Versatile Sword Cultivator

Panda Xiong and Lin Jichen had both reached the bottleneck of the Crystal Realm.

For Panda Xiong, breaking through was much simpler than it was for Lin Jichen.

Lin Jichen took out a demon core from an exotic beast that he had prepared in advance.

Beast Spirit Pills were no longer effective for Panda Xiong. To help a pet break through to the Golden Core Realm, a demon core from the Golden Core Realm was needed.

What Lin Jichen had prepared was an exotic beast's demon core, which was a hundred times more precious than a regular beast's demon core.

After consuming the exotic core, Panda Xiong successfully broke through to the Golden Core Realm, growing even larger and more robust.

[Spirit Beast: Iron-Eating Beast (Adult)]

[Name: Panda Xiong]

[Owner: Lin Jichen]

[Strength: Early Golden Core]

[Cultivation: 0/300000]

[Loyalty: 90 points]

[Health: 80000/80000]

[Attack: 480]

[Defense: 500]

[Speed: 450]

[Critical Hit: 80]

[Heart Protection: 100]

[Tenacity: 24%]

[Innate Skill: Devour]

[Skills: Thunder Roar, Absolute Defense, Furious Thunder Strike, Earth-Shattering Collision, Sky-Splitting Thunder, Power of Thunder, Panda Dominates the World]

After reaching the Golden Core Realm, Panda Xiong's strength increased significantly.

His attack and defense both improved by over a hundred points compared to before.

To put it in perspective, the Poison-Horned Stinger Bee King at the late-Golden Elixir stage only had an attack of 450.

Panda Xiong, at the early Golden Core stage, had already surpassed the Bee King.

Of course, the Bee King's strength wasn't solely based on its own power.

But this highlighted the difference between beasts and spirit beasts.

The growth attributes of spirit beasts were on par with exotic beasts.

Moreover, Panda Xiong was an outstanding spirit beast, making his growth even more remarkable.

Just like human cultivators, even within the same realm, the disparity in strength could be vast.

With three new skills, Lin Jichen carefully examined them and couldn't help but exclaim in amazement!

[Power of Thunder]: After 30 seconds of combat, each attack carries an additional 200 points of thunder spell damage, which can spread to all opponents within a 10-meter radius, with no cooldown.

[Panda Dominates the World]: For three minutes, all attributes increase by 30%, including health, size, attack, defense, etc., and it ignores spell damage for 5 seconds, with a cooldown of 2 hours.

If these two new skills weren't impressive enough, the innate skill would surely blow your mind.

[Innate Skill: Devour]: One of the innate skills of the Iron-Eating Beast clan, it allows the beast to permanently enhance its abilities by consuming the corpses of beasts. The specific enhancement depends on the level, cultivation, and species of the consumed beast. Cooldown: 24 hours.

To test the power of this skill, Lin Jichen took out the corpse of a Thunder Dragon and fed the dragon meat to Panda Xiong.

Panda Xiong, thrilled, began to devour the meat voraciously.

In no time, the Thunder Dragon's meat was completely consumed.

A series of new attributes immediately appeared for Panda Xiong.

[Health +2000 points! Attack +15 points! Thunder skill resistance +5%!]

Seeing this, Lin Jichen couldn't help but click his tongue in amazement.

These weren't temporary attributes; they were permanent increases.

Panda Xiong could continuously grow stronger by being fed with this innate skill.

If it weren't for the fact that the skill could only be used once a day, Lin Jichen would have fed all the exotic beasts in his ring to Panda Xiong.

From now on, he could save the corpses of the beasts or exotic beasts he defeated and feed them to Panda Xiong daily. Over time, Panda Xiong would grow into a true ancient giant beast!

The more Lin Jichen thought about it, the more excited he became.

Of course, not every beast's corpse would provide such significant enhancements.

He had fed Panda Xiong Thunder Dragon meat, which naturally resulted in substantial attribute gains.

If it were an ordinary beast, the increase would be much smaller.

With this in mind, Lin Jichen immediately posted a trade message at his auction house, offering to buy the corpses of beasts and exotic beasts above the Golden Core Realm, with negotiable prices.

This way, he could specifically feed Panda Xiong meat from beasts above the Golden Core Realm, without wasting the devour skill.

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"Maybe I'll have to rely on you to protect me in the future, Brother Xiong," Lin Jichen said with a smile, patting Panda Xiong's big head.

Panda Xiong affectionately nuzzled his hand.

Panda Xiong's loyalty to Lin Jichen had returned to 90 points, and there was still hope of reaching 100 points again.

It seemed he needed to feed Panda Xiong more delicious food.

Now that Panda Xiong had reached the Golden Core Realm, it was Lin Jichen's turn.

However, breaking through to the Golden Core Realm was not as simple for Lin Jichen; he still needed Heavenly Dao-level conditions to break through.

And breaking through to the Heavenly Dao Golden Core required even rarer materials: six spirit pearls and five types of treasures.

Lin Jichen didn't plan to search for them one by one himself. In the early stages of the game, his realm was higher than other players, so he had to gather the materials himself.

But now, many players had already stepped into the Golden Core Realm ahead of him, and some had even chosen the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment.

Many of the materials needed to break through to the Golden Core could be bought at the auction house.

He began to leverage his financial power, searching the auction house, and eventually spent some spirit stones to buy all six spirit pearls.

However, he only managed to buy two of the five types of treasures.

The remaining ones didn't satisfy Lin Jichen.

There were ten types of treasures needed to break through to the Golden Core Realm.

They were Nine-Colored Lily, Ice Sunflower, Heart-Eating Mushroom, Thorny Blood Vine, East Sea Pearl, Primordial Yellow Essence, Earth Core Spirit Marrow, Soul Infant Fruit, Heavenly Flame True Fire, and Earth Vein Dragon Crystal.

The first five were the strongest, and the latter five were secondary. Obtaining the first five materials would create the strongest breakthrough materials.

Lin Jichen had only bought two types: Thorny Blood Vine and Heart-Eating Mushroom.

The remaining three, Nine-Colored Lily, Ice Sunflower, and East Sea Pearl, were not available at the auction house or the black market.

In fact, other slightly inferior materials could also meet the Heavenly Dao-level conditions.

But Lin Jichen didn't want those; he wanted the best five.

Since he couldn't buy them for now, Lin Jichen decided to search for them himself. After all, he was very familiar with the refresh points of these materials.

With this in mind, Lin Jichen left the Sword Sect once again and headed to Fengqu City.

The second auction event at his auction house was scheduled for tomorrow, and he planned to put many new valuable items up for auction.

***

Upon arriving in Fengqu City, he found the city more bustling than ever. With more and more players joining Tale of Immortal, the main cities in each state were becoming increasingly lively.

Players were everywhere.

Even though it was nighttime.

Compared to the daytime, these guys were even more energetic at night. After all, it was hard to level up in the dark, so they could only play in the city.

Especially those self-proclaimed gentlemen, who were more active and spirited than anyone else.

On his way to Shenbao Pharmacy, Lin Jichen saw a queue stretching from one end of the street to the other.

If these people were lining up to buy his medicine, he would be very happy.

Unfortunately, these guys were all heading to Autumn Moon Pavilion, sigh~

Lin Jichen glanced at the long street full of patrons and suddenly noticed a figure that caught his attention.

Seeing the person, Lin Jichen revealed a mischievous smile.

Xu Zikuai had been tirelessly refining artifacts all day and was thinking of taking a break to have some fun at Autumn Moon Pavilion.

In reality, he didn't dare to mess around, fearing he might lose a finger or even his life like last time.

He chose to play in the game, where it was safe, hygienic, and without the risk of getting caught.

But just as he was about to reach the front of the line after waiting all afternoon, his boss called, demanding that he work overtime immediately.

Xu Zikuai: "...."

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