Chapter 132: Chapter 113: The Sword King’s Legacy! Absorb the Secret Realm!_2
The pendant was thrown over, but Su Ping just stood there, stunned. He had already given up hope on the matter of inheritance.
After all, he couldn’t possibly abandon the little paper man. Unexpectedly, this woman had pulled such a stunt?
Qin Erlong, however, looked at Dong Muyun with some wariness. This woman doesn’t look like good news! Is she trying to compete with me for a grandson-in-law? Absolutely not! Qin Erlong made up his mind. This brat might be as thick as a log, but I can’t just let my granddaughter’s situation be ignored. I have to take the initiative! Otherwise, such a prime candidate for a grandson-in-law might get snatched away!
Seeing Su Ping standing there in a daze, Dong Muyun chuckled, "However, as per our previous agreement, the exploration of the Secret Realm this time was supposed to last twenty-four hours. With the Secret Realm now collapsing, we naturally can’t explore. According to the contract, if the exploration duration isn’t met, we reduce the corresponding reward proportionally!"
At this point, looking at Su Ping’s helpless and resentful expression, Dong Muyun shrugged her shoulders. "So, according to the rules, the Mechanical Core is gone. You can have the Yuntian Resort for these few hours."
With the issue of the Secret Realm resolved and her curiosity satisfied, Dong Muyun had no reason to continue. Whether dismantling or moving those instruments and buildings, their value would decrease—it was a matter of going with the flow.
No! My Mechanical Core! Su Ping wailed inwardly, but his face remained expressionless.
After all, this was clearly stated in the contract. Moreover, he had just taken a significant advantage of her. If Dong Muyun were to be blunt about it, she had truly gained nothing from this trip to the Secret Realm.
Su Ping glanced at Dong Muyun and said very seriously, "Regardless, I owe you a favor!"
Having gotten the response she wanted, Dong Muyun’s face blossomed with a springtime smile. She waved her hand and soared into the sky, which was now tinted with twilight.
Qin Erlong warily watched the woman’s retreating figure. She wasn’t much inferior to his own granddaughter in looks, and her status and background weren’t bad either. Most importantly, she had the advantage of proximity, while his granddaughter was far away in the Magic Capital. This situation seemed very dangerous to him.
So, Qin Erlong turned his head to look at Su Ping. "Su Ping, have you been in touch with Xiao Xue recently?"
Su Ping’s face stiffened, and he scratched his head awkwardly. "I’ve been busy researching the Wanmu Wolf, as you know..."
"It’s alright, it’s alright. I was just asking. You young people should communicate more! Okay, I’ve been here with you all day, so I’ll be going now. Remember, communicate more!"
Su Ping helplessly and wryly saw Old Qin off to his car. The president of the Jianghai Province Beast Master Association, even from the car, didn’t forget to remind Su Ping to connect more with Qin Xiaoxue.
Sighing and shaking his head, Su Ping didn’t linger. Instead, he sprinted towards the banks of the Lingxi River at top speed, taking Da Zhuang with him but not calling Old Sha.
Because he still had one last thing to do, something he wanted to try. Though I’m somewhat uncertain about this!
After breaking through to the Elite Level, the Space Characteristic of Su Ping’s Beast Taming Space that awakened was Space Absorption. This was a unique and rare Space Characteristic, one Su Ping hadn’t even dared to share with others because its effect was just too unusual. Absorbing the Origin of a Secret Realm to enhance his own Beast Taming Space’s abilities... it seemed quite sinister no matter how he looked at it. But to expect Su Ping to restrain himself from trying it out was obviously unrealistic.
So, after everyone had left, Su Ping still briskly returned to the banks of the Lingxi River. The shattered space vortex made him somewhat nervous. He could sense that to activate the Space Absorption ability, he had to get dangerously close to the Secret Realm. Moreover, for the ability to activate, the Secret Realm could not contain any Pet Beasts exceeding his own Realm. The activation conditions were quite harsh. Under such circumstances, whether it could even be activated was an unknown.
Su Ping stretched out his hand, directly touching the weak connection of the spatial ripple. Afterward, he felt an invisible tentacle extend from within his Beast Taming Space, connecting through his hand to the broken world before him. At that moment, his Beast Taming Space was like an entity encountering the most delicious delicacy. It plunged a feeler into this shattered world.
The Secret Realm was collapsing. Its original commander-rank Sword Devices had already been cleared out countless times, and any that remained were annihilated by the spatial fragmentation. This was a Secret Realm world on the verge of breaking apart. And Su Ping seized the last thread of opportunity for Space Absorption. This was a Mysterious Realm Space left behind by an Emperor-level Beastmaster. Even though there were no resources left, the world itself was incredibly precious.
Su Ping felt an extremely special power being infused into his Beast Taming Space. This power made his Beast Taming Space seem like a starving infant, desperately absorbing nutrients. At the original boundaries of his Beast Taming Space, the once-stable area began to ripple again. Then, the space, already a size larger than that of an ordinary Elite Level Beast Tamer, slowly started to extend outward once more.
However, the small, newly expanded section looked somewhat different from the previously lush green terrain. The ground was pitch-black, with a texture somewhere between metal and rock, clearly similar to the conditions inside the Secret Realm.
Before Su Ping could carefully perceive it, the expansion of his Beast Taming Space caused his spiritual power, which had surged from his breakthrough two days prior, to ripple once again. Before Su Ping could react, his recently attained Realm directly advanced another step!
Elite Second Rank!
Su Ping slowly opened his eyes. The vortex door to the shattered Mysterious Realm Space vanished without a trace. The tentacle that had connected to the shattered Secret Realm through his body also disappeared completely.
It was as if nothing had happened. However, when Su Ping merged his consciousness into his Beast Taming Space, he saw that his original ’three-bedroom, one-living-room’ space had gained an additional ’0.25 room.’ At the same time, feedback from his Space Characteristics arrived as soon as his consciousness appeared:
[Space Absorption from Secret Realm: Obtained partial Origin characteristics of the Secret Realm. Insufficient Origin absorbed. No additional enhancement.]
[Can continue to absorb similar Secret Realms or obtain corresponding resources/treasures to complete this Secret Realm’s Origin as own Space Characteristics.]
Su Ping’s brows rose slightly. He, of course, hadn’t expected to gain any terrifying enhancement from a single instance of Space Absorption. After all, his own Realm was too low. It’s a pity. If this space hadn’t collapsed, I could have waited a bit, until my Realm was higher, before absorbing it.
Shaking his head, Su Ping wasn’t greedy. He exhaled and returned to his house to examine the inheritance left by the Fengdu Sword King within the sword-shaped pendant’s space. His earlier words hadn’t been mere talk. If he had the capability and opportunity in the future, he would still strive to fulfill the Fengdu Sword King’s last wish and see if he could create the so-called ’Soul of the Sword’ according to the king’s vision.
「Meanwhile」
Qin Erlong, having returned home, couldn’t hold back any longer. The ’UFO’ Pet Beast had recorded the scene of Su Ping’s ’live broadcast’ within the Secret Realm. After watching it repeatedly, especially the Wanmu Wolf’s outrageous performance, Qin Erlong finally couldn’t resist sending the video to an authority in this field—a prominent figure within his own family.
Then, not long after, his phone rang.
Sure enough, the voice on the other end of the line wasted no words, getting straight to the point, "Qin Erlong, where did you wrangle up this wolf from?"