Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder

Chapter 536 - 521: Chaos Gourd and the Strange Egg

Li Cunxu noticed that during the tribulation, the gourd absorbed some Celestial Thunder from the Empire Tools Heavenly Tribulation, which was extraordinary, indicating that this gourd Empire Tool was exceptional.

The quality of an Empire Tool can be assessed during the tribulation.

An average Empire Tool performs poorly during a tribulation and might get damaged by the Empire Tools Heavenly Tribulation.

The final strike in a tribulation is a Creation Celestial Thunder bestowed by the tribulation, which grants the Empire Tool a massive amount of Power of Creation, but a regular Empire Tool would waste a large portion of this power restoring itself.

A better Empire Tool emerges from the tribulation unscathed, using the final Creation Celestial Thunder to enhance its quality.

An even better Empire Tool emerges not only unscathed from the tribulation but also absorbs the Celestial Thunder from the Empire Tools Heavenly Tribulation to enhance its quality.

The final green Creation Celestial Thunder, filled with infinite vitality, struck, and the tribulation ended.

The gourd, shimmering with rainbow mist and treasure light, slowly fell into Li Cunxu’s hand.

The moment he held it, a sense of bloodline connection emanated from the gourd.

The abilities of the gourd were also transmitted into Li Cunxu’s mind.

The Empire Tool gourd was named [Chaos Gourd].

As the name suggests, the Chaos Gourd is associated with chaos.

Li Cunxu’s eyes brightened, as chaos and void are the fundamental attributes; all attributes are born from chaos and terminate in void.

The Chaos Gourd retained the [Augmentation] and [Reset] abilities of the Hybrid Gourd and further enhanced these abilities, while the [Fusion Gourd] ability was replaced by a stronger one.

[Augmentation]: Amplifies the abilities of the seven colored seed gourds to the Emperor level.

For example, the ability of the Golden Jade Gourd, ’Golden Jade Liquid,’ is augmented to the Emperor level, enabling the brewing of Emperor-level Golden Jade Liquid.

[Reset]: Can refresh the abilities of the seven colored seed gourds seven times a year.

Additionally, the Chaos Gourd also introduced three new abilities: Chaos Shield, Chaos Liquid, and Chaos Refining.

Chaos Shield: When Li Cunxu encounters danger, the Chaos Gourd autonomously releases the Chaos Shield for defense.

The Chaos Shield is an energy shield formed by the Power of Chaos, converting any attack below the Emperor level into the Power of Chaos upon contact.

Hence, attacks below the Emperor level cannot shake the Chaos Shield.

An Emperor-level attack, upon contacting the Chaos Shield, will mostly be converted into the Power of Chaos.

A full-force strike of an Emperor Strong Person, when passing through the Chaos Shield, will have its damage reduced to a casual strike by a Monarch Powerhouse.

Li Cunxu stroked his chin, clicking his tongue: "With the strong defense of the Chaos Shield, paired with defensive fields, weak Emperor Strong Persons cannot budge me. If I then deploy the Desolation Curse, dealing with a weak Emperor Strong Person seems trivial for me."

Chaos Liquid: The Chaos Gourd connects with the chaos beyond the world, absorbing the Power of Chaos to brew Chaos Liquid.

Consuming Chaos Liquid grants the Chaos Body.

The Chaos Body breaks the human limitation of only cultivating Spiritual Power and Martial Arts Qi and Blood, allowing humans to cultivate other attributes of Spiritual Energy such as water, fire, earth, time, and space.

After obtaining the Chaos Body, continued consumption of Chaos Liquid significantly enhances all aspects of the body, such as strength, speed, and physique defense...

Moreover, it can increase the cap of various Spiritual Energy attributes.

However, now Li Cunxu can only look at the Chaos Liquid and sigh at his inability to use it.

Currently, Li Cunxu does not need the Chaos Liquid; in fact, he cannot even touch it.

Chaos Liquid possesses a potent chaos assimilation characteristic, only usable if the body can endure it.

If it cannot be endured, it becomes a part of the Chaos Liquid.

For Li Cunxu now, Chaos Liquid is not a remedy but a potent poison.

What kind of body can endure the Chaos Liquid? At least a body that has passed the Becoming Emperor Tribulation.

Put simply, non-Emperors cannot consume it.

Chaos Refining: The Chaos Gourd can refine anything, converting it into the Power of Chaos, which can be used to enhance the quality of the Chaos Gourd or to brew Chaos Liquid.

Seeing this ability, Li Cunxu’s eyes lit up brightly.

This ability came just in time, precisely when it could be put to use.

The Chaos Gourd can refine anything, including fortune, even the calamity within fortune.

Upon a thought, Li Cunxu opened the mouth of the Chaos Gourd, absorbing all the calamity above his head.

Without the calamity haunting him, Li Cunxu immediately felt clear-eyed, refreshed, an indescribable sense of ease washing over him.

"Is this what it feels like to have an Empire Tool? Absolutely exhilarating,"

Having acquired the Chaos Gourd, Li Cunxu couldn’t help but joyfully play with it, absorbing things everywhere into the Chaos Gourd.

Flowers! Grass! Trees! All suffered, even the soil on the ground wasn’t spared by Li Cunxu.

The miscellaneous things absorbed into the Chaos Gourd were swiftly refined into the Power of Chaos.

However, the quality of these items was low, yielding only a mere thread of Power of Chaos.

After playing for a while, once he had his fill, Li Cunxu stopped playing with the Chaos Gourd.

Tucking the Chaos Gourd at his waist, Li Cunxu headed towards the roots of the Life Tree.

The Life Tree had been inexplicably corroded by Desolation Power, and Li Cunxu intended to investigate this strange Desolation Power that left the Elf Race helpless, to see if he could locate its source.

Li Cunxu was very intrigued by the Desolation Power because when the Chaos Gourd was undergoing the Empire Tools Heavenly Tribulation, he had been eager to ’curse’ the tribulation using the Desolation Curse.

Li Cunxu’s intuition told him that the Desolation Power contained within the Desolation Curse could harm the Empire Tools Heavenly Tribulation.

Harming the tribulation is an incredible thing.

The tribulation is supreme above all; even a Divine King would be bombarded by the tribulation while breaking through to the God King Realm.

If even the Divine King cannot effectively harm the tribulation, yet this Desolation Power can, it’s bewildering. Could it be that this Desolation Power is stronger than a Divine King, or rather, specifically born to counter the tribulation?

As he walked, Li Cunxu looked down at his waist, at the exquisitely glowing Chaos Gourd.

It seemed a bit out of sync with his low-profile nature, so he thought for a moment, touched the Chaos Gourd, and it transformed into something resembling the Golden Jade Gourd.

The combination of dazzling gold and smooth white jade made the gourd extremely handsome, albeit lacking the exaggerated brilliance and attention-grabbing quality of the original Chaos Gourd.

All Empire Tools have this ability to alter appearances.

Enigmatic treasures naturally conceal themselves; this is standard for Empire Tools.

Guided by the sense of the Desolation Curse to the Desolation Power, Li Cunxu got the Blood Lotus Flame Dragon to dig up the roots of the Life Tree, creating a huge pit and finding the source of the Life Tree’s ailment.

The source of the Desolation Power was dual: one from a statue and one from an egg.

The statue was in the shape of a Divine Deer.

Despite never having seen the God of Fertility, the moment he saw the Divine Deer, his Land of Fertility gift told him it was the God of Fertility’s statue.

"Strange? Why is there so much Desolation Power on the God of Fertility’s statue?"

Li Cunxu looked down at the smooth, ostrich-like yellow egg beneath the statue and conjectured: "Could it be the statue is meant to suppress this egg?"

Upon seeing the egg, Li Cunxu felt a danger exceeding that of witnessing the Myriad God-devouring Butterflies.