Chapter 570 — Half a Year Later

"Chirp!!" Beside them, Chongchong sighed with feeling—good thing it had chosen to refine its own dragon star, which had taken only a few days to succeed.

After all, the dragon star had been created by Chongchong itself, a compatibility of 1000 percent; even without refining it, it could control it directly.

"Isn't there any way to speed it up?" Shi Jin fretted. A few years would drag on and on and on.

"Wait a moment. If refining a star takes so long, it must be because the star's grade is too high. Chongchong, in a few days, take the Ginseng Baby and together drain some of this planet's energy resources and make it 'weakened'—maybe then the refining time can be shortened."

"It's like capturing a Pokémon—you always have to beat it down to a sliver of health first."

"Only, if we do it that way, the weapon Qi gets at first might be a bit weak…"

"Chirp!"

Qi: Ah…

She gazed aggrievedly at the beautiful white star—before it could even be refined into a weapon, was it going to be ravaged by Chongchong and the Ginseng Baby? But it seemed this was the only way. A few years was too long; she couldn't wait that long either.

…

After that, Shi Jin threw himself into all-around preparation for war.

With no shortage of point-adding resources or cultivation fruits, Shi Ying's point-adding efficiency and cultivation efficiency shot up, higher and higher.

On the Eastern Brilliance side, after receiving the resources Shi Jin supplied, people like Lu Yan, the Overlord of the Seas legend, and Lin Shuo also saw their cultivation speed shoot up.

Among them, Sister Xiong Qi received the best treatment of all—Eleven specially dispatched her Eight Trigrams clone to serve as instructor to Sister Xiong Qi and the Iron-Eating Beast Legion.

Having finally returned to Blue Star, Eleven decided to first build up the panda legion here, at the very least raising a batch of overlords.

When the time came, she could take this pack of family Qis and go wage war in the Myriad Races Ranking Battle.

And so, one month later.

Just as the owl had foreseen, the monster bug did not appear at all during this month.

Rin successfully constructed the Eye of the Universe, though unfortunately even the Eye of the Universe could not locate the place where the monster bug was hiding.

Still, Rin was certain that if that bug left its hiding place and fought another god, it would sense it the very first moment.

At this time, Qi was refining the star.

In the second month, Rin completed its self-modification and finally met the prerequisites for instruction in Foresight, and Shi Jin successfully taught it the Foresight skill.

Moreover, he added points until it reached the stage of a quasi-divine skill perfected.

At this very moment, after two months of development and training, Shi Ying's time-reinforcement talent had also reached rank eight.

Shi Jin summoned the Jewel Cat and had Rin also foresee once where the monster bug was.

But the extremely frustrating thing was that not only did Rin, like the owl, fail to foresee anything at all, it could not even foresee the "half a year" that the owl had foreseen.

This made Shi Jin understand that even at the same proficiency, the post-natal instructional foresight cast by Rin still lagged somewhat behind the racial innate ability the Astrologer race had branded into the depths of their souls.

At this time, Qi was still refining the star.

In the third month and the fourth, Shi Ying's point-adding and cultivation proceeded in orderly fashion.

During this period, Shi Jin remained vexed, having still not found that bug—though his fusion talent had successfully been cultivated to rank nine.

And Qi was still refining the star.

In the fifth month, Shi Ying and Shi Yun's talent enhancement had finally been developed to level nine. Assisting Lin, he once again made a prediction—and the harvest... well, there was a harvest.

Confirmed: the prophetic owl's predictions were basically correct.

Based on the owl's prophecy, Lin also identified the temporal nodes where the alien insects might appear.

During this period, Shi Ying's task of allocating points had largely come to an end.

All thirteen beasts' quasi-divine skills had been allocated to the (Mastery +11) perfect state; one step further and they would become divine.

With this, Shi Jue's preparations for the God-Sealing War had been preliminarily completed. Shi Xu turned his attention to meditation, investing the energy from point allocation and talent development into raising the level of his beast-taming space.

After the God-Sealing War, he wanted to immediately break through to the god level.

By then, on Realm King Star, where super-god-level beings basically never appeared, he could be considered a powerhouse, and doing anything would become easier.

As expected, Qi was still refining the star.

Until... six months after Shi Jin returned to Blue Star. Half a year later!

"Wuu wuu wuu." A aggrieved voice sounded. Shi Cen opened his eyes helplessly and looked at the little sprite before him.

This was a little girl with light pink hair, cherry-colored eyes, and a beautiful face, yet only the size of a palm. She leaned a tiny parasol with a pink-white canopy against her shoulder and said: "Shi Jin, I finally... finally..."

"Succeeded in refining it!!"

"It wasn't easy..." Shi Cen was crying inside. Although they had tormented the white star into its weakest state, Qi had still needed half a year of temporal essence to successfully refine the white star.

The pink-white parasol before him was what the star had become after Qi refined it and it transformed.

She had not chosen the swords, bows, or spears she had practiced most with as a child, but instead used the Umbrella of Time that Shi Jin had given her as the prototype for her weapon.

"I've done my best, and it's not too late now!" Qi spun a circle in the air with the umbrella, her pink short skirt and the ribbons on her body fluttering along with it. In her cherry-blossom-like beautiful eyes shone a brilliance never seen before.

As a Time Sprite who could not possess combat power, having such a powerful weapon that could be considered a skill made Qi very happy.

Moreover, this weapon was definitely not weak.

After all, its former self was an intermediate star—in volume alone, it was equivalent to ten moons, and it even had a deep-layer space.

Even if she did nothing else, simply swinging the umbrella onto an enemy could smash a whole bunch of totem demigods to pulp.

Within Shi Tan, every beast's rate of progress was undoubtedly very fast—even the gem cat teacher, looking at the born dwarf cat, feared its strength had already... surpassed hers, its teacher.

"Not too late!" Shi Li said.

"I'm going to fly around the world for a look now~ By the way, I want to go back to Tingxiang to see Grandma Green." Qi said.

"Sure, sure, go ahead." Shi Jin smiled.

"Ahem!" Qi said embarrassedly: "I'll go find Buggy to cast an illusion on me—otherwise, with my current size, I'd definitely scare Grandma Green and the others..."

"That's true." Shi Jin laughed. You Time Sprites really are strange!

Whether Qi could find that monster bug no longer mattered. During this period they had tried every method and failed to find it; Shi Jin had already given up and planned to wait for the bug to come out on its own.

The deadline of the owl's prophecy was drawing closer and closer...

Its appearance should be within these few days.

Hurry up and come out! If he settled it now, he could still return to Realm King Star and make it in time for the God-Sealing War.

…

Qi flew excitedly toward Tingxiang.

Since leaving Tingxiang, she had not seen Grandma Green for a long time.

Now, Green had become a legendary forger. Because of her good relationship with Qi, and because Qi had been contracted by Shi Jin, the former number one of Blue Star, Green now held a very high status in Tingxiang.

Thud!

Thud!