In the blink of an eye, three days had passed...
Above the clear waters of the Lake of Life in the Star Dou Great Forest.
A handsome, otherworldly man with silver hair falling over his shoulders floated in the air, eyes tightly shut!
Gusts of wind churned around him, and an invisible aura surged in every direction, stirring even the tranquil lake into layer upon layer of waves and endless ripples!
"He's here."
Di Tian's expression turned grave as he spoke in a low voice.
The next moment, the ethereal, holy phantom of a white fox appeared above Bai Tu's head.
Like Bai Tu, the white fox had its eyes closed, its figure as graceful and otherworldly as an immortal's.
Nine fox tails swayed behind it. Yet at this moment, only the first was solid, its markings clear; the other eight were still hazy and indistinct.
But as Soul Power slowly gathered and circulated between heaven and earth, and Gu Yuena once more drew on the life force within the Gold of Life and poured it into Bai Tu's body,
the white fox's second tail gradually began to glow with the same lustrous radiance as the first!
It was also solidifying bit by bit before their eyes, turning from a phantom into something real!
"Di Tian, when do you think the Young Master's third tail will appear?"
A burly man looked at Di Tian curiously.
"In theory, Xiao Bai's first tail took shape at ten thousand years..."
Zi JI, whose figure was alluring, picked up where Xiong Jun had left off.
"Then the second tail came at one hundred thousand years..."
Zi JI spoke with an air of mystery. Who didn't know by now that the Young Master, with her powerful bloodline, had once been her own little fox cub?
So the brighter Bai Tu's future, the more face Zi JI would have!
She even called her Xiao Bai just to show off!
"There's no point guessing. We only need to wait for the Young Master's two-hundred-thousand-year tribulation."
"If the Young Master grows a third tail then, it won't be a problem..."
"But if she doesn't..."
Di Tian spoke in a low voice. He had great faith in Bai Tu. He'd sooner believe that each of her tails required ten times as many years to develop than believe she'd reach her limit early, at a mere eight hundred thousand years!
Even though, by that calculation, Bai Tu's cultivation age would eventually reach an unbelievable number!
"Let me calculate... Damn! That's a lot of zeroes!"
Xiong Jun grinned as he counted on his fingers.
"One hundred million years!"
Bi Ji could barely conceal the shock in her voice as she answered Xiong Jun, her words trembling.
"Feel this power, and pour the Power of Fate flowing through your body into your second tail!"
Gu Yuena shouted.
She took out the scale again, linking their fates together!
Her powerful Fate entered Bai Tu's body directly!
Like a true king, it led all the Soul Beast fate within Bai Tu into her fox tail!
The moment the Power of Fate entered Bai Tu's fox tail,
every piece of flesh on Bai Tu's body began to tremble, as if each one were cheering!
Bai Tu couldn't help letting out a long cry to the sky!
"Yip yip yip~"
A powerful wave of air surged around Bai Tu once again!
The Soul Beasts gathered by the lakeshore to watch over her felt a crushing pressure!
"Is the Young Master seriously at one hundred thousand years?"
Xiong Jun, who had changed back into his true form, stood in front of the others and grumbled through clenched teeth.
"Just keep blocking!"
Di Tian kicked Xiong Jun in the backside from behind!
As the surging Soul Power gradually settled, everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Bi Ji stepped out from behind Zi JI, intending to check on Bai Tu, when she felt a tickling sensation beneath her feet.
She glanced down and saw tender new shoots sprouting from the ground!
A sudden understanding came to Bi Ji. She turned around and saw that every plant near the Lake of Life was growing rapidly in the breeze, stretching out its limbs with wild abandon!
"Her auspicious power as the Auspicious Beast has grown stronger too!"
Di Tian exclaimed.
Rumble!
Suddenly, a peal of thunder rang out!
At some point, the sky had turned a dim, pale yellow!
Clouds visibly gathered above the Lake of Life!
"Can you make it through?"
Gu Yuena's voice rang directly in Bai Tu's mind.
"Piece of cake!"
Bai Tu grinned and patted her chest! Gu Yuena licked her lips at the sight.
Bai Tu looked at the tribulation lightning in the sky, puzzled. She now counted as a Hundred-Thousand-Year Soul Beast!
Her Authority of Breeding had also become fully accessible to her!
She could now control the power of breeding at will!
Of course, whether she could actually use it still depended on her own strength.
And her breeding was different from Tazzyronth's breeding!
Tazzyronth had turned to breeding out of loneliness, so all its creations were its own offspring!
But Bai Tu's breeding was simply a means of growing stronger! So the form her creations took would change according to her own wishes!
Snap!
Bai Tu snapped her fingers, and Di Yi's concept followed her thoughts into the tribulation!
Boom!
As if it thought it had been provoked,
the already-formed dark clouds above sent down a streak of white-purple lightning...
Di Tian, watching from the sidelines, twitched at the corner of his mouth as he watched a little dragon child resembling his eldest son tumble out of the clouds.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As if humiliated, the clouds sent down three more little dragon children in a row!
The clouds: ...
The dark clouds in the sky scattered and vanished.
"That's so stingy! That's all I get?"
Bai Tu pouted and caught the falling children with four streams of Soul Power.
"Di Er, Di San, Di Si, Di Wu, go find your dad!"
Bai Tu grinned as she sent the four little dragon children over to Di Tian.
Di Tian blankly reached out and caught all four children...
"Did you waste the energy of the Authority of Breeding?"
Gu Yuena suddenly appeared beside Bai Tu, looking at her with an unreadable expression.
"Uh..."
Bai Tu rubbed her head.
"I just wanted to try it~"
Bai Tu tried to explain in a small voice.
Gu Yuena narrowed her eyes and sized up Bai Tu, who had grown taller again, then nodded without a word.
She was still a little shorter than Gu Yuena, but the difference wasn't that great anymore...
"It's fine. We can replenish it after we use it."
Gu Yuena shook her head softly, her voice gentle.
"Uh, the range I can absorb from has gotten a lot bigger..."
Bai Tu instinctively wanted to refuse, but then she remembered she wasn't the same little weakling of a fox she'd been before!
"Fine! I'll let you experience what real breeding is!"
Bai Tu grinned smugly. Did Gu Yuena know that even stamina could breed? That energy could breed too?
"You've got some nerve~"
Gu Yuena lifted Bai Tu's chin like a rogue.
"Let's hope you don't beg for mercy and call me 'Mom' after just two or three rounds~"
Gu Yuena cast a mischievous glance at Bai Tu's little fox.
Bai Tu pouted, planning to let the facts speak for themselves later!
Her gaze shifted to the onlookers, who were pretending not to notice the two flirting.
"Let's try a new trick~ Soul Power can breed Soul Power on its own!"
Bai Tu's face went pale, and she immediately stopped the process! If not for the safety mechanism, she'd have been drained dry and left a little fox husk!
"My Soul Beast underlings' Soul Power can breed Soul Power on its own!"
Bai Tu's face paled again! Stop!
"Sister Bi Ji's Soul Power can be used for breeding!"
Pale! Stop!
"Before Sister Bi Ji reaches seven hundred thousand years, her Soul Power can breed Soul Power!"
The Breeding Fate Power within Bai Tu suddenly trembled!
Bai Tu quietly sensed it. It would take about half of her Fate Power to do it!
Bai Tu stopped, feeling it wasn't worth the cost.
Bai Tu closed her eyes and reviewed how to use the Authority. Any conceptual methods she tried to use would consume a large amount of Fate Power!
But if she added restrictions, such as limiting it to before a certain level or for a certain duration, the amount of Fate Power required would drop considerably.
"In that case!"
Bai Tu opened her eyes.
"My Breeding Fate Power will breed more Breeding Fate Power on its own! But what it breeds won't exceed what I absorb from the outside!"
(Simply put: what I absorb from outside sets my energy bar's maximum, while what I breed restores my energy.)
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