Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet.

Chapter 613 Advancement to Yin God (Part 1)

In just a dozen breaths, the lump of flesh quickly began to dry up and shrivele, resembling a rotten orange that had been dried in the sun for several years.

Before long, it turned into ashes and disappeared into the world.

Instead, it was a ball of pure innate energy. This innate energy gathered together on its own, first forming a ball, and then suddenly it moved, transforming into a colorful little snake that flew away with extreme agility.

Innate primordial energy is extremely mysterious, and is essentially a more profound form of primordial energy than acquired primordial energy.

Even powerful beings like the Yang Gods need to absorb enough innate primordial energy as their foundation before they can advance to the level of a True Immortal!
Gu Yuan was not surprised by this situation at all; in fact, he could say he had expected it.

He put away the five-colored flames and casually unleashed a five-colored spiritual light, which transformed into a chain, thus imprisoning the small snake formed from innate primordial energy.

Despite this, Gu Yuan could feel that as the little snake struggled, the five-colored spiritual light began to tremble.

Gu Yuan felt as if he had trapped a giant, raging dragon.

This small snake was only as thick as a finger and a little over a foot long.

Gu Yuan reached out and grabbed it, then struck out with his sword, crushing the small snake. Even the faint trace of its spirit was extinguished by his sword intent.

Then, Gu Yuan grabbed it in his hand, took out the Creation Green Lotus, and casually sealed the innate primordial energy into it.

The next moment, a dense spiritual light burst forth from the surface of the Creation Lotus.

Then the light quickly dimmed, and it began to slowly absorb and refine this innate energy.

The Creation Lotus is an innate spiritual root with extremely high essence. For it, this innate primordial energy is the best resource to help it grow, strengthen its origin, and improve its essence.

After doing all that, Gu Yuan took out Granny Plum Blossom's remains.

At this moment, Granny Plum Blossom's remains had transformed into a giant plum tree spirit root.

This black plum tree is over a hundred feet tall and as thick as twenty people could hug. Its trunk and branches are completely black, as hard as black iron, and have a metallic sheen. Its shape is like a gnarled and rugged black dragon.

As for the plum blossoms and leaves above, they are still quite lush and vigorous, showing no signs of withering.

Gu Yuan knew very well that although Granny Plum Blossom was dead, she was, in essence, only a trace of the spirituality of the strange spiritual root, the Black Plum, and did not fully represent the strange spiritual root.

Furthermore, although Gu Yuan shattered Granny Plum Blossom's lifelong cultivation essence, namely her Yang Spirit, he did not squander it. He promptly sealed her Yang Spirit, ensuring that her essence was not lost in the slightest.

Therefore, this exotic spirit-rooted black plum tree has at most lost its spirituality, but in essence, it has not suffered much damage.

If you just find a place to plant it again, it can still survive.

However, Gu Yuan did not intend to do so.

The powerful Yang spirit often remains intact even after death. After all, this is Granny Plum Blossom's true form. Who knows if this old thing might have left some hidden tricks in her true form or elsewhere?

If we keep this item, some minor problems might arise.

Moreover, planting it in a certain place would be meaningless for Gu Yuan, and he would not gain any benefit in the short term.

As the saying goes, ten birds in the bush are not as good as one bird in the hand.

Even if this spiritual root plum tree can really play a great role in the future, Gu Yuan can't just leave it unattended for now and then plant it after he has reached a high level of cultivation and settled down in a cave.

Therefore, Gu Yuan's plan was simple: to devour and refine it directly!
And take the opportunity to shatter the Golden Elixir and forge the Yin Spirit!
Generally speaking, when a Golden Core cultivator advances to the Yin Spirit realm, there are often some insurmountable bottlenecks.

Those with good talent won't stay in one place for long; they'll move on.

Those with less talent often need a long time to overcome this stage, and some are even trapped in it, ultimately watching helplessly as their lifespan runs out, their energy depletes, and they pass away.

As for Gu Yuan... he is not included in this list.

He didn't have any bottlenecks to speak of. As long as his strength reached a certain level, he could naturally break through to the Yin God realm.

And this was already happening when he was at the Heavenly Human Foundation stage.

Now, Gu Yuan feels that when he advances to the Yang God realm in the future, he might not encounter any bottlenecks.

There's no other reason than that his foundation and resources are truly profound and robust, even surpassing most Yin God giants.

Of course, not having any bottlenecks doesn't necessarily mean you'll get a promotion.

The key to advancing to the Yin God realm is not in forging the Yin God itself, but in first shattering one's own Golden Core.

The Golden Core is the condensation and unification of a cultivator's essence, energy, and spirit. If there is even the slightest mistake, the consequences will be severe.

At best, it causes magical power to become disordered, blood and qi to flow in reverse, resulting in severe injuries and near death; at worst, it causes the soul to be scattered and the spirit to be shattered.

This was not Gu Yuan's imagination, but a fact.

Because during the process of breaking the core and forging the Yin spirit, the cultivator himself has to endure tremendous pain, which may even lead to loss of consciousness.

However, in this situation...

Cultivators must also calmly control their soul, absorb vital energy, regulate their essence, energy, and spirit, and use the various supernatural seeds they have cultivated as the foundation to forge their Yin spirit.

The process is not only slow and dangerous, but also extremely complex.

The slightest mistake can lead to utter ruin.

This is one of the reasons why there are far fewer Yin Spirit cultivators than Golden Core cultivators in the world.

but……

Gu Yuan had the breakthrough experience passed down by Xuan Yuan Daoist and his senior master Zhang Kai, as well as various experiences and records from the past generations of Linghu Island. He was very clear about how to break the Golden Core and how to forge the Yin Spirit.

Therefore, he was naturally confident.

In fact, with the current strength of Gu Yuan's divine soul essence, he is in no way inferior to those Yin God giants.

Even if he were to force his way in, there is a considerable chance that he could directly forge a Yin spirit.

However, since Gu Yuan has a smooth road ahead, he naturally won't act rashly.

Next, Gu Yuan sat down cross-legged.

He faced the alien spiritual root, Mo Mei, with his eyes slightly closed, yet a faint five-colored spiritual light emanated from his body.

Then, Gu Yuan casually unleashed a burst of Five Elements magic power, which, like a waterfall, enveloped the entire black plum tree. Gu Yuan then began to activate his Devouring Heaven and Earth Divine Power.

In an instant, Gu Yuan absorbed and devoured all the extremely pure Yi Wood essence.

These essences of Yi Wood are extremely pure, requiring almost no further effort to refine.

Under normal circumstances, Gu Yuan does not cultivate wood-elemental supernatural powers, so refining these wood essences is not easy, and can even be described as quite difficult.

It will take a considerable amount of time.

(End of this chapter)