Chapter 483: Chapter 483

On the ancient Blue Planet, a thunderous roar erupted from somewhere unknown.

A battle between Legendary beings was a spectacle that could captivate billions of living creatures, no matter where it took place. Whether in Stellar Moon or on Blue Planet, Legendary-level clashes were rare.

Countless beings below the Legendary rank watched eagerly, knowing that if two Legendaries weakened each other, it could be an opportunity for others to ascend by overthrowing them.

Lu Ran and his team hunted Legendaries with extreme caution, relying on Squirrel God’s sealed space to completely isolate the battle’s fluctuations and avoid attracting the attention of other Legendaries.

Zhu Yan, the War King of the ancient land, was a creature even other Legendary beasts avoided. Yet, for the sake of greater rewards, Lu Ran had set his sights on it.

Awakened from its slumber and dragged into the sealed space, its body bound by spatial chains, Zhu Yan was furious. It roared and struggled against its restraints, but Squirrel God’s spatial seals held firm.

The Divine Deer said to Lu Ran and the others, “Quasi-Legendary, Low Legendary, Intermediate Legendary... The gap between each small stage in the Legendary rank is greater than the entire stage before it. This battle will be extremely difficult. Fortunately, Squirrel God has suppressed its level to around 70. That’s our key advantage.”

Lu Ran glanced at Squirrel God, who stood rigidly in the sealed space, and shouted. “Got it. This won’t be easy. To ensure Squirrel God’s efforts aren’t wasted, Lord Divine Deer, you can’t just spectate this time.”

“Even with my healing, you must remain cautious. The power it still possesses can kill you instantly. Given my strength, I can only revive you a limited number of times,” the Divine Deer warned.

Lu Ran’s lips twitched.

Seriously? Revives are counted per battle now?

Although the other Legendaries mocked the Divine Deer for its weak combat abilities, with the Divine Phoenix gone, its healing prowess was undeniably the best of the best.

“I feel reassured.” Lu Ran grinned and turned his gaze to the furious giant ape, hundreds of meters tall, with a white head and crimson feet, struggling against its chains.

With a wave of his hand, a black crow covered in golden runes appeared in the sky, spreading its wings and cackling wildly.

“War King? You dare call yourself the War King? After your death, I will take your title!”

As it spoke, the crow’s two eyeballs exploded.

The Divine Deer was stunned.

Although Lu Ran had summoned a new familiar, and it was only a quasi-Legendary, the sinister aura radiating from Dark Crow was unmistakable.

What kind of madness is this?

The most absurd part was how casually Dark Crow treated its own organs. To match a Legendary’s power as a quasi-Legendary, it had sacrificed both its eyes.

At Dark Crow’s current level, even with the Flame Spirit’s healing, restoring its eyes would require multiple sessions. Without the Legendary Flame Spirit, the Divine Deer’s Broken Horn alone wouldn’t be able to sustain Dark Crow’s self-sacrificial tactics.

However, with the Divine Deer present, Dark Crow had no reservations. Still, even with its sacrifices, Dark Crow couldn’t deal significant damage to an Intermediate Legendary. Its role here was purely supportive.

“Wind, lightning, fire... all elements wandering in nature, heed the call of the Oracle Crow and gather here!” Dark Crow coughed up blood and shouted.

In the next moment, boundless elemental energy surged around them.

Dark Crow screamed, “Baby Cloud, fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!”

High above, a floating mechanical castle aimed nine colossal cannons at its target. Their barrels gathered a chaotic fusion of nine elemental forces intertwined with the power of time.

Dark Crow had summoned vast elemental energy to obey Baby Cloud’s command. Lu Ran, hiding behind the Divine Deer, accelerated time to aid Baby Cloud’s charging. Under this trinity, Baby Cloud, who was already the strongest below Legendary in destructive power, now unleashed an attack rivaling a full Natural Wrath.

Countless compressed elemental projectiles, wrapped in dazzling light, rained down on Zhu Yan, striking a single point.

The explosion sent shockwaves capable of triggering natural disasters. Fortunately, Baby Cloud could absorb the residual energy with its Catastrophe Devourer talent, sparing Lu Ran and the others from collateral damage.

After the first bombardment from the trinity of Dark Crow, Lu Ran, and Baby Cloud, Zhu Yan bore wounds of varying sizes, with a chunk of flesh blasted away at the main impact site. Baby Cloud had successfully dealt damage!

Of course, this wasn’t much when compared to Zhu Yan’s immense vitality that was similar to Sudden Death King’s shattered scales, but it was a promising start.

“Lord Divine Deer, heal!” Dark Crow shouted from mid-air as Lu Ran’s other familiars moved.

Six-Path Flower stood firm, its arms transformed into black vines that plunged into the wound Baby Cloud had created, siphoning Zhu Yan’s life force.

Under the assault of Six-Path Flower’s Hungry Ghost Path, Zhu Yan roared in fury, finally breaking the first layer of spatial seals and regaining mobility. It seized the vines and flung Six-Path Flower into the sky, smashing it into the ground with enough force to create a small mushroom cloud.

“An abyssal life force. Killing it will be harder than reaching the heavens,” Six-Path Flower muttered, sensing Zhu Yan’s vitality as it was hurled.

“It doesn’t need healing.”

At that moment, the Divine Deer had just finished healing Dark Crow. At Lu Ran’s command, it nodded. Six-Path Flower could sustain itself by draining Zhu Yan’s life force via the Hungry Ghost Path. Despite being sealed, Zhu Yan had effortlessly flung the Six-Path Reincarnation God aside in one move.

“Where’s that trump card you mentioned?” the Divine Deer asked Lu Ran.

“Don’t hold back. Use it now,” Manager Ying urged from further back.

“It’s here.” Lu Ran smirked as a formation lit up.

A terrifying wolf-like figure clad in bone armor and wielding a Hell Bone Sword in its mouth, a lightsaber in one hand, and a swordgrass in the other, charged toward Zhu Yan. Its crimson eyes radiated killing intent. Its aura was so overwhelming that Zhu Yan whipped its head around.

After consuming another of Lu Ran’s soul clones, Captain Doofus delivered a devastating strike. Three swords merged, Star-Splitting Sword Intent swirling as a hundredfold-compressed divine sword force erupted. In the aftermath, Zhu Yan’s blocking arm was severed, blood gushing from the stump.

Zhu Yan howled in pain.

“This is...“ The Divine Deer’s pupils shrank.

Sensing Captain Doofus’ terrifying power, it realized that this was the beastmaster skill Lu Ran had mentioned.

Incredible... To think that sword-chomping dog could unleash such an aura.

It wouldn’t doubt Lu Ran’s claim of being a Mythical beastmaster now. However, depleting an Intermediate Legendary’s life force was no easy feat.

Captain Doofus’ strike was dazzling, but Zhu Yan’s rock-like defenses made the recoil numb its arms and mouth and blood streak from its lips.

Sudden Death King, hovering in the sky as a support like Dark Crow, had already maxed out its defensive halo on Captain Doofus. Upon seeing this, it grimaced.

Damn, this monkey... Even with my defensive halo, Captain Doofus was injured by the backlash...

Although part of it was due to Captain Doofus compressing sword intent beyond a hundredfold, making the force harder to control.

As Captain Doofus shook off the numbness, Six-Path Flower consumed a Time Fruit Lu Ran had saved, allowing its level to skyrocket. Combined with its Limit Breaker talent, it temporarily broke its level cap and neared level 100 in moments.

Even as a Low Legendary not specialized in combat, with Zhu Yan’s level suppressed by Squirrel God, Six-Path Flower now had the power to overwhelm it.

“My time is limited. I can maintain this for about a minute,” Six-Path Flower said, regenerating its Hungry Ghost vines to drain Zhu Yan’s life force from the fresh wound.

This time, the effect was far more potent. Zhu Yan’s fur and skin visibly aged as its vitality was rapidly siphoned.

Zhu Yan thrashed as it was enraged, but Six-Path Flower activated both the Hungry Ghost and Celestial Path to pin Zhu Yan down. For that minute, Six-Path Flower was confident it could suppress Zhu Yan with its level advantage. This minute was critical because it would determine how much damage Six-Path Flower and Captain Doofus could inflict.

The longer this dragged on, the worse it was for Lu Ran’s team. Captain Doofus and Six-Path Flower’s bursts were short-lived, and Zhu Yan might adapt to the seals, regaining more power.

Under Six-Path Flower’s divine suppression and life drain, Zhu Yan struggled to rise, only for Captain Doofus to dart in, severing tendons with relentless sword strikes, crippling its limbs and forcing it back down.

As an Intermediate Legendary, Zhu Yan’s regeneration should have been formidable, but the rapid life drain left it helpless against its wounds. In that minute, Captain Doofus struck thousands of times, leaving Zhu Yan a bloody, mutilated mess with gouged-out eyes.

Yet, to Lu Ran’s dismay, even after a full minute of life drain, Zhu Yan’s vitality remained formidable. Although it was battered, its fighting spirit burned fiercely.

“Such tenacity...” Lu Ran frowned.

Squirrel God could suppress Zhu Yan’s energy, but not its life force. Dark Crow, also frowning, had begun gathering elements with Baby Cloud for another assault when it suddenly sensed danger.

But it was too late. As Six-Path Flower’s level dropped back to 60, its body aching under the strain, it lost its absolute hold on Zhu Yan. Meanwhile, Captain Doofus, exhausted from its relentless assault, panted heavily.

Zhu Yan had been pushed to its limits. Although it was grievously wounded, pain and fury unlocked its latent combat potential, allowing it to reclaim some of its sealed abilities.

With its powers partially restored, Zhu Yan grew two additional heads and four arms, entering a Three-Headed, Six-Armed form. Six massive stone clubs, each like a mountain, materialized in its hands.

In this state, Zhu Yan’s power surged. Its bloody flesh hardened into rock-like armor wreathed in fire patterns as it swung its clubs at Baby Cloud, Dark Crow, Six-Path Flower, Captain Doofus, Sudden Death King, and even Lu Ran. The impact was cataclysmic.

Sudden Death King, who was sharing its defensive halo, was the first to be sent flying. Its scales and shield were shattered. Captain Doofus barely blocked with its three swords.

Six-Path Flower, who followed the battle plan, had used its empowered self to drain Zhu Yan’s life and then summoned a Wooden Asura far stronger than before. The colossal Asura emerged, intercepting Zhu Yan’s strike even though countless wooden arms were destroyed.

Baby Cloud fared the worst. Its mechanical castle’s projectiles were obliterated, the entire structure smashed to scrap, reverting Baby Cloud to its base form. Manager Ying barely rescued its core in time. Dark Crow, having sensed the danger first, escaped via a clone, while its true body fled unscathed.

“Fuck!” Lu Ran cursed, narrowly shielded by the Divine Deer’s life barrier but still sent flying by the shockwave.

In one move, Zhu Yan’s Three-Headed, Six-Armed form had countered all six of them.

“Baby Cloud, you okay?” Lu Ran asked urgently, then turned to the Divine Deer. “Heal Sudden Death King!”

The Divine Deer swiftly tended to Sudden Death King, the most battered of them all.

The thickest armor, the hardest hits...

Baby Cloud angrily signaled it was fine, but the monkey...

It destroyed 18’s mechanical castle! This is unforgivable.

“Good. Dark Crow, gather elements. Baby Cloud, assist Captain Doofus with Dark Crow!”

“Understood, my king!” Dark Crow eyed its scattered sacrificial eyeballs with determination.

“The next few minutes are critical. Right, Squirrel God?”

Squirrel God, straining to maintain the seals, watched as Zhu Yan burned its life force to break free.

As Lu Ran issued orders, Six-Path Flower’s Asura shoved Zhu Yan’s club aside, tackling the beast and pinning it down. The earth quaked as Captain Doofus retreated. Then, the sky erupted in a kaleidoscope of colors.

Dark Crow and Baby Cloud compressed and formed the gathered elements, forming over ten thousand elemental swords that hovered behind Captain Doofus.

Its Sword God talent flared, the sheer number of blades slightly boosting its power. Captain Doofus let out a low growl as it infused them with Star-Splitting Sword Intent.