Chapter 1153: The Ancestral Black Dragon Project (First update, requesting everything)

Time flowed slowly, and before one knew it, more than two months had passed.

On this day, Li Zhangsheng decided to end his seclusion, because the date for the trade agreed upon by Huensi and the Ancestral Black Dragon Deathwing was fast approaching.

Over these two months, Li Zhangsheng's Mental Power had made further progress, roughly between the middle and late stages of the King rank; however, the further one went, the more Mental Power was required.

Ning Bizhen was much slower than Li Zhangsheng, mainly because the Starry Sky Gate was only a Lower Rank World Wonder, and it had a large gap compared to the Ten-Grade Star Palace Lotus Platform in terms of auxiliary cultivation.

Even so, thanks to the power of the "Celestial Star Demon-Controlling Art," Ning Bizhen's Mental Power had officially entered the middle stage of the King rank.

The strength of their Demon Pets had also improved to varying degrees; relying on the Ten Directions Nether Pill, Li Zhangsheng's Flood Dragon and Ning Bizhen's Radiant Dragon Horse officially broke through to the Demon King rank.

The only pity was that the Emerald Dragon failed its breakthrough.

In addition to the progress in Mental Power and Demon Pets, Li Zhangsheng also had new developments in his plans for creating new species and sublimating the Imitation Demon Refining Pot.

Among them, the creation of new species was temporarily stuck at a bottleneck; although he had not created a new species, Li Zhangsheng could already clone existing species, which counted as a major breakthrough.

Based on this, Li Zhangsheng had also attempted to create new items many times, but they all ended in failure due to various problems.

The most important problem was that his test subjects could often only exist for a short period before dying inexplicably.

Li Zhangsheng had clearly created systems for breathing, digestion, excretion, and so on for the new species, but the result was failure after failure, consuming quite a lot of precious materials for this.

In addition, the intelligence of the new species was also a problem; Li Zhangsheng had used purified Abyssal Demon souls as the souls for the new species, but the new species performed significantly worse than expected during their short lifespans, giving people the feeling of being mentally disabled—they would not cry or make a fuss, but instead just drool and giggle, and they would turn a deaf ear to everything, as if they had reached a state where nothing existed but themselves.

In Li Zhangsheng's view, this was not a problem with the soul, but a problem with the compatibility between the soul and the physical body.

Li Zhangsheng determined his next step; he specifically cleared out a room, and the room was filled with transparent cylinders, which were filled with viscous green liquid.

These were all Life Water, painstakingly condensed by Kailan and Molier during this period.

Besides the Life Water, various strangely shaped embryos were suspended in the cylinders.

These embryos were all created by Li Zhangsheng himself; each embryo was placed with a purified Abyssal Demon soul, and these embryos also contained purified Abyssal Demon Spirit Essence, which belonged to the same race as the purified Abyssal Demon soul.

Li Zhangsheng was no longer as eager for quick success as before, and he began to prepare to slowly cultivate the new species in the form of a host.

As for whether it would succeed, it would depend on the final result.

Since the blood and souls both came from demons, Li Zhangsheng had no sense of guilt; instead, he felt that if he really created a new species because of this, it might be possible to achieve the goal of "using barbarians to control barbarians," making it easier to plant eyes and ears in the Abyss, or even control an Abyss Plane.

The premise of everything was to successfully create a new species without being seen through by the Abyssal Demons; after all, even after purification, they were ultimately different from Abyssal Demons.

As for the plan to sublimate the Imitation Demon Refining Pot, Li Zhangsheng had already completed the preliminary formulation, but because the success rate was truly too low, he could only continue to optimize it.

In addition, there was the problem of materials; if one wanted to optimize the Imitation Demon Refining Pot, how could one do it without suitable materials?

Compared to before, both aspects had made a step forward; it had to be said that the Wisdom Fruit was indeed effective, otherwise Li Zhangsheng would not know how long it would take to research to this point.

Although he had been in seclusion for these two months, Li Zhangsheng had not ignored outside information.

After the Yasi City-State suddenly occupied the Laina City-State, the leaders of the surrounding city-states and countries naturally reacted, but when they learned that Li Zhangsheng had forcefully killed the Upper Legend Livingston, they all chose to lie low, not daring to have any thoughts of taking advantage.

Not only that, because they feared the strength Li Zhangsheng displayed, the neighboring city-states and countries had to form a mutual defense alliance, fearing they would become the next target of Li Zhangsheng's blade.

Therefore, the Yasi City-State successfully digested the Laina City-State, and under Ge Liedi's efforts, the situation was initially stabilized.

It must be said that after taking three Mohe Wuliang Pills, Ge Liedi successfully completed his breakthrough, becoming the first Middle Legend under Li Zhangsheng, enough to help Li Zhangsheng manage the Yasi City-State after its territory expanded several times over.

For this, Li Zhangsheng even specially reforged Xisi's broken Guard shield and bestowed it upon Ge Liedi for self-defense, for which Ge Liedi needed to sign a longer "indenture contract."

Besides this, under Ge Liedi's call and the temptation of Legendary Items, plus the fact that the Yasi City-State had a promising future, two Legendary Powerhouses could not resist the temptation and threw themselves into the embrace of the Yasi City-State.

Both were Lower Legends, and with Ge Liedi's current strength, he was enough to suppress them.

This was only two months; Li Zhangsheng believed that more Legendary Powerhouses would join the Yasi City-State in the future to seek more benefits for him.

With the addition of two Lower Legends, the situation in the Yasi City-State was further stabilized, and Ge Liedi even appropriately decentralized power so as not to be distracted by trivial matters, allowing him to serve Li Zhangsheng with all his might.

Including Ge Liedi, Li Zhangsheng did not tell anyone about ending his seclusion, secretly sneaking into a valley outside the capital of the Yasi City-State.

This valley was called Gourd Valley, named because its shape resembled a gourd.

Gourd Valley was desolate and uninhabited because it was filled with miasma everywhere.

Li Zhangsheng could observe wisps of green mist with the naked eye; this was the miasma of Gourd Valley, and even ordinary professionals could not stay here for long, and only Legendary Powerhouses could stay for a long time.

After carefully observing the terrain of Gourd Valley, Li Zhangsheng began to take action.

His tactic was very simple, which was to set up the Hunyuan Heluo Forbidden Array to cut off any chance of the Ancestral Black Dragon escaping.

Of course, if the Ancestral Black Dragon was even stronger than him, the Hunyuan Heluo Forbidden Array could also provide a block, providing powerful help for his escape.

However, this possibility was not high.

During this time, Li Zhangsheng had spent countless resources to refine 365 Star Banners based on the damaged Taiyang Xing Banner to increase the power of the Hunyuan Heluo Forbidden Array.

The quality of these Star Banners was far inferior to the Star Banners in the Star Palace; most were just Strange Treasures of Heaven and Earth Essence, and only the Ziwei, Sun, and Moon banners reached the Heaven and Earth Rare Treasure Grade.

As for the damaged Taiyang Xing Banner, Li Zhangsheng had not yet repaired it, mainly because he did not know the method; if the reforged Taiyang Xing Banner was not compatible with the other Star Palace Star Banners, that would be a disaster, so he prepared to wait until he obtained the inheritance of the ancient Star Emperor.

(End of this chapter)