Astral Pet Store novel - Chapter 509

Chapter 509 Beast-catching Failed

Bang!

The ground trembled. Su Ping soared to the sky like an eagle.

As he freed himself from the pit he was in, the effect of Space Confinement was quickly reduced. When he was at about four hundred meters off the ground, the effect was so minimal that it could be ignored altogether. Su Ping didn’t stop there. He flew up for another two hundred meters in case the Otherworld Heavenly King had faked the range of its Space Confinement ability.

“Please stop…”

Not far away, Mu Beihai was still begging and crying. He knelt in the air with astral powers supporting him. He had a face of despair and pain.

On the ground, the dark flames were still burning.

Each sparkle was fueled by the Flaming Dark Phoenix’s body and soul.

When the fire died out, nothing of the Flaming Dark Phoenix would remain!

Mu Beihai could not pull himself together because of his pain, which stunned Su Ping. He could not have imagined that he would ever see such an expression on the man in charge of the Mu family, a man who was always quite composed. Su Ping felt his blood was burning with anger as he gazed at the Heavenly King in the distance!

Right then, more people cried out in pain.

Su Ping quickly turned around. He would never forget that.

There was a mass of blood mist in the distance!

The titled battle pet warriors who had hurried over to help him, as well as their battle pets, were whipped into a mist of blood by the two thick limbs of the Heavenly King!

They did not stand a chance! The two limbs could confine space with greater strength than the red vines on the ground. The titled battle pet warriors were frozen in the air, depriving them of any chances to get away! Seeing the titled battle pet warriors be slaughtered one after another, Su Ping clenched his fists and bit his teeth so hard that they almost cracked. He was dying to go over and help them out, but he was fully aware that doing so would mean he would be once again grabbed by the Heavenly King.

Once that happened, he would no longer be able to lure the Heavenly King to his store’s domain.

“Mr. Su, don’t go there!”

That was Mu Beihai. The death of so many titled battle pet warriors made him realize that he had to take his mind off his deceased pet. He suppressed his feelings of sorrow, but not his determination. “You’re the last hope there is for the Longjiang Base City. Mr, Su, do you have any plans? Every one of the Mu family members is here at your service. We will go to any lengths, even at the cost of our lives!”

Su Ping gazed at Mu Beihai with complex emotions.

He had so many words to say but was unable to speak.

He had no plan.

If he were at the titled rank, he might have been able to deal with the problem, and drive away the Heavenly King without paying a heavy cost.

But the fact remained that his rank was low!

He had two options.

First, to lure the Heavenly King to the store and let the system kill it.

Second… He could make himself perish together with the Heavenly King! He could do this. He really could!

He just had to give up a life, his life.

He could undo all of the Dark Dragon Hound’s seals!

All nine of them!

That way, the Dark Dragon Hound would be able to reach the peak of the Fate State, infinitely close to the Star Rank!

However, that would mean that his mind would be burst open!

Before that happened, he could command the Dark Dragon Hound to go and kill the Otherworld Heavenly King. Yet, upon his death, his contract with the Dark Dragon Hound would be rendered void. He wasn’t sure if the Dark Dragon Hound would turn around and strike the Longjiang Base City.

Without the contract, the Dark Dragon Hound would also become a wild beast.

Also, the hound would not have any recollection of its time with Su Ping. By then, with one less Otherworld Heavenly King on the Blue Planet, there would be an addition of a horrifying beast that was the Dark Dragon Hound, a being which no one would be able to control.

“I have to lure the Heavenly King into the city!” Su Ping yelled. Mu Beihai was speechless, not believing that was the plan. He remembered something Su Ping said. “That location you mentioned. Is it inside the base city?”

Su Ping looked at him. He didn’t know that Mu Beihai still remembered that.

“Indeed.”

It appalled Mu Beihai; to think the place Su Ping mentioned had the ability to kill a beast like the Otherworld Heavenly King was inside the Longjiang Base City!

He trusted that Su Ping would not lie to him at that point.

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Right then, they heard something approaching.

The air had become sticky again. Su Ping saw that it was the two thick limbs again.

All the titled battle pet warriors who went to distract the limbs had perished. The two thick limbs no longer impeded their way as they tried to trap him.

“Run!” Su Ping shouted to Mu Beihai.

He was furious but he turned around and ran away.

He was angry since he had been unable to defeat the Heavenly King in a face-to-face battle, but he would have to swallow that pain.

Mu Beihai flew to the sky at once.

The thick limbs paid no attention to Mu Beihai. The ever-extending limbs quickly reached toward Su Ping.

Noticing that the air was getting heavier and heavier, Su Ping knew that the limbs would catch up with him soon enough.

He didn’t have enough time to get away! Whoosh!

Su Ping hurled a black ring toward his back.

It was an advanced beast-catching ring!

That was part of his solution, but not an actual plan. The advanced beast-catching ring could catch a beast king, but the odds were merely 10%!

It could definitely catch anything that was not a beast king, even at the peak of the ninth rank.

Su Ping had noticed that the 10% odds would change according to the state and strength of the beast king

If the beast king was weak, barely lingering onto its life, the odds would increase to more than ten percent.

On the other hand, if the beast king was in a normal state, then the odds would be 10% or even lower.

Will it work?

A kindle of hope rose as he hurled out the ring; but of course, he didn’t pin all of his hope on the beast-catching ring.

The ring broke and collapsed into a swirl that was about to absorb the Heavenly King.

However, the swirl disappeared as soon as it opened. The construction was not stable enough.

That kindle of hope died down. The odds were too low.

He had six more beast-catching rings left.

But that didn’t mean he had a 70% chance of succeeding

If he were unlucky enough, he could use one hundred beast-catching rings and not succeed.

In the distance,

The Otherworld Heavenly King’s eye was contracted. The coldness in its eye turned into astonishment; it was the first time it had truly shown any emotion.

Even though it was faint, the Heavenly King did smell a hint of death!

It felt that it was something it could not fend off, but that feeling disappeared in an instant.

Still, that heart skip reminded the Heavenly King that it was not an illusion.

The grand beast locked its gaze on Su Ping. Indeed, that human being carried big secrets. Maybe, the Heavenly King thought, if I could get those secret weapons, I would have the chance to best the other Heavenly Kings. Using its two heads to ponder about that guy, the Heavenly King of Otherworld would grind its teeth if it could.

After the first beast-catching ring failed, Su Ping threw out two more without hesitation.

Bang, bang, bang! The two advanced beast-catching rings generated swirls in the air. The first disappeared the moment it came out and the second one collapsed when it was about to take form.

All three had failed!

Su Ping made up his mind and used up the remaining four.

Four rings cracked as they struck the two thick limbs. Four swirls came out and yet, no trace of hope was left for Su Ping.

Two of the swirls vanished the moment the edge appeared and the other would disperse in the process. None of the seven beast-catching rings worked!

Even though Su Ping didn’t expect to succeed in the first place, the fact that good luck didn’t favor him in that critical moment still bothered him deeply.

He was just a random guy that the system had picked up. He wasn’t a blessed guy.

Run!

He had to follow his original plan. That was not the time for him to put all eggs in one basket.

While the seven beast-catching rings didn’t work, they did manage to help Su Ping. The two thick limbs were quite scared of the swirls and they had to dodge to the sides. As a result, Su Ping managed to buy some distance.

Will they catch up with me?

Su Ping turned his head around to look at the Otherworld Heavenly King, only to see that the latter was still rooted on the battlefield, with no intention of moving. He became frustrated.

Were his strikes not tempting enough?

Suddenly, he heard a cold voice. “Are you waiting for me?”

Su Ping stopped in his tracks and turned back.