40: War Drummer
Mid-October!
Mai Feng locked himself in his room and welded the door shut.
Although he had already become a Grandmaster-level Beast Tamer, he didn't dare take a single step outside.
Because a faint, eerie aura had actually appeared on his body.
If someone with slightly higher strength noticed it, they would find that this aura was identical to the monsters within the mist.
This discovery left Mai Feng pale with fright, but more than that, he felt helpless and didn't dare to breathe a word of it.
He feared that the moment he stepped out, he would be treated as an Evil Creature and obliterated.
Suddenly!
A humanoid shadow appeared in the room.
However, there seemed to be two strange lumps on the shadow's body.
"Thump!"
The soft sound of a drum rang out, making Mai Feng realize that those two lumps were actually the shadows of drums.
"Who are you!" Mai Feng summoned his beast pet and went on full alert.
"Thump!"
The other party didn't answer; another drumbeat sounded.
"Moon Soul Light Beast, use [Radiant Shine]!"
Since the opponent appeared as a shadow, he would use a Light Element skill to dispel it.
To Mai Feng's horror:
Even under [Radiant Shine], the shadow still existed.
In other words, it wasn't a Shadow System skill.
If that was the case, there was a possibility that he had unknowingly fallen into an illusion.
That shadow was merely a part of the illusion, which was why the Light Element skill couldn't break it.
He had no choice but to have his Mysterious Moon Phantom Butterfly set up multiple layers of Illusionary Barriers.
To his disappointment, the drumbeats still reached him.
Mai Feng had a feeling that his strength and beast-taming abilities had long been thoroughly understood by the opponent.
Then!
"Thump, thump, thump..."
The drumbeats became denser and faster.
Mai Feng instantly sensed something wrong with his body; the evil qi that had been scattered across him was now gathering at his heart.
He had reason to believe that if the drumming continued, his heart would surely be crushed by the evil qi.
"Stop, stop, stop! What on earth do you want!"
Mai Feng no longer cared who the other party was; he only begged for them to stop.
However, the other party still didn't speak and continued to beat the drum.
At that moment, the evil qi began to surge as if thousands of ants were gnawing at his heart.
Mai Feng couldn't resist this eerie, invisible attack at all, rolling around while clutching his chest.
Then, the evil qi suddenly spread out; from his scalp to his toes, every bone, every inch of skin, every drop of blood, and every cell was enduring immense agony.
Mai Feng's body twisted until it was almost unrecognizable.
"Stop it! I'll agree to whatever conditions you have!"
As soon as he spoke, all the pain vanished in an instant.
Yet Mai Feng was drenched, looking as if he had just been fished out of water.
His mind was a blank; only his body mechanically gasped for air.
Then, the other party finally spoke, their voice very hoarse: "Remember this feeling, and remember this promise.
Your flesh and your Soul already belong to me.
Do not think of betrayal, or you will experience the tortures of Hell.
Cultivate hard; I will come for you again.
Remember, I am the War Drum Master!"
After saying this, the shadow slowly faded until it completely vanished.
Had the pain not lingered in his body, Mai Feng would have thought he had hallucinated.
After recovering for a while, Mai Feng leaned against the wall and picked up a fruit knife, pointing it at his heart, but he couldn't bring himself to do it.
Death was the easiest way out!
But the fear of death was the most insurmountable.
Finally, he threw the knife aside and wept with his head in his hands.
Failing to overcome this meant that in the days to come, he would be at someone else's mercy and would have to betray humanity.
It wasn't just Mai Feng, and it wasn't just Tianqing City.
Similar incidents had occurred in multiple places, though no one knew.
Either be controlled or die!
The most terrifying thing was that those who died were hollowed out, leaving only a layer of skin.
Then they continued to live on eerily, as if nothing had happened.
While others had small, soft, cyan worms like leeches placed inside them.
Then, the dead bodies actually opened their eyes... Baiyue City!
After more than a month of hard work, Chen Fei finally managed to accumulate enough slaughter value.
He extracted 50,000 slaughter value to use on himself.
[Chen Fei
Cultivation increased from Intermediate Rank 9 Beast Tamer to High-level Rank 1 Beastmaster.
Comparative Advantages:
1. A new beast pet slot has been unlocked.
2. Physical resistance, speed, strength, and Spiritual Qi absorption rate have been significantly increased.
Note: Each rank increase for a High-level Beastmaster requires 50,000 slaughter value.
High-level Rank 9 Beastmaster to Grandmaster Level Rank 1 Beast Tamer requires 500,000 slaughter value.]
Afterward, the strength of Little Gu and Chi Yu was also raised to Level 3, Rank 1.
These days were the most confusing for Chi Yu.
Without doing anything, its strength just kept soaring, and making a Breakthrough was as simple as drinking water.
Could it be that everyone Cultivates like this a million years later?