Reaper of the Martial World

Book 7: Chapter 158: Sky Castle (1)

Within the Mystical Realm, a battle ravaged a valley of black. The canyon was so deep that its base was pitched in a perpetual night, unable to see the sun above.

Four Celestial Beasts stood together, fighting an innumerable wave of creatures of darkness.

Enormous bats with ghastly teeth and blinded red eyes screeched into the night. Blood thirsty hyenas creeped forward with ill intensions. Wolves with fur so dark and eyes so yellow snarled, barking and howling like rabid dogs.

In the distance, looming shadows watched over without even the intention to move. It seemed this wasn’t a random attack, but rather one that was organized by the overlords of the Demonic Gorge.

An ape standing at over thirty meters tall swung a staff taller than itself, roaring with a might many times its own. It valiantly protected the three beasts behind it as a massive shelled beast provided support.

‘Hand in there Shere, I’ll have the magic circle prepared soon.’ A resolute and beautiful celestial deer stood over a majestic celestial tiger. But, it seemed that the once lush white fur of this tiger had been coated in blood, while its slaughter qi had weakened along with its shallow breath.

It was obvious that these four celestial beasts were none other than Dyon’s companions, Shere, Biibi, Linlin and Sen.

Linlin roared to Sen’s back, causing a beautiful illusory shield to appear just as the soundwave of dozens of demonic bats approached them.

The shield shook violently, quivering under the combined might, but in the end, it just barely withstood the attack.

“Reflect!” Linlin’s delicate voice called out, trembling with rage.

In that instant, the quivering shield explosively doubled in size, glowing with a fierce light as it bared down on the waves of enemies below.

A pulsing light bulged from its center, growing larger and larger until it blasted outward in a beam of light tens of meters wide. The destructive wave blasted a trench directly down the middle of the battlefield, alleviating the pressure on Sen.

Linlin nearly collapsed under the strain, her white face reddening. But she knew she had to stand tall. Both Biibi and Shere stood on her back under her protective barrier, she had to last.

Above this gorge, about half a dozen or so members of the Sapientia Guild watched on silently. Honestly, they thought that what these four were doing was nothing short of suicide, but they were curious about a True God’s beast companions.

“Hey, don’t those four beasts look familiar to you?” An azure robed young man suddenly asked.

“Do they?”

“Yea. Remember when the Masked Wife Stealer had that confrontation with the Magic Swordsman? Weren’t his beast companions also a turtle, an ape, a tiger and a deer? That’s a little bit too much of a coincidence, no?”

The young man’s five companions paused in thought, but eventually a black robed young woman shook her head no.

“That was only three years ago, how can a beast grow so fast? They’re already celestials when back then, they hadn’t even begun cultivating. Plus, these are transcendent grade beasts while those from then were mere earth grade beasts – my master said so himself.”

Hearing this, the young men and women nodded in acknowledgement. After all, this young woman was a disciple in-name of the Beast Master Guild Head. How could the best beast tamer of their quadrants be wrong about something so simple? historical

“You don’t think that maybe it has something to do with their white fur? Maybe someone perfected that evil technique. Wait, wasn’t True God Sacharro from the Celestial Deer Quadrant? They can’t be celestial beasts, could they?!”

“Ah…” The young woman had been planning on refuting because the first half of the young man’s statement was pure stupidity. But, the second half caused her words to catch in her throat.

Eventually, she frowned in thought and shook her head once more. “Celestial beasts are of the supreme grade at worst. Plus, they’ve gone extinct… As far as we know, only the celestial deer survived and was tied to the Celestial Deer Sect – thus their name. Maybe these are a branch sub-species caused by true celestial beasts mating with a lesser race? Or maybe the Celestial Deer Quadrant was able to use celestial beast blood they had collected to mutate these beasts?” The young woman’s eyes flashed. “Either way… They’re very valuable.”

A quiet-until-now young man shook his head at the greed that lit the eyes of his companions. “Do remember that these are the beast companions of a True God? If you all want to die, do it without me.

“And, you’d do well to remember that no one understands his own connection to the Celestial Deer Quadrant than True God Sacharro himself. If he didn’t care to flaunt these beasts before you all, do you think he’s worried about your measly greed?”

The guild disciples froze at these words. True God Sacharro had obviously sent his beasts here to train, who’s to say he wasn’t monitoring them right now? Could any beast master stand to lose such an exceptional beast? Even the young lady’s own master only had a single transcendent grade beast companion, and it was of the lower transcendent grade!

Still, her master cherished that beast and poured all of his resources into it. If a lower transcendent grade beast was worth this much, what would these peak transcendent grade beasts be worth?

“Let’s go.” The quiet young man turned to leave. They had come to the Demonic Gorge by deciphering ancient texts, but clearly there was nothing here for them to partake in. It was too dangerous.

In this distance, Dyon who had been listening to this conversation using the arrays he placed on his beast companions sneered.

“Good choice.”