MONSTER PARADISE

1661 - 1680

When Lin Huang returned to the Great Heaven Palace, Bai and Teng Ran were checking out in detail the changes that had taken place within them.

Lin Huang did not rush them; he waited patiently for them to finish their examination.

After some time, Teng Ran was the first to withdraw his consciousness from within him.

When he saw Lin Huang, he could not help smiling as he said, “I truly never thought that I would be able to achieve this in my lifetime.”

Nobody knew whether he was talking about elevating to Pure Spirit rank, or lord-level, or perhaps even both.

“This is still a far cry from what all of you will be able to achieve in the end,” Lin Huang responded with a smile.

As they were chatting, Bai had finally withdrawn his consciousness from within him as well.

“How are you feeling?” Lin Huang asked with a smile.

“I feel… very powerful.” All along, Bai never did have a boastful personality. “I’m under the illusion that I’m in control of everything.”

“I’m under the same illusion too,” Teng Ran said with a smile from where he was standing off to one side.

However, after speaking, Bai was now scrutinizing Lin Huang closely. He shook his head a moment later, “Unfortunately, I’m still not powerful enough. At present, I still don’t have sufficient abilities to protect Master.”

From where he stood on the sidelines, Teng Ran’s expression was full of confusion when he heard Bai say this. “I thought Master hasn’t yet elevated to become a Lord?”

Clearly, he had not sensed the abilities that Lin Huang was concealing.

“As expected, our Xiao Bai saw through me,” Lin Huang teased with a smile, “Teng Teng, you should learn from Xiao Bai.”

“What sort of nonsense nicknames are these?” Teng Ran covered his face with one hand.

Standing where he was to one side, Bai remained expressionless from beginning to end.

“Would you like to experience the gap between our abilities?” Lin Huang looked at the two of them with a cheeky grin.

For one, he was truly bored, and for another, he did not want these two to enter the Abyss again without being aware of their own abilities.

When he heard Lin Huang’s invitation, Teng Ran’s expression was full of puzzlement.

Even Bai, who had always been impervious to strong emotion and desires, displayed some interest.

He was the imperial monster who had been with Lin Huang the longest; this was not the first time Lin Huang had invited him to spar. However, it had been a long time indeed since he had last sparred with his master.

“You can both attack together. Also, under no circumstances must you hold back at all. If you don’t give it everything you’ve got, there’s a chance I might kill you right away.” Lin Huang chuckled, and the Great Heaven Palace instantly transformed into a sky full of stars.

Bai and Teng Ran locked eyes for a moment, then went into action at practically the same time.

They had developed this rapport over the last few months.

A blood-red mist shrouded the area behind Bai’s figure almost immediately. An instant later, countless blood-colored tentacles shot out of the blood-red mist like lightning, aiming straight at Lin Huang.

On every blood-red tentacle was a complex bright red Dao seal. Over twenty thousand Dao tattoos swirled on each bolt of lightning like hot molten iron.

There were over a million tentacles.