Chapter 173 - 119: Dragon Pot Twins

Chapter 173: Chapter 119: Dragon Pot Twins

The water in the bathroom’s hot spring was always fresh, flowing directly from the spring’s source.

The overflow from the hot spring was funneled through special pipes to irrigate an entire Star-pointing Plum Garden.

After entering his bedroom, Zhong Yi summoned Lan Po and Ice Glaze.

He took the two little guys for a nice, long soak in the hot spring.

After washing Lan Po and Ice Glaze clean, Zhong Yi then took a proper bath himself.

Zhong Yi had Zhong Chenghuai specifically arrange a bedroom for Hong Ji, right next to his own.

Outwardly, Hong Ji was indistinguishable from a normal human woman.

Furthermore, Hong Ji had to devour materials every day, and the process was not a pretty sight.

Even though Hong Ji was his Guardian Beast, Zhong Yi couldn’t very well let her stay in his bedroom.

He couldn’t have Hong Ji leaping into a small mountain of corpses and feasting to her heart’s content while he was trying to sleep.

Zhong Yi played with Lan Po and Ice Glaze for a while, and after feeding the two little guys some dried fish, he took the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot out of his Storage Pouch.

Although the Demon Spirit Guardian Beast, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot, looked much like an ordinary pot, it was far heavier than a normal pot of the same size.

Zhong Yi could faintly sense something moving inside the pot, and from time to time, he heard slick, viscous sounds.

It was as if a giant salamander was sealed in a jar, sliding around on the mucus secreted from its own body.

Because of its Basic Skill, Treasure Contract, Zhong Yi placed great importance on the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot’s potential.

Zhong Yi took out the last Soul Taming Seed he had and thought to himself.

’The Exclusive Trait the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot gains from advancing to Silver Quality had better not disappoint me. As long as its Exclusive Trait is related to its Basic Skill, Treasure Contract, and can enhance its effects, or if it can increase its combat capabilities, I’ll be more than satisfied.’

Because of its Basic Skill, Treasure Contract, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot could stack the Tiers and Qualities of Contracted Guardian Beasts within its range onto itself.

This meant the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot didn’t need to worry about increasing its Tier and Quality at all.

For a Combat-type Guardian Beast, the deciding factor at the same Tier and Quality was its combat capability.

Differences in combat capability could create a huge gap between Combat-type Guardian Beasts of the same standing.

After tossing the Soul Taming Seed into the pot’s mouth, an extremely strange sound came from within.

The pot’s body seemed to turn into soft clay, constantly reshaping itself.

Originally, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot was only a little over twenty centimeters tall, its long body making it look like a large tumbler.

But now, its body had stretched to nearly forty centimeters tall. Its width grew in proportion to its height, turning it into a wide-mouthed, almost spherical pot.

The totem-like lizard patterns on its body also began to change.

Slowly, they transformed into the likeness of dragon patterns.

The entire pot’s form became extremely exquisite. Yet, surprisingly, after its Quality improved, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot’s surface pattern was even plainer than it had been before the Soul Taming Seed Contract.

Logically, for a Demon Spirit Guardian Beast like the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot, the patterns on its surface should have become more complex after a bloodline transformation.

This situation was most likely related to the Exclusive Traits the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot had acquired.

The patterns on the pot’s surface had stopped changing, but the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot’s Evolution was not yet complete.

As the sounds inside the pot grew somewhat chaotic, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot suddenly split into two.

It became two pots of identical appearance and size. Just then, the chaotic noise inside vanished completely.

Filled with curiosity, Zhong Yi used All Things Exploration to inspect the split Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot

[Guardian Beast Species]: Demon Artifact Species/Dragon Artifact Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Mortal Beast Level (1/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Demon Spirit Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Silver Quality

Skills:

[Treasure Contract]: Cannot actively increase its own Tier and Quality, nor can it leave its territory. It can form a Contract with things within its territory. Once the Contract is formed, all damage and Curse effects suffered by the contracted things are transferred to itself. Its own power is the sum of the power of all contracted things.

Exclusive Traits:

[Dragon Pot Twins]: Splits its body, dividing itself into two to share Life and soul. Power increases gained by each pot are not shared. When one pot is destroyed, the other will perish along with it.

[Dragon Crystal Transformation]: Uses a Dragon Crystal as the Origin of the Pot Spirit’s Bloodline. The Pot Spirit will then transform itself based on the type and purity of the Bloodline contained within the Dragon Crystal placed in the pot.

Upon inspection, Zhong Yi discovered that the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot’s Bloodline had transformed, turning it into the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot.

The Guardian Beast’s Species had transformed from Salamander Artifact Species to Dragon Artifact Species.

For Zhong Yi, this discovery was already a pleasant surprise.

Once a Demon Spirit Guardian Beast became associated with powerful Guardian Beast Bloodlines like the Phoenix Species, Dragon Species, or Elemental Species, its Type as a Demon Spirit Guardian Beast wouldn’t change. However, it meant the Guardian Beast could wield Abilities related to those Bloodlines.

A Salamander transforming into a Dragon was considered a form of Tier Jumping Evolution.

With the enhancement of its Bloodline, the functionality of the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot’s Basic Skill, Treasure Contract, had also been strengthened from its original version.

Previously, the Treasure Guarding Salamander Pot could only transfer all damage received by its Contracted Creatures to itself.

In addition to damage, the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot could now also transfer Curses to itself.

Not all Curses were considered damage, but some non-damaging Curses could have an even greater impact on a Guardian Beast.

Curses like the Mutation Curse, Withering Curse, and Sterility Curse cast by Curse Element Deceit Beasts could have a more severe impact on Production-type Guardian Beasts than direct Origin damage.

The Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot’s ability to split in two was related to its Exclusive Trait, Dragon Pot Twins.

Dragon Pot Twins, the Exclusive Trait gained upon advancing to Bronze Quality, in a sense, turned the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot into two relatively independent individuals.

These two individuals could each define their own territory and form Contracts with Guardian Beasts to increase their power.

The only drawback was that the two individuals shared a single Life; if one died, the other would die simultaneously.

Originally, Zhong Yi had been pondering whether he should use the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot to protect his Production-type Guardian Beasts...

...or if he should pair it with the Sunlight Thorn and Thorny Sparrow Hunter to build the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot into a super-strong offensive unit.

...to perfect the defensive combination formed with the Sun Wheel Thorns and the Thorny Sparrow Hunter.

Now, Zhong Yi no longer needed to struggle with the decision!

The Exclusive Trait, Dragon Pot Twins, had given the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot two bodies.

Zhong Yi could use the two bodies separately: one to protect the Production-type Guardian Beasts, and the other to form a defensive combination with the Sun Wheel Thorns and Thorny Sparrow Hunter.

The Dragon Pot Twins Exclusive Trait could be considered an enhancement of the Basic Skill, Treasure Contract.

It could also be seen as multiplying the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot’s functionality.

As for Dragon Crystal Transformation, the Exclusive Trait gained by the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot upon advancing to Silver Quality, it represented the ultimate application of a Dragon Bloodline for a Demon Spirit Guardian Beast.

After the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot took in a Dragon Crystal and used it as the Origin of the Pot Spirit’s Bloodline, the Pot Spirit would reshape its own Bloodline according to the one within the Dragon Crystal.

In other words, the higher the grade of the Dragon Crystal’s Bloodline put into the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot, the stronger the Dragon Spirit that transformed within it would be.

And the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot fought by relying on its Dragon Spirit!

The Dragon Crystal with the highest-purity Bloodline that Zhong Yi currently had on hand was the one from the Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon.

The Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon was an Earth Attribute Main Dragon Species Guardian Beast, respectable in both offense and defense.

Its only weakness was that it was somewhat clumsy and not skilled in speed.

However, the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot’s Dragon Spirit could only move within a defined territory.

Because its area of activity was fixed, this weakness of not being fast was infinitely mitigated.

Right now, the Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon’s Crystal was with Zhao Kai.

Zhao Kai was planning to use the Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon’s Crystal to help his two Dinosaur Species Guardian Beasts advance from the Fantasy Tier Peak to the Mythical Tier.

Having two Fantasy Tier Peak Dragon Species Guardian Beasts advance in Tier would not consume the Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon’s Crystal.

Once Zhao Kai was done with the Dragon Crystal, Zhong Yi could put the Emperor’s Horned Sword Dragon’s Crystal into the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot.

And strengthen the Dragon Spirit within!