Family Cultivation: Rise of the Wilderness

Chapter 168 Demon Heart Grass

"I have yet to ask your honorable name, fellow Daoist."

Cao Fuyi was very polite.

Li Xiangming cupped his hands and replied, "I am Li Xiangming from Dangui Mountain."

"Angelica Mountain? Is it Angelica Mountain near Puyin Mountain?"

"Exactly."

Upon hearing this, Cao Fuyi's eyes flickered.

The Cao family's main purpose in settling in Pu County was to open up a new breeding ground for monsters in Qingliang Mountain.

Puyin Mountain is undoubtedly of paramount importance.

However, Puyin Mountain is remote, and it is said that there are many rogue cultivators of unknown origin. Not many people from the Cao family came, so they suppressed their thoughts and decided to establish themselves in Pushui Market through Yuyuan Garden.

Now that the Li family of Danggui Mountain were in front of him, Cao Fuyi immediately thought of many family plans.

However, he did not reveal his thoughts, but asked, "Young Master Li, what is the reason for your visit to Yu Garden?"

“I came here to visit a relative who is also a beast tamer. I thought he might come to visit Yuyuan, so I came to find out.”

"May I ask what the name of this relative of Young Master Li is?"

"Chen Chihe".

"Fellow Daoist Chen?"

Cao Fuyi paused for a moment, then looked at Cao Yanjun: "In the past two months, Fellow Daoist Chen has indeed frequently come to Yuyuan, and even sparred with Yanjun on the art of beast taming. However, Fellow Daoist Chen narrowly lost and has not come for several days."

A narrow defeat?

Li Xiangming was secretly surprised. According to Gong Wan, Chen Chihe's beast-taming skills far surpassed his own, yet Cao Yanjun was able to defeat Chen Chihe. Could he be a second-tier beast tamer?

"You guessed right. Although my Yanjun is a girl, she has an unparalleled talent in beast taming. Otherwise, she wouldn't be able to support such a large Yuyuan."

Cao Fuyi stroked his beard and said with a smile.

"As expected of Fairy Cao, who hails from Qingliang Mountain."

Li Xiangming was impressed. Everyone said that Qingliang Mountain was skilled at controlling beasts, and seeing it today, he could confirm it was true.

Upon hearing about Qingliang Mountain, Cao Yanjun's expression turned somewhat abnormal, but she did not show it. Instead, she bent down to help the seriously injured Tong Wunan up.

Unlike the Cao family uncle and nephew, Tong Wunan looked at Li Xiangming with a hint of wariness.

"Does Young Master Li know anyone from the Mang Sect?"

The group of people from the Mang Sect who came on this trip were no ordinary people.

Especially that blind man Luo, his strength is nothing like that of a Qi Refining cultivator.

He had already cultivated to the ninth level of Qi Refining and was confident that he could hold his own against a Qi Refining Perfection cultivator. However, in the opponent's hands, he was severely injured and unable to get out of bed after just a few moves.

Such a person dared not lay a hand on Li Xiangming.

The root cause is probably much more complex.

Tong Wunan couldn't figure these things out, so he didn't want the young lady to associate with such people.

“I’ve dealt with them before, and they know my methods, so they dare not offend me.”

Li Xiangming embellished his own image, implying that the Mang Sect and others had no regard for his actual strength.

But he wasn't entirely wrong, after all, Madam Zhen and Blind Luo had both suffered greatly at his hands.

If their cult leader hadn't personally intervened, those two would be dead.

Upon hearing this, Tong Wunan frowned even more deeply. He couldn't fathom what methods this young upstart could possibly have to force back the members of the Mang Cult.

Cao Fuyi, however, did not pay attention to this.

Which cultivator doesn't have some secrets?

As long as the person in front of you is surnamed Li and comes from the Li family of Danggui Mountain, that's enough.

The Cao family needs a large number of demonic beasts, and Dangui Mountain, backed by Puyin Mountain, is undoubtedly an excellent partner.

"Let's not talk about this anymore, Young Master Li, please come inside and have a seat."

Cao Fuyi extended a warm invitation, and Li Xiangming, who was also interested in learning about the Cao family of Qingliang Mountain, gladly agreed.

As for finding Chen Chihe, there was no delay. He instructed Li Xiangting and others to escort Li Qianyuan and Gong Wan back to Pushuifang City to take charge of the matter.

He then visited Yuyuan Garden with Li Xianghong and several other beast tamers.

Because the Li family had done a favor for Yuyuan, the Cao family's beast tamers did not hold back. Not to mention their beast taming techniques, they at least opened up all the beast farms and provided detailed introductions.

After several days, Li Xianghong and the others observed the existing monsters and spirit pets in Yuyuan Garden and gained something from it.

"Judging from the layout of the beast farm alone, the Cao family's beast taming skills far surpass ours." A beast tamer of the Qian generation sighed with deep emotion. Although the inheritance of beast taming techniques is very important, a complete system is irreplaceable for the mass taming of spirit pets.

Yuyuan has a small number of people, yet it possesses such a system, while the Li family is much more inexperienced in this regard.

When they saw the spiritual field, the Li family members were even more amazed.

The Cao family clearly did not adhere to tradition, but instead used external methods such as spiritual plants to assist in taming their spirit pets.

Li Xiangming gave Li Xianghong a look, telling him to remember these spiritual plants so that the Li family could follow suit in the future.

Li Xianghong nodded silently. In fact, the Book of Myriad Spirits also mentioned some spiritual plants that could assist in controlling beasts, but those spiritual plants were too advanced and too expensive, so he dared not use them at all.

The spiritual plants cultivated by the Cao family are very down-to-earth.

Most of them were ordinary spiritual plants that could be bought on the market. Although Li Xianghong had not tested them on demonic beasts, he could still figure out why.

There was only one small, enclosed spiritual field, planted with a patch of lush green herbaceous plants, interspersed with a few scattered heart-shaped flower buds, which seemed unfamiliar to the outside world.

"What is this?"

Li Xianghong couldn't help but ask.

Li Xiangming also looked over, his curiosity piqued. He had spent ten years in the Green Cloud Cave and knew of no less than ten thousand kinds of spiritual herbs, but he had never seen such a spiritual herb before.

"This is the Demon Heart Grass, which is native to the Rainbow Cloud Sea. The Cao family went to great lengths to cultivate it on land, but because it is difficult to grow, it is rarely seen in the market."

Cao Yanjun explained.

"Demon Heart Grass?"

Li Xiangming's heart skipped a beat, and he quickly asked, "What is the use of this herb?"

Upon hearing the question, Cao Yanjun pondered for a moment.

The Demon Heart Grass is a secret of Qingliang Mountain, and according to clan rules, it cannot be revealed to the public.

However, since her seventeenth uncle had chosen to open Yuyuan Garden to the Li family for a visit and had instructed her to accompany and explain, her concerns were greatly reduced. She replied, "The Demon Heart Grassland is a common spiritual herb that sea monsters spontaneously seek out and eat after being injured. It has a calming and pain-relieving effect."

"But the Cao family ancestors found its effects to be too good, so they studied it and quickly concluded that the Demon Heart Grass had a hallucinogenic effect on demon beasts."

"In other words, when a monster is injured, eating the Demon Heart Grass makes it appear energetic and lively, but this is not because it has truly recovered, but rather due to psychological effects."

"Psychological effect?"

Li Xianghong frowned: "Could this have a miraculous effect on taming demonic beasts?"

"That's right. The elders of the Cao family have been dedicated to finding a way to peacefully contact demonic beasts in order to improve the efficiency of beast taming. The Demon Heart Grass can cause demonic beasts to hallucinate without their knowledge, without losing their ability to move. This undoubtedly fits the elders' idea."

"Of course, while the original Demon Heart Grass could do this, it was far from enough to help beast tamers subdue demon beasts."

"What you see before you is a unique type of Demon Heart Grass that has been selected after decades of iteration and is specifically designed to deal with demonic beasts."

"After consuming these Demon Heart Grasses, no matter how irritable the demon beasts are, they will calm down within the next three to five days. They will not be completely obedient to the beast tamer, but they will be unable to resist. At this time, using beast taming techniques will have a considerable effect."

Upon hearing this, Li Xiangming and Li Xianghong were shocked.

The difficulty in taming beasts lies solely in the fact that the beasts harbor resistance.

The higher the cultivation level and the longer the bone age of the demon cultivator, the more casually they treat humans' beast taming skills.

So how do you get them to submit?

Throughout the tens of millions of years of cultivation, no one has ever been able to tame a great demon above the Demon Core stage.

Let alone demon core stage cultivators, even taming a demon cultivator in the bone fusion stage is as difficult as ascending to heaven.

Even the most skilled beast tamers can only tame minor demons at the Spirit Awakening stage. At most, after they become spirit pets, they can carefully nurture them and gradually push their cultivation to the Bone Fusion stage and the Demon Core stage.
The appearance of the Demon Heart Grass might break this boundary.

This allows beast tamers to directly tame beasts at the Bone Fusion stage and even the Demon Core stage.

This alone is enough to make the Cao family stand firm!
Seeing the Li family's shock, Cao Yanjun said helplessly, "Demon Heart Herb is a seabed plant. Although it has been cultivated by spirit plant masters and can now grow on land, its survival rate is a problem."

"Don't be fooled by the large number of demon heart grasses planted on this spirit field. Only about ten will actually mature. This amount isn't even enough for a mere spirit-awakening stage demon."

"To tame higher-level demonic beasts, a massive amount of demonic heart grass is needed, which the Cao family currently does not have."

Even so, Li Xiangming and Li Xianghong were still very envious.

At least the Cao family has the opportunity to tame high-level demonic beasts.

Thinking of this, Li Xiangming was itching to capture the Blackwater Serpent, which he had been hunting for some time.

But the animal breeding facility has been unable to deal with the Blackwater Serpent.

He himself was completely baffled.

If there is a Demon Heart Grass
Immediately, Li Xiangming's gaze toward Cao Yanjun became unusually intense.

　I'm off to play ball, so there will only be one update today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)