This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 547: Realm Beast in Hand

The realm beast felt fear for the first time in its life. It felt like the mother that had accompanied it since its birth disappear in this foreign world. Without its mother, it was just a lost duckling. So, it struggled. It disregarded its injuries and consequences and fought to escape this hellish nightmare.

Its muscles, which not even divinities could match, twitched madly. Teeth that could match any divine spear pierced and sliced the darkness. Similarly, claws comparable to divine swords sliced through the darkness. A tail that could split realms whipped continuously.

It was all useless.

Tianyi watched as the realm beast continued to struggle. If an emperor, no, even if an ordinary saint could access that power, they would have been able to break out of his Nine Heavens Nebulous Formation. After all, no matter how powerful a realm beast, it was just a beast. A brute that didn’t know how to efficiently use its own powers to their full capabilities.

Although he thought that, it didn’t mean he had an easy time. Ninety-nine percent of the formation was used to trap the realm beast within. The other one percent was slowly transitioning the realm beast from the gap between the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System and the Nine Heavens Universe created by the Nebulous Negation. The farther the realm beast was separated from the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System was, the greater its struggle.@@@@

At the very least, Tianyi discovered the rumor was real. The realm beast had a near infinite supply of essence thanks to its connection with the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. It was slight, but Tianyi could detect that its energy reserves dwindled at a slightly faster rate the more it was pushed into the gap.

Tianyi believed that as long as he fully pushed the realm beast into the gap, it would give up its needless struggle. Even if it didn’t, as long as its energy reached a low enough point, he could subdue it easily. If he hadn’t pushed it into his inner universe by then.

At that point, he would force a spiritual contract between himself and the realm beast. At that point, he could test if the realm beast would escape his control in the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System. If it would escape his control, he would simply let it remain in the Nine Heavens Universe forever.

Although it would be a pity, Tianyi also wanted to create his own realm beast. There was no reason that the Nine Heavens Universe could not have realm beasts when the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System could. After all, he had seen the edges of the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System, but he had not found the limit of his inner universe. Perhaps it was because he had not fully mastered the universe, but what he already seen allowed him to estimate that his inner universe was the same size, if not larger than the Three Thousand Immortal Realms System.

Tianyi liked the concept of realm beasts. There was life inside his Nine Heavens Universe and a rudimentary cycle of reincarnation, but he had no outstanding subordinates.

He had three disciples, Jinshu, Ming Xingyun, and Leng Junfeng, but he wouldn’t treat them as his subordinates. And Su Bojing was too weak. Even the Su Clan was not suited. He never accepted their fealty, but they were practically his subordinates in all but name.

Tianyi was neither deaf nor blind. He knew that Su Bojing was giving the resources he was granted to train the next generation. In his eyes, instead of using it on himself, why not support more pillars for the Su Clan? And Su Bojing was clear that his willpower was average. It wasn’t the average among immortals but saints. He knew that he would likely die younger than other true immortals, so he wanted to train a new steward for Tianyi. That way, the Su Clan could continue to prosper under the Nine Heavens Emperor.

As for the Su Clan exceeding Tianyi? Su Bojing didn’t think it was possible. After all, he could be considered having a front-row seat to the Nine Heavens Emperor’s legend.

He was satisfied with Su Bojing. He didn’t overstep his bounds and had a pretty good relationship with himself. If Su Bojing could order a realm beast, he would be the perfect subordinate. Not to mention that Tianyi didn’t need to consider the emotions of realm beasts. They were just tools.

Only, Tianyi never expected how much of a tool they would be.

The realm beast underwent a dramatic change when it fully entered the gap created by the Nebulous Negation. Like a puppet with its strings cut, the realm beast went limp. The savagery in its eyes died. Its struggle ceased, and it curled up into a fetal position.

Tianyi narrowed his eyes. He could sense the vast amount of energy contained within the realm beast’s body disappearing at an expedited rate. The strange thing was that the energy wasn’t leaving the body, but simply disappearing into nowhere.

He stuck to his original plan and focused all his attention on the head. More chains shot out of the darkness and bound the head. The chains originally binding the torso loosened and redirected toward the head as well.

Tianyi encountered the greatest resistance yet, not counting when he tried to pull the entire body. During the process, the energy depletion increased at an exponential rate, causing a hint of urgency to appear in Tianyi’s eyes.

The energy continued to dwindle.

Nine percent.

Eight percent.

Seven percent.

Five percent.

Two percent.

Complete depletion.

The moment the beast’s head and torso’s energy reserves reached zero, pieces disintegrated like chalk dust. An ugly expression appeared on Tianyi’s face. He pulled the realm beast’s head even harder with his chains. To his surprise, the resistance weakened, and he was able to pull the beast’s head into the Nine Heavens Universe much more easily.

Even though he had successfully pulled the realm beast into his inner universe, Tianyi wasn’t happy. The disintegration did not stop.

He injected essence into the head, but if anything, that only increased the rate of disintegration. Tianyi attempted to study the energy in the other limbs and replicate the realm beast’s energy, but he was not very fruitful. By the time he figured it out, the realm beast’s head would have already fully turned into dust.

With no other way, Tianyi extracted the energy from the limbs and injected them into the head. Only then did the disintegration halt, but by then, half the skull already revealed itself.

Tianyi would love to continue the research on the unique energy the realm beast used. Although the depletion of energy halted, it was still disappearing at a very slow rate. It gave him quite a bit of time, maybe a few months to a year, to find a substitute or discover the secrets of the realm beast, but for now, he had more important matters to attend to.

Ever since he started trapping the realm beast with the Nine Heavens Nebulous Formation, he had ignored everything happening on the battlefield. Well, except for the health of his wife and Ba Shifang. They had his conduits on their body, but unless they encountered a life or death situation, he did not divide any attention. Now that he had successfully—well, some matter of success—obtained the realm beast, he had to rejoin the war.

“I wonder if we are winning?”

Tianyi didn’t take down the Nine Heavens Nebulous Formation. It was quite troublesome to set up, so it was better to assess the situation first to see if he needed to continue using it or not. When he directed his eyes toward the war outside, Tianyi could help but pause. “Eh?”