CHAPTER 425: CHAPTER 245: LITTLE BLUE FISH’S NEW SKILL

"Goo!"

The Little Fox nodded heavily.

It told Lin Chen that previously it wasn’t sure, but today during cultivation, it was very certain about this answer.

Compared to the Spiritual Qi that had just come in, it was getting worse by the day.

Upon hearing this, Lin Chen pondered deeply.

This place is so vast; surely his Spirit Beast couldn’t have consumed all the Spiritual Qi.

Turning his head, Lin Chen asked Xiaobai and the others; both Xiaobai and Xiao Hei also nodded. Their sense of smell towards Spiritual Qi wasn’t that sharp, but they could also feel that the Spiritual Qi here was diminishing day by day.

This left Lin Chen somewhat alarmed, as if something went wrong here, it would be a disaster.

This place is the foundation of the Spirit Academy, concerning its future.

However, he couldn’t leave now because the Great Elder had told Lin Chen that the portal here would reopen only after half a year.

To verify if it was an issue with his Spirit Beasts, Lin Chen had all four of them stop meditating for a day.

"Gulp!"

The Bluefish looked at Lin Chen with watery eyes.

Lin Chen could only laugh helplessly and let it sleep a day less, also giving it an extra bottle of Beast Milk.

By the third day, Lin Chen had the Little Fox sense again, and once more it told Lin Chen that the Spiritual Qi was still decreasing.

Lin Chen realized that this probably wasn’t their issue.

However, it didn’t seem too strange; nobody knew how this place was formed. If naturally formed, depletion would be quite normal.

Lin Chen let Xiaobai and the others resume their cultivation, and after seven more days, following a heavy rain, another anomaly occurred.

While Lin Chen was sleeping, he heard the sound of something collapsing, waking him with a start.

Following the sound, he discovered that a Spirit Beast figurine had fallen to the ground, now shattered to pieces.

Looking around, Lin Chen found out this was caused by a landslide, though it was somewhat related to Xiaobai. Previously, when Xiaobai performed the Demon Bull Appearance Pounce Killing Skill, it had caused a crack here, and ultimately, after being washed by the heavy rain, it affected this particular figurine.

Upon finding out, Xiaobai felt somewhat guilty, but Lin Chen consoled it briefly, as they had been cautious to avoid these figurines for fear of damaging them.

But this incident was clearly an accident.

Since it had fallen, Lin Chen went up to study it carefully, discovering that this figurine was likely formed from a Demon Beast.

"All the bones are weathered away, what is this thing? Cement? It doesn’t seem like... rather it looks like it was formed by energy weathering."

In deep thought, Lin Chen took out a piece of meat for the Big White Bear to experiment with.

The result indeed confirmed Lin Chen’s guess.

The meat weathered away with the infusion of energy, precisely like this.

What shocked Lin Chen was that, with so many beasts here, some even at Great Success, how much energy would be needed to achieve all this?

Lin Chen went to look for the Demon Core of the Demon Beast, only to discover something even more terrifying.

Although the other parts were weathered, they remained intact.

But the Demon Core of the Demon Beast had vanished, an empty space was left there.

"Was it taken away?" Lin Chen wondered.

But this guess was clearly unreasonable, as the appearance of this figurine was very intact.

To acquire the Demon Core, the Demon Beast must be torn apart.

Suddenly, an astonishing idea formed in Lin Chen’s mind.

"The Demon Core is equivalent to a Spirit Spring..."

"Could it be that the dense Spiritual Qi here is transformed from the Beast Power and Demon Core within these figurines?"

Once this idea emerged, it made Lin Chen restless with anxiety.

What really happened here?

Who did it?

Or perhaps, was it just an accident?

Following the principle of curiosity killing the cat, Lin Chen decided not to pursue the matter further.

These matters could be reported to the Great Elder after leaving; for now, his primary task remained cultivation.

...

The Little Fox, worthy of being called the upgrade fanatic, cultivated even faster than the lower-level Big White Bear. After about another 20 days, it leveled up again, reaching Level 36.

The Big White Bear closely followed, reaching Level 27.

This made Lin Chen marvel, the speed of leveling here was indeed like cheating, it was incredibly fast.

If it weren’t for Lin Chen’s insistence on combining meditation with training, in half a year, the level improvements of his four Spirit Beasts would be unthinkable.

Since the Bluefish hadn’t formed a contract with Lin Chen, its leveling was naturally slow.

But here, with ample Spiritual Qi, and as it could meditate by sleeping, it also broke through Level 3.

This made Lin Chen a bit curious, the first skill of the Bluefish was a displacement skill, so what would its second skill be?

The role of the Bluefish remained unclear until now.

If there was truly one...

It would be a mount.

After all, it was the only one capable of flying; the Little Fox had enjoyed this benefit, but Lin Chen hadn’t yet.

Meanwhile, as more than a month had passed in the fourth year, the entire Cangling Ancient Country started to focus on this upcoming Celestial Realm Mountain gathering.

It had been a long time since the last war, and many people with a penchant for battle were itching for action.

Many believed that there was no need for the Celestial Realm Mountain gathering, as a war between the Human Race and the Demon Race was inevitable, and this was just the spark, better to start fighting directly.

This viewpoint received considerable support.

But deep down, these people were not truly warlike, everyone knew that war meant death.