Inside the mythical relic space, Zheng Dong carefully examined the metal box in his hand.
Like the key, it could isolate the energy fluctuations of resources.
He could also sell it for a good price at auction.
Opening the metal box, he found a crystal bottle inside.
The bottle was about the size of a large thermos, filled with transparent sand grains.
The sand shimmered with a dazzling array of colors, like tiny diamonds.
Could this be the Cosmic Sand?
Zheng Dong was surprised.
Cosmic Sand was a dual-attribute resource of time and space, rare even in the mythological era.
It could only be born in an environment where time and space were absolutely still.
This bottle of Cosmic Sand, even in the mythological era, would have caused many divine-tier transcendent beings to fight tooth and nail for it.
It perfectly fused the powers of time and space.
If one could comprehend its mysteries, they might be able to master the power of spacetime.
Zheng Dong guessed that this was likely obtained by Bai Zhiyuan in some mythical relic.
And hidden here by the Bai family.
It seemed simply hidden in a spatial rift.
But there were no energy fluctuations.
Moreover, the spatial rift was hidden underground, making it difficult to find.
Without the key, one could not find the spatial rift, nor could they open the metal box. If it were forced open, the crystal bottle would shatter, and the Cosmic Sand would disappear.
Cosmic Sand was as fragile as snowflakes; a few breaths of air or forceful squeezing would cause it to shatter and vanish.
Therefore, to use Cosmic Sand, one had to take it out of the crystal bottle in an absolutely quiet and stable environment.
Zheng Dong summoned Meow.
Upon seeing the Cosmic Sand, Meow was immediately captivated.
However, Zheng Dong did not hand the Cosmic Sand over to Meow.
Instead, he unscrewed the cap of the crystal bottle and used his telekinetic control to make one grain of Cosmic Sand float out of the bottle.
"You can study this grain of Cosmic Sand first. Come to me again after you've used it up."
Meow immediately let out a couple of plaintive meows.
To be given only one grain at a time, wouldn't this entire bottle of Cosmic Sand take a very long time to use?
Could it even live to use it all up?
"If you can quickly comprehend its mysteries and master the power of spacetime, this entire bottle will be yours!" Zheng Dong continued.
Meow's eyes lit up, and it became interested in studying the Cosmic Sand.
Zheng Dong put it into his beast-taming space and activated his beast-taming talent, allowing it to study slowly.
This harvest was quite good.
With just this Cosmic Sand, it was comparable to a mythical-tier resource.
Next, Zheng Dong had Little Purple continue searching the surroundings.
To see if the Bai family had left behind any other resources.
Unfortunately, after searching for a long time, they found nothing.
At this moment, a call came in.
It was Shen Xue.
Was it time to go to the relic space on the border of the Beiming Totem Kingdom now?
Zheng Dong answered the call and heard Shen Xue's voice.
"Zheng Dong, are you okay? Don't you dare die, we haven't explored that relic space yet!"
Shen Xue's words were still as direct as ever.
Zheng Dong didn't mind.
"I'm fine. Are you two alright? If anything happened to you, I'd have to go alone," Zheng Dong said with a smile.
"Pah pah pah, how could anything happen to us? I'm just calling to tell you that as soon as the competition ends, we'll head over immediately," Shen Xue said.
The national competition had not yet concluded.
The original finals had been interrupted by this incident.
As for when the subsequent matches would begin, there was no clear answer.
It would likely take some time.
This also made Zheng Dong a bit depressed.
He was close to obtaining his rewards, but he didn't know when he would get them.
The champion of the individual competition was to be rewarded with a legendary-tier resource, the Arrow of the Wind God.
After hanging up the phone, Zheng Dong left Wudu.
He found a place in a city near Wudu and checked in.
Although he hadn't obtained the Arrow of the Wind God, he had acquired the Heart of the Wind Spirit from Bai Hongguang.
In addition, Bai Hongguang's overlord-tier pet, the Golden-winged Great Peng, had also left behind a life crystal, the Crystal of Wind Radiance, after its death.
It was a pity that he hadn't obtained the life crystal of the Ghost-eyed Owl.
Therefore, Zheng Dong planned to have Ling'er continue her mutation while the competition had not yet begun.
First, he wanted Ling'er to gain the wind attribute.
So, Zheng Dong first took out the Heart of the Wind Spirit.
Compared to the Crystal of Wind Radiance, the Heart of the Wind Spirit was more suitable for Ling'er's mutation.
This was because the Heart of the Wind Spirit only had the wind attribute.
The Crystal of Wind Radiance, on the other hand, was a dual-attribute resource of light and wind.
Of course, if the Heart of the Wind Spirit did not achieve the desired effect, Zheng Dong would also use the Crystal of Wind Radiance.
To strengthen the power of the wind attribute, making it easier for Ling'er to mutate.
Fortunately, everything went relatively smoothly.
Two days later, Ling'er had gained the wind attribute through mutation.
And she did so without using the Crystal of Wind Radiance.
Next, Zheng Dong had Ling'er use the Crystal of Wind Radiance and the Heart of the Wind Spirit to open up a wind element dimensional sea.
The appearance of the wind element spirit was that of a Golden-winged Great Peng.
As the wind element dimensional sea was opened, Ling'er's strength also increased significantly.
If not suppressed, she would have likely already grown to Emperor tier.
Afterward, Zheng Dong had Ling'er use Rootless Soil, Taijin Stone, Thunderstone, Time Sand, and Dream Ape Heart to acquire the earth, metal, thunder, time, and spirit attributes.
In this way, Ling'er could be considered to possess all attributes.
This laid the foundation for her next evolution into the World Tree.
However, the dimensional seas for earth, metal, thunder, time, and spirit elements had not yet been opened.
If they were opened, Ling'er would undoubtedly grow to Emperor tier.
In the blink of an eye, more than twenty days had passed.
The finals of the national competition still had not begun.
This was because the incident in Wudu had not yet concluded.
The officials did not have the time or sufficient personnel to organize the finals.
During the time Zheng Dong was using the Mutation Bead to further mutate Ling'er,
The异世界 (Yi Shi Jie - Otherworld) had also gradually merged with Blue Star.
Blue Star had grown considerably larger.
It was no longer spherical.
Instead, it had taken on the "heavenly round, earthly square" shape of the mythological era.
Satellites and various communication instruments had even malfunctioned for a period.
Such a massive change made it difficult to keep hidden from everyone.
The Yanhuang (Yanhuang - a name for China) gradually disclosed the events that had occurred in Wudu.
All ordinary people with even a little capability began to seek stronger power, to become beast tamers themselves or for their family members.
Only by becoming a beast tamer could one have the ability to protect themselves in the future.
The people who originally lived in Wudu had been relocated to surrounding cities.
Wudu now was completely different from before.
It had become tens of thousands of times larger than before.
The entire Yi Shi Jie had completely merged with Wudu.
As a result, the areas around Wudu were eerie.
For cities around Wudu, the time taken to travel through Wudu to other cities was now tens of times longer than before.
Furthermore, Yanhuang prohibited crossing through Wudu.
After all, Wudu's territory now contained the Nine Nether Totem Kingdom and the Asura Totem Kingdom from the Yi Shi Jie.
The Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor were not to be trifled with.
They tacitly agreed, each gathering their respective totem kingdom's legions, preparing to attack Yanhuang.
After all, the larger the territory occupied, the more resources obtained.
It would also be more convenient to search for relics left by the Netherworld Ghost God and the Asura God King.
However, before they could make a move,
Yanhuang discovered their unusual activities.
The Elder Council convened again.
The final decision was to strike first.
This time, a significant number of Divine Banishment Bombs were deployed.
After all, they were facing the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor, whose strength was close to that of a lower god.
They were considered the strongest quasi-divine transcendent beings.
As these warheads fell, a large number of forbidden bombs and a small number of divine bombs rained down, exploding with thunderous roars.
A vast number of undead and hellish asuras were killed in large swathes.
Even the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor were injured by the Divine Banishment Bombs.
This wave of attacks also deterred the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor.
They both realized that Blue Star was not as simple as they had imagined.
Conquering it would not be easy.
What should they do?
The undead of the Nine Nether Totem Kingdom had lost nearly half their forces, and the hellish asuras of the Asura Totem Kingdom had also suffered considerable losses.
If a real war were to break out, they might be annihilated, resulting in mutual destruction.
But to retreat like this would be a loss of face for the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor.
Unwilling to accept this, the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor secretly conferred and decided to each lead a team of elite legions to sneak attack cities around Wudu.
This caught Yanhuang somewhat off guard.
However, fortunately, the legendary Dragon Zhen had mobilized numerous beast-taming legions in the vicinity, along with a large number of totem-tier pets, and several legendary beast tamers like the legendary Dragon Zhen.
After a fierce battle, the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor were forced to retreat.
However, Yanhuang also lost several small cities around Wudu.
This also made the base cities appear even safer.
People from all over Yanhuang began to flock to the base cities under construction.
The plans and standards for constructing base cities had already been publicly announced.
Numerous wealthy individuals donated a significant amount of supplies and money in exchange for a ticket to enter the base cities.
As for ordinary people, it was even more difficult to enter the base cities.
Apart from the workers involved in the construction of the base cities, who had a chance to stay in them, others were not allowed to enter unless they were beast tamers themselves.
Of course, in addition to the base city near Rongcheng, the Elder Council decided to build five more base cities.
This also gave more people the opportunity to live within the base cities.
As the Nine Nether Ghost Emperor and the Asura Emperor retreated, Yanhuang temporarily regained its peace.
By mid-December, the national competition resumed.
Because the previous matches had been abruptly halted,
The finals recommenced.
It was still Zheng Dong versus Wei Su.
This time, Zheng Dong intended to end the match quickly.
He would not give Wei Su any further opportunities.
As soon as Wei Su summoned his mechanical pet,
Zheng Dong had Little Purple and his other pets launch their attacks.
Little Purple transformed into a Star Devourer.
The Star Devourer was already massive, and with the use of the Amplification skill, it became a colossal beast.
If it used the "Mountain Crushing" skill, its descent would be enough to flatten a speeding high-speed train.
With a resounding boom,
Little Purple slammed a King-tier mechanical pet onto the ground.
Of course, besides Little Purple, the other pets also launched their attacks.
Jingjing used skills like "Swarm Control" and "Starry Sky Mother Nest."
Jingjing, transformed into the Starry Sky Mother Nest, floated in the air like a fortress.
Immediately, it released a large number of mechanical insects.
The dense swarm of mechanical insects quickly engulfed one of Wei Su's mechanical pets.
Soon, they breached the pet's mechanical defense, rapidly corroding its outer protective shell.
At that moment, Wei Su's expression changed drastically.
He felt something was wrong.
When he had fought Zheng Dong before, he hadn't seen Zheng Dong's pets be this fierce!
Had Zheng Dong been hiding his strength all along?
Wei Su couldn't figure it out and had to use his beast-taming talent and his prepared trump cards.
Wei Su's pets all utilized the mechanical weapons he had designed.
Among them, the Earth Power God Beast used the Mechanical Super Power Cannon.
Red light shot out from the silver barrel, unstoppable.
The power of this cannon was immense.
Even Emperor-tier pets could not withstand it.
Unfortunately, the Earth Power God Beast could not use it many times before its energy elements would be depleted.
After all, the consumption of the Mechanical Super Power Cannon was enormous, and it was not something ordinary mechanical pets could endure.
The Earth Power God Beast aimed this cannon at Ling'er.
Ling'er's current form was that of an angel.
However, immediately afterward, Ling'er transformed into the form of a wind element spirit, the Golden-winged Great Peng, to dodge the Super Power Cannon.
The Golden-winged Great Peng was very agile in the air.
It weaved and maneuvered like a fish in water.
The Earth Power God Beast fired twice consecutively but missed Ling'er.
In fact, it would have been easier for Ling'er to dodge the Mechanical Super Power Cannon using skills like "Spatial Teleportation" or "Spatial Movement."
But Ling'er wanted to deplete the Earth Power God Beast's elemental energy.
Transforming into the Golden-winged Great Peng, the wind element spirit, was more suitable for this purpose.
Wei Su also realized this.
He quickly ordered the Earth Power God Beast to attack Zheng Dong's other pets.
As long as it could hit something, weakening Zheng Dong's pets' combat power, there was hope of winning.
At least it was better than missing!
Unfortunately for Wei Su,
Even when the Earth Power God Beast launched a surprise attack on Little Purple with the Mechanical Super Power Cannon, it failed to hit Little Purple.
Little Purple used Spatial Teleportation to evade the Mechanical Super Power Cannon.
Seeing this, Wei Su was very surprised.
How could this be? Had they all mastered Spatial Teleportation?
This could only be attributed to the Earth Power God Beast's bad luck.
It had attacked Little Purple, Ling'er, Youyou, and Meow, all of whom had mastered Spatial Teleportation.
Zheng Dong's beast-taming talent, the Skill Domain, could teach imprinted skills to other pets.
As a result, before long, Wei Su was defeated.
Next, Zheng Dong faced Cao Kang.
Cao Kang from Imperial Capital University possessed the "Thunder God Body" beast-taming talent.
Any thunder-attribute pet within his Thunder God Beast-Taming Space could rapidly grow and recover from injuries.
Its growth rate and recovery speed were ten times that of ordinary beast-taming spaces.
In addition, by using his "Thunder God Body" beast-taming talent,
He could also merge with all thunder-attribute pets.
And he could unleash ten times, or even more, of the thunder-attribute pet's own combat power.
This heaven-defying beast-taming talent made Cao Kang the ace for Imperial Capital University in their contention for the national competition.
If Zheng Dong could defeat Cao Kang, he would be sure to win.
Facing Cao Kang, Zheng Dong did not dare to be careless. He rested for a while, reaching his optimal state before starting the new battle.
This final match had been moved from Wudu to Rongcheng.
The audience present were mostly supporters of Zheng Dong.
After all, this was essentially Zheng Dong's home ground.
Cao Kang walked onto the battle arena and summoned the Emperor-tier Primordial Thunder Dragon Emperor.
As the Primordial Thunder Dragon Emperor appeared, powerful bolts of lightning continuously exploded in the sky.
Zheng Dong felt that this Emperor-tier Primordial Thunder Dragon Emperor could even contend with overlord-tier pets by exceeding its level.
This Cao Kang was somewhat difficult to deal with.
Of course, this was assuming Zheng Dong did not use his overlord-tier light, dark, and fire element spirits.
Otherwise, suppressing this Primordial Thunder Dragon Emperor would also be relatively easy.