77: Chapter 77 Sudden Increase in Strength!
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[Evolution Successful.]
[Current Equipment: molten lava demon heaven armor → Lava Saint Armor]
[Grade: Monarch Grade → Saint Spirit Level!]
[Category: Breastplate.]
[Attributes: Defense: 30,000 (+1,200,000)]
[Skill: Saint · Fire Counter (Automatically deals triple fire counter-damage after receiving an attack from a Saint Spirit Level or lower source.)]
[Special Effect: Saint · Blessing of the Lord of Lava.]
[Saint · Blessing of the Lord of Lava: 1. Immune to fire damage of the same grade, immune to all damage from lower grades. 2. Attributes *5 when owning two pieces of Lava equipment, Attributes *8 when owning three pieces of Lava equipment.]
[Evolution Points required for next evolution: One million points.]
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[Class: Fifth Turn · Beast Tamer Divine Envoy]
[Level: Lv.10]
[Strength: 5,773]
[Agility: 878 (+450,000)]
[Defense: (+150,000)]
[Spirit: 3,472]
[Combat Power: 3,698 (+780,000)]
[Free Attribute Points: points]
[Skills: Contract Spell, Summon Spirit Diagram, Symbiosis.]
[Beasts: Lv.18 Canglan Thunder Dragon, Lv.180 World-Burning Flame Sky Sparrow, Lv.180 Shadow Devouring Sacred Mosquito Queen, Lv.180 Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle]
[Equipment: Lava Saint Armor (Saint Spirit Level!), lava saint boots (Saint Spirit Level!)]
[Current Evolution Points: 369,135... 369,140... 369,145...]
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While the two beasts were digesting the monster cores, Chu Ran evolved his breastplate, which hadn't been upgraded in a long time.
It was mainly because the aura he felt at Sakura Sun had instilled too much fear in him.
Despite being connected to the Sacred Turtle through the Symbiosis skill, Chu Ran still subconsciously wanted to upgrade every means possible to increase his chances of survival...
His primary focus was being steady!
Looking at the improvements, it certainly did not let down those 450,000 Evolution Points.
One had to admit, this Blessing of the Lord of Lava was simply too heaven-defying...
Just the defense provided by the equipment plus the blessing had already reached a staggering 1.5 million, nearly catching up to the Sacred Turtle's base attributes...
However, Chu Ran's defensive capabilities naturally couldn't be compared to the Sacred Turtle's; with its skills and profundities stacked, the Sacred Turtle's actual combat power could reach two or three times what its status panel showed!
Furthermore, it was currently in the process of advancing...
In the center of the distant desert lay a massive dark red entity; that was the Shadow Devouring Sacred Mosquito Queen.
The fist-sized monster core, a mix of dark purple and crimson copper carrying violent energy, was pierced by the Saint Mosquito Queen's proboscis, and monster energy as thick as lava instantly gushed out!
The Shadow Devouring Sacred Mosquito Queen let out a sharp screech, frantically sucking the energy within the monster core. Its originally crimson carapace deepened at a visible rate, and dark purple patterns spread from its mouthparts across its entire body like a spiderweb, weaving into a ferocious dark pattern against the scarlet base.
Its wing membranes suddenly expanded, stretching from about ten feet to thirty feet. The wing veins transformed into ink-black bone spurs, and their vibration was no longer silent but carried a low hum, kicking up the surrounding black scorched sand into small tornadoes.
The most terrifying changes occurred in its abdomen and compound eyes. The originally slender abdominal sac swelled up, its surface bulging with veins, and the outlines of wriggling mosquito eggs could faintly be seen inside. Outside the seven crimson compound eyes, a pair of turbid dark-golden vertical pupils emerged.
That seemed to be a bloodline mark from the Ant Queen!
As the pupils turned, they seemed capable of both capturing light and shadow and sensing the slightest vibrations on the ground.
When the last trace of energy from the monster core was devoured, the Shadow Devouring Sacred Mosquito Queen let out a cry that shook the Gobi. Black and purple light surged around it, and the resulting energy storm carved deep gouges into the scorched sand below.
As the light dissipated, it had completed its transformation. Its size had exploded, its shell a fusion of red and purple shimmering with a viscous, asphalt-like luster. As its wing membranes flapped, shadows and dark purple mist intertwined...
Immediately after, a surging dark aura burst from its body, continuously spreading toward the surrounding desert...
It only gradually dissipated upon hitting the other massive creature on the far side...
The moment the Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle took the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Emperor's monster core into its belly, light interwoven with cyan-black and profound gold erupted from beneath its shell.
That monster core, carrying the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Emperor's ferocious bloodline from ancient times, crashed wildly through the Sacred Turtle's spiritual veins. On the Sacred Turtle's originally black shell, diamond-shaped bone plate patterns—identical to the bone armor on the Crocodile Emperor's back—began to emerge!!
The edges glinted with a dull cyan-black metallic luster, the joints fitting together perfectly, as if a layer of heavy armor forged from ancient profound iron had been overlaid on the original turtle shell.
The Sacred Turtle's head slowly lifted. Within its originally gentle turtle eyes, a vertical pupil split open, and a flash of turbid yellow ferocity passed through—identical to the Crocodile Emperor's violent eyes. Its jaws slightly opened, revealing two inch-long dagger-like fangs, grim and sharp, with a faint flow of dark brownish blood-light.
Its four limbs swelled by a full circle, the turtle claws becoming thick and powerful. Muscles like the gnarled roots of a thousand-year-old tree bulged, and the tips of its claws glinted with a cold light capable of tearing through metal and stone. Most astonishingly, the turtle tail suddenly lengthened by several yards, becoming as thick as a pillar and covered in cyan-black bone armor. The wind kicked up by its swing caused the surrounding air to boom, clearly possessing the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Emperor's might to sweep through thousands of troops.
When the light faded, the Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle's size had increased by thirty percent. It was surrounded by the pressure of a Saint Spirit Level and the ferocious aura of an ancient beast. The two auras intertwined and collided, causing visible energy ripples to spread through the world...
The auras of the two Saint Spirit Level beasts had become several times more terrifying than before!
Chu Ran could feel that they were no longer ordinary Saint Spirit Level, but Zenith Saint Spirit Grade, just like the World-Burning Flame Sky Sparrow...
The moment the panel appeared, Chu Ran's pupils constricted. The data displayed on the panel almost took his breath away...
[Current Beast: Shadow Devouring Sacred Mosquito Queen.]
[Grade: Saint Spirit Level!]
[Level: Lv.18]
[Strength: 258,475 → 62,340]
[Agility: 129,276 → 3,102,624]
[Defense: 252,673 → 66,415]
[Spirit: 137,118 → 3,290,832]
[Combat Power: 125,467 → 2,461,120]
[Skills: Hyper-Speed Reproduction (Enhanced), Myriad Eye Hunt, Shadow-Devouring Instant Escape (Enhanced), Spiritual Breath Sharing, Saint Mosquito Profundity! Mosquito Swarm Frenzy (New!)]
[Saint Mosquito Profundity!: When the profundity is activated, attributes are doubled for a short time, and the effect of the Hyper-Speed Reproduction skill is *3.]
[Spiritual Breath Sharing (Combo Skill): The beast actively releases its own spiritual breath to establish a connection with other beasts contracted to its Beast Tamer. It can transfer its own spiritual power/stamina to other beasts or receive spiritual power boosts from them. This bidirectional complementation significantly improves coordinated combat endurance.]
[Hyper-Speed Reproduction: Can frantically reproduce Quasi-Monarch Grade Shadow-Devouring Mosquito Beasts (over nine thousand) of the same level as the Mosquito Emperor in a short time. The substances absorbed by the Mosquito Beasts will feed back into the Saint Mosquito Queen.]
[Myriad Eye Hunt: Vision and perception surge drastically; shares vision with the Beast Tamer.]
[Shadow-Devouring Instant Escape: High-frequency wing-flapping flight speed can reach 560 meters per second. After sucking blood, blood can be transformed into shadows to increase speed to 9,000 meters per second. Immune to crowd control during flight.]
[Mosquito Swarm Frenzy (Ant Queen Bloodline): Unlocks the bloodline pressure of the Abyss Ant Queen. The Shadow-Devouring Mosquito Queen can release a red-purple energy pulse that causes all Mosquito Beasts within range to enter a frenzy state—size explodes, pain disappears, and devouring speed increases by double. The price is death from exhaustion once the frenzy ends...]
[Evolution Points required for next evolution: Three million.]
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[Current Beast: Profound Heaven Sacred Turtle]
[Grade: Saint Spirit Level!]
[Level: Lv.18]
[Agility: 16,634 → 448,292]
[Defense: 178,689 → 4,807,860]
[Spirit: 337,548 → 911,379]
[Combat Power: 857,648 → 2,315,649]
[Skills: Violent Rupture Counter, Profound Turtle Secret Art, Spiritual Breath Sharing, Invincible Taunt, Alligator Turtle Sky Deterring Presence (New)]
[Spiritual Breath Sharing (Combo Skill): ...]
[Violent Rupture Counter: Damage received is halved, while the attacker receives double the attack (this is a lock-on skill, ignoring any evasion effects).]
[Profound Turtle Secret Art: When activated, attributes are doubled for a short time, and all skill effects are increased by fifty percent (Profundity cooldown is 144 hours).]
[Alligator Turtle Sky Deterring Presence (Crocodile Emperor Bloodline): Merging the ancient ferocious pressure of the Heaven Swallowing Crocodile Emperor, the Sacred Turtle can release the 'Alligator Turtle Sky Deterring Presence,' causing mental awe to monsters of a lower grade than itself, reducing their attack speed and movement speed by 3%.]
[Invincible Taunt (Rule-based Skill): Can attract enemy attacks by using the taunt skill.]
[Evolution Points required for next evolution: Three million.]
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After absorbing the Ant Queen's monster core, the Saint Mosquito Queen's attributes actually increased by 2.4 times across the board!
She also absorbed the Ant Queen's bloodline and gained a new skill!
On the other side, while the Sacred Turtle's attributes increased by 2.7 times, it also absorbed the Crocodile Emperor's bloodline and gained a new skill!
This boost was too fierce!
At the same time, Chu Ran surprisingly discovered that the World-Burning Flame Sky Sparrow had comprehended a profundity after these two battles!
[Sky Sparrow Profundity: When activated, all attributes increase by 1.5 times for a short time, and its own fire intensity increases by 3%!]
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This round of upgrades directly gave Chu Ran three Zenith Saint Spirit Grade beasts!
At the same time, his own survivability had been greatly enhanced...
But...
Seeing its younger siblings all crossing the Saint Spirit Level early and even reaching the Zenith Saint Spirit Grade...
The Thunder Flood Dragon, which was the first to reach the Monarch Grade, now looked a bit dejected as it curled up in a corner of the beast taming space...
Chu Ran also felt a bit guilty in his heart, but...
Thinking carefully, it had only been a few days since his awakening to reach this level of achievement...
“Tomorrow... no, the day after!” Chu Ran looked at the Thunder Flood Dragon and said vowedly:
“The day after tomorrow! Before the Evolution Points are reached, I will definitely find a suitable monster core for you! I'll strive to help you reach Zenith Saint Spirit... or even higher!”
“Roar!”
The Thunder Flood Dragon gave Chu Ran an affirmative reply.
Following that, Chu Ran withdrew the Sacred Turtle and the Sky Sparrow and sat on the Saint Mosquito Queen's back...
With nearly three million agility, any place in Tianxuan could be reached within two hours!
“Depart, for the Extreme Cold Land!”
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