Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming-Chapter 506 - 503: Consecutive Advancements, The Mutation of Red Lotus
Chapter 506 -503: Consecutive Advancements, The Mutation of Red Lotus
However, Qingluan’s advancement hadn’t lagged far behind the Death Curse Crow’s; it advanced one right after the other.
Yet the Spring and Autumn Cicada, in whom Qin Feng had placed great hopes, was the last to advance.
There was no helping it; although it was proficient in the Time Law, its power of the laws came from sucking the sap of the Spring and Autumn Ancient Tree. Its own comprehension of this law was far too superficial, which led to a time-consuming advancement even after Qin Feng had helped it merge with the Purple Mansion Peak Six-Winged Golden Cicada.
Moreover, the advancement was passive; when the Cultivation reached its extreme limit, it naturally achieved Purple Mansion, indirectly driving the progress of the law, resembling the route of Body Cultivation to some extent.
Regardless, the Spring and Autumn Cicada had finally advanced, henceforth gaining a deeper understanding of the Time Law and able to actively comprehend the arcane secrets of the Time Law. Just based on this point alone, it was already a huge win!
So, Qin Feng was overjoyed.
After the advancement of the Spring and Autumn Cicada, not only did its strength greatly increase, but it also gained several divine powers.
Especially when the Spring and Autumn Cicada comprehended the renowned life-saving divine power, the Golden Cicada Shedding, it made Qin Feng even happier.
In addition, both Qingluan and the Death Curse Crow’s war power also surged considerably.
Qingluan was still on the orthodox path of cultivation, inheriting divine powers of extraordinary strength from its Divine Bird bloodline, all within Qin Feng’s expectations.
However, after the Death Curse Crow advanced, its unique Curse Principle was not only incredibly powerful but also enigmatic, with many curses leaving Qin Feng somewhat puzzled.
Qin Feng didn’t get hung up on these details. After all, the advancement of the Spiritual Beasts had greatly increased his subordinates’ war power, providing him with immense gratification. All the resources spent in the past were finally paying off now.
With so many powerful Spiritual Beasts to assist, who among his peers could be his opponent?
Within the Beast Taming Sect, ordinary Purple Mansion Realm cultivators couldn’t possibly have as many Spiritual Beasts of the same realm as he did, not to mention that Qin Feng was still at the Golden Core Peak.
After all, the stronger the Spiritual Beast, the more it engaged the cultivator’s spirit. If one forcibly tamed multiple beasts of the same realm, especially those stronger than one’s own Cultivation Realm, even the exquisite Binding Spell secret techniques of the Beast Taming Sect couldn’t suppress all the Spiritual Beasts. A slight misstep could lead to backlash.
Therefore, there was no one in the entire Beast Taming Sect who, at the Golden Core Realm, dared to cultivate so many Purple Mansion Spirit Beasts like him.
Even if they had the resources, they wouldn’t do it.
Even the powerful Elder Liuling, before advancing to Profound Immortal, had True Immortals and Heavenly Immortals amongst her six Spiritual Beasts – it wasn’t possible that they were all Demon Immortals of the Heavenly Immortal Realm.
But Qin Feng was different.
His trump card was the Demon Refining Pot. With the Demon Refining Pot at his disposal to tame these Spiritual Beasts, no matter how rapidly their strength progressed, there was no possibility of losing control and being rebelled against by the Spiritual Beasts!
Therefore, he could rely on these Spiritual Beasts to fight above his level.
It was also because of the Demon Refining Pot’s existence that he could devote more of his energy to cultivation, ensuring that his Cultivation didn’t falter in the slightest. Indeed, through various opportunities, he had even leapfrogged most of the True Inheritances of sects worldwide, becoming one of the highly exceptional talents at the pinnacle of the Cultivation World!
Qin Feng took advantage of the time he was helping the spiritual beasts integrate their bloodlines to also take out the Red Lotus Sword and carefully examine it.
After he had collected the Netherworld Water into the Demon Refining Pot, he had controlled the Netherworld Treasure Pearl inside to spit out the Red Lotus Sword.
But due to the earlier battles and escapes, followed by the busy task of aiding the spiritual beasts in fusing their bloodlines, he really hadn’t had the time to check if the Red Lotus Sword had been damaged.
Now that he had some free time, he finally took out the Red Lotus Sword to inspect it.
Qin Feng extended his Divine Sense into the body of the sword, and after a thorough investigation, he discovered that this Red Lotus Sword indeed showed some anomalies.
Though the Red Lotus Immortal Sword was originally fierce, with the Fire Element Principle igniting to reveal scorching flames that forced opponents to be extremely cautious, wary of being sliced by the Red Lotus Immortal Sword,
now, Qin Feng found the radiance of the Red Lotus Sword dimmed and couldn’t tell if it was influenced by the Netherworld Water—the Flame Principle within it seemed to have mutated.
It still looked the same, but there was an indescribable and unclear sense to it, presumably affected by the Netherworld Water.
Fortunately, this was a Sword Artifact and not a living being. Although the Netherworld Water was extremely vicious, it was still not enough to completely corrode an immortal sword.
Moreover, the time the Red Lotus Sword spent in the Netherworld Water wasn’t very long; even if its spiritual nature was somewhat affected, the sword itself remained unscathed due to its profound foundation.
As for the specifics of the mutation that had occurred, he didn’t know. He wasn’t masochistic and didn’t wish to experience being slashed by the Red Lotus Sword himself, so he wasn’t sure whether this change was good or bad, or whether it greatly affected the power of the Red Lotus Sword!
Since he couldn’t understand it, Qin Feng didn’t bother with it anymore. He would wait for a suitable opponent to test the sword and then find out if its power had changed.
With this thought, Qin Feng didn’t linger on the sword and turned his attention back to the spiritual beasts.
After all the spiritual beasts had successfully advanced, Qin Feng didn’t choose to leave immediately but continued his seclusion in the cave within the Netherworld.
The Ruyi Golden Snake had already successfully advanced, and he began to use the substantial Cultivation within the Ruyi Golden Snake to refine the Demon Refining Pot!
After years of refinement, he was only a little short of complete success. Originally, it would have taken him several months on his own, but after merging again with the Ruyi Golden Snake, which had advanced in level, Qin Feng’s Cultivation was now chasing the peak of the Purple Mansion Realm, many times stronger than the peak of the Golden Core Realm.
After all, his own Dao Cultivation accumulation was not weaker than a typical Purple Mansion, and the Ruyi Golden Snake was a being with substantial accumulation too. After advancing, its strength was far superior to that of ordinary Purple Mansion Cultivators. The combination of both made their power extremely formidable.
With such robust Cultivation to support him, the speed of refinement was far beyond what it had been, allowing Qin Feng to completely refine the last of the prohibitions in the Demon Refining Pot in little more than a month. He imprinted his Divine Sense into the core prohibition of the Demon Refining Pot, making this treasure his Lifebound Spiritual Treasure.
Although due to his current Cultivation level, Qin Feng couldn’t fully unleash the power of the Demon Refining Pot. Even what he called “refining” was just a thin layer of True Yuan covering all prohibitions’ surfaces—only passively accepted and even cooperatively so by the Demon Refining Pot. To fully operate it according to his will, he would need to at least reach the Immortal Dao.
However, his current level was sufficient for his use.
Qin Feng’s face beamed with joy, but he was not in a hurry to emerge from seclusion, instead he redoubled his efforts and took advantage of the time to comprehend the Divine Skills and Laws within these spiritual beasts, striving to gain thorough understanding soon in order to perfect his own Laws and advance to the Purple Mansion Realm.
However, the Power of Laws was never easy to comprehend. Even though he could completely immerse his spirit into the deepest parts of these spiritual beasts and clearly perceive their Laws, bloodline heritages, and various Divine Skills, comprehending these Laws thoroughly and using them in such a short period of time was no simple feat.
After two months, Qin Feng had barely grasped some clues.
This was because he learned from his mistake, no longer greedily and blindly seeking to comprehend everything.
At the beginning, he liked all the Divine Skills inside the Spiritual Beasts and wanted every Law; then he would sense the Curse Divine Power from the Death Curse Crow and attempt to understand the Time Arcane from the Spring and Autumn Cicada. Sometimes his eyes would shine when he looked at the Swallowing Sky Toad, thinking that with its cooperation, he would quickly grasp the Space Divine Power. Other times, he found the Pure Yang Principle of the Qingluan equally tempting!
After many days, once the novelty wore off, Qin Feng realized that the way he was comprehending was too chaotic. After some careful thought, he decided to start with the Swallowing Sky Toad, aiming to grasp the Space Divine Power.
Although the Swallowing Sky Toad had not yet comprehended the Space Law and seemed weaker compared to other Spiritual Beasts, Qin Feng did not care about that.
He did not start with the Time Law from the Spring and Autumn Cicada nor the curious intricacies of the Curse Divine Power from the Death Curse Crow because these Laws were relatively unfamiliar and difficult to comprehend thoroughly in a short time.
However, Qin Feng had already contemplated the Space Divine Power for a long time, and he was not far from completely mastering the Space Cutting Divine Skill. He just lacked a little perception of space.
So he decided to start with the simplest and most effective area.
The facts proved he was correct.
Two months later, when Qin Feng walked out of the cave where he had been in seclusion, he had completely mastered the Space Cutting Divine Skill and also gained some unique insights into space.
Especially after he combined his perception of space with the Shrinking Ground to Inch Divine Skill, not only did it completely upgrade his already-close-to-promotion skill into a Great Divine Power, but it also evolved into Thousand-Mile House, allowing him to travel thirty miles in one step!
This distance was many times more powerful than before. If he could evolve this Divine Skill further to Heavenly Distance, he would be able to travel back and forth within the Five Domains in one day, a terrifying speed indeed.
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But at the very least, this wouldn’t be possible until he achieved the Immortal Dao and his Power of Laws was fully perfected.
After mastering the Space Cutting Divine Skill, Qin Feng, though still somewhat reluctant, knew he had to leave the cave he had used for Cultivation.
His purpose for coming here was to participate in the trial, not to find a place for seclusion and Cultivation.
To pursue diligent Cultivation, he would have plenty of time after returning to Biluo; now was not the time for seclusion!
With a sense of regret, Qin Feng got up and walked outside.
During these days of Cultivation, he had gradually figured out some clues and believed that with a little more time, he should be able to grasp the Divine Skills and Laws of the Spiritual Beasts through the connection with the Demon Refining Pot.
However, this was not urgent, and he couldn’t spend all his time on this. He would still take some time every day to comprehend; when his understanding accumulated enough, the breakthrough would naturally come.
In the midst of the murky fog, Qin Feng walked slowly.
Although he seemed not to move quickly, he could travel ten or twenty miles in one step.
This was the normal speed of the Thousand-Mile House Great Divine Power. He was not in a hurry, so he did not maximize his speed.
Even so, traveling a thousand miles took only dozens of steps.
But after trying it out, Qin Feng stopped this mode of travel, as it consumed too much True Yuan and the Power of Laws.
Being a Great Divine Power, unless one was an Immortal who had Proven Dao and Longevity, no cultivator would casually use it without reason, not to mention that Qin Feng’s Earth Element Principle was not strong enough.
After trying out the speed of Thousand-Mile House, Qin Feng switched back to the Small Divine Power of Shrinking Ground to Inch.
The speed of Shrinking Ground to Inch wasn’t slow either, and comparatively speaking, it consumed less, perfectly suitable for daily travel.
Continuing on his journey, and even under the effect of Shrinking Ground to Inch, it took over a month for Qin Feng to leave the desolate Undead Realm and reach the border adjoining the Mist Country.
Looking around, Qin Feng noticed that although the Death Qi had dissipated quite a bit here, the chill in the air between heaven and earth had significantly increased by more than a level or two.
Seeing the frost and ice everywhere underfoot, Qin Feng carefully sent out the Netherworld Crow and found that aside from some low-strength Undead nearby, there were no formidable presences.
However, he could sense the appearance of some beings deep within the Mist Country.
Occasionally, Qin Feng could see a long figure emerge from the thick cold fog of the Mist Country and burrow into the Death Kingdom, only to come back after a moment with a soul in its mouth.
It seemed that the powerful Undead of the Undead Realm would not easily come here, probably not just because of the thin Yin Qi but also due to the dangerous Evil Dragons and venomous snakes of the Mist Country.
These creatures have rather unique tastes, not even sparing the Undead when there is no living prey!
Qin Feng amusedly observed the strangely-shaped Evil Dragon flying across the distant sky.
Such an unusual preference was indeed rare.
However, after pondering for a moment, he quickly understood the reason behind it.
Although ordinary Evil Dragons and venomous snakes showed no interest in the Undead, even keeping far away, considering Nidhogg, who ruled the entire Mist Country, and the strong Evil Dragon’s fondness for devouring evil souls, the reason for the peculiar tastes of these dragons and snakes in the Extreme North wasn’t hard to grasp.
If the dragons and snakes, inheriting the bloodline of Nidhogg, followed their ancestor’s habits of gnawing on World Tree Roots, then occasionally improving their diet by coming to the Undead Realm to devour a few Undead souls seemed quite normal!
Qin Feng retracted the Netherworld Crow and employed Shadow Transformation Divine Power to hide in the shadows, cautiously observing the border between the Undead Realm and the extremely cold Mist Country.
He planned to confirm the habits of the Evil Dragons and venomous snakes before entering inside to explore.
As for the Netherworld Crow, in this place, it hardly served any significant purpose.
Its cultivation was too low, and if seen by the Evil Dragons and venomous snakes, it would only become a snack, not even enough for a bite for those monsters!