Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1587: 443: The Final Battle (1) (Countdown to Finale: 7)

A surge of power emerged, infused with clear sentiments of fondness for Lanlan and contempt toward the King of the Sea right from the start, instilling an instinctive dread in the King of the Sea as it confronted this strike.

This is… the Way of the Sea Oath!

When the Sea Oath rules at the ninth realm peak faded away, Lanlan truly had no plans to reclaim them for further cultivation.

Yet, fate has a way of aligning unexpectedly at times.

Through her exploration of the Faith Evolution route, Lanlan uncovered a fresh application for those forsaken Sea Oath rules.

The vision imprinted in the minds of every creature within the Endless Sea, stemming from the pure water spirit, originated from Lanlan's own past reincarnation.

During that era, the praise from all Endless Sea inhabitants wasn't limited to her exceptional water-affinity talents and abilities, but extended to the Sea Oath rules she had grasped over a lifetime of safeguarding the Endless Sea's inhabitants.

Rules under the Faith Totem's domain can appear within the beasts following the Faith Evolution path, much like how Totem Gai's Destruction Rules empower such beasts.

Hence, despite discarding the Sea Oath rules earlier, Lanlan could now briefly command them via the gathering of faith energy.

In the thousand years spent on Blue Star, Lanlan had pushed her grasp of Faith rules to the ninth realm's utmost limit. With the time left, sporadic insights into the Sea Oath rules sufficed to elevate those ninth realm Sea Oath rules to matching heights.

In this way, both Lanlan’s Sea Oath rules and Faith rules evolved into the Way of the Sea Oath precisely at her breakthrough into the mythical stage.

Consequently, among the six, Lanlan stood alone as the one able to briefly wield two distinct paths.

“No!” Aversion and loathing filled the King of the Sea’s gaze, “Why does the Endless Sea reject me? It ought to reject you, the fraud!”

With a thunderous roar, its form shifted into a wild torrent of sea, cloaked in dreadfully potent energy that could rend the void, smashing headlong into Lanlan’s assault.

From a earth-shaking blast, the fierce ripples of their clash whipped up a ferocious tempest across the Endless Sea and the surrounding three realms, the gale laced with faint sparkling aqueous glow—the immense water-element might exploding skyward and earthward as the two aquatic mythical entities battled.

“Obstinate fool!” Barely veiled fury flickered in Lanlan’s eyes, “Your tyranny has tormented the Endless Sea's creatures, forcing innumerable souls into exile, shattering the realm's tranquility—you've earned this judgment!”

Wrapped in its encircling might, it slammed into the King of the Sea without delay.

Fearsome bellows rang out nonstop from their brutal clash, the mere shockwaves sufficient to rattle every corner!

Right at the heart of the impact, Lanlan and the King of the Sea deployed their respective techniques, grinding fiercely against one another.

Each had ignited their true fury in combat, resolved to slay the other right there.

Still, achieving that proved no easy feat.

For even slight wounds healed rapidly on both sides.

Elsewhere on the battlefield, the King of Life and Tata kept channeling their abilities to mend their allies amid the fray.

“Perish!”

Tata bellowed, unnatural scarlet gleams already flickering in its eyes, as though consumed by an overwhelming urge to fight, it brandished the wand in its grip—now fused into a five-hued staff.

That wand, sheathed in colossal battle-system force strong enough to pulverize space, hurtled toward the King of Life in a flash!

A pale verdant visage materialized in the emptiness courtesy of the King of Life, its look distinctly sour at present.

While splitting focus to aid several allied mythical beings, it relentlessly summoned its defensive energies to fend off Tata’s onslaughts.

As a restorative exotic beast, the King of Life earned the Time Master's esteem thanks to its healing prowess that outshone its kind by a wide margin.

Its route centered on life and restoration.

Along this route, the King of Life lacked abundant attack options, possessing only a handful of defenses.

For a healing-oriented exotic beast, trading offensive strength for amplified restoration capabilities posed no drawback whatsoever.

The issue lay with its foe, who presented just a minor complication.

This self-proclaimed Sound Sovereign utterly shattered the King of Life’s notions about healing.

The adversary boasted fighting strength rivaling output-focused mythical exotic beasts, paired with a horrifying rule allowing conversion of that strength into matching restorative force.

Even more baffling to the King of Life, the foe’s restorative talents hit an absurd peak.

Mending wounds via life force—that was the King of Life's standard approach, and through certain inborn skills, it could also replenish others' drained energies.

It had figured such restorative might qualified as potent, yet never anticipated its rival would push it further.

Shattered space? It could mend the rifts.

Drained energies? It could refill them.

Bodily harm? It could cure it.

Soul wounds? It could rejuvenate the spirit.

If those were somewhat comprehensible to the King of Life, then the rival’s knack for turning the enemy's own damages into the restoration target—rendering those damages stubborn to fix—utterly transcended the King of Life’s comprehension.

Is this what healing means?!

Not just pummeling this defensively weak healer nonstop, but also patching up allies more effectively, even disrupting the foe in the process.

The King of Life already sensed the sporadic doubtful stares from its fellow mythical allies.

We're all healers—how comes the disparity so vast?

Can you step up, Xishu!

The inner turmoil nearly made the King of Life spit blood.

Aren't you the Sound Sovereign or what?!

Where's your sound attack?!

Just as such notions bubbled up inescapably in the King of Life’s mind, Tata effortlessly reverted the staff in its grasp to wand form, and then, beneath the King of Life’s stupefied watch, started intoning.

Hearing the incantation that resembled a psychic assault, the King of Life abruptly felt disoriented.

What… is going on here?

Yet in the instant that followed, the King of Life had no bandwidth left for the incantation's tune.

As Tata’s intonation persisted, a sinister energy burst forth from the nothingness trailing Tata.

This energy instilled in the King of Life a horrifying sense of doom approaching.

Differing from prior strikes, this one carried a deadly peril for it!

In the King of Life’s astonishment, Tata’s intonation flowed on without break.

On this occasion, the intonation dragged longer than any before.

For this melody marked uncharted territory for Tata’s voice.

The Divine Court Sacrificial Song, spanning nine segments.

At monarch rank, Tata managed up to the fourth segment.

Post-emperor breakthrough, Tata unlocked the fifth and sixth segments.

After immortal ascension, it advanced to the seventh and eighth segments.

Even at ninth realm pinnacle, Tata fell short of voicing the Divine Court Symphony’s final segment.

The ninth segment of the Divine Court Sacrificial Song—Lament for the Dead.

This segment dwelled in legends alone; no prior Divine Court member had voiced it solo.

Only via the sacrificial rite of self-immolation in chorus could Tata’s kin barely touch upon it.

Such efforts came burdened with myriad constraints.

But now, upon Tata’s leap into the fresh mythical domain, it accomplished the unprecedented.

Voicing the ninth segment of the Divine Court Sacrificial Song alone.

The song’s immense ruinous force stood poised to unleash!

What the King of Life sensed was merely a faint echo of its buildup.

As Tata pressed on with the intonation, the other mythical beings present couldn’t resist glancing Tata’s way.

Should the King of Life perish, every mythical would forfeit recovery options!

The dire fallout from that defied imagination!

Action must halt this creature at once!

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[Lin Ye’s illustration is in the Easter egg chapter]