A voice echoed eerily beside their ears.
Their body hair instantly stood on end.
They grew wary.
Their bodies rapidly retreated several meters.
Awooo!
Whimper, whimper!
Their Phantom Beasts also let out low warning growls.
They assumed battle-ready and alert stances.
They watched the newcomers.
"360" When Lan Guotong and Zhang Bing clearly saw who had spoken.
They were instantly shocked once again!
"Skeleton General!"
"Wait, is that an Azure Flame Golden-Eyed Beast?"
Lan Guotong and Zhang Bing both widened their eyes.
They saw two tiny figures emerge from the grass not far away.
One of them was a tiny skeleton,
Purple-red Soulfire flickered within its eye sockets.
The other figure was a tiny cyan beast.
Undead General.
That was a Diamond Grade Phantom Beast.
Although it had transformed into a miniature form,
as Beast Tamers who had already reached King Grade,
Lan Guotong and Zhang Bing's eyesight was naturally not so poor.
They recognized it as the Skeleton General at a glance.
What shocked them was not this Skeleton General, but its grade.
King Grade!
This was actually a King Grade Skeleton General.
Some Phantom Beasts were born at a certain grade.
They remained at that grade.
Only by encountering some fortuitous opportunities and obtaining rare, precious resources
could they break through their original starting grade.
Or undergo evolution.
Transforming into even more powerful creatures.
Only then could they improve themselves.
Once Phantom Beasts reached Diamond Grade,
the difficulty of improving further was unimaginable.
After reaching Diamond Grade,
wild Phantom Beasts wishing to raise their grade
would probably need to spend a year—or even several years or decades—on every level.
And wanting to break through to King Grade
was even more inconceivable.
It was not something that could be achieved simply by accumulating energy.
"This is actually a King