Starting from the two realms, cultivating immortality by taming beasts

Chapter 36 The Golden Legend

Deep in Sihai Lake.

Pushing aside the swaying seaweed and avoiding the colorful fish, Chen Beiwu finally found the long-awaited Netherworld Turtle among a clump of coral.

Perhaps because they were born recently, these baby turtles are small, about the size of a palm.

The shell is mostly dark blue, with silver patterns adorning the edges of the carapace and the belly.

With their short but powerful limbs, they can shoot out like arrows with just a gentle swipe, easily catching fish with their claws covered in broken scales, showing a remarkable ability to capture them.

The Netherworld Spirit Turtle possesses a second-tier superior bloodline, making it extremely high in potential and considered one of the best among water-attribute spirit beasts.

However, these spirit beasts are generally lazy and reluctant to form a co-cultivation contract with cultivators. Instead, they prefer to sleep instead of cultivate. Even the geniuses of the Dongxuan Immortal Sect find it difficult to gain their approval, making the formation of a contract extremely difficult.

But there are always cultivators who feel that they are the only exception, and that they can do what the geniuses of the Dongxuan Immortal Sect cannot.

Thus, Chen Beiwu saw a bustling crowd of Qi Refining cultivators in the underwater world.

"Are there so many people destined to meet?"

Upon seeing the tokens in the hands of each cultivator, Chen Beiwu paused for a moment, then breathed a sigh of relief.

It seems he was overthinking things.

The Golden Core cultivator's act of collecting spirit stones from Qi Refining cultivators was perhaps a habit, rather than a sign of something being revealed.

Swimming to the end of the queue, Chen Beiwu listened to the conversation of the nearby cultivators while using his divine sense to observe the situation inside the coral reef.

"Another failure."

"That's normal. Yesterday, more than two hundred cultivators tried to form a contract with the Netherworld Spirit Turtle, but they were all wiped out; not a single one succeeded."

How did you know?

"Hehe, I'm one of them. I'm not going to give up today, I want to try again."

"None of the Qi Refining cultivators from the Fallen Dragon Palace succeeded. It seems that contracting the Netherworld Spirit Turtle is more difficult than I anticipated," Chen Beiwu thought to himself.

He took a deep breath and used his supernatural powers to observe the coral reef.

"Light blue, light blue, blue, dark blue, dark blue..." Chen Beiwu frowned slightly, quite surprised.

The Netherworld Spirit Turtle is the exclusive spirit beast of the Dongxuan Immortal Sect, yet the turtle cub in the coral reef didn't even have an orange-level luck.

Even the most fortunate spirit turtle hatchling was only a mix of orange and blue, not even meeting Chen Beiwu's expectations.

"Could it be that these Netherworld Spirit Turtles are all defective products left over from the selection by the Dongxuan Immortal Sect? Or is there a problem with my judgment of their fortune levels? Is the orange fortune level not third rank?" Chen Beiwu found it increasingly strange.

Without specific testing, he dared not say that the luck level could directly determine the aptitude and bloodline of a spirit beast, but it could serve as an important reference to roughly determine the future potential of a spirit beast.

In short, a spirit beast with low luck doesn't necessarily have a low potential. If it encounters a fellow cultivator with great fortune, it may be able to change its fate and break through the shackles of luck. However, a spirit beast with overwhelming luck will definitely achieve great things in the future.

Given similar aptitudes, if given a choice, Chen Beiwu would naturally prefer a fellow beast with superior fortune rather than a spirit beast with poor fortune that is prone to dying halfway through its journey.

"Could it be that my requirements are too high and I need to lower them?" Chen Beiwu was somewhat doubtful about life.

If he can't find a suitable companion beast in the Spirit Beast Pavilion, he probably won't be able to find one anywhere else!

Just then, an extremely powerful aura suddenly entered the range of Chen Beiwu's divine sense.

He looked down and saw a baby Netherworld Spirit Turtle, about the size of a basketball, with a completely black carapace, poking its head out from a crack in the rock. Its eyes lazily surveyed its surroundings, and its gaze met Chen Beiwu's.

"Holy crap, a golden legend!" Chen Beiwu's pupils contracted slightly, his eyebrows twitched, and his gaze was fixed on the top of the spirit turtle cub's head.

It wasn't blue luck, nor orange luck, but golden luck that he had never seen before.

With such good fortune, this baby spirit turtle's future is absolutely limitless.

"I've decided on this one!" Chen Beiwu's chest rose and fell slightly, and his breathing became a little rapid.

Such a talented beast is extremely rare; if he were to miss it, he would definitely regret it later.

The blue-robed cultivator standing in front of Chen Beiwu spoke with barely concealed excitement: "Fellow Daoist has excellent taste. You've also taken a liking to this exotic spirit turtle?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Beiwu showed no surprise on his face. He glanced around and then felt a slight sinking feeling in his heart.

Sure enough, the other cultivators present were not fools either, and their burning gazes all locked onto the alien spirit turtle.

Among the many palm-sized baby turtles, a giant of a different color suddenly appeared. Everyone knew that it had an outstanding bloodline and excellent aptitude, and was definitely the best among the Netherworld Turtles.

"Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment, let me try first." The cultivator in blue robes rushed ahead impatiently.

Chen Beiwu wanted to follow, but when he noticed some cultivators around him smiling, he immediately stopped and watched the blue-robed cultivator perform.

Standing in front of the alien spirit turtle, the cultivator in blue took out a jade box from his storage ring and carefully placed it in front of him before opening it.

Seeing this, the spirit turtle's eyes showed curiosity.

Since arriving in this underwater world, it has been fed spiritual materials or spiritual fish by a large number of cultivators every day, which has made it quite picky about food.

I wonder what kind of delicacies this cultivator can produce.

As the jade box was opened, a slender fish with a fan-shaped tail fin and jade-like scales came into view.

"Is this a spirit jade carp?" a cultivator whispered.

The Lingyu Carp is not a spirit beast, nor can it be transformed into one. It is an extremely precious second-tier spirit creature, containing a trace of pure acquired water-elemental spiritual energy within its body.

Water-elemental cultivators can consume it to cleanse their physical bodies of impurities, increase the purity of their mana, and slightly enhance the purity of their water-elemental spiritual roots (only effective for true spiritual root cultivators; the effect diminishes with repeated consumption and it will not break through the shackles of true spiritual roots).

Aquatic spirit beasts can stimulate their bloodline, increase their cultivation, and accelerate their growth by consuming it.

If consumed by a young spirit beast, the effect is even more pronounced, comparable to a top-grade second-tier elixir.

Noticing the surprise of the crowd, the blue-robed cultivator looked confidently at the exotic spirit turtle and met its gaze.

"My name is Guan Ange, sixteen years old, at the seventh level of Qi Refining, with a water-elemental earth spiritual root. If you are willing to become my companion beast, I can give you a spirit jade carp every month."

"One spirit jade carp a month, surnamed Guan, could this cultivator be from the Guan family of the Fallen Dragon?" Chen Beiwu's eyes couldn't hide his envy.

The Guan family of Yunlong controls nearly 40% of the spirit lakes in the six counties of Yunlong Prefecture. They are a renowned Golden Core family in Yunlong Prefecture and have been engaged in fish farming for generations.

The spirit fish they cultivate are not only numerous in variety but also of extremely high quality. The Spirit Jade Carp is just one of them; what truly makes the Yunlong Guan family famous is the third-tier treasure fish, the Jade Heart Treasure Carp, a treasure that even Golden Core cultivators would covet.

"That's it?" The Netherworld Spirit Turtle raised its head, yawned, and walked away on its own.

It was just a jade carp, but it thought it was some kind of treasure.

(End of this chapter)