Chapter 361 - 213: Evolved Hong Ji

Chapter 361: Chapter 213: Evolved Hong Ji

This meant that whenever Zhong Yi captured Bizarre creatures in the future, he no longer had to worry about whether their element was compatible with Hong Ji.

When she noticed Zhong Yi’s gaze fall upon her Flesh and Blood Element War Puppet, Hong Ji spoke up.

"Master, I thought a lot before my Evolution. During battle, I’ve never been very comfortable using the abilities I gained from Bizarre creatures."

"In my previous few battles, I never had a chance to use the Blood Thread Puppet."

"So I figured I’d just separate the Blood Thread Puppet’s ability from my body, allowing it to fight alongside me autonomously."

"From now on, with a helper in battle, I’ll have much more flexibility, whether for defense or offense."

Zhong Yi took a deep breath. In his eyes, the current Hong Ji was just like him—she had effectively become a Guardian Beast Master.

In the future, Hong Ji would command War Puppets of four different elements in battle, which for Zhong Yi was like suddenly gaining four more Guardian Beasts.

Each War Puppet had to be refined from a large number of Bizarre creatures, and a War Puppet could integrate the abilities of all the Bizarre creatures it absorbed.

This ensured that each of the four War Puppets would be exceptionally versatile in combat.

Furthermore, the Curse Element and Deceit Element War Puppets would also provide Hong Ji with more ranged attacks and control options.

Unlike ordinary, physically weak Guardian Beast Masters, Hong Ji’s own combat prowess wouldn’t be hindered while she commanded her four War Puppets.

This single Skill, Deceitful Demon Puppet, had fundamentally transformed Hong Ji’s value and significantly raised her potential for growth.

However, in Zhong Yi’s eyes, Hong Ji’s new Skill, Deceitful Demon Puppet, was nowhere near as impressive as her new Exclusive Trait: Bloodline Infusion.

In the Guardian Beast World where Zhong Yi lived, all humans belonged to a single race.

The manifestation of their Bloodline was the ability to awaken a Lifebound Guardian Beast within their Soul Base.

Other worlds had a wide variety of races, and Zhong Yi had already fought against the prodigies of several different ones.

Each race’s Bloodline offered different, unique advantages in combat.

For example, Luke’s strength relied primarily on his application and development of the Fallen Energy Race’s Bloodline.

Once Hong Ji absorbed the Bloodlines of these other races, she could infuse her entire body with one of them during a fight.

This would allow Hong Ji to temporarily gain the Bloodline Power of that race.

This would undoubtedly give her strength a massive boost!

Although infusing her entire body to gain Bloodline Power would accelerate her Energy consumption in battle, this wasn’t considered a major drawback.

As for the restriction of only being able to infuse one Bloodline at a time, Zhong Yi found it extremely reasonable.

Hong Ji already possessed her own Bloodline Power, so injecting another powerful Bloodline into her body was already pushing the limits.

If she were to inject two different Bloodlines at the same time, her opponent wouldn’t even need to make a move.

The two Bloodlines would clash inside her, likely causing Hong Ji to explode and die instantly.

For Zhong Yi, obtaining the Bloodlines of other races in the Guardian Beast World was a very difficult task.

When killing an opponent in the Abyssal Slaughter Secret Realm, the opponent would vanish completely.

Zhong Yi couldn’t let Hong Ji devour opponents to obtain their Bloodline Power.

The best way to obtain the Bloodline Power of other races was to buy Bloodline Potions on the Virtual Source Network using Divine Origin Value.

Bloodline Potions were refined from multiple living Creatures of a single race, and the refinement method was extremely cruel.

Moreover, only those with special professions, like Creators, were capable of refining them.

Every type of Bloodline Potion, even a very ordinary one, cost more than ten points of Divine Origin Value.

And since Zhong Yi was choosing a Bloodline Potion for Hong Ji to enhance her combat ability, he certainly couldn’t pick races with weak Bloodlines.

In truth, there was another reason why Bloodline Potions were so expensive.

To slaughter other races en masse and refine Bloodline Potions, one needed the ability to travel to other worlds.

For instance, Zhong Yi’s Cloud Ridge World Dragon had the means to travel to other worlds.

The rarity of methods for inter-world travel kept the price of Bloodline Potions consistently high.

The Bloodline Potion Zhong Yi would choose for Hong Ji would start at a minimum of one hundred points of Divine Origin Value.

The cost of using the Exclusive Trait Bloodline Infusion just once in battle was by no means small.

Fortunately, Hong Ji possessed the Rule Authority: Equivalent Replication. Through this Rule Authority, she could copy the Bloodline Power she had absorbed into her body.

Then, she could store this Bloodline Power within her symbiotic Blood Rope Armor Insect.

This meant that Hong Ji wouldn’t need Zhong Yi to spend a fortune preparing a new Bloodline Potion every time she used Bloodline Infusion.

When Hong Ji was at the Mortal Beast Tier, Silver Quality, she had already reached her limit for accumulating materials.

Now that both her Tier and Quality had increased, Hong Ji could once again absorb a large amount of materials.

Originally, the upper limit for materials Hong Ji could absorb was the Extraordinary Tier.

But now that she had advanced to the Extraordinary Tier, Hong Ji could start absorbing Fantasy Tier materials.

Each time she advanced a Tier, the materials absorbed within Hong Ji’s body had to undergo a complete overhaul.

Along with this, the diet of her Soul-Controlling Flower could also be upgraded.

Because Zhong Yi had been preparing to raise Hong Ji’s Tier, he had already started feeding the Soul-Controlling Flower Fantasy Tier Demon Remains a few days ago.

He had the Soul-Controlling Flower absorb Life and Soul Energy from the Fantasy and Extraordinary Tier Demon Remains.

Of course, this also meant that in the future, Zhong Yi would have to spend a significant amount of resources to acquire Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Demon Remains.

"Hong Ji, I’ll figure out a way to get the Bizarre creatures and Bloodline Potions you need to cultivate your War Puppets as soon as possible."

"For now, just focus on using your Exclusive Trait, Material Absorption, to absorb as many of these Fantasy Tier Demon Remains as possible."

With that said, Zhong Yi handed two Storage Pouches to Hong Ji.

Zhong Yi couldn’t just be a freeloader forever, always asking Starlight City for resources.

Nor could he always use his Celestial Destiny Points to exchange for Bizarre remains from the Celestial Destiny Society’s Treasure Vault.

Besides, living Bizarre creatures were much more effective for Hong Ji to refine into War Puppets than dead ones.

The Fertility Creation Ant Queen had already devoured the few Mythical Tier Bizarre creatures that Qin Ruyue had captured several days ago.

Now, besides Shi Mi, there were a total of nine Ant Eggs resting in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

Once they hatched, Zhong Yi would have nine more Mythical Tier Ant Successors.

At that time, Zhong Yi planned to release all ten Mythical Tier Ant Successors.

He would have these ten Mythical Tier Ant Successors go out and capture the Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Bizarre creatures that preyed on Guardian Beast Masters.

These Ant Successors all possessed the wisdom and intelligence of the Bizarre creatures they were in life, making them fully capable of acting independently.

For a Mythical Tier Bizarre creature, dealing with Extraordinary and Fantasy Tier Bizarre creatures was child’s play.

Every so often, these Ant Successors could provide Hong Ji with a huge batch of materials for cultivating her War Puppets.

After finishing with Hong Ji’s cultivation, Zhong Yi didn’t rest, immediately preparing to work on cultivating Lan Po.

When Lan Po was previously bound to Zhong Yi through the Soul Taming Seed Contract, it had suffered immensely.

As its body was constantly torn apart and reassembled, its Bloodline had also advanced repeatedly.

It had evolved from a Dream-Acting Cat into a Silver Shuttle Dream Weaving Cat.

Now, as Lan Po absorbed the Flowing Soul Soil, it looked as battered as Hong Ji had, but it wasn’t suffering nearly as much.

In the span of ten minutes, its fur only fell out twice.

The newly grown fur was longer and even more lustrously white than before.

Although Lan Po’s body didn’t show any other major changes, Zhong Yi was certain that its Bloodline had undergone a transformation.

Because the feeling Lan Po gave Zhong Yi now was completely different from before.

If the previous Lan Po had felt like a somewhat naive little kitten to Zhong Yi...

...then the current Lan Po felt like a predator that manipulated and toyed with its prey.

Soon, the newly evolved Lan Po leaped into Zhong Yi’s arms and let out a few soft, kittenish meows.

Then, it curled up in Zhong Yi’s embrace just like usual, draping its large tail over his shoulder like a scarf.

And just like that, Lan Po once again felt like its old self to Zhong Yi.