Lu Yu returned ho, and Little Mouse retook its Throne of Sand (sofa)!
Having just perford a ritorious deed, it was swaggering around, looking at everyone as if they were wares waiting to be sold. Even the Pervert Cultivator had to show it so respect!
Little Mouse had wanted to drag the sleeping Eggy over to watch it eat potato chips, to display the benevolence of the Mouse Heavenly Emperor and share its joy with the masses!
But then… it was rcilessly rejected by the Cultivator!
To disrespect Little Mouse, to not bow before a mouse! So today… it used its Soul Cloud to create a Pirated Eggy.
The effect was more or less the sa.
Taking a step back opens up a broader sky!
And the snacks were delicious!
It had no intention of making good on its promise of potato chips for its Mouse Clones… In fact, Little Mouse had already decided to hire new employees.
As for the old ones, they would be contributed to society.
A contribution to society!
'Besides, I owe it to myself.
Is soone going to sue over it?'
Little Mouse crossed its legs, pleased as punch, already exhibiting the air of a Capitalist Mouse, and turned on the television. This ti it was a new show, titled [The Elf Saintess's Exploration into the Dark Beastman Kingdom to Save Her People].
Such an excellent setup captivated Little Mouse at first glance. It quickly beca engrossed, exclaiming from ti to ti:
"Cultivator, these Beastn are so fierce! Their fists are bigger than the Elf Princess's head!"
"Cultivator, the Elf Princess is surrounded by seven big guys! It turns out they're Dwarf Beastn from the forest who were persecuted by the evil Beastman Empress and also want to help the Elf Princess!"
"Cultivator, the Elf Princess is screaming! That 'Wrath of Nature' move is so cool! I want to learn Wood-type skills now too!"
"…"
Listening to just the first half of this string of comnts, Lu Yu was ready to call the police.
But even with the second half, it was still bizarre.
This Lewd Hamster, what was really under that yellow fur?
How on earth did it grow up to be so twisted!
Little Spider watched this scene with a faint smile.
It waved its hand, weaving its Spider Silk into a lounge chair. After its Master lay down, gentle vibrations in different areas would ease his muscle fatigue.
Transcendent-level Spider Silk combined with the vibrations from a near-Pinnacle of Perfection Thunder Roar, used just for a massage. If anyone from the outside world knew, they would probably weep.
However, to Little Spider, all its skills and strength were rely for taking better care of its Master. It didn't care about others' opinions.
The sky is vast, the earth is vast, but Master is the vastest of all!
"My Little Spider is getting more and more considerate!"
Lu Yu stroked Little Spider's head, feeling the effects of the spider silk massage chair, and felt the urge to just drift off to sleep.
But in the end, he relied on his formidable willpower to overco Little Spider's "gentle trap" and began to take stock of his gains from this trip.
The first gain was, naturally, the Primordial Spirit Ascension Fruit, though Lu Yu had already eaten it, successfully achieving the Advancent to Gold Rank and forming the extrely special Spiritual Puzzle, The Herder.
It could create different Pastures based on different pet beasts, empowering them and causing their combat power to soar!
After the test of this great battle, Lu Yu's current comprehensive strength was enough to sweep through ordinary Spirituality Transformation Level opponents.
As for the Morning Star Rank, that was a transformation of one's Life Level, allowing one to leverage the Power of Nature and master high-level applications of the Spiritual Puzzle. It was a qualitative change.
To counterattack a Morning Star Rank, he would need to continue increasing his strength!
However, the current Lu Yu could be considered a figure of so note in the Beast Taming World. No matter which great domain of the Alliance he went to, he would receive top-tier offers from nurous Pioneer Companies and Adventure Groups, starting at the managent level with a generous salary, where he could chat with his secretary about the art of the unspoken rule every day.
He heard that in so great domains, upon reaching the Spirituality Transformation Level, they even assigned a Beast Tar waifu with E-class talent…
Cough, cough, cough!
I, Lu Yu, with my righteous and zen-like deanor, would never stoop to that. I'm just a little… covetous of a peak!
I'd like to explore the local customs and traditions up there!
The second gain was the Corrupt Beehive material.
After the Queen Bee's tamorphosis into the Proliferating Green Dragon, it was abandoned, and Lu Yu extracted it as a material before leaving.
"It's a pity all the Blood Honey inside was consud during the battle, otherwise I could have made an extra killing!"
Lu Yu sighed.
To a capitalist, earning less is the sa as losing money.
"Ying?"
Seeing her Master suddenly sigh, Little Spider tilted its head, a little puzzled.
It thought its massage wasn't good enough and its mood sank.
Even with the blindfold on, you could see Little Spider's eyes turning red, looking pitiable.
"I was just thinking about sothing else. Little Spider's massages are the most comfortable!"
Lu Yu quickly comforted it, and the latter imdiately bead with joy.
It really was too well-behaved and easy to please!
Watching the redoubled efforts of Little Spider, Lu Yu breathed a sigh of relief and began to review the battle, which had truly benefited him greatly.
He had truly felt the terror of a powerful life form!
All sorts of weird abilities erged one after another.
For example, the Queen Bee used the Legendary-tier skill [Jade Dream] to transform directly from a bee into a dragon.
If not for Lu Yu's Eye of Truth allowing him to make arrangents in advance, coupled with his constant caution, he might have capsized in a ditch.
Therefore, he had to maintain a heart of reverence. Arrogance and complacency were the beginning of death!
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifeti."
Lu Yu smiled faintly, then took out the beehive and handed it to Little Spider.
Although the core essence had been extracted and it was much smaller, the remaining part was still huge. It had to be cut and stacked multiple tis to barely fit in the living room.
Seeing a part to know the whole, one could imagine just how big the original beehive was!
If it advanced to the Morning Star Rank, it could even rival a dium-sized airship from the Machine King Domain, capable of holding hundreds of thousands of bees and sweeping across the land!
Hum!
Little Spider nodded. The Void Cross hanging on its body shone with a purple radiance, condensing into a huge black cloud.
Crack! Crack! Crack!
Within it, Abyssal Giant Mouths opened and closed, looking weird and terrifying. Without needing a command, they pounced on the Corrupt Beehive, and a chewing sound was heard as they quickly devoured it completely.
After eating, the black cloud instantly expanded quite a bit. Dark green ancient inscriptions flashed around it and rged with it before it re-entered the cross.
"Ying! Ying ying!"
Little Spider sensed the information transmitted back from the Void Matriarch's Nest, nodding from ti to ti like a quiet listener. Finally, it happily said to Lu Yu:
"Ying ying!"
According to Little Spider, after devouring the Corrupt Beehive, the Void Matriarch's Nest's main body in the Void had expanded by half.
And because the Decay Miasma Poison Bee was a Life Attribute slave beast, compatible with the Blood-Corroding Insects, their number limit had increased to 50, while the Flicker Spiders' limit had increased to 20.
Moreover, the Void Matriarch's Nest had mastered another Life Provisions Art, which was the [Decay Blood Honey] mastered by the bee swarm!
It could extract Decaying Vitality from rotten flesh or plants and, through a special enzy secreted by the Matriarch's Nest, convert it into Blood-colored Insect Honey.
Although humans couldn't consu it, it could be used to strengthen Poison-attribute pet beasts or be made into potions to cure the Decay Poison Curse.
It didn't seem very useful for Little Spider, but among the two types of slave beasts it controlled, especially the batch of Flicker Spiders born from Void Ore, they were a Special Species within their clan, possessing both Void and Poison attributes!
Their blade-like spider legs contained Void Toxin, which could crystallize the flesh and blood of a wounded life form.
Slave beasts are the core of the Beast King System, so it wasn't a matter of just breeding them and then ignoring them. Even cannon fodder was divided into low-grade and high-grade.
Therefore, he had to cultivate their different evolutionary paths, turning them into elites, or even into Little Spider's proxies.
Decay Blood Honey was a resource for slave beasts, capable of further strengthening their toxin's power or enchanting the other Flicker Spiders with the Decay attribute.
One slash, and the flesh would rot!
Furthermore, if the Flicker Spiders could consu Blood Honey long-term, they might have a chance to unlock a special Toxin Evolution.
Besides that, with the entire bee swarm in the Mystic Realm of Decay wiped out, it would be very difficult to find a similar ecological bee swarm in the entire Borderlands.
After all, its origin was the energy radiation and deliberate modification of a Dragon of Decay and Strife.
In other words, this event would lead to a sharp decline in the production of Decay Blood Honey, or even its complete disappearance.
Even if the demand from Beast Tars was usually not high, that was in comparison to best-selling goods. The current stock of Blood Honey on the market was a drop in the bucket for all the Poison-attribute Beast Tars in the Borderlands and would soon be used up.
In the future, if they wanted to buy more, they would have to get it from other great domains, searching for Zerg Race swarms with similar Life Provisions Art skills, or for mystic realms related to a Green Dragon Ecology.
This would make the process tedious and the price would skyrocket.
So Lu Yu could totally take the opportunity to hoard it, wait for the price to be high, and then sell it off for a huge profit.
A true case of hoarding a rare commodity!
'Little Spider's money-making ability is getting stronger and stronger.
As for Little Mouse… it's still just a Lewd Hamster. It doesn't seem to have any special products to sell.
The Soul Fruits would work, but I don't have enough for myself. I can't just have it open an electric-music Rat Buddha training class, can I…'
Lu Yu complained silently, not noticing that in the distance, Little Mouse was peeking over the edge of the sofa, its head stuck out, secretly staring at him.
Its intuition told it… the Cultivator was probably thinking bad things about it.
Damn it! Sure enough, once you get sothing, you stop cherishing it!
Sooner or later, it would ride on the Cultivator's head and do whatever it wanted!
(╬皿)!
Lu Yu didn't know that Little Mouse had made another bold vow.
He began to check his third gain, which was the precious materials plucked from the Proliferating Green Dragon, including its Dragon Horns, Reverse Scale, and five catties of ordinary dragon blood.
Aside from its heart and Source Blood, Lu Yu had basically stripped it of all its valuable materials, picking a pure-blood dragon clean.
Since they were already in his Material Library, with just a thought, the relevant information quickly appeared before Lu Yu's eyes.
【Dragon Horns of the Proliferating Green Dragon (Four-star Top-tier): The original Dragon of Decay and Strife was born from [The Green of Nature] and was thus influenced by the natural consciousness, which included the strife of beasts for survival and the corruption of plants following natural laws.
Therefore, it is cold by nature, loves to instigate conspiracies, and absorbs the Spiritual Power of Conspiracy that surges from chaos.
Aside from their first clutch of offspring, all Green Dragons are indifferent to their other descendants.
Even husbands and wives will grow distant as their offspring mature, for they are well aware of the selfish and greedy nature of their own kind.
Therefore, conspiracy and chaos are the highest pursuits of Green Dragons, and also the ans by which they sharpen their own wisdom.
The horns of a Proliferating Green Dragon, from infancy to adulthood, will instinctively and continuously rub against trees, even Primordial Giant Trees, until the tree breaks. Then, they will absorb the life spiritual energy that has long since been corrupted.
Thus, the longer a Green Dragon has lived, the longer its horns will be. The appearance of a Green Dragon's horn can even resemble the crown of a Primordial King Tree.
Through it, the Power of Corruption that corrodes forests can be spread, turning vast numbers of plants into its own fortress.
It can be made into a life-type super-tier Skill Secret Food—[Forest of Corruption].
After use, one can obtain the skill to corrupt plants and forests for one's own use. The stronger the user, the larger the area of corruption.
It can also be transford into the [Wither Curse], causing life to wither upon use.
(Note: Although the Proliferating Green Dragon reford its body using [Jade Dream], its dragon body's spirituality has solidified and its rank has dropped after being washed by a thousand years of ti.
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【Reverse Scale of the Proliferating Green Dragon (Four-star High-tier): The hardest dragon scale born on the body of the Proliferating Green Dragon, ford from imnse Dragon Qi. It can stabilize its own spirituality.
Once lost, it takes a long ti to regenerate and possesses powerful defensive capabilities.
It can be made into a super-tier Skill Secret Food, [Scales of Proliferating Green].
After consumption, the user can grow green dragon scales, greatly increasing defense and strength, and exhibiting Dragonification features.
If consud and used frequently by a pet beast of a different attribute, it can easily lead to Dragon Qi corroding its own spirituality.
After successfully overcoming this, it can obtain the Dragon Attribute.
Placing it next to a dragon cub can strengthen its own scales, increase its potential, and grant it extrely high self-recovery abilities.
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【Dragon Blood of the Proliferating Green Dragon (Four-star Low-tier): Dragon blood containing decay spirituality. Direct contact will cause corrosion, and a flesh-and-blood body will gradually undergo Woodification, even leading to Aberration.
However, after being treated with a special potion, the toxins within can be removed. After a pet beast consus it, it can gain resistance to the Wood and Dragon attributes.
Because it is not Source Blood, it cannot be made into a Skill Secret Food, but it can be used to soak Dragon-type cubs to promote their potential. Those with similar attributes have a chance to receive a special skill inheritance.
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"A super-tier skill [Forest of Corruption], and a super-tier Dragonification skill. A pure-blood dragon, the pinnacle of all things, indeed.
It's a pity I didn't get [Jade Dream], the Legendary Skill most suited for Little Spider…"
Lu Yu felt a little regretful. That legendary-tier Dream-type ability was a perfect match for Little Spider.
Just the parts of its power it had displayed were enough to make him drool.
Resurrection from the dead, replacing one's body, forcibly extending one's lifespan…
But to get this Legendary-tier skill, he would still have to slay the Proliferating Green Dragon!
It wasn't that Lu Yu didn't want to be a Dragon Slaying Warrior before, but he wasn't confident enough.
Plus, the Proliferating Green Dragon had mastered a part of the ritual and could take him down with it, which was why he switched to scheming against it and extorting it.
To subdue the enemy without fighting, he easily obtained a great deal of benefits!
A true case of winning big from a small stake!
"But that's fine too. Chives must be harvested wave after wave to get the maximum return."
Lu Yu stroked his chin, a playful look on his face.
He had already left so hidden tricks on it, hoping to find the Forbidden Land through this fellow.
If it couldn't be found, then their next eting would be his Harvest Day!
As for how to handle these three materials, Lu Yu already had an idea.
For now, he wouldn't make the Dragon Horns and Reverse Scale into a Secret Food. Instead, he soaked them in the dragon blood.
The dark green dragon blood beca even more brilliant, exuding a majestic Dragon Might and vitality. The wooden furniture in the living room began to sprout at that mont, brimming with life once more.
"Oh no!"
Not wanting to live in a jungle-style house, Lu Yu quickly moved the dragon blood into his Beast Taming Space, enveloping Eggy.
"Guji!"
The sleeping Eggy shivered comfortably and began to absorb the Life Force within.
Because it had only devoured the remnant resentnt of the Crimson Hundred-Eyed Dragon King, not the Dragon King's soul, its life force was not strong.
So after swallowing the Hidden Bones Emperor's divine power, Eggy had fallen into a deep sleep, not just to grow, but more importantly, to regulate its internal balance.
As for the potently poisonous decay spirituality contained in the Green Dragon Blood, for a Living Weapon that could swallow the power of three higher-dinsional existences whole…
The Proliferating Green Dragon was pitifully small!
Next, with the supplent of the Proliferating Green Dragon's life force, Eggy barely achieved balance. The Power of Dusk within it, though smallest in quantity, did not reject the Power of Life and Death.
Instead, it acted as a lubricant, constantly harmonizing the two.
Three completely different powers were gradually rging.
Crack! Crack!
Eggy's size also grew bit by bit as it absorbed the dragon blood. By the ti it fully awakened, it would likely beco a Complete Form directly.
It would be able to initially display the might of a God-Slaying Weapon!
"As for the fourth gain, it's this top-tier soul-type heavenly treasure born from the Power of Miracles—the Transmigration Fruit. It can allow a dead soul to be transmigrated into a new body.
However, it needs to be compatible, otherwise, it's easy to suffer a backlash, and there's a chance of rejection. I wonder what kind of body the Proliferating Green Dragon prepared for its man…"
Lu Yu was curious, but unfortunately, the Transmigration Fruit's ability was a bit like chicken ribs to him.
After all, if he died, he would most likely receive the blessing of the Supre Mother River and directly beco an Imagination Body, with no chance for transmigration.
Little Spider could also easily replace the Transmigration Fruit by learning [Jade Dream] and maxing out its proficiency.
And Little Mouse had the Indestructible Soul Trait; as long as it wasn't completely annihilated, it could revive itself.
Therefore, Lu Yu's idea was to use the Thousand-Faced Soul Tree to transform this soul-type treasure into a Substitute Death Puppet, or into a Second Avatar Slot for Little Mouse.
Especially the latter. Like the strength-type Imperial Black Crimson Dragon Ant, choosing another top-tier avatar could cover Little Mouse's shortcomings and greatly enhance its combat power.
To beco thousands of bodies was the core of the Thousand-Faced Soul Mouse!
"Looks like I need to start looking for so pet beasts with special abilities. Flying ones would be best.
Primordial Variant Species with powerful skills would also work…"
Lu Yu pondered, then brought the two little ones into the Nightmare Dream Prison to check on his final gain.
The Jade Dream, solidified by the Miracle Ritual, had been dragged away and eaten by the Nightmare Dream Prison.
By now, it was almost fully digested.
However, the mont he entered the Dream World, Lu Yu felt a world-shaking change.
First, the Nightmare Dream Prison had expanded several tis, now comparable to the size of a town. Silver flas burned on all sides, and the Nightmare Dream Prison Barrier grew larger and larger.
The Lake of Nightmares had also grown from a small pond to a small lake. It emanated a dark Nightmare Power, constantly writhing as it extended black hands, dragging any creature that tried to enter the dreamscape into its depths.
Besides these, the Dream World was a scene of lush prosperity.
Lu Yu was no stranger to these scenes.
After all, within the dreamscape, he could change everything at will. They were all illusory dreamscapes he had constructed before.
Although exquisite, one could see through their falsity at a glance.
But this ti, it was a little different, because…
The Dream World before him now had a kind of vitality!
It was no longer an illusory phantom, but like life from the outside world, it possessed a sense of reality and existence.
Though very faint, it was a precious starting point!
It gave the Dream World infinite potential!
"The more realistic the dreamscape, the easier it is to perform a virtual-real conversion and replace reality…"
As Lu Yu was seriously perceiving the Dream World, a figure suddenly appeared behind him and pounced.
Just as it was about to get close, Little Spider raised its head, its slender white fingers tracing the void.
Swish! Swish! Swish!
The entire dream ground began to lt, turning into countless spider silks that shot up violently, easily entangling the figure in the air and hanging it up.
The more it struggled, the tighter the spider silk bound it!
"Did another Nightmare sneak in?"
Lu Yu just assud another Nightmare skilled at stealth had snuck in.
It was no big deal; he could just use it to build a wall for the Nightmare Dream Prison.
However, when he turned his head and saw the creature's appearance, he froze, exclaiming in surprise:
"This is… a Fairy!?"
Appearing before him was a palm-sized maiden.
Her appearance was 50% similar to Little Spider's. She had jade-green hair that fell to her waist, and her body was covered in clothes made of leaves.
Her wings, carved like jade, were already covered and stuck together by white spider silk. Forget flying, she couldn't even spread them.
Lu Yu recognized its identity. He never expected it to be this special life form that usually appeared in epic stories to guide warriors toward their correct destiny.
Most fairies were petite, gentle-natured, loved nature, and were exquisitely beautiful. In stories, their popularity was second only to the Fairy Maidens of Fairy Maiden Lake.
If not for their small size, they would probably beco a prolific perforr in the World of Adult Manga.
This jade-green fairy was bound hand and foot by the spider web in a strange posture, tightly wrapped by the spider silk like a al about to be enjoyed.
It struggled for a while, and after realizing it was useless, it looked at Lu Yu and cried out with teary eyes:
"Lord Father, save , or I'm going to be eaten by Lord Mother!"
"This is… the Cultivator's child?"
As the words fell, Little Mouse was struck by lightning. It staggered and fell to the ground, a thick shadow covering its body as it petrified at a visible rate.
But a small tuft of green hair on its head stood up, especially conspicuous, like a silent mockery.
It said, devastated:
"What have you two been doing behind Little Mouse's back!?"
"Ying?"
Little Spider tilted its head, a little angry, because this thing was slandering it…
It didn't like to eat such strange-looking things!
Master had said that eating strange things could easily give it a stomach ache!
Lu Yu was also shocked, because he could feel a connection between himself and it, which ant that the other party probably wasn't lying.
Could this be the legendary…
To unexpectedly beco a father?
"No, that's not right!"
Lu Yu snapped back to his senses. After so thought, he roughly guessed this thing's identity, and his eyes grew even more fervent.
If it really was that,
Then he had truly struck it rich this ti!
A large 6,200-word chapter. It's a new month, asking for monthly tickets.
I had a bit of writer's block, so I'm sorting things out. A new story arc will begin soon.
This new creature doesn't count as a pet beast; many readers have probably already guessed its identity.
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