This ghost mist consumed all my essence energy, and it was still constantly draining more as I used it to drive the Ghost Staff and replenish the mist. The Eight-Tribulation Desolate Beast Toad was simply too formidable. After it stopped casually using its area-of-effect poisonous mist and switched to ordinary attacks against the Purple Ghosts, I still didn't dare let my guard down even though I was standing outside its attack range. I was beginning to feel caught between a rock and a hard place.
"Looks like this desolate beast has some intelligence after all," Li Guxian suddenly said.
I watched gloomily as the poisonous toad rampaged around, wrecking everything in sight while chasing the Purple Ghosts all over the place and blasting them. My face was deathly pale. "This thing has skin as tough as leather and flesh as thick as a wall. I think we'll have to retreat this time."
"Heh heh, not necessarily. I rather like such a huge fellow. Let's hold on a little longer and see if we can bring it home," Li Guxian suggested. I was rendered utterly speechless and said, "Do you think it's a stray puppy? You wave your hand and tell it there's food, and it follows you home?"
Li Guxian laughed in my heart. "How will we know if we don't try? In my memories... there are vague fragments of often capturing large primordial beasts in the Ancient Immortal Realm and raising them. But I've never tried catching a toad this huge and powerful. If we bring this poisonous toad home, it would make an excellent guard dog."
I stared at her, dumbfounded for quite a while. "My first meridian is about to be drained dry. Are you sure this thing can really be subdued?"
"That's hard to say. If