Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 489: Chapter 277: Promoted Fate Grid

The primary function of the seeds produced by the Soul-Controlling Flower is to form a Contract with other Creatures.

During the contracting process, it induces a leap in the contracted Creature’s Bloodline.

A single Creature can be given two Soul Taming Seeds during this process.

However, the effect of the second Soul Taming Seed is comparable to that of Flowing Soul Soil, making it an extremely wasteful act.

But right now, Zhong Yi couldn’t afford to be concerned with such things.

Funnie’s Bloodline atavism was at a critical stage, and Zhong Yi had to do everything possible to ensure it succeeded.

Once Funnie’s Bloodline atavism was successful, she might truly be able, as Fang Ze had said, to advance from her current First Level to the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations—or even the higher Divine Fire Tier—in an extremely short amount of time.

In fact, even before Zhong Yi fed Funnie the second Soul Taming Seed, her Bloodline had already ascended to the level of a Blood Race Viscount, skipping the Blood Race Baron stage.

Funnie’s figure had already transformed from that of a young child to an adult’s.

But in the midst of her Bloodline atavism, Funnie resembled a skinless mass of flesh and blood.

This made it impossible for Zhong Yi to make out her specific appearance.

However, judging by her build, Funnie had likely chosen to remain female; otherwise, her height probably wouldn’t be just over 1.7 meters.

Nearly five more hours passed. Suddenly, a crisp cracking sound erupted from within Funnie, as if something had shattered.

Following this sound, Funnie’s aura suddenly became extremely weak.

The Bloodline Energy within her body was being consumed at an ever-increasing rate.

Zhong Yi hurriedly fed more Bloodline Material into Funnie’s body.

In the process of helping Funnie maintain her vital signs, Zhong Yi even considered whether he should feed her the branches of the Blood-Brewing Grape Vine—which had cost him nearly ten thousand Divine Origin Value—as if they were common materials.

Just as Zhong Yi hesitated, a heartbeat like the rattling of ribs echoed from within Funnie’s body.

Flawless white skin began to re-form over her gory, mangled body.

A moment later, a proportionally larger but more exquisitely beautiful Funnie appeared before Zhong Yi’s eyes.

Funnie was not unclothed; she wore the formal Blood Race attire that all Blood Race Counts could conjure from their Blood Qi.

The appearance of this formal attire indicated that Funnie’s Bloodline had advanced from a Blood Race Viscount to a Blood Race Count.

With two Soul Taming Seeds, nearly 500 milliliters of Flowing Soul Soil, and almost 15,000 Divine Origin Value worth of Bloodline Material, Zhong Yi had raised Funnie all the way from a Blood Race Knight to a Blood Race Count.

The moment Funnie opened her eyes, they were no longer dark red.

Instead, they were a translucent, ruby-like blood-red.

Within these blood-red eyes were dark gold irises.

Zhong Yi smiled and said to Funnie,

"Congratulations on your successful Bloodline atavism. You’ve become a Blood Race Count."

As Zhong Yi congratulated her, he used All Things Exploration to inspect Funnie again.

[Name]: Funnie

[Race]: Blood Race

[Level]: First Level

[Bloodline]: Blood Race Count

[Contract]: Available

[Contractual Relationship]: None

[Rule]: None

[Fate Grid]: Orange

Abilities

[Crimson Absorption]: By consuming the blood of a member of the same race, store their basic abilities in a Blood Crystal. The stored abilities can be used temporarily during combat.

[Blood Bat Incarnation]: When hit by a fatal attack, disperse into the Lifebound Blood Bats contracted to you to evade the attack.

[Primordial Blood Whip]: Activate the Ancestor’s Blood within your body. When the Blood Whip strikes a non-Blood Race unit, the target will be afflicted with Primordial Blood Poison. When it strikes a Blood Race unit with a weaker Bloodline, that unit will be healed and their Bloodline will be temporarily enhanced.

After one look, Zhong Yi discovered that besides her basic ability, Crimson Absorption, Funnie had gained two brand-new abilities.

To Zhong Yi’s surprise, not only that, but Funnie’s Fate Grid had also been upgraded from its original Purple to Orange.

Zhong Yi was secretly astonished.

’I never expected that forming a Contract with other Creatures using a Soul Taming Seed could actually raise their Fate Grid.’

’But when I formed a Contract with Luke using a Soul Taming Seed before, it didn’t raise his Fate Grid from Orange to Red.’

One of Funnie’s two new abilities was Blood Bat Incarnation, an ability shared by all Blood Race Viscounts.

The other was named Primordial Blood Whip!

Across many worlds, the image of the Blood Race has often been equated with bats.

This isn’t because the Blood Race’s Bloodline has any connection to bats.

It’s because when a member of the Blood Race’s Bloodline advances to the Viscount level, they can form a Contract with a Bat Species Guardian Beast.

They then refine this Bat Species Guardian Beast, forming a wondrous symbiotic state with it.

At that point, the Blood Race member will grow bat-like wings on their back, gaining the ability to fly.

Furthermore, when attacked, they can choose to disperse their physical body, splitting it into hundreds of blood bats.

Blood Bat Incarnation can be seen as a life-saving ability.

With Blood Bat Incarnation, a Blood Race member whose Bloodline has reached the Viscount level can evade fatal physical or Elemental damage several times.

However, each time they transform into a swarm of blood bats, reforming their body requires an immense amount of Energy.

This means a Blood Race Viscount can use Blood Bat Incarnation at most once in a single battle.

This limitation doesn’t mean the ability is weak.

Once a Blood Race member’s Bloodline surpasses the Marquis level and reaches the Duke level, they can easily use Blood Bat Incarnation dozens of times in a single fight.

At that stage, whether on a small or large-scale battlefield, the Blood Race becomes an exceptionally difficult Creature to deal with.

It is very difficult to kill a Blood Race Duke through ordinary physical or Elemental means.

The strength of a Creature or a race doesn’t lie in the speed at which it grows more powerful.

Rather, it lies in its ability to overwhelmingly dominate other Creatures of the same tier.

A member of the Blood Race only gains a fixed ability when their Bloodline evolves to the Viscount level.

An ability like the Primordial Blood Whip that Funnie just obtained is clearly related to her Bloodline atavism, which resulted in her possessing something close to the Blood Race’s Ancestor’s Blood.

When Funnie activates the Ancestor’s Blood in her body, the Blood Whip she conjures from her own blood will carry the fatal poison of the ancestral Blood Race.

If other Creatures are tainted by this poison, it is highly likely to cause their own bloodlines to mutate, turning them into maddened, mixed-blood members of the Blood Race.

Although these mixed-bloods are difficult to control due to their confused intellect,

because they were corrupted and transformed by the Ancestor’s Blood within Funnie, they will instinctively obey her simple commands.

The Blood Whip Funnie conjures by activating her Ancestor’s Blood can not only strike other Creatures, but also other members of the Blood Race.

When it strikes a Blood Race member, it can temporarily enhance the Bloodline strength of those with a weaker Bloodline than her own.

Once a Blood Race member’s Bloodline strength is enhanced, their combat power will skyrocket exponentially.

Furthermore, the Blood Whip containing the Ancestor’s Blood can also heal the injuries of Blood Race units with weaker bloodlines through whipping.

The Primordial Blood Whip ability makes Funnie a natural-born leader among the Blood Race.

If Zhong Yi ever wants to cultivate a Blood Race squad in the future, even if Funnie isn’t the first Blood Race member he forms a Contract with,

her abilities would make her the natural choice for the squad’s leader.

While Zhong Yi was inspecting her, Funnie first straightened the formal Blood Race attire she was wearing.

Then, she knelt before Zhong Yi, crossed her hands over her shoulders, bent her back, and touched her forehead to the ground between her knees.

This was the highest form of etiquette for the Blood Race, signifying a deep, internal reliance, loyalty, and submission.

It was a rite that not even a Pure Blood Race member would perform for their own direct kin.

Previously, Funnie’s loyalty to Zhong Yi stemmed from her understanding that this Creator was her great opportunity.

Following this Creator was the best path forward for her future.

But now, Funnie’s loyalty and affection for Zhong Yi were entirely genuine emotions that came from the heart.

For the Soul Taming Seed had bound Funnie and Zhong Yi in the most unbreakable Contractual Relationship in the world.