Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 178: Chapter 122: The Night-Cutting Spider’s Scheme

Even if the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon’s Soul Strength is higher than its target’s, it must still satisfy two conditions to control the target using its Exclusive Trait, Moon Gaze Lock.

The first is a basic condition: the target must expose its Soul Core to the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

The second condition is that it takes time for the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon to control the target’s Soul Core, so it must be ensured that the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon is not killed in the process.

To complete the Contract, both of these conditions are indispensable!

The Exclusive Trait that the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon obtained upon advancing to Silver Quality, Heavy Eyes Replacement, is a utility-type Ability.

However, activating this function requires sacrificing a Moon Eyes Flower that has blossomed from the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

For other Deceit Holders, this would be completely intolerable.

Deceit Holders treasure the Moon Eyes Flowers from a Moon Eyes Bellflower more than their own lives.

But for Zhong Yi, as the Soul-Controlling Flower continuously absorbs Soul Energy, the number of Moon Eyes Flowers blooming on the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon’s skirt will only increase.

This is because the Soul Power of the Soul-Controlling Flower increases as it constantly absorbs the souls of other living beings.

This means the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon can indeed afford to sacrifice its blossomed Moon Eyes Flowers like consumables.

However, the cost of using the Exclusive Trait, Heavy Eyes Replacement, is still a bit too high each time.

Because in addition to sacrificing a Moon Eyes Flower, it also requires using an empty Moon Eye to swap positions with another Moon Eye that has a Bizarre under Contract.

All a Bizarre controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon needs to do is carry an empty Moon Eyes Flower when it goes out.

When the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon uses Heavy Eyes Replacement, the empty Moon Eye will absorb the Bizarre controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

Then, it will swap positions with a blank Moon Eye on the skirt.

This effectively provides the Bizarre controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon with a special escape method.

Besides serving as a means of escape, the Exclusive Trait, Heavy Eyes Replacement, can also be used as a form of support.

In a disadvantageous battle, by consuming empty Moon Eyes Flowers, other Bizarre controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon can be swapped onto the battlefield for immediate support.

However, sacrificing a blossomed Moon Eyes Flower just for support is a bit of a waste.

Whether it was the Exclusive Trait Moon Gaze Lock or Heavy Eyes Replacement, Zhong Yi considered them both to be amazing Abilities.

Forming a Contract with the Moon Eyes Bellflower using the Soul Taming Seed had prompted its Evolution into the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

For Zhong Yi, this was an absolutely wonderful surprise.

Zhong Yi returned the bouquet he had just received from the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

Every single flower in this bouquet was a blossomed Moon Eyes Flower.

Zhong Yi was afraid he might accidentally damage one of the Moon Eyes Flowers on it.

Zhong Yi earnestly warned the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon to never again give these blossomed Moon Eyes Flowers away as gifts.

Although the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon, this little one, seemed shy and didn’t talk much, as a Demon Spirit Element Guardian Beast that had awakened a Fairy Bloodline, its intelligence was extremely high—perhaps even higher than an adult human’s.

”From now on, I’ll call you Lan Yue. I’ll raise your strength as quickly as I can.”

Because almost all of Zhong Yi’s Guardian Beasts were contracted using the Soul Taming Seed, even if he focused on raising the strength of a single Guardian Beast, it wouldn’t affect his ability to explore Secret Realms.

The Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon followed a path of simultaneously controlling High Tier Bizarre and cultivating Low Tier Bizarre, with the main focus being on a Bizarre’s potential.

High Tier Bizarre like the ones controlled by the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon obviously couldn’t enter Low Tier Secret Realms.

Therefore, Zhong Yi had no need to restrict the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon’s Tier.

After deciding on the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon’s name, Zhong Yi recalled Lan Yue directly into his Soul Base.

Zhong Yi knew that Wen Tao and Lin Zhuo would be arriving soon, and in a little while, he would help heal the damaged Origin of Wen Tao’s Order Beast.

Zhong Yi felt a bit uncertain, because he had never before treated an injury caused by Rule Authority.

He would tell Lin Zhuo and Wen Tao the news that he had formed a Contract with a Moon Eyes Bellflower.

But he would not reveal the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon to anyone else, because its very existence defied all common sense.

As a Healing-type Celestial Destiny Seeker, Zhong Yi already attracted a lot of unwanted attention.

He didn’t want to draw even more attention to himself because of the Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon.

A Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon, evolved from a Moon Eyes Bellflower that had produced over a hundred Moon Eyes Flowers, was, in a sense, worth as much as a dozen or more Deceit Holders who possessed a Deceitful Moon Badge.

The existence of a Hundred-Eyed Moon Demon was even more conspicuous than a Celestial Destiny Seeker themselves.

Zhong Yi was already receiving the most resources poured into the younger generation of the Xin Xia Federation.

Throughout the entire Xin Xia Federation, he was the only Celestial Destiny Seeker with a potential rating of SSS Level.

Under these circumstances, there was no need for Zhong Yi to draw even more attention to his Talents.

Zhong Yi had just reached the bottom of the stairs when he saw Lin Zhuo, Wen Tao, Zhong Chenghuai, and Xu Anjun stepping through the main door of the residence.

Zhong Yi was already very familiar with Wen Tao and Lin Zhuo, and Zhong Ling and Shen Xuan had also met the pair before.

Zhao Kai had pulled an all-nighter and gone to catch up on sleep around five or six in the morning; as usual, he wouldn’t be having breakfast.

Zhong Yi didn’t deliberately wake Zhao Kai just because Lin Zhuo and Wen Tao had come over.

Upon seeing Zhong Yi and Shen Xuan, Xu Anjun didn’t act overly reserved. As the Deputy of a Celestial Destiny Seeker, Xu Anjun had seen her share of big shots.

Xu Anjun had known Zhong Yi’s attitude towards her ever since they first met.