Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 3 The Paralyzed Dog

"Woof woof woof!"

As Chen Beiwu returned to his doorstep, a burst of excited barking came from inside the house.

"Quiet down, Tie Dan." As soon as he finished speaking, the shouting stopped immediately.

"Snap!"

Chen Beiwu pushed open the door, and a dark shadow instantly pounced at his feet. The speed was so fast that only a late-stage Qi Refining cultivator could barely see it, but it could not escape his hands.

"Woof." Tie Dan didn't resist, gently rubbing against Chen Beiwu's palm, looking obedient.

"What's wrong? Are you hungry?" Chen Beiwu asked with a light laugh.

"Woof woof." Tie Dan barked twice, indicating that he wasn't hungry at all.

"Eat more even if you're not hungry, it's good for your growth." Chen Beiwu squatted down and gently stroked Tie Dan's fur, which resembled black silk.

Tie Dan is a black dog with glossy black fur covering its entire body, except for the paw pads, which are decorated with a patch of white fur.

These white markings resemble flawless snowflakes, and from a distance, they evoke the image of dark clouds covering snow.

However, what concerned Chen Beiwu the most was Tie Dan's limp hind legs lying on the ground.

"I'm already at the seventh level of Qi Refining, so I can apply to the school to buy some Bone Forging Powder," Chen Beiwu said softly. "Take a little and see if it has any effect."

"Woof woof."

Upon hearing this, Tiedan immediately barked twice, its strong and powerful forelimbs standing upright like two black spears, indicating its strength.

So what if its hind limbs can't move? It still has its forelimbs.

"Don't refuse, do as I say."

Noticing Tiedan's stubbornness, Chen Beiwu flicked its head with his fingertip and got up to walk towards the training room.

Tie Dan let out a low growl and obediently followed behind Chen Beiwu.

In the era of the Immortal Alliance, every parent who hoped their child would succeed and didn't want them to fall behind others would set up a cultivation room in their home.

Unfortunately, after tens of thousands of years of development and utilization by the Immortal Alliance, the vast majority of the spiritual energy that permeates the heavens and earth of Tianyuan Star has been nationalized, leaving only a small amount of spiritual energy to ensure the continuous flow of spiritual energy within the Immortal Alliance's territory, except for special areas.

These days, if cultivators want to absorb spiritual energy for cultivation, they must purchase the qualification to open a cultivation room from the official Immortal Alliance and pay a monthly fee for spiritual energy.

However, there are always some ordinary cultivators who, in order to save money, will secretly go to the wilderness to absorb spiritual energy. This act of stealing spiritual energy will trigger the reaction of the Immortal Alliance's formation, and they will be caught almost every time.

As far as Chen Beiwu knew, in Yuankong County alone, hundreds or even thousands of people were detained for seven days and given warnings and fines by the Immortal Alliance Law Enforcement Team every year for stealing spiritual energy.

This shows that in the era of the Immortal Alliance, you simply couldn't cultivate immortality without money!

The cultivation room in Chen Beiwu's home was not of a high grade, only a mid-grade first rank. Even so, it cost twenty low-grade spirit stones just to buy the qualification to cultivate the room back then.

Each month, the Immortal Alliance charges about one spirit stone for spiritual energy, which adds up to twelve spirit stones a year.

You should know that one spirit stone can be exchanged for one spirit yuan at the Immortal Alliance Bank, and one spirit yuan can be exchanged for ten cents or one hundred cents.

Chen Beiwu can now eat a meal with three dishes and a soup (meat and vegetables) at the school cafeteria for just a few cents.

"This little guy is as loyal as ever."

Before closing the door to the training room, Chen Beiwu glanced at the small, half-green, half-blue faint glow above Tie Dan's head.

That radiance represents Tie Dan's luck, which has now reached a level close to the second tier.

Logically speaking, fortune is ethereal and cannot be seen by ordinary people, but Chen Beiwu is different. He has the top-level cheat code Nine Breaths Chaos inherited from his family, which allows him to see the fortune of all things in heaven and earth, and even turn his own fortune into a lucky encounter.

Tie Dan was something Chen Beiwu found five years ago after a fortuitous encounter.

He was a junior high school student at the time. On his way home, a large truck suddenly went out of control and hit the black car that was rushing into the road. By sheer coincidence, the black car landed right at Chen Beiwu's feet.

Without hesitation, Chen Beiwu picked up the black ball and rushed it to the veterinary hospital for emergency treatment.

After the emergency treatment was completed, the doctor told him two pieces of news, one good and one bad.

The good news is that the surgery was successful, and the injured cub's vital signs are stable and it is not in any danger.

The bad news is that the puppy's hind leg injury was not from a car accident, but a congenital disability, which will be extremely expensive to treat, and there is a high chance that it will die prematurely.

So Chen Beiwu took the black cub home, gave it the humble name Tiedan, and hoped to raise it successfully and let it grow up healthily.

Tie Dan did not disappoint Chen Beiwu's expectations; he grew taller and stronger every day.

A year ago, a fire broke out and the brick kiln collapsed. Tie Dan risked his life to carry his father, who had fainted, out of the raging fire.

From then on, Tie Dan's status in the family rose significantly, and Chen Beiwu even had the idea of ​​making a contract with Tie Dan.

The difference between ordinary beasts and exotic beasts lies in whether they possess Taoist cultivation.

The fact that Tie Dan was able to rescue his father from the sea of ​​fire shows that it is a strange beast with some magical abilities.

Unlike cultivators who use realms to define strength, the Immortal Alliance uses cultivation level to define the strength of demonic beasts. Bloodline rank is merely the theoretical upper limit of a demonic beast's cultivation level and does not represent its actual strength.

For example, beasts without cultivation are called zero-level mortal beasts, and they can never gain cultivation in their lifetime unless they encounter an opportunity.

Once a first-tier beast reaches adulthood, it can generally gain cultivation. Such beings are called spirits by cultivators, and their strength is equivalent to that of a Qi Refining mortal cultivator.

Second-tier spirit beasts can theoretically possess cultivation levels of over fifty years but less than four hundred and ninety-nine years. Such beings are called minor demons by cultivators, and their strength is equivalent to that of a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

Theoretically, a third-tier treasure beast can possess cultivation levels of over five hundred years but less than nine hundred and ninety-nine years. Such beings are called demon generals by cultivators, and their strength is equivalent to that of a transcendent Golden Core cultivator.

It's hard to tell how much cultivation one has. Chen Beiwu could only roughly estimate that Tie Dan had less than ten years of cultivation, making him a minor spirit.

However, since Tie Dan's luck is close to the second tier, it means that it has the potential to break through the bloodline shackles to become a second-tier spirit beast and advance to a lesser demon.

However, Tie Dan is usually close to flames and likes to eat hot things, so it is obviously a fire-type beast, while Chen Beiwu has dual water and wood spiritual roots. The two attributes do not match, so it is no exaggeration to say that they are completely incompatible.

That's why Chen Beiwu gave up the idea of ​​contracting Tie Dan after struggling with it several times.

A cultivator's first beast pet is of paramount importance, as it relates to the cultivator's future cultivation speed and the ease with which they can break through realms.

Even if he contracts a fire-attribute beast that hasn't reached the second tier, it's like a chicken rib, and might even become a burden to him.

Because Chen Beiwu's spiritual root aptitude is extraordinary, it is a rare dual-elemental earth spiritual root of water and wood in Yuankong County.

What is an Earth Spirit Root?

The Immortal Alliance classifies cultivators' spiritual roots into six levels based on their purity: Immortal, Heaven, Earth, True, Mixed, and False.

If a cultivator's spiritual root has a purity of 40 or higher in any of the five elements, it means they possess that attribute as a true spiritual root. If the purity is 60 or higher, it means they possess an earth spiritual root.

The highest level will be taken for different attributes of spiritual roots, and Chen Beiwu's spiritual root attributes are: Metal 15, Wood 76, Water 79, Fire 18, Earth 17.

If Chen Beiwu's water elemental root purity could be increased to 80, then he would not be a dual-elemental earth elemental root of water and wood, but rather a possessor of a water elemental heaven elemental root.

As for the legendary immortal spiritual root, it requires the cultivator's spiritual root purity to break through 99, which is the limit of the heavenly spiritual root, and reach the legendary 100 purity.

Once a spiritual root possessor of this level appears, they can directly participate in the Immortal Examination without having to take the Immortal Alliance College Entrance Examination, and may even be recommended to the Five Great Grotto Heavens, becoming the future successor of the Immortal Alliance.

(End of this chapter)