Beast Taming Immortal Clan

Chapter 400 A Lifetime Awaits [Please Subscribe]

Inside the small courtyard of Caolu in the Qinglian Mountains.

The three Nascent Soul stage cultivators, Qingxiao Zhenren, Yinyue Zhenren, and Ziyang Zhenren, sat around a stone table.

Tianjing Zhenren's nascent soul was casually tossed onto the stone table, just like a dish.

However, neither Yin Yue Zhenren nor Zi Yang Zhenren, both Nascent Soul stage cultivators, lingered on the Nascent Soul on the stone table. Instead, they looked at Qing Xiao Zhenren, waiting for him to present his two proposed solutions.

Under the watchful eyes of the two Nascent Soul stage cultivators, True Person Qingxiao calmly raised his hand, flicked his finger, and said, "The first option is to implant a Divine Suppression Technique into Tianjing's Nascent Soul, putting his life and death in his own hands, so that he can only obediently become a rogue cultivator, guarding the country's borders!"

After saying that, he extended his second finger and said, "The second option is that I once explored an ancient cave and obtained a special, unfinished fifth-tier spirit puppet. As long as we follow the records left by the maker and use a Nascent Soul artifact from a Nascent Soul cultivator, we can truly complete that fifth-tier spirit puppet. At that time, my Qinglian Sect will also have a Nascent Soul level combatant!"

After explaining his two prepared solutions, Master Qingxiao lowered his hand, looked calmly at Master Yinyue and Master Ziyang, and said nothing more.

Faced with the two solutions he offered, the two real people fell into deep thought.

Secretly, the two immortals also communicated telepathically.

After some time, the two True Immortals seemed to have reached an agreement on something. True Immortal Silver Moon then spoke up, saying, "The second plan is unsuitable. Although fifth-tier puppets possess Nascent Soul level combat power, they are easily targeted and killed if the wielder is only at the Golden Core stage. They can only be used to guard the mountain gate and cannot fully utilize the capabilities of a true Nascent Soul cultivator!"

Upon hearing this, Master Qingxiao did not refute it, but merely narrowed his eyes and said calmly, "So, it seems that you two have chosen the first option."

Master Yinyue nodded and said, "If the first plan works, that would be best."

"But the problem is, even if Fellow Daoist Tianjing is only at the Nascent Soul stage, to implant a God-Suppressing Technique on his Nascent Soul, he still needs his consent!"

At this point, True Person Silver Moon added solemnly, "Moreover, although the Divine Forbidden Technique allows one to control their life and death, it is not without its weaknesses and carries a considerable risk of backlash. I'm afraid Fellow Daoist Qingxiao, your disciples and younger generations might not be able to handle it!"

Upon hearing this, Master Qingxiao sneered, "Tianjing has no choice now. If he doesn't agree, I'll use his Nascent Soul to refine a fifth-order spirit puppet. I don't believe he'll dare refuse!"

Silver Moon Master had no doubt about this.

It's better to live a miserable life than to die a good death. Master Tianjing, a rogue cultivator, finally obtained an opportunity to successfully form his Nascent Soul. Even if he only has a Nascent Soul left, he still has the path of seizing another body and changing his cultivation.

Therefore, he will most likely agree to accept the forbidden god technique.

Even if his life and death are in the hands of others, as a Nascent Soul cultivator, he will still receive the benefits he is entitled to, so as not to prevent him from continuing to enjoy his life.

Then Master Qingxiao continued, "As for breaking the Forbidden God Technique, if thirty percent of his primordial spirit essence is infused into the Forbidden God Plate, even a Nascent Soul True Monarch personally cannot help him break it!"

"The forbidden divine tablets must be controlled by our two factions!"

Master Ziyang suddenly interjected, his tone very resolute.

Strangely, Master Qingxiao was neither angry nor in a hurry to discuss the matter after hearing this. He simply smiled and said, "So, you two agree?"

"If we can truly have Fellow Daoist Tianjing stationed in the Southern Frontier, that would naturally be the best choice."

Silver Moon Immortal said calmly, which was taken as agreement.

Then the three Nascent Soul stage cultivators began bargaining over control of the Heavenly Mirror cultivator.

After a long and intense debate, the three Nascent Soul stage cultivators reached a preliminary consensus.

The reason it is described as a preliminary agreement is that True Person Silver Moon and True Person Purple Sun still need to return to their sect to inform the other Nascent Soul stage cultivators about this matter, and only after obtaining their unanimous consent will it be considered valid.

Prior to this, the nascent soul of the Heavenly Mirror Immortal was kept by the Azure Sky Immortal.

After seeing off True Person Silver Moon and True Person Purple Sun, True Person Azure Sky looked at the Nascent Soul of True Person Heavenly Mirror on the stone table, his gaze flickering somewhat uncertainly.

What he didn't say was that if Master Yinyue and Master Ziyang chose his second plan, then he actually had a third plan that could be activated.

However, since Master Yinyue and the others have chosen the first plan, his third plan is no longer suitable.

He simply raised his hand and waved it, producing a silver-gray animal hide scroll. Looking at the lines of crimson text on it, he muttered to himself, "Using Nascent Soul as a material to refine the [Holy Infant Pill], which can help one shatter their core and form a Nascent Soul—the guy who created this pill formula is truly audacious and lawless!"

This so-called "Holy Infant Pill" recipe was a spoil of war he obtained after killing a late-stage Golden Core evil cultivator.

With his discerning eye, he could certainly see the authenticity of the prescription. After careful examination and verification, he also confirmed that the prescription did indeed have the potential to succeed.

However, he knew all too well how taboo it was in the cultivation world to use nascent souls to refine pills.

This matter can be said to have offended all Nascent Soul stage cultivators. Once it is leaked, it will surely be attacked by all the Nascent Soul stage cultivators and besieged and killed.

After all, no Nascent Soul cultivator wants their Nascent Soul to be coveted by someone and become a medicinal ingredient for someone else to help their descendants.

What's the point of them going through all those hardships to cultivate to the Nascent Soul stage?

Therefore, after obtaining this item, Master Qingxiao never let anyone else know about the existence of this pill formula, lest it bring about his own death and the destruction of Qinglian Temple.

But this time, despite his own severe injury and the risk of shortening his lifespan, he was determined to capture the Nascent Soul of True Person Tianjing. In fact, he already had some ideas about refining the [Holy Infant Pill], and he had even prepared the relevant auxiliary materials.

Even at the beginning, he hadn't considered the suggestion to plant the God-Suppressing Technique in the Heavenly Mirror True Person. He only intended to use the creation of a fifth-order spirit puppet as a cover to secretly refine the [Holy Infant Pill].

But in the end, he held firm to his principles and did not do so.

Firstly, the [Holy Infant Pill] can only increase the success rate of Nascent Soul formation for late-stage Golden Core cultivators by 20%. Secondly, he suspects that cultivators who ingest this demonic pill to form their Nascent Soul may experience side effects related to their personality and mental state, increasing the possibility of falling into evil ways.

After staring at the pill formula in his hand for a long time, Qingxiao Zhenren finally mustered great willpower to look away, put the formula away, and then looked at Tianjing Zhenren's nascent soul, muttering to himself, "Tianjing, Tianjing, I hope you'll know what's good for you, otherwise even if I don't want to go down the evil path, I'll have no choice but to use you to refine pills!"

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In the blink of an eye, half a year had passed.

In the past six months, news of the destruction of the physical body of the Heavenly Mirror True Person and the capture of his nascent soul has spread throughout the Jing Kingdom and surrounding countries, and even among the high-level cultivators of the distant Great Zhou Kingdom.

The world of cultivation is vast, but sometimes it can also be quite small.

High-level cultivators are always few in number, yet their range of activity is vast, and their methods of communication are diverse.

Therefore, whenever a major event occurs in the cultivation world that involves the life or death of a Nascent Soul cultivator, the news spreads very easily.

This is something that high-level cultivators intentionally do, because no one wants to offend a ruthless person one day because they don't know how powerful that person is.

Without a doubt, Master Qingxiao has become a ruthless figure that many Nascent Soul cultivators fear.

On the other hand, True Person Tianjing became a joke, a joke in the Nascent Soul stage cultivator circle.

Some even jokingly call him the most tragic Nascent Soul cultivator in a thousand years. He had only been in the Nascent Soul stage for less than thirty years when his physical body was destroyed and his Nascent Soul was captured. No one knows what kind of suffering he will suffer afterward.

In Jingguo, even though half a year has passed, speculation and discussion about the fate of Master Tianjing have never ceased.

When Zhou Chun had nothing to do, he also made various guesses about this.

Of course, he was more concerned about the allocation of those sacred mountains and blessed lands in Lingzhou.

Unfortunately, Qinglian Temple has yet to announce the outcome of this matter.

Zhou Chun estimated that this matter might not be addressed until the final outcome of Tianjing Zhenren's case was determined.

Just as Zhou Chun and many other cultivators were eagerly awaiting the outcome of the Heavenly Mirror True Person's decision, news broke that shocked almost everyone.

Master Tianjing is back!

He returned to the mountain gate of Tianjing Sect!

When Zhou Chun learned of this news, he rubbed his eyes in disbelief, looked at the intelligence report again, and made sure he hadn't misread it.

"This is truly... this is something I've never seen before in my life!!"

Zhou Chun muttered to himself with a strange expression, having nothing more to say.

Who would have thought that the Heavenly Mirror Master, whose physical body was severed, whose nascent soul was captured, and who had even sworn to kill everyone in the Green Lotus Temple, would be able to return to the Heavenly Mirror Sect after being captured!

Such a bizarre event is unheard of.

"Hmm, the intelligence report says that True Person Tianjing has returned to the Tianjing Sect, but it didn't specify that it's True Person Tianjing's Nascent Soul. Does this mean he has already possessed another body and changed his cultivation path?"

Suddenly, Zhou Chun seemed to discover a blind spot, his gaze sharpening slightly as he noticed an important piece of information that had not been prominently mentioned in the intelligence report.

This should be attributed to the intelligence personnel's mistake, or rather, their limited perspective, failing to understand the difference between Nascent Soul and Nascent Soul stage cultivators.

However, Zhou Chun thought that True Person Tianjing would not show up with a three-inch-sized Nascent Soul.

Therefore, possession and transformation are undoubtedly a reasonable explanation.

"It seems that the past six months have been a period of adjustment for True Immortal Tianjing to possess another body and begin cultivation. I just wonder which unlucky fellow lost his life so inexplicably!"

Zhou Chun shook his head, feeling very sorry for the person whose body had been possessed.

To be chosen as a target for possession by a Nascent Soul cultivator, that person's spiritual root aptitude must be quite good, and they should have had an excellent future.

Unfortunately, just because the Heavenly Mirror Master needed a physical body to possess and cultivate in, such a promising genius died young.

"He must have been extremely desperate at that time!"

Zhou Chun sighed softly again, but that was all he could do.

Possession is indeed a very taboo thing in the cultivation world. If a cultivator in the Purple Mansion stage or even the Golden Core stage does such a thing, it may bring great trouble upon himself.

After all, there are some high-level cultivators in the cultivation world who have experienced being possessed or whose loved ones have been possessed, and they are extremely disgusted by cultivators who possess others. As soon as they hear such news, they will go and cause trouble.

However, if the one who possesses another's body is a Nascent Soul stage cultivator, then most likely no one can do anything but pretend they didn't see it.

That's how the cultivation world is: the strong prey on the weak, and the strong are respected.

A Nascent Soul cultivator is already at the top of the cultivation world, and is the one who sets certain rules.

Some so-called taboos and rules cease to be taboos and rules when applied to them.

Privileged classes exist everywhere.

"Let's see what Qinglian Temple has to say next. If they can get Master Tianjing back, there's probably no need to continue the war. The only question is how they'll clean up this mess!"

Zhou Chun's eyes flickered, knowing that the answer to what he was concerned about would soon be revealed.

Sure enough, just a few days after Master Tianjing returned to Tianjing Sect, Qinglian Temple issued an official statement.

From this day forward, the Tianjing Sect will be renamed Tianjing Manor, and the area within 500 li around Tianjing Manor will be the cultivation ground for the Tianjing True Man.

The remaining unclaimed spiritual lands in Lingzhou will be used, half to enfeoff certain cultivators of Qinglian Temple and Tianjing Sect, and the other half to reward the cultivation families who responded to the campaign against the rebellion.

Upon hearing this news, Zhou Chun was also very puzzled and muttered to himself, "It seems like the previous bet is still being maintained. But is Master Tianjing really willing to become a high-level wage earner from now on?"

Zhou Chun couldn't figure it out, so he stopped thinking about it.

He knew that due to the difference in cultivation level and social status, there was definitely a lot of confidential information that he was completely unaware of, so there was no need to create trouble for himself or get stuck on trivial matters.

Now that Qinglian Temple has presented its plan for dealing with those spiritual lands in Lingzhou, the Zhou family should simply act according to the plan.

In any case, the Zhou family had contributed to the suppression and destruction of the Guo family of Tuyunling, so it shouldn't be too difficult for them to get a piece of spiritual land.

After Zhou Chun personally went to the Qinglian Mountains, the matter was resolved.

According to the requirements of Qingweizi, the abbot of Qinglian Temple, as long as the Zhou family offers 200,000 spirit coins, they can obtain ownership of the spirit land of Tuyun Ridge, and the surrounding area of ​​100 miles will become the Zhou family's legitimate territory.

The money wasn't all given to Qinglian Temple. After receiving the money, Qinglian Temple also had to distribute rewards to the cultivation families that sent Foundation Establishment cultivators to participate in the battle, and provide compensation to those who died in the battle.

Therefore, Zhou Chun agreed to the matter, and the two parties agreed to a payment period of forty years, with the Zhou family paying five thousand spirit coins to Qinglian Temple every year.

After this matter was settled, the entire Zhou family began to get busy.

Tu Yunling is now a barren wasteland, and its reconstruction will require a lot of manpower and resources. In addition, the Zhou family will need to relocate some demon beasts and mortals there, which will keep the Zhou family busy for a while.

(End of this chapter)