"???"
Tian Meng abruptly raised her head and looked at Jiang Yi in astonishment.
How did he know?
And when she had been captured, she had only possessed over nine hundred thousand years of cultivation. Back then, she was still called the Golden-Patterned Ice Silkworm.
She had only taken the name Tian Meng after breaking through to a million years.
"Are you one of theirs?"
Tian Meng's gaze sharpened as she warily looked at the young man before her.
No wonder this kid, despite being so weak, had been able to pull out that strange thing and catch her off guard.
If he was one of Di Tian's people, then it made much more sense...
That fellow called himself the Beast God. He had lived far longer than she had, and his strength was utterly terrifying.
Her cultivation exceeded her combat power, while Di Tian was the opposite. His combat power far surpassed his cultivation, and his cultivation was not low to begin with.
In the Far North, perhaps only the Snow Empress could fight him, and that was only with the advantage of the terrain.
"You mean Di Tian? Of course not... Why would the dignified Beast God have anything to do with a human like me?"
Jiang Yi chuckled, seeing right through Tian Meng's thoughts.
He had deliberately put it bluntly to add another layer of mystery to himself in Tian Meng's eyes.
The Master Ball could only trap Tian Meng. If he wanted to form a contract with her, Tian Meng still had to be willing.
"Don't be nervous!"
Seeing her wary expression, Jiang Yi blinked and revealed what he thought was a friendly smile, looking like some creepy old man trying to lure away a little girl.
Although Tian Meng had lived for tens of thousands of years, with her lifestyle of eating when she woke and sleeping after she ate, her life experience might not even compare to his.
"We're not enemies!"
After saying that, he bent down and reached out to pat little Tian Meng's head.
Tian Meng instinctively tried to dodge, but that hand landed squarely on top of her head anyway.
The gentle caress carried a kind of tenderness she had never experienced before... tenderness?
Tian Meng subconsciously narrowed her eyes, but then recoiled as if she had been scalded, retreating two steps with a flushed face.
"Don't, don't touch me! Who gave you permission to touch me?!"
"And—how can you touch me?"
Little Tian Meng pulled a stern face and bared her teeth at him, looking exactly like a roaring little tyrannosaur.
"This is my Martial Soul space! Naturally, I'm in charge!"
Jiang Yi smiled, finding the little girl's reaction extremely amusing.
If he were not afraid of being suppressed by the Heavenly Dao, he would have wanted to try other methods of subduing her... like Peerless Tang Sect: The Legend of Jiang the Madman?
"What exactly do you want?"
Tian Meng pouted and disdainfully glanced at Jiang Yi's salty hand as it reached toward her again. But she could not resist, so she could only pretend not to see it.
Still, it did feel rather comfortable...
Pah, pah, pah!
Tian Meng lightly spat in her heart and pulled her thoughts back.
This human did not seem to be one of Di Tian's people. Otherwise, she would have been sent back to the Lake of Life long ago.
"I want you to be my pet!"
Jiang Yi said with a grin.
Tian Meng froze for a moment, then immediately turned her head away and refused righteously.
"Impossible!"
She proudly raised her chin and shot Jiang Yi a sidelong glance.
"Even if I, Tian Meng, get captured by Di Tian and drained dry, even if Bing'er stomps me to death... I will never become someone else's pet!"
She was a dignified million-year Soul Beast, the first million-year Soul Beast in the history of Douluo Continent.
Did she not have any pride?!
Jiang Yi glanced at her and reminded her leisurely,
"Haven't you noticed that your life force is no longer fading away?"
"Huh???"
Tian Meng raised her brows, only then belatedly realizing something was wrong.
She lowered her head to look at her little hands, then touched her little face.
Within this mysterious space, the life decay brought about by the heavenly punishment she had suffered had actually stopped.
Breaking through to a million years of cultivation had been a double-edged sword for her. While it allowed her to escape Di Tian's imprisonment, the heavenly punishment had descended, and her lifespan had begun to run dry.
That was also why she had always wanted to attempt "creating a god."
It was just that her cultivation had been sealed, weakening her perception of herself considerably. Only after Jiang Yi's reminder did she realize that the heavenly punishment had disappeared.
Moreover, she did not even need to abandon her physical body. This was far more useful than a Wisdom Soul Ring.
At that thought, Tian Meng's eyes cleared.
She raised her head and, for the first time, seriously examined the human youth before her.
He looked less than thirteen years old, and his strength was pitifully weak. At her peak, she could have slapped ten thousand... a hundred of him to death.
Yet this very person had captured her with that strange ball.
Should she become his pet?
But I'm a noble million-year Soul Beast! How can I be so spineless?
But... I wouldn't have to die...
And this human did not seem all that annoying either...
Tian Meng blinked, raised her head, and looked at Jiang Yi again. Somehow, his figure seemed a little more towering now.
Then... perhaps she could reluctantly agree?
"M-Master..."
Her voice was as soft as a mosquito's hum. Her face had turned bright red, and her fingers twisted together in front of her.
"Xiao Meng has finally found you..."
After saying that, her whole body seemed to have been drained of strength. She crouched down and buried her face in her knees.
Aaaahhh!
Outside.
A strand of azure light overflowed from the Master Ball and wound around Jiang Yi's fingertips.
"Mmm~"
Jiang Yi only felt a cool sensation between his brows. An azure pattern appeared on his forehead, resembling an Ice Silkworm spreading its wings.
At the same time, a purple soul ring rose beneath his feet and slowly revolved around him. The bottleneck at level twenty shattered with a bang.
His Soul Power began to surge wildly—
Level twenty-one, level twenty-two, level twenty-three... level twenty-eight!
Only after rising a full eight levels of Soul Power did Jiang Yi's aura gradually settle and return to calm.
"Whew! Success!"
Jiang Yi slowly exhaled a breath of stale air, a divine glint flashing through his eyes.
One Master Ball condensed from each soul ring. Only when he formed a contract with a pet would it count as being completely subdued by him.
After Tian Meng submitted, he finally condensed his second soul ring and rose eight levels of Soul Power in one stroke.
"So? Aren't I amazing?"
A flash of blue light appeared on Jiang Yi's shoulder, and a chubby silkworm larva appeared out of thin air, her voice unable to hide her pride.
She was roughly the size of a palm, golden and white all over, with two soft antennae on her head twitching back and forth.
"Hehe..."
Jiang Yi chuckled without replying, merely looking at the two soul rings on his body with satisfaction.
One yellow and one purple!
The talent attribute Tian Meng shared with him was spiritual power. The enhancement to his physical body was not great, so a three-thousand-year soul ring was already the limit.
"You're way too weak! You can't show off my strength at all!"
Tian Meng cast a rather disdainful glance at the purple soul ring.
To keep from bursting Jiang Yi apart, she had to seal her own origin power. That constrained feeling was not pleasant at all.
"Take it slow! No rush!"
Jiang Yi did not mind.
As long as his pets grew stronger, the age of his soul rings would automatically increase as well.
For example, his first soul ring had already risen from one hundred years to eight hundred years as the Gale Thunder Falcon's cultivation increased.
"Fine, then!"
Tian Meng muttered, though inwardly she was secretly delighted.
This outcome was far better than what she had previously deduced on her own.
This guy's Martial Soul truly was miraculous, as though it had been born specifically to subdue Soul Beasts.
"Tian Meng."
Jiang Yi suddenly said seriously.
"W-what?"
Tian Meng came back to her senses and looked at Jiang Yi, inexplicably feeling a little nervous.
Jiang Yi said nothing. He simply reached out, grabbed Tian Meng from his shoulder, and refined her in one motion.
"Hey, hey, hey! You could've warned me first—"
Before Tian Meng could finish speaking, she had already merged into Jiang Yi's body. In an instant, azure radiance blossomed, and the mark between his brows lit up once more.
It was a golden silkworm pattern!
Because of the special nature of his Martial Soul, Jiang Yi's soul rings were Master Balls and did not directly grant him soul skills.
If he wanted to share his pets' soul skills, he had to continuously increase the intimacy between them.
His intimacy with the Gale Thunder Falcon was as high as eighty-nine. Not only could he use all of its soul skills, he could even let the Gale Thunder Falcon share its body with him.
After possession, he could obtain all of the Soul Beast's attributes, including its physical body and vital energy. Combined with his own Soul Power, the effect of one plus one could exceed two.
Of course, that was only possible with high intimacy.
By Jiang Yi's estimation, the boost brought by Soul Beast possession should not be inferior to certain Martial Soul Fusion Skills.
Tian Meng, however, had only just been subdued by him, so their intimacy was somewhat low. For now, she only shared one soul skill with him.
Spirit Detection!
With a thought from Jiang Yi, his viewpoint continued rising until everything within a thousand meters entered his sight.
Everything around him was presented in his mind with incomparable clarity:
Bei Bei, still grilling fish; the little deer in the forest; and Tang Ya and Huo Yutong bathing in the stream...
Ahem!
Jiang Yi gave them two critical looks. After confirming that Tang Ya was not bullying Huo Yutong, he nodded in relief.
"Not bad! Tian Meng, this soul skill of yours has great potential!"
Jiang Yi sincerely praised her.
Spirit Detection was wonderful. With Tian Meng's spiritual power bolstering it, those below the level of a Title Douluo would basically be unable to notice it.
"Pervert!"
Tian Meng's disdainful voice sounded in Jiang Yi's heart. Since the two had fused, their senses were naturally shared as well.
Using my soul skill for something like this...
This was great.
I love watching too, hehe!!!
Back in the Far North, she often critically observed Bing'er and Xue'er as well, only to get discovered by accident.
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