Chapter 509 - 331: Point Against Point

Chapter 509: Chapter 331: Point Against Point

"Hmm?"

Bobo Man noticed Lin Ke’s strange expression, and his gaze sharpened.

Clever as he was, it seemed he had guessed something.

"You two... Don’t tell me you have a thing going on?!" Bobo Man asked with a completely serious face.

Han Ning’s mind, however, didn’t jump around like the Octopus Head’s. He suddenly recalled the blessing the True Dragon had once bestowed upon him.

According to the prompt on his panel back then, the True Dragon’s blessing would increase his affinity with the Dragon Race.

’Could her reaction be because the True Dragon’s blessing is taking effect?’

’Qing Fan and his group didn’t seem to have this kind of reaction.’

"Miss Lin Ke, please, feel free to speak your mind," Han Ning said, maintaining a polite smile.

"You... Your scent is very pleasant," Lin Ke said, glancing shyly at Han Ning before looking to Lan Su as if for help.

Lan Su understood and nodded in agreement. "You have a very unique aura about you. For those of us with the blood of Flood Dragons, it’s extremely attractive."

"I see." Han Ning understood now. He smiled and bullshitted, "Perhaps it’s because I’m also raising a Giant Dragon."

"A Giant Dragon? I’m talking about Flood Dragons."

Lan Su emphasized the point.

"Er... In that case, I have no idea," Han Ning said, a look of confusion on his face.

After her brief introduction, Lin Ke didn’t say another word. She sat down next to Lan Su, occasionally stealing glances at Han Ning with her azure eyes.

As the few of them were talking, more and more young faces began entering the palace.

"The guy with the spiral horn on his head that’s almost scraping the ceiling beams is the rising star of the Dread Whale Family. His Power is even greater than that of the one from the Blood Shark Family. He’s not to be underestimated!"

"See that motionless blue coral by the table? He’s also a Beast Master, from the Deep Sea Coral Family. He usually appears in the form of a coral, but when he encounters a crisis, he’ll display their terrifying regenerative abilities."

It was Han Ning’s first time seeing a Beast Master whose form wasn’t animal-like at all. Bobo Man, the Octopus Head from the Wangchao Family, had already been an eye-opener, but he never expected that a dumb-looking, motionless coral could also be a Beast Master.

"Regenerative abilities?"

"Yep... No one knows how to completely kill a Beast Master from the Deep Sea Coral Family. Even if you slice its Body into thousands of pieces with a sharp blade, it can still pull itself back together and regenerate."

"Not only can they regenerate themselves, but they can also grant this ability to their Soul Beasts. The Beast Masters of the Deep Sea Coral Family are experts at cultivating plant-type Soul Beasts from the Deep Sea. These things are rare to begin with, and they’ve cornered the market on most of them. Luckily, these guys are pretty reclusive and have a small population; otherwise, their family’s ranking could be even higher," Bobo Man said in a tone of morbid curiosity.

’Looks like there’s a pecking order based on looks between the octopus heads and the coral heads, too.’

Han Ning was relatively familiar with plant-type Soul Beasts, as Yin Yi had been one before her evolution. But that was a terrestrial type. In the Deep Sea, he had only seen things like seaweed. ’Strictly speaking, aren’t corals actually animals?’

"Now look over there. That’s a Beast Master from the Tide-Calling Jellyfish family." Bobo Man wiggled a tentacle, pointing to a large jellyfish that looked a bit like him, but with a transparent head and a core that shimmered with a multicolored halo.

"They specialize in raising venomous Soul Beasts from the Deep Sea and are skilled at releasing Spiritual Poison. They’re the sneaky, ambushing type."

Bobo Man was whispering this, but unexpectedly, the other being seemed to sense their gazes and, with a SWISH, turned its head—which was indistinguishable from its back—toward them.

Bobo Man immediately changed his expression to a friendly smile and gave it a nod.

The transparent jellyfish, not understanding why, also gave a friendly wiggle with the hundreds or thousands of tentacles beneath it.

"That’s the Ling Frost Family..."

"The Profound Python Clan..."

Bobo Man introduced the potential opponents Han Ning might face one by one.

"The trial will probably last for three to five years. I’ve already made a plan for you: which guys you can befriend and do the trial with, and which ones are treacherous and can’t be trusted."

"For example, the Deep Sea Coral, us Sea Goddess People, those dumb whales from the Dread Whale Family... Oh, and the Beast Masters from the Azure Dragon Family. You can try to approach all of them. These families are either neutral or relatively gentle in how they handle things. They’re not bloodthirsty and violent like the rest."

"As for the rest, they’re probably no good. Every last one of them is either arrogant, not too bright and likes to pick fights everywhere, or sneaky and treacherous. You have to be extremely careful if you run into them."

Bobo Man disdainfully rattled off the names of several families, including his own Wangchao Family.

"The Wangchao Family isn’t led by my Bobo Family anymore. If you run into any Beast Masters from my clan, don’t show them any mercy on my account."

"Mm-hmm." Han Ning listened intently to Bobo Man’s explanations, like an elementary school student.

By now, the palace had become quite lively. Beast Masters from the various families gathered in twos and threes, chatting amongst themselves.

Suddenly, the noisy hall fell silent.

A wave of melodious music drifted in.

A dozen or so Beast Masters in ornate robes slowly emerged from the back of the hall.

Han Ning took a closer look. They all exuded an imposing aura, and their appearances were all different. They were clearly the Beast Masters sent by the major families to attend the banquet.

At the center was one of the Sea Goddess People with pink scales on their face, enormous pupils, and a heavy crown on their head.

He also saw Ruiyue from the Holy Crystal Family, who was surprisingly among them.

The arrival of the group was met with enthusiastic cheers.

These Beast Masters of extraordinary Power each wore reserved expressions, smiling and greeting the young Beast Masters participating in the trial.