Chapter 566 — Lu Heng's Counterattack

Not long after the Gem Cat was taken away, Blue Star completed its first round of repair and fully inaugurated the era of mythological revival.

Planetary laws gradually grew complete, and countless demigods living on Blue Star received its grace, ascending to the divine rank as if passing bodily into heaven.

The Legend of the Donghuang Divine Source, the Legend of Shenfeng Z, the Valkyrie of the Seven Isles, the God of War of the Snow Plains, the Hero King of Glory, the Death God of Minghua… these nine-rank beastmasters of the present age all successfully ascended to the divine rank.

The Seven Gods of the World Tournament—the Golden Inkslab God and the others—along with the many awakened gods, had their power fully restored to peak condition.

Blue Star had ushered in its greatest patch update ever.

And it was not only those experts stuck at the rank-nine bottleneck; those one rank below were also rising in droves. The Donghuang Association President Lin Xiao, the Legend of the Overlord Sea, and the rank-eight presidents of every nation all crossed effortlessly into the legendary rank.

In an instant, legendary-rank beastmasters—a breed so rare that a single era could scarcely count more than ten on both hands—were being born on Blue Star in rapid succession, and soon the number of legendary beastmasters reached several dozen.

Among them, veterans made up the majority, but there were young legends of the new generation as well.

For instance, Lu Heng of Donghuang. She had entered the legendary rank not long ago, and in a very short span she had broken through two ranks in succession; now, with Blue Star's patch update, she too had arrived at the legendary rank.

"Finally here." In a certain ruin, Lu Heng breathed deep and broke into a joyful expression. With legendary-rank strength, she could go to Planet King too, couldn't she?

Even Lu Heng had not expected to reach the legendary rank from the legendary rank so quickly—and it was all thanks to Shi Jin, who before leaving had used the techniques taught by the Time Emperor to pinpoint and locate nearly every mythological ruin and legendary ruin on Blue Star, draw them into a map, and give it to her.

As head of the Donghuang Archaeology Association and the new director of the Eleventh Bureau, Lu Heng had thrown herself into cracking ruins almost day and night after receiving the map. With assistance from all sides, her best record was nine mythological ruins cracked in a single month.

The opportunities inside ruins defied imagination, and with Lu Heng's relentless cracking, both her own strength and Donghuang's soared at breakneck speed. Yet the most delightful reward was not the opportunity in some mythological ruin that had pushed her beast-taming space to its limits, nor the cub of some divine beast she had obtained.

It was…

In a certain legendary ruin, she had received an inheritance and obtained a very powerful beast-taming talent.

The beastmaster who had bequeathed it to her was named "Yue Nv," a legendary-rank expert of the Totem Era.

Her beast-taming talent was called "Plunder."

The Plunder talent could seize the skills of extraordinary lifeforms and forge them into items, and it could also plunder human beast-taming talents and forge those into items. The Awakening Mirror and the Talent Orb that Shi Jin had once obtained were both toys made by Yue Nv.

Yue Nv was regarded as the most terrifying female beastmaster of the human race in the Totem Era, which preceded the Beast-Taming Era.

No historical record mentioned her later years, and it was only by chance that Lu Heng entered the inheritance ruin Yue Nv had left behind and learned that, in her final years, Yue Nv had been developing a beast-taming talent that was already monstrously powerful.

The original Plunder talent could only plunder beast-taming talents and forge them into items, but through her development, Yue Nv succeeded before her death in evolving Plunder into a divine-rank talent, one that could plunder the abilities and talents of other lifeforms and convert them into her own abilities and talents.

Moreover, her deep study of the divine-rank Plunder ability had also led her to devise a way for others to learn the Plunder talent. Though she knew the ability was exceedingly evil and perilous, Yue Nv still chose to pass it down, pairing it with cultivation resources and hiding it within the ruin formed from her own beast-taming space.

After cracking the ruin, Lu Heng successfully received Yue Nv's inheritance and learned the divine-rank Plunder talent.

Originally, Lu Heng had believed that the legends of Donghuang across the ages—those who had founded and refounded a unified human dynasty in the Age of Dharma's End—were the most remarkable legends of all. But now she realized that the era before the Beast-Taming Era had also teemed with extraordinary figures. The legends of the Totem Era, though they had never dreamed of founding a human dynasty and though records of them were scarce, were by no means weak.

The history of the Totem Era was far longer than the two-thousand-year Beast-Taming Era, and it had produced extraordinary figures in abundance.

After cracking numerous human legendary ruins from the Totem Era, Lu Heng had reaped a rich harvest. The Yue Nv inheritance was her greatest gain—a treasure better suited to the human race than any inheritance left behind by the mythological races.

Mythological Era, Totem Era, Beast-Taming Era—Shi Jin had more or less finished exploring the secrets of the Mythological and Beast-Taming Eras, reaping abundantly for himself, while the Totem Era's inheritance had brought Lu Heng abundant rewards.

In Lu Heng's eyes, among all the legends of Donghuang down the ages, perhaps only the Time Emperor could rival this Senior Yue Nv. What a pity… the senior had not lived to see the mythological revival, had not entered the starry sky. Otherwise, she would surely have become a terror that set every race of the starry sky trembling at the mere mention of her name.

"This divine-rank Plunder ability must not be exposed once I reach Planet King. Apart from Shi Jin and Teacher Ying and the others, no one can be told." Lu Heng stood up and gazed out at the starry sky beyond. Though it was thanks to Shi Ying that she had found Yue Nv's ruin, she wondered—with this ability, could she surpass Shi Jin? Lu Heng excitedly raised her fist.