A Shiny Hatched?

"Each Spirit Pagoda has a thousand slots every month, which means thirty a day. As long as I want to, getting one slot every day won't be a problem. But that would be too frequent, so I've decided to enter once a week—harvesting spiritual energy every seven days.

If I hatch three soul beast eggs a day, that makes twenty-one in seven days. Each one only needs a hundred years' worth of spiritual energy, so preparing twenty-one thousand years' worth will be enough.

Keep all the remaining spiritual energy in reserve."

Lin Chen paused before continuing,

"After all, I only have the four of you as contracted creatures. Once I break through in level later on, I'll have to cultivate contracted creatures myself. By then, I'll need enough spiritual energy to help them raise their levels.

Besides, even without you telling me, I know that the bloodlines of both the Black-Winged Dragon Boars and the Black-Scaled Boar Dragons are too poor. They aren't worth focusing on.

This spiritual energy should be saved to nurture top-tier offspring."

"Fine, I agree.

In any case, spiritual energy can be stored.

But it can only be stored in your contract space. It can't be preserved outside for long.

I can sense an invisible force trying to draw this spiritual energy back into the Spirit Ascension Platform."

Lin Chen's eyes immediately lit up.

If nothing unexpected happened, it was probably another effect of the God Realm fragment.

Gu Yuena only knew that the Golden Dragon King had died, but she did not know that the God Realm itself had vanished. Di Tian knew even less, so there was no way he could have imagined that the Spirit Ascension Platform had been made from a fragment of the God Realm.

It was perfectly normal for it to possess such tremendous power.

The reason Lin Chen had chosen to harvest once a week was not because he pitied the Spirit Pagoda. Rather, if he harvested at this intensity every time, the Spirit Ascension Platform probably would not be able to quickly restore its ecosystem. At the very least, it needed a seven-day cycle.

He was actually giving the Spirit Ascension Platform a chance to catch its breath, making it easier for him to harvest spiritual energy endlessly.

Besides, he could not do it too frequently, or suspicion would still fall on him. Once every seven days was just right.

Perhaps this was karma after all. The Spirit Pagoda's boomerang had finally come back to strike them.

The Spirit Pagoda had frantically captured soul beasts and used their energy to cultivate these Spirit Ascension Platforms. Now, Lin Chen was using the spiritual energy from those platforms to raise his own private army of soul beasts. The feeling was pretty great.

That said, the six Black-Scaled Boar Dragons and three Black-Winged Dragon Boars had all lived for a hundred years now and reached adulthood. In that case, was it time to "harvest" them?

"Di Tian, what do you think changed after your bloodline combined with Transcendent Reproduction?"

"My bloodline changed?"

"It became stronger, I suppose!

Also, I can't return to my true form now. This body is a proportionally compressed version of my original body."

"Your original body? That had to be at least a thousand meters long, with a wingspan of four or five thousand meters!

Compressed into something this small—compression is the essence. No matter how poor these fellows' bloodlines are, they must still be terrifyingly powerful."

"Of course. Just look whose offspring they are.

And after my bloodline was modified by Transcendent Reproduction, they inherited part of the Extraordinary Growth ability as well. Their bloodlines are completely different from those of ordinary soul beasts."

"Exactly. So do you think their blood might have miraculous effects on human cultivation?"

"They're dragon beasts, after all. It should work.

What are you planning?"

The moment Di Tian said that, an evil smile appeared on Lin Chen's face.

"Once you've raised pigs until they're fat, naturally you slaughter them for meat. Of course, I'm not going to do something as shortsighted as killing the goose that lays the golden eggs, but taking a little blood from them won't be a problem."

As he spoke, Lin Chen directly controlled a Black-Scaled Boar Dragon and took out a blood-drawing Soul Tool, lightly pricking it.

The Black-Scaled Boar Dragon did not resist at all, which was why it went so smoothly.

In an instant, its boiling blood flowed into the Soul Tool, filling it immediately. Only then did Lin Chen withdraw it.

For a dragon beast of that size, this small amount of blood was utterly insignificant. It probably did not even feel it.

Yet after Lin Chen finished drawing its blood, the Black-Scaled Boar Dragon affectionately licked his hand, as though it was delighted that Lin Chen had taken its blood.

Lin Chen gently stroked its head, then turned his back to it and drained the tube of blood in one gulp.

The moment the dragon blood entered his body, his throat burned fiercely. Lin Chen immediately gritted his teeth and swallowed it, then began refining the purest life energy within the dragon blood.

With the dragon blood entering his body, he felt his entire body boil.

Di Tian was somewhat angered by his recklessness, but all he could do now was wait.

Fortunately, Lin Chen's martial soul was powerful, and he possessed twin body martial souls. The immense energy of the dragon blood was drawn by his martial souls from his body into his arms.

Lin Chen's arms instantly turned crimson, but the aura around him gradually stabilized as he entered a steady phase of absorption.

A full two hours passed before Lin Chen completely absorbed the tube of dragon blood.

Only after his aura had fully calmed did Lin Chen open his eyes. Sensing the changes in his body, a delighted expression appeared on his face.

"Just as I thought, the blood of offspring born through Transcendent Reproduction has miraculous effects on martial souls! This energy acts directly on the martial soul. I feel better than ever."

After saying that, Lin Chen looked at Di Tian again.

"Di Tian, if we want to conquer this world, we can't place all our hopes on an army of soul beasts. We also need to continuously cultivate powerful human experts. Only then can we gain a foothold in the human world."

"So what do you mean?"

"Any other faction, whether through current resources or past accumulation, has a foundation I can't compare to.

They have complete cultivation methods, powerful Self-Created Soul Skills, immortal herbs, soul bones, endless materials, and treasures. Those are gaps that neither they nor I can make up.

If we want to overtake them on the inside track, we can only raise soul beasts while using those soul beasts to cultivate a human army.

The offspring born through Transcendent Reproduction are our greatest trump card—the key to overtaking them."

"Now that I've confirmed it, the energy contained in these dragon beasts' blood is incredibly terrifying. Not only can it temper the body and increase physical strength, it can also act directly on martial souls and raise Soul Power.

Most importantly—"

Lin Chen released his vast spiritual energy. "That tube of dragon blood just increased my spiritual power by at least five points! This blood can directly increase a soul master's spiritual power.

Di Tian, do you know what this means?

In this era, where everything requires spiritual power, it means we are about to create an entirely new age! I..."

Beep beep beep beep—

"Hm?"

Before Lin Chen could finish, his communication Soul Tool suddenly began ringing incessantly.

He frowned and opened the communication.

After all, within this small world, no one would contact him unless it was something extremely urgent.

"Speak," Lin Chen said coldly.

An excited voice quickly came from the other end. "Master, among the three soul beast eggs born today, one is a golden egg!"