Chapter 223

"Well, go on …" Su Ping said in the common Divine Language. Without another word, energy surged inside him, crushing his heart and internal organs. He had no choice but to commit suicide.

Su Ping had only taken one look, but based on his rich experience in the Chaotic Realm of the Undead, he was able to tell that those gods were horrifying beings. They were not beast kings, but kings.

Someone like that could imprison him with a single glance.

The gods were stunned again when they saw Su Ping suddenly vomiting blood and dying.

Even though they had lived for countless years and had seen many things, they were still baffled by this sudden scene.

"Isn't there … a seal outside the conference hall?"

"How did this human … get in?"

"…"

…

Su Ping had to choose a random resurrection after committing suicide.

This time, he was relieved to find a place to resurrect. It was deep in a forest. He summoned the Dark Dragon Hound and the Inferno Dragon at once and told them to explore the way and find more sparring partners.

While they were moving forward, Su Ping looked around the forest. After all, this was a world of divinities. If he could find some precious herbs, he could sell them for a good price.

Soon, Su Ping ran into a beast of the plant family at the peak of the ninth rank.

The Dark Dragon Hound was the first to be attacked. Without saying a word, Su Ping told the other pets to join in the fight.

Time flew by as Su Ping fought and resurrected again and again.

Su Ping had been in the Demigod Burial for seven days.

Seven hours in the outside world.

On the first day, Su Ping had died 13 times and had used up 1560 energy points.

He didn't count the number of times his pets had died, but he knew he had died over a hundred times.

Some of Su Ping's deaths were pointless. For example, he was killed right after he was resurrected. That was a "wrongful death."

While he was resting, Su Ping calculated his gains.

He had spent 1560 energy points in one day. That was a large number. But he had gained a lot as well!

At the very beginning, the Inferno Dragon had learned a skill with a growth rate, [Inferno Dragonfire]. The Inferno Dragon's aptitude had improved a bit. It was still above average but the hidden value had increased.

The Inferno Dragon's combat strength had increased from 9.4 to 9.6.

An increase of 0.2!

When the combat strength reached 9, even 0.1 would make a significant difference. It would be extremely difficult to increase the combat strength.

A combat strength of 0.2 was equivalent to a small rank.

Given the Inferno Dragon's current combat strength, it could kill beasts at the intermediate position of the ninth rank without any effort. It could also fight against beasts at the upper position of the ninth rank and it could even find a chance to escape.

If the Inferno Dragon were to use the Inferno Dragonfire with all its might, it could even hurt a beast king. That being said, the Inferno Dragon would die without a doubt. It wouldn't even have the strength to run away.

Apart from the Little Skeleton's combat strength of 9.9, the Inferno Dragon was the second most powerful pet under Su Ping's command. The Inferno Dragon would be his secondary pet!

The Inferno Dragon had made some progress during the last half a day of training. However, its combat strength was still at 9.6. It would be extremely difficult to increase the combat strength of a ninth-rank pet without a major breakthrough.

After the Inferno Dragon, the Dark Dragon Hound ranked third.

Its combat strength was 9.2.

The Dark Dragon Hound could kill most beasts at the lower position of the ninth rank by itself.

After a day of sudden death and death, the Dark Dragon Hound's combat strength and reaction speed had both improved. But its combat strength was still at 9.2. Based on Su Ping's experience, the Dark Dragon Hound should be able to increase its combat strength by 0.1 tomorrow, to 9.3.

An increase of 0.1 in two days. Su Ping was satisfied with the result.

It would be a pleasant surprise if the Dark Dragon Hound's combat strength could reach 9.5 after seven days.

The Purple Python ranked last with a combat strength of 9.1.

As a beast with a sixth-rank bloodline, the Purple Python's combat strength was above average since it had a combat strength of 9.1, which was comparable to that of a ninth-rank beast.

Su Ping hoped that after seven days, the Purple Python's combat strength could reach 9.5 or 9.4, or at least 9.3.

The one that made the biggest improvement that day was the Heavenly Pig, which was the weakest of the bunch.

The Heavenly Pig's combat strength had increased from 4.1 to 5.2!

The Heavenly Pig's potential was squeezed out again and again after being smashed into mincemeat. The Heavenly Pig's body was still pink and tender, but the patterns on its body were different from those on the regular Heavenly Pigs.

The patterns seemed to be strange and complicated energy patterns, which made the Heavenly Pig's energy flow more agile and efficient. The Heavenly Pig's reaction speed had improved as well. The Heavenly Pig had also learned a shield skill.

Su Ping noticed that all the pets he trained seemed to have learned one or two defensive skills.

The Dark Dragon Hound was the best and so was the Inferno Dragon. Pets of the combat family like the Purple Python, which knew nothing about energy skills, had learned Earth Shield and Earthmeld …

After a day of torture, the Heavenly Pig was still as timid as a mouse. That being said, when it was forced into a desperate situation, the Heavenly Pig could unleash its ferocity and the courage to fight to the death with its enemies.

For pets, this was a rare and precious quality.

The Heavenly Pig's aptitude had improved from the low-average to the high-average.

There was a good chance that the Heavenly Pig could reach the upper-average.

Su Ping could take a break while he was on his way. He had gotten used to training pets day and night in the cultivation site.

Soon, several days passed.

Five days later.

In a gloomy cave, there were dead insects everywhere.

Su Ping was leaning against a rock in the cave, panting. His pets were covered in wounds and bruises.

The previously noisy battle had now quietened down.

All the insects had been killed, leaving only their corpses. Even the mother insect at the beast king level had been torn apart by the Inferno Dragon and the Little Skeleton and burnt to a crisp with the Inferno Dragonfire.

"If I can bring this information back, I might be able to get a reward." Su Ping put on a bitter smile as he looked at the corpses on the ground.

He didn't appear in the cave because he was randomly resurrected. He had found this place on his own initiative.

In the past few days of killing and resurrection, other than encountering demonic beasts, he also met some True Gods and Celestial Race adventurers.

Through those gods and god adventurers, Su Ping had obtained a map of the wormhole and gained a better understanding of the Demigod Burial.

The Demigod Burial covered a large area. Apart from the central sacred ground where the Supreme Gods lived, there were other small continents floating in the void around the edges. The gods also lived on those continents. Those continents were like towns, but they were much larger than the towns on the Blue Planet.

Those small continents were the areas that had been separated from the Demigod Burial.

The Demigod Burial was ruled by several Superior Gods, and there were many divine cities.

The gods living there didn't have a good life. Generation after generation, they had to fight against the insects that invaded from the void. The wormhole that Su Ping had just cleared was a cave that the insects had built when they snuck into the barren land.

There were many more such wormholes in the barren lands of the Divinity.

Su Ping didn't go to the wormhole to help the Demigod Burial clean up the insects. He had found a special crystal inside the insects when he was training and hunting. The system told him that the crystal was called a Divine Crystal.

The Divine Crystal contained rich divine energy that could be fed to pets.

The system didn't reveal the specific effect of the Divine Crystal.

Su Ping had to pay a hundred thousand energy points to get the crystal. He gave up without hesitation. He had to explore on his own.

Luckily, he had many pets. He gave some Divine Crystals to the Dark Dragon Hound first.

After the Dark Dragon Hound took the Divine Crystal, strands of golden hair appeared on its fur. A new attribute had been added to the Dark Dragon Hound's attributes — Divinity!

The Dark Dragon Hound's Divinity was 22/100.