Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 98 Wishful thinking
With a casual hand seal, Chen Beiwu's finger marks healed instantly, leaving only some blood residue.

"Gurgle." The golden egg shook its fins somewhat unaccustomed to it.

After being cleansed by the Sun Moon Lake of the Nine Apertures, it discovered that Chen Beiwu was shorter than before, and even his aura was much weaker.

'You've gotten too big for your britches!'

Sensing what the golden egg was thinking, Chen Beiwu patted its head and then activated his divine sense to "look" at its lineage.

At this moment, deep within the Dharma lineage, forty-four fundamental Dao traces emitted a faint glow.

'After just one month of baptism, his cultivation level skyrocketed to forty-four years, making him a great spirit!' Chen Beiwu exclaimed in surprise.

Compared to him, the speed at which the Golden Egg accumulates cultivation is terrifying.

Could it be that the bloodline contained within the golden egg is more compatible with the Sun Moon Lake of the Nine Apertures?
But this was a good thing after all. Chen Beiwu shook his head, not thinking too much about it, and used his divine sense to look into the depths of the golden egg's veins, sensing the changes in its innate spells.

'Not bad, you've actually awakened another innate spiritual technique!' Chen Beiwu's eyes brightened slightly.

Generally speaking, a spirit beast needs to advance to a higher realm.

For example, only by progressing from a first-realm spirit to a second-realm lesser demon, or from a second-realm lesser demon to a third-realm demon general, can one possibly unearth the hidden talent within their bloodline and awaken new spells.

However, a very small number of exceptionally gifted spirit beasts are able to hone their bloodline and awaken new innate spells while accumulating cultivation.

[Talent]: Ruyi
[Rank]: Second-tier high-grade spiritual technique
[Effect]: Yin and Yang are but a single breath, and a body as large as one's own can be created within a small space. After the body is refined by the Yin and Yang energies of the sun and moon flowing through the universe, the Golden Scales can adjust the proportion of Qi in the body, change the density and shape of one's flesh, bones, and organs, and thus freely control the size of one's body.

Chen Beiwu was slightly taken aback upon sensing the effects of this innate spiritual technique.

As you wish, as you desire. This technique actually allows the golden egg to move at will and change its size at will.

It's worth noting that the Immortal Alliance's official website does sell similar Yin-Yang spells like Ruyi, but those spells are mostly third-tier or higher treasure spells, with extremely high prices and requiring the buyer to possess the identity and authority of a Golden Core True Person.

Even if a third-tier magical beast occasionally performs such transformative magical techniques on the Wanling app, winning cheers from the audience, he can only watch with envy.

"Golden Egg, try shrinking." Chen Beiwu urged in a low voice.

"Gurgle?" A look of confusion appeared in the golden egg's eyes.

Clearly, it had no idea that it had acquired an extra innate spiritual technique.

'What a goofball!'

Chen Beiwu sighed and activated his divine sense, using the connection between the two to help the golden egg sense the Ruyi talent.

"Gulu!"

The golden egg shuddered, and then, nourished by the surrounding sunlight and moonlight, its body gradually became smaller at a visible speed.

Three minutes later, a tiny golden scale, about the length of an index finger, came into Chen Beiwu's view.

'Good, keep up the good shape.'

With a word of praise, Chen Beiwu activated the Myriad Laws Returning to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book, using his divine sense to perceive the mana consumption of Ruyi's talent.

After an incense stick's time, the golden egg couldn't help but flick its fins, and its body shape instantly returned to normal.

'The magic power required to shrink the Ruyi is not much, but the duration is limited and cannot be maintained continuously.'

Having reached this conclusion, Chen Beiwu let the golden egg rest for a while to recover its energy before urging Ruyi to grow bigger.

"boom!"

"boom!"

"boom!"

Unlike the Ruyi Scepter which shrinks, each expansion of the golden egg's size causes a howling wind, creating a great commotion.

Five minutes later, a plump golden-scaled creature, nearly two zhang long, lay on the surface of Sun Moon Lake, its massive body completely covering most of the ancient pond.

"Bang!" Chen Beiwu formed a hand seal and channeled his magic power. A water blade as thin as a cicada's wing immediately condensed and struck the scales on the golden egg's surface with unstoppable force.

'Very good, the scales' defense hasn't decreased even after the body size increased.'

After testing the approximate effects of the Ruyi Spiritual Technique, Chen Beiwu had a rough estimate of the Golden Egg's current combat strength.

In a direct confrontation, even a Qi Refining Peak cultivator wielding a second-tier spiritual weapon would find it difficult to break through the golden egg's defenses.

If the golden egg is pushed too far, it might reveal the ferocity hidden within its demonic bloodline, and could even kill a cultivator at the peak of Qi Refining.

After carefully putting away the reluctant golden egg in his spirit beast pouch, Chen Beiwu slowly closed his eyes, savoring the sudden increase in his cultivation level during his seclusion.

'The Heavenly Book of the Myriad Laws Returning to the Flow is indeed extraordinary. I have only just entered the ninth level of Qi Refining, and my lifespan limit has increased again. Now I have about two hundred and thirty years of lifespan.' Chen Beiwu was overjoyed.

The longer a Qi Refining cultivator's lifespan, the more time they have to improve their cultivation and hone their foundation.

It is no exaggeration to say that even if he were to lose the Nine Breaths of Chaos now, he would still be confident in his ability to attempt the Golden Core Dao with his own talent and lifespan.

'It's a pity I've never seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator make a move.' Chen Beiwu opened his eyes.

There is a gap between Qi cultivation and foundation building.

Even though he learned from the Immortal Alliance's books that the range of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's divine sense was around thirty feet, which was on the same level as his own, Chen Beiwu still dared not say that his divine sense was comparable to that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

After all, the range of divine sense is only one factor in measuring the strength of divine sense, and cannot represent the whole picture.

To truly know the extent of a Foundation Establishment cultivator's divine sense, one needs to experience it firsthand.

Otherwise, Chen Beiwu would have gone to the mysterious spirit lake long ago to try to set up a great formation to kill the Azure Thunder Tiger, even if it meant going beyond his level.

"Buzz!"

Just then, the Sun and Moon Pool of the Nine Apertures emitted a spiritual light, creating ripples in space.

'Has the time come?'

Chen Beiwu did not resist, allowing the spatial ripples to envelop and move him.

……

At the summit of Shuiyue Peak, beyond the hidden realm of Sun Moon Lake.

A graceful female cultivator dressed in palace attire, her face covered with fine ice silk gauze, stood on a rock, quietly gazing at the distant sun.

"Greetings, Senior Sister Yun." Chen Beiwu bowed.

"Ninth level of Qi Refining in one month." Senior Sister Yun frowned, her tone rather cold.

Upon hearing this, Chen Beiwu smiled slightly and did not refute it.

If he hadn't brought the golden egg into the Nine Aperture Sun and Moon Pool, but instead absorbed and refined the essence of the sun and moon within the pool alone, Chen Beiwu was confident that he could cultivate the Heavenly Book - Qi Refining Chapter "Using Water to Generate Wood" to the tenth level.

At that time, he will only need to obtain the two spiritual materials, Moon Dew and Withered Thunder Branch, to raise his Qi Refining cultivation to the tenth level, which is the limit of Qi Refining that countless Qi Refining cultivators in the Immortal Alliance desire but cannot attain.

Haste makes waste.

Chen Beiwu's goal is not only to reach the limit of Qi cultivation, but to surpass the limit of Qi cultivation, or even to achieve flawless foundation building beyond the limit.

To achieve this goal, he cannot monopolize the benefits of the Nine-Aperture Sun Moon Lake; he needs to share them with the Golden Egg.

After all, taming beasts and taming people are actually quite similar.

Making empty promises is useless; the true way is for the beast tamer to offer tangible benefits, let the spirit beast taste the sweetness, and then exert authority.

After this baptism at Sun Moon Lake, aside from anything else, Chen Beiwu could clearly see that Jin Dan's favorability and trust towards him had increased dramatically.

(End of this chapter)