Chapter 384: The Tooth of the White Tiger

Just as Ye Bai was about to summon the Heaven-Swallowing Pelican, a stone standing on the ground suddenly rose into the air.

This angular stone transformed directly into a human shape in mid-air.

"Yo, hello there."

"Pet Beast Master who has intruded into Tianquan City."

A man with thick eyebrows and large eyes, wearing a white training suit, appeared before Ye Bai.

He looked full of vigor and spirit.

Through his Truth Eye, Ye Bai recognized that this person was Huang Jianzhong, who had been Parasited by the aura of a Demon God.

His body was now surging with demonic energy, like a monstrous, overwhelming wave.

"Nice to meet you for the first time."

This man with thick eyebrows and large eyes waved at Ye Bai, revealing eight neat teeth.

His eyes were filled with a look of disdain, as if he did not take Ye Bai seriously at all.

After all, according to the results detected by his demonic energy, this guy in front of him seemed to have just broken through to a Tier 7 Beast Tamer.

Once a Pet Beast Master reaches Tier 7, every subsequent level is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

And as a Seven-Tier Peak Pet Beast Master, he possessed sufficient advantages.

He had originally thought the Demon God's mission would be difficult to handle; after all, the Angel Remains that Andras used to create the array eye were provided by him.

He naturally understood in his heart that Angel Remains are very difficult to destroy.

Ye Bai had destroyed four in a row, which had already made this man somewhat terrified.

But upon seeing Ye Bai, this man calmed down instead.

"I am the president of the Tianquan City Pet Beast Association, Huang Jianzhong."

"I am also a Tier 7 Pet Beast Master."

"My nickname is Controller of the Earth, A-Jian of the Earth."

"You must be one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, but why have I never seen you before?"

Huang Jianzhong said with a smile.

Although he wore a smile, it was filled with extreme malice.

"I am clearly also a Tier 7 Pet Beast Master, so why can I not receive the recognition of a Twenty-Eight Mansions Soul Weapon?"

"Why!!!"

"I have given so much for the Yan Country; for thirty years, I have stood guard over Tianquan City and blocked countless Beast Tides."

"Why can I not get the recognition of a Soul Weapon!"

Huang Jianzhong's face gradually became distorted.

He looked at this land that he had protected for nearly his entire life.

Huang Jianzhong asked himself, he had already done very well; Pet Beast Masters weaker than him had all become members of the Twenty-Eight Mansions.

Yet he was only a president of a Pet Beast Association.

What did he do wrong! When he was rejected by the Twenty-Eight Mansions Soul Weapons time and time again, Huang Jianzhong understood a truth in his heart.

It was not that he was not excellent enough, but that he was already old and had been rejected by the Soul Weapons.

Therefore, he longed immensely to return to his youth, to be able to go to the Qi Luck Hall once more and be accepted by a Soul Weapon.

He knew that Kuimulang, one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, was currently vacant.

This was his last hope.

As it turned out, some time ago, the National Destiny rose, and Huang Jianzhong learned through internal channels that Kuimulang had returned.

Everyone was cheering and jumping for joy, while his heart felt as if it had been hollowed out.

The thing he had worked for his whole life had ultimately become someone else's.

Because his heart had developed a flaw, Huang Jianzhong was successfully bewitched by Andras and became an apostle of Andras.

"Is this the reason why you were corrupted?"

"Only because your obsession with not being able to become one of the Twenty-Eight Mansions kept expanding were you bewitched by Andras and turned into a puppet of the Demon God."

"However, you should not have treated all the citizens of Tianquan City as sacrifices to offer to the Demon God."

Ye Bai said with a frown.

Pitiful people must have their hateful aspects; as the anchor of Tianquan City, he had personally sacrificed the entire city.

This behavior is unforgivable.

"Hmph, you are standing on the moral high ground to accuse me."

"Who do you think you are? I am a veteran Tier 7 Pet Beast Master, known as A-Jian of the Earth."

"The people of the entire Tianquan City were all protected by me."

"I protected them as they married and had children, enjoying peace for so long, and all I needed was their Soul."

"This is the payment for my protection of Tianquan City."

A look of madness flashed in Huang Jianzhong's eyes; he was becoming increasingly insane.

Black ripples then spread out from under Huang Jianzhong's feet.

The entire ground became like a quagmire.

Ye Bai only felt a wave of gravity strike him.

Having been on guard, he used the hardening skill to resist the erosion of the gravity, though spiderweb-like cracks appeared on the ground beneath Ye Bai's feet, showing that the power of the gravity was immense.

"Not bad, worthy of being a new member of the Twenty-Eight Mansions."

"You survived my first wave of attacks."

"I have met the other Twenty-Eight Mansions; let me guess who you are."

Huang Jianzhong clearly knew the answer, yet he liked to expose it in public; he always felt a sense of depression lingering in his heart.

This made Huang Jianzhong feel he had to spit it out to be satisfied.

"Among the currently vacant Twenty-Eight Mansions, only Kuimulang has yet to return to its position."

"Not long ago, the National Destiny of Yan Country began to rise; that should be the result of Kuimulang returning to its position."

"So it is very easy to guess now: you are the newly appointed Kuimulang, the Kuimulang known as the White Tiger Tooth."

"The Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade is in your hands."

"The Sun Moon Sky Wolf is something even the Demon God covets."

"If it weren't for the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade going missing sixteen years ago, perhaps I would have already inherited the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade."

"By the way, the alias of the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade is the Beichen Sky Wolf Blade."

Huang Jianzhong said with a hint of emotion.

He had long regarded the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade as his own possession, yet it had been snatched away by the brat before him; this was simply a supreme humiliation.

"No, you cannot inherit it."

"No matter how many times time flows backward, you will never be able to gain the recognition of the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade."

Ye Bai said decisively.

"As long as there is a trace of darkness in one's heart, one cannot gain the recognition of a Soul Weapon."

"You are not a selfless person; you are merely a refined egoist."

"You have been deceived by your own disguise, always feeling that you are a person who sacrifices oneself for others, but in reality, you are self-centered."

Ye Bai stated the facts.

And Huang Jianzhong seemed not to believe it at all.

"No, that's not true, I am not that kind of person."

"Otherwise, why would I block the Beast Tide time and time again, and rush to the very front time and time again?"

"That is because I have a firm belief in Guarding."

Huang Jianzhong retorted in public.

"President Huang, as the president of the Tianquan City Pet Beast Association, you should have been eliminating violence and bringing peace, yet you have turned into a lackey of the Demon God."

"From the moment you gave birth to your dark side, you had already missed your chance with the Beichen Sky Wolf Blade."

"I will personally execute you in public to comfort the spirits of all the victims in Tianquan City."

"The Pet Beast Masters of your Pet Beast Association were also cruelly murdered by you; you are simply a maniacal beast."

Ye Bai said coldly. He felt an indescribable disgust toward Huang Jianzhong, who had become a lackey of the Demon God.

After hearing Ye Bai's words, Huang Jianzhong laughed out loud instead.

"Maniacal, you are right, I should have gone crazy long ago."

"Haha, if it were any other of the Twenty-Eight Mansions, I might still be wary."

"But I have been studying the Beichen Sky Wolf Blade for sixteen years, so someone like you who only advanced to a Tier 7 Beast Tamer by relying on the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade simply cannot be mentioned in the same breath as me."

"I am the Magician of the Earth, A-Jian of the Earth."

In Huang Jianzhong's hand, a Scepter made of rock suddenly appeared.

A large, earthy-yellow gemstone floated on the Scepter.

The area around the gemstone was covered in flickering starlight.

Every facet of this gemstone appeared perfect.

【Earth Scepter (Fake): A weapon forged from fragments of the Scepter of the Earth God Kantiya, with rare raw materials added. As long as one holds the Scepter and stands on the earth, one can remain invincible. At the same time, the Earth Scepter can summon two rock giants to fight.】

"Earth Scepter."

"It seems that Huang Jianzhong's Pet Beasts might all be elemental lifeforms."

Elemental lifeforms have one greatest characteristic: they will completely obey the commands of the Pet Beast Master.

"I have already found your information; your name is Ye Bai, right? And you are still a prospective university student."

"Hmph, obediently be killed by me, and then have the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade taken away by me."

"As long as I sacrifice the Soul Weapon to the Demon God, the Demon God will help me erase the Vessel Soul of the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade, allowing me to truly become the host of Kuimulang."

Huang Jianzhong had a very arrogant tone; he planned to achieve his goal through the Demon God.

"What a boastful claim."

Ye Bai mocked.

Huang Jianzhong seemed to feel he had him in the bag; the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade was already his possession.

Naive, truly too naive.

"I know the terrifying nature of the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade, and that it even possesses the foundation to defeat a Seven-Tier Peak Beast Tamer."

"But I'm afraid you haven't even gone to the Qi Luck Hall to receive the inheritance."

"You simply don't know how to operate the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade, right?"

At this moment, Huang Jianzhong adjusted the nearby surveillance; he could see that from beginning to end, Ye Bai had not released the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade.

This proved Ye Bai had not received the inheritance.

This was when Ye Bai was at his weakest; if he could snatch the Sun Moon Sky Wolf Blade, his lifelong wish would be realized.

Thinking of this, the hand holding the Earth Scepter could not help but tremble.

Excited, he was truly too excited.

"You know my personality is as steady as the earth."

"I will definitely make complete preparations before I make a move."

"You have not received the inheritance of the Qi Luck Hall; you simply don't know how to use the Beichen Sky Wolf Blade."

"You are currently just an ordinary Tier 7 Beast Tamer; you simply cannot contend with me."

"You had better just obediently die by my hands."

Huang Jianzhong said decisively.

"Why was I the first to find you? That is because I felt you were the easy persimmon to squeeze."

"Come out, Rock Giant."

The ground instantly split open a large crack, and two massive rocks appeared.

Huang Jianzhong's ability is somewhat similar to that of his grandmaster, Zhang Dashan.

He can summon elemental lifeforms for his own use.

"Ye Bai, since you are about to die, I will tell you some heartfelt words."

"Do you know how I have blocked wave after wave of Beast Tide?"

"This is an ability brought about by my Earth Scepter."

"As long as my feet touch the earth, I can continuously summon elemental lifeforms to attack my opponent."

"So, from beginning to end, the only Pet Beast I have ever contracted is the Earth Element."

Huang Jianzhong grinned.

"To allow the Earth Element to have more mobility, I even invented the ability: Element Creation."

The real-time footage of Huang Jianzhong was transmitted to the conference room of the Twelve Pillars of the Nation.

Seeing Huang Jianzhong's crazed gaze, almost all of the Twelve Pillars of the Nation fell silent.

Originally, their intention was to save Huang Jianzhong's Soul as much as possible.

But after seeing his twisted Soul, the Twelve Pillars of the Nation had already abandoned the idea of saving him.

He had already signed too many contracts with the Demon God.

"Can Ye Bai really defeat Huang Jianzhong? He is a veteran powerhouse after all."

"His strength is also among the best of the Tier 7 powerhouses."

The Twelve Pillars of the Nation began to discuss it one after another.

"Huang Jianzhong is no longer as cautious as he was before."

"If Ye Bai sends out the North Star Sky Wolf Blade, perhaps he can catch him off guard and finish off Huang Jianzhong."

"Huang Jianzhong's greatest mistake was defecting to the Demon God and becoming the Demon God's lackey."

"This is a major blow to our Yan Country."

Wei Yang, also known as Jiang Dashi, expressed his opinion.

"I agree with Wei Yang's suggestion. Huang Jianzhong's attempt to sacrifice the entire Tianquan City to the Demon God has already violated the laws of Yan Country. Even if Ye Bai kills Huang Jianzhong, we will not have any objections."

"But I am worried about one thing: whether Huang Jianzhong's strength has been enhanced by the Demon God."

You Ji voiced his inner concern; he was the one most afraid of something happening to Ye Bai.

After all, the Sun Golden Chicken still needs Ye Bai to assist in its evolution.

"No matter, Ye Bai has many life-saving items on him, and there is someone protecting him from behind."

Wei Yang had long ago sent a paper puppet to protect Ye Bai.

He believed that Ye Bai did not need anyone else's protection either.

"By the way, the Qilin Marshal said last time that the Twenty-Eight Mansions have returned, and we need to summon the Twenty-Eight Mansions to return to the Qi Luck Hall once."

"Let the Soul Weapon in their hands be repaired using National Destiny."

"Since the Sun Blade was lost sixteen years ago, the Soul Weapons have not been repaired with National Destiny, which will greatly limit the combat power of the Twenty-Eight Mansions."

Zi Shu suddenly put forward a proposal.

"Indeed."

"This should indeed be done earlier, especially since Ye Bai has not yet undergone the baptism of the Qi Luck Hall and has not yet obtained the method to control the North Star Sky Wolf Blade."

Everyone nodded one after another and immediately finalized this matter.

"We should not assign tasks to the Twenty-Eight Mansions recently; the most important thing at present is to complete the Qi Luck baptism."

Just then, the synchronized transmission screen suddenly went dark.

In Tianquan City, the Star Sage was sitting on a high building, watching the battle between Ye Bai and Huang Jianzhong.

She was holding a bag of potato chips, with a small black kitten beside her.

Its body did not have a single stray hair and looked very smooth.

"Star Sage, your junior sister's disciple is currently fighting; why don't you step in to help?"

"I can feel that his Memory Palace is about to reach the moment of a breakthrough."

"Moreover, he seems to have another kind of talent."

"When the time comes, if he has the potential to become a god like you, will you treat him as an opponent?"

(End of this chapter)