Chapter 471 Re-entering the Challenge! The Three Beasts Return in Full Strength!

Jiang Yun reached out, his fingertips once again touching the challenge Restriction in front of the display stand.

The moment his fingertips touched the Restriction.

A silver-gray light erupted from the display stand once more.

A strange sensation of spatial distortion surged in from all directions; the air, light, and sound were stretched, folded, and rearranged in an instant.

When his vision refocused.

Jiang Yun was already standing in that boundless silver-gray Void Realm.

Beneath his feet was a plane of the Void Realm that felt intangible; every step he took sent ripples of silver spreading outward.

Countless twisted rays of spatial light flowed slowly all around, sometimes weaving into a web, other times scattering apart.

In the very center of the challenge space, the phantom of the giant python, woven from spatial rifts, still floated silently.

Its thirty-zhang-long body flickered between solid and void, surrounded by a slowly rotating storm of silver-gray spatial fragments, which refracted countless afterimages of different Void Realms.

Void Guardian.

Everything remained unchanged.

It had been reset.

The dark purple Law mark that Nether Abyss had struck into the core of its body during the previous battle had vanished without a trace, and the several-foot-long gash that Little Skylark had carved into it with the Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash had completely healed.

Its aura had returned to silence, its Realm had not yet been activated, and it looked like an ancient statue sleeping in the Void Realm.

Jiang Yun exhaled softly.

The corners of his mouth curled up slightly.

"You have reset, and my Beast Taming has also recovered. In the last round, you caught me off guard with a triple combo; this round, it is my turn."

His voice was very soft.

Yet it carried an unquestionable certainty.

Meanwhile, outside the mystic light mirror.

When that familiar silver-gray light brightened from the mystic light mirror once more, and that boundless silver-gray Void Realm appeared on the screen again.

The air in the entire Liu Family square seemed to be suddenly gripped by an invisible hand, then crushed and exploded.

"Holy crap!!!"

A young Disciple of the Liu Family sprang up from the crowd, his finger pointing at the mystic light mirror, trembling violently, his voice cracking from excessive excitement.

"He went in!! Grand Tutor Dongxuan went in again!! How long has it been?! Ten minutes?! Not even ten minutes!! His Beast Taming recovered already?! That was an injury from a direct hit by a spatial rift!! When that flying Wind-Thunder Divine Roc blocked the spatial turbulence, a large patch of its feathers was shattered, and traces of spatial erosion remained on the wounds; that was not just a surface injury, it was a laceration caused by spatial Law!! It recovered in ten minutes?!"

"As expected!! I knew he didn't give up!! He didn't exit the challenge space because he couldn't win; he was waiting for his Beast Taming to recover!! It was the same when he fought the Azure Ancient Dragon last time; after the fight, all three Beast Taming were fully recovered in half an incense stick of time! This round, fighting the Void Guardian, he took a ten-minute break and is going back in for a second round!!"

Another Disciple clutched his head with both hands, fingers digging into his hair, his face frozen in a daze as his worldview was repeatedly crushed.

"Ten minutes... I get bitten by a mosquito and the bump itches for half a day, yet his Divine Beast Beast Taming gets beaten to a pulp and heals in ten minutes? Is this even a Beast Taming? Is he raising Beast Taming like Origin Qi bombs?! Could it be that Grand Tutor Dongxuan has some Heaven-Defying healing Formation installed in his Beast Taming Space? Or are his Beast Taming not living creatures at all, but Law Puppets capable of self-repair?"

"What nonsense are you spouting! Aren't those three Beast Taming alive? Just now, that flying Wind-Thunder Divine Roc cried out when it blocked the spatial rift; the pain in that cry could make one's heart tremble even through the mystic light mirror! That was real pain! It was really injured! Yet they can heal all their wounds within ten minutes; that is even more absurd than Law Puppets!"

The clamor in the square was like a boiling pot of oil, one wave higher than the next.

The faces of the ordinary Disciples were filled with fanaticism, shock, and disbelief; they stretched their necks, staring fixedly at the silver-gray Void Realm in the mystic light mirror, wishing they could press their eyeballs against the screen.

And in the area where the Deacons and Elder Managers were, the depth of the shock was clearly a level deeper.

"As expected..."

The white-haired Deacon Elder leaned on his cane with both hands, his knuckles turning blue-white from the effort.

"I said just now that when Grand Tutor Dongxuan exited and sat down on the spot, it was not giving up; he was waiting for his Beast Taming to recover. Now that he has triggered the challenge Restriction again, as long as we look at the state of his Beast Taming when he summons them, everything will be clear."

"If those three Beast Taming appear in their prime state again..."

The Elder Manager beside him took a deep breath and did not finish the second half of the sentence, but everyone present knew what he wanted to say.

If those three Beast Taming appeared in their prime state again, it would not be due to Medicinal Pill.

No Medicinal Pill could allow three Purple Gold Rank Divine Beast Bloodline Beast Taming to recover from serious injuries twice in such a short time.

There was only one explanation.

"His Beast Taming Space."

The white-haired Deacon Elder slowly spat out these words, his voice carrying a trace of shock he himself could hardly believe.

"Once those three Beast Taming are injured, they can fully recover in an extremely short time upon returning to the Beast Taming Space. In all my years, I have never seen or even heard of such a recovery characteristic. This is no longer in the category of a Genius; a Genius refers to having higher talent than others. He has directly changed the underlying rules of Beast Taming recovery. He is simply not an existence of the same dimension."

"But if this guess is true..."

Another Elder Manager's voice carried a subtle tremor.

"Then Grand Tutor Dongxuan's fighting style is too terrifying. Others fear consumption during wheel battles, but he does not. Others fear that Beast Taming injuries will affect subsequent battles, but he does not. Others get weaker the more they fight, but he gets stronger, because his Beast Taming constantly accumulate experience and improve coordination during battle, while injuries and consumption can be reset at any time. This means as long as he cannot be killed in one wave, he can have an infinite refill until he grinds his opponent to death."

The Elder Managers looked at each other, and all saw a trace of horror in each other's eyes.

And on the high platform where the Grand Elder were, the atmosphere had completely frozen.

"He went in... He really went in again..."

A conservative Grand Elder muttered to himself, the expression on his face as if he had been forced to drink a whole bottle of aged vinegar—sour, astringent, and bitter.

He had just been laughing loudly because the void seed was preserved, but the laughter had not even fully swallowed down his throat when it was abruptly blocked by the scene in the mystic light mirror.

"Ten minutes... only ten minutes... I saw the injuries of that Divine Roc clearly; the spatial turbulence sprayed out by the spatial rift hit it directly. If that kind of injury were on my Beast Taming, it wouldn't recover without ten days or half a month of careful nursing. He stood up again in ten minutes; no, he wasn't even standing, he sat for ten minutes, then stood up and walked directly into the challenge space! What does this mean? It means those ten minutes were not treatment time; he was just waiting himself! Perhaps his Beast Taming recovered even earlier!"

Another conservative Grand Elder clutched his chest, his voice trembling.

Liu Lie stood in the center of the crowd, his face devoid of expression.

It was not calmness; it was that he did not know what expression to make.

The corners of his mouth stopped twitching, his brows stopped knitting, and even his eyelids stopped jumping. The whole person was like a stone statue with its Soul drained, standing stiffly there, hands hanging powerlessly at his sides, eyes staring straight at the mystic light mirror, his lips moving slightly but unable to make any sound.

His assertion that his Wind-Thunder Divine Roc would absolutely not recover in a day or two had been blasted to dust by Jiang Yun's second entry before the sound of his words had even fully dissipated in the air.

Just like the tea cup fragments at his feet.

Broken again and again, stepped on again and again, already shattered to the point where they couldn't even be picked up.

He now only could pray for.

Entering is one thing, maybe the Beast Taming haven't recovered yet?

Maybe he just went in to scout the path first?

Maybe when he summons the Beast Taming, that Wind-Thunder Divine Roc will still be injured?

But a voice in his heart was telling him, stop dreaming.

"Elder Lie."

Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan's voice suddenly rang out, flat and calm, yet it was like a knife precisely stabbing into Liu Lie's heart.

"It seems your two-day recovery theory is going to fall through again."

Liu Lie's mouth finally twitched once.

It only twitched once, and then he returned to his statue-like state.

And Elder Liu Lan stood beside Liu Qingyun, arms crossed, her lively eyes locked firmly on the back of the young man in the challenge space through the mystic light mirror.

A faint, indistinct smile hung on the corners of her mouth.

In that smile were a few parts anticipation, a few parts appreciation, and a few parts of mischief waiting to watch the show.

"Family Head."

She did not turn her head, only speaking in a voice that only the two of them could hear.

"He went in. Next, as long as he summons his Beast Taming, all previous guesses can be confirmed. What do you think?"

Liu Qingyun stood with his hands behind his back, his gaze fixed intently on the mystic light mirror.

"Wait."

He only said one word, but his heart was pounding wildly.

Not just him; at this moment, the hearts of all the Grand Elder on the entire Liu Family high platform were pounding wildly.

They were all waiting, waiting for the moment Jiang Yun summoned his Beast Taming.

That moment would directly determine the fate of the two remaining Clan-Protecting Treasures on the seventh level of the Liu Family.

In another corner of the crowd, Master Fu Shan and Elder Mo also held their breath.

"Brother Fu Shan."

Elder Mo lowered his voice.

"It is about to be confirmed."

Master Fu Shan nodded slowly, a sharp glint flashing in his cloudy old eyes.

"If those three Beast Taming do appear in their prime state in his subsequent battle, it will be enough to prove that his Beast Taming Space possesses a Heaven-Defying recovery characteristic that transcends our understanding. Such a Beast Tamer will surely become the pinnacle of the continent one day. Being able to witness the growth process of such a Prodigy with our own eyes can be considered the good fortune of us two Old Fellows."

"More than that."

Elder Mo gave a wry smile.

"Runic Martial Dao, Formation comprehension, Grand Tutor Level Appraisal Technique, plus a Beast Taming Space with Heaven-Defying recovery characteristics—if all these are true, then the word 'Prodigy' is no longer enough to summarize it. That is one of a kind throughout the ages. It is a scene worth us two Old Fellows remembering for a lifetime."

...

Inside the challenge space.

Jiang Yun stood on the boundless silver-gray Void Realm.

He was completely unaware of the monstrous waves stirred up in the outside world because he had entered the challenge space again.

From beginning to end, his gaze was locked on only one target.

The phantom of the giant python in front of him, woven from spatial rifts.

Void Guardian.

The reset Void Guardian.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath.

Summoning Little Fire and the other two Beast Taming.

Three rays of light of different colors burst out simultaneously from the entrance of his Beast Taming Space on his chest.

The three beasts returned to the challenge space once again.

Three beasts.

In Peak condition.

Majestic and awe-inspiring.

Unstoppable.

The very moment the three beasts appeared.

The aura of the Void Guardian erupted violently.

Silver-gray light shot up into the sky from its giant python body woven from spatial rifts, its aura climbing step by step as if riding a rocket.

Purple Gold Rank, Diamond Rank...

It surged all the way from a dormant state, finally stopping steadily at Diamond Rank Seven.

Nothing had changed.

The phantom had reset; the Realm was still the same, and the skills were still the same.

Only Jiang Yun's gaze and tactics had changed.

Jiang Yun stood in the Void Realm, with the three beasts taking their respective positions around him.

Little Fire firmly occupied the mid-range position, deploying the Water-Fire Dragon Domain in front of it, but without aggressively covering half the battlefield like in the previous match.

Nether Abyss had already merged into the shadows at the edge of a spatial rift, its aura completely concealed, not even a trace of energy fluctuation leaking out.

Little Skylark circled high above the battlefield; the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain had not yet been deployed, but the rotating thunderstorm patterns in its pupils had already begun to accelerate.

"Listen well."

Jiang Yun's voice entered the consciousness of the three beasts simultaneously through the Soul link.

"The mistakes of the previous match will not happen a second time. This match, Little Skylark, you take the lead. Not for crowd control, not for supplementary damage, but for suppression. As soon as the battle begins, compress the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain to within three hundred zhang of it, and let ten thousand thunderbolts roar simultaneously to disrupt its spatial positioning. If it doesn't move, blast it; if it moves, chase it and blast it. Keep it under the impact of lightning every single moment. Its Void Stealth has a sixty percent evasion rate when moving, but if its spatial structure is continuously bombarded by lightning, that evasion probability will be greatly reduced."

"Nether Abyss, don't rush to break its defenses. In the last match, you applied marks too quickly; you exposed all your trump cards before it even adapted to your rhythm. This match, you must wait—wait for my command. Your task is to pinpoint its skill pre-casting animation, and the moment it prepares to release Void Anchoring or Void Collapse, strike from the shadows to interrupt it. Remember, it's an interruption, not a defense break. Once interrupted, immediately retreat into the shadows; do not be greedy for hits."

"Little Fire, the frontal firepower is left to you, but you are not allowed to get too close. Maintain a mid-range distance, and use Water-Fire Dragon Breath and Dragon Flame Burst Kill to blast it from afar. Your task is not to kill in one hit, but to create sustained output pressure, forcing it to use its skills. Once it uses its skills, Nether Abyss will have the opportunity to interrupt. But if it tries to anchor you, retreat immediately; do not take its control effects head-on."

Three consciousnesses sounded simultaneously in the Soul link.

Little Fire raised its Dragon head, emitting a low and belligerent Dragon roar from its throat.

"Rest assured, Master! In this match, Little Fire won't be reckless! Little Fire will just stand in the distance and blast it, blasting it until it has nowhere to hide!"

Little Skylark raised its slender neck, the thunderstorm patterns in its pupils suddenly accelerating their rotation.

"The lead is mine. Once the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain is deployed, its spatial positioning accuracy will drop by at least thirty percent. Even if it manages to release Void Anchoring, the deviation will be enough for Nether Abyss to dodge."

Nether Abyss's response remained brief, but every word carried a cold and chilling Battle Intent.

"I will not give it another window to anchor."

Jiang Yun's lips curled slightly, he raised his right hand, and clenched his five fingers abruptly in the Void Realm.

"Very good."

"This match! Is our home ground."

And at this moment.

Outside the mystic light mirror.

When the three beasts appeared in the challenge space in their Peak condition, the entire Liu family square fell into a dead silence for a full three breaths.

That kind of dead silence was not just quiet.

It was everyone losing their voices simultaneously.

Because their brains could no longer process the information before their eyes, and their mouths could not keep up with the speed of their eyes.

Then, the square exploded.

"Full health!! All three are at full health!! Look at that Wind-Thunder Divine Roc, there isn't a single scratch on its feathers!! Ten minutes ago, it was beaten to a pulp in the spatial turbulence of the void rift!! Now, you can't even find a scar!! What kind of recovery speed is this?! What kind of divine Beast Taming Space is this?! Is this even reasonable?!"

"I said it!! I said Grand Tutor Dongxuan wasn't giving up!! He was waiting for recovery!! In the last match against the Azure Ancient Dragon, it took half an incense stick of time to recover; in this match against the Void Guardian, it took ten minutes to recover. This is clearly his standard procedure!! To him, it doesn't matter if they are injured; as long as they can retreat to the Beast Taming Space, they can be at full health!!"

"Beast Taming Space!! His Beast Taming Space definitely has a Heaven-Defying recovery trait!! Without such a trait, how could three Purple Gold Rank Divine Beast beasts be fully restored twice in such a short time?! This cannot be Medicinal Pill; even the most Heaven-Defying Medicinal Pill has usage limits!! This cannot be a treasure—even the strongest treasure requires activation time!! This can only be his own ability!! It is the recovery effect inherent to his Beast Taming Space!!"

"Don't you realize yet?! This means Grand Tutor Dongxuan's fighting style is not afraid of attrition at all!! He can trial and error infinitely; if he can't win, he retreats to the Beast Taming Space to recover, then fights again!! As long as he is not killed instantly, any opponent can be worn down to death by him!!"

"Too Heaven-Defying... really too Heaven-Defying..."

And on the high platform of the Grand Elders.

After the dead silence came a series of irrepressible exclamations and wails.

"It really recovered... all three have recovered..."

A Grand Elder's voice sounded as if it were squeezed out of his throat, every word carrying the dryness of sandpaper friction.

"His Beast Taming Space can really allow beasts to fully recover in such a short time. This kind of recovery speed, let alone the Eastern Region, even those Saint-Grade Beast Tamers in the Central Continent might not be able to do it."

"Now, the only thing that can be proven is one thing: allowing a beast to recover from near-death to Peak in half an incense stick of time is not Medicinal Pill, not a treasure, but the effect of his own Beast Taming Space."

Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan said slowly, his voice was calm, but his hands clasped in front of him had unconsciously tightened..

"The rank of his Beast Taming Space has probably exceeded the cognition of all of us; I'm afraid you won't find a second Beast Tamer with this kind of recovery ability in the entire Eastern Region."

Liu Lie said nothing.

His lips were moving slightly, as if repeating something silently, but no one could hear what he was saying anymore.

His entire being was withering at a speed visible to the naked eye; that withering was not physical weakness, but a complete surrender emanating from the depths of his Soul, having been repeatedly rubbed into the ground by reality.

Every word he had said before.

The two-day limit, the beasts couldn't possibly recover, just going in to take a look.

At this moment, they all turned into invisible slaps, repeatedly slapping him on the face.

He had already given up.

Completely given up.

This Grand Elder, who was once the most active conservative, just wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into at this moment.

And Liu Qingyun, he finally moved.

He slowly, slowly let out a long breath.

That breath was squeezed out from the depths of his chest, passed through his throat and mouth, and turned into a sigh so light it was almost inaudible in the air.

There was no expression on his face anymore—not calm, but numbness.

It was that deep numbness of having already foreseen the outcome but still having to watch it happen.

From the moment Jiang Yun made the beasts recover in half an incense stick of time in the ancestral land until now, he had used up all the emotions of shock, heartache, and unwillingness that he should have had.

At this moment, only one thought remained in his mind.

"Sure enough... the void seed is also lost."

Elder Liu Lan stood by his side, looked at the majestic three beasts in the mystic light mirror, then looked at Liu Qingyun's numb face, her lips twitched slightly, and she very sensibly did not say anything.

But in her lively eyes, a light brighter than ever before was flickering.

In another corner of the crowd, Master Fu Shan and Elder Mo simultaneously let out two almost identical sighs.

"Confirmed."

Elder Mo's voice was low and solemn.

"Beast Taming Space, Heaven-Defying recovery trait. Rune talent, Dao Comprehension Ability, Grand Tutor Level Appraisal Technique, three Divine Beast Bloodline beasts, plus this one. I have lived my whole life, and for the first time, I feel that the word 'Genius' is an understatement for him."

Master Fu Shan nodded slowly, a flash of unprecedented solemnity passing through the depths of his murky old eyes.

"Remember today. Remember this moment. We two Old Fellows are witnessing a Prodigy who is destined to shake the continent in the future, in his sixteenth year, in the Liu family's treasure vault, how he is overturning everyone's cognition step by step. This name will sooner or later resound throughout the entire continent."

And at the moment when everyone had different thoughts.

In the mystic light mirror.

Inside the challenge space.

The Void Guardian's aura had completely stabilized at Diamond Rank Seven.

Its giant python body woven from spatial rifts slowly stretched in the Void Realm, and the silver-gray storm of spatial fragments around it accelerated its rotation.

It had no self-awareness, but it had the battle instinct of a guardian.

When the three beasts appeared before it again in their Peak condition, it seemed to sense that this time, the opponents were somewhat different from the last time.

Exactly where they were different.

It had no consciousness to distinguish.

But it would soon know.

Jiang Yun stood in the Void Realm, the corners of his lips under the silver-white mask slightly curling upward.

His gaze pierced through the Void Realm, firmly locked onto the circular hole on the Void Guardian formed by the convergence of spatial rifts.

"Little Skylark!! Open the Calamity Domain!!"

Little Skylark moved in response.

The Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain unfolded violently beneath its wings.

This time, it did not cover half the battlefield like the previous match, but was precisely compressed within a range of three hundred zhang around the Void Guardian with an extremely subtle radius.

Compression means density.

Within three hundred zhang, every inch of space was enduring the simultaneous impact of ten thousand thunderbolts.

Thunder light intertwined with azure and pale purple exploded in the Void Realm, creating brilliant electric sparks one after another, and the spatial structure around the Void Guardian began to show visible disorder under the continuous bombardment of thunder.

Jiang Yun's gaze was locked onto every movement of the Void Guardian without blinking.

"Commence battle!!"