Chapter 166: Chapter 146 Second Assassination

At the first scent of flesh and blood.

The Twin-fiend Dogs of the breeding farm became restless.

One by one, the pups wagged their tails and crowded outside the kitchen house, barking incessantly.

Lurking in the water, Taotie slowly surfaced, its dark spine cutting through the water like a ridge, looking puzzledly toward its master’s location.

It seemed to smell something sweet.

Completely different from the food its master usually fed it.

Could it be a new food developed by its master?

At that thought, Taotie’s eyes lit up.

It headed for the shore.

Water cascaded down either side of its spine like a waterfall.

“Woof woof.” Seeing Taotie come ashore, a group of Twin-fiend Dogs quickly gathered around.

Taotie let out a long, melodious chant.

The surrounding Twin-fiend Dogs scattered in all directions.

Taotie walked over to the toy-like house and lowered its head.

Its eyes, as large as cars, peered through the tiny window at its master inside.

“Wait until it’s ready before you eat,” Chen Xing turned to look outside the window.

“Awoo~”

Taotie let out an excited low growl.

It couldn’t help but stomp its feet happily.

Chen Xing felt the ground shaking violently beneath his feet and quickly soothed it, “Alright, stop jumping for now.”

Taotie calmed down, looking at its master with hopeful eyes.

This should be for me, right?

Taotie stared with its two large eyes

As Taotie’s size continued to grow, it became inconvenient in some ways.

Fortunately, he had the pet body shape correction skill, which occasionally allowed him to keep Taotie’s size reduced so they could play together.

Coming to the kitchen, Chen Xing processed the ingredients and began making a batch of high-grade meat pet food.

After spending an hour, a fresh batch of high-grade meat pet food was finally prepared.

Looking at this fresh high-grade meat pet food.

It looked less like a meal and more like a bowl of shiny, translucent red grapes.

The juicy meat granules were distinct, each one resembling a fiery red grape.

Inside seemed to flow a faint golden syrup through each granule of meat.

To Taotie, this serving of high-grade meat pet food was probably not even enough to stick between its teeth.

So Chen Xing used the body shape correction to shrink Taotie down to only two meters.

Shrunken in size, Taotie discovered the bowl of pet food seemed much larger!

Its eyes brightened.

It felt ravenously hungry.

“You eat first.”

Chen Xing pushed the high-grade meat pet food towards Taotie.

This portion of meat pet food was the only one made so far, whether for the strongest Beast Tamer or the one who had been with him the longest, Taotie was the first to sample it.

But before Taotie ate, Chen Xing also let Sìxiàng and Dong Jun each try a bit.

After tasting, the two Beast Tamers showed their approval of their master’s cooking skills.

After eating the high-grade meat pet food, Taotie’s body felt hot.

It was like a little furnace, with blue smoke rising from its head and the blue-gold patterns between its scales shimmering.

This lasted for nearly ten minutes.

The spectacle gradually subsided.

Chen Xing wasn’t sure if it was his imagination, but he felt that the scales and patterns on Taotie’s body seemed to have become more refined.

[Species]Water Mansion Greedy King Crocodile

[State]Healthy (Slightly Hungry)

[Energy Level]66

[Energy Level Limit] 100

[Attribute]Water

[Current Body Length]131 meters

[Maximum Body Length]345 meters

[Weight]20520 tons

[Skills]

Primary Skills: Water Devouring (Surpass), Giant Tail Sweep (Perfect), Water Column (Expert), Slap (Expert)

Intermediate Skills: Great Vortex (Surpass), Water Curtain Light Armor (Perfect), Heavy Trample (Perfect), Bursting Water Volley (Expert)

Advanced Skills: Great Flood (Surpass), Deep Sea Assault (Perfect)

Passive Skills: Water Mimicry·Tranquility, Water-Breaking Spirit Scales

Innate Skill: Vortex of Demise (Perfect)

The list of Taotie’s attributes could be described as luxurious.

In addition to five skills with perfect proficiency, there were also two skills with proficiency reaching the transcendence level.

Meanwhile, Taotie’s maximum body length had increased by 5 meters.

Just the effect of a portion of high-grade meat pet food resulted in a significant purification of Taotie’s bloodline.

Long-term consumption could even elevate its bloodline to the species limit.

…

In a secret underground room.

“Your mission is to assassinate him. Once completed, you will receive ten thousand Spirit Gold and obtain residency in Fentian Giant City,” one of the Beast Tamers wearing a silver mask took the mission list handed over by another.

The mission list detailed the target’s photo, name, and current location.

“Is it really him?”

“To assassinate such a young guy, they actually need two silver-level assassins.”

“The champion of the high school competition this year, huh? Thwarting a genius before they grow up is the most interesting.”

“There’s a high probability that there are covert protective forces around the target, so it would be best if you two could cooperate well.”

“Don’t worry.”

The two of them took on the task list.

…

Overnight, Chen Xing checked Taotie’s panel the next day.

He found that the current length data in the column had increased from 131 to 145 meters.

An increase of 14 meters in total.

And the weight had changed from 20,520 tons to 29,259 tons.

The weight had increased by nearly half.

As Taotie’s size grew ever larger, each additional meter brought with it an increasingly exaggerated tonnage increase.

The more nutrients needed to increase its size, the more were needed.

The effect of this advanced carnivorous pet food was extremely strong, but it was a pity that the ingredients were difficult to obtain.

If they could get a complete corpse of a monster that achieved fleshly transcendence, that would be perfect.

It was also unknown how many energy levels Taotie could now match up against.

Once Taotie’s length exceeded one hundred meters, Chen Xing discovered that every little movement it made involved terrifying figures of power.

It didn’t resemble a ferry with a length of over one hundred meters, moving slowly.

Its body was agile; it could bounce and jump,

and could even perform a Thomas spin in the water.

Such a level of physical prowess meant that each and every movement contained an immense amount of strength.

It was no longer something that could simply be measured by energy levels.

To facilitate Taotie’s better exhibition of physical strength,

Chen Xing even had it learn slap skills.

Together with a sweeping tail slash and Death Roll, there was also Heavy Trample.

Taotie’s teeth, tail, claws, including its trampling, all of these attacking parts had mastered corresponding generic skills.

Generic skills allowed Taotie to better utilize its physical advantages,

ensuring that the force of each attack was not dispersed due to its massive size.

It could concentrate all its strength in a single blow; even if it was just an ant facing it head-on, it would suffer all the power represented by that strike.

Unfortunately, it wasn’t easy to test this level of power.

And there was no target for Chen Xing to check the current strength of Taotie.

But compared to during the High School Cup, Taotie’s explosive physical strength had grown by more than ten times now.

…

On a small hill not far away,

two Beast Tamers wearing masks looked gravely at the mountainous figure beside the reservoir.

“This Beast Taming is not normal!”

“No wonder they sent two silver-level assassins to kill him, his Beast Taming’s growth in size is somewhat abnormal. It was only fifty-something meters during the High School Cup, and now it must have doubled at least.”

“No worries, just because the beast is strong doesn’t mean the Beast Tamer is also strong. Besides, with such a large size, the energy level can’t be that high.”

“Find the right opportunity later and strike directly at the target. As long as the target is dead, that’s all that matters.”

The Beast Tamer on the left summoned a basketball-sized Silver Bee.

“Wait, if the opponent’s beast has a sharp sixth sense, it may be detected if your beast sneaks over. It’s better to use a long-range method to assassinate,” said the Beast Tamer on the right with caution.

“Moreover, the protective force hidden in the dark on the other side is unknown for now. If your beast is discovered after sneaking over, it loses the meaning of a stealth attack.”

The Beast Tamer wearing a mask on the left looked at him, “Do you have a way?”

“Hmm, watch this.”

The Beast Tamer on the right summoned a deer-like creature with a completely purple body and extremely large antlers on its head.

Between the antlers of the deer, faint arcs of electricity flickered.

“Illusory Thunder Deer, no wonder you’re so confident.”

The Illusory Thunder Deer had a weak physique, but it had an innate skill in casting spells.

Far away, Chen Xing was feeding the Twin-fiend pups, when suddenly a bolt of purple lightning shot from a nearby mountain towards Chen Xing.

It was almost instantaneous that Chen Xing’s entire body was wrapped in lightning, and even the iron basin he was holding emitted intense lightning, turning the minced meat inside it to charred black.

All the lightning was swallowed by Chen Xing’s body, which acted like a black hole, absorbing all the power of the lightning.

The few Twin-fiend pups near him all had their hair stand on end and were so scared they started yelping loudly.

The closest Twin-fiend pup even stiffened its four little legs and flopped straight onto the ground.

Meanwhile, Taotie’s body, tens of meters away from Chen Xing, was suddenly covered with a surge of lightning.

Feeling a jolt, half of Taotie’s head that was leaning on the bank snapped alert.

Its eyes suddenly widened.

Zzt~

As the lightning passed, the figure of Sìxiàng appeared beside Chen Xing following the dispersal of the lightning.

“Master, the attack came from over there,” Sìxiàng pointed in the direction from where the purple lightning had come.

Chen Xing looked down at the charred pet food in the iron basin and at the few little dogs beside him that were yelping in fear just now.

He picked up the little dog lying stiff on the ground, feeling its slowly beating heart.

Thankfully, it had just gone into shock.

Lucky he hadn’t been holding any of the Twin-fiend Dogs in his arms just now, or else…

At this thought, a surge of nameless anger welled up within Chen Xing.

I’ve painstakingly raised a litter of dogs, and if they were gone, do you have any idea how long it would take me to rear them back to 80 loyalty again?

Had these assassination attempts ever ended?

“First, take the little pups and hide in the basement,” Chen Xing said to Sìxiàng.

He couldn’t bear the thought of any loss befalling these Twin-fiend Dogs.

Then Chen Xing looked in the direction where the attack had come from.

“Taotie, bring down the mountain for me.”