Chapter 548 — Battling the War God, Bear Eleven

Lin said, "Nothing major. Everyone but me has been staying put at home. I downloaded a good deal of material on starry-sky storms from the Disaster Research Institute, and through its channels I bought quite a few mechanical parts. The interior of the mechanical space is being remodeled right now; in a few more days, the full-scale remodeling should succeed, and it will evolve into a starry-sky life form."

Shi Jin gripped the bedsheet. "Good work. I was going to give you a hand, but it seems you've about finished it yourself."

Lin: "..."

Did he mean speeding up its own research through added points?

"Has Eleven gone back to the Myriad Races Ranking Battle?" Shi Tang looked at little Eleven, who shook his head again and again. No more fighting!!

In its current state, it really would be a struggle.

It would wait until the points were added, then go make a real splash!!

Eleven clenched its fist, eyes shining.

"Seems nothing's wrong..." Shi Jin let out a breath. "Double ninth rank..."

Shi Jin flexed his fist, feeling that his body-control talent had been carried up to ninth rank as well. Now he seemed able to freely control any energy within his body.

Including soul power.

Forming telekinesis from mental power, launching soul strikes with soul power—it seemed he could do all of it now.

Beyond that, his control over his life form had reached an incredible degree. Under Shi Ying's deliberate effort, without even using Baby Ginseng's Shi Yun Fruit, he shrank on the spot, his clothes suddenly a size too big...

In a blink, through body control, Shi Jin had turned into a seven- or eight-year-old shota.

"Smaller body, but still handsome..." Shi Xu remarked.

All the pets: ???

"Turtle-Turtle, Little Ice, Cat-Cat, are you there?" the shota Shi Jin, dragging his oversized pajamas, looked around.

"Hoo!!! (My lord, I'm here!!)"

The Winter Water Snake poked its head out too.

The munchkin cat, even more excited, scrambled up onto the bed.

"Not bad. You should be able to adapt to Realm King Star's environment now, right?" Shi Li said.

The three pet beasts nodded repeatedly.

"Master, are you going to start cultivating them now?" Lin asked.

"Yes. They're at double ninth rank now, and they're cultivating faster than I first expected. With the cultivation fruits, we should be able to save a good deal of time-energy on training from here on."

"Also, since Susu learned Origin Fluctuation, the difficulty of allocating points has dropped considerably compared to before. Ten months of time-energy should be more than enough to arm all of you perfectly."

"In that case, we might as well find an opportunity to cultivate them too, so everyone can take part in the God-sealing War together. And Little Purple—I've already found a way to make Little Purple a combat planet."

Little Purple, cradled in Qi's arms, froze for a moment, then lit up with delight—so there was a place for it too!

Shi Yan nodded. Indeed, he had found the method long ago.

That method was... becoming a Realm Lord!

Once one became the Realm Lord of a domain on Realm King Star, one could obtain star-attack skills.

Becoming a Realm Lord on Realm King Star—even a third-rank one—was no small threshold. One had to own a low-tier planet of one's own, for instance, or win first place in the God-sealing War. Neither was easy.

But once one truly became a Realm Lord, the benefits were considerable: one gained one's own fief, and one gained star-attack skills. With a fief of his own, Shi Jin could then have Little Purple migrate the star continent within its body onto Realm King Star, build its own city of incense and faith, and provide faith power to Chongchong and the others.

After that, by teaching Little Purple star-attack skills, it too would be able to fight as it wished.

Owning a fief on Realm King Star and accumulating the faith power of the Four Saints was one part of Shi Jin's plan. But that alone, Shi Jin felt, was not enough—such a meager amount of faith power could not possibly cultivate the Four Sacred Beasts, for the greater share of faith power was monopolized by those Four Saints who had evolved far deeper.

So Shi Yu was conceiving a skill.

[Name]: Faith Overdraft

[Effect]: So long as the faith power is repaid in the future, one may overdraft faith power one does not yet possess in order to strengthen one's own faith techniques!

[Deduction Success Rate]: Extremely low

Once this move was mastered, Chongchong, Crimson Eye, and the rest of the Four Sacred Beasts combination would effectively possess infinite faith power—able to draw upon faith power anytime, anywhere.

Compared with other faith gods, they would be far more dashing—popularly known as spending ahead of one's means.

In any case, at the very least, they would never again find themselves at a critical moment without a stronger force to call upon. So long as one knew when to use this move and when not to, it would absolutely become the strongest trump card in Shi Jin's team.

By drawing faith power to its absolute limit, perhaps they could even cross realms and fight a super-god while at god level?

And then, the spoils from defeating a super-god could be used to purchase vast quantities of precious Four Saints faith relics from the epoch ruins—forming a perfect closed loop...

Of course, Shi Ying's pressing priority right now was still to strengthen Eleven.

Eleven was probably the last to be strengthened. At present, only its skills still numbered above ten and remained unmerged.

...

Next, Shi Xu let the unrelated pet beasts move about freely, while Eleven, Ginseng Baby, Susu, and the others all stayed behind, preparing to assist with point allocation.

Within Little Purple's body, the star continent.

"Good, we've rested enough, and my condition is excellent now. Eleven, I'm merging your skills now!" Shi Qi turned to Ginseng Baby, Susu, Crimson Eye, Lin, Chongchong, and the others. "How are all of you? Do you need to prepare?"

All the pet beasts shook their heads, signaling they were ready right now!!

"Good." Shi Qi turned to Eleven. This was the squad's final merge!

Once this was done, the remaining point allocation would be relatively easy.

[Eleven]

[Racial Skills]

'Super-tier': Veiled Edge, Space Quake, Unstoppable, Demon God's Body, Metal-severing Battle Body, Thunder God Armor, Jiuli Legion, Undying Golden Body, Wind of Desolation, Mirror Reflection, Midas Touch, Molten Metal

'Quasi-divine tier': Yin-Yang Millstone, Dominion of Light

[Taught Skills]

'Super-tier': Superalloy

Eleven's skills were rather complicated, but after numerous rearrangements and combinations, Shi Ying had indeed found several optimal configurations.

"Awoo!!!" Amid Eleven's eager roar, each pet beast had already taken its position!!

Chongchong was the first to activate Genesis Domain. Within the Genesis Domain, Chongchong was the creator god, able to restore Shi Ying's condition to a certain extent and enhance Ginseng Baby's abilities.

Within Little Purple's body—already a small world—a layer of inner world now overlapped.

"Mii!!!" Crimson Eye burrowed into Shi Jin's body and entered a possession state, boosting Shi Jin's power while bearing part of the drain on his behalf.

"Ning!!" Susu, meanwhile, held Origin Fluctuation at the ready to purify the exhaustion and pain afflicting Shi Yan's Eleven. At critical moments, it would invoke the Star-Sea Contract; though doing so violated the contract's rules, so long as it was not frequent—only a few times—the contract would not run into trouble.

"The final step." Lin used the Nine-Colored Divine Radiance to gently strengthen Shi Jin's and Eleven's willpower and all their various states, while at the same time wrapping them in the Wind of Blessing to bestow blessings upon Shi Yan's Eleven.