Chapter 586: Xi Xi's Wish Comes True!_2
[Beast Quality]: Legendary Quality
Skill:
[Garbage Recycling]: Refine and extract absorbed trash within the body, digesting the useless parts, and after purifying the useful parts, store them in the spatial compartment outside of the Mechanical Heart.
[Sealing Scenery]: Absorb the surrounding scenic images through free-floating whiskers into the body, condensing them into concentrated Scenery Fantasy Pearls, which can be absorbed by living beings. The degree of absorption is related to mental strength and Comprehension Power.
[Spirit Weapon Fusion]: Attach oneself to a designated weapon to enhance the weapon's strength, rank, and compatibility with the user, and add an energy-breaking effect to the weapon.
Exclusive Traits:
[Electronic Butterfly]: The mechanical heart can condense an electronic butterfly every once in a while, which taints objects deemed trash and devoid of life, reactivating the strength of the life form before death (the duration of taint is related to the life form's prior strength).
[Machinery Granted]: Generate a type of Mechanical Gear that carries the essence of machinery and can adapt to any Mechanical Beasts, using the spiritual metal materials absorbed by oneself. These Mechanical Gears can be provided to other Mechanical Beasts to help them expand their potential origin.
[Machinery Spirit Steel Jade]: In the process of decomposing and digesting trash, the energy escaping from the trash is used to charge the Steel Jade. Once charged, the Steel Jade will detach itself and, once embedded in flesh and blood, it can transform the flesh body towards a mechanical one, breaking down the flesh into Flesh and Blood Gears to perfectly reassemble the body. The Steel Jade can increase the rate of taint by electronic butterflies on living beings.
Evolutionary Path: ???
Having advanced to the Golden Stage, Xi Xi's resource output capability from the Skill [Garbage Recycling] had increased by more than fivefold from before.
This rate of resource production could not only withstand Fang Mu's current consumption, but also leave a surplus.
This allowed Fang Mu to be more unrestrained in using Creator resources while expanding his power.
It took Fang Mu an entire day to successfully advance Xi Xi.
Xi Xi was a domestic creature created by chance by Fang Mu, and such Domestic Beasts did not even qualify to be called Guardian Beasts.
From ancient times to the present, few sane individuals would spend resources to cultivate Domestic Beasts.
Every one of Xi Xi's skills is related to its wishes, and as Fang Mu became busier and spent less time with Xi Xi, it felt exceptionally dejected.
In previous conversations with Xi Xi, it always expressed a desire to fight alongside Fang Mu, but Xi Xi's skills and exclusive traits destined it not to be a creature suited for combat.
Taking a functional creature like Xi Xi into battle was like taking along a burden, yet with the skill [Spirit Weapon Fusion] acquired upon advancing to the Golden Stage, Xi Xi now had the capital to accompany Fang Mu in combat.
Through [Spirit Weapon Fusion], Xi Xi could attach itself to a weapon, not only increasing the weapon's strength and rank but also enhancing the weapon's compatibility with the user.
This made Xi Xi more suited to strengthen Ghost Devices than spiritual instruments!
Ghost Devices were used by Beast Masters, and attaching Xi Xi to one to improve it was tantamount to fighting shoulder to shoulder with Fang Mu.
Besides hardware enhancements to spiritual instruments and Ghost Devices, Xi Xi could also add an energy-breaking effect to the weapon it had fused with.
It seemed that this was related to Xi Xi's Copper Level Skill [Garbage Recycling].
Every energy barrier composed of energy could be sliced open by the weapon with Xi Xi attached, which could produce unexpected effects in combat.
The advancement of Xi Xi relieved all of Fang Mu's pressure, and he wandered happily around Boundless City with Jun Feng.
The turmoil did not affect the ordinary residents and adventurers in Boundless City, but the smaller and larger families with some influence felt threatened.
In Boundless City, the old mansion of the Lingdiao Family, one of the four grand families, was enveloped in shadows, the same as those that appeared in front of Wan'an Hotel.
These forces, unaware of the details, simply assumed Wan'an Hotel had someone backing it.
After the Lingdiao Family caused trouble for Wan'an Hotel, it naturally faced retaliation.
But after the shadow dissipated, not a single person had come out of the Lingdiao Family's old mansion for a day.
The Shuangdan Clan, which had always kept a low profile, sent a large force to take over the Lingdian Clan's old mansion and seamlessly took over all of the Lingdian Clan's industries in the city, which clearly indicated what any astute person would realize.
The core members of the Lingdian Clan had already perished under those shadows, and within Boundless City, the Lingdian Clan was no more.
Afterward, when people outside mentioned Boundless City, they would only speak of three great and powerful families within its walls!
Nearly all the men in Boundless City were adventurers, while the women were more involved in commerce.
Wandering the streets and alleys, Fang Mu heard quite a lot of discussions and, as one of the subjects, got to hear the full "scoop" from the mouths of outsiders.
However, Fang Mu felt it was too early to say whether there would still be three great and powerful families in Boundless City in the future.
Having not spent much time with Zhang Yue, Fang Mu was unclear about Zhang Yue's temperament; hence, he didn't know how Zhang Yue would deal with the Qingmo Clan.
If it had been Fang Mu who had consistently contributed to the Qingmo Clan, allowing it to stand out among the four great families and achieve an extraordinary status and power,
but the Qingmo Clan had been secretly scheming to stab him in the back, Fang Mu would have never forgiven the Qingmo Clan!
In the beastmaster world, such a cold and merciless place, resources were far more valuable than life itself.
If Zhang Yue were lenient and allowed the ungrateful Qingmo Clan to stay, Fang Mu would actually lose respect for Zhang Yue.
From then on, he would merely use Zhang Yue as an ordinary Grandmaster Creator, without giving him any further opportunities or chances for reuse.
"Little Wood, you can't say that street vendor's egg cakes tasted bad. If there were just a bit less sugar, they'd be even better."
"There's also eggettes over that way; I'm planning to pack some up. When I accompany you to the Sea of Domains, I'll bring these back for your Aunt Ning to try. She just loves these sweets!" Fang Mu said with a smile.
"Uncle Feng, I heard from the owner of Wan'an Hotel that if you continue straight ahead from here, for a whole five or six kilometers, it's all places selling snacks."
"Since we have nothing better to do, why not stroll from one end to the other?"
"The food you buy can be kept fresh in spatial equipment, so why not bring back several types for Aunt Ning. It's a good opportunity for me to also take some of Boundless City's unique street food back home for my family and companions."
Hearing this, Jun Feng burst into hearty laughter, growing to appreciate Fang Mu more and more.
Jun Feng found it hard to believe that a young man of merely sixteen or seventeen could truly possess the poise and demeanor of a superior.
Especially when compared to Old Bao, a genuine Order Strong beside Zhang Yue, Fang Mu exhibited an even greater composure in the face of the Blood Race Queen!
Fang Mu and Jun Feng spent their time leisurely, savoring the worldly joys of Boundless City.
Nothing seemed amiss from the outside of the old Qingmo family mansion, but inside, all the members of the clan were gathered in the ancestral worship hall.
Zhang Yue and Shu Liangjun sat side by side at the uppermost chairs of the altar.
Shadows wrapped around the hall, where a proud and mighty tiger lay defeated on the ground, a wound from its left ear to its jaw nearly splitting its head in two.
This blood-eyed flame tiger was the pride of the old Clan Leader of the Qingmo Clan, Chen Boyuan, as his main battle beast.
Zhang Yue's gaze first fell on Chen Tong with utmost disappointment, noting that Chen Tong did not dare meet his eye.
Zhang Yue revealed a bitter smile, knowing that Chen Tong was unaware of the mission he had left for, which concerned the Blood Race Queen.
Yet upon his return, the Qingmo Clan tried to lure out the blood seed within him using purified fresh blood.
Furthermore, this was not beast blood, but the blood of his own kind, which held a stronger allure for Zhang Yue.
If the blood seed inside him was still in an excited state, Ervean would have tried to control him through the blood seed.
Should his blood seed be agitated, the consequences would be unimaginable!
Even in the seclusion of his own room, he found it difficult to control himself. If the Qingmo Clan attempted to make their move while seizing this opportunity, even with Old Bao's presence, they might not succeed.
However, if the commotion escalated, news of him as a bloodthirsty monster would certainly spread.