Chapter 682: The Abnormal Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc (Second Update, requesting everything)

"What is going on here?"

Li Changsheng was puzzled; he felt it might be related to the frequent refining of Semi-Artifacts, and coupled with the fact that the flame temperature this time was higher than ever before, the Jade Dragon Mist Cauldron could no longer withstand it.

Fortunately, however, the Jade Dragon Mist Cauldron held on until the end, otherwise, all his previous efforts might have been wasted.

Of course, it could also be related to this finished Treasure.

In the Refining Room, the Strengthened Breath-Concealing Restriction had long been activated, masking all the anomalies in advance.

If one counts the scene of the Jade Dragon Mist Cauldron bursting, the momentum this time clearly exceeded the previous two times he refined Semi-Artifacts, yet there was no anomaly of a Divine Artifact being born, which shows it is still in the category of a Semi-Artifact.

Li Changsheng reached out and beckoned, and the dark golden disc automatically landed in his hand.

"Let's call it the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc!"

Touching the golden cloud patterns on the disc, Li Changsheng named it according to its characteristics before checking its specific effects.

In the process of checking, Li Changsheng's face became increasingly surprised, and was immediately replaced by wild joy.

Li Changsheng had not expected that he would refine such a powerful Semi-Artifact; it was probably not far from a Divine Artifact.

Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc: Refined from fragments of a Black Tortoise shell, a Five-Clawed Golden Dragon Toe, and an Ying Dragon's Dragon Scale; increases the power of Water Attribute skills by 90%, comes with armor-piercing and Dragon Might effects, and automatically activates a Water Aura after being equipped.

Water Aura: Slightly increases the power of Water Attribute skills, decreases the power of Fire Element skills, and in underwater environments, Demon Pets blessed by this aura will not have their vision affected and will simultaneously gain the ability to breathe underwater; the range of the aura depends on the wearer's realm.

Li Changsheng did not know how to evaluate the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc; its amplification reached as high as 90%, only 10% away from the category of a Divine Artifact, though increasing it to 100% would be extremely difficult.

Besides this, the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc also comes with three effects.

The armor-piercing goes without saying; it can ignore a certain amount of defense and cause greater damage to enemies.

Dragon Might is more special; it is quite similar to the Dragon Might trait, which can intimidate enemies and has a chance to make the opponent fall into a Cowering state.

Finally, there is no need to mention the Water Aura; its effect is first-class. Not only does it increase the power of Water Attribute skills, but it also ensures that the Demon Pets' strength is not too greatly affected underwater. This is another high-value aura-type skill.

"It must be the good luck brought by Bizhen again!"

Li Changsheng thought to himself. He had refined three Semi-Artifacts, each of which was a masterpiece, and this one was only a step away from a Divine Artifact; perhaps it really did benefit from Ning Bizhen's luck.

Besides this, Li Changsheng always felt that the bursting of the Jade Dragon Mist Cauldron was related to the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc; after all, this Semi-Artifact was too excellent, and in terms of value, it was likely not much worse than a low-grade Divine Artifact.

Li Changsheng thought for a moment and handed the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc to the Chi Dragon to carry; if the Chi Dragon's Dragon Might had not improved, he might have given the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc to Datou to wear.

This was a matter of necessity; if the Dragon Might effect of the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc could not be utilized, it would be too wasteful.

Fortunately, after the Chi Dragon carried the Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc, its Dragon Might was clearly more vigorous, rising almost an entire level. Even though it had not yet advanced to the Demon King level, in this aspect, it seemed no worse than the Demon King-level White Dragon Ruixifeierzi, and the intimidation effect had undoubtedly become more prominent.

Those Demon Pets whose realm was inferior to the Chi Dragon would likely fall directly into a Cowering state once they sensed the Chi Dragon's Dragon Might.

Even for Demon Pets of the same realm, not only would their combat power decline, but they would also suffer certain negative effects; if they felt fear, their full combat power would be difficult to exert.

With this Cloud-Pattern Bagua Disc, the Chi Dragon's strength had seen a significant increase; even though it was still some distance from the Demon King level, it could definitely contend with ordinary Demon King-level Demon Pets.

In this way, the ranking of Li Changsheng's many Demon Pets had changed again.

Kailan > Aixi, Round-and-Round > Crowned Flaming Bird ≥ Chi Dragon > Adai, Datou > Day, Night > other Demon Pets...

As for the other Demon Pets, either their strength was not much different, making it hard to determine a winner, or they had not yet grown up.

However, Li Changsheng believed that in half a month, the ranking of his Demon Pets would likely undergo huge changes again, because the special ability of the Taiyin Token—the Emperor Flowing Plasma—was about to finish its cooldown.

By that time, Li Changsheng would organize a second round of breakthroughs; unless his luck was extremely poor, there would definitely be Demon Pets breaking through to the Demon King level, and perhaps even more than one or two.

There was no help for it; if Day and Night consumed the Light Origin and Darkness Origin to break through, coupled with the effect of the Emperor Flowing Plasma and the special nature of the Light-Dark Twin Symbiote, their probability of breaking through to the Demon King level was likely as high as 90%.

As for the other Demon Pets, even if they did not rely on treasures to break through, by virtue of their numbers, as long as they were not too unlucky, one or two would eventually complete a breakthrough.

This was Li Changsheng, who had "hacked" the system; the quality of his Demon Pets exceeded that of other Pseudo-Kings by more than one level. If it were other Pseudo-Kings, they would be thanking the heavens if even one Demon Pet could break through to the Demon King level.

Time passed unconsciously, and soon another half a month went by.

During this period, the strength of the Demon Pets could be said to have risen steadily; even those Demon Pets that had reached the critical point of Lord 9th Rank were diligently polishing their foundations and combat techniques.

During this time, except for the four Demon King-level Demon Pets and the Light Pupil Bird, Red Dragon, Gold Dragon, Chi Dragon, and Golden Armored Flying Dragon, all other Demon Pets had reached the critical point of Lord 9th Rank.

Among the many Demon Pets, the Light Pupil Bird and the Red Dragon had the lowest quality. Limited by their lack of quality, their advancement speed was far inferior to the other Demon Pets, and they would occasionally get stuck at a certain minor realm.

The Gold Dragon had only broken through to the Lord level for about three months, and it was still some distance from the Lord 9th Rank.

The Chi Dragon went without saying; having broken through from the Upper Realm to the Lord level in just over three months, it would take several more months to reach the Lord 9th Rank.

The Golden Armored Flying Dragon was ignored; even though its progress speed was fast, reaching the Elite Stage in just half a month, it could not close the gap with the other Demon Pets in a short time.

Due to the special nature of the Emperor Flowing Plasma, Li Changsheng could only wait until night to carry out the breakthrough, and Ning Bizhen was with him.

While waiting, Li Changsheng was bored and studied the latest issue of "Langya Guo Dage Bangdan".

Shortly after the National Tournament ended, "Langya Guo Dage Bangdan" published another issue.

Without a doubt, Li Changsheng's ranking had improved significantly again.

On the Langya Kingdom Hundred Battles Ranking, Li Changsheng, who was originally ranked 73rd, jumped directly into the top ten, ranking sixth. Ahead of him was the Tiantai Sect Supreme Elder Zuo Qiulin, and behind him was Xu Wenhua.

Originally, Xu Wenhua's ranking was behind Dou Qingtian, but after his efforts during this period, his Red Dragon finally completely broke through the threshold of Mystery and became a true Demon King-level Demon Pet, which allowed Xu Wenhua's ranking to rise slightly.

As for why Li Changsheng was ranked behind Zuo Qiulin, this could be seen from the information provided by the ranking list, because the information about him on the list only listed the three Demon King-level Demon Pets: Aixi, Kailan, and the Crowned Flaming Bird. Round-and-Round was not included, let alone Demi-God Beasts like the Chi Dragon.

If all of these were counted, Li Changsheng's ranking would definitely exceed Zuo Qiulin's, second only to the four Kings.

It could be said that Li Changsheng had now entered the ranks of the top combat power in the Langya Kingdom. Even though there was a huge gap between him and the first-ranked Dark Night King Dou Cangqiong, he believed that after today, the gap between him and the other three Seventh-rank Kings would become negligible, and he could even contend across ranks with the New King Dou Zhangsheng.

This was Li Changsheng's confidence!

Besides Li Changsheng and Xu Wenhua, Ning Bizhen also rose to ninth place on the Hundred Battles Ranking. This was because she had exposed the Three-Legged Fire Crow during the National Tournament. Her strength also went without saying; although the number of her Demon King-level Demon Pets was not as high as Xu Wenhua's, her combat power was not a bit inferior.

Sixth, seventh, and ninth—this time, Yuanling Academy had three people enter the top ten of the Hundred Battles Ranking. Such an honor had only been achieved by the Imperial Family in the Langya Kingdom, and it had never appeared in the Royal Academy; it could be called a grand event.

However, the number of people from Yuanling Academy on the Hundred Battles Ranking had not changed; there were still only six. Among them, Vice Principal Zhang Kaishuo was ranked 26th, Ning Wei had risen slightly, and Qian Yuanfei was still at the end of the list.

As for Li Changsheng's enemies Dou Yuanbin and Liu Xuguang, because they had each lost four of their main Demon Pets during the National Tournament, their rankings showed a clear downward trend.

Liu Xuguang fell from 11th to 17th, and Dou Yuanbin fell from 20th to 24th. If it were not for the Epic Dragon Python and the Myriad-Form Soul-Devouring Rat being powerful enough, the extent of their ranking decline would not have been so low.

Of course, this was also related to the fact that there were only thirty-odd Pseudo-Kings in the Langya Kingdom.

As for Dou Yuanhua, who became the third-place winner of the National Tournament, his ranking rose significantly from 93rd to 20th.

Li Changsheng turned to the Hidden Dragon Ranking; this list had also undergone huge changes.

Just like the rankings on the Hundred Battles Ranking, Li Zhangsheng successfully replaced Liu Xuguang to become the first place, Ning Bizhen was ranked second, and following them in order were Liu Xuguang, Dou Yuanhua, Dou Yuanbin...

Among the students related to Yuanling Academy, Zhao Shuyi, Luo Jing, Xu Xiangzhi, Qin Danxin, and Luo Xiaoman also made the list, an increase of three people compared to the last time.

Xu Xiangzhi successfully broke through to the Fourth Rank, becoming the second Fourth Rank student in the Second Grade of Yuanling Academy.

As for Qin Danxin and Luo Xiaoman, they were still at the Third Rank, but their strength had improved significantly, and both had records of defeating Fourth Rank opponents across ranks, which allowed them to be ranked among them.

Needless to say, for the final Academy Top 100 Ranking, the number of students on the list exceeded twenty; not only was the quantity not less than the Royal Academy, but the quality was even higher.

When sunset arrived at dusk, Li Zhangsheng finally set off and returned to the Li Family Manor with Ning Bizhen via the Teleportation Array.

Just like last year, Li Zhangsheng prepared to cast Emperor Flowing Plasma at the Li Family Manor again, and while making a breakthrough, he would also take the opportunity to improve the clan's strength.

Asking for recommendation votes on Monday, thank you all fellow readers!

(End of this chapter)