Chapter 472 — Shi Jin Creates the World

Plant Dominion, after fusing the skills Sweet Aroma, Nutrients, Energy Fruit, and Lushness, had also truly transformed into a racial skill. At present, apart from Superalloy and Soul Avatar, it ranked third in proficiency among the super-tier skills of Shi Jin's team.

Solar Forest, meanwhile, was a domain skill—the fusion of Charged Beam,

Sunny Day, Four Symbols Star Array, and Doppelganger allowing Ginseng Baby to conjure a solar tree forest that commanded the power of the sun. This forest could be seen as a sunlight domain, usable in battle, as support for Moonburst, or as a sacred training ground. With Ginseng Baby pouring its full strength into creating a Solar Forest, and relying on natural sunlight, so long as it was used sparingly, it would have no trouble forming a nearly eternal training sanctuary; even monarch-tier fire- and light-type beasts residing within could reap enormous benefits.

In addition, the minor skills, though fused, had not completely vanished—Ginseng Baby still retained the experience of using them. Strengthened by Grace of the World, one after another top-grade nutritious fruit and vegetable appeared on the dining table, along with the most precious World Tree Fruit, which was the real main event.

"Time to dig in!"

"ROAR!!!"

After Lu Yan settled in at Shi Tan's place for the time being, Shi Xu began helping Lu Yan develop Mind Resonance, and also had her beasts join the special training of Eleven and the others. And once they joined,

Lu Yan's beasts were thrown into utter agony.

Fighting Shi Ying's beasts every day, Lu Yan's beasts enjoyed a divine-tier treatment that even Little Ji, Duck-Duck, and the rest had never known.

Even the divine trials of the World Tournament had not been this brutal!

Of course, the time spent with Lu Yan was, after all, only a small portion; most of the time, Shi Yu cultivated alone.

When alone, Shi Jue either meditated to recover his condition or tried to remodel his beast-training space. By now, Shi Ying's first beast-training space had been more or less fully remodeled.

On one hand he drew on external resources; on the other, he used the power of his beasts to carry out the remodeling.

At present, his first beast-training space was divided into six great regions.

The Thunder Sea Bamboo Grove, where thunderstorm and bamboo forest coexisted, was where Eleven stayed.

The Starry Meteor Belt, dense with starry power, was where Bug-Bug stayed; it could perch upon the minor planets.

The Forest of Life, containing over a thousand kinds of plants, was where Ginseng Baby stayed.

The Solar Sword Domain was where Crimson Pupil stayed—a place born of the Solar Forest, save that every tree had been whittled into the shape of a sword by Crimson Pupil.

The Sea of Purification, where Susu stayed, and the Sky City, where Rin dwelt—six beasts, six great regions, and under normal circumstances none of them could intrude upon another. As for Little Purple, a babe not yet weaned, it was enough to let Rin carry it along obediently.

Here, though Eleven and the others could not undergo overly exaggerated special training, the blessing of the World Tree meant that resting within the beast-training space actually yielded better growth results than training in the legendary ruins.

The materials for remodeling the beast-training space were, naturally, all applied for from Eastern Brilliance; Shi Jin had requested a pile of rare materials of no small value, and that was far from all he had requested.

Faith objects of the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise from the Eastern Brilliance Ancient Kingdom and its neighboring nations—he had also set people to help collect them, storing them first in the Ancient Capital Museum.

These things were all equipment capable of enhancing Bug-Bug's strength, and at critical moments could be brought out as life-saving gear; they absolutely had to be kept in his own hands.

Of course, even all this felt insufficient to Shi Jin. After all, a single hard-fought battle might consume a great many faith objects. Apart from Eastern Brilliance and Mirage Abyss City helping him spread his faithful power, Shi Jin felt he would have to think of something himself.

So Shi Yu gathered a great batch of resources and began cultivating Little Purple. At long last, he began cultivating Little Purple.

These past few days, this seaweed rice ball, as Susu called it, lay in Shi Jin's hands every day, being worked over.

The resources it used were rather ordinary.

Earth-type energy crystals, wood-type energy crystals, water-type energy crystals—previously, Little Purple had only eaten space crystals.

Once eaten, they merely enlarged the volume and strength of the world within its body.

Now, as a commander-tier, the area of the world within its body had already reached roughly ten thousand square kilometers—far larger than Bug-Bug's spatial pocket at its former overlord-tier, Susu's Infinite Devouring Space, or Rin's mechanical space.

Still, absurdly vast as that inner space was, Little Purple's inner space, having never been remodeled,

remained a void, utterly empty.

And now Shi Che's so-called cultivation naturally meant beginning to help it "create a world within its body." To "create a world," there were only two methods.

One: Little Purple, by eating food, uses the nutrients of that food to slowly remodel the world within itself.

Two: Let other lifeforms enter the inner world, introduce foreign species, and use their power to remodel the inner world.

In truth, the second method was the fastest—if Shi Jin let Eleven and the others enter Little Purple's body, it likely would not take long to create a proper world of shifting mountains and rivers and alternating sun and moon. But as things stood, Little Purple was too weak, and Eleven and the others were too high-leveled.

It was the same principle as top-tier gods being unable to exist on Blue Star, or high-level beast space being unable to hold high-level beasts—the world space would collapse.

So for now, Little Purple could only rely on Shi Chen and the others to assist while building the basic components of its inner world on its own.

Of course, this method was not slow either, because Shi Ying's body-control talent could also be applied to beasts. Thus, it was not only Little Purple creating its own world—Shi Cen was assisting as well, which let Little Purple achieve twice the result with half the effort.

With experience from remodeling ruins, secret realms, and beast space as a foundation, it was easy for Shi Chen to help Little Purple construct an ordinary world devoid of rule-based power.

"Sun and moon."

In Shi Chen's hands, the purple nebula cat-eared white orb earnestly used the sun fruit and moon fruit produced by Ginseng Baby to create illusory suns and moons. "Star sea."

The radiant moon and blazing sun hung within a vast ocean of starry sky, and Little Purple refused nothing—meteorites and astral exotic waters alike were devoured.

"Earth." "Vegetation." "Rivers."

By devouring energy crystals of every element, the ley lines within Little Purple's inner world came to contain immense natural power. With Shi Ying's help, in just a few days' time, this ten-thousand-square-kilometer small world already looked thriving.

It was basically no different from the outside world.

However, Shi Chen understood that all of this was false—the sun and moon hanging in the sky were illusory things condensed from energy, and that seemingly vast starry sky...

...was actually just a backdrop. It looked vast, but everything was locked within a narrow space.

And these lands, plants, and rivers, though they looked exceedingly prosperous now, all depended on Little Purple continuously replenishing the corresponding nutrients for them to function normally. Their lifespans were extremely short.