Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 451: Chapter 258: Flame Guardian and Ignite the Burning Flame

If not for the fact that she hadn’t yet started to train her Nirvana Phoenix Peony, Ren Suxin absolutely would have been unable to resist summoning her Guardian Beast.

Seeing Zhong Ling and Shen Xuan preparing to summon their Guardian Beasts, Zhong Yi said seriously,

"Xiaolingdang, Ah Xuan, don’t be so hasty."

"Xiaoya, Guoguo, this battle is yours."

"It’s the perfect time for Xiaoya to summon her Deceit Beast. That way, our clothes won’t get all damp."

Zhong Yi also wanted to see just how much Sun Ya and He Guoguo had grown.

Zhong Yi himself hadn’t used Flowing Soul Soil to help Sun Ya and He Guoguo train their Deceit Beasts.

But they had Zhao Kai, Wu Qing, and Tao En looking after them.

Their training was all up to the standard of a Celestial Destiny Seeker.

So, upon hearing Zhong Yi’s instruction, Sun Ya activated her Soul Base.

Immediately, an area of flames spread out in all directions, with the large, dancing flame in front of Sun Ya as its core.

To Zhong Yi’s surprise, the Fire Realm that Sun Ya’s Deceit Beast, Liaoyuan Cluster Fire, unfurled using its Basic Skill, Life and Death Cluster Burning, already had a radius of at least 500 meters at the Extraordinary Tier.

Within the 1,000-meter diameter area centered on Liaoyuan Cluster Fire,

all designated creatures would be burned and have their Life Force drained.

The life forms in the Wolf Insect Secret Realm were primarily Combat Type insectoid creatures like the Wolf Insects.

But aside from them, there were also large numbers of small Exotic Insects with little to no combat ability.

The moment Sun Ya summoned Liaoyuan Cluster Fire, these Exotic Insects were instantly set ablaze and began to lose their Life Force.

The area covered by Liaoyuan Cluster Fire was like water poured into hot oil, immediately erupting into chaos.

The pain from the flames drove the few Wolf Insects into a frenzy.

They charged toward Zhong Yi and the others, rolling around in the dirt along the way.

Even after being covered in a layer of brownish-green dirt, the faint, bright red flames on their bodies didn’t go out. Instead, they burned even more fiercely.

The moment Sun Ya summoned Liaoyuan Cluster Fire, Zhong Yi inspected it.

[Deceit Beast Name]: Liaoyuan Cluster Fire

[Deceit Beast Species]: Deceit Fire Family/Curse Flame Species

[Deceit Beast Level]: Extraordinary Tier (10/10)

[Deceit Beast Type]: Deceit Element

[Deceit Beast Quality]: Silver Quality

Skills:

[Life and Death Cluster Burning]: Unfurls a Fire Realm that burns designated Creatures within it, draining their Life Force. Whenever a target in the Fire Realm recovers Life Force, the burning effect on it is enhanced.

[Flame Guardian]: As each flame drains a target’s Life Force, it absorbs and converts that Life Force into a shield that resists physical and Elemental damage. (Targets that attack the shield will enter the Burning Flame state.)

Exclusive Traits:

[Fire Source Loading]: Loads a fire source into its body, causing the Fire Realm to gain the additional traits of that natural fire source.

[Ignite the Burning Flame]: After a target has been burning for a period of time, it will be ignited and enter the Burning Flame state. A target in the Burning Flame state gains the Fire Element Weakness Effect, increasing the damage it takes from flame burns.

A smile spread across Zhong Yi’s face after the inspection.

He gave Sun Ya a thumbs-up in full approval.

He was greatly impressed by Sun Ya’s Lifebound Deceit Beast, Liaoyuan Cluster Fire.

Flame Guardian, the Skill Liaoyuan Cluster Fire gained upon advancing to the Extraordinary Tier, was a Defense Type Skill that could nullify physical and Elemental damage.

Although it couldn’t defend against curse, mental, or soul-level damage,

Flame Guardian was still an outstanding Defense Type Skill.

This was because casting Flame Guardian didn’t require Liaoyuan Cluster Fire to expend its own Energy.

Instead, it used the Life Force drained from other Creatures to weave a Flame Shield.

It used the enemy’s lost Life Force as its own protection.

When Sun Ya used Liaoyuan Cluster Fire in synergy with He Guoguo’s Lifebound Deceit Beast, the Bitter Anger Beast,

it could not only protect the two Deceit Beast Masters, Sun Ya and He Guoguo,

but it could also protect the Bitter Anger Beast before it had the chance to increase its power using its Basic Skill, Absorption of Suffering and Amplification.

Liaoyuan Cluster Fire’s Extraordinary Tier Skill, Flame Guardian, worked in tandem with its Basic Skill, Life and Death Cluster Burning.

In an environment like the Wolf Insect Secret Realm, which was packed with enemies, the amount of shielding it could generate might be several, or even dozens of times greater than that of a same-Tier Defense Type Guardian Beast Master.

Liaoyuan Cluster Fire had two Exclusive Traits: Fire Source Loading and Ignite the Burning Flame.

Fire Source Loading allowed Liaoyuan Cluster Fire to take fire sources from nature and load them into its body.

This would imbue the Fire Realm’s burning effect with the traits of that fire source.

The natural fire sources found in the world were Anomalous Fires.

Liaoyuan Cluster Fire was currently at the Extraordinary Tier, so it could absorb two fire sources whose Tiers did not exceed the energy limit of the Extraordinary Tier.

Although Liaoyuan Cluster Fire couldn’t absorb Anomalous Fires of a higher Tier, this was of little consequence to its combat performance.

This was because Liaoyuan Cluster Fire didn’t rely on the Anomalous Fire itself for combat, but rather used the traits within it to amplify the entire Fire Realm.

Sun Ya had not yet chosen any Anomalous Fires for it to load.

If Sun Ya had Liaoyuan Cluster Fire absorb two Anomalous Fires, the Fire Realm’s burning ability would be much stronger than it was now.

Anomalous Fires contained various traits, like fire poison and high temperatures, that were extremely damaging to creatures of flesh and blood.

The Exclusive Trait gained upon reaching the Extraordinary Tier, Ignite the Burning Flame, was the ultimate enhancement to Liaoyuan Cluster Fire’s damage.

Once a target in the Fire Realm had been burning for a while,

the accumulating effect would cause it to enter the Burning Flame state.

The Burning Flame state was equivalent to a special ability that weakened Elemental Resistance.

It could weaken a target’s Fire Element resistance and apply a Fire Element Weakness Effect.

Under this effect, the burning damage taken from the Fire Realm would increase significantly.

This meant that even if powerful units were in the Fire Realm, it could still inflict significant damage upon them.

If there were targets in the Fire Prison with extremely high Fire Element resistance, the Ignite the Burning Flame trait guaranteed that it could still damage them.

Zhong Yi planned to buy some Wing Melting Demon corpses after they left the Wolf Insect Secret Realm.

He wanted to test just how much the Fire Element Weakness Effect applied by Liaoyuan Cluster Fire’s Exclusive Trait, Ignite the Burning Flame, could lower a target’s Flame Resistance.

"Xiaoya, you and Guoguo have both joined Soul Soil, so we’re all family here."

"If you need Anomalous Fires or anything, just ask Brother Zhao."

"Brother Zhao will set you up with the optimal combination of Anomalous Fires for each of your future Tiers."

Sun Ya’s heart filled with joy when she saw Zhong Yi give her a thumbs-up.

Right now, what Sun Ya and He Guoguo needed most was Zhong Yi’s approval.

At this moment, He Guoguo had also summoned her Lifebound Deceit Beast, the Bitter Anger Beast.

At the Mortal Beast Tier, the Bitter Anger Beast’s appearance was already extremely frightening.

Now, with its increased Tier and Quality, the Bitter Anger Beast had become even more terrifying.

The pitch-black holes on the Bitter Anger Beast’s body, from which thorns could emerge at any moment, had grown even deeper.

Several objects that looked like pouches stitched from skin floated around the Bitter Anger Beast.

These were clearly organs that the Bitter Anger Beast had grown thanks to a new Skill or Exclusive Trait.

Zhong Yi inspected the Bitter Anger Beast, which had already charged forward to engage the Wolf Insect Squad in a fierce battle with its sharp, long claws.

[Deceit Beast Name]: Bitter Anger Beast

[Deceit Beast Species]: Blade Beast Family/Swift Beast Species

[Deceit Beast Level]: Extraordinary Tier (10/10)

[Deceit Beast Type]: Curse Element

[Deceit Beast Quality]: Silver Quality

Skills:

[Absorption of Suffering and Amplification]: When Creatures within a certain range take damage, it recovers a certain amount of Life Energy. It continuously absorbs the pain to temporarily strengthen and enlarge its body, gaining greater combat ability.

[Suffering and Joy Exchange]: Designates an enemy unit. When this Deceit Beast takes damage, the target will receive damage of an equivalent level.

Exclusive Traits:

[Pain Sharing]: Designates several units and attaches the Painful Sacs grown from its body to them. Whenever a target takes damage, this Deceit Beast will bear the full damage for the target via the Painful Sac.

[Suffering Split Body]: When its body reaches its size limit from enduring pain, it will split into multiple individuals. These new individuals continue to collect pain to enhance the size and combat ability of the split bodies.