King of Beasts

Demon Starfish, Lava Crocodile, Light Devourer…

Lu Ran pondered for a moment. “These three are the most challenging level 3 Legendary Secret Realms.”

“Yes.” Manager Ying nodded slightly.

Lu Ran plopped down on the sofa beside her, crossing his legs thoughtfully.

“The BOSS in the deep sea… there are currently very few beastmasters skilled in maritime warfare, and with this BOSS’s strong self-healing abilities, it’s indeed difficult to strategize.”

“This Demon Starfish is both water and dark attribute. I need the water attribute characteristics, and the dark ones too. A pure self-healing trait is something everyone needs…”

“It could be an option.”

“With cloud baby and dark crow here, I’m not worried about deep sea battles. I can give it a try.”

“As for the Lava Crocodile, I’ll pass.”

“Magma and power of flames traits aren’t really needed. I’m the only one on the team with control over the power of flames, and with Flame Sprite around, I probably won’t be contracting any fire pets in the future, so I can rule this one out.”

“Even if cloud baby might practice flame-oriented weather techniques in the future, it might not be the best choice.”

“Light Devourer… dual grass and light attributes. I currently have a strong grass attribute trait, and I will definitely be contracting a grass pet in the future. Light is also a powerful attribute and complements grass well. Choosing this one seems nice too.”

“Torn.”

“The first and third options both seem doable. The things dropped by Demon Starfish might be immediately useful, while those from Light Devourer might be useful in the future.”

Manager Ying anticipated this dilemma, sighed, and said, “How about you flip a coin?”

“Let fate decide which challenge.”

“Alright.” Lu Ran took out a lucky clover trait crystal, grabbed a marker, and labelled its two sides as “艹” and “氵.”

With Manager Ying watching him with twitching lips, Lu Ran emptied his mind, closed his eyes, and tossed it onto the sofa.

The trait crystal flipped in the air a few times before landing on the sofa. Lu Ran opened one eye to check the result, then fell into thought.

“氵”… this means the lucky trait is guiding him to challenge the water and dark attribute BOSS, Demon Starfish.

“Trusting you this time!” Lu Ran took back the trait crystal and wiped off the doodles with his hand.

“Have you decided?” Manager Ying asked.

“Yes, it’s going to be the Demon Starfish. Where is this secret realm?” Lu Ran inquired.

Manager Ying replied, “Malai Country. It’s not a big deal, I’ll make the arrangements, and you can just go for the challenge.”

“Alright, then.”

“I might as well head over now since there’s nothing else going on,” Lu Ran casually remarked.

He decided to skip watching the tournament between Dean Qin and Youxiong Guild Leader. There’s no need to prepare extensively for the Legendary Secret Realm. ŘΑ₦Ȏ₿Εš

Level 3 Legendary Secret Realm Bosses are all middle overlords at level 40. Although they’re much stronger than usual wild middle overlords since they’re realm Bosses, it shouldn’t be too difficult for Lu Ran.

After all, his team is quite powerful. To truly challenge Lu Ran’s team at the same level, it would probably take a divine beast cub.

The only challenging aspect of this realm is the battle environment, but Lu Ran already had a plan for that.

“Heading there right away? Alright.” Manager Ying chuckled mischievously.

Aren’t you practically mocking the international alliance? Immediately tackling the toughest level 3 Legendary Secret Realm right after passing the five-part Alliance Challenge… it’s like saying the challenge was a piece of cake!

…

Infinite City, Malai Country.

Soon, Lu Ran was teleported there and began examining the secret realm information.

[Name]: Demon Sea Cave

[Level]: Level 3

[Difficulty]: Legendary

[Secret Realm Introduction]: A variant of the Dark Sea Star.

This extremely ferocious and mindless demonized mutant creature has caused limitless slaughter in the ocean.

Demon Sea Cave is one of the habitats of the Demon Starfish. Here, you’ll encounter a growing stage Demon Starfish and become its prey…

(Demon Starfish, water and dark attributes, middle overlord species, level 40.)

[Challenge Crystal Coins]: 0

Manager Ying’s Intelligence: [Based on other teams’ challenge experiences, once teleported, challengers find themselves in a high-pressure, icy deep sea, making movement difficult. The first challenge is finding the Demon Sea Cave in the pitch-black deep sea. Without a carrier-like water attribute pet beast, challengers are likely to be eliminated at this stage. Following that is the encounter with the Demon Starfish. This step is also a major challenge, typically recommended for beastmasters with Fusion Skill training and water attribute pet beasts.]

Lu Ran looked at the fierce introduction and recalled Manager Ying’s intelligence. He instantly summoned cloud baby and pulled out the feather of Kunpeng.

“Pitter-patter! Pitter-patter!”

Cloud baby appeared looking listless. After a month of intense training, it felt a bit left out since it had no role in the challenge tournament, leaving it quite dispirited.

Lu Ran patted the floating cloud baby beside him and said, “Next, we’re heading into the Legendary Secret Realm. Battling a BOSS will be exciting.”

“Pitter-patter!” Cloud baby’s eyes lit up as it glanced at the feather of Kunpeng. Was it going to play a key role this time?

Lu Ran smiled, “You’re the main mode of transportation.”

Cloud baby: ???

Alright, alright, then it would crash into the BOSS for sure, its hair fluttering wildly.

It made sense for a mode of transport to crash, right?

Lu Ran: ?

“What are you thinking? Do you think my telepathy doesn’t work?”

“But, since you want to crash into it, I’ll let you. We’re loaded with buffs anyway,” Lu Ran’s smile widened.

Before long, cloud baby, holding Lu Ran’s feather of Kunpeng, transformed into a giant fish in the designated room.

A whale-shaped great Kun!

Lu Ran reached out to touch its body and then slipped inside, entering a white room resembling a cloud sea.

Inside, Lu Ran could clearly see outside through cloud baby’s body; it felt like boarding a submarine ready to dive into the deep sea.

However, one giant fish submarine wouldn’t suffice against the Demon Starfish, so Lu Ran promptly summoned General Ha, sudden death king, and dark crow.

In theory, bringing sudden death king, a thunder attribute wild card, into a deep sea battle wasn’t ideal.

But thanks to its learned defense aura, sudden death king still held some value.

With everyone aboard the giant fish submarine, Lu Ran confidently entered the secret realm.

[Teleportation complete.]

[Challenge mission: Defeat the Demon Starfish.]

The challenge mission is to defeat, not kill, the Demon Starfish.

It seems Infinite City has determined that killing the Demon Starfish might be too difficult.

As for what constitutes defeat, that’s up to Infinite City’s own judgment.

After entering the deep sea, General Ha and sudden death king found everything quite novel, watching the outside world through the water screen window created by cloud baby.

Once cloud baby got there, it started swimming aimlessly, waiting for Lu Ran’s instructions.

Lu Ran glanced at dark crow and said, “Finding the enemy is your job.”

“Squawk! Let’s see if I can curse it to death!” dark crow proclaimed.

It immediately began searching for the Demon Starfish with all its might, and soon enough, discovered a terrifying creature exuding a dreadful aura in a distant sea cave.

“Hiss…”

It was a creature with pink skin, resembling a blend between a human and a starfish, its limbs marked with dark stripes.

It seemed to be sleeping in the sea cave, but the moment dark crow’s Evil God’s Eye opened at this location, it was stunned by the powerful dark aura emanating from the creature.

Dark crow felt its own dark power wasn’t as pure as this thing’s.

“You…” dark crow thought it had hidden its breath quite well, but as soon as its eye appeared, the Demon Starfish abruptly opened its pitch-black eye and, as if teleporting, appeared right behind the Evil God’s Eye, crushing dark crow’s clone eye with a grasp!

“Darn it!”

Inside the giant fish submarine, dark crow blinked hard, dissatisfied, and said, “Its sensory and reaction abilities are strong, and its speed is very fast. I only got a brief look before trying to cast a curse, and it instantly crushed one of the Evil Eye clones.”

“Big king, give me another chance.”

“I’ll definitely bring it down to its knees.”

“Stronger is better,” Lu Ran said. “That way, cloud baby can have more fun crashing into it.”

“Huh?” dark crow was taken aback-crash?

“It seems like it’s being drawn toward us. This saves us the effort of having to find it,” Lu Ran mused, stroking his chin as he sat inside the giant fish submarine, looking forward.

In the distant sea region, the figure of the starfish creature was speeding through the ocean as if flying.

It wore a ferocious expression, seemingly searching for whoever was spying on it.

Before long, it locked onto the whale-shaped cloud baby, and a cruel grin spread across its face.

At that moment, cloud baby also spotted the Demon Starfish and matched its ferocity with its own.

“Pitter-patter! (Shield!)”

Upon cloud baby’s command, sudden death king, somewhat shocked, cast a shield on it. In the next moment, cloud baby was enveloped in a radiant glow, showcasing speed on par with the Demon Starfish, and with a “boom,” it charged towards the incoming creature.

Demon Starfish: ?

The two figures collided violently with a “bang,” sending Demon Starfish reeling backward in the deep sea, its entire body trembling in confusion.

It could only feel that its attacks hadn’t broken through the opponent’s defenses. Instead, it was sent flying, dizzy from the impact.

Before it could recover from the collision, Lu Ran promptly ordered, “General Ha, Infinite Sword Domain!”

“Woof…” In the next instant, General Ha activated the sword domain in the deep sea, encapsulating both their team and the Demon Starfish.

At that moment, Lu Ran fully unveiled his tactical plan.

“General Ha, use the power of the Infinite Sword Domain to imagine cloud baby as a sword, then enhance its sharpness with sharp metal sword intent. Add sudden death king’s defense aura to the mix, and let’s have cloud baby spar with the Demon Starfish.”

In the next instant.

Amidst the furious roar of the Demon Starfish, it was once again knocked over by the whale, this time with several sword-like gashes on its body, leaving the Demon Starfish visibly shocked.

It looked at the whale across from it, baffled. What kind of creature was this? How could something rely solely on ramming with such force?

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