Capítulo 37: Magical Beasts
Bai Yun looked at the newcomer. She was a young girl who was staring at the beast with a look of wild joy on her face. She seemed to be only about ten and from the looks of her clothes, quite rich.
The shadow panther looked at the newcomer warily. It seemed to be wondering what it was, just like Bai Yun. The girl stared at the beast for a while before extending her hand out and beckoning the leopard towards her. The leopard seemed to stare at her for a while, before slowly walking over to her. The little girl seemed to be delighted upon seeing its actions.
As Bai Yun watched the beast walk over, he was stunned. The girl had not used any beast taming skills, or any soul attack, and had simply called out for the beast. There was no way a simple call would be enough to work on the shadow leopard. Bai Yun was about to warn the girl, but he stopped himself. Not only was she an enemy, but he also had a feeling that there was no need to do so as she seemed to have a high cultivation base. No matter how powerful the beast was, it was only at the second circle. And in the worst case, she would only be teleported out. This would be a great learning opportunity for her.
As he expected, the leopard slowly walked toward the girl. When it was a few steps from the girl though, a vicious look passed through its eyes, and it suddenly leapt right at her with a roar. The girl seemed to be stunned, before reacting quickly. She didn't seem to have enough time to pull out her whip, so she simply jumped back using her movement technique. As he watched, Bai Yun was quite impressed. The movement technique she used was quite good, even better than the one he got from the clan library. And the little girl seemed to be quite proficient in it too.
"What a bad kitty." The little girl exclaimed. She pulled out her whip, and swung it straight at the beast.
Bai Yun's eyes narrowed as he watched the swing. His sword swung up in an instant. A second later, the tip of his sword collided with the tip of the whip.
"You blocked my attack?" The little girl seemed to be surprised. She had used a special skill to hide the trajectory of the attack and make it change the direction midway.
Bai Yun simply smiled. All that the little girl used was a simple attack that hid the true target and made the whip turn sharply at the last moment to surprise the opponent. This was only a basic whip skill. It seemed as if the girl had mastered only a single change of direction. This was nothing to Bai Yun. Even though he had focused on the sword, he had tried his hand at multiple weapons in his life. Especially during the great war, he had to use whatever he could get his hands on in the beginning before his true sword was made. Even he could easily reach a few dozen changes in directions using the whip. Even if that was not the case, he had faced far too many whip users who could easily reach tens of thousands of change of directions in their attacks. If he could not even see through this, he would have died a long time ago.
Both the little girl and the shadow leopard seemed to be surprised both at the change of direction as well as the fact that she had targeted Bai Yun first. With a snarl, the beast disappeared. The shadow leopard had not tried using its concealment ability on Bai Yun. It wouldn't have worked due to his soul tendril wrapping around it. The beats had instinctively known that the concealment wouldn't work, even if did not know why.
"Why did you attack me?" he asked the girl
"Because we are enemies. Also, you hurt the kitty. "She replied. "Huh, where did the kitty go?" She was stunned as she looked around, not knowing what had happened. Bai Yun did not know what to make of this. This was the first time he had met someone who was angry over him harming a random beast that had nothing to do with themselves.
"Whatever. I'll beat you first, and then look for the kitty." She said turning to Bai Yun. Then her whip made a snap as it attacked him. Bai Yun calmly used his sword to strike at the tip of the whip, neutralizing the attack. Even though the technique that the girl had studied seemed to be good enough, it was obvious that she had not practiced it well. All of the strength of her blow was focused on the tip of her whip, allowing him to easily disperse the attack. If he had tried this method with any of the whip users in his past life, the whip would have slid around his sword, and then gone right through his heart.
Suddenly Bai Yun grinned. He cast wind motion, and dodged the whip instantly. At the same time, he swung his sword behind him, striking the shadow leopard that had appeared behind him to sneak attack him when he was busy fighting the girl. Even though it knew that it would be pointless to attack him, it could not leave him due to the anger it felt as it was wounded by him.
The beast was send flying once again, gaining a small cut in the process. It quickly hid itself to initiate its next attack. The beast then went to attack the little girl next. After what happened with Bai Yun she was prepared for the sudden attack, and quickly protected herself. Bai Yun used the gap in her attacks to approach the leopard, and attacked it along the little girl. Seeing the disadvantageous situation, the leopard ran. Bai Yun then turned his attention back to the little girl, who was quickly struggling to keep him at bay. Thankfully the leopard continued its attacks on Bai Yun, allowing her some chance to pause and get back the initiative.
For a while, the three maintained this balance, with all three of them attacking each other. But Bai Yun knew that he could not let the fight continue. Even though he was using as little qi as he could, he was still running out. A determined look flashed through his eyes. As he waited, the shadow leopard once again pounced at him from behind. "Go kitty." The little girl cheered it on.
Bai Yun waited longer than he usually did. The beast had gotten too close. He then suddenly turned, ignoring the whip that was approaching him and fell backwards to the ground. A sharp pain shot through him, as he felt the whip graze his shoulder. He had turned too late, and now there was a long cut on his shoulder. It wasn't a deep cut, and wouldn't hurt his range of motion, but would hurt quite badly nonetheless.
Bai Yun thrust the sword at the beast's neck. The beast was airborne and had no way to dodge the attack. A look of fear entered its eyes as it realized its impending death.
As they watched the sword get closer to the leopard's neck, a white light suddenly covered the beast. In a second it was teleported out of the testing grounds by the examiners. For a moment the couple left behind was stunned. They had not heard about the beasts being saved. Bai Yun then stood up with a chuckle.
"What the hell! Why did they save the kitty?" The little girl was stunned by the development and had forgotten to continue her attack.
"Of course they would save the beast. Its a Shadow leopard. There is no way the Hunter Union are rich enough to simply let a Shadow Leopard that could reach the immortal step die." Bai Yun said while applying some medicine to his shoulder . The Shadow Leopard was a beast that could reach the Immortal step. Not only would the Huter Union gain a lot by raising the beast before killing it for its various materials. It would also be possible to tame it and get a powerful guardian beast. In a plane where the strongest was only the Dao step, such a beast was extremely powerful. Even the Lava Spiders that had appeared in the Bai Caln would have been long caught by the clan by now.
At the same time Bai Yun was wondering if there was a curse on him. Not only had he met the Shadow Leopard and Lava Spiders by now, he even met an even more terrifying Grey Rock Python. In a low level plane it seemed to be insanely unlikely to meet all of these beats in a short time.
"What! That was a magical beast! Wow we won against a magical beast!" The little girl seemed to be stunned.
Magical Beast was the term given for demonic beasts that had gained enlightenment and gained true intelligence and could communicate with other races. Since all demonic beasts would undergo enlightenment when it reached immortal step, they would all be considered as magical beasts. Thus it was said that the true rulers of the demonic beats race were the magical beasts.
It did not mean that every magical beast was of the immortal step. There were four classes of beast that could be called magical beasts.
At the highest class were the beasts that were of a god race, like the dragons and phoenixes. Such beasts were born enlightened and was considered as magical beasts the moment they were born.
The next class were the beasts with a trace of gods bloodline, like the grey rock python. Such beasts would undergo enlightenment when they reached the soul stage. The third class of beasts were called gods descendants and would undergo enlightenment when they reached the Dao step. The final class consisted of beast like the shadow leopards and lava spiders that could reach the immortal step. Each class was significantly stronger than the class below it, and had a higher chance of reaching the immortal step.
Also this did not mean that all the beasts of that race could reach the immortal step. This only meant that the beast of these races could reach the immortal step without any external aid. For beasts of other races, unless one was born as a variant, they would need some heaven changing opportunity to change their bloodline to reach the immortal step.
"Wow I defeated a magical beast. I am awesome!" The little girl yelled while spinning around.
Bai Yun sighed while looking at the clearly brain damaged girl. "It's not a magical beast. It only had the potential to be one. If it was a magical beast we would be long dead by now."
Bai Yun wasn't exaggerating. It if was a magical beast at the qi step, it would have to be a god race. Even with his powerful techniques, he had no way to match a god race beast. His powers were only about that of a gods descendant. He might be able to match a beast with a trace of gods bloodline at the same rank thanks to his incredible fighting experience as well as god level battle techniques. The only reason he was able to kill the grey rock python was because it was simply playing around at first and then it lost its reason after it was injured.
Bai Yun looked at the girl. The test was not over. He was tired after the long fight, and his qi reserves were running low. He had to either run or defeat this girl quickly in order to advance.
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