Chapter 157: Successive Transformations
At this moment, little chubby Gu seemed to have transformed into a charlatan, holding a high-spirited posture as he incited the nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs, while incidentally enchanting the gorgeous beauty Lv Xinrou as well.
Seeing how enthusiastically the tens of thousands of mystic beast cubs responded to his call, and seeing Lv Xinrou so deeply awed by him, little chubby Gu floated back up into the air, stood with his hands behind his back, and his face was filled with a look of extreme gratification and satisfaction.
In the training ground, the mystic beast cubs bombarded each other, their charging figures and continuous ultimate moves stirring up streams of gale-force winds that swept straight into the sky, blowing little chubby Gu's fine hair upward and his robes snapping violently. Anyone unaware of his cultivation foundation and background would genuinely be very likely to be subdued and tricked by the towering expert demeanor he was currently displaying.
At this moment, the mystic beast cubs, acting as if they had lost their minds, were fighting each other with all their might, as if terrified that the other party would feel they were not putting in enough effort, thereby causing the other party's bodily transformation to fail.
And the truth was indeed so.
If this beast wants to transform, it requires your full-force attack upon me. If you dare to hold back or reserve your strength, then you are simply harboring the deliberate intention of preventing this beast from succeeding, and this grudge and hatred shall be endless and everlasting.
Especially the Giant Shield Elephant, which had personal experience of being personally beaten by the boss to have its overall size reduced by a fraction, but successfully advanced with a massive surge in physical explosive power, was now playing with red eyes and risking its life.
"Hit me!"
"Hurry up! Be quick!"
"Hit me with all your might!"
"Moo? How dare you hold back?!"
"Are you tickling this beast? This aunt can bear it, but this uncle cannot!"
"To actually dare perfunctorily deal with this beast, I'll smash you to death!"
The Jagged Crocodile fighting against it wailed incessantly to the heavens.
"My friend, do you think I am the boss? With that thick skin and peerless defensive capability of yours, this beast simply cannot blast through it or bite through it, alright? How can you blame this beast for that?"
"That shy appearance you put on usually must be a complete act. You are a thorough, top-to-bottom fraud, and your true nature is completely exposed now, isn't it?"
"You actually forgot that you are a dignified Giant Shield Elephant! If it were usual times and we still had our spiritual cultivation base, this beast would definitely gnaw you to death without a second thought, and I wouldn't be afraid of you in the slightest."
"However..."
"Big brother, right now neither of us has any cultivation base, and we're relying purely on our physical bodies?"
"Although my Jagged Crocodile clan has strong physical bodies, we are still several grades behind the physical body of a Giant Shield Elephant, alright?"
"I have already tried this hard to whip and bite you, yet you still dare to complain that this beast is just tickling you?"
"You really look down on this beast too much. I am so wronged that frost could fall in June."
The robust Jagged Crocodile, more than three meters long, lashed its huge crocodile tail repeatedly against the Giant Shield Elephant's blood-red eyes. When the tail strikes failed, it switched to its ferocious mouth, using its sharp fangs to bite down with all its might.
Yet the Giant Shield Elephant, suffering blow after blow, was covered in bruises and countless bite marks, but failed to produce even a few decent bleeding spots. No wonder the Giant Shield Elephant felt that its opponent was holding back and insulting it.
Therefore, while enduring the bombardments and desperately charging forward, the Giant Shield Elephant forced the Jagged Crocodile to retreat step by step, knocking over countless other fighting cubs along the way and completely arousing public anger.
Following that, another scene unfolded: dozens of mystic beast cubs, filled with a sense of injustice, changed opponents one after another, setting their sights on the Giant Shield Elephant and, together with the Jagged Crocodile, began a desperate, swarming siege.
Calling it a siege was actually more like borrowing the Giant Shield Elephant's immense strength to hammer and temper their own bodies.
Dozens of mystic beast cubs rapidly used their own bodies to fiercely slam or smash into the Giant Shield Elephant. Each time they were repelled, they would retreat, accelerate again, and crash or smash another part of their bodies against the Giant Shield Elephant...
There were several other places similar to this scene, so it did not take long for the orderly mutual bombardment of the entire training ground to fall into complete chaos.
No longer seeking specific opponents, as long as their bell-like eyes spotted a beast cub, regardless of who it was, they would attack as if trying to kill them, completely casting the so-called ranks to the back of their minds.
Little chubby Gu and the two great beauties watching from the air were dazzled at the moment. They saw many first-tier and second-tier mystic beast cubs, overestimating themselves, catching sight of third-tier and fourth-tier big cubs, and still throwing themselves forward with desperate disregard, crashing head-on. After being knocked far back, they would bare their teeth, accelerate again, and continue charging.
To this, little chubby Gu did not voice any opposition. After all, with such chaos, the results might turn out even better.
Inside the training ground at this moment, amidst flying dust and scattered debris, the entire ground had become completely uneven and potholed, and every single cub was covered in wounds.
After a few hours, seeing that the rhythm of the chaotic bombardment in the arena had slowed down, and even a number of cubs had passed out from exhaustion, little chubby Gu immediately waved his small hand, and a massive amount of spiritual pills burst open right in the center of the chaotic battlefield. Endless medicinal mist began to nourish and repair the injuries of all the mystic beast cubs.
Once all the cubs recovered a shred of strength, little chubby Gu waved his small hand again, causing every single mystic beast cub to open its mouth wide, biting or inhaling another spiritual pill.
After absorbing it, amidst another series of earth-shaking roars, they crashed into one another once more, slamming into any cub they saw, biting, gnawing, kicking, stomping, or smashing...
The gorgeous beauty Lv Xinrou, who had been watching from the air the entire time, was almost dumbfounded at this moment.
Having lived and grown up in the Mystic Beast Forest since childhood, Lv Xinrou had seen those who quietly practiced in seclusion, those who engaged in duels, and those who engaged in group brawls, but those were all under the enhancement of cultivation bases. When had she ever seen a scene where all cultivation was sealed yet people fought so desperately?
Having already reached the fourth-tier grand perfection, Lv Xinrou had sharp eyes and noticed that countless cubs in the arena indeed seemed to have their bodies slightly shrunk in transformation, yet their strength was obviously greater. Because of this, even she had a thought pop up in her mind that startled herself: Should she also go down and join the fun to undergo a transformation?
The instant this thought arose, it was thoroughly obliterated by Lv Xinrou.
Subconsciously glancing at little chubby Gu beside her who was watching the battle, Lv Xinrou breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, she had controlled herself, otherwise if she had truly rushed straight down blindly...
The lady-like image she had worked so hard to maintain would undoubtedly be self-destruction and ruined in a single moment.
Outside the thick fog, although countless mystic beast supreme experts were scattered in various places, every single one of them attentively watched and observed the chaotic battle of the cubs within the foggy arena.
Those senior experts who had their own cubs inside were especially filled with inexplicable excitement.
How many days has this human kid been here, yet their own cubs have advanced by a tier without damaging their foundations at all, and their physical strength has been even better developed?
At this moment, seeing that their cubs' bodies seemed to have shrunk a fraction more, yet their sense of power was even stronger, and faint signs of a breakthrough seemed to be appearing, they burst into continuous sighs and expressions of gratitude.
Moreover, the area outside the dense fog was already crowded with countless other highly curious mystic beasts, who continuously probed their spiritual sense into the thick fog in shock.
Within the entire arena, the battle circle moved as the pack of cubs shifted.
Before long, the entire battle circle had been pushed to the outer perimeter of the mountains.
The mystic beast cubs, seemingly completely immersed in the mutual bombardment, simply couldn't be bothered to relocate. They directly slammed, rammed, or blasted apart one mountain peak after another, continuing to pound each other with other cubs.
The endless mountain peaks suffered a complete disaster. As the cubs battered each other all the way, one mountain peak after another was completely shattered into piles of rubble, and the trajectory of destruction continued to spread.
In little chubby Gu's mind, he had completely overlooked a particularly important point from the very beginning.
Among these nearly ten thousand mystic beast cubs, nearly one-third were female cubs! Yet he had shown no chivalry, nor had he separated the training, but instead lumped them together with countless male cubs for specialized training in the same place.
And the nearly three thousand female cubs seemed to have completely forgotten their own gender, matching the males in being unafraid of men as they crashed straight into countless male cubs for mutual bombardment, with not a single beast feeling the slightest bit improper about it.
"Roar!..."
"Screech!..."
Even more astonishingly, even the flying mystic beast cubs, who had always pursued speed and previously somewhat neglected physical strength, now stood firmly on two feet with their massive wings unfurled, flapping everywhere and striking anyone they saw.
Within the entire battle circle, the beast fur and feathers that the mystic beast cubs usually cherished and meticulously groomed were now fluttering everywhere along with the dust storm, as if they didn't belong to them and cost nothing at all.
Compared to being able to advance their cultivation and physical strength a step further, fur and feathers? What are those? Who cares about cherishing them anymore?
...
Night fell.
During this time, the mystic beast cubs, having received two more rounds of healing from little chubby Gu's medicinal pills, were still engaged in a fierce, chaotic battle that was going on in full swing.
Even though they were ravenous after exhausting massive amounts of physical stamina, they still did not slack off in the slightest.
The roars and strange cries of beasts resounded loudly to the heavens, while their rumbling stomachs growled like rolling thunder, one after another.
After another hour or so, a few more faint radiances suddenly lit up from the bodies of several mystic beast cubs, and Aru the Earth Demonic Bear was among them.
"Roar roar roar..."
"This beast has succeeded!"
"This beast has succeeded too!"
"Boss, Aru has succeeded too!"...
Excited howls completely stimulated all the other cubs. Gathering a fresh burst of strength from somewhere unknown, they violently smashed into each other with even greater intensity.
It was another chain reaction.
During the subsequent bombardments, batches of faint, dazzling radiances lit up, and dozens more mystic beast cubs successfully advanced another tier, while their physical strength also surged significantly.
Without exception, their massive bodies were every bit smaller than before, but the explosive power contained within them truly thrilled these successfully transformed cubs.
"All those who have successfully broken through, withdraw from the battle circle!"
"The rest, continue!"
"You lot are only a hair's breadth away from transformation! Use your strength! Continue to use your strength! Give it your all! Fight until you completely move yourselves!"
Little chubby Gu, transformed into a charlatan, was exceptionally good at picking his timing. Just as the phenomenon of successive breakthroughs appeared, he raised his voice once more to incite them.
And the countless mystic beast cubs were truly cooperative enough. The moment little chubby Gu's voice fell, countless radiances flashed once more, brilliant as the stars.
Bai Ling'er also began to be moved at this moment, while Lv Xinrou had already made up her mind: once little chubby Gu left the Mystic Beast Forest later, she would definitely undergo such a transformation herself.
Mystic beasts were different from the human race. While their lifespans were much longer than humans, the difficulty of their breakthroughs was also many times greater than that of humans.
Yet at this moment, because of little chubby Gu's appearance, this barrier seemed to have been breached.
Right now, all the mystic beast supreme experts were also beginning to feel tempted, secretly thinking whether their own cultivation levels, which had been stuck for decades or hundreds of years, could also take another step forward through this method?!