Chapter 597 — The Evolution of the Time Ember Beast

So Shi Jin's equipment-making was mainly to protect the spiritual clone within the Shi Jin Beast. As for the Jue Beast itself, frankly, even if Shi Jin had Qi merge with him and poked at it with the Umbrella of Time, he could not pierce it; its defense was astonishing.

After all, Qi now possessed divine power on the scale of a top-tier god, and moreover, Shi Cen had used the god-tier cultivation fruit to raise his fusion talent to the god tier as well. Fused together, their attack power was utterly astonishing.

Otherwise, that top-tier Azure Dragon God would not have died so miserably. But even so, they could not break through the Shi Jin Beast's physical body, so it presumably needed no special care.

Therefore, Shi Jin's plan was to focus on spiritual defense. In addition, he would add a Sword of Creation capable of converting the Shi Jin Beast's strength advantage into other forms of power. This would broaden the Shi Jin Beast's attack options, and its weaknesses would be largely covered.

"As for Crimson Eye, just condense a clone of a Vermilion Bird clone for me," Shi Jin said with a smile.

"Alright~~" Red Pupil nodded.

"Or else, let's go with the Vermilion Bird clone," Red Pupil said. The Time Ember Beast was also Time Ember, so she ought to guard it too!

The main body would guard Time Ember, and the Vermilion Bird clone would guard the Time Ember Beast!

"We'll use a clone of the clone to get it used to things first." Shi Li—while on Blue Star, Shi Jin had run plenty of experiments on the Time Ember Beast, and besides the soul-clone possession experiment, there was also the undead possession experiment.

Of course, Shi Jin had first gone out into the wild to catch malevolent spirits for the experiment. He had them possess the Time Ember Beast, and the result was, without question, the soul scattering to the winds.

Then Shi Jin had a malevolent spirit possess the Time Ember Beast while it was under the control of a soul clone, and the result was that the undead possession succeeded.

This showed that when Shi Ying's soul clone was controlling the Time Ember Beast, an undead beast could possess the Time Ember Beast. This discovery was simply tremendous—it could directly make up for the Time Ember Beast's weakness of having no soul, and by having Red Pupil's Vermilion Bird clone, an undead, possess the fully armed Time Ember Beast, it could directly evolve the Time Ember Beast into the Time Ember Beast: Four Sacred Beasts template.

Shi Jin estimated that the Time Ember Beast under a soul clone's control, setting aside its mental weakness, could reach the combat power of a Perfect God.

As for the Time Ember Beast clad in top-grade equipment forged at any cost from the faith power of the Four Sacred Beasts' ruins... Shi Jin could not say for certain just yet, but considering the growth potential of Bug-Bug and the others, the Time Ember Beast's combat power would surely grow along with them.

When that time came, Shi Jin felt it was not impossible to strengthen it into a Time Ember Beast with the combat power of a peak Perfect God.

There were certainly vast differences between one Perfect God and another. The weak ones had only just reached the Perfect level with ordinary divine skills, while the strong ones possessed top-tier divine skills (Perfect+47)—the latter already at the very edge of Epoch Gods, able to wrestle with supergod-level beings.

Of course... that was provided one was willing to spend. Besides nurturing and allocating points for the Four Sacred Beast pets, another sum of faith power would have to go toward the Time Ember Beast's equipment, and there was no telling how long the faith power reserves in the Four Sacred Beasts' ruins would last.

Lin's estimate of exhausting them within ten years was probably conservative.

"Alright, I'll leave it to you. I'm off to cultivate too." Having assigned Bug-Bug and the others their tasks, Shi Jin tossed the Time Ember Beast to them to be measured and went off to cultivate.

He had a whole pile of things to cultivate now.

At present, Shi Ying's cultivation was at the peak of the sixth heaven of the God level, with telepathy, body control, and fusion talent all at level 10, while her Time and Space talent and her Space Enhancement talent were still at level 9.

As for beast-taming level, Shi Jue was in a hurry to raise it, but all he had to do was wait for the pets' feedback—and besides, he still had two Meditation Jades. But when it came to the Time-Space Enhancement talent, for convenience in future archaeology, Shi Jue could not afford to let them fall too far behind.

Beyond that, once the Time-Space talents reached level 10, combined with the fusion talent Fusion Prayer, their escape abilities would surely ascend to yet another level.

So next, Shi Jin planned to use god-level cultivation fruits to focus on the Time-Space talent. The difficulty of cultivating these two talents was not something the fusion talent could compare to; even with resources supplied, it would probably take a very long time.

At this moment, the outside world was in an uproar over the Epoch Ruins, the Revealer King, and the Azure Dragon Clan, while Shi Jin, calm as ever, went off to sleep.

During this time, the two cats were not idle either: one went to tell the Dragon God about the Dragon Emperor, and the other contacted its own clan...

And so, three days later...

A god-level creature of immense divine power descended upon the Eastern Radiance Realm!!

"A Perfect God?" The Void Emperor, Lin Feng, and Blue Star's five supergods opened their eyes at once and looked toward the spatial rift that had appeared in the sky.

"No—this one's divine power is utterly absurd. It might be close to the legendary Epoch God!!" Blue Star's five supergods stared at the sky.

"Who is it?" They all wondered.

Out of the spatial rift stepped a rat-headed man with a human-like body, dressed in black, his red eyes full of wisdom (▽).

Seeing this one, Blue Star's five supergods, the Void Emperor, and Lin Feng were all slightly taken aback.

The Astral Clan Patriarch, currently on World King Star, was hailed as the strongest precognitive being alive. He had once devised strategies from his command tent, turning the tide of the supergod battlefield and granting World King Star's side a great victory.

Some supergod-level powerhouses might also have grasped the power of foresight, but none of them were stronger than this one.

The Astral Clan was simply that kind of heaven-favored race.

"Why has he come?! Wait—" The Void Emperor and the others suddenly recalled something. Shi Jin had said that Blue Star's Owl Teacher was an Astral in her past life, and that a clansman would come to fetch her later. So the one coming to fetch her... was actually the Astral Clan Patriarch?

They had assumed the Owl was at most an ordinary Astral...

So her status might be exceedingly noble—enough that even the Patriarch came to welcome her in person??

With the arrival of the Astral Clan Patriarch Tutu, the precognitive Owl quickly flew out from her dwelling. Looking at the rat-man before her, she recognized him at a glance: this one was her little brother.

Though they had not seen each other for many years, his gaze was still just as wise. (▽)

Elsewhere, Shi Yan's Gem Cat was very silent, not quite understanding the complicated relations of the Astral Clan. So then—why was the older sister an owl and the younger brother a rat???

A cat and a mouse?

What a tangled web that circle weaves.

"Little brother————" At that moment, in the sky, finally seeing her kin, Owl Teacher could hold back no longer and cried out, tears streaming down her face.

All these years, she had suffered so much grievance!!!

She had divined everything—except that on her search for the source of transcendence, she would run into a disaster and die!

This precognitive skill had a BUG in it. It was screwing her over!