Beastmaster: I don’t want to be a breeder!.

Chapter 501 Re-training

On the blood-red beach, every grain of sand appears as if it has been soaked in blood, a vibrant crimson.

A group of rusty bronzes drifted aimlessly on the beach. They possessed the ability of magnetic levitation, which allowed them to float at low altitudes.

Suddenly, a salty sea breeze blew by.

The rusted bronze (spear) was blown erratically by the sea breeze, its body swaying from side to side like a blade of grass in a storm. The tip of the spear accidentally struck the rusted bronze (sword), and with a crack, the rusted bronze (sword) broke in two.

The rusty bronze sword struggled on the ground for a while, and then... died.

Black Flame Horse stared in disbelief at the scene; it was far too fragile.

Black Flame Horse shifted its gaze slightly to Rusty Bronze (the spear). The sea breeze had stopped, but it was still swaying. The collision with Rusty Bronze (the sword) seemed to have damaged its head, making it look like a drunkard.

Suddenly, it lost its balance and the gun tip struck a seashell washed ashore, breaking off instantly.

Black Flame Horse exclaimed in astonishment, "This pet is too weak! It's even weaker than a slime. At least a slime won't be blown away by a sea breeze."

As soon as Black Flame Horse finished speaking, a strong wind swept in.

The rusted bronzes were blown about, some sideways and some crooked.

A group of fifty-six rusted bronzes were wiped out by a strong wind, with twenty-four of them killed and eleven others seriously injured. They were missing some parts, such as rusted bronze knives, whose blades and backs were chipped in several places.

"W-w-w...are we really going to choose a future partner here?"

Black Flame Horse said with some worry.

The new companion's race is too fragile, even less reliable than a slime; a strong gust of wind and half of them would be wiped out.

"Ah."

Li Cunxu nodded.

Black Flame Horse asked, "Can it really work?"

Li Cunxu said, "It can be done, trust me."

The sea breeze came again. This time, the wind wasn't very strong, but it still carried away a few pieces of rusted bronze.
Black Flame Horse stared at the Rust Bronze, which was still struggling to survive on the beach, and asked curiously, "Rusty Bronze would be blown away by the wind, how did they survive in this dangerous Four Gods Continent?"

"You'll find out tonight."

Night falls, darkness descends.

Lying on the beach, the broken, rusty bronze sword trembled slightly, then floated up and pieced itself back together from the break, giving birth to a not-so-new rusty bronze sword.

Black Flame Horse exclaimed in surprise, "Resurrected?"

Li Cunxu shook his head. "No, it's not resurrection, it's called birth. Although the sword body is still the same sword body, the soul inside is different."

This method of rebirth of rusted bronze on the body of a previous rusted bronze actually has many hidden dangers.

For example, a close examination of the rusted bronze in the shape of this sword reveals that the joints are not completely healed, with a tiny crack that will become its fatal weakness.

Black Flame Horse asked curiously, "If broken pieces of rusted bronze can be pieced together to create new rusted bronze, can pieces of rusted bronze that have been reduced to dust also be pieced together to create new rusted bronze?"

"can."

Suddenly, a particularly strong wind swept across the sea, and on the other side of the beach, more than five hundred groups of rusted bronzes suffered.

Ping-ping-pong~
More than four hundred rusted bronzes were killed in battle.

Li Cunxu used his mental power to collect all the broken fragments of the rusted bronze into the Heavenly Pavilion Ring.

Black Flame Horse said, "Aren't we choosing new partners? Why are we collecting these rusty bronze fragments?"

Black Flame Horse didn't quite understand Li Cunxu's actions. Why collect bronze fragments of this quality?
It's no wonder Black Flame Horse was puzzled; the quality of these bronze fragments was simply too poor. Even a little girl could break them with a little effort, and an adult could easily crush them into powder with one hand.

Furthermore, Black Flame Horse noticed that the bronze fragments Li Cunxu picked up were all from naturally deceased rusted bronze; Li Cunxu did not touch the living rusted bronze.

Li Cunxu could have easily killed all the living rusted bronze creatures with a single mental attack, but he didn't. Instead, he waited for the wind to blow them to death.

Li Cunxu said, "I forgot to tell you, there is another way for rusted bronze to be produced, which is to be melted down and remade."

Black Flame Horse understood what this meant; Li Cunxu was going to create a rusted bronze statue himself.

One advantage of rusted bronze produced through remelting is that it is intact and does not have the cracks or weaknesses left by the previous rusted bronze.

Black Flame Horse asked, "Why must we collect fragments of naturally rusted bronze?"

"Those who attempt to remelt and rebuild the rusted bronze must not have killed any members of the rusted bronze race if they wish to succeed in rebuilding it. Otherwise, they will be hated by the will of the rusted bronze race, making the rebuilding impossible."

Li Cunxu began collecting fragments of rusted bronze every day.

Not only did they collect them themselves, but they also sent all their pets to collect them.

Time flies, and Xiao Ruan's task of consuming sour grass seeds for one hundred days was completed in the blink of an eye. Her [Digestion] talent successfully evolved into the [Rapid Digestion] talent.

Seven hundred tons of rusted bronze fragments were also collected, and Li Cunxu collected all the rusted bronze from more than a dozen coastal sites.

However, it is still not enough.

Li Cunxu's goal is to collect 999 tons of rusted bronze.

While continuing to collect, Li Cunxu also forged a blast furnace capable of holding 999 tons of rusted bronze fragments, and traded with the alliance to allow Xiao Ruan to quickly digest and evolve into the evolutionary material for the Gluttonous King talent.

Three things in one mind.

The method for becoming a competitive eater: Eat one digestive stone and one ton of food every day for 300 consecutive days.

The Expansion Stone is a king-level spatial resource. When crushed within a spatial ring, it can expand the ring's internal space.

The purpose of feeding the pet a food-expanding stone is to create a large, gluttonous space in the pet's stomach for storing and digesting food.

I traded Expansion Stones and also owe the Alliance a year's worth of Purification Crystals.

The daily food supply of one ton was not traded with the alliance.

Li Cunxu stayed on the coast every day, while Xiao Ruan had countless fish to eat in the sea.

A month later, after collecting 999 tons of rusted bronze fragments, Li Cunxu instructed Xiao Ruan to connect with the earth fire and ignite the massive blast furnace.

Li Cunxu threw the 999 tons of rusted bronze fragments from the Tiange Ring into the blast furnace for remelting.

The melting point of the rusted bronze fragments is very low; upon contact with the earth's fire, they turn into molten copper.

Nine hundred and ninety-nine tons of rusted bronze fragments piled up like a small mountain. Under the scorching heat of the earth's fire, like a snow mountain meeting the blazing sun, they melted into molten copper at an extremely fast speed. The molten copper was enough to fill a small lake.

Black Flame Horse, seeing this scene through the small hole in the blast furnace, asked in confusion, "Is our new companion a giant piece of rusted bronze?"

Li Cunxu shook his head slightly, "It's not a giant rusted bronze."

If the blast furnace were to shut down at this time, the pet-shaped bronze that would emerge from the molten copper would indeed be a massive piece of bronze.

However, Li Cunxu was not interested in the giant rusted bronze, because no matter how big the rusted bronze was, it could not change the fact that the material was very fragile.

As the subterranean fire burned, the molten copper gradually shrank, shrinking from a lake-sized amount to the size of a ramen bowl.

(End of this chapter)