Li Shiming has achieved his goal in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts and even exceeded it. The promotion of the Phantom Dragon to the fourth grade is definitely an unexpected surprise.
He just stayed by the volcano, watching the Phantom Dragon playing with the chicks.
Due to the contract, the Phantom Dragon and the Chicken are both Li Shiming's pets. Although they compete for favor, they do not have any hatred towards each other. Instead, they get along well with each other.
There were only ten third-grade top-grade spirit beast enhancement pills. Li Shiming assured Huanling Jiao and Xiaoji that there would be plenty of third-grade top-grade spirit beast enhancement pills in the future, and distributed the remaining few third-grade top-grade spirit beast enhancement pills to the two of them.
In order to allow the chick to store the third-grade top-level spirit beast enhancement pill, he also equipped the chick with a space ring.
Although the chicken is small, its powerful soul enables it to use the space ring to store and retrieve items.
In Li Shiming's opinion, with the potential of the chick, it will no longer need a space ring when it grows up, as powerful spiritual beasts all have their own ways of storing items.
A day passed quickly, and when he saw that the time was almost up, he let the Phantom Dragon transform into a small form and wrap around his wrist, while the chicken stood on his shoulder.
Not long after he was ready, a spatial energy enveloped his body, and then his figure disappeared in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts.
Li Shiming's figure appeared in the valley. He was about to say hello to Master Hu and leave, but suddenly he felt something was wrong.
Above his head, thunderclouds were gathering faintly.
"Master Li, has your spiritual pet achieved a breakthrough in the cave?" Monk Hu appeared beside him and asked.
"Yes, one of my spiritual pets has broken through to the fourth level!" Li Shiming would not hide it, nor did he need to hide it.
As Monk Hu spoke, his eyes were fixed on the Phantom Dragon on his wrist. The Phantom Dragon was not invisible, and its small body looked like a decoration.
"There is no heavenly tribulation in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, but after you leave the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, the heavenly tribulation will still come. I will send you to the Tribulation Mountain!" Master Hu said slowly.
He grabbed Li Shiming's shoulder with one hand. Li Shiming only felt the scenery in front of him changing rapidly. In just half a breath, Li Shiming appeared in Dujie Mountain.
This speed is so fast that it can almost be compared to the power of divine feet.
"If you don't release your spirit pet yet, you can't get involved in its tribulation. Otherwise, it will increase the difficulty of the tribulation!" Great Monk Hu reminded.
Li Shiming immediately came to his senses and released the Phantom Dragon.
He prepared some fourth-grade high-level elixirs for the Phantom Dragon for healing and replenishing spiritual power, and placed them all in the Phantom Dragon's storage space. These were all prepared for its daily use.
Now it can be used just right to overcome the calamity and give the Phantom Dragon some more means to overcome the calamity.
"Hey, Master Li has a good trick. This is a five-clawed dragon, the most powerful spiritual pet with dragon bloodline in the sect!" Master Hu exclaimed in amazement when he saw the true form of the Phantom Dragon.
He had long sensed the difference of the Phantom Dragon, but he never imagined that the Phantom Dragon was actually a five-clawed dragon.
The five-clawed dragon represents the potential of the Phantom Dragon. It has at least reached the late fourth grade, which is equivalent to the realm of a great cultivator without any problem.
The only restriction is the realm of its master Li Shiming. However, with the potential of the five-clawed dragon, if the Ten Thousand Beast Sect is willing, it can spend a huge price to allow Li Shiming to be promoted to the late fourth stage when he is promoted to the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and then the Phantom Dragon can be promoted to the late fourth stage.
The Wanshou Sect's research on spiritual pets is not in vain. As long as a certain amount of precious spiritual objects are consumed, they can accomplish many things that other sects cannot imagine.
"Master Li has made a good harvest this time. In addition to the five-clawed dragon, he also successfully contracted the red-gold phoenix. It seems that my red-gold phoenix eggshell fragments were not given away in vain!" Master Hu looked at the chick on Li Shiming's shoulder and sighed.
"You said the chick is a red-gold phoenix?" Li Shiming asked in surprise.
He really didn't think of this. How could the chick have the power of a phoenix? That's why he didn't regard the chick as a red-gold phoenix.
But when thinking about signing the contract, the chicken's huge soul seemed to be really like this.
"You call the red-gold phoenix a chicken?" This time even Master Hu was a little uneasy.
Li Shiming embarrassedly shifted his gaze to the Phantom Dragon. He didn't know how to explain.
There was a hint of inexplicable meaning in the eyes of Master Hu as he looked at Li Shiming.
Li Shiming was extremely lucky. He had a five-clawed dragon spirit pet with the strongest dragon bloodline, and he also contracted a red-gold phoenix with the strongest phoenix bloodline.
Generally speaking, if a cultivator contracts any one of these, he will receive the greatest attention in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, not to mention if he contracts both of them at the same time.
Originally, Master Hu attached great importance to Li Shiming because of Li Shiming's alchemy ability, which would be helpful to him in the future, so he provided some help to Li Shiming.
But now it's different, he has a greater interest in Li Shiming.
The five-clawed dragon and the scarlet-gold phoenix, once they grow up, will definitely be able to become fourth-grade late-stage spiritual pets and become one of the strongest fighting forces of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.
Under his observation, Li Shiming was less than a hundred years old, but he had already advanced to the Nascent Soul stage. With such a strong talent, it should not be a problem for him to reach the middle stage, let alone the late stage.
"As long as this five-clawed dragon successfully survives the heavenly tribulation, I will accept him as my disciple!" Great Monk Hu turned his head and looked at the Phantom Dragon, with a plan in mind.
With his status in the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, if he accepted Li Shiming as his disciple, Li Shiming's growth process would be much smoother, and Li Shiming would rarely be involved in such petty and despicable things.
"Master Hu, I wonder if the lightning resistance spell I cast on my spirit pet will affect its ability to survive the calamity?" With Master Hu by his side, Li Shiming looked at the thunderclouds gathering in the sky and asked with some concern.
Although he cannot interfere with the spiritual pet's tribulation, he doesn't know whether the blessing state counts as interference in the tribulation.
Anyway, when the heavenly tribulation occurred during the promotion from the second rank to the third rank, he had cast the anti-lightning spell and it had no effect. It was just that he had not studied the rules of heaven and earth for the promotion from the third rank to the fourth rank.
"I had forgotten that you are a thunder cultivator. No problem, you can grant your spirit pet a thunder-resistant state!" Great Monk Hu couldn't help but laugh and replied.
By this time he had made one thing very clear, that is, Li Shiming's birth was not high, otherwise he would not even know this.
This point is very crucial. Although Li Shiming was able to join the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect midway, it must have been because Li Shiming's identity had been investigated, but Master Hu had the intention of accepting Li Shiming as a disciple, so he paid more attention to this aspect.
Without the background of a powerful force, it means that Li Shiming’s previous master could not be compared with the Wanshou Sect, and he would not have a very strong master.
Even if Li Shiming has some thoughts about his former master, it will not affect his feelings towards the Wanshou Sect.
Li Shiming cast the anti-lightning spell "Yuqing Thunder Code" to grant the Phantom Dragon a lightning-resistant state.
This time, Master Hu showed surprise again. He felt the charm of heavenly thunder in the thunder spells from the process of Li Shiming casting thunder spells.
How many times of heavenly tribulations must one go through to cultivate the power to have the charm of heavenly thunder?
He couldn't help but think of an idea he had mentioned when he was communicating with an old friend before. As long as a thunder cultivator experienced the same realm of heavenly tribulation hundreds of times, it would be possible for him to transform his own thunder magic into heavenly thunder.
But this has always been just a concept and cannot be achieved at all.
Not to mention how difficult it is for a cultivator to survive a heavenly tribulation, even if we don't consider how to survive it, just how to experience it hundreds of times is an unachievable problem.
It is true that a spirit pet can help its master survive the catastrophe together with its master, but in that case the intensity of the catastrophe the spirit pet will suffer will increase several times, and the chance of its death will increase significantly.
Besides, although spirit pets can increase the number of tribulations their masters can survive, it is impossible to contract hundreds of spirit pets.
Monks simply cannot afford such a number of spirit pets, and if they want to train hundreds of spirit pets to the level needed to survive the heavenly tribulation, the resources required are not proportional to the benefits.
At this time, the Phantom Dragon was facing the thunderclouds in the sky, making dragon roars.
During the day in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts, Li Shiming supplemented the Phantom Dragon with a lot of third-grade spirit beast enhancement pills, allowing some energy to accumulate in the body of the Phantom Dragon.
Its powerful bloodline makes its body much stronger than that of an ordinary fourth-grade spiritual beast. In addition, it has already passed most of its weak period, so it is in the best condition to resist the heavenly calamity.
With a loud "boom", a bolt of lightning fell from the sky.
Li Shiming looked at the thunder and couldn't help but feel relieved.
This heavenly thunder seemed to be quite powerful, but in his opinion it was really nothing. The heavenly thunder he experienced when he was overcoming the tribulation was at least ten times more powerful than this one.
The thunderbolt struck the body of the Phantom Dragon, and a flash of lightning flashed on the surface of the Phantom Dragon's body. The lightning rune of the "Yuqing Thunder Classic" could be vaguely seen flashing.
Ordinary lightning runes can increase the defense against heavenly thunder, let alone Li Shiming's lightning rune, which can strengthen the defense against heavenly thunder.
After the thunder weakened by the thunder rune hit the Phantom Dragon, the Phantom Dragon did not retreat but advanced, and let out a high-pitched dragon roar into the air, defying the will of heaven.
Dragons are proud creatures. Under the heavenly calamity, the Phantom Dragon displayed the demeanor of a five-clawed dragon.
It continuously roared like a dragon in the thunder in the sky, and rushed towards the thundercloud along the thunder.
As if feeling provoked, the second bolt of lightning from the thundercloud fell not long after.
The thunder from the sky struck the body of the Phantom Dragon again, and countless lightning flashes made it look like it was covered in lightning.
The second bolt of lightning slowed its speed towards the thundercloud, but did not stop its upward flight.
It is so powerful that it is not afraid of thunder from the sky. At least thunder from the sky of such power poses no threat to the five-clawed dragon.
If a five-clawed dragon really died in a fourth-grade heavenly calamity, the dragon race would probably have become extinct long ago.
When the third thunderbolt fell, the Phantom Dragon rushed to the bottom of the thundercloud. The power of this thunderbolt was the strongest among the three. As it was too close, it hit the Phantom Dragon heavily without any transition.
The Phantom Dragon grabbed the thundercloud with one claw, and the thunder struck its body, making it even more crazy due to the pain.
A claw with lightning created a long crack in the middle of the thundercloud.
When the three heavenly thunders ended, the thunder tribulation also ended, and the thunderclouds disappeared along with the cracks.
The Phantom Dragon seemed to feel that it had won. It defeated the thunderclouds. It roared excitedly and rolled wildly in the air.
Within its body, the rewards from the rules of heaven and earth took effect, causing its demon pill to change again, and its aura became stronger again.
"This is the five-clawed dragon. Even the four-clawed dragon could not be bred in the Cave of Ten Thousand Beasts. Today we finally see how powerful the five-clawed dragon is!" Monk Hu praised with a smile.
Although this heavenly thunder was like child's play to him, the five-clawed dragon was actually surviving a calamity.
Perhaps only a top-level spiritual beast like the five-clawed dragon can treat the calamity as a battle and bravely face it, completely ignoring the power of the heavenly thunder during the entire process.
The chick watched the thundercloud disappear. It felt it was fun to see the Phantom Dragon tumbling in the air, so it also flew into the air, stood on the Phantom Dragon's body and kept jumping.
The body of the Phantom Dragon remained fifteen meters long, but the gold color on its body became darker and seemed a little dazzling.
This dazzling golden color is likely enough to detect the presence of the Phantom Dragon from a very long distance.
Fortunately, the Phantom Dragon has the talent of invisibility. Normally, the Phantom Dragon will not reveal its body, and this dazzling gold color has little effect on it.
"Congratulations, you've got a fourth-grade five-clawed dragon. There probably aren't many Nascent Soul cultivators in the early stage who can defeat it!" Great Monk Hu said to Li Shiming with a smile.
With his level of cultivation, he could sense the power of the Phantom Dragon.
The Phantom Dragon's attack method is impossible to determine, but its defense can be seen.
The Phantom Dragon has extremely strong defense against energy, and coupled with the fact that dragons are naturally strong in physical defense, the Phantom Dragon has almost no defensive weaknesses.
In battle, the Phantom Dragon can completely withstand the enemy's spells and use the dragon's speed to attack the enemy.
In addition, the Phantom Dragon can also serve as a shield to block enemy attacks for Li Shiming, a thunder cultivator, allowing Li Shiming to use thunder magic without any worries.
This was the tactic that Great Monk Hu thought of. Not to mention that with the cooperation of Thunder Cultivator and the Five-clawed Dragon, there would be no monks of the same level who could compare to it. Even if the Five-clawed Dragon fought alone, there would be few monks of the same level who could defeat it.
"I would also like to thank Master Hu for his protection!" Li Shiming bowed and expressed his gratitude to Master Hu.
Although Master Hu did not say it, the fact that he brought him to the Tribulation Mountain and accompanied him to watch the Phantom Dragon's tribulation showed that the meaning of protection was very obvious.
This person is a great monk, the most powerful being in the entire Wanshou Sect.
"Li Shizhen, I would like to accept you as my disciple. What do you think?" Monk Hu helped Li Shiming up and asked solemnly.
Since the Phantom Dragon successfully survived the tribulation, at least the Phantom Dragon could be guaranteed to become a fourth-grade late-stage spiritual pet, and Li Shiming was also qualified to become his disciple, so he did not hesitate any longer.
Li Shiming was stunned at first, then he quickly calculated in his mind.
He did not object to becoming a disciple. In a big sect like the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, it would be difficult to get by without a background.
His current background is the Phoenix lineage, but it is really hard to say how much support the Phoenix lineage can give him. He tries hard to demonstrate his alchemy ability just to increase some bargaining chips.