Rebirth of the Prime Dragon Master
Chapter 1039 A New Refining Method

Before leaving Evian City, Rocky made arrangements to purchase a large number of lab supplies,tools and materials. After everything was readied, he set out for the Myriad Beasts Ground.

He arrived there two days later. It didn't take long for him to replace the valley where he discovered thecrystal refining notebook. The house in the valley was in shambles and barely standing, but it wasstill there.

For Rocky, this valley was the best place for him to cultivate. The Myriad Beasts Ground was anatural field for experiment. The valley was wide and the soil was fertile. It was very suitable forbreeding Dark Heaven Insects and their larvae. In addition, there were all kinds of equipment forrefining spiritual crystal in the house.

It took Rocky a whole day to repair the house, enough for him to use it. He also built a woodenfence to securely breed the Dark Heaven Insects and larvae, as well as the Fire Rock Turtle he hadjust captured. In addition, he also moved the body of the ancient spiritual beast from the MagicSpiritual Space to the north side of the valley, in order to let it absorb the spiritual power of theMyriad Beasts Ground. Since the body of the ancient spiritual beast was not made of iron, it neededanother way to replenish spiritual power.

After Rocky transformed the valley into his own personal research base, he started to do geneticexperiments. He also began refining spiritual crystals. In his spare time, he tamed the Fire RockTurtle, and went out hunting with Robin and Ken to improve their strength. Of course, the mostimportant thing was to refine the Holy Spirit Panacea. For him, refining the Holy Spirit Panacea wasthe fastest way to improve his strength.

In the first few days, Rocky went deep into the Myriad Beasts Ground daily to visit the remains ofthe Butterfly Divine Clan. Additionally, he wanted to see if he could run into Cherry. Back when hewas in the Hell of Dragon Fang, the beautiful woman from the spiritual race had mentioned Cherry.She seemed to know her well, so he figured that Cherry might also know that beautiful woman, too.However, his trips proved futile. Despite going there on a daily basis, he ran into nobody, so he latergave up and focused all his efforts on cultivating and researching back in the valley.

A month had passed before Rocky finally made a breakthrough in his experiments on geneticmodification of the four Dark Heaven Insect larvae. The gene of the larvae had successfully mutated!With this new mutated gene, the larvae grew faster and stronger than all the other larvae.

"Next, I think I can do experiments on the last two larvae,” Rocky said to himself happily. Because ofthe successful gene mutation, Rocky developed a way to make the larvae mutate. As long as hecontinued with the experiment, it wouldn't be long before he could successfully make the larvaebreak past the original star level limit.

In addition to the success in the genetic modification experiment, Rocky had also succeeded intaming the Fire Rock Turtle. While the Fire Rock Turtle might have been timid and gentle from thestart, after being tamed, it was very quiet, like a sheep.

What bothered Rocky the most was the refining of the spiritual crystal. When he had just arrived atthe valley, he tried to carry out the last stage of refining the first spiritual crystal, but failed. Sincethen, no progress had been made. A month had gone by yet he still had not found a way tocomplete the last stage of the refining of the spiritual crystal.

Therefore, Rocky had no choice but to start from square one. He figured he might've gone wrongsomewhere along the way, so he tried changing up the equipment and materials. In a word, heexhausted all methods.

Another month passed.

As the gene experiments went smoothly, Rocky suddenly came up with a new idea. This time, heexperimented on the Fire Rock Turtle. The Fire Rock Turtle was even rarer than the Dark HeavenInsect, and the ethereal crystal it produced was more valuable than the Dark Heaven Egg. However,he was a bit cautious; he had only one Fire Rock Turtle, after all. Additionally, now he had only alittle magical saliva left, so he could not speed up the production of ethereal crystals. Because ofthis, he tried to be strategic in his usage of such a rare resource. “Efficiency is key, * he mumbled tohimself.

At last, Rocky thought of a new experiment: asexual reproduction. It excited him no end because,not only could it serve as research related to genes, but also, it could increase the number of FireRock Turtles!

Of course, asexual reproduction had to be done on females. In fact, Rocky had long wanted to trythis before, but all his Dark Heaven Insects he captured were male. Additionally, the Dark HeavenInsect Queen itself could already reproduce asexually, so he really had no chance to carry out thisexperiment.

Fortunately, the Fire Rock Turtle he caught happened to be female, and it could not reproduceasexually. The Fire Rock Turtle looked like a spirit-manipulated beast hatched from an egg, but toRocky's pleasant surprise, he found that it had complete ovaries. Therefore, it could not getpregnant until it had sex with a male, which provided more impetus for the asexual reproductionexperiment.

However, if Rocky experimented using an ordinary male spirit-manipulated beast with the Fire RockTurtle, their progeny might not carry the same traits as its mother — namely, the ability to produceethereal crystals. Therefore, the only possible way was to carry out the experiment on the threematured male Dark Heaven Insects and Fire Rock Turtle. As long as one succeeded, then all theother problems would be solved.

Of course, it would take at least a few months before he knew whether the experiment wassuccessful.

Another two months passed. By now, Rocky had been in the valley for a total of four months.

So far, three of the six larvae had survived the gene experiments, and the other three had died fromgenetic diseases. It was a pity that the three larvae died, but the remaining three could beconsidered the miraculous products of this era. They had all completed the breakthrough of thelimit of star level! In fact, these three had broken through from the three-star level to the four-starlevel. Although they had only grown to the two-star level, they could already produce low-gradeDark Heaven Eggs. Because of gene mutation, the low-grade Dark Heaven Eggs produced by themwere one grade higher than the low-grade Dark Heaven Egg produced by the normal Dark HeavenInsect of the three-star level.

What pleased Rocky the most, however, was that after months of continuous trial and error, hefinally made a breakthrough in the refining of the spiritual crystal. He had come up with a newrefining method. Although this refining method took a longer time than the previous refiningmethod, he could refine it in greater quantities with higher efficiency. Most importantly, this methodwas very simple. He could refine the crystal in body of the spirit-manipulated beast directly. Thatwas to say, the body of the spirit-manipulated beast was like a furnace.