35: Chapter 35, Fourth Contract! Advancement Begins!
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A series of damage numbers appeared, and the entire lake exuded a scorched smell.
The corpses of Commander-level demon beasts splattered everywhere, landing all over.
[Killed Hidden Water Turtle, gained 1600 experience, stored...]
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[Killed Profound Water Flood Dragon, gained 996 experience, stored...]
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[Killed Ice Abyss Water Vine, gained 1200 experience, stored...]
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Most of the creatures in this lake were demon beasts that were nearly mature or already mature, and among them, most were considered to have excellent defenses even within the Commander level.
They had also tried attacking the sky earlier, but they had no wings; their long-range water bullet attacks evaporated halfway, completely unable to touch Chu Ran and his two tamed beasts...
With the mature demon beasts mostly dead, the lake surface quickly returned to calm.
Chu Ran returned to the shore.
Small bubbles gradually rose from the lake surface, and soon, several small heads peeked above the water.
They were turtles!
[Profound Water Turtle]
[Grade: Gold]
[Level: Lv.6]
[Agility: 30]
[Defense: 400]
[Spirit: 76]
[Combat Power: 1561]
[Skill: Hide Head.]
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A message appeared before Chu Ran's eyes.
"Hide Head..." Looking at this skill, Chu Ran's expression stiffened.
Can this even be called a skill?
He turned to look at the other few.
[Profound Water Snake]
[Grade: Gold]
[Level: 7]
[Strength: 543]
[Agility: 768]
[Defense: 689]
[Spirit: 458]
[Combat Power: 175]
[Skills: Bite, Constrict.]
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The rest were a few silver-grade ones, so Chu Ran didn't look further.
Being able to breed so many juvenile gold grade creatures, this Profound Mirror Heavenly Lake truly lives up to being a Level 7 Secret Realm.
For the Dragon Nation, it could also be considered a rare and precious treasure of a secret realm.
Whether juvenile beasts or mature demon beasts, each had their own uses...
Because the ferocity in their bloodline had not yet been awakened, juvenile beasts could be artificially tamed and become tamed beasts.
Chu Ran looked at the two juvenile beasts before him.
The Profound Water Snake was a standard, average gold grade, while the other Profound Water Turtle seemed rather extreme in its attributes...
Its defense was absolutely top-tier talent for this grade!
But...
There was also bad news!
Chu Ran had just felt its stat panel seemed a bit shorter than the other juvenile beasts, and now he suddenly realized...
It had no Strength value, none at all!
The Strength value corresponds to a tamed beast's attack power; if it has none at all...
It means it has no offensive capability!
However, after some thought, Chu Ran still felt he should contract this Profound Water Turtle juvenile beast.
After all, that's four thousand points of defense!
This meant its vitality was bound to be much higher than other tamed beasts of the same rank!
Chu Ran was precisely lacking such a tamed beast to bind with the [Symbiosis] skill.
Moreover, with Advancement Points existing, he dared not imagine how strong it would become after advancement!
"Contract."
With Chu Ran's current spirit power, contracting such a juvenile beast simply had no chance of failure.
It was more like a one-sided contract on his part...
The next moment, the Profound Water Turtle disappeared from the lake, appearing within Chu Ran's tamed beast space.
Chu Ran focused his mind, and his consciousness also entered the tamed beast space.
And then he saw a comical scene.
The three powerful Monarchs—Mosquito Emperor, Thunder Flood Dragon, and Dragon Sparrow—were gathered together, forming a tight circle.
In the center of this circle, an empty space was deliberately left.
Looking closely, the petite Profound Water Turtle was lying there.
Compared to those three enormous figures, the Profound Water Turtle was as insignificant as a tiny pebble.
It quietly curled up, completely retracted into its hard shell, seemingly trying to hide itself even deeper...
For a demon beast, to be so timid.
Chu Ran also felt a wave of confusion, but upon careful thought, it was actually quite good.
This way, he wouldn't have to worry about it later manifesting its demon beast bloodline and doing something like rebelling...
[Current Tamed Beast: Profound Water Turtle.]
[Grade: Gold.]
[Level: Lv.6]
[Agility: 30]
[Defense: 400]
[Spirit: 76]
[Combat Power: 1561]
[Skill: Hide Head.]
[Can Advance!]
[Advancement Points Required: 500]
[Current Advancement Points: 22563...225606...225609...]
[Hint: A tamed beast's first advancement has a probability to trigger a critical effect.]
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Chu Ran didn't hesitate: "Advance!"
This advancement should allow it to reach the Monarch level, giving him four Monarch-level tamed beasts.
And he could also use the Symbiosis skill to bind with the Profound Water Turtle.
A top-tier defense tamed beast plus Saint Spirit Level combat boots and Monarch Grade combat armor...
Just thinking about it is terrifying...
Five thousand Advancement Points were deducted from the panel, transforming into specks of starlight that merged into the Profound Water Turtle's body.
Even so, it maintained its original state, body tightly curled in its shell, motionless...
Suddenly, a faint cracking sound rang out!
That thin, brittle shell suddenly bulged, cracks spreading like a spiderweb. Countless bluish-black scale plates frantically drilled out from the fissures, instantly covering the entire turtle body.
The limbs retracted into the shell violently swelled. Thick turtle claws tore through the air, each claw tip gleaming with a cold light, deeply piercing the ground, actually grinding the hard earth into fine pits.
Its carapace expanded wildly, in the blink of an eye growing into a mountain-like giant dome.
The edges of the plates were rolled with profound patterns, between which flowed dark golden streams of light, as if concealing an entire galaxy.
The moment the carapace expanded, dense clusters of spike protrusions suddenly erupted from its surface—at first just rice-sized bumps, then they grew at a visible speed, their tips tempered with ink-black cold light, their bases fused with the carapace, dark golden light flowing through the patterns...
The carapace spikes were arranged in an orderly yet staggered fashion on the mountain-like back shell, like inverted giant swords, seeming to pierce the clouds!
An ancient and primal aura instantly exploded in the air, carrying the salty scent of the sea and the weight of rock. Even light was swallowed by this aura, plunging the world into a brief darkness, with only the spikes on the Black Tortoise's carapace shimmering with an intimidating light!
In the blink of an eye, the Profound Water Turtle's size instantly skyrocketed, only stopping after it became taller by more than half a body compared to the largest of the surrounding three Monarchs, the Thunder Flood Dragon...
Chu Ran stared dumbfounded at this shocking scene, only snapping back to reality when the panel prompt appeared before his eyes.
[Ding! Advancement successful!]
And then he was startled again by the panel data...
[Current Tamed Beast: Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle]
[Grade: Saint Spirit Level!]
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