Chapter 359 — Sweeping the Seven Isles' Beast Tamers

Its keeper was the chief of an ancient ninja village in the Seven Islands, a supreme master of the dark element and assassination—the very old man who had first struck up a conversation with Zou Tianwang. After watching Shi Ying's performance in silence aboard the sky-ship, he had gone to make his preparations.

Yet alas, however thoroughly the old man prepared, against Shi Jue's show of martial virtue at the fourth gate he was still slain in an instant!!!

Susu once more unleashed power far beyond the Monarch level!!

Twenty-two million!!

BOOM!!!

A single drop of freezing water froze all things in the world, sealing the shadow eternally within the cliff face.

Another instant kill!

The beastmasters of the Seven Islands could sit still no longer; their eyes fairly burst.

"He—doesn't he need to switch his beasts???"

By this moment, four gatekeepers in a row had been slain in an instant, and all of them celebrated top masters within the Seven Islands. The Warring States Legend could finally contain himself no longer.

To his eyes, a titled Legend, the strength of a top master like Shi Tan naturally counted for little—but judged among peers, the power Shi Jin displayed was utterly fantastical, utterly inconceivable!!!

Had he merely slain one or two opponents in an instant, that would be one thing; a burst of power could indeed accomplish it.

But why could this Family's Prayer, seemingly without pressure and without expenditure, slay four mighty peers in succession?? And then, still unhurried, with no intention whatsoever of switching beasts, keep advancing?!

Did his beast possess infinite energy???

"He has a fine hand for raising beasts; in the matter of energy, he has no weak spot," the Overlord Sea Legend said, still calmly—though inwardly he was just as delighted. Shocked by this? Wait until Ji Feng took the stage; with the hundreds of millions of energy stored in his Elemental Sovereign's body, he would likely need to switch beasts even less!

Shi Jin plus Ji Feng—together they could give the Seven Islands a proper headache!

At present, the mighty displays of the Sea Spirit's reincarnated body left the Overlord Sea Legend rather astonished. He knew better than anyone that the Sea Spirit was master of the water element, yet the power Shi Jin and the others had shown all along leaned toward frost... So had they not yet brought out their full strength?

Just how high had the strength of the Sea Spirit's reincarnated body reached at this moment?

At full burst, could it be expected to rival Shi Ying's ace, the Iron-Eating Beast???

In this moment the Overlord Sea Legend wavered somewhat. The Nine Li War Beast was the Martial Emperor's ace battle pet, true, but its inheritance had been severed; even a Nine Li War Beast with a perfect inheritance, paired with the Martial Emperor's top-tier fusion talent, would still find it very hard to defeat the Meteor Annu.

The Sea Spirit, in its prime, had been an existence of even higher stature than the Meteor Annu. So if the Sea Spirit's reincarnated body had awakened some of the Sea Spirit's power ahead of time and leaped to become Shi Ying's strongest beast, he could well accept and believe it.

That was, after all, the mightiest demigod of the ocean!

The look the Overlord Sea Legend turned on Qi changed once more. Truly a fortunate Family's Prayer.

"A monster..." At this moment, the power Shi Jin displayed stood in stark contrast to his sickly appearance. Tong Yan, Zou Yun, and the others swallowed hard; even Ji Feng, a freak possessed of super-strong talent, drew a deep breath and acknowledged Shi Ying's strength.

This Lu Bai was no slouch.

He was the second beastmaster after Shi Jin whom he could not see through; he simply could not see where this "Lu Bai's" limit lay.

And so Shi Jin pressed on, in invincible bearing, in an unstoppable figure.

The fifth gate: upon the snowy plain, it seemed to become Susu's home ground. The opponent was a cold and aloof shrine maiden from the Ice and Snow Temple.

She had contracted a thousand-year Snow Maiden of an overlord-tier race. Beastmaster and beast alike were both so stunningly, chillingly beautiful that Zou Tianwang and the others on the Donghuang side were moved to tender pity.

Yet though a girl be precious, the ruins are dearer.

Twenty-two million.

Eighteen million, twenty million, twenty-two million—with every new gate they reached, the energy value of Susu at Shi Jin's side leapt sharply to a new height. This endless climbing turned the faces of the opponents and the Seven Islands' beastmasters pale all over again.

Did this Family's Prayer truly have no limit to his bursts?

Did he truly need no rest???

Such bursts... with no side effects?

After the swirling ice and snow had passed, amid the scenery of that frigid land, Shi Jin drew a deep breath and, with Susu, walked past the beautiful ice sculpture at its edge.

Within the ice sculpture remained the beautiful Snow Maiden's panicked eyes.

For all the resources of the Seven Islands' ruins, no one would be allowed to stop him!!!

And so a super genius whose strength ranked among the top five of all top masters under thirty within the Seven Islands was, in a single exchange, dispatched by Shi Jin.

Step by step, Shi Shuo advanced deeper along the Path of Champions. Though he never stopped to rest, his slow, deliberate pace was itself a kind of rest.

The mountain range was vast beyond measure, yet he had already cleared five gates, and more than two hours had passed. Shi Jin did not use his beasts to speed his travel—killing each opponent in a second, he simply ambled forward, and this too was to give Susu time to readjust quickly after every burst.

By now, the people on the Seven Islands were numb to their scalps—and what numbed them was not that Shi Jin had cleared the fifth gate, but that he had done so without switching beasts, cutting down five gates in succession in one-second kills. As Shi Jin advanced, he weighed on the Seven Islands beastmasters aboard the sky-ship like a crushing dominion, especially on the next gatekeeper awaiting him.

When Shi Jin reached the sixth gate, the onmyoji woman waiting there was already drenched in nervous sweat, her mind in turmoil the whole way through, cowed outright by his ruthless record across the previous five gates, and facing Shi Jin she felt a deep unease.

The sixth gate: 24 million.

Shi Jin held nothing back.

He even unleashed a stronger force and finished his opponent.

This time, Susu burst out 24 million in raw energy value.

For a top master at beastmaster level six with a king-rank beast, that value was nothing short of overwhelming.

After all, in the Minghua delegation, the level-seven beastmaster with a peerless Dharma-form talent who was contracted to a Golden Phoenix Dragon Sparrow—even her beast, after extreme amplification, had only reached 20 million.

And the gatekeepers on the Path of Champions, all at beastmaster level six, unless someone appeared with a monstrous talent like Ji Feng's or a monstrous stroke of fortune like Lu Yan's, would face an energy burst of over twenty million as nothing less than a slaughter.

Of course, Susu did not need to burst with such power to defeat its opponents, but Shi Jin made it push a little further each time in order to train it—to train the Holy Water Ring, to train Susu's endurance.

It was preparation for the gates still to come, especially the tenth, where they would face the true overlord—so that when the time came, Susu would not collapse under the strain of releasing too much power all at once.

He just did not know how strong the overlord the Seven Islands would send out was. If it was a top-tier overlord, Shi Jin reckoned he would simply raise the white flag. But if it was an ordinary overlord like the Earth Demon Ape or the Serpent Lord...