Beast Taming: the More the Better Chapter 1319 - 540: Appearing Members! A Familiar Voice?

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Previously on Beast Taming: the More the Better...
Su Ping's attempt to move a stele failed when it disintegrated upon contact with the gray fog. The Little Paperman, however, began to move, guiding Su Ping through the fog to a newly formed passage. A familiar face, Zhu Linxin, emerged from the passage, claiming to have found Su Ping, but Su Ping remained wary, demanding proof of his identity.

He was obviously confused as well, and began to recount what he knew:

"Well... you are Master Su, Instructor Su’s son. We entered the Heavenly Tomb this time to protect you. As for me...

"I am Zhu Linxin, a member of the Heavenly Tomb Special Beast Taming Force, ID number 046. Oh, right..."

At this point, the several figures beside Zhu Linxin stepped forward.

"This is the Five Elements Paper Spirit that you and Master Yin helped with Breeding. This is the Night Raven Scarecrow that Breeder Jian helped with Breeding.

"And this one, the Eye of Annihilation, is the one you finished Breeding a while ago..."

Su Ping nodded. "In that case, have them use a Skill! Especially the Five Elements Paper Spirit’s Great Revolution Five Elements Physique."

Zhu Linxin scratched his head.

"Well, the other two Pet Beasts are fine, but the Five Elements Paper Spirit is a bit troublesome. You might have to wait a while..."

Su Ping’s expression remained indifferent. "It’s fine. I’ve already been waiting here for four hours."

Zhu Linxin nodded, and to anyone’s surprise, the two actually began to wait.

A full twenty minutes passed.

The Five Elements Paper Spirit finally began to move slowly. The familiar aura of flashing Five Elements Light appeared.

It really was the Great Revolution Five Elements Physique.

Only then did Su Ping completely breathe a sigh of relief.

He couldn’t vouch for anything else, but when it came to this familiar and unique Super-Rank Skill, Su Ping trusted it with a million percent certainty.

Breathing a sigh of relief, he spoke in a gentler tone.

"Alright, tell me, how are you able to ignore the invasion of this Death Energy? And how did you end up here? Tell me exactly what happened after you entered the Heavenly Tomb."

Zhu Linxin also breathed a sigh of relief, speaking rather stiffly.

"It’s like this. After I entered the Heavenly Tomb, I arrived in a place just like this. There was gray fog all around, and a small Stele in the middle. Then, one Undead Series Ferocious Beast after another started appearing..."

Su Ping nodded. This was exactly the same as what he had experienced.

And then?

"And then, I kept killing those Undead Series Ferocious Beasts, but there were simply too many of them. Moreover, the Great Revolution Five Elements Physique had reached its limit and entered a cooldown period.

"Fortunately, I still had the Eye of Annihilation, the Night Raven Scarecrow, and my own Pet Beast. Although I couldn’t keep killing those things, they could help me protect myself. Then, I realized that the target of those Undead Series Ferocious Beasts wasn’t actually me! Or rather, it wasn’t just me."

Hmm?

Su Ping was taken aback. What did that mean?

Unaware of Su Ping’s surprise, Zhu Linxin continued:

"Their goal was to gather in front of that black Stele.

"Then, every so often, a series of sounds would ring out. I noticed that after the sounds appeared, those Undead Pet Beasts would undergo some changes.

"After the sounds echoed, the bodies of those Undead Pet Beasts began to collapse. Then, they transformed into an extremely bizarre aura that condensed onto the Stele.

"And that Stele turned into this..."

Zhu Linxin reached out his hand, revealing a small, pitch-black sword in his palm.

The small sword was merely the size of a palm, yet it emitted an indescribably familiar fluctuation.

"Then, after I picked up this sword, I found that the gray fog no longer affected me. I just picked a random direction and walked over. I didn’t expect to be so lucky as to run straight into you."

Su Ping became even more suspicious. He suddenly realized that the reason he had been sitting here for half the day was actually because he and Qian Yi were too strong?

Those resonating sword hums weren’t aimed at him after all?

Were they aimed at the Undead Series Ferocious Beasts that he originally thought were meant to besiege him?

What exactly was the meaning behind this bizarre Heavenly Tomb Secret Realm?

He had pondered over this for ages, and this was the result?

He thought, "As expected, what I hate the most about playing role-playing games is the damn puzzle-solving!"

However, before he could speak, the world suddenly seemed to start trembling again.

The familiar sounds reappeared:

"CLANG!"

"SHING!"

"CLANG!"

Although Su Ping was already used to it, the feeling of having a nail hammered into his skull returned. The pain was beyond words.

He covered his ears, waiting for the Celestial Tomb Mark to trigger, while simultaneously looking at Zhu Linxin.

However, after taking a look, the deafening agony in his mind suddenly seemed insignificant.

He looked at Zhu Linxin in front of him, and asked while clutching his own ears and head in pain, "Brother Xin, didn’t you hear it?"

Zhu Linxin, however, nodded. "Of course I heard it."

Su Ping finally breathed a sigh of relief. So it was just that this guy had stronger willpower?

However, just as this thought surfaced, Zhu Linxin’s next sentence made him feel as if he had plunged into an icy abyss:

"At the very beginning, the sound was loud and piercing, like taking a hammer to the skull.

"But after listening to it for so long, I found that the sound is getting softer and softer. It doesn’t have that piercing feeling or the pain of a hammered skull anymore.

"But what about you, Master Su? Have you still not adapted to this sound?"

Su Ping silently watched the relaxed Zhu Linxin.

However, the sounds echoing by his ears—as if ringing from the depths of his soul—were still deafening, as if they were going to split his head open.

How had Zhu Linxin, right in front of him, adapted to it?