“Dance of Light.”

Amidst the opponent’s Thunderstorm, the Rainbow Albatross elegantly sidestepped and flapped its wings, each movement seemingly predicting the lightning’s trajectory, as light energy flowed between its feathers.

It not only easily evaded but also refracted and focused the scattered lightning, transforming it into several precise light prism rays for a counterattack!

It was as if it were performing a pre-choreographed Waltz of Light, casually defusing danger.

Lu Meiti’s commands were concise, often just one or two words, as if she shared the same mind with her pet beast.

“Immovable Defense.”

The Earth Fortress didn’t even move; it merely adjusted the angle of its carapace slightly, and the opponent’s Steel-type energy formed a flowing force field on its surface.

Every heavy punch and kick landing on it produced a dull metallic clang, and then there was nothing more!

The opponent’s pet beast’s power was like a mud ox entering the sea, perfectly absorbed and dispersed.

The Earth Fortress’s counterattack was equally unadorned.

The Ground-type skill, Earthquake.

It wasn’t a wide-ranging ground crack; instead, it was a condensed, substantial Impact beam, instantly transmitted along the ground, precisely hitting the opponent’s exposed center of gravity due to their attack, and then shaking them flying!

...

When the opponent tried to concentrate fire and forcefully attack the Albatross, the Earth Fortress seemingly clumsily shifted one «N.o.v.e.l.i.g.h.t» step sideways, perfectly blocking the opponent’s attack path, completing a flawless “positioning.”

And when the opponent was shaken flying, their defenses wide open, the Albatross’s light prism rays followed one after another as if they had eyes.

Their cooperation, without flashy combo skill names, reached the realm of “telepathic understanding.”

Every step was like the precise meshing of gears, dissecting, defusing, and counterattacking the opponent’s offensive, flowing smoothly and impeccably.

The match ended very quickly.

Just as Miao Miao Sheng had guessed, the total duration was less than five minutes.

Lu Meiti didn’t even let her two pet beasts display their full strength, defeating her opponent elegantly and thoroughly in an almost “tutorial-like” manner.

The audience erupted in fervent cheers, excited for this beautiful and powerful Beast Tamers and her pet beasts.

But Mingxi’s heart quieted, even becoming somewhat cold.

She had defeated Miao Miao Sheng, defeated many top Beast Tamers, and advanced triumphantly.

But at this moment, she clearly saw the chasm—not a gap in pet beast levels, nor even a gap in skill power.

But a gap in realm.

Lu Meiti’s understanding of energy, grasp of timing, control of the battle, and almost instinctive trust and guidance of her pet beasts, all reached a height far beyond her own.

What she possessed was a return to simplicity, a power that integrated “tactics” into her bones, turning them into instinct.

It was the calm composure after years of accumulation, the peaceful acceptance after experiencing countless trials.

Currently, Mingxi didn’t feel she could achieve that.

“So... is this what a true strong person looks like?”

Mingxi muttered to herself, her fingers unconsciously caressing the Qianshan Path on her wrist.

The Qianshan Path seemed to sense her mood, its small axe vibrating slightly, sending a warm comfort.

“Gaps are the driving force for progress, not the shackles that bind us!”

The confusion in Mingxi’s eyes was very brief, quickly fading, replaced by an even more fervent flame.

“I believe in myself, and I believe in all of you; we are the strongest.”

Just as Mingxi was sharpening her blade, preparing to use all the accumulated bonus time to further upgrade Golden Yuanbao and the other eight, to prepare for tomorrow’s match against Lu Meiti, another major event occurred in Saint Shield City.

Just before 7 PM that day, news that shocked Blue Star and even the entire Alliance arrived.

A strong spatial anomaly fluctuation appeared at a farm in the outskirts of Saint Shield City!

An unprecedented, giant spatial rift, with an affected area exceeding five kilometers, stretched across Saint Shield City, and the rift was still expanding at a rate of six hundred meters every half hour.

Not only that, a large number of subtle rifts with rule power appeared in the surrounding space.

That night, Saint Shield City sounded a Level 9 danger alert.

The entire city’s population began to evacuate in large numbers.

All Starsea Cup contestants also received notification of the competition’s suspension at the first possible moment, along with an invitation to a secret realm jointly signed by the Xiao Li Country government and the Alliance Beast Taming Center.

“Dear Mingxi, greetings. Due to the appearance of an unknown secret realm rift, a large number of spatial fissions have appeared in the surrounding area, which may pose a threat to the entire Saint Shield City.

After expert inspection, this secret realm is highly likely to be Blue Star Secret Realm No. 02, the Silent Mystery Realm, known as the Cradle of Transcendent creatures.

To prevent the secret realm rift from further expanding, we will forcibly open a secret realm passage at 12 AM tonight, allowing Beast Tamers to enter.

If you are willing, please arrive at Yefeng Street before 12 AM tonight.”

Mingxi looked at this invitation.

Silent Mystery Realm?

It was actually the Silent Mystery Realm.

The so-called Silent Mystery Realm is a secret realm without sound.

More precisely, any form of sound existing in this secret realm cannot be transmitted, even through special instruments or Transcendent creature skills; this is an absolute rule-based restriction.

The reason the Silent Mystery Realm is called the ‘Cradle of Transcendent creatures’ is because this secret realm is extremely bizarre; its Land of Birth and Death does not produce Stones of Birth and Death, but rather ‘steals’ various pet beast eggs from the outside world at irregular times and spaces.

Furthermore, the interior of this secret realm is filled with a unique “Breath of Nurturing” energy field, which has an excellent nurturing effect on pet beast eggs, but poses a slow “life assimilation” risk to adult Transcendent creatures.

This means that prolonged stay may lead to energy inertness or even degradation of adult Transcendent creatures.

Although there is no actual documented data, if adult Transcendent creatures stay in the Silent Mystery Realm for a long time, the final outcome is degeneration into pet beast eggs.

Therefore, this secret realm is filled with massive, powerful, and deeply dormant pet beast eggs, and because the Silent Mystery Realm has the ability to communicate with space-time, it contains not only ordinary pet beast eggs but also legendary and mythical Transcendent creature pet beast eggs.

It’s even possible for ancient species like Little Silver Flower and Bright Crystal to be found there.

Moreover, these pet beast eggs are different from wild Transcendent creatures in ordinary secret realms; as long as specific conditions are met, they can be taken out of the secret realm.

It is said that the Anji Country’s legendary Transcendent creature, Lu Li Da Mo, was brought out from the Silent Mystery Realm.

In other words, the Silent Mystery Realm is a special secret realm with terrifying resources.

However, this secret realm rarely appears, and once it does, it causes irreversible harm to the real space.

For example, those subtle rule rifts, the chaotic rules they emit are mostly highly destructive.

And the rapidly expanding spatial rift, the spatial storm it generates can destroy an entire city.

Not to mention the interior of the secret realm.

It’s directly a 10-star danger level!

The highest-tier existence within secret realms.

“Master, are you going?”

A small bear head emerged from Lan Yue’s fluffy big tail.

Guangguang was just giving Lan Yue’s tail a good grooming.