Chapter 437: Chapter 424: From the Future
Time passed quietly, and another half a day went by.
The Different Space remained silent, filled only with the faint sound of flowing Spiritual Qi.
Suddenly, Luo Yuan’s head snapped up. He turned to look at his Pet Beast, his face a mask of astonishment.
His expression shifted from confusion to disbelief, and finally to a fear that was impossible to hide.
"Everyone... Everyone, be careful..." His voice trembled.
At almost the exact same moment,
The Tidal Jellyfish beside him erupted in a blinding, ominous, dark purple mist!
In the center of its transparent, bell-shaped body, the ganglion that had previously pulsed like a brain...
...now clearly displayed a twisted, hideous shadow sigil.
To an outsider, the thing just looked strange.
But Luo Yuan was different. He had stared directly into that black mist, had met the gaze of the Terror Executioner, and its image was seared into his Sea of Consciousness.
Even if he couldn’t recall the Terror Executioner’s exact appearance,
the moment he saw that blurry sigil, the terror brought on by the creature came flooding back.
It was a miniature shadow of the Terror Executioner itself!
"Argh-AHHHHH—!"
Luo Yuan let out an inhuman roar, having completely lost his mind.
Gu Ming, who had been keeping a part of his attention on this side, felt his pupils suddenly dilate. ’It’s here!’
"Cyan Treasure! Ah Kun! Ah Ji!"
"Go, all of you!"
During his break, Gu Ming had met with Lu You in a dream and run through a battle simulation with her.
The targets for that simulation had been Luo Yuan’s jellyfish and the incomplete version of the Terror Executioner recorded by the system.
Having already run through the scenario twice in his mind, Gu Ming’s intentions were transmitted to his three Pet Beasts the instant the jellyfish began to mutate!
HISS!
Cyan Treasure reacted the fastest.
Its small, serpentine body erupted with terrifying Power, completely disproportionate to its size.
It activated its Wood Escape Ultimate Skill, its entire body twisting into an iron whip.
The immense force of its Wood Escape Flood Dragon Power launched it forward like a bolt of cyan lightning.
Fierce Dragon Tail Swing!
It was an unreasonable strike that created a sonic-boom-like sound as it slammed into the Two-star Jellyfish.
The jellyfish had only just begun its mutation, and the Terror Executioner had barely taken control of its body when it was faced with the Three-star Cyan Treasure’s ferocious tail swing. In its haste, it could only manipulate the water to form a Water Shield.
CRACK! The Water Shield shattered on impact, not even lasting for half a second.
The jellyfish’s body was sent flying, crashing directly into the wall of the Different Space.
SPLASH—!
Ah Kun was right behind it.
Although there was no water in the Different Space, Ah Kun’s Wave-Swallowing Technique didn’t need any. It generated its own water and its own waves, raising a heaven-shaking tide.
A massive ocean wave rose up behind it, precisely maneuvering around the others to swallow the mutated jellyfish whole.
The tide quickly converged, forming a constantly spinning, solid Water Prison Cage that trapped the jellyfish in its center!
As a natural child of the shadows, Ah Ji had sensed a power of the same origin as its own the moment the shadow sigil appeared, but this one was filled with a malicious aura.
It instantly unleashed Shadow Assault. Ah Ji’s form dissolved into a wisp of black smoke, not to attack the physical body, but to merge directly into the twisted shadow cast by the mutated jellyfish.
This was a confrontation on the shadow plane.
With its Two-star body, Ah Ji unleashed its Power of Shadow to counter-attack the Shadow Power within the jellyfish.
This severely hindered the Seed of Shadow, which had just successfully sprouted, displaced from a future timeline into the present.
One second, two seconds!
Ah Ji and Ah Kun worked together to trap their opponent, buying the team two crucial seconds of immobilization!
The coordination between the three Pet Beasts was as fast as a flash of lightning. From the moment the mutation occurred to the completion of their counter-attack, it all happened in an instant!
Mianmian, meanwhile, had already anticipated this and shared its Perception with Elder Huo.
Mouse Treasure was on standby, ready to summon an earth wall at a moment’s notice to buy more time.
With the jellyfish trapped in the Water Prison Cage and the eruption of the Seed of Shadow temporarily suppressed by Ah Ji, the others finally reacted, looking over in horror.
"What’s going on?!"
Elder Huo’s expression changed the moment he saw the two sides fighting and simultaneously received Mianmian’s Perception.
There was no time for words.
He lightly slapped his Beast Taming Space, and in a flash, another of his Eight-star Pet Beasts appeared before the jellyfish.
He hadn’t expected Gu Ming’s earlier suspicions to come true.
And for the crisis to erupt so swiftly and bizarrely.
Without hesitation, he flicked his sleeve, sending out a series of Array Plates that glowed with a heavy, earthy-yellow light.
His other Array Pet also expanded instantly, taking on the appearance of a great rock, and bore down like a mountain to further reinforce the lockdown on the mutated jellyfish.
At the same time, his powerful Divine Sense shot out like a sharp sword, piercing directly into the temporarily subdued jellyfish’s Sea of Consciousness.
’I’ll see for myself just what the hell is causing this trouble.’
However, the instant his Divine Sense broke into that darkness-shrouded Sea of Consciousness...
"ROAR—!"
A terrifying roar, as if from the primordial wilderness—filled with endless tyranny, slaughter, and cold—exploded directly within his Divine Sense!
He saw a pair of eyes.
A pair of colossal eyes, glowing crimson like pools of blood within an endless black mist, were staring at him coldly!
It was the shadowy visage of the Terror Executioner!
Even with the formidable soul of an Eight-star Beastmaster like Elder Huo, his Divine Soul still trembled violently from the sudden, direct impact.
It was as if he had been struck by an invisible sledgehammer. His face paled, and he subconsciously took half a step back!
"This is bad!" Horror instantly filled Elder Huo’s eyes, and he cried out in shock,
"It’s that damned thing from before!"
The sharp-witted Elder Huo had already figured out how the enemy’s spiritual sigil had gotten in.
But he never imagined the sigil could be hidden so deeply that even his Divine Sense couldn’t perceive it, completely bypassing the detection of an Eight-star Beastmaster and his Array Pet.
This meant its strength was very likely greater than his own.
’But that shouldn’t be possible.’ Based on the aura he had sensed outside earlier, Elder Huo was confident he could have put up a fight.
"It... It can actually mark and remotely corrupt a target through its Pet Beast."
"Damn it, it’s already found us! This Space is no longer safe!"
Elder Huo’s cry of alarm instantly plunged the entire Different Space into an even greater panic.
What was once a sanctuary could become a deathtrap in the blink of an eye!
As he spoke, Elder Huo mobilized the on-site Array, setting up the "Spiritual Thunderstorm Assassination Array."
This Array specialized in attacking Spiritual Power and could annihilate malevolent Pet Beasts and soul imprints.
In an instant, lightning cascaded down like a waterfall, and thunder boomed!
Inside the Array, the jellyfish’s entire body trembled violently in agony.
Ah Ji had already withdrawn swiftly before the lightning descended, safely exiting the Water Prison Cage and the Array’s range through an escape route Elder Huo had intentionally left open.
Gu Ming looked up to see dazzling bolts of golden lightning striking down one after another.
The jellyfish shriveled up as if baked by a scorching sun, rapidly dehydrating and collapsing limply to the ground as the water in its body evaporated.
Beside it, Luo Yuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of dark blood.
He and the jellyfish were linked by life. With his Pet Beast’s spirit grievously injured, he himself suffered a severe backlash.
Elder Huo could no longer afford to control the intensity of the bombardment.
The enemy was too powerful. His only option was to use overwhelming force to utterly obliterate the spiritual sigil before it could fully mature!
After the lightning had been striking for more than ten seconds, Elder Huo keenly perceived that the jellyfish’s spiritual aura had completely subsided.
However, the jellyfish’s physical body had also sustained heavy damage. Whether it would ever wake up was now unknown.
Its consciousness was as faint as a candle flame in the wind.
Its chances of survival were extremely slim.
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