Beast Taming: the More the Better Chapter 1347: Death Rule! Death of the Holy Spirit!
Previously on Beast Taming: the More the Better...
Even the Great Revolution Five Elements Physique, after rising up, didn’t unleash any other attacks besides resisting the Cold Winter World and the omnipresent Super-Rank Ice System attacks like Absolute Zero.
From beginning to end, Qian Yi only executed one type of attack! That was to hack, slash, and thrust! It was just like when Su Ping had first met Qian Yi and made the little guy practice.
Although such attacks were impossible to defend against with Teleportation involved, all present could see that the damage inflicted on the Cold Winter Snow Demon King was relatively limited. Undead Type Pet Beasts and Elemental Type Pet Beasts generally didn’t fear direct attacks from the Physical System. This was precisely why such Pet Beasts became increasingly rare as they reached the Advanced Level.
As a Half-element Half-Undead Pet Beast, even if its layer of Solid Ice Armor was shattered, a slight surge of Energy would immediately restore it. As for the mass of Soul Origin within, physical attacks dealt almost zero damage to it.
However, Qian Yi continued to hack and thrust, sword strike after sword strike. Although it couldn’t defeat or kill its opponent, the relentless assault left the Cold Winter Snow Demon King immensely frustrated.
It had talked a big game earlier, only to end up being suppressed by an Emperor Level little guy. How could it accept such a situation? But there was nothing it could do!
It wanted to leave the Death Sword Domain, but breaking free from Domain Skills was incredibly difficult—otherwise, they wouldn’t be considered so powerful. To escape, one had to either possess special methods or forcefully crush and destroy it using their own Domain Skills. Otherwise, it was extremely troublesome.
Furthermore, it had agreed to open up this battlefield. Wouldn’t retreating now mean admitting defeat? Once Ferocious Beasts reached the Spirit Saint Level, their intelligence was no different from humans; they cared about their pride and dignity! It had boasted loudly before, so running away now out of cowardice was unacceptable.
Since this thing didn’t have any lethal attacks, it decided to just drag the fight out. The Cold Winter Snow Demon King wasn’t stupid. It refused to believe the opponent could sustain such high-level Teleportation combat for a long time.
That was impossible!
Even though it felt an inexplicable, ominous sense of crisis, it chose to believe in its own judgment at this moment. It firmly believed in itself.
And so, in a completely inexplicable turn of events, after taking another sword strike, it never got back up again.
That’s right.
It died.
This Spirit Saint Level Cold Winter Snow Demon King was dead.
If the sky-covering Cold Winter World Domain Skill hadn’t vanished… If the fallen Cold Winter Snow Demon King’s Soul hadn’t shattered to leave behind a Spirit Saint Level Soul Crystal… And if the Death Sword Domain hadn’t disappeared after the Sword of Death absorbed a pale blue shadow from the corpse… Perhaps no one would have even realized.
This Holy Spirit Fifth Rank Cold Winter Snow Demon King was dead.
It died inexplicably and mysteriously. All the previous attacks had been the most ordinary, casual slashes, yet the opponent simply died just like that.
This was a Spirit Saint Level being! There were no grand Energy explosions, no terrifying ripples from Skills. Even the battle itself could only barely be considered intense. Yet, its conclusion sent a bone-deep chill through every figure watching from the open and the shadows.
Dying under the terrifying effects of a Skill wasn’t the most frightening thing. What truly instilled fear was the present situation—not even knowing how the death occurred.
Bewilderment. Every entity present felt nothing but utter bewilderment.
Even Lord Bai’s orange-green slitted pupils revealed a hint of confusion; not even it had fully understood what just happened. It only sensed that in that instant, a Power known as a Rule had been triggered.
However, only Su Ping remained silent. He now understood somewhat. He realized just how absurdly powerful Qian Yi’s Skill, Death Mark, truly was.
Indeed, only Su Ping, through Qian Yi’s feedback, knew why such plain attacks could unreasonably cause the immediate death of the Cold Winter Snow Demon King. It was because the Death Mark—which was likely an incomplete state of one of the Netherworld God’s most powerful Skills—had been struck and triggered.
As a result, crossing a massive gap of twelve minor Levels, the Holy Spirit Fifth Rank Cold Winter Snow Demon King died without ever knowing what killed it.
This was the Death Rule.