Chapter 64: Lu Yu, an Incarnation of the Evil God?

“One day, I too shall let this ghost flame rise and command awe from all!”

Qi Wei murmured softly, his eyes growing resolute as he planted the seed of ambition in his heart.

He, too, wanted to become a top-tier beast tamer, revered by all.

What’s the point of being young if you can’t be wild?

“This boy has finally come to his senses!”

When Qi Changhai heard Qi Wei’s words, he couldn’t help but let out a long sigh of relief. The reason he had used the Primordial Power Ant as a lure to draw Qi Wei over covertly was to help his foolish son come to his senses.

What is failure?

The most terrifying thing isn’t defeat, but rather, the inability to recover from that defeat!

As for his son, he belonged to an even more outrageous category beyond these two – he had become a die-hard fan of someone else.

He had even shifted from fan to hater because that person had been in a slump for two and a half months and become a “little black fan”!

Originally, when he told his son about Lu Yu obtaining a beast, it was meant to help him overcome his inner demons, but instead, it backfired and he ended up swollen-faced.

Qi Changhai was shocked when he heard this news and even felt a bit of admiration and envy.

Ah, the children of others!

He thought that after the death of Lu Yu’s parents, Lu Yu would collapse completely due to the shock. Yet, a few days ago, Lu Yu managed to luck out and pick up a powerful space-series pet beast through an exchange for a gold medal.

Combined with his insane, victory-at-all-costs tactical command ability, although not necessarily suitable for the arena, he was like a fish in water on the bloody battlefields of the wild and the frontier, with boundless potential for the future.

Unfortunately, today he had to step on him, to help his son break through his inner demons. Otherwise, it would become difficult for him to undergo transformation, to ignite the spark of his soul!

It’s not like he could rely on chasing stars to affirm his self, right?

Although Lu Yu had talent, he was just a big fish in the small pond of Dayuan City High School for Beast Tamers.

There’s no need to compare him with the entire alliance; just in the metropolises alone, geniuses are as common as carps crossing the river. Even though the space series is strong, it only holds a slight advantage. Compared with the real monsters, the gap is too wide.

Even on the frontier, every so often countless prodigious talents emerge, and they are battle-hardened beast tamers forged through fire and blood, with rich combat experience.

Not some kind of playhouse fighting game!

He was well aware that his potential had reached its limits, but his son had not. His son had a more glorious future ahead.

He absolutely could not be suppressed by the likes of Lu Yu!

The cruelty of society cannot be compensated for by mere luck!

Today, he will administer a strong medicine!

Qi Changhai’s gaze became sharp; his demeanor suddenly changed, like an unsheathed blade, with endless sharpness.

“Dad, what are you doing?”

Qi Wei was startled and then saw dark golden spiritual energy swirling around Qi Changhai, forming a complex and mysterious beast-taming formation behind him.

Thump! Thump! Thump!

Accompanied by the slight tremors in the ground, a huge figure walked out from the formation, casting a shadow that dimmed the glow of the ghostly lanterns.

A three-meter-tall baboon clad in golden armor emerged, its muscles knotted like old tree roots, containing an incomparable terrifying explosive power. A casual punch from it could squash a person into meat sauce!

It evoked the terrifying forest-dwelling demons of legend, known to slaughter all creatures that enter their woods.

It was the evolved form of the Bronze-Armored Baboon, the Gold-Armored Baboon, which had absorbed a large amount of gold and condensed its armor, now a commander-tier pet beast.

Yu Xiyang squinted her eyes from the side, guessing her uncle’s intentions.

To use this method to invigorate her cousin, huh?

Interesting…

The appearance of the Gold-Armored Baboon also attracted quite a bit of attention.

“Is that… a Gold-Armored Baboon? That looks like Changhai Beast Taming Base’s signature pet beast. Could it be that Qi Changhai is here?”

“That’s right, it is him!”

“He really knows how to make a grand entrance, not even trying to hide his identity!”

“With the peak of golden power and a strength-system pet beast, unless he intentionally seeks death, he can retreat unscathed against a beast tamer who has undergone transformation. If I were him, I’d be blustering, too!”

“…”

The crowd buzzed with chatter, recognizing Qi Changhai’s identity with some surprise but not too many feelings.

Wearing a mask is just for hiding one’s identity and not really pretending to be weak; some beast tamers like to be flamboyant, and there’s no shortage of crazies among them, many of whom are more audacious than Qi Changhai.

The Gold-Armored Baboon ignored the pointed fingers of these people, its brutal gaze looking forward as it walked slowly with the dust on the ground stirring under its feet.

Hiss, hiss!

The ghost fire sensed its approach, flames rising, scorching the air, causing distortions in vision. Although it wasn’t as imposing as the previous two-headed snake, it wasn’t far off.

Standing before the ghost fire, the Gold-Armored Baboon balled its fists and slammed them into its chest, pounding like beating a large drum, unleashing a roar: “Roar!”

Activating the Diamond Roar skill, deafening sound waves swept through, stirring fierce winds and raising clouds of dust. The sheer force of its presence suppressed the spread of the ghost fire.

After a brief moment of chaos, the ghost fire returned to its previous calm state, indicating that the Gold-Armored Baboon had also been approved!

The others stepped aside, waiting for them to pass first, just like the previous powerful beast tamers.

“Do you see it clearly?”

Qi Changhai looked at his son, who was dumbfounded, and powerfully stated:

“Today is the first lesson I teach you. Don’t limit your vision to the small confines(order sentence to make sense) of the school, but think of surpassing the strong on the wild frontier, to become a Morning Star beast tamer.

Don’t worry about Lu Yu beating you for now as he doesn’t have the backing you do. When you reach the silver rank, the gold rank, and even progress to Morning Star, he will likely still be struggling for lack of resources. By then, in your eyes, he will be nothing more than an ant!”

Yu Xiyang’s eyes, previously narrowed at the word “ant,” opened and her brow furrowed beneath the mask, but almost instantly relaxed into laziness and pleasure.

Those who don’t know Lu Yu will never understand the extent of his terrifying potential!

He is the one who in her countless simulations always follows the true path, ascending the dome of the sky atop a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg!

This was the first time she felt she couldn’t control a man; even in countless simulations, whether she thought to stand against him or even suppress him, the outcome would always be being crushed to dust, swatted away, and so on…

Not once did she see even a one in a billion chance of victory!

This very despair of being unable to contend made opposing him seem like going against the truth…

And that only made her fall deeper!

But this was her biggest secret, not worth talking about. Time would prove everything.

“Setting sights on the stronger ones, huh…”

Voice full of longing and inspired, Qi Wei’s blood boiled with genuine fervor, feeling as if he had the potential to surpass Lu Yu and defeat his idol.

Although changing one’s mindset takes time, he had indeed expanded his horizons and realized his past weaknesses, spurring himself on for a surge in strength.

“Let’s go in!”

Qi Changhai nodded and refrained from speaking further, understanding the principle that too much is as bad as too little.

“Wooo wooo wooo…”

Just as they were preparing to step into the path of the ghost fire, all of a sudden the ghost fires started to tremble irregularly. The ghost fire lanterns forming the path, starting from the direction of Dayuan City, dispersed in succession. Accompanied by the crying of infants, they rushed forward as if fleeing, permeated with a boiling emotion named fear.

“What’s going on!?”

Before anyone could react, they quickly drifted towards the sky, converging to form a ghost fire Milky Way nearly a hundred meters long, turning night into day.

The scorching ghost fire burned, thinning the air, and everyone felt a sense of suffocation.

It was hard to discern whether it was fear or the lack of oxygen.

“What’s happening?”

“Has the spirit become uncontrollable?”

“…”

Everyone was stunned, thinking the ghost fire had gone out of control.

“Such terrifying power!”

Qi Changhai looked at the ghost fire with shock, realizing that the ghost fire lanterns had still held back and if the Gold-Armored Baboon had faced this river of ghost fire just now, it would probably have been burned to ashes instantly.

Facing this unexpected situation, he also sensed danger and prepared to retreat with the two kids at any moment.

“They’re not out of control!”

With the calm voice, a reassuring spiritual power spread, soothing everyone’s emotions.

A huge ancient and splendorous palace-style lantern appeared similar to the ghost fire lanterns but with more mysterious patterns. The four-sided white fabric bore the motifs of happiness, anger, sorrow, and joy, exuding a ghostly appeal.

“Yi!”

Upon its appearance, invisible ripples vibrated in the void, attempting to pacify its kin, yet to no avail.

Even the Phantom Lantern seemed puzzled!

And beside it appeared a middle-aged man, temples beginning to gray, exuding an aura of authority without anger. He was one of the responsible parties for this night market, Sun Jie.

Having undergone a spiritual transformation and just a step away from Morning Star, and with his beast sea tactics, he could sweep away any beast tamer below Morning Star.

At that moment, Sun Jie looked solemnly towards a gloomy grove not far away, merged with the darkness of night but oddly conspicuous under the illumination.

With his gaze narrowed, he said in a deep voice:

“Would you not come out, esteemed one?”

As his voice fell, from the profound darkness of the sea-like shadows, a figure in a long robe wearing a white mask slowly materialized.

Half of his body was still hidden in the darkness, while the other half under his long yellow robe appeared grotesquely swollen, surrounded by a hair-raisingly dangerous aura.

As if an ancient, mad, mysterious priest, harboring the incarnation of an evil god within.

Is this…

A humanoid demon?!

Everyone instinctively took a step back, with Qi Changhai protectively ushering the two kids and the others to the front.

And opposite them,

Lu Yu looked at the beast tamers before him as if facing a major enemy and fell into thought.

He had simply asked The Little Hamster to add some special effects for him to take advantage of the VIP passageway, but why…

Did it turn out like this?!