Douluo Dragon King: The Hammer Nurtures All Things, Starting with Gu Yuena

Another round of boring acceleration followed, and apart from feeling the loss of money, Lin Jin didn't have any other particular feelings.

However, eight small, reddish-copper dogs appeared—copper-grade dogs, with copper-level bloodlines. Apart from their sharp fangs, their bodies were covered in red fur with red eyes, and they walked with a clanging thud.

He still couldn't accelerate his bronze-level bloodline.

Seeing this, Lin Jin decisively placed all the bronze-level soul beasts on the second floor, and locked the iron-level Sharp Iron Hound and Black Iron Pig together.

Iron-grade materials live together, and bronze-grade materials live together, so they won't get mixed up.

Most importantly, because it is a metal soul beast, it has no reproductive isolation.

In other words, adult Ironhounds and Iron Pigs can breed offspring and create entirely new breeds, which is one of the reasons why Lin Jin keeps them together!

Then came another burst of acceleration, mating with every single mother in the basement.

The two cows did not produce a female; the first generation of the breed was called the Water Iron Cow.

Then came horses, donkeys, sheep, chickens, ducks, geese, rabbits, and even fish—he matched them all.

For the next two whole days, Lin Jin didn't even leave his house. He would catch up on sleep for an hour or two each time and then get up immediately. It took him three whole days to finish this batch of products, and he was almost exhausted.

However, the harvest was also gratifying; his metal family tree now contained more than ten pages of records:

The first page features ten black iron pigs, seven males and three females.

Page 2 shows twenty Ironhounds in total, twelve males and eight females.

The third page shows two water oxen, both of which are male.

Page 4: Wind Iron Horse, one of them, happens to be female, a second-generation bloodline bronze horse;

Page 5: Mian Tie sheep, a total of twenty, twelve females and eight males, second-generation breeding white copper sheep;

Page 6, Flame Iron Chickens. This number is much larger. There are about 34 hens. Although the number of female Flame Iron Chickens is only one-third, there are still 12 of them. Second-generation Flame Bronze Chickens.

Page 6: Twenty Cold Iron Ducks, sixteen males and four females, second-generation Cold Copper Ducks;

Page 7 Shadow Iron Cat, second-generation Ghost Bronze Cat;

Page 8: Soft Iron Rabbit, Soft Copper Rabbit;

Page 9: Thick Iron Donkey, Second Generation Thick Bronze Donkey;

Page 10: Xuan Tie Yu (玄铁鱼), second-generation Ming Tong Yu (満铜鱼).

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Looking at the stacks of booklets, Lin Jin felt a mix of pain and pleasure as he felt the space on the first and second floors was almost completely filled.

Especially in the aquarium on the third floor, more than thirty black iron fish were swimming in the water. Lin Jin couldn't understand how they could swim in the water with such a heavy weight.

Perhaps because there is no weight inside the storage space, he was certain that these fish would not be able to swim outside.

However, this is precisely the peculiarity of this bloodline. Lin Jin didn't actually expect that fish could be paired with it at first, but now that it has been confirmed, it's quite satisfying.

After all, the resources on the mainland have been almost fully exploited. All the exploitable resources have been claimed and divided up by the major powers. If you want to get rich, you can only go to the water.

Therefore, it is very necessary to cultivate a large underwater army, and he is quite satisfied that they can produce metallic aquatic creatures.

To be honest, Lin Jin wasn't particularly excited about these soul beasts. After all, it was just a nested process—iron-level evolving into bronze-level, and then into silver-level, which was nothing new.

What we're really looking forward to is what kind of special bloodlines these soul beasts will produce after they hybridize; that's the real question. With so many varieties, there's plenty for them to hybridize.

It's also quite interesting that different animals produce different metals.

To date, he has obtained more than a dozen new rare metals.

Lin Jin did not treat these metal soul beasts as soul beasts. Instead, he named them after the metals, starting with black iron, then moving on to sharp iron, wind iron, water iron, black iron, cold iron, and so on. Without exception, these were all rare metals that had never appeared in this world before.

"Daddy, I'm hungry, Grandma..."

Ok?

Lin Jin, who had just been dazed, jumped up upon hearing the voice and immediately picked up Xiao Ying, who was placed beside him: "You... can talk?"

"Daddy! Time for milk!"

Holy crap, are babies in Douluo Continent really that high in average quality?

How old is it?

It can actually pronounce words.

Lin Jin was initially taken aback, but when he confirmed that Xiao Ying could only say "Dad" and "drink milk," he realized that the little one was probably imitating him—the tone was exactly the same as the "drink milk" sound he made when feeding Xiao Ying milk.

What a terrible mistake! I let my precious daughter go hungry.

Like an ox or a horse, Lin Jin quickly finished preparing the milk, kept himself alive, and then brought Xiao Ying's food to her.

The little one hugged the bottle and started sucking.

Then, Lin Jincai immersed his consciousness into the storage space.

At first, he thought raising soul beasts would be a simple matter, but when he saw the large group of soul beasts in his storage space, he was completely overwhelmed.

The daily rations for these hundreds of metal soul beasts are an astronomical sum, but he went on a wild spree and squandered all the rare metals he had collected. The little bit left is probably enough to feed these hundreds of soul beasts for a few days.

He immediately felt immense pressure: 320 iron-grade soul beasts and 100 bronze-grade soul beasts, totaling 420 soul beasts. Each soul beast consumes 10,000 Federal Coins worth of metal materials per day, and this is just to cover daily expenses. It would cost more than 4 million Federal Coins per day.

It's absolutely impossible to accelerate the cultivation of these soul beasts; keeping them alive is already the limit.

Lin Jinfa realized he had really lost his mind, gotten carried away with the fun, and hadn't considered the consequences at all. Now he was completely ruined, only immersed in the excitement of his increased soul power.

All the metal soul beasts gave him the same amount of soul power: a metal soul beast can provide 0.1 level of soul power at birth, and the amount is reduced by half for each major level.

He is now a first-ring Soul Master, so each Iron-grade Soul Beast can provide him with 0.05 levels of Soul Power. With about 120 Soul Beasts, his Soul Power will have already reached level 20.

Even if the number of beasts is reduced by half again, to a total of four hundred, he can calculate how much soul power he has now—Lin Jin's current soul power level is level twenty-seven.

He's essentially spent billions and leveled up more than ten times in just a few days—a feat no other transmigrator can match.

Of course, this level of skill would be considered an unparalleled prodigy in Douluo Continent I and II, but in Legend of the Dragon King, it's still just a nobody. This era is incredibly treacherous. The native Yun Ming became a Title Douluo in his early twenties, which is even more powerful than those who use cheat codes. So, his advancement of seventeen levels is nothing to be proud of.

However, the most crucial improvement is not the soul power level.

The reason why the bronze-level bloodline soul beasts only fed him the same soul power as the iron-level bloodline is because they gave him something else—in addition to feeding him soul power, bronze-level bloodline soul beasts also fed him spiritual power, one point at a time.

Therefore, Lin Jin's mental level has now reached 605 points.

It's okay to spend money on in-game purchases for a short time, and the more you spend, the more fun it is, but he can't bear the consequences. How can he afford to raise so many soul beasts?

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