Chapter 533: Overseas Channels (First update, requesting everything)

Time always passes quickly during seclusion; a month went by before one knew it.

During this month, Li Changsheng rarely stepped out of his courtyard, spending every day in a very fulfilling manner, either researching or cultivating, and he could feel his progress every single day.

During this period, Li Changsheng roughly digested a portion of Di Zhiyi's memories, which allowed him to grow in various aspects; most importantly, his perspective underwent a qualitative change.

Thanks to Di Zhiyi, the "Methodology for Resolving Heterogeneous Bloodlines" has been thoroughly studied by Li Changsheng, though it will still take some time to integrate it into the "Book of Bloodlines," as the focus must be on practice rather than continuing to work in isolation.

Practice requires a massive amount of resources to pile up, including a large number of demon pet corpses possessing bloodlines, materials for making various dissolving agents, demon cores, and so on.

As for the "Nine Heavens Golden Palace Treasure Refining Art," Li Changsheng is more proficient than before and has a certain degree of confidence in crafting semi-artifacts; as long as he gathers one or two more pieces of Heavenly Essence Grade treasure materials, he can attempt to refine one.

Besides this, Li Changsheng's Mental Power has also risen steadily, though according to the current progress, it is estimated to take ten months to reach the peak of the Fifth Rank.

It is now mid-June, so ten months from now will be mid-April of next year; according to the current progress, if Li Changsheng wants to advance to the Sixth Rank or even Pseudo-King before the National Tournament begins, he must increase his progress.

Regarding demon pets, every demon pet has grown; among them, the Giant Whale Kun successfully reached Leader 9th Rank today, the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast and the Xi Mouse are still a short distance away from Leader 9th Rank, and the Venomous Flying Dragon, the young Red Dragon, and the Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird have all reached the level of Leader 5th Rank—everything is developing in a good direction.

Since their last failed breakthrough, the Crowned Blazing Bird and Round-and-Round have been solidifying their foundations, and he believes it won't be long before they can break through to the Monarch level.

As for Aixi, Kailan, Adai, Day, and Night, who have already advanced to Monarch, their rate of progress is far inferior to before.

Among them, Aixi and Kailan progressed the fastest, but they have only just reached Lord 3rd Tier, while the other three are still at the Lord 2nd Tier level.

This is something that cannot be helped; the higher the realm of a demon pet, the slower the progress speed, and to speed up the cultivation rate, one must inevitably improve their quality or consume Heavenly Material and Earthly Treasure or Alchemical Pills used for cultivation.

Li Changsheng has never let them consume such things, mainly because there is no need to waste them, and also to avoid so-called "drug resistance" to prevent complications in the future.

Additionally, in order to conceal the news of his advancement to the Fifth Rank, these five Monarch-level demon pets can usually only train in the backyard.

Even so, Li Changsheng still feels that he is holding them back, as his cultivation speed is still not as fast as the progress of his demon pets.

The progress speed of the demon pets is sliding, and isn't he the same?

"Three days from now is Second Uncle's wedding; it is time to go back for a trip. Before that, let the Giant Whale Kun consume the Kui Water Essence to see if it can successfully reach the Monarch level."

Li Changsheng stretched his back and walked toward the pond in the backyard.

Due to the changes in the Giant Whale Kun's body size, this pond has been expanded three times by Li Changsheng and already has a faint tendency to become a small lake.

At the same time, with Xu Wenhua's tacit approval, the Number One Courtyard was further expanded, absorbing all the empty space between it and the Number Two and Number Three Courtyards; otherwise, Li Changsheng might have had to move out.

Among this, the backyard is the most spacious, occupying a full two-thirds of the territory.

Because apart from this pond, Li Changsheng specifically cleared out a piece of land to transplant all the over one hundred spirit plants obtained from Xiao Mu's Medicine Garden, and the soil used for planting was naturally the Spirit Soil also obtained from Xiao Mu's Medicine Garden.

The rest of the backyard is mainly a place for the demon pets to move around and rest; given the large sizes of Adai, Aixi, and Round-and-Round, the entire backyard is surrounded by a wall over thirty meters high, plus an activated layer of earth-yellow Defense Restriction, so even the servants in the Number One Courtyard cannot detect it, and naturally, no one will learn the news of Li Changsheng's advancement to the Fifth Rank.

When Li Changsheng arrived at the edge of the pond, the Giant Whale Kun wagged its giant tail, revealing a huge fish head.

"Giant Whale Kun, eat this and you will become stronger!"

Looking at the Kui Water Essence in Li Changsheng's hand, the Giant Whale Kun could not help but show a greedy expression; it had been coveting this Kui Water Essence for a month.

In order to obtain this Kui Water Essence as soon as possible, the Giant Whale Kun had been training hard recently, which is why it was one step ahead of the Ancestral Leopard-Lin Beast and the Xi Mouse in reaching the Leader 9th Rank level.

Li Changsheng gave a light toss, and the Giant Whale Kun immediately jumped up, opened its mouth to swallow the azure Kui Water Essence, and fell back into the pond, splashing large sprays of water.

Under the influence of Mental Power, it was as if there was an invisible wall, causing all these water splashes to fall back into the pond.

While the Giant Whale Kun was breaking through, Li Changsheng took out the Yuanhe Ten-Color Pearl and activated the Water Attribute and Gold Element energies.

Under Li Changsheng's control, a large amount of the two-colored energy gushed out and gathered in the pond.

Soon, the Giant Whale Kun was enveloped by gold and blue brilliance, which then gradually formed a two-colored light cocoon.

Like a heart, the light cocoon was thumping; Li Changsheng could even hear the powerful beating sound.

Li Changsheng folded his arms and waited patiently for the Giant Whale Kun's movements.

Not long after, the two-colored light cocoon changed slightly, and wisps of azure lightning appeared, drilling in and out on the cocoon.

Li Changsheng had once transformed into a Black Tortoise to unleash the Kui Water Divine Thunder, so he naturally recognized that this was the Kui Water Divine Thunder; clearly, the Giant Whale Kun was comprehending it.

It took about half an hour for the two-colored light cocoon on the Giant Whale Kun's body to gradually thin out, and the azure electric currents on the cocoon were completely internalized.

When the two-colored light cocoon disappeared, the Giant Whale Kun was immediately filled with the white light of advancement; its aura surged rapidly, and its body size suddenly became longer, thicker, and larger.

Soon, the Giant Whale Kun completed its advancement.

In this metamorphosis, the Giant Whale Kun's body size once again gained a significant growth, with its body length exceeding thirty meters; in this aspect, it has surpassed Adai and become the demon pet with the largest body size in Li Changsheng's possession.

Unfortunately, the miniature wings on the Giant Whale Kun's back ruined its temperament, looking quite unsightly.

Relative to the Giant Whale Kun's body size, this pair of golden wings, totaling only six or seven meters in length, could not possibly support its weight; not only could it not fly, but it would instead hinder its speed in the water.

【Spirit Beast Name】: Giant Whale Kun (Growth Stage, Top-tier Exotic Beast, consumed Kui Water Essence, enhanced Water Attribute skill power, weakened the speed of enemies hit by Water Attribute skills, comprehended Kui Water Divine Thunder)

【Spirit Beast Realm】: Lord 1st Tier

【Spirit Beast Race】: Medium Monarch

【Spirit Beast Quality】: Top-grade

【Spirit Beast Bloodline】: Kun Fish (Rich), Golden Winged Great Peng (Sparse)

【Spirit Beast Attribute】: Water + Wind

【Spirit Beast Status】: Healthy

【Spirit Beast Weakness】: Earth, Thunder

"Must get the Spirit Essence of the Golden Winged Great Peng as soon as possible!"

Li Changsheng said to himself; he had already collected more than half a jar of Golden Winged Great Peng Spirit Essence and believed he would finish collecting it soon.

"By the way, I wonder how many wild spirit beasts meeting the requirements Steward Li Tong has secretly collected?"

When he returned last time, Li Changsheng had used a method similar to sending a message by carrier pigeon to give Steward Li Tong a task, which was to secretly purchase wild spirit beasts on the list that met the requirements in the name of Steward Li Tong or the various members of the auction house's security team.

Only wild spirit beasts possessing bloodlines of White Tiger, Phoenix, Three-Legged Golden Crow, Vermilion Bird, Golden Behemoth, Azure Cat, Purple Firmament Qilin, Golden Winged Great Peng, Kun Fish, etc., at the Sparse level or above, counted as meeting the purchase requirements.

"Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird, sorry to trouble you!"

Li Changsheng used his Mental Power to quickly write a letter.

Soon, the Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird took the letter in its beak and flew toward the Starry Sky Auction House; the recipient was Steward Li Tong.

When the Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird returned, it still had a letter in its beak; this was the reply from Steward Li Tong.

Li Zhangsheng took a few looks; Steward Li Tong had used his own name or the names of the guard team members to post quite a few missions for acquiring wild Spirit Beasts at the Hunter Guild.

In this reply, Li Zhangsheng saw a list enumerating the names of twenty or thirty Spirit Beasts; this was also the result of Steward Li Tong's efforts over the past month.

The cost of acquiring these wild Spirit Beasts was naturally not small; this batch alone cost over three thousand Soul Crystals.

Li Zhangsheng checked the Spirit Beasts possessing the Golden-Winged Great Peng bloodline at the first opportunity.

"There are only two of Pure Grade; it seems I will have to wait for another period of time."

Li Zhangsheng was a little disappointed; he carefully looked over the list, where most were of Pure Grade bloodline, and there were only two of Concentrated Grade in total, which respectively possessed the White Tiger Bloodline and the Vermilion Bird Bloodline.

It was a pity that whether it was Aixi or the Crowned Blazing Bird, wanting to advance further would likely require three large jars of Spirit Essence, and trying to gather them in this way would likely take a very long time.

Most importantly, Langya Kingdom was only so large, and the base number of wild Spirit Beasts possessing Concentrated Grade Divine Beast Bloodline was already extremely small; furthermore, they were all High Quality Fairies, so the difficulty of acquisition would only grow greater and greater.

"It seems I must find an opportunity to open up channels abroad!"

Li Zhangsheng thought to himself, but such matters had to be kept secret; he was currently only Fifth Rank, and while occasional acquisitions were fine, if he did it in large quantities, it would very easily attract the attention of others.

Additionally, the reply from Steward Li Tong also included the ledger for this quarter from the Starry Sky Auction House.

Li Zhangsheng's reading speed was very fast, yet he never missed a single detail.

That is how a Monster Tamer is; the higher the rank, the more monstrous their memory, calculation ability, logical thinking, and other aspects become.

After a long while, Li Zhangsheng nodded in satisfaction; after becoming one of the top ten auction houses, the Starry Sky Auction House had entered a virtuous cycle.

On this morning, Li Zhangsheng and Ning Bizhen arrived together at the main gate of Yuanling Academy.

"Let's go!"

Li Zhangsheng summoned the Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird and, disregarding the gazes of others, rode it together.

The Bright Heavy-Pupil Bird spread its wings and soared high, appearing hundreds of meters in the air, and flew toward Luo City with the speed of wind and lightning.

Today's goal: Three, Pig, Certificate!

(End of this chapter)