Chapter 1089: Nest of Radiance, Mysterious Essence (First update, requesting all)

"Could this be the Mysterious Essence?"

Seeing these two treasures, Li Zhangsheng felt a stir in his heart and took out the nearly tattered *World Wonder Compendium* from his ring.

On the second page of the book, the picture above showed a container shaped like a beehive, seemingly crafted from diamonds.

This was the renowned Nest of Radiance. It was the Dao-Achieving Item of the Ancient Xuan Queen; legend had it that it could condense Mysterious Essence to improve the quality of Demon Pets, with all other effects unknown!

Below this page, there was also a text and image introduction for the Mysterious Essence.

Mysterious Essence: A Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure, has a relatively high probability of improving Demon Pet quality; the higher the Demon Pet's own quality, the lower the probability of improvement. Note: Ineffective for Epic quality or higher.

Judging from the introduction, the efficacy of the Mysterious Essence was similar to the Water Origin and Fire Origin; its advantage was that there were no attribute restrictions, but its flaw was also obvious—it was ineffective for Demon Pets of Epic quality or higher, unlike the Water Origin which could continue to provide improvements.

Because the Xuan Emperor's envoy had self-detonated their Consciousness Sea, although Li Zhangsheng had not absorbed much memory, there happened to be content regarding two portions of Mysterious Essence.

Naturally, the Xuan Emperor could not be generous enough to give all two portions of Mysterious Essence and two secondary Water Profound Meaning Origin Crystals to the 'Great King of the Angry River'; judging from the Xuan Emperor's envoy's memories, these two portions of Mysterious Essence were 'gifts' the Xuan Emperor had prepared for Tengshe Abaresk to make a move.

And judging from the inheritance of the Hundred Victories King and others, apart from the Nest of Radiance, the heavens and earth had never naturally given birth to Mysterious Essence.

In other words, these two portions of Mysterious Essence were produced by the Nest of Radiance.

"The Nest of Radiance is very likely in the hands of the Xuan Emperor, and the Nest of Radiance is the Ancient Xuan Queen's Dao-Achieving Item; coupled with the Queen Mother Mirror and the Xuan Emperor's title, it seems the Xuan Emperor has indeed inherited the mantle of the Ancient Xuan Queen."

Li Zhangsheng analyzed it briefly; this was not good news for him, but given the gap in strength between him and the Xuan Emperor, whether or not the mantle of the Ancient Xuan Queen had been inherited seemed to make no difference.

There was no help for it; in the eyes of the Xuan Emperor, he was just a slightly larger ant that could be crushed easily.

If it weren't for relying on the prestige of the Human Emperor Mansion, the Xuan Emperor would not have used such a circuitous method to deal with him.

Now it was different; he had finished off the Xuan Emperor's envoy. Although it was only a Pseudo-King, the Xuan Emperor's envoy represented the Xuan Emperor's face to a certain extent and could potentially become an excuse for the Xuan Emperor to crusade against Li Zhangsheng.

Li Zhangsheng had one, and only one, way to take precautions, and that was to continue to borrow the prestige of the Human Emperor; however, given his status, he was afraid he could not see the Human Emperor and could only have Luo Yuanjun come forward on his behalf.

Because of the Rule Crystal, Luo Yuanjun still owed him a promise; for this, even if he had to pay this promise, Li Zhangsheng would not hesitate.

What Li Zhangsheng lacked most was time; as long as he was given enough time to grow, it was not impossible for him to grow to the level of the Xuan Emperor, but the enemy might not give him such an opportunity. Rather than pinning his hopes on luck, it was better to strive for it himself and control his own destiny.

After obtaining the two portions of Mysterious Essence, Li Zhangsheng prepared to use them.

Judging from the introduction of the Mysterious Essence, it could be absorbed by Demon Pets up to Epic quality at the highest.

Apart from Bai Tian and Hei Ye, all other Demon Pets met the standard.

Considering stability, it was best to have it absorbed by Demon Pets that had already advanced to the Demon Saint rank; but if analyzing efficiency, it was actually best to have it absorbed by Demon Pets that were about to attempt a breakthrough to the Demon Saint rank; if both quality and realm were promoted, the increase in combat power would be the strongest.

Originally, Li Zhangsheng wanted Kailan to absorb it, but Kailan had not fully recovered after the last breakthrough and would need some time before attempting to break through to the Demon Saint rank again.

Most of the main Demon Pets also had such troubles. Because of Tengshe Abaresk, Li Zhangsheng could not wait for a period of time; instead, he had to use the high-quality resources in his hands as soon as possible and strive to improve his own strength.

In this way, there were not many objects to choose from.

The Demon Pets that had not yet attempted a breakthrough were the Purple Firmament Leopard-Lin Beast, the Three-Headed Giant Dragon, the Chi Dragon, and the Qiu Dragon.

The Qiu Dragon was not even at the Demon King rank, and the Three-Headed Giant Dragon was still some distance from the critical point of breakthrough, so only the Purple Firmament Leopard-Lin Beast and the Chi Dragon met the standard.

Both had their own advantages; from the perspective of combat power, the Chi Dragon had a slight advantage, but the Purple Firmament Leopard-Lin Beast had a great advantage in dealing with evil creatures.

Given that the Silent Forest, represented by Tengshe Abaresk, was not an evil creature, the choice of the Chi Dragon was the best.

Besides this, Li Zhangsheng also had one Water Profound Meaning Origin Crystal and two secondary Water Profound Meaning Origin Crystals in his hands, all of which could serve as resources for the Chi Dragon's breakthrough.

No matter how one looked at it, the Chi Dragon best met the requirements.

From a probability standpoint, the Chi Dragon had a high probability of breaking through to the Demon Saint rank; the key to the problem was that the Chi Dragon was still at the early stage of Epic quality, so even if it absorbed two portions of Mysterious Essence, there was only a certain hope of promoting its quality.

Most of the other main Demon Pets were also at the early stage of Epic quality; only Aixi and Kailan barely reached the middle stage, and the probability of breaking through to Half-Step Legendary quality was relatively higher.

In terms of effect, two portions of Mysterious Essence were probably about the same as one portion of Space-Time Origin.

For Bai Tian and Hei Ye to promote their quality to Half-Step Legendary, in addition to one portion of Space-Time Origin, there were also two Moon Soul Star Snatching Pills and two jars of Pale Cat Spirit Essence, and they still completed the promotion in a relatively strained manner.

"The Chi Dragon should reach Demon King 9th Rank in these few days; let me contact Xiang Yutian first, maybe he has Nether Moon Lotus in his hands!"

Li Zhangsheng felt the probability was too low, so he set his sights on treasures that could improve quality; the best method was to refine Moon Soul Star Snatching Pills.

Ever since the last successful refinement of the Moon Soul Star Snatching Pill, Kailan had successfully advanced to Alchemy Master, and the success rate of refining top-tier Alchemical Pills had increased significantly compared to before.

Thus, Li Zhangsheng began to contact Xiang Yutian.

Not long after, Li Zhangsheng ended his contact with Xiang Yutian, and a smile could not help but appear on his face.

Ever since Xiang Yutian became a King, his status in the Tianling Empire could be described as rising with the tide, which greatly narrowed the distance between him and the First Prince.

Besides this, Xiang Yutian had also become a long-term partner of Li Zhangsheng, selling the Tianling Empire's 'specialties' like Nether Moon Lotus and Moon Elves to Li Zhangsheng to earn the price difference.

With the improvement of Xiang Yutian's status, obtaining Nether Moon Lotus had become significantly easier, and now he had three flowers in his hands.

With Kailan's alchemy success rate, it was enough to refine a batch of Moon Soul Star Snatching Pills.

Under Li Zhangsheng's signal, Aixi changed the direction of flight; instead of returning to the Langya Kingdom, she flew toward the border of the Dai Kingdom closest to the Tianling Empire.

After two or three hours passed, Li Zhangsheng met Xiang Yutian again.

Compared to two or three months ago, Xiang Yutian was somewhat complacent; recently, his time in the Tianling Empire could be described as smooth sailing, and he had established a certain friendship with some Kings and Double-Character Kings of the Tianling Empire.

This time, in addition to bringing the Nether Moon Lotus and Moon Elves, Xiang Yutian also brought a treasure that Li Zhangsheng urgently needed.

(End of this chapter)