Chapter 754: Sakuragi Rin's Trouble!

April 24, 10:23 AM.

One day had passed since Xu Jingming obtained Zakrilex's inheritance.

In the wilderness region of southern Sakura Country, beneath a ruined building, the surroundings were littered with fierce beast corpses.

Only one fierce beast still had any breath left in it.

This fierce beast resembled an ape in appearance, its body of fur a strange bluish-grey.

It stood over five meters tall, looking extremely difficult to provoke.

Blue-Furred Giant Ape, a Lord-tier fierce beast.

Judging from its aura alone, this Blue-Furred Giant Ape had already reached the astonishing Eighth Tier!

However, at this moment it was lying on the verge of death in a deep pit.

Its body bore scorched-black marks from lightning strikes, and a pair of blue eyes stared at Xu Jingming before it as if carrying endless fury.

"Damned human! The Blue-Furred Giant Ape clan will not let you off!"

Accompanying the roar and howl, a wave of spiritual force transmitted over, allowing Xu Jingming to understand its meaning.

"Oh? That's perfect then, saves me the trouble of hunting fierce beasts all over."

Xu Jingming, his sturdy physique wreathed in golden lightning, paid it no heed.

Then his gaze suddenly sharpened, and his spiritual force surged madly toward the faintly-breathing Blue-Furred Giant Ape before him, faintly forming an extremely complex heart-shaped imprint!

Spirit-type SSS+ tier combat technique — Slave Heart Seal!

Boom!!

Compared to human ability-users, fierce beasts' spiritual force was inherently not that strong to begin with.

Not to mention this Blue-Furred Giant Ape had been beaten half to death by Xu Jingming, and was utterly unable to resist.

It could only allow the Slave Heart Seal to invade its consciousness.

"Roar—"

A pained howl rang out, and the Slave Heart Seal very easily left Xu Jingming's imprint within the Blue-Furred Giant Ape's sea of consciousness.

However, the next moment, the Blue-Furred Giant Ape, which had still been howling, had its enormous head suddenly explode!

Squelch—

Fresh blood and gore splattered over, but were all blocked outside by the swelling lightning, causing Xu Jingming no harm whatsoever.

"Ding~. Killed one Eighth-Tier lower-rank Blue-Furred Giant Ape. Ability Points +10,000."

The system notification sounded.

"Failed again…"

Looking at the headless corpse on the ground that had completely lost its life aura, Xu Jingming couldn't help but frown.

After leaving the civilization relic, during the time he had been traveling through the wilderness region of southern Sakura Country—

He had no idea how many fierce beasts he had used the Slave Heart Seal on, including as many as four Seventh-Tier beasts, and the Eighth-Tier beast right before him!

But without exception, in every single case, after the Slave Heart Seal was left behind, the fierce beast's sea of consciousness would erupt and its head would explode on the spot.

As if the fierce beasts themselves had some kind of prohibition against being controlled.

"Eva, in your Second Civilization era, were there any successful cases of using spiritual force to control fierce beasts?"

The spatial ring's light glimmered faintly, and Xu Jingming stored the Blue-Furred Giant Ape's corpse into the spatial ring.

Although there was no way to enslave it, the corpse absolutely could not be wasted.

"There were, but extremely few."

The holographic projection of Eva shrugged helplessly. "Even when those grandmasters of the spirit-type took action personally, enslaving fierce beasts was very difficult.

Same as your situation right now — once you attempt to enslave one, it just explodes on the spot.

After a long time, no ability-user ever tried enslaving fierce beasts again."

"Successful cases were actually this rare?"

Xu Jingming felt somewhat helpless.

Zakrilex's inheritance was indeed top-tier, but he was, after all, not a spirit-type ability-user, and was still a long way from becoming a spirit-type grandmaster.

"Besides, the proficiency of the Slave Heart Seal is only at the beginner level right now. Once the proficiency is higher, perhaps then I'll be able to enslave fierce beasts."

High-tier fierce beasts all had their own territories, and even some low-tier fierce beasts as subordinates.

Since Sakuragi Rin could stockpile large numbers of fierce beasts, Xu Jingming could very well enslave one high-tier fierce beast.

Have it continuously expand its own territory and gather in low-tier fierce beasts.

When Xu Jingming needed them, he could then have the high-tier fierce beast gather all the fierce beasts together and slay them in one go!

The efficiency would probably be even higher than Sakuragi Rin's stockpiling of fierce beasts!

"I'll go take a look at Sakuragi Rin's side. If she's fine there, I'll head straight back to Dayangzhou.

The SSS+ tier Slave Heart Seal alone cost 40,000 Ability Points just to upgrade to beginner level.

If I upgrade it further, the Ability Points required will definitely be even more.

Once I'm back in Dayangzhou, I must kill more fierce beasts and harvest more Ability Points."

Xu Jingming's entire body transformed into a golden phantom, weaving through the jungle.

There were Ninth-Tier fierce beasts in the wilderness region of southern Sakura Country.

For safety's sake, he still didn't dare to directly use his Thunder Dragon Wings to fly in the wilderness region.

Even so, four hours later at 2 PM, Xu Jingming had still left the wilderness region of southern Sakura Country.

"Oh? It seems Sakuragi Rin has run into some trouble over there."

After leaving the wilderness region, Eva immediately received the information transmitted over from the sub-body.

"What's wrong?" Xu Jingming asked.

"There may be trouble on Sakuragi Rin's side.

The disappearance of Deputy Director Kudo Hidenaka has still drawn the attention of the Tianyu Dojo's Kyoto headquarters.

Although my sub-body has already disguised Kudo Hidenaka as having died at sea.

The Kyoto headquarters has still launched an investigation, and it seems they're about to reach Sakuragi Rin in their interrogations."

Eva said, somewhat helplessly.

Although she is an intelligent lifeform and can erase Kudo Hidenaka and Sato Ken's traces on the network,

if a real person provides leads, there's nothing she can do about it.

"Sakuragi Rin's side should be able to handle things for now; we just need to head over now."

Xu Jingming said, deliberating.

Sakuragi Rin is still a fairly clever woman, and his Obsidian-class fighter jet only needs a little over half an hour to get from here to Asahikawa City.

Once he arrives, everything will be solved without difficulty......

Asahikawa City, Tianyu Dojo building, private training room.

Sakuragi Rin sat cross-legged on the ground, silently practicing her ability training method.

Circling around her body were several powerful shikigami, including a Yuki-onna and a Kamaitachi.

"Knock knock knock~~~~"

The sound of knocking came, and a voice from outside the door: "Holy Maiden, my lord Shi Tian asks you to come to him."

"Understood." Sakuragi Rin's gaze sharpened slightly.

Shi Tian Taiyi, an eighth-rank Grandmaster of the Psychic system arranged by the Tianyu Dojo's Kyoto headquarters to investigate the death of Kudo Hidenaka.

After arriving in Asahikawa City, he immediately gradually assembled an investigation team and began the inquiry.

Summoning her now, she didn't know whether it was a routine questioning or whether he had obtained some leads.

"Don't worry too much, the S-rank has already left the wilderness zone and will arrive here very soon."

Eva's voice sounded in her heart, offering comfort.

"Master......"

Sakuragi Rin's beautiful eyes brightened slightly; the lingering worry in her emotions vanished instantly, replaced by a sense of complete peace of mind.

"With Master here, even facing Shi Tian directly wouldn't be a problem."

Sakuragi Rin rose from the ground, her long slender legs striding out, her swaying figure leaving the private training room.

PS: Tomorrow, pushing for three updates!