Chapter 928 – Awesome Effects

When the Golden Thunder Beast entered Long Chen’s body, he felt his body change. He did not start to study the Golden Thunder Beast; he got away from the stone first. Standing there for a long time would only attract suspicion.

Ye Xuan had not noticed that Long Chen had left. Long Chen took a glance at him, then he left for Camp Wolf. He was worried that the Golden Thunder Beast in his hand would cause a commotion.

With Little Cat’s ability to suppress it, the Golden Thunder Beast obediently stayed in Long Chen’s hand.

Along the way, Long Chen kept checking on the meridian point in his left palm. The mass of golden lightning was shaped both like a lion and a tiger crouching in the meridian point. Although the beast was made of lightning, it was similar to a true beast. It was obviously very weak, and after Little Cat suppressed it, it did not move and was even trembling slightly.

“It’s extremely weak right now and really needs energy. You need to feed it Emperor Crystals. To be frank, if it recovers its peak strength, we will be no match for it. However, despite it being sentient, it is still a low-level intelligence, similar to a newborn baby. If you feed it, it should see you as family and should not hurt you,” Little Cat explained as Long Chen headed back.

After hearing the explanation, Long Chen tried comforting the tiny beast using a very gentle aura to avoid triggering its rage. At the same time, he took out Emperor Crystals from the Primordial Realm and placed them in his hand.

“How do I feed it?”

“Place an Emperor Crystal on your left palm.”

Long Chen placed a crystal on the image of the beast, which was crackling with lightning. Long Chen sensed that the beast had grown excited, and the golden lightning wrapped around the crystal before merging it into his hand. Finally, it merged with his meridian point.

The Golden Thunder Beast opened its jaws wide and ate the Emperor Crystal. There was a chewing sound, then after a while, it had consumed all the energy in the Emperor Crystal. After swallowing it, the beast looked around pitifully, as if wanting more.

Being inside Long Chen’s body, the beast saw his Martial Soul as his whole body. That was why it was actually looking at Long Chen’s Martial Soul.

The Golden Thunder Beast was indeed not very intelligent, but it was interesting.

Long Chen had a feeling that if he continued to feed it, the Golden Thunder Beast would surely see him as a father figure.

With that thought, Long Chen placed more Emperor Crystals in his palm, walking and feeding the Golden Thunder Beast at the same time. As time passed, the deathly aura that once hung over the Golden Thunder Beast slowly disappeared. It started to radiate a violent aura similar to lightning.

When Long Chen slowed down, the Golden Thunder Beast would tumble around in his meridian point impatiently, looking pitifully in the direction of Long Chen’s Martial Soul.

“This little brat ...”

Long Chen gave a resigned smile.

The Golden Thunder Beast was like a bottomless pit. Long Chen had taken thirty thousand Emperor Crystals from his previous encounters, so he placed them one by one into its mouth. It swallowed and digested them all instantly. Little Cat also needed Emperor Crystals to grow, so when he saw how quickly the Golden Thunder Beast consumed Emperor Crystals, he started to panic.

But this was technically his fault too. Without Little Cat, Long Chen would not have tamed the Golden Thunder Beast.

Long Chen had not stopped feeding it since he started walking. After feeding it more than ten thousand crystals, the Golden Thunder Beast finally started to look somewhat satiated. It looked slightly larger and stronger too, and its golden lightning became shinier. While it could not be said to look very strong and muscular, at least it was no longer on the brink of death.

It was nighttime, so Long Chen snuck into his quarters’ underground room without the others knowing. Within the army, personal privacy was guaranteed. At the very least, it was difficult to knock down the entrance to the sturdy underground room without great force.

The buildings here were reinforced with runes made by Talisman Priests and Royal Qi, making them very sturdy.

“Damn it! This thing’s appetite is huge! How am I going to live?” Little Cat complained bitterly.

Long Chen had thirty thousand Emperor Crystals on him, but after a while, ten thousand had been swallowed. And the Golden Thunder Beast was not completely full yet.

Long Chen was someone who saw the big picture. His instincts told him that he would reap a great reward from this tonight, so he gave all his Emperor Crystals to the Golden Thunder Beast without hesitation. One by one, the Emperor Crystals sank into his palm and were swallowed by the golden picture.

Midnight soon arrived. When less than a thousand crystals remained, the soft, chewing sound coming from his left palm finally died down. The dying Golden Thunder Beast was almost double its original size after the nourishment of the Emperor Crystals.

After eating the crystals, it burped. It had regained its energy and was weaving around happily in Long Chen’s meridian point, though it didn’t leave. It looked very excited.

It stayed in his meridian point next to Long Chen’s meridian core, which was filled with essence.

Long Chen sensed that the Golden Thunder Beast was sending his meridian core a friendly message.

As it interacted with the meridian core, wisps of blood-red essence merged into the Golden Thunder Beast. Long Chen sensed that a connection had formed between him and the creature.

“It has recognized you, so you’re now something like its master and you will eventually be able to command it. There’s a lot of time, so you should slowly get to know it better. Once you have communicated more with it, you can utilize more of its strength.”

Long Chen started to communicate with the Golden Thunder Beast in a delicate manner. This creature only had some sentience and could not be considered a true life form. After it merged with Long Chen, it became part of him.

Under his control, the golden Hell Soul Lightning spread from the meridian point to his whole body. To prevent himself from getting hurt by the lightning, Long Chen had no choice but to activate his Dragon Soul Transformation. However, he realized he had been worried over nothing. The Golden Thunder Beast had already submitted to him, so the golden lightning functioned as if it belonged to him and would not cause him serious harm. Instead, it was even a type of conditioning.

Golden lightning spread across every corner of his body. From the outside, his body was covered in dense golden lightning, making for a terrifying sight. However, Long Chen felt very comfortable under the lightning’s conditioning.

The lightning’s power seeped into every atom of his body.

This was different from conditioning his body during his past cultivation experiences, because the golden lightning did not make his physical body tougher—it made his flesh denser. Every atom in his body was now boosted with lightning, and he felt his body become much lighter.

He tested it out and found that he was much faster and more agile than before.

This was only after a short while of conditioning.

“These effects are awesome.” Long Chen smiled with satisfaction.

The increase in speed was surely not going to be the largest benefit the Golden Thunder Beast had given him. Long Chen was very pleasantly surprised by this sudden encounter, and he had a feeling that the Golden Thunder Beast would bring him great benefits like the True Martial Soul.

This item would become much more important than the items left behind by the Five Emperors such as the Five Emperor Palm and the Emperor Vanquishers.

“Thirty thousand Emperor Crystals. That was basically a snack for the Golden Thunder Beast. I must remember to get more Emperor Crystals when I go to the Underworld Battlefield.”

Money had never been a priority to Long Chen, but after obtaining the Golden Thunder Beast, it had become important to him.

“What are you going to do next? Are you going to enter the Underworld Battlefield directly?” asked Little Cat.

Long Chen thought for a moment and shook his head. He had offended Huang Qiong and Song Yang here, and the military rules were strict. Although these people were an inconvenience and they would not bother him when he was in the Underworld Battlefield, there would surely be records of people entering the place. Only ten days had passed since Long Chen had cultivated the Underworld Qi. This would be huge news to the Underworld Army, and he did not want to become a celebrity.

“I’ll cultivate in the Underworld Plaza from tomorrow onwards. Two months will pass quickly. If I enter the Underworld Battlefield then, I don’t think it’ll trigger too much drama.”

It was late, so Long Chen was prepared to go to the Underworld Plaza the next day. After he decided to continue cultivating more, his Soul Swallowing Gaze noticed something. He looked up and discovered that someone had snuck into his room and was heading towards the underground room.

Who was it?

Long Chen recognized him quickly. It was Huang Qiong, the person who had injured him earlier.

He must be here for the Emperor Vanquishers. Maybe he noticed when I returned. Was he going to kill me after I started cultivating?

Admittedly, Huang Qiong was a difficult opponent for him.