Chapter 7: Contract Failure, Searching Again
A day later, at the Core Circle of the Star Dou Great Forest, about forty Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears ranging from a hundred to a thousand years of cultivation stood neatly in a row.
Under Xiong Jun's command, they all stood there properly. After getting these Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears to line up, Xiong Jun looked at Di Tian and pressed for an answer:
"Di Tian, can you tell me the reason now? As the patriarch of the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear clan, I have the right to know."
Hearing this, Di Tian knew that Xiong Jun would find out the reason in a moment anyway, so he offered an explanation:
"I made a deal with the human who contracted the Auspicious Beast. The other party helped me find the missing Gold of Life, and the item of trade was one of your clansmen."
Upon hearing the explanation, Xiong Jun widened his bear eyes in an instant, as if he had heard something utterly unbelievable.
Soon, after recovering his wits, he flew into a sudden rage and roared at Di Tian:
"Di Tian! What right do you have to use my clansman as a bargaining chip for a trade!"
"I don't need you to point fingers at how I do things!"
Seeing Xiong Jun question him, Di Tian stood on no ceremony. His own mighty pressure slammed down onto the other party. Xiong Jun only felt his whole body grow heavy, and even his breathing turned much more labored, yet he still gritted his teeth and said:
"Di Tian! You actually use a clansman's life to trade with a despicable human! Aren't you afraid the other party will break their promise!"
Seeing this, Di Tian showed no mercy, swatting Xiong Jun away with a single dragon claw. The eighty-meter-tall, mountain-like figure flew heavily backward, crashing deep into the forest.
"Hmph! All you need to do is obey orders; you don't need to have other thoughts."
Di Tian pulled back his dragon claw and let out a cold huff. Xiong Jun had talked back to him again and again-did he really think he had no temper? In the distance, Xiong Jun looked at Di Tian with a ferocious expression and roared:
"Di Tian! You will regret this!"
Hearing these words, Di Tian felt as though his DNA had been triggered, and he replied:
"Xiong Jun, I am the Beast God!"
Bi Ji and Di Qiu'er watched the show from the side. Soon, Xiong Jun walked slowly back, sporting a swollen, battered bear face.
"Auspicious Beast, have that human come over for the trade."
Di Tian looked at Di Qiu'er, signaling that she could call that human over. Hearing this, she hurriedly nodded.
"Su Miu, the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears have gathered. You can come and choose your next Summoned Beast."
Hearing the message, Su Miu also raised his hand to cast Dimensional Summon magic, following his connection with Di Qiu'er to arrive in this plane.
Under the gazes of Di Tian and Bi Ji, a profound array appeared, and the next second, an illusory human figure materialized.
It seemed that only spiritual power at the Spirit Domain Realm could perceive his figure, and this was also Di Tian's first formal meeting with him.
"Greetings, Beast God."
Su Miu offered a salute. Since the other party was an immensely powerful senior, he naturally had to show the appropriate respect. Di Tian raised his eyes to sweep a glance over him.
This seemed to be merely a wisp of the other party's split consciousness. If he killed it, it would only harm the other party's spirit and could not truly kill him.
He pondered in his heart how miraculous the power of that world truly was, being able to cross a living plane to arrive here.
"Human, this seat has also found the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bears for you according to your request."
Di Tian's emotionless voice rang out. From Su Miu's perspective, Di Tian's various pieces of information popped up.
[Golden-Eyed Black Dragon King] "Di Tian" Realm: 830,000 years / Advanced-Stage Commander Level Attribute: Darkness, Space, Fire Potential: 8 Innate Talent: Innate Spirit Seed (Black Flame), Shadow Element mutated Star Seed, Innate Dark Matter (similar to Innate Spirit Seed, just comes with its own dark matter)
"Alright, thank you very much, Senior Beast God."
Su Miu replied, also catching sight of the huge Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear nearby, along with a woman with emerald-green hair and goose feathers adorning her body.
"Su Miu, this is Uncle Di Tian, this is Aunt Bi Ji, and then this is Uncle Xiong Jun."
Di Qiu'er introduced the various Ferocious Beasts to him. Bi Ji was kind-natured by birth and gave a slight nod in response.
"Hello, Senior Bi Ji, Senior Xiong Jun."
He answered them one by one, and at the same time, their information popped up as well.
[Emerald Swan] "Bi Ji" Realm: 580,000 years / Great Commander Level Attribute: Life, Space (mastering the power of space counts too) Potential: 8 Innate Talent: Mutated Healing Element Star Seed, Multi-tasking [Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear] "Xiong Jun" Realm: 440,000 years / Great Commander Level Attribute: Gold
Potential:7
Innate Talent:twenty percent damage reduction,thirty percent defense increase.
Then Sumiao looked at the remaining Dark Gold Direclaws, their potential was basically above five, the highest being seven just like Xiong Jun's, and he soon took a fancy to a Dark Gold Direclaw.
[Dark Gold Direclaw]
Realm:Five Hundred Years/Servant-grade.
Attribute:Gold.
Potential:7
Innate Talent:twenty percent damage reduction,thirty percent control resistance increase,twenty percent defense increase. ```
"This is the one"
Sumiao pointed to the one with the best talent among the group of Dark Gold Direclaws and said. Hearing this, Ditian nodded slightly, and with a dragon roar, the rest of the Dark Gold Direclaws scattered and fled in all directions, leaving only the selected Dark Gold Direclaw standing in place.
Xiong Jun gave the Dark Gold Direclaw a fierce look, and Sumiao directly condensed the contract imprint.
A moment later, the brand flew towards that Dark Gold Direclaw. The moment the brand appeared, that Dark Gold Direclaw also saw it, and a bloodthirsty light flashed in its eyes.
In an instant, a creepy feeling swept over its whole body, and Sumiao immediately divided his mind to condense the star trail.
"Roar!"
The next second, with an angry bear roar, that hundred-year-old Dark Gold Direclaw swung its sharp claws fiercely.
Five dark golden claw blades struck fiercely. Fortunately, he was prepared; after all, in the original work, when Huo Yuhao was talking about cooperation with them, Xiong Jun had an example of letting soul beasts attack him.
"恐惧之霾•寒!"
The ominous power struck first, and goosebumps instantly broke out all over that Dark Gold Direclaw's body, the direction of the dark gold direclaw also deviated slightly, and Sumiao narrowly dodged it.
Swipe!
The claw light of the Darkgold Terrorclaw fell on a nearby giant tree, instantly cutting it into several pieces.
Boom!
The great tree crashed down, and Lord Bear suddenly surged into action. Just moments ago, he had sensed the source of an ominous power and violently charged toward the source.
"Prepare to die, humans!"
Xiong Jun let out an angry roar, and the Dark Gold Dreadclaw attacked once again. This time, the attack was simply incomparable to that of the hundred-year-old Dark Gold Dreadclaw Bear.
But just in the next second, a pitch-black dragon claw reached out, and grabbed the unimaginably huge Lord Bear in one fell swoop.
"Lord Bear! Are you courting death?!"
Di Tian's angry voice came, and Xiong Jun said relentlessly:
"Di Tian! Could it be that you really want to cooperate with despicable humans?! Even if I die, I will never cooperate with humans! The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear would rather die than submit!"
Hearing this, the dragon claw holding Xiong Jun suddenly exerted force, the tooth-aching cracking sound of bones kept ringing out, and the painful screams kept coming.
"Lord Xiong, my patience with you has its limits. This is not a reason for you to defy me again and again."
A large amount of fresh blood sprayed out, and the bones of Xiong Jun's body were squeezed and collapsed quite a bit.
Feeling Di Tian's murderous intent, he only felt his hair stand on end, and immediately miserably admitted his mistake.
Di Tian...I was wrong,I will never dare do it again...
Su Miu on the side let out a breath, it really wasn't that smooth after all, the Dark Gold Direclaw Bear was indeed as brutal and disobedient as in the original work, if one wanted to tame it, it was estimated that her current self completely had no way.
Sumiao!
At this moment, Di Qiuer reacted, suddenly burst into action, and used the Golden Dragon Spear to pierce and explode the head of that hundred-year-old Dark Gold Direclaw Bear.
"Sumu, are you okay?"
Di Qiu'er came up to him with concern, she didn't expect that under the circumstances where she, Di Tian and Bi Ji were present, this Dark Gold Direclaw Bear would dare to attack her friend, it must die!
"I'm fine"
Sumiao shook her head to indicate that she was fine, and then looked in the direction of Lord Xiong. It is said that in the Star Dou Great Forest, the fierce beast that hates humans the most is Lord Xiong, which is indeed well-deserved.
"Humph!"
As Di Tian let out a cold snort, Xiong Jun was instantly sent flying like a cannonball, collapsing countless giant trees and smashing into a small hill.
"Humans, this time it was my subordinate under my watch who disobeyed orders, I'll help you find another Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear."
Di Tian said that he would help him find another Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bear, because after all this was the content of the transaction between him and the other party, having said that he would help him make a move once naturally he would not give up halfway.
"...Senior Beast God, let me catch my breath... The Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear has a cruel and murderous temperament, perhaps it is not an object that someone at my stage can tame, please allow me to go back and think about another target..."
Sumiao knew this was Xiong Jun's personal behavior, but what he said was also the truth. As a mere novice of the first-order secondary level, he was probably unable to tame this bloodthirsty, ferocious Dark Gold Direclaw Bear that had been famous for a long time, so he would probably have to look for other targets.
"In that case, if you have found your target, you can have the auspicious beast come find me, our transaction remains valid."
Di Tian nodded slightly, knowing that the scene just now must have frightened the other party, and it was normal for this human to need a moment to recover.
Dark-Gold Terrorclaw Bears are extremely difficult to tame, and this human is too weak, the difficulty of trying to tame one is extremely high, and wanting to choose other targets is also normal.
Just like that, Su Miu's second attempt to choose a summoned beast target ended in failure; this failure shattered his various fantasies, and reality is reality after all.
A mere rookie like him could cheat the Lucky Cat out of all its luck. After all, that Auspicious Beast was just a silly golden retriever, the easiest kind to fool.
Other soul beasts that were naturally hostile to humans were not so easily fooled, and encountering the Auspicious Beast in the first place had been a matter of luck.
Besides, to think he had actually wanted to contract a Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear as his first summoned beast back then? It was truly naive.
He laughed self-deprecatingly; he was not the protagonist, so failure was only normal.
"Su Miu, Su Miu! Are you alright?"
Di Qiu'er's voice rang in his mind as she checked on his condition. Seeing this, he raised his hand, and in a mere half-second, seven star seeds instantly transformed into a star orbit, bringing forth the gate of the dimensional summon.
A golden figure immediately stepped out and came before him. Seeing that he was unhurt, Di Qiu'er finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"It's good that you're okay, Su Miu. I didn't expect that Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear to attack so suddenly. How about next time you go for a contract, I beat that Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear half to death first and then let you make the contract?"
Thinking of today's mishap, Di Qiu'er directly proposed that they could beat the target half to death next time before letting him contract it.
"Mm... That's a good suggestion, but my strength is still too weak right now. Let's put the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear on the back burner for now, and see if there are any other targets I can contract this time."
"If there's nothing that catches my eye, I can only wait for the next time."
This time, he was prepared to try a random dimensional summon to see if he could encounter a soul beast to his liking. If not, then so be it; waiting until the third level of the intermediate level or even the intermediate level to find one would also work.
He would only contract entities with high potential values and would never make up the numbers with substandard ones. If he couldn't find any... honestly, relying solely on Di Qiu'er alone would allow him to be invincible among peers, and he could search again later.
His targets were only those few famous soul beasts, such as the Dark Gold Terrorclaw Bear, the Ice Jade Scorpion, the Heavenly Snow Woman, and the like.
Of course, the Deep Sea Demon Whale would do as well. After all, the strength of this thing was plain for all to see, and the fact that this race produced two individuals with cultivation infinitely close to a million years was enough to prove the strength of this species.
"Alright, then remember to look for me when you need to find a contract beast next time. I'll help you pick one."
Di Qiu'er did not press the matter, but what happened today was indeed quite upsetting. To think that Uncle Xiong Jun had actually made a move against Su Miu, she decided she would ignore the other party for ten thousand years.
With that, Su Miu rested for a day, and the next day he initiated a random summon. As the seven star seeds connected into a star orbit, his consciousness was once again pulled into the summoning plane.
When his consciousness woke up once more, intense slapping sounds echoed around him, resembling the sound of ocean waves crashing against reefs.
Su Miu opened his eyes, and what met his gaze was the boundless ocean. Looking as far as the eye could see, there was no land for a thousand miles-aside from seawater, there was only more seawater.
"Is this the ocean plane this time? Finding a water-element summoned beast isn't bad either. Later on, when the demon beasts living in the ocean attack Magic City, it will be much easier for me if I have a marine creature."
He muttered to himself and immediately dove into the ocean to search, prompting a large volume of information panels to pop out.
There were sea lions, sea horses, piranhas, tunas, octopuses, and more, but the potential values of these creatures none exceeded five points, so he directly ignored them until he saw a familiar sight.
[Evil Spirit Orca] Realm: Millennium / Great Servant Level Attribute: Water Potential: 5 Innate Talent: None
"Holy crap! Douluo is still chasing after me!"
Su Miu was instantly alarmed. He hadn't expected this place to still be the Douluo Continent; all this time and he still hadn't run out of the Douluo Continent.
Just then, however, several panels popped up from a distance, drawing his attention.
[Evil Orca King] Realm: Hundred-Thousand-Year / Sub-Commander Attribute: Water Potential: 6 Innate Talent: Water-element magic damage increased by ten percent.
[Demon Soul Great White Shark] "White Bubbles" Realm: Fifty-Thousand-Year / Great General Attribute: Water, Ice Potential: 7 Innate Talent: Innate dual element, mutated water-ice star seeds, multi-tasking. Special Attribute, Fortune: A+
Looking at this panel, he was somewhat surprised. This seemed to be that Demon Soul Great White Shark who was exceptionally skilled at escaping, and also the female protagonist from two decades later, which explained why her fortune attribute was so high.
Wielding such... she was swimming toward his side... could it be that the power of fortune was at play here?
Su Miu watched the little shark swimming straight toward him, the corner of his eye twitching. He always felt as though the power of fortune was influencing him in the dark, making him run into this lucky little shark.
PS: The second update for June 15th, accumulating 8,000 characters.
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