Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 754 Taming The Beast

By now, Rocky was far away from the Holy Dragon Empire. He was in the Barren City of the TimberDeity Empire. Back home, the whole world was upside down, but Rocky had no idea. He didn't evenknow that he had an unborn child with Isis.

For the meantime, he went about his work as usual. He was cleaning the beast stable, his hair sun-bleached to a slight golden shade, beads of sweat breaking on his brow. He heard a suddencommotion from the entrance of the beast farm. Turning around, he saw a group of people walkingin.

Among them, Rocky could tell one had reached the Heavenly Stage, judging by the aura of the man.He was a tall, heavyset man, about forty years old and carried himself with the air of a naturallyconfident, courageous guy—a born leader.

Flanking him on either side was Mary and Willie. Right behind them followed a dozen spiritmanipulators in black robes. Apparently, they were disciples of the Xiao Clan, almost all ranking atthe Mortal Stage. Only one or two ranked beyond the preliminary level of the Earthly Stage.

The group at the back was pulling a cage, in which a young spirit-manipulated beast was locked.The beast had just entered the primary stage. All over its body were fins, sharp as swords. Though itwas still growing, it already had the shape of a huge leopard. Its four limbs were short butpowerfully built. On the top of its head, there was a blade-shaped horn, with its sharp edge blazingIt seemed to be a difficult beast to fight head-on. Every part of its body was a dangerous weapon,which could slice an enemy to pieces.

'It is a Magic Sword Panther. In a place like this, it's the kind of war beast that could reach a five-starlevel. Although, it comes in at a modest twentieth in war beast rankings, for ordinary spiritmanipulators, it's no doubt a top-grade war beast, * thought Rocky. The moment he saw thecreature in the cage, he immediately got a clue to its potential. To him, the Magic Sword Pantherwas just one kind of good war beast. But it was not good enough, compared to his own Robin, letalone Uriah and Rainbow Glow Unicorn. They were his best beasts. Top-notch beasts, by anystandards.

"Mr. Chris, I still can't believe you caught such a rare Magic Sword Panther. If word of it gets outthere, I'm sure spirit manipulators from the Timber Deity Empire will be at your door, scrambling forit,” Willie complimented. His flattering face aside, what he said was true. The Magic Sword Pantherindeed was a rare spirit-manipulated beast.

As a highly respected leader, Chris was actually the second in command of the Xiao Clan—Raef'sdeputy.

As the second in command of the clan, Chris's responsibility was to evaluate beasts. He was also avery gifted disciple of a famous sect with a long-standing history. At the sixth grade of beastevaluation, he could identify almost any high-level beast.

The Magical Beast House being a leading beast farm boasted of hosting one of the best seniorevaluators ever. The same way the Super Beast Farm had Weldon, the Magical Beast House hadChris. Each farm's reputation depended on their beast manipulation and evaluation skill levels. Itwas a cut-throat competition between farms to hire only the finest skill-sets, gifts, and abilitiesamong beast evaluators—no wonder the Xiao Clan so highly regarded Chris.

"You've had a hectic day. Please have some rest now,” Mary advised.

"Not that it was hard work. But to catch this Magic Sword Panther, we sacrificed four disciples.”Chris shook his head and said with a sorrowful face. But this sacrifice was unavoidable. If theywanted to get those high-level spirit-manipulated beasts, they'd have to pay the price. All theycould do was to compensate for the loss to the disciples’ families. That was the only way they couldkeep improving as a group, both in skills and assets.

"I'll have my men inform the families of our departed disciples. We also need to arrange for propercompensation straight away,” Mary said. She also empathized with the families of the disciples whohad lost their lives in the line of duty. She wanted to ensure befitting compensation.

"Thank you, Miss Mary," said Chris politely. Then he turned to look back and added, "This MagicSword Panther is hot-tempered and hard to control. We still have to lock it with iron chains until wetame it successfully.” As he spoke, he waved his hand, calling other spirit manipulators to comecloser.

Over a dozen disciples of the Xiao Clan immediately surrounded the cage. They tightly grabbed thebeast by the iron chains with which they had bound it. Acutely aware of how violent the beast'stemper could get, they handled everything with extra care. The beast had the temper of asimmering pot, hot burning, ready to bubble up and blow things over at any moment. If nothandled well, it was an inferno that could get out of hand quickly, anytime.

So the disciples went about as much caution as they possibly could. Slowly, they opened the cage,pulling the Magic Sword Panther out. As soon as the door swung open, the leopard roared andjumped with all the strength it could muster. Although it had looked docile along the way, it beganto act violent all of a sudden. Anyone who came close, it threatened to fling itself at and rip themapart. Even though it was only a cub, its strength was on another level.

It spread out its sharp fins like swords threatening to cut up the disciples. Then without warning, itflung its body, throwing two of the disciples into the air, chains still in their hands. Its burden waseased a bit. Then, it angrily charged towards the other disciples who were still standing with thechains firmly gripped.

The panther's swift actions and mad rage caught the disciples off guard. On their faces, you couldtell they were scared stiff, even though they had tried to hold on. At last, the chains slipped throughtheir shaky hands and dropped on the ground.

With some of the restraining chains and fetters broken, the beast got enough power to shake offsome more. Then with burning ferocity, it repeated the same jerking movements. Each movementwas more powerful than the previous one. In a few minutes, it shook off the rest of the disciples.Pretty quickly, the situation was getting out of hand. Realizing this, Chris rushed up, intending tostop the young Magic Sword Panther. But as soon as the panther saw him, it took off into thedepths of the beast farm and began to play hide-and-seek with him.

Although the beast was only a half-grown and had been caged for a while, it didn't show any signsof slowing down soon. Several minutes passed, but Chris failed to catch it still.

"Why are you still standing there? Come with me and help!" Mary shouted at the disciples who werestanding still, watching. She sensed the disciples lacked enough experience, and they needed moretraining. It took great skill, calm nerves, and the reflexes of a qualified spirit manipulator to handle asituation like this.

At her command, the disciples came to themselves, rushed to grab the chains, and joined in thechase behind her.

Rocky stood in the beast stable, watching the chaotic crowd. When he sensed the disciples from theXiao Clan were in deep trouble, he couldn't help shaking his head. "What a mess! If I were him, and Ieven a fraction of his entire team, calming the young panther down would be a cinch.’ A sarcasticsmile crept on his face.

His smile lingered only for a moment before the panther noticed him. Without warning, it turnedaround and ran towards the beast stable.

"What are you doing there? Run! Don't stand still... * Seeing the panther run towards the beaststable, where a servant was standing, Mary's face changed. She shouted at Rocky, warning him torun for his life, as fast as he could. If the beast got to him, she feared it would maul him to death.For Mary, Rocky was but an ordinary servant. If he faced off with the panther, it would not makelight work of him. And Mary was not ready for more casualties to the same beast, as she had alreadylost dear disciples.

However, the panther moved so fast that by the time Mary called out, Rocky was within an arm'sreach. Chris tried his best to catch up with it, but he was way too far behind. Rocky seemed to thema man doomed to die next second!

Everyone watching was petrified, fearing the worst for Rocky. They all held their breath, seeing therewas nothing they could do to save him. Unable to bear witnessing his tragic death, some of themclosed their eyes. But what happened next took everyone's breath away.

Instead of attacking Rocky as they had also feared, the Magic Sword Panther crumbled to its knees.As though it were some powerless creature, it let out a weak cry, showing complete submission tohim.

Almost everyone present was shocked, including Chris

"Holy cow! What's going on?" After a silent moment of awe, Mary stared at Rocky and the MagicSword Panther in disbelief. Docile and tame, it was still kneeling there, right in front of him. Likeeveryone else around here, the surprised look on her face was obvious. She didn't know why thepanther did that.

At her side, Chris, too, was dumbstruck. In all his years of hunting experience, this was the first timethat he saw such a thing. “How on earth did a bad-tempered Magic Sword Panther suddenly turn soweak and powerless? I mean, to the point of kneeling before an ordinary man?" Questions ranthrough his mind. Questions that for the life of him, he did not even have the slightest idea.