Eternal Beast Taming Family

"This doesn't seem like a transaction; it's more like entrusting a source beast egg to someone else."

Hearing his grandfather's assessment, Chu Shengyuan didn't think too much about it; he was now eager to know his grandfather's decision.

So, are we still going to do this business?

Holding the 'mountain stone' in his hands, Chu Jingyu smiled and said, "Of course I'll do it."

His gaze fell upon the 'mountain rocks'. "Qin Hui, go and retrieve all the Ghostly Blue Lotus Flames from the clan."

This message was transmitted to the Seed of Mountain and Stone. A moment later, palm-sized "Ghostly Blue Lotus Flames" drifted out from the Seed of Mountain and Stone, numbering about a hundred, and quietly floated around Chu Jingyu's body.

Chu Jingyu used his spiritual power to guide these "Ghostly Blue Lotus Flames," which silently followed behind him as he moved forward.

"Let's go, take me to see that senior."

……

Jingyuan Royal Capital, Yanling Marquis's Residence.

Chu Shengfan has not stepped out of his residence for several days in a row, not because he does not want to leave, but because he is not allowed to.

The guard at the gate gave a simple reason: "The Marquis will soon be accompanying the King, so before that, he should spend some time alone to adjust his condition."

Chu Shengfan could only sneer at this. They wouldn't even let him out of his residence. He wondered what they were trying to prevent him from doing.

However, one thing is also very strange. Since he met the "Blood King True King" that day, he, the contractor of the "Medicine King Ancient Tree", has never been summoned by him again.

This cold treatment left Chu Shengfan momentarily confused about the true intentions of the Jingyuan royal family.

Moreover, the commotion that led to the appearance of the "Blood Scene True King" did not result in the appearance of the other virtual king of the royal family. Was he not in the capital, or did something else happen to that virtual king?

Just as Chu Shengfan was sitting in the palace, pondering this matter, the head guard outside the palace led in several graceful women.

"My lord, these are maids sent to you by the royal family. We men haven't served you well enough; these maids have all been trained."

Whether it's cleaning and tidying up, or dancing to relieve boredom...

Before the guard could finish his introduction, Chu Shengfan raised his hand to interrupt him.

"No need. I prefer quiet and don't like having so many people around to serve me. You can send them back."

The guard glanced at Chu Shengfan indifferently, ignoring Chu Shengfan's words of refusal.

"The people have been delivered. If you don't accept them, they will be disposed of as defective products that failed to serve their master. It's up to you to decide."

As she said this, the maids kneeling on the ground trembled in unison, appearing to be terrified.

Chu Shengfan frowned slightly. He looked at the maids scattered on the ground in front of him, wondering if the problem lay with just one of them, or with all of them.

But seeing the guard's attitude, there was no way he could refuse, so he didn't say anything more.

The guard watched as Chu Shengfan closed his eyes, as if out of sight, out of mind. He seemed to hum softly, then left the palace without bowing.

The maids exchanged glances, their trembling bodies seemingly calming down as the guards left.

After a long silence, a slightly timid voice rang out.

"Lord...Lord, do you need our service?"

Chu Shengfan opened his eyes and looked in the direction of the sound, only to find one of the maids who had just been so gentle and weak kneeling on the ground.

She was already half-naked, revealing large expanses of snow-white skin, and a hint of allure appeared on her exquisite and beautiful face.

A faint fragrance seemed to begin to waft through the air, and for a moment Chu Shengfan's eyes fell into a state of confusion and emptiness.

A glint of light flashed deep in Chu Shengfan's eyes. She was trying to bewitch him, but unfortunately, with the "Flower Domain Spirit King Butterfly" present, their level of mental charm was completely ineffective.

However, Chu Shengfan still maintained a bewildered expression as he rose from the futon and slowly walked towards the maid.

Upon reaching the maid, Chu Shengfan bent slightly, pinched the woman's chin with his fingers, and whispered:

"Come with me."

The woman kneeling on the ground had a look of joy and a hint of smugness in her eyes. Her second uncle had told her to be careful with these young marquises, but she had already won them over the moment they met.

She slowly stood up, glancing at the sisters still kneeling on the ground, thinking that it seemed she would be the first to complete this task.

Upon entering a small adjacent bedroom, she found Chu Shengfan standing by the bed with his back to her. She could only hear Chu Shengfan's voice.

"Close the door."

Hu Rou did as she was told, and after closing the door to the bedroom, she swayed her hips and headed toward Chu Shengfan.

Her slender, fair fingers were about to touch Chu Shengfan's shoulder when Chu Shengfan suddenly turned around, and a hand was already gripping her neck.

Instantly, a sense of impending death enveloped Hu Rou. She stared at Chu Shengfan with wide eyes in disbelief. Could it be that his bewildered demeanor just now was all an act?

The "Floral Realm Spirit King Butterfly" appeared beside Chu Shengfan, its colorful wings fluttering gently, filling the bedchamber with a rich floral fragrance.

A blue butterfly spirit appeared beside Hu Rou, locking her mental power and preventing her from even summoning her own source beast.

Looking at the pained and struggling expression on her face, Chu Shengfan said softly, "If you don't want to die, you know what to do."

Hu Rou nodded rapidly, her movements very small but quick. Only then did Chu Shengfan release her neck and throw her to the ground beside him.

"Tell me, who sent you?"

Hu Rou's eyes flickered, a hint of fear in them as she looked at Chu Shengfan. She hadn't expected that, despite both being Domain-level Contract Masters, she would be so helplessly restrained.

"It is...it is His Majesty the Blood King. He wants to test whether you can be easily bewitched by beauty, so he sent us, who are skilled in mental charm, to test you."

Unexpectedly... the Marquis is so wise and discerning, completely unaffected by these temptations.

Upon hearing this, Chu Shengfan's eyes gleamed with thoughtful consideration. After a moment, he slowly spoke, catching Hu Rou's unease.

"I never expected you to put the hat on the head of the true king. Should I praise your skill and courage, or call you a fool?"

Do you think that as long as His Majesty the True King is involved, I will no longer pursue the matter?

But have you ever wondered why the True King would conduct such a pointless test? If someone like him had any requests, he would simply ask me directly.

In the entire capital, there are only a handful of people I have a bad relationship with. If I'm not mistaken, you must have been sent by Jing Heng, right?

As Chu Shengfan spoke, Hu Rou's face turned deathly pale, seemingly not expecting that Chu Shengfan would expose all her secrets so quickly.

"Is Prince Jingheng really so persistent?"

Chu Shengfan pondered for a moment. He was, after all, an extremely important tool in the hands of the Blood Shadow True King. Being imprisoned in the palace and at the mercy of the guards was tolerable.

Jing Heng keeps causing me trouble, and I feel really stifled living like this. Even if I make a scene now, who in the capital would dare to touch me?

After figuring it out, Chu Shengfan felt much more relaxed and at ease.

The blue butterfly spirit beside Hu Rou scattered glimmers of light, and transparent threads connected her limbs, completely controlling her movements.

The door to the sleeping quarters was blown open by a gust of wind, and Chu Shengfan's gaze fell on the maids who were huddled together in the main hall, whispering something.

More blue butterfly souls appeared around the "Flower Realm Spirit King Butterfly," and the next moment they rushed to the side of several maids. Just like when they controlled Hu Rou, they also lost control of their bodies in an instant.

The maids lost control of their bodies, but they remained conscious. Some of them immediately shouted.

"My lord, what wrong have we done that you treat us like this?"

Some of the maids' gazes fell on Hu Rou behind Chu Shengfan, their expressions questioning.

Hu Rou shook her head, her face ashen, as if to say that they had been completely exposed.

"You'll find out what mistake I made in a moment."

As he spoke, Chu Shengfan gently beckoned with his hand, and the maids floated behind him as they followed him out of the palace.

Upon seeing so many people emerge from the palace together, the guards standing outside immediately came to stop them.

"My lord, His Majesty the True King has ordered that you need to stay in the palace to recuperate and are not allowed to go out at will."

Chu Shengfan gave a cold laugh and pointed at the maids behind him.

"So, by letting me focus on adjusting my state, they send so many women to disrupt my Dao heart?"

After saying that, his scrutinizing gaze fell on the leader of the guards, "Moreover, I also doubt whether the orders you are following were actually issued by the true king, or if someone is taking a trivial matter for granted."

In front of the palace gate, Chu Shengfan reached out and summoned the "Elemental Spirit," whose body instantly expanded to nearly a hundred meters in size.

Chu Shengfan calmly stepped through the void toward the top of the jellyfish-shaped body of the "Elemental Spirit".

Seeing Chu Shengfan's determination to go out, the guard's face instantly darkened, and a source beast, the "Bronze Giant General," began to appear beside him.

Upon seeing this scene, the other guards following the guard leader also instantly summoned their own source beasts.

In an instant, three Domain-level and hundreds of Spirit-level Source Beasts filled the area around the palace.

Chu Shengfan's lips curled up. The guards that the royal family had arranged for him were the first to deal with him. It was truly laughable.

The "Floral Realm Spirit King Butterfly" gently flapped its wings, and countless ethereal butterflies appeared in the sky. Before many source beasts could react, it rushed into the array of source beasts summoned by the guard.

Each of these numerous magical butterflies contained the power of a typical Domain-level attack, and only the three Domain-level Source Beasts were able to withstand them.

The remaining spirit-level source beasts, subjected to such an attack, had almost no ability to resist and fell from the sky, crashing into the clouds.

Unexpectedly, Chu Shengfan actually dared to make a move here. The expressions on the faces of the three leading guards changed drastically. Moreover, judging from the casual way he did it, it probably wouldn't take much effort to deal with the three of them.

The moment this thought crossed their minds, they saw the jellyfish-like source beast turn ice blue, and then several wisps of cold air were released from its body.

They and their source beasts were instantly frozen into ice sculptures, unable to utter any words of begging for mercy.

Chu Shengfan glanced back lightly, then sat cross-legged atop the "Elemental Spirit's" head, with the "Flower Domain Spirit King Butterfly" beside him.

Several maids, their bodies controlled by the blue butterfly spirit, were left hanging not far behind.

The commotion from the battle had already alerted many people in the nearby palaces. Chu Shengfan's swaggering flight in the air drew curious attention, and some people followed him from a distance.

Chu Shengfan didn't care at all. In fact, he hoped that there would be more people and the bigger the commotion would be. He wanted to see how much the royal family could tolerate him.

A megaphone made of ice crystal appeared in the air, and a voice emanated from it.

"Now that I have been granted the title of Marquis Yanling, His Highness Jingheng has specially sent a woman capable of causing harm to serve me, intending to corrupt my Daoist heart with a woman."

If you are dissatisfied with the result of the last battle, Your Highness Jingheng is welcome to reappear and we can have a fair and square match.

If I lose, I will naturally become your servant or slave.

The sound, carried by the breeze, traveled far and wide across the entire city in the sky, and the loudspeaker at its source repeated it every so often.

As Chu Shengfan continued to wander around the celestial palace, his voice was heard by almost everyone.

These few sentences recounted most of Chu Shengfan's ordeal, and overturned the original account that Chu Shengfan was nearly killed in the shattered palace because he was severely injured by Prince Jingheng.

Now that Chu Shengfan claims to have defeated Jing Heng, there's much more to ponder about the process behind it.

Moreover, judging from the current situation, Chu Shengfan actually wants to openly challenge the current Crown Prince Jingheng to a duel. How audacious and arrogant he is!

In the end, Chu Shengfan had explored most of the Heavenly City and slowly stopped in front of the largest palace in the center of the Heavenly City, not because he didn't want to move forward.

It's just that there are guards of the Transcendent Realm here, a difference of one major realm, which Chu Shengfan really can't defeat right now, nor can he force his way in.

However, these guards were different from those in Chu Shengfan's palace. They were of higher status and knew more secrets, so they didn't dare to easily subdue the Marquis who had been personally appointed by the Blood King.

So she stood on the palace wall, watching him make a scene from afar with one eye open and the other closed. As long as he didn't force his way into the Jing King's palace, everything would be fine.

Having figured out the guards' intentions, Chu Shengfan stopped moving and sat upright on the "Elemental Spirit," letting the small ice crystal megaphone in the air repeat the words from before over and over again.

The loudspeaker was pointed directly at the Jing Palace, as if it were questioning Jing Heng, who lived inside.

Not long after the shouting began, a figure flew out of the largest palace. Judging from his luxurious clothes and accessories, he was probably a royal elder.

He appeared to be a middle-aged man. He stood atop the palace wall, his face serious as he looked in Chu Shengfan's direction, and demanded from afar:

"What kind of behavior is this, making a scene in front of Prince Jing's palace? I understand you've just become a marquis and don't know the rules. Go back immediately, and I can pretend this never happened."