Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 101 High-Level Talent
Upon reaching adulthood, Tuoyuan's size became even larger than before, almost the size of a house.

Anyway, Fang Jingxuan's spirit-controlling pouch at his waist couldn't hold it anymore, which troubled him a bit. He wondered if he should buy a bigger spirit-controlling pouch.

He still has assets of more than 4,700 low-grade spirit stones. In the past three months, he has been going to the market to sell his goods. All the various spiritual materials that Tuoyuan had painstakingly brought back over a journey of 5,000 miles have been sold and converted into spirit stones.

Wang Xinyu also sold those medicinal herbs made from remnants, giving the proceeds to Fang Jingxuan in spirit stones.

In addition, Fang Jingxuan also sold the magic artifact left behind by the last group of cultivators, earning more than 500 low-grade spirit stones.

All in all, Fang Jingxuan originally had more than six thousand low-grade items, but he still owed Wang Xinyu one thousand. Now that the one-year period had come to an end, Fang Jingxuan settled the debt.

The bulk of the expenditure was for purchasing broken tortoise shells and other supplies for Tuoyuan, which cost a total of more than three hundred low-grade spirit stones.

These spirit stones are so fleeting; they look plentiful, but if you loosen your grip even slightly, they can easily disappear.

Fang Jingxuan also wanted to purchase an offensive magic weapon, and also wanted to buy a magic weapon that he could carry with him along with the [Longevity Cold Cypress].

He didn't bring this fellow practitioner with him when he went to the wilderness before, which resulted in him not being able to cultivate for those days and wasting a lot of his spare time.

Furthermore, Fang Jingxuan also wanted to buy a robe to wear, and preferably change his cultivation technique, as his current technique was too ordinary.

Stop it, or Fang Jingxuan felt his good mood would be ruined.

Over the next few days, Fang Jingxuan continuously tested Tuoyuan's current abilities. After various tests, Fang Jingxuan discovered that Tuoyuan's abilities in all aspects were twice as high as before.

With increased speed, greater endurance, and significantly enhanced magical power, the three supernatural abilities also became even more formidable.

Supernatural powers are like amplifiers; the stronger Tuoyuan's body, the greater their effect.

However, Tuoyuan's bloodline progress is only around 480 points, which is about 20 points away from awakening a high-level divine ability.

Therefore, in the remaining half month, Fang Jingxuan asked Wang Xinyu to continue to help acquire spiritual materials that could increase the concentration of Tuoyuan's bloodline.

Without the broken tortoise shell, Tuoyuan's remaining bloodline progress increased very slowly.

However, these twenty points were not an insurmountable gap, and they were quickly filled thanks to Fang Jingxuan's generous use of spirit stones.

On this day, after Fang Jingxuan fed Tuoyuan a good meal, he placed his hand on its huge head and connected his soul with it.

Fang Jingxuan's soul easily entered Tuoyuan's sea of ​​consciousness, and then he opened the attribute panel.

[Bloodline Progress: 502/100]

[Talent (Beginner): [Lightness] [Water Skill] [Return to Origin]]

In addition to the three initial-level talents already shown, more than twenty other talent abilities are displayed below.

This time, however, Fang Jingxuan only glanced at the low-level talents before focusing his attention on the few high-level talents he had.

1. Xuanjia Reversal: After activation, the tortoise shell spirit pattern can absorb 30% of magical attacks. If it exceeds the limit, it will trigger a counterattack, but it will consume health.

2. Sea-Suppressing Divine Power: Effect: Allows the user to enter an over-limit defense state in water, increasing their own protective shield to three times its normal strength. After fully charging, it can unleash a suppression and imprisonment attack.

3. Spirit Turtle Omen: Effect: Able to predict approaching danger and issue warnings; intuition is greatly enhanced. 4. Earth Vein Protection: Effect: Transfers three layers of damage to the earth veins by stepping on the ground; increases stamina recovery speed; gains affinity with earth-elemental spirits.

5. Resurrection through Tortoise Breath: When severely injured, one can feign death through tortoise breath, automatically heal, and regain life.

After carefully reviewing these advanced supernatural abilities, Fang Jingxuan fell into deep thought.

First of all, these five high-level divine abilities are all developed based on the characteristics of Tuoyuan, and are probably left by an ancestor in Tuoyuan's bloodline.

Furthermore, although these high-level divine abilities are much stronger than the initial-level divine abilities that Tuoyuan already possesses, they are like clouds and mud compared to Liu Gu's earth-level divine abilities.

Is the difference between high-rank and earth-rank really that big?

Is the gap between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment even greater?
Or, even if they are all Earth-rank talents, the Six-Bone [Exquisite Tribulation Bone] is still among the top ten.

Yes, that must be the case. There are countless spirit beasts in the world, and their innate abilities number in the hundreds of thousands. There must be at least a thousand kinds of Earth-rank talents, so there must be a distinction between them.

However, since I am not from the Beast Taming Sect, I cannot obtain the ranking order of such supernatural abilities, nor do I know where Six Bones' supernatural ability ranks in the Earth Rank.

The high-level innate abilities of Na Tuoyuan were clearly not among the top-ranked ones, and did not reach the level that would catch Fang Jingxuan's eye.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan sighed. The rank of Tuoyuan was still too low.

As a low-grade first-tier spirit beast, it was able to awaken high-level divine abilities only after I painstakingly fed it with resources. Expecting it to awaken a very powerful high-level talent is unrealistic.

It seems I'll need to find some secret methods to improve Tuoyuan's rank.

Putting aside these thoughts, Fang Jingxuan began to analyze the advantages and disadvantages of these five supernatural abilities.

First, we need to rule out the third option, the Spirit Turtle Omen, and the fourth option, the Earth Vein Protection, because the Spirit Turtle Omen overlaps with our own "whim," so there's no need to choose either.

As a water-type spirit beast, Tuoyuan's combat power on land is severely weakened. The earth vein protection can make up for this deficiency, but Fang Jingxuan felt that it is better to be good at one thing than a jack of all trades.

Therefore, he did not expect much from Tuoyuan on land, but only hoped that Tuoyuan would be even more powerful in the water.

Next, Fang Jingxuan ruled out the fifth option, Turtle Breath Resurrection. This supernatural power could save lives, but in a real battle, even Tuoyuan was struggling to survive.

Then I'd probably be doomed too, because if I died because of the Spirit Contract, Tuoyuan wouldn't survive either. So this supernatural power is pretty useless.

So now only Xuanjia Anti-Spirit and Zhenhai Divine Power remain. The former can weaken the attack and then be used to launch a counterattack.

The latter simply strengthens defense, essentially a tortoise shell, and also has the function of slowing down and suppressing enemies.

At this point, Fang Jingxuan was in a bit of a dilemma. Xuanjia Anti-Spirit reduced damage by three layers and had strong defensive capabilities, but Zhenhai Divine Power was also good, with a three-fold increase, and it could also grow along with Tuoyuan's own growth.

After all, as Tuoyuan's cultivation level increases, its own protective shield will definitely become more robust. If it can be enhanced three times now, it will also be enhanced three times when it reaches the late stage of Qi Refining.

Imagine how desperate the enemy would feel if they faced a Qi Refining Level 9 cultivator with a Xuan Turtle Shield that was tripled in power.

With this in mind, Fang Jingxuan made up his mind and focused his consciousness on this supernatural power.

(End of this chapter)