Clan Cultivation: Starting with Plundering Demonic Beast Talents

The Lin family raises a variety of aquatic products, which account for a considerable portion of the family's annual income in spirit stones. Among the many demonic beasts they raise, the income from the bluefish is estimated to rank only around fifth, while the blue-clawed crab is firmly in the top two.

This monster's pair of large pincers are extremely hard and have good spiritual energy transmission efficiency, making them excellent materials for refining artifacts.

In addition, the essence and blood of the demon beasts are also used to draw talismans.

Therefore, the family also attached great importance to it and sent two female cultivators with mid-grade spiritual roots to guard the area.

"The Lin sisters, the two granddaughters of Uncle Yaoming, are said to be difficult to get along with."

As Lin Qingyang walked through the crab farm, he was pondering the situation of these two women. Known as the "Twin Beauties," their appearances were naturally quite striking.

But most importantly, their spiritual roots are not far from being top-grade spiritual roots, both reaching over thirty points, while forty-one points is already considered a top-grade spiritual root.

The reason the family arranged for them to guard the Blue Claw Crab was that, firstly, this kind of monster is quite powerful, and taking care of it in the early stages of Qi Refining could result in death or injury.

In addition, it also has a protective function, since it is quite dangerous to carry out missions outside. It is hoped that the two can advance to the later stage of Qi Refining before releasing it outside.

Lin Qingyang wasn't stage-frightened; he was just worried about causing trouble. Both of them had been pampered by their families since childhood, so it was normal for them to be a little arrogant. As long as they didn't interfere with him, it would be fine.

"I hope everything goes well."

He glanced at the cloud formation before him, took out his personal identity token, and as the cloud dispersed, a small blue stone path was revealed. He stepped into it.

This was his first time visiting the crab farm, after all, he had been undergoing rigorous training before.

The concentration of spiritual energy is very high!

There is a first-grade high-level spirit gathering array.

This was the thought that flashed through Lin Qingyang's mind in an instant. He could only marvel at the spiritual energy environment, which probably made cultivation a bit faster.

Shaking his head without thinking much, he saw two beautiful female cultivators with similar faces looking over from a wooden house by the lake.

He then cupped his hands and said, "My name is Lin Qingyang. I have come to exchange for the Green Claw Crab. I apologize for any inconvenience caused."

"You're the lucky kid who discovered the Red-tailed Spirit Fish! You were rewarded with fifteen spirit stones!"

The female cultivator on the right, dressed in a pink dress, looked at him curiously, seemingly quite interested.

Lin Qingyang smiled, not paying much attention to the offense in the other person's words. This was clearly the younger sister of the two, with a more lively personality.

"Qingyu, be quiet."

Lin Qingping glanced at her restless younger sister, then looked at the gray-robed man in front of her and said calmly, "Mid-stage Qi Refining, with the identity of a talisman-making apprentice. Show your identity token and you can exchange it."

"it is good."

Seeing her directness, Lin Qingyang was actually quite pleased and handed over his identity token.

She made a hand seal, and several runes flashed by. Soon, she returned them, along with three blue-clawed crabs bound by spirit-binding ropes. Their pincers gleamed coldly in the sunlight.

"Ten spirit stones. Settle this with the Internal Affairs Hall within three days. You may leave now."

After Lin Qingping finished speaking, she went back into the house to continue her cultivation.

Thank you.

The sisters seem more approachable than expected and are shrewd and capable, so the rumors seem unreliable.

Lin Qingyang took the items and went directly to the Internal Affairs Hall.

After he left, Lin Qingyu was somewhat surprised and looked at her older sister, "Sister, you rarely go out, yet you know about someone's cultivation level. Judging from your tone, you've had a feud with them?"

"My grandfather said so."

"That inferior spiritual root?"

Lin Qingyu then remembered that her grandfather had indeed exchanged for a Qi-replenishing pill some time ago, supposedly to save for a family member with inferior aptitude. She immediately sensed something was amiss: "Inferior spiritual root, yet still able to break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining?"

Lin Qingping glanced at her, speaking sparingly, "Exploding Spirit Pill."

"Use the Spirit-Burning Pill? That would cost thirty spirit stones, enough to steam about ten Green Claw Crabs."

Lin Qingyu muttered a few words, but under her sister's cold gaze, she dared not say anything more and obediently went to cultivate. The two sat cross-legged facing each other, and a vortex of spiritual energy immediately appeared in the small house. Although it was not large, its speed was more than half faster than that of a typical mid-grade spiritual root cultivator.

Both of them clearly believed that Lin Qingyang had broken through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining through the Exploding Spirit Pill.

……

Lin Yaoming also thought so.

In the inner hall, he looked at Lin Qingyang, a fierce glint flashing in his cloudy eyes, but it ultimately turned into a sigh, "If you break through to the mid-stage of Qi Refining before the age of thirty, the family will bestow ten spirit stones upon you."

"Besides the three blue-clawed crabs, should we exchange them all for spirit ink and talisman paper?"

"Yes."

A subordinate from the Imperial Household Department went to the treasury and retrieved the items.

"Thank you, Uncle Yaoming."

Lin Qingyang cupped his hands in greeting, accepted the items, and prepared to leave.

"Wait, Qingyang, I have a good relationship with your father. Let me give you a piece of advice: the family has rules that once the internal resources are discounted, you must not engage in large-scale transactions with outside cultivators. Remember this."

This is practically an explicit statement.

Upon hearing this, Lin Qingyang narrowed his eyes slightly. He seemed to have realized that the other party had misunderstood something, but it seemed that they did not intend to pursue the matter.

In that case, a misunderstanding is fine.

After all, he is still very weak for the time being, so it is not a bad thing for others to think that he broke through with the Spirit Explosion Pill.

Once I've plundered more demon beast talents, advanced to the late stage of Qi Refining, and become a high-ranking member of the family, I'll go to the desolate lands for training and then attribute everything to fate to strengthen my foundation.

"I will remember what my uncle said."

After he left, the subordinate next to him looked at Lin Yaoming with some surprise, "Steward, this Lin Qingyang only managed to gather enough spirit stones to buy the Spirit Explosion Pill when he got fifteen spirit stones last time."

"He's also exchanged for a lot of basic resources during this time. Do you think he might be associating with the rogue cultivators outside...?"

"alright."

Lin Yaoming took out the Qi-replenishing pill from his pocket and handed it to his subordinate. "Put it in the family treasury. Regardless of whether he traded with outsiders or not, this matter ends here."

Then he glanced at the figure walking further and further away outside the door, shook his head, and said, "This time he must have damaged his foundation. Hopefully, he'll come to his senses later."

……

On the other hand, Lin Qingyang immediately put the matter out of his mind.

Inside the cave, he had a thought, and then golden light enveloped the ferocious blue-clawed crab. It was originally waving its large claws, trying to break free of the spirit-binding rope, but it instantly lost its life and all its spiritual energy disappeared.

"Blue Claw Crab, let me see what talent you have."

At the same time, the jade talisman in his sea of ​​consciousness also changed.

[Plunderable Talents: Water Pincers, Sand Dive, Hard Shell]

He focused his attention and saw ink-wash characters appear on the jade talisman.

【Water Claws】: A pair of giant claws is the Green Claw Crab's reliance on fighting against mid-grade first-tier monsters, and its power is quite good.

[Sand Diving]: The Blue Claw Crab excels at burrowing into the sandy bottom of shallow waters. In gravelly areas, its speed and camouflage abilities are comparable to those of a first-tier high-grade demon beast.

[Hard Shell]: The shell of the blue crab is generally harder than that of the giant crab, but slightly more defensive than that of the bluefish.

"You can still only choose one talent."

"First, eliminate the third one."

"Secondly, burrowing in sand is suitable for escaping in special areas, but the most suitable for me right now is probably water tongs."

After thinking for a while, Lin Qingyang decisively chose the first option. Then, his vision blurred and a realization dawned on him.

Without hesitation, the remaining two blue-clawed crabs were also used as resources to improve his cultivation.

[Talent: Water Pincers (37/100)]

[Water Clamping Charm: Beginner (39/100) → Beginner (87/100)]

"Water Claw Talisman, a mid-grade first-tier attack talisman. The water claws it conjures deal considerable damage and are worth nearly twice as much as the Concealing Breath Talisman."

"I've tried it before, but I haven't been able to draw a single one successfully. I wonder what will happen if I try again."

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