On the blood-red beach, every grain of sand seed as if it had been soaked in blood, a vivid crimson red.
A group of rusted bronze creatures drifted aimlessly on the beach. They possessed a levitation ability that allowed them to float at low altitude.
Suddenly, a salty, moist sea breeze blew past.
The rusted bronze (long spear) was made unsteady by the wind, its body swaying like small grass in a storm, the tilted spearhead accidentally striking the body of the rusted bronze (sword), with a crack, the sword broke into two pieces.
The rusted bronze (sword) struggled on the ground for a while, and then... it was gone.
The Black Fla Horse was stunned by the scene, "This is too fragile."
The Black Fla Horse’s gaze shifted slightly, looking at the rusted bronze (long spear). The sea breeze had ceased, but it still wobbled, the earlier collision with the rusted bronze (sword) seed to have knocked sothing out of its head, making it stagger like a drunkard.
Suddenly, it wobbled unsteadily, and the spearhead struck a shell washed up by the sea, breaking off with a snap.
The Black Fla Horse exclaid, "This pet beast is too weak, even worse than a Sli. At least a Sli wouldn’t be killed by a sea breeze."
No sooner had the Black Fla Horse spoken than a strong gust of wind struck.
The rusted bronze creatures were blown about, stumbling and falling.
Among the fifty-six rusted bronze creatures, the wind claid the lives of twenty-four, with eleven more sustaining serious injuries, missing parts, like the rusted bronze (knife), which had significant notches on its blade and back.
"This this this... am I really supposed to choose a future companion from here?"
The Black Fla Horse worriedly remarked.
The new companion’s race was too fragile, seeming less reliable than Sli, a gust nearly wiping out half of them.
"Yes."
Li Cunxu nodded.
The Black Fla Horse asked, "Are you sure it will work?"
Li Cunxu replied, "It will work, trust ."
The sea breeze ca once again, this ti with moderate strength, yet still carried away a few rusted bronze creatures.
The Black Fla Horse stared at the rusted bronze creatures on the beach, not quite dead, struggling in their final throes, curiously asking, "How do they survive on this dangerous Four Gods Continent if they can be blown to death by the wind?"
"Tonight, you’ll understand."
Night arrived, and darkness fell.
Lying on the beach, the broken, dead rusted bronze (sword), its hilt and tip trembled slightly, and then floated up, joining together at the fracture, birthing a not-so-new rusted bronze (sword).
The Black Fla Horse was amazed, "Resurrection?"
Li Cunxu shook his head, "No, not resurrection, it’s rebirth. Although the sword body remains the sa, the soul inside is different."
The mode of rebirth of the rusted bronze creatures on the previous bodies holds many hidden problems.
For instance, upon close inspection of this sword-shaped rusted bronze, it is apparent that the joining spot hasn’t completely healed, there’s a tiny crack, which will beco its fatal weakness.
The Black Fla Horse curiously asked, "If rusted bronze creatures broken into pieces can be reborn through joining, what about those shattered to scraps, can they also be put back together to rebirth new rusted bronze?"
"Yes."
Suddenly, a particularly fierce gust struck from the sea, tornting over five hundred rusted bronze creatures on the other side of the beach.
The clamor of clashing tal sounded out~
and more than four hundred rusted bronze creatures perished.
Li Cunxu used Spiritual Power to collect all the broken pieces of rusted bronze into the Celestial Pavilion Ring.
The Black Fla Horse asked, "Aren’t we choosing a new companion? Why are you gathering these rusty bronze fragnts?"
The Black Fla Horse couldn’t understand Li Cunxu’s actions.
What’s the point of collecting these low-quality bronze fragnts?
It wasn’t unreasonable for the Black Fla Horse to question, as these bronze fragnts were so brittle, a little girl could break them with so effort, and an adult could crush them to powder with a single hand.
Moreover, the Black Fla Horse noticed one more thing: Li Cunxu only picked up the fragnts from naturally deceased rusted bronze creatures; he didn’t touch any of the living ones.
Although Li Cunxu could have easily taken out all living rusted bronze with his Spiritual Power, he chose to let the wind do it instead.
Li Cunxu explained, "I forgot to ntion, rusted bronze creatures have another birth thod, that is: reconstitution."
The Black Fla Horse understood: Li Cunxu intended to create a rusted bronze creature himself.
The benefit of a rusted bronze creature reborn through reconstitution is a complete body, free of the crack weaknesses left by the previous rusted bronze.
The Black Fla Horse asked, "Why specifically gather fragnts of naturally deceased rusted bronze?"
"Those who attempt to reconstitute rusted bronze creatures must not have inflicted any slaughter upon them, else the collective consciousness of the rusted bronze tribe will resent them, rendering the reconstitution impossible."
Li Cunxu began the daily collection of rusted bronze fragnts.
Not only did he collect himself, but he sent all of his pet beasts to collect them too.
Ti flew by, Xiaoruan completed the task of consuming acid grass seeds for a hundred days, and the [Digestion] talent successfully evolved into [Rapid Digestion] talent.
The rusted bronze fragnts amassed to seven hundred tons, all along several coasts scoured clean by Li Cunxu.
However, it was still not enough.
Li Cunxu’s goal was to gather nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze.
As he continued to collect, Li Cunxu crafted a large furnace capable of holding nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze fragnts, while also trading with the alliance for materials to upgrade Xiaoruan’s talent to Big Eater.
He juggled three tasks at once.
The Big Eater evolution thod: consu a piece of Expansion Stone and a ton of food daily for three hundred consecutive days.
The Expansion Stone, a Venerable King level spatial resource, when crushed in a Space Ring, can expand the inner space of the ring.
The purpose of consuming Expansion Stone is to create a Big Eater space within the pet beast’s stomach to store and digest food.
Trading for Expansion Stone ant owing a year’s supply of Purification Crystals to the alliance.
But the ton of food per day did not require trading with the alliance.
Li Cunxu stayed by the coast daily, where countless sea fish awaited Xiaoruan’s appetite.
A month later, having collected the nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze fragnts, Li Cunxu prompted Xiaoruan to connect with ground fire to ignite the massive furnace.
Li Cunxu tossed the nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze fragnts from the Celestial Pavilion Ring into the furnace for reconstitution.
The lting point of the rusted bronze fragnts was low; exposed to the ground fire, they turned into glowing molten bronze.
The mass of nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze fragnts ford a mound like a small hill. Under the scorching ground fire, it lted at an astonishing pace, like a snowy mountain under a blazing sun, the molten bronze almost capable of filling a small lake.
The Black Fla Horse peered through the small hole of the furnace, puzzled, "Is the new companion a giant rusted bronze?"
Li Cunxu lightly shook his head, "Not a giant rusted bronze."
If the fire were to stop now, a pet beast rusted bronze born from the molten bronze would certainly be a giant one.
But Li Cunxu lacked interest in giant rusted bronze, for no matter how large, they couldn’t alter their inherently brittle nature.
Under the fire’s intense heat, the molten bronze slowly shrank, from a quantity akin to a small lake, reducing to the size of a ran bowl.
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