God of Pets-Chapter 676: Bottleneck

Chen Guan has been researching lately on how to awaken his second Secret Collection.

He hasn't had any new insights for the moment, so he can only practice while researching.

When he had time, Chen Guan found the eight Secret Skills needed for the Innate Eight Techniques. These eight Secret Skills are all Unparalleled Secret Skills. Although they are not easy to find, they are not unique.

Chen Guan spent some resources and time, but eventually got all eight Secret Skills.

With the Tianqian Art, Di Kun Art, Thunder Zhen Art, Wind Xun Art, Water Kan Art, Mountain Gen Art, Fire Li Art, and Dui Ze Art, after learning all these Unparalleled Secret Skills, Chen Guan applied various combinations according to Ji Changsheng's method.

Practicing with the Ultimate of the Infinite, he quickly mastered the use of the Innate Eight Techniques.

Just the Tianqian Art and Di Kun Art could change into several Composite Skills, such as the Heaven and Earth Art for self-enhancement, the Qiankun Art for speeding up Primordial Energy absorption and recovery, and the Tian Di Qiankun Reversal for dispersal, conversion, and force borrowing, etc.

Even combining just two Secret Skills, due to differences in usage order and skill proportion, could form many different functional Composite Secret Skills.

This is just the simplest combination; there are combinations of three or four, five, six, seven, and eight Secret Skills, which are all the more endlessly variable.

The combinations of various Secret Skills are almost all-encompassing, and can be said to be infinitely useful.

However, the Innate Eight Techniques are not perfect; their functions are indeed numerous, but precisely because of that, it is difficult for one person to master all the variations to perfection, often leading to the situation of being a jack of all trades but master of none.

Generally, it is impossible for a person to master all the Composite Skills; mastering just a few of the variations is already something others cannot accomplish.

Another problem is that the Innate Eight Techniques are too complex, and during usage, the user might experience decision-making paralysis.

Don't underestimate this issue. When facing an enemy's attack, you may have ten thousand ways to counter it, but if you hesitate and cannot decide which way to use in that instant, that hesitation could cost you the victory.

In a battle among experts, sometimes that little bit of time has already determined the outcome.

Chen Guan realized after practicing that this thing can easily distract one's focus, but fortunately, he has enough mental energy to practice it.

He always keeps various Secret Skills active, so he hasn't neglected other Secret Skills.

Especially the Body Protection Divine Skill, which has always progressed along with Chen Guan's Level.

As for the Ghost Immortal Step, no need to mention, Chen Guan now enjoys using it to move around gracefully.

The Pure Yang Sword Immortal is also something he's constantly practicing, almost catching up with his Level.

Everything is proceeding step by step, the only unsolved problem is where to get the population resources.

Chen Guan has seized such a large territory, but it only has tens of thousands of people. If you really account for it, it wouldn't even fill a city.

Now, there are dozens of cities within his lands, but there is no one to manage and develop these cities, and many resources are not being utilized.

Relying on these few people to reproduce is just too slow, Chen Guan can't wait that long.

Due to the Ten Great Families' blockade of Purple Sun City, people generally do not dare to join Purple Sun City. Even newcomers randomly teleporting near Purple Sun City mostly choose to go to other human territories.

After thinking over and over, Chen Guan realized there's only one way to solve the population problem—seize people from the Ten Great Families.

The Ten Great Families themselves have a large population, but the main reason they can occupy so much territory is because they have many small families and ordinary Cultivators attached to them.

Chen Guan had Gao Weiqiang investigate, and past Taishan City, there are already more than a dozen kingdoms affiliated with the Gong Family, not to mention their direct cities.

Taking care of the Gong Family would forcefully bring those kingdoms into his own power.

Because those kingdoms are not direct offspring of the Gong Family; they are small forces and itinerant Cultivators attached to the Gong Family, whose loyalty to the Gong Family isn't that high. Forcefully bringing them over wouldn't be difficult.

But now, dealing with the Gong Family would lack any excuse of legitimacy.

Previously, using the excuse of attacking the Gong and Shang families, they took Taishan City.

If they now go and completely destroy the Gong Family and drive them out of Pengxuan Grotto Heaven, the other great families might have the idea of lip and teeth being interdependent and perhaps come to help the Gong Family.

Chen Guan's current strength and the foundation of Purple Sun City are still inadequate to contend with the Ten Great Families.

"What kind of idea would make the other families not help the Gong Family?" Chen Guan mused to himself, but he couldn't think of any good ideas for the moment.

Now, without the hard power to suppress the Ten Great Families, he cannot force the other families onto the same front as the Gong Family.

To obtain population, Chen Guan is really worried to the extreme; he never had this much trouble even when training his skills.

He even considered the idea of capturing Demons to use as laborers.

However, due to their nature, Demons are inherently evil and fundamentally cannot change their thoughts, so Chen Guan ultimately abandoned this idea.

If Demons can be exterminated, they should be. He still has to find a way to get some humans over.

"What method could make the Gong Family step out on their own, so I could have a legitimate reason to act?" Chen Guan thought long and hard.

He couldn't come up with a very good solution. After the last time, the Gong Family should be well aware that their current strength in the Grotto Heaven might need to summon forces from other Grotto Heavens to suppress Purple Sun City.

Of course, such a situation is not likely to happen. The Gong Family has territories in various Grotto Heavens and needs to compete with others for land and resources.

If they gather all their forces to Pengxuan Grotto Heaven and win, it still wouldn't count; if the losses are significant, how would they compete with others for land and resources in other Grotto Heavens afterward?

Such a loss, the Gong Family cannot afford.

Rather than every Grotto Heaven suffering a loss, it's better to lose just one Pengxuan Grotto Heaven.

Chen Guan thinks the Gong Family surely wouldn't dare to actively trouble him, which is quite troubling for him.

With no solution in mind, Chen Guan could only focus on practicing his own Secret Technique of One, hoping for deeper insights to bring out the second Secret Collection.

Though he has yet to comprehend it, the Evil Spirit Blood Sword has broken through to Sixth Sense Level 51 after absorbing all the Blood Meteorite Iron.

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

Primordial Energy: 435 points.

Growth Rate: 2.88.

Lifebound Talent: Reversed Sword (sole piece).

Secret Technique: Evil Spirit Sword Scripture (Secret God)

Secret Skill: Evil Spirit Sword Technique (Secret God)

Secret Treasure: None

Secret Collection: Blood Evil Spirit.

Celestial Destiny Star: Blood Evil Star.

Celestial Destiny Secret Treasure: Evil Spirit Sword Pattern.

Second Secret Collection: Evil Sword Immortal.

The pure combat power of the Evil Spirit Blood Sword is even stronger than that of the Master of Burying Flowers. Even though they are both Sixth Sense, the Master of Burying Flowers is already Level 60 and still couldn't defeat the Level 51 Evil Spirit Blood Sword in a one-on-one fight. This guy is born for slaughter, with overly powerful frontal combat capabilities.

Every day Chen Guan cultivates and raises pets, but unfortunately, resources can't keep up with the consumption. Apart from Yan Zhi and the Ghost Eye still being fed, the other pets' food can only be cut off for now.

"I still need to bring more people over to develop the resources here. With more resource tax handed over, I can have more resources to use, or directly advance to the Great Cave Heaven and extract resources from there as well." Chen Guan pondered for a long time, but currently, neither seemed feasible. Both his and the Purple Sun Corps' development had reached a bottleneck.