171: Chapter 171 Am I supposed to be afraid of my own mother's nagging?

Bai Qiu崇 and Huo Lingguan were filled with righteous indignation.

As the Governor of Nanyuan Province, Chen Qingliu was about to do something but then turned back to sit in his original seat, his expression returning to calm.

"No rush."

He raised his finger to point at the map hanging on the wall: "Yue Yun and Chen Hu are continuing forward; they'll run into each other soon!"

Bai Qiu崇's eyebrows knitted together.

Chen Hu's act of wantonly slaughtering low-level Pet Beasts was an unpardonable mistake in the eyes of the entire Beast Tamer Association.

Since Yue Yun was highly regarded by Chen Qingliu, his character and conduct were likely not bad, so he would most likely step in to stop it.

But at the end of the day, Yue Yun was just a young student from school; there wasn't much he could do against Chen Hu, who was backed by the Chen family.

Just giving Chen Hu a lesson wouldn't be enough.

"Can he do it?"

Bai Qiu崇 was very skeptical.

Chen Qingliu was full of confidence: "The two of them have a grudge!"

Previously, Yue Yun might have only given Chen Hu a lesson at most, but now with Chen Qingliu's endorsement, the outcome was unpredictable.

Bai Qiu崇's eyes immediately lit up.

Huo Lingguan even slapped his thigh: "Good lad!

Based on those words of yours, as long as he can ruthlessly deal with Chen Huaijin's grandson, I'll agree to what we discussed before!"

...

Broken Mountain Range.

The mountain range wound endlessly like a Dragon, with conical stone mountains standing tall upon the range, and nearly half of the ground had collapsed.

The crisscrossing collapses continued to expand, forming rifts with edges as steep as if they were sliced, and depths that were bottomless.

Chen Hu struggled to climb up from the valley, looking quite disheveled with a face covered in dust.

The Safety Officer, riding a flying Pet Beast, watched Chen Hu's actions with a cold eye throughout, clearly quite dissatisfied with him.

Chen Hu didn't care at all about what the Safety Officer thought; feeling the increase in Contract Power, he joyfully opened the Pet Beast panel.

[Name: Dark Demon Tiger]

[Species: Feline, Darkness]

[Talent: Asuras Heart (Quickly increases Rank through killing; sanity will be clouded if it exceeds the threshold)]

[Skills: Dark Raid (Incarnates into darkness to launch a surprise attack), Dark Pulse (Releases a wave of dark energy for an area-of-effect strike), Dark Entanglement (Mobilizes dark power to entangle the target), Shura Demon Claw (Gathers the power of slaughter to attack)]

[Potential: S]

The Dark Demon Tiger's stats were very strong.

Through this period of bonding, the Dark Demon Tiger had established basic trust with Chen Hu.

Nearly a semester of feeding, plus the continuous killing after entering the Secret Realm, had allowed the Dark Demon Tiger to accumulate a large amount of Spiritual Qi.

This Spiritual Qi not only helped the Dark Demon Tiger rise to the strength of a three-star, but it also fed back into Chen Hu's body.

His Aura broke through its shackles and surged suddenly.

The dense Spiritual Qi of the Secret Realm poured into his body, and his refined Contract Power climbed rapidly, creating layers of ripples.

Driven by the massive amount of Spiritual Qi, the solid barrier was broken, and like a clap of thunder, he became a Three-Star Beast Tamer!

"I've become a Three-Star Beast Tamer?"

Chen Hu clenched his fists with some pleasant surprise.

The Chen family placed great importance on cultivating the Chen brothers, helping him lay a solid foundation that others envied and could hardly reach.

With his Contract Power advancing to Three-Star Beast Tamer, the feedback power allowed Chen Hu's physical body and spirit to receive a huge boost.

The mental strength of an ordinary Two-Star Beast Tamer is limited, making it impossible to open a second Soul space to contract a second Pet Beast.

Through the piling up of resources, Chen Hu's mental strength far exceeded Beast Tamers of the same level, yet contracting the Dark Demon Tiger had still not been easy.

His mind had been constantly under pressure from the Dark Demon Tiger.

It was only now, upon advancing to a Three-Star Beast Tamer, that Chen Hu's spirit could relax and no longer suffer that pressure.

Chen Hu now felt that he was very powerful!

"Well done!" He reached out his scratch-covered palm and gently stroked the Dark Demon Tiger's broad back.

The Dark Demon Tiger's eyes were blood-red; it didn't care for Chen Hu's stroking, but it no longer scratched at him like it did at the beginning.

A figure surfaced in Chen Hu's mind.

That figure appeared uncontrollably, bringing with it an approaching Aura that drew closer and closer to him.

"Yue Yun!"

Chen Hu let out a low growl.

Yue Yun was like Chen Hu's nemesis, having frustrated Chen Hu's self-confidence more than once, leading to the growth of a Heart Demon.

But all of that ended here.

Powerful strength brought him confidence, making him impatient to see Yue Yun and trample him ruthlessly underfoot.

He looked up ahead and saw Yue Yun slowly walking toward him holding a single blade, the Aura bursting forth from him being domineering and overbearing.

Chen Hu couldn't help but rub his eyes.

It seemed Yue Yun's influence on him was indeed great; look, he was even hallucinating now.

Wait, something's not right...

"Yue Yun?"

Chen Hu's eyes instantly widened.

The Yue Yun he had regarded as a hallucination did not disappear, but was pacing toward him while carrying a cleaver.

The distance between the two grew closer and closer.

Their gazes met, and Yue Yun spoke first.

"Looks like you still remember me!"

The corners of his mouth curled into a cold smile, the veins on his arm holding the blade bulged, and his gaze was bone-chillingly cold.

Ever since he knew it was Chen Tianrui who was moving against him, the grudge between him and the Chen family had been set in stone.

Chen Hu had just happened to walk into the line of fire.

Chen Hu had just advanced to a Three-Star Beast Tamer and was at the peak of his confidence; how could he back down when facing the Yue Yun he hated so much?

"You've come at the perfect time, saves me the trouble of looking for you!"

Chen Hu commanded the Dark Demon Tiger to enter a combat state.

Their Auras collided, both standing firm like towering mountains.

The two of them were like they'd eaten gunpowder—ready to explode at the slightest spark.

Xu Qingfang and Mo Yu stood in the distance with their arms crossed, just watching Yue Yun and Chen Hu go head-to-head.

"Old Yue is still being too honorable."

Mo Yu shook his head slightly: "If you ask me, the three of us should just swarm him and beat Chen Hu into a pulp!"

They had all seen Chen Hu's advancement.

But so what?

It wasn't like they hadn't dealt with three-star strength Pet Beasts before; even if a Three-Star Beast Tamer was slightly more formidable, it wouldn't matter.

One person couldn't withstand a gang-up by three!

Xu Qingfang shrugged noncommittally, but his gaze remained fixed on the Dark Demon Tiger in front of Chen Hu.

Then, Chen Hu let out a roar.

"Dark Entanglement!"

A large patch of darkness emerged around the Dark Demon Tiger, extending forward like tentacles to entangle Yue Yun as the target.

Hiss, this feels familiar!

Yue Yun's eyebrows twitched as he became thoughtful.

He didn't wait for death; his figure flickered through the gaps in the darkness, and his cleaver swung out with the force of Mount Tai pressing down.

Buzz!

Dark power surged and exploded violently.

The timing of the Dark Pulse skill release was perfect; Yue Yun's figure was frozen in mid-air with nowhere to dodge.

He hurriedly pulled back his blade to defend, holding it horizontally in front of him to take the violent shockwave of dark energy head-on, and was sent flying backward.

Yue Yun used the force to adjust his posture and landed steadily.

The next second.

The Dark Demon Tiger incarnated into darkness and vanished from its spot, and one could only barely catch the fast-moving shadow approaching.

A cruel and tyrannical killing intent surged.

The power of slaughter allowed the Dark Demon Tiger to receive a boost, and from the lightless darkness emerged a blood-red slaughter like a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

This is a bit like a certain old friend!

For a moment, Yue Yun was full of things he wanted to complain about.

He didn't back down in the slightest; his right arm straightened like a long whip, and he twisted his body and hips to swing the blade forward in an instant.

This strike flashed with a cold light, as unstoppable as a bamboo-splitting force!

The tiger claws, wreathed in crimson light, collided with the cleaver, immediately erupting in a piercing sound of clashing metal.

Sparks flew as the two separated upon contact.

The Dark Demon Tiger's Dark Raid skill was interrupted, and it naturally dropped out of its darkness state, revealing its true form.

A violent Aura of slaughter surrounded its body, and the stripes on its pitch-black frame were no longer ghostly purple, but instead glowed with a dazzling red light.

With the layers of slaughter stacking up, the Dark Demon Tiger became an emissary of slaughter, like a Shura walking out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood!

"Holy crap, Asuras Heart?"

Mo Yu cried out in surprise.

Hearing this, Yue Yun's eyes widened. He scrutinized the Dark Demon Tiger for a moment before his expression returned to calm.

No wonder it reminded me of an old friend.