After using cheats, I became the strongest Beast Tamer

This wasn't the main point; more importantly, the success or failure of the Calamity Ordeal affected the very foundation of its authority.

Boom!

A presence in the mist exploded with a boom, and the red fog on the moon became even more vivid.

"The lunar eclipse is gone!?"

Qin Xuan suddenly noticed a change in the moon above.

"It's not gone; it seems to have undergone some kind of change," Qiu Shangqing said, his gaze falling on Taotie.

He absolutely refused to believe that the changes had nothing to do with Taotie.

Because ever since the sound of the conch had been heard, the moon had begun to change, and the timing was too coincidental.

The darkness that shrouded the moon's surface gradually receded. The moon revealed its face again, but this time, it was not the pristine white moon but a sinister and extreme crimson!

The crimson moon lit up the earth; beneath its bloody light, the whole world was dyed a deep red.

Chen Xing's expression was solemn, needing Taotie to pass the Calamity Ordeal, but he didn't know what the Calamity Ordeal actually was.

"Here it comes." Chen Xing seemed to perceive something, he raised his head and saw countless shadows falling from the sky above.

These shadows appeared out of nowhere and looked like some kind of bird or beast from afar, but these birds and beasts were made entirely of white bone.

The only sound in the sky was the flapping of their wings.

A vast swarm of bone birds descended from the sky, engulfing Taotie in an instant; from the outside, Taotie's figure was completely covered.

The bone birds, like messengers of darkness, landed on Taotie's body, flapping their wings.

They pecked at Taotie's flesh with reckless abandon, as if they intended to peck through it alive.

Taotie's usually tough and thick skin was as fragile as a sheet of paper under the sharp beaks of these bone birds.

Each light peck could easily tear off a palm-sized piece of skin.

The intense pain caused Taotie's body to tremble uncontrollably, and it let out a low roar.

"Great Vortex!"

A giant vortex phantom emerged in the void around it as its center.

Although this was land, the water elements in the air were instantly stirred, converging into a majestic wave phantom that surged outward in all directions.

However, the bone birds remained unaffected, standing still like boulders at the shore despite the roaring waves.

"Do you need help?" Qiu Shangqing asked Chen Xing.

Chen Xing shook his head, according to the legacy of evolution, only Taotie itself could face the Calamity Ordeal.

Intervention by outside forces would affect the success or failure of the Calamity Ordeal and greatly influence Taotie's evolutionary process.

Three minutes later, the bone birds dispersed, their wings merging into the night and vanishing without a trace, unclear how they had disappeared.

All that was left on the spot was Taotie's bloody flesh, its outer skin completely stripped.

The steaming bloodied flesh emitted tremendous heatwaves, the blood-red flesh especially glaring under the blood moon.

Chen Xing frowned, feeling somewhat compassionate at heart.

But he quickly suppressed his emotions; he could not intervene, and all the materials needed for Taotie's evolution were ready.

If he intervened now, all his previous efforts would be wasted.

Voices came from the void again; this time, many green flies appeared, bizarre in appearance. Their lower halves had long tails like snakes, with sharp barbs at the tips, and each green fly was the size of a palm.

What was strange was that Chen Xing could not see their ATTRIBUTE panels, just like the previous bone birds.

Not seeing an ATTRIBUTE panel could mean only two things.

One, these were not physical entities but illusions, just as he could not see the attributes of monsters from a photograph.

Two, what he saw was not their true forms; they existed in another dimension.

The green flies, like the previous wave of bone birds, were immune to Taotie's skills.

They swarmed over, their tails piercing Taotie's body.

Then Taotie's flesh began to rot at a visible rate, the decaying flesh piling up into small hills and falling to the ground.

Chen Xing's heart trembled, and he clenched his fists.

Three minutes later, only a White Bone Behemoth covered in blood vessels stood in the valley, with mountains of rotten flesh beside it.

The behemoth's gut was distended, and within it was a giant heart beating slowly.

After corroding all the flesh, the green flies blended into the night and vanished mysteriously.

Seeing this, Qin Xuan's eyelids twitched.

Was this evolution? It was a bit too horrifying.

"Is your Beast Taming alright?" Qin Xuan asked Chen Xing.

Chen Xing shook his head slightly.

Through the contract, he could sense that Taotie's vitality was still robust.

This time the sky was silent, and then the earth below began to stir.

Countless white maggots burst forth from the soil like a waterfall, spilling over Taotie's entire body.

The maggots clung to the bones, and with a slight burrow, the bones crumbled like powder.

The White Bone Behemoth standing in the valley was gnawed little by little, eventually turning into a pile of dust, leaving only some internal organs.

After fulfilling their mission, the maggots melted into the earth and disappeared.

As expected, the fourth wave arrived.

This time, was it targeting the internal organs?

If the organs also vanished completely... what would remain? The soul?

Yet, miraculously, the Domain Stele still floated in the air, emitting a faint golden light.

Voices came again from above; this time it was many black bats, circling around the remaining organs.

Moments later, they clung to the only surviving organs.

The organs withered, turning into layers of skin.