TL: Etude
After copying the medium-grade Blood Eye Talent, Ye Tian returned to his residence—the third layer of a fortress. He activated the array and began to integrate the Blood Eye Talent. This time, there was no pain, only a slight warmth in his body. Soon, the integration was complete. Now, among Ye Tian's many talents, the medium-grade Blood Eye Talent was added.
Unlike the Blood Eye Witch Emperor, who shot beams from the third eye on his forehead, Ye Tian could activate this talent from any eye. Initially, Ye Tian thought that copying this talent would result in an extra eye on his forehead, but he realized it was a misunderstanding.
With the medium-grade Blood Eye Talent, Ye Tian felt somewhat reassured. In case the Emperor-level beast attacked him with a soul attack, he could promptly activate the Blood Eye Talent to counter it, possibly avoiding instant defeat.
Unfortunately, the true purpose of the Blood Eye Talent was to annihilate the enemy's consciousness and confuse their soul, not directly destroy their soul. In terms of soul attacks, the effectiveness of the Blood Eye Talent was relatively weak. But it was the only talent Ye Tian found to counter soul attacks.
Soon after, Ye Tian contacted the Holy Maiden Xiyue and learned about the whereabouts of Empress Yue, Blood Eye Witch Emperor, and others.
"They actually found that Emperor-level beast!" Ye Tian was astonished.
It turned out that the Blood Eye Witch Emperor went to the site where the Tyrant Dragon Emperor fell, found a hair of the Emperor-level beast, and imbued a curse, determining its approximate location before pursuing it.
The cursed one wasn't the soul-attacking Emperor-level beast but another one. But finding one could lead to the other.
The cursed Emperor-level beast naturally fled and wouldn't stay in one place. Among the human Emperors, some were adept at tracking. By determining the direction and following the scent left by the fleeing beast, the Emperors finally found them and indeed discovered the soul-attacking Emperor-level beast. In the ensuing battle, one Emperor died, but ten Emperor-level beasts were slain, and the soul-attacking beast was rescued by a very fast Emperor-level beast.
In this battle, Empress Yue was seriously injured, and the Blood Eye Witch Emperor's curse talent was temporarily unavailable for further curses, so they couldn't track the whereabouts of that Emperor-level beast.
This time, the Emperors confirmed that the soul talent of the Emperor-level beast couldn't kill Empress Yue or the Blood Eye Emperor. To kill a newly ascended Emperor, it would only take one move. Only Emperors with soul strength ten times that of a normal Emperor could withstand its soul attack; those with less could only withstand a few moves.
Among the Thirty-Six Emperors, besides Empress Yue and Blood Eye Witch Emperor, less than ten had the soul strength ten times that of a normal Emperor. The top ten among the Thirty-Two Emperors were strong in physical combat but not in soul strength, which was bad news.
"It seems that the cultivation levels of the Thirty-Six Emperors aren't very high. Well, they've only cultivated for a little over a hundred years. Although some ancient humans have cultivated for two to three hundred years, they spent the first hundred years at the Grandmaster or King level. Their cultivation only surged after the great change, so it's still not high," Ye Tian thought silently.
From the current situation, if the Emperor-level beast isn't killed, the circumstances will indeed be dire. The beast faction seems to value that beast highly, sending many Emperor-level beasts to protect it. The surprise attack failed, and the chances of a successful attack next time were even slimmer. If they were not careful, they might enter the enemy's stronghold, which would be disastrous.
"Forget it, I'll focus on cultivating to increase my strength!" Ye Tian resolved to train hard, utilizing treasures to frantically expand his brain domain.
Almost every two days, Ye Tian was able to open up 1% of the deep brain domain. His cultivation progress was many times faster than many other practitioners with Moonlight-level cultivation talents, a rate of improvement they couldn't even imagine.
Unknowingly, it had been a month since Ye Tian arrived at this beast world's defense base. A month of diligent cultivation had significantly boosted his cultivation. Currently, he has opened up 31% of his deep brain domain. His physical strength had reached 3.1 Dragon Power, with his strongest attack reaching 12,400 Dragon Power. The attack power of an ordinary Saint King was about 1,000 Dragon Power, but Ye Tian had achieved 12,400. With his speed and defense also being at the level of profound mysteries, he had no significant weaknesses.
Based on his strength, excluding his space and time talents, Ye Tian's true combat power had already reached peak Saint King level. The attack power of a peak Saint King even surpassed that of an ordinary Emperor, though the speed and defense of an Emperor were significantly stronger. Ye Tian's speed and defense were also slightly weaker than Emperors.
However, if his space and time talents were considered, Ye Tian could even kill some ordinary Emperors.
"I now have Emperor-level combat power, but unfortunately, I still can't threaten the truly top-tier Emperors, unless my talents can surpass Mystic level," Ye Tian sighed. He had tried, but once his talent reached Mystic level, he couldn't copy another talent of the same level. It seemed that Mystic level was the peak.
However, Ye Tian had a vague feeling that there was another level above the Mystic level; he just hadn't encountered it yet.
Ding Ding!
A message came through the communicator about his current mission.
[Inspect the situation of beasts in Area 13, and report the situation. A two-person mission. Duration: three days].
Area 13 was about 300,000 kilometers away, not too far, but in the beast world, a distance of 300,000 kilometers was already very dangerous. Especially under the current tense situation, ordinary Saints wouldn't dare to venture 300,000 kilometers deep, but Ye Tian, being at the Great Saint level, was assigned this mission.
Ye Tian found this mission quite reasonable and didn't request a change. At the base's exit, Ye Tian soon met his partner for the mission.
"Feng Luxue!"
Ye Tian was somewhat surprised to see Feng Luxue, his partner for this mission. But considering there weren't many at the Great Saint level, the chance of them teaming up was quite high.
"Ye Tian, what a coincidence, I didn't expect us to team up on our first mission!" Feng Luxue was also very surprised. Leaving the base, the two didn't fly high but chose to run, as flying in the beast world was too conspicuous, while traveling on land was somewhat more discreet.
On the way, Ye Tian asked, "Feng Luxue, you are a core member of the Battle Axe Mercenary Hall, right? I'm interested in a sword technique from Battle Axe Emperor. Do you know how I could borrow it? If it requires ten golden-level sword techniques, then I don't have them."
"You're talking about the sword technique that surpasses the golden level, right? I'm just a nominal disciple of the Battle Axe Emperor and can't help you get that technique. But if you really want to see that sword technique, it's not impossible!" Feng Luxue said very seriously.