Beast Taming Patrol Chapter 1585 - 443: The Final Battle (1) (Countdown to the Finale: 7)
Previously on Beast Taming Patrol...
"Team competition..."
A fierce killing intent abruptly flared within the Time Master's eyes.
Even though it had no idea what that meant, the foe clearly viewed a desperate fight to the death as nothing more than a simple contest.
To the Time Master, such an attitude amounted to nothing less than outright disdain and mockery.
What's more, the arrival of the fully restored Banyan Lord brought eight mythic entities into play all at once, turning what had been a guaranteed victory for the Time Master into a desperately dire scenario.
It felt like a choking reversal, where a position of dominance flipped into one of desperate struggle.
"Kill!"
The weight of its fury and resolve poured into those golden eyes, twisting them into a savage gaze of murderous resolve.
The endless rivers of time churned wildly, and in a flash, both the Time Master and Qiuqiu blinked out of existence from their location.
They plunged into those temporal streams, shifting the fight away from this realm and into the boundless flow of the timeline, weaving through moments from past, present, and future alike.
The Time Master had chosen to launch this confrontation.
The motive was straightforward.
Right now, the Seven Kings drew part of their might from its own Time Skill.
It couldn't say for certain if the adversary, who wielded both the Time Scripture and Time Skill, possessed a method to shatter that link.
Should they succeed, the Seven Kings would drop straight back to their prior ninth immortal realm power, leaving them hopelessly outmatched against eight mythic foes.
Qiuqiu, of course, grasped the Time Master's scheme perfectly.
From the very start, it had spotted the oddity afflicting the other seven mythic entities.
That strangeness might escape notice from mythic beings of different paths, but since Qiuqiu followed the Time path too, the Time Master's lingering traces on those seven stood out like glowing markers in the dark to its senses.
Though it lacked the power to wipe away those seven mythic beings' enhancements in a heartbeat, with sufficient time, such a feat seemed within reach.
Yet Qiuqiu held back from acting.
It trusted the rest to manage those enemies just fine, and even more so, it was convinced that it could handle the Time Master single-handedly.
Thus, when the Time Master sparked this duel, Qiuqiu welcomed it without hesitation.
This was the showdown it had eagerly awaited for ages.
It had no desire for outsiders to meddle in it.
Right after the Time Master and Qiuqiu vanished, the remaining fourteen immortals collided in fierce combat.
In the Northern Divine Realm's zone nearest the Endless Sea, Lanlan faced off against the King of the Sea. Even before any real moves unfolded, their clashing auras alone whipped up massive waves across the waters bordering the Endless Sea.
Guided by Lanlan's avatar of faith, the Endless Sea's inhabitants swiftly pulled back toward the Southern Wilderness's ocean depths, steering clear of the battle's fallout and slashing down on potential losses.
This move only deepened the appreciation among the Endless Sea's dwellers, sending a steady flow of faith power surging over the miles to converge in the Heart of Faith clutched by Lanlan.
"Heh..." The King of the Sea let out a mocking snort at the sight, "You sanctimonious fake!"
As if some memory stirred, hatred and revulsion flickered across the King of the Sea's elemental humanoid form. Behind it, the boundless water elements coalesced into a colossal sea spanning almost a million meters in the empty void.
This void-born ocean served as the King of the Sea's arsenal, and with a sweeping gesture, it hurled the whole mass roaring toward Lanlan.
"A sanctimonious fake like you has no right to live!"
As the words rang out, the enormous wave blotted out the heavens and drowned Lanlan's view entirely, carrying the capacity to obliterate all in its path, with raw, destructive fury erupting from what should have been serene waters.
Each droplet felt potent enough to crack open the void itself!
"Hmph!"
Lanlan's face hardened into icy resolve.
Gazing at the onrushing sea, it lifted a hand and jabbed forward with precision.
The Heart of Faith erupted in radiant hues on the spot, its stored faith power morphing instantly into a raging current that flooded the encircling runes and arcane designs around Lanlan, setting them ablaze with brilliant godly glow.
Through this, Lanlan's aura exploded upward in a surge, its sheer oppressive force enough to briefly stall the incoming tidal mass.
The very next second, infinite water elements gathered at Lanlan's fingertip, spinning into a swirling barrier of liquid.
This barrier matched the enemy's vastness at nearly a million meters wide, its twisting water motifs laced with myriad runes brimming with dread might, lending it an aura of profound enigma.
In no time, the monstrous wave charged like a rampaging monster straight into the barrier conjured by Lanlan's pointed digit.
At that instant, the wave came to an abrupt halt.
No explosive clash erupted; some deeply arcane force in the barrier seemed to tame the wave's wild fury on contact, flipping it back into an even wilder torrent that boomeranged toward the King of the Sea!
Pure Water Spirit Talent Skill, the water system's ultimate defense, Vortex Water Refusal!
A potent technique akin to a watery whirlpool rebound, sending assaults partly back along their incoming route.
But the Vortex Water Refusal Lanlan unleashed now went beyond the standard form.
It was the Vortex Water Refusal amplified by the faith power from the Endless Sea's inhabitants!
The faith system's heart lies in the "belief" held by all living things.
They revere a mighty being's presence and bestow upon it extraordinary powers, and with enough faith power fueling it, such a being's capabilities can truly take shape in the world.