Chapter 336: Breaking Through to Beast General
Yuqing Immortal Sect.
Second Floor of Wuji Tower, Admissions Departnt.
“Senior Brother Jiang.”
Jiang Chuan raised his head at the sound, set down the jade slip in his hand, and revealed a gentle smile. “Junior Brother, are you here to cancel your leave?”
“Besides canceling my leave, there is another matter I need to report to Senior Brother.”
Chen Beiwu nodded and directly explained his purpose, so that Golden Egg would not accidentally cause too much commotion when breaking through to the Third-Realm Beast General.
Jiang Chuan imdiately understood. His gaze subtly swept over Golden Egg as he clapped his hands and laughed. “Junior Brother has co at just the right ti. Have you heard of Molten Heart Lake?”
Chen Beiwu raised an eyebrow slightly and shook his head.
Within Yuqing Immortal Sect, there was no shortage of treasured lands rich in Fire-Attribute Spiritual chanism.
To ensure Golden Egg’s smooth advancent to the Third-Realm Beast General, he had deliberately selected Blazing Sun Valley among many such lands—a place with a Fourth-Tier spirit vein and the purest, most vigorous Fire-Attribute Spiritual chanism. Yet he had never heard of any Molten Heart Lake.
Seeing this, True Monarch Jiang Chuan smiled and explained, “Among the sect’s breakthrough sites suitable for Fire-Attribute Spirit Beasts, I would most recomnd Molten Heart Lake of Mingyi Peak.”
“Mingyi Peak?”
Chen Beiwu paused slightly. “Senior Brother, is that not the secluded cultivation site of a Divine Transformation True Venerable, where no cultivator is permitted to enter?”
“In the past, that was naturally the case. Without permission from True Venerable Liyang, no one would dare trespass upon Mingyi Peak.”
True Monarch Jiang Chuan’s expression grew slightly solemn before he changed tone. “But the coincidence lies in this: deep within Molten Heart Lake, there is a rare Pure Marrow Spiritual Eye.
“This Spiritual Eye is quite extraordinary. Once every three cycles of sixty years, it enters an eruption period lasting forty-nine days.
“During this ti, the Spiritual chanism of heaven and earth throughout Molten Heart Lake will surge severalfold, and it will also spout an extrely precious Pure Marrow Essence.”
“Pure Marrow Essence is the condensed essence of heaven and earth nurtured by the Pure Marrow Spiritual Eye over countless years. It is suprely Yang and pure. For cultivators practicing fire arts or those contracted with Fire-Attribute Companion Beasts, it is an irreplaceable great tonic.”
“After refinent, a Fire-Attribute Companion Beast can not only nourish its origin and temper its bloodline, but also increase the probability of bloodline evolution.”
At this point, True Monarch Jiang Chuan calculated with his fingers. “By my reckoning, in ten days, Molten Heart Lake will enter its eruption period. At that ti, the sect’s True Venerables will open a few slots for personal disciples.”
“If Junior Brother desires one, securing a slot should not be difficult.”
Even though the matter was nearly certain, True Monarch Jiang Chuan did not speak absolutely, leaving room for flexibility.
Hearing this, Chen Beiwu’s heart stirred. He cupped his hands in salute. “Then I will trouble Senior Brother.”
Plans could not keep up with change.
With such a treasured land available, Golden Egg’s breakthrough and evolution could indeed be delayed slightly.
“Woof.” Golden Egg barked softly in thanks.
“Say no more. Junior Brother, please wait. I will handle the procedures for you at once.”
Seeing the matter settled, True Monarch Jiang Chuan laughed heartily and logged onto the Immortal Alliance Official Website to register the application.
……
Ten days later, Mingyi Peak.
Holding the sect token, Chen Beiwu passed inspection by two guarding cultivators and entered a mountain range enveloped by special formations.
Buzz!
The token shimred faintly. Chen Beiwu passed through an invisible formation barrier, and a heart-palpitating wave of scorching heat rushed toward him.
His eyes sharpened. He found himself within an enormous underground cavern. Pure Fire-Attribute Spiritual chanism gathered frenziedly in the surroundings, causing Golden Egg to emit a comfortable hum.
But more than that, what drew Chen Beiwu’s attention was the boundless Molten Heart Lake a hundred zhang ahead.
Above the lake, dense Fire Spiritual Power condensed into visible crimson-gold spiritual mist.
Within the lake, molten lava of golden-red hue surged and churned, bubbles swelling and bursting explosively, scattering sparks into the air. At the center of the lava lake, a massive vortex rotated slowly.
This vortex seed to connect directly to the Pure Marrow Spiritual Eye in the depths, releasing waves of Spiritual chanism fluctuations that caused Golden Egg’s bloodline to tremble.
‘Not bad.’
Chen Beiwu nodded in satisfaction and turned his gaze toward three figures on a stone platform to the right.
Two wore crimson Dao robes, handso in appearance, each with a Fire-Attribute Treasure Beast resting on their shoulders. Their auras were around the mid-stage of Golden Core as they stared intently at the vortex in the lake’s center.
The third, a female cultivator in a goose-yellow dress with a graceful figure, happened to turn around, revealing a radiant smile.
“Long ti no see, Senior Brother Chen.”
Yu Zhaohua waved first, her voice crisp and pleasant.
Hearing this lively tone, Yu Mingyun and Yu Mingqing turned in surprise, their gazes moving back and forth between Chen Beiwu and Yu Zhaohua.
Interesting!
Within the clan, Yu Zhaohua was famously aloof. Toward clan cultivators and elders alike, she was always cold and distant. Who would have thought she had such a lively and proactive side?
The Immortal Alliance’s Foundation Establishnt cultivator who had guided her path was indeed extraordinary!
With that thought, Yu Mingyun and Yu Mingqing exchanged glances, suppressing their pride as they warmly greeted Chen Beiwu.
Yu Zhaohua held a lofty status within the clan and belonged to a high generation.
Regardless of whether the two would ultimately succeed or not, they would not easily offend a peerless prodigy who might one day beco their uncle-in-law.
Chen Beiwu had only exchanged a few simple greetings when a sudden change occurred.
The crimson-gold spiritual mist above Molten Heart Lake began to fluctuate violently, like endless drizzle.
The mist condensed into countless droplets of pure spiritual liquid, continuously falling into the massive vortex at the lake’s center.
“Based on past experience, the Pure Marrow Essence should begin erupting in five days,” Yu Zhaohua reminded.
Chen Beiwu nodded slightly and communicated with Golden Egg via divine sense.
‘Are you certain? Now?’
“Woof.”
Golden Egg nodded, eyes firm.
To increase his probability of advancing to the Third-Realm Beast General, he had not rushed but had stabilized his realm and continuously tempered his foundation.
Now, he could clearly sense the opportunity for breakthrough.
‘Very well.’
Chen Beiwu did not reject Golden Egg’s decision. He took out the Third-Tier Peerless Treasure Pill [Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill], redeed with academic credits.
The Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill was a secret treasure pill of Yuqing Immortal Sect, marked with five-colored fire patterns. Its effect was similar to the Tribulation-Breaking Golden Core consud by cultivators. It increased by forty percent the probability of a Fire-Attribute Treasure Beast advancing to the Third-Realm Beast General, while tempering and nourishing bloodline.
Because it corresponded to the generative cycle of the Five Elents, it also strengthened foundation, reshaped the physical body, and expelled hidden injuries.
Even if Golden Egg failed after taking it, his foundation would not be destroyed.
Otherwise, a Third-Tier treasure pill would not be priced as high as 200 academic credits.
One had to know that most Immortal Students of Yuqing Immortal Sect required a hundred years to accumulate 100 credits—those on the Yuxu Rankings or with special contributions excepted.
This ant that those who could redeem the Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill were either prodigies on the Yuxu Rankings or cultivators who had already ford a Golden Core and formally entered the sect.
“Begin.”
Chen Beiwu handed over the Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill.
Golden Egg bit down on the pill, glanced deeply at Chen Beiwu, then activated Fire-Bathing Escape Form Profound Ability, transforming into a streak of fire and plunging into Molten Heart Lake without looking back.
“Not going to wait a little longer?” Yu Zhaohua asked in surprise.
“It is rely breaking through to the Third-Realm Beast General. There is no need to wait.”
Chen Beiwu closed his eyes and sat cross-legged, circulating the Yuanshi Dongzhen Qinghua Myriad-Tribulations and Myriad-Spirits Immortal Art.
With the Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill, Molten Heart Lake’s abundant Fire Spiritual Power, and the Great Fortune enhanced by the Art of Gathering Fate, he could not imagine Golden Egg failing to advance.
Even so, he mobilized the Yuanshi Golden Core within his dantian sea of qi, prepared to use Golden Core Profound Ability at any ti to bestow enlightennt and prevent mishaps.
Seeing this, Yu Zhaohua and the others understood and closed their eyes to cultivate, waiting for the Spiritual Eye eruption.
……
Gurgle. Gurgle.
One day after Golden Egg vanished into the lake, a pillar of molten lava shot skyward with astonishing montum.
‘So fast?’
Yu Mingyun raised his head in surprise, looking toward the agile black hound faintly visible beneath the lava pillar.
Yu Mingqing also showed confusion.
For a Second-Realm Lesser Beast to advance to the Third-Realm Beast General, it must pass three stages: Blood Ignition, Core Condensation, and Gold Tempering.
Ordinarily, without a Companion Contract, a Fire-Attribute Treasure Beast would require a long ti to ignite its bloodline power, condense Undying Golden Attribute, and forge its inner core—at least a month, at most a year.
Yet the black hound within Molten Heart Lake had shattered their understanding, passing the Blood Ignition stage in a single day and beginning to condense Undying Golden Attribute. This breakthrough efficiency was terrifying!
……
anwhile, Golden Egg closed his eyes and began refining the dicinal power.
Boom! Boom! Boom!
As the Five Elents Fire-Knotting Pill dissolved in his abdon, the scorching heat within him grew increasingly terrifying. He nearly felt compelled to bite himself to relieve the agony of bloodline transformation.
‘Calm your breath and mind. Circulate the Yuqing Nine Revolutions Yuanshi Pill Canon with .’
At the crucial mont, Chen Beiwu’s voice suddenly echoed in Golden Egg’s mind.
Even without a Companion Contract, Chen Beiwu relied on his powerful divine sense to communicate, even guiding Golden Egg to circulate the Yuanshi Pill Canon.
“Woof!”
Golden Egg’s eyes snapped open as he roared. His Spirit Platform entered a state of clarity.
His boiling blood and rapidly transforming body followed an invisible guidance, breathing in rhythm with the Yuqing Nine Revolutions Pill Canon.
Crack!
Three days later, a Golden Core condensing endless Fire Spiritual Power suddenly ford within Golden Egg’s dantian.
At that very mont, thunder roared, and an indescribable oppressive force descended.
Even with Mingyi Peak protected by heavy formations, a pitch-black tribulation cloud spanning dozens of li condensed above Molten Heart Lake.
Within the cloud, black and white flas intertwined, radiating imnse pressure.
‘Is that the Two-Nine Heavenly Lightning Tribulation?’
‘No. That is the Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla Tribulation!’
‘Breaking through to the Third-Realm Beast General and actually triggering a dual heavenly tribulation—this black hound’s bloodline is extraordinary, not rely a Third-Tier Treasure Beast!’
Yu Mingyun and Yu Mingqing exchanged divine sense ssages. Yu Zhaohua also stared in astonishnt at the Flintrock Coiled Dragon.
The latter nodded slightly, confirming that she rembered correctly—when it had broken through to the Third-Realm Beast General, it had also faced the Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla Tribulation.
Core ford, tribulation descended!
Feeling the pressure above, Golden Egg returned to awareness and rushed out of Molten Heart Lake to avoid interfering with the Pure Marrow Spiritual Eye’s eruption.
Chen Beiwu’s pupils contracted as his divine sense probed the black tribulation cloud.
Unlike the heavenly tribulation Golden Egg had faced previously, according to Immortal Alliance records, the Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla Tribulation was an internal tribulation that burned the Three Treasures of Essence, Qi, and Spirit.
During this process, the tribulator could not resist—only endure, allowing the flas to ignite Essence, Qi, and Spirit like candles.
Whether one survived depended entirely on foundation.
Those with strong Three Treasures could endure until the tribulation ended, receiving Nirvana Fla nourishnt and advancing greatly in cultivation years.
Those with weak foundations would be completely incinerated, erased without even the chance of reincarnation.
‘Strange. With Golden Egg’s bloodline grade, how could he trigger the Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla Tribulation?!’
The more Chen Beiwu thought, the stranger it seed.
Such tribulations normally appeared only for Heavenly-Gang Mystic Beasts or higher existences.
Golden Egg’s bloodline was, at best, comparable to an Earthly-Sha Treasure Beast.
“Woo-ao!”
The flas in the tribulation cloud vanished. Golden Egg’s body trembled as two eerie flas ignited on either side.
The left half burned with pitch-black fire, exuding void-like intent—the Nirvana Yin Fla that burned the soul.
The right half burned with blinding pale fire like a blazing sun—the Nirvana Yang Fla that burned the flesh.
And the invisible fla ford by their union burned mana—the Yin-Yang Fla.
“Woo-ao!”
Even as soul-deep pain wracked him, Golden Egg stubbornly raised his head.
It was rely fire.
He had told Chen Beiwu he could do it. He would not fail.
“Na.”
The Five Qi Vine pressed its lips together, five-colored divine light circulating in its hands.
If not for the danger of interfering in tribulation, it would have already activated its Five Qi Transformation Profound Ability to heal.
One quarter-hour.
Two quarter-hours.
Three quarter-hours.
When the final trace of Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla dissipated, Golden Egg trembled slightly. The charred dead skin beneath his cloak fell away, revealing newborn fur and flesh.
His aura, which had fallen to its lowest point, surged explosively, its vast pressure shaking heaven and earth and annihilating the tribulation clouds.
‘What terrifying pressure!’
Yu Mingyun and Yu Mingqing exchanged looks.
By Immortal Alliance standards, this Fire-Attribute Treasure Beast had forged an inner core comparable to a Second-Grade Golden Core.
Companion Beast cores differed from cultivators’ Golden Cores—they could improve with cultivation years.
To forge such a core upon first advancing to the Third-Realm Beast General ant he might one day break through the Earthly-Sha barrier and ascend to the Fourth-Realm Beast King.
‘But this aura is weaker than the Flintrock Coiled Dragon’s back then.’
Yu Zhaohua frowned slightly.
When the Flintrock Coiled Dragon had advanced, its core had rivaled a First-Grade Golden Core. This black hound’s core was only comparable to Second-Grade.
‘Unless…’
Her gaze shifted to the cloak on Golden Egg’s body.
Even after enduring the Yin-Yang Nirvana Fla Tribulation, the cloak remained completely undamaged.
Chen Beiwu exhaled in relief and extended his right hand.
Whoosh!
Golden Egg flashed forward, stepping through fla to appear before him, lowering his head slightly.
“Not bad. After advancing to Beast General, you’ve beco even more handso!” Chen Beiwu rubbed Golden Egg’s head.
“Na!” The Five Qi Vine nodded in agreent.
More than handso.
From his aura alone, it was clear his strength was extraordinary.
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