God of Pets

Chapter 631 Giving up
After thinking it through, Chen Guan immediately began refining the Great Dao Mortar, preparing for his fifth awakening.

The secret technique was operating wildly, with vital energy continuously flowing into the Great Dao Mortar. Each secret technique had a different method for refining a treasure.

The method of the first secret technique is particularly simple: continuously inject vital energy and use it to thoroughly refine the secret treasure, thus refining it.

Chen Guan continuously poured in over 500 units of vital energy, but the Great Dao Mortar remained unresponsive.

Unable to persevere any longer, Chen Guan had no choice but to frantically consume pills and rare treasures to replenish his spiritual power, while continuously using his primordial energy to refine the Great Dao Mortar.

Four whole days passed, and the Great Dao Mortar still showed no reaction, remaining its pure white body covered in cracks.

"Even my vital energy can't refine it, so who can?" Chen Guan wondered to himself. Then, he suddenly thought, "The Great Dao Mortar seems to be incomplete. Could there be something wrong with it that makes it unrefinable?"

Chen Guan didn't want to give up so easily, so he could only grit his teeth and persevere, consuming rare and precious herbs and pills while slowly inputting spiritual energy to refine the Great Dao.

Fortunately, perseverance pays off. On the seventh day, the Great Dao Mortar finally began to change. The snow-white, jade-like mortar body, with its ice cracks, began to show signs of melting ice and snow.

"What do you want to do?" A voice suddenly rang in Chen Guan's mind.

"Oh no... why did you wake up at this time..." Chen Guan was taken aback. While speeding up the refining process, he said, "You're finally awake. It's so good that you're alright."

"Of course I'm fine. I'm asking what you're doing!" Da Daojiu was furious, his body trembling violently as he tried to break free from Chen Guan's control.

"I want to become one with you, to share lifespan from now on. From now on, we will be sworn brothers, not seeking to be born on the same day, month, and year, but seeking to die on the same day, month, and year..." Chen Guan said.

"That sounds nice... but you clearly want to refine me into a Heavenly Treasure... Now... immediately... stop..." Da Dao Jiu was clearly a little angry.

"I didn't know you didn't want to be my closest partner. I always thought you and I were the same, that we had already made each other the only one in our lives, an inseparable whole. Now that things have come to this, there's no way to stop..." Seeing that the refining was almost complete, Chen Guan was unwilling to stop.

Whether Da Daojiu likes it or not, getting it done quickly is the priority.

After a moment of silence, Da Daojiu spoke again: "You regard me as a divine treasure, which will lead to a great disaster. You will die at the age of five senses."

"Why would I die?" Chen Guan naturally refused to believe it, thinking that Da Daojiu was just trying to scare him.

Da Dao Jiu said helplessly, "Because I am the core secret treasure of the Great Cave Heaven, the foundation of the Great Cave Heaven. If you refine me into a Heavenly Mandate secret treasure, it is equivalent to refining that Great Cave Heaven. Do you think you can withstand the backlash from that Great Cave Heaven with your strength level?"

"I haven't been refined yet, so the Great Cave Heaven can't sense me. Once I'm refined, the backlash from the Great Cave Heaven will come. If you don't stop now, you won't have another chance later."

"Is there such a thing?" Chen Guan frowned slightly.

Whether Da Daojiu's words are true or false is unknown, but if they are true, the backlash from the Great Cave Heaven is something he could not possibly withstand at his current state.

But what if the Great Dao Pestle is lying? If he stops now, wouldn't all his efforts be in vain? "If you really want to use me as the Heavenly Mandate Treasure, there is only one way now: find the missing part of me, the Great Dao Pestle. Only when we become one can we shield ourselves from the Great Cave Heaven's senses and backlash."

"Otherwise, not only you, but even I would be destroyed by the backlash of the Great Cave Heaven. After all, the Great Cave Heaven will not want a core treasure that has been refined by humans. After destroying me, it will give birth to a new core treasure."

"Where is the Great Dao pestle?" Chen Guan thought for a moment and felt that the Great Dao mortar was probably not lying to him.

"I don't know, we were scattered back then," Da Daojiu said in a trembling voice. "The Great Cave Heaven has already sensed it and must stop immediately."

With a thought, Chen Guan withdrew his vital energy and stopped the First Secret Technique from refining the Great Dao Mortar.

"That was close...it was just a hair's breadth away...thankfully you stopped..." Daido Uki seemed to breathe a long sigh of relief.

"Aren't you a core treasure of a great grotto-heaven? You should be the object that suppresses the great grotto-heaven, so who could possibly scatter you?" Chen Guan asked.

“Naturally, it’s the spirit of the Sky Realm.” Da Dao Jiu sighed. “Every so often, the spirit of the Sky Realm will harvest the Earth Realm. At that time, humans, spirits, rare materials, treasures, and so on are all within the harvesting range.”

"We naturally could not tolerate being harvested like leeks, so we fought a great battle with the spirits of the Sky Secret Realm. As a result, countless treasures and spirits were suppressed, and I was also separated from the Great Dao Pestle, suffering considerable damage, which I have not yet fully recovered from."

Chen Guancai then realized that the Sky Secret Realm had not only annihilated humans, but all living beings within the secret realm, including not only the secret spirits, but also these secret treasures.

Only then did Chen Guan understand why the secret realm in He Bo's memory was so different from the current secret realm, even the types of spirits inside were different.

It turns out that the previous Mystic Spirits were also wiped out by the Sky Mystic Realm.

"Why would the Sky Realm do this? Do they even care about our meager resources?" Chen Guan pondered.

"I don't know, we'll only know once we break into the Sky Secret Realm," Da Dao Jiu said. "However, you should speed up your cultivation. According to my calculations, the Sky Secret Realm should be about to harvest the Earth Secret Realm again. Judging from the timing, we're already too late this time."

"It's not that we're late, it's that we've already been here." Chen Guan recounted how the Emperor Ancestor stormed into the Sky Secret Realm.

Dao Daojiu was astonished: "Such a powerful being has appeared among humans, capable of fighting against the spirits of the Sky Realm and even entering the Sky Realm? In my generation, there were very few humans who could participate in the battle, and none of them had much combat power."

"So, in your generation, you were the strongest fighter?" Chen Guan asked with interest.

"I wouldn't call myself the strongest, after all, I'm just a secret treasure. The truly strongest combat power is the master of each secret realm." Da Dao Jiu thought for a moment and then said, "In my generation, the strongest master of a secret realm was that Netherworld Emperor."

"If it weren't for the Netherworld Emperor, we would all have been harvested long ago, and not a single one of us would have survived." Da Daojiu said regretfully, "It's a pity that the Netherworld Emperor, along with his secret realm, was suppressed by the combined forces of many terrifying beings in the Sky Secret Realm and banished to the Ruins of Return. I'm afraid he will never be able to emerge again. That is the graveyard of the secret realm, the final destination of all matter, and no living being can escape from there."

(End of this chapter)