The Charm of Soul Pets

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“Tell them to separate!” angrily roared Zhuo Qing. 

It was extremely difficult to create an elemental pirate team. This setback made Zhuo Qing explode with rage. 

The elemental soul pets began to separate and flee in different directions. Zhuo Qing angrily ordered a group of beast type soul pets to go assist and tear all the demons to shreds. 

This group of beasts numbered around 2000. If they were to clash directly, even if the demons outranked the beasts, it would be extremely difficult for the demons to deal with them. Indeed, the demons’ defensive power and offensive strength were both much weaker than beast type creatures. 

Yuan Sui’s commanding abilities were very proficient and when he saw a huge group of beast type pirates charging at them, he ordered: “Retreat to the highland jungle!”.

Yuan Sui had already instructed the navy members not to overzealously fight. Even if the enemy only had half its life left, once the order came, they would have to retreat without hesitation!

Indeed, once he gave the order, all of the demons turned directions and began to retreat in the direction they came from. 

The speed of beasts couldn’t keep up with demons. Soon, the 2000 beasts were left far behind. 

“Old Zhong, take a group of people and chase them!” said Big Leader Zhuo Qing. 

If a group of high ranking demons was hiding around them, their elemental soul pets would be ostensibly useless. It would be impossible for them to release any techniques. 

Old Zhong nodded his head. He immediately chose stronger subordinates and brought a team of around 3000 soul pets to chase in the direction Yuan Sui had fled. 

“Beast type legion, crush them!” Big Leader Zhuo Qing gave an order. 

The person leading the beast type legion was the grim pirate Su Guanluo. Once he had the order, he immediately chanted an incantation and summoned a purple Large Devil Panther.

Lightning scorched the air as countless lightning bolts ostentatiously diffused through the area. Su Guanluo jumped onto his purple Large Devil Panther and led the charge right at the New Moon Navy. 

The charging lightning of the Devil Panther was the trademark symbol of the beast type pirate legion’s attack. Over 100 pirates chieftains let out loud cries and urged their beast type soul pets to closely follow behind PIrate Leader Su Guanluo! 

There were nearly ten thousand creatures in this beast type legion. The ten thousand beasts charging down to the battlefield was much more striking than three thousand horned armor beasts. 

At the very front of the wild beast charge was the Lightning Devil Panther, which was as fast as lightning. 

When Hai Qie saw Su Guanluo’s soul pet charge, her eyes instantly filled with rage and hatred.

It was this bloodthirsty and cruel pirate that had killed her father and mother. Even her two older brothers had miserably died in the hands of this pirate. 

“I’ll deal with him!” Hai Qie faintly trembled. This was the first time she truly faced Su Guanluo and now her strength was enough to contend with this executioner. 

“Ye Wansheng, you and Hai Qie lead the defense against these beasts.” said Chu Mu. 

Ye Wansheng got serious and glanced at the navy members behind him. 

New Moon Navy had a total of 800 beast type soul pets. This amount was not even a tenth of the pirates. However, New Moon Navy’s composite strength was several times stronger than this group of ragtag pirates. Added on Ye Wansheng and Hai Qie, two high class dominator rank experts, it was possible for them to fight against ten times the amount of enemies. 

“Try and keep the battle line where we can see.” Chu Mu instructed Hai Qie and Ye Wansheng.

Even if they had the advantage in this legion-style warfare, it was hard to avoid casualties. 

Chu Mu didn’t want too many casualties to occur when the New Moon Navy fought the pirates. If the situation wasn’t looking good, Chu Mu would take action. 

Chu Mu had in fact already taken action. 

The reason why the New Moon Navy’s formation hadn’t been impacted yet was due to the Devil Tree Battle Soldier which was standing in front of the navy and acting as an impenetrable plant fortress. Even Pirate Lin Kang’s Iron Blood Rhinoceros couldn’t take a step past. This also gave the most safety to New Moon Navy’s elemental soul pets, allowing them to use techniques without fear. 

As the ten thousand beasts charged through, they suffered bombardments from elemental soul pets. Technique after technique rained down and by the time these beasts approached the area of battle, there only remained 8000. 

In an instant, one fifth of the beast type legion had been lost. This thus demonstrated the terrifying power of 500 elementals at least of the emperor rank. 

8000 against 800. The difference was huge. 

Hai Qie didn’t hold back. The hatred in her heart towards Su Guanluo made her want nothing more than to ground him into mince meat! 

Three high class dominator rank soul pets were instantly summoned. She was riding on one of them and with a bit of momentum, charged straight at Su Guanluo who was at the very front with overbearing grievance. 

Half a step behind, Ye Wansheng was stunned, thinking to himself that this female leader was even more brave and fierce than himself. 

Chanting an incantation, purple lightning bolts instantly emerged around Ye Wansheng. 

These purple lightning bolts formed an enormous lightning totem in front of him that shot up in the sky and seemed like it was going to touch the oppressive black clouds. 

Sky-cleaving lightning bolts suddenly appeared. They hung between the heaven and earth and the purple color bent lightning bolts resembled purple deity giants!

Dense smatterings of lightning appeared in the dark clouds, intersecting around this godly figure and transforming into destructive swords that swung down towards the island. 

Chu Mu looked up, and saw the soul pet Ye Wansheng had summoned. He showed an expression of shock on his face. 

Only the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake could have this type of a body. Its eyes were like cold stars that hung high up and contemptuously stared down at the tiny creatures on the ground like insects! 

“Empress… Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake!” the hearts of the New Moon Navy members jumped when they saw the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake. 

The aura released by the high class dominator rank Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake was capable of influencing the entire battlefield. Regardless if it were the arrogant and rampant pirates, or it were New Moon Navy, both sides felt the contemptuous tyrannical aura of the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake! 

“Hong hong hong hong hong!!!!!!!!!”

Each bolt of heavenly lightning that resembled swords of judgement managed to instakill a dozen pirate beasts. Under the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake’s control, the dense smattering lightning instantly annihilated the 500 wild beasts charging at the very front. 

Su Guanluo’s charging had slowed down slightly and the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake’s figure was enshrouding him. Although it wasn’t attacking his Devil Panther, it exerted a large amount of pressure on him! 

“They had a soul pet of this rank?!” Su Guanluo creased his brows and turned serious. 

With the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake’s destructive power, it wouldn’t be long before the 8000 wild beasts were annihilated. Someone had to stop this Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake. 

Su Guanluo chanted an incantation and summoned his stronger main pet - a Evil Eye Ghost Bird! 

The Evil Eye Ghost Bird beat its wings as its body was covered by a large ball of death energy. 

As it flew into the sky, the ghostly aura on its body was shaken off!

The miasmic aura was capable of confusing the vision and perception of enemies. Su Guanluo didn’t believe the enemy would continue to recklessly release techniques when they were unable to see. 

Indeed, the appearance of the Evil Eye Ghost Bird was able to curb the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake’s might. Ye Wansheng immediately let out a loud curse! 

“I’ll deal with that Evil Eye Ghost Bird.” Hai Qie hadn’t lost herself in the hatred that was covering her eyes. She could see that Ye Wansheng’s Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake was an absolute destroyer in a group fight. She had to let his Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake release its obliteration lightning in order to raise the morale of the navy members. 

Ye Wansheng nodded his head and glanced at the navy members behind him. Seeing that they had already summoned their soul pets, he used a mental voice to say to them: “Don’t leave the 2 kilometer range of my Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake!” 

In terms of size, there was probably no creature in this world that could compare to the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake. Its body was as large as a mountain peak and a casual flippin over of its body was capable of crushing a huge number of emperors and monarchs to death.

The navy members were extremely organized and they formed a formation around the Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake, waiting for the pirate legion to arrive. 

“Ao ao ao~~~~~~”

A dragon roared. Ye Wansheng was extremely familiar with this iconic roar. It was definitely Chu Mu’s Spectral Hidden Dragon! 

“Chu Mu, you’re going to collect souls?” Ye Wansheng used a mental voice to ask from afar. 

After the beautiful performance of the Spectral Hidden Dragon in the independence fight, Ye Wansheng learned of its secret. 

“Yes. The Little Hidden Dragon’s soul has grown to about 70%. After eating a few more high rank souls, it will probably be able to reach 100%.” said Chu Mu. 

The Little Hidden Dragon’s peak dominator rank strength was nearly there so Chu Mu had no reason to let off the souls of these pirates. 

Chu Mu’s Little Hidden Dragon was even more violent than Ye Wansheng’s Empress Heavenly Thunder Snake. Moreover, it could disappear and appear unpredictably. By the time it reaped over 1000 souls, these pirates may not even discover a terrifying devouring souls dragon in the chaotic fight! 

Sang Ying, Chao Lengchuan, Pang Yue, Zeng Bang, and the others all had their attention of the thousands of pirate beasts behind. The enemies behind had no very powerful chieftain or leader. Although there were a lot of enemies, with the four of them there, it would be easy for them to deal with. Indeed, the average strength of those pirates behind was only at the peak monarch rank. Any dominator rank technique would be able to cause a mass of deaths. 

On the side of New Moon Navy, the number of dominator rank experts clearly surpassed the pirates, especially experts of the high class dominator rank and above. 

Dominator rank creatures were killing machines in a group fight. The start of the fight was still chaotic, but after a while, it was possible to visibly see the pirate’s side be crushed! 

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TL: Pretty sure the ranking of pirate chieftain, leader, and member is messed up in the raws...