Chapter 472 Perfect Tactical Overwhelm! The Seed of Space Acquired!

"Commence battle!"

Jiang Yun's command exploded in the silvery-gray Void Realm like a thunderclap.

Before the words had even faded, Little Skylark launched the first attack.

It had completed its power-up the instant before Jiang Yun gave the order, and with a sudden flap of its thirty-meter wingspan in the Void Realm, the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain roared into existence.

It did not blanket half the battlefield like in the previous match; instead, it compressed precisely within a radius of three hundred zhang around the Void Guardian with exquisite control.

A smaller range meant a massive increase in density. Ten thousand bolts of lightning, interwoven with azure and pale purple, exploded simultaneously within the three-hundred-zhang spherical area, subjecting every inch of space to the continuous impact of violent electricity.

The Void Guardian's giant python body, woven from space rifts, showed visible instability the moment the lightning detonated.

The storm of space fragments flowing around it trembled violently under the impact of the lightning. The spatial structure between the fragments was repeatedly torn by the lightning's magnetic field and shockwaves, and fine cracks began to appear at the seams of the space rifts that should have been perfectly interlocked.

Its passive ability.

Void Stealth, which grants a sixty percent chance to dodge non-locked-on attacks while moving.

However, the core prerequisite for this passive ability is the stability of the spatial structure.

Although the simultaneous roar of ten thousand lightning bolts from the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain could not directly injure it, it could continuously disrupt the spatial structure around it, invisibly weakening its passive dodge probability layer by layer.

The Void Guardian possessed no self-awareness, but it had the combat instincts of a guardian.

When the three-hundred-zhang space around it was sealed by lightning, its first reaction was exactly the same as in the previous match.

The silvery-gray storm of space fragments suddenly converged before it, and a space rift several zhang wide was torn open in front of it with a boom.

Space Rift, an opening probing skill with an added space erosion effect.

The target of that spatial turbulence was still aimed at the one among Jiang Yun's three beasts that appeared easiest to hit.

Little Fire.

But this time, Little Fire did not take it head-on like in the previous match.

"Little Fire, shift left twenty zhang, use Dragon Breath to interrupt it."

Jiang Yun's voice rang out calmly and precisely within the Soul link.

Little Fire's massive dragon body twisted sharply in mid-air. As the Water-Fire Dragon Domain unfolded at its side, its body had already shifted a full twenty zhang to the left. The silvery-gray turbulence erupting from the space rift roared past the edge of its tail fin, tearing a long crack in the distant Void Realm, but it didn't even touch a single one of its dragon scales.

And while dodging.

Little Fire opened its dragon maw wide, and the gold-and-blue interwoven Water-Fire Dragon Breath in its throat erupted like a machine gun.

It wasn't the full-power Dragon Flame Burst Kill, but three precise, mid-range suppression-type Dragon Breaths. The energy orbs, interwoven with golden flames and blue water, bombarded the Void Guardian's face at high velocity.

The Void Guardian instinctively twisted its body to dodge.

Its Void Stealth passive still retained a certain dodge probability while moving, but the spatial structure around it was being continuously impacted by Little Skylark's Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain, causing slight deviations in its spatial positioning.

Two of the three Dragon Breaths flew past the edge of its body, but the third slammed solidly into the seams of the space rifts in the middle of its body.

Golden flames exploded, and water vapor steamed.

Although it wasn't a full-power strike, the erosive power of the dual water-fire attributes still caused the Void Guardian's body to pause slightly.

And at that very moment when its body paused.

Behind it, a pair of dark purple pupils lit up silently.

Nether Abyss.

It emerged from the shadow of a space fragment illuminated by lightning, its slender, lean, jet-black leopard body like a phantom melded into the shadows.

But it didn't swipe its claws to break the defense like in the previous match; instead, it locked its dark purple Law pupils tightly onto the circular hole formed by the convergence of space rifts on the Void Guardian.

It was waiting.

Waiting for the Void Guardian's skill telegraph.

After being struck by Little Fire's Dragon Breath, the Void Guardian's body instinctively recoiled for an instant, and then blinding silvery-gray light lit up within that circular hole once again.

It was about to cast Void Anchoring.

In the previous match, it had relied on this skill to lock Nether Abyss, and then turned the battle around with a combo.

But this time, this was exactly the moment Nether Abyss had been waiting for.

The casting of Void Anchoring had an extremely brief telegraph.

It needed to pre-condense the power of space Laws around the target to form the prototype of the anchor chain.

This telegraph was extremely short, so short that it was almost impossible to catch in a normal battle.

But Nether Abyss had been locked by this skill once in the previous match, and it remembered every detail of that telegraph.

The Void Guardian's circular hole would shrink by half a circle before casting Anchoring, and the rotation speed of the space fragments around it would have a very brief acceleration.

Half-circle shrinkage.

Fragment acceleration.

Now.

Nether Abyss's figure suddenly vanished into the Void Realm.

Shadow Shuttle.

Not for a sneak attack, but for an interruption.

It cut in instantly from the shadows behind the Void Guardian, its dark purple sharp claws wrapped in the power of the dark attribute Origin Law, cutting into the core of the anchor chain that the Void Guardian was condensing from an extremely tricky angle.

That claw wasn't aimed at the body, but at the mass of silvery-gray space Law energy condensing in front of the Void Guardian.

The Origin Law penetration effect of Nether Claw acted directly on the forming Void Anchoring chain, shattering the not-yet-fully-condensed anchor chain from its core with a boom.

"Sshhh!"

A faint sound, like glass shattering, echoed through the Void Realm.

Void Anchoring was interrupted.

The Void Guardian's entire body showed obvious stiffness the moment the anchor chain shattered.

It wasn't stiffness caused by a control skill, but the Law backlash generated after its accumulated space Law power was forcibly interrupted.

Its giant python body, woven from space rifts, trembled violently in the Void Realm, and the rotation of the space fragment storm around it experienced a brief disorder.

After the claw interrupted it, Nether Abyss did not hesitate at all and once again melded into the shadows.

No greed for extra hits, no waiting for a second claw, not pursuing defense-breaking damage.

Strike and leave, crisp and clean, like an assassin's blade that returns to its sheath the moment it is drawn.

"Very good! Little Fire, take advantage of its opening, full firepower!"

Jiang Yun's command landed precisely at the moment the Void Guardian was stiff.

Little Fire had long been ready.

Dragon Flame Burst Kill!!!

This time it wasn't a probing mid-range Dragon Breath, but a true full-power eruption.

The gold-and-blue energy orb compressed to the extreme in its throat erupted the moment the Void Guardian was stiff. Not one, but three purple-gold destructive energy orbs arranged in a triangular formation slammed solidly into its body during the Void Guardian's un-dodgeable stiff window.

"Boom!!!"

"Boom!!!"

"Rumble!!!"

Three almost overlapping explosions roared in the Challenge Space.

The purple-gold destructive energy wave spread crazily in all directions with the Void Guardian as the center, and the shockwave interwoven with golden flames and water vapor blasted the surrounding silvery-gray space light until it twisted and fractured.

The Void Guardian's thirty-zhang-long giant python body was blasted backward by the explosive force. In the middle section of its body, where the three Dragon Flame Burst Kills had hit in succession, the structure woven by space rifts suffered large-scale collapse.

It had no flesh, no scales, but those collapsing space rifts were its wounds.

Silvery-gray space Law fragments splashed in all directions from the collapse, like ribbons of torn silver light.

At the same time that all three of Little Fire's Dragon Flame Burst Kills hit, Little Skylark's next wave of attacks poured down from high above.

Nirvana Thunder Prison!

Ten thousand thunderbolts fall together!

Countless purple lightning bolts poured down like a rainstorm from the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain. This time it wasn't area coverage, but precise single-point control.

Little Skylark compressed all ten thousand bolts of Nirvana Thunder Prison around the Void Guardian's body.

It wasn't to hurt it, but to use the lightning's spatial interference effect to completely lock its movement space.

Although lightning could not cause fatal damage to a space-attribute guardian, the magnetic field impact and spatial tremors produced by the roar of ten thousand thunderbolts were enough to prevent it from making any spatial movements for a short time.

The Void Guardian's giant python body struggled violently under the wrapping of ten thousand thunderbolts.

Its Void Stealth passive did indeed have a probability of dodging non-locked-on attacks while moving, but the coverage range of Nirvana Thunder Prison's ten thousand thunderbolts was too large and the density too high. Even with a sixty percent dodge probability, the remaining forty percent hit rate was enough to seal its movement space tightly.

Every time it wanted to move in a direction, dozens of lightning bolts would fall in that direction simultaneously, blasting the spatial structure into violent tremors.

It was trapped.

Not the forced imprisonment of Void Anchoring, but trapped alive in place by the physical impact and spatial interference of the lightning.

"Nether Abyss! Now!!!"

Jiang Yun's fist clenched tightly.

Nether Abyss emerged from the shadows again.

This time it didn't hold back.

Cold light surged in its dark purple Law pupils, and its Death Qi Domain roared into existence. Thick, dark purple Death Qi surged like a tide toward the Void Guardian, which was trapped by the ten thousand thunderbolts.

Phantoms of dozens of undead remnant Souls emerged from the Death Qi, sticking to the Void Guardian's collapsing body like maggots on bones. The Death Qi adhered to the surface of the space rifts layer by layer, continuously eroding the connection nodes between those rifts.

And Nether Abyss itself condensed all its Origin Law power onto its right claw.

Nether Claw!!!

With Origin Law penetration effect, with Death Qi erosion, the wound could not self-heal.

Its figure traced a dark arc in the air, cutting precisely into a space rift collapse zone blasted out by Little Fire's Dragon Flame Burst Kill.

That was the weakest defensive position on the Void Guardian's body.

The woven structure of the space rifts had already been blasted loose by the Dragon Flame, and the Death Qi was continuously eroding the stability of those nodes.

One claw fell.

"Sshhh!"

The dark purple sharp claw, wrapped in the full power of the Origin Law, cut precisely into the core node of that collapse zone.

This claw didn't just cut in an inch like in the previous match, but the entire claw sank into the interior of the Void Guardian's body.

The penetration effect of the Origin Law exploded inside the body, and the dark purple Law power crazily permeated in all directions along the space rifts, disintegrating the spatial structure inside the Void Guardian layer by layer from the inside.

The Void Guardian let out a silent shriek.

It had no vocal organs, but the entire circular hole woven from space rifts was twisting violently.

The storm of space fragments swirling around it completely lost control at that moment, and countless space fragments shot out in all directions like out-of-control flying knives.

Its body began to disintegrate over a large area.

It wasn't being blasted apart, but the space rifts that wove its body were breaking one by one, spreading from the node where Nether Abyss cut in toward both ends, just like a woven garment that had its core thread pulled out and was collapsing from the inside.

But it was not dead yet.

As a Diamond Rank Seven Guardian phantom, its vitality was far more than this.

It launched its final counterattack on the verge of collapse.

Void Collapse.

A fist-sized silvery-gray point of light suddenly lit up between Little Fire and Nether Abyss, and the moment it lit up, it began to crazily devour everything around it.

Space, light, air, and spirit power were all being pulled toward the center by that collapse point with irresistible gravity.

Before disintegrating, it wanted to drag the two most dangerous beasts into the Void black hole together.

But it forgot one thing.

Little Skylark was still there.

"Little Skylark! Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash! Split that collapse point!"

Jiang Yun's voice exploded within the Soul Link.

In that same instant, Little Skylark's wings fully unfurled to their limit.

Across its thirty-meter wingspan, the divine feathers simultaneously erupted with blinding lightning.

Thousands of thunderbolts within the Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain gathered frantically between its wings, and the cyan-purple Wind-Thunder blade light, long-charged at the wingtips, slashed out horizontally like a heavenly blade.

Ancient Wind-Thunder Wing Slash!!!

That wing slash, containing the Bloodline Power of the Ancient Wind-Thunder Divine Peng and a trace of spatial tearing power, did not strike the Void Guardian's body; instead, it struck precisely at the rapidly expanding silver-gray collapse point.

The blade light of the Wind-Thunder Wing Slash collided head-on with the gravity field of the Void Collapse in the Void Realm.

One was the spatial tearing power from a Legendary Bloodline skill, the other was the spatial collapse power from a Legendary burst skill.

Two completely different forces, both involving spatial Law, underwent a violent annihilation reaction at the point of collision.

The silver-gray collapse light point was split in two right down the middle by the Wind-Thunder blade light.

The two split collapse energies collapsed outward to their respective sides, exploding into two small silver-gray mushroom clouds in the Void Realm, yet they did not harm Little Fire or Nether Abyss in the slightest.

Void Collapse.

It had been split open.

The Void Guardian's final counterattack was completely neutralized by a single wing slash.

And at this moment, it had reached its end.

Nether Abyss's Law power continued to ravage its interior, Little Fire's Dragon Flame Burst Kill had recharged for another round, and Little Skylark's Wind-Thunder Calamity Domain was still firmly suppressing its spatial structure.

It had no way out.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath and slashed his right hand down violently.

"Little Fire! Nine Flames Burning Heaven!"

"Nether Abyss! Dark Energy Roar!"

"Time to finish this!!"

The nine reverse scales on Little Fire's dragon body simultaneously ignited with blinding golden flames in the same instant.

Nine Flames Burning Heaven descended once more.

Nine hundred-foot fire dragons peeled away from the reverse scales.

This time, they were not forming a fire array, but rather piercing toward the Void Guardian's disintegrating body from nine directions simultaneously like nine golden spears.

The golden flames wove together in the Void Realm into a sea of fire that burned the heavens and destroyed the earth, illuminating the entire battlefield in gold.

Meanwhile, in Nether Abyss's throat, a fist-sized dark purple energy ball had already condensed and formed.

Nether Abyss Dark Energy Roar!

Using the dark attribute Origin Law as a conduit, it compressed all the Death Qi, shadow power, and Soul erosion power around its body into a highly concentrated Origin Law energy ball.

A cold glint flashed in its dark purple Law eyes, and the Dark Energy Roar blasted out.

That dark purple energy ball did not emit an earth-shattering blast; instead, it followed a silent yet lethal trajectory, precisely smashing into the core rift on the Void Guardian's body that had been torn open by the Nether Claw.

It cut in through the rift, pierced through the woven structure of the spatial cracks, and struck directly into the deepest part of the body.

Immediately after.

"BOOM!!!!!"

A muffled, extreme explosion erupted from within the Void Guardian's body.

It didn't explode from the outside; it exploded from the inside.

That Dark Energy Roar, which had compressed all of Nether Abyss's Origin Law power, Death Qi erosion power, and Soul penetration power, erupted violently at the core spatial node within the Void Guardian.

Dark purple energy waves spread crazily in all directions from the inside, completely destroying those spatial cracks that were already on the verge of breaking at their roots.

At the same time.

Little Fire's nine golden fire dragons pierced into the Void Guardian's body from nine directions simultaneously.

The golden flames and the dark purple Law power converged, collided, and erupted together inside its body.

Two completely different destructive energies exploded simultaneously within the same body, and the resulting destructive power far exceeded the limit of either skill alone.

The Void Guardian's giant python body suddenly stiffened in that instant.

In the circular hole formed by the convergence of spatial cracks, a blinding silver-gray light shone for the last time.

Then, it went completely dim.

A crack began to spread outward from the core of its body.

Then a second, a third, a tenth, a hundredth... countless cracks bloomed simultaneously like a spiderweb across its thirty-zhang-long body, with blinding silver-gray light shining through every crack.

That was the Void Guardian phantom's Origin spatial Law power leaking out from the cracks.

It was disintegrating.

It was not turning into a sky full of golden light spots like the Azure Ancient Dragon, but in a more shocking, more spectacular way.

The entire Challenge Space was collapsing along with its disintegration.

Space began to shatter.

The silver-gray light rays that had originally flowed slowly in the Void Realm suddenly lost control as the Void Guardian's body disintegrated, shooting out in all directions like kites with broken strings.

Large areas of cracks appeared on the Void plane beneath its feet, with every fissure spreading deep down, revealing the bottomless void beneath the cracks.

The spatial barrier in the distance began to twist and deform, with ripples exploding one after another on the invisible barrier, and wherever the ripples passed, space itself collapsed inward.

The Void Guardian's thirty-zhang-long giant python body completely disintegrated in the collapsing space.

The spatial cracks on its body were torn, snapped, and annihilated one by one from the core by the energy inside.

The silver-gray threads that wove its body turned into countless fine spatial fragments the moment they snapped, and in the next instant, the fragments were blasted into even finer Law dust by the dual explosions of the Dark Energy Roar and Nine Flames Burning Heaven.

Silver-gray light rain surged into the sky from the center of the collapsing battlefield.

Those were not Soul light spots, but the final radiance emitted by spatial Law fragments as they annihilated.

The light rain drifted slowly through the Void Realm, and wherever it passed, the spatial structure trembled slightly, as if mourning the fall of a Void Guardian.

The entire Challenge Space was wailing...

Outside the mystic light mirror.

On the Liu family plaza.

The pupils of thousands of Liu family Disciples dilated in the same instant.

"Killed... it killed it!! It really killed it!! Grand Tutor Dongxuan killed the Void Guardian on his second challenge!!"

A young Disciple grabbed his companion's shoulders and shook them frantically, his voice sharp and distorted.

"It's different!! This time is completely different from the last one!! Did you see that?! In the last fight, Grand Tutor Dongxuan was locked down by Void Anchoring and almost flipped the car, but in this fight, the Void Guardian didn't even manage to release a single complete anchoring from start to finish!! The only time it prepared to release an anchor, it was directly interrupted by that dark beast!! It was being suppressed and beaten from start to finish, without even a chance to fight back!!"

"Too strong... truly too strong... The same three beasts, the same Diamond Rank Seven opponent, it was so difficult just a moment ago, and now it has become a complete, one-sided crush! What on earth did Grand Tutor Dongxuan do in those ten minutes?! He just sat there thinking for ten minutes, and when he came out, he wiped the floor with the opponent that was suppressing him just before?! Is he even human?!"

"That interruption was too critical! Did you see the timing of that dark beast's strike? A moment earlier would have been too early, a moment later too late; it cut in exactly at the moment the Void Guardian's anchoring skill was about to form, and with one claw, it shattered the anchor chain that hadn't finished condensing! This kind of interruption isn't just about fast reactions; it means he has completely grasped the enemy's skill release rhythm! Grand Tutor Dongxuan figured out all the Void Guardian's secrets in the previous battle, then redesigned a set of tactics specifically for it, and finished all the deployment in less than ten minutes! This is what's truly terrifying! It's not how strong his beasts are; it's that his tactical talent is too Heaven-Defying!"

"And that finishing move at the end!! Did you see the Wind-Thunder Divine Roc split the Void Collapse with a single wing slash? In the last fight, it was beaten bloody while blocking spatial rifts for that dark beast, but in this fight, not only did it take no damage, it even turned around and split the Void Guardian's final counterattack in two! Same beasts, same skills, different tactics, and the results are worlds apart!"

In the area where the stewards and Elders were located, those older generation experts with rich combat experience were already so excited that their hands were trembling.

The white-haired steward Elder gripped his cane tightly, his cloudy old eyes filled with a mixture of shock and admiration.

"Unbelievable... simply unbelievable... The same three beasts, the same opponent, with only a short ten minutes or so in between, the battle situation turned from evenly matched, or even falling behind at one point, into a complete, total crush. Starting by using the Divine Roc's lightning Domain to lock down the spatial structure and suppress the opponent's passive evasion, then having the True Dragon provide mid-range fire suppression to force the opponent to use skills, and the moment the opponent used a skill, the dark beast immediately cut in from the shadows to interrupt. After the successful interruption, they seized the stun window to focus all fire. The entire battle, from the first step to the last, was meticulously designed. This wasn't a fight; this was playing a game of chess. The Void Guardian was in his game of chess from beginning to end, and it couldn't move a single step out!"

"Those ten minutes he spent earlier were indeed for re-simulating tactics!"

Another steward Elder's voice was trembling.

"In the last fight, the Void Guardian used the Void Anchoring and Void Collapse combo to lock down his dark beast, but this time he didn't give it a chance to release the anchoring at all. How could it release it? The pre-cast animation of its anchoring was completely seen through; as soon as it raised its hand, it was shattered by a claw. It didn't even release a single skill completely from start to finish! This kind of tactical suppression is more despairing than pure combat power suppression. It's not that the Void Guardian couldn't fight; it's that it didn't know how to fight at all! All its skills were predicted, all its combos were dismantled. It was like an insect trapped in a spiderweb; the more it struggled, the tighter it was trapped!"

"It crossed nearly a major Realm... From Amethyst Eighth Tier to Diamond Rank Seven, that's almost a full major Realm difference... In this kind of cross-Realm challenge, even the top geniuses would have to pay a heavy price for a narrow victory, yet Grand Tutor Dongxuan managed to produce a crushing effect. His three beasts were completely under his control from start to finish, and the opponent didn't even have a single chance to counterattack. This kind of tactical literacy, this kind of on-the-spot command, this kind of predictive precision for the opponent's skills—it's simply shocking!"

On the high platform where the Grand Elders were located, although everyone was mentally prepared, when they truly saw the Void Guardian turn into a sky full of silver light rain in the collapsing space, the impact still made their hearts shake violently.

Supreme Elder Liu Yunshan stood with his hands behind his back.

He sighed heavily, his expression complex.

"It won after all. Although I expected it, seeing him take down the Void Guardian with such a crushing posture on his second challenge with my own eyes, I still feel an indescribable shock. The last fight was at least a back-and-forth; the Void Guardian once held the upper hand and forced him to withdraw his beasts. But now? Same opponent, same skills, this time the Void Guardian didn't even have the chance to pull off a single complete combo. To be able to adjust his tactics to this degree in less than a quarter of an hour—this child's combat talent is likely not inferior to his beast-taming talent."

The other Grand Elders looked at each other.

They both saw a trace of deep powerlessness in each other's eyes.

The Space Seed, it was truly gone...

Liu Qingyun stood at the very front of the crowd, his hands clasped behind his back.

The moment he saw the Void Guardian being completely destroyed from within by the Nine Flames Burning Heaven and the Dark Energy Roar, he let out a slow, deep sigh.

The sigh was very soft.

Yet it was heard clearly by Elder Liu Lan beside him.

"The Space Seed... is gone."

Liu Qingyun's voice was low and hoarse, as if he had repeated it countless times in his heart before finally spitting it out in resignation.

The expression of agonizing pain that had made his mouth twitch earlier was no longer on his face.

It was not that he did not feel the heartache; it was that he had already become numb to the pain.

The ancestral dragon essence blood was gone, and the Space Seed was gone too. In the blink of an eye, only one of the three clan-protecting treasures on the seventh floor remained: the nether phoenix divine feather...

Fortunately, this guy no longer had any chances left in his hands.

Otherwise, he dared not guarantee whether this kid would be interested in the nether phoenix divine feather...

Thinking of this.

Liu Qingyun felt his heart twitch again.

But amidst that sharp pain.

Another thought suddenly emerged in his mind.

A thought he had been vaguely considering since just now, which was finally becoming clear at this moment.

Liu Qingyun thought of his daughter, who was currently in seclusion.

A thought suddenly popped into his mind.

Such a Prodigy.

sixteen years old, Amethyst Fifth Tier Peak, three Divine Beast Bloodline tamed beasts, Grand Tutor Level Appraiser, Grand Tutor Level rune attainments, Grand Tutor Level array dao Comprehension Ability, and a Beast Taming Space with Heaven-Defying recovery characteristics.

If such a person did not have a force so vast it was impossible to imagine supporting him from behind, then it could only mean that he himself was more terrifying than any force.

Regardless of the situation, his future could never stop at the Eastern Region.

The Central Province, or even a broader world, was his ultimate stage.

If he could let Ruyan be with him...

Liu Qingyun's thoughts did not continue, but the direction of that idea was clear enough.

He was not the kind of father who would use his daughter for a transaction.

He never was.

But what if his daughter were willing?

What if there really was that possibility between the two young people?

That would definitely not be a bad thing for the Liu family.

No!!!

It should be said to be a tremendous good thing.

Establishing a relationship with such a Prodigy who was destined to shake the continent in the future would mean the Liu family would be worry-free for the next hundred or even thousand years.

Of course, this was all for later.

If the other party did not like it, wouldn't sticking to him be counterproductive?

Instead, it would make this Prodigy resent and dislike them.

Liu Qingyun thought he should put effort into his own daughter instead...

Moreover.

The most important thing right now was...

Waiting for this Prodigy to come out.

How to establish a good relationship with him.

So that they could proceed with the next step...

Meanwhile.

In another corner of the crowd.

Master Fu Shan and Elder Mo stood side by side.

The expressions of the two Grand Tutor Level masters were much more restrained than those of the Grand Elders, but their eyes flashed with a light more complex than anyone else's.

"Brother Fu Shan..."

Elder Mo's voice was very low.

"Did you notice?"

Master Fu Shan nodded slowly.

"Of course I noticed. That battle just now, from beginning to end, every step was meticulously designed to target the Void Guardian's skill weaknesses. Compressing the range of the Wind-Thunder Domain to increase lightning density was to weaken its spatial structural stability and suppress its passive evasion. The dark beast did not greedily attack but only interrupted, in order to dismantle the core of its combo; once Void Anchoring could not be released, all its subsequent combos would be rendered useless. The True Dragon maintained mid-range firepower suppression, not giving it the distance and angle for anchoring, while simultaneously attracting its attention to force it to use skills. Every step was calculated, and every move had a purpose. This kind of combat strategy talent is more shocking to me than mere beast taming combat power. To be able to thoroughly study an opponent that had suppressed him in the previous match within just ten minutes, and then come up with a completely suppressing tactical plan—this kind of ability is not cultivated; it is a talent carved into the bones."

"sixteen years old..."

Elder Mo's voice was full of emotion.

"When I was sixteen, I was still memorizing basic rune formations. This Grand Tutor Dongxuan is sixteen and can already achieve battlefield breakthroughs, precise prediction, and tactical crushing. Once a person like this enters the Central Province, it won't take long for him to stir up a great storm. For us two Old Fellows to be able to witness the growth process of such a Prodigy here today can be considered a great fortune. If he truly goes to the Central Province and becomes a giant in the future, the small favor we established with him at the Liu family today might just be the greatest fortune of our two old lives."

Master Fu Shan nodded in deep agreement and said nothing more, his gaze remaining firmly locked on the mystic light mirror.

And at this moment, inside the Challenge Space.

The entire void had completely collapsed.

The silver-gray spatial barrier shattered inch by inch in the violent vibration, and the fragments turned into nothingness as they drifted away.

Countless twisted spatial light rays flickered for the last time in the disintegrating space, then completely dissipated like an extinguished candle flame.

The void plane underfoot, which felt unreal, had completely cracked, and beneath the cracks was a bottomless, pure nothingness.

The entire Challenge Space was shrinking, collapsing, and disappearing toward the center at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Jiang Yun stood in the center of the collapsing space, the void beneath his feet trembling violently.

He took a deep breath and waved his hand sharply.

"Little Fire, Little Skylark, Nether Abyss! Return!"

Three rays of light lit up simultaneously in the collapsing space.

Little Fire's massive dragon body turned into a stream of golden flame, the thirty-meter wingspan Wind-Thunder Divine Roc body of Little Skylark turned into a blue-purple lightning bolt, and Nether Abyss's slender, lean, pitch-black figure silently merged into the shadows.

The three rays of light simultaneously sank into Jiang Yun's chest.

And disappeared.

Inside the Beast Taming Space.

Three figures appeared almost simultaneously.

Little Fire coiled in the center; although there were some scratches on the dark golden scales of its dragon body from the previous battle, its overall state was still full.

Little Skylark landed by the lake, its divine feathers intact; this time, it was not hit by spatial rifts again.

Nether Abyss lay quietly in the shadows, its Law eyes slightly closed; although the faint purple halo around its body was a bit dimmer than before the battle, it was far from the near-exhausted state of the previous match.

The state of the three tamed beasts was much better than the last match.

Because this battle was a crushing victory from beginning to end.

Little Fire's mid-range suppression received almost no counterattack, Little Skylark outputted safely from high above the battlefield the entire time, and although Nether Abyss consumed quite a bit of Law power from two close-range interruptions and armor breaking, the consumption was much smaller than the previous match where it had to struggle with all its might to break free after being locked by Void Anchoring.

Under the effect of rapid recovery, this consumption could be fully replenished in a few minutes.

Jiang Yun's consciousness withdrew from the Beast Taming Space after confirming that all three tamed beasts had safely entered a recovery state.

Just at this moment.

The entire Challenge Space completed its final collapse.

The silver-gray void shattered with a roar like a broken mirror, and the fragments dissipated into points of silver light in the air as they drifted away.

When Jiang Yun opened his eyes again, he was already standing in the hall on the seventh floor of the treasury.

The display stand was still the same.

But the protective Restriction on the display stand had disappeared.

The fist-sized silver-gray crystal floated quietly above the display stand, and the twisted silver halo inside was still rotating slowly, with each rotation sending out a circle of fine spatial ripples on the surface of the crystal.

Only this time, Jiang Yun could clearly feel the power of the Origin of spatial Law emanating from that crystal, pure to the point of being almost primitive.

That was the Law essence left behind after the fall of an ancient Void Divine Beast, a Heaven-Defying treasure capable of allowing any space-attribute tamed beast to directly complete an evolution.

Space Seed.

Radiant Sun Top Grade.

The condensed essence of an ancient Void Divine Beast's lifelong spatial Laws.

Jiang Yun took a deep breath and slowly walked forward.

He stretched out his right hand, his fingers passing through the residual Restriction halo above the display stand, and steadily cradled the silver-gray crystal into his palm.

The crystal was not heavy, but the moment it was cradled in his palm, Jiang Yun could clearly feel the majestic and vast spatial Law power contained within it.

It was a power purer, more ancient, and closer to the Law Origin than the dark-attribute origin law crystal of Nether Abyss.

Just by holding it, Jiang Yun felt the space around him slightly distorting, and the light at the edges of his fingers appeared visibly bent.

"Finally obtained."

Jiang Yun whispered to himself, the corners of his mouth under the silver-white mask slightly upturned, a flash of uncontrollable joy in his eyes.

"Space Seed, Radiant Sun Top Grade. Although I don't have a space-attribute tamed beast for now, the value of this seed is by no means limited to this. As long as I can encounter a suitable space-attribute tamed beast one day, even if it is just the lowest-grade ordinary space beast, after swallowing the Space Seed, it can directly trigger Void evolution, ignoring current Realm, Aptitude, and Bloodline Restrictions, and its quality will leap by one major grade. Coupled with the three-fold skill power boost and halved consumption from space affinity, as well as the Void Stealth—a life-saving Divine Ability that can perform Space Jump ignoring blockades in any Restriction or barrier—this Space Seed is an ace card I have reserved in advance for my future fourth or even fifth tamed beast."

After battling this Void Guardian.

Jiang Yun also realized the power and trickiness of the skills of space-attribute tamed beasts.

It also gave him a trace of yearning to obtain a space-attribute tamed beast.

Moreover, now that he had such a treasure as the Space Seed in his hands.

Not looking for a space-attribute tamed beast to contract would be a bit of a waste of a heavenly treasure.

He carefully put the Space Seed into his storage space, then raised his head, his gaze sweeping over the last display stand in the seventh-floor hall.

nether phoenix divine feather, Legendary Low Grade, the natal divine feather left behind when the Nine Nether Underworld Phoenix fell.

The divine feather, pitch black as ink, still floated quietly above the display stand, with a faint, dim halo flowing on the surface of the feather.

Now the five chances had been used up.

Even if there were still chances.

This nether phoenix divine feather didn't seem to have much use.

"It's time to leave the treasury. The trip to the Liu family has been quite rewarding, and it can be considered a perfect conclusion. I don't know what the situation is like outside now."

"The selection for the Molten Fire Grotto Secret Realm is about to begin, and Little Fire's evolution Materials can only be obtained by entering it. It seems it's time to hurry back to the academy."

Jiang Yun's gaze lingered on the nether phoenix divine feather for a moment, then he turned and left the treasury.