Su Wanwan seemed to realize she had let something slip, and a blush involuntarily crept across her cheeks.
“Ahem. So, Luo Ning, you contracted that Silvermoon Wolf to survive the Mystic Realm?” Su Wanwan shifted the topic back.
“Yeah~” Luo Ning nodded in agreement.
It was indeed thanks to Yin Yue’s arrival that she had managed to escape unscathed from that dangerous situation.
And she had even turned things around for Old Su!
“Old Su! Wanzi-jie, you have no idea. Yin Yue—my Silvermoon Wolf—can transform into a super cute beast-eared girl! Those fluffy wolf ears and tail… hehehe. If I put her in a maid outfit… slurp slurp~”
“I’ll have Yin Yue transform and show you in a bit.”
Luo Ning wiped her mouth, then rubbed her hands together as she immediately started bragging to Su Wanwan. Her expression was cute but also ridiculous—the look of a loli thug.
“…” Su Wanwan.
She had a feeling her worry about this girl had been wasted…
But seeing Luo Ning so completely fixated on that Silvermoon Wolf, Su Wanwan’s fingers unconsciously curled, and a trace of inexplicable bitterness quietly surfaced in her heart.
Just then, the Senior Beast Tamer woman not far away slowly snapped back to reality.
Her gaze, filled with shock and confusion, remained fixed on the Silvermoon Wolf in the distance.
Facing the countless Bloodthirsty Patterned Snakes, she and her companions had been nearly exhausted, almost at their breaking point.
Then this Silvermoon Wolf had suddenly appeared and completely turned the tide.
The corridor was strewn with fragments of snake bodies, and the stench of blood soaked into the hardened earth she had created.
That terrifying snake tide had been forced back behind the crack by this slender, snow-white Silvermoon Wolf—slaughtered all the way, head-on!
It was unbelievable!
She stared at the fluctuating spiritual energy ripples on the Silvermoon Wolf, checking several times, her expression growing more uncertain.
“No… this is all wrong.”
She murmured under her breath, her tone full of disbelief. “This Silvermoon Wolf’s level is clearly stuck at High Transcendent—not a trace of Overlord-level energy fluctuation. How can it be this strong?”
She didn’t know that Yin Yue, in her previous life, had long since used Luo Ning’s Beast Taming talent to max out almost all skills up to Transcendent and beyond to the “Absolute Mastery” level.
On Blue Star currently.
The publicly known skill proficiency levels for tamed beasts could be roughly divided into five grades.
Beginner, Skilled, Proficient, Perfect, and finally Absolute Mastery.
As for skill levels, the existing classification went from No Grade, Low Grade, Mid Grade, High Grade, and Transcendent Grade.
Also roughly five tiers.
Yin Yue’s “Moon Blade” was only a Mid-Grade skill, but with proficiency maxed out to “Absolute Mastery,” she could control each Moon Blade with extremely low energy consumption for precise, high-damage attacks.
And within a certain range, by continuously slashing “Moon Blades” and using successive strikes and refractions, Yin Yue had also developed a High-Grade skill called “Moonlight Matrix.”
Therefore, measuring a tamed beast’s combat strength depended not only on its own level but also on the strength of its skills.
Even though Yin Yue’s actual level was only at High Transcendent under the Bond Enhancement, her skill proficiency had nearly peaked due to her rebirth.
Whether in control, consumption, or power, facing Bloodthirsty Patterned Snakes weaker than herself, no matter how many enemies there were, it could only be a one-sided slaughter.
After all, in her previous life, she had been a top-tier talent who could unleash strikes comparable to a Mythical-level attack while at Overlord level!
“Only High Transcendent…” The Senior Beast Tamer woman took a deep breath, trying to calm her shock. “But this skill of hers… its proficiency must be extremely high!”
She instinctively looked back at Luo Ning, that pink-haired soft girl. She didn’t seem like the type who could raise such a monster.
And wasn’t she the same Luo Ning, that bizarre newcomer who had turned herself into a girl with a Beast Taming talent this morning?
She opened her mouth but ultimately said nothing, though she felt relieved inside.
It seemed they had held the line.
She wondered how the captain was doing over there, and Miss Huang Tao…
They urgently needed reinforcements here…
The woman knew that if this Secret Realm Crack wasn’t sealed, even stronger creatures might cross over.
After all, although Secret Realm Cracks were anchored to a fixed point in outer space, their exact location inside the Mystic Realm was random.
She could only pray that nothing else unexpected would happen.
“Luo Ning.” Su Wanwan suddenly spoke, her voice very soft, but with a hint of complexity she herself didn’t notice. “Has your Yin Yue… had another Beast Tamer before?”
“Ah?” Luo Ning blinked. If counting Yin Yue’s previous life with her…
“Kind of… yes?”
“Why is it a question again?” Su Wanwan helplessly rubbed her forehead.
On Yin Yue’s side, after forcing the snake tide back into the crack with “Moonlight Matrix,” she leaped and returned to Luo Ning’s side.
Her silver-white fur was unstained by a single drop of blood, as if that bloody slaughter had nothing to do with her.
Only in the depths of her amber eyes did a flicker of unease and anxiety occasionally appear.
Because the Primordial Blood Seed hadn’t appeared yet!
If she could, she would take her master away from this place right now…
Maybe then her master wouldn’t be parasitized by Him…
“Yin Yue!” Luo Ning was very excited and directly reached out to ruffle the head of Yin Yue, still in wolf form.
“Come on! Show Wanzi-jie the transformation!”
The warm, soft fingertips landed on her head, carrying her master’s unique sweet scent.
She slightly lowered her wolf head covered in white fur, her amber pupils gently shifting. Following Luo Ning’s wishes, she quietly looked at Su Wanwan beside her.
Her gaze first fell on Su Wanwan’s top-tier talent, then gradually moved upward.
The moment their eyes met, a faint, unnoticed flicker of daze passed through the depths of Yin Yue’s eyes.
So she… was the person her master had missed and regretted most in her previous life?
She hesitated no longer. A faint silver moonlight began to swirl around her.
Tiny, snow-like motes of energy light showered down from between her fur, enveloping her slender wolfish form.
As the silver-white light flowed and transformed, the long, agile wolf body rapidly stretched and changed. The fluffy wolf fur turned into a snow-white light garment, and the sharp lines outlined a slender, graceful girl’s figure.
In an instant, the beast form faded.
Silver hair cascaded like a waterfall to her shoulders, a pair of fluffy white wolf ears twitched lightly, and a soft, fluffy silver-white wolf tail trailed behind. Her amber eyes were clear and pure, her demeanor cool and elegant—perfectly recreating the extremely beautiful beast-eared girl Luo Ning had described.
After transforming, Yin Yue slightly bowed, her posture gentle and polite.
She first turned her head and gently glanced at Luo Ning, whose eyes were sparkling with expectation. Then she lifted her eyes again, her gaze falling on Su Wanwan. She nodded lightly, her voice clear and soft, carrying a hint of moonlight’s cool gentleness:
“Miss Su Wanwan.”
One address, soft and earnest.
Su Wanwan met these clean, transparent amber eyes. Looking at this beast-eared girl with stunning looks and excellent temperament, she was filled with amazement and bewilderment.
So Luo Ning hadn’t been exaggerating. After this Silvermoon Wolf transformed, she really was so beautiful that it was hard to look away.
Luo Ning beside her was overjoyed. She immediately stood on tiptoe, came over, and proudly hooked her arm around Su Wanwan’s shoulder. Her little face was full of pride: “Old Su! Bro didn’t lie to you, right! Isn’t she super pretty! Isn’t she super cute!”
Yin Yue’s face felt a little hot from Luo Ning’s praise, but she had already silently made a decision in her heart.
Living this life again, she would protect her master completely.
She would also, on behalf of the master with regrets from the previous life, take good care of the person her master cherished.
Because she didn’t want her master to be so sad every year when making offerings…
Meanwhile, on the other side, the Senior Beast Tamer woman, who had watched Yin Yue’s entire transformation process, let out a breaking, startled cry:
“Eh!!! She turned into a human?!”
On the other side, Su Wanwan, with Luo Ning sloppily draped over her shoulder, was jolted back to her senses by the sudden exclamation.
“Hello, I’m Su Wanwan.” Su Wanwan stepped forward and extended a hand. “Luo Ning… I’ll leave her in your care from now on.”
She spoke in a gentle, clear tone, with clear reasoning—sincere and earnest—like an old father entrusting his reckless child.
The air fell silent for a moment.
Yin Yue slightly lowered her eyes, looking at the sincere girl before her. A faint warmth rippled in the depths of her amber eyes. She gently raised her hand, her fingertips softly covering Su Wanwan’s palm, and nodded meekly:
“I will. I will do everything to protect my master.” Her voice was clear and firm.
The next second, the little face of Luo Ning, who had been proudly waiting to be praised beside them, suddenly darkened by half.
What the hell?
What’s with this old father entrusting his daughter act!
“Miss Su Wanwan, I won’t say much else. The situation is urgent… My master has been targeted by an extremely powerful being from the Mystic Realm. I need to take you and my master away from here now.”
The lighthearted atmosphere that had surrounded them was completely shredded the moment Yin Yue finished speaking.
The wolf-eared girl’s cool, gentle voice hadn’t changed, but the gravity and unease it carried pressed down heavily on their hearts.
Yin Yue withdrew her hand from Su Wanwan’s palm, turned slightly sideways, and firmly stood half a step in front of Luo Ning.
“Holy crap! I almost forgot! Old Su! We need to run! An old demon has its eyes on me! Otherwise, I’ll get possessed!”
“Old demon? Targeted?”
“What’s going on?”
The smile on Su Wanwan’s face vanished instantly. She instinctively grabbed Luo Ning’s wrist beside her, her fingers tensing tightly, full of panic and worry.
The Senior Beast Tamer woman not far away felt a thunderous shock in her heart, and every hair on her body stood on end.
No! She had just barely caught her breath…
And an extremely powerful being?
“Right, let’s leave here first and talk.” Yin Yue looked toward the Secret Realm Crack clinging to space like a scar. A flash of moonlight enveloped her, and she transformed back into the slender, handsome Silvermoon Wolf.
Luo Ning realized she still had a chance to escape. She nimbly climbed onto Yin Yue’s back, then reached out her hand to Su Wanwan, signaling her to come up too.
“Oh! And that miss over there! Don’t stay here! Come with us! That thing is ten times… no, a hundred times more terrifying than the snake tide we just faced!”
Luo Ning also called out to the woman.
Luo Ning roughly guessed she must be an official rescuer.
“Senior, the situation might not be good… Maybe we should retreat and talk?” Su Wanwan pressed her lips tightly, her voice pleading earnestly.
The two of them urged and called, their tone sincere.
But hearing this, the Senior Beast Tamer woman slowly raised her head, a helpless and bitter smile twisting her face.
She shook her head lightly, raised her hand, and patted her Mud Swamp Monster resting beside her.
“No… I can’t leave.”
The woman’s voice was slightly hoarse, carrying exhaustion, yet it was exceptionally firm.
She lifted her gaze to the Secret Realm Crack that cut across space like a hideous scar, a deep layer of helplessness and determination spreading in her eyes:
“You can leave, but I can’t retreat.”
“If I retreat with you, no one will be guarding here anymore.”
The woman took a deep breath, suppressing the fear welling up inside her. She looked again into the deep darkness of the crack, her tone carrying a faint but resolute hope.
“My teammates’ reinforcements should be on the way.”
“If I can hold out just a little longer—just a brief moment—the reinforcements will arrive, and everything will turn around.”
Luo Ning watched her, seeing the fear hidden deep in her eyes yet already prepared to guard even at the cost of her life. She bit her lip tightly, her heart anxious and stifled.
No way! Yin Yue said that’s a Mythical-level old monster!
Staying here is just suicide!
Luo Ning suddenly thought of her deceased parents…
She unconsciously pursed her lips.
What if she knocked out this miss and her tamed beasts?
After noticing the miss’s four tamed beasts, Luo Ning silently complained—why were they all so big?!
Her four tamed beasts would be hard to take away too…
Besides, Luo Ning suddenly remembered a question.
What if—what if—
That old demon’s target was her…
If she really left, would that Mythical-level old demon get furious and go on a killing spree in Jiangcheng?
Yin Yue had mentioned on the way that the opponent seemed to be the ancestor of the Blood Clan…
If it was the Blood Clan ancestor, then everyone’s blood could likely become his blood pack…
If she were that Primordial Blood Seed…
Luo Ning was silent for a long time.
“Yin Yue… can I trust you?”
She looked down at Yin Yue beneath her and asked quietly.
According to Yin Yue’s earlier explanation, that old demon was an incomplete Mythical-level being.
He seemed to have seen her Beast Taming talent that could remove limiters, and forcibly bound her flesh, blood, and even soul, trying to completely possess her…
Yin Yue also said that the opponent hadn’t succeeded in taking over at that time. So they went to deal with that No. 1 old demon, and then ran into an even older one—one whose name couldn’t even be spoken—No. 2 old, old demon…
As for why he didn’t immediately possess her, Yin Yue speculated it might be due to restrictions from the sealer, or fear of damaging the Beast Taming talent in her body.
In short, she had been parasitized, but not fully. It was like… a parasitic paradox!
So there was still hope!
“Master, you…”
“You can always trust me.”
Yin Yue’s amber eyes froze for a moment, as if she already understood what Luo Ning intended to do.
The Primordial Blood Seed had already targeted Luo Ning the moment she fell into the Mystic Realm. He coveted her unique, super top-tier Beast Taming talent that could break all limits in the world, wanting to use her body… and even her soul to be reborn, and use her talent to repair his damaged, incomplete divine throne.
But He was too greedy, too impatient.
If He were in complete form, He might have been able to swallow her master’s soul with a single thought, usurp the body, and completely replace her.
But not now.
The price of breaking the seal early had severely damaged His origin, leaving Him with less than a tenth of His power.
If He forcibly possessed her, the master’s body might collapse, and then both the master and the parasite on her would perish together.
So He didn’t dare to forcefully swallow or violently possess.
After weighing all options, He had to settle for the next best thing.
Using the Blood Soul as bait, He gave the master an Ancestral Blood Soul that could suppress all Blood Clan.
But the Blood Soul secretly entangled the master’s body, lurking deep in her soul, temporarily parasitizing and lying dormant.
He wanted to slowly erode and infiltrate, bit by bit wearing down the master’s soul and gradually adapting to this perfect vessel.
This was the real reason the master could hold on for years in her previous life, never being completely taken over.
Luo Ning slightly lowered her eyes.
The intention transmitted through the contract from Yin Yue made her understand Yin Yue’s devotion and loyalty to her.
Luo Ning withdrew the hand she had extended to Su Wanwan, her voice soft but exceptionally firm: “Old Su, I’m not leaving.”
Su Wanwan felt a sudden pang in her heart. Her intuition told her that Luo Ning seemed to have made a very important decision…
“…Why?” Su Wanwan took a deep breath, trying to ask calmly.
“Because I changed my mind! Since I’ve come to the World of Beast Taming, I won’t be satisfied until I passionately become a Pokémon Master!”
“So, you just stay here and don’t move… No, wait. Old Su, go home first and cook for me. I’ll come back after I claim my beginner’s package—the one like Nine-Tails, Peach-Face, and Sukuna.”
Su Wanwan watched Luo Ning sitting on Yin Yue’s back, her eyes exceptionally determined. Seeing her shed her usual playfulness—not a hint of joking—the anxiety in her heart only intensified.
“Don’t worry, don’t worry. I’ll win!”
Luo Ning flashed Su Wanwan the same expression as Might Guy from Naruto—a thumbs-up and a toothy grin.
Then she lightly patted Yin Yue.
Before Su Wanwan could react, the one and the wolf turned into a silver-white flash of moonlight and leaped, once again charging into that hideous Secret Realm Crack.