Increasing Their Age, Instant Adulthood

"Fine, pull them in. I don't acknowledge them anyway. They're pigs, not dragons!"

"Hey, how can you say that? Though those three have a heavier proportion of pig bloodline, they have dragon wings. The other six may have dragon scales and don't look much like pigs, but they don't have dragon wings. How do you know these Black-Winged Dragon Boars won't make a comeback in the future and surpass your Black-Winged Boar Dragons? As the saying goes, thirty years east of the river, thirty years west of the river—never bully the poor young!"

"Fine, I give in."

Di Tian looked down on these Black-Winged Dragon Boars from the bottom of his heart, believing they were nothing more than a bunch of pigs.

But there was so much spiritual power anyway, so it did not matter if he gave them some.

With that thought, Di Tian reluctantly split off three more chains and connected them to the three Black-Winged Dragon Boars.

After sensing Di Tian's care, the three little fellows immediately brightened up. They all ran to his feet and rubbed their pig snouts against his chubby Milk Dragon feet.

Though Di Tian looked disgusted, he could not bring himself to say anything in that moment. Instead, a strange feeling arose within him—these Black-Winged Dragon Boars seemed more warm-blooded than those Black-Scaled Boar Dragons.

But among soul beasts, only the strong devoured the weak. Things like warmth and sentiment were not worth mentioning.

After finishing his preparations, Di Tian turned his gaze toward Lin Chen. "How do we proceed?"

"Let's start with a thousand years. Take it slowly."

Di Tian immediately nodded. With a thought, the spiritual power within the ball in his hand flowed along the chains of rules and into the bodies of the nine dragon beasts.

The moment the spiritual power entered their bodies, it fused with them. Then, an unbelievable scene unfolded—their bodies rapidly grew larger at a rate visible to the naked eye, while their auras surged wildly stronger.

And perhaps it was only an illusion, but Lin Chen felt that the nine dragon beasts' bodies were trembling violently. It was as though they were not even on the same plane as him while the spiritual power entered them, as if they were being accelerated.

For one brief instant, Lin Chen even felt that he could no longer see them—as though they had accelerated so much they were nearly speeding themselves out of existence. The sight was extraordinarily bizarre.

Di Tian felt the same way as Lin Chen, and he understood even more clearly what was happening. "These dragon beasts really have had their time accelerated. The power of this spiritual energy is truly terrifying..."

"This acceleration can't be seen with the naked eye. If an instant passes for us, wouldn't several years pass for them? How haven't they starved to death?"

"More than that. How could it possibly be only several years?" Di Tian shook his head and pointed at their bodies. "They're already hundred-year soul beasts. Their cultivation age is roughly one hundred and ten years."

"So fast?" Surprise appeared on Lin Chen's face.

"The energy contained within the spiritual power replenished the nutrients they needed to grow, which was why they did not starve to death during the acceleration. Unfortunately, the energy contained within the spiritual power can only sustain their most basic life functions. If they could cultivate normally during those hundred accelerated years, then even if they inherited only the tiniest trace of my bloodline, their cultivation speed would be several times that of ordinary soul beasts. A hundred years would have been enough for them to become thousand-year soul beasts."

"Enough. Don't push your luck. This is already the best possible result." Lin Chen looked at the nine soul beasts before him, which had tripled in size in an instant, his face full of amazement.

Previously, the largest of the nine soul beasts had been only half a meter tall and two meters long. Now, the largest stood a full two meters tall and was nearly eight meters long.

Every jet-black scale on their bodies was the size of a palm, giving off an icy, menacing gleam. Two bulges had even grown atop their heads, though dragon horns had yet to emerge.

Their hook-covered claws were incomparably sharp, as though one swipe could tear apart anything—this was practically a miracle. He had directly used spiritual power to "handcraft" hundred-year soul beasts!

The three Black-Winged Dragon Boars had no scales, but their pairs of black dragon wings had now grown to nearly two meters wide. They seemed capable of taking flight with a light flap, and their auras had likewise reached the hundred-year level.

Lin Chen was certain that their bloodlines were somewhat inferior to those of the Black-Winged Boar Dragons. If their normal cultivation speed were considered, they definitely would not be able to keep up with the others. Yet their cultivation progress was now the same, proving that this spiritual power enhanced only "temporal cultivation" and did not contain any actual cultivation progress.

This was simply insane. He had actually exploited a time-acceleration bug. It was undoubtedly the ultimate cheat for his breeding enterprise!

Yet Di Tian looked rather displeased at that moment.

"Spiritual power at the thousand-year level can only accelerate a hundred years of time. Does that mean my hundred-thousand-year spiritual power ball can only accelerate their cultivation to the thousand-year level? That's way too stingy!"

"You should be satisfied. This is already defying the heavens. When you kill soul beasts in the Spirit Ascension Platform, you can only obtain one-tenth of their spiritual power. Now that this spiritual power is being used to accelerate time outside, it is understandable that it can only accelerate one-tenth as much. Besides, have you considered that the main purpose of this ability was never to accelerate their cultivation?"

"If it isn't for increasing their strength, then what is it for?"

"I took a look. Once they reach the hundred-year level, they're already adults and can breed. So we have two choices now. One is to let them breed on their own. The other is to wait for Bear Lord and let them breed after I contract Bear Lord. You need to make the decision."

"Of course they should breed first! The mothers of my descendants are all different; they weren't born from the same mother. That meets the Dragon Clan's breeding standards—basically, to ensure bloodline purity, nearly all Dragon Clan groups practice inbreeding. As long as they don't share the same father and mother, it's fine."

"Then that settles it. I won't use human ethics to restrain you soul beasts. Besides, these are extraordinary times. Your soul beast race is practically on the brink of extinction. You can barely look after yourselves, so you won't have the leisure to consider such matters."

Lin Chen paused, then continued,

"Then we have a very good rhythm now. Soul beasts hatch at their peak. Every time an egg hatches, you immediately accelerate them by a hundred years, allowing them to grow rapidly and enter their breeding period right away. This way, we can continuously harvest soul beast offspring. And I have a feeling that the children born to these soul beast descendants will have even stronger bloodlines!"

"Mm, we were thinking alike. That's what I think too. Then what should we do with the remaining spiritual power?"

"Save it. The Spirit Ascension Platform is essentially a space where spiritual power circulates. The Spirit Pagoda uses special conversion devices to construct virtual soul beasts from spiritual power. After they're killed, you receive one-tenth, while the remaining nine-tenths is recycled as spiritual power and reused in the cycle. And that doesn't even include the continuously supplied energy they have accumulated over tens of thousands of years—so just the Spirit Ascension Platform of the Spirit Pagoda in Eastsea City alone is enough to sustain soul beasts on my scale!"