The Beast Taming Empire, the Royal City, the Royal Palace.

Lu Ran was wearing loose pajamas and looking at the king who died suddenly in silence.

Number 18 is naughty.

“Roar! Roar!!!” Although the King of Sudden Death had shrunk in size at this time, his majesty and domineering power remained the same.

But... the shield it held destroyed its domineering power as a dragon king.

Although the color of the shield is also very domineering, the eyes and mouth that look like the soybean man's emoticon really make the style of the painting suddenly change.

King Death brought it over, and when it saw the road, its expression immediately turned into a "kiss" expression.

However, seeing that Lu Ran ignored it, the shield's expression instantly turned into [question].

"Sudden death~Sudden death~" The Star Dragon Shield Spirit asked the Sudden Death King why his master's master ignored it.

"So why does the shield make a sudden death sound?" Lu Ran finally spoke. How was No. 18 forged?

The cries of the sword spirit and awakened sword grass he forged are not as normal.

The King of Sudden Death was in deep thought, how could it know.

Maybe it’s because the material has its own scales and inherited its oral habits?

This proves that they are biological children! Just like Mr. Ha and the Sword Spirit.

"Forget it, it's not important." Lu Ran pondered, then said: "Star Dragon Shield Spirit..."

"From today on, I will ask you to protect the King of Sudden Death."

"Let me give you a name too. Let me think... Since you are a round-faced shield, then Madoka will be fine."

Star Dragon Shield Spirit: ??? “Sudden death, sudden death!”

"Roar!! (It said the name was too ugly and it wanted to die suddenly!)" King of Death translated, and was once again convinced that it was his biological child.

"You've just been born, you don't know what sounds good or bad, this is it." Lu Ran said: "It's just a name, as long as you are strong enough, your enemies will give you a stronger title in the future!"

"For example, the Space Dragon's follower was once named Xiaosong. Later, he was also called 'the God of Seals' or 'Song Shen'."

"Roar!" King Death thought it made sense and comforted Xiao Yuan. When you become a god in the future, you will be the God Yuan. Wouldn't that make you seem more domineering?

"Sudden death, sudden death!"

Lu Ran walked forward, pulled up the claw of the Sudden Death King with one hand, and touched the shield with the other.

After being touched by Lu Ran, the shield spirit immediately showed a shy expression.

Let Lu Ran's face darken...

Your expression is a little too expressive, isn't it?

Lu Ran, who originally wanted to establish a contract between King of Death and Shield through the Beast Taming Skill, temporarily stopped activating the skill, took out his mobile phone, and found a picture to show Shield Xiaoyuan.

"Look, just keep this expression from now on."

Lu Ran pointed at the [Comedy] on the screen.

This expression looks like it deserves a beating. I'm sure the enemy will see it and it will have a taunting effect.

In this way, the talent of not getting slapped in the face... can be activated.

After Lu Ran finished speaking, Xiao Yuan seemed to be thinking about something, and Lu Ran also began to sign contracts with them...

After a while, the contract between King Death and Xiaoyuan was completed, and the growth level of the Star Dragon Shield Spirit was directly increased by 10 levels due to the feedback from the contract, and its defense attribute increased greatly.

“Roar!!!” After that, King Sudden Death roared even more excitedly, feeling his defense power further enhanced!!

Although the current level of the shield is not high, through talents such as armament, possession, dragon shield, and combined with the dependent contract, its defense and that of the Death King are not a covering relationship, but a partial superposition and partial product.

What is brought to the King of Sudden Death is an all-round upgrade of defense.

In other words, its defense level when using the shield to block skills is far stronger than when using its physical body to block skills.

"very good."

Lu Ran looked at the King of Death who was waving the [Funny Shield] continuously and using it as a fist with satisfaction, and nodded, "After the defense is strengthened, the body will not collapse too quickly after absorbing the blood of the Dragon God."

“……”The king died suddenly.

"Roar!!!" Indeed, when the time comes, the newly born shield will bear the pain with it. Thinking of this, it will feel much safer.

…………

Another two days.

Following the sudden death of King Hu's shield protoss, Mr. Ha's mechanical lightsaber follower was also born.

[Race]: Star Light Sword [Attribute]: Mechanical (Light)

[Race Level]: Low Overlord [Growth Level]: Level 10

[Racial Talents]: ① Swallow Light (Light Nemesis, can restrain and absorb most light sources, and strengthen their explosive power several times.) ② Lord of Light (Born with absolute control over light, the Lord of Glory.) ③ Armament (In mechanical form, the weapon is in the hands of the holder, and the attack attribute will be greatly improved.) Compared with the Sudden Death King's subordinate shield, the Star Light Sword is much more normal.

It is just a mechanical evolution based on the epic star lightsaber.

While doing this, No. 18 just felt a sense of relief.

Unlike Madoka, who has made machines, undead, and dragon-type machines, she has never made machines with such complex attributes.

However, judging from the appearance and talent, although everything about the mechanical lightsaber was normal, Lu Ran still couldn't help but complain.

"No. 18, why is the mechanical lightsaber a mute? It can't even make a sound this time."

"Why does a mechanical lightsaber have to make a sound?" No. 18 retorted.

"never mind."

"Anyway, when you become strong, there are plenty of ways to communicate. When you are weak, you can also temporarily communicate through contracts." Lu Ran sighed.

"It's just that... you can't sign a contract right now."

"Give me some more time, I will try to develop your third dependent position before returning to Xingyue." Lu Ran said, looking at Mr. Ha who was laughing in front of him and the lightsaber floating beside him.

"Woof!! (Speed, speed.)" Mr. Ha was impatient.

Just waiting for the contract lightsaber.

By then, the three sword styles, namely the plant sword, the necromancy sword and the mechanical sword, will be combined into one. Just thinking about it will be cool.

“Woof woof woof!! (After developing the third dependent position, remember to develop the fourth.)”

Mr. Ha said that he also wanted an elemental sword.

Although it's nice to hold Rainbow Dash in its mouth, Rainbow Dash can't sign a companion contract with it after all.

At that time, we can use element manufacturing equipment to customize one specifically for it.

If I were to say, the three-sword style is already very cool.

Mr. Ha couldn't imagine how cool it would be when he summoned the four great sword attributes and used the Zhu Xian Sword Domain.

"You are the one who has too many things to do." Lu Ran rubbed his temple.

Then he looked at the dumb lightsaber and said, "I have to give you a name, so I'll call you Xiao Guang."

"If you don't say anything, it's settled..."

"It sounds better than a small machine, right?"

Mechanical lightsaber: “…”

At this point, No. 18’s mission has been completed.

Currently, No. 18 is level 60, a low-level overlord, with mechanical and space attributes.

The power of research-type machines lies in this point. As long as there are materials of the corresponding level, and sufficiently skilled forging methods and time, they can mass-produce combat-type mechanical life forms of the same race or even superior to their own race.

Therefore, whether in the Mechanical Age or the Star-Moon Federation, the price of research-type mechanical life is many times more expensive than combat-type mechanical life of the same race.

At this time, Lu Ran was sincerely grateful to Bai Lu and Death Gun, but research-based mechanical life also has a disadvantage, which is its poor combat effectiveness.

Even if it is integrated with offensive weapons, the power it can exert is much weaker than that of offensive mechanical life due to its own structure.

Now No. 18 has completed all the tasks assigned by Lu Ran, and No. 18 is about to study her own "Return of the Dead" plan.

But for this plan, she needed some materials.

She couldn't get these materials herself and needed to apply to Lu Ran.

"Master, I would like to apply for some materials from you."

"What materials?"

"Broken arms, legs, and residual souls of beast masters in the breakthrough secret realm."

Lu Ran: ??? “Fuck, what are you doing?” Lu Ran looked at her with a toothache.

"Now there are no tasks, I want to do the research I want to do!!!"

"To help the master become a legendary necromancer." No. 18 spoke of his plan of "return of the dead and reincarnation" with a longing look on his face.

"We can't enter the Breakthrough Secret Realm to hunt now..."

"But other trial participants should have collections."

"I saw on the Internet that a legendary wealthy woman in the Star-Moon Federation cut off the head of the most handsome man in the Beast Taming Era in the Breakthrough Secret Realm and brought it back to reality to collect and watch it day and night."

Lu Ran: ??? "Damn, how can there be such a perverted and scary person? I have to be careful when I get to Xingyue. Although I may not be as handsome as the most handsome man in the Beast Taming Era, I should be almost the same."

No. 18: "Master, you are safe. Don't worry. I am getting off topic."

"There should be such people on Blue Star. Master, I need you to mobilize your network of connections to help me collect some materials."

"Then, form a special team to enter the breakthrough secret realm to help the master hunt for residual souls, hearts, etc."

Lu Ran looked at No. 18 with a twitching mouth.

"No, you're less than two months old. Is this the kind of research you should be doing as a child???"

“This is too evil.”

“Really?” No. 18 was stunned. Even the evil Lu Ran said this was evil, so perhaps this research was indeed a bit evil.

"Although I want to be a legendary necromancer, I don't want to go this far."

"Looking for someone to help with hunting... what a joke."

"If I find someone I know, my image in their eyes will be completely destroyed."

"If I look for someone I don't know, if any news gets out, I might be boycotted by the whole world."

"Ah..." No. 18 was confused.

"So, we still have to hunt secretly on our own?"

"..." Lu Ran said: "It's not a question of hunting or not, it's just that this is not very humane. It's okay to deal with beasts of a different species than me, but I can't accept it for humans, even if it's just a projection. After all, I am a human."

"Just like I can eat meat from any species, panda meat, dragon liver, and phoenix marrow, no problem, but I won't eat human flesh."

No. 18 scratched his head in confusion.

Lu Ran also ravaged her head.

"Since you have nothing to do, let me give you a new task."

No.18: “…”

"W-what."

"It can also be seen as a combination of machinery and the dead, but it is much more 'great' than the study of 'sunlight' you mentioned."

No. 18 looked at Lu Ran eagerly.

Lu Ran said: "Before you were born, Liu Daohua and I challenged the 'Legendary Secret Realm: The Wind Dog'."

"The Wind Dog is a god of faith, a lower-level legend. Although it is only a lower-level legend, its strength far exceeds that of ordinary creatures."

"The more difficult thing about it is that it is almost immortal. Even if it is destroyed once, as long as the faith is not extinguished, it can still be resurrected."

"Rely on the power of faith to reshape your own traces."

"Earlier, I also strengthened the faith of the deer spirits by increasing the faith in the divine deer, allowing them to lead me to find the true deer."

"Through the power of faith in ancient legends and ancient objects, we can create a machine that can strengthen the power of faith and then temporarily summon the object of faith in the form of a 'heroic spirit'."

"Yes, it's the Heroic Spirit!!"

“Those heroes whose great achievements have been left as legends after their death and have become objects of faith must have many remaining objects of faith. If we can summon them as heroic spirits, the profession of necromancer will instantly become a lot more powerful and become a completely positive image.” Lu Ran grinned.

Who would want to be a bad guy if they can have a positive image?

These days, bad guys are busy whitewashing themselves. If possible, he also wants to clean up the profession of necromancer.

From a necromancer to a heroic spirit summoner.

“Heroic spirit?” No. 18 was slightly stunned, then nodded heavily.

Pretty much what she wanted to do.

In that case, let’s study the heroic spirits first.

"As for the heroic spirits, it's much easier. You can go to the Archaeology Department to find Minister Zhao. He has a lot of collections and knows a lot of legends about Blue Star's ancient times."

"There are even several rooms full of objects related to ancient legends."

“Well, I actually have some here.”

"This is for you."

As he spoke, Lu Ran threw the relic branch to No. 18.

"This is the legacy of a famous beastmaster from the Age of the Divine Tree, the Tree King."

"She left behind many legends during the Divine Tree era. Even the legendary beastmasters during the Divine Tree era are said to be her successors."

"You can also study this to see if you can materialize the heroic spirit of the Tree King."

"Understood!" No. 18 flew away excitedly and called the old president at the same time.

After seeing off the big Buddha No. 18, Lu Ran also breathed a sigh of relief.

To be honest, he felt that No. 18 had some psychological problems.

Maybe I've been exploiting these babies too much.

This can't go on.

I also have to take some time out to give them some psychology lessons occasionally.

No. 18 could think of such things as dismemberment, soul division and historical projection. It is true that No. 18 was 99% wrong, but does that mean he, Lu Ran, does not have 1% responsibility?

“If No. 18 can really research the summoning of heroic spirits before the world war, perhaps she will be able to fight by then.” Lu Ran looked at No. 18’s back as she left, thinking for a moment.

The Tree King is the epic royal plant master who is closest to the legend. Even the legends of later generations have obtained her inheritance. She is a very extraordinary person.

Even the tree king said, "We'll see each other again someday in the future."

Could it be that she foresaw that she would conquer No. 18 in the future, and that No. 18 would be able to summon the heroic spirit and summon her back?

"How is that possible?" Lu Ran shook his head and smiled.

…………

Two days later, Lu Ran was still working hard to practice the beast taming skills such as "sealed transformation", "fusion", "integration", and "life cannibalization", making full use of the second beast taming space.

However, while he was practicing hard, Lu Ran discovered that except for No. 18 who was working hard on research, the pets began to slack off.

Every day, Mr. Ha lies on the ground with his eyes closed, "watching" the fighting between sword spirits, sword grass, and lightsabers, occasionally giving instructions and being very leisurely.

The Sudden Death King holds a pile of meteorites to eat all day long, and they have also collected some nine-colored meteorite fragments in the ocean. Of course, occasionally the Sudden Death King will fly into the starry sky to collect some ordinary meteorites to eat. In short, he is always eating. Not only does he eat himself, but he also feeds the shield in various ways. Because of the bloodline of the Sudden Death King, the shield has also inherited the ability to eat meteorites, which can greatly improve the growth level.

It's also very leisurely.

The same goes for the Dark Crow. It carries the Albizia Julibrissin flowers with it all day long to expand the Dark Crow Legion. After evolving to the quasi-legendary level, an army of one hundred thousand extraordinary crows can no longer satisfy its combat power improvement. The Dark Crow's goal is to have a flock of one million crows or even tens of millions of crows.

If Lu Ran hadn't dominated the resource-rich Amazon region, he really wouldn't have been able to raise crows.

Now, the dark crow is obsessed with "hatching eggs". It has found that when two excellent crows combine, there is a probability that they will produce "better" offspring, and then, when two "better" offspring combine again, there is a probability that they will produce "even better" offspring. Sometimes, there will even be "mutations" and even more exaggerated individuals.

This discovery gave the Dark Ravens greater interest in expanding their legion.

All in all, this is pretty leisurely.

If Dark Crow had joined the breeding army, Lu Ran would have accepted that he had done the physical work as well. However, Dark Crow had very high standards. He believed that his other half must be at the level of the Divine Phoenix and was unwilling to engage in inferior breeding.

In Dark Crow's words, if he can't find it, he would rather let his clone change his personality and try to have a baby with himself than to make do with just any other.

As for Rainbow Dash, she was also very relaxed...

He perfectly inherited Manager Ying's style of doing things. He watched TV series in the castle, and then created several clones, which continuously absorbed natural energy to charge the bomb depot of the mechanical castle... and exploited the clones.

It can be said that no one made perfect use of their time.

The World War isn't over yet... We agreed to endure another year of hard work and then take a break after the World War. "Rikka."

"what."

Unable to bear it any longer, Lu Ran found Liudaohua.

Lu Ran couldn't do anything about Liudaohua, because Liudaohua had more knowledge and experience than him, and the training suggestions Lu Ran could provide to Liudaohua were limited.

One of the few things he could do was to find powerful traits for Liudaohua, such as the trait of bad luck, which he had already given to Liudaohua. However, Liudaohua had not yet merged and was still under consideration, so he only regarded this as a backup option.

"How are you doing here?"

Lu Ran asked about the Liudaohua project.

Currently, Liudaohua also serves as the Ministry of Imperial Construction.

She has the characteristics of a lord, and her abilities will be greatly enhanced within the territory, so what she has been doing during this period is to develop the scope of the lord's characteristics.

Although it has dominated the Amazon, its territory has not yet completely covered the Amazon.

As she waits for full coverage, her abilities should be further enhanced. By then, in the Amazon region, even if the divine deer wants to compete with her for the power of natural plants and trees, it will probably be very difficult.

In addition, the Six Paths Flower is also constructing a permanent hell realm.

The release of energy is divided into three stages. In the third stage, after the skill is released, the skill can absorb external energy by itself to enhance its power and duration. When developed to the extreme, the released skill can even exist forever.

Currently, except for Liudaohua, no pet in Lu Ran’s team has mastered the third stage of the four major energy skills.

As Liudaohua has thousands of years of experience at level 99, in addition to energy compression and energy flow, he has also mastered the other two skills, energy release and energy shaping, to the third stage.

Considering that he couldn't stay in the territory all the time, but the Hell Realm still had to operate at all times, Liudaohua had to create a permanent Hell Realm. Since the construction of the Hell Realm was more complicated than ordinary skills, it would take more time.

“It’s going well.”

"Tell me, what's the matter!"

"It's nothing, it just depends on whether you are busy. If you are not busy, I would like to ask you to help take care of them for a few more days."

Liudaohua: “…”

"I have nothing left to teach them."

"Yes, yes, just continue to lay the foundation." Lu Ran said with a smile.

"I hope that you can train all my pets, including the three major swords and the small round shield, and their four major energy skills to the extreme of the second stage."

"Yes, including the most difficult energy compression, which has also been trained to the extreme of the second stage."

"That is, a hundred times compression!"

Liudaohua's mouth twitched, and she was about to ask if Lu Ran was crazy, but then she changed her mind and remembered that Lu Ran had the legendary Flame Spirit and the King of Sudden Death who could strengthen the physique of other pets through the defensive aura. It was not impossible to pursue a hundredfold compression at level 60.

At least on her side, she used the Hungry Ghost Realm to heal herself by absorbing life energy, and even though she was still at level 60, she was able to temporarily regain the mastery of a hundred-fold energy compression through the repeated use of [Injury-Healing].

"Okay." Liudaohua nodded.

"They have indeed been a little lazy recently. They are not as diligent as you."

"In that case, let's throw them into Hell for a while."

"In the world war, if something unexpected happens, I alone won't be safe. In terms of the basics, they really should practice to perfection."

"Is that so?" Lu Ran smiled.

"That's right."

After Liu Daohua and Lu Ran finished communicating, he said, "Don't leave yet. I have a question for you."

"Hmm? What's the problem?"

"Are the superpowers on Blue Planet always being hunted by mysterious people and facing assassination attempts?"

"As a person with super powers, you should know this, right?"

“This…” Lu Ran was stunned, and said, “Not long after I became a beastmaster, I did hear that the underground black market has been offering rewards for people with superpowers…”

"But in fact, people with super powers are all very strong and are treasures of all countries. It is impossible to hunt and assassinate them."

"Over time, this reward has become a joke. Not many people care about it."

"What's wrong?"

Liudao Hanamichi: "Not long ago, I sent out an energy clone to specifically sense the energy of evil, assassinate humans with strong evil energy, and harvest the power of evil."

"My clone seems to have taken down several underground forces. In the process, there was a force called 'Shadow'."

"This Shadow is a killer organization, very mysterious. There are less than ten people in it, but all of them are beast masters above level five, and there are even level six beast masters. They should be considered very powerful on Blue Star, not inferior to the 'Other Shore'."

"Then, the creator of this shadow asked me for something before I killed him."

"What's the matter?" Lu Ran asked.

"This shadow master should be the one who offers a bounty on people with super powers in the underground black market."

"She asked me, since you are so strong, can you help me kill all the superpowers on Blue Star? Please."

"Ah?" Lu Ran was dumbfounded and said, "No, the mysterious person who offered a bounty for people with super powers, have you found him?"

"Wait, why does she hate people with super powers so much?"

"Also, she has established such a large assassin organization. Why doesn't she just do the assassinations herself? We haven't heard anything about it in all these years."

Liu Dao Hanamichi: "Because this organization was established by her recently. It was established not long ago. It just finished recruiting soldiers. Before it had time to assassinate many superpowers, it was destroyed by me."

“…”

"As for why she hated people with super powers so much, she told me before she died, but I didn't really kill her."

"What's the reason?"

"She claimed that she was a messenger of a certain god, and that the god had told her to do this in a dream."

"Um??"

"She said that the god lives in the time tunnel, maintaining time, and his mission is to stop time travelers."

"One day, a time traveler really did try to return to the past from the future. He was discovered by the Time Maintainer, and a great battle broke out between the two sides."

"And the result is that both sides lose."

"It seems that all of them are forced to reincarnate."

"According to that person's description, the Time Keeper urgently found someone to tell him in a dream at a certain point in time, 'Kill the time traveler and reincarnate, otherwise countless time and space will be in danger of destruction because the time traveler changes history. The characteristic is superpowers.' Because the injuries suffered by the Time Keeper and the time traveler have reached the point where they will lose their strength and memory after reincarnation, they can only entrust someone to help them kill the time traveler in the cradle in an emergency. After all, it cannot judge whether it will recover its strength first or the time traveler will recover its strength and memory first."

"Although the Time Maintainer only said that the time travelers have super powers, it is still very difficult for the Divine Messenger to find the time travelers with only this information. So, she decided to just kill all the super-powered people. Of course, it is obvious that she does not have the ability to do so."

"Does it sound like a made-up story?"

"But we all know that there is such a 'Time Keeper' in the world. He is the follower of the Time Dragon. He is very mysterious. Even Shenlu and his companions have never seen him."

"Since no one has seen it, it is possible that it has met with an accident."

“This…” Lu Ran was overwhelmed and said, “There really are time travelers… To be precise, they should be ‘reborn people’.”

"I can fight the Time Dragon's followers to a draw. That's awesome."

Liu Daohua looked at Lu Ran suspiciously and said, "So if what she said is true, then I feel that you are the most suspicious. After all, among the many superpowers on Blue Star, you are the most outrageous. You are also the top suspect on that guy's assassination list."

Lu Ran: ??? “Impossible.” Lu Ran curled his lips and said, “If I were a reborn person, I would have already stepped on the Dragon God and punched the sacred tree. Why would I have to practice so humble a cultivation method?”

(End of this chapter)