Divine Beast Creator-Chapter 1998 - 1999: Weakness

Even though Feng Yuan and his group dared not get too close, for a Legendary Level Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle, sensing their presence was a simple matter.

Glancing at Feng Yuan and his group hiding at the entrance of the passage, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle smacked its claw, and Miracle Rocks condensed out of nowhere and floated by its side. Seeing these Miracle Rocks orbiting the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle, Qi Chen and Dou Yanlan looked grim; as expected, this Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle had mastered the Crystal Domain, and it was a previously unknown Crystal Domain.

Feng Yuan looked at Veronia with confusion and asked,

"Is this the Crystal Domain? Why is the effect so strange? It can even condense a bunch of Miracle Rocks; this is too unfair."

After thinking for a moment, Veronia said,

"It seems to be the Miracle Rockland Domain. However, during the test, the conclusion was that the Miracle Rockland Domain only accelerates the condensation speed of Miracle Rocks and does not enhance their attribute, making it quite a special Crystal Domain."

After all, common Crystal Domains enhance the power of specific attribute ultimate moves while providing additional effects; such a special domain like the Miracle Rockland Domain is rare.

The Miracle Rocks are a powerful earth attribute ultimate move with two effects: one is to block attacks, using solid matter to withstand attacks with up to twice the power of consumed energy. Once the damage limit is exceeded, the Miracle Rock explodes, forming a Miracle Shield to protect nearby targets and provide healing.

The Miracle Shield possesses defensive capabilities equivalent to the total damage it withstood and can dispel most types of negative statuses on the protected target.

It can be said that if not for the long condensation time of the Miracle Rocks, it would absolutely be a powerful shield ultimate move for defense.

On the offensive side, the Miracle Rocks are not weak. Although their initial power is not high, only equal to the energy consumed, if the target moves when approaching, the Miracle Rocks will track them, and if the target is in a Ghost Series state, gaseous state, or other special states that reduce physical attack damage, the composition of the Miracle Rocks will transform automatically.

In a sense, Miracle Rocks are a sure-hit ultimate move and will not have their power decreased by protective ultimate moves like shields.

Simultaneously, once the Miracle Rocks successfully hit the target, they will randomly inflict several negative statuses on them. What those statuses will be depends on luck.

Because the Miracle Rocks can both attack and defend, it inherently has a fatal flaw of a long charge time; if the Miracle Rockland Domain can cover this weakness, the earth attribute big move Miracle Rocks would become terrifying.

Although the energy consumption is not low, seeing how relaxed the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle is, using Miracle Rocks continuously poses no pressure to it.

This doesn’t surprise Feng Yuan, after all, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle is a Legendary spirit beast. At this stage, their combat endurance has significantly increased, but wielded by an Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle, this Crystal Domain seems a bit too unfair.

At least Feng Yuan doesn’t think Qi Chen and the others have a chance of winning. It’s a joke, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle is a Legendary spirit beast primarily known for its defense, and with its terrifying speed of condensing Miracle Rocks, even Xiao Ji would find it hard to resist.

"Try to see if you can circumvent from the side."

Feeling the terrifying pressure originating from the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle, Dou Yanlan suggested, though the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle was staring at them, she felt it wouldn’t easily attack.

After all, confronting such a terrifyingly powerful enemy suddenly, Dou Yanlan doesn’t believe senior students from other classes could handle this creature.

The Miracle Rocks launched by a Legendary Level entity could be a one-hit kill for those about to graduate if caught off guard.

Therefore, Dou Yanlan guessed that this Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle was likely an optional challenge, and as long as they bypass it, there shouldn’t be any issues. As for retreating and taking another passage, Dou Yanlan would be somewhat reluctant to do that.

Even though the path wasn’t without any forks, running away without even trying every time they encounter an unbeatable enemy just seems wrong to Dou Yanlan.

Feng Yuan had no objections to this. Although the Miracle Rocks looked terrifying, he wasn’t afraid of them. Moreover, unlike a panicking Yanlan losing her composure, Feng Yuan guessed the Miracle Rockland Domain wasn’t as overpowered as it seemed.

Kidding aside, auxiliary effects of other Crystal Domains aren’t particularly significant either, even if the Miracle Rockland Domain sacrificed attribute power changing effects, it shouldn’t be ridiculously overpowered; he guessed the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle wasn’t entirely unbeatable.

As they carefully moved along the walls of this semi-circular cave and distanced themselves from the passage, noticing the sly smile on the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle’s face, Feng Yuan immediately shouted to Xiao Ji,

"Xiao Ji! Activate the Underworld Domain at maximum range!"

The sudden shout from Feng Yuan startled Xiao Ji, who instinctively unleashed the Underworld Domain. This time, the range covered by the Underworld Domain was immense, engulfing the entire hemispherical space, although it wasn’t without sacrifice.

Due to the increased range, the attribute-changing effect of the Underworld Domain was reduced to the extreme. Yet, even so, the Underworld Domain successfully overrode the Miracle Rockland Domain.

After all, coverage between Crystal Domains doesn’t depend on strength; any Crystal Domain opened later generally overpowers previously opened ones.

With the Miracle Rockland Domain disrupted, in the panicked expression of the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle, the Miracle Rocks exploded before they could be cast.

This round of explosions left the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle in a dazed mess. Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dou Yanlan and company sprinted towards the nearest passage without hesitation.

Though the explosion power of the Miracle Rocks wasn’t small, it clearly wasn’t enough to inflict severe harm on the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle. That was ultimately the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle’s own ultimate move. Although it lost control due to domain coverage, the damage from uncontrolled self-energy wasn’t high; plus, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle primarily grows through high defense.

So except for initially being stunned by the explosions, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle was fine overall, but having been played by Xiao Ji, it was infuriated.

It slammed its forepaws heavily on the ground, roaring loudly as it tried using earth system ultimate moves to attack Feng Yuan and his team fleeing into the passage. Unfortunately, taking advantage of its dazed moment, Feng Yuan’s team had already slipped away.

Frustrated, stomping in place, the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle occasionally attacked nearby rock walls with ultimate moves before gloomily returning to its original spot.

Noticing the tremors behind them gradually subside, everyone sighed with relief. Looking back, Qi Chen said apprehensively,

"That Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle was really strong just now."

Dou Yanlan frowned in confusion,

"Why did the academy arrange such a powerful spirit beast as the enemy? Given the Trial’s limitations on teams of fewer than ten people, no one except you can deal with it."

Rolling his eyes, Feng Yuan said irritably,

"The academy never told you to defeat it, right? The Earth Maze doesn’t require you to fight all the way through, right?"

"But that Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle did try to attack us."

Qi Chen couldn’t help but retort, and Feng Yuan shrugged,

"That’s why you need to outsmart it. Didn’t we just blow it up?"

"Seems... right."

Glancing at Feng Yuan, Qi Chen was at a loss for words. Feng Yuan wasn’t wrong; they did blow up the Earth Manipulating Xuan Turtle just now. But was that really the weak point deliberately left by the academy?

Recalling something, Qi Chen looked at Feng Yuan with some confusion and asked,

"Speaking of which, what was that just now? Xiao Ji’s Underworld Domain seemed much larger than before?"

Remembering that hemispherical cave-covering Underworld Domain, Qi Chen realized belatedly that Xiao Ji’s Underworld Domain wasn’t quite right.

Xiao Ji, equally curious, looked at Feng Yuan, feeling that Feng Yuan seemed to know what was going on.

With a chuckle, Feng Yuan patted Xiao Ji’s head and said,

"This was something you accidentally discovered during a previous battle. It seems that when using the Underworld Domain, Xiao Ji can unconsciously alter the domain’s range."