Beast Tamer Ascension-Chapter 17Book 4: : Intruder

What this manifested as was the Ghost Bride using her Dao to erase the obsessions of Pine Leaf Mouse and Ice Soul Gu.

"Sigh..."

Seated cross-legged in the Buddha Tower, Pine Leaf Mouse in a Daoist robe looked tense, its expression shifting constantly. Its mind and thoughts were engaged in a fierce internal struggle, feeling like it was slowly losing its obsession with hoarding.

In a sudden moment, it actually felt that stockpiling resources in huge amounts wasn’t all that meaningful, constantly denying the behaviors it had held onto for years.

One of its biggest dreams in cultivation had been to own a massive storage space and fill it with treasures. But now, it suddenly couldn’t understand the purpose behind such a goal.

Ice Soul Gu was in a similar situation, beginning to question whether its competitiveness was just a pointless obsession.

Pine Leaf Mouse and Dragon Carp were both rare beasts that inherited the divine abilities of immortals. Although it was a Rare Gu created by the Gu God Sect, in the end, it was still the crystallization of a mortal Gu cultivator’s intelligence—merely a creation from the lower realm.

Under these circumstances, losing to Pine Leaf Mouse and Dragon Carp was completely normal. Compared to other lifeforms on the Tianyuan Continent, it was already powerful enough. There was no need to keep competing with Pine Leaf Mouse and Dragon Carp. Maintaining its current state was already good enough...

Their obsessions were being destroyed.

However, the Ghost Bride wasn’t doing this just to destroy the obsessions of Pine Leaf Mouse and Ice Soul Gu. Her true intent was to help them strengthen their obsessions.

If the Ghost Bride unleashed her full power, she could easily shatter their Dao Hearts in an instant, making them lose the motivation to cultivate.

But now, she was controlling her power very precisely, keeping her influence just slightly weaker than their existing obsessions.

This way, Pine Leaf Mouse and Ice Soul Gu would remain in a constant state of internal resistance.

As long as they held firm, stayed true to themselves—whether for hoarding or for being the strongest—that obsession would become stronger.

Eventually, that very obsession would influence their future battles and cultivation, producing a positive effect.

"A chance to comprehend the Dao of a Void Mystical cultivator... That time, Dragon Carp probably missed its opportunity. After all, it didn’t have a Demon Emperor accompanying it while cultivating at the Immortal-Burying Volcano. This time, its luck should be the weakest."

"I wonder how it’s doing now."

Pine Leaf Mouse looked toward the direction of the Immortal-Burying Volcano, unable to sense if Dragon Carp had broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage yet.

With that thought, I myself became enveloped in golden light, allowing the Spell Spirit Origin Fungus to project the fluctuations of the Indestructible Golden Body onto me, planning to delve into it here.

Several months ago.

Immortal-Burying Volcano.

At the edge of a volcanic crater, the Demon Emperor sat cross-legged.

Inside the volcano, countless white flames flowed like rivers.

A small carp was rolling and twisting within, letting the flames scorch its body.

The Demon Emperor’s divine sense remained locked onto Dragon Carp. From the outside, she saw that outside its monster core, Dragon Carp had begun forming a blurry image of a tiny carp through the power of its bloodline.

"It’s reached the Phantom Infant Stage."

Phantom Infant Stage—the transition between Core Formation and Nascent Soul. Although the Nascent Soul wasn’t fully formed yet, some of its powers had already emerged.

"If it manages to refine the flames of this Immortal-Burying Volcano, its bloodline strength should ascend to the Ancestor Realm."

Sensing Dragon Carp’s phantom infant power, the Demon Emperor made her judgment.

Human and beast cultivators reached Nascent Soul through two different methods due to racial differences.

For beasts, their monster core didn’t shatter. Instead, relying on their bloodline power, a monster infant shell would form around the core to protect it.

For humans, true essence would condense and shape inside the core, and finally break out from within, forming a Dao Infant.

Each method had its own advantages. The beast-type Nascent Soul had stronger oppressive power. With just a thought, its aura could crush low or even same-level cultivators like a beast king, making others tremble in fear.

Thus, Nascent Soul-level beasts were also called Demon Kings.

But human Nascent Soul cultivators didn’t have that kind of oppressive aura. Instead, they could combine their Dao Infant with true essence to summon a Nascent Soul Manifestation.

This Manifestation looked like a towering divine armored being, which wrapped around the cultivator, greatly enhancing both offense and defense. The cultivator could also channel spells through the Manifestation, amplifying their power!

The Demon Emperor’s eyes burned with intensity. Just as she was pondering when Dragon Carp, with its activated ancestral bloodline, would finally ascend to the true Demon Ancestor Realm and become a great general of the Demon Court...

Suddenly, her brow furrowed. She looked toward the edge of the Tianyuan Realm.

At that very moment, it wasn’t just her—every cultivator on the Tianyuan Continent who had reached the Dao-Seeking Stage sensed something strange, as if the boundary wall of the Grand Origin Realm was under some kind of impact!

"Already... this soon?"

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In the direction of the Ancient Kingdom, the Second Ancient Emperor narrowed his eyes, looking beyond the heavens, a ripple rising in his heart.

A few years ago, the Lord of the Demon Court had brought intelligence revealing the ambitions of the Demonic Sky Sect to the Dao-Seeking experts of the Tianyuan Realm.

To prepare for the invasion of a powerful enemy, the Tianyuan Realm initiated a Golden Era, hoping to spend ten thousand, or at least several thousand or hundreds of years to bolster the realm’s foundations.

But who would’ve thought, in just a few short years, the Second Ancient Emperor could already feel someone trying to break through the boundary barrier and descend upon the Tianyuan Realm.

Although it seemed like the attempt had failed, it was still a bad omen.