BXBX NOVEL Chapter 201 - 197: Gains and Losses
Seeing the greatly changed Stone Tower Secret Realm environment, Bai Qi and Bai Qiucha immediately moved closer together, carefully observing the surrounding situation.
Although it seemed a bit absurd, the Stone Tower Secret Realm was indeed as Bai Qi imagined. Aside from the forest, the ground also began to decay, and strange whirlpools even appeared in the sky above, as if brewing a terrifying storm.
This small world was indeed on the path to death!
At that moment, a shadow suddenly appeared in the sky, swept up Bai Qi and Bai Qiucha, and quickly left the Stone Tower Secret Realm, returning to the space rift.
Bai Qi looked at Bai Heguang who was standing on Jiuyou Darkbird’s back and said, “Teacher, didn’t you leave?”
“Hmm, I just left when I noticed a space storm heading towards the Stone Tower Secret Realm, so I came back.”
So, it was a space storm. He had thought that Alpha had killed a small world with a single sword strike.
Bai Heguang nodded, glanced at the black long sword in Alpha’s hand, and said, “Has your beast awakened successfully?”
Bai Qi nodded and said, “It has awakened successfully, but I don’t know the level of the skill, so I named it Transcendent Level.”
Silent, Bai Heguang said, “Indeed, there has never been a precedent of a Four Stage Beast Master awakening a super skill. ‘Transcendent’… Very good.”
If there was no precedent, then did he come here to practice? His teacher seems to think highly of him.
Bai Qi licked his lips, then suddenly felt a tremor in his surroundings. Immediately afterwards, Jiuyou Darkbird sped up its pace and moved away from the Stone Tower Secret Realm.
“This space storm is strong, the Stone Tower Secret Realm probably can’t be saved.”
Jiuyou Darkbird said regretfully, looking back at the Stone Tower Secret Realm that had instantly disappeared into the space storm, but it showed no intention of leaving.
Bai Qi looked at Bai Heguang and asked, “Teacher, where are we going now?”
“Wait for the space storm to end.”
Bai Heguang answered flatly, then stopped talking. He just stared intently at the Stone Tower Secret Realm that was continuously disintegrating in the space storm, seemingly lost in thought.
Upon seeing this, Bai Qj didn’t ask further. He looked at Bai Qiucha, who also seemed bewildered.
The space storm came suddenly and then quietly disappeared. The previously turbulent space rift immediately calmed down.
However, the Stone Tower Secret Realm had disappeared, leaving only some broken stones behind.
The Secret Realm was already on the brink of death. Under the blow of the space storm, it directly disintegrated.
It seemed that Bai Heguang was waiting for this moment. After inspecting the surroundings, Jiuyou Darkbird spat out a black flame, wrapping the broken stones, and in an instant, all was burned to nihility.
Is that… the power of death?
The moment the black flame appeared, Bai Qi felt a power that originated from the same source as Alpha’s Sword of Death.
So Jiuyou Darkbird had also mastered the power of death?
It made sense. If he hadn’t mastered it himself, how could his teacher have taught him how to control it?
Soon, Jiuyou Darkbird retracted the flame and brought back some things with it.
“This is… Space Crystal Stone?!”
Bai Qj immediately recognized the crystals, fully demonstrating his academic excellence.
[Material Name]: Space Crystal Stone
[Material Level]: Mythical Level
“These are just fragments, not yet at the mythical level quality.”
Bai Heguang shook his head and said,” If it were a whole Space Crystal Stone, it could be used to construct a Secret Realm Tower. Now, these can only be used to strengthen a Secret Realm.”
While saying that, Bai Heguang divided the fragments into two parts and gave them to Bai Qi and Bai Qiucha, saying, “Both of you have personal Secret Realms. These fragments are perfect for enhancing them.”
“Thank you, Teacher.”
Bai Qj took the space crystal fragments, and his mind immediately went to Delta.
Delta had not tried any space materials yet. He could let him try it when he got back.
Having collected the space crystal fragments, Bai Heguang didn’t stay there. He took them with him and left the space rift, returning to the Thousand Cliff Stone Forest.
“I have something to deal with. You two continue training here. As for the training…”
Bai Heguang paused, and a Soul Reaper, holding a bloody scythe, crawled out of the array.
[Name]: Blood Scythe Wraith
[Race]: Soul Race
[Bloodline Level]: Emperor-level
[Introduction]: A harvester of life, its bloody scythe can ignore most defenses and directly reap the souls of enemies. It is one of the most ferocious creatures in the Soul Race.
“The Blood Scythe Wraith will protect you and tell you what to train.”
Bai Heguang instructed the Blood Scythe Wraith a few words, then without waiting for Bai Qi’s response, he directly disappeared into the horizon with Jiuyou Darkbird.
“Are all of the Titled Legendary always this busy?”
Looking at Bai Heguang who seemed to never rest, Bai Qi couldn’t help but comment.
“It’s normal; you’ll get used to it.”
Bai Qiucha shrugged casually, seemingly accustomed to this kind of life. He then turned with interest to look at Alpha’s Sword of Death and said, “Our fight was interrupted earlier, shall we continue?”
The Sword of Death, which could easily slice through his skeleton scythe and Soul Blade, was way more powerful than he had imagined. Naturally, he wanted to conclude the fight that had just started.
“Let’s drop it. Alpha doesn’t seem to have full control over the Sword of Death yet.”
Bai Qj shookhis head, refusing Bai Qiucha’s invitation for a duel.
Although he hadn’t injured Bai Qiucha in their previous fight, it was still a close call. After all, he wasn’t sure if Bai Qiucha’s Bone Armor could withstand the Sword of Death.
If it didn’t, Bai Qiucha would be in real trouble.
However, he was very satisfied with the destructive power of the Sword of Death.
It was enough that it could sever the skeleton scythe, but the fact that it could cut through the Soul Blade—what did that mean? Didn’t it mean that no tangible or intangible attacks or even defenses could withstand Alpha’s Sword of Death?
“Alpha, try to channel the Power of Death and see what effect it has?”
Clickety-clack.
(“Boss, I don’t think I can do that.”)
“You can’t?”
Bai Qi was taken aback. He swiftly remembered the skill description of the Sword of Death, and his face instantly turned bitter.
“So this really does incorporate all the Power of Death in the body, without leaving any to fend off…”
At this point, Alpha could no longer casually channel the Withering Power to add buffs to other attacks like before. Even when using skills now, all it did was increase the destructive power of the Sword of Death in his hand.
Bai Qi moved his lips a bit. The inability to release the Power of Death meant that forms like machine gun mode and sniper mode were basically scrapped. He also couldn’t apply it to the Sword Blade Storm like before.
In other words, Alpha had sacrificed a variety of flexible tactics for a powerful close combat attack method. It was a give-and-take situation.
“But, I have a feeling that I’ve got the short end of the stick. How am I supposed to show off now-”
Bai Qi sighed, looked at the somewhat downcast Alpha, and quickly reassured him, “It’s okay. We still have the Sword Blade Storm for ranged attacks, and enhancing close combat isn’t bad, after all, close combat is your forte.” Clickety-clack.
Alpha nodded, as was his habit, and tried to suspend the Sword of Death behind him. He found, however, that no matter whether it was the Control Object Rune or the Power of Wind, neither could lift the Sword of Death. In the end, it was Alpha who created a hand behind him to grasp the Sword of Death.
Damn, it can’t even control the sword…
Seeing this, Bai Qi couldn’t help but feel the urge to sigh again, but the Blood Scythe Wraith suddenly came up to Alpha and said, “Its Bloodline Level is too low and can’t withstand such a degree of power. If you want to control the Power of Death, you’d better upgrade your pet’s Bloodline Level.”
“Bloodline Level is too low?”
Upon hearing this, Bai Qi was stunned at first, then quickly replaced by joy. He asked in return, “You mean, as long as Alpha’s Bloodline Level is upgraded to King-level, he’ll be able to control the Power of Death?”
The Blood Scythe Wraith nodded, and then drifted behind Bai Qiucha, saying, “Mr. Cha, you should not fight him until he can skillfully control the Power of Death, or you might easily get injured.”
“Um, okay.”
Bai Qiucha reluctantly nodded. He thought that Bai Qi would be able to fight him evenly after upgrading to Four Stage, but now he ran into this situation, which was quite a bummer.
But this way, Xiao Yuan and the others probably couldn’t challenge Bai Qi in the short term. As for when Alpha mastered the Sword of Death,
Shouldn’t there be few who can beat Bai Qi? After all, this skill is somewhat outrageous.
Because they had just emerged from the Stone Tower Secret Realm, the Blood Scythe Wraith had no intention of letting them continue training. Therefore, they each returned to their own secret realms to rest.
After returning to the Secret Realm Base, Alpha quite conscientiously found a vacant spot to familiarize himself with the Sword of Death. Bai Qi, on the other hand, immediately summoned Delta and placed the Space Crystal Fragments he had just obtained in front of him.
“Delta, try to see the effect of the Space Material.”
Delta nodded and willingly used its forehead to touch the Space Crystal Fragments.
Without any surprise, the Evolution Light appeared again on Delta, and its originally robust shape gradually elongated into a Dapeng.
[Name]: Sky Traveling Peng
[Nature]: Space Department
[Bloodline Level]: Lower King
[Description]: A Dapeng that wanders through the Void is an extremely tough creature capable of dodging or ambushing enemies by drilling into the Void.
A creature of the Space Department!
Bai Qi’s eyes brightened at the sight, and he immediately started the timer.
One minute, two minutes, five minutes, ten minutes…
A full ten minutes passed, and Delta hadn’t devolved again.
Did it mean that the evolution had succeeded?
Watching Delta, which was still expanding in size, Bai Qi’s expression slowly changed from surprise to delight.
So it wasn’t that Delta couldn’t evolve, but that the effect of the regular material wasn’t strong enough.
However, upon evolving to a King-level creature, why wasn’t there any feedback?
Bai Qi checked again. Neither his body nor his Spirit Power had received any improvement, and he had not received any new skill information transmitted from Delta.
What a familiar rhythm, it must not have completed its evolution…