"Ji Feng lost to Void Tan largely because of the other's magic-sealing domain, and because the natural energy inside the ruins was thin, so Myriad Affinity could not be brought to full effect..."

When a beast breaks through from Monarch to Overlord, its life level rises and its body is remade once more; body and spirit become extremely sensitive to natural energy, able to sense clear elemental force even with eyes closed.

A fire-type Overlord dire beast might spend only 100 points of energy to condense an ordinary little fireball, yet under its powerful command of nature, that fireball may in the course of its flight instantly draw in the blazing element from nature, from the sun, and become a lethal fireball enough to slay a Monarch with ease.

This was the application of the power of nature.

To spend the smallest price and raise a skill's might to its uttermost.

To borrow the force of heaven, earth, and nature to strike.

This was why, for Overlord-tier beings, a creature's own energy value was no longer the primary gauge of combat strength.

Because a single ordinary skill unleashed with a mere hundred energy points might, amplified by the power of nature, display a terror beyond all comparison—might even rewrite nature itself.

Ji Feng was so strong because his Myriad Affinity talent could heighten his beasts' affinity for and command of natural force, producing a similar effect. So anyone fooled by his beast's five-million-plus energy value was as good as beaten.

Even Shi Jin's current beasts, though some of their nature-related skills had been trained to full mastery, still fell short of Ji Feng's beasts in affinity for and control of natural force—after all, they had no talent to bolster them.

Still, once they broke through to Overlord tier, their life level would rise and their bodies would become one with nature; with full mastery in nature skills as a backstop, their command of natural force would not be poor at all—it would be formidable.

"Fighting out in the open, Ji Feng can bring his strength to its very peak..."

When Director Zhong finished speaking, he looked at the Iron-Eating Beast—and what he saw gave him a start.

"An energy value of 7.5 million!"

"Absurd!"

Everyone present knew that the Jiuli battle beasts had three states: the contained state that stores energy, the normal state that strengthens the physique, and the overloaded energy-boost state in which the edge bursts forth.

The contained state was its Iron-Eating Beast form—the weakest form of all. How could even this form possess 7.5 million energy?!

"He must have already used that piece of legendary magnetic gold," said Feng Jin.

"I wonder what happens when the power of nature goes up against a bursting edge..."

Everyone fixed their full attention on the battle.

"Wind-Blaze Light Blade!" The instant the battle began, Ji Feng had the Elemental Sovereign unleash the signature ultimate of the wind, fire, and light elements against the Iron-Eating Beast.

The next instant, an elemental blade wreathed in whirlwind, flame, and radiance swiftly condensed in the Elemental Sovereign's hand. At the same time, as Ji Feng's eyes narrowed shut, the pitch-black world was flooded with boundless light!!

Light and searing heat from the sun, wind-element force from the air—all of it surged toward the already terrifying Wind-Blaze Light Blade in the Elemental Sovereign's hand.

Hummm!!!

In an instant, it was as if an elemental tide had risen outside; natural energy from all across the sky gathered into that skill, and the Elemental Sovereign radiated a horrifying surge of energy.

Seeing this, the spectators' gazes sharpened—this truly was Overlord-tier power.

At this moment, facing the assault about to be launched, Shi Jin's Eleven was not without a response of its own. Eleven raised its head slightly. Though it had mastered Lightning Rod, that thing was utterly outmatched at drawing on natural force compared with the opponent, so there was no point showing it off.

BOOM!!!!

With its head raised slightly, Eleven let out a howl, and its aura erupted in full!!

Skill approaching the Way—King's Deterrence!

From that tiny body burst a mighty aura.

With a crack like shattering space, the natural energy gathered in the arena shuddered—as though it had laid eyes on a true sovereign of the elements—and scattered with a roar in all directions, swift as the waves!!

A powerful Deterrence skill could disperse rain clouds and silence thunder with a single thought; it had reached the point where nature itself deferred to it.

Though it lacked the talent to learn the Anti-Magic Domain, through Deterrence Eleven could still, to a degree, suppress the opponent's command over the natural force of heaven and earth.

At this moment the opposing Elemental Sovereign's gaze sharpened; its mental fluctuations pounded like a racing heart, sensing the terrifying pressure emanating from this Iron-Eating Beast.

With a boom, in the collision between the unparalleled elemental tide and the wave of Deterrence, space itself seemed to clash and be crushed together; the entire arena was wrapped in the standoff of two immense fields of force.

Whoosh!!

By now the Elemental Sovereign had finished forming its Wind-Blaze Light Blade—less than perfect, yet still terrifyingly powerful. On Eleven's side, as it radiated Deterrence, hardening matter flowed naturally through contact with its body, spreading over a broad expanse of the ground.

A hardened field ten meters across took silent shape, and the earth turned pitch black.

Right after, the Elemental Sovereign, elemental blade in hand, its body reduced to a flash of light, hurtled at Eleven at breakneck speed, slashing down sharp and fierce like a knight wielding a longsword.

With its superior vision, Eleven could just make out its opponent's movements. Facing an attack too fast for human eyes to follow, it showed no panic—it folded its arms across its chest, platinum light flickering over its body.

At the same time, on the hardened field beneath its feet, Dou Dou Bears hatched one after another from the hardened ground—the thirty Dou Dou Bear clones it had stockpiled beforehand appeared in an instant behind Eleven!!!

As they were born and grew, they too, like Eleven, blazed all over with platinum light!!

Legion technique—Solid as Gold!

Amid a chorus of "ying ying ying ying ying," thirty Dou Dou Bears appeared. By now these Dou Dou Bears had long since been utterly transformed.

With a mastery-grade Beans-to-Soldiers plus a transcendent-grade Clone combination, the Dou Dou Bears' growth tier had long since reached Monarch tier; each one now possessed a million energy—comparable to an ordinary Monarch-species, Monarch-tier dire beast.

All thirty together totaled a staggering thirty million energy.

If not for the fact that these Dou Dou Bears had been stockpiled in advance, Eleven could never have released so many in one breath during an ordinary fight.

What was even more terrifying was that the proficient-tier Doudou Bears, though still unable to inherit super-tier skills, had already unlocked low-level skills to the level of consummate mastery.

In other words, every one of those Doudou Bears with a million energy units now had access to a consummate-mastery Impregnable Fortress.

Then the next scene unfolded: with Eleven's technique-verging-on-the-Dao Impregnable Fortress at its core, the thirty monarch-tier Doudou Bears simultaneously unfurled and stacked thirty more Impregnable Fortresses!

These thirty-one Impregnable Fortresses, under the unique resonance effect of legion arts, erupted with an incomparably brilliant, dazzling power!

Amid that gathering of champions, on the field, the platinum light upon the thirty-one Iron-eating Beasts transformed into a vast golden domain that enshrouded them all.

BOOM!