Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 139 Soul Lock

"There wasn't even a note about the item's name."

Chen Beiwu, intrigued, opened the first sealed jade box.

A pool of murky, semi-gel-like, orange-yellow mud with constantly flowing, star-shaped black spots inside caught Chen Beiwu's eye, emitting a pungent smell of rotting corpses mixed with sulfur.

"This is a third-tier low-grade treasure material, [Five Defiled Earth Marrow]?" Chen Beiwu's pupils shrank slightly.

The Five Defiled Earth Marrow, also known as the Five Turbid Soil, is a special product formed by the fusion of evil energy and turbid energy from the three Yin earth veins.

Earth-elemental spirit beasts can reshape their bones and stimulate the ancient bloodline hidden within their bodies after consuming it.

Earth-attribute spirit beasts that have reached the peak of the second realm of cultivation have a 30% chance of advancing their bloodline and transforming into third-tier treasure beasts if they consume this item.

Of course, this comes at a price.

If a low-level demon of the second realm whose spiritual consciousness is not strong enough consumes it, their soul may be corrupted, leading to madness or even mutation into a ruthless, bloodthirsty beast.

'No wonder this Five-Foul Earth Marrow has been sealed away and left unused,' Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

This kind of third-grade low-level treasure material, with its advantages and disadvantages, is undoubtedly a double-edged sword.

Before a safe method of consumption was found, very few beast tamers in the Southern Wilderness were willing to risk their contracted pets, which is why they have survived until now.

"Unfortunately, this precious material is useless to me." Chen Beiwu closed the jade box.

If he remembered correctly, the official website of the Immortal Alliance should have a method for safely consuming the Five-Foul Earth Marrow, but unfortunately neither the Golden Egg nor the Iron Egg were earth-type spirit beasts.

In addition, the Five Filth Earth Essence is too niche, making it difficult to find a suitable buyer.

He'll likely be stuck with this, as it'll be difficult to exchange it for a third-tier treasure of the same level.

"Gulu!"

Golden Egg, standing nearby, came over, wanting to try its luck as well.

"Alright, you can pick one too." Chen Beiwu took out the remaining two jade boxes.

Jin Dan hesitated for a moment, then finally used his fins to select the jade box on the right and gently opened it.

"call out!"

As the lid was lifted half an inch, a jet-black, cold light suddenly shot out.

Chen Beiwu's pupils contracted, and he urged the Soaring Waves Stepping on the Void, retreating ten feet with the Golden Egg and the Iron Egg.

The protective spiritual artifact, the Tide-Rising Armor, also automatically unfolded at this moment, manifesting a layer of continuously rising water curtain, actively meeting the rapidly approaching cold light.

"Boom!"

Under the interception of the water curtain, the cold light collapsed into black mist, emitting an indescribable fragrance.

"Sizzle sizzle." As the black mist eroded and spread, the wild grass and flowers where Chen Beiwu had been standing instantly withered and rotted into a pool of unknown liquid, emitting a foul odor.

Chen Beiwu wiped the cold sweat from his forehead.

Those cultivators from the Southern Wilderness are truly treacherous. If it weren't for his second-tier defensive artifact automatically protecting him, he probably would have been taken away by this sudden sneak attack.

Even the golden egg felt a chill run down his spine.

Is its luck really that bad? It opened a deadly trap right away that could crush a monster in the entire realm!

"It's nothing, just a minor accident."

After calming the golden egg with his mind, Chen Beiwu looked at the last jade box.

Having learned his lesson, this time he didn't do it himself, but instead gently opened the jade box with the Cold Pool Spirit Sword.

"Wow!"

As the jade box opened, a golden blood bead, the size of a water droplet and resembling flowing mercury, was revealed. A high-pitched eagle cry resounded in Chen Beiwu's mind, as if he were facing an incomparably ferocious golden roc that could cleave through the sky.

Under this demonic power, the golden egg and the iron egg instinctively felt fear, and their bodies trembled slightly.

'Demon power is immortal, blood can turn to gold—this is the marrow and blood of the Three Realms Demon General, the Golden Roc of the Sky-Splitting Cry!'

Chen Beiwu's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly closed the jade box. Only then did the sharp, sword-like metallic aura slowly disappear.

Monster blood is divided into three grades: the highest grade is essence blood, the middle grade is marrow blood, and the lowest grade is ordinary flesh and blood.

Essence blood is difficult to form, which is the fundamental reason for the bloodline of demonic beasts. Even a giant beast with a body as large as a mountain only has about ten drops of essence blood in its body.

The next level is marrow blood, which is blood that has been tempered by demonic power and contains some of the power of bloodline. The spinal cord of the giant snake that Chen Beiwu ate before was marrow blood.

Even so, he could still use the Great Serpent's spinal cord to enhance his qi and blood, thus breaking through to the tenth level of Qi Refining.

As for ordinary flesh and blood, because the previous battle was too fierce, the essence and marrow of the Azure Thunder Tiger and the Sand Falcon were almost completely exhausted, so their corpses could barely be included in this level, with special parts being an exception.

The Three Realms Demon Generals are equivalent to Golden Core True Persons.

Even if the blood left behind by such beings is only marrow blood, the trace of immortal spirituality contained within it far surpasses that of a second-realm lesser demon blood, and has a certain probability of allowing the You Sha Falcon bloodline to advance to a third-tier treasure beast.

The reason why the Falcon-riding cultivator didn't use it was simply because he wanted to maximize the effect. He planned to use it when the Sand Falcon had accumulated 499 years of cultivation and reached the limit of a minor demon. However, he accidentally gave it to Chen Beiwu.

'Unfortunately, this demon general's marrow and blood were left by a metal treasure beast, not of the water element, and can only be traded in the Southern Wilderness.' Chen Beiwu was both delighted and somewhat regretful.

This Foundation Establishment cultivator was indeed wealthy, and the treasures in the jade box were all incredibly precious, but none of them were the cultivation resources he and the Golden Egg and Iron Egg needed. Exchanging them in the Southern Wilderness would also be quite troublesome.

As for the Immortal Alliance, unlike spirit fish and spirit medicine, the marrow and blood of demon generals simply do not exist in the Immortal Alliance.

There are only about a dozen demon generals in the Fallen Dragon Palace with names and surnames. If he dares to bring them out for trade in the Immortal Alliance, it's an open admission that he has a problem.

'Human greed knows no bounds; these treasures are all top-quality items.' Chen Beiwu took a deep breath, suppressing his inner regret.

If Senior Sister Yun is capable enough to help him defeat the Heavenly Eye Profound Fiend, this drop of Golden Roc marrow blood will not be useless in the future.

Skipping over the clutter in the storage ring, Chen Beiwu's gaze lingered on a stack of jade slips and about a dozen books.

【Three Arrows to Break Spirit】

Seven Methods of Taming Birds

……

【The Record of a Hundred Feathers】

Chen Beiwu scanned the books with his divine sense and found that most of them were beast-taming methods passed down through generations of the Fengling Pei clan, which immediately piqued his interest.

After reading the Seven Methods of Bird Control, Chen Beiwu smiled wryly.

The name of the Fengling Pei Clan sounds impressive, but their inherited beast-taming techniques are extremely outdated.

Taming eagles mainly involves two simple and crude methods: using divine sense to subdue them and controlling them with magical artifacts. These methods are hardly profound, let alone comparable to the superior beast-taming techniques passed down by the Immortal Alliance.

Chen Beiwu shook his head, put down the Seven Techniques of Bird Taming, and looked at the rusty bracelet in his storage ring.

To be precise, it should be the second-tier mid-grade spiritual artifact [Soul Lock] recorded in the Seven Methods of Taming Birds, a special spiritual artifact made by the Fengling Pei Clan to subdue second-tier eagle-type demonic beasts.

The surface of the Soul Lock is covered with fine grooves, inside which are hidden Blood Soul Spikes that can directly pierce the weak meridians of avian demon beasts, restricting their demonic power and rendering them unable to move.

The master of the artifact can activate the Blood Soul Thorn at will with a mere thought and by activating his magic power.

In addition, the golden roc head embedded in the joints can also lock the spirit of the demon beast.

If a subdued second-realm eagle harbors evil thoughts and tries to turn against you, the Soul Lock will automatically refine its essence, making it taste the pain of being unable to live or die.

(End of this chapter)