Around him, Primordial Cloud-Swallowing Spiders erupted madly from the earth. The entire land resembled an ocean ravaged by a force-twelve typhoon.
Yet he stood quietly atop the Primordial Spider King's head, gazing into the distance. Not the slightest wave of turmoil reached him.
"Beast-Taming Art!" River Origin Fairy said. "He did control the Primordial Spider King after all. I sensed some connection between his life and the Primordial Spider King's."
Mei Jiu clapped his hands in admiration. "Wonderful! Aren't Primordial Cloud-Swallowing Spiders, born of chaos, deathless and indestructible? Then don't kill them-control their king instead! This young fellow really has given me a few surprises! Little Zi Xia, still feeling proud?"
Zi Xia's gaze remained cold and aloof. "It's only the Beast-Taming Art. What's so impressive about that? The next trial is almost upon him, and this one isn't something he can pass with clever tricks."
In her book, the Beast-Taming Art was nothing more than an ingenious parlor trick.
And the next trial was not one such tricks could overcome, because it involved Primordial Earth Scorpions.
Earth Scorpions were not products of the Heavenly Dao. They belonged to the Earthly Dao.
The Beast-Taming Art was ultimately a Heavenly Dao cultivation art. It could control Heavenly Dao beasts, but not those of the Earthly Dao. The Earthly Dao acknowledged no Heavenly Dao control-only ancestry.
Could this brat carry the bloodline of the Primordial Earth Scorpions' ancient ancestor?
If he did, he could control them. If not, he could only rely on genuine ability!
With a thunderous boom, the mountains and rivers ahead heaved.
The entire world became a sea of bizarre scorpions.
Countless strange scorpions, each as large as an enormous house and ferocious beyond measure, turned the solid earth into a surging black ocean. Even the chaos-founded Unending Prison