Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

Chapter 535 - 520: Four Combined Gourds

As Li Cunxu had suspected, the fused gourd did not advance to the level of Emperor tools. It’s stuck awkwardly between a ninth-tier treasure and an Emperor tool.

Li Cunxu refined and bound the gourd, and a piece of information transmitted into his mind from the gourd.

The information communicated the abilities of this gourd to Li Cunxu.

The Mixed Gourd, in addition to retaining the abilities of the Fusion Gourd, has gained three new abilities.

The first is: Amplification.

Amplifies the abilities of the seven gourds.

For example, the gold and jade liquid of the Gold Jade Gourd, which is useful in the Golden Realm but not for those at higher realms, can be useful for Monarchs under the amplification of the Mixed Gourd.

The second is: Reset.

Resets the abilities of the seven gourds.

For instance, if Li Cunxu finds the abilities of the Green Shade Gourd and Honest Gourd unnecessary or unsatisfactory, he can reset the gourd, allowing it to develop new abilities.

The only issue is that resetting is not always possible, with a one-year cooldown period.

The third is: Gourd Fusion.

The Mixed Gourd can fuse with other gourd artifacts to enhance its original abilities and during the fusion process, there’s a chance to retain the abilities of the fused gourd.

This "Gourd Fusion" ability is great. Li Cunxu likes it a lot, but he can’t use it.

Yes, he can’t use it.

If used, the Mixed Gourd will definitely be gone.

The rank of the Mixed Gourd is below an Emperor tool and above a ninth-tier treasure, this very awkward position.

Fusing with other gourds would enhance the rank of the Mixed Gourd, and if it advances too much, it would be unable to suppress itself, leading to a breakthrough.

Without a spot for an Emperor tool, forcing a breakthrough would result in nothing but failure, ending in disaster.

If a treasure breaks through and fails, the mildest outcome would be serious damage, the worst would be its loss.

"Well, I could first collect other gourd-like treasures and wait for a spot for an Emperor tool to open up, then take the opportunity."

The idea sounds great, but Li Cunxu immediately dismisses it.

Wait? Who knows when that’ll happen?

Emperor tools are not ordinary artifacts. They’re items that stand at the pinnacle, and their destruction is extremely rare.

Throughout countless ages in the Divine Beast World, only about twenty-something Emperor tools have been destroyed.

Generally, Emperor tools are held by monarchs. Combined with their inherent defenses and the protection of monarchs, Emperor tools are extremely hard to destroy.

Plus, as treasures among treasures, few people are willing to destroy them.

The Ten Thousand Crows Pot? That was purely an accidental mishap.

The Ten Thousand Crows Pot, affected by Ji Tiansao’s incredible bad luck and coupled with the Evil God Sect’s intent to destroy an Emperor tool to free up a spot to create their desired tool, led to its destruction.

In the forty-year game of his past life, only one Emperor tool was destroyed, and that was by the Evil God Sect, using the spot to create a special Emperor tool.

What was this special Emperor tool? Li Cunxu doesn’t know. In the game’s storyline, the Evil God Sect was up to no good and always kept it hidden.

"By the time a spot opens up, with my current growth rate, I probably wouldn’t need it."

Suddenly, Li Cunxu looked at the Mirror of Replication and came up with a vague idea.

This idea became clearer and clearer in his mind.

Li Cunxu’s thought was to sacrifice the Mirror of Replication to allow the gourd to advance.

"The Mirror of Replication is pretty much useless to me, even if it can replicate Emperor tools, it requires a massive amount of Power of Creation. With such power, why not use it to enhance myself or my pet? After all, Emperor tools are just external objects, enhancing oneself is the king’s path."

"Besides, I urgently need a useful Emperor tool that can boost my strength. If I get it too late, with my growth rate, it won’t be long before I won’t need it anymore."

Li Cunxu was quite moved and conveyed his thoughts to Little White Spider.

Little White Spider quite agreed.

It also felt that the Mirror of Replication was quite tasteless to Li Cunxu, unusable now, and although usable in the future, it would be too late by then.

Tasteless to eat, a pity to discard.

It would be better to let the Mirror of Replication make way for the gourd.

Little White Spider said, "But how can we destroy the Mirror of Replication? Destroying an Emperor tool is not a simple matter; an Emperor tool’s defense can withstand a full-force blow from a low-realm emperor unless we borrow the Emperor-Breaking Nail from the Evil God Sect."

Moreover, even with the Emperor-Breaking Nail, destroying an Emperor tool is no easy feat.

The Emperor-Breaking Nail requires charging to use, and this charging needs an Emperor Strong Person to imbue one thousand years of Spiritual Energy into it.

After charging, it also needs the ’Blood of Ten Thousand Spirits’ to activate.

Blood of Ten Thousand Spirits: the essence blood of ten thousand races.

Li Cunxu said, "Brutally destroying the Mirror of Replication is too complicated and too wasteful, I have a better way."

Li Cunxu activated the Mirror of Replication to replicate the Mixed Gourd.

The Mirror of Replication does not have the Power of Creation, but even without it, it can still replicate.

Using the original source of the Mirror of Replication to facilitate replication.

Using the original source to replicate things makes the replicated items more authentic.

Under the projection of the clear mirror surface of the Mirror of Replication, a colorful replica of the Mixed Gourd identical to the original was born.

Li Cunxu activated all of the source power of the Mirror of Replication to continue replication.

Another replica Mixed Gourd was produced.

The source was still there, allowing for an additional replication.

Li Cunxu replicated once more.

A third replica Mixed Gourd was produced.

The source exhausted, the Mirror of Replication shattered.

Li Cunxu felt slightly disappointed. The third replica Mixed Gourd was a tad smaller than the previous two, apparently because the Mirror of Replication’s source was insufficient.

Soon, disappointment faded away, replaced by endless curiosity.

He was curious about what kind of Emperor tool would be produced by fusing the Mixed Gourd with the three replicas.

Li Cunxu had a hunch that the gourd Emperor tool born from this fusion would be incredibly powerful, possibly ranking in the top ten of Emperor tools.

The Mirror of Replication shattered into four pieces, instantly creating a vacancy in the spots for Emperor tools. Li Cunxu, concerned that others would try to seize his spot, immediately manipulated the four Mixed Gourds to fuse.

The four Mixed Gourds fused into one, merging into a multicolored sphere, violently drawing spiritual energy from the heavens and earth like a whale swallowing.

Li Cunxu retreated slightly, taking the broken pieces of the Mirror of Replication with him.

Upon seeing the cross-section of the Mirror of Replication fragments, Li Cunxu suddenly realized it was a metal mirror, not a glass mirror.

"What kind of change will occur if the Samsara Sword fuses with the metal of the Mirror of Replication?"

Li Cunxu’s thoughts stirred, and he immediately summoned the Samsara Sword to merge.

Due to the high quality of the Mirror of Replication’s metal, the fusion with the Samsara Sword was slow.

Not long after the fusion began, the Samsara Sword delivered good news.

By fusing this metal, the Samsara Sword’s innate ability "Melded Metal Body" evolved.

It evolved from ’Blue’ to ’Purple’.

Shortly thereafter, the gourd’s fusion completed, upgrading to an Emperor tool, attracting the Heavenly Tribulation of Emperor tools.

The power of the Heavenly Tribulation of Emperor tools was almost comparable to the Tribulation of Becoming an Emperor.

However, the quality of the gourd created by the four Mixed Gourds was so exceptional.

It passed the Heavenly Tribulation of Emperor tools smoothly without danger.

"It’s over just like that? How seamless it was."