“I made it just in time, scared meow to death!”
Xiao Ye breathed a sigh of relief, but her blue-gold heterochromatic pupils slowly narrowed, filled with vigilance.
At that moment, the shadow behind her began to surge, dark shadows converging and condensing, inky light swirling and gathering.
Luo Ning’s form steadily reshaped itself from the shadow, her clothes neat and her hair undisturbed.
“Hey! You green tea bitch! That’s going too far! No martial morality! Using a cheap trick like that to sneak attack this adorable me!”
Luo Ning glared angrily at Lin Xiaoyin, her cheeks puffed up.
Though she showed that on the surface, only she knew that under that sneak attack, she had really thought she was about to lose.
Luckily, she had Xiao Ye hide the Shadow Domain’s shadow anchor in her own shadow ahead of time.
In an emergency, she could have Xiao Ye use the Domain’s area conversion through the Shadow Domain to avoid the Phantom Rabbit’s blinding attack.
The female referee, Wu Zhen, was thoroughly stunned by Luo Ning’s reaction.
That sneak attack from the Phantom Rabbit had pushed speed to the limits of the Low Tier Commander Level, even carrying a Phantasm Light blinding effect from the start.
But she never expected Luo Ning to dodge it without a scratch.
And what was that move Luo Ning just used?
Could it even perform spatial conversion?
Was it a Space Element skill?
After all, the Space Element was one of the rarest and most top-tier skills among countless abilities.
She remembered that the racial skill pool of the Transcendent race Little Night Cat had no Space Element skills.
That meant only one possibility.
That Space Element skill was definitely not an innate racial skill of the Little Night Cat. It was an ultra-rare inherited skill taught to the Little Night Cat by Luo Ning or someone else.
An extremely precious skill manual!
Generally speaking, anyone who owned a skill manual was qualified to open a school and take disciples.
A skill manual was like a rare cultivation technique from a major sect in a cultivation novel, allowing battle beasts to quickly enhance their strength.
If a battle beast could master a powerful skill manual, it could even defeat opponents across races and realms.
That was also why the female referee Wu Zhen was shocked. She had already started secretly guessing which major family’s genius girl Luo Ning, this incredibly cute girl, was from on her training journey. Not only could she teach her battle beast a skill manual, but it was a Space Element skill manual—super rare and powerful!
She remembered seeing a foreign report before.
At a large auction, a Space Element skill manual was being auctioned.
Even though the skill grade was only mid-tier, it sold for over ten billion dollars!
No wonder Luo Ning’s Little Night Cat had breezed through the previous nine matches. So it had mastered a Space Element skill!
Lin Xiaoyin’s expression remained stiff.
Her Phantom Rabbit’s two skills had both been trained to “Mastery” level.
And it still got dodged? Was that a joke?
And that move from the other side… was that a Space Element technique?
How did she remember that the Little Night Cat, a Transcendent race, could never learn Space Element techniques?
Then the only possibility was…
A skill manual!
‘Damn rich people!!’
Lin Xiaoyin immediately reached the same conclusion as the female referee, her eyes filled with envy, jealousy, and hate.
‘Having such an enviable Beast Taming Talent is one thing, but being this rich too!’
‘Damn it!’
Lin Xiaoyin’s hatred of the rich flared up again, and she had already pegged Luo Ning as a wealthy young lady from a rich family.
‘I don’t believe it!’
‘A mere Transcendent can beat my Overlord Level?’
‘But better have the Phantom Rabbit go easy on Xiao Ye later, or else if the Little Night Cat holds a grudge and completely ignores her, that won’t be good.’
“Phantom Rabbit!”
The little rabbit shadow that had launched the sneak attack twisted its form in a series of phantoms and, treading on a light pink flowing light, returned to Lin Xiaoyin’s front.
The Phantom Rabbit landed steadily on two feet, its fluffy pink-white fur slightly bristling. It stood up a bit, its ruby-like eyes fixed on the duo across, its nose twitching gently.
‘How did that human disappear? I couldn’t even see it clearly!’
The Phantom Rabbit’s face wore an eager expression, as if it had seen some exciting toy. ‘Faster than me? That High Transcendent Little Night Cat seems really interesting~’
“Don’t underestimate the enemy. They might have a Space Element skill!”
The Phantom Rabbit lightly flicked its ears and nodded slightly, but the excitement in its eyes didn’t fade. Layers of phantom-like energy halos began to gather around its body.
Xiao Ye warily arched her back, transforming into the Hakimi Spine Dragon Form, her cat ears pressed flat and her long tail slightly bristled.
She knew well that the opponent’s move had missed Luo Ning by a hair.
She had almost failed to react in time.
Even though Xiao Ye’s level was about to break through to Low Tier Commander, she could still clearly feel the energy pressure from the opponent, about three times stronger than her own.
That was the Overlord Level—a being that had condensed energy into an Energy Crystal inside its body, capable of ruling over a region.
If this battle were a one-on-one between Xiao Ye and that Low Tier Commander Level Phantom Rabbit, the way to fight would be to pull it into the “Shadow Domain,” exploiting the visual deprivation from the shadows within the domain to engage in a guerrilla war of sneak attacks.
Except for that stupid dog Yin Yue, who could easily defeat her in her domain, Xiao Ye had never felt there was an opponent who could firmly overwhelm her in the Shadow Domain at a similar level.
Even against this Phantom Rabbit, whose energy pressure was three times stronger, Xiao Ye had confidence.
However, because she had been in practical combat training with Luo Ning, Luo Ning had already instructed her to avoid fully opening the Super-tier Skill Shadow Domain as much as possible.
Otherwise, Luo Ning wouldn’t gain any practical combat experience.
So…
Though Xiao Ye was very reluctant to let that female freak across keep staring at her cat-eared girl form,
for the sake of maximizing Luo Ning’s experience and winning, she had to bring out their bond.
Well, actually, deep down Xiao Ye had been looking forward to completing the Bond Enhancement with Luo Ning.
It was just that the unexpected appearance of that female freak had grossed her out, leading to this…
“Phantom Rabbit! Use Halo Phantom! Then Spiritual Fang!”
The Phantom Rabbit’s attribute was Spirit Element, and it excelled at using phantoms to confuse opponents before delivering a fatal blow.
As Lin Xiaoyin’s command fell, the pink-white halo around the Phantom Rabbit flickered and burst, instantly spreading out around Xiao Ye and Luo Ning.
Tiny pink-white phantasm light particles scattered, refracting and overlapping in the air.
The next instant, dozens of Phantom Rabbit clones—identical in form, posture, and aura—sprang up, densely covering the entire field, completely sealing off all escape angles for Xiao Ye and Luo Ning.
In Luo Ning’s eyes, they seemed to be locked onto by countless ruby rabbit pupils, unable to tell real from fake. The illusions disrupted her vision and twisted her perception, even the light and shadow outlines of the battlefield became blurred and swaying.
This was “Halo Phantom,” a racial skill of the Phantom Rabbit.
It was not just a visual deception; it also released faint spiritual fluctuations to interfere with the opponent’s mind, disrupting their judgment and rhythm.
The moment the Phantom Rabbit’s phantoms took shape, the pink-white halos around all the clones suddenly contracted, converging entirely onto the sharp, elongated front teeth of each figure.
Next second!
Dozens of phantoms simultaneously crouched, gathered strength, and charged forward in unison.
Bang bang—a few soft sounds—pink-white phantasmal light surged from all directions at a speed that left layers of afterimages.
Real and fake techniques mixed together, making it impossible to predict the Phantom Rabbit’s true attack point.
“Xiao Ye!”
Luo Ning’s vision blurred and her head spun from the “Halo Phantom” flashing.
But now her only reliance was Xiao Ye!
She chose to trust Xiao Ye!
Xiao Ye’s blue-gold heterochromatic pupils flickered with Shadow Force, and in an instant, the two minds connected.
Colorful Contract Light Bands burst forth from between their hearts, intertwining and wrapping around. The gentle yet resilient Bond Power instantly infused Xiao Ye’s entire body.
“Spirit Contract Maidening! Bond Enhancement!”
Over this period, Luo Ning and Yin Yue had studied together. The effect of Luo Ning’s Beast Taming Talent, “Bond Enhancement,” was mainly a comprehensive boost in strength.
The boost’s intensity was related to the depth of the bond. The deeper the emotional bond between the two, the stronger the enhancement.
Second, it was linked to Luo Ning’s mental consumption and physical endurance, which depended on the level and realm the battle beast was maintaining during the enhancement.
The higher the realm of the battle beast’s enhanced state, the greater Luo Ning’s consumption.
For Luo Ning and Xiao Ye, because they had been separated for a long time and reunited only recently, they hadn’t yet reached the “Heart-to-Heart Connection” level like Yin Yue.
With Luo Ning’s full dedication, the boost from the bond with Xiao Ye was only about five times, lasting at most around twenty minutes. Compared to the “Heart-to-Heart Connection” with Yin Yue—which gave about a tenfold boost and shared the consumption—the gap was indeed significant.
But that was enough. After all, Xiao Ye still had the extra boost from “Shadow Spirit Transformation.”
The inky shadows merged with the colorful radiance. The Shadow Force around Xiao Ye surged abruptly, and her originally High Transcendent aura instantly broke through to the same Low Tier Commander level as the Phantom Rabbit under the Bond Enhancement. And it didn’t stop there—her power even showed signs of climbing higher.
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