Chapter 597 — The Evolution of the Time Ember Beast

Shi Jin and the others, just as the Gem Cat had wished and the Owl had foreseen, had smooth sailing the whole way, returning to the Suspended Realm without danger.

Upon their return, the Void Emperor, Lin Feng, and the five Transcendent Gods all appeared at once, looking at Shi Jin somewhat speechlessly.

"Shi Jin, did you break through by eating a Source of Transcendence or something?" Lin Feng said exaggeratedly.

"From a scientific standpoint, a power progression like yours is not reasonable," said the Demon Race Transcendent God. "It's too absurd."

Shi Yan: "Seniors, don't forget—the quasi-grade-12 Time Accretion Crystal you helped me extract from the Transcendent God Stone. I have a pet beast whose past life was at top-tier god combat power. With resources, plus the Ginseng Baby's Reincarnation Fruit, its power just recovers rather quickly, that's all."

"On top of that, I used the power of the Relic of the Four Sages to suppress the Azure Dragon evolvers so they couldn't exert their full strength. That solution was perfectly scientific."

The Void Emperor was silent for a moment, then said: "All right, enough. Seniors, how about this—from now on, you guard the Donghuang Realm and the permanent teleportation array until Blue Star breaks through. As for Shi Jin, we'll send him back to Blue Star and let him lie low for a while and digest the power of the Relic of the Four Sages."

"Going back to Blue Star is fine, but could we wait a bit? The Owl girl who came with me—her past life was a member of the Astrology Clan. I promised her I'd take her home to have a look..." Shi Yan scratched his head.

The five Transcendent Gods of Blue Star: ?????

Don't you know you just offended the Four Sages Family, and you still dare to go gallivanting about???

"You little brat." Lin Feng was stunned too. Shi Tan must have grown up eating the Whistleblower King's guts.

"Uh, if that really won't work, we could contact the Astral Race and have them send someone to collect their own family members. I'm not going, I'm not going." Seeing that Senior Kong and Senior Lin did not seem very supportive, Shi Jin shrugged.

To be fair, Qi had by now fully absorbed the Shi Yun Crystal, and her space-time travel had just broken through to the Perfect tier. In other words, Qi was now a Perfect God wielding a Perfect Divine Art.

Her combat power might be lackluster, so lopsided that she was perhaps only the weakest of top-tier gods, but her ability to flee was absolutely first-rate. Apart from the five cosmic-level beings, there were probably very few who could catch her. After all, even when her space-time travel was merely at the Mastery tier, she had escaped the three Super Gods threatening Blue Star. Now, unless a mighty Super God happened to specialize in both Shi Yun and Space at once, no one should be able to do anything to Qi.

The Four Sacred Families clearly had no such Super God.

"Unless it is absolutely necessary, you had best stay obediently in the Donghuang Realm from now on and grow alongside Blue Star. Digest the Four Sacred Ruins. When Blue Star breaks through, it will bring you no small benefit. There is no need to take any further risks," said the Kong Emperor.

If he wanted to kick up trouble... at the very least, he should wait until Senior Shi Emperor came out.

The Shi Emperor was surely more reliable than the five Super Gods beside him.

"Understood," Shi Jin said.

...

In the Donghuang Realm, the Gem Cat and the Owl kept their eyes on the internet the whole time. When they saw Shi Jin instantly kill the top-tier Azure Dragon God and then withdraw unscathed, the two cats first puffed up their fur, then breathed a sigh of relief.

"How does that kid improve so fast? I knew I hadn't misjudged him," said Teacher Owl.

"This Leaker King is fierce. No wonder you foresaw that Shi Jue would be in danger. If I were the Azure Dragon Super God, I'd hate this Leaker King even more than I hate Shi Jin."

"The risk has been transferred," said Teacher Gem Cat, scrolling through the Leaker King's videos.

No wonder so many Super Gods were hunting it down. It really did dare to say anything.

The cats were full of admiration.

"This Qi of the Shi family stirs up more trouble than Shi Yu. Compared like that, I suddenly feel Shi Yu counts as steady," said the Owl, eyelids twitching as it scrolled through the Leaker King's videos.

"But I hear its bounty is quite high. Look here, the Azure Dragon Super God alone has offered a quasi-cosmic treasure. The Super Gods it has offended are more than one. If we could capture it alive, wouldn't we strike it rich?" said the cat.

"That makes sense. Once I recover my strength, perhaps I could consider foreseeing its identity," said the Owl. "You cooperate with me."

"Great! We foresee its identity, have Shi Jin capture it, then split the reward."

"I'm back." While the two cats were talking, Shi Jin had already returned to the Donghuang Realm and immediately came to find them.

The Gem Cat and the Owl both looked at Cen Yu—Shi Jin, who was courting death on a grand scale.

"Teacher Owl, Senior Kong Emperor and the others don't seem to recommend we go to the Astral Race now. Do you have any special way to contact them, to have them come find you?"

"I don't need them to say it. I don't recommend it either," said Teacher Owl. "Tagging along with you, one never knows when we might run into an assassination. It would be bad to get dragged into it."

"Next, I will find a way to notify the clan to come fetch me..." The Foresight Owl also felt this was more reliable.

"Ah, this." Shi Jin said, "Then I'll wait for your clansmen to arrive. I'll go tinker with the Four Sacred Ruins first!"

...

After that, Shi Jin returned to the Realm Lord's Secret Realm of the Donghuang Realm and began to cultivate.

Before Blue Star broke through, the five Super Gods would certainly all stand guard here, guarding the permanent teleportation array, which also meant indirectly guarding Shi Jin. In such a situation, surely no one would dare come make trouble.

Shi Jin could thus enjoy some leisure and quietly raise his strength.

"Buggy, Crimson Eye, Short-Legged Cat, Turtle-Turtle, Little Ice, over here." At Shi Jin's summons, the family beasts on the team who cultivated faith power all came over.

Shi Jin then called out the Shi Jin Beast. Smiling, he looked at Buggy and the others and said, "Next, your first task is to use the epoch faith power of the Four Sacred Ruins to forge it a full set of equipment!"

"No problem, right?"

"Use the faith power freely. Forge the best equipment you can currently forge. Next, I'll explain my thinking."

"Sword-and-Shield Knight!" Shi Jin said. "I want to make it a Sword-and-Shield Knight. Buggy, you use the Creation Rules to forge a Sword of Creation. This sword must be hard enough, heavy enough, sturdy enough to let the Shi Jin Beast fully unleash its strength advantage."

"Then, through your Creation Divine Authority, endow this sword with rules that can convert physical strength into other forms of power."

"Chirp!" Buggy indicated understanding.

"Turtle-Turtle and Little Ice, you two will use faith power to forge a shield with the strongest defense, mainly defending against spiritual power. After all, the Shi Jin Beast's greatest weakness is in the spiritual aspect."

"And Short-Legged Cat, same for you. Craft armor with formidable defense, mainly to protect the Shi Jin Beast's body and spirit—again, primarily against the spirit."

The Shi Jin Beast was good at everything, except that when Shi Jin used it to practice with his pets, he discovered that the Shi Jin Beast, controlled by a spiritual clone, was especially vulnerable in the spiritual domain.

Buggy had succeeded in using its spiritual-control divine art to drag Shi Jin's clone out of the Shi Jin Beast, which immediately left the Shi Jin Beast uncontrollable.