King of Beasts

After the appearance of the guardian resembling a kung fu panda, it looked towards the First Generations in the hall and spoke:

“There are indeed quite a few formidable folks here.”

It can talk!

Just like the dark crow and Manager Ying.

However, it has a rather unique accent.

“Guardian Lord,” the Youxiong Guild Leader and Youxiong Anlin said respectfully upon seeing the Panda Guardian.

The First Generations also slightly rose from their seats as a sign of respect.

An upper overlord, level 68, indeed deserving of attention.

“Hey, wasn’t it agreed for tomorrow? I’m too lazy to explain now, one of you tell them,” said the giant panda, listlessly dragging a chair over and sprawling on it in an utterly lazy manner.

Seeing this, the young girl beside him shook her head helplessly and looked towards Youxiong Jiyuan.

“Uncle, you do the talking.”

At this moment, the Living Fossil Guild Leader also turned to the many First Generations and reluctantly began, “Everyone, this is the guardian that the Youxiong Clan has revered since ancient times.”

“As you can see, its strength is indeed formidable!”

“It truly lives up to the title of Xia Country’s Guardian!”

“And the reason we’ve spread this news, besides wanting the various powers to witness such a mighty guardian of Xia Country, there’s another purpose…”

“This also involves crucial intelligence.”

“Those standing here are all top practitioners in Xia Country’s beast taming domain, so I’ll get straight to the point.”

“That is, Infinite City might not have just descended three years ago, it appeared thousands of years ago as well.”

“This crystallization of beast taming civilization, Infinite City, wasn’t first opened just a few years ago!”

“Back in the era of totem tribes thousands of years ago, it had already trained a group of beastmasters!!!”

“However, the training period was short-lived and soon ended.”

As the Youxiong Guild Leader finished, the First Generations present were momentarily stunned, curious about his claim.

The International Alliance, in an effort to calm the public, had announced that “Infinite City was accidentally activated three years ago, triggering its legacy mechanism.” The First Generations naturally knew this was a speculative statement without concrete evidence.

Thus, whatever new discoveries about Infinite City emerged thereafter, they wouldn’t find it surprising.

Gu Qingyi asked, “Youxiong Guild Leader, why do you say that? Did the Guardian tell you?”

Youxiong Guild Leader replied, “Yes, words are inadequate to express it, but there’s more compelling evidence. For instance, ‘secret realms’ have existed for countless years!”

“Everyone, you all know about The Other Shore, right?”

Upon mentioning The Other Shore, Gu Qingyi, Lu Ran, and Manager Ying narrowed their eyes.

“The Other Shore possesses a skill card called ‘death revival,’ yet none of the dungeons in the various Infinite Cities on Blue Star have ever dropped this skill card.”

“If they acquired it from a breakthrough secret realm, that seems unlikely, as the rewards from these realms are randomly assigned based on the dungeon circumstances.”

“Why can The Other Shore consistently obtain this unique skill card? It has always been a mystery to all nations.”

“However, today, I’m here to clear up this confusion. It’s because, apart from the Infinite Cities, there are also dungeons on our Blue Star that can be strategized, offering impressive rewards through these realms!”

“What?!” exclaimed Youxiong Guild Leader, surprising Pig Deity and the others.

Is that even possible?

“Hey, hey, hey,” Lu Ran turned to Manager Ying. As an ancient creature, how come you don’t know as much as they do?

Manager Ying glared at Lu Ran.

Yet, this news indeed shocked everyone.

Especially Lu Ran, who finally understood where The Other Shore’s skill cards came from.

He sighed. Were there really secret realm entrances on Blue Star?

Had Infinite City expanded to Blue Star?

“These rare secret realms on Blue Star,” continued Youxiong Guild Leader, “are not accessed with crystal coins but with a ‘key.’ By possessing the key to open a secret realm, you can endlessly challenge it and extract resources, including skill cards and trait crystals.”

“It is for this reason that I conclude, Infinite City had already been opened in the distant past,” the Youxiong Guild Leader stated confidently. “During that ancient period of activation, Infinite City transformed Blue Star, leaving behind some special secret realms. I suspect that The Other Shore has gained control of one such realm, enabling them to consistently obtain special resources.”

“The reason I am so certain,” he continued, “is because our Youxiong Clan also possesses an exclusive trial secret realm, and the key to open this realm has always been held by our Guardian.”

“In this realm, one can reliably obtain ‘Beast Taming Skill: Armoring’ and ‘Trait Crystal: Super Sleep’-two special resources. With Armoring, regardless of the pet beast’s energy attributes, a beastmaster can use their beast taming skills to help the pet beast develop a suit of battle armor with strong defense, significantly enhancing its defense.”

“Super Sleep, on the other hand, allows the controlled pet beast to enter a special sleep state autonomously, rapidly recovering its physical energy.”

“These are the signature resources of our Youxiong Clan’s trial secret realm.”

After the Youxiong Guild Leader disclosed this information, silence fell over the room, and those present exchanged looks of astonishment, having not expected to learn such groundbreaking intelligence in such a small ancient town.

“Damn, resource monopoly,” the Pig Deity remarked.

“No, no, no, I’m revealing this because I want to share the trial secret realm with everyone, allowing all to join in the strategy, and in due course, every beastmaster in Xia Country can participate,” Youxiong Jiyuan said with a smile.

The crowd: ?

Do they think we’re fools?

Having an exclusive trial secret realm and keeping it for their own power’s strategy, yet sharing it?

Why isn’t The Other Shore sharing their exclusive secret realm for others to strategize?

Youxiong Jiyuan explained, “Actually, the Youxiong Clan’s trial secret realm can produce ‘special bamboo resources,’ which are the favorite food of our Guardian.”

“We from the Youxiong Clan have also tried to strategize the realm ourselves, and though we can get the food, the amount is far from enough to satisfy the Guardian’s appetite.”

“Therefore, we can only offer our exclusive realm, asking more people to help us strategize.”

“And for our part, we will only take a certain amount of the loot as compensation.”

“This is also why we’ve spread the news, preparing to lay our cards on the table with everyone.”

First Generation, Manager Ying, Lu Ran: “…”

“That’s the situation,” the Panda Guardian gritted its teeth. “The Youxiong Tribe is so weak now that they can’t harvest any advanced bamboo.”

Youxiong Jiyuan and others looked embarrassed.

If they could monopolize the secret realm, they would, but the key issue is that they can’t satisfy the Guardian’s hunger.

After consulting with the Guardian, they had no choice but to make the exclusive secret realm public, allowing anyone to challenge it and thereby gather a large amount of resources.

“So that’s how it is… What’s the format of the secret realm?” Wu Ma of the twelve branches spoke up, his tall stature and unique appearance suggesting he might be from a minority group.

The Youxiong Guild Leader explained, “There’s no danger, and it’s not difficult. The Youxiong Clan’s trial secret realm has no level restrictions; anyone can challenge it. The realm adjusts the initial enemies based on the beastmaster’s level. If you succeed, stronger enemies appear.”

“That means it tests the beastmaster’s combat potential. The stronger your fighting ability at your level, the better the rating and rewards you’ll get.”

“For instance, Youxiong Anlin, although he’s only a level 2 beastmaster now, his rating is much higher than mine.”

“He currently holds the highest score in the trial secret realm as well.”

The Panda Guardian added, “Needless to say, his battle beast was almost wasted, but luckily I helped unlock its potential. Now, no one at his level can match him. However, he alone isn’t enough; I need a larger quantity of food.”

It rubbed its stomach, waking up extremely weak. The other food simply didn’t suit its taste and was too low in nutritional value!

The resources from the trial secret realm were much better.

However.

As the Panda Guardian finished speaking, the expressions of the many First Generations present turned odd.

No one a match for Youxiong Anlin?

Their eyes turned to Lu Ran, who was casually eating sunflower seeds.

Was the Panda Guardian unaware that there was an extremely abnormal powerhouse still in Xia Country?

It should be noted that in the Freshman Tournament, geniuses like Youxiong Anlin and Du Yuan didn’t even have the courage to face Lu Ran and conceded immediately.

Although Youxiong Anlin seemed to have received many benefits from the Panda Guardian, the crowd couldn’t figure out what kind of benefits could enable him to defeat Lu Ran, who possessed an Overlord Dragon, among those of the same level.

At this moment, hearing the Panda Guardian praise him so highly, Youxiong Anlin became somewhat embarrassed.

“Ahem,” he coughed, saying, “Lord Panda Guardian, there are always better ones out there. Under your guidance, I will surely become the strongest in the future, but for now, there are still many who are stronger than me.”

“How could that be?” the Panda Guardian exclaimed in surprise.

“Who, then?”

At that point, the Panda Guardian felt the eyes of the crowd on him and looked over at Lu Ran, who was cracking sunflower seeds in the corner.

“Maybe you can try later,” Lu Ran said, putting down the seeds.

At that moment, Lu Ran’s mind was storming with thoughts.

The situation in ancient times… it seemed quite complicated.

Lu Ran also noticed that the Youxiong Clan’s totem guardian, this Panda Guardian, was strong, but not strong enough.

Compared to the identity of the Divine Deer, there was still a significant gap.

Even the Flame Dragon King was no match for the Divine Deer, let alone a level 68 Panda Guardian.

So, if the Youxiong Clan had its own trial secret realm, does it mean that in ancient times, Lujia Village might also have had beastmasters chosen by Infinite City?

Did Lujia Village also have its own trial secret realm?

“Is he that strong?” the Panda Guardian asked unexpectedly, looking at the uniquely styled Lu Ran.

“Very strong,” replied the Youxiong Guild Leader.

“Really?” The Panda Guardian was still skeptical, casting a disdainful glance at Youxiong Anlin, saying, “Are you up to it? How come after my enhancement, you are still not the strongest among your peers?”

Youxiong Anlin: “I ¥%¥.”

“Why don’t you fight him then? If you lose, I might consider training someone else.”

Youxiong Anlin: ???

“Ah?” Lu Ran also snapped back to reality, looking at the despairing Youxiong Anlin, thinking, I didn’t do anything, brother!