Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

The wolf skin hot air balloon wasn't a spur-of-the-moment idea, but a well-thought-out plan.

A few days ago, Li Cunxu had Xiaoyi monitor the wolves, and also keep an eye on the sky, to see if there were any flying beasts.

The result was, of course, none.

If there were.

Li Cunxu would abandon the hot air balloon plan without hesitation.

If a hot air balloon in flight encountered flying pet beasts, it wouldn't be killed by the beasts but would fall from the sky and crash.

At the same time, Li Cunxu was puzzled. How could such a vast secret realm have not a single flying pet beast? Could it be that a stronger flying beast had killed all the others?

Confusing!

Very unfortunate!

If the guess was true, there was nothing to fear. With luck on their side, they would avoid danger.

Li Cunxu packed enough Cyan Spirit Fruit for three people for a month and tossed them into the wooden basket.

"Let's get going!"

Chen Lu had thought about leaving, but not this soon.

"Leaving now?"

"Hmm, when you say go, you go."

"What about your Slimes?"

"They know how to survive on their own, no need to worry."

The three of them sat in the wooden basket, hot air rising, and the wolf skin hot air balloon gradually lifted off the ground, soaring into the sky.

"We're flying, we're flying."

Long Xiaoxiao, riding a hot air balloon for the first time, was very excited, delightedly looking down at the receding ground below.

As the hot air balloon passed over the forest of the Desperate Spiders, Li Cunxu wore a mischievous smile.

"Xiaoruan, spit fireballs downward, ignite the forest."

Xiaoruan spat out a fireball, the fireball fell into the treetops, igniting them and starting a noticeable blaze.

Chen Lu quickly intervened, "Setting the trees on fire, you'll land in jail."

"It's fine, Xiaoruan, keep going."

Li Cunxu pointed downward, "See what that is?"

Chen Lu looked down to see a gray-green forest.

The barren soil was gray.

"It's barren soil."

"The soil of this forest has been contaminated into barren soil, and setting barren soil on fire is meritorious without sin."

Long Xiaoxiao looked down at the flames, and small black dots appeared below, rapidly approaching, controlling, and eventually extinguishing the fire.

"Brother, there are small black dots putting out the fire."

"Those small black dots are the Desperate Spiders."

As the owners of this forest, the Desperate Spiders naturally wouldn't let the fire spread, destroying their habitat.

The fireballs Xiaoruan spat out were quickly extinguished by the Desperate Spiders, causing them no harm, yet Li Cunxu still took delight in it.

Seeing the Desperate Spiders below emitting frustrated hisses of impotent rage, Li Cunxu laughed even more happily, Long Xiaoxiao was also delighted, having opened her eyes due to the Desperate Spiders, she bore great hostility toward them.

Chen Lu asked, "Do you have a grudge with the Desperate Spiders too? Why tease them like this."

"No."

"I don't believe you."

Li Cunxu did have a grudge against the Desperate Spiders, but that was in a past life's game.

The Desperate Spiders were disgusting creatures, torturing you before killing you, instilling a sense of despair. Li Cunxu had been tortured by them, not only during the novice period but even at later stages.

When a Desperate Spider consumes enough despair, it can break through to the level of a King.

Long Xiaoxiao pulled out a strand of hair, stretched it in the air, and checked against the sun's position.

"Brother, this is bad, the wind direction has changed."

The wind was eastward just now, blowing from the east to the west, ideally taking the hot air balloon toward the signal smoke. Now the wind had changed to a southeast wind.

A southeast wind comes from the southeast and blows toward the northwest.

The position of the wolf skin hot air balloon was shifting.

"No worries, I have a plan, Xiaoruan, get the Winged Slimes moving."

Xiaoruan loudly summoned the Winged Slimes perched atop the wolf skin hot air balloon.

These ten Winged Slimes were all at the black iron ninth level, leveled up with a large quantity of Cyan Spirit Fruit.

Under the propulsion of the Winged Slimes, the wolf skin hot air balloon returned to its correct course.

Chen Lu couldn't help but praise, "You've come up with so many ways to use your Slimes."

The wolf skin hot air balloon flew out of the Desperate Spider forest, a swarm of dense Desperate Spiders chased out of the forest.

After ten minutes, Li Cunxu looked down.

The Desperate Spiders were still pursuing the wolf skin hot air balloon, engulfing any obstructing fierce beasts in their wave.

Chen Lu, somewhat worried, said, "If the Desperate Spiders keep chasing, we'll bring danger to those sending the signal smoke. Should we speed up to lose the Desperate Spiders?"

"No need, use the Desperate Spiders to test the strength of those sending the signal smoke," Li Cunxu said expressionlessly.

Chen Lu: "Huh?"

Long Xiaoxiao: "Huh?"

Chen Lu was deep in thought; Li Cunxu wasn't such a malicious person, so there must be some deeper reason for leading the Desperate Spiders to the signal smoke location.

"Are you doing this really just to test the strength of those with the signal smoke?"

"No, I just thought of a terrible possibility, bringing these Desperate Spiders along as a precaution, just in case. If I'm wrong, I can keep the distance and timing between the air balloon and the Desperate Spiders controlled, and after verification, lead these Desperate Spiders away."

With heavy obstacles on the ground, the sky was unobstructed, and the wolf skin hot air balloon reached the signal smoke location ahead of the Desperate Spiders.

The Fire Slime controlled the flame atop the balloon, bringing the wolf skin hot air balloon slowly down.

A stern-faced middle-aged man was adding dampened firewood to the burning signal smoke. Seeing the people on the hot air balloon, he waved happily.

"Come down! It's safe here."

Li Cunxu asked an unrelated question.

"What statue stands in the Tongdu Center Plaza?"

The middle-aged man, holding his chin, thought for a moment.

"Brother, don't test me, there's no statue standing in the Tongdu Center Plaza."

Chen Lu and Long Xiaoxiao's expressions changed slightly, sensing something amiss.

A statue does stand in the Tongdu Center Plaza, a statue called the 'Eye of Man,' carved after the eye of the Pupil Emperor, founder of Tongdu.

Chen Lu asked quietly, "What's going on?"

Li Cunxu didn't answer, quietly instructed Xiaoruan to increase the Fire Slime's firepower, raising the hot air balloon.

Seeing the balloon rising, the middle-aged man's demeanor turned grim.

"Brother, what are you doing? Come down quickly."

"Brother, my air balloon is having issues, I'll come down once I've fixed it."

Li Cunxu responded loudly.

The middle-aged man shouted angrily, "Jump down; I'm a Silver Beastmaster and can catch you."

Li Cunxu was startled; this secret realm was more dangerous than he'd imagined, even a Silver Beastmaster had fallen here.

"Hey! Xiaoxiao, jump! Why aren't you jumping!" Li Cunxu extended his head again, "Brother, there's a little girl here scared of heights, won't jump, let me convince her."

During this conversation, the hot air balloon rose a bit higher.

The middle-aged man's gaze changed, becoming extremely cold.

"If you won't jump, I will make you jump."

The middle-aged man flung out two sickles, spinning toward the hot air balloon, about to tear through the wolf skin, two cyan glows erupted, the Cyan Lotus Sword Blades deflecting the sickles.

Chen Lu was somewhat stunned; the Cyan Lotus Sword Blade, a pinnacle of attack capable of cutting through iron and gold, but couldn't cut through ordinary grass-cutting sickles.

The deflected sickles miraculously returned to the middle-aged man's hands.

"This... what's going on?" Chen Lu asked.