Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1611 449: The Marshal Card

"He isn't deliberately singling me out; instead, he treats the world like a toy ripe for his whims."

"If I'd foreseen this mess, I would've steered clear the instant I spotted him."

"What kind of gamble was it?" Lin Su couldn't resist asking.

In that instant, a strong hunch gripped him that this bet tied directly to his destiny.

"A thing known as the Fa Tu Card," Shou commenced deliberately.

"That scoundrel says it's the top pastime for beings inside his Tao Realm."

"Yet I suspect the Fa Tu Card is most probably an evolved form of his Tao."

"Every single Fa Tu Card bears its distinct symbolism and essence."

"Our wager required drawing a card apiece, then rearing a creature true to its depicted meaning."

"Victory goes to whoever elevates their creation to Tao Source Realm or above first."

"The prize he dangled was irresistible to me."

Lin Su paused briefly before inquiring steadily, "What card did you pull?"

"The Fa Tu Card titled 'Herald'."

Shou stretched forth his palm, materializing an ornate card dense with Tao imprints right there.

Depicted on the card's face was a top-hatted silhouette, visage cloaked in gloom, poised silently where twilight kisses dawn—rays gleaming leftward, stars sparkling rightward.

Its reverse shimmered with motifs of sun, moon, and constellations.

"The Herald embodies unbound spirits with the gift to shift twixt light and shadow."

"My Tao Realm back then lay in ruins beyond mending. Pressing on with the Spirit path meant forsaking it for a fresh beginning."

"Unaided, a newborn Tao Realm expands agonizingly slow. Bridging it to channel Tao from the prior one would propel its growth immensely."

"Though the elder Tao Realm suffered unfixable taint, it still aimed true toward the Tao Realm."

"That realm embodied my lifelong toil. Tossing it away felt criminal; a predestined heir would serve perfectly."

"Such notions dovetailed seamlessly with the card's profound intent."

"Thus I embraced the bet with zeal, severed the old Tao Realm from my form, and birthed a pristine successor."

"This new Tao Realm harbors powers predating the old's corruption, plus every revelation gleaned from that vile trickster."

"Advancing the Beast Taming path proves brutally challenging."

"Still, deep ties fuel boundless impetus for transcendence."

"Probing that fiend's Tao sparked my vision of Guardian Beast Co-operation."

"Close to two centuries I devoted to scouting a worthy heir amid the old Tao Realm."

"Tao Realm time ebbs and flows with its lord's insights."

"A sudden surge in the master's Tao might span eons in a blink."

"Stagnation in mastery lets Chaos Realm aeons drift by while the Tao Realm freezes still."

"Observation by the master synchronizes its tempo to the Chaos Realm."

"Hence two centuries scrutinizing the old Tao Realm mirrored two centuries elapsed."

"Finally, I picked you—martial-born yet dead set on Beast Taming."

"Fusing you into the old Tao Realm made you Shen Wu in that pivotal instant."

"Your Tao grasp proved too shallow to tame such potency."

"Hence I lulled your core self to rest here, forging shells on Blue Star and Shen Wu for your awareness and Beast Taming Space."

"Anxious lest martial heritage memories haste Blue Star's rise and disrupt my new Tao Realm, I wiped your recollections, granting eighteen years of pure Beast Taming there before your Shen Wu return to seize Tao echoes anew."

"Thereafter, wielding Shen Wu might to uplift Blue Star merged old Tao Realm virtues into the new, bolstering me immensely."

"You outperformed even my loftiest hopes."

"Your Tao acumen may lack for dominating the old Tao Realm, but as its heir, you reign supreme."

"None but you can reshape that realm's Tao, reviving it vibrantly."

"And you have done exactly that."

"Into the old you wove Guardian Beast Co-operation from the new."

"Plus, fresh power streams now course through the old Tao Realm."

"Beast Fusion trails, armament beasts, faith's Tao, foreign realm Taos too."

"Other Beast Tamers treading those in the old realm would crash utterly."

"Yours, as spirit beasts, defy realm edicts and refashion them thereby."

"I figured my triumph would bequeath you the old realm's primal Tao untouched, beyond even my reversal."

"You've surpassed my limits."

"I offered hints via One Life Reincarnation, yet your force drove most feats."

"Past and now entangling, you mended the warped Tao, infused your singular mark, birthing Shen Wu's renewed regime."

Admiration shone as Shou regarded Lin Su.

"I chose wisely."

Lin Su held his silence endlessly.

Heart storms raged fiercer than prior gales.

This unveiled all truths.

Tao trades and mutations, Tao Realm shifts and swells, the dire wager, Fa Tu Card's intrigue.

Absent this saga, sans Shou's favor, mere teen he'd be—father's rebukes crushing, lake plunge dooming in stupor.

"Could I... view that card?" Lin Su murmured softly.

"Have it." Shou flicked casually, wafting the card to Lin Su, "Mind those traces of his; evade the trap I stumbled into."

Lin Su grasped the card wordlessly.

Its vibe rang intimately known.

His fervent quest's last riddle dissolved.

No common trinket this.

A potent entity's Tao coalesced into card form.

That titan's Tao remnants throbbed vividly.

Fragments alone brimmed with arcane force.

Lin Su's stature shrugged it off, but sub-Tao Source contacts would spiral into illusion's gyre, freed solely by closure or transcendence.

Herald card manifests One Life Reincarnation Hall.

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