Chapter 530 - Level 6 Ascension Realm

In the incubation room, Lu Ran summoned the Six-Path Flower.

“Six Flower, it's time to fuse these three traits and undergo your second-stage evolution.”

Then, he placed the Life Link trait, Tyrant trait, and Misfortune trait in front of it. The first two were rewards from the World War, while the Misfortune trait had been obtained by Manager Ying a long time ago. Due to its side effects, Six-Path Flower had never fused with it.

Now that the World War was over and its luck power had reached the Legendary level, it was time to integrate the Misfortune trait.

During the battle with the Divine Throne, the Divine Throne's hard-earned Fusion Domain had repeatedly failed to synchronize, all thanks to Six-Path Flower’s luck manipulation. With its current mastery, suppressing the side effects of the Misfortune trait shouldn’t be difficult.

After appearing, Six-Path Flower looked at the three traits on the table and said, “Combining luck and misfortune leads to the Law of Fate, which is no less profound than my good and evil power.

“As for the Tyrant trait, as long as I strike my teammates, subordinates, or kin, I can strengthen my tyrant power, also known as monarchic power. Now that I’m one of the rulers of the Beastmaster Empire, cultivating monarchic power is fitting! But... do I really need to fuse the Life Link trait, too?” Six-Path Flower glanced at Lu Ran.

Lu Ran smiled. “Of course. The Life Link Trait allows you to connect your life force with one or multiple familiars. In this state, the linked beings share a combined life force, making them extremely hard to kill! This is essentially a skill to support your teammates.

“Without a doubt, you have the most resilient life force on the team. If you act as the anchor for Life Link, you can ensure absolute stability. Most importantly, you’re the team’s head instructor.

“With Life Link, combined with your Hungry Ghost Path and Life Bestowment, you can guarantee that Sudden Death King, Dark Crow, and the others won’t die during training. Their training efficiency will skyrocket!”

Six-Path Flower crossed its arms angrily. “

Tch.

So you want me to learn this just to be a better instructor?”

Lu Ran shrugged. “It also lets you beat them up more effectively to strengthen your Tyrant trait. With Life Link, you don’t have to worry about accidentally sending them into reincarnation. You can pummel Sudden Death King as hard as you want. Besides, even though you’re proficient in life and death energy, there’s still plenty of room for growth.

“Your potential now should far surpass the original Six-Path Flower from history. If you master these abilities, you’ll steadily reach the Primary-Divine level. But even at the Primary-Divine level, you won’t be invincible. You’ll still need reliable teammates!

“With Life Link, Captain Doofus and Sudden Death King can use your life force as a safety net, making their hellish training even more effective. Isn’t that great? You’ve seen their potential. Look at Captain Doofus. When it’s in his Nine-Blade Style form, it could definitely beat you up, right?”

Six-Path Flower snorted. “That damn dog... I just can’t be bothered with it. Let’s see if it can turn that power into its default state first!”

Lu Ran chuckled. In the end, Six-Path Flower began fusing the traits. First was the Life Link Trait, which awakened its Life Contract talent. A familiar with this talent could form a Life Contract with their beastmaster, sharing their life force.

After awakening this talent, Six-Path Flower found it quite useful. At least it wouldn’t have to worry about Lu Ran dying too easily anymore. It was essentially a permanent connection with him.

Next was the Misfortune Trait. The awakened talent was Misfortune Fruit. It could condense a type of fruit that looked and tasted extremely enticing, but any creature that ate it would be plagued by misfortune. This talent complemented its Lucky Flower ability.

Finally, when Six-Path Flower fused the Tyrant Trait, it underwent its second-stage evolution. Of course, given its current Intermediate-Legendary rank, even if it fused a hundred more traits, it wouldn’t reach Superior Legendary.

This evolution only expanded its potential and abilities. To raise its species rank, it would need to develop these abilities further to elevate its life force.

After fusing the Tyrant Trait, Six-Path Flower awakened the talent Fear Domination. The more fear and dread a tyrant’s subordinates felt toward them, the stronger the tyrant’s monarchic power became.

“Damn.”

As Six-Path Flower completed its transformation, Lu Ran clicked his tongue. “Perfect. From today onward, I’ll be the Beastmaster King who basks in the sunlight, loved and revered by the people. You’ll be the Hell King who enforces the empire’s darkness, striking fear into lawbreakers.”

“I told you, you’re not suited to be a good person,” Six-Path Flower said bluntly.

Lu Ran muttered before saying, “

Tch...

Alright, I should prepare too. Digest your new powers. In a few days, we’ll head to the Divine Tree Era to see if there’s any opportunity for you to reach Superior Legendary! #18.”

“Here!” #18 flew out of its contract card.

“You’re in charge of that little Bai Ze.”

“Me? I’m not even a year old yet!”

“If you, the one who controls the Bai Ze Heroic Spirit, won’t take care of it, who will?” Six-Path Flower glared at #18 before Lu Ran could even respond.

“Fine, fine.” #18 pouted.

Everyone’s bullying me, huh? Well, I’ll just go bully Manager Ying instead.

After all, summoning the Bai Ze Heroic Spirit required that cat’s blood.

***

Over the next few days, the entire world was on edge due to the arrival of the Global Cataclysm version. However, no monsters had appeared yet. No one could guess when Limitless City would deploy the bosses.

Amid the temporary calm, Lu Ran used his beastmaster space to contract the Star-Splitting Swordgrass, Dogtail, Mechanical Lightsaber, Little Light, and Little Bai Ze. Lu Ran’s beastmaster space now had the soul clone that was reserved for Captain Doofus, the swordgrass, the lightsaber, and the Bai Ze.

He had contracted the swordgrass to use an evolution card on it. Under the card’s enhancement, the swordgrass reached quasi-Legendary rank, making it Captain Doofus' first quasi-Legendary kin.

As for the Mechanical Lightsaber, after fusing it with the Light of Annihilation Trait, though it remained a Superior Overlord, its potential had skyrocketed. It gradually caught up to the sword spirit swordgrass. After all, the Light of Annihilation was one of the Mechanical Era’s top-tier forbidden weapons.

After strengthening them, Lu Ran released his contracts with the swordgrass and lightsaber. They had been promoted to Captain Doofus' colleagues, but now they returned to being just accessories.

Occupying beastmaster space slots with them was a waste. Lu Ran planned to contract more soul clones for backup. The Infinite Sword Beast was truly fearsome, but it consumed too many soul clones.

“Almost ready. Time to set sail.”

A few days later, though still somewhat drained, Lu Ran couldn’t wait any longer. He wanted to break through to Legendary as soon as possible to raise Captain Doofus and the others’ level cap to 80 so he could use the remaining Super Traits. After notifying his acquaintances, Lu Ran gathered all of his familiars and entered his Limitless City exclusive room.

[Secret Realm Level: 6]

[Difficulty: Unknown]

[Entry Fee: 0]

[Introduction: You will enter an unknown world and undergo an ascension trial.]

As usual, Lu Ran approached the secret realm system and opened the ascension realm panel. However, this time, there were additional options.

[Detected that you possess Super Administrator privileges. Would you like to customize the secret realm’s world and timeline?]

“Yes.” Lu Ran grinned.

[World #1: Stellar Moon World]

[World #2: Blue Planet]

[Please select.]

“#1, Stellar Moon World.”

Upon seeing that Blue Planet was also an option, Lu Ran felt relieved. This meant there was plenty of room for manipulation in the future. He might even get another chance to meet the Torch Dragon, which he had missed before. But for now, seeking out the Divine Tree was the best choice.

[Please select a timeline.]

“The timeline before the second full-scale war between the Plant Gods and Beast Gods. Before the Ten Thousand Year Agreement, shortly after the Mythical plantmaster, Peanut, broke through to Mythical.”

During this period, the war hadn’t yet erupted, so the continent was relatively peaceful. After the Divine Tree reached the Primary Divine level, it had 10,000 years to solidify its power. This was its strongest era.

[Confirmation complete.]

[Generating the corresponding ascension realm...]

𝙛𝓻𝒆𝒆𝒘𝙚𝓫𝙣𝙤𝒗𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

[Please wait...]

[Generation successful.]

[Secret Realm Type: Multiplayer, Cross-World, Return of the Dead (You have matched with Limitless City beastmasters from other worlds. You have triggered Return of the Dead, matching with deceased beastmasters undergoing their final resurrection trial.)]

[Destination: Divine Tree Continent, Azure Domain]

[Teleportation countdown: 10... 9... 8... 0]

“

Huhhhhh?

”

As Lu Ran entered the ascension realm, he felt like he had forgotten something. When the Limitless City notification appeared, he finally remembered that Manager Ying had taught him to ask Limitless City to match him with his parents. And he had forgotten.

“Is it too late to say it now? Whatever, let’s not be superstitious. But an ascension realm generated from my will can actually be entered by other level 6 beastmasters? I thought it’d be a solo secret realm. Limitless City really doesn’t waste anything.”

Upon seeing that the secret realm was multiplayer and cross-world again, Lu Ran shook his head. The real question was, what kind of ascension mission would a level 6 secret realm prepare for him? If it were a battle, that’d be simple. He just hoped it wouldn’t be some convoluted task like cooking or inventing again. That would be annoying.

[Era Introduction: This is the late stage of the Plant Era. After 10,000 years of development, the plantmaster system had reached its peak. Plantmasters had cultivated all sorts of bizarre plant familiars and developed countless incredible plantmaster skills.

[Humanity’s progress to this point was built on the foundation of legacy. Family legacies, master-disciple legacies... It was only because generations of Legendary powerhouses passed down their knowledge that the plantmaster civilization flourished so brilliantly.]

[Ascension Mission: As someone about to become a Legendary powerhouse, you must no longer focus solely on your own strength. You must also possess the ability to pass on the torch. In this secret realm, take on a disciple and impart your knowledge.

[Mission duration: 30 days. After 30 days, all trial participants’ disciples will be teleported to a battle arena, where only one may survive. The master of the surviving disciple will be the only beastmaster to break through.]

[Tip 1: The disciple must willingly accept you as their master.]

[Tip 2: Final evaluation is based on the disciple’s growth after apprenticeship, not their initial strength.]

[Tip 3: Each trial participant may only take one disciple. If the disciple dies before the final battle, the mission is failed.]

[Tip 4: This secret realm is a historical projection...]

[Tip 5: ...]

Lu Ran felt a headache coming on. “Fuck! They’re pulling this again? I’m good at being a disciple, not at taking disciples!”

After apprenticing under several masters in past secret realms, he had to take a disciple himself.

Is this karma?

[Detected that you possess Super Administrator privileges.]

[Triggered Hidden Legendary Mission: Legend Slayer (Kill one Intermediate-Legendary being.)]

[Mission Reward: Resurrect one historical projection you interacted with in this secret realm.]

[Tip 1: The hidden mission and ascension mission are independent. Even if the ascension mission fails, completing the hidden mission will still grant the reward.]

[Tip 2: To maintain the normal world’s operation, the resurrected historical projection must already be deceased in reality.]

[Tip 3: The target must be slain by you and your familiars. External assistance is forbidden.]

Lu Ran cursed. “Are you fucking kidding me? Is this a mission for level 6 beastmasters?”

If I could call for help, it might be manageable... but no external aid is allowed?

***

Meanwhile, a young man with a sword on his back, his aura sharp as a blade, descended somewhere in the Plant Era.

[Final Resurrection Trial Mission: Kill the disciples taken in by trial participants. Methods unrestricted.]

[Tip 1: There are six trial participants in total. Killing three disciples counts as mission success.]

[Tip 2: Once a trial participant takes a disciple, you will automatically receive their coordinates and gain teleportation abilities to reach them.]

[Tip 3: Failing this mission means permanent death.]

The sword-wielding young man sighed. “If I fail this final mission, it’s all over. At least I don’t have to fight level 6 trial participants directly. Assassinating their disciples with Limitless City’s teleportation assistance shouldn’t be too hard.

“After all, I, the Condor Hero, have reached level 6 through multiple resurrection trials. My energy sword control technique is peerless. These disciples will probably only be level 4 or 5 at most. Assassinating them should be easy. It’s not like someone would take a Legendary beastmaster as their disciple, right?”