Chapter 345 — A Name That Shakes Donghuang

On Ji Feng's side were six beasts skilled in manipulating the forces of nature: three overlord species and three quasi-overlord species. Under his talent, Affinity of Heavenly Phenomena, all of them had the ability to wound overlords.

With the six working together, not to mention briefly holding their own against an overlord, even suppressing an ordinary overlord was not impossible.

Ji Feng did indeed have a record of using the momentum of nature to suppress and kill overlords.

Ordinary overlords referred to overlord-level creatures of ordinary overlord species whose energy values were around fifty million, whose cultivation in natural power was not high, and whose super-tier racial skills did not exceed perfect mastery by much. The Snake Lord and Earth Demon Ape that Shi Jin had encountered were both of this kind.

Top-tier overlords renowned in the East Sea overlord circles, such as the Sky-Piercing Whale of Mirage Abyss City, and invincible overlords able to trade blows with totem-level beings, such as the mutated Kun from the Legend of the Overlord Sea, were naturally not included.

On Lu Heng's side were five beasts that had mastered the perfect-grade instruction skill 'Mythic Resurrection': a Wind Demon Lion, an Azure Spirit Phoenix Bird, an Empress Flower, a Mermaid Princess, and a Hurricane Demon. Each had a low base energy value, but through Mythic Resurrection they could reach over twenty million, equivalent to half an overlord.

Add to that the Court Village Spirit Lu Heng had newly contracted. It had no Mythic Resurrection, but it had absorbed half a share of Ancient Capital University's legendary undead resource, so its strength was not much inferior to the other few. Under its Nature Spirit Possession, the other beasts, already very strong, became stronger still.

After Lu Heng cultivated and evolved the Wind Demon Lion and Azure Spirit Phoenix Bird, her lineup also consisted of three overlord species and three quasi-overlord species.

It could be said that, apart from those four who had already become legends, the two almost represented the strongest echelon of Donghuang's younger generation and would be pillars of Donghuang's legendary-level combat power for decades to come.

The two's peak battle made Zou Yun and the others' gazes grow extremely grave, and they felt the gap deeply.

"Ying." "Wu." "Yi." "Mi." "Ning." "So amazing..." On Shi Jin's side, they too were deep in thought.

If it came to a team battle, these two were indeed both terrifying.

"No big problem." Shi Jin took a deep breath. Apart from Eleven, his other beasts would indeed find it difficult if they faced the opponent's other main forces alone. But with the existence of the Time Essence Fruit and Eleven's current overwhelming strength, a team battle would not be unwinnable, only very difficult. This situation would not last long, though.

After that, once he broke through to Level Six and Eleven and the others had built up their proficiency in super-tier skills, he would be truly invincible below Legendary.

Until then, for the sake of Legendary resources, he would just sit at fifth in the Sequence for a while...

...

The next day.

Three trending topics about the Sequence War shook all of Donghuang.

The first: Zou the Heavenly King, ranked tenth in the Sequence, had fallen to eleventh.

As expected of a traffic magnet, he was not the only one whose rank fell today, but he alone was singled out.

Around that topic, fans and haters launched their umpteenth online war.

Zou the Heavenly King grudgingly pocketed his traffic money.

The second: seventh-ranked Lu Heng vs. fifth-ranked Ji Feng.

The summit battle at Myriad Phenomena Mountain in the Void Capital ended with Lu Heng—genius archaeologist and vice president of the Archaeology Association—victorious.

When the result was announced, Donghuang's beast-taming world trembled.

Countless female beast tamers were elated, for now two of the top five in the Sequence were women.

Apart from Lu Heng, among the top five there was another female Legendary Beast Tamer, Shen Ling, ranked second in the Sequence. She was a descendant of the Mechanical Legend, though despite that lineage she was not a mechanist; she was immensely mysterious, and the outside world knew very little about her.

Thus, Lu Heng's revenge match—defeating Ji Feng, a top-tier combat talent, with a telepathy talent—combined with her striking looks, instantly made her an idol among countless female beast tamers and a national goddess.

Yet Lu Heng did not hold fifth place in the Sequence for more than a few minutes. Right after, news even more shocking to Donghuang's beast-taming world appeared.

Shi Jin—originally eleventh in the Sequence and already rising through the ranks at astonishing speed as the national champion—instantly took over Lu Heng's fifth place, shaking all of Donghuang.

"How is that possible? That Shi Jin..."

Across Donghuang, region after region was rocked.

At the finals venue of the Ancient Capital Professional Assessment.

When the final battle ended and An Chang, the astonishing dark horse from Wuling City, took the championship, what set the entire venue ablaze was not the crowning of the champion but a trending news headline reaching the top.

"Genius archaeologist and national champion Shi Jin clears the Void Emperor's ruins and defeats the Void Emperor's second beast!"

"The Void Emperor's ruins, built centuries ago, have descended upon the Void Capital. Its guardian is Xukongtan, the second beast raised by the Legendary Beast Tamer, the Void Emperor, and virtually invincible at the Monarch level. In just one week, dozens of veteran top masters challenged it, and the Sequence top ten—Ji Feng, Lu Heng, Zou Yun, Ning Tianming, and Tong Yan—challenged it one after another, only to be defeated every time."

"Only when Shi Jin, eleventh in the Sequence, challenged the ruins and successfully defeated Xukongtan were the Void Emperor's ruins cleared."

The report contained more detail.

Countless beast tamers' jaws dropped.

At the Ancient Capital Professional Assessment venue, An Chang scanned the news in shock, and the little pride he had just felt at becoming the professional top scorer instantly drained away.

"A battle spanning ages—Shi Jin vs. the Void Emperor? That kid actually freaking did something like this?!"

Master Qu Li, who was about to be promoted, nearly bulged his eyes out. He could not comprehend the speed at which that Shi Jin kid had grown stronger. He looked down at An Chang below. After all, only a year ago, Shi Jin had merely been standing there—a newcomer who had just stepped into the professional field.

The publication of that news made Shi Jin's fifth place in the Sequence truly deserved.

After all, he had defeated the Void Emperor's beast. Though it was only a second beast left behind to guard the ruins, it had still been raised by a Legendary Beast Tamer, and its battle record was incomparable. From Donghuang's veteran top beast masters down to the young Sequence top ten, Lu Heng and Ji Feng included, not a single one had been able to defeat it.

And under such circumstances, it was Shi Jin who had conquered the ruins?

If the concept of the Void Emperor's second beast was too remote for people, then another trending topic left everyone utterly numb.

In the Imperial Capital, a private mechanical research institute.

Gao Xuan, currently ranked in the twenties in the Sequence and preparing for the Mechanical Convention, stared wide-eyed at the trending news before him.

"Shi Jin's fifth-ranked Sequence record revealed: three months ago, he assassinated two Overlords and escaped unscathed!"

A master with a Level Five telepathy talent had killed Overlords above his level. Once that record was revealed, Donghuang's beast-taming world boiled over once more.

Cries of "Holy shit" rang out without end.