Divine Beasts And I Are Fated - Chapter 31
Chapter 31 Awakening! Cold Air!
“The ice demon’s blood is a special tonic made from the blood of a lower Sovereign-level Transcendent creature, the ice demon. As the blood of a Sovereign-level Transcendent creature, it possesses great power. As long as your pet can digest and absorb the energy contained in it, the strength of your ice-attribute familiar will increase significantly,” Lin Xue explained the use of the ice demon blood to Ji An.
Upon hearing this, Ji An’s interest in this kind of tonic was already piqued.
Then, Lin Xue changed the topic and said, “However, the ice demons are brutal by nature, and their blood also contains extremely violent power. Ordinary familiars can’t control this power at all, let alone digest and absorb it. Most of them who use this material will only let it go to waste. They’ll also have to endure the torture of the ice demon’s power. It’s laborious and unrewarding.”
“I remember that your Winter Bear seems to have a good grasp of the Hibernation skill. Hibernation can help the familiar digest and absorb energy. Your bear can try to suppress the power of the ice demon blood and digest
it.”
Even though the side effects of the ice demon blood mentioned by Lin Xue sounded quite serious, it made Ji An even more interested in this special tonic.
Just as Lin Xue said, the winter bear’s Hibernation could improve the efficiency of energy absorption and digestion.
Lin Xue’s understanding of the winter bear cub’s Hibernation was still limited to the battle with Ling Haoyang about a month ago.
During this period, the improvement momentum of the winter bear cub’s Hibernation had not decreased at all.
Hibernation in the Proficient realm was not just “seems to have a good grasp of it”. It was also ridiculous.
Even if he said what the winter bear cub’s Hibernation skill’s realm was, not many would believe him.
To think a winter bear that had only completed its fifth Morphing had mastered the Hibernation skill in the Proficient realm.
“Sister Lin, is my purchase quota in the Association enough to purchase the ice demon’s blood?” Ji An asked.
“Yes. Otherwise, I wouldn’t have recommended it to you,” Lin Xue said with a smile.
“Not many people buy this thing. After all, the ice demon blood is only effective in increasing the strength of Morphing-level familiars, yet most of the Morphing-level familiars find it difficult to digest and absorb the violent energy contained in it. As for the Morphing-level familiars that can suppress and digest this power, they won’t be interested in the effect of such a small improvement. In short, it’s quite useless.”
“I’ll buy it,” After hearing Lin Xue’s words, Ji An’s heart settled and he immediately made a decision.
When Ji An walked out of the Association with the ice box that contained the ice demon blood reagent, he still couldn’t help but feel heartache.
Even though Lin Xue had said that the ice demon blood was of little value, the internal purchase price of the Association was 70000 Yuan.
In the outside world, it would probably cost at least 100000 Yuan.
Now, he had obtained the ice demon blood, but he had also lost a third of his savings.
This made Ji An sigh helplessly about how much money seemed to flow like water.
After returning home, Ji An excitedly took out the ice demon blood.
It was a dark blue crystal-like liquid.
The dark blue liquid in the glass test tube occasionally emitted a starry brilliance, looking quite magnificent.
The winter bear cub, Ping An, had long since known that this was a tonic Ji An had specially prepared for it to increase its strength.
It was already waiting impatiently at the side.
“Ping An, don’t be in a hurry. Before you drink this vial of ice demon blood, I have to remind you that the side effects of this supplement are not small. If you can’t suppress the violent energy contained in it, not only will it not be able to improve your strength, but it may even hurt you. How about this, you take a sip first? If you feel like you can handle it, then we’ll increase the dosage,” To be on the safe side, Ji An decided to let Ping An try slowly.
“Roar!” The winter bear cub, Ping An, hurriedly waved its hands at Ji An, indicating that it understood.
“Then let’s start,” Ji An carefully opened the reagent tube’s seal.
He slowly placed the thumb-sized thick, palm-length test tube into Ping An’s wide-open mouth.
Then, he immediately shook the test tube, and a large amount of ice demon blood slid into Ping An’s mouth.
“Ping An, hibernate!” Ji An immediately instructed
Ping An swallowed the ice demon blood and quickly entered its Hibernation state.
In terms of sleeping, it had yet to meet its match.
This time, Ji An wanted to observe the changes in Ping An’s body after it consumed the ice demon blood in real time, so he didn’t let Ping An enter the soul domain.
Instead, he made it stay in the room for easy observation.
As Ping An entered the Hibernation state, he saw that its pure white fur was dyed with a layer of blue light.
Ping An, who was in a state of Hibernation, was lying on the floor, sleeping soundly.
From the outside, the ice demon blood’s violent energy did not seem to affect Ping An’s sleep at all.
However, whether or not there was any effect, or whether or not Ping An had successfully absorbed the energy contained in the ice demon blood, could not be seen from the outside.
Ji An activated his Eye of Insight, prepared to monitor the changes in Ping An’s body after it consumed the ice demon blood.
As long as a powerful tonic like the ice demon blood was successfully absorbed, the strength of a familiar could be easily reflected in its energy level.
Ji An only needed to pay attention to the changes in Ping An’s energy level to roughly gauge the winter bear’s digestion and absorption rate of the ice demon blood.
He didn’t have to wait long.
Less than ten minutes after Ji An’s unblinking gaze landed on Ping An, its energy level steadily increased by 0.1 from 69.5 in the morning
After a short five minutes, it increased by another 0.1 and maintained a 0.1 increment every five minutes.
However, when its energy level reached the 69.9 mark, it stopped.
Ji An waited for six or seven minutes, but there was still no movement.
He immediately prepared to give the winter bear cub more.
Through soul communication, Ji An woke Ping An up.
When Ping An opened its mouth again, he immediately poured nearly half a tube of ice demon blood into its mouth.
After half a vial of the ice demon blood was consumed, the dark blue light on Ping An’s body became even darker.
Not only that, but it started to give off a chill.
Ji An felt as if the winter bear cub before him was no longer made of flesh and blood.
Instead, it was a block of ice.
An invisible chill could not help but hit him in the face, making him shiver from the cold.
However, he did not have the time to pay attention to these details.
With his Eye of Insight, he saw that the winter bear cub’s energy level had broken through the 70-point barrier in less than five minutes, reaching the energy level of many familiars that had gone through their eighth Morphing.
After breaking through the 70 mark, Ping An’s momentum did not slow down at all. Its energy level was rising at a rate of 0.1 points almost every two to three minutes.
After ten minutes or so, Ji An gritted his teeth.
He decided to feed the remaining half of the ice demon’s blood to Ping An.
As the other half vial of ice demon blood was consumed, the invisible chill on Ping An’s body had almost become visible.
Accompanied by a cracking sound, a layer of frost formed on Ping An’s fur, as if it was covered in a layer of ice armor.
However, this layer of ice armor was not as transparent as the ice condensed by Hard Ice. Instead, it was dark blue.
It was like the skin color of the ice demon.
Not only that, but the cold air around Ping An’s body also spread to the surroundings.
Ji An couldn’t react in time and came into contact with the cold air. He immediately retracted his right hand, which had been frozen by the Cold Air in that instant, as if he had been electrocuted.
Then, he looked at the strange cold air as if he had seen a ghost and ran away to avoid it. He only stopped when he saw that the cold air had stopped expanding.
Rubbing his almost frostbitten right hand, Ji An examined the cold air surrounding Ping An’s body again and again before exclaiming in disbelief, “What is this? The skill, Cold Air!”
