Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 297: Chapter 181: Cloud Ridge World Dragon and Endless Wood Demon

For a Guardian Beast Master to raise a Guardian Beast’s Quality to Platinum by the time it reached the Mythical Tier already proved the Guardian Beast had exceptionally high Talent!

Just as the Soul Taming Seed could defy all conventional wisdom for Mortal Beast Tiers, it could do the same when contracting a Fantasy Tier Guardian Beast.

Since the Cloud Ridge World Dragon was still an unhatched Dragon Egg, it had not yet hatched.

Before hatching, the Cloud Ridge World Dragon only possessed a single Basic Skill.

All of its Skills would only be fully revealed after it hatched.

However, Zhong Yi could see the two new Exclusive Traits the Cloud Ridge World Dragon had acquired.

The Exclusive Trait the Cloud Ridge World Dragon gained upon reaching Gold Quality was named Elemental Transmission.

The Cloud Ridge World Dragon could channel its own Elemental Energy into other life forms that shared its Elemental Attributes.

The Cloud Ridge World Dragon currently possessed water, earth, and wind Elemental Attributes, meaning it could channel Elemental Energy to Guardian Beasts of these three types.

Once the Cloud Ridge World Dragon hatched, its body would grow rapidly in a short period.

The fully grown Cloud Ridge World Dragon would be like a giant city, capable of carrying numerous Guardian Beasts on its body.

As a massive carrier, the Cloud Ridge World Dragon wasn’t actually built for combat.

Through its Exclusive Trait, Chain Defense, it could link with the creatures it carried, adding their Defense Power to its own.

For a mobile fortress like the Cloud Ridge World Dragon, the Guardian Beasts it carried shouldered the main offensive responsibilities.

If the Cloud Ridge World Dragon was an aircraft carrier, the Guardian Beasts it carried would be its fighter jets and missiles.

Typically, the stronger a Guardian Beast’s offensive capabilities, the weaker its endurance for prolonged combat.

With its Exclusive Trait, Elemental Transmission, the Cloud Ridge World Dragon could unconditionally supply Elemental Energy to Guardian Beasts of the water, earth, and wind elements.

This could significantly enhance the sustained combat capabilities of these three types of Attribute Guardian Beasts.

Until the Elemental Energy within the Cloud Ridge World Dragon was depleted, its enemies would face a relentless and ferocious assault.

Because the Cloud Ridge World Dragon possessed the Basic Skill Domain Orbit, it didn’t consume Energy to move.

This allowed all the Elemental Energy within the Cloud Ridge World Dragon to serve as an ammunition depot for the offensive Guardian Beasts it carried, enabling them to unleash a constant barrage of firepower.

Seeing the Cloud Ridge World Dragon’s Exclusive Trait, Elemental Transmission, Zhong Yi already knew how he would raise it once it hatched.

He also knew how to build his own combat fortress with the dragon as its core.

If the Exclusive Trait Chain Defense ensured the Cloud Ridge World Dragon’s defensive capabilities...

...then the Exclusive Trait Elemental Transmission ensured its offensive power.

But what truly surprised Zhong Yi wasn’t the Exclusive Trait, Elemental Transmission, which the Cloud Ridge World Dragon gained upon reaching Gold Quality.

It was the Exclusive Trait it gained upon reaching Platinum Quality: Dragon Shedding Boundary Mark!

This Exclusive Trait, Dragon Shedding Boundary Mark, massively elevated the Cloud Ridge World Dragon’s strategic significance and value.

If the Cloud Ridge World Dragon was a piece of charcoal before...

...then with the Exclusive Trait Dragon Shedding Boundary Mark, it had become a diamond.

Dragon Shedding Boundary Mark allowed the Cloud Ridge World Dragon to leave a ”Shedding” behind in any world it visited.

Even if the Cloud Ridge World Dragon was already in another world, by activating and sacrificing that Shedding...

...the Cloud Ridge World Dragon could instantly teleport back to the world where the Shedding was located.

For now, Zhong Yi didn’t know how great the cost would be for the Cloud Ridge World Dragon to leave a Shedding behind.

He would have to wait until the Cloud Ridge World Dragon hatched to run experiments and find out.

But no matter what price the Cloud Ridge World Dragon had to pay to produce a Shedding...

...this Exclusive Trait gave him the ability to travel between worlds.

All he had to do was have the Cloud Ridge World Dragon leave a Shedding in the current Guardian Beast World.

Even if Zhong Yi traveled to another world, he could always use the Shedding to return.

This transformed Zhong Yi from a native of the Guardian Beast World into a traveler between worlds.

Although teleporting between worlds via a Shedding would consume all of the Cloud Ridge World Dragon’s Energy and leave it completely exhausted...

...it wouldn’t even be able to move until it recovered.

But the Guardian Beasts and powerful experts carried on its back would be more than enough to handle any crisis during this vulnerable period.

Zhong Yi was no fool. He wouldn’t just randomly travel to other worlds without absolute certainty of his safety.

The Cloud Ridge Boundary Dragon, which had been able to interact with Zhong Yi before the Contract, seemed to have fallen into a deep slumber after its Soul Taming Seed Contract and Evolution into the Cloud Ridge World Dragon.

Zhong Yi placed his hand on the waxy layer covering the eggshell but received no response from the Cloud Ridge World Dragon.

Fortunately, the Cloud Ridge World Dragon inside the egg could still absorb Elemental Energy from Attribute Materials and the Drunken Dragon Jade.

Zhong Yi stored the Cloud Ridge World Dragon in his Soul Base. From now on, all he had to do was feed it daily.

If Zhong Yi didn’t already have ten Dragon-Brewed Immortal Minks—a number that would soon expand to fourteen—...

...it would have been difficult for him to have enough Drunken Dragon Jade to feed the Cloud Ridge World Dragon while also collaborating with Lü Yunyi.

On top of that, the daily cost of feeding the Cloud Ridge World Dragon water-, earth-, and wind-type Attribute Materials was also immense.

’I should cultivate some Production-type Guardian Beasts in my Soul Base that can produce these three types of Attribute Materials,’ Zhong Yi thought.

’Being self-sufficient would be far more convenient than constantly buying large quantities from the outside world!’

’Besides, if I want to travel between worlds with the Cloud Ridge World Dragon later, these Production-type Guardian Beasts will be indispensable.’

’They’re essentially the fuel to sustain the dragon’s journeys!’

After placing the Cloud Ridge World Dragon’s Egg into his Soul Base, Zhong Yi took out the Endless Wood he had just obtained from the Flower Venerable.

Zhong Yi had already inspected the Endless Wood’s data.

After taking it out, Zhong Yi immediately used his Soul Taming Seed to form a Contract with the Endless Wood.

The Endless Wood looked like a tall stump. Upon being contracted by the Soul Taming Seed, its trunk suddenly cracked, forming a hollow opening.

The entire stump grew much larger, and an eyeball suddenly materialized within the hollow.

Soon, this eyeball rapidly multiplied, the new eyes coalescing to form a palm-sized Fairy.

This Fairy, like the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon, had two pairs of wings.

Possessing four wings at the Mortal Beast Tier was a sign of an extremely high-grade Fairy Bloodline!

The Endless Wood was a Demon Spirit Guardian Beast. For it to transform into a Fairy after its Quality improved was an excellent outcome.

Even after being contracted by Zhong Yi through his Soul Taming Seed, the Fairy that the Endless Wood had evolved into still cowered timidly inside its hollow.

It was terrified of contact, a textbook case of social anxiety.

Zhong Yi didn’t try to force the issue by reaching in and pulling the newly evolved Fairy from its hollow.

Instead, he used All Things Exploration to inspect the Four-winged Fairy’s data.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Endless Wood Demon

[Guardian Beast Species]: Wood Ancestor Species/Illusion Wood Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Mortal Beast Tier (7/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Demon Spirit Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Silver Quality

Skills:

[Fantasy Combination]: Weaves together illusory scenes based on imagination. The strength and stability of the scene are dependent on the number of ”Endless Woods” used, which increases as Level and Quality rise.

Exclusive Traits:

[Endless Mark]: Places a unique mark on a designated target. If the user actively triggers the mark while the target is in the same world, the target will be instantly pulled into the illusory scene created by the user.

[Wooden Eye Peeping]: Condenses a Wooden Eye on a target bearing an Endless Mark. This Wooden Eye possesses a full panoramic view. The vision from this eye is shared with the marked target, and the user can also perceive this vision.