303: Chapter 303 Liberation Token

Midland had come across information regarding Black Rose while gathering intel on Chen Yi.

He knew she was an SS-rank Bloodline Spirit Beast that Chen Yi had recently contracted—the Rose Flower Dragon.

Her specific abilities were unknown, but he figured she couldn't be that strong.

After all, she was just an SS-rank girl who had recently awakened; what was there to fear?

No matter how impressive or monstrous Chen Yi was, or how many heaven and earth spiritual treasures he could obtain, how many ranks could he have raised her to even by desperately piling on resources during this time?

At most, she’d be at the peak of Rank Three, right?

What could she even do?

Before him, a Rank Six, Stage Ten Beast Tamer, how was she any different from an ant?

Sending a Rank Two or Three little girl to her death... it seemed Chen Yi was truly at his wit's end and had no more cards to play!

Midland’s heart was filled with disdain; he even felt that Chen Yi's move was an insult to him.

He snorted coldly, not taking Black Rose seriously at all.

Spiritual power erupted within him, and his body moved like lightning, bypassing Black Rose and charging directly toward Chen Yi with a clear objective!

He intended to capture the leader to defeat the followers!

However, in the next second, the scene that unfolded before everyone's eyes—including the spectating prodigies—left them all dumbfounded, their jaws nearly hitting the ground!

Just as Midland was about to brush past Black Rose.

Black Rose, who had been standing still, moved!

Her movement didn't seem fast; it was even somewhat nonchalant.

She simply raised her fair, slender right hand and, as if shooing away a fly, lightly slapped toward Midland's cheek.

There was no world-shaking momentum, nor the pressure of a spiritual power eruption.

But this seemingly casual slap appeared to manipulate the surrounding space the moment it was thrown!

Midland's charging figure suddenly came to a halt, as if he had slammed into an invisible wall!

"Slap—"

An incredibly crisp slapping sound clearly reached everyone's ears!

Then, under the stunned gazes of everyone present...

Midland, the prodigy with the SSS-Rank Talent—Kings Heart, was sent flying backward like a ball kicked with full force, tracing a graceful parabola in the air, several blood-stained teeth flying out as he lost all control of his posture!

"Boom—"

He slammed violently into a massive wind-eroded rock pillar hundreds of meters away, letting out a dull, heavy thud!

The top half of the pillar collapsed with a crash, kicking up a cloud of dust!

Midland’s figure was deeply embedded in the cracks of the lower half of the rock pillar, motionless.

Silence!

A deathly silence!

Whether it was the Spirit Beasts fighting on the battlefield or the three prodigies and their Spirit Beasts watching from the distant rock pillars, everyone looked as if they had been hit by a collective freezing spell, their mouths agape.

They stared blankly at the broken rock pillar and Midland embedded within it.

Time seemed to freeze at this moment.

The damage was high, and the insult was even stronger!

Several seconds passed before someone sharply inhaled, breaking the eerie silence.

"Holy crap? What—what just happened?"

"Midland... was... was slapped... away?"

"That girl in black, who—who on earth is she?"

"One slap! Just one slap? A one-shot? How is that possible?"

"Midland is a Rank Six, Stage Ten Beast Tamer! His physical body has been tempered countless times, and he has the buff from Kings Heart. Even if he was hit by a Rank Seven Spirit Beast, it wouldn't be this exaggerated, right?"

"An illusion! It must be an illusion!"

Ivan, Henry, Faisal, and their Spirit Beast Girls were all plunged into extreme shock.

Discussions broke out one after another, filled with disbelief.

At that moment, Chen Yi acted as if he had only done something insignificant.

He picked his ear and, looking toward the ruins, spoke slowly in the same tone Midland had used to demand his surrender earlier: "Hey, you in there who isn't quite dead yet, I'll give you a choice!"

"Hand over everything in your space ring right now."

"If I'm in a good mood, I might show some mercy and spare your life!"

The reason Chen Yi suddenly proposed a robbery...

...was that he had just overheard key information like 'wind breath flower' and 'leaving the Storm Zone' from the discussions of the spectating prodigies.

He immediately recalled that he had indeed collected some wind breath flowers earlier.

The system interface only showed conventional uses and didn't specify any special purpose.

So he had just kept them as ordinary wind-attribute materials, with about twenty or so in his possession.

Now it seemed that these wind breath flowers were the key items to leave the Storm Zone!

And the required amount seemed quite large!

This Midland fellow had robbed several people, so the number of wind breath flowers on him must be quite substantial.

Robbing him should provide enough for his group to head to the sixth floor.

Chen Yi's words weren't loud, but they left the spectating prodigies bewildered once again.

Initially, they all thought Midland was robbing Chen Yi.

After all that... it turned out Chen Yi was robbing Midland?!

Wait—was the script flipped?

Is this some kind of joke?

"Cough, cough—cough, cough, cough—"

Just then, a series of violent coughs came from the pile of rock pillar ruins.

Following that, Midland, with half his face severely swollen, struggled to crawl out of the crevice.

His previous elegant, composed, and mocking gentlemanly expression had long since vanished, replaced by unprecedented humiliation and towering rage!

You don't hit someone in the face!

In all his years dominating the Western Beast Taming World, this was the first time he had suffered such a humiliating disgrace!

To be slapped away in public and even embedded into a wall!

"Good! Very good! Chen Yi!"

Midland spoke with a slight lisp, "You've successfully annoyed me! You've really—completely annoyed me!"

He suddenly pulled out a palm-sized, dark-gold token from his robes and unhesitatingly poured his spiritual power into it!

"Rumble—"

The token instantly erupted with an incredibly blinding dark-gold light!

The light spread rapidly like flowing mercury, enveloping the six Spirit Beast Girls under Midland's command, as well as Midland himself!

The moment they saw this token appear, the expressions of the three prodigies watching from afar changed drastically.

"liberation token! He actually used that thing?!"

"It's over! Chen Yi has backed him into a corner!"

"That's Midland's famous trump card! It's said to liberate the deep-seated shackles within the bloodlines of Contracted Spirit Beasts, allowing them to explode with power far exceeding their normal levels for a short time! It can even resonate with his Kings Heart talent, doubling the effect!"

"More than that! I heard this token stores a massive amount of energy. Before the energy is depleted, it can even grant them the terrifying ability to be resurrected once after dying in battle!"

"Hiss—resurrection after death? How can anyone fight that?"

"We only avoided fighting him to the death back then because we knew he had this thing!"

"The liberation token is incredibly powerful, but each use requires consuming billions of dollars' worth of heaven and earth spiritual treasures for recharging. It's a money-burning bottomless pit! To think he'd even bring this out to deal with Chen Yi!"

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