Chapter 302 The terror of the Beast Taming Armor!

Inside the tower.

The scenery shifted.

As Jiang Yun stepped through the teleportation light gate,

the scene before him was not the enclosed stone room he had expected, but an open area with slightly dim lighting, resembling a real wilderness.

The air was permeated with a faint scent of blood and wildness, and the distant, faint roar of beasts could be heard.

However, it all carried a hint of the illusory sensation unique to Formations.

The first floor.

His opponent was a Bronze First Tier Wind Wolf with red-glowing eyes, baring its teeth and growling low.

It crouched on all fours,

assuming a pouncing stance; though it was a simulation by the Formation, it was lifelike, and its ferocious aura rushed toward him.

“As expected, it starts from the Bronze Rank.”

Jiang Yun understood in his heart.

“It seems that for every floor ascended, the Vicious Beast's strength increases by one tier.”

Facing this weak Vicious Beast,

Jiang Yun didn't even have the thought of summoning Little Fire or Little Skylark.

With a slight thought,

the aura belonging to a Gold Rank Four Beast Tamer—further mixed with a hint of Brick Stone Rank Divine Sense pressure and the residual Dragon might of Little Fire—crashed down like an invisible mountain!

The simulated Wind Wolf couldn't even let out a whimper before its body shattered like porcelain struck by a heavy hammer, instantly dissolving into countless tiny points of light and vanishing into the air. The battle ended without a ripple.

At the same time,

Jiang Yun felt a slight heat throughout his body.

A speck of pale golden spiritual light emerged around him,

as if being branded.

Immediately following that,

a familiar sense of weightlessness came over him, the scenery before his eyes spun rapidly, and in the next moment, he found himself on the second floor, which had a slightly different but equally desolate environment.

The second floor.

Bronze Second Tier Iron-Clawed Lynx!

Instant kill!

The third floor.

Bronze Third Tier Poison Arrow Frog.

Its aura was crushed and it collapsed immediately.

Fourth floor... fifth floor... tenth floor!

When Jiang Yun was teleported to the tenth floor,

the environment had turned into a mountainous area with jagged rocks.

His opponent was a burly Rock-Armored Violent Bear, its body covered in dark grey rock armor, with jagged fangs and an aura reaching the Peak of Bronze Ninth Tier.

It stood on its hind legs, over a zhang tall, beating its chest with thick forelimbs and letting out a dull roar, its momentum terrifying.

“Bronze Peak... this is about the limit that Zhao Tiezhu and the others can reach.”

Jiang Yun's expression remained calm.

He didn't even mobilize much of the spiritual power exclusive to a Beast Tamer; relying solely on his powerful physique, which had been tempered multiple times by the energy of the Beast Taming Space and his own Cultivation Technique to far exceed those of the same rank, he exerted force with his feet, his figure closing in instantly like a ghost.

The Rock-Armored Violent Bear's reaction was not slow.

Its giant palm swiped down with the sound of whistling wind.

Jiang Yun neither dodged nor avoided it, clenching his right hand into a fist.

A simple and straightforward straight punch was thrown!

Bang!

Crack!

Fist collided with the rock-like giant palm.

The expected stalemate did not occur.

The Rock-Armored Violent Bear's seemingly indestructible rock armor, along with the bones beneath it, let out an overwhelmed sound of shattering the moment they made contact!

Immense force surged in like a hot knife through butter, and the Rock-Armored Violent Bear's massive body flew backward like a broken sack, dissolving into points of light while still in mid-air.

Floor ten, passed.

“The physical strength brought by Beast Taming Power is roughly equivalent to the defense of a Common Vicious Beast at Low-tier Gold Rank.”

Jiang Yun gained a more intuitive understanding of his current physical fitness.

And this was without using any power enhancements.

Just then,

his heart stirred.

He remembered that special treasure he had obtained from the Appraisers Guild but had never carefully studied.

The beast taming armor condensation Armguard component.

“Just right, no one can see the battle process here; it's the perfect opportunity to verify the power of this item.”

With this thought,

Jiang Yun took out from his storage ring that Armguard of ancient design, neither metal nor jade, its surface inscribed with countless runes and miniature Formations so complex they were dizzying.

It lay quietly in his palm,

emitting a restrained and profound fluctuation.

Although this item was only a component,

its complexity far exceeded that of ordinary soul tools.

Clearly, if the entire set of beast taming armor condensation could be gathered,

its power would surely be earth-shattering.

Jiang Yun tried to probe it with his Divine Sense, and immediately felt the vast rune networks like a galaxy and the exquisite energy circuits within, which were linked to each other to form an extremely precise System.

But regarding how to wear and use it,

the information fed back by his Divine Sense was somewhat blurry.

“Try putting it on directly?”

Jiang Yun no longer hesitated.

He snapped the Armguard onto his left forearm.

The moment the Armguard fitted against his skin!

A sudden change occurred!

Hum!!!

Upon the Armguard,

those dormant runes and Formations were instantly activated!

They began to flow rapidly as if they had gained life,

emitting a soft silver-white light.

A warm and peculiar power surged from the Armguard, quickly flowing through Jiang Yun's entire body; this power was not pure spiritual energy, but more like a medium for linking and transformation.

What surprised Jiang Yun even more was that

this power seemed to possess spirituality, easily penetrating his Beast Taming Contract barrier to establish a deep connection directly with Little Fire and Little Skylark within the Beast Taming Space!

In an instant,

a wonderful feeling welled up in his heart.

He seemed to be able to simultaneously perceive the scorching and gentle Water-Fire power surrounding Little Fire, and hear the Wind-Thunder power dancing on Little Skylark's wings.

The connection between him and the two tamed beasts became clearer and tighter than ever before, as if a part of their power had already merged with his own meridians and Qi Sea!

“How wonderful... is this the power of beast taming armor condensation?”

Jiang Yun was shocked in his heart.

“It seems... I can directly mobilize their power? Even... use their skills?”

This thought made him both excited and somewhat hesitant.

It wasn't unusual for a Beast Tamer to borrow part of a tamed beast's power, but it was usually limited to attribute buffs or simple energy discharge.

To be able to nearly perfectly borrow and perform a tamed beast's Innate Talent Skill at the Gold Rank through a single treasure

was simply unheard of!

This was a realm usually only accessible to experts of the Eclipsing Moon Rank and above, after they had reached an extremely high level of comprehension of their own power and the Beast Taming Contract!

Just then,

the teleportation to the eleventh floor was completed.

The environment changed to a damp swamp.

A Silver Rank One Swamp Poison Python, skilled in stealthy ambushes, shot out silently from the mud and water, opening its foul, giant maw to bite at Jiang Yun's throat.

“Let's try it!”

Jiang Yun suppressed the stray thoughts in his heart.

His gaze locked onto the Poison Python.

He tried to communicate with that power in the Armguard on his left arm that linked to Little Fire, concentrating his intent in his palm.

“Water-Fire Dragon Breath?”

He muttered to himself.

It wasn't that he really needed to say the skill name;

it was more like a subconscious guidance.

In the next moment!

A shocking scene appeared!

In front of his raised left palm, crimson and azure lights rapidly converged and intertwined, and a violent and scorching yet water-like lingering energy fluctuation erupted!

A foot-wide, red-and-blue intertwined scorching breath shot out like a small dragon flame, accurately striking the head of the attacking Swamp Poison Python!

There was no violent explosion.

Only a soft 'chi' sound.

That Poison Python, capable of poisoning Silver Rank creatures to death, had its head melt and vanish like snow in spring the moment it was touched by the red-blue breath, along with most of its body, turning into void points of light.

Instant kill!

Jiang Yun maintained his hand-raising posture,

dazed for a moment.

Then, an astonishing light erupted in his eyes!

“It really works! And the power... although it feels like only fifty to sixty percent of when Little Fire performs it himself, it's more than enough to deal with opponents of the same rank or even slightly higher!”

He carefully felt the consumption of that strike and the feedback from the Armguard.

“This Armguard is more like a precise converter and amplifier, linking me with the tamed beast and transforming the power I mobilize into an effect similar to a tamed beast's skill. The consumption for both me and the tamed beast isn't large, but the effect... is too amazing!”

This was undoubtedly an extremely powerful trump card!

It allowed him to possess powerful attack methods comparable to or even exceeding those of the same rank without summoning his tamed beasts, and with varied attributes; it could even be used to win by surprise at critical moments, making it impossible to guard against!

What surprised him even more was that

when he had a thought

to stop calling upon the tamed beast's power, the silver light on the Armguard on his left arm quickly retracted, and those active runes gradually faded away.

Ultimately,

the Armguard actually seemed to melt,

completely disappearing beneath his skin.

Leaving only an extremely faint contract mark pattern that was almost impossible to detect without careful perception.

“Stealth mode! What an exquisite design!”

Jiang Yun was overjoyed.

This meant he could completely hide this treasure normally and activate it instantly at critical moments, truly achieving the element of surprise and catching opponents off guard.

“Just one Armguard component has such a divine effect; if the entire set of beast taming armor condensation is gathered...”

Jiang Yun couldn't help but feel infinite anticipation in his heart.

That would probably truly allow him to have a Heaven-Defying combat power boost.

Having mastered the use of the Armguard,

Jiang Yun's speed in clearing the floors soared once again.

Floor twelve, Silver Rank Two Gale Demon Wolf; a blast of Wind-Thunder shattered its head.

Floor fifteen, Silver Rank Five Thick Earth Rhino; he tried to mobilize a hint of Little Fire's Dragon might into his fist, shattering its proud defense with one punch.

Floor seventeen, Silver Rank Seven Phantom Demon Fox; it was extremely fast, but Jiang Yun locked onto it directly with his Divine Sense and used a prototype of a small Fire Domain Cage to trap and kill it.

His use of the Armguard became more and more proficient, and his perception and control of the two attribute powers transmitted through it also became increasingly fine.

Although the power he exerted was always limited to about fifty to sixty percent of the tamed beasts' own strength, combined with his own Gold Rank Four spiritual power, Brick Stone Rank Divine Sense, and powerful physique, it was almost a total crush at the Silver level.

The spiritual light marks on his body continuously stacked as the floors increased, becoming brighter and brighter, as if draping him in a pale golden gauze robe.

Without any suspense,

Jiang Yun easily broke through the twentieth floor, which represented the limit of the Silver Rank.

The guardian was a Shadow Bat King at the Peak of Silver Ninth Tier, mastering various dark curse abilities.

Jiang Yun didn't even give it a chance to release any skills; with a thought, the Armguard's power was activated, and a strike merging Little Fire's Dragon might and a mental shock was sent out first to disturb its mind, followed by his figure closing in like lightning; a hand blade wrapped in Wind-Thunder power swept past, and the Shadow Bat King instantly dissipated.

As the Vicious Beast on the twentieth floor turned into points of light, the spiritual light on Jiang Yun's body suddenly brightened several times, and an even stronger teleportation force enveloped him.

The scenery before his eyes changed.

He was sent into the twenty-first floor.

At almost the same instant Jiang Yun stepped into the twenty-first floor,

outside the tower,

atop that towering Obsidian Giant Tower,

starting from the bottom floor,

the crystals representing the floor numbers were like ignited firecracker fuses, lighting up floor by floor at a jaw-dropping speed, steadily and rapidly!

Floor one, two, three... the speed of lighting up had almost no interval, as if someone were running wildly up the tower body holding a torch!

At first,

the crowd on the plaza, who had been cleared to the outskirts and were still somewhat dissatisfied and noisy, did not react immediately.

Many people were still complaining that the academy was making a mountain out of a molehill,

putting on such a big show for a single Heavenly Saint Student.