Chapter 589 — Breaking Through to Divine Beast Tamer

Shijin had actually recorded the names and skills of many outstanding contestants from the Sealing of the Gods, but now was not the time to copy them one by one. He planned to return to Blue Star first and break through to god-tier before anything else!

There would be plenty of time to visit them one by one afterward.

With strength of his own, he would have more confidence when dealing with the myriad races of the starry sky.

For Jue, breaking through to god-tier was now the most important matter.

Besides making his combat power greater, it would also make retrieving the Four Sages' Ruins safer.

Of course, the most important thing was that after breaking through to god-tier, Shijin could finally explore a ruin above Blue Star that he had not yet explored.

Back when he won the World Tournament, the World Tree had told him that the god "Nuwa," who had brought humanity from the starry sky to Blue Star, had left behind a ruin.

That ruin could only be entered by a god-tier human.

At the time, the World Tree had considered Shijin the human most likely to be the first to step into god-tier.

The two sides agreed that after Shijin reached god-tier, he would go explore that ruin.

However, due to later interference from Kongdi and Lin Feng, Blue Star had revived ahead of schedule, and quite a few humans had stepped into god-tier.

Even so, the World Tree had kept its promise: once Shijin reached god-tier, it would let him go.

It knew Shijin was an archaeologist and would surely be eager to explore this ruin. Now, with the Sealing of the Gods finished, Shijin could finally break through to god-tier, and could be said to be able to return and fulfill his agreement with the World Tree.

Nuwa... this top-tier god was extremely mysterious. Though a native god of Blue Star, even the Annals of Blue couldn't tell her true origins.

After the many gods of Blue Star went to the starry sky and could not return, only Nuwa used great divine power to come back and bring the Seed of Hope, humanity. From this alone one could see how extraordinary she was, even stronger than the founding ancestors of the five great divine races.

The World Tree speculated that Nuwa might have risen like the Jewel Cat, having obtained some fortuitous opportunity from the starry sky in her early years, or perhaps, like the Time Emperor and Shishuo, she had gained benefits from an epoch ruin. In any case, it was impossible that she had grown up on Blue Star's inherent resources.

As for what exactly Nuwa had left behind, Shijin might learn once he entered Nuwa's ruin in Inatera.

...

One day later.

In the starry sky beyond Blue Star.

A figure appeared directly in this place.

Shijin gazed down at the blue planet below, let out a breath, and smiled. He was finally back!

"Pipilong~ let's go~" Shishuo shouted loudly. From the golden summoning array beside him burst forth an azure dragon. Shijin mounted the azure dragon and charged straight toward Blue Star.

BOOM!!!

A streak of azure light tore across the sky, and its mighty presence jolted the World Tree of Inatera on Blue Star awake; it manifested an avatar and looked up at the sky.

"Shi... Yu?"

Sensing the familiar fluctuation, the World Tree's avatar was stunned. Shijin had returned—did that mean the Sealing of the Gods was over?

The World Tree naturally knew of the Sealing of the Gods as well. In its view, Shijin's return this time was to report his results.

No matter what rank he had placed, the resource rewards would be enormous!

"ROAR!!" Moments later, the azure dragon landed in Inatera. Chongchong teleported Shijin onto the ground in an instant, and Shijin immediately looked toward the green planarian on a certain giant tree.

"Auntie World Tree~ look."

Shijin tossed out something resembling a teleportation anchor from his spatial equipment and said, "A permanent teleportation array for the King's Realm Star. Please install this in Inatera. It requires at least god-tier to set up, and I hear it consumes a fair amount of divine power, so I'll leave it to you."

"I'm going to break through first. Take your time with this. Once this side is fixed, the other side will probably still need some time. When that side is fixed too, teleportation between the two planets can be connected." Shijin left one of the permanent teleportation arrays behind.

"W-wait?!" The World Tree was startled and looked at the teleportation anchor. "You won the Sealing of the Gods and completed the champion's challenge???"

"What's so hard about that? I even killed the Abyssal Alien Worm. That Jiaqi is probably among the best of mid-tier gods, but the Sealing of the Gods was easy slaughter for us." Shizhuo smiled faintly and gave a thumbs-up.

"It was just a baby cup!"

The World Tree was left speechless for a moment, and the little green planarian stared in utter astonishment at the teleportation array Shijin had left behind.

"Aunt World Tree, everything's fine, right? I'm going to break through now—I'm dying of impatience. Once I've broken through, I'll come back and head to the Goddess Wa Ruins. You haven't let anyone else in yet, have you?"

"No..."

"Good. I'm off, then."

World Tree stared blankly as Chongchong carried Shijin away in flight, never having imagined that the permanent teleportation array—the very thing Zilan, disciple of Kongdi, had said even Transcendent-tier beings envied—would truly be brought back by Shijin just like that.

And yet, on second thought, with Shiying's monstrous strength, it seemed only natural. Now World Tree desperately wanted to see how the Sealing of Gods on the Boundary King Star had actually unfolded, and just how Shijin had claimed the championship...

"To work!" It turned its gaze to the teleportation array. Once this was built, it ought to find out.

...

Meanwhile, having dumped the teleportation array on World Tree, Shijin had Chongchong conjure an island nearby rather than breaking through on Inathera, lest it disturb World Tree's construction of the array.

On the island, Shijin descended, let out a breath, and without another word sat down in meditation on the spot.

At the same time, all of Shishuo's beasts, including Qi and Xiao Zi, emerged from the beast-taming space.

All of them watched Shijin with expectant faces.

Once Shijin broke through to the god-tier, they too could break through to the god-tier!!

"Here it comes." Shijin had already been in Tianshu City, having cultivated to the very limit of the double ninth stage, poised on the brink of breakthrough at any moment. Now, as he once more entered meditation and struck at his shackles to reinforce his twin beast-taming spaces, his beast-taming spaces—those marked by golden barriers—shuddered with a thunderous roar.

"Hm??" This breakthrough was peculiar, different from any before it. Under Shiying's gaze, his two beast-taming spaces were like a wall shedding its paint: the gold began to fade, slowly shifting toward colorlessness, returning to the state of a level-one beast-taming space—a feeling of returning to pristine simplicity.

This much Shijin had expected; a level-ten beast-taming space was itself a restoration to colorless barriers, and he had long known it. What surprised him was that the first beast-taming space and the second beast-taming space—both of them—now seemed to collide, squeezing against each other. With a "boom," as Shijin's two spaces underwent their transformation, they unexpectedly fused into one, becoming an even more colossal beast-taming space!!

BOOM!!!

In that instant, Shiying's physique, soul, and spiritual power underwent another transformation.

It made him like a humanoid savage beast, radiating an aura vast enough to crush a demigod.

At this moment, Shijin had a feeling—that he himself could go fight a Sealing of Gods and come back in the top ten. He himself.

But none of this was what the beasts cared about.