Chapter 402: The Second Bloodline Transition (Three-in-One Chapter, Requesting Everything)

The next morning, Li Changsheng and Ning Bizhen left the Li Family Manor together, preparing to head to the back mountain to begin special training.

Although the Li Family Manor is large, their Spirit Beasts are truly too eye-catching, and the scale of their training would definitely affect the training results of the clansmen.

Moreover, the training equipment provided by the Li Family Manor could no longer offer much help to their Spirit Beasts.

Therefore, after discussing it, Li Changsheng and Ning Bizhen decided to set the location for their special training in the quiet back mountain.

Because the sound of tigers roaring often echoes from the back mountain, it is also called Tiger Roar Mountain by the nearby people of Luo City, and it is also the place where Aixi was born.

Tiger Roar Mountain is not very far from the Li Family Manor, only about ten or so miles away, and it is also the largest mountain closest to the Li Family Manor.

The terrain here is not steep, but rather quite flat, covered with green plants and abundant water sources; everywhere one looks is a sea of green.

It was precisely the good natural environment and its proximity to home that prompted the two to choose this place.

A good environment can cultivate one's character, make the Spirit Beasts feel relaxed in body and mind, and allow them to better carry out training.

The two rode the Light Blessing bird together, and in just a few minutes, a large mountain covered in green plants appeared in front of them.

That is Tiger Roar Mountain, and also the place where Aixi was born.

Under Li Changsheng's direction, the Light Blessing bird flew to the mountainside area of Tiger Roar Mountain and finally circled down to land in front of a large cave.

The cave is four or five meters high and quite winding inside; coupled with the pitch-black environment, one can only see a distance of ten or so meters.

Roar~

Perhaps hearing the movement, a powerful and spirited tiger roar rang out, followed immediately by a white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes that was about three meters tall and over five meters long (excluding the length of its tail) charging out.

Behind this white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes followed two cubs with tiger-like heads, emitting milky cries.

Upon seeing the Light Blessing bird and the Pressure it carried, the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes was clearly startled, its whole body unable to stop trembling.

It is the king of the forest on Tiger Roar Mountain, but it is only at the Middle Rank, giving a sense of "when there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkey is king," because there are no powerful wild Spirit Beasts on Tiger Roar Mountain.

Well, it is a tiger!

Tiger Roar Mountain is too close to the Li Family Manor and lies within the activity range of the Li Family; to ensure the safety of ordinary clansmen, the Li Family periodically clears out or drives away powerful wild Spirit Beasts nearby.

Roar~

At this moment, the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes saw Li Changsheng and Ning Bizhen; its copper-bell-sized eyes first flashed with a trace of astonishment and memory, followed immediately by being filled with Anger.

Even though they hadn't met for several months, it still recognized Li Changsheng!

That's right, it is Aixi's Mother!

Aixi's Mother almost subconsciously assumed Li Changsheng had come to pick a fight, hurriedly calling out anxiously to the two cubs, seemingly signaling them to run away, while it bit the bullet and took the initiative to pounce toward the Light Blessing bird.

The Light Blessing bird stared contemptuously at the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes charging at it, and just as it wanted to finish off the opponent with its sharp Bird Beak, Li Changsheng hurriedly stopped it.

The Light Blessing bird was full of confusion inside, but it still complied with Li Changsheng's decision, its body surface covered by a layer of milky white light shield.

The attack from Aixi's Mother landed on the light shield without causing even a ripple; the gap between the two was simply too great.

The two cubs did not run away; they just followed along, trembling, and attacked the light shield together.

"Come out, Aixi!"

Li Changsheng shook his head and summoned Aixi.

Roar~

Accompanied by the flashing Purple Hexagram, Aixi let out a loud roar, the sound like Thunder, echoing for a long time on Tiger Roar Mountain.

Amidst this astonishing tiger roar, countless wild Spirit Beasts rushed out of their respective nests in a panic, fleeing in all directions.

As soon as it saw the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes, Aixi felt a sense of familiarity; it subconsciously withdrew its Pressure, sizing up the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes in front of it, which, even though it was trembling with fear, was still trying its best to protect the two cubs behind it.

"Aixi, that is your mother!"

Li Changsheng scolded Aixi, then said to the white-forehead tiger with hanging eyes: "Big tiger, first of all, I apologize for what happened several months ago; I took your cub away without your permission, causing you not to see each other for several months; secondly, do you remember that at that time there was a cliff between us, and I said that when I had time I would bring it to see you? This time I have brought it!"

Roar-woo~

Aixi hurriedly lowered its body, trying its best to restrain its aura and voice, its tail wagging, not daring to act presumptuously in the slightest.

The eyes of Aixi's Mother were full of surprise; only at this very moment did it dare to look directly at the familiar yet strange Aixi.

What was familiar was the scent, what was strange was the appearance.

Aixi is five meters tall and about ten meters long; in terms of size, it is several times larger than her. Standing together, the two are simply the difference between a big tiger and a small tiger.

The mother tiger was full of doubts: Is this really my daughter who has been missing for half a year? What did she eat to grow this big!

In less than half a year, Aixi grew from the original 0.4 meters to the current ten meters.

Roar-woo~

"Are you really my daughter?" Aixi's Mother

Roar-woo~

"I really am your daughter!" Aixi

Roar-woo~

"But how did you grow into this appearance?" Aixi's Mother

The two tigers began to communicate; after confirming that Aixi was her cub, Aixi's Mother was clearly much more relaxed.

Aixi briefly recounted its experiences over the past few months, and even somewhat proudly exaggerated its great achievements to its mother.

At this time, the two little tigers poked their heads out from behind the mother tiger, watching Aixi with curiosity.

They are Aixi's younger brother and sister; not long after Aixi was "kidnapped" by Li Changsheng, the mother tiger gave birth to them.

Toward its own kin, Aixi was naturally amiable.

Soon, the two little tigers forgot their previous fear and mischievously climbed onto Aixi's back, playing and frolicking.

While they were enjoying their time together, Li Changsheng spoke up: "Aixi, you can spend time with your family during this period; we will go to the foot of the mountain to start training!"

Roar~

Aixi waved its claw, signifying that it understood.

Li Changsheng shook his head and, riding the Light Blessing bird with Ning Bizhen, arrived at the foot of the mountain.

This is a flat patch of grassland, suitable for Demon Pets to train.

Ning Bizhen surveyed the surrounding environment and said with a smile, "The environment here is quite nice!"

"As long as you like it!"

Li Zhangsheng replied casually, and he and Ning Bizhen summoned all their Demon Pets.

Kailan, Adai, Roundy, Daytime, Nighttime, Crown Blazing Bird, Red Dragon Xieryasina, Light Blessing Bird, Venom Wyvern, Treasure-Hunting Mouse, and Thunder Leopard Beast.

If counting Aixi, there were a total of 12 Demon Pets, among which seven were official Demon Pets and five were Temporary Spirit Pets.

Compared to Li Zhangsheng, the number of Ning Bizhen's Demon Pets was much smaller.

Three-Legged Fire Crow, Cold Jade Rabbit, Qixi Wind Speed Cat, Dark Night Marten, Green-Eyed Golden-Eyed Beast, Young Red Dragon, and Six-Armed Naga—these seven were all official Demon Pets.

Unlike Li Zhangsheng, because she had only recovered in the past few days, Ning Bizhen did not yet have any Temporary Spirit Pets.

"Form up!!"

Following Li Zhangsheng's order, the eleven Demon Pets hurriedly lined up according to their height; the tallest was Adai, and the shortest was the Treasure-Hunting Mouse.

Well, Kailan's height had already surpassed the Treasure-Hunting Mouse.

Li Zhangsheng began to arrange special training programs for the Demon Pets. Unlike in the past, this time, it was mainly focused on compensating for their weaknesses, such as Adai training speed, Kailan training melee ability and strength, and so on.

Finally, Li Zhangsheng said to the young Red Dragon: "Xieryasina, I don't have high requirements for you. Your training program is the same as Adai's; just run on the ground, so that in case your dragon wings are injured and you cannot fly, you can still maintain sufficient combat power!"

Xieryasina lay lazily on its side on the ground, blowing air at Li Zhangsheng with its head: "Hmph, the great Xieryasina disdains training! The great Red Dragon clan only needs to take a nap, and they can naturally grow to the Lord level!"

The talent of the dragon clan is indeed astonishing; as long as they reach a certain age, they will naturally reach a certain realm. This also leads to most dragons being relatively lazy, often able to sleep for months or even years at a time.

"Xieryasina, I'll give you one more chance to choose!" After saying this, Li Zhangsheng took a handful of things out of his Space Ring.

Xieryasina's originally lazy eyes changed instantly, staring tightly at Li Zhangsheng; its eyes turned into 【gold coin symbols】!

That's right, Li Zhangsheng was holding a handful of glittering Gold Coins.

Li Zhangsheng toyed with the Gold Coins in his hands, making a clinking sound of metal colliding.

Without a doubt, Gold Coins are the favorite of dragons, even if their value is far inferior to Soul Crystals.

"For me?" Xieryasina leaned its face over, sticking its rear up and resting its head on the ground, staring intently at that handful of Gold Coins.

Heaven have mercy, Xieryasina did not yet have its own Gold Coins, and the most tragic thing was that the pile of jewelry Li Zhangsheng had given it back then was still being kept by Li Zhangsheng on its behalf.

"As long as you can train seriously and your daily training duration reaches five hours, I will give you a handful of Gold Coins. How about that?"

Li Zhangsheng tempted it step by step. He was not short of Gold Coins; as long as he could improve the young Red Dragon's training attitude and duration, he was willing to pay as many Gold Coins as it took.

According to the market conversion, one Low-grade Soul Crystal can be exchanged for one hundred Gold Coins, and that is the kind that is in high demand but short supply...

"You are the stingiest human I have ever seen. One handful is too little; at least ten handfuls of Gold Coins!"

The young Red Dragon was still not satisfied. It used its dragon talent to take a look and immediately discovered that this handful totaled only 20 Gold Coins.

With such a small amount of Gold Coins, calculated by its size, it would probably take several years to pave a layer of Gold Coins to sleep on.

If its growth in size was taken into account, it would probably take even longer.

From a young age, the first small goal Xieryasina set for itself was to sleep on top of Gold Coins.

"No, I can give you two handfuls of Gold Coins, but you must increase your daily training duration to 6 hours!"

"Training duration is not a problem, but the Gold Coins are still too few. As long as it's eight handfuls of Gold Coins, I'll agree!"

"Three handfuls, seven hours of training!" Li Zhangsheng revealed the face of a miser, continuing to haggle with Xieryasina.

After spending ten minutes, the two finally reached an agreement, and both sides obtained a satisfactory answer.

Li Zhangsheng feigned a look of heartache, but in reality, he was overjoyed. He only needed to pay five handfuls of Gold Coins to get Xieryasina to train seriously for ten hours, and there were two restrictions on Xieryasina.

To prevent Xieryasina from slacking off, if the training duration for that day did not reach ten hours, it could not be accumulated to the next day.

Additionally, if Xieryasina slacked off during training, Li Zhangsheng had the right to deduct Gold Coins; all interpretations belonged to Li Zhangsheng!

Poor Xieryasina had just fallen into the trap Li Zhangsheng had specially set for it.

For the sake of Gold Coins, Xieryasina had no choice but to train hard.

"Everyone, while you are training, if you see Xieryasina slacking off, you can secretly report it to me! Hmm, I will give you a certain reward!"

Li Zhangsheng added another lock for Xieryasina.

Xieryasina, who was just about to start training, stumbled and almost fell to the ground; this was simply giving it no way to live.

But what else could it say? It could only grit its teeth and train hard; everything was for the Gold Coins.

Li Zhangsheng did not supervise the Demon Pets' training; including Roundy, most of them had developed good training habits and could supervise each other.

On the other side, Ning Bizhen had also arranged the training programs for her Demon Pets.

The two looked at each other and tacitly found a relatively flat place to start setting up tents; they would spend some time here.

By the time the tents were set up, it was already noon.

Looking at Ning Bizhen wiping her sweat, Li Zhangsheng took out a Jade Bottle and stuffed it directly into Ning Bizhen's hand.

"This is the Dali Jingang Pill; you must accept it no matter what!"

The Dali Jingang Pill is a high-level Alchemical Pill that can temporarily increase a Demon Pet's strength; at a critical moment, it might be able to turn defeat into victory.

"But..." Ning Bizhen hesitated, subconsciously wanting to refuse.

For the first time, Li Zhangsheng interrupted her and said, "Don't worry, this is only half a bottle; we'll split it in half!"

A bottle of Dali Jingang Pill contains ten pills; five Dali Jingang Pills are temporarily enough for Li Zhangsheng.

Additionally, he also possessed the formula for the Dali Jingang Pill; if needed, he could completely hand it over to other alchemists to produce, or wait until Kailan's alchemy level improved before handing it to her to refine.

Apart from those three top-tier formulas, among the high-level formulas, the one Li Zhangsheng valued most was the Beauty-Fixing Pill formula; the other high-level formulas were relatively unimportant.

"Then I will accept it!"

Ning Bizhen shook the Jade Bottle, her ears twitched, and after confirming there were indeed only five pills, she accepted it.

At this time, Ning Bizhen took out some dry rations, wanting to use them to fill her stomach.

Although she is called a walking encyclopedia, Ning Bizhen's cooking skills are too poor; the standard of the food she makes only reaches the point of not being poisonous, which can be called Darkness Cuisine.

There is no help for it; all these years Ning Bizhen has stayed at the Yuanling Academy, cared for by her grandmother and some servants, and has rarely had the opportunity to do it herself.

"I'll take care of the three meals for this period!"

Unlike Ning Bizhen, Li Zhangsheng often cooks and occasionally goes out traveling, which is how his cooking skills were forged.

Besides this, the Fairy Food that the Demon Pets eat is also made by his own hands; although his cooking skills cannot compare to a professional chef, they are up to standard, so he can naturally handle this job.

"You can cook too? That is truly great! By the way, I'll come help you as a sous-chef!"

Ning Bizhen was a bit surprised and hurriedly put down the dry rations in her hand; since there was steaming hot food, she naturally would not think about gnawing on dry rations.

The next moment, Li Zhangsheng took out cooking utensils and ingredients from his Space Ring.

Under the control of his Mental Power, the knives flew up, as if an invisible hand were manipulating them, and began to process the various ingredients.

These processed ingredients were extremely uniform in size and thickness, giving the impression that they had been carved from a mold.

"Crown Flame Bird!" After the ingredients were finished being processed, Li Zhangsheng called the Crown Flame Bird over.

Whenever he is making food, Li Zhangsheng always lets the Crown Flame Bird control the Fire Element, calling it training its control over fire.

Chirp~

The Crown Flame Bird flew over and, according to Li Zhangsheng's request, opened its Bird Beak to spray a line of fire, which fell evenly to burn fiercely beneath the iron pot.

In the process of making lunch, Li Zhangsheng would put food into the pot from time to time while skillfully directing the Crown Flame Bird to adjust the size of the fire.

The Crown Flame Bird appeared quite skilled; clearly, it had not done the task of controlling the heat little in the past.

"So it can be done this way!" Ning Bizhen thought to herself, unable to help but look at the Three-Legged Fire Crow still training, deciding to try it when she had the chance in the future.

As a woman, how could she lack this essential skill of cooking?

Isn't there a saying that goes well: if you want to tie a man's heart, you must first tie his stomach.

Unknowingly, lunch was finished.

This was a typical three-dish-one-soup meal; after tasting the food, Ning Bizhen revealed a smile; although it did not reach her grandmother's level, it was not far off, and Li Zhangsheng's cooking skills could be considered to have received her approval.

At this time, all of their Demon Pets stopped training and were burying their heads in eating their respective food; large Demon Pets like Aixi and Adai mainly ate raw meat, supplemented by a certain amount of Fairy Food.

Aixi, Adai, Roundy, and the Venom Dragon were all big eaters; the raw meat that needed to be prepared every day alone had to be calculated in tons, not to mention all the other various foods.

It was also because of this that the money spent on food every month was not a small number.

However, it was easier in the wild; one could use hunting to replenish at any time, and as long as one hunted one or two large wild Spirit Beasts every day, these expenses could be saved.

Roar~

Just as the two were eating, Aixi brought two little tigers and trotted over to Li Zhangsheng, letting out a low roar at him.

Li Zhangsheng hurriedly established a mental channel with Aixi, and both sides began to enter into mental communication.

"What, you want me to train your younger siblings while I'm at it? Is this your idea or your mother's idea?"

"My mom!" Aixi.

"Alright, for the sake of Mother Tiger, I will reluctantly agree!"

Li Zhangsheng chose to agree, which could be considered compensation for Mother Tiger.

He naturally saw Mother Tiger's intention, which was nothing more than hoping her children would become stronger and improve their survival ability in nature.

"My mom said, train them to death!" Aixi looked at its younger siblings with pitying eyes.

"Rest assured, after the special training ends, their strength might just catch up to Mother Tiger!"

Li Zhangsheng had long ago 'seen' the data on Aixi's younger siblings; although they possessed an Inferior Quality White Tiger Bloodline, they were all Low Grade quality.

However, with Li Zhangsheng's current wealth, throwing away a few scraps of resources would be enough to let them successfully reach the Middle Rank realm.

Li Zhangsheng could guarantee for them that the Li Clan members would not expel or harm them.

Of course, they could not harm the Li Clan members either.

Soon, Li Zhangsheng arranged their training, which was nothing more than what Aixi did before: running at the limit of their weight, and using the Healing Spring to restore their physical strength when they were tired.

Suddenly, Kailan flew over and said in an urgent tone: "Zhangsheng, the Thunder Leopard Beast seems a bit wrong!"

Li Zhangsheng hurriedly looked at the Thunder Leopard Beast and saw it lying painfully on the ground, its eyes tightly closed, and crackling silver-white Thunder light appearing on its body surface.

"Is the Bloodline Transition starting again?" Li Zhangsheng thought to himself and hurriedly came to the Thunder Leopard Beast's side.

Ning Bizhen was a bit worried and followed over as well.

It was also at this time that white light began to emerge from the Thunder Leopard Beast's body surface; this was a sign that it was about to evolve.

In the process of evolution, the Thunder Leopard Beast's whole body was wrapped in rich Jianhua Bai Guang, and the silver electric light on its body surface gathered more and more; the purple current contained in the electric light began to increase at a speed visible to the naked eye, turning from one strand into two, three...

Li Zhangsheng focused his attention on the Thunder Leopard Beast, his Mental Power in an external state at all times to check the Thunder Leopard Beast's condition.

At the same time, Kailan, Baitian, and the Light Blessing bird flew in front; as soon as the Thunder Leopard Beast had any danger, they would provide treatment in time.

When the quantity of purple current reached a certain point, the current on the Thunder Leopard Beast's body surface burst with a boom.

These currents spontaneously gathered together, turning into a phantom of a Purple Heaven Qilin made of lightning, far clearer than the last time it evolved, and the Pressure that erupted was naturally stronger.

Li Zhangsheng only felt his body sink, but he was not affected; the intensity of such Pressure was clearly still within his range of endurance.

In the span of a few breaths, the Purple Heaven Qilin phantom let out a silent roar toward the sky, then dove down and quickly surged into the Thunder Leopard Beast's body.

In this process, the Thunder Leopard Beast swelled up violently, its whole body emitting the sound of bones popping, and then it began to grow at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Its body turned into that of a deer, and the scales on its neck all turned purple, with noble purple electric light constantly darting across them.

Soon, the Thunder Leopard Beast stopped changing and slowly opened its eyes.

Its eyes were clearly much larger, looking no different from Aixi's tiger eyes, only its pupils were purple.

In this metamorphosis, the Thunder Leopard Beast's length expanded from four meters to seven meters, with a height of about three meters, and the two bumps on its head also became more prominent.

Judging from its appearance alone, the Thunder Leopard Beast and the Purple Heaven Qilin were already four or five parts similar.

"I wonder if its Bloodline Transition has ended? Has its quality been improved? And what kind of inheritance has it obtained?"

Li Zhangsheng was inevitably full of anticipation and began to check its data.

Shivering in fear, the old village secretary has been diagnosed, and he has been in contact with quite a few people...

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(End of this chapter)