Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 376 - 351: True Enemy? False Enemy?

As Li Shiji’s words fell, the head of the Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon was severed by a pure Spiritual One Slash.

Watching the blood-weeping Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon, Ju Xin Hao, who had always been arrogant relying on the Ju Clan’s name, was dumbfounded.

It’s not a dragon of the Ju Clan, you just kill it like that!

An old man’s phantom appeared above the dragon’s corpse.

"How dare you."

The old man’s angry roar echoed across the skies above Bengma Island.

Seeing the old man’s phantom, the bewildered expression on Ju Xin Hao’s face vanished as if he had found his backbone again.

The old man was Ju Zhandi, the Vice Clan Leader of the Ju Clan, a Venerable King-level powerhouse.

His phantom appeared on the dragon’s body because he had stored a power within the Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon.

The encounter between Li Shiji and Ju Zhandi’s phantom ended in an instant, with Li Shiji emerging victorious.

Li Shiji flicked a leaf with his fingers, and the sharp force enveloped the leaf, severing Ju Xin Hao’s neck.

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In the forest of Bengma Island.

At this moment, a hunched figure, as if weighed down by countless wicked thoughts, held a dim Nether Fire Lamp, hiding in the shadows of a large tree.

With a snake-like cold and sinister gaze, he watched Li Shiji kill Ju Xin Hao, his dry lips slightly opening to reveal a malicious smile.

"Heh heh~ Mission complete."

After saying this, he turned to leave.

As he turned, he froze.

Li Shiji, Li Cunxu, along with the Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon and Ju Xin Hao, whom Li Shiji had already killed, were all looking at him.

Li Shiji smiled and said, "How is the spiritual illusion I prepared for you? Real enough? Mischief Demon."

The previous scenes of Li Shiji killing the Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon, defeating Ju Zhandi’s phantom, and killing Ju Xin Hao were all false, parts of a spiritual illusion crafted by Li Shiji using the Mischief Demon’s desires.

The Mischief Demon, a humanoid Hell Pet, possesses extremely high intelligence and powerful concealment abilities, characterized by cunning and malice, enjoying secretly inciting animosity among others and creating irreconcilable life-or-death conflicts.

This Mischief Demon, following someone’s orders, infiltrated Bengma Island with the aim of secretly manipulating emotions, inciting Li Shiji to kill Ju Xin Hao, thus causing an irreconcilable rift with the Ju Clan.

Originally, it could have succeeded.

The Mischief Demon’s concealment and emotional incitement abilities are extremely difficult to detect, and being of King level, if it hid in the dark, even an unsuspecting Li Shiji would fall for its trap.

But it met its nemesis, the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog.

While the Mischief Demon’s concealment could fool a King, it couldn’t escape the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog’s ability to track by instinct.

The moment the Mischief Demon set foot on the island, the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog sensed its presence.

The Mischief Demon was cornered, but it did not surrender.

Surrendering is not in a Hell Pet’s nature; it smashed the Nether Fire Lamp it held onto the ground, causing deep blue flames to surge, engulfing its hunched body.

This skill of the Mischief Demon is called Nether Fire Transmission, pre-marking another location and hurling the Nether Fire Lamp to teleport there when in danger.

Nether Fire Transmission has two advantages over Spatial Teleportation.

First: Nether Fire Transmission leaves no spatial traces.

Without spatial traces, other pets cannot utilize spatial skills to catch up to the Mischief Demon.

While Spatial Teleportation leaves spatial traces.

For instance, if a Void Turtle uses Spatial Teleportation to go to Tongdu, the Void Seven-Star Ladybug can track it through the spatial traces left by the Void Turtle.

Second: Nether Fire Transmission is unaffected by spatial locks.

However, even with the escape skill Nether Fire Transmission, the Mischief Demon couldn’t get away.

Nether Fire Transmission has a range limit; the Mischief Demon couldn’t escape far, and as long as it didn’t get far, its nemesis, the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog, could quickly locate it.

Reality was just that.

With the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog’s guidance, Li Shiji soon found the Mischief Demon on the beach on the other side of Bengma Island, about to escape on a speedboat.

Though the Mischief Demon was a King, it couldn’t fly.

Its skills were focused entirely on concealment, emotional manipulation, and escape.

The Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon acted even more urgently than Li Shiji.

Almost being used as a pawn by the Mischief Demon was intolerable for the proud King-level Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon.

The dragon’s breath descended from the sky, like a falling Golden Cudgel, while the Mischief Demon sketched a circle in the air with its hands, releasing deep blue Nether Fire in defense.

The hastily released Nether Fire was no match for the Cyan-Scaled Giant Dragon’s furious strike.

However, the Mischief Demon did it on purpose.

At the moment Li Shiji caught up, the Mischief Demon realized that using the speedboat wouldn’t allow it to escape from a flying King.

The dragon’s breath crushed the speedboat, and the Mischief Demon took the opportunity to fall into the water, maximizing its concealment ability within.

Li Shiji asked, "Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog, where in the sea is the Mischief Demon?"

The Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog, who had eaten the Talking Red Earth, lifted a paw and pointed.

"It’s to the east."

"Spiritual One Slash."

Li Shiji put his fingers together and struck in the direction indicated by the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog. The invisible Spiritual Power, enhanced by the mental law, became incredibly sharp, splitting the sea and sky apart. The severed seawater formed two towering walls, and the Mischief Demon hiding in the sea was also cleaved in two.

Suddenly, the bisected Mischief Demon turned into a mass of Nether Fire and vanished.

Ninefold Nether Fire.

Sacrificing one large level to resurrect oneself.

The Mischief Demon, at King level, using this skill reduced its rank to Overlord level.

If used twice consecutively, the rank would drop to Lord level.

The instant it revived, the Mischief Demon used the skill Nether Fire Walk.

Nether Fire Walk, a King skill, at the cost of a hundred years of lifespan, forcibly enters an invisible state unable to be seen (even the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog cannot detect it), and moves a certain distance at extraordinary speed.

While the Mischief Demon is adept at escape, there’s always a stronger force, and as soon as Nether Fire Walk ended, its nightmare returned when the Ten Thousand Miles Tracking Dog, relying on its intuition, found the Mischief Demon once more in the vast ocean.

Li Shiji killed the Mischief Demon seven times, reducing it to Black Iron level, unable to use Ninefold Nether Fire anymore.

Upon the Mischief Demon’s death, many valuable items were acquired.

The best among them was the Spiritual Law—Emotion.

Next was the Mischief Demon’s body; although its level dropped to Black Iron, its body strength remained at King level, making it the best material for crafting spiritual-related items.

Also, the Mischief Demon naturally mastered Deep Blue Nether Fire.

The Deep Blue Nether Fire, a peculiar flame of the undead type, causes high damage to living beings but is less effective on inanimate objects like stones or iron ingots.

Additionally, there were skill seeds dropped by the Mischief Demon.

Most skill seeds are unusable; those dropped by Hell Pets are often tainted with hellish aura, and using such skill seeds carries a high risk of being corrupted by Hell.

The spoils of battle were all given by Li Shiji to Li Cunxu, including the Spiritual Law—Emotion.