Chapter 36

"Is this a dog?"

Yifeng and the other members of the Reincarnation Team, who had come at the news, looked at Xiaohei with curiosity.

In this world, there were no dogs.

It was a world where fierce beasts roamed and rampaged, constantly clashing with humans for survival space, making it extremely dangerous.

They mistook Xiaohei for a young fierce beast like a wolf, as it looked very similar.

However, Xiaohei did not look like a fierce beast at all. He was very smart and agile, without any ferocity, and was quite lovable.

Xiaohei's appearance caused some ripples in Yitian's home. Yiaoting also had more laughter, playing with Xiaohei all day long and often giving him various treats, but Xiaohei paid no attention to them.

It was time to distribute the Essence Stones again.

This month, Yitian had obtained ten thousand Essence Stones from the tribe.

Yitian returned most of them to Yifeng and the others. Although he had not yet paid them back in full, it would only take another two or three months.

One day, when Yitian took out an Essence Stone from his storage bag to cultivate, a black shadow rushed in.

Xiaohei's eyes gleamed as he stared at the Essence Stone in Yitian's hand.

"Do you want it?"

Yitian asked.

"Woof!"

Xiaohei nodded continuously, his face full of longing.

"Here!"

Yitian threw the Essence Stone over.

Whoosh!

Xiaohei leaped and instantly swallowed the Essence Stone, then lay on the ground to digest it.

Yitian immediately saw Xiaohei's fur emit a luster, and he could even faintly hear the blood surging in Xiaohei's body, as well as the astonishing changes in his bones, organs, and flesh.

Xiaohei had great potential.

Just as Yitian was marveling, Xiaohei stood up, spat out the powder of the Essence Stone, and looked at Yitian with longing, wanting more Essence Stones.

No way!

Yitian stared at Xiaohei in shock.

A low-grade Essence Stone contained a vast amount of Essence Qi. Even if Yitian absorbed it with all his might, it would take several days. He never expected Xiaohei to absorb a low-grade Essence Stone in less than a moment.

However, Yitian remembered Xiaohei's identity. He was an egg that had survived since ancient times, definitely the descendant of a super fierce beast. Even if he did something astonishing, it was understandable.

Yitian, of course, did not know that Xiaohei had been absorbed by the Star Mud for most of its essence before he was born, and was already very weak when he was born. However, his background was significant, and he had great potential, so his speed of absorbing Essence Qi from Essence Stones was naturally incomparable to Yitian's.

Moreover, Xiaohei had not yet reached the time to be born. Due to Yitian, he was born prematurely, making him even weaker and extremely thirsty for Essence Qi.

Seeing the pitiful Xiaohei, Yitian had no choice but to continue throwing Essence Stones.

Thus, Xiaohei absorbed one Essence Stone after another. It wasn't until half of the thousands of Essence Stones in Yitian's storage bag were gone that he stopped, lying on the ground and lazily closing his eyes to sleep.

Looking at the sleeping Xiaohei, Yitian felt a headache.

Previously, his Star Mud avatar was a bottomless pit. Now, this Xiaohei was also a big consumer of Essence Stones. If it weren't for the large Essence Vein mine that the tribe had mined, from which he got a share, he might really not be able to afford to raise them.

Yitian now had the idea of swallowing the entire large Essence Vein mine.

During the day, Yitian cultivated the Pure Yang Technique and the Sky Sword. At night, his consciousness descended into the Star Mud, transforming into his other avatar to deduce the next steps of the Pure Yang Technique.

He repeatedly changed the route of the Pure Yang Technique, trying to open new paths.

However, in repeated attempts, the Pure Yang True Qi ran rampant in his meridians, causing them to break. If Yitian's main body were to cultivate like this, he would have long gone into a state of madness and become a cripple.

However, Yitian was not without gains.

Through repeated deductions and expansions, the route of the Pure Yang True Qi was continuously opened, becoming increasingly profound.

After absorbing most of the essence from Xiaohei's fierce beast egg, the Star Mud underwent an evolution. The avatar transformed by the Star Mud became even more powerful in deduction, and any changes in his physical body were more detailed. Under his deduction, he even found over a dozen flaws in the Feather Flight Technique, which he had optimized to the extreme.

Moreover, Yitian's deduction of the advanced version of the Pure Yang Technique was faster.

While deducing the advanced version of the Pure Yang Technique, Yitian did not forget to continue optimizing the Mighty Bull Mountain Splitting Technique, the Fierce Tiger Wind Technique, and the Wind and Thunder Technique.

Under the optimization of his Star Mud avatar, which had undergone one transformation, these techniques were continuously optimized to become top-grade human techniques. Furthermore, under Yitian's continued deduction, they broke through and transformed into earth-grade techniques.

All of this required a large amount of Essence Stones.

Especially after the Star Mud evolved, the energy consumption to maintain other states was more than ten times what it was before.

Yitian passed the three earth-grade techniques he had deduced to Yifeng, Yishan, Yili, Yihong, and Yikuang, which left them in utter shock.

Yitian had actually deduced the tribe's inherited techniques into earth-grade techniques. Even if they were only low-grade earth techniques, they were extremely precious, a significant inheritance for a sect or a thousand-year-old family.

As a reward, Yitian extorted over ten thousand low-grade Essence Stones from each of them.

Yifeng, Yishan, and the others did not mind.

With this low-grade earth technique, they would not hesitate to give all their Essence Stones to Yitian.

When Yitian handed over the deduced earth-grade Mighty Bull Mountain Splitting Technique, Fierce Tiger Wind Technique, and Wind and Thunder Technique to the tribal chief, the chief and the elders were all shocked, finding it hard to believe, as if they were in a dream, everything seemed so unreal.

These were earth-grade techniques.

Even those major forces that had stood for thousands of years did not have many, yet they now saw three of them.

For Yitian, under the deduction of the avatar transformed by the Star Mud, he had a clear understanding of any changes and the profound mysteries contained in these techniques. Although his realm was not as high as those martial arts experts, his understanding and insight into these techniques were absolutely perfect. He was the creator of these techniques, and the cultivation methods he recorded were the most original and authentic.

However, when Yitian recorded the earth-grade techniques, he consumed a great deal of mental energy, almost failing to succeed.

Because the various profound changes in earth-grade techniques were too numerous, and he had to describe all the changes in one go, infusing his essence, energy, and spirit into them, without any mistakes.

Yitian would not be lenient with the tribal chief and elders.

He extorted a ten percent share of the Essence Stones from the tribe, citing the need to consume a large amount of Essence Stones to deduce the techniques.

Yitian really needed a lot of Essence Stones.

As for why he handed over the three earth-grade techniques he had deduced to the tribe, Yitian had his own considerations.

As a member of the Yi tribe, only when the tribe became strong would he and his family have a safe place to stand.

Especially since they had discovered a large Essence Vein mine, without strength, if the news leaked out, the entire tribe would face a catastrophic disaster, with no one spared.

Only by quickly making the tribe strong could they ensure safety.

In addition, Yitian demonstrated his talent to the tribal leadership. This talent could improve techniques, which was a great benefit to the tribe and would not cause jealousy or suppression.

Talent could not be taken away and would not arouse greed.

The talent he fabricated seemed powerful, but the elders of the tribe believed that this talent had limits and restrictions.

Yitian's deduction of the three techniques had reached its limit and could not be improved further.

This also had Yitian's hint in it.

Yitian extorted 120,000 low-grade Essence Stones from the tribe, filling his storage bag, which was several meters in size, almost to the brim.

As a trade-off, Yitian, at the request of the tribal chief and elders, improved the other techniques when he had the time, and they hurriedly returned to ponder and cultivate the improved earth-grade techniques.

With a large amount of Essence Stones, Yitian's deduction and cultivation made significant progress.

His dantian space had recently started to vibrate.

The sixth transformation of the dantian space was about to occur, and he would become a seventh-rank martial artist.

The five members of the Reincarnation Team, including Yifeng, after cultivating the advanced techniques deduced by Yitian, saw a sharp reduction in their cultivation. Their true qi capacity was equivalent to that of a third-rank martial artist, but the strength of the true qi they cultivated was comparable to that of eighth or ninth-rank martial artists.

Due to their high value and possession of a large amount of Essence Stones, they could quickly cultivate back to the peak of the sixth rank.