Chapter 28: Hard to End

  In the mountains a few miles ahead of the team, a white giant wolf over three meters long and more than seven meters in length was cautiously advancing on the snowy ground. Behind it, several yellowish-brown small wolves, only over one meter long, were following closely, but these small wolves all kept a certain distance from the giant wolf in front, seemingly fearful of this fellow creature.

  Far behind the giant wolf, several white-clad Bimons were quietly following, and the unfused snow was their natural protection. Without careful observation, they could not be discovered, and Liu Yu's familiar Marlan was also among these white-clad Bimons.

  In the rear, Liu Yu was following along with the main force, and this time Tollemi selected two hundred juvenile Bimon above four stages from the entire camp to form a small team led by a six-stage warrior. Liu Yu, Fite, Ivan, Moro, and Buganin were all selected, but overall, only a few dozen juvenile Bimon of their generation were selected, while the remaining places were occupied by the juvenile Bimon of Elena's generation.

  Liu Yu gazed ahead, but his mind was on Ptolemy's war wolves. This time, Ptolemy's war wolves had truly shown their prowess. Some of the warriors among the cannibals were born with the ability to communicate with wild beasts, so they captured eagles and wolves as their natural sentinels. As a result, enemies would often be discovered before they even caught sight of the cannibals' shadows. If the enemy was strong, the cannibals would flee early; if weak, they would be ambushed by the cannibals.

  But this time, Ptolemy's war wolf fully played its advantages as a magical beast in terms of smell and reaction, killing many of the cannibal demons' war eagles and wild wolves along the way. On the road, Ptolemy and his group encountered several waves of small teams of cannibal demons, all of which were easily annihilated by them, with only a few attempting to escape being solved by this war wolf. As a result, the role played by the war wolf on this journey was even greater than that of several Dou Wang.

  Liu Yu couldn't help but think of the method to tame magical beasts that Ptolemy told him when he sent him back to the Fire Fortress last year. Magical beasts refer to animals with a magic core that can use magic, and they are far superior in strength to ordinary beasts like ground mice, wild rabbits, and wolves that cannot use magic. Like these cultivators, magical beasts are also divided into three levels: low, middle, and high, from one to nine. One to three is the low-level magical beast, four to six is the mid-level magical beast, and seven to nine is the high-level magical beast. The higher the level of the magical beast, the higher its intelligence, like the high-level magical beasts' intelligence is not inferior to any intelligent species on the continent, and with intelligence comes dignity, which is the biggest obstacle to taming magical beasts.

  The main thing to tame a demon beast is to reach a master-slave contract or a co-birth contract with it, and there are three main methods to achieve this kind of contract.

  The first method is to obtain a young magical beast and raise it from a young age, so that when the magical beast grows up, it will naturally have feelings for its breeder and be willing to follow their commands. Some breeders can even communicate with the magical beast telepathically and command it without needing to form a contract.

  However, high-level demon beasts generally have a very long lifespan and growth period. It is common for them to live for one or two hundred years and take seventy or eighty years to grow up. Many breeders have spent a lot of effort killing the parents of the demon beast or stealing its cubs, only to die of old age before the beast grows up. Since a demon beast can only recognize one breeder in its lifetime, no one else can take over, making family inheritance impossible. In the end, it's all just a waste of energy.

  Therefore, this method is often used for some mid-to-low-level demon beasts. For example, Liu Yu knew that the Mongols had raised a large number of hunting wolves within their tribe. This was a third-tier demon beast, with swift movements and keen sense of smell, making it an excellent helper for tracking in the wild.

  The second is to make the demon beast grateful to oneself. In many legendary stories on the mainland, there are some strong people who unexpectedly saved some demon beasts, and these demon beasts were grateful to these strong people and actively reached a contract with them. Tolomei belongs to this kind of situation. However, injured demon beasts are not everywhere, and after some strong people unexpectedly save some high-ranking demon beasts, these highly intelligent demon beasts do not want to give up their dignity and freedom to follow others. Therefore, many strong people only get a little reward from the demon beast, such as a magic core.

  In addition, many powerful strongmen are arrogant and look down on weak magical beasts, so if they save mid-to-low-level magical beasts, many strongmen will not bother to make a contract with them.

  The third method is the most bloody and has the lowest success rate. Since ancient times, a master recognition array has been passed down on the Pelong continent, which can be used to forcibly recognize the master of a demon beast through this array. However, Tolomei told Liu Yu that the methods for setting up the master recognition array collected by various major races on the mainland are incomplete, and setting up such an array is extremely costly, so ordinary people cannot afford it, so few people use it.

  And it's usually used to subdue high-ranking magical beasts with great strength, but such magical beasts with high intelligence will inevitably resist with all their might. The incomplete spell array is likely to fail greatly, and so far, no one has heard of anyone successfully using the "Recognize Master" spell array to subdue a high-ranking magical beast. Once failed, the recognized master's magical beast will basically die, and the person who recognizes the master will also be counter-attacked, with many being seriously injured beyond recovery.

  "No matter how powerful the demon is, it's still just an external object. What's most important is one's own cultivation." This was Ptolemy's warning to Liu Yue after he finished telling him about the method of subduing demons.

  "Ah, I don't ask for much, just a mid-tier demon beast would be fine." Liu Yu thought to himself, thinking about how difficult it was to tame the demon beasts.

  Suddenly a loud whistle came from the front of the team, and all the Bimon were startled.

  "The second and third battalions of the Imperial Guard, follow me! The rest of you, maintain formation and continue advancing!" A loud shout came from a warrior at the forefront of the Imperial Guard, as a large group of soldiers charged forward behind him. About a mile or so ahead, there was a small hill, which the Imperial Guard's warriors quickly climbed over. Liu Yu and his men followed the warrior's orders to maintain their original speed and continued advancing. Before long, they too had climbed over the small hill, and a small plain came into view. Liu Yu saw that there were many corpses of man-eating demons on the ground, and the Imperial Guard's warriors were clearing the battlefield.

  On the other side, Marlan dragged a two-headed troll warrior who had lost one head to the front of Louis and Ptolemy. The trolls and Bimon had fought for many years, and their language was not unfamiliar to many warriors. Now, it seemed that Ptolemy wanted to ask something. However, the troll warrior who had lost one head kept wailing in pain and did not answer Ptolemy's questions. Before long, Ptolemy and his companions lost their patience.

  With a wave of his hand, Ptolemy and Louis turned to leave, while on this side, Marlan naturally understood Ptolemy's intention. He drew out his sword and was about to chop off the other head of the cannibal monster. Just then, the cannibal monster stopped howling, its tattoos moving as if alive, quickly gathering towards the silver horn on its head, which fell first. As the tattoos were about to converge at the top, a brown light flashed, and the cannibal warrior's remaining head was chopped off.

  Originally, Malan saw the strange phenomenon on the cannibal demon's body and was stunned for a moment. Ptolemy reacted first and cut off his head with a Dou Qi wave.

  "Malan is only a dozen miles away from the cave of the man-eating demons, lead the army to rush over with all your might, we will take the lead in case something changes." Malan, who had just come back to his senses, hadn't said anything when Ptolemy's order came down.

  "Follow orders." Marlan bowed and then ordered all of them to advance in a jogging pace.

  Ptolemy whistled and a giant wolf jumped out from the mountains in front, Ptolemy and Louis rode on the war wolf and quickly disappeared among the mountains.

  The situation has changed a bit, I'm still out of town, these two chapters were coded in an internet cafe outside, the time is a bit tight and there may be some imperfections, please forgive me, I'll be back tomorrow and will resume normal updates soon.