Fortunately, Youyou, who was possessing Zheng Dong's body, reacted in time, controlled Zheng Dong's body, and quickly returned to the ground.
Not long after, the Raven Demon Lord and other totem-level extraordinary creatures, after dealing with the Ice Demon Empress, rushed back.
This time, the Raven Demon Lord occupied the best position, absorbing the white purification flames.
However, they soon discovered that the purification flames were decreasing and gradually disappearing.
Without the Purification Arrows, the remaining purification flames here were like duckweed without roots, unable to exist for long.
They would also be unable to cultivate with the purification flames in the future.
This left the Raven Demon Lord and other totem-level extraordinary creatures completely dumbfounded.
After the shock came immense anger. They sensed that someone had been here.
They immediately pursued in the direction Zheng Dong and Youyou had left.
Fortunately, Youyou was quick. While controlling Zheng Dong's body towards the assembly point, they encountered He Bin, who was coming to rescue Zheng Dong.
He Bin sensed Zheng Dong's abnormality and knew that Zheng Dong's spirit had been damaged and needed timely treatment.
Coupled with the significant casualties among the high-level beast tamers, he decided to halt the exploration operation.
Therefore, he had his mechanical pet transform into a battleship and brought Zheng Dong to the assembly point.
He then prepared to lead everyone back to the Beast Tamer Corps base.
Just as they were ready, they sensed the aura of the Raven Demon Lord and other totem-level extraordinary creatures.
Even the legendary beast tamers He Bin and Qiu Rong could not handle them and had to request rescue.
The Eye of the Battlefield also detected this situation and sounded the highest alert.
This special circumstance allowed for the direct use of forbidden weapons.
At the same time, the titled legendary beast tamers stationed in the Divine Capital also received orders and rushed over.
Under the cover of forbidden weapons, He Bin led everyone back to the Beast Tamer Corps base.
Zheng Dong was sent for treatment.
After several days of treatment, Zheng Dong gradually recovered.
He was still shaken by the experience afterward.
As for the Raven Demon Lord and other totem-level extraordinary creatures, after being injured by forbidden bombs, they did not break through the Beast Tamer Corps' defenses and were镇杀 (killed) by the titled legendary beast tamers who arrived.
What was fortunate was that Zheng Dong's gains this time were quite substantial.
He not only obtained the Level 8 resource Mist Beast Crystal and the Ice Snake Demon Lord's Heart, but also the suspected Mythical-level resource Divine Spark Fragment of the Solar Titan, and the Mythical-level resource Purification Arrow.
He said "suspected" because Zheng Dong could not determine its value.
Next, after the situation in the ancient battlefield stabilized, Zheng Dong bid farewell to He Bin and returned to Modu University.
As for the reward for this exploration,
He Bin stated that it would be transferred to Zheng Dong's account later.
Upon returning to Modu University, Zheng Dong purchased a considerable amount of resources for restoring and healing spiritual power. With Ling'er's help, he completely healed his spiritual damage.
As a blessing in disguise, his spiritual power also increased significantly.
However, it still had not reached the advanced level.
Soon, Modu University also began its semester.
Zheng Dong did not attend many classes, continuing to stay in his villa, assisting Ling'er in another mutation.
Ling'er had mutated multiple times, acquiring Water, Ice, and Light attributes, but still lacked the Fire attribute and had not mastered attribute balance.
Zheng Dong once again had Ling'er attempt to absorb branches from the Flame Golden Light Tree.
But it was still unable to absorb them.
This was something Zheng Dong had not anticipated.
Perhaps attribute restraint was more difficult to overcome than he believed.
Of course, it was also possible that Ling'er could no longer mutate after its multiple evolutions.
Thus, Zheng Dong had to change his approach and try to evolve Ling'er again.
Ling'er's current growth level was Lord-level. After evolution, its growth level was likely to reach General-level.
With Zheng Dong's current physique, he could withstand having two General-level pets.
Subsequently, Zheng Dong used his Beast Taming Talent, Infinite Evolution, to simulate and deduce Ling'er's evolution plan.
The evolution resources for this time were primarily the Heart of the Life Dimensional Tree and the Purification Arrow, which were left from before.
After multiple deductions, auxiliary evolution resources were added, including branches from the Flame Golden Light Tree, Energy Flame Fruits, the Heart of the Bloodthirsty Monster Vine, the Stinger of the Devil Man-eating Bee, the corpse of a Forest Sprite, and numerous Level 5 and 6 resources that Zheng Dong possessed.
Therefore, this evolution plan also took a long time to deduce.
It was not until more than a month after the semester started, in mid-April, that Zheng Dong fully deduced and perfected Ling'er's evolution plan.
If the evolution was successful, Ling'er's changes should be significant.
Afterward, adjusting his state and ensuring his spirit and stamina were at their best, Zheng Dong assisted Ling'er in its evolution.
However, everything went smoothly until the absorption of the Purification Arrow, which was an arrow carved from the trunk of the Purification Divine Tree. A problem arose.
The purification fire was too overbearing, and Ling'er could not suppress it.
Zheng Dong had considered this issue earlier and used many Water and Ice attribute resources to assist, but the effect was still poor.
He had to ask Youyou to use the Karmic Reincarnation Fire to help suppress it.
But it was still not quite enough.
Seeing that the evolution was about to fail, Zheng Dong remembered the Divine Spark Fragment left by the Solar Titan.
This thing had not been completely obliterated by the purification flames for so many years, so it should have some resistance to the purification flames.
He then added the Divine Spark Fragment.
With this, the entire evolution process was beyond Zheng Dong's control.
Fortunately, these evolution resources counteracted each other, achieving a balance that allowed Ling'er's evolution to continue.
The entire evolution process, even with the aid of the evolution domain, remained very slow.
It lasted for more than half a month, and by early May, Ling'er had completed its evolution.
After evolving, Ling'er transformed from a Dragon Vine Grass into an Elemental Ancient Divine Tree.
The Elemental Ancient Divine Tree not only possessed the Fire attribute but also the Bloodthirsty Monster Vine and the Devil Man-eating Bee's Poison and Insect attributes, and mastered elemental balance.
This meant that the Elemental Ancient Divine Tree would easily acquire other attributes in the future.
Most importantly, it had comprehended the nascent form of a divine spark.
If nothing unexpected happened, Ling'er was destined to evolve into a Divine-level pet.
[Name] Ling'er (Elemental Ancient Divine Tree)
[Attributes] Wood, Water, Ice, Fire, Light, Dark, Dragon, Poison, Insect, Undead, Life, Space
[Race Level] Quasi-Divine
[Growth Level] General-level
[Energy Value] 1208545
[Skills]:
Low Tier: Absorb, Wood Whip, Wood Thorn, Flourish, Fragrance, Death Aura, Shadow Clone, Poison Gas
Mid Tier: Wood Shield, Parasite, Split Body, Nutrient Fruit, Healing Fruit, Ghost Sea Turbulence
High Tier: Rapid Healing, Dragon Might, Life Essence, Super Growth, Ice Seal, Rainbow Radiance, Elemental Insectoid, Self-Purification
Super Tier: Life Guard, Dimensional Absorption, Vine Sea Strangling, Forest Cage, Spatial Teleportation, Eternal Freeze, Explosive Fruit, Forest Control
Quasi-Divine Tier: Elemental Symbiosis, Annihilation Purification, Elemental Dimensional Sea, Solar Guardian
Ling'er's evolution this time not only increased its growth level to General-level but also acquired multiple skills.
Among them, the low-tier skills Shadow Clone and Poison Gas came from the Heart of the Bloodthirsty Monster Vine and the Stinger of the Devil Man-eating Bee, respectively.
The super-tier skills Explosive Fruit and Forest Control came from the branches of the Flame Golden Light Tree, Energy Flame Fruits, and the corpse of a Forest Sprite.
The quasi-divine skills Annihilation Purification, Elemental Dimensional Sea, and Solar Guardian were skills obtained by integrating the Purification Arrow, the Heart of the Life Dimensional Tree, and the Divine Spark Fragment of the Solar Titan.
Explosive Fruit, a multi-attribute super-tier skill, had an explosion power even greater than that of the Energy Flame Fruit of the same level.
With Ling'er's General-level strength, the condensed Explosive Fruit was enough to heavily injure extraordinary creatures of the General-level.
Forest Control, a wood-attribute super-tier skill, could control plant-type extraordinary creatures whose growth level was one level lower than its own.
Elemental Symbiosis, a multi-attribute quasi-divine skill, was the racial skill awakened by the Elemental Ancient Divine Tree, allowing various elements to achieve balance within itself, maintaining mutual generation and restraint, and mutual transformation.
Elemental Dimensional Sea, a space-attribute quasi-divine skill, could condense elemental dimensional spaces for each element, forming an elemental ocean by gathering elemental energy.
Using the Elemental Dimensional Sea not only allowed Ling'er to quickly replenish its consumption but also complemented the Life Guard.
Within the Elemental Dimensional Sea, the Life Guard could grow rapidly, potentially even surpassing Ling'er's growth level, and the Life Guard could also accelerate the aggregation of elemental energy.
At this moment, Zheng Dong had arrived in the relic space and summoned Ling'er, asking it to try using the Elemental Dimensional Sea.
As expected, a fire elemental dimensional space appeared on Ling'er's crown, faintly visible, and gradually countless fire elemental energies converged within the dimensional space, forming an elemental ocean.
After successful condensation, Ling'er could hide the fire elemental dimensional sea on one of its branches among its numerous leaves.
In the future, the fire elemental dimensional sea would continue to expand and grow with Ling'er's growth.
Next, Ling'er used Life Guard to condense a fire elemental spirit.
This fire elemental spirit looked exactly like the Solar Titan.
It excitedly burrowed into the fire elemental dimensional sea and began to cultivate, with a cultivation speed five to ten times faster than in the outside world.
If Ling'er needed it, it could also come out at any time to protect Ling'er's safety.
Afterward, Ling'er also condensed wood, water, ice, light, and dark, and dragon elemental dimensional seas.
This was also the current limit for Ling'er.
It is worth mentioning that the wood elemental spirit condensed by Ling'er resembled the Forest Sprite, the ice elemental spirit resembled the Ice Demon, and the dragon elemental spirit had the appearance of a Azure Dragon.
As for the water elemental spirit, it was a Kun fish, the light elemental spirit was an angelic figure, and the dark elemental spirit was demonic in appearance.
Of course, these were only superficial resemblances. To achieve a true likeness, Zheng Dong would need to collect more resources related to Kun fish, angels, and demons for Ling'er.
Ling'er's seven life guards were growing rapidly within the elemental dimensional seas. It would not be long before they reached General-level, or even higher.
By then, Youyou might not even be Ling'er's opponent.
Subsequently, Ling'er also attempted to use the quasi-divine skills Solar Guardian and Annihilation Purification, as well as the high-tier skills Elemental Insectoid and Self-Purification.
Solar Guardian, a quasi-divine skill, could mobilize the power of the sun to condense a defensive barrier called the Solar Barrier, which could resist any attacking power from opponents of the same level.
Annihilation Purification, a quasi-divine skill of Fire, Spirit, and Life attributes, burned itself to continuously release purification flames, purifying all filth and evil.
Because the longer the purification flames burned, the greater the damage they caused, increasing exponentially.
Therefore, Annihilation Purification was a skill that inflicted ten thousand damage to the enemy while sacrificing three thousand of its own.
It was best not to use it unless absolutely necessary.
Elemental Insectoid, a multi-attribute high-tier skill of Insect, Spirit, and Life, was also a racial skill awakened by the Elemental Ancient Divine Tree, which could condense various elemental insects for combat, reconnaissance, and other actions.
Self-Purification, a high-tier skill of Fire, Spirit, and Life, was similar to Annihilation Purification. It burned its own spiritual power and life force to release purification flames.
This was a skill that harmed the enemy before harming itself. Compared to Annihilation Purification, for the same consumption, the purification flames obtained were only one-tenth of what was obtained when using Annihilation Purification.
This was also why extraordinary creatures like the Ice Demon, despite possessing high-tier skills, rarely used them.
Using them too much could genuinely lead to their own demise.
Thus, the skills Ling'er mastered were primarily defensive.
What made Zheng Dong happiest was that as Ling'er grew, he, who shared a symbiotic relationship with Ling'er, also received a lot of feedback power, further strengthening himself.
Moreover, Ling'er could also absorb more Azure Dragon bloodline.
Perhaps in no time, his body's Azure Dragon bloodline could be completely eradicated.
At that time, Zheng Dong would no longer be able to use the power of the Azure Dragon's bloodline.
However, Ling'er, who had absorbed and fused with the Azure Dragon bloodline, could use it.
After understanding Ling'er's situation completely.
Zheng Dong relaxed and rested for a few days.
As for the Mist Beast Crystal and the Ice Snake Demon Lord's Heart, he planned to save them for Xiao Qing to use.
When he would give them to her depended on Xiao Qing's performance.
Xiao Qing cooked every day, working diligently and without complaint, but she was not very fond of cultivation.
Zheng Dong was busy with Ling'er's evolution and did not pay much attention to it.
Now, he finally had time to force Xiao Qing to cultivate every day.
Unknowingly, it was already June.
Zheng Dong had received twenty million from the Beast Tamer Corps and was not in a hurry to complete the remaining projects for the Breeding Bureau.
Professor Xue Yin had also not called to urge Zheng Dong.
It was not until this morning that Xia Mengqiu's call came.
"Zheng Dong, do you want to go abroad? Xingye Country has discovered a Mythical-level relic. They cannot decipher it themselves, and according to the agreement, we can also participate.
The Relic Bureau has decided to let my grandmother and me, along with a few others, go.
Besides our Yanhuang, archaeologists from other countries will also participate. If we can decipher this Mythical relic, it could greatly enhance our Yanhuang's strength. Of course, Xingye Country will also benefit greatly."
Zheng Dong could understand that if countries like Xingye Country and Xue Island Country could participate in the Qin Emperor's relic, then Yanhuang could naturally participate in the deciphering of their relics.
This was a win-win agreement.
Of course, the extent of the benefits gained from deciphering the relic would depend on the capabilities of their own archaeologists.
This also piqued Zheng Dong's interest.
Xingye Country had advanced technology, so perhaps he could start with Xingye Country and obtain information related to forbidden bombs, or even information on the evolution of mechanical armament.
Therefore, Zheng Dong said with a smile:
"Mengqiu Jie, such a good thing, of course, I have to go. I'll head to the Divine Capital right away."
"No rush, there are still a few days.
Also, you'd better prepare more daily necessities. If we can't decipher it, we might be trapped in the relic for years, or even decades, and unable to get out. You need to be mentally prepared." Xia Mengqiu reminded him.
This also reminded Zheng Dong. He did not want to go hungry in the relic space.
After hanging up the phone, Zheng Dong purchased a large number of daily necessities and food, as well as resources for restoring his spirit and stamina.
Once all the purchased items were received, Zheng Dong took a plane and once again arrived at the Divine Capital Relic Bureau.