165: How come I didn't know I was dead?

Over the next day, Su Ze stayed in the Imperial Household Agency to meditate, while Hanba and Feng Qingyi occupied the rest of the Gosho.

Wherever one of them went, scorched earth was left behind; the other would casually spew flames and burn down a building.

For an entire day, under the heartbroken gazes of the Fusang people, the two divine beasts reduced the Imperial Palace, a symbol of Fusang culture and power, to a complete wreck.

"Fortunately, the Imperial Household Agency is still left; it's our final fig leaf..."

Before the words had even finished, a loud 'bang!' was heard!

The Imperial Household Agency suddenly exploded on the spot!

A majestic giant wolf stood on the ruins, howling at the sky.

Su Ze's voice also came from the rising ashes: "Two days, and I've finally digested all the power."

As a divine beast that had already reached the mid-stage of Star Glory, the feedback from contracting Hanba was immense.

Su Ze's own Beast Tamer level had reached level seventy-five, and the Shadow Moon Wolf King had directly reached adulthood, becoming a platinum-level lord demonic beast at the full level of ninety.

Feng Qingyi, as a divine beast, still hadn't reached adulthood; her current level was ninety-eight, but due to her divine beast bloodline,

full-level Diamond-rank Demonic Beasts probably weren't her match anymore.

As for the Void Spirit Turtle far away in Great Xia, that was what surprised Su Ze the most.

It had already reached the level cap of seventy for a Gold-rank demonic beast before, so in theory, it shouldn't have been able to advance further.

But when Su Ze looked at the system panel, it clearly displayed the Void Spirit Turtle's status: Evolving!

This situation was extremely rare among demonic beasts, but not unheard of.

For example, the most common snake-type demonic beast had a probability of gradually evolving into a divine beast dragon, although that probability was infinitesimally small.

"This time, the Void Spirit Turtle should at most evolve into a platinum-level demonic beast. To become diamond rank would require my external intervention. As for becoming a divine beast... there's no need to consider that for now."

The so-called intervention was like when Lin Xi added dragon blood during Feng Qingyi's Nirvana—adding some attribute-compatible items from the outside.

But the Void Spirit Turtle was a water-attribute demonic beast, while Su Ze's two divine beasts leaned towards the fire attribute, so their blood wouldn't be of use.

Judging from its current state, it seemed to have also evolved an extremely rare spatial attribute, so perhaps that could be the angle to approach from.

But Su Ze didn't have the corresponding items for that either, for the time being.

"Forget it, the Void Spirit Turtle isn't by my side right now anyway, no need to rush."

As soon as Su Ze left the ruins of the Imperial Household Agency, he saw Lin Xi and the two divine beasts approaching him.

Along with the surrounding palaces, some still raging with flames, others already reduced to smoldering ruins.

Slightly surprised, he also nodded and said, "Did you all do this? Well done. Come on, I'll take you to find a shrine and set another fire there before we leave."

"And here, set a fire here too, and over here..."

After thoroughly wreaking havoc across almost all of Fusang, Su Ze judged the direction of Great Xia from the coastline and began flying towards it.

"Whoa, so this is what flying on your own feels like? Much better than being carried in someone's hand!"

Before this, Su Ze hadn't reached the level above sixty required for self-flight. He could only be carried by others or flown around by Feng Qingyi, which was incredibly awkward.

Now, the feeling of flying on his own was true freedom.

After getting used to his flying ability for a while, Su Ze flew at full speed towards Great Xia... On a disputed island between Great Xia and Fusang, Beast Tamers from both sides were locked in a fierce battle.

This fight was actively provoked by the Fusang side. To allow His Majesty the Emperor to focus on the Completion Ritual, their mission was to provoke Great Xia and tie down as many Great Xia Spirit Guards as possible.

For this purpose, the Fusang Dark Guards had also dispatched many experts, even including Beast Tamers from their secretly established city in the Shadow Realm who had never shown their faces before.

But when the Completion Plan completely failed, the Emperor died, the two General Commanders went missing, and the entire Fusang fell into chaos,

no one came to notify them, leaving these people on the island to fend for themselves.

Among those fighting these Dark Guards, besides the Great Xia Spirit Guards, were many young people.

They were all top performers from various Beast Taming Universities who had participated in the Beast Taming Grand Competition, here to temper themselves in life-and-death combat.

In addition, there were also Wang Zi and Xu Yao. Their goal was even more pure: to avenge Su Ze!

Especially today, the two of them fought even more crazily, completely disregarding their own safety.

Xu Yao coordinated her Azure Phoenix Butterfly and Merman Lord, using either poison or mental shocks—all wide-area attacks that were extremely difficult to defend against.

This gave the Dark Guards a major headache.

Another person drawing attention was the fatty, Wang Zi. During the time Su Ze was captured, he relentlessly had his Golden Scale Pig devour gold to increase its strength, completely emptying his father's little treasure trove.

His Golden Scale Pig not only had the ability to devour gold to increase its power but could also imbue other objects with gold's properties or directly turn them into gold to be used as food.

People endowed by the Golden Scale Pig with gold's conductive properties would then be attacked by his second contracted beast, the Purple Light Electric Eagle. The power was amplified several times over, electrocuting them painfully.

Their performance soon caught the attention of the Dark Guards, especially Xu Yao's mental attacks, which always reminded them of the Nightmare, Lin Xi.

They had barely managed to get rid of one Nightmare; they didn't want a second one to appear.

So they began quietly closing in on Xu Yao, then started to surround and attack her!

Instantly, Xu Yao found herself attacked from all sides, struggling to hold her ground alone.

"Xu Yao!"

Wang Zi, not far away, wanted to help but was also blocked on the way.

At the critical moment, just as a sword was about to pierce Xu Yao's back,

With a 'bang,' a figure descended from the sky, stomping the sword into the ground, and the sword-wielding Dark Guard was flattened along with it.

The newcomer was none other than Su Ze, who had just arrived. He shouted, "Let's see who dares to harm Xu Yao!"

An overwhelming pressure covered the entire battlefield. Everyone felt it hard to breathe and difficult to move. The battlefield instantly fell silent.

Only Xu Yao remained unaffected.

Her eyes red, shoulders trembling, she walked up to Su Ze.

"Don't be afraid, I'm back," Su Ze said, his heart aching at her appearance, then moved as if to hug her.

Who would have thought Xu Yao would suddenly say, "Azure Phoenix Butterfly, use Phoenix Tail Poison Sting on him!"

"Huh?" Su Ze was stunned. That was the Azure Phoenix Butterfly's most venomous attack, a sure-kill move. Why use it on him?

"Xu Yao, what are you doing? I'm Su Ze!"

Xu Yao, weeping bitterly, shouted, "You damnable Dark Guards, you still want to trick me! Su Ze is already dead!"

Upon hearing this, Su Ze was utterly dumbfounded: "Huh? How come I didn't know I was dead?"