You're just a single demon beast? I have a whole army of beast tamers!

[To avoid suppressing combat power, the Qi Refining Realm requires extreme caution, hence the slower pace.]

After reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, three demonic beasts will feed you, allowing you to quickly advance to a minor realm within one or two years.

After reaching the Golden Core stage, five spirits will feed back to nourish you, and you'll typically advance a minor realm every two to three years.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Mountain Range is a series of towering peaks and ancient trees, stretching for hundreds of thousands of miles.

The mountainside is shrouded in mist year-round, and the clear cries of cranes and the long roars of strange beasts can be heard from the depths, adding to the mystery.

This vast mountain range is the undisputed overlord of the three kingdoms of Qing, Yuan, and Lin, and the foundation of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

Two thousand years ago, the Ancestor of Ten Thousand Beasts attained enlightenment here and founded the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect, becoming famous throughout the land for his methods of controlling beasts.

The sect has been passed down to this day, with generations of Nascent Soul cultivators sitting in the central command, their power dominating the three kingdoms.

Its sphere of influence covers an area of ​​millions of miles, with over 10 billion ordinary people and more than 10 million cultivators under its rule, and its sect has 50,000 disciples.

At this moment, in the outer sect area of ​​the sect, on a mountain called Spirit Chicken Peak.

This peak, when viewed from a distance, resembles a rooster crowing at dawn, hence its name. It is the place where outer disciples train the sect's low-level spirit chickens.

The mountains are dotted with countless caves, which, while not abundant in spiritual energy, are better than nothing.

Inside one of the ordinary cave dwellings, Qin Shou sat cross-legged on a futon, surrounded by blue water-attribute spiritual energy that was fluctuating.

The spiritual energy circulated along the meridians in his body, constantly impacting the bottleneck of the fourth level.

Click!

Finally, the bottleneck was broken, and the spiritual energy in the cave flowed into the body frantically, expanding the dantian by more than double.

After a long while, the spiritual energy around him gradually calmed down and was fully absorbed back into his body. He slowly opened his eyes, and a glint of azure light flashed from the depths of his eyes.

"Finally, I've reached the fourth level of Qi Refining."

He muttered to himself, a hint of emotion in his voice.

Without pausing, he closed his eyes again and formed a hand seal.

He began to practice the basic cultivation technique of "Azure Wave Beast Taming Technique" taught by his sect.

Guide the remaining active spiritual energy within the body back to the dantian and dantian.

To solidify this hard-won state of being.

It has been seven years since I was diagnosed with three spiritual roots at the age of eight and joined the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect.

After seven years of arduous training, without daring to slack off for a single day, I have finally broken through the bottleneck of the early stage of Qi Refining and entered the middle stage of Qi Refining.

On the path of cultivation, this is but a small, insignificant step, yet its significance is extraordinary.

Once one reaches the mid-stage of Qi Refining, one's spiritual power can be released to cover the entire body, making it difficult for ordinary martial artists to harm one in the slightest.

They can then truly begin to learn and use those powerful spells.

He has truly escaped the ranks of cultivation novices.

The Qin Beast is not a native soul of this world.

Although the memories of my past life on Earth have become somewhat blurred due to the mystery of my birth, the core fragments remain clear.

He was once an ordinary office worker who joined a local volunteer organization that rescued stray cats in his spare time.

The final action was to dissuade a man suspected of abusing cats.

To everyone's surprise, the other party became agitated and vehemently denied it.

The two went from arguing to a heated argument.

He only remembers being so angry that he was trembling all over and his vision went black.

My last conscious thought was of cardiac arrest... When I awoke, I was a developing fetus in this world.

In this life, I was born into a small landlord family in the mortal world, and my family was fairly well-off.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, he will likely inherit his father's land, become a new landlord, marry, have children, and live a mediocre but peaceful life.

However, when he was eight years old, the immortal master of the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect came to that small town and held an ascension ceremony.

He was fortunate enough to be detected as having the aptitude of three spiritual roots.

Although not a prodigy, he was qualified to knock on the gates of immortality.

So he bid farewell to his mortal parents and stepped into the world of cultivation, seeking nothing more than two words.

Immortality!

His three spiritual roots are neither good nor bad; he's better than the worst, but far from being as good as the best.

In the fiercely competitive Beast Sect, it is extremely difficult to rise to the top.

In particular, he chose a more resource-intensive path—beast taming.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Sect is founded on the concept of beast taming. Most of its disciples choose to contract with spirit beasts to fight side by side and cultivate together.

However, this means that the resources required for cultivation are often several times that of cultivators of the same level.

Not only must they provide for themselves, but they must also nurture spirit beasts.

Qin Shou cultivates the water-attribute beast-taming technique, "Azure Wave Beast Taming Technique".

Back then, after careful selection, I finally managed to contract a seemingly promising water-attribute monster—the Tide Turtle—in the sect's Spirit Beast Valley.

This tidal turtle resembles a soft-shelled turtle from a previous life, but its carapace is dark blue, and it has a gentle temperament.

One of its talents is that it can replenish its master with water elemental power every time it breaks through a minor realm.

It was thanks to the several times the tidal turtles fed us over the past seven years.

In addition, the Ten Thousand Beasts Sect provides an annual subsidy of five spirit stones and a monthly task reward of three spirit stones.

Qin Shou was able to proceed step by step, and despite the scarcity of resources, he successfully broke through to the fourth level of Qi Refining today.

With his realm initially stabilized, Qin Shou made a thought and communicated with his companion in the spirit beast trough in the corner of the cave.

The millstone-sized tidal bore turtle sensed its master's call and slowly crawled over.

It approached the Qin beast and habitually nuzzled its head against his palm.

Qin Shou smiled slightly and reached out to stroke the shell of the Tide-water Turtle.

He could feel that as he broke through to the next level, the contractual connection between him and the Tide Turtle became even stronger.

"Old buddy, thanks to you this time too..."

He said softly.

It was this turtle demon that recently broke through to the mid-stage of the first rank, which fed back its spiritual power, helping him break through to the fourth level of Qi Refining today.

As Qin Shou broke through his cultivation level, his spiritual power naturally transformed into spiritual consciousness.

With a thought, he spread his spiritual sense and could see everything within three inches around him—dust, the flow of spiritual energy, and even the texture of the ground.

He immediately looked inward at himself.

Meridians widen, spiritual energy flows, and the dantian and qi sea become stable...

However, when his spiritual sense reached out, he was shocked to discover a black dot of light!

Upon closer inspection, the outline of the black dot gradually became clearer.

It was a small and exquisite gourd!

"Is this... the pendant that Blue Star obtained?"

Qin Shou was deeply shaken.

I bought this gourd pendant casually at a street stall in my past life, and I wore it ever since because I thought it was unique.

Unexpectedly, I ended up traveling to this world with him.

And it remained dormant in the depths of his consciousness until today, when his spiritual awareness began to take shape, and he was finally discovered.

He separated a wisp of his spiritual consciousness and gently touched the black gourd.

boom!

The world turned upside down, and the surrounding scenery changed instantly.

He felt his consciousness, along with his body, being sucked into a strange space.

Beneath our feet lies dark, fertile earth.

Looking up, one sees neither the sun nor the moon in the sky.

Instead, there were five spheres suspended in the air, emitting a soft glow.

They are presented in gold, green, blue, red, and yellow respectively.

Immediately afterwards, a massive flow of information flooded into his mind.

This made him instantly understand the origin and purpose of the gourd and this space.

This gourd is named the Innate Treasure Gourd.

Its interior space possesses incredible power.

It can accelerate the growth rate of monsters by a hundredfold!

However, this effect is limited to external objects and has no effect on him, other cultivators, or spiritual plants.

Moreover, the space has an incredible advantage.

All the demonic beasts raised in this space, upon their natural death, will have their essence absorbed and stored by the five-colored spheres high in the sky, according to their attributes.

He can then use the energy stored within these five spheres to cultivate!

However, with his current cultivation level of the fourth level of Qi Refining...

Only the blue sphere representing the water attribute lit up slightly, while the other four spheres remained dim and unusable.

According to the information, the energy within this blue sphere works in a simple yet extraordinary way.

Extremely pure water-attribute spiritual energy can be used to break through bottlenecks!

Whether it's the bottleneck between the fifth and sixth levels of Qi Refining.

It's still a minor bottleneck, like the transition from the third to the fourth level of Qi Refining.

It's even a major bottleneck like the breakthrough from the Foundation Establishment stage when Qi Refining reaches perfection.

Anyone who cultivates a water-attribute technique can break through in one fell swoop with this energy!

"A tremendous opportunity! An incredible opportunity!"

Qin Shou was so agitated that he could hardly contain himself.

Based on his own estimation, with the aptitude of these three spiritual roots, if nothing unexpected happens, it would be a stroke of luck for him to successfully establish his foundation in this lifetime.

The Golden Elixir is even more unattainable, and immortality is nothing but a mirage.

But now, with this treasure gourd by my side, as long as I make good use of it, I can cultivate demonic beasts and accumulate the breakthrough energy in that blue sphere.

The path to immortality no longer seems so far away!

Suddenly, a shout came from outside the cave:

"Junior Brother Qin! Junior Brother Qin! Are you there? It's time to go to work, or that old man will start nagging again!"

The voice was strong and energetic, with a hint of urging; it belonged to his neighbor, Luo Song.

Qin Shou quickly composed himself and instantly withdrew from the treasure gourd space.

He took a deep breath, suppressed his excitement, quickly straightened his disheveled gray outer disciple robe, and strode out.

Outside the cave stood a burly young man with broad shoulders and a thick waist. He was about the same age as Qin Shou, but much more robust. This was Luo Song.

His cultivation level had reached the fifth level of Qi Refining, which was one level higher than Qin Beast, who had just broken through.

Luo Song was born with great strength, and he also contracted a stone-armored bear, a demonic beast that was also known for its strength and defense. He also practiced body-tempering techniques on a regular basis, making him both a formidable fighter and a formidable defender.

Since joining the sect seven years ago, I have been assigned to live next to Lingji Peak.

In addition to the monthly lectures on basic cultivation techniques by senior members of the sect.

Qin and the beasts here have influence and can look out for each other.

That only happened to this kind-hearted neighbor, Luo Song.