Chapter 206: Bulu's evolution!
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"Ahh.." Bulu no longer looked as energetic as before, and his face turned pale like a sheet of white paper while his voice grew increasingly weak.
It seemed that, he was about to faint at any moment now!
The pain from his monster core being melted inside of him was a pain like none other. If before, taking a bath inside that magma pool felt like he was being cooked alive, right now, it felt like his very soul was being grinded down to the dust!
"You must hold on son-in-law! Otherwise, all these sacrifices you made would've been in vain!" Chief Zolak encouraged the latter while his own heart was beating in trepidation.
Never once before he had thought that the process to become a champion would involve such a horrifying step!
To melt down one's own core? Even if he had 10 times the guts, he would still not dare to do such a thing!
After all, death was highly likely!
Thus in this situation, he could not help but to view his son-in-law in extremely high regard and respect!
"It's done! Master, we need to reform back his core right now before the elixir in his body is exhausted!" Zhulong swiftly said to Duan Li.
Duan Li nodded, "En! Leave this to me!"
Placing both palm onto Bulu's body, Duan Li muttered, "Sonar Qi!"
Wengg!!
"How terrible.." he could not help but to shiver a bit as he diagnosed the internal state of Bulu's body.
Everything was in a constant meltdown and repair cycle repeatedly!
It was thanks to the remnants of the grade-5 elixir that Bulu was still alive right now, otherwise, he would have long turned into a molten state with such an extreme temperature inside his body!
This final step involves the reforming of the liquefied monster core back to its solid state, and the method on how to do this was extremely difficult.
Thankfully, Duan Li was well-versed in pill forging, and this process was similar to that. Furthermore, it also requires one to be an expert in the medical field at the same time and Duan Li also happened to master this area as well!
Thus, by combining both of these expertise, he began to drive his spiritual Qi in a unique way along Bulu's meridians and pathways, similar to how he would usually do to resolve internal traumas.
Wengg!!
Pumping all three of his Qi source from his three dantians, Duan Li used one of them to forcefully cycle the stagnated spiritual Qi inside of Bulu's meridians and pathways due to the absence of a working monster core carefully.
Next, another one source was injected directly into the monster core so that by the end of this process, Bulu would have a far denser monster core than he originally has before!
The third Qi source was tasked to drive heat away from the melted monster core, so that it will gradually solidify to form a whole core once more.
Tsszzz!!
"Hmm.."
At this stage, Duan Li got a certain inspiration and asked the pair of little dragons beside him a question.
"Dilong and Zhulong, if I were to imbed other elemental attribute inside his core at this stage, would that make him able to use other elements than Fire?"
Dilong and Zhulong turned to each other and replied, "I don't think that's possible Master, even if the core right now is still in a melted state, imbedding foreign element to it will cause rejection due to incompatibility.. thus those elements would simply dissipate!"
Monster Core were formed at birth and their elemental attribute was already decided by then. Thus, if another element tries to co-exist with it, that would be next to impossible as it has already rooted itself into the very fiber of the monster!
Hearing their explanation, Duan Li thought for a moment, 'So that means its okay to try?'
In that case, let's just try then!
What could possibly go wrong anyway?
"Alright.. Dilong, send me some Earth element here so that I can try imbedding it into the core.." he instructed, of which the latter did as was told.
Ssuuuu!!
As the Earth element was injected into Bulu's core, it stayed for a moment before showing signs of rejection.
"So.. it does not work after all? That's a pity.." Duan Li shook his head.
But halfway through his sentence, he could feel something becoming active inside his chest, and he was very familiar with this feeling!
It's the crimson mysterious pearl!
Huuuu!!
The crimson mysterious pearl glowed mysteriously before sending a surge of crimson Qi into Bulu's core.
Then, the previously unstable Earth element inside Bulu's core began to calm down and cycled within it normally.
Gulp!
"This..!!" Duan Li widened his eyes in surprise and excitement.
Did it work?
Let me try and send him a lightning element too..
Huuuu!!
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It works! Both of the element consolidated with the core! They are stable!
Hahahahahaha!
Turning his head to Di Rou, Duan Li asked her quickly, "Di Rou, do you cultivate any specific element?"
Di Rou nodded, "Yes master, I cultivate the dark element.."
Before she could even finish her sentence, Duan Li swiftly grabbed at one of her hands and said, "I want it!" with a straight, manly gaze.
This sudden action of his caused the young maiden in black to be taken aback and her face could not help but to blush slightly.
For a moment or so, she almost thought that Duan Li was asking for something else..
With a small voice, she nodded and replied, "Okay.. Master can have it.."
Wengg!!
"Great! Thanks!" Duan Li said as he excitedly injected the dark element he got from Di Rou.
Huuuu!!
"Alright! All three elements are now stabled with the core!" he said, which surprised the little dragons.
"What? Master is able to do it? How is that possible?!" Dilong's mouth quivered and Zhulong was stoned, stupefied by what they saw.
Not too long after, the core was completely solidified and glistened with an even impressive look to it!
"It's finally done.." Chief Zolak was just about to jump in celebration, before Bulu's body started to glow brightly in white color!
Shiinggg!!
"Huh? What's going on?" Duan Li was surprised.
His aura is spiking rapidly!
Is he going to explode?
Did the process failed? But that can't be!
Chief Zolak also noticed this sudden spike and could not help but to shout feeling horrified, "Son-in-law! Nooo!!"
However, contrary to their wild imaginations, Bulu did not explode into a bloody mess, but instead was shrinking in size rapidly!
If previously, his total size from head to tail was about 14 meters in length and his height was 4 meters tall, the size he was shrinking to right now was quite extreme!
"I-Is he going to turn into an egg?" Duan Li said to himself in panic.
He was here to make the other party stronger, not turn the latter into a egg!
Then, the shrinking stopped before the glow slowly dissipated, revealing the new body of Bulu!
2 meters tall!
Skin rock solid with a boulder-like textures, muscles bulging out, one head, two arms, two legs and one tail..
This is a humanoid appearance!
If not for the obvious long tail, his grey skin color and his reptile-like head of a komodo's, anyone that saw him would just dismiss the other party as a human with a strange body constitution!
"T-This..!!"
Everyone was too dumbfounded by this transformation that even Duan Li himself found his mouth to be opened wide in agape!
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At this moment, Dugu Liubai that was listening intently could not help but to feel anxious of what the ruckus was all about inside that cave!
Suddenly..
Hong long!
"Eh?" he opened his eyes abruptly, shocked by the sudden sound of a thunder splitting the sky as he looked up.
Lightning tribulation?
"W-Wait.." he narrowed his eyes slightly to look more closely, before his face turned ashen!
N-No!
"T-This.. this isn't tribulation for ascending one's realm.."
"This.. is Heaven's punishment!"
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