Chapter 342 — Bing Dwen Dwen, Part Eleven

The wrinkles on the aged version of Shi Jin twitched, and he gave a goofy grin.

"Hm!!" "Eeek!!"

"Mew?!" "Nyeh!!" "Waaah!!"

At that moment, everyone—suddenly realizing what had happened—drew a deep breath and fixed their burning gazes on Eleven before Shi Jin.

[Undying Golden Body—Instruction Successful!]

Though the changes in other respects were not especially obvious, with Eleven having learned the Undying Golden Body, his constitution had indeed undergone another qualitative transformation.

Its strength could not be gauged, but in terms of recovery, he might now be no inferior to Red Pupil and Ginseng Baby. Just as the Source of Life skill had transformed Ginseng Baby's constitution and the Spirit Release skill had transformed Red Pupil's, the Undying Golden Body had transformed Eleven's.

It made Eleven feel that even if wounds appeared on his body now, without using the Rapid Healing skill, the automatic healing speed of those wounds would not be much slower. And that was merely the basic effect brought by the Undying Golden Body; the stronger effect, of course, lay in the skill's core function.

Convert the damage received into life force!

Paired with skills like Hidden Edge, Gigantification, Quake Void, and Body-Protecting Armor—skills that easily overload the body and inflict damage—at this moment, Eleven could finally be said to have set foot upon his own path of invincibility.

Fiercer, more savage, more powerful.

If it fought the Gale Demon Lion again, Eleven could now unleash at least two more rounds of burst power and crush the enemy to pieces.

Eleven slowly opened its eyes, exhaustion tinged with an air of invincibility, and gave a soft "Ying" toward Shi Jin before him.

Void Sandalwood was doomed to lose; even the Void Emperor could come and it wouldn't matter! If he really did show up—well, forget it said that.

Gulp.

Buggy, Ginseng Baby, Crimson Eye, and the others suddenly realized that the fully evolved Panda King Eleven had finally been born at this very moment.

Defeating Eleven had just become several stories harder.

Shi Jin gave another "ababa" laugh, like a toothless old man, and said with difficulty: "Cut... cut the crap, Ginseng Baby, milk..."

"Ying ying!!!" Eleven hurriedly waved at Ginseng Baby—the milk must not stop, don't look at me!!

"Eee!!"

At the same time, Eleven looked at Susu, its expression bearing considerable trauma, and asked whether the Purification Water could be used to condense another suit of Frost Purification Armor for it...

The process of learning the Undying Golden Body just now still left Eleven traumatized; the moment it closed its eyes, it hurt. It figured it would need some time before it could recover, and to prevent nightmares, it felt it was better to wear the Bing Dwen Dwen Purification Suit.

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A few days later.

Shi Jin had consumed every last drop of the Life Water and the Vortex Beast roast he had salvaged from Mirage Abyss City, and in the meantime had Ginseng Baby repeatedly enter Overlord state through the Time Accumulation Fruit to nourish him—only then did he finally recover.

Even so, some aftereffects of the Great Void still lingered. A frail-looking Shi Jin lay coughing in the Relic Space, and at this point he didn't even have the heart to max out Susu's few low-level skills.

In the short term, he didn't want to touch skill points at all—not even for low-level skills.

"I've recovered about enough... time to go challenge the relic..."

"Eleven!"

In the outside world.

Word of the Void Emperor's relic had already spread—more precisely, it had spread among the renowned top masters.

Legendary Beast Tamers couldn't enter the relic, so naturally they didn't pay it much mind, but for top masters, the Void Emperor's relic was a chance that might let them step into the legendary domain!!

Sequence eighth Tong Yan, sequence ninth Ning Tianming, sequence tenth Zou Yun—these geniuses whose Beast Taming level was still at six were all invited by the Donghuang Association to the Void Emperor's relic to attempt a breakthrough. If they succeeded... and even if they didn't, if Void Sandalwood happened to take a liking to them and allowed them to cultivate a few more days in the relic, that would still be no small benefit.

After all, the meditation efficiency here was even higher than in Lu Heng's legendary relic.

Nearly all of the top ten of the sequence—except the four legends at the front and Zheng Hai, the quasi-legend—had been invited by the Donghuang Association. It was easy to imagine that the Association genuinely wanted one of these young people to break through to legendary here, since it bore on the World Tournament's combat strength.

At that moment, in a certain camp outside the Void Emperor's relic, several young people were leisurely enjoying afternoon tea.

"Screw this, I'm done playing."

Zou Tianwang, having failed several rounds of challenges in a row, had completely lost his composure.

He sat back down here and sighed.

His ace battle pet, the "Black Demon Rat," could reach an energy value of twenty million under his enhancement and its own skill bursts—enough to exchange a few blows even with weaker Overlord-level beasts—yet it couldn't last three moves against that mantis. How was he supposed to fight that?

Was this thing really King-level?

"Heh, even those of us ranked near the top are no match. Zou Yun, stop struggling," said the effeminate man Ning Tianming, taking a sip of tea with a chuckle.

"It's just a high initial ranking. We haven't fought yet—who's stronger and who's weaker really isn't certain," Zou Yun said with distaste.

Sequence ninth Ning Tianming came from the Twelfth Bureau. He was a special mixed-blood human, one body and two souls, with the bloodline of a ghost god in his veins. That bloodline originated from the Donghuang guardian ghost god, because the first patriarch of his family had taken a guardian god-level ghost spirit as a mate.

"Mmm—I've given up anyway."

"My poison can't even touch it... and I don't have any Time Accumulation left to develop new poison. I'm leaving tomorrow. Good luck, you guys."

Tong Yan of the Thirteenth Bureau, the Medical Bureau, spoke with her chin propped on her hand. She was a genius doctor and also a poison master; most of the beasts she had contracted were poison-type, and she once had a record of poisoning an Overlord to death with a mixed rare poison. Just like her name, she herself looked like an underage girl, with a very childlike appearance.

These geniuses, come from all corners of the world, had gathered at the Void Emperor's relic to challenge Void Sandalwood—but all had ended in failure.

As geniuses, these people were also acquaintances. The world was vast, but once you reached a certain tier, the world became small; given enough Time Accumulation, every genius would more or less cross paths with the others. Of course, freaks like Shi Jin, who in a single year of Time Accumulation had risen to such a level, were the exception.

"I hear Ji Feng is coming this afternoon too. Lu Lu, how do you feel about that?" Tong Yan asked with a smile, looking at Lu Heng, who sat beside her in silence.

A few years ago, Lu Heng, the archaeology genius of the Ancient Capital University, and Ji Feng, the battle genius of the Imperial Capital University, had met in the finals of the National Tournament—one champion, one runner-up. Lu Heng lost; Ji Feng won.

After graduation, Ji Feng had joined the Tenth Bureau, the Intelligence Bureau, going undercover in the Totem Zone, and had only recently returned. Both sides' strength had since changed beyond all recognition, and from what Tong Yan knew of Lu Heng, he would almost certainly want to challenge his way back.