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

Qin Shou remained silent for a moment.

A century is neither a long nor a short time.

If things continue at the current pace, he is confident that he can push his immortal spiritual power to the peak of pseudo-immortal in a few decades.

As for True Immortals, that is another threshold that cannot be crossed simply by converting immortal spiritual power.

"go."

He finally nodded, "But you have to tell me first, is there really a key to condensing immortal foundation in that secret realm? Don't make a wasted trip."

"Of course I do." The woman surnamed Shen met his gaze, her voice clear and cold. "Although my Shen family was wiped out, I am not so sure that I have misremembered my father's last words."

If you don't believe me, I can swear an oath.

Qin Shou waved his hand: "No need for oaths."

If you came here so late at night just to say this, it's not quite enough.

The woman surnamed Shen's lips twitched slightly, a half-smile playing on her lips: "I've recently heard that you have quite a reputation in alchemy, fellow Daoist."

Even the two old alchemists from the Shui family are circling around you.

I'm short of Immortal Essence Pills. How about you sell me a few batches?

"No problem," Qin Shou answered readily, "two immortal crystals per crystal."

"Alright." The woman surnamed Shen flipped her palm, and a gray cloth storage bag landed on the table. "Here are one hundred immortal crystals. Give me fifty."

Qin Shou hesitated for a moment, then didn't take it.

Although he was already quite skilled at refining immortal pills, he could only produce a maximum of three pills per batch. To gather fifty pills, he would need at least a dozen batches, which would take a considerable amount of time.

He has only just cleared his debts and doesn't have many pills left.

"Not that many. I'll give you ten at most for now, and we'll talk about the rest later," he said.

The woman surnamed Shen wasn't surprised and simply nodded: "Alright. Ten it is then, remember the rest."

She then abruptly changed the subject: "There's one more thing."

"Since you secretly ascended to immortality, you probably don't have any beast-taming techniques suitable for the celestial realm, right?"

Qin Shou remained expressionless, but a thought stirred within him.

He could sense that the woman surnamed Shen was extremely sensitive to wood spirit energy. Although his Five Elements and Nine Elements Spirit Control True Scriptures had reached the limit of the lower realm, they were still spirit realm techniques.

In the celestial realm, this technique is becoming increasingly inefficient in regulating celestial spiritual power.

He possessed several immortal-level cultivation techniques from Zhenyuan Immortal Mansion, but conspicuously lacked any beast-taming techniques.

He had kept this matter to himself all along, so it wasn't surprising that she brought it up today.

"What do you mean?" he asked.

"My Shen family once possessed a Beast Taming Immortal-level cultivation technique, but it was only a fragment."

The woman surnamed Shen said, "I can give it to you, in exchange for you refining pills for me in the future."

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As she spoke, she took out a dark blue jade slip, traced a few lines on it with her finger, and unlocked only a small section of the restriction before tossing it to Qin Beast.

Qin Shou took it and immersed his divine sense into it.

A moment later, his expression changed drastically.

The cultivation technique recorded in this jade slip is called "The Canon of the Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts." Although the name is inconspicuous, the content is extremely strange.

Cultivators use their natal beast as a foundation, connecting their cultivation with the immortal apertures opened by the beast.

For every additional immortal aperture opened by a beast tamer, the cultivator must open a corresponding immortal aperture within their own body.

One person can control multiple beasts. If a dozen or so of their natal beasts all open their immortal apertures, the number of immortal apertures a cultivator can reach an extremely terrifying level.

However, this method has extremely high requirements for the types of rules.

Reaching the realm of a true immortal is inherently difficult; each additional immortal aperture opened requires corresponding to a specific law.

For ordinary cultivators, mastering two or three laws is already considered quite impressive; if they can master more than five, they are already exceptionally talented.

This is why this technique is not widely known in the immortal realm, and is even considered useless by many.

"Now you understand, right?"

The woman surnamed Shen noticed the change in his expression. "This technique seems powerful, but it's actually a bottomless pit."

At the True Immortal stage, very few can master too much power of laws.

So don't be misled by the idea of ​​superposition.

"It was only after seeing you practice the art of beast taming that I realized this incomplete manual might be of some use to you."

Qin Shou did not speak immediately.

He held the jade slip in his hand, his mind racing with calculations. Others were limited by the number of laws they could draw upon, but he was different.

He possesses mastery of the Five Elements, and has already grasped the basics of the laws of space, time, illusion, and heavenly secrets. In terms of the sheer number of laws, not to mention True Immortals, even Profound Immortals might not be able to compare with him.

This technique was perfect for him.

"What level can this technique be cultivated to now?" he asked.

"The fragments reached the Golden Immortal realm."

The woman surnamed Shen said, "But according to my father, the secret realm may very well contain the later parts of this technique."

The complete cultivation method can at least lead to the Taiyi level.

Qin Beast fell silent again.

If what this woman said is true, then this "Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture" is not just icing on the cake for him, but the key to truly connecting the Nine Yuan Spirit Control Scripture, the five natal beasts, and the Six Apertures Small Heavenly Circuit.

Upon arriving in the Immortal Realm, he was lacking a core cultivation technique that could govern the power of his entire body.

"How much do you want to sell it for?" He looked up at her.

"Not for sale." The woman surnamed Shen's eyes were fixed on him. "I'll give it to you for free."

But you have to promise me one thing.

If I ever need your help in the future, you must help me once.

"No matter when or what, as long as it doesn't endanger your own life."

Qin Shou looked at her, his brows furrowing slightly.

These conditions are too broad, making them more difficult to define than a clearly stated price.

But after much deliberation, given his current situation, if he missed this cultivation method, he didn't know when he would be able to find a celestial-level method that suited the way of beast taming again.

"Okay," Qin Shou uttered a single word, "but there's one thing."

If what you ask me to do will endanger my life or cause me to completely break with the Shui family, I will only act within the limits of self-preservation.

"Yes," the woman surnamed Shen answered readily.

She stood up, completely removed the seal from the jade slip, and handed it back to Qin Beast: "Keep the cultivation manual safe. Don't worry about the Immortal Essence Pills, just take ten for now."

Qin Shou took the jade slip, then took out four jade bottles and handed them over together.

It contained ten Immortal Essence Pills with a single rank.

The woman surnamed Shen nodded slightly and then turned and walked towards the window.

After taking a couple of steps, she turned back, her voice a little softer than before:

"Don't be too ostentatious when you're refining pills."

The Shui family values ​​you because you are still useful.

But if anyone discovers your connection to the Shen family, the first to kill you will be the Shui family.

Qin Shou didn't reply, he just nodded.

The woman surnamed Shen glanced at him again.

That glance was no longer as cold and inquisitive as before; instead, it carried a hint of a smile, like a gentle breeze blowing across the water on a spring night.

"Live well, Fellow Daoist Qin."

She whispered something, and her figure vanished into the night like ink painting, never to be seen again.

The room fell silent again.

Qin Shou sat at the table for a while before picking up the jade slip in his hand again.

He first scanned it several times with his divine sense to confirm that there were no hidden tricks before he completely memorized the "Immortal Lord of Ten Thousand Beasts Scripture" into his sea of ​​consciousness.

This technique has three general principles.

The first level is based on one's innate beast taming, using the beast taming laws to nourish oneself.

The second layer uses the Immortal Aperture as its foundation, connecting the physical body with the Immortal Aperture of Beast Taming one by one.

The third level emphasizes the unity of all beasts, transforming the power of each tamed beast into one's own.