Cultivating Immortality in a Family: I Prove Immortality Through the Chaotic Dao Realm

Chapter 22 Taking Stock of the Gains! The Body Tempering Technique of Fiendish Qi!

Of the four spirit beast pouches, two were empty, presumably used to store leopards and birds of prey.

In the third bag, there was a snow-white, fat, big-eared clever rat.

This is the famous Spirit-Sniffing Rat in the cultivation world, also known as the Treasure-Seeking Rat.

Tu Yuanfeng cultivated a spirit-protecting secret technique, but in order to make it a vessel for his divided soul, he did not connect it with his soul. Therefore, even though Tu Yuanfeng unfortunately died, the spirit-sniffing rat lived well and was not harmed by the spirit contract.

Both the leopard and the bird are second-tier low-grade demonic beasts with powerful combat strength, and they are Tu Yuanfeng's helpers in battle.

This fat, big-eared rat is no good. It has reached the first-grade upper level, which is equivalent to a cultivator in the late stage of Qi Refining, but its combat power is not even as good as a first-grade middle level ordinary demon beast.

Even so, it is still much higher than Chen Qian's realm. If it were outside, it would be difficult for Chen Qian to subdue it, but since it is in the Gray Pearl World, it is not a problem.

Tu Yuanfeng admitted that he could not pass on the Beast Taming Sect's techniques to Chen Qian, but he had his own cultivation notes in his storage bag.

These are all methods for contracting and raising spirit beasts. After learning them, Chen Qian will have no problem mastering the basic methods of controlling and raising spirit beasts.

In this world of cultivation, the true darlings of heaven and earth are actually the demon beasts.

There is no essential difference between demonic beasts and spirit beasts. Demonic beasts that have been tamed and contracted by humans can be called spirit beasts.

In this vast and boundless world, the largest populations are the various beast tribes.

They have no cultivation methods; all they possess is the power of their bloodline.

Ordinary wild beasts can evolve into demonic beasts by absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and seizing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

This proportion is certainly not very high, but it is still much higher than the proportion of humans who possess spiritual roots.

Therefore, all kinds of advanced-level demonic beasts have an overwhelming numerical advantage over humans of the same level.

The only disadvantage is that only after a monster reaches the fourth level of human transformation can its intelligence be comparable to that of a human.

Based on the bloodline level of the monsters, they can be divided into the following levels: primary, intermediate, advanced, earth-level, heaven-level, semi-true spirit, and true spirit.

There is not much difference between the beginner and intermediate levels. They are only subdivided because their numbers and types are extremely large. The growth limit is generally no more than one level.

High-level monsters can grow to the second tier.

Earth-level demonic beasts can grow to the third tier, and the most outstanding among them have a very small chance of growing to the human form stage.

Only celestial-level demonic beasts have a relatively high probability of breaking through to the fourth-order transformation.

Semi-True Spirit level monsters usually refer to monsters with some True Spirit bloodline. This type of monster generally has high growth potential and is much stronger than monsters of the same level.

The most powerful are naturally the demonic beasts at the True Spirit level. They are truly the darlings of heaven and earth; once they reach their peak, they can dominate an entire realm and stand shoulder to shoulder with immortals.

But true spirits are extremely rare, far fewer than true immortals.

A beast's bloodline determines its upper limit of growth, but bloodlines are not static.

Absorbing the essence of the sun and moon and the spiritual energy of heaven and earth can lead to growth, while devouring and refining similar bloodlines can break through the upper limit.

Given the right resources and opportunities, even ordinary wild beasts can find their way to heaven and grow into true spirits that dominate an entire realm.

The last spirit beast bag contained a demon beast egg.

This was obtained by Tu Yuanfeng during one of his training trips. He didn't know its grade or type, only guessing that it was at least an egg of a low-level demon beast.

The egg has absorbed a lot of spiritual energy and resources, but it has not yet hatched successfully.

All we know is that it prefers to absorb metal-based spiritual materials and is naturally endowed with a sharp aura.

Tu Yuanfeng was only a Foundation Establishment cultivator with limited financial resources. He needed to cultivate himself and also had other demonic beasts to raise, so the resources he could provide for this demonic beast egg were limited.

The egg was half a person tall, with a pale golden surface covered with mysterious spiritual patterns. Touching it revealed a sharp aura that made one's skin sting.

Chen Qian, of course, didn't know how to hatch it either. Eggs of high-quality demonic beasts usually needed to absorb suitable resources and be provided with special incubation conditions before they could finally hatch. After observing it carefully for a while, he put it back into his spirit beast pouch and would consider what to do with it later.

Putting away the spirit beast pouch, Chen Qian looked at the large pile of colorful items in front of him and transformed into a diligent little bee, continuing to sort through them.

The resources have been quickly categorized and are listed below.

12 mid-grade spirit stones and 456 low-grade spirit stones.

One second-tier mid-grade Earth Prison Talisman, one second-tier low-grade Shadow Escape Talisman, dozens of first-tier mid-grade and high-grade talismans, and several first-tier top-grade talismans.

There were more than a dozen bottles of various pills. Apart from the rare Foundation Establishment Pill that Tu Yuanfeng specifically pointed out, Chen Qian didn't recognize many of them. He would identify and deal with them slowly later.

Tu Yuanfeng's flying sword and whip, and the demonic cultivator's blood banner and round shield are all spiritual artifacts. Although they are only second-tier low-grade, Chen Qian cannot use them for the time being.

To activate a spiritual artifact, one needs at least the liquid mana of the Foundation Establishment stage. The mana of the Qi Refining stage is gaseous, thin, and scattered, which is far from meeting the requirements.

In addition, the demonic cultivator also possessed a second-tier low-grade spiritual artifact shuttle, which was the most valuable item among all his belongings.

There are more than ten other first-tier medium-to-high-grade and top-grade magic weapons.

This shows the difference in wealth between disciples of immortal sects and ordinary rogue cultivators.

Many rogue cultivators, even those who are fortunate enough to advance to the Foundation Establishment stage, cannot afford spiritual artifacts and are still using top-tier magic weapons.

Among cultivation equipment, large-scale equipment and flying equipment are the most expensive.

The Hundred Storage Pavilion sells a mid-grade Tier 1 flying shuttle, the Willow Leaf Boat, for a price as high as 268 spirit stones.

For the same type of equipment, a difference of one minor tier can result in a price difference of three to five times, while a difference of one major realm can result in a price difference of nearly ten times.

For example, a first-grade high-quality flying shuttle is more than three times more expensive than a mid-grade one, while a second-grade low-quality spiritual weapon flying shuttle is at least ten times more expensive than a first-grade top-quality flying shuttle.

In addition to the above major categories, there are also some miscellaneous items.

The secret cave of Tu Yuanfeng contains array control plates, cultivation notes, and his identity plaque from the Beast Taming Sect.

In addition to their sect identity badges, demonic cultivators also possess a token engraved with the words "Luo Tian," the purpose of which is unknown.

What surprised Chen Qian the most was a jade slip he found among the miscellaneous items of the demonic cultivators. It contained a body-training technique called the "Fierce Qi Body Tempering Technique".

There are three main sources of malevolent energy in the cultivation world.

The first type is naturally formed by heaven and earth, and is often found in places with yin energy and evil influences.

The second is the killing aura. Whether it's a cultivator or a demon beast, as long as they slaughter a certain number of living beings, they will generate killing aura.

The third is the malevolent energy of cultivation techniques. Many demonic and ghostly cultivation techniques generate malevolent energy to varying degrees during the cultivation process.

This cultivation method improves the body's refinement level by refining various evil energies, achieving the effect of purifying evil energies and enhancing cultivation, making it extremely suitable for practitioners of demonic arts.

However, using evil energy for cultivation also carries great danger.

Not only is the cultivation process extremely painful, but the characteristic of the evil energy is that it impacts the soul and disturbs the mind. Contact between the soul and spirit can easily cause a backlash.

However, to cultivate this technique, one must use their soul to refine the evil energy. Therefore, even though this technique is widely circulated among demonic cultivators, very few people can cultivate it to a high level.

This cultivation method is a rare one in the cultivation world that does not have different levels. The level that one can advance in body refinement depends on the amount of evil energy refined, and has little to do with the cultivation method itself.

Finally, there were more than a dozen medicinal herbs and plants of various colors, as well as a lot of scattered minerals and spiritual materials. Chen Qian chose a place next to the rocky mountain and turned it into a medicinal garden, transplanting all the medicinal herbs and plants there. He left the other spiritual materials for later use, as they would come in handy in the future.

As long as he was in the Gray Pearl World, Chen Qian possessed unparalleled power. He had set up the stone mountain and the herb garden as forbidden areas, so no small animals would be able to discover these two places.

After cleaning up most of the items, Chen Qian also felt somewhat tired.

It's already very late, and my physical condition isn't great, so I have to rest for another night and set off for Fenglin City tomorrow morning.

(End of this chapter)