Beast-Taming Cultiva Chapter 197 : When All Sha Is Refined, the Pill Is Formed

Chapter 197: When All Sha Is Refined, the Pill Is Ford

"Still too green." Chen Beiwu cast a glance at Lin Xinru.

Tone, expression, and movents could mask and conceal, but the killing intent rooted in one’s bones was difficult to hide.

From the mont Lin Xinru harbored killing intent against him, her end had already been sealed.

It had to be known that in order to set up his ambush successfully, Chen Beiwu had never once entertained the thought of killing the Thorn-Bone King Fish. He had maintained his mind in the state of emptiness through Tai Xuan Guarding the One. Only thus had his ambush succeeded.

Otherwise, with the sharp perception of a late-stage Foundation Establishnt Thorn-Bone King Fish, it could have easily sensed his killing intent and anticipated the sudden strike of the Demon-Locking Silk Net.

At this thought, Chen Beiwu shook his head slightly. With a wave of his right hand, he urged his spiritual power, and the storage pouch and spirit beast pouch near Lin Xinru imdiately floated into the air and drifted two zhang before him.

"Glurp!"

Seeing this, Gold Egg quickly warned Chen Beiwu to be careful.

‘I understand.’ Chen Beiwu held his breath, snapped his fingers, and released the Water Prison Technique.

In an instant, thirty-six icy-blue chains intertwined, forming layered curtains of water that enveloped the two floating storage pouches.

"Zzzlaa—!"

Under the wash of flowing water, one storage pouch suddenly emitted dark green poisonous smoke. Its colorless and tasteless outer mbrane turned at once into countless writhing black lines.

‘Indeed, it’s poisoned.’ Chen Beiwu was not surprised.

Lin Xinru had spoken so many pleas for rcy, each word seemingly humble to the extre, yet in truth, she had only been feigning weakness to buy ti.

To further lower his guard, the first spirit beast pouch she had taken out had been completely clean.

The second ti, she had deliberately produced two storage pouches, one of which contained a deadly, colorless poison—sufficient to threaten even a Foundation Establishnt cultivator.

If Chen Beiwu had been greedy for the spirit stones within, the mont he took it into his hands, he would likely have fallen victim and ended up under her control.

Her so-called threat of self-detonating her Dao Foundation had rely been a last resort, once she realized Chen Beiwu was not deceived. She had no choice but to feign weakness again, baiting him into another trap.

From this it could be seen—any cultivator who managed to establish Foundation in the Southern Wastes had to have so capability.

But failing to fully conceal killing intent ant that, no matter how crafty Lin Xinru’s sches were, they could not compare with the knowledge gained through fifteen years of Immortal Alliance cultivation education.

"Glurp?"

Gold Egg tilted his head.

With such a vast disparity in strength, it could not understand why Lin Xinru dared resort to such tricks.

‘Who knows.’ Chen Beiwu did not dwell on it. With another wave of his right hand, he shattered the remnant soul lingering on Lin Xinru’s corpse, helping her true spirit enter reincarnation earlier.

The Immortal Alliance possessed endless inherited treasures and arts.

Chen Beiwu had studied the Ten Thousand Ghosts Soul-Devouring Formation and modified the Soul-Trapping Stone rely to understand demonic formations, so as to be prepared against troubleso demonic cultivators in the future. He had no intention of cultivating that path.

The drawbacks of demonic formations were far too many. They required constant blood sacrifices to harvest souls, committing imnse slaughter.

A cultivator lacking unshakable will would, in this process, have their humanity eroded bit by bit, degenerating into nothing more than a monster craving power, eventually hunted down by righteous cultivators.

Moreover, such wicked thods not only went against Chen Beiwu’s cultivation philosophy, but were also utterly inferior to the supre Dao of Immortal Alliance’s beast-taming cultivation path.

Naturally, Chen Beiwu was unwilling to use a Soul-Locking Formation to trap Lin Xinru’s soul.

The Thorn-Bone King Fish, however, was different. Its spirit could be used in refining tools, formations, pills, or talismans—imnsely valuable and worth preserving.

"Glurp?"

Gold Egg’s gaze landed on the Thorn-Bone King Fish, and it could not help but swallow a mouthful of saliva.

The third-tier treasure art All Rivers Embraced could devour all things to nourish itself.

If it used All Rivers Embraced to completely refine this late-stage Foundation Establishnt beast, the benefit would be enormous.

It might even gain fifty years of cultivation all at once, reaching a level equivalent to mid-stage Foundation Establishnt.

At that point, Gold Egg would have the confidence to suppress even late-stage Foundation Establishnt cultivators by leaping a minor realm.

‘Rest assured, this Thorn-Bone King Fish is yours. But I need to cut off the Thorn-Crown and so blood and flesh first.’ Chen Beiwu reminded it telepathically.

The Thorn-Crown was worth three thousand sect contribution points—he would never let Gold Egg devour it.

After a quick collection of spiritual materials from the Thorn-Bone King Fish, Chen Beiwu glanced at Gold Egg. The latter imdiately activated All Rivers Embraced and swallowed the four-zhang-long beast corpse whole.

"Ugh!"

Perhaps from overeating, Gold Egg hiccupped, its previously slender belly now slightly bulging.

The corpse of a late-stage Foundation Establishnt beast was a supre tonic. It dared not refine it all in one go, but could only absorb it slowly.

During this process, its cultivation years would steadily grow day by day.

Sweeping his gaze past the poisonous storage pouch, Chen Beiwu picked up the spirit beast pouch and probed it with his divine sense.

‘Excellent, there really is a Black-Veil Fish!’ Chen Beiwu’s eyes lit up.

Black-Veil Fish were exceedingly hard to capture. The bounty in the Mission Hall for a single one reached four thousand contribution points. Adding in the Thorn-Crown, this unexpected harvest during his journey now totaled seven thousand contribution points.

With this, he was only six thousand eight hundred contribution points short of exchanging for the Heavenly Evolution Cycle Art!

At the thought, Chen Beiwu raised an eyebrow and extended his divine sense into the other storage pouch.

Inside lay piles of low-grade spirit stones—around forty-six hundred in total. There were also many pills, artifacts, talismans, and formation disks, though all of relatively low grade.

The only things that caught Chen Beiwu’s attention were a mid-grade second-tier spirit artifact, the Twin-Heart Spike, and three low-grade second-tier talismans, which could be resold for a decent price.

Other than that, the storage space contained nothing but miscellaneous fishing gear and bait.

After so sorting, Chen Beiwu turned to the storage pouch from which the poison had mostly dispersed.

Its contents were much the sa as the previous one—about thirty-two hundred low-grade spirit stones, along with various odds and ends. But what set it apart was a special jade bottle artifact used specifically for storing Earthly Sha Qi.

And what was Earthly Sha Qi?

When yin and yang harmonized, the twos and eights naturally converged!

For Immortal Alliance cultivators at the peak of Foundation Establishnt, the type of five-elent Earthly Sha Qi required depended on their spiritual root attributes and cultivation thods. Only by tempering their spiritual power with Earthly Turbidity to purify Heavenly Clarity could they refine their spiritual power to its utmost extre, thus laying the foundation for the Golden Core.

There was a saying: "When all Sha is refined, the Pill is ford; with tal perfected, it becos naturally fluent."

The grade of Earthly Sha Qi refined, together with the quality of the Companion Beast’s bloodline, determined the grade of Golden Core one could condense—except for Flawless Foundation Establishers.

For those with Flawless Foundation, if they succeeded in Core Formation, even without tempering with Earthly Sha Qi, their Golden Cores would be at least of the upper third grade.

Of course, no Flawless Foundation cultivator would be foolish enough to form their core without drawing upon Earthly Sha Qi.

The Golden Core was divided into nine grades—the first grade could suppress Heaven and Earth!

If a Flawless Foundation cultivator drew the appropriate superior Earthly Sha Qi of their elent and succeeded in Core Formation, they would surely form a first-grade Golden Core, standing above all other Golden Core True Persons, proud among the masses.

This was precisely why the Five Great Grotto-Heavens and the Thirteen Immortal Sects valued Flawless Qi Refining cultivators so highly.