Another three months had passed, and Rocky found his hands full of blood. At that time, he was in a temporary shed built in the valley, busy doing something under the belly of the Fire Rock Turtle.
The floor was already covered with blood like an intense war had just taken place in the area.
"Come on, it's almost done." Cold sweat appeared on Rocky's forehead. Despite looking a little anxious, he still encouraged the turtle, as if it could understand him.
The Fire Rock Turtle, on the other hand, appeared to be in so much pain, wailing in agony continuously.
After half an hour, Rocky finally managed to pull out a cub from under the turtle's belly. This newborn cub was covered in blood and had a long and flat body with some tiny black and red patterns printed all over it.
Soon after, the cub made a soft sound. It twitched its eyelids a few times before finally opening them.
Rocky smiled with relief upon seeing such a miracle. Immediately, he reached for the bamboo basket lined with white cloth and put the cub inside. Afterwards, he began to put his hand again, deep inside the belly of the turtle.
One hour after, he was able to successfully pull other five cubs from the turtle, all alive and kicking.
To be exact, these six cubs were the result of Rocky's experiment on asexual reproduction of the Dark Heaven Insect and the Fire Rock Turtle.
Meanwhile, he attended to the bleeding turtle. He applied pressure to the wound to stop the bleeding and sutured its lower abdomen. From his leather bag, he took out a red spiritual crystal and fed it directly into the turtle's mouth.
This red spiritual crystal symbolized Rocky's success in the past six months. Just a month after coming up with a new method to refine the spiritual crystal, he was able to successfully refine his first ever spiritual crystal on his own. Now, he could refine the red spiritual crystal flawlessly anytime he wanted to. He could also refine yellow spiritual crystals, but not as often as the red ones, and blue ones, but rarely. Sure enough, his refinement of these crystals also depended on the refining furnace, to be specific, the dead bodies of spirit-manipulated beasts that he collected. In general, one should at least collect the corpse of a spirit-manipulated beast at the fifth grade of the five-star level if one wanted to refine the blue spiritual crystal. Moreover, this corpse must be a very rare one. Nevertheless, there was still a very small probability of refining the blue spiritual crystal, no matter how rare the corpse was. On the contrary, the yellow spiritual crystal was much easier to refine. In fact, the success rate for this was not very low, as long as the yellow spiritual crystal was refined by a five-star spirit-manipulated beast.
Rocky named such a spiritual crystal refinement method the "Beast Refining Method".
After arranging the Fire Rock Turtle to have a rest and recuperate, he grabbed the bamboo basket containing the six cubs and walked out of the shed.
Meanwhile, Ken and Robin patiently waited outside the shed. Upon seeing their master, they walked towards him with eagerness. But when they saw that the six cubs on the bamboo basket were all alive and well, they could not help but jump with glee.
Ken and Robin changed a lot over the past six months. In fact, Robin had now grown to three meters. Plus, its strong body was more like a huge giant now that could easily intimidate anyone who saw it. Ken seemed to have mainly strengthened its aura. Moreover, its pair of crystal deer horns looked like branches now, complexly intertwined.
After opening one of them, he learned that it came from Laney. Apparently, she just asked Marcia to send it to him on her behalf. The letter reported the implementation of the plan about the beast hospital that he had previously worked on in the Timber Deity Empire. During the past six months, under Juey's leadership, the Xiao Clan managed to open more than 20 chain beast hospitals in the Timber Deity Empire. Moreover, they already spread across more than half of the entire empire. Apart from that, it appeared that they were about to set up more of these hospitals in some big countries, including the Holy Dragon Empire.
As a result, the Xiao's beast hospital was well-known not only in the Timber Deity Empire but also in the Wild Spirit Land. In fact, many spirit manipulators from different countries even traveled for long distances just to the Timber Deity Empire to have their spirit-manipulated beasts cured.
Needless to say, Rocky knew that Alyssa and Woods supported the fast development of the beast hospitals.
After winning in the treasure hunting mission more than half a year ago, Woods became deeply valued by the emperor of the Timber Deity Empire. Although he had some ups and downs because of his involvement in concealing Rocky's identity as a prince, he was not affected due to Alyssa's protection. Two months ago, Woods had just been announced to be the successor of his father. Recently, his father's physical condition was not getting any better, in fact, even worse. Therefore, it was only a matter of time for Woods to become the emperor and take the crown.
Meanwhile, Rocky immediately knew that Marcia sent the other one. As soon as he opened the other letter, he frowned slightly. In the blink of an eye, a very red flame rose from his palm, which was completely different from the previous Evil Flame. In fact, it seemed to be a kind of pure spiritual power with Fire nature. Now, he was able to completely distinguish the evil spiritual power of the Holy Dragon Bead and the Fire spiritual power, which was one of the achievements of his cultivation in the past six months.
"It's finally about to begin." Rocky sighed as he walked towards the wooden house.
The following morning came, and the valley where he had lived in seclusion for more than half a year was completely emptied.
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