Chapter 106

Daily training ended, and it was back to the boring, monotonous cultivation of formations.

The Spirit Beast Four Extremes Array demands a great deal from spirit beasts and also heavily tests comprehension.

Even the Red Tempered Snake, with its fifty-five comprehension, still hasn't found the feeling to this day; the Blue Flower Deer pondered for over a month and is still completely baffled.

In comparison, the Golden-Winged Great Eagle has given up on healing entirely; it just stands in position — whatever the Master says, it does; whatever the Red Tempered Snake and Blue Flower Deer order, it goes and does.

It looks exactly like a long-suffering, utterly even-tempered honest man.

But that's also because the Golden-Winged Great Eagle truly finds it very hard to comprehend the Spirit Beast Four Extremes Array; its comprehension blocks it from thinking further.

So in this regard, the main coordination still has to be left to the Red Tempered Snake and the Blue Flower Deer.

"Yo hou!"

The Blue Flower Deer roared at the Golden-Winged Great Eagle, somewhat angry.

Because this stupid eagle has stood in the wrong position several times already, and when the two of them moved out to attack, it lagged a step behind and failed to coordinate.

This also caused the Spirit Beast Four Extremes Array to collapse without being attacked.

"Gu gu!"

The Golden-Winged Great Eagle lowered its head, admitted fault, then found its position again.

Only to see the Red Tempered Snake take the lead with fire, spraying out a stream of poisonous flame, attacking forward.

The Blue Flower Deer took a step, and beneath that poisonous flame trees rose up; the trees seemed to possess sentience in the flames, like a fire dragon gaining a main trunk, hissing as it charged out.

And the Golden-Winged Great Eagle spat out wind blades, fanning its twin wings to fan the flames, raising the power of this move once more.

But this combined offensive didn't last long; it soon dispersed.

The reason was still that the coordination was off by just a little bit.

"Good, not bad, you've made progress."

Yu Changsheng watched from the side, clapping his hands and laughing loudly, then said to the Red Tempered Snake: "The Golden-Winged Great Eagle can't keep up; you can slightly control the fire, don't rush to attack, focus on gathering power."

The Red Tempered Snake nodded its head.

From the initial mess, to now, at least a rough prototype can be seen, but thinking of it fully taking shape, it will still need a very long time.

Yu Changsheng had also mentally prepared for this; after all, the Spirit Beast Four Extremes Array has an extraordinary origin, its difficulty is inherently great, wanting to achieve entry in a few months without a cheat is impossible!

"It's just a pity it still hasn't gained the System's recognition."

"Or perhaps, this type of special method cannot be leveled up through System Essence allocation?"

Yu Changsheng sighed in his heart.

Essence allocation is really too convenient, too easy to use, causing him to have already forgotten how hard method cultivation is.

"Today I should be able to break through to Qi Refining Eighth Layer."

Yu Changsheng sensed the mana in his body; it had already reached a bottleneck; one final feeding tonight and it should be about there.

After staying in the Spirit Chicken Garden for another hour, he fed today's share of spirit stones to the Red Tempered Snake, Golden-Winged Great Eagle, and Blue Flower Deer, then immediately went to the Wooden Hut.

Yu Changsheng sat cross-legged on the ground, a circle of spirit stones placed around him.

And after the spirit beasts finished digesting, the returned mana pushed the realm! At the dantian a mass of white airflow surged, accumulating thicker and thicker, finally condensing into something like a long dragon, slowly circulating along the meridians.

Forward, forward; when it hits a wall it cannot pass, that is the current realm's bottleneck! "Charge through!"

With a shout from Yu Changsheng, his whole body's mana mobilized, coordinating with the returned mana, and in one go it broke through the bottleneck.

The mana-gathered long dragon widened the meridians' thickness, letting his mana operation rise another level!

"Qi Refining Eighth Layer Heaven." Yu Changsheng exhaled a mouthful of turbid qi, sensing his changes, somewhat pleasantly surprised.

Qi Refining Eighth Layer is a major watershed.

The time needed from Seventh Layer to Eighth Layer is far more than from Sixth Layer.

Although with the aid of pills and System Essence he accelerated progress greatly, in less than a year he rushed from Qi Refining Third Layer to this current realm, but for the Wanxiang Sect where experts gather, this bit of realm is still far from enough.

At least still not enough for him to easily kill Huang Suyu!

"With the realm breakthrough, the mana's quality has become even purer, and Divine Sense has also advanced!"

His current Divine Sense range has already reached ten thousand meters out; this realm's increase is negligible, but for Thousand Thoughts Slash the help is huge! Because Thousand Thoughts Slash attacks by consuming Divine Sense, yet also needs mana to coordinate!

Now using his mana to drive Thousand Thoughts Slash, Golden Core level Divine Sense — this way even if he encounters a Foundation Establishment cultivator, finding the right opportunity, under the opponent's unprepared state he can kill them! Of course, whether it can actually be done still needs to be tried! "Huang Suyu, perhaps I can use him to test."

"Whether his Sword Intent is strong or my Divine Sense is formidable, a clash will tell!"

After reaching Qi Refining Eighth Layer, Yu Changsheng's confidence increased greatly.

"But the one in a hurry isn't me right now; continue lying low and cultivating; when he comes to offend, I'll let him know he messed with the wrong person!"

A sharp light flashed in Yu Changsheng's eyes; his eyes narrowed.

A day passed without incident, daily cultivation.

Beast Taming Peak truly is a good place for retirement; normally no one comes to disturb; besides going to the Beast Garden, Yu Changsheng basically stays shut in the Spirit Chicken Garden.

"Thousand Thoughts Slash also used Essence allocation to reach Proficient; the change is indeed as big as Wei Lao said, killing power increased a lot; ordinary Qi Refining Peak cultivators can probably be killed casually now."

Yu Changsheng glanced at his own information.

【Name: Yu Changsheng】

【Realm: Qi Refining Eighth Layer Heaven】

【Constitution: Spirit Beast Affinity】

【Techniques: Changchun Gong Proficient (5/10000) Lian Shen Gong Small Completion (20/5000000) Beast Taming Art Mastery (12/100000) Three-Fire Refinement Alchemy Mastery (108/100000)】

【Spells: Fireball Technique Small Completion (435/100000), Shadow Flash Mastery (221/50000), Wind Travel Technique Mastery (337/10000), Wood Shield Technique Mastery (18210000), Rainmaking Technique Entry (10/100), Thousand Thoughts Slash Proficient (5/100000)】

【Skills: First Rank Spirit Plant (5/1000) Second Rank Alchemy (1052/50000)】

【Spirit Pets: Red Tempered Snake, Golden-Winged Great Eagle, Blue Flower Deer】

【Remaining Essence: 35210】

The biggest change is Thousand Thoughts Slash, from Entry's twenty thousand Essence it skyrocketed straight to Proficient's one hundred thousand! As for Beast Taming Art, after contracting the Blue Flower Deer, Yu Changsheng broke it through to Mastery.

Essence flowed in like a flood, but the income was also substantial; to this day over thirty thousand still remain.

"After a while longer I'll be able to help the Blue Flower Deer metamorphose."

Yu Zhangsheng thought to himself.

The reason he was like the Red Tempered Snake and the Golden-Winged Great Eagle — metamorphosing immediately after contracting the Blue Flower Deer — was because the Essence required for the Blue Flower Deer's metamorphosis was far too much! Even now, thinking about it still gives him some heartache; he can't bear to part with it.

"Forty thousand two hundred Essence — my Red Tempered Snake and Golden-Winged Great Eagle metamorphoses were calculated in mere thousands; when have I ever used over forty thousand Essence for a metamorphosis!"

Perhaps because it is a Third Rank Demonic Beast species, the Blue Flower Deer's metamorphosis requires at least ten times the quantity of the Red Tempered Snake.

While Yu Zhangsheng felt the flesh-pain, he also felt anticipation for what kind of changes the Blue Flower Deer would undergo after metamorphosis.

"Essence accumulated over two months — it had better soar to the heavens in one flight."

(Chapter End)