Divine Beast Creator

Chapter 2399 - 2400: The Influence of the Crystal

The micro-landscape roared towards Witch Baby, just as Feng Yuan had guessed, Xiao Ji was indeed using Feather Thousand Blades. Due to the influence of the strange crystal, the visual effect made these micro-landscapes appear much larger than the feathers shot by Feather Thousand Blades itself. Although this made it easier for opponents to notice each feather, it also made it harder for them to decide how to dodge.

Because those micro-landscapes mixed together and occupied the entire space directly, this was also the reason why Witch Baby didn’t consider dodging. If it were the original Feather Thousand Blades, perhaps he could avoid it with flexible movements.

But now, this Feather Thousand Blades, which changed appearance effects, made it impossible to judge the gaps. Those micro-landscapes overlapped densely, and if judged by the center point, there indeed existed gaps to slip through.

However, this required all phantoms to center on the feathers. In fact, these effects might not necessarily originate from the feathers, hence those phantoms should best remain untouched, or they might collide.

The airtight phantoms compressed the dodging space to the extreme. Witch Baby intended to withstand Xiao Ji’s attack using magic, but the micro-landscapes blasted mercilessly.

The smoke-like micro-landscapes hit the magic barrier and exploded instantly. The explosion effect was still influenced by the strange crystal, transforming into flashing luminous smoke and forming beautiful patterns that burst like fireworks.

"The flashy attack unexpectedly has unintended effects."

Watching the fireworks-like chain explosion, Feng Yuan couldn’t help but mutter. As expected, Witch Baby was directly blasted to the ground by Xiao Ji’s ultimate move, completely losing combat ability.

As the referee blew the whistle, Xiao Ji slowly landed on the ground, chirping happily, Feng Yuan walked up and rubbed Xiao Ji’s head vigorously saying,

"Well done! But when did you master the ability to call upon Crystal Domain power outside the Crystal Domain?"

Now Feng Yuan didn’t neglect Xiao Ji’s training situation as he did before; hence, he had a certain understanding of Xiao Ji’s ultimate moves, especially regarding special abilities including those related to the Crystal Domain. It’s impossible for Feng Yuan not to pay attention.

However, Feng Yuan wasn’t aware that Xiao Ji had this ability before.

Looking confusedly at Feng Yuan, Xiao Ji spread its wings and chirped. Veronia glanced at Xiao Ji and translated,

"It says it doesn’t know either, or maybe it’s a special effect of Feather Thousand Blades?"

"Feather Thousand Blades can invoke Crystal Domain’s power outside the Crystal Domain?"

Rubbing his chin, Feng Yuan didn’t have the intention for Xiao Ji to try again. Although Xiao Ji could continue using Feather Thousand Blades, that last time already left Xiao Ji’s feathers sparse. If done again, Xiao Ji might end up as a bald chicken.

"Let’s ask Liao Yu and the others about this later. If no one has researched it, it’s a decent subject to explore."

Shaking his head, Feng Yuan stopped thinking about it. Regardless of whether Feather Thousand Blades has additional effects, Feng Yuan didn’t intend to let Xiao Ji continue using this ultimate move.

Besides affecting appearance, the biggest problem was that this ultimate move decreases the flight ability of bird-like spirit beasts. Ground chicken-like ones naturally wouldn’t care, but spirit beasts like Xiao Ji, common birds, are severely impacted in flying speed and agility without feathers.

Even though feathers grow back quickly, their time unit is counted in days. Considering Xiao Ji’s current state, it needs half a day to recover.

If repeated several times, Feng Yuan estimated complete feather recovery would take several days, during which Xiao Ji couldn’t get wet.

Due to sparse feathers, Xiao Ji’s ability to repel water decreases. Feathers that normally wouldn’t get wet might soak in the rain, let alone activities like soaking in hot springs.

Upon hearing Feng Yuan’s warning, Xiao Ji shrunk its neck. It didn’t expect Feather Thousand Blades to have so many side effects, but fortunately, these side effects weren’t overly severe.

But precisely because of this existence of side effects, even though many bird spirit beasts can master Feather Thousand Blades, they rarely use this ultimate move. Despite its inherent power being much stronger than those of the same level, nobody wants to risk the repercussions.

Especially with reduced water repelling ability, Xiao Ji can’t accept that; it doesn’t like getting wet. So, Xiao Ji has internally given up on using Feather Thousand Blades. Unless it’s absolutely necessary, it won’t use this ultimate move.

However, the attack effect of this ultimate move, in Xiao Ji’s eyes, is rather appealing. After all, a lot of flashy things flying out makes observers dazzled.

"The effect is nice, and unexpectedly it can work against abilities affected by the Crystal Domain, but I think Beastmaster competitions might completely ban the use of strange crystals."

Hugging Xiao Ji, Feng Yuan smiled and said, his reasoning is simple: this thing tends to cause unfairness. After all, strange crystals themselves can obscure the appearance of spirit beasts’ ultimate moves, now combined with Crystal Domain’s influence, it’s easy to manipulate it for fanciful effect.

Of course, in a sense, this is also a new combat method, so Feng Yuan dares not make definite claims.

"Probably not, since strange crystals don’t affect the power and effect of ultimate moves, and Beastmaster competitions do not ban carrying items themselves; they likely wouldn’t outright ban it, but might limit its swapping."

If the strange crystals were swapped every battle, it’s difficult for the opponent to see what ultimate moves the beastmaster executed.

And the consequence is having to endure the opponent’s ultimate move or respond incorrectly.

Just like Witch Baby, if Xiao Ji hadn’t used the strange crystal, perhaps it could utilize its body size advantage to slip through Feather Thousand Blades’ gaps and dodge the attack.

Without restrictions, it’s possible someone might play tricks by using different strange crystals in every battle. This would result in others not being able to see what ultimate move was used.

Indeed, if such a thing happened, the entire Beastmaster competition would become chaotic, every match would become a drastically different ultimate move skin showcase, and that would be too outrageous.

So Dou Yanlan estimates it probably won’t be outright banned, but will be restricted to using the same strange crystal from the start of the competition until the end.

"Hmm, that’s possible, though it doesn’t have much to do with us. You guys want to try the strange crystal?"

Rubbing his chin, Feng Yuan stopped contemplating it anymore. How Beastmaster competitions turn out doesn’t concern him much, after all flashiness is just a skin, ultimately Feng Yuan believes in dominating with sheer power.

Besides, Feng Yuan has no intention of competing or getting involved in official matches, so those changes don’t affect him much. The only ones inconvenienced might be those Beastmasters who are going to participate in the competition.

After all, lately, new rules keep cropping up, from the Crystal Domain onwards, the entire Beastmaster competition is somewhat different. For them, it’s not just adaptation; it requires learning a lot of new information.

Unfortunately regarding the Crystal Domain, it’s still under research. Various data hasn’t been thoroughly compiled. Those Beastmasters can only pore over all available research materials to better understand the multitude of complexities concerning the Crystal Domain.

If there are more changes related to strange crystals, they might become more troubled as it implies a need to self-teach much more.

Dou Yanlan and Qi Chen exchanged glances, deciding to duel to observe the strange crystal’s effect. Unlike Feng Yuan’s and the girl’s duel, Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan released two beasts each and their bout was evenly matched.

Normally, Qi Chen’s strength surpasses Dou Yanlan’s, but Cotton and Xing Bo excel in tussling. Even with Ah Mu, without using extraordinary means, Cotton and Xing Bo cannot be forcefully overcome.

"Impressive."

The girl watched the two duel excitedly, unlike Feng Yuan, because Xiao Ji’s was a powerful crush she couldn’t assess Feng Yuan’s strength fully, but Qi Chen’s and Dou Yanlan’s back-and-forth battle exhibited their powers completely.

"They’re progressing."

Veronia suddenly spoke, observing that Dou Yanlan’s current strength had become quite potent, and against lesser Beastmasters, fighting above one’s level shouldn’t be a problem.

"Having experienced all sorts of messy events, practical abilities naturally improve."

Feng Yuan smiled without feeling guilty and said.