Chapter 532 — Shocking the Void Emperor for Ten Thousand Years

Zilan said, "Very well. It is now the greatest power on Blue Star. Under the Shenyuan legend's protection of a hundred years, no totem war has broken out again. But the old gentleman is advanced in years and often deep in slumber; day to day, it is basically Lord Lin Feng's great-grandson who governs."

The Void Emperor smiled faintly. He had not expected East Radiance, under the guidance of the old divine-source fellow Lin Feng spoke of, to have grown so powerful.

"But the one most responsible for making East Radiance the number one nation on Blue Star is actually someone else."

"Oh?" The Void Emperor's curiosity was piqued.

Zilan said, "His name is Shi Jin, a native of Pingcheng in the East Radiance Ice Plains. He is twenty-one now, became a beast tamer three years ago, and is proficient in breeding, archaeology, mechanics, combat, and many other fields. The World Tree has even named him the strongest beast tamer on Blue Star."

"What????" The Void Emperor could not help but say, "How old is he?"

"Twenty-one, and he only became a beast tamer three years ago??"

"The strongest beast tamer on Blue Star??"

Although on Realm King Star and Suspended Sky Star, human children could begin cultivation at six or seven, the Void Emperor, if he remembered correctly, knew that on Blue Star, human beast tamers generally did not start until their teens.

This Shi Jin had begun at seventeen or eighteen, which was already late, and did not sound like the scion of a beast-taming clan. Yet in only three years he had become the strongest on Blue Star, acknowledged by the World Tree? How was that possible?

"Ice Plains, Pingcheng. I have never heard of it." The Void Emperor pondered. If it was not one of the famous capital cities, that only made it more likely Shi Jin's family background was unremarkable.

"It used to be a third-tier city in East Radiance. This Shi Jin started out as an orphan, and was only later discovered by East Radiance. He belongs to that rare breed—a true, genuine super-genius." Zilan could not help adding, "Teacher, Qimu... fought this Shi Jin once before."

"And Qimu lost."

The Void Emperor was taken aback.

"Because of the suppression of the world's rules, not a single one of that Shi Jin's beasts commands a double quasi-divine skill, and on Blue Star at present, no living being has more than two quasi-divine skills. Yet Qimu and the others still lost."

"And most importantly..."

"This Shi Jin is only a level-eight beast tamer... he has not reached level nine. He defeated Qimu across the level gap."

"Though by now, he should have reached level nine."

At Zilan's words, the Void Emperor—who had remained fairly calm even upon hearing that the Phoenix Male had lost to a Blue Star native—was thoroughly unsettled.

"What??"

"He was only level eight. How could he have beaten Qimu?" The Void Emperor found it unbelievable.

After all, when he himself had been level eight on Blue Star, he could only slay a top-tier totem; he could not even defeat an ordinary demigod.

Qimu, though not considered an expert among the younger generation of Suspended Sky Star, would have been an absolute dimensional strike if placed on Blue Star.

And he had actually been defeated across the level gap?

Zilan gave a bitter smile and said, "That is why I was so shocked as well. He is a freak. Though only level eight, he has contracted at least four demigod-level beasts across the level gap..."

The Void Emperor: ?

"Moreover, everyone else on Blue Star, as you and Lord Lin Feng said, has only one beast-taming talent. But he, building on a single beast-taming talent, developed a new beast-taming ability on his own..."

"And it is a divine-grade talent capable of stirring the Sound of Rules."

"By the way, it is said he developed it at level six. Rumor has it that at level six, he could already effortlessly one-shot totems."

The Void Emperor: ??

"After our discussions, I finally confirmed that this Shi Jin very likely entered the ruins of the previous cosmic epoch and obtained an inheritance from them."

"In fact, it was precisely because of his archaeology talent that East Radiance discovered him. His entire growth has been inseparable from archaeology, and he is now hailed as the strongest archaeologist on Blue Star."

The Void Emperor sank into thought and shock. He had never imagined that the news Zilan and the others brought back could astonish him. Even from his present station, he felt that the Shi Jin they described was a veritable little monster.

After all, a place like Blue Star...

An archaeologist capable of deciphering the ruins of a cosmic epoch and profiting from them?

A genius of that caliber in archaeology—even on Realm King Star, you could count them on one hand.

"What is his character like?" The Void Emperor asked the most important question.

Zilan said, "He is decent enough, from what the Divine Source Legend and President Lin Xiao... and what we learned from various sources. His biggest problem is that he cannot sit still; he loves adventuring everywhere and is not a steady sort. After talking with us, he was intensely curious about the cosmic ruins—that is probably... a common trait of archaeologists?"

"By the way, he also successfully awakened your second-team beast, Senior Void Sandalwood, from the ruins, and inherited the Star Child egg you left behind. According to Senior Void Sandalwood, the boy Shi Jin is quite good, received its guidance, and counts as half its disciple, so you need not worry. Moreover, this Shi Jin has shown considerable care for the bloodline descendants you left on Blue Star."

"..." The Void Emperor fell silent once more. He had not expected that this Jiaqi was, in a sense, his own inheritor?? Little Mantis had actually taught such a genius?

After a long while, he felt that something was off. A super archaeology genius, unable to sit still, cosmic ruins... Thinking of the Qilin clan's progenitor, who had led most of the Qilin clan's elite to their deaths in the epoch ruins, he could not shake the feeling that this genius, if taken in and cultivated further, might not prove so reliable after all.