Blood trickled from Zhang Yi's lips. His face was ashen.
Yet he still forced himself to control the Ghost Vines, entangling the Devil Tiger again and again, desperately slowing its advance.
Around them, the other Inner Court disciples fought like madmen.
Companions they had trained and lived with daily lay critically injured, their fates unknown.
All of it was because of this beast.
Fear had long since been cast aside.
"Go… follow Xiaotao. I can hold on a bit longer,"
Zhang Lexuan weakly pushed Su Wen.
"As long as Elder Xuan arrives, we'll be safe…"
But Su Wen didn't move.
"ROAR!!!"
A terrifying roar erupted.
The sound arrived before the beast itself.
If a normal tiger's roar could make one's legs go weak, then facing a hundred-thousand-year soul beast head-on was enough to shatter one's courage entirely.
The Devil Tiger swatted aside Inner Court disciples who tried to block its path.
Its blood-red eyes locked onto Zhang Lexuan.
It was this human who had gravely wounded it.
As for Su Wen...
He was just an extra bite.
Su Wen felt his heartbeat skyrocket.
Slowly, he closed his eyes.
The crimson figure was getting closer and closer.
At this point, no one left in the team could stop it.
"Gale… can I borrow your territory for a moment?"
"Roar~"
A confused low growl echoed from the sea of consciousness.
"Thanks."
Su Wen suddenly opened his eyes.
Light gathered in his hand.
A white Poké Ball appeared.
Ever since it captured Gale, this Poké Ball had become nothing more than Gale's living space. It could no longer capture new pets.
But at this very moment—
It was Su Wen's final trump card.
The Corrosive Blood Devil Tiger leapt from an ancient tree, closing the distance instantly.
Everyone watched in despair.
Its massive jaws opened wide.
So close that Su Wen could already smell the stench of blood and decay from its mouth—
He decisively hurled the sweat-soaked white ball clenched in his hand.
"Buzz—"
White light erupted.
A pillar of radiance enveloped the Devil Tiger.
In its stunned gaze, its enormous body slowly vanished from the world.
The scene was so sudden—
So absurd—
That everyone froze in disbelief.
What the hell was that?!
It could temporarily seal away a hundred-thousand-year soul beast?!
Su Wen took a deep breath.
From his recent research, the Poké Ball functioned more like a highly precise soul-beast cultivation chamber.
As long as its "owner"—Gale—returned to the Poké Ball, recovery of health and soul power would be roughly three times faster.
And although this Poké Ball was white, it could still hold other soul beasts.
He had tested it before with hundred- and thousand-year soul beasts.
However, the ball only acknowledged Gale as its true master.
If Gale wanted to expel them, it would happen instantly.
That was why—
This had always been Su Wen's plan.
Seal the Corrosive Blood Devil Tiger inside the Poké Ball.
As long as they endured until its Blood Frenzy ended—
They would survive.
The only uncertainty was.....
The strongest soul beast he had tested this on before was only a thousand-year one.
Now he had jumped straight to a hundred-thousand-year existence.
Whether the Poké Ball could withstand it....
He had no idea.
"Pff—!"
Just as the thought crossed his mind, Su Wen suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood.
It felt as though his head had been smashed by a heavy hammer.
Inside the Poké Ball—
After a brief moment of confusion, the Corrosive Blood Devil Tiger had gone completely berserk.
It was, after all, only a white Poké Ball.
It was never meant to withstand prolonged abuse.
Against a hundred-thousand-year soul beast fighting at full power, it was already miraculous that it could last at all—one minute would have been an incredible achievement.
But Su Wen had never expected it to imprison such a monster indefinitely.
He only needed time.
As for whether the Poké Ball would be able to repair itself after shattering…
At a moment like this, survival mattered far more than consequences.
The Poké Ball began to tremble violently, as if an unimaginably terrifying existence were sealed within.
Fine cracks spread across its surface like a spiderweb, multiplying rapidly.
"Hng—!"
Su Wen clutched his head and curled up on the ground, his face turning an ugly shade of purple.
This was the first time in his life he had experienced such pain...
as though his brain were being torn apart alive.
It felt like someone had plunged a blade into his skull and stirred it viciously.
The agony was suffocating.
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