Wudu.
The sky was split in two.
One half was clear, bathed in bright sunlight.
The other half was bizarre, with an otherworldly realm floating above, inverted and superimposed onto Wudu.
With a telescope, one could even see powerful undead and hellish asuras within the other world.
Of course, no one in Wudu was in the mood to observe this strange spectacle.
As more and more undead and hellish asuras poured into Wudu from the otherworldly realm, the Beast-Taming Corps' defenses were constantly pushed back.
Many people who had not yet escaped Wudu could only pray they wouldn't be discovered.
Wudu's iconic landmark, the East Wudu Building, was also severely damaged.
Many people who had been at work were trapped inside.
Hundreds, even thousands, of undead and hellish asuras swarmed the building, commencing their slaughter.
Among those working here were many Beast Masters.
However, their talents were limited, and their combat strength was not high, making them utterly unable to resist these undead and hellish asuras.
As for the security personnel here, they had either fled long ago or had already fallen.
In just over an hour, the entire building fell into a deathly silence.
Occasionally, the sounds of computers, telephones, or printers could still be heard.
Everywhere on the ground, on the walls, there was blood.
The smell of blood was unbearable.
Of course, there were also lucky survivors.
A man, lying in a pool of blood, had not completely lost consciousness.
He was not old, but his hair was already thinning on top.
He was a programmer at a company.
He had worked hard to save money, with most of it going towards a down payment on a house through loans.
The rest had almost entirely been spent on his girlfriend.
With marriage on the horizon, his parents had also given him some money.
He had stayed up late the previous night, trying to complete a project as quickly as possible to earn bonuses and dividends.
This way, the betrothal gift money would be enough.
Unfortunately, he probably wouldn't last until someone came to rescue him.
"No, I can't die yet!"
He was still holding on.
Scenes from his childhood flashed through his mind.
Suddenly, he realized that his first paycheck had been spent on his girlfriend.
Meanwhile, he himself was reluctant to even go out for a meal.
As for his parents, he hadn't spent a single cent on them.
However, he considered himself fortunate.
His girlfriend worked at another company in the building below theirs.
She had always treated him quite well.
It was just that her parents had high expectations of him.
They also demanded a considerable betrothal gift.
He propped himself up, struggling to crawl outwards.
He wanted to go downstairs to see his girlfriend.
However, as soon as he moved, before he could leave his spot, he was discovered.
A grotesque hellish asura, not far behind him, saw him.
The hellish asura had two horns on its head and a pair of fangs protruding from its mouth.
Its bloodthirsty eyes fixed on the man, revealing an evil smile.
It had no intention of killing the man outright.
Instead, it planned to toy with him like a cat playing with a mouse, tormenting him until death.
Seeing the man laboriously crawl more than a meter forward.
It stepped forward and crushed the man's foot.
This was not fatal.
But the intense pain caused the man to lose consciousness.
After that, it did not deliver a killing blow.
Instead, it stood behind the man, waiting for him to regain consciousness on his own.
However, after waiting for more than ten minutes, the man showed no reaction.
So, it used a skill to rouse the man.
The revived man struggled to lift his head, looked around, found nothing unusual, and continued to crawl outwards.
The hellish asura seemed to enjoy watching the man struggle in pain.
It stepped forward again and crushed the man's other foot.
The man cried out in agony, but looking back, he saw nothing. The pain almost made him faint again.
However, he did not give up.
He continued to crawl outwards.
He could only hope that the undead or the hellish asura would forget about him.
This self-deceiving thought somehow supported him as he crawled to the stairwell.
But descending the stairs remained incredibly difficult.
Moreover, the hellish asura lurking behind him struck again.
This time, it broke his lower leg.
This made it even harder for him to descend the stairs.
"An interesting crawler. I want to see how much further you can crawl!" the hellish asura sneered.
In the eyes of the hellish asura, humans were merely slightly stronger insects, forever incomparable to them.
Just then, the sound of hurried footsteps approached from a distance.
Before the man could react.
A small team from the Beast-Taming Corps arrived on the floor.
They were searching for survivors.
They quickly spotted the man.
And, of course, they also spotted the hellish asura behind him.
This lord-level hellish asura was quickly dealt with.
Immediately after, the Beast-Taming Corps team approached the man.
"Brother, hold on. We'll get you out of here," said the leading captain.
The man shook his head.
He knew he was close to his end.
He hoped the Beast-Taming Corps team could take him to find his girlfriend.
The leading captain fell silent for a moment.
Seeing this, the man continued to crawl, intending to make his way down the stairs.
The leading captain had no choice but to agree.
Soon, they reached the lower floor.
The man quickly found his girlfriend.
However, his girlfriend was also dead.
She had been working before she died.
On her phone, she had received the message he had sent earlier.
As Long Zhen Chuan Shuo and others arrived in Wudu, more Beast-Taming Corps units entered the city to carry out rescue operations.
Although the man eventually collapsed, he at least fulfilled his final wish.
Many more people departed with regret.
Outside the East Wudu Building.
Long Zhen Chuan Shuo summoned all his totem-level pet beasts to clear the surrounding undead and hellish asuras.
Otherwise, the Beast-Taming Corps team would not have been able to reach this location and enter the East Wudu Building.
Of course, this also attracted several totem-level undead and hellish asuras.
Long Zhen Chuan Shuo's Nine-Headed Roc clashed with a totem-level Lord of Ghosts.
The Lord of Ghosts, in the Nine Nether Totem Kingdom, was second only to the Ghost Lord of Resentment.
However, it was no match for the Nine-Headed Roc.
Before long, it was eliminated by the Nine-Headed Roc.
Afterward, Long Zhen Chuan Shuo eliminated several more totem-level undead and hellish asuras.
This also curbed the uncontrolled slaughter and expansion of the undead from the Nine Nether Totem Kingdom and the hellish asuras from the Asura Totem Kingdom.
As more Beast-Taming Corps units arrived.
Yan Huang began its counterattack.
Avenging those who had fallen.
Zheng Dong was unaware of the situation outside.
He was still within the relic space.
After waiting for some time.
He condensed a clone and sent it out to check if the Ghost Lord of Resentment had left.
Unexpectedly, the Ghost Lord of Resentment had latched onto Zheng Dong.
It had not left, waiting for him at the original spot.
Zheng Dong frowned.
It seemed difficult to leave without dealing with the Ghost Lord of Resentment.
Zheng Dong had no combat power to deal with the Ghost Lord of Resentment.
Even luring it into the relic space wouldn't allow him to capture it.
"Then let's see who can last longer."
Since he was in the relic space with food and drink, he didn't need to rush to leave.
Afterward, at regular intervals, he would condense a clone and leave the relic space to check the situation outside.
This continued until Long Zhen Chuan Shuo arrived here with his pet beasts.
His objective was to eliminate all invading totem-level undead and hellish asuras.
This was also to make the undead and hellish asuras from the other world understand that Yan Huang was not to be trifled with, and that provoking them would come at a price.
Facing the Ghost Lord of Resentment.
Long Zhen Chuan Shuo summoned the Nine-Headed Roc and the Six-Winged Golden Dragon.
The two totem-level pet beasts were more than enough to deal with the Ghost Lord of Resentment.
The Ghost Lord of Resentment knew it was outmatched.
It attempted to flee back to the other world.
Unfortunately, its escape speed was no match for the Nine-Headed Roc and the Six-Winged Golden Dragon.
Before long, the Ghost Lord of Resentment was eliminated by the Nine-Headed Roc.
After Long Zhen Chuan Shuo and his pet beasts left, Zheng Dong's clone finally emerged from the relic space.
Seeing that the Ghost Lord of Resentment was gone.
Zheng Dong's clone quickly notified his main body.
Following that, Zheng Dong also left the relic space.
Then, he quickly used spatial teleportation to leave Wudu.
Before the National Competition began, Zheng Dong had planted Ling'er's split bodies in Wudu and the surrounding cities.
Therefore, he could use spatial teleportation to travel to cities near Wudu.
Zheng Dong was still unaware of the current situation in Wudu.
He also didn't know that Long Zhen Chuan Shuo and others had rushed over.
He only knew that he couldn't deal with totem-level undead and hellish asuras.
Although he wanted to rescue people, he was even less willing to get himself into trouble.
He arrived at a city near Wudu.
He wanted to see what resources were available in Bai Hongguang's relic space, and whether they could help Xiao Zi and other pet beasts become stronger.
Upon entering the relic space.
Zheng Dong found that this relic space was quite large. It was a legendary-level relic space, second only to mythical-level relic spaces.
Soon, Zheng Dong found a building within the relic space.
It was a regular hexagonal pagoda.
The pagoda was seven stories high.
Each floor stored a large amount of resources.
The higher one went, the rarer the resources became.
Zheng Dong quickly reached the top floor.
As he expected.
He did not see any legendary or divine-level resources here.
Instead, he only saw spirit tablets of Bai Zhiyuan and other ancestors of the Bai family being worshipped.
No way?
When Bai Hongguang left, he didn't take a single legendary-level resource?
Zheng Dong dared to think about mythical-level resources.
But the Bai family should have been able to produce at least one legendary-level resource.
Zheng Dong was very puzzled.
He then searched carefully several more times.
Starting from the first floor and searching upwards, he still found nothing.
What was going on?
Could it be that the Bai family was so poor that they didn't even have one legendary-level resource?
Zheng Dong frowned and looked at the spirit tablets of Bai Zhiyuan and others.
"Esteemed ancestors of the Bai family, I apologize, but this place will be mine from now on. Please find other places to rest!"
Zheng Dong waved his hand.
Vines shot out, coiling around the spirit tablets, carrying them away, and discarding them outside the pagoda.
Then, he summoned Xiao Zi and asked Xiao Zi to search the pagoda for any hidden secret rooms or underground floors.
Xiao Zi did not disappoint Zheng Dong.
Soon, it returned with a spirit tablet, which was Bai Zhiyuan's.
Could this spirit tablet hide a treasure?
Zheng Dong looked at Xiao Zi in confusion.
Xiao Zi nodded.
Then, it bit the spirit tablet in half.
Inside the spirit tablet, a key was hidden.
The key was heavy, with a brass-like metallic sheen and strong energy fluctuations.
It was a treasure in itself.
It was comparable to a Level 7 resource.
Zheng Dong couldn't understand why a key would be hidden within Bai Zhiyuan's spirit tablet.
And what did this key open?
Zheng Dong searched the pagoda with Xiao Zi several times but couldn't find any place where this key could be used.
Could this key be for a secret room or a door somewhere else?
Zheng Dong was somewhat frustrated.
Having the key but not knowing where to use it was still useless.
Fortunately, the current gains were quite good.
The vast resources within the pagoda were worth at least hundreds of billions of Longyuan.
They included resources of various attributes.
Including the gold, earth, wind, lightning, time, and spirit-attribute resources that Zheng Dong wanted for Ling'er's further evolution.
Among them, the gold-attribute resource Tai Jin Stone, the earth-attribute resource Wu Gen Tu, the wind-attribute resource Feng Jing Zhi Xin, the time-attribute resource Shi Jian Zhi Sha, and the spirit-attribute resource Meng Yuan Zhi Xin were all Level 8 resources.
However, there was not enough time for Ling'er to evolve again.
Next, Zheng Dong collected all the resources in the pagoda into his beast-taming space.
His beast-taming space was ten times larger than others and very stable, making it convenient to use these resources in the future. Even if he couldn't open a relic space in another space, he could still use them.
Next, Zheng Dong left the relic space and went outside.
He used his phone to check for information about Wudu online.
As a result, there was nothing.
This shouldn't be the case?
Zheng Dong was somewhat confused.
He wanted to see the situation in Wudu before deciding whether to go to the Bai family's former residence to search for the secret room that the key could unlock.
Having found no relevant information online.
Zheng Dong had no choice but to summon Jing Jing.
With Jing Jing, it was easy to find information.
"Master, information about Wudu has been blocked. Without special means, it's impossible to search for it online."
As a mechanical pet beast, Jing Jing could easily bypass the blockade and find information.
Before long, Jing Jing found out the true situation in Wudu.
Thanks to the intervention of Long Zhen Chuan Shuo and others, the situation in Wudu was continuously improving.
Many undead and hellish asuras began to flee back to the other world.
The Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor were restricted and could not yet come to Blue Star, nor could they take action.
They could only wait for the complete fusion of the two worlds before making a move.
After all, sending out any more undead and hellish asuras now would be sending them to their deaths.
This was also good news for Zheng Dong.
He then had Ling'er use spatial teleportation to return to Wudu.
Upon returning to Wudu, Zheng Dong rushed to the ancestral residence of the Bai family.
Arriving at the Bai family's ancestral residence, he saw a scene of devastation, with not even a single intact tile remaining.
How was he supposed to search?
Did he have to dig three feet into the ground to find the Bai family's secret room?
Zheng Dong took out the key.
He examined it carefully, but couldn't discern anything special.
He then summoned Xiao Zi again.
He asked Xiao Zi to search meticulously, but there was still no discovery.
It wasn't until Zheng Dong felt the key in his hand become slightly warm and begin to vibrate intensely.
Only then did he discover a hidden spatial interlayer.
This spatial interlayer was hidden underground, likely created by a spatial-attribute pet beast using its spatial skills.
Immediately after, Xiao Zi found a metal box within the spatial interlayer.
The box was not very large and could be opened by inserting the key.
Upon opening it, a strong energy fluctuation was felt.
Without hesitation, Zheng Dong took the metal box into the relic space to examine it more closely.