Chapter 007: Subjugation

Watching Du Fan knock his Iron Devouring Beasts one by one into the air, the King of Iron Devouring Beasts grew increasingly impatient. With over a thousand of them, even the King himself could not handle them all.
The scenes of the beasts being flung into the air were transmitted through sound waves, forming vivid images in the King’s mind and directly imprinting them in his consciousness.
Unable to wait any longer, the King roared and leaped into the air, charging straight at Du Fan!
Seeing the King rush toward him, Du Fan laughed heartily and also jumped up, delivering a punch at the King’s massive claw.
To Du Fan’s surprise, the King skillfully changed the direction of his attack. Just as the claw was about to meet Du Fan’s punch, it suddenly dropped downward before changing direction upward, aiming straight at Du Fan’s abdomen and face.
This sudden change in attack direction caught Du Fan off guard. With such close distance between them, he had no time to react.
His Absolute Protection activated instantly, a burst of white light shooting out.
Seeing Du Fan sent flying by its own punch, the golden-colored King of Iron Devouring Beasts even let out a triumphant roar. Its sightless, gray eyes revealed a hint of pride.
Hearing the King’s roar, the surrounding Iron Devouring Beasts also started screaming in unison. Their collective cries seemed like a mockery of Du Fan!
As he was flung through the air, Du Fan silently assessed the King’s strength—it was quite formidable. The King’s power could rival that of ordinary domain masters. He also estimated the King’s defensive capabilities; it would likely take some time even for Du Fan to injure him. Ordinary Iron Devouring Beasts already had bodies as hard as steel, while this King’s hardness was unbelievably high.
Relying on its formidable physique and being a holy-grade magical beast, this King could even compete with ordinary domain masters!

Seeing Du Fan get flung away by the Iron Devouring Beast King in one strike, the dwarves on the cliff all exclaimed in shock. Among the dwarves brought in by Du Fan this time, aside from their leader who had an eighth-level cultivation level, the rest were merely experienced miners or craftsmen with no significant cultivation skills at all. Seeing Du Fan get knocked away, these dwarves grew anxious. If this great lord who ruled over four provinces died in their mines, it would likely be extremely difficult for their tribe to establish a foothold here. Just as these dwarves were filled with worry, Du Fan performed a graceful turn in the air before landing lightly on the ground. Upon landing, he quickly recited a few spells, and soon, fierce winds began to blow around him! With these winds, any Iron Devouring Beast within ten meters of Du Fan was scattered. The scattered beasts collided with each other in the air, producing sounds of metal striking metal. It turned out that these beasts were indeed made of metal. After dispersing all the beasts in his path, Du Fan arrived directly in front of the Iron Devouring Beast King. The strong winds that could scatter ordinary beasts only made the Beast King shake its head repeatedly and scratch the ground with its front paws. “Good! Very good!” Facing the Iron Devouring Beast King, Du Fan not only forgot about being flung away by it earlier but even praised it in front of it. With a roar, the Beast King dug its claws into the ground and charged at Du Fan fiercely! Having learned from the previous experience, Du Fan was more cautious this time. By using True Sight, he slowed down the Beast King’s speed and quickly analyzed its likely attack patterns. Activating his domain, Du Fan appeared right in front of the Beast King and punched it hard on the forehead. Adding extra force to the punch, he sent the Beast King flying, causing it to tumble dozens of times before crashing into the cliff wall.

Hit against the stone wall, the Iron Devouring Beast King quickly slid down. After landing on the ground, it didn’t get up right away but struggled there for a while. Du Fan’s punch had struck the beast’s head directly, with his strength greatly amplified, and coupled with the mental magic he deliberately applied, the attack hit right at the head, leaving the Iron Devouring Beast King dazed. After struggling for a while, it finally stood up, shook its head, and then launched another aerial charge at Du Fan. “Still coming!” Seeing this, Du Fan glared fiercely, but aside from a few dwarfs on the cliff, the beasts couldn’t see his glare at all. Just as the beast was about to reach Du Fan, it opened its mouth, and something resembling an invisible ripple headed toward him. It was only because Du Fan had activated his True Sight; otherwise, he wouldn’t have been able to see those ripples. Those ripples failed to trigger Du Fan’s absolute defense, and soon they reached him. Suddenly, he felt his blood energy surge violently—his body seemed on the verge of exploding! He quickly activated his Light Combat Qi, which flowed like warm streams, calming down the chaotic blood energy within him. The ripples that passed over Du Fan struck the stone wall, causing the dark iron ore walls to burst apart! The attack power of those ripples was incredibly strong! “Don’t Iron Devouring Beasts not use magic?” Du Fan wondered as he watched the beast king use such a spell. All the books on the continent stated that aside from close combat, they couldn’t use any other skills. But Du Fan had forgotten one thing: what those books described were ordinary Iron Devouring Beasts. Iron Devouring Beast Kings were extremely rare. There had only been one recorded in history, and aside from knowing they could excrete red gold, nothing else was known about them.

Having witnessed the skills of the Iron Devouring Beast King, Du Fan didn’t give it a chance to launch a second such attack. He immediately activated his space transfer domain and appeared right in front of the beast king, unleashing relentless punches one after another without pause, leaving no room for the beast king to counterattack! Soon, the Iron Devouring Beast King was beaten so badly that it collapsed on the ground, whimpering as if pleading for mercy. Du Fan then stopped attacking. Immediately afterward, a red light flashed on the beast king’s head, and an ancient, mysterious symbol shot toward Du Fan. With a grab, Du Fan caught the symbol, and it instantly turned into red light and disappeared into his body! This was a master-slave contract willingly signed by a conquered magical beast. When forming such a contract, one could only choose one magical beast as a lifelong companion, except in one case: when the magical beasts themselves recognized a human as their master and agreed to the contract. In this case, there was no limit on the number of contracts. However, generally, advanced magical beasts rarely submitted, as they had their own dignity! This time, Du Fan had proven too formidable—facing over a thousand Iron Devouring Beasts, he remained unshaken and even held complete superiority in the fight against the beast king. Under such circumstances, the beast king completely submitted to Du Fan and voluntarily requested to sign a master-slave contract. After receiving the contract, Du Fan immediately realized that the ripple attack used by the beast king was actually a sonic attack. Sound waves do not belong to any specific energy type, so Du Fan’s Absolute Protection Domain could not defend against them at all. The Absolute Protection Domain could only resist physical and energy attacks from the outside, completely unable to block the beast king’s sound waves. “Come down all of you!” After subduing the Iron Devouring Beast King, Du Fan immediately called out to the dwarves on the cliff. Seeing that Du Fan had taken control of the entire group of Iron Devouring Beasts, the dwarves began climbing down the cliff one after another. Soon, they arrived in front of Du Fan. After encountering the Iron Devouring Beasts, some of the dwarves still showed fear in their eyes. To those ordinary miners and craftsmen, these beasts were undoubtedly terrifying, especially now as they were walking among over a thousand of them.

Seeing the arrival of these dwarves, the Iron Devouring Beast King immediately transformed into a man clad in a golden robe, exuding a fierce killing aura. The only downside was that the man’s eyes remained gray and gloomy, giving off a terrifying appearance. “Xiao Jin, put on a scarf—your eyes are quite scary!” Du Fan said, then immediately took out a black scarf. “Yes, master,” replied the Iron Devouring Beast King, now known as Xiao Jin, as he took the scarf from Du Fan and covered his eyes, tying it behind his back. As a magical beast in the late stage of the Sacred rank, such beasts could transform into humans once they reached this rank. “Duke Du Fan, let’s go check out their waste collection area!” one of the dwarves said right away as he approached Du Fan. This dwarf was one of the top craftsmen of the Bilu tribe. As a craftsman, having access to top-tier material for crafting was an extremely exciting thing! Seeing that the top dwarves were most concerned about the excrement of the Iron Devouring Beast, Du Fan felt a chill in his heart. Soon, Du Fan communicated with Xiao Jin mentally. “Follow Xiao Jin,” Du Fan said to the dwarves.