Chapter 582 — The Gaze of the Four Transcendent Saints
The Beast-Taming Craftsman · Page 7 of 12
"Only one of the Four Holy Clans remains, but the top sixteen holds more than one Four Holy evolver... this Mystic Mechanism Hierarch, this Transcendent Holy Beast—they're all Four Holy evolvers! This time we've been utterly crushed. The clan elders are bound to be furious," said Ming Wu of the Black Tortoise Clan.
By now, the Short-Legged Cat, Turtle, and the others had already drawn the attention of the Four Holy Clans.
The reason was simple: they cultivated the power of the Four Holy faith, and they were not members of the Four Holy Clans!
Moreover, the Short-Legged Cat's fighting style—and that Transcendent Holy Beast—resembled the guardian holy beasts that had once appeared in the Four Holy Ruins far too closely. Even their appearances were somewhat alike.
And after investigation, the most crucial key point lay with the Mystic Mechanism Hierarch's beast tamer: Shi Jin!
Shi Jin had also appeared in the Four Holy Ruins, an archaeologist praised even by Zijian, and the Mystic Mechanism Hierarch was his beast... so these few prodigies of the Four Holy Clans had a bold conjecture.
This Shi Jin had obtained unknown benefits in the Four Holy Ruins—for instance, the Mystic Mechanism Hierarch had inherited the guardian holy beast legacy of the Four Holy Ruins. They even suspected that the Transcendent Holy Beast was also Shi Jin's beast.
The limit of what they could imagine was that Shi Jin had secretly obtained benefits from the Four Holy Ruins. As for the notion that Shi Jin had been the one controlling the Four Holy Ruins at the time—they didn't dare even think it, because it was too absurd.
After all, even Zijian had failed to crack the Four Holy Ruins. What right did Shi Jin, a man never heard of before, have to do so?
The Four Holy Clans had already begun investigating the matter...
One of the Four Holy Clans: the Black Tortoise Clan!
In the Black Tortoise Clan there was an old turtle of the Time-Accumulation lineage, master of divination, who had reached the realm of the Perfect God.
Recently, the clan had called upon it to divine one thing: the origins of that turtle-snake hybrid Black Tortoise evolver, the Transcendent Holy Beast, in the Apotheosis War—and whether there was any hope of drawing it into the Black Tortoise Clan.
After long effort of time-accumulation, it finally divined a trace of something—but one look sent the old turtle's shell nearly bursting. Panicked, it rushed to find the Black Tortoise Clan's patriarch, a Black Tortoise evolver of the Super God level!
"Elder Ancestor, Elder Ancestor, disaster is upon us!!!"
The old turtle came in a fluster before the supreme mystic realm where the head of the family dwelled, and paid his respects.
"What is it?" The supreme mystic realm opened, and an aged voice issued forth.
"It concerns the Xuanyuan Sect—forgive the intrusion. Recently, the clan requested that I divine the circumstances of a rising star of great potential, a Xuanwu evolutioner."
"Mm." The Xuanwu Supremegod nodded.
"The result—the result was that I divined something truly terrifying. I saw a vision of the future: a human beastmaster, accompanied by one Azure Dragon, one White Tiger, one Vermilion Bird, and one Xuanwu, will carry off the Relic of the Four Saints Era!!"
"What??" From the unseen Xuanwu Supremegod came a voice of disbelief.
"You mean to say that the Relic of the Four Saints Era will one day be deciphered and taken away, and that the one who takes it is connected to the transcendent holy beasts you foresaw?"
"Exactly! The law of my divination skill is this: either the divination fails and nothing can be divined at all, or the vision that comes through will come to pass one hundred percent. So what I divined... may well be real. The Relic of the Four Saints Era is about to be deciphered!"
"I see..." The Xuanwu Supremegod nodded and said, "Do not breathe a word of this to anyone. You may withdraw."
"Yes!" The old diviner turtle took his leave.