Vampire Cultivation Notes

"What a terrible trend!"

Having just left the barren hills, Li Jieqing floated in the air for only two miles before feeling a biting cold wind blowing from behind, causing gusts of yin wind that sent chills down his spine.

"The white tiger has arrived!"

Li Jieqing landed, looked around for a while, covered himself with his cloak, and hid in a grove of low trees.

As soon as it was hidden.

From the direction of the distant Moon Gazing Valley, a massive white tiger rode the wind and landed directly on the barren hills, almost another mountain peak.

It was precisely because the group of cultivators attacked Wanbaoge tonight that they made such a big fuss, attracting the nearby white tiger.

Li Jieqing dared not use the bronze mirror to look at himself, fearing that the white tiger would discover him by following the magical artifact's spiritual light. He silently used the more concealed blood-searching technique to probe outwards.

Two miles away.

The demonic tiger's extremely vigorous blood and energy were like the sun, and when captured by the Blood-Seeking Technique, they were dazzling.

Since breaking through to the second tier and conquering Taipingfang City, this white tiger has never concealed its aura, and wherever it goes, demonic energy soars to the sky.

At this moment, it roared in, clearing half of the barren mountain in a few strokes, searching for the aura of a cultivator.

"Fortunately, I always remembered to activate this treasure."

Li Jieqing touched the black jade hairpin on his head. Seeing that the white tiger was still going to act crazy in the desolate mountain, he could only secretly wish the hidden Wanbaoge cultivators good luck. Then he quietly slipped away from the grove and ran close to the ground towards the ruins of Taipingfang City.

Staying here any longer is not an option.

What if the white tiger suddenly lashes out with its tail and cuts the grove of trees in half like grass?

It would be so awkward if everyone just stood there facing each other.

Taking advantage of Baihu's attention being focused on the desolate mountain, Li Jieqing successfully escaped, his body blending into the night and disappearing silently into the distance.

……

Ruins of Taipingfang Market.

The rogue cultivators, including the Yu brothers, who had joined the treasure hunt, were startled by Fairy Shecai in the desolate mountains and had already rushed back. Hearing the commotion from the White Tiger, they were now hiding in their secret lair, trembling with fear.

Li Jieqing was a step too late, muttering strange things like he would never go out again, as he headed towards the cave area.

There were no moon-gazing eels lingering nearby tonight, so Li Jieqing landed in front of the central cave in the spiritual vein and hurriedly went inside.

I had only been inside for a short time.

After causing a ruckus in the desolate mountains, the white tiger chased after the fleeing scent of the Yu brothers and headed towards the ruins of Taipingfang. A hurricane swept up, and the tiger's imposing aura frightened even the moon-gazing eels in the ruins, causing them to scatter and burrow into the ground.

"call--"

It was a very deep roar, yet it resounded throughout the ruins of Taipingfang Market, causing the earth, wood, and stone bricks to tremble precariously.

With a loud crash, a blue stone house on the south street of the market collapsed.

The aura of a lone cultivator hiding nearby was revealed by this turn of events, and the next moment, the White Tiger noticed him.

"roar!!"

The tiger's thirty-foot-long body leaped up, obscuring the bright moon, and a huge shadow instantly crashed down.

In an instant, accompanied by a scream, the exposed cultivator fell silent.

After retaliating by killing and devouring the man, the White Tiger, seeing that all was still silent, became enraged and tore the South Street inside and out to shreds before finally giving up, satisfied.

It sniffed the air again, then rose on the wind, headed east, and disappeared.

……

"Tsk, what a white-haired beast, just like a jinx or a demon, his appearance is terrifying."

After the demonic tiger left, Li Jieqing, inside the cave, shook his head, his gaze deep and unsettled. He had just stopped all the magic arrays in the cave, precisely because he feared that these arrays might reveal anything related to the spiritual light of cultivators; his own black jade hairpin was far more reliable.

It seems that from now on, the cultivators in these ruins will have to add a new rule: don't go out after dark.

Even if I don't go out, the demon tiger will still come in to eat on its own...

Judging that the demonic tiger showed no signs of turning back, Li Jieqing restarted the magic array, stopped maintaining the magic power of the black jade hairpin, and went down into the ground.

The underground hall has changed.

Besides the central lotus pond and a medicinal garden of about one acre, the surrounding space was expanded using the Azure Water Sword, creating approximately fifty acres of spiritual fields. Cast stone pillars were distributed among them to support the underground space.

In a corner of these roughly organized spirit fields, a ten-zhang-long Moon Gazing Eel coiled up, a blood blister on its head still visible, its skin taut, as if it might attack at any moment.

However, upon seeing Li Jieqing come down, the Moon-Gazing Eel hesitated for a moment but dared not approach, and its intimidating aura vanished.

"Good yellow worm, come here."

Li Jieqing waved in that direction.

The moon-gazing eel hissed softly twice, then obediently came over, its body slithering through the stone pillars until it reached the front, where it lowered its head in response to the gesture.

Li Jieqing raised his hand and pressed it against the blood blister on the top of the Moon-Gazing Eel's head.

With a few painful roars, the moon eel calmed down and remained motionless.

"Not bad, it seems to have been tamed. It's even more obedient than the snake that the One-Horned Taoist had back then."

Li Jieqing withdrew his hand from the blood sac on the head of the moon-gazing eel with satisfaction.

Inside the blood pack, a Beast-Taming Nail was driven in, breaking through the skull and drilling into the brain of the Moon-Gazing Eel, fixing its demonic soul in place.

This is the unique beast-taming method of the Old Taoist with the Unicorn.

Using the Beast-Taming Nail as a guide, and in conjunction with the "Blood Sacrifice to the Soul" technique, one injects their own essence and blood into the body of the beast they are controlling, suppressing and cleansing the beast's soul.

A cultivator's essence blood is their life-saving treasure, containing a large amount of their own will. By using their essence blood in conjunction with the Beast Taming Nail to cleanse the demonic soul, the mind of the demonic beast they control will naturally be bewitched, making it inherently close to the cultivator. Moreover, it will dare not resist, because the Beast Taming Nail can take the demonic beast's life at any time.

This method is crude and bloody. "Blood Sacrifice to the Mind" is not a proper cultivation technique for controlling beasts. It is just a simple and easy way to use essence blood, forcibly brainwashing the beasts with one's own will. It has a strong wild and unorthodox feel to it.

However, it must be said that there are hardly any beast-taming techniques circulating in Taipingfang, and the Blood Sacrifice Method of the One-Horned Old Daoist is already quite rare.

For many years, the One-Horned Old Taoist has been quite famous in Taipingfang City, relying on a late-stage first-order demon snake.

The only drawback is that this blood sacrifice beast-taming method consumes too much of one's own essence and blood to subdue demonic beasts.

Moreover, aside from the initial use, the demonic souls of the beasts you control will gradually regain their clarity as they grow with the years, at which point you will need to squeeze out some of their essence and blood to perform a blood sacrifice.

Although the amount of blood essence required for subsequent blood sacrifices will not be as much as the first time, it will still be a loss over time.

Therefore, the Taoist priest with the unicorn horn was a long-term customer of Li Jieqing and could not do without the nourishing pills.

However, now that it's Li Jieqing's turn to perform the blood sacrifice, the situation is different.

During the day, he used his essence blood to brainwash the Moon Gazing Eel, and at night he went out to watch the excitement as if nothing had happened. The essence blood consumed by beast taming was nothing compared to the essence blood he used to condense his heart chamber.

If one day we could nail that white tiger with this nail, that would be a wonderful thing.

Looking at the meek and submissive Moon Gazing Eel, Li Jieqing thought to himself.