Thunder Fists

The four tamed wild beasts evolved into demonic beasts as Qai hoped them to have—and they were all in the initial Earth stage of Expert realm.

But although they evolved, they did not awaken any Elemental attribute—demonic beasts' cores without attributes were actually the source of common class skills.

Qai theorized that probably the beasts that the 'Beast Taming' skill could 'control,' outside the soul contract, would definitely evolve but they could never awaken any element.

That fact was definitely outside his expectation.

But even then, additional demonic beasts under his control were without a doubt a welcome boost to the strength of the Shu family.

Qai thought it to name them 'domesticated demonic beasts' because they were practically not 'contracted' and as if 'tamed' in its strictest sense.

Qai could not have any internal communication with them whatsoever—it was just plain 'instinctive control.' They would somehow answer commands just like regular pets as if their wild insticts were tempered.

But then again, their transformation was better than nothing. Their presence in the household was in fact more affordable and probably more effective than hiring guards.

And since Qai's cultivation strength leveled up, he felt that maybe he could still tame a beast or two more. Thus, his next target was to decide which wild mortal beasts to tame.

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Inside the Darkwood Forest, Qai had been trainig his fighting skills with Shandian against peak Heaven stage Expert demonic beasts.

He opted to pick a close range attack fist for his third skill upon reaching Heaven stage. He felt that situations would come that long range attacks would be meaningless—and that not every fight would be a 'party' combat. So he thought that he needed to be as unpredictable as possible in fights.

In a melee against a demonic Metal element attribute Battle Rhino, Qai tried to combine his attacks by first slowing the rhino down with his arrow attacks empowered by a Heaven stage lightning.

'Swooosh,' 'swooosh.'

'Baaam,' 'baaam.'

Only then did he used his 'Flash' to close his distance before finally throwing a frontal barrage of thunderous punches with his new 'Thunder Fists' skill.

A visible pair of big lightning gauntlets formed strikingly around his fists made his attack looked so frightening. The onslaught of a dozen of punches sounded like rolling drums due to its lightning element.

'Thud,' 'thud,' 'thud,' 'thud,' 'thud.'

'Roaaar.'

Qai used his 'Thunder Fists' on one side and Shandian unleashed its 'Lightning Claw' on another—a combined attack that effectively confused the target.

When the rhino shifted its focus on the contracted black tiger, Qai tried to distance himself once again with his movement skill and once more unleashed arrows after arrows to stun the rhino's movement.

The rhino's thick hide was already oozing with defense but it became even harder to break when the rhino used its skill, 'Metal Coat.'

The skill surprisingly transformed its skin into a protective metal covering raising the rhino's defense several times powerful.

However, Qai and Shandian simply repeated their synchronized assault to drain the rhino's strength.

The onslaught was so effective that the two hardly needed any medicinal pill after they finished the rhino off.

Qai and Shandian spent three days in the forest and trained monstrously almost without break—so much so that demonic beasts in Expert realm apparently avoided their presence.

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Qai, on his way back home, picked a wild bear and a wild ox to tame. He thought of making the bear a demonic beast guard in the main manor and the ox to handle hauling works once they evolved.

He was hoping that the same process he did to the four domesticated demonic beasts would apply to two new wild mortal beasts.

Back in the plateau, moreover, Qai asked Jing to help him put up another stable for the ox and a bigger shed for the bear.

And when the two finally built them, Qai placed the newly tamed wild beasts and started to feed them cultivating pills and crushed cores and mixed herbs.