25: Chapter 25 Both Breakthrough

It was early morning.

A faint, milky-white luster radiated from Qin Ding's body. At this moment, he felt an unprecedented sense of refreshment. Even though he was meditating with his eyes closed, he faintly had a sensation...

…a feeling of being able to see through the layout of the room. The entire room appeared vaguely in his mind; although it was blurry and unstable, the feeling was undeniably real.

Pop~

A sound like a bubble bursting rang in Qin Ding's mind. The refreshing sensation receded, but the vague layout of the room remained present in his mind.

Qin Ding slowly opened his eyes. Feeling the feedback power surging within his body following his Mental Energy breakthrough, the white breath he exhaled formed a white sword over thirty centimeters long.

"Twenty percent, the feedback intensity has doubled. I can clearly feel the increase in strength... Huh?"

Qin Ding, halfway through his sentence, froze abruptly because the feedback of power belonging to Black Dog within his body did not stop, but was instead continuing to rise.

This discovery made the corners of Qin Ding's mouth curl up uncontrollably. Feeling the increasingly vigorous power, Qin Ding couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

"It looks like Earth Dog has also broken through to level eleven and can be considered a true spirit beast."

From level zero to ten, although they are spirit beasts, the spirit beasts at this stage do not have outstanding physical bodies; a normal adult holding a weapon might be able to hack them to death. But once they reach level eleven, it's different.

Upon breaking through from level ten to eleven, the spirit beast's physical body undergoes a qualitative change and becomes much stronger. Afterward, for every level gained, the physical strength increases by a small margin.

Especially after evolving at level eleven, they can also gain the power of natural elements and acquire basic elemental usage, raising their combat ability by another notch.

"Speaking of evolving to gain elements, which element would be good..."

At this step, Qin Ding had to think for Black Dog: which element would suit the current Black Dog?

As for the natural elements, there are eleven in total: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Light, Dark, Mental, and Space.

The rarest is undoubtedly the Space attribute. Rumor has it that Space-type spirit beasts are rare and cannot be sought; it purely depends on luck. Next is the Mental type, which can kill invisibly and is also an excellent tool for gathering intelligence.

In the next tier are Wood, Water, and Light, the three elements that easily produce healing and support-type spirit beasts. The remaining elements are considered to be at the same level.

Qin Ding couldn't help but recall the scene from a while ago where Black Dog instantly suppressed the black wolf and killed it with a single blow.

"Earth Dog's close-combat ability is quite good. The suitable elements should be Metal, Dark, or Wind. I don't know if Life Records has evolution paths for these three elements, and one that isn't too expensive..."

Speaking to the end, Qin Ding sighed with emotion.

It wasn't that he was stingy, but that he didn't really have much money now. The cultivation fluid cost eighty thousand, the blood spirit fruit cost one hundred thousand, and the final payment for the cold weapon would be twenty thousand.

His remaining federal currency could be said to be only one hundred thousand.

Just as Qin Ding was pondering, in the living room, Black Dog's body had expanded by a circle; its length from head to tail had broken through two meters, and its shoulder height had reached one meter.

It was fortunate that Black Dog's doghouse was just a nest and not a small house, otherwise it would definitely be stuck now.

Sensing its own changes, Black Dog got up from its nest immediately and ran toward Qin Ding's room with its legs spread.

At home, Qin Ding never closed the door. Just as Qin Ding was lost in thought, an excited dog bark startled him back to his senses.

"Woof!"

[Boss, Boss, I've become so much stronger! I feel like I can directly ram that wolf from last time to death!]

Hearing this, Qin Ding squatted down and pinched the flesh on Black Dog's body.

Very hard, rock-hard. Judging by Black Dog at level eleven, if it ran, it would probably be no less than a small car. If it rammed into a black wolf, it would indeed be possible to knock it apart.

"Hmm, after the winter break and the New Year, let's go check out the wilderness outside Chang City. A greenhouse cannot raise a fierce dragon."

"Woof woof?"

[The wilderness? Is that the place you told me about last time, where there might be spirit items and a large number of spirit beasts? That's great! We can hunt and bring it back for Aunt Zhao and the others to eat.]

Qin Ding smiled without saying a word. Although his eyes were on Black Dog, he was actually looking at Life Records.

[Beast: Black Dog]

[Aptitude: Good]

[Element: None]

[Level: 11 (High Grade)]

[Ability: Grudge-holding]

[Bloodline: Canine (89%), Wolf (10.99%), Dragon (0.01%)]

[Evolution Path Dragon: (Must complete Wolf evolution path)]

[Evolution Path Wolf: 1-1221]

[Evolution Path Canine: 1-1566]

[Aptitude Improvement: Must reach level 31.]

[Introduction: A common type of meat dog; special individuals have a certain cultivation value.]

Canine? Qin Ding didn't even look at it. Even if it couldn't evolve into a dragon, he would still choose the wolf option.

Over a thousand entries. Qin Ding's initial thought was to start from the first one, but just one glance silenced him completely.

[Condition 1 - Silver Space Wolf: Any Space-type high-grade spirit item x1, High-grade Boundless Water x1L, High-grade Flesh Tai Sui x100G. (Evolution fluid extraction method: ...) (Consumption/evolution order: ...)]

Qin Ding: ...

The required materials—if he sold himself, he still couldn't gather even a single hair of it. As for this direct consumption, Qin Ding checked and it meant that within one year, consuming these three spirit items would complete the evolution.

There wasn't much requirement for the order; the only requirement was that the inner core must be eaten last.

"Spirit beasts in the wilderness will compete for spirit items with each other or even hunt; I guess it's because they can sense which spirit items are useful to them, right?"

Thinking secretly in his heart, Qin Ding roughly looked down, and the tension in his heart gradually eased.

Fortunately, evolutions like this that were extremely outrageous, with extremely high requirements for spirit items or inner cores, only existed within the first hundred or so evolution conditions.

More than twenty minutes later, Qin Ding set his sights on the two hundred and twelfth evolution condition: Sha Jin Wolf.

Qin Ding didn't know how strong this evolution condition was, but Qin Ding saw that only in this one evolution condition did it contain a dragon-type spirit item that he could afford.

To find his parents, he needed strength, so it was very necessary to improve Black Dog's dragon bloodline.

[Condition 212 - Sha Jin Wolf: Any Metal-type high-grade spirit item x1, High-grade Flood Dragon Saliva Grass x1, Any-grade Vajra Fruit x1, Any-grade wolf-type spirit beast bone marrow x10G. (Evolution fluid extraction method: ...) (Consumption/evolution order: ...)]

After confirming, Qin Ding took out his phone and started searching for the prices of the required spirit items, excluding, of course, the high-grade Flood Dragon Saliva Grass.

Qin Ding knew the price of this item: fifty thousand. He had searched for dragon-type spirit items and dragon-type spirit beasts before when he was bored.

"Vajra Fruit is one thousand each; high-grade Vajra Fruit is three thousand... That's within reason."

"Wolf bone marrow isn't valuable; tens or hundreds are negligible."

Qin Ding was not surprised to see this price because if one chose Metal or Earth elemental spirit items to evolve a spirit beast, the talent obtained would most likely have nothing to do with long-range attacks.

One must know that the first evolution of a beast is the foundation and beginning of establishing the elemental path. Once an element is determined, it's not impossible to 'delete' it, but it requires a large amount of expensive spirit items as support.

Furthermore, the original comprehension of that element would be completely wasted, and combat power would plummet.

Therefore, one only hears of Beast Tamers adding an elemental aspect to their beasts, never of removing an elemental aspect from their own beasts.