Chapter 460 A Third Divine Beast-Level Bloodline Beast Tamer?!

Deep within the Beast Taming Space.

In that area of perpetual shadow, fragments of the dark-gray light cocoon peeled away like withered leaves in late autumn, spiraling as they drifted through the air. The edges of every fragment shimmered with a fading, deep purple fluorescence.

In the center of the fragments, the jet-black beast was slowly opening its deep purple eyes.

Those eyes were completely different from before.

If the pupils of Nether Abyss before refining the Law Crystal were like a deep pool of dark water—profound yet bounded—then now, those deep purple eyes had completely transformed into a gateway leading to an endless abyss.

Deep within the pupils, there was no light and no shadow, only a pure, essential darkness that seemed to have existed since the dawn of the world.

It was not simple darkness, but the Law itself—the most primitive and pure form condensed after the dark attribute was stripped from the Origin of all things in heaven and earth.

dark attribute Origin Law.

The Radiant Sun Low Grade dark-attribute origin law crystal was a Dao seed condensed by the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix from the power of its lifelong Origin Laws when it passed away.

What it contained was not just spiritual power, but the complete insights and Legacy of a powerful ancient Divine Beast standing at the Peak of the legendary rank regarding dark attribute Laws.

And now, this Law Crystal had completely vanished.

No, it had not vanished; it had been completely refined by Nether Abyss into its own Origin.

Nether Abyss slowly stood up, its jet-black fur shimmering with a faint, deep purple halo under the dim light of the Beast Taming Space.

Its physique had not undergone a massive increase like Little Fire and Little Skylark; it remained in that slender, explosive cheetah form, but the lines of every inch of its muscle had become more refined and condensed, as if its entire body had been tempered once more by the dark attribute Origin Law.

It flicked its tail gently, and the trajectory of its tail sweeping through the air left a hair-thin dark rift. The rift existed for less than an instant before closing on its own, but in that fleeting moment, all light at the edge of the rift was completely devoured.

Purple Gold Rank Eight.

It had only improved by three minor ranks compared to before the refinement.

From the Peak of Purple Gold Rank Five to Purple Gold Rank Eight, this leap would certainly be considered a huge improvement for an ordinary beast, but compared to Little Fire soaring through seven ranks in one go or Little Skylark jumping several ranks during its evolution, the improvement in Nether Abyss's Realm seemed relatively low-key.

But Jiang Yun knew better than anyone that the core of this improvement for Nether Abyss was never the Realm.

It was the Law.

The gap between Origin Laws and ordinary Laws was like the difference between iron Ore and tempered steel.

For the same Move, the power unleashed when driven by ordinary dark attribute Spiritual Qi versus dark attribute Origin Law could not be mentioned in the same breath.

More importantly, mastering the Origin Law meant that the dark attribute power of Nether Abyss had jumped out of the level of borrowing Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and entered the level of resonating with the Laws of heaven and earth through its own Laws.

Even though it was only Purple Gold Rank Eight now and could only use the rudimentary form of the Origin Law, the combat power that this rudimentary Origin Law could erupt with was definitely not something that ordinary dark attribute Spiritual Qi could compare to.

It was like throwing a punch; an ordinary person could only rely on muscle strength, but a beast that had mastered the Origin Law would have its fist wrapped in a layer of Law power capable of tearing through space.

How could they compare?

"Nether Abyss."

Jiang Yun's Divine Sense condensed into a figure within the Beast Taming Space, landing before Nether Abyss.

Nether Abyss raised its head, those deep purple eyes gazing quietly at Jiang Yun.

As always, it did not make any unnecessary sound, but Jiang Yun could clearly perceive the emotions transmitted from it through their contract.

It was a confidence so steady it was almost cold, a certainty that only appeared after having made full preparations.

If Little Fire was like a volcano ready to erupt at any moment, and Little Skylark was like a gale that came and went without a trace, then Nether Abyss was a bottomless dark abyss.

It never loudly declared its existence, but when you truly needed it, it was always there—quiet, steady, and deadly.

"That Azure Ancient Dragon outside, Little Fire and Little Skylark cannot take it down."

Jiang Yun came straight to the point without any unnecessary preamble.

"I need you to step onto the field."

There was no fluctuation in Nether Abyss's deep purple pupils; it just nodded extremely calmly.

A brief thought was transmitted through the contract into Jiang Yun's Sea of Consciousness, the meaning as clear as if it were speaking right in his ear.

"Leave it to me."

No unnecessary nonsense, no deliberate ostentation, just those three words.

But it was precisely these three words that deepened the curve of Jiang Yun's mouth.

He reached out and patted Nether Abyss gently on the head, and then his Divine Sense retreated from the Beast Taming Space like a receding tide.

When Jiang Yun opened his eyes again, the fierce battle in the challenge space was still continuing.

Little Fire's Water-Fire Dragon Domain and Little Skylark's Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain were still frantically contending against the pressure of the Azure Ancient Dragon high above in the firmament.

At the boundaries of the four Domains, golden flames and wind-thunder intertwined and collided, exploding into wave after wave of blinding energy shockwaves.

There were several wounds deep enough to see flesh on Little Fire's golden dragon body, and golden dragon blood was still dripping from the corner of its mouth, but it still held its dragon head high, Water-Fire Dragon Breath constantly condensing and being spat from its dragon mouth, desperately pinning down the Azure Ancient Dragon's frontal firepower.

There were also several charred marks on Little Skylark's silver-gray divine feathers, traces left by being grazed by the aftermath of the Azure Dragon Breath, but its speed had not diminished in the slightest; every dive carried ten thousand tons of thunder, constantly harassing the opponent from the flank.

The fight was ugly.

But they were holding on, not retreating a single step.

Jiang Yun looked up at the firmament, his lips moving beneath the silver-white mask, and a deep, powerful summons rolled out from the depths of his throat.

"Nether Abyss!! It's your turn to enter the field!!"

The moment the words fell.

The sky of the entire challenge space suddenly darkened.

It was not obscured by dark clouds, nor covered by shadows, but a more essential, more fundamental change.

It was as if someone had turned down the brightness of the entire world by thirty percent in an instant.

All light—sunlight, the firelight of golden flames, the electric light of wind-thunder, the cold light on the Azure Ancient Dragon's scales—all became a little dimmer at the same moment, as if their light was being silently devoured by some invisible existence.

Then, in the Void Realm behind Jiang Yun, a rift opened silently.

That rift was completely different from the golden flame space rift when Little Fire appeared, and it bore no resemblance to Little Skylark's wind-thunder vortex.

It had no ostentatious sound or light effects, no surging flames, no thundering roars, not even a trace of excess energy fluctuation.

It just quietly, silently, and slowly sliced a long, narrow opening in the Void Realm, like a silent, invisible blade had lightly sliced across a sheet of rice paper soaked in ink.

But it was precisely this quietness that was more heart-stopping than any violent entrance.

Because inside the rift, there was nothing.

It was not darkness, not the Void Realm, but a nothingness purer than darkness.

Light would automatically disappear upon reaching the edge of the rift, sound would automatically annihilate upon reaching the vicinity of the rift, and even the Spiritual Qi permeating the surrounding air would be completely devoured the moment it touched the edge of the rift.

That rift was like a loophole in the Laws of heaven and earth, a bottomless abyss capable of devouring everything.

And within this silent nothingness, two deep purple lights slowly lit up.

Those were the eyes of Nether Abyss.

It walked slowly out of the rift, its posture as calm as if it were taking a stroll in its own backyard.

Its jet-black body was slender and refined, the fluid muscle lines shimmering with a faint, deep purple halo under the dim light. The tips of every hair, black as ink, shimmered with a faint, almost invisible dark purple fluorescence, as if what flowed beneath its fur was not blood, but liquid dark attribute Origin Law.

When it had completely walked out of the rift, the space rift behind it silently closed on its own, leaving not a trace.

It did not roar, did not spread its wings, and did not release any active pressure.

It just stood there, quietly standing on the hill in front of Jiang Yun, its tail swaying slowly behind it.

But it was this posture, so quiet it was almost low-key, that made the light in the entire challenge space continue to dim.

It was not that it was deliberately doing anything, but its very existence was an absolute negation of light.

Light-Devouring Body, the natural enemy of light.

And at the very same instant that Nether Abyss fully appeared, a sense of oppression, completely different from the Dragon Might and Divine Peng pressure but equally suffocating, spread silently from its body.

It was a pressure that was more ancient, more profound, and closer to the Origin of the world.

It did not tyrannically crush everything like Dragon Might, nor did it piercingly penetrate the firmament like the Divine Peng pressure; rather, it was a shuddering sensation that made one feel cold from the depths of their Soul, as if one's throat were being gently strangled by an invisible hand.

The moment Little Fire saw Nether Abyss, a complex look flashed through its golden dragon eyes.

There was surprise, relief, and even a hint of schadenfreude.

It let out a low dragon roar in the direction of Nether Abyss, the meaning clearly transmitted through the contract into Jiang Yun's Sea of Consciousness, which roughly translated to:

"Lazybones, you're finally awake? I thought you were going to keep lying there until we finished fighting."

Little Skylark let out a clear, melodious cry in mid-air, its wings slightly retracting while circling at high speed, its pale golden eyes glancing at Nether Abyss—the look in its eyes was full of disdain for taking so long to arrive and a sense of urgency to get to work.

Apparently, Little Skylark had some complaints about the fact that Nether Abyss was lying comfortably in the Beast Taming Space refining the Law Crystal, while it and the fire dragon were fighting for their lives outside.

However, now was not the time to quibble over this; it just used that cry to express that it would settle the score with it later, immediately turning its gaze back to the Azure Ancient Dragon in the firmament.

And when the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom in the firmament noticed this newly appeared little thing on the ground, which was barely over two meters long, its dark golden vertical pupils finally underwent a change.

Yes, a change.

This was the first time since Jiang Yun entered the challenge space for the second time that the Azure Ancient Dragon phantom's pupils displayed an emotional fluctuation that could be called a reaction, other than indifference.

The moment those vertical pupils saw Nether Abyss, they narrowed extremely slightly, as if it had seen a variable that shouldn't have appeared here.

But what was truly shocking was not this.

It was its size.

It had grown bigger again.

Nether Abyss's Realm was Purple Gold Rank Eight, two minor ranks higher than Little Fire.

According to the rules of the Ten Thousand Beast Battle Formation, the phantom's Realm was always based on the beast with the highest Realm summoned by the Beast Tamer, stacking ten Realm levels upward.

Before Nether Abyss appeared, the highest Realm was Little Fire at Purple Gold Rank Six, and the Azure Ancient Dragon's Realm was Diamond Rank Seven.

Now that Nether Abyss had appeared, the highest Realm had become Purple Gold Rank Eight; with ten Realm levels stacked on top, the Azure Ancient Dragon's Realm soared directly from Diamond Rank Seven to Diamond Rank Nine.

Diamond Rank Nine.

It was only one step away from the Falling Star Rank.

With the Realm climbing again, the Azure Ancient Dragon's size also surged by several times again.

Its body length expanded all the way from seventy meters to over ninety meters, and the shadow of its outstretched wings almost covered more than half of the sky in the challenge space.

Those ancient cyan patterns on the dragon scales became deeper and more complex under the infusion of Law power, each line emitting a dim cyan light.

And the invisible Dragon Might around its body had reached a concentration that was almost tangible.

The air let out a low, overwhelmed hum under the crushing weight of the Dragon Might; the rubble on the ground was crushed into powder, and the mountain stream in the distance was actually flowing backward under the Dragon Might.

This was the Diamond Rank Nine Azure Ancient Dragon.

Compared to just a moment ago, it was more than a notch stronger.

Jiang Yun stood on the hill, looking up at the colossal shadow in the firmament that had surged in size and whose aura had risen once again, his brows knitting together involuntarily.

He had anticipated that Nether Abyss's appearance would cause the Azure Ancient Dragon's Realm to climb again, but he hadn't expected it to soar directly to Diamond Rank Nine.

This gap was indeed too large, so large that even he himself hesitated for a moment.

But it was only for a moment.

Because the next moment, Jiang Yun's gaze shifted away from the Azure Ancient Dragon and fell back onto the three beasts in front of him.

Although Little Fire was covered in wounds, its Battle Intent remained high; the golden flames overflowing from its dragon mouth had already scorched the ground beneath its feet into scorched earth.

Although Little Skylark had several more scorch marks on its divine feathers, its speed had not diminished in the slightest, and it was currently gathering momentum in the air, ready to strike.

And Nether Abyss.

It was still in that posture, quiet to the point of being almost indifferent, its deep purple pupils calmly locked onto the giant dragon in the firmament that was countless times larger than itself, with not a trace of fear in its eyes, not even a single fluctuation of emotion visible.

Three.

Three ancient Divine Beast Bloodline beasts, and all were at the Purple Gold Rank.

Jiang Yun's brows slowly smoothed out, and a faint smile curled up at the corners of his mouth again.

So what if it is Diamond Rank Nine?

He had the Light-Devouring Domain to devour light-attribute energy to feed back into itself, the Death Qi Domain to continuously weaken the opponent's all-attribute stats, the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain to bring down ten thousand tons of thunder from the sky, the Fire Domain Cage and the Extinguishing Thunder Prison for dual control, and the Divine Peng Void-Rending Slash to ignore thirty percent of defense and forcibly dismantle dragon scales, as well as Nether Abyss's bizarre and unpredictable Shadow Shuttle and Gaze of the Dead.

With three beasts joining forces, Domain overlapping, control chaining, and output coordination, even a True Dragon remnant Soul at Diamond Rank Nine might not be impossible to kill.

If Nine Flames Burning Heaven is broken, then just cast it again.

If the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash cannot cut through the Reverse Scale, then use the Light-Devouring Domain to weaken it first before cutting.

No matter how powerful the Azure Dragon Breath is, can it deal with three opponents attacking from different directions at the same time?

No matter how tyrannical the Reverse Scale Guardian defense is, can it withstand the multiple armor-breaking effects of the Void-Rending Slash that ignores defense, plus Death Qi erosion, plus the Gaze of the Dead?

Can it?

Jiang Yun did not believe it could.

And at this moment, outside the Star Pavilion.

When that long, narrow dark rift opened silently in the image of the mystic light mirror, the clamor of the thousands of Liu family disciples on the plaza dropped from boiling to freezing point within a single breath.

It wasn't that they had quieted down, but they had been frightened into silence.

It was like a flock of chattering sparrows suddenly seeing a goshawk sweep over their heads.

It was not because they didn't want to chirp, but because instinct had reacted for their brains, clutching everyone's throats.

They couldn't react for a moment.

They couldn't scream out...