Beast Taming Patrol

Chapter 1611 - 449: The Marshal Card

"He doesn't intentionally target me; rather, he sees everything as a game to be easily manipulated."

"If I had known it would come to this, I should have stayed far away when I first saw him."

"What is that gamble?" Lin Su couldn't help but ask.

At this moment, he had a premonition that this gamble was closely related to him.

"Something called a Fa Tu Card." Shou slowly began.

"According to that guy, it's the favorite game of the creatures in his Tao Realm."

"But in my opinion, the Fa Tu Card is highly likely an evolution of his Tao."

"Each Fa Tu Card has its own specific meaning and representation."

"The gamble with him was that each of us would draw a card and then cultivate a being according to the meaning of the card."

"The one whose being first reaches the Tao Source Realm or higher wins."

"And the stakes he put forward for this gamble were something I couldn't refuse."

Lin Su was silent for a moment, then slowly spoke, "What card did you draw?"

"A Fa Tu Card named 'Herald'."

Shou reached out his hand, and a beautifully designed card, concentrated with the traces of Tao, appeared in his hand.

On the front of the card, a figure wearing a top hat, with their face shrouded in shadow, stands quietly at the junction of dawn and dusk, with sunlight on the left and starlight twinkling on the right.

The back of the card is decorated with patterns of sun, moon, and stars.

"The Herald card represents the freest of souls, possessing the power to traverse between day and night."

"At that time, my Tao Realm was already irreparable. The only way to continue the path of the Spirit was to abandon it and start anew."

"The natural growth of a new Tao Realm is too slow. If a link could be established to transfer some Tao from the old to the new, its development would accelerate significantly."

"And although the old Tao Realm was influenced beyond alteration, it still pointed directly to the Tao Realm."

"That was my life's work. To simply abandon it would be wasteful. If I could find someone fated to inherit it, it would be for the best."

"These thoughts aligned perfectly with the meaning of this card."

"So, I gladly accepted the gamble, detached the old Tao Realm from myself, and then created an entirely new one."

"Within the new Tao Realm, there is not only the power that existed before the old one was influenced but also all the insights I gained from that odious fellow."

"The path of Beast Taming is exceedingly difficult to break through."

"Yet, connections can become inexhaustible motivation for breakthroughs."

"I sensed that guy's Tao and gained the inspiration for Guardian Beast Co-operation."

"I spent nearly two hundred years observing if there was a suitable candidate in the old Tao Realm."

"The time flow in the Tao Realm shifts according to its master's enlightenment."

"Whenever the master's level of Tao suddenly leaps, a billion years may pass in an instant."

"If the master's level stagnates, perhaps a billion years could pass in the Chaos Realm, while the Tao Realm remains unchanged."

"And when the master observes it, the time aligns with that of the Chaos Realm."

"Thus, after two hundred years of observation in the old Tao Realm, two hundred years had also passed."

"In the end, I chose you, who was determined to become a Beast Tamer despite being born into a martial family."

"I fused you with the old Tao Realm, and at that moment, you already became Shen Wu."

"However, your understanding of Tao wasn't enough to handle this power."

"So I had to make your true self slumber here, creating vessels on Blue Star and Shen Wu to house your consciousness and the Beast Taming Space."

"Fearing that knowledge of martial lineage might prompt you to accelerate its development on Blue Star, affecting the new Tao Realm, I had to make you forget the past, letting you experience eighteen years of Beast Taming on Blue Star, and then return to Shen Wu to grasp the traces of Tao from a fresh, different perspective."

"Henceforth, every time you used Shen Wu's power to advance Blue Star, it was a process of integrating the positive aspects of the old Tao Realm into the new one, greatly aiding me."

"Your performance even exceeded my expectations."

"Though your comprehension of Tao isn't high enough to wield the old Tao Realm, you are, after all, its new master."

"Only you can alter the Tao of the old realm, breathing new life into it."

"And you did so."

"You brought Guardian Beast Co-operation, which belonged to the new realm, into the old one."

"Moreover, you opened up new forms of power for the old Tao Realm."

"The path of Beast Fusion, the way of weaponized beasts, the Tao of faith, even Tao from another realm."

"Were any other Beast Tamer within the old realm to walk these paths, they would certainly face failure."

"But because they are your spirit beasts, they possess the potential to transcend the rules of the realm and, in turn, influence it."

"I once thought that when I succeeded, you would inherit the original Tao of the old realm, as even I couldn't reverse that influence."

"But you've accomplished what I couldn't."

"Though I nudged you along the way in the One Life Reincarnation, most of it was still due to your own strength."

"As past and present intertwined, you corrected the originally influenced and diverged Tao, integrating something uniquely yours, establishing a new order for Shen Wu."

Shou looked at Lin Su with admiration.

"I didn't choose wrong."

Lin Su remained silent for a long time.

Within his heart, waves far stronger than before surged.

So this is the truth of everything.

The exchange and evolution of Tao, the alternation and growth of the Tao Realm, a gamble, and a game called Fa Tu Card.

If not for all of this, if Shou hadn't chosen him, he would just be an eighteen-year-old boy who, overwhelmed by his father's reprimands, fell into a lake and drowned in a daze.

"May I... see that card?" Lin Su softly asked.

"Take it." With a casual flick, Shou sent the card quietly flying to Lin Su, "Just be careful with the traces of that guy on it; don't fall for it like I did."

Lin Su silently took the card.

The aura on it felt so familiar.

The other mystery he had been desperately seeking to explore was now solved.

It wasn't just an ordinary card.

This card was a gathering of Tao formed by another powerful being.

On this card, traces of that mighty being's Tao surged.

Even just traces held an inscrutable might.

This power was completely ineffective against Lin Su's current level, but beings below the Tao Source Realm who came into contact with it would be naturally drawn into an illusory cycle, only able to escape upon completing it or reaching the Tao Source Realm, beyond its influence.

The Herald card is the One Life Reincarnation Hall.

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[Qiuqiu's illustration is in the bonus chapter]

[The finale will be released at 12:00 on the 20th]