Chapter 571 A Storm is Brewing (1/2)

However, advancing from the Overlord tier to the Saint tier wasn't an easy task. Otherwise, there would have been an abundance of Saint-tier monsters by then. In order to reach the Saint tier, there were a few more requirements other than level requirement that an Overlord-tier monster had to meet.

It should have attained at the very least a high mastery level of its native element. This was what Gao Peng and Fatty Big Sea were able to find out. The lowest elemental mastery level a monster needed to have in order to advance to the Saint tier was Level 7. Some monsters only had Level 6 mastery over their elements, which was further boosted to Level 7 by their innate traits. Whether this counted as Level 7 still remained to be seen.

Most people had no immediate way of quantifying the traits and abilities of their familiars like Gao Peng. To them, these details were indistinguishable from one another.

Meeting the elemental mastery level requirement would certainly be essential for a monster's transition into Saint tier. However, monsters without the ability to control the elements could still reach the Saint tier by upgrading some aspect of themselves to Level 7. However, such monsters were rare compared to ones who could upgrade their elemental counterparts.

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Back in Mo Du, there was less than a day left until Gao Peng's inevitable annihilation of the Youhu Tribe.

The sky had grown dark. Without waking any of the five students from their sleep, Gao Peng went to sleep in his own quarters. He soon fell into a deep sleep. However, some had trouble sleeping that night...

Tong Xiang was rolling around restlessly in his bed. No matter how hard he pressed his eyes shut, slumber eluded him still. He was still going over the things he had said during the day. In truth, he had no idea if they would be of any use to Gao Peng.

If Gao Peng couldn't bring down the Youhu Tribe, Tong Xiang himself would probably be punished, as well. Even though he was the high priest's only son, he was still not immune to criticism from his own kin.

His familiar's death had cost him his reputation among his peers. He had sustained severe spiritual damage from the death of his Six-Tusked Brahman Elephant. Not only had his father spent plenty of precious materials on healing his soul, but he had also taken great pains to find Tong Xiang another familiar. Due to the spiritual damage he had sustained, his second familiar's level was considerably lower than the Six-Tusked Brahman Elephant's had been.

His fall from grace had caused him to fall out of favor with his peers. If it hadn't been for the fact that his father was the tribe's high priest... Still, nasty rumors always had a habit of circulating around the tribe.

In order to distance himself from his fellow tribesmen's gossip, Tong Xiang had decided to leave the Nihon region behind and move to Mo Du for a change of pace.

It wasn't long after reaching Mo Du that he learned of Gao Peng's return. Tong Ling had warned him against going after Gao Peng. Then, he saw the latter summoning an Emperor-tier familiar right in front him in order to strike down an Emperor-tier familiar that had been sent from the Youhu Tribe.

He knew that the gap between him and Gao Peng was growing wider and wider. He was gradually being left in the dust… Some people were just born with all the luck in the world. Others, not so much.

Deciding that it was pointless to try to sleep at this point, Tong Xiang got out of bed and gazed at the lights of Mo Du, the city that never sleeped.

Suddenly, his phone rang beside his pillow. ”I'll stop my thuggish wayyys. I don't like sleeping on a cold, empty beeeed.”

It was his father. He would only be calling me in the middle of the night if there was an emergency. Tong Xiang quickly picked up his phone.

”Are you in Mo Du now?” asked his father solemnly.

”Yes, I'm in Mo Du now,” said Tong Xiang hesitantly.

”Did you by any chance piss off Gao Peng?”