Cultivating Immortality: Starting from Ferrying Passengers

Chapter 86 Earth Level Talent
It is said that when chaos first began, there was a bony catfish in the deep abyss of the North Sea that swallowed stars and spit out mist. It had nine orifices on its spine, and whenever it encountered the number of Dayan, it would ooze out black crystal marrow fluid.

After three thousand six hundred tribulations, the marrow fluid condensed into a chessboard with nineteen vertical and horizontal lines, which secretly matched the changes of the Zhoutian stars and was named "Linglong Jieguju".

This is the innate magical power dormant deep in the blood of the Bone Catfish clan. Only those with great fortune can awaken this magical power.

Fang Jingxuan closed the "Collection of Annotations to the Illustrated Book of Myriad Beasts - Volume 15: Sea Beasts" in his hand, and then seemed to be thinking about something.

Fang Jingxuan found this illustrated book in a bookstore in the market town. Since it was not a book related to cultivation and did not contain any cultivation elements, it was sold cheaply, costing only two low-grade spirit stones.

In addition to this illustrated book, Fang Jingxuan also collected some other annotated collections of spiritual beasts and humanities and customs.

After learning that Liu Gu's innate talent was Earth Rank, Fang Jingxuan became very interested in the Bone Catfish race.

The origin of the Six Bones was very clear. Fang Jingxuan simply ordered Tuyuan to randomly capture some young slit-mouthed catfish in the Qing River and put them under the waterfall pool for breeding and screening.

The split-mouthed catfish is just a low-grade aquatic spirit beast of the first rank. There are at least thousands or tens of thousands of them living in the vast Qinghe River. It is not an extremely rare species at all.

From time to time, monks would catch fresh catfish and sell them on the market, which would be bought by people to make fish soup.

From this we can see that there is no problem with Liugu's background, so how come he suddenly awakened this earth-level talent?
Fang Jingxuan recalled the scene when he first saw the Six Bones. It was only a tiny thing in size, and apart from appearing to be very intelligent, there was nothing special about it.

Or is it because I have been living in the courtyard pond for most of the past six months, and I can only catch a few drops of moonlight and dew from time to time?

Fang Jingxuan didn't believe that his Moon Jade Dew had such a great effect. He preferred to believe that Liugu had a trace of the blood of the ancient bone catfish in his body, which had now awakened by good luck.

Fang Jingxuan thought about it and put aside the reason why Liu Gu had this earth-level talent, and instead focused his mind on the talent itself.

[Linglong Jiegu] is an earth-level talent, which may have the opportunity to be promoted to a complete heaven-level talent [Linglong Jiegu Bureau] later.

At present, when Liu Gu uses this magical power, he can only produce a dotted line, which does not seem to be very magical.

But every time an orifice appears on the back of the six-bone body, this [Linglong Jie Bone] will produce two imaginary lines of longitude and latitude, one vertical and one horizontal. When nine orifices are born on the back, the nineteen lines of longitude and latitude gather together to form a complete [Linglong Chessboard], which will then become a small world of its own.

When a cultivator accidentally falls into the game, he will be restricted everywhere and play against heaven and earth.

How much chance of success do you have when you pit yourself against heaven? Therefore, whenever the chess game is set, the outcome is already determined by heaven.

In addition to the nineteen longitude and latitude lines of heaven and earth, the six bones can also use their own essence and blood as a guide to generate black and white chess pieces.

Among them, the black spots are called "Dark Spring Devourer", which turn into a black swamp when they land, and can corrode the spiritual light of magic tools;

The white piece is named "Han Xing Ding". It hangs in the air and turns into a seven-foot ice edge formation, which can seal the enemy's three souls and seven spirits.

At this point, this is the complete earth-level talent, the full development of [Linglong Jiegu].

After reading the introduction of this magical talent in the attribute panel, Fang Jingxuan finally understood why a spirit beast with heavenly talent could be worth so many spirit stones.

It really is true that you get what you pay for. The Beast Taming Sect didn't ask for too much.

After sighing, Fang Jingxuan looked at Liu Gu with an unusually gentle expression. With such a pet, once it matured, there was no place in the vast Baishan Mountains that he couldn't explore. Oh, I almost forgot, now that I've contracted Liu Gu, I should always carry him with me. But Liu Gu can't leave the water for long periods of time. Does that mean I'll have to carry a large water tank with me?

When Fang Jingxuan thought of that scene, he found it funny. Wherever Tuoyuan went in the future, he would carry a large water tank on his back, and Liugu could only stay in it. This seemed very ridiculous.

"Forget it, let's go ask that small Imperial Spirit Bag how many spirit stones it needs. Tuoyuan is too big to fit in, but Liugu can. It's only this big, and the Imperial Spirit Bag is more than enough for it to live in."

Fang Jingxuan convinced himself to spend another sum of spirit stones.

Raising a spiritual beast is already very expensive, and adding a bone catfish to the mix, Fang Jingxuan can already feel that the future expenditure on spiritual stones will flow out of his pocket like water.

Fang Jingxuan called Tuoyuan, coiled on his back, closed the door, opened the formation, and then walked safely towards the center of the distant town.

Arriving at a shop specializing in selling spirit beasts, Fang Jingxuan went in and looked around.

Most of the items sold here are various small spiritual pets. Their combat power is generally not high, but they look good and are suitable to be kept as pets.

This kind of spiritual beast is easy to raise and does not cost many spiritual stones, which makes it very attractive to young boys and girls from well-off families.

Finally, Fang Jingxuan chose a special water-type spirit bag with a capacity of two meters, for which he spent five hundred low-grade spirit stones.

In fact, the manufacturing technology of the Yuling Bag is not much different from that of the storage bag. It is just that its use is single, which makes it cheaper than the storage bag of the same size.

But the price is definitely not low. Anyway, cultivators who raise spirit pets will not buy spirit control bags unless necessary, and they usually keep them close to them.

For example, with Tuoyuan's size, a very large Imperial Spirit Bag would be needed to hold it. And how could Fang Jingxuan possibly afford such a large Imperial Spirit Bag? So let it be for now. He could only deal with Tuoyuan's problem when he had money in the future.

After returning home, Fang Jingxuan first picked a few ordinary koi, put them into the Yuling bag and observed them for a few days. After confirming that there was no problem, he invited Liugu in.

The two-meter-sized Yuling bag was about the same size as a living room, so Liugu didn't feel cramped inside.

But Tuoyuan couldn't do that. Once its body was inside, it would be like being locked up. It would be difficult for it to even turn over, let alone how uncomfortable it would be. Unless at a critical moment or when there was no other choice, Fang Jingxuan would consider forcing it in and inconveniencing it for a while.

After buying the Spirit Bag, Fang Jingxuan checked his spirit stone reserves and found that they had reached the warning line.

Over the past six months, he has been slowly selling off his previous gains, including three magical instruments and four other items.

Fang Jingxuan used the spirit stones he had obtained to first pay back one thousand to Wang Xinyu, and then redeem his master's magic weapon. In addition, he also paid for his monthly expenses, the remaining balance of his mortgage, and the latest imperial spirit bag worth five hundred low-grade spirit stones.

Oh, by the way, the spiritual talisman of the contract also needs to be counted in. As a result, Fang Jingxuan’s current spiritual stone reserves have fallen below the 800 mark.

But even so, Fang Jingxuan still wanted to wait for some time. There were still eight hundred days left. If he spent them sparingly, maybe he could cultivate to the perfection of the fourth level of Qi Refining.

However, if one were to exchange the cicada shell of the fellow cultivator for a top-grade item, then these eight hundred would not be enough to last a long time.

Thinking of this, Fang Jingxuan fell into a slight distress.

(End of this chapter)