Wild Crimson Rose: Beloved Handyman Princes Courtesan Wife - Chapter 422

At the very least, she was now able to stand the sound enough to keep her eyes open.

Looking around, the other demonic beasts seem to be watching from the sidelines. The Light Talisman that had been lit up was now hovering in the air to provide more light for the battles. From the edge of the light, Shen Tianyu could make out black feathers on top of the Tyrannical Sky Tiger. The Tiger itself was laying on the grounds, his head on his crossed paws.

She swiveled her head and saw that her subordinates weren’t doing well with the sound either. The clashing was not continuous but it was often enough that no one ever took their hands off. She turned again to see how the men were doing with the Two-Headed Bone Snake.

With the aid of the Light Talisman, she saw them jumping around the Two-Headed Bone Snake, causing it to thrash around. It’s two heads and tail coming up to smack them. They would block the attacks with their sword and jump away. The rest of the demonic beast’s body didn’t move much but it was impossible to cut through. The two men have been trying for some time now, even using spiritual energy, but even so there is no visible scratch at all.

Two-Headed Bone Snakes are one of the hardest demonic beast to subdue because they are close to the prime of their species. They don’t have much demonic energy but they’re bodies are too hard for ordinary swords to penetrate. The only known way of subduing them so far has been to lure a more powerful demonic beast to tear through their bones and crush the “heart” in their bodies. Three-Headed Bone Snakes are more c.u.mbersome in this aspect because they have the ability to move their “hearts” to elsewhere in their bodies but Two-Headed Bone Snakes usually do not possess that ability until they evolve. Thankfully, Bone Snakes was a rare species so there weren’t whole nests of them roaming about.

Seeing that there wasn’t any progress, Shen Tianyu just sighed and went back to closing her eyes again. Though she currently had a contract with Xue Lang and never really use him, it’s rare for humans to be able to make a contract with a demonic beast ordinarily. The big shot cultivators that creates ruins may have multiple spiritual beasts, demonic beasts that made contracts with them, but that’s only a small percentage of the cultivator population.

In order to put that into perspective, only about thirty percent of the human population are born with the ability to cultivate. Some might get pruned off due to jealousy of those surrounding them and there’s the miracle cases like Bai Yoaxuan’s transmigration but the percentage stays the same. Technically speaking all cultivators can make contracts with demonic beasts as there isn’t any biological difference but taming and getting recognized by them isn’t just about beating them up.

Mental fortitude and character are taken into account and are the defining factors. A cultivator with strong mental fortitude and good character can get contracted with a strong demonic beast even if his cultivation isn’t high. This results in about only forty percent of cultivators are able to make contracts with demonic beasts with a wide range of battle prowess of said beasts. They can be from cute ones that live off selling cuteness to tracking to ferocious beasts that can make mountains tremble. And in that forty percentile, only about twenty percent of them can withhold making contracts with more than one demonic beast. The higher the number of spiritual beasts a cultivator possesses, the more revered and coveted he is. It is additional fighting power that is not affected by one’s spiritual energy or cultivation level, after all.

As for Shen Tianyu’s contract with Xue Lang, she has always been an independent person. If it wasn’t because there isn’t any suitable place, she’d have sent Xue Lang to train by himself while she went about on her own. She had a safety net behind her that was her space and the ability she had obtained from it. Even so, it was always better to be careful. Humans are greedy creatures and will do anything to get their hands on things they want, that is a fact that will never change for all of eternity. As far as she was aware, spiritual energy in this world was akin to the Ki of certain tales from her own world, with a few more applications. There was no such thing as “elements”, at least for humans. So things like creating wind or fire out of thin air was… unusual, to say the least. If she was lucky, she’ll get mistaken for a demonic beast and hunted down, if she wasn’t, they might go as far as to target her loved ones to hand over the special power. Either situation didn’t sound very appealing.

The feel of Rong Jian’s hands trying to move away, jolted Shen Tianyu from her thoughts. She opened her eyes and looked around. The two men in black were laying flat on the lit ground, their entire bodies heaving, seemingly from exhaustion. Through the cloth and hands, Shen Tianyu could hear a cackle, probably from one of the heads of the Two-Headed Bone Snake seeing as it’s upper body was spasming and the two heads were smiling. Shen Tianyu let go of Rong Jian’s hands on her ears and he let them fall down.

She looked back behind her and saw most of her subordinates still trying to block out the sound. She went over and tapped on them to tell them it was over. Rong Jian’s subordinates went to pick up their two comrades and dragged them to the side.

“Are you two okay? You think you can keep going?” Shen Tianyu asked of the two volunteers when they came back to their senses. They, like the rest of them, had s.e.n.s.i.t.i.v.e hearing and had been quite bothered by the screeching. It was more worrisome since they were to fight in one of the upcoming battles.