Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 105 Ze She Kan Sha
Chen Beiwu paused, picked up the jade bottle and examined it one by one, a look of surprise in his eyes, "This royal jelly is of good quality, how much spirit energy per pound?"

"I'll charge you 380 spirit coins for two catties, what do you think, fellow Daoist?" the young man said with a pained expression.

This batch of royal jelly was his most prized possession.

He would never have brought out such a high-quality collection if he wasn't afraid of being reported to the law enforcement department and ruining his business.

“Sure, do you have any more royal jelly?” Chen Beiwu asked.

"This is all I have," the young man said, shaking his head.

Upon hearing this, Chen Beiwu immediately paid with his mobile phone, accepted the two bottles of royal jelly, and left.

Watching Chen Beiwu's figure disappear, the young man cursed inwardly, 'Damn it, what bad luck today!'

He immediately realized what was happening and quickly activated his magic to spit out the jade bottle he had just swallowed.

……

Back home, Chen Beiwu took out the royal jelly and examined it carefully again.

'Private transactions are definitely not as reliable as the official website of the Immortal Alliance,' Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

He usually chooses to trade through the official website of Xianmeng.

However, purchasing royal jelly from the official Xianmeng website requires making an appointment and waiting for delivery, which is why he logged onto the Wanling app store to compare prices and chose to trade locally.

This time, however, I ran into a trap!

If Chen Beiwu hadn't possessed a divine sense far exceeding that of a Qi Refining cultivator, and hadn't done his homework before buying the royal jelly, he might have been easily fooled by this shop called the Original Ecological Bee Farm.

In comparison, it's no wonder that the spiritual resources sold on the official website of the Immortal Alliance are 20% to 30% more expensive than those on the second-hand market. This extra price reflects the authenticity of the products and the brand reputation of the Immortal Alliance.

'It's a pity the Immortal Alliance doesn't have a law that guarantees a tenfold compensation for counterfeit goods.' Chen Beiwu suppressed these distracting thoughts, got up, and walked downstairs.

The logistics of the Immortal Alliance are extremely fast; all the items he bought in the morning have already arrived.

Upon receiving the package, Chen Beiwu went upstairs and immediately handed the jade slip containing the Sun-Swallowing Qigong Technique to Tie Dan.

"Swallowing the sun and drinking its energy allows you to absorb the energy of the rising sun and nourish your three meridians. If you cultivate well, you might be able to reshape your hind limbs in the future." He rubbed Tie Dan's head.

In order to treat Tiedan's congenital paralysis, Chen Beiwu consulted a lot of information.

He discovered that strange beasts could be refined through the Nine Tribulations of Thunder, and after successfully transcending the tribulation, a wisp of creation power could be extracted to heal internal injuries and compensate for physical defects.

This treatment method is a natural restoration of life, far superior to taking elixirs, so he has been feeding Iron Egg Dragon Head with a type of herb recently to enhance its sensitivity to fire-type spiritual energy.

Once Tie Dan has successfully mastered the basics of the cultivation technique, he can purchase various cultivation resources that promote the absorption of the sun and the drinking of qi.

Tie Dan bit the jade slip, his eyes revealing an eager look.

"Don't rush, this training room can't withstand your antics."

After saying that, Chen Beiwu put the two eggs, Jin and Tie, into his spirit beast bag, activated the Ten Directions Gate, and headed to the Southern Wilderness.

……

Buji Island, Qingshuang Valley.

To avoid being exposed, Chen Beiwu went deep into Qingshuang Valley to search for traces of the Frost Jade Bee swarm. He even used his divine sense to investigate the honey situation inside the hive, which angered the Frost Jade Bee Queen.

However, Chen Beiwu had already prepared the prelude to the Ten Directions Gate. Before the Queen Bee could lead the swarm out, he made a hasty escape and teleported to a cave on the outskirts of Qing Shuang Valley to cultivate.

The following morning, Tie Dan stared intently at the rising sun, focused on comprehending the Sun-Swallowing and Qi-Drinking Technique, while Chen Beiwu read the Six Spirits Jade Slip containing the formation. [Formation]: Ze She Kan Killing Formation

[Rank]: Second-tier low-grade earth formation
[Effect]: Infused with mana, this formation can borrow the power of heaven and earth to activate the spirit serpent's soul, generating nine elusive and indistinguishable swamp serpents in a cycle according to the nine palaces to kill early Foundation Establishment cultivators.

[Inscription Pattern Method]: Using the Kan position of the Eight Trigrams as the pivot, incorporating the changes in the water forces of the Nine Palaces, and supplemented by the ice-elemental snake soul, the pattern is inscribed in reverse at the Li position in the due south direction...

Chen Beiwu was quite surprised that he could read through the Five Elements principles and the Three Laws of the Ze She Kan Killing Formation in one night.

Contrary to his expectations of numerous difficulties, he easily simulated the array pattern inscription and key points of this second-order spirit array by simply using his divine sense to deduce it once, and even came up with two methods for changing the array layout.

One method is to arrange the Ze She Kan Killing Formation according to the Bagua orientation, placing it in the Kan and Zhen positions. This can draw water and thunder together, turning the killing formation into a trapping formation, paralyzing the foundation-building magic power and physical body.

Another method is to reverse the nine palaces, along with the Kan and Qian positions, which can simultaneously create a disguised array eye and generate eighteen elusive and indistinguishable swamp snakes.

The more Chen Beiwu thought about it, the more feasible his idea seemed. So he became interested, took out an array plate from his storage bag, and began to inscribe the Ze She Kan Killing Array.

"Buzz!"

As time passed, Chen Beiwu had already outlined eleven gleaming array patterns on the array plate. He only needed to complete seven more array patterns to completely inscribe the array plate of the Ze She Kan Killing Array.

However, the next second, under Chen Beiwu's gaze, the finely forged array plate in his hand emitted a mournful cry.

'Has this array plate reached its limit?' Chen Beiwu sighed inwardly, gave up, and threw the array plate out of the cave.

"Crack!"

Without the support of magic, the cracks in the array plate continued to spread, and then it exploded in the air, turning into countless fragments that shot out in all directions.

"Wang!"

Tie Dan, who was standing nearby, noticed something was wrong and immediately stopped comprehending the technique. He then exhaled flames to melt away the iron shards that were attacking Chen Beiwu.

"It doesn't matter."

Chen Beiwu channeled his magic power, clenched his fist, and all the shattered iron pieces remained suspended in the air before falling to the ground with a crisp sound.

With his current spiritual sense and magical power, he could easily annihilate the magical attacks of cultivators below the late stage of Qi Refining with a single thought, let alone these small iron pieces that could only injure cultivators in the early stage of Qi Refining.

"Gulu?"

The golden egg was the slowest to react. It only stopped cultivating the Myriad Laws Returning to the Flow of the Heavenly Book of Jianmu after everything had settled down, and stared wide-eyed.

"It's alright, we should head back to the sect to hand in our mission," Chen Beiwu said with a light laugh.

The reason he failed to inscribe the array patterns just now was not because of a misunderstanding, but because the quality of the finely forged array plate was average, and it could only withstand a first-grade high-level array at most.

In addition, second-tier earth formations like the Inscribed Serpent Killing Formation also require various spiritual materials and the soul of a second-realm spiritual serpent as the soul of the main formation plate.

Given the scarcity of resources, the fact that he was able to inscribe eleven array patterns on the array plate demonstrates that his understanding was correct and that he had mastered the Ze She Kan Killing Array to a great extent.

'Unfortunately, my magical power is not pure enough. Even if I gather all the spiritual materials, I cannot inscribe the main array plate of the Ze She Kan Killing Array in one go,' Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

Inscribing array plates is different from refining elixirs.

Inscription formation requires a large amount of spiritual energy and mana, and can be completed in one breath, which places extremely high demands on the cultivator's realm. In contrast, alchemy can be divided into several important steps to nurture the pill, which places lower demands on the alchemist's realm.

Therefore, 99% of the second-tier array masters certified by the Immortal Alliance are Foundation Establishment cultivators, but second-tier alchemists may be Qi Refining cultivators with exceptional talent.

(End of this chapter)