Celestial Beast Taming

Chapter 174: Chapter 120: The Abnormal Change of the Heart of the Secret Realm

Zhong Yi placed the Treasure Guarding Dragon Pot, now split in two, into his Soul Base.

He then took out the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart he had obtained in the Ice Cave Secret Realm, preparing to expand and modify his Soul Base.

Then he would use the Quenching Snow Needle Mushrooms to furnish the newly expanded Ice Attribute region within his Soul Base.

Zhong Yi had tried expanding his Soul Base with a Heart of the Secret Realm many times in the game he played in his past life.

In the game, expanding the Soul Base with a Heart of the Secret Realm only required spending some RMB in the store and clicking ”use.”

But in the real world, using a Heart of the Secret Realm to expand one’s Soul Base was far from that simple.

Expanding the Soul Base with a Heart of the Secret Realm meant carving out a new area directly on one’s original soul.

The process was bound to be excruciating. But pain was just pain.

Using a Heart of the Secret Realm to expand the Soul Base generally didn’t cause any harm to a Guardian Beast Master’s soul.

One just had to endure it, much like a Guardian Beast undergoing a Bloodline transformation with Flowing Soul Soil.

Zhong Yi took a deep breath, opened his Soul Base, and released his Soul Power, bringing it into contact with the ice-blue Heart of the Secret Realm in his hand.

Holding the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart in his hand, he felt nothing special.

But the instant it came into contact with Zhong Yi’s soul, he felt as if he had been plunged into a world of ice and snow.

His soul, like a water-soaked piece of paper, was instantly frozen in this extremely frigid environment.

It felt as though the slightest external force would tear his frozen soul apart.

This bone-chilling cold spread rapidly through Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

Zhong Yi’s Order Beast, the Resurrection Celestial Lord, sat enthroned in its palace, taking no action as the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart froze Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

Having been informed in advance by Zhong Yi, the Resurrection Celestial Lord simply watched as the frigid energy gradually gathered in a corner at the edge of Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

After accumulating to a certain point, the frigid energy suddenly surged outward, past the corner.

In an instant, Zhong Yi’s hand, which was propped on the tabletop, went limp, and he collapsed to the floor in agony.

The intense pain flooding his mind made it impossible for Zhong Yi to even push himself up from the ground.

As the energy from the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart rammed outward, it carved out an area of nearly thirty square meters in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

However, the energy within the Heart of the Secret Realm was far from depleted, and the area of the Soul Base continued to expand.

The expanded region of the Soul Base was a world made of ice and snow, looking nearly identical to the environment inside the Ice Cave Secret Realm.

Just then, the rootlets of the Soul-Controlling Flower, which was rooted in Zhong Yi’s soul, suddenly began to tremble.

The Soul-Controlling Flower directed all the currently condensed Flowing Soul Soil to surge toward the expanded region of Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

The black Flowing Soul Soil moved through the Soul Base like mercury rolling across the ground.

This Flowing Soul Soil, winding like Spiritual Snakes, poured into the newly created region within the Soul Base.

It merged directly into the area without any resistance.

The influx of Flowing Soul Soil immediately caused a change in the icy region that Zhong Yi had created in his Soul Base using the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart.

The ground, originally covered in a thick layer of snow, transformed into a solid sheet of ice.

The concentration of the Ice Element in the environment strengthened at a visible rate.

As the Flowing Soul Soil poured into the region expanded by the Heart of the Secret Realm, the pain Zhong Yi was enduring suddenly vanished by more than half.

This allowed Zhong Yi to stagger back to his feet.

But the recent agony had left his forehead and body covered in a fine sheen of sweat.

Just then, Zhong Yi sensed a feeling of urgency from the Soul-Controlling Flower.

The Soul-Controlling Flower was urging Zhong Yi to take out the Flowing Soul Soil he had saved.

The Flowing Soul Soil currently accumulated by the Soul-Controlling Flower wasn’t enough to reinforce the area in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base being modified by the Heart of the Secret Realm.

Zhong Yi directly took out the container holding the Flowing Soul Soil. The Soul-Controlling Flower extended a filament, siphoned all the Flowing Soul Soil from the container, and injected it into Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

By the time the energy within the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart was completely exhausted, only six or seven drops of Flowing Soul Soil remained in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base.

Not even five milliliters!

The combined effect of the Heart of the Secret Realm and the Flowing Soul Soil had created a new area in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base, an environment vast enough for Ice Glaze, the Two-tailed Ice Glaze Jade Fox, to run about and live freely.

This new region in Zhong Yi’s Soul Base was approximately 170 square meters.

Under normal circumstances, when a human Guardian Beast Master used a Heart of the Secret Realm, their Soul Base could only be expanded by 120 to 150 square meters at most.

The area Zhong Yi had just added using the Ice Attribute Secret Realm Heart clearly exceeded the upper limit of this range.

Zhong Yi wasn’t particularly happy about the extra dozens of square meters he’d gained in his Soul Base.

His attention was completely focused on examining the newly created region of his Soul Base.

’The more Zhong Yi looked at this area, the more familiar it felt!’

Suddenly, Zhong Yi recalled the scene he had discovered while investigating the cause of the Ice Cave Secret Realm’s formation.

The environment of this new region was very similar to that scene; even the frost flowers that naturally condensed in the air were the same strange nine-pointed shape.

The Soul-Controlling Flower had used so much Flowing Soul Soil to help the Heart of the Secret Realm expand his Soul Base.

It had also altered the environment of the expanded area. All of this was clearly of great benefit to Zhong Yi.

Normally, Zhong Yi could feel the Soul-Controlling Flower’s attachment to him.

It was an attachment born of pure instinct, like that of a young child for its mother.