Cultivation begins with harvest.

Chen Guang spent all his spare time crafting the divination materials for the Blood Pact Beast Taming Array.

The formation must be set up and the ancestral blood seal spell must be cultivated before the Thousand Needle Wren is born.

The Blood Pact Beast Taming Formation can imprint a mark of closeness and communication with Chen Guang into the flesh and blood of the Thousand Needle Wren, giving the two a natural sense of intimacy. In particular, it can imprint a concept centered on Chen Guang, while also conveying a certain degree of tacit understanding in communication.

Although they do not speak the same language, they can understand each other's thoughts with just a few simple actions through the Blood Pact Beast Taming Formation.

To achieve complete understanding and barrier-free communication, it requires a long period of two-way travel, plus some secret techniques related to animal taming.

The Ancestral Blood Seal can make close-knit beings more dependent on each other the more they spend time together, creating the illusion of blood ties and leading them to regard each other as servants.

As long as one is mentally mature, one can easily resist the influence of the ancestral blood seal.

The Ancestral Blood Seal is specifically designed for young spirit beasts, and its effects are extremely significant. However, it requires nurturing them from a young age, or rather, nurturing them as early as possible.

Even for wild beasts, once they mature for a few years, the effects of the Ancestral Blood Seal will be greatly reduced. However, if they accept the influence of the Ancestral Blood Seal from the beginning, the influence will become deeper and deeper.

The Ancestral Blood Seal is therefore very difficult to cultivate, since it is a soul technique.

The Xuanxiu and Lingxiu are different from traditional Qi cultivators, and the techniques that best suit them are named combat techniques and soul techniques, respectively.

Soul techniques are spells that invoke the divine soul. Before reaching the Foundation Establishment stage, Qi Refining cultivators cannot control the divine sense, which is an extension of the divine soul. Most soul techniques involve applying a peculiar fluctuation to their own divine soul to create influence.

Once the Ancestral Blood Seal is fully cultivated, the soul will involuntarily emit a soul fluctuation that can affect the surrounding life. Only by cultivating it to the great perfection can one control it at will.

Chen Guang is only now learning the Ancestral Blood Seal, which might be a bit rushed for him. It's even uncertain whether he can even get the basics down. Soul techniques are very difficult to cultivate.

The soul is mysterious and elusive, leaving no trace. Before developing spiritual awareness, it is difficult to detect changes in one's own soul, making the cultivation of soul techniques even more challenging.

The three spells offered by the disciples of the Hall of Life and Death each had their own drawbacks.

The Heart-to-Heart Mantra enhances communication and exchange abilities, but before reaching the Great Perfection stage, any thoughts of the target under the Heart-to-Heart Mantra will be transmitted at any time. Moreover, it is a one-way communication between spirit beasts, because cultivators can control their thoughts, while newborn spirit beasts cannot control this instinct. In addition, spirit beasts under the Heart-to-Heart Mantra are naturally close to cultivators and have a strong desire to confide and communicate. Many disciples of the Spirit Hall have suffered greatly from such meaningless and intense harassment.

The cultivator must not be impatient, otherwise it is easy to convey the wrong rules to the young spirit beast, which may seriously affect its personality. To make a smart spirit beast work for you and follow your habits, you do need to put in a lot of effort.

The Condensation Technique can conjure obscure traces out of thin air. It is often used to train the cooperation between spirit beasts and cultivators. Choosing this technique allows you to play with spirit beasts and hone your tacit understanding. However, it requires a lot of time to spend with the spirit beasts to realize the full potential of this technique. It is usually a necessity for combat-type spirit beasts. Cultivators themselves also need to spend time improving the traces they can condense with the Condensation Technique so that the spirit beasts can enjoy it. Otherwise, it will have the opposite effect.

In the end, Chen Guang chose the more difficult Ancestral Blood Seal. If he failed, so be it. The other two options were too complicated and time-consuming, so the Ancestral Blood Seal was much better.

People still need hope. With the Thousand Needle Wren by their side, setting up camp next to the Heart-Breaking Grass is not a difficult task. On the contrary, they are in high spirits, hoping that more Red Locusts will come so that the Thousand Needle Wren can have some food.

At the same time, Chen Guang also felt a sense of urgency due to the one-month incubation period.

Finally, on the twentieth day after the Thousand Needle Wrens began to hatch, Chen Guang looked at the dense magical patterns on the blood amber stone in his hand, which swayed slightly like blood curd and hardened when pressed, and revealed a satisfied expression.

There were a total of 75 scattered divination items, and only four materials were used: blood amber, century-old peach wood, small star stone, and cracked tungsten. The other three were fine, as they were hard in texture. Although it took some effort, the success rate was very high.

Only blood amber stone is as delicate as tofu; it will break if you use the wrong force, but if you use too much force, it will become as hard as stone, making it difficult for a carving knife to leave a mark. Inscribing array patterns on it is also a challenge for Chen Guang's mentality.

The blood-red amber stones scattered at Chen Guang's feet are proof of this.

In the end, he resorted to a clever trick: he gripped the blood amber stone tightly and then forcibly carved it with a jade-cutting blade. Relying on the advantage of the spiritual weapon, he managed to overcome this difficult problem. Now it was to save time, but in the future, in order to improve his skills in array formations, he still needed to make up for the lessons he needed to learn.

"Thankfully, the Blood Pact Beast Taming Array is a basic array that has been continuously improved and simplified to make it as affordable as possible for every cultivator, which is why the preparations were completed so easily."

Chen Guang sighed inwardly, glanced at the red sunset, shook his robes, straightened the wrinkles, closed his eyes for a short rest, and then invigorated himself before entering the spirit field of the Fiery Heart Grass to search for traces of the Red Locusts.

As night fell and everything truly quieted down, Chen Guang arrived at the red peony spirit field where the Thousand Needleworts were hatching. He first dismantled the scattered trigrams of the spirit energy array. Although Chen Guang's array skills were not yet able to see through the intricacies of the spirit energy array, he could dismantle and reassemble it on his own without any guidance.

Only after setting up the Blood Pact Beast Taming Array did he carefully check it twice, correcting several obvious errors, before activating the array.

As the divination objects were arranged, a special blood-red symbol gradually gathered at the center, forming a radiant light like a flower bud that tightly enveloped the two bird eggs.

Chen Guang only contributed some magical power.

As the flower bud gradually took shape, Chen Guangcai used the jade-cutting blade to cut his finger, letting blood drip down. Perhaps it was because he was cultivating the "Blood Scripture," but after absorbing only a dozen drops of blood, the radiance of the flower bud in the formation began to show the shape of a blooming flower.

The flower slowly unfolded and dimmed, its special spiritual energy slowly seeping into the bird eggs. With the activation of the array, a strange connection between the flower and the two bird eggs began to be established. The connection only became clear when the blood-red flower faded to almost invisible – two dazed and confused young lives appeared in Chen Guang's perception.

After ceasing the input of magic power into the formation, Chen Guang happily sensed it for a while before beginning to study its Blood Pact Beast Taming Formation.

In theory, only one-tenth of the pot's mana is needed to complete a simple blood pact, but Chen Guang used 20% more mana to complete it, indicating that there were some inappropriate aspects in his setup process that affected the power of the formation.

This is the norm for low-grade formations. Not only is the conversion efficiency of scattered hexagram objects in terms of magical power and spiritual energy low, but their actual power is also easily affected and interfered with, failing to reach the ideal state.

After summarizing everything, Chen Guang put away the array, set up the spiritual energy array, and spent a lot of time testing and readjusting the array's attributes before finally arriving at the hatching site of the Blazing Heart Grass and completing the blood pact with the remaining three bird eggs.

The condition of one of the bird eggs worried Chen Guang; its vitality was extremely weak, and through the blood pact, Chen Guang sensed it was like a gradually cooling stone.

My excitement was slightly dampened.

But nothing in this world is perfect. We'll see if we can hatch the four pheasants first, and then we'll see if they can safely survive their fledgling period of more than ten months. The current changes are within expectations.

The next morning, just as Chen Guang finished his morning cultivation and was collecting the Moon Essence Liquid, the courtyard gate was pushed open.

"Fellow Daoist Chen, I've come to bring you peaches." Before Chen Guang could react, the courtyard gate was pushed open a crack, and a small head popped in, looking around.