Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1588 - 444: The Final Battle (2) (Countdown to Finale: 6)
Previously on Beast Taming Patrol...
"Don’t even think about succeeding!"
Shouting with fury, the Death King—positioned nearest to the Life King—caused a horde of nightmarish limbs to burst forth abruptly from the bizarre fog cluster.
Studded with spikes of bone on every one, these horrifying appendages radiated a lethal deathly vibe, potent enough to wipe out all in contact, even if only a sliver leaked out.
Swiftly, the limbs wrapped around Tata's position, resembling a huge web crashing down fast on the target. Should they connect, Tata would face grave harm right away without doubt.
Tata appeared utterly oblivious to the looming horror, keeping their gaze locked toward the Life King while ignoring the Death King entirely.
They trusted that their fellow team members would block this attack for them.
"Are you not taking me seriously enough?"
A faint flicker crossed Gugui’s mask, as the enormous dark talon hovering at its back hardened in a flash, its blades razor-edged, poised to rip space apart with ease.
Stretching out lazily toward the Death King, the colossal talon looked deceptively sluggish, but thanks to warped space, it popped up right before the swarm of limbs thrust by the Death King.
From the netherworld trailing Gugui, myriads of black-robed denizens of hell chanted in eerie tones, while arcane symbols rained down on the huge talon, boosting its might.
The hidden art of Nine Nether Pavilion, "Soul Herding Technique – Billion Souls Return!"
Across thousands of years on Blue Star, the original dwellers of Gugui’s netherworld, nurtured with great care by it, had exploded far beyond their old count of mere thousands.
Their population had ballooned massively, and every hell dweller now brimmed with strong spiritual essence, with the netherworld evolving bit by bit into a genuine realm, edging them toward real existence.
When Gugui rose to mythical status, its netherworld, propelled by Gugui, shattered mortal bonds and fully became a whole world!
Not all worlds share the same dimensions.
Gugui’s netherworld paled in vastness next to realms such as Blue Star or God Martial.
But at their core, the gap had mostly vanished!
As the netherworld achieved full worldhood, its hell inhabitants evolved alongside it, finally turning into actual beings.
Transforming souls to spirits marked the supreme ambition of Nine Nether Pavilion across its history!
The mightiest in Nine Nether Pavilion built their way upon the underworld river's base.
They chased the dream of forging a soul realm via the underworld river, to birth a life-death order and escape reincarnation's wheel.
Regrettably, downfall struck them before they could attain it.
Gugui, however, had now reached the midpoint!
Even without grasping life-death order, it had built a soul world and finished soul-to-spirit conversion.
This soul-to-spirit shift unleashed a massive boost to every art in the "Soul Herding Technique" like never before!
Among Soul Herding Technique's toughest arts stands this Billion Souls Return.
Casting it proves as hard as climbing to the heavens, mainly since it demands a true billion souls!
Without Gugui’s souls gaining reproduction power through its millennium-long safeguarding, amassing that many would be out of reach!
A technique demanding such vast energy output, of course, wields deep and inscrutable strength.
Through Billion Souls Return, the force of a billion souls gets funneled and bound uniquely to Gugui’s path.
Empowered thus, Gugui’s core laws leaped ahead dramatically, its strength exploding to maximum!
Swelling huge against the gale, the boosted talon fractured into billions via nether path, every fragment bearing a chunk of netherworld, savagely hacking at the Death King’s dread limbs like it could crack the cosmos in a single blow!
A stifled grunt escaped the Death King as hordes of its limbs got chopped off in this world-rending clash.
Its presence weakened fast, foul ink-black blood spraying everywhere, draping all it hit in death's grip.
The Death King, reeling from its mutilated limbs, got blindsided by Gugui’s explosive move, striking deep into its essence.
Enduring the searing agony, the Death King jerked its head up, staring at Gugui with dread.
Dividing into billions... this means...
"The power of the King?!"
To the Death King, Gugui’s displayed might looked strikingly like the Time Master’s methods.
Ignoring the question, Gugui dashed forward and stood before the Death King in a blink.
Its dark robe billowed through emptiness, quietly wrapping a eerie blue ghost flame, runes dancing on the blank mask, while the giant talon loomed vaguely in the backdrop, hiding deadly purpose.
The netherworld churned at its rear, on the verge of crashing down anytime.
Right then, it outshone the pitiful Death King as the true ruler of death.
Gugui’s free talon crept out gradually, instantly blanketing the Death King’s surroundings with inescapable, inevitable dread.
Fueled by infinite runes, this blow looked set to obliterate existence, crumbling heavens and ground alike.
For the badly hurt Death King, taking this attack straight would mean instant doom!
"Your path is truly weak."
"I’ve secured first place in the team competition!"
"Damn it!" Facing mortal peril, the Death King’s blood-red eyes blazed with savage murder lust.