132: Fully restored strength! Blood refining! Peak of the demon transformation realm! Combined cultivation...

To the Fox King's old neighbors, Chen De painfully used the black liquid to influence them.

Chen De believed that there is no gain without pain, and no reward without effort.

What is given will always return.

Heaven helps those who help themselves, and the heavens would not mistreat a virtuous person like Chen De.

At first, Chen De did not dare to make the scope of this operation too wide.

It was still the same saying: 'Secret deeds are easy to do, public matters are hard to accomplish!'

Anything, once discovered and targeted, is always bad.

The incident in Tianfeng City had almost become a thorn in Chen De's heart.

He had been so cautious, yet he was still caught in the end.

What did this mean? Did it mean the opponent's methods were superior?

No!

It only meant that Chen De's methods were not cautious enough.

In the process of growth, it is difficult for people to have the ability to improve their situation by changing the external environment.

What is often needed is to adapt to rules, conform to rules, utilize rules, and master rules.

Complaining about the external environment cannot improve one's own situation.

When acting, the first thing to do is to start from oneself.

Having learned his lesson, Chen De understood even more clearly.

As long as there are people in this world stronger than him, capable of crushing him,

He absolutely could not relax his vigilance; a moment of slackness could lead to unpredictable consequences.

Therefore, after Chen De's actions reached a certain scale, he strictly controlled the scope of his operations.

Before completion, there must be no risk of exposure whatsoever.

Thus, Chen De waited in the Fox King's territory, waiting for the Mystic Beasts to collect the spirit herbs.

Given that the Dragon King's birthday banquet was to be held ten days later,

And also to prevent any changes or incidents from occurring here again, like what happened with the Tianyan Sect, by the time Chen De returned,

Chen De decided to accomplish everything in one go, concentrating all the tasks he needed to do here within these nine days.

Six days, Chen De gave them six days to collect spirit herbs.

As for the remaining three days...

On the first day, countless Mystic Beasts brought Chen De spirit herbs worth 274 attribute points.

On the second day, the Demon Transformation Realm beasts brought Chen De spirit herbs worth 195 attribute points.

Chen De took a look and wondered, 'Why is there so much less?'

So he severely spurred them on, referencing the time in Vortex Forest West.

However, after Chen De's long period of training, his methods became even more... moral, benevolent, and effortless, among other things.

This moved them so much that they all worked for Chen De with immense vigor, as if injected with chicken blood.

When Chen De saw this scene, he was immediately filled with boundless relief.

That day, the Mystic Beasts' collection results were almost double that of the first day, reaching 540 points.

This made Chen De deeply feel that he had indeed come up with an excellent method.

It greatly mobilized the enthusiasm of the Mystic Beasts.

Thus, Chen De, deeply feeling how effective this method was, and as the date gradually approached,

Chen De had to find fault... create trouble... find... an excuse... hmm, none of these were quite right.

In any case, he found a righteous reason and performed it every day.

Of course, Chen De's benevolence was far more than that.

If they worked for Chen De, then Chen De absolutely could not treat them poorly.

Three meals a day, all-inclusive...

"What? Leftover food, food from three days ago, it's already spoiled?"

When Chen De heard this, a benevolent light flickered in his eyes.

He glanced at the Mystic Beast who raised the objection, "Here with me, there's no overnight food, only food that's stayed up all night!"

With that, Chen De slaughtered this Mystic Beast and added it to everyone's meal.

Of course, Chen De himself did not eat it.

This meat was extremely precious.

How could Chen De, a mere cook, eat this meat?

This meat should be given to the Mystic Beasts who had worked hard all day to eat first.

Eating this meat, what a wonderful... thing it was!

Thus, under Chen De's benevolence, all the Mystic Beasts were moved to tears.

With tears in their eyes, they ate all the meat distributed to them.

Chen De was very satisfied to see this scene.

He had always believed.

One day, Chen De would be able to influence others without using the black liquid.

Just like now, under Chen De's management, everyone could live in harmony.

Unfortunately, Chen De knew very well that before he had absolute strength,

All of this was merely a moment of tranquility.

Chen De could protect them for a while, but not forever.

After eating, everyone started working again.

For efficiency, Chen De adopted a segmented eating method.

Ensuring that they could always work with maximum efficiency.

Unfortunately, the growth of spirit herbs requires a cycle; there were only so many spirit herbs here.

When they were gone, they were gone; it wasn't something you could find just by desperately searching.

So, inevitably, except for the third day when everyone was most enthusiastic and spirit herbs were quite abundant,

In the remaining days, Chen De's harvest became less and less.

Chen De naturally knew why this situation occurred.

It was still the same saying: Chen De could not show it.

On the contrary, Chen De still had to criticize them, punish them, incite them...

Especially at such times, they should redouble their efforts.

Otherwise, what would follow would only be a cliff-like drop in results.

This was not what Chen De wanted to see.

Finally, around midnight on the sixth day, Chen De called a halt to their work.

And announced that they were free, they could go back and rest well, and eat something to replenish their bodies.

All Mystic Beasts only needed to gather here tomorrow morning.

After he gave some final instructions, they would be completely finished.

Immediately, all the Mystic Beasts cheered with joy.

Even different races, even those with deep-seated grudges against each other, happily embraced...

When Chen De saw them so happy, he himself felt genuinely happy from the bottom of his heart.

Before and during work, they all looked deeply resentful and suffering.

But once work was over, they appeared so happy.

What did this mean? It meant that work made them happy.

The joy on the faces of every Mystic Beast after work was almost overflowing.

This was Chen De's contribution.

Returning to his cave, Chen De tallied his gains from the past six days.

2,335 attribute points.

Chen De's current strength and defense were both at the lowest of 9,000 points, and his speed was 9,750 points.

With just 2,247 attribute points, Chen De could completely reach the peak of the Demon Transformation Realm.

So, he added all these attribute points.

Finally, 88 attribute points remained, all used to break the limit for speed.

Based on Chen De's current strength, in this world, he should be completely at the peak of the Mystic Emperor Realm.

Mystic Emperor Realm Seventh Layer was equivalent to the Myriad Transformation Realm peak, so by this logic,

Mystic Emperor Realm peak should be somewhat stronger than the Myriad Transformation Realm peak, but not by much.

However, under the bloodline amplification, Chen De estimated he would be much stronger than a Xuan Emperor peak.

Then, Chen De thought for a moment, it would be difficult to break through in a short time.

Should he try cultivating martial arts as well?

Perhaps...