Although they were safe for now, it was far from time to leave.
The monster was currently occupying the area behind them. It probably wouldn’t return right away if it couldn’t find them.
So everyone would have to stay in the Different Space for longer.
Gu Ming asked Elder Huo if they could enter and exit this place freely.
After all, it was a Space that Elder Huo had personally opened.
Elder Huo nodded and said, "The danger hasn’t completely passed. We can’t go out yet."
Gu Ming’s thoughts turned. ’The extreme danger the system warned of is based on historical records and a Future Perspective.’
’The current Terror Executioner doesn’t have thirty-two years’ worth of Power yet. It probably just reawakened?’
’Perhaps if Elder Huo faced it, it wouldn’t be an impossible fight.’
Gu Ming turned to Elder Huo and analyzed the situation from a purely rational perspective.
"That Fierce Beast in the mist just now—if we disregard the environmental interference, do you think we could have confronted it head-on?"
Hearing this, Elder Huo fell silent for a moment.
He carefully recalled the lingering, terrifying aura.
Was it terrifying?
Terrifying.
But to say they would have died... it hadn’t reached that point.
Elder Huo answered cautiously,
"Judging solely from the energy level it displayed just now, it’s not unbeatable."
"But the key is, this is its absolute home turf."
"If we were on open ground, I could deploy my Thirty-Two-Layer Array. I have plenty of ways to trap it, or even defeat it."
"But deep within these subterranean caves..."
He pointed outside the Different Space, toward the still chaotic and viscous aurora-like zone.
"The moment my Pet Beasts are even slightly eroded by the Illusion Realm infused with the Primordial Dream Butterfly Memory Essence, they will immediately fall into an endless nightmare, revealing an opening."
"At that point, even if its true strength is less than mine, it could use its home-field advantage to easily devour us all."
Battles between High-star Pet Beasts have always been decided in seconds.
’Leave an opening for two or three seconds, and even a pig could score a reverse kill.’
He shook his head, his tone heavy, pointing out that the environmental disadvantage made victory impossible to secure.
Upon hearing this, Gu Ming understood.
Just as he expected, there was a discrepancy between the system’s risk assessment and the actual combat potential.
What was unbeatable in the system’s eyes...
...Elder Huo actually had a chance of winning, albeit at an extremely high risk.
He thought about the rare Combat Memory Essence and Peerless Spiritual Medicine near the nest.
They could obviously bring unimaginable benefits to Cyan Treasure, Ah Kun, and even Mianmian.
Unfortunately, the initiative was not in Gu Ming’s hands.
If the team’s strongest combatant, Elder Huo, didn’t want to fight, then no amount of persuasion from Gu Ming would work.
He could only wait for an opportunity.
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