Chapter 986: Buying Horse Bones with a Thousand Gold (Second update, requesting everything)

Boom—

In the Secret Realm, a humanoid creature with four wings on its back exploded into a cloud of blood mist, staining the ground deep red.

Not far away, Li Zhangsheng wore a contemplative expression; he had spent ten days preparing the knowledge and steps for creating a new species, only beginning the experiment yesterday.

At first, Li Zhangsheng experimented with wild Spirit Beasts, channeling Demon essence blood—with the Demonic Qi neutralized—into the bodies of the wild Spirit Beasts, and a new species was indeed born.

However, the Merit Profound Yellow Qi rewarded for such a newly born species was truly too little, far less efficient than using the Gate of Light and Darkness.

Clearly, the attempt to take a shortcut had failed!

This was within Li Zhangsheng's expectations; if it were this easy to obtain large amounts of Mysterious Yellow Merit Qi, those Kings would likely swarm to other planes to plunder the essence blood of species from other worlds.

Under these circumstances, Li Zhangsheng had no choice but to discard the idea of taking shortcuts and formally create a new species.

He did not lack the foundation; what he lacked was experience.

Thus, just like the four-winged humanoid creature before him, after painstakingly consuming precious resources to create a body, it exploded and died before Li Zhangsheng could even settle a soul into it.

Suffering a setback at the very first step, Li Zhangsheng felt helpless; he felt that a problem must have occurred in some link, otherwise such a mishap could not have happened.

Li Zhangsheng cupped his chin and pondered deeply, yet he could not figure out which specific link had gone wrong.

There was no help for it; he was still a novice in this regard.

Even though he had obtained the inheritances of the Treasure King, the First Principal, the Spirit King, and the Flame King, these four had never created a species themselves and only possessed some theoretical knowledge.

It was like a virgin with extremely rich theoretical knowledge who, when it came time to do the deed, surrendered in three seconds—the principle was the same.

Theoretical knowledge alone was like a castle in the air, and crucially, this theoretical knowledge was not rich enough; otherwise, he would not have been stuck at the first step.

Li Zhangsheng did not continue the experiment because he knew very well that even if he continued, he would not be able to improve it in the short term.

What he needed to do was simple: check the treasured books obtained from the Imperial Palace of Langya Kingdom to enrich his own knowledge; perhaps he would gain something.

The Langya Kingdom Imperial Palace had a vast number of treasured books and Inheritance Jade Slips, and since only a few people were classifying them, the progress was naturally slow; it was only recently, after two months, that the classification was completed.

However, because he was preoccupied with creating a new species, Li Zhangsheng had not yet gone to look at them; now that he had leisure time and lacked knowledge in this area, he wanted to go and browse.

He believed that with the collection of the Langya Kingdom Imperial Family over several hundred years, he would surely gain something.

One hour later, Li Zhangsheng rode Aixi into the capital of Dai Kingdom and flew straight toward the Imperial Palace.

As one of the helmsmen of Dai Kingdom, Li Zhangsheng naturally possessed such rights; even some Forbidden Lands within the Imperial Palace were not off-limits to him.

"My Lord!"

As the voice rang out, Zhao Rui ran toward him at high speed; this guy did not have flight privileges in the Imperial Palace and could only walk.

Without Li Zhangsheng needing to give an order, Aixi automatically stopped and landed at the entrance of the Imperial Palace.

Zhao Rui was, after all, a Pseudo-King, and his walking speed was extremely fast; within a few breaths, he appeared before Li Zhangsheng.

Li Zhangsheng looked at Zhao Rui in confusion and asked, "Zhao Rui, is something the matter?"

Zhao Rui first bowed, then said with a respectful look, "My Lord, it is like this: didn't you have me publicize the item list a while ago? In the past few days, several people have come to the door with treasures from the list. Do you wish to see them?"

"Very well, let it be at Xuande Hall."

Li Zhangsheng agreed without hesitation, and at the same time, a bit of anticipation grew in his heart.

Although Dai Kingdom only had the territory of one province, the number of Monster Tamers reached tens of thousands; even though most were low-tier Monster Tamers, who could guarantee that there were no treasures in the hands of low-tier Monster Tamers?

This was why Li Zhangsheng had Zhao Rui publish the list—he hoped to let the vast grassroots Monster Tamers help him find items.

To prevent anyone from interfering, Li Zhangsheng specifically had the Dai Kingdom Imperial Family organize a group of Stronger individuals to protect them, avoiding as much as possible anyone hearing wind of it and intercepting the goods.

Not long after, Zhao Rui brought several people into Xuande Hall.

Xuande Hall was used by the Imperial Family specifically for Li Zhangsheng to handle government affairs; the layout here was primarily solemn and dignified, with nine tiers of steps above and a throne carved with a golden dragon in the center.

After they entered, Li Zhangsheng appeared abruptly on the throne, looking down at the few people below.

Besides Zhao Rui, there were four others.

Except for one Fourth-rank Demon Tamer, the rest were all low-tier Monster Tamers.

Judging from the information Zhao Rui provided, these four were all Loose Cultivators, including that Fourth-rank Demon Tamer.

Clearly, the various forces of Dai Kingdom were still watching from the sidelines.

When these four saw Li Zhangsheng, they were either stunned or filled with excitement; after all, the person before them was a King.

A King was busy with ten thousand affairs; he was not someone they could see just because they wanted to.

Seeing that the four were still stunned, Zhao Rui hurriedly reminded them, "Why don't you bow to His Majesty yet!"

"No need!"

Li Zhangsheng flicked his sleeve, and the four felt an irresistible force emerge; those who were about to kneel were involuntarily stood back up.

"There is no need for empty talk. Since you have the items I need, I will also try my best to satisfy your requests. You only need to remember one thing: equivalent exchange. It is best not to make requests that far exceed the value of the items."

Li Zhangsheng waved his hand and pointed casually at the young man on the far left, saying, "Then let's start with you!"

The young man was clearly over twenty years old, yet he was still a First-rank Beast Master; clearly, the Demon Pet he had contracted was not very good.

"Reporting to... His Majesty, this small one has... a Wood Element Crystal."

The young man appeared very nervous, with his legs even showing signs of trembling, and he hurriedly took a wooden box out from his bosom.

Just as he said, there was a Wood Element Crystal in the wooden box, about the size of an adult's fist.

"Not bad, state your request!"

Li Zhangsheng nodded in acknowledgment.

The young man said cautiously, "My mother became disabled many years ago, so I would like an Alchemical Pill that can heal disabilities."

"Inside here are three Spirit-Condensing Pills, which have the therapeutic effect of Limb Regeneration."

Li Zhangsheng did not expect this person to be a filial son; he reached out and waved, and a Jade Bottle landed lightly before him.

After the young man received it with an excited expression, Li Zhangsheng paused and continued, "However, three Spirit-Condensing Pills are not enough to exchange for this Wood Element Crystal. In that case, I will grant you one more Superior Quality Spirit Beast."

Acting on the idea of buying horse bones with a thousand gold, Li Zhangsheng was willing to pay a little more; besides, he had a large number of Superior Quality and even Top-tier Spirit beasts from the Langya Kingdom Imperial Secret Realm and Royal Garden in his possession.

(End of chapter)