Chapter 53: Responsible for the Kill and the Burial [June Charge!]

Although people can borrow the power of their life cards, strictly speaking, the life card itself understands its own abilities best and wields them with greater skill.

Lu Sheng shook his head helplessly and proceeded to examine the five cards.

[Storage Card] – [White Cloud Horse] – [Ice Storm] – [Inspiration] – [Lightning Conductor Gloves]

[Storage Card]
Tier: Five
Function: Fifty cubic meters of storage space.

[White Cloud Horse]
Quality: Green
Tier: Two
Skills: Advanced stamina, advanced endurance

[Ice Storm]
Quality: Green
Tier: Three
Function: Can be used on a single target, freezing the opponent; the stronger the target, the weaker the freezing effect.

[Inspiration]
Tier: Three
Function: After use, for ten minutes, the strength of ten designated people increases by twenty percent.

[Lightning Conductor Gloves]
Tier: Five
Function: When lightning passes through these gloves, its power increases by fifty percent.

Looking at the five cards, Lu Sheng was honestly disappointed; he had hoped for something more related to breeding.

He then checked the Storage Card, paying particular attention to its contents.

He poured everything out and took inventory.

Tier three source beads x241, tier four source beads x15, tier five source beads x1

Tier one Azure Spirit Fruit x35, tier two Azure Spirit Fruit x10, tier three Azure Spirit Fruit x3

Tier three quality Evolution Fruit x1

The items in the storage bag were quite good—Lu Sheng liked them, especially the Azure Spirit Fruit; so many were enough for him to reach tier two perfection.

He was just a bit short of reaching tier three, but the quality Evolution Fruit was also a nice find.

He asked the Space-Time Ant if it needed anything, but the ant calmly refused.

Lu Sheng, however, had an idea. The Fangtooth Pig happened to require a tier three green-quality spirit fruit as an evolution condition, and this tier three quality Evolution Fruit was just right.

The storage bag contained some clothing and miscellaneous items Lu Sheng deemed useless; he tossed them all into Meng Yang’s corpse pit, planning to leave them in this monster world when he departed.

He couldn’t let a corpse remain in his sub-dimensional space forever.

While rummaging through those odds and ends, a particular token caught Lu Sheng’s attention.

The token was entirely black, with a bamboo grove carved on its back and the character for “shadow” on its front.

Lu Sheng had just taken it out, intending to study it, when the token projected a virtual panel, as if from a projector.

[Incomplete red aptitude detected, unable to bind Shadow Token for now…]

This token seemed to be something special.

Incomplete red aptitude—was it referring to his life card?

It could even detect the original state of his shattered life card, which surely meant it was valuable.

Unfortunately, for now, it could only gather dust.

He tossed it into the sub-dimensional space, planning to revisit it once the Space-Time Ant recovered to red quality.

Thus, these were his gains for this trip.

Next, Lu Sheng planned to wait here until the Blood Moon space expelled him.

He focused his mind into the sub-dimensional space and summoned the Fangtooth Pig.

He handed over the quality Evolution Fruit for the pig to eat, letting it undergo its first stage of evolution.

It was, after all, the key contributor to his breeding plan—this fruit was well deserved.

The Fangtooth Pig swallowed the fruit in one gulp, and changes occurred instantly. Countless points of light began to appear all over its body.

The pig’s skin absorbed these lights, and before long, the evolution was complete.

It looked much the same, its appearance unchanged, except for a final flash of green as the last light disappeared.

Apparently, it had successfully reached green quality.

Before Lu Sheng could check the card’s attributes, white lights appeared again on the pig’s skin.

This time, the Fangtooth Pig began to undergo a dramatic transformation; gray bristles sprouted all over its body, each thick and needle-like, gleaming coldly.

Thus, under Lu Sheng’s watchful gaze, the Fangtooth Pig transformed from sparse bristles into a creature covered entirely in coarse pig hair.

When the white light faded, a streak of blue flashed as well.

Lu Sheng had his suspicions.

He opened the Fangtooth Pig’s card panel.

[Bristle Fangtooth Pig]
Quality: Blue
Tier: Early three
Skills: Boar King bloodline, copper skin, bristle charge.
Advanced skill: Hardening

Copper Skin: The outer skin is reinforced, ordinary weapons can hardly harm it.

Bristle Charge: Bristles harden and stiffen, charging in a designated direction.

Hardening: Overall defense is raised by twenty percent.

Just as he thought, the Fangtooth Pig had evolved twice in succession, even changing its name.

Three new skills had appeared, making the Bristle Fangtooth Pig far tougher and more resilient.

However, Lu Sheng regretted that the number of summons had not increased; he wondered if this might change with further improvement.

With these matters settled, Lu Sheng took out an Azure Spirit Fruit, swallowed it, and entered a cultivation state.

Spirit fruits were the easiest energy materials to absorb, a hundred times easier than the Red Sac of the Fire Ant.

Low-tier spirit fruits were easy enough to find.

As one’s strength increased, high-tier spirit fruits became harder and harder to obtain.

High-tier spirit fruits usually grew in very special environments, guarded by powerful monsters.

To easily obtain such fruit, one’s level must exceed the fruit’s tier.

For example, if you were tier seven and sought tier six spirit fruit, it might be easy.

But if a higher tier sought a lower tier, the fruit’s value to you would be minimal, offering little improvement.

For the remainder of the Blood Moon’s time, Lu Sheng refined all the Azure Spirit Fruits he had, successfully reaching tier two perfection.

His strength surged once again.

After successive breakthroughs, his body grew stronger, and the Space-Time Ant also saw great improvement.

If he faced the Rock Earth Bear now, he could kill it with a single punch.

[Space-Time Ant]
Quality: Purple (formerly Red)
Tier: Two, perfection
Skills: Sub-dimensional space (7 kilometer range), 100-fold strength, time reversal, space freeze.

With this tier advancement, all skills had improved significantly.

For example, Space Freeze—if he used it on Meng Yang now, the time lock would last not just 0.5 seconds, but at least one second.

And he would no longer suffer brief exhaustion afterwards.

This trip had yielded considerable gains, though danger lurked as well; he had nearly died at Meng Yang’s hands.

As the time for return approached, Lu Sheng quietly waited for the final second.

The Rock Earth Bear was already stored away, leaving him alone in the bear cave.

In the last ten seconds, Lu Sheng retrieved the corpse from the sub-dimensional space and placed it in the cave.

Then he left the cave, stood above it, and with a powerful stomp, the whole cave collapsed with a thunderous crash, burying Meng Yang’s body and forming a simple grave.

Having finished, Lu Sheng disappeared from the world.

He not only killed, but buried.

Returning to his original world, the dungeon had vanished; some people, however, appeared somewhat flustered.

Those from the Sandstorm Gathering Place were especially anxious, emerging in a panic. From their words, it seemed they had been teleported to nearly identical locations and hunted by monsters for an hour.

Of the original three hundred, only about a hundred remained—many had apparently died.