After passing the second test, Xue Qiuling remained calm and suppressed her murderous aura.
But for some reason, she glanced at the sky, as if trying to see someone through the screen.
Jiang Ziliu's intuition told her that she was looking at herself.
Jiang Ziliu couldn't help but wonder what he had done in her inner demon illusion that made her still so concerned about her even after she realized it was all an illusion, as if he had committed some deep-seated grudge against her.
Fortunately, the third challenge then truly began.
The third challenge is nothing special; it simply involves these prodigies from various races across the universe battling each other in pairs.
Only the top ten who pass the final stage can join the ten already confirmed spots from the Milky Way Beast Taming Academy to enjoy this opportunity to advance to the Planetary-Rank God!
The battle begins, and the terrain is randomized.
Ordinary planetary environments cannot create any real terrain limitations for Demigod Ninth Stage of the Planetary Rank realm with near-destructive combat power.
But this place is different. Everything in the terrain and environment has been blessed by powerful Divine Power. Even a Demigod Ninth Stage has great difficulty breaking a huge rock. The effect of terrain limitations is immediately apparent.
The one who amplifies the terrain is the God deity who presides over the battle.
Therefore, it is very important to draw terrain that suits your combat style and an environment that allows you to fully utilize your combat capabilities.
But what terrain you draw is determined by the referee; it all depends on luck for both sides.
Luck is also a factor that all strong individuals acknowledge in terms of strength. Sometimes, a lucky person may demonstrate greater power in a real combat environment than a strong person who is unlucky.
After all, luck can often disrupt the balance of power and lead to all sorts of unexpected results.
Therefore, luck has become a factor recognized by the academy as an indicator of ability.
Both sides demonstrated formidable strength in this match.
The first match was against a Demigod Ninth Stage, who was born into the Blue Star Human Race and had Huaxia blood.
His opponent, however, was a powerful Fairy Race from the same Demigod Ninth Stage.
The human Demigod of Bluewater Star Human Race directly summoned his tamed beast.
His tamed beasts consist of seven: the Lightning Eagle, representing lightning and speed, a powerful aerial fighter; the Jade Bird, specializing in healing; the Earth White Jade Elephant, possessing strong land combat capabilities and tank-like defensive strength; the Mercury Flow Serpent, capable of fighting in the ocean and water; the Nine-Tailed Poison Centipede, possessing special venomous attacks; the Purple Heart Ice Vine, capable of area-of-effect control; and the Fire Soul Star Beast, possessing powerful elemental attacks.
Sea, land, and air defenses; poison control; and elemental attacks.
It can be said that his seven Demigod Rank beast taming abilities are very comprehensive, and as long as they are coordinated well, they can unleash unparalleled combat power.
The powerful Fairy Race member was a beautiful young woman with long, flowing hair like ice silk.
Her seven Demigod Rank beasts are all of a single type, belonging to the mental and spatial categories, but they are extremely powerful in mental illusions and spatial abilities.
The two sides chose to confront each other in a stone forest.
From a normal perspective, the Fairy Race, whose understanding and mastery of mental illusion and spatial powers have reached the pinnacle of Demigod level, and who possess special racial powers, has a greater chance of winning.
But in this battle, the Human Race emerged victorious.
Because this Human Race has more comprehensive abilities, the coordination between beast tamers and between beast tamers is exquisite, and the tactical coordination of power is used to the extreme, making it difficult for the opponent to exert their full strength.
At the same time, he cleverly used the terrain to his advantage, restricting his opponent and employing extremely insidious tactics.
If it weren't for this Fairy Race woman's special racial talent, she would have almost died at the hands of Human Race powerhouse who was unleashing his full power and holding nothing back.
The Human Race is a race that becomes more powerful the higher the level of cultivation it reaches.
This was clearly demonstrated in the battle at the Demigod Ninth Stage.
As long as you have rich combat experience, decent combat Wisdom, and cunning and dirty tactics, you can completely dominate powerful alien races.
Jiang Ziliu sensed something strange. The mysterious spatial defensive power released by the Fairy Race's prodigy at the end formed a spatial wreath, which was somewhat like Divine Art and also somewhat like a bloodline skill.
But without a doubt, it is a power that surpasses Divine Art.
Jiang Ziliu had no information about this power from the academy's records.
Fortunately, the academy's host, one of the strongest figures in this live broadcast, took the initiative to explain this power.
"This is Bloodline Divine Art! Its secret is..."
After this powerful figure explained it to him, Jiang Ziliu finally understood what kind of power this was.
The innate power of powerful races becomes ineffective once they reach the level of Demigod; bloodline is no longer a reliable asset.
Their only advantage is that they are physically stronger than ordinary races, and their affinity for rules is slightly higher than that of ordinary races.
Those with a strong foundation are more likely to produce strong individuals, but less likely to produce top-tier experts.
When bloodline becomes too strong, it can actually become a constraint.
However, the bloodline races were naturally unwilling to accept this situation. Later, Divine Art appeared, and the two major bloodline races, the Dragon Race and the Phoenix Clan, conducted in-depth research on them.
They combined the power of bloodline, the power of Divine Art, and the power of rules to conduct numerous adventurous experiments on the combination of Divine Art and bloodline.
During this process, a large number of deaths and injuries occurred in both the dragon and phoenix species due to the experiments.
Because they are researching the fusion and sublimation of Divine Art and bloodlines that are suitable for their own bloodline.
Therefore, they cannot use other races, because doing so would pave the way for other races and strengthen their power.
Therefore, the dragon and phoenix clans suffered considerable losses, and this effort nearly caused a major internal schism within their races.
As a result, a genius from the Phoenix Clan was the first to find a solution and successfully fused a powerful Divine Art called Flame of Nirvanic Rebirth with the Phoenix bloodline, giving the Phoenix Clan a higher affinity for the rules of fire, as well as extraordinary life-reviving abilities.
The Phoenix, with the highest bloodline, can have nine chances to be reborn from the ashes.
Once this inherited Divine Art is inscribed, it will take root in the very essence of life, becoming a powerful innate Divine Art of the race.
This Divine Art is more powerful than other Divine Art of the same level, and it is perfectly suited to the race itself.
Moreover, its most powerful feature is that once it appears, it will be passed down through bloodlines. When a certain level of Demigod realm is reached and the understanding of the rules rises to a certain standard, it will awaken on its own.
The Phoenix Clan made progress, and a powerful member of the Dragon Race controlled a Phoenix Clan and also discovered the idea behind the innate Divine Art of this bloodline race, thus developing the Bloodline-Inherited Innate Divine Art by the Dragon Race.
This kind of innate Divine Art can only be born once per race.
However, it can also greatly enhance the power of a race and, to some extent, break the upper limit of bloodline constraints, significantly increasing the growth potential of bloodline races.
The success of the Dragon and Phoenix clans attracted the attention of other powerful clans.
They also targeted the Dragon and Phoenix clans, but dared not kill anyone. They only dared to conduct research and gradually found a way to develop Bloodline Divine Art power suitable for themselves.
However, not all powerful races in the universe have chosen the power of bloodline racial Divine Art.
While this power strengthens the clan's foundation and enhances the shackles of their bloodline, it also reinforces those shackles, making it exponentially more difficult for them to break through them in the future.
Therefore, the large races with a numerical advantage in the universe, such as Human Race, Beastman Race, did not choose this power.
Strong bloodlines such as the Dragon, Phoenix, and Fairy Race chose this power.
The life-saving power that allowed the Fairy Race to avoid a dangerous attack was this innate Divine Art passed down through her bloodline.
If it weren't for its extremely powerful spatial defenses, this woman would have perished long ago in the combined attack of this Human Race powerhouse's beast-taming power.
This combined attack, formed by the principles of mutual generation and restraint among the rules, is launched by all the tamed beasts in coordination. Although it consumes a great deal of Divine Power, it can unleash an attack of Planetary-Rank God power in a single strike.
Only Human Race, a powerful Demigod Rank beast tamer, could unleash such a combined attack.
Only a bloodline-inherited innate Divine Art can defend against this level of attack.
This first battle broadened the horizons of all the trainees, as well as Jiang Ziliu.
What he wasn't sure about was whether Xue Qiuye also possessed this innate Divine Art inherited from her bloodline.