Taming Beasts and Cultivating Immortality from Two Realms

Chapter 198 The Elixir is Complete
"Still too inexperienced." Chen Beiwu glanced at Lin Xinru.

Tone of voice, expression, and actions can conceal one's true nature, but the murderous intent lurking in one's bones is hard to hide.

From the moment Lin Xinru harbored murderous intent towards her, her fate was sealed.

It should be noted that in order to successfully set up the trap, Chen Beiwu never had the slightest thought of killing the Thornbone King Fish. He kept meditating on Tai Xuan Shou Yi and emptying his mind, which made it possible for the ambush to succeed.

Otherwise, the late-stage Foundation Establishment level Thorn Bone King Fish could have easily detected the killing intent through its keen senses and foreseen the Demon-Locking Entangling Net's sudden attack.

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu shook his head slightly, waved his right hand, and activated his magic power. The storage bag and spirit beast bag near Lin Xinru immediately floated and moved to two zhang in front of him.

"Gulu!"

Upon seeing this, Jin Dan quickly reminded Chen Beiwu to be careful.

"I understand." Chen Beiwu held his breath, snapped his fingers, and released the Water Prison spell.

In an instant, thirty-six ice-blue necklaces intertwined, forming layers of water curtains that enveloped the two storage bags that were suspended in the air.

"Zizzy!"

As the water flowed, a storage bag suddenly emitted a cloud of dark green toxic smoke, and its colorless and odorless lipid film transformed into hundreds of wildly writhing black lines.

'It really is poisonous.' Chen Beiwu was not surprised at all.

Lin Xinru's many pleas for mercy, seemingly sincere and extremely humble, were actually a deliberate attempt to feign weakness and buy time.

To further lower his guard, Lin Xinru presented the spirit beast pouch without any issues the first time.

The second time, he deliberately took out two storage bags to hide a colorless and odorless poison on one of them that could threaten a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

If Chen Beiwu were to covet the spirit stones in the storage bag and accept them immediately, he would likely fall into their trap and become their puppet.

Lin Xinru's so-called threat of self-destructing her Dao Foundation was merely a trap set by Chen Beiwu after he realized something was wrong and didn't fall for it. She had no choice but to feign weakness again to lure him into a trap.

It is evident that cultivators who have reached the Foundation Establishment stage in the Southern Wilderness possess some level of skill.

Not knowing how to completely conceal her killing intent, no matter how many schemes Lin Xinru had in her heart, they could not compare to the knowledge she had learned from fifteen years of cultivation education by the Immortal Alliance cultivators.

"Gulu?"

Golden Egg tilted its head.

Given the vast disparity in strength between the two sides, it couldn't understand why Lin Xinru dared to resort to underhanded tactics.

'Who knows?' Chen Beiwu didn't think much of it. With a wave of his right hand, he used his magic power to shatter the remaining soul on Lin Xinru's body, helping her true spirit enter reincarnation ahead of time.

The Immortal Alliance possesses countless magical treasures and techniques passed down through generations.

Chen Beiwu's research on the Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul Devouring Array and his modification of the Soul-Locking Stone were merely attempts to understand demonic arrays so he could target troublesome demonic cultivators in the future. He had no intention of cultivating this path himself.

The drawbacks of refining demonic formations are too numerous. Cultivators need to frequently use the method of sacrificing living beings to obtain a large number of vengeful spirits, thus committing a great deal of killing.

Cultivators whose will is not strong enough can easily have their humanity gradually eroded in the process, turning into monsters that crave power and are then besieged by righteous cultivators.

Moreover, such evil and heretical methods not only contradict Chen Beiwu's cultivation philosophy, but are also completely incomparable to the Immortal Alliance's supreme immortal path of beast taming and cultivation.

Chen Beiwu naturally didn't bother using the Soul-Locking Array to contain Lin Xinru's soul.

However, the spiny kingfish is different. Its spirit can be used to refine weapons, arrays, pills, or talismans, making it valuable and worthy of collection and preservation.

"Gulu?"

Golden Egg looked at the Spiny King Fish and couldn't help but swallow hard. The third-tier treasure technique, Ocean of Life, could devour all things to nourish itself.

If it were to use its "All-Encompassing Ocean" technique to completely refine the late-stage Foundation Establishment demon beast before it, it would gain immense benefits.

It is even possible that one's cultivation level will increase by about fifty years, reaching a level comparable to a mid-Foundation Establishment cultivator.

By then, the Golden Egg will be confident that it can suppress a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator by a small realm.

"Don't worry, this spiny kingfish is all yours, but I need to cut off the thorny crown and some of its essence and flesh first," Chen Beiwu reminded him telepathically.

The Thorn Crown is worth three thousand sect contribution points, and he couldn't bear to let the golden egg devour it.

After simply stripping and collecting the spiritual materials from the spiny kingfish, Chen Beiwu looked at the golden egg, which immediately activated the Ocean-Gathering Power, swallowing the four-zhang-long giant beast's carcass.

"Uh!"

Perhaps because he had eaten too much, Jin Dan couldn't help but let out a burp, and his originally slender belly bulged slightly.

The corpses of late-stage Foundation Establishment demonic beasts are highly nourishing, but it dares not refine them all at once and can only absorb them slowly.

During the time it refines the corpse, its cultivation level will increase day by day.

Chen Beiwu glanced at the storage bag that was emitting potent toxicity, picked up the spirit beast bag, and probed it with his divine sense.

'Not bad, there really is a black gill fish!' Chen Beiwu's eyes brightened slightly.

Black Veil Fish are extremely difficult to catch. The bounty for Black Veil Fish in the Mission Hall is as high as 4,000 contribution points per fish. Including the Thornb Crown, this unexpected gain on the journey has already reached 7,000 contribution points.

In this way, he is only 6,800 contribution points away from his goal of exchanging for the Heavenly Evolution Reincarnation Technique!

Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu raised an eyebrow and probed another storage bag with his divine sense.

The storage space was filled with a pile of low-grade spirit stones, about 4,600 pieces, as well as a considerable number of pills, magic tools, talismans, and array plates, but all of them were of low grade.

The only things that Chen Beiwu cared about were the second-tier mid-grade spiritual weapon, the Twin Heart Dagger, and three second-tier low-grade talismans, which could be resold for a good price.

Apart from that, the storage space contained only some miscellaneous fishing tools and bait.

After tidying things up a bit, Chen Beiwu looked at the storage bag where the toxins had mostly evaporated.

The contents of this storage bag are similar to the previous one, containing more than 3,200 low-grade spirit stones, but it also includes a special jade bottle artifact specifically for storing earthly essence.

What is the essence of the Earthly Fiends?

Yin and Yang, when categorized, interact and resonate; when two and eight are in harmony, they naturally unite!
Depending on their own spiritual root attributes and cultivation techniques, cultivators at the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage in the Immortal Alliance need to draw different Five Elements Earthly Fiend Essence to temper their magical power, using the turbid earth to purify the heavens, and temper their magical power to the extreme before they can build the foundation for achieving the Golden Core.

There's a saying that goes, "When all evil is exhausted, the elixir is formed, and the nature of gold becomes perfectly complete."

The grade of the Earthly Fiend Essence refined by a Foundation Establishment Peak cultivator, along with the strength of the bloodline aptitude of the Fellow Beast, will determine the grade of the Immortal Golden Core they can condense, with the exception of those without Foundation Establishment.

If a flawless Foundation Establisher successfully forms a Golden Core, even without tempering it with Earthly Fiend Essence, the resulting Golden Core will be at least of the Upper Three Grades.

Of course, no flawless Foundation Establisher would be foolish enough to hastily form a Core without drawing upon the essence of the Earthly Fiends.

The Golden Elixir is ranked in nine grades, with the first grade ruling the universe!

Those who are flawless in their foundation building can refine their magical power by drawing upon the corresponding top-grade earthly evil essence of the five elements. If they successfully form a golden core, they will surely become a first-grade golden core, surpassing many golden core cultivators and standing proudly above all others.

This is why the Five Great Grotto-Heavens and the Thirteen Immortal Sects value Qi Refining cultivators who have no time to practice.

(End of this chapter)