God of Pets

Chapter 676 Bottleneck
Chen Guan has been researching how to awaken his second secret treasure.

He didn't have any new insights at the moment, so he could only practice and study at the same time.

When he had free time, Chen Guan also found the eight secret techniques needed for the Eight Innate Techniques. These eight secret techniques were all peerless. Although they were not easy to find, they were not unique.

Chen Guan spent some resources and time, but still managed to acquire all eight secret techniques.

After mastering all eight peerless secret techniques—Heavenly Qian Technique, Earthly Kun Technique, Thunderous Zhen Technique, Wind Xun Technique, Water Kan Technique, Mountain Gen Technique, Fire Li Technique, and Dui Ze Technique—Chen Guan followed Ji Changsheng's method and applied them in various combinations.

By practicing with the Wuji Zhiji method, he quickly mastered the application of the Eight Innate Forms.

The Heavenly Qian Technique and the Earthly Kun Technique alone can be transformed into several composite techniques, including the Heavenly Qian Technique that strengthens oneself, the Qiankun Technique that can accelerate the absorption and recovery of vital energy, and the Heavenly Qiankun Reversal that deflects, transforms, and borrows force, etc.

Even a combination of just two secret techniques can create a variety of complex secret techniques with different functions due to differences in the order of use and the proportion of skills.

This is just the simplest combination. There are three or four, five, six, seven or eight other secret techniques that can be combined, making the variations endless.

The combination of various secret techniques is almost all-encompassing and can be described as having endless uses.

However, the Eight Forms of the Primordial Forms are not without flaws. They do have many functions, but precisely because they have so many functions, it is difficult for one person to master all the variations to the extreme. It is easy to become a jack-of-all-trades but master of none.

It's impossible for an average person to master all the compound skills. Mastering just a few variations is already beyond the reach of most people.

Another problem is that the Eight Innate Techniques are too complex, and users may experience decision paralysis when using them.

Don't underestimate this problem. When facing an enemy's attack, you may have a million ways to break it, but in that instant, you hesitated and didn't decide which method to use immediately. You hesitated for just a moment.

In a battle between masters, victory or defeat can be decided in just a short time.

After practicing, Chen Guan discovered that this thing easily distracts people, but fortunately he had enough energy to practice it.

He always uses various secret techniques, so he hasn't neglected other secret techniques either.

In particular, his protective divine skills have always followed Chen Guan's level.

Needless to say, the Ghost Immortal Step is something Chen Guan now prefers to use.

The Pure Yang Sword Immortal has been practicing and is almost up to par with the level.

Everything is proceeding in an orderly manner, the only problem that has not progressed is where to get human resources.

Chen Guan occupies such a large territory, yet he only has a population of a few hundred thousand. If you really want to count them, they wouldn't even fill a city.

He now has dozens of cities in his territory, but no one is managing or developing them, and many resources are not being utilized.

Relying on these dozen or so people to have children would be far too slow; Chen Guan couldn't wait that long.

Due to the blockade of Ziyang City by the ten major families, ordinary people dare not join Ziyang City. Even newcomers who are randomly teleported to the vicinity of Ziyang City mostly choose to go to the territories of other humans.

After much thought, Chen Guan concluded that there was only one way to solve the population problem: snatch people from the ten major families.

The ten major families themselves have a large population, but the reason why they are able to occupy so much territory is mainly because there are many small families and ordinary independent cultivators who depend on them.

Chen Guan had sent Gao Weiqiang to investigate. After passing Taishan City, there were more than a dozen kingdoms that were dependent on the Gong family, not to mention the cities directly under the Gong family's control.

By taking control of the Gong family, those kingdoms can be forcibly brought into their sphere of influence.

Because those kingdoms were not directly related to the Gong family, but were established by small forces and independent cultivators who were dependent on the Gong family, their loyalty to the Gong family was not that high, so it would not be difficult to forcibly take them over.

But going after the Gong family now would be somewhat unjustified.

They had already occupied Taishan City under the pretext of attacking the Gong and Shang families.

If the Gong family were to be completely wiped out and driven out of Pengxuan Cave Heaven now, the other major families would inevitably feel threatened and might even come to their aid. Chen Guan's current strength and the resources of Ziyang City are not yet sufficient to contend with the ten major families.

"What idea can I come up with to prevent other families from helping the Gong family?" Chen Guan pondered to himself, but couldn't think of a good one for the time being.

He doesn't have the strength to suppress the ten major families right now, so he can't force the other families to fight on the same side as the Gong family.

Chen Guan was really racking his brains to get a population; he had never been so troubled even when practicing martial arts.

He even set his sights on the demon, wanting to capture it and use it as a laborer.

However, due to their inherent nature, demons are all born evil, and it is impossible to change their minds, so Chen Guan eventually gave up on this idea.

We should eliminate the demons if possible, but we still need to find a way to bring in some humans.

"What can I do to get the Gong family to come forward on their own, so I can have a legitimate reason to act?" Chen Guan pondered deeply.

For a moment, they couldn't think of a good solution. After the last incident, the Gong family should be very clear that their current strength in the cave heaven would probably require them to gather the troops from other cave heavens to suppress Ziyang City.

This situation is of course impossible. The Gong family has territory in various grotto-heavens and needs to compete with others for territory and resources.

If we send all our troops to Pengxuan Cave Heaven, even if we win, it won't be enough. If we suffer heavy losses, how will we compete with others for territory and resources in other cave heavens in the future?

The Gong family cannot afford such a loss.

It's better to lose one Pengxuan Grotto than to lose all the grottoes.

Chen Guan felt that the Gong family would definitely not dare to take the initiative to cause him trouble, which gave him a big headache.

Unable to find a solution, Chen Guan had no choice but to focus on practicing his first secret technique, hoping to gain a deeper understanding and unlock the second secret treasure.

He himself hadn't grasped it yet, but the Evil Spirit Blood Sword, after absorbing all the Blood Meteorite Iron, broke through to level 51 of the Sixth Awakening.

Evil Spirit Blood Sword (Secret God): Level 51 Spirit Pet.

Vitality: 435 points.

Growth rate: 2.88.

Innate Talent: Reverse Sword (Unique Item).

Secret Technique: Evil Spirit Sword Scripture (Secret God)

Secret Technique: Evil Spirit Swordplay (Mysterious God)

Secret treasure: None
Secret Treasure: Bloodthirsty Evil Spirit.

Destiny Star: Blood Reversal Star.

Heavenly Treasure: Evil Spirit Sword Pattern.

The Second Secret Treasure: The Evil Sword Immortal.

The pure combat power of the Evil Spirit Blood Sword is even stronger than that of the Burial Flower Master. Both are at the sixth awakening level, but the Burial Flower Master is already level 60 and cannot defeat the level 51 Evil Spirit Blood Sword in a one-on-one fight. This guy was born to kill, and his direct combat ability is too strong.

Chen Guan cultivates and raises his pets every day, but unfortunately, his resources can't keep up with his consumption. He can only feed Rouge and Ghost Eye, and he has to stop feeding the other pets for now.

"We still need to bring more people here to develop the resources and pay more resource taxes so that I can have more resources to use. Or we can directly advance to the Great Cave Heaven and go to the Great Cave Heaven to obtain resources." Chen Guan pondered for a long time, but it seemed that none of the paths were viable at the moment. The development of him and the Ziyang Legion had reached a bottleneck.

(End of this chapter)