In a relatively open area of Eternal Immortal Mountain, Li Qingyang, who was surveying the terrain, said with satisfaction: “This place is good, it can be used for medicinal material planting.”
These past few days, he’d been constantly wandering around the outer fourth ring of the sect, finding quite a few areas suitable for developing medicine fields, as well as suitable for transforming into new peaks.
The second disciple was going further and further down the path of construction.
This was mainly because Jun Changxiao had developed the sect very well, allowing Li Qingyang and the others to have time to develop personal hobbies, unlike other sect martial artists who focused wholeheartedly on cultivation—if they weren’t careful, they’d fall behind and be marginalized.
“Let’s go look at other places.”
Just as Li Qingyang lifted one foot, a certain fluctuation suddenly came from within his body, and his whole person seemed to fall into a brief freeze.
After a moment.
Returning to normal, his eyes full of surprise, he said: “What’s going on?”
“Qingyang.”
Just then, the sect master’s voice sounded in his ear: “Come to the great hall.”
“Yes!”
Li Qingyang gave up continuing to survey the terrain, got up, and headed to Tiegu Peak. Just as he walked into the great hall, something suddenly pounced at him. He was about to dodge or block it, but a sense of unprecedented intimacy rose in his heart, so he subconsciously caught it.
“Zzzzt! Zzzzt! Zzzzt!”
Streaks of thunder serpents splashed out, and the air was filled with a murderous atmosphere.
Li Qingyang focused his gaze and discovered that what he was holding was a fierce beast whose entire body was wrapped in lightning and whose species was indistinguishable. Its two eyes were very large, the pupils like lightning, and it looked very cute.
“Qingyang.”
Jun Changxiao, sitting on the sect master’s throne, said: “This is a Thunder Ling Beast. From today on, it will be your exclusive contract beast.”
“Huh?”
Li Qingyang was immediately confused.
“Whoosh!”
The Thunder Ling Beast, which was about the size of a sheepdog, stuck out its tongue and heavily licked its master’s face, gradually displaying a humanized smile.
…
“Whoa!”
“What’s that following Second Martial Brother?”
“Lightning is gathering on its fur!”
As Li Qingyang walked out from the great hall, the Thunder Ling Beast still in its infant stage followed behind him, its little tail constantly wagging, immediately attracting the attention of surrounding disciples.
“Second Martial Brother!”
Su Xiaomo ran over and asked in surprise: “What is this thing?”
Li Qingyang said: “A contract beast the sect master gave me.”
“Contract beast?” Su Xiaomo was even more surprised. He reached out to touch the extremely cute little creature, but the moment he made contact with its fur, he immediately trembled ‘zzzzt zzzzt zzzzt,’ then his hair stood on end and he collapsed, foaming at the mouth.
Li Qingyang’s eyes widened.
The little creature clearly looked very weak, yet it could actually electrocute Junior Martial Brother Su!
“Qingyang.”
Jun Changxiao walked out from the great hall with his hands behind his back and said: “Although this beast was just born, it already has strength comparable to a Sacred Beast, so you absolutely cannot let others touch it casually.”
“Comparable to a Sacred Beast?”
Li Qingyang exclaimed: “That strong!”
The beast eggs in the Spirit Beast Pavilion were defined as Rare Treasures, so they were definitely extraordinary. Hatching with Wudi-level strength was standard operation, and Jun Changxiao wasn’t even satisfied—if they were born at upper-level Sky-Breaking Realm or Turn-Core Realm, that would be even better.
“Sect Master!”
Li Shangtian ran over, rubbing his hands together and saying: “When will you reward this disciple with a contract beast?”
“Don’t be anxious, don’t be anxious.”
Jun Changxiao said: “As long as your performance is outstanding enough, you’ll have one sooner or later.”
He wished he could give each disciple an exclusive contract beast, but his economic strength didn’t allow it, so he could only slowly accumulate wealth in the future and equip them then.
“Ah Niu has an eagle, that can save ten million.”
Ye Xingchen’s eagle had also ascended, but due to its strength, it spent most of its time in the mountains self-cultivating.
…
There were many spirit beasts of varying levels in Tiegu Mountain, and their numbers far exceeded the sect disciples. Moreover, led by Zilin Demon King, assigning each disciple a contract beast would be completely no problem.
But.
Those were just ordinary!
The beast eggs in the Spirit Beast Pavilion were all Rare Treasure level. Their function wasn’t just to be contract beasts fighting alongside their masters—they had many other benefits.
For instance… Li Qingyang returned to his quarters and cultivated as usual, discovering that his absorption and comprehension of lightning-attribute had improved considerably!
“That’s not right!”
“I didn’t even eat a Nourishing Essence Profound Pill!”
Just as Li Qingyang was puzzled, he suddenly realized that the Thunder Ling Beast lying beside him was enveloped in rich lightning-attribute energy, absorbing quite a bit of pure energy with each breath.
At the same time, he felt that his understanding and cognition of the lightning attribute also improved bit by bit as the other party devoured the attribute, so he exclaimed: “It can help me cultivate?”
To confirm this guess, Li Qingyang stopped cultivating and stared wide-eyed as the Thunder Ling Beast breathed in and out repeatedly. He finally concluded that even if he didn’t circulate his cultivation method to absorb heaven and earth attributes, his lightning attribute would still subtly improve!
That’s right.
This was the special characteristic of the beast eggs in the Spirit Beast Pavilion.
As long as they hatched and established a contract relationship with a martial artist, their own cultivation improvement would also drive the master forward.
Of course.
The master’s improvement could similarly drive the contract beast.
Simply put, the contract Jun Changxiao established with Peppa and the Purple Lightning Spirit Tiger belonged to the ordinary level, while the contract Li Qingyang established with the Thunder Ling Beast belonged to the advanced level.
Using professional terminology to explain—this was a Life-Bound Contract.
Martial artists could condense life-bound weapons and treasures to achieve perfect communication and unleash stronger combat power. Master and servant under a life-bound contract could similarly improve their strength and even achieve real-time sharing of martial dao, resources, and other aspects.
“Holy crap!”
When Jun Changxiao learned of this, he exclaimed in surprise: “It’s that miraculous?”
Second disciple and the Thunder Ling Beast could mutually share experience points, so their cultivation speed would definitely be fast. Moreover, beast types didn’t need martial techniques or cultivation methods—they could become stronger just through breathing and absorption. Didn’t that mean… they could become stronger even while lying down sleeping!
The system said: “There are drawbacks.”
“What drawbacks?”
“Although Second Disciple and Thunder Ling Beast can share experience points, they’ll similarly share damage values. If either side suffers severe injury, it will backlash to the other—it’s truly a case of prospering together or perishing together.”
Jun Changxiao said: “That’s pretty shitty.”
“Of course.”
The system said: “With this kind of experience-sharing contract beast, disciples’ realm improvement will definitely be faster, and they can also fight together. Overall, the benefits outweigh the drawbacks.”
“Makes sense.”
Jun Changxiao stroked his chin and said: “After next month’s pill shop settlement, set aside some funds to equip Qianqian and the others with contract beasts.”
Hatching the Thunder Ling Egg was internal testing. Now that the test results were very satisfactory, the core disciples would definitely be equipped sequentially—it was just a matter of time.
Without the huge profits brought by the Eternal Pill Shop, Gou Sheng wouldn’t dare think this way, since hatching one egg required spending ten million profound stones.
The importance of sect industries immediately became apparent.
…
“Swoosh!”
“Swoosh!”
In mountain forests an unknown distance from the Eternal Sect, dozens of black shadows whose entire bodies seemed wrapped in lightning moved at extreme speed.
“Big Brother, the clan sent a message that the egg hatched in the Thunder Pool has been born!”
“Have they determined the location yet!”
“Not yet!”
“Damn it, the upper realm is so vast. Without an accurate location, how can we find it!”
These black shadows had at least confirmed that the egg had emerged. Several dozen other clan members searching in other directions didn’t have a single clue and could only crash around blindly like flies.
In the magnificent Realm Hall great hall, several elders were also discussing. One of them said in a grave voice: “Recently, various major clans have emerged one after another. Could they be planning to completely tear up the friendly agreement established tens of thousands of years ago?”
“Hmph.”
One elder said coldly: “I said long ago that those not of our kind will have different hearts. Back then, we shouldn’t have established the agreement and let them develop peacefully for so many years.”
“Report!”
Just then, someone came to report: “The Dragon Clan is also making moves!”
“What?”
The several elders immediately stood up, their brows tightly furrowed as they said: “Even the Dragon Clan is beginning to stir restlessly—this is probably not a good sign!”
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