Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 85 New Spiritual Pet
Fang Jingxuan came to the courtyard pond, and his soul emitted waves, signaling Xiaoliu to come over.

So among hundreds of koi of different colors, an inconspicuous fish swam over quickly.

When it reached Fang Jingxuan's feet, only upon closer inspection did this bony catfish reveal its unique characteristics.

The biggest difference is that it is very intelligent. Compared with the koi fish swimming next to it, it seems like they are two different species.

After more than half a year of recuperation, Xiaoliu's body has become a little bigger, but its overall length is not as exaggerated as those of its peers. It is only the size of a palm and a half.

Xiaoliu's talent is not in his physique, nor does he rely on his physical body to win. As a mutant bone catfish, he has unique talents and magical powers.

Fang Jingxuan casually sprinkled a handful of spiritual rice and fed it to Xiaoliu. He looked at the greedy catfish in front of him and slowly thought in his mind.

After one's cultivation level has been raised to the fourth level of Qi Refining, one can only contract one more spirit pet before entering the late stage of Qi Refining.

Originally, Fang Jingxuan preferred spiritual pets such as flying birds of prey, because these birds of prey could give Fang Jingxuan an advantage in vision.

If you were out and about and released a bird of prey to circle in the sky, Fang Jingxuan would be able to hear any movement within a radius of dozens of miles.

However, this was just Fang Jingxuan's initial idea. After discovering this bone Xiaoliu, Fang Jingxuan decided to leave the second contract position to it.

At present, Fang Jingxuan has not yet contracted this Bone Xiaoliu, and it is still unknown what kind of innate magical power this Bone Catfish has awakened.

But through observations over these days, Fang Jingxuan deduced that Gu Xiaoliu's innate magical power was developing in the direction of concealment.

After Fang Jingxuan thought slowly for a while, he took out a high-level talisman from his storage bag.

This is the blood contract talisman needed to contract a spirit pet, also called the spirit contract talisman. As a high-level talisman, this talisman is not cheap. One requires fifty low-grade spirit stones. Even among high-level talismans, this talisman is quite difficult to make.

Fang Jingxuan is currently unable to make such a talisman, but he can understand some of the talisman structures depicted on it.

The characteristics of 'confinement, spirit bond, and fusion' are all contained in this small talisman.

In addition to the soul-binding talisman, there are also soul-binding instruments and soul-binding formations that can be used to contract spirit pets, but these items are unique products of sects and cultivation families. Fang Jingxuan has no chance to use them. As a casual cultivator, he can only buy the soul-binding talisman at a high price.

After taking out the Soul Contract Talisman, Fang Jingxuan cast a spell to take out a drop of his own blood and dripped it on the talisman.

After sensing his own essence and blood and its perfect fusion with the talisman, Fang Jingxuan looked at Gu Xiaoliu who was eating happily.

"Don't resist. Let go of your body and mind and obey my commands. After the spirit bond, I will promise you an endless supply of spirit rice and delicious Moon Jade Dew."

Fang Jingxuan used his soul to slowly send this message to Gu Xiaoliu to comfort him.

If the contracted spirit beast resisted, the contract would most likely fail, not only wasting the valuable contract talisman, but also losing a drop of blood essence. Fang Jingxuan didn't want to see this situation, and he couldn't afford the loss, so this time he had to succeed, because he didn't buy a second contract talisman.

Fortunately, Gu Xiaoliu is quite intelligent and knows how to cooperate. If it were the not-so-smart Big Bone Catfish Man Gu, Fang Jingxuan would probably have to spend some time to train him before he could take action.

Feeling Gu Xiaoliu's willingness to cooperate, Fang Jingxuan activated the talisman in his hand.

The next moment, the invisible spiritual fire followed the complex talisman pattern on the spiritual talisman, burned a complete circle, and instantly turned into a spiritual inspiration, rushing towards Gu Xiaoliu in the pool, then sinking into the other's head and merging into his soul.

At this moment, Fang Jingxuan's soul was also shocked, as if in an instant, it was connected to another vague consciousness, and the consciousness of both parties was quickly fitting together.

Half a minute later, Fang Jingxuan returned to the stone table, lay on the recliner, drank spiritual tea comfortably, and checked the information of Gu Xiaoliu on the attribute panel.

[Companion Beast: Six Bones, a first-grade mid-grade mutant bone catfish, Qi Refining Level 2 cultivation.]

[Bloodline Progress: 358]

[Talent (Earth Rank): [Exquisite Bone]]

When Fang Jingxuan slowly examined the information of the six bones, his expression suddenly became frozen after seeing the column of talent grade.

He didn't expect that Liu Gu's innate magical power was of such a high grade.

The innate talents of demon beasts originally have no grades, and it is good to have one that suits you. However, as spiritual pets, human cultivators divide them into different grades according to their rarity, growth expectations, and power.

Among the talents, low-level ones are the most numerous and common. Basically, if a spirit pet wants to awaken its innate talent, it will mainly choose low-level ones.

Low-level talents account for 80% of all known talents.

From low-level talents upwards, there are intermediate level, high level, then earth level, heaven level, and finally immortal level.

Of course, Fang Jingxuan had not heard of any immortal-level talents in the current cultivation world. He had only heard those casual cultivators outside the market bragging once that the Lingmu Alliance had purchased a spirit beast with heaven-level talents from the Beast Taming Sect, spending 30,000 high-quality spirit stones.

Fang Jingxuan couldn't imagine what kind of spirit beast could be worth 30,000 high-grade spirit stones. He had no idea about it, but he knew that if Liugu's earth-level talent was revealed, he would undoubtedly be killed.

Even if an earth-grade talent is only one-tenth of the price of a heaven-grade talent, or even several tens of times its value, then based on this calculation, wouldn't this spirit pet of mine be worth nearly a thousand high-grade spirit stones?
Fang Jingxuan thought about it. The last time the Chu family raised an army and attacked Xianlin'ao, how many high-grade ones did they spend in total?
Is there a hundred?
Obviously not, there are less than fifty top-grade ones at most. And now, do I have the ability to resist the power of the Chu family?
Even if it is the Chu family, do they have the ability to keep this earth-level spiritual pet with talent?
Probably not. Fang Jingxuan guessed that the best option for the Chu family would be to offer it to Danding Sect and gain some benefits. Danding Sect would then decide whether to keep this earth-level bone catfish for themselves or sell it.

Fang Jingxuan closed his eyes and quietly calculated the future. If he presented the six bones to the Chu family, and then the Chu family completed the subsequent procedures, what would he get?
After a moment, Fang Jingxuan sighed. He felt his miserable end. Not to mention whether the Chu family would kill him to silence him, he would not be able to withstand so many calamity cultivators in Baishan in the future. Unless he found a big city to live in seclusion for the rest of his life, going out would be a disaster for him.

At this point, Fang Jingxuan gave up the idea of ​​selling Liu Gu and decided to keep him for training.

After thinking about these things, Fang Jingxuan seriously explored what was so powerful about this Earth-level talent.
(End of this chapter)