I Accumulate Spirit Roots for My Next Life - Chapter 156 - 62: Sacrifice for Gua Gua (Double-Length, Part 2)
Chapter 156: Chapter 62: Sacrifice for Gua Gua (Double-Length, Part 2)
Apart from frantically consuming the Blood Spirit Pill, Guagua’s battles and training in the sea over the past two years have also been effective.
Since Guagua advanced to Tier Two Late Stage two years ago, its bloodline talent has awakened the water element spell attack, compensating for its monotonous combat style apart from illusions.
This gives it the strength to rival other Tier Two demon beasts in the sea.
“Come on, try again!” Li Jizhou gestured to Guagua with a nod.
Having been in the Five Elders Association’s sea domain for six years,
during this time his cultivation has steadily increased daily, solidifying the Middle Stage of Foundation Establishment, and in a few more years, he can breakthrough to the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment.
As for body refining, he finally stepped into the Body Refining Fourth Layer recently, relying on the fifteen units of Melted Spirit Sand he acquired in Spirit Pearl Mountain Market.
In his previous life, the body refining skill described by the Central Domain sacred land of body cultivators stated that the Body Refining Ninth Layer could achieve the Undying Golden Body. Li Jizhou had doubts about this before, but now that he’s reached the Body Refining Fourth Layer, he feels that the enhancement of his physical body seems to have truly undergone a qualitative change, maybe the Undying Golden Body is truly possible.
“Boom~” Guagua opened its mouth, and a water dragon fiercely rushed forward.
Li Jizhou neither dodged nor flinched, relying solely on his physical body to resist.
“Poof~” The water dragon collided with Li Jizhou’s body, then scattered abruptly, turning into droplets and scattered all over the ground.
“Your water element spell attack power is too weak, just use your tongue!” Li Jizhou pursed his lips.
Guagua widened its eyes, somewhat surprised by the speed of enhancement in Li Jizhou’s physical body.
This water dragon secret skill could even injure those Tier Two Middle-Level shelled sea demons in the sea, yet it was completely ineffective against Li Jizhou.
Immediately, it slightly narrowed its eyes, and suddenly shot out its tongue from its mouth.
At the tip of its tongue, an extremely cold, sharp object was wrapped around.
When Guagua fought with sea demon beasts, especially those Tier Two Late Stage beasts with protective armor, neither the water dragon nor the tongue could cause damage, so it requested Li Jizhou to craft this.
The material was naturally found by itself in the sea, a piece of Tier Two Upper Grade shadow cold copper.
Li Jizhou specifically crafted it into a magical artifact that can be immediately slipped onto Guagua’s tongue during an attack to compensate for the lack of sharpness.
“Screech~” Sparks flew as Li Jizhou remained unharmed.
Li Jizhou nodded in satisfaction: “Body Refining Fourth Layer, no weaker than the protective barrier of the Fake Pill!”
Thus, even if attacked by a Fake Pill, he can avoid being killed in one strike, greatly increasing his safety!
After testing the strength of his physical body, Li Jizhou took all his trump cards and quietly submerged into the sea.
Upon reaching Pearl Jade Island, he released Han Zhuo’s aura stored in the annual ring to cover his own aura, then casually disguised himself as a red-faced man, and walked boldly to the Beast Taming Pavilion next door to the Island Lord’s Mansion.
A year ago, Yan Wenjue had sent him a message again, and he replied to Yan Wenjue saying he unexpectedly obtained a spirit beast, hoping to advance to Tier Three.
This time, with Han Zhuo’s aura, he was invited smoothly by Yan Wenjue into the inner courtyard as a generous guest.
“Husband…” Upon entering the inner chamber, the externally dignified steward of the Beast Taming Pavilion, the Pearl Jade Island lady, tenderly rushed into Li Jizhou’s arms.
“Hahaha!” Without saying a word, Li Jizhou directly picked her up and strode towards the bed.
In the memory fragments, the relationship between the two is very clear.
Though seemingly in love, in reality, it’s mutual exploitation, jointly dealing with the Five Elders Association.
It’s Pearl Jade Island’s sincerity to win Han Zhuo’s trust.
It’s just an act for each other.
Each time is relatively direct and rough.
Now, for Guagua, Li Jizhou has no choice but to act along.
The skirts swirled, the tent overturned,
Moments later, a pile of roughly torn clothes, belly bands, silk socks, are scattered on the ground…
———
Finally, after an entire hour…
“Haha, let’s talk business, is the Blood Evil Pill ready for me?” Li Jizhou asked in Han Zhuo’s tone.
Yan Wenjue smiled slightly: “Do you not trust my work? However… husband, did you get the Breaking Rank Pill for the Late Stage of Foundation Establishment?”
“Of course!” Li Jizhou immediately took out the Tier Two top-grade Breaking Rank Pill that he refined when he first arrived at the Five Elders Association’s sea domain from his storage bag.
This was the deal made between the two a year ago, with Han Zhuo exchanging a Tier Two top-grade Breaking Rank Pill for a Blood Evil Pill.
Yan Wenjue was instantly delighted seeing the premium Breaking Rank Pill with four cloud patterns brought out by Li Jizhou.
“However, the one I brought this time is premium, while your Blood Evil Pill is standard. The difference in value still needs to be compensated.” Strategic pills from the inland are scarce resources in the Five Elders Association’s sea domain, naturally, their value is higher than inland.
“Husband… doesn’t my compensation suffice?” Yan Wenjue immediately slipped slowly underwater.
Li Jizhou remained unmoved.
Eventually, Yan Wenjue agreed to compensate for the price difference with an additional thousand spirit stones, and let Li Jizhou use the special venue under the island for Spirit Beast Condensing Demon Pill free of charge.
For demon beasts, condensing a demon pill is like human core formation, consuming a large amount of spiritual qi to condense the demon core into a demon pill, so the richness of spiritual qi in the venue is crucial.
Normally, for human cultivators to form a core, Quasi-Third Tier is possible, but it would lower the success rate, if the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi thins out a bit halfway, it would lead to failure.
Pearl Jade Island and Linglong Island generally are Tier Two high-grade spirit veins, but there is a sea eye below Pearl Jade Island.
Within it, spiritual qi specifically water-attribute qi, surges to Tier Three middle grade.
However, the spiritual qi inside is too volatile, and human cultivators cannot stay in the deep sea environment for long, so it’s not suitable for human core formation.
But it’s just right for sea demons.
And Pearl Jade Island has already spent hundreds of years setting up Spirit Gathering Arrays below it, specifically for demon beast advancement.
“Half a year ago it was just opened once, the next time needs a wait of half a year, however, recently Shangshan old ghost has been watching closely, husband must think well how to hide your identity then.” Yan Wenjue reminded again.
“No worries, I have my plans, I will notify you in advance at the time!” Li Jizhou said arrogantly.
That night, for Guagua’s solidifying pill project, Li Jizhou sacrificed another night for her.
It was only the next day that he returned to Linglong Island.
“Don’t let my effort go in vain!” Upon returning to Linglong Island, Li Jizhou released Guagua, earnestly admonishing.
Middle-grade bloodline, whether it can break the law of destiny, depends on this time.
Theoretically, demon beasts with middle-grade bloodlines have only a ten percent chance of successfully condensing a demon pill, Blood Evil Pill could increase by thirty to forty percent, Celestial Pure Water at most reaches fifty percent, but the specific outcome —
Li Jizhou still felt a bit worried.
If core formation fails, it would minimally damage the foundation, cause a drop in cultivation, or even result in death and the end of the dao, dying filled with hatred.
The laws of the three thousand dao: destiny, reincarnation, time, space…
The law of destiny in this cultivation realm is particularly harsh, with a meager chance to escape destiny.
In Li Jizhou’s view, this obviously doesn’t fit the Celestial Dao’s law that is indifferent, treating all things as dogs.
The Celestial Dao should be impartial, not favoring or interfering with anyone’s fate, letting individuals develop themselves and decide their own destiny — this might be the true law of destiny.
Yet in this realm, destiny strictly controls everyone’s talon, limits their potential as though eager to firmly arrange everyone’s fate.
But, unable to change, one can only adapt!
“Gua!” Guagua’s determined gaze was very much akin to Zhou Cang when he left Inverted Mountain.
“Ha~ plus six months time, I still advise you to work hard. If you can find one more spiritual object for condensing, there’s really hope.” Li Jizhou gently stroked Guagua’s head.
At this moment, Bai Yi also ran out, timidly staring at the fully equipped Guagua, even more afraid, yet swinging flames to express encouragement.
Source: Webnovel.com, updated by novlove.com
