Eternal Beast Taming Family

For Heyu Town and even the entire Zhiyao County, the beginning of 3398 was not a good year.

The rift passage opened wide, and various source beasts ravaged the mountains and fields, some even entering villages to injure people.

The powerful families only cared about their own small plot of land, and had no regard for whether the people below were suffering.

In the mountains and fields, one can see young masters and ladies from noble families, accompanied by guards, hunting down source beasts that have wandered into the outer regions. However, they only pursue the rare and precious ones.

They chose to turn a blind eye to the common, rampant, and ravaging source beasts that infested villages and farmlands.

This situation continued until January 17th, nearly half a month later, when the crack in the passage opened again.

This time, the crack was no longer the usual minor one; a crack that stretched across the entire sky was torn open in the air.

The sun, with its long, flowing ribbons, appeared, its brilliant sunlight, which bestowed endless vitality upon the source beasts of the outside world, poured into the realm.

As if some kind of divine punishment had descended, the earth instantly cracked and deep ravines appeared where the sunlight fell. If an ordinary person were to be hit by that light, it would be as if they were being branded with a red-hot iron, with faint white smoke rising from their body, as if their soul and spirit had been burned.

However, the light that shone in lasted only a moment, almost the instant the crack appeared. A figure emerged in the void, and then an illusory seal appeared.

High in the sky, it pressed down towards the crack, and an inscription grew longer in the wind, eventually transforming into a canopy of sky, firmly imprinted on the crack that pierced the heavens.

Surprisingly, after the inscription fell, the crack that had just been torn open in the sky closed up again in an instant, leaving no trace in the sky.

Only that moment of burning pain and the cracked earth could prove that what happened just now was not a dream.

A crisis that was about to erupt seemed to have been resolved by the bigwigs above, but all the ordinary people under the sky did not know why they were born or why they would die.

Chu Jingyu was in the Ice Valley at this moment, watching the crack in the sky being closed by the seal. He looked at the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" in the cold pool, which had only twelve petals left.

A smile curled at the corner of his lips. "It seems your last hope is gone. The passage between this realm and the outside world cannot be opened. You're just sitting around and wasting your time, but I have plenty of time to wear you down."

The remaining twelve petals of the Ice Lotus trembled rapidly, as if they were quite angered by Chu Jingyu's words, which was indeed the case.

This is the fourth time Chu Jingyu has come in just a few days. Each time he comes, it needs to sacrifice a few lotus petals to defend against his attacks.

His own condition was getting weaker and weaker, while Chu Jingyu and his source beasts were getting stronger and stronger. Later, even his other source beast advanced to a high-level alien rank and kept releasing feather blades in the sky, which was very annoying.

After a long period of hardship and the shattering of this last hope, "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" finally became somewhat disheartened.

The protective barrier above the icy pool shattered into pieces of ice crystals, which then fused back into five lotus petals, returning to the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus".

Seeing this, Chu Jingyu promptly stopped the attacks of the "Golden Armor Jade Eye Beast" and the "White-browed Mountain Eagle," wanting to see what else the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" wanted to do.

After a long while, a clear, cold voice echoed in Chu Jingyu's mind, "I... can form a contract..."

The speech was somewhat disjointed, but the meaning was conveyed very clearly.

Chu Jingyu glanced suspiciously at the ice lotus in the cold pool. Could this guy be up to something? He actually agreed so easily.

Chu Jingyu's inner turmoil seemed quite evident on his face, and the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" couldn't help but send another telepathic message.

"Human... what are you... waiting for?"

Suppressing his suspicions, Chu Jingyu forced a drop of blood from his fingertip, then attached a wisp of his spirit to it. With a flick of his finger, the blood slowly drifted from the air toward the "Ultimate Ice Lotus".

"If you are truly willing to sign the contract, then absorb this drop of blood and the spiritual energy within it."

Seemingly genuinely willing to sign the contract, the drop of blood fell unimpeded into the heart of the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus," then merged into the lotus's body.

After a while, strands of white icy threads spread out from the ice lotus and then connected to Chu Jingyu's right palm.

During this process, the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" in the icy pool slowly shrank and finally disintegrated into pieces of ice crystals, which then burrowed into Chu Jingyu's palm along with the ice shards.

At this point, the contract was completely concluded.

Chu Jingyu could feel a brand new, somewhat cold thought appearing in his mind.

He opened his right palm, and a rootless ice lotus floated quietly above it. It was only the size of a palm, and around it, snowflakes were falling.

Since its appearance, the temperature in the surrounding space has dropped by several degrees. This is not the effect of its skills, but rather the subtle influence it has on the surrounding environment.

Race: Extreme Ice Snow Lotus

Rank: Mid-level Spirit Rank

Qualification: Extraordinary

Status: Helpless, disappointed

Attribute Tendency: Ice, Light

Skill: 1. Lotus Petal Ice Shield: Transforms the lotus petals on the body into a protective shield, protecting a certain area for a long time.

2. Ice Crystal Storm: Ice crystals, snowflakes, and ice shards condense to form a storm.

3. Lotus Shadow Illusion: Releases light and shadow to form a huge ice lotus illusion, which can neutralize and absorb some of the attacks of the light element.

4. Glacier: It condenses into a winding river of ice and snow, leading to the distance. The glacier contains the essence of the snow lotus, which can not only explore the environment where it cannot see, but also drive the ice and snow in the glacier to attack the target.

5. Extreme Ice Tundra: Extreme Ice Lotus releases extreme ice energy to the surrounding area, transforming the environment into a tundra. In this environment, the attributes and skill strength of Extreme Ice Lotus are greatly amplified.

6. Frost Bone Crystals: Corpses buried in the icy plains will have their flesh and blood absorbed by the Extreme Ice Snow Lotus, becoming nutrients for their growth. Their bones will then grow into bone crystals of different attributes within the icy plains.

Some of the information was similar to what Chu Jingyu had found when he went back, but much of it was withheld.

The skill "Frosty Bone Ice Crystal" has not been leaked at all. As one of the iconic source beasts of the Liu family, it must have been kept extremely secret.

However, now that this source beast has become his own, these secrets will also become the secrets he must protect.

"Take them away..."

The cold thought returned once more.

Chu Jingyu knew who the "them" that the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus" was referring to were.

Despite its seemingly cold and ruthless appearance, the Snow Lotus is actually a source beast that values ​​racial bloodlines the most, even more so than many humans who value bloodline inheritance.

Chu Jingyu floated above the icy pool. Although the water was extremely cold, it did not freeze into ice. Instead, it emitted a chilling aura capable of freezing other objects into ice sculptures.

However, the "ice lotuses" growing among them are still full of vitality, their bodies swaying flexibly.

Chu Jingyu's aura has now merged with that of the "Extreme Ice Snow Lotus." The "Ice Lotuses" did not resist his actions of digging them out of the icy pool; in fact, they seemed to cooperate somewhat.

Soon, he dug out six different-grade "Ice Lotus" plants and nine ordinary-grade "Ice Crystal Flowers" plants and put them into his spatial jade pendant.

Now, apart from those bone crystals, there's nothing else of value left in the entire Ice Valley.

He could have the guards harvest the bone crystals later; there was no rush. He was more eager to get home and plant the new source beasts he had acquired.