Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

Chapter 500 - 485: Remade in the Furnace

On the blood-red beach, every grain of sand seemed 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 Flame Horse was stunned by the scene, "This is too fragile."

The Black Flame 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) seemed to have knocked something 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 Flame Horse exclaimed, "This pet beast is too weak, even worse than a Slime. At least a Slime wouldn’t be killed by a sea breeze."

No sooner had the Black Flame 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 claimed 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 Flame Horse worriedly remarked.

The new companion’s race was too fragile, seeming less reliable than Slime, a gust nearly wiping out half of them.

"Yes."

Li Cunxu nodded.

The Black Flame Horse asked, "Are you sure it will work?"

Li Cunxu replied, "It will work, trust me."

The sea breeze came once again, this time with moderate strength, yet still carried away a few rusted bronze creatures.

The Black Flame 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 Flame Horse was amazed, "Resurrection?"

Li Cunxu shook his head, "No, not resurrection, it’s rebirth. Although the sword body remains the same, 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 become its fatal weakness.

The Black Flame 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, tormenting over five hundred rusted bronze creatures on the other side of the beach.

The clamor of clashing metal 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 Flame Horse asked, "Aren’t we choosing a new companion? Why are you gathering these rusty bronze fragments?"

The Black Flame Horse couldn’t understand Li Cunxu’s actions.

What’s the point of collecting these low-quality bronze fragments?

It wasn’t unreasonable for the Black Flame Horse to question, as these bronze fragments were so brittle, a little girl could break them with some effort, and an adult could crush them to powder with a single hand.

Moreover, the Black Flame Horse noticed one more thing: Li Cunxu only picked up the fragments 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 mention, rusted bronze creatures have another birth method, that is: reconstitution."

The Black Flame 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 Flame Horse asked, "Why specifically gather fragments 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 fragments.

Not only did he collect himself, but he sent all of his pet beasts to collect them too.

Time 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 fragments 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 fragments, 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 method: consume 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 meant 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 fragments, 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 fragments from the Celestial Pavilion Ring into the furnace for reconstitution.

The melting point of the rusted bronze fragments 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 fragments formed a mound like a small hill. Under the scorching ground fire, it melted at an astonishing pace, like a snowy mountain under a blazing sun, the molten bronze almost capable of filling a small lake.

The Black Flame 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 ramen bowl.