Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 19 Three Talents
Inside the courtyard, Fang Jingxuan summoned Tuoyuan and closely observed its changes.

After the bloodline progress rose to more than 300 points, Tuoyuan looked deeper than before.

This is not a change in body shape, but a feeling it gives people, that is, they feel that this beast is not easy to mess with.

Seeing Tuoyuan becoming more and more energetic, Fang Jingxuan nodded with satisfaction. His life was connected with Tuoyuan's. The stronger Tuoyuan was, the safer he would be.

"Let me see what kind of innate magical power you can awaken."

Fang Jingxuan placed his hand on Tuoyuan's head and stroked it gently a few times. A wisp of spiritual consciousness connected them, and then Fang Jingxuan opened the attribute panel.

[Companion Beast: Tuoyuan, a first-rank low-grade water-breathing turtle, Qi Refining Level 3.]

[Bloodline Progress: 318/100]

[The following innate magical powers can be awakened: Stone Skin, Lightness, Water Breathing, Turtle Breathing.]

More than a dozen innate magical powers unique to turtle-type monsters were displayed on Fang Jingxuan's attribute panel.

Looking at these innate magical powers, Fang Jingxuan was overjoyed. Originally, they were just uncontrollable random awakenings, but with the help of the attribute panel, he could choose and match the innate magical powers for Tuoyuan.

These innate magical powers can also cooperate with each other to form a bond, similar to the characteristics of the golden shovel.

For monsters of the same level of cultivation, if their innate abilities and magical powers are properly matched, it is normal for them to defeat three or five at once.

"Other cultivators who raise pack beasts probably don't have the means to actively awaken the innate magical powers of their companion beasts. This method is basically a secret technique that is kept secret by each beast-taming sect and family."

"Perhaps in the Danding Sect's territory, only the Beast Taming Ning family, a foundation-building family, may have several such secret techniques, but I don't think they can fully explore and freely combine them."

Fang Jingxuan thought about the information he had received before and found that no cultivator in his circle had ever mentioned anything about controlling one's own companion beast and awakening one's innate magical powers.

I think these low-level cultivators don't have access to this kind of advanced beast-taming secret technique.

"I'm about to become rich. This is a great opportunity to change my fate. I must train Tuoyuan to be the best beast of burden, capable of carrying the most cargo and running the fastest."

"Until I'm fully prepared, try to avoid unnecessary fighting. Run if you can, hide if you can. If that's all that matters, just stay in the market every day. Anyway, with the [Sudden Inspiration] warning, you don't have to go out at all that day."

"Then the innate magical powers this time will mainly be those related to survival and escape. Combat abilities are not needed at the moment."

These thoughts flashed back and forth in Fang Jingxuan's mind. He didn't expect Tuyuan to fight for him now.

At present, Tuoyuan is positioned as a pack animal, mainly used to transport passengers and goods. Tuoyuan is not good at fighting. With its large body, its speed is a disadvantage when it leaves the water. It cannot be caught up and can only be used as a target.

As for combat, it is still better to use professional spirit beasts. Fang Jingxuan has started to cultivate the split-mouthed catfish.

After determining the direction of awakening, Fang Jingxuan no longer looked at those combat-related talents, and focused his main attention on the talents of saving his life and escaping.

"【Lightness】can speed up Tuoyuan's forward speed. With this talent, Tuoyuan's speed can be increased by at least 50%. At this speed, ordinary cultivators in the middle stage of Qi Refining will have no chance of catching up.

To catch up with Tuo Yuan, I would probably need a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage, controlling a magical instrument. This way, my safety while picking up passengers and goods would be greatly improved."

"There's also this [Water Compatibility] talent, which can increase Tuoyuan's water control ability. Tuoyuan is originally a water-attributed spirit beast, and its water control ability is not weak. If this talent is added, as long as it's underwater, even a cultivator in the late Qi Refining stage won't be able to do anything to it."

"Hmm? [Quiet Abyss]? Increases HP and spell defense, balances resistance! A high-level innate magical power?"

"And there's the advanced talent [Helmet] of [Stone Skin]! It requires 500 bloodline points?" Fang Jingxuan became more and more frustrated the more he looked at it. A dozen or so primary-level talents and magical powers had originally made Fang Jingxuan very satisfied, but why did he let me see the high-level talents and magical powers?

These innate magical powers are also divided into grades. The likes of [Stone Skin] and [Lightness] are only primary talents, while [Helmet] and [Quiet Abyss] are high-level talents.

Looking at these high-level talents and magical powers, Fang Jingxuan wanted them all, but now he only had about 300 points, so he could only bear with it for the time being.

So after some hesitation, Fang Jingxuan finally chose three primary talents, namely [Lightness], [Water Skill], and [Return to Origin].

[Lightness] enables Tuoyuan to run faster, [Water Skill] allows Tuoyuan to have a greater home advantage in the water, and [Return to Origin] strengthens Tuoyuan's physical endurance.

With these three innate magical powers working together, Tuoyuan will be able to run and hide in the water, and he will have abundant physical strength and maximum safety.

It’s a pity that the higher-level talents can only be put aside for the time being and cannot be awakened now.

After Fang Jingxuan chose these three talents, he communicated with Tuoyuan. A profound insight came from Fang Jingxuan's consciousness and went directly to Tuoyuan's mind, causing the blood power in his body to awaken in these three directions without him noticing.

After a moment, looking at the drowsy Tuo Yuan, Fang Jingxuan breathed a sigh of relief.

I hope that when Tuoyuan wakes up, these three talents will have been successfully awakened.

After sending Tuoyuan back to the animal pen, Fang Jingxuan stayed awake all night. Although the market town was safe and it was still a critical period of martial law, he still had to protect Tuoyuan. At least if Tuoyuan showed any abnormality, he would be by its side at the first moment.

Fortunately, the night passed safely without incident. When Tuoyuan woke up the next day, Fang Jingxuan found that Tuoyuan had become different from before.

The body that originally looked very heavy now felt light while walking.

The water-based spiritual energy around Tuoyuan was also more active than before. Unexpectedly, the talent of [Good at Water] could also enhance his water-based aptitude.

As for the final [Return to Origin], Fang Jingxuan has not been able to observe it yet. This kind of talent should be transformed imperceptibly, and it will take time.

At this moment, Tuoyuan also felt the changes in himself and suddenly became excited.

It could clearly sense that it had become stronger than it was yesterday just by sleeping.

Tu Yuan was so happy that he rubbed his head into Fang Jingxuan's arms. Fang Jingxuan pushed him away while checking Tu Yuan's current specific information.

[Companion Beast: Tuoyuan, a first-rank low-grade water-breathing turtle, Qi Refining Level 3.]

[Bloodline Progress: 18/100]

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

The bloodline progress has returned to double digits. It seems that it will take several years of accumulation to accumulate enough to reach 100.

However, if he had this tortoise shell and bone soup to drink again, wouldn't Tuoyuan be able to awaken his talent again quickly?

It seems that I should pay more attention to this kind of spiritual material in the future.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan's eyes lit up slightly. Does Hou San have any stock left?

(End of this chapter)