Beichen Sword Sect's Headmaster's Secret Records

Chapter 33: Demon Suppression and Beast Taming
Strictly speaking, the art of taming beasts has nothing to do with the Immortal Palace. This skill can be traced back to before the establishment of the Immortal Palace, when humans were still tribal settlements, or even earlier, to the era when the demon civilization ruled the Tai Chi world.

Yes, in the ancient times, humans may not have come down from the trees yet, and the Tai Chi world known as the Three Enclosures and Twelve Kingdoms today was ruled by the ancient demon clan.

Of course, the demons at that time were not the yellow rats they are today that can kill even Tiedan.

Above the earth, between the mountains and the sea, shuttling back and forth and flying freely are ancient monsters such as real dragons, unicorns, phoenixes, divine turtles, lions, tigers and leopards, divine beasts, giant beasts and demonic beasts that are hundreds of feet in size!

Moreover, these are not only the top predators in nature, they are also born with intelligence! They are even loved by the gods and taught various cultivation methods! They can further strengthen their already overbearing bodies! They can become truly unrivaled demon gods on land!

There are even legends about the demon race, the strongest top predators, the demon emperors who rule the earth! The demon kings! They can go even further! They can be guided by the immortals from outer space! They can break through the void and go to the outer space! The demon god realm of the ancient demon race! They can become gods!

This demon civilization prospered for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, until a catastrophe of unknown cause swept across the world, causing countless ancient gods and demons to die and disappear. The demon civilization was completely cut off, and the remaining demons also lost their civilization and degenerated into wild beasts. Only then did humans gradually have the opportunity and space to develop.

Later, an immortal emerged among the human race. It is said that he also learned the demon heritage from the ancient relics of the demon civilization, imitated the cultivation of those demon emperors and demon gods, absorbed the qi of heaven and earth, gathered the essence of the sun and the moon, and finally created the human race's own way of cultivation and body refining. This laid the foundation and eventually led the human race to rise, wiped out the remnants of the demon civilization, and drove them to the poor mountains and bad waters outside the Twelve Kingdoms and to foreign lands overseas.

Let’s not talk about the rise of the Immortal Palace for now, but as early as the era when the demons were in power, it is said that the immortals from outer space had taught the rudiments of the secret method of taming beasts.

That is, through instruments such as sound waves, supplemented by rituals such as wine and meat priests, the effect of controlling and manipulating populations of different realms, races, and intelligence can be achieved. This is how these monsters, which would have preyed on each other and could not live in groups according to their nature, can also divide the work and cooperate, and even build a brilliant civilization together.

Therefore, up to this day, the method of taming beasts is naturally monopolized by the successors of the demon clan, the Immortal Palace, and they use this method to control the ancient demons and divine beasts that remain in various places, and use them as mounts, war beasts and livestock.

Therefore, in a sense, Tiedan, who had once been a human-faced dog, had also learned a little bit of animal taming skills.

Of course, Tiedan didn't know much, mainly about dogs. After all, if he didn't switch to Jianzong, Goudan would be a leader dog when he grew up, including commanding dogs to track and hunt, flanking and attacking from the side, guarding and scouting, which were all tactics that the Xian Palace army, especially the Shuofang frontier vassal army, was very familiar with.

As for falconry, although Tiedan had never properly learned how to raise birds, he could still understand the eagle whistle. After all, a dog must understand the orders of his master, and the ancient fairy palace used to rely on birds to command the army.

Of course, such a valuable thing as a golden eagle is rare. The ones used more often in the Shuofang Military Town are usually military pigeons and ravens used to deliver messages, and falcons and peregrine falcons used to hunt pigeons. Some powerful falcon trainers can even become Taoist partners with falcons, communicate with each other, and directly observe the battle situation from a high position through the eagle's eyes, which is more convenient than using hunting dogs as scouts.

Of course, of course, this unique method of taming animals is a secret method of generals, a secret technique that warlords do not pass on to others. People still rely on this ability, and their ancestors have monopolized military positions from generation to generation. Of course, they don't let outsiders know how it is practiced.

The so-called herding dragons and taming tigers, taming tigers, leopards, jackals and other ferocious beasts as war beasts and mounts, is a hidden inheritance of the imperial guards who protect the capital. It is regarded as a national treasure and will only be displayed on the battlefield. It is not often seen in the bitter cold border areas.

As for the more superior dragon species, such as the Qilin, which are particularly rare and difficult to tame, probably only a very small number of aristocratic families in the Three Yuans have the means to control them. Many secret methods have been lost in the internal strife of the Three Yuans, and the methods of raising and controlling beasts have been lost, which has led to the extinction of many mythical beasts and birds. It is also something that cannot be helped.

Well, after all this small talk, I can just say one thing.

Tiedan could understand the cries of eagles and the howls of dogs coming from the sky and underground.

Therefore, the henchmen sent by the Demon Palace not only could not stop him or surround him, but soon they could not even find Tiedan's shadow.

Of course, thinking about how he mastered this extraordinary skill in the past, Tiedan has nothing to be complacent about, but... it seems that the people he sent out are not the right ones?

Hiding in the bushes, Tiedan grabbed onto a branch, listened to the dogs barking, and roughly determined the positions of the Fairy Palace's hawks and dogs.

That was indeed not right. Apart from the golden eagle he had killed before, there was only one eagle and six dogs sent to hunt him at this time.

It's strange. The prince brought a lot of minions with him, and he was protected by the Qilin. The local bears are not very intelligent, so he shouldn't have left so many minions around to guard them, right?

Could it be that they have dispersed to hunt down their fellow disciples? But it has been several days now, right? If they could have escaped, they would have escaped long ago. Could it be that the brothers haven’t caught them yet?

Tiedan couldn't guess the reason for a moment, but after all, the Fairy Palace shouldn't have guessed that he could understand dog barking and asked the hounds to deliberately howl and chatter to lure him out...

So Tiedan acted decisively and, according to the other party's order, tracked the dog's barking in the opposite direction. Soon, he rushed out of the hunting circle without the eagles or dogs noticing, and found the human-faced dog in charge.

Jingjing followed for a distance and figured out the rhythm of the other party's barking. Tiedan shot out a flying sword from his mouth and cut off the dog's head with one sword. Then he pounced on the dog, peeled off its skin, and immediately covered it on his body.

"Ahh! Ahhh! Ahhhh!"

He barked in the same rhythm as the human-headed dog just now, and after waiting for a while, he heard the echo of the dogs from all directions. Well, these dogs were now under his command.

So Tiedan sent the hunting dogs away and quietly moved towards the Eagle Guard's location.

The golden eagles in the sky could naturally see him, but animals were animals after all. Now that Tiedan was covered in dog skin and feces, they naturally could not tell the difference between a man and a dog.

So he used the same trick again, sneaking over from the leeward side first, then cutting the throat with the flying sword, killing another person.

Well, killing people is much easier than slaying a dragon. There are always ways to kill you cleanly and silently, such as cutting open your stomach, slitting your throat, piercing your heart, and beheading you. Even if you are a sharpshooter with a divine body and eagle-like eyes, as long as you are discovered first, you will not escape the fate of being killed by a flying sword.

However, Eagle Guards are different from dogs after all. They are the prince's personal soldiers and officers of the palace guards. They wear magical instruments such as message talismans and safety locks. The human-headed dog just now died silently, but as soon as the Eagle Guard's head fell to the ground, they noticed it.

"Wow—!"

The golden eagle in the sky let out a mournful cry, circled the severed corpse three times, and flew rapidly towards the horizon.

Tiedan followed closely with a sword in his mouth and four legs running. Following like this all the way and judging the distance by the barking of the dog, Tiedan soon passed through the cordon silently and found the location of the prince and his men in the Demon Palace.

The deepest part of this spiritual secret realm is the core of the demon god's ban.

Demon Suppression Platform

However, although it is called a "platform", it looks more like a tower.

From a distance, one can see a nine-story octagonal Taoist tower built on a huge cliff that is over a hundred meters high and rises above the ground.

The tower was pitch black and covered with rust, and seemed to be made of cast iron. On the corners of each eave, there were iron statues of nine mythical beasts, namely a walking dragon, a flying phoenix, a walking lion, a celestial horse, a seahorse, a lion, a fish, a xiezhi, and a fighting bull.

It is connected by a large iron ring and tied with eight steel cables that are thicker than an adult's waist. One end is connected to the octagonal base column of the Taoist tower, and the other end is dragged straight into the mountains and buried deeply between the cliffs, just like an iron dragon hovering on the hill.

Seeing the golden eagle fall into the tower, Tiedan knew that the prince and his party had probably reached the Demon Suppression Platform. Just as he was about to try to get closer and sneak into the Demon Suppression Platform to search.

"boom!!"

Suddenly, there was a loud thunder explosion, which frightened Tiedan!
He quickly lay down to observe, and saw that the dim gem on the top of the iron tower suddenly lit up, radiating dazzling light like a lighthouse, as if a small sun was ignited.

The nine-headed iron demon beasts that were suppressing the nine-story tower suddenly had golden light in their eyes, came alive, and began to crawl automatically, and began to rotate counterclockwise with the towers they suppressed!
Hiccup, hiccup, with a roar like the sound of metal gears twisting and colliding together, the nine-story iron tower began to unlock layer by layer!

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

Then, with a series of loud roars and explosions, the eight iron chains that were suppressing the base of the tower were unlocked!
This... is this to suppress the demon? Or is it to unblock? ?
"Crash!"

The chains at the bottom of the Demon-Suppressing Tower slid down like a dead dragon and fell from the cliff. The huge amount of dust it stirred up rose up like a storm and buried the iron tower in the dust.

As the chains loosened and fell off, the hole that had been dug deep into the cliff began to gush out green spring water, seeping down the mountain path like a waterfall. From a distance, a strange fishy smell could be smelled in the wind.

The green springs covered the hills and finally gathered at the bottom of the hills. Before, a little bit of spring water seeped out and turned into a smelly stagnant pool, but now the streams turned into waterfalls, and the green pools were also washed into lakes, rushing like a broken dam! Spreading to the entire secret forest! The huge sound was like a landslide, an earthquake, and a mudslide!
Tiedan sniffed, lowered his body, and tilted his head.

It turned out to be the case.

So it looks like...

That huge rock really looks like a bear...

(End of this chapter)