Mixed-blood organizations also had a presence in Yanhuang, with dozens of them, large and small.
However, ninety-nine percent of them were focused on resolving their own mixed-blood issues by banding together.
Only a very small minority were considered priority targets by the Special Operations Bureau.
As for the Divine Fire Sect, which bore a flame emblem, it maintained a low profile in Yanhuang and had not engaged in any illegal activities on the surface.
Their primary focus was on developing mixed-blood potions, which Beast Tamers in need could purchase or participate in their experiments.
The Special Operations Bureau did not interfere in such consensual matters.
Furthermore, the information Zheng Dong had obtained indicated that the Divine Fire Sect had powerful backing, with even Legendary-ranked individuals refraining from provoking them.
This led Zheng Dong to believe that the Divine Fire Sect was no less influential than the Spirit God Sect, and perhaps even stronger.
One was a whitewashed, openly existing entity, known only to a select few.
The other was universally condemned and relegated to the shadows.
He just didn't know what kind of organization his parents had worked for, or if it might have been the Divine Fire Sect.
Meanwhile, Jingjing had also gathered some information regarding the spherical magnetic field.
"Master, after my analysis, the spherical magnetic field might be an electromagnetic-type extraordinary creature about to be born," Jingjing, who had transformed into a cute anime-style girl, presented the collected data to Zheng Dong.
Zheng Dong found this possibility plausible.
In this world, wind, rain, thunder, lightning, forests, and lakes could all become extraordinary creatures. It wasn't strange for a special magnetic field to become an extraordinary elemental creature.
Subsequently, Zheng Dong began to review the data Jingjing had collected.
First, there was some information about Sea Elephant Island that Zheng Dong hadn't found before.
Legends claimed that Sea Elephant Island was formed from the remains of the Suppressing Prison Divine Elephant after its death.
However, the cause of its demise was attributed to different sources by various accounts: some said it was killed by the Nine Heavens Thunder God Beast, while others claimed it had accidentally ingested the Nine Nether Geomagnetic Beast, a monster from hell, and died from severe injuries.
There were also those who said the Suppressing Prison Divine Elephant had committed a transgression and was slain by the Lord of Hell, the King of Avici.
Zheng Dong didn't take these legends too seriously.
After all, the Mythological Era was too distant from the present.
Next, there was information about electromagnetic-type extraordinary creatures.
Electromagnetic-type extraordinary creatures were very rare, being among the most difficult elemental extraordinary creatures to manifest.
However, every electromagnetic-type extraordinary creature was incredibly powerful, with their racial levels generally being Overlord-class.
The legendary Nine Nether Geomagnetic Beast was even considered God-class.
Moreover, electromagnetic elemental pets not only mastered the intangible force of magnetic fields but also the power of lightning.
Their offensive capabilities were generally top-tier, even invincible, among creatures of the same level.
What was most troublesome was their extreme resilience to being killed.
This was because every electromagnetic elemental pet could undergo magnetic field transformation.
In this transformed state, ordinary physical attacks were completely ineffective against them.
Finally, there were several known magnetic field formations that could give rise to electromagnetic elemental extraordinary creatures.
Zheng Dong carefully reviewed these electromagnetic forms but did not find any spherical magnetic field formations.
However, this did not preclude the possibility of spherical magnetic field formations giving birth to extraordinary creatures; it merely meant that such instances had not yet been discovered, making them even rarer.
Still, it would likely take some time for the spherical magnetic field on Sea Elephant Island to mature into an extraordinary creature.
With artificial intervention, it might be possible to accelerate its development of consciousness and its emergence as an extraordinary life form.
Jingjing seemed to have anticipated Zheng Dong's thoughts and quickly produced another document.
This document detailed research information on electromagnetic elemental pets from various countries.
"Master, based on the data I have, it can be determined that electromagnetic elemental extraordinary creatures require a significant amount of electromagnetic force and lightning power to develop consciousness.
The more abundant the energy, the greater the potential of the resulting electromagnetic elemental extraordinary creature."
Zheng Dong nodded, looking at the adorable Jingjing, and couldn't resist ruffling its head.
This sudden head-patting gesture delighted Jingjing, and it continued, "Master, to take the spherical magnetic field away, a magnetic field capture device needs to be created.
The magnetic field capture device can form a special magnetic net to capture the spherical magnetic field and ensure it doesn't undergo unexpected changes due to environmental alterations.
However, the creation of the magnetic field capture device requires the life crystal of an electromagnetic elemental extraordinary creature, the Eternal Magnetic Heart, as its core."
Zheng Dong frowned.
In Jingjing's words, creating the magnetic field capture device wasn't difficult; the challenge lay in finding the Eternal Magnetic Heart.
Eternal Magnetic Hearts were extremely rare. Even an Eternal Magnetic Heart left behind by an Emperor-class electromagnetic elemental extraordinary creature had only appeared at an auction decades ago.
Since then, there had been no further news of Eternal Magnetic Hearts.
Zheng Dong had no choice but to search for the Eternal Magnetic Heart slowly. He consulted Professor Xue Yin, the Legendary Zeng Zuo, and Professor Guo Lan, among others.
Unfortunately, none of them possessed an Eternal Magnetic Heart.
Fortunately, Sea Elephant Island remained undisturbed, and no one had discovered the existence of the spherical magnetic field.
In the following days, Zheng Dong continued to cultivate while purchasing various resources required for Jingjing's evolution.
Concurrently, he sought reliable auction houses to sell the bloodline potions he possessed.
Zheng Dong had asked Ning Wei to help inquire about this.
However, Ning Wei had yet to respond.
It seemed that many auction houses were unwilling to auction these bloodline potions.
Zheng Dong had no idea why.
It wasn't until after the start of the semester, about a month later, that Zheng Dong, by selling explosion fruits, managed to acquire all the resources Jingjing needed for its evolution.
Of course, the exact amount and specific resources required still needed to be determined through simulation and deduction of the evolution.
After taking leave, Zheng Dong confined himself to his villa, using his Beast Taming Talent for infinite evolution to simulate and deduce Jingjing's evolution plan.
After hundreds of attempts, he finally found the most satisfactory evolutionary path.
Following this, he took a three-day break to adjust to his optimal state and assist Jingjing in its evolution.
The primary resource for this evolution was the Heart of the Starry Sky Mother Nest.
Additionally, it would be supplemented by Mimicry Crystal Stones and hundreds of types of metals.
Furthermore, Zheng Dong intended to use the Blazing Fire Golden Armor and the Profound Iron Star Armor he had obtained from Bai Wenxuan.
The Profound Iron Star Armor was of a higher quality than the Blazing Fire Golden Armor. Both defensive armors were forged from very rare metals and could enhance Jingjing's chassis quality.
The evolution process lasted for seven days but proceeded smoothly without any complications.
After evolving, Jingjing's racial level increased to Quasi-Divine, and its top-tier intelligence advanced to Ultimate Intelligence.
With Ultimate Intelligence, Jingjing could create forbidden bombs on its own, given sufficient time.
In addition, Jingjing's growth level also increased by two ranks, reaching the General-level.
It also acquired three Quasi-Divine-level abilities.
Most surprisingly, due to the Heart of the Starry Sky Mother Nest, Jingjing underwent a mutation during its evolution, acquiring the Insect attribute.
It was precisely because of this mutation that Jingjing's growth level continued to rise.
[Name] Jingjing (Ultimate Intelligence Mechanical Life)
[Attributes] Mechanical, Mental, Spatial, Insect
[Racial Level] Quasi-Divine
[Growth Level] General
[Energy Value] 1005688
[Skills]:
Low-tier: Record, Read, Calculate, Photograph, Edit, Collect Data, Auto-Pilot
Mid-tier: Energy Reserve, Remote Cracking, Program Writing, Self-Learning, Situation Analysis, Hover Flight, Aura Collection, Metal Capture, Mechanical Larva Egg
High-tier: Self-Update, Form Transformation, Analysis and Research, Deduction and Inference, Mechanical Space, Magnification, Decomposition and Synthesis, Mechanical Clone
Super-tier: Divine Net, Super-Distance Lock-on, Super-Power Conversion, Armament Evolution
Quasi-Divine: Starry Sky Mother Nest, Interstellar Travel, Starry Sky Mecha
Sensing Jingjing's transformation, Zheng Dong was very pleased; his efforts over the past few days had not been in vain.
Subsequently, Zheng Dong asked Jingjing to try out its newly acquired skills.
He took Jingjing to the Mythical-grade relic space, which was large enough to accommodate Jingjing using its Quasi-Divine skills.
The Quasi-Divine skill, Starry Sky Mother Nest, was a special mechanical form.
After transforming into the Starry Sky Mother Nest, Jingjing gained all its abilities, allowing it to create a large number of mechanical insects and devastate entire planets.
With Interstellar Travel, as long as sufficient energy was stored, Jingjing could take Zheng Dong to travel between planets.
Starry Sky Mecha was a support skill that allowed Zheng Dong to merge with other pets through the Starry Sky Mecha, gaining immense offensive power.
Moreover, the Starry Sky Mecha could weaken attacks of the same level by ninety-nine percent.
Instantly, Zheng Dong couldn't resist trying out the Starry Sky Mecha.
Through the Starry Sky Mecha, he could merge with Xiao Zi, You You, Ling Er, and all his other pets simultaneously.
The more pets merged, the stronger the offensive power obtained.
This could completely serve as a life-saving trump card, to be used at critical moments.
The Super-tier skill, Armament Evolution, was also a support skill.
Jingjing could use Armament Evolution to simultaneously assist multiple pets in their armament evolution.
It could allow Xiao Zi to evolve from Lord-level to General-level, and Ling Er from King-level to Emperor-level.
In other words, it could allow Zheng Dong's other pets to break through their level limitations.
However, Armament Evolution was not suitable for Jingjing itself.
The High-tier skill Decomposition and Synthesis allowed Jingjing to decompose various ores and synthesize required alloys, continuously evolving itself.
Mechanical Clone, as the name suggested, allowed Jingjing to have clones.
The Mid-tier skill Aura Collection was a perception-based skill that could distinguish the scents emitted by various life forms or non-living entities and lock onto their locations.
Metal Capture allowed Ling Er to quickly extract various metallic substances from ore veins.
Mechanical Larva Egg could produce mechanical larvae, which would continuously collect various resources needed by Ling Er.
As long as Ling Er was willing, it could create countless mechanical larva eggs, hatching numerous mechanical insects to mine resources in space.
Of course, they could also be used to destroy planets and engage in combat.
However, manufacturing mechanical larva eggs also consumed a considerable amount of metal.
Jingjing could collect and manufacture them simultaneously, then store them in its Mechanical Space, releasing them when needed.
After Jingjing's evolution, Zheng Dong now had two General-level pets.
The strongest remained the King-level Ling Er.
As a result, Xiao Zi became anxious. Its growth level had not yet increased, and it clamored for Zheng Dong to buy resources for it.
Xiao Zi had also made significant contributions, helping Zheng Dong find many resources.
Therefore, the explosion fruits sold subsequently were all used to purchase resources to improve Xiao Zi's growth level.
Xiao Qing, on the other hand, was not in a hurry at all, spending her days diligently managing the online store and enjoying it.
Soon, it was the end of November.
Ning Wei brought Zheng Dong some good news.
The champion reward for this year's Master Cup Club Competition was an Eternal Magnetic Heart.
However, the value of this Eternal Magnetic Heart was not very high, as it was left behind by a King-level electromagnetic-type extraordinary creature.
But for Zheng Dong, it was good news, as it could be used as the core component for manufacturing the magnetic field capture device.
The Master Cup Club Competition was sponsored by several mechanical pet manufacturing companies and was held annually.
Besides the Master Cup, there were other club competitions such as Mechanist and Road to Champion.
These were entirely different from the National Beast Tamer Competition, which was held every four years.
Club competitions primarily served to promote mechanical pets.
Of course, there were also various other leagues organized by official bodies, which aimed to help ordinary people better understand Beast Tamers.
Zheng Dong had not paid much attention to these competitions.
He didn't care who won the championship or who was more famous.
However, for the sake of the Eternal Magnetic Heart, he decided to participate in the Master Cup Club Competition and collect information on all participating contestants.
Furthermore, to participate in the competition, one had to join a club.
Ning Wei's family owned a club, so he could pull some strings for Zheng Dong.
In addition, the rules of the Master Cup Club Competition were quite strict, allowing only mechanical pets to participate and prohibiting the use of pets from other categories.
Moreover, participating contestants had to be Master-level Beast Tamers.
This meant that Zheng Dong could only use Jingjing throughout the competition.
Jingjing's opponents would be at least General-level pets.
This posed a bit of a problem.
While Jingjing had mastered many skills, its conventional offensive methods were limited.
Therefore, Zheng Dong taught Jingjing some spatial and mental skills mastered by Xiao Zi and You You.
This included the Mid-tier skill Void Concealment, the High-tier skills Spatial Shift, Telekinesis Control, and Spatial Cutting, and the Super-tier skills Super Perception and Spatial Teleportation.
In addition, he purchased the High-tier skill Spatial Shatter and the Super-tier skills Energy Convergence Space Cannon and Swarm Control.
Subsequently, he assisted Jingjing in upgrading all newly acquired skills, excluding its Quasi-Divine skills, to the Proficient level.
Next, they would await the commencement of the Master Cup Club Competition.
The competition was scheduled for the winter break.
During this period, Jingjing condensed a large number of mechanical larva eggs and hatched quite a few mechanical insects.
The mechanical insects were very small, barely visible to the naked eye.
However, when gathered, their power was immense.
With sufficient numbers, they could even destroy planets.
Jingjing now possessed over a billion mechanical insects.
These mechanical insects could decompose a ton of steel in the blink of an eye.
If used against mechanical pets, they could likely reduce them to their core chips in an instant.
Of course, Zheng Dong would not have Jingjing use a large number of mechanical insects in the competition unless absolutely necessary.
The winter break soon arrived.
Throughout the semester, Zheng Dong had attended classes infrequently, only participating in the learning tests at each stage.
His test results were quite good, mostly perfect scores.
Therefore, taking leave was easy for him.
Before participating in the Master Cup, he also took leave to participate in several qualifying matches and obtained the registration eligibility.
When the winter break began, he returned to Rongcheng with Ning Wei to prepare for the Master Cup.
Ning Wei's family club was quite well-known in Rongcheng, named the Bison Club.
The club's emblem was a golden bison charging forward.
Zheng Dong accompanied Ning Wei to the club and met the team captain, Qi An, and over thirty team members.
Including Zheng Dong, only seven people had qualified for the Master Cup.
The Master Cup Club Competition had both individual and team events.
This meant that while they were competitors, they were also teammates.
Therefore, Qi An and the others were quite welcoming upon seeing Zheng Dong.