Chapter 548 — Battling the War God, Bear Eleven

The Myriad Races Committee—an organization existing purely for the Myriad Races Ranking War.

Its core upper echelons were essentially monopolized by the powerful races of the various realms.

Beyond handling matters related to the Myriad Races Ranking War, the committee's higher-ups had one other favorite racket: using their internal authority to spot grassroots geniuses the moment they appeared.

Too many starry-sky lifeforms signed up for the Myriad Races Ranking War. Most came to hand out free points, never having grasped just how much—or how little—they were worth. But every so often, a few grassroots geniuses who belonged to no powerful divine race would appear, having evolved to frightening heights through some stroke of fortune.

The instant such contestants were spotted, they became the committee's focus. The higher-ups, leveraging their convenient authority, would find opportunities to court them and draw them into their own factions.

Marriages and breeding arrangements and the like—all excellent choices...

Gorka of the Canglan Green Dragon Race was only at quasi-god level, yet he had long been a subject of attention for the Myriad Races Committee's Canglan Branch. First, because of his race: ranked within the top ten thousand of the starry-sky myriad races, a true member of the starry-sky myriad races. Across all of Realm King Star it was a renowned divine race, and within the Canglan Realm it was mightier still.

The Canglan Green Dragon Race dwelt in the Canglan Realm, and the rise or fall of this race's ranking bore directly on the Canglan Realm's strength—so of course it warranted special attention.

Second, because Gorka had signed a contract with Sen Nian, a genius of the Sen family, a powerful human clan of the Canglan Realm. Sen Nian was a super-genius who, partnered with Gorka, had once fought his way into the top 500 of the God-sealing Battle, peaking at 486th. The Canglan Realm regarded them as a genius duo with the potential to break into the top hundred someday.

Their victories and losses while training in the Myriad Races Ranking War were watched closely at all times.

So when Shi Yi and the others finished their battle with Gorka and the committee's back-end system updated its information, the staff member in charge of review froze on the spot.

"The Canglan Green Dragon Race lost to a newcomer who just signed up for ranking?" the staffer blurted out, and a crowd of colleagues immediately swarmed over.

A cluster of staff crowded around the screen, staring in disbelief at the battle footage recorded by the referee robot: Shi Yi of the Iron-eating Beast Race, erupting without limit, utterly dominating the Canglan Green Dragon Gorka and suppressing him from start to finish with no chance to counter!

A battle of mere minutes, and he'd flat-out floored the Canglan Green Dragon—and at the end, he'd even appeared to use the embryonic form of a top-tier divine skill!

"Iron-eating Beast??? What kind of race is that?? To be fiercer than a starry-sky myriad race of the same level..."

"I pulled up the record. This Iron-eating Beast who calls himself Shi Yi comes from the Skysuspended Realm... Wait. Age—four years old?"

"This is four years old???"

"You've got to be kidding." A wave of exclamations swept the whole office. After all, the Canglan Green Dragon Gorka had first made a name for himself forty years ago, racked up achievements, and stepped into the quasi-god realm.

Sure, among dragons he counted as a young dragon—a very young dragon—but... to be beaten bloody by a four-year-old bear? That was outrageous!

"Director Sen is the elder of this Sen Nian, isn't he? Should we... notify Director Sen??" The staff exchanged uneasy glances.

Soon Director Sen, one of the administrators of the Myriad Races Committee's Canglan Branch, arrived on the scene. He too watched the battle footage with considerable shock, then sank into thought.

"For the next two matches, arrange stronger opponents for it. The rest, leave alone." After seeing which realm Shi Yi belonged to, he gave his order.

The Skysuspended Realm... had it cultivated a top-tier divine race? This Iron-eating Beast hailed from the Skysuspended Realm—not a power they could afford to provoke.

The first and second strongest of the Skysuspended Realm had a record of joining forces to hunt a super-god, and they were on friendly terms with several super-god lifeforms. A great clan like the Sen family knew a thing or two about such insider matters, so it was enough to spare a little attention for this Iron-eating Beast Shi Yi—no need to get deeply entangled.

"What is the Skysuspended Realm up to..." Director Sen murmured inwardly.

Before this, the Skysuspended Realm had only been formidable in its top experts. But now it seemed... Director Sen had the feeling that this second-tier realm was about to make a push in the younger generation as well.

............

Elsewhere, who knew how much time had passed, Shi Jin was still sound asleep.

It had been a long time since Shi Jin had slept so "soundly."

While Shi Ying was asleep, his second beast-taming space suddenly rumbled and began to upgrade itself.

Little Machine, Duck-Duck, Cat-Cat, Turtle-Turtle, and Little Ice, all contracted to the second beast-taming space, were startled, sensing the changes wrought in them by the space's upgrade.

"ROAR!!!"

"Quack!!" Little Machine and Duck-Duck threw back their heads and howled at the sky, overjoyed.

With the upgrade succeeding while Shi Jin slept, Little Machine and Duck-Duck immediately spread the word, then raced off to Lord Ginseng Emperor's side to kowtow in frantic gratitude.

It was no secret that Shi Jin had been too lazy to cultivate his second beast-taming space for ages; now, seeing that the fruit Lord Ginseng Emperor had made had let it upgrade successfully, Little Machine and Duck-Duck were moved to tears.

They... could finally live in a luxury beast-taming space on the same scale as Team One's!

Before long, the pets had gathered at Shi Jin's window, ringing the bed in a circle, whispering among themselves as they stared at Shi Jin lying there.

"I keep feeling... something's off," Lin spoke up.

Why are you all staring like you're watching a funeral?

By now, Shi Jin had been asleep for a week. During that time, Lin had all but finished his research and self-modification, and Shi Jin was still sleeping.

But Shi Jin looked so blissfully asleep that no pet had the heart to disturb him, letting him upgrade in peace all along.

Now, though, Shi Jin had reached double ninth rank, and his constitution had undergone a massive improvement as well. The eleventh-rank pets exchanged glances—they couldn't let Shi Jin sleep any longer.

At double ninth rank, Shi Jin was in the best condition he'd ever been. Next, Eleven and Bug-Bug felt, it was time to haul Shi Jin up and have him add points for them.

"Eee-eee-eee!! (Bug-Bug, go.)" At Eleven's summons, Bug-Bug nodded at once and entered Shi Ying's dream, where it found Shi Jin cheerfully feasting on stinky tofu, luosifen, durian, and canned herring...

Fighting back its pity, it grabbed Shi Jin and yanked him out of the dream and back into the real world.

"Urgh..." Though Shi Jin had drifted through some scattered dreams, he had rested fairly well. Now, as his consciousness blurred back and gradually cleared, he felt full of vigor, utterly rested.

"Uh... how long did I sleep?" Shi Jin rubbed his eyes and looked at Eleven and the others ringing him, then asked.

"Eee-eee-eee!! (Almost seven days.)"

"That long." Shi Shuo froze, then caught on and said, "Wait—my second beast-taming space broke through?"

Damn, he hadn't felt a thing. He really had been dead to the world!

Was that even possible?

"ROAR!!!" "Quack!!" Little Machine and Duck-Duck celebrated in wild joy, confirming it was true.

Shi Xiao sat up at once and looked at Lin. "Lin, did anything happen while I was asleep these past few days?"