Another three months had passed, and Rocky found his hands full of blood. At that time, he was in a
temporary shed built in the valley, busy doing something under the belly of the Fire Rock Turtle.
The floor was already covered with blood like an intense war had just taken place in the area.
"Come on, it's almost done." Cold sweat appeared on Rocky's forehead. Despite looking a little
anxious, he still encouraged the turtle, as if it could understand him.
The Fire Rock Turtle, on the other hand, appeared to be in so much pain, wailing in agony
continuously.
After half an hour, Rocky finally managed to pull out a cub from under the turtle's belly. This newborn
cub was covered in blood and had a long and flat body with some tiny black and red patterns printed all
over it.
Soon after, the cub made a soft sound. It twitched its eyelids a few times before finally opening them.
Rocky smiled with relief upon seeing such a miracle. Immediately, he reached for the bamboo basket
lined with white cloth and put the cub inside. Afterwards, he began to put his hand again, deep inside
the belly of the turtle.
One hour after, he was able to successfully pull other five cubs from the turtle, all alive and kicking.
To be exact, these six cubs were the result of Rocky's experiment on asexual reproduction of the Dark
Heaven Insect and the Fire Rock Turtle.
Meanwhile, he attended to the bleeding turtle. He applied pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding
and sutured its lower abdomen. From his leather bag, he took out a red spiritual crystal and fed it
directly into the turtle's mouth.
This red spiritual crystal symbolized Rocky's success in the past six months. Just a month after coming
up with a new method to refine the spiritual crystal, he was able to successfully refine his first ever
spiritual crystal on his own. Now, he could refine the red spiritual crystal flawlessly anytime he wanted
to. He could also refine yellow spiritual crystals, but not as often as the red ones, and blue ones, but
rarely. Sure enough, his refinement of these crystals also depended on the refining furnace, to be
specific, the dead bodies of spirit-manipulated beasts that he collected. In general, one should at least
collect the corpse of a spirit-manipulated beast at the fifth grade of the five-star level if one wanted to
refine the blue spiritual crystal. Moreover, this corpse must be a very rare one. Nevertheless, there was
still a very small probability of refining the blue spiritual crystal, no matter how rare the corpse was. On
the contrary, the yellow spiritual crystal was much easier to refine. In fact, the success rate for this was
not very low, as long as the yellow spiritual crystal was refined by a five-star spirit-manipulated beast.
Rocky named such a spiritual crystal refinement method the "Beast Refining Method".
After arranging the Fire Rock Turtle to have a rest and recuperate, he grabbed the bamboo basket
containing the six cubs and walked out of the shed.
Meanwhile, Ken and Robin patiently waited outside the shed. Upon seeing their master, they walked
towards him with eagerness. But when they saw that the six cubs on the bamboo basket were all alive
and well, they could not help but jump with glee.
Ken and Robin changed a lot over the past six months. In fact, Robin had now grown to three meters.
Plus, its strong body was more like a huge giant now that could easily intimidate anyone who saw it.
Ken seemed to have mainly strengthened its aura. Moreover, its pair of crystal deer horns looked like
branches now, complexly intertwined.
At that moment, these two beasts seemed to be both qualified to be guardian beasts. What's more,
their improvement in strength could be seen from the changes that their bodies had gone through over
the past half year.
Meanwhile, Rocky returned to the wooden house and immediately cleaned the six cubs. He fed them
some spiritual juice made from the spiritual flowers and herbs he had collected. Not long after, he sent
them back to the wooden shed to be with their mother.
Soon after, he walked out of the wooden shed and stretched his body as he looked around the entire
valley. He shifted his gaze to the east side and saw three experimental beasts. These beasts had just
undergone gene mutation and their strength was improved to the second grade of the two-star level. At
that time, these beasts seemed to be lazily sunbathing under the heat of the sun. Since they were a
new species, Rocky had named them the Dark Magic Insects. Meanwhile, the other three Dark Heaven
Insects were lying not far away from where the three Dark Magic Insects were. Although these three
Dark Magic Insects were only at the second grade of the two-star level, their bodies were almost the
same as the three Dark Heaven Insects at the second grade of the three-star level. Moreover, they had
already produced low-grade Dark Heaven Eggs, with quality that could be compared to the middle-
grade Dark Heaven Eggs produced by the original Dark Heaven Insects. More than that, the production
period of these eggs was shorter.
Therefore, Rocky could almost consume eggs of the six insects as his snacks. However, the middle-
grade Dark Heaven Eggs were not enough to satisfy his needs and enhance his strength.
Nevertheless, they still helped him improve a little.
But in the whole Wild Spirit Land, he was known to be the only one who saw these Dark Heaven Eggs
as treats and eat them as snacks.
Soon after, he went to the warehouse where Uriah's egg was kept for routine observation. In fact, its
aura had grown stronger ever since it had evolved and showed the fifth color just a month ago.
However, after he fed the egg the blood essence for a month, it seemed that its color changed slower
than he expected. Perhaps, this was because despite collecting all the blood essence of the five-star
spirit-manipulated beasts, the blood essence from them still could not satisfy the egg.
Meanwhile, he heard a random noise outside the warehouse. Without hesitation, he quickly walked out
of the warehouse and saw the small dragon which was about to land from the sky.
"So, what could it be this time?" Rocky made his way to the dragon and took out a bamboo tube. Soon
after opening the container, he drew out two envelopes from it.
After opening one of them, he learned that it came from Laney. Apparently, she just asked Marcia to
send it to him on her behalf. The letter reported the implementation of the plan about the beast hospital
that he had previously worked on in the Timber Deity Empire. During the past six months, under Juey's
leadership, the Xiao Clan managed to open more than 20 chain beast hospitals in the Timber Deity
Empire. Moreover, they already spread across more than half of the entire empire. Apart from that, it
appeared that they were about to set up more of these hospitals in some big countries, including the
Holy Dragon Empire.
As a result, the Xiao's beast hospital was well-known not only in the Timber Deity Empire but also in
the Wild Spirit Land. In fact, many spirit manipulators from different countries even traveled for long
distances just to the Timber Deity Empire to have their spirit-manipulated beasts cured.
Needless to say, Rocky knew that Alyssa and Woods supported the fast development of the beast
hospitals.
After winning in the treasure hunting mission more than half a year ago, Woods became deeply valued
by the emperor of the Timber Deity Empire. Although he had some ups and downs because of his
involvement in concealing Rocky's identity as a prince, he was not affected due to Alyssa's protection.
Two months ago, Woods had just been announced to be the successor of his father. Recently, his
father's physical condition was not getting any better, in fact, even worse. Therefore, it was only a
matter of time for Woods to become the emperor and take the crown.
Meanwhile, Rocky immediately knew that Marcia sent the other one. As soon as he opened the other
letter, he frowned slightly. In the blink of an eye, a very red flame rose from his palm, which was
completely different from the previous Evil Flame. In fact, it seemed to be a kind of pure spiritual power
with Fire nature. Now, he was able to completely distinguish the evil spiritual power of the Holy Dragon
Bead and the Fire spiritual power, which was one of the achievements of his cultivation in the past six
months.
"It's finally about to begin." Rocky sighed as he walked towards the wooden house.
The following morning came, and the valley where he had lived in seclusion for more than half a year
was completely emptied.
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