The thunder dragon charged through the myriad heavenly thunders, its form continuously growing larger.
By the time the thunder dragon caught up with the purple armored beetles, they had already expanded from ten meters long to nearly twenty meters long.
With greatly increased power, the thunder dragon swiftly coiled around the purple armored beetles.
"Roar!"
With the purple armored beetle's final pained cry, a golden treasure chest appeared beside it and then rapidly fell.
Qin Shilei quickly had Phantom dissipate the thunder dragon, lest it electrocute the purple armored beetle's corpse into charcoal.
After collecting the treasure chest, digging out the purple armored beetle's ability bead and crystal core, he then threw the purple armored beetle's corpse to his gluttonous pet.
Qin Shilei then recalled the abnormality of the thunder dragon just now.
The thunder dragon had passed through the area of devouring thunder and had its power greatly increased by the bombardment of those heavenly thunders.
It should be said that the thunder dragon had absorbed the devouring thunder, which caused the change.
Then, could he actively control it to absorb more devouring thunder and become super powerful?
He acted as he thought.
Qin Shilei had Phantom unleash the devouring thunder while he himself released the thunder dragon.
Two silver dragons circled Qin Shilei rapidly, incessantly devouring the devouring thunder that rained down from the sky.
The thunder dragon grew at a visible rate. In less than three seconds, it had expanded to a colossal dragon nearly fifty meters long.
The raging thunder unleashed by Phantom still pounded down like a rain curtain, but the thunder dragon had stopped absorbing.
"Go!"
Qin Shilei waved his hand, and the thunder dragon, roaring, charged towards a small mountain not far ahead.
Boom!
With a deafening roar, the small mountain was instantly reduced to flat ground.
Not bad, not bad.
The power of the thunder dragon had increased by at least five times.
However, this move required the thunder dragon to absorb heavenly thunder for nearly three seconds, which was too long. If he encountered a strong enemy, he might not have that much time to perform this move.
Qin Shilei cooperated with Phantom a few more times, but could only reduce the time from three seconds to two seconds before making no further progress.
"Let's leave it at that for now. It's time to go and subdue that group of insects."
Just then, a powerful surge of energy emanated from behind him.
He turned his head and saw that Glutton had finished eating the purple armored beetle and had advanced to Golden Eight Stars, only one step away from Golden Nine Stars.
Xiao Qiang said enviously, "What a lucky fellow, to be able to advance just by eating casually."
Qin Shilei smiled and said, "If you knew the price it paid for that, you probably wouldn't envy it."
He thought for a moment and then threw the first Platinum realm Claw Beast he had killed previously to Glutton.
Glutton grabbed the Claw Beast and stuffed it into its mouth.
As the entire Claw Beast Emperor was swallowed, after a while, another surge of powerful energy emanated from its body.
This Claw Beast was a Platinum Three Stars异兽 (beast), and its body contained unimaginable energy.
Glutton not only successfully advanced to Golden Nine Stars but also reached the peak of the Golden realm, just one step away from advancing to the Platinum realm.
"Glutton, do you have a bottleneck in advancing to the Platinum realm?"
"I don't know."
"Then if you continue eating, how long will it take to advance?"
"I don't know."
"...Then what do you know?"
"Master, I only know that I am very hungry and really want to eat something."
"..."
Since his pet loved to eat so much, he would let it continue eating.
Anyway, it was only eating insects, and Qin Shilei felt no pity at all.
He casually put Glutton into the pet space, mounted Xiao Qiang, and returned to the insect valley.
"Glutton, go on! If you still can't handle your subordinates, then be a commander without any soldiers."
"Roar."
Glutton roared and charged into the basin below.
Without the suppression of the purple armored beetles, Glutton successfully subdued the insects inside this time, and its subordinates once again numbered nearly three hundred thousand.
Qin Shilei sat on Glutton's back and arrived at the location where the golden armored beetle had died.
Glutton eagerly hugged the golden armored beetle's corpse and began to gnaw on it.
Qin Shilei, meanwhile, collected the nearby Silver treasure chest.
He turned his head and saw, behind a large rock, a deep mountain cave appeared before his eyes.
"Let's see if the purple armored beetle's cave has any treasures."
Qin Shilei suddenly had an impulse and stepped into the cave.
The cave wound its way downwards, and in many places, there were obvious signs of excavation.
After walking for twenty to thirty minutes, he not only felt no stuffiness but instead felt refreshed.
It seemed as though the spiritual energy was becoming denser.
After another ten minutes of walking, he finally reached a spacious cavern.
At the end of the cavern was a large stone nearly two meters tall, emitting a colorful glow.
Qin Shilei sensed streams of pure spiritual energy emanating from this large stone.
A purple light flashed in his eyes, and he concentrated his gaze.
Crystal Source: A source stone condensed from the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, containing a vast amount of spiritual energy itself. It can also absorb spiritual energy from the air and convert it into its own pure spiritual energy.
Good stuff!
Qin Shilei immediately went to the side of the Crystal Source, sat down cross-legged, and activated the cultivation method of Nine Heavens Thunder Movement.
A stream of pure spiritual energy instantly surged into his body from all parts. After being refined by his meridians, it was quickly converted into his own Yuan Qi.
In less than a minute, the spiritual energy he absorbed and refined yielded more Yuan Qi than he obtained from a crystal core in an hour.
Qin Shilei then fell into a state of cultivation. A large amount of spiritual energy emanated from the Crystal Source and was absorbed into his body, refined into his own Yuan Qi.
The experience value on his personal panel also rapidly ticked upwards.
After an unknown amount of time, Qin Shilei slowly opened his eyes, and a bolt of lightning flashed from them.
Golden Three Stars achieved!
He, who needed over a million experience points to level up, had successfully advanced with just one cultivation session.
This Crystal Source was truly amazing.
Qin Shilei looked up and found that the Crystal Source had also shrunk considerably, now less than one and a half meters tall.
It was likely that two or three more such cultivation sessions would deplete it entirely.
Qin Shilei now had two choices.
The first was to ignore everything and completely absorb the spiritual energy within the Crystal Source, achieving rapid advancement.
The second was to let the Crystal Source slowly absorb spiritual energy from the air, and after it recovered, absorb its spiritual energy again.
"Even if I absorb this entire Crystal Source, it will only allow me to advance two or three levels, and my strength will not undergo a qualitative change."
Qin Shilei silently pondered the pros and cons, and finally decided to see how long it would take for the Crystal Source to recover.
[Perform attribute refresh?]
[Refresh.]
Lightweight (Red): The Crystal Source will shrink to the size of a jade pendant, allowing you to carry it with you at all times, receiving its nourishment.
Self-Concealment (Red): The Crystal Source will conceal its seven-colored glow, and the spiritual energy it emits will be contained within half a meter, allowing for better concealment.
Efficiency Boost (Red): The efficiency of the Crystal Source in absorbing and converting external spiritual energy is increased by fifty percent.
Qin Shilei looked at the three attributes and finally chose Lightweight.
Actually, the third attribute was quite good, but it was merely good.
If he were to refresh to a more efficient attribute in the future, he would consider replacing this one.