Chapter 356 — Distributing Legendary Resources

True, Ginseng Baby's clone could stay behind to assist, but a clone's support was certainly not as effective as the original. Fortunately, during the point-adding for Eleven, Shi Ying's constitution was still shooting up steadily—otherwise Shi Jin truly doubted whether he'd drop dead from exhaustion when the time came to add points for Ginseng Baby.

So it was very worthwhile to let Ginseng Baby draw on the Divine Soil of Life in advance to raise the level of Source of Life. That way, even a life clone would be able to provide decent support.

"Eeya!!" Ginseng Baby's expression was resolute!

"Crimson Eye, the bone sword is rather special. Just attach yourself to it from time to time to strengthen your own spirit body, but remember not to absorb its power at high intensity."

"Mii!!!"

"Susu, you too. Use the Drop of Frozen Heaven to sense the shifts in ice and water attributes. Don't devour it directly—focus on familiarizing yourself with the Ice Slime King form."

"Rin, you'll supervise them."

"Ning!""Yes!" Susu and Rin answered in unison.

Shi Jin smiled faintly. Good. Now that the legendary resources were distributed, he could continue adding points...

Next came the wait—half a month.

By then, they could set off for the Seven Isles.

During this period, Shi Jin planned to seize the time to raise Eleven's combat strength. It was still three skills short of mastering all its super-tier skills!

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Ten days later.

Shi Jin was still diligently adding points for Eleven.

Beside him, Buggy, Ginseng Baby, Crimson Eye, Susu, and Rin were all assisting with might and main.

"Awoo!!!!"

By now, Eleven had brought all its low-tier racial skills to the peak of mastery and all its low-tier instructor skills to the acme of perfection... Anything not of super-tier rank, Shi Jin lumped together as low-tier.

As for super-tier skills, apart from Lightning Rod, which stood at (Proficiency +1), Eleven had already mastered them all!

From Concealed Edge to Undying Golden Body, all mastered. And now, Eleven was undergoing its final round of point-adding, raising Lightning Rod to mastery level!

Shi Yan had been in unending agony the entire time, and after so many stat allocations, Shi Cen finally noticed it.

Allocating different super-tier skills gave a pet a rather different experience.

When Shi Yan allocated points into Undying Golden Body, for instance, it truly felt as if it had died countless times, enduring an endless, near-death torment.

When allocating points into the Lightning Rod, Shi Yan felt as though it had no extraordinary power whatsoever and was being tortured by innumerable bolts of lightning, recalling the most primal fear of lightning buried deep in its beast bloodline.

Such an experience brought immense suffering to both Shi Yan and Shi Jin, who shared its sensations. Even now, Shi Jin was still wondering whether Chongchong, Crimson Eye, Ginseng Baby, and Rin... could truly withstand the pain of super-tier skill allocation.

Apart from Susu, he had no confidence in any of them...

"Eh———" To be able to let one's mind wander and drift into idle thoughts amid endless pain, and even find it rather relaxing—Shi Cen was truly one of a kind. He had genuinely trained himself into this. If humans had willpower tiers too, he would at the very least rank as a mid-tier will by now.

But soon, Shi Jin realized it wasn't that his willpower tier had broken through—rather, the allocation process was suddenly nearing its end.

It had taken less time-essence than any previous allocation for Shi Yan.

It felt just like when he had allocated points for Susu back then...

White-haired Shi Jin snapped his eyes open.

"Huh?!" "Ning..." "Ee..." "Mii?" "This is..." Apart from them, Chongchong and the others assisting with the allocation also abruptly turned to look at Shi Yan, who sat opposite Cen Yu!

At that moment, the change in Shi Yan's aura gave them a very unusual feeling.

After drawing a deep breath, Shi Jin finally discovered what had changed!!

[Skill]: Concealed Edge

[Teaching Success Rate]: High!

[Teaching Risk]: Low!

"Ha???" In that instant, despite his utterly wretched mental and physical state, Shi Jin suddenly became as happy as a child, wanting to leap up and celebrate on the spot.

Fortunately, his frame—his lower back—would not permit it. Otherwise, that single leap might well have launched Shi Jin right out of existence.

"Ying..." At this moment, Shi Yan also slowly opened its eyes. Its pupils, like blue stars, were exceedingly beautiful, and paired with its sleek black-and-white fur, its initial form was arguably the team's beauty icon—at least in terms of cuteness.

Of course, Susu was no slouch either.

Right now, apart from the Lightning Rod skill successfully reaching Mastery proficiency, Shi Yan itself could sense changes in other respects as well.

Through the feedback of the Unstoppable skill—whose power grew with the strength of one's will—it could clearly perceive that its willpower tier had made a tremendous breakthrough!!!

Overlord's Will!!!

Under the repeated corrosion of its mind from multiple super-tier skill allocations, under day-after-day self-mutilating training, and with the empowerment of the will-based skill Unstoppable, Shi Yan had endured it all again and again—and its mind and will had successfully broken through their limits, condensing the Overlord's Will!!

Overlord's Will at the age of three!

"Awooo!!!!" Shi Yan sat on the ground and howled in excitement!!!

[Name]: Shi Yan

[Species]: Iron-Eater · Jiuli War Beast

[Attributes]: Metal, Lightning

[Species Tier]: High Overlord (Quasi-Mythical)

[Growth Tier]: Monarch-level

[Species Skills]:

[Super-tier]: Concealed Edge (Mastery), Lightning Rod (Mastery), Voidshaker (Mastery), Beanstalk Soldiers (Mastery), Unstoppable (Mastery)

[Taught Skills]:

[Super-tier]: Undying Golden Body (Mastery)

[Normal Energy Value]: 8.01 million

[Willpower Tier]: Advanced (Overlord's Will)

"Awooo!!!" Shi Yan howled excitedly, but like Shi Shuo, it could not stand up. It was overjoyed—this way, the next time Shi Jin allocated points for it, the time-essence required would be reduced, and Shi Jin would suffer a little less.

Shi Cen was quite pleased. This way, the pressure of pushing Shi Yan's super-tier skills all the way to Perfect tier was much reduced.

"Wuuuuuuuuu!!!" Beside them, Chongchong also burst into excited tears, both joyous and sorrowful. The sorrow was that the leader had once again gotten ahead of it, becoming the second pet on the team to possess the Overlord's Will.

And the joy was that at last it was its turn to receive an allocation.

"Ee!!!" Ginseng Baby turned to look at Chongchong—something was off here. The next one due for an allocation was clearly it, the runner-up of the team tournament, the great Ginseng Emperor himself. What on earth did Chongchong have to do with any of it?