Chapter 293: Chapter 1: Meteor Butterfly Sword, Tianyuan Pig_3
The defensive city wall was roughly 500 miles long, and Chen Jiuge divided it into five segments, using numbers one through five for distinction.
Excluding Contracted Spirit Beasts, there were only 11 True Immortal-level Spiritual Beasts, which worked out to two per segment. There was no shortage of Mahayana Realm Spiritual Beasts, totaling 2,300, not counting some special Spiritual Beasts.
"Bai Ya, you take four True Immortal Spiritual Beasts and 800 Mahayana Realm Spiritual Beasts to guard the Number One City Wall."
"Tian Que, you’re in charge of the Number Two City Wall. Your personnel will be the same as Bai Ya’s."
"Ming Yujing and Bali, you two have always fought shoulder to shoulder, so I won’t separate you. I’ll give you the remaining three True Immortal Spiritual Beasts and 700 Mahayana Realm Spiritual Beasts. You’ll mainly be responsible for the Number Five City Wall."
"Yue Li, Yang Huan, Ao Li, Ao Yi, and Black Eye, the Number Three and Number Four City Walls are yours. One thousand Fire Flood Dragons plus your own clansmen should be sufficient. Additionally, Li Kui, your Mouse Warrior squad will be stationed at the Number Three City Wall, primarily responsible for supporting all city walls."
"Yue Meng and Da Bai will mainly focus on Alchemy and Artifact Refining to ensure logistics are covered. Da Bai, you are to primarily craft long-range offensive Magic Artifacts—the more powerful, the better," instructed Chen Jiuge.
"Mo Yu, Silver King, you two will primarily be responsible for high-end combat support."
"Little Ziteng, for now, stay rooted near the entrance and don’t let the Tianyuan Pigs freely barge into the Grotto Heaven."
"Alright, no problem."
Watching the Spiritual Beasts set off to their respective tasks, Chen Jiuge felt somewhat relieved. After so many years, this is a real test. I wonder just how much they’ve grown.
After sorting out the defense assignments, Chen Jiuge began counting the Tianyuan Pigs in his area. With Silver King and Mo Yu’s help, the three of them quickly gathered all the Tianyuan Pigs.
"Two thousand three hundred twenty-two Tianyuan Pigs, and they’re all young! This Huang Kui’s actions are too shameless," Chen Jiuge thought, his face darkening. I didn’t expect someone who appeared so honest to be so unscrupulous.
Thanks to the unique environment of the Infinite Star Sea, Tianyuan Pigs only needed 80 years to mature from birth. While this growth period was short compared to the Spiritual Beasts of the Heavenly Realm, breeding them was quite difficult. If I can’t find a solution, I fear that in 200 years, I won’t be able to hand over enough Tianyuan Pigs.
"That bastard, daring to bully us like this! Boss, let me go teach him a lesson!" said Da Bai, who had been watching too many hoodlum movies lately and had begun referring to Chen Jiuge as ’Boss.’
"Let it go for now. Let’s see how the Insect Clan’s invasion fares in a month." Chen Jiuge, who knew little about the Insect Clan, decided to bide his time. This score will be settled eventually.
「...」
After completing the handover, Huang Kui released a large batch of adult Tianyuan Pigs from his portable cave mansion, totaling more than 3,000. These had all been raised by the late Senior Brother He.
"Hahaha, Chen Jiuge’s arrival is timely! I was just worrying about how to devour this batch of Tianyuan Pigs, and then an easy target came along. It’s a pity Old He died too soon. If he had raised them for a few thousand more years, this number could have doubled!" Huang Kui laughed heartily.
"With the help of these Tianyuan Pigs, I can finally cultivate that Star Great Divine Power! I hope this newcomer can hold on for a while. The Insect Clan has been acting erratically lately, their attacks growing stronger and stronger," Huang Kui mused with some concern.
"Whatever. I’ll have a roasted suckling pig first and focus on my cultivation. Strength is fundamental!"
The pitiful squeals of pigs resounded, and before long, a deliciously fragrant, blue-skinned roast suckling pig appeared.
「...」
While Huang Kui was enjoying the delicious roast suckling pig, Chen Jiuge encountered a problem.
Generally, Spiritual Beasts all possess their own Bloodlines. Even Jade Beasts, a race entirely created by Cultivators, have Bloodlines.
But Tianyuan Pigs were different. It wasn’t that they lacked Bloodlines; rather, their Bloodlines were strange, resembling a whirlpool-shaped nebula. Even his Golden Finger couldn’t discern the specific Bloodlines within them, yet it could extract the stars floating within the nebula.
Let’s give it a try,
Chen Jiuge decided, intending to experiment with one Tianyuan Pig.SWISH!
Chen Jiuge looked at the silver-glowing sphere in his hand with a baffled expression, exclaiming in shock, "This... this... this... actual substances can be extracted?"
An actual entity from the Bloodline? Am I caught in an Illusion Realm? Chen Jiuge stared at the sphere in his hand, utterly bewildered, wondering what on earth was happening.
OINK, OINK, OINK!
The strange oinks of the pig sounded again, and only then did Chen Jiuge manage to compose himself and look towards this Tianyuan Pig.
The deep blue of its skin had visibly lightened, turning pale blue. The two tusks at its snout began to lengthen and extend. Its body had grown a full size larger, and its cultivation had advanced from the Golden Core Realm to the Nascent Soul Realm.
These changes are a bit too drastic!
It was just one Bloodline extraction. The Tianyuan Pig’s Bloodline nebula, while not containing a vast number of stars, still held several hundred. I only took one, and the change was this significant?
"Wait, don’t I have a tester? Let’s check this first," Chen Jiuge said, taking out the disc he had obtained earlier.
He extracted a bit of blood from the drastically changed Tianyuan Pig and dripped it onto the disc.
BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Meat Quality: Medium. Star Content: 69 points. Grade: Middle."
Middle Grade? Chen Jiuge didn’t quite understand this valuation. Thankfully, the copied books in the Scripture Pavilion contained reference data left by previous disciples.
After carefully reviewing it, Chen Jiuge’s eyes gleamed. Looks like I’m about to strike it rich again!
Apparently, the Sect only required Low Grade Tianyuan Pigs to be handed over. A Middle Grade Tianyuan Pig could count as two such pigs. If it was Top Grade, it would count as five, and a superior Top Grade pig could count as ten.
It seems I won’t need to worry about future quotas after all.