Chapter 359: Twin Magatama Breaks the Saint Level
The lava tunnel in the heart of Mount Fuji was filled with sulfur. Two ten-foot-tall Saint-level beasts were crawling at Li Xiang's feet. The scales of the Blazing Earth Core Python on the left were shining with molten gold, and magma dripped from its tongue; the Mysterious Ice Crystal Soul Beast on the right was carved like ice crystals, and its six-sided pupils reflected an extremely cold light. The tens of thousands of beasts below the Saint level led by them roared outside the base, shaking the mountain wall to make cherry blossoms fall.
These were the two holy beasts that Li Xiang had just tamed for Chiba Xuexiong. He had carefully selected them and used the "Beast Tamer - Canglin Yin" to sign a soul contract with them, ordering them to guard Mount Fuji and protect Chiba Xuexiong and her daughter.
Not long ago, he and Chiba Xuexu practiced dual cultivation, which enabled Chiba Xuexu to reach the twenty-second level. Chiba Xuexu had just broken through and his realm was unstable, so he went into seclusion to consolidate it.
Li Xiang was training two holy-level spirit beasts, imparting to them more knowledge and teaching them how to perform their duties faithfully and protect the base.
Ever since a large island sank last time, Japan has been in great chaos, with strange beasts running rampant. Of the more than fifty underground cities that originally existed, only more than thirty remain.
However, Chiba Xuexu's side has not been subjected to major attacks because of its smaller base, fewer people and higher strength. But Li Xiang has subdued spirit beasts for Irene to guard, so it is not good to favor one over the other, so he also arranged two armies of exotic beasts here.
Chiba Yukio's base was built like a paradise, no, a paradise of cherry blossoms. The cherry trees transplanted from the mountain were everywhere, and most of them had survived. Those that did not survive were dug up and replaced with new saplings.
Chiba Asaro walked barefoot on the cherry blossoms, her fiery red furisode kimono rustling under the spiritual pressure. She tied her black hair into a high ponytail, with flame-colored tassels on the ends of her hair. Her snow-white neck was decorated with red sun magatama, and her bare calves were glowing with coral light in the agitation of spiritual power. Chiba Yugiri on the right had a waist-length princess hairstyle, a snow-white hunting robe decorated with dark icy patterns, her eyelashes were frosted and trembling, and her cold jade-like fingertips were unconsciously twisting the tassels of the black yin magatama at her waist.
"Godfather, we have reached the peak of the eighteenth level. Are we powerful?"
"Awesome!" Li Xiang gave a thumbs up. The twin magatama were indeed gifted, especially after the end of the world, when the extraordinary particles were so dense that they no longer needed Li Xiang to provide them with elixirs. With their own efforts alone, they had reached the eighteenth level and could aspire to the holy realm.
Hearing Li Xiang's praise, the twin magatama smiled and said in unison: "Foster father, we want to reach the Saint level, can you help us protect the law?"
Li Xiang nodded and said, "Let's get started."
He waved his hand and drove away the two spirit beasts. The two spirit beasts felt relieved and fled in a hurry.
The twin magatama then sat cross-legged on the left and right sides of Li Xiang and began to practice seriously, preparing to break through.
At first, everything was going smoothly, but because they were "intertwined" and "shared senses", they suddenly encountered danger and an energy imbalance when they were breaking through the Saint level.
This is also the reason why they sought Li Xiang's help and asked Li Xiang to help protect the law.
Li Xiang knew their situation very well, because he had helped suppress them more than once since they were young. Li Xiang had an earth-attributed physique, and was kind and tolerant. The spiritual power in the twin magatama's bodies, one ice and the other fire, were the extremely yin and yang energies respectively coming from deep in the earth veins. Li Xiang's earth attribute acted as a yin-yang medium between the two girls, helping them regulate their violent spiritual power just right.
"Foster father's hand... is so hot." Yugiri suddenly snorted, and Li Xiang's palm pressing on her back was shining with golden light. The collars of their kimonos slipped down half an inch, revealing their jade-like shoulder blades - Chaolu's skin showed lava veins, and Yugiri's ridges were condensed with ice crystal patterns. When Li Xiang's spiritual power was injected, the ice and fire spiritual power collided in the girl's body, shattering the three layers of her futon, and the falling silk fragments were evaporated into mist before they hit the ground.
Chaolu suddenly turned over and grabbed Li Xiang's wrist, the cinnabar mole at the end of her eye glowing brightly: "Mom said that when practicing dual cultivation, spiritual energy will be entangled into a spiral." She pulled Li Xiang's palm and pressed it against her heart, and the Red Sun Magatama suddenly burst into a red light like a solar prominence. Xiwu bit her lower lip and pressed her forehead against the back of Li Xiang's neck. The cold current from the Black Yin Magatama climbed along the spine and condensed into frost on Li Xiang's clothes.
The Earth's Core Lake suddenly boiled like a furnace, and then instantly froze into a mirror. The reflections of the three people shattered and reassembled in the interweaving of ice and fire. The flame-colored hairband of the morning dew turned into a golden crow of flowing fire, and the ice crystal hairpin of the evening mist burst into a group of mysterious butterflies. When Li Xiang's dragon spine burst into brilliant golden light, the lake surface exploded with thousands of feet of rosy clouds - the boiling red waves and the broken ice crystals condensed into a Tai Chi totem in the air, wrapping the girls' moans into a vortex of spiritual power.
"My foster father's dragon spine... is devouring our essence?" Xiwu panted and clenched the floating ice silk, but saw Chaolu smiling and pressing her red lips to Li Xiang's ear: "It's resonance~"
Her snow-white feet stirred up waves, and the entire lake instantly turned into a gilded whirlpool.
The ice lotus blooming on Xiwu's fingertips and the flame heart beating on Zhaolu's palm simultaneously sank into Li Xiang's body, and the two spiritual powers of ice and fire merged in Li Xiang's body...
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A night of endless spring.
After this period of accumulation, Li Xiang was stimulated by the twin magatama and his cultivation level was further improved and upgraded to the twenty-seventh level.
When he consolidated his own cultivation and opened his eyes, Chaolu was using melted gold foil to draw a lotus on Xiwu's collarbone. The latter slapped her sister's hand away in shame and anger: "Last night, my foster father clearly said that he would balance the spiritual power, but he favored you more..."
"But the balance point will move~" Chaolu licked her fingertips and jumped out of the water. The wet hem of her kimono revealed her leg rings condensed with golden light. "Hey, godfather, the next time you break through to the god level..."
Li Xiang covered the two girls with his black robe. The roar of the Fiery Earth Core Python came from the distant mountaintop. Chaolu played with the newly awakened "Scorching Sky Nishang" holy level inscription and smiled softly: "It's time to feed the new pet."
Xi Wu also broke through the Saint level. She condensed the Saint level inscription of "Xuan Ming Bing Po" on her fingertips, lowered her eyes and tied the corner of Li Xiang's clothes into a heart knot. Ice crystals and flames blended perfectly in the knot.
…
Li Xiang came to the North American continent and passed through Los Santos. He concealed his breath, burrowed into the city, and inquired in disguise.
As the second wave of beast tide was sweeping the world, Los Santos was frequently attacked by the army of alien beasts, so Su Xuanji and others postponed their plan against Li Xiang.
Because they can't compare to Li Xiang, who can move freely around the world quickly.
The distance from Los Santos to Underground City 03 is extremely long. Even if they fly in a straight line at a speed of Mach 1 without any delay, it will take more than ten hours. And these people are on Earth for the first time. They are unfamiliar with the place and it will take longer without navigation. If they leave, the underground city will most likely be conquered by alien beasts, and they will lose the base they have worked so hard to build.
Li Xiang did not alert the enemy, but left quickly. To him, this was a minor matter, and the reason he kept these people for the time being was to find out the coordinates of the new world.
As long as there is an Internet connection in Los Santos, Jiang Caier will always be monitoring it. This group of outsiders only have a superficial understanding of Earth's technology, and they are exposed to Jiang Caier's vision every day, but they are completely unaware.
Li Xiang went to support Yaki Toto's base and helped Yaki Toto fight off three waves of attacks from the alien beast army. He also subdued two holy-level alien beasts and let them lead their tribe to guard near Yaki Toto's base for protection.
Although Yaki Toto's side is a primitive tribe, after entering the end of the world, Li Xiang also pulled underground optical cables here and installed some electronic equipment, including cameras.
Many people in the primitive tribe, especially the young and middle-aged, have already learned how to use the Internet. They just practice breathing techniques and physical skills day and night under the supervision of Yaki Toto, and are not addicted to games and short videos.
With the help of the convenient holographic network, Yaki Toto basically video chats with his children living in Underground City No. 03 every day to learn about their living conditions.
Yaki Toto's son Tupa Kulacan is now six years old and is in the first grade of primary school, while his daughter Yasi Sacha is four years old and is in the middle class of kindergarten.
Li Xiang’s two sons, Li Yuchen (nicknamed Yiyi) and Li Zezhao (nicknamed Yangyang), are older than Tupa Kulakan and are now in the second grade of primary school. The three children are all in the same primary school, Lijiacun Experimental Primary School, which is also the No. 1 primary school in No. 03 City.
Just hearing the name, Lijiacun Experimental Primary School, those who don’t know might think it is a rural primary school. In fact, it is the best primary school in the entire City 03 and also the power center of City 03.
The teachers here are almost all masters and doctoral students from famous universities, and there are many top students from Tsinghua University and Peking University. The teachers of the breathing method course are all extraordinary people above the sixth level.
Well, even though it’s the end of the world, many people still can’t squeeze in to this primary school.
Usually, Li Yuchen and Li Zezhao also take good care of Tupa Kulacan.
As for Li Xiang's daughter, she is less than two years old and has not yet started kindergarten. However, Jiang Caier personally took charge of recruiting people and opened a private early childhood education center specifically for her daughter.
But it certainly wouldn't be enough for my daughter alone, so we opened it up to several nearby communities and recruited children from the neighborhood to come and study with her.
Oh my god, when the residents nearby heard that the boss behind the scenes was Jiang Caier, they naturally signed up enthusiastically. There were more than 300 children of school age, which had already exceeded the originally planned 80 students. Finally, Jiang Caier waved her hand and accepted them all, dividing them into 12 classes.
Six of the classes are named after plants, including Maple Leaf Class, Dandelion Class, Bauhinia Class, Hyacinth Class, etc., and the other six are named after animals, including Starfish Class, Dolphin Class, Jellyfish Class, Penguin Class, etc.
Yao Yao was also curious about why Yaki Toto’s children had different surnames. Could it be that the two children were born to Yaki Toto and two different women, and the children took their respective mothers’ surnames?
Li Xiang explained to her that it was not the case. Yaki Toto had only one wife, and the two children were from the same father and mother. However, the naming style in the primitive rainforest of South America was different from that in the outside world. It was not fixed to follow the father's or mother's surname, but was influenced by many factors, such as religion, history, traditional culture, etc.
Although they have no history books, they have murals and customs passed down from generation to generation. These are also history, but they are just immature.
The same is true for religion. They usually have faith and believe in various natural gods.
The name Tupa Curacan represents thunder and beasts, the god of thunder and lightning and the sacred jaguar in the Andes, while Yasi Sacha represents moonlight (the moon goddess, it is said that her tears can turn into tributaries of the Amazon River) and dense forests. It has both mythology and local forest characteristics, which is in line with local tribal traditions.
Yao Yao also looks forward to naming her own child in the future, but the time is not right yet and she cannot have a child yet.
Although Yao Yao has hundreds of clones, only the original body can get pregnant. The clones don't actually have the ability to reproduce. This is also a pity, otherwise, she would like to use several clones to get pregnant at the same time, giving birth to seven or eight, or even dozens of children at a time, which would be really spectacular.
As for confinement and child care, she has clones and doesn't even need help from others.
Zhao Xueqing and Lei Xiaohui privately discouraged her: "Don't even think about it. You can't even have one now."
(End of this chapter)
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