Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 10: Heartbreak
"That's amazing," Chen Qin exclaimed. "I remember you just entered your second year of high school this year. Have you chosen your fellow beast?"

Chen Beiwu: "There are several goals, but they haven't been fully determined yet."

The Azure Spirit Salamander is just a backup. If the Colorful Adventure can be successfully triggered, allowing him to meet a fellow beast with higher qualifications and more compatible attributes in the Spirit Beast Pavilion, Chen Beiwu will naturally not miss it.

"The beasts in the Spirit Beast Pavilion are docile and of higher quality than the spirit beasts sold on the market. I happen to have a document on the water spirit beasts of the Meteorite Dragon Mansion, you can refer to it." Chen Qin took out a crystal clear jade slip from her bag.

Chen Beiwu did not refuse, took the jade slip and thanked him.

"What are you thanking me for? We've become distant after just a while. You weren't so polite when you touched my thunder before!" Chen Qin glanced at him in surprise.

"Sister Qin, that was CPR, it was to save people." Chen Beiwu said speechlessly.

Chen Qin smiled, raised her head and chest, and deliberately teased: "I don't care, just tell me whether you touched me or not."

Chen Beiwu subconsciously looked at the plump and tempting fruit in front of him and shook his head slightly, "Sister Qin, stop joking."

"Okay, I won't embarrass you anymore." Chen Qin turned to look at the neighborhood fountain and got down to business: "Beiwu, have you ever heard of the Soul Washing Song?"

"Never heard of it." Chen Beiwu shook his head.

Musicians use music as a medium to play specific music to guide the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, allowing practitioners to gain various benefits.

Among the hundreds of arts of cultivating immortals, although musicians are not sought after by cultivators and cannot compare to popular professions such as alchemists, talisman masters, and formation masters, they still occupy a certain position.

The Soul Cleansing Song is the introductory song for musicians, and anyone who can successfully play this song is a first-level musician.

The Soul Cleansing Song has been passed down from ancient times. The melody contains a hint of the mysterious rhythm of heaven and earth. It can help ordinary Qi practitioners improve their cultivation and break through bottlenecks. Unfortunately, it is only effective when heard for the first time. It is useless to listen to it more than once.

In addition, Xilingqu has another shortcoming, which is that it focuses on understanding.

For those with low comprehension, the effect of listening to the Soul Cleansing Song is extremely limited, not as good as a first-grade low-quality Soul Gathering Pill.

On the contrary, those with high comprehension ability can not only quickly comprehend the rhythm of the Soul Cleansing Song, greatly increasing the purity of their own magic power, but also glimpse a higher realm and break through the bottleneck.

It is precisely because of this that the Soul Cleansing Song has a common name known to all cultivators, namely, the [Genius Testing Song]. Cultivators who can advance to a smaller realm by listening to the Soul Cleansing Song are also called geniuses by the world.

Chen Beiwu once wanted to try the value of Xianmiao test song, but was eventually discouraged by the high price.

"It's good that you haven't heard it." Chen Qin breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Chen Beiwu with an increasingly serious gaze: "Here's a little advice for you. Before you advance to the ninth level of Qi training, try not to listen to the Soul Cleansing Song."

Chen Beiwu was slightly stunned, but he did not ask why, but nodded silently.

Seeing this, Chen Qin felt warm in her heart.

She hesitated for a moment, then stood on tiptoe and whispered in Chen Beiwu's ear, "I'll tell you a secret. After a cultivator breaks through the ninth level of Qi training, listening to the Soul Cleansing Song can increase their chances of breaking through to the foundation-building stage by one point."

The fresh fragrance lingering around his nose and the warmth coming from his ears made Chen Beiwu subconsciously take a step back.

"Tsk, why are you so shy? I'm not a man-eating tiger." She put her hands behind her back and walked away with the sound of crisp and pleasant boots.

Looking at Chen Qin's disappearing figure, Chen Beiwu was a little dazed.

"Why, haven't you seen enough since you were little?"

Hearing this, Chen Beiwu turned around abruptly, and a middle-aged man with a strong build and rough dark skin came into his sight.

"Dad, when did you come?" he asked in surprise.

"I was here the whole time, but it seemed like you two didn't even notice me."

Chen Dong spread out his broad, thick palms and shrugged his shoulders. "A girl three years older than you is a treasure. If you want, Dad doesn't object. It's just that you may need to communicate with your mom."

"Sister Qin and I are just friends." Chen Beiwu looked at the afterglow of the setting sun in the distance: "Forget about it in front of me, but Dad, you are trying to match us up in front of Mom." After returning home with his father and having dinner, Chen Beiwu discovered that the spirit beast meat that had been drying in a ventilated place for more than ten years had suddenly disappeared.

Noticing his son's gaze, Huang Xiaoling began to clear the table. "Go and cultivate well. You don't need to worry about the things at home."

Knowing that his parents had something to discuss, Chen Beiwu could only get up and return to the practice room.

Lying on the soft futon, he sighed.

In order to remove the cold poison from my mother's body and prevent any future troubles, I need to take at least three Frost-Reducing Pills, which is equivalent to nine hundred low-grade spirit stones.

The amount of spirit stones is too large, and even if all the funds in the family are emptied, it is still impossible to come up with it.

Even if we could just barely make up the money by selling our family assets, my mother wouldn't agree given her personality.

"But three years should be enough!" Chen Beiwu looked down at his heart.

The college entrance examination reward policies are different in different regions.

In the more remote Yuankong County, candidates who successfully passed the entrance exam to the Seventh and Nine Upper Sects could receive a reward of one thousand lower-grade spirit stones from the Shiyi Hall of the Immortal Alliance, while students who passed the entrance exam to the Thirteenth Immortal Sect could receive a reward of ten thousand lower-grade spirit stones.

As for being admitted to the five great caves, that is an unattainable dream for countless candidates.

The cave heaven rewards announced by the Immortal Alliance alone amount to 500,000 low-grade spirit stones, not to mention the huge sponsorship from local immortal cultivation families and enterprises.

Not to mention the small Yuankong County, even in the higher-level Yunlong Mansion, no one has been able to enter the Dongtian Pass, so you can imagine how difficult it is.

It is no exaggeration to say that students who pass the entrance exam to the five great caves are equivalent to reserving a ticket to the Nascent Soul stage. However, this ticket is so rare that even Chen Beiwu does not have full confidence.

However, he does not need to be admitted to the Five Great Cave Heavens. He only needs to enter a university of immortal cultivation above the Thirteen Immortal Sects, and all the difficulties at home will be solved.

……

Kitchen on the first floor.

"How many spirit stones are you short of now?" Chen Dong asked solemnly.

Huang Xiaoling clenched his hands into fists while washing dishes, then slowly released them: "I've sold everything I can at home, and I'm still short of 500 low-grade spirit stones."

Chen Dong frowned, stood up and walked out the door.

"Where are you going?" Huang Xiaoling asked hurriedly.

Chen Dong stopped and said, "I'm going to borrow some spirit stones."

Huang Xiaoling pursed his lips and said hesitantly, "You know the situation of the neighbors around here. They can't borrow many spirit stones. Besides, Beiwu cultivation also requires spirit stones. How about I stop taking the medicine?"

"The pills are only worth a few spirit stones, don't mess around!" Chen Dong was anxious and stopped in his tracks. "The tile factory has a brick-making job coming up recently, and the pay is generous. If I take it, I should be able to scrape together enough money for the surgery."

"No, that's too dangerous." Huang Xiaoling blurted out.

The task of firing bricks at the Qinghui Tile Factory is not simple. It is no different from exchanging your body for spirit stones.

"Then what do you say we should do? You can't just let me watch you die." Chen Dong slammed his palm on the table, his chest heaving up and down.

"Everyone will die eventually, it's just a matter of sooner or later." Huang Xiaoling feigned calmness and said, "The Absolute Heart Cold Syndrome requires a breakthrough in the foundation-building stage to be cured. Even if the operation is successful, it will only allow me to live a few more years."

"What do you mean?" Chen Dong's pupils shrank.

"Beiwu's talent far exceeds yours and mine. Using five hundred spirit stones on him can make his future brighter." She forced a smile.

(End of this chapter)