Lin Fan couldn’t help staring at the notification that had just popped up in the corner of his eyes.
Then he looked carefully at the lion in front of it.
Sun Devouring Lion, that really was quite the powerful name.
It was a lion that could even swallow the sun itself and in this world, the sun was represented by the golden Three Legged Crow.
The golden Three Legged Crow was one of the most powerful creatures in all of Chinese mythology and this was a lion that could swallow it based on the name of its species.
It definitely wouldn’t be a normal lion when it grew up.
But what surprised him even more was that the system was giving him the option to tame it.
Since it was being used for this trial, Lin Fan had thought that this lion was already someone’s pet. After all, there were beast tamers in this world and it wouldn’t be strange if one used their tamed spirit beast for a trial.
There were spirit beasts that were tamed as guardians of sects, so it was normal for spirit beasts to be used like this.
So he thought that since it was tamed, there was no way that he would be able to tame it.
But now it seemed that this wasn’t the case.
Could it be that it was because the Love Gauge Taming was a skill that had been bestowed upon him by a god?
A skill from a god would naturally surpass all other skills, so even if it was tamed, he could break its current contract with its master with the Love Gauge Taming skill.
Or at least that was what Lin Fan thought this situation was.
But in reality, this Sun Devouring Lion wasn’t tamed.
It was a wild beast that had been thrown into this arena by the trial and had been tricked into fighting Lin Fan. So of course Lin Fan would be able to tame it since it didn’t have a master in the first place.
Since that was the case, there was no need for Lin Fan to hold back.
This Sun Devouring Lion was in the High Foundation Realm, it was a perfect beast for him to tame right now. After all, Lin Fan was missing powerful beasts like this, but he also knew that it was impossible for him to tame powerful Qi Condensation Realm spirit beasts, so this Sun Devouring Lion was just right.
It was powerful and it had potential, but it wasn’t out of the range of his control.
So there was only one thing for Lin Fan to do now.
That was to scare the ever living s*** out of it!
With this, he turned to look at the Sun Devouring Lion that was still cautiously watching him.
When this gaze fell onto the Sun Devouring Lion, it couldn’t help feeling a chill that it didn’t understand at all. After all, it shouldn’t be feeling this kind of fear from this kind of inferior creature.
But for some reason, it couldn’t help feeling fear.𝞸𝑽𝓁𝒩xt.𝗇𝓔t
[Sun Devouring Lion (Youth) is filled with fear of you and reveres you. Affection has increased by 10.]
Lin Fan was surprised by this sudden notification, but he was happy to see it.
So without hesitation, he jumped up and moved towards the Sun Devouring Lion slowly.
The Sun Devouring Lion couldn’t help taking a few steps back when it saw Lin Fan approaching, as if it was watching a death god approach it.
[Sun Devouring Lion (Youth) is filled with fear of you and reveres you. Affection has increased by 10.]
Lin Fan couldn’t help revealing a smile again that made the Sun Devouring Lion shiver.
Then before the Sun Devouring Lion could react, Lin Fan suddenly disappeared from its line of sight.
The Sun Devouring Lion quickly looked around for Lin Fan, but it wasn’t able to find a trace of him.
Then while it was shocked at the fact that it had lost Lin Fan, there was a blade that suddenly appeared in front of its eyes. This blade had appeared too quickly for it to dodge or even try to block it and at that moment, it could only accept that it was dead.
As for why it thought it was dead, it recognized this blade as the one that had cut its leg earlier.
But this blade didn’t cut right through its head like it thought it would.
Instead, this blade stopped just an inch away from its eyes before suddenly disappearing.
The Sun Devouring Lion couldn’t help falling on its butt when this happened as it just sat there in a daze.
It was just too bad that Lin Fan didn’t give it a break at all as he kept running around the Sun Devouring Lion.
While the Sun Devouring Lion wasn’t able to follow Lin Fan with its eyes, it was able to sense Lin Fan’s aura around it. This aura kept moving around it at high speeds that when it detected the aura, it wasn’t able to see Lin Fan anymore.
But the worst part of this was that…
Lin Fan kept doing the same thing over and over again, slashing at the Sun Devouring Lion without actually cutting it.
The blade kept drawing closer and closer until it only stopped a centimeter away from the Sun Devouring Lion.
If the Sun Devouring Lion made even the slightest movement, it would be cut by Lin Fan’s sword.
So the only thing that the Sun Devouring Lion could do was sit there as Lin Fan kept dashing around it.
It knew that if it tried to do anything, it would be cut down by Lin Fan, whether intentionally or unintentionally. It knew that this wasn’t the way to go and if it wanted to survive, it had to do something.
So in the end, the Sun Devouring Lion started to move.
When Lin Fan saw this, he stopped dashing around the Sun Devouring Lion and waited to see what it wanted to do.
If he had felt any hostility from the Sun Devouring Lion, he wouldn’t have stopped to watch and kept threatening it, but he couldn’t feel any hostility from it. It was almost as if he felt some sort of timidness coming from the Sun Devouring Lion, as if it had no intention to fight at all.
In front of Lin Fan’s curious gaze, the Sun Devouring Lion suddenly tucked its ears and tail and lowered its body to the ground.
Lin Fan narrowed his eyes to look at the Sun Devouring Lion, but he knew what was happening because of the notification that had popped up.
This was the Sun Devouring Lion’s way of showing submission and it was very similar to the way that a cat would show submission.
Lin Fan couldn’t help shaking his head with a smile before saying, “Yes.”
There was a bright glow that appeared around the Sun Devouring Lion before quickly disappearing. Once the bright glow disappeared, the Sun Devouring Lion looked up at Lin Fan and it looked at him in a completely different manner.
In front of Lin Fan’s calm gaze, the Sun Devouring Lion slowly stood up and walked over to him. Lin Fan didn’t move at all as he watched the Sun Devouring Lion slowly walk over and he just calmly stood there when the Sun Devouring Lion was standing over him.
Then the Sun Devouring Lion suddenly lowered its head and opened its mouth to…lick Lin Fan on the face.
Lin Fan revealed a smile as he felt the rough tongue of the Sun Devouring Lion on his face, but he also patted it on the head when it licked him.
The Sun Devouring Lion gave a purr like a cat when it felt him rubbing it and then it kneeled down to rub its face against Lin Fan’s face.
No matter how one looked at it, it looked like a giant cat the way that it was cuddling up to Lin Fan.
But even after Lin Fan had tamed the Sun Devouring Lion, there was no voice that rang out or any notification that he had passed this trial. Lin Fan could also see that the door at the exit on the end of the stone bridge was still closed.
It seemed like it hadn’t been recognized that he had completed this trial yet.
In fact, the trial wasn’t programmed to recognize this as one of the passing conditions since no one would expect the spirit beast used in the trial to be tamed that easily. Even the Hidden Dragon Sect’s ancestor who was watching this couldn’t help revealing a shocked look.
He couldn’t help muttering to himself, “Just how many secrets does this kid have?”
After a long period of silence, he suddenly revealed a smile and said, “I want him even more now.”
Then he opened up something that seemed to be a panel and pressed a few buttons before putting the panel away.
After he pressed these buttons, there was a loud sound that came from the second trial.
Lin Fan immediately turned when he heard this noise and he saw that the door that was blocking off the exit was suddenly opening.
He didn’t know what had caused it to suddenly open, but since it was opening, there was nothing for him to question.
It seemed like the trial had acknowledged that he had passed, so he should just head through this exit and move on to the third trial.