Chen Beiwu’s mind slowly sank downward. Within the chaotic world, countless radiances of Fate surged and gathered. A Crimson Fortune Dragon and a mass of Crimson Fortune were particularly eye-catching.
Although the Crimson Fortune Dragon Phantom’s radiance appeared somewhat dim, it was filled with spirituality, and its presence was far stronger than the other fortune, which was as pure as cinnabar.
These two fortunes were precisely the Fate that Chen Beiwu had accumulated and gathered over several decades by activating the Nine-Breath Divine Ability.
‘Relying on a Divine Ability to accumulate Fate really is far less simple and direct than seizing a Dragon Vein.’ Chen Beiwu thought inwardly.
As his cultivation realm continued to rise, the efficiency with which the Nine-Breath Divine Ability accumulated Fate also increased, but even so, it could not accumulate a strand of Purple Qi within several decades. Seizing a Dragon Vein could accomplish that, though the price might not necessarily be something he could bear.
Fortunately, the two fortunes he had painstakingly accumulated could either be transformed into fortuitous encounters and triggered, or applied to Golden Egg through the Fate-Gathering Art, greatly increasing the little fellow’s fortune.
‘One Crimson Fortune is enough. I probably won’t need the Crimson Fortune Dragon.’ Chen Beiwu’s thoughts turned rapidly.
Golden Egg’s Fate had already been strengthened once by his Fate-Gathering Divine Ability, reaching the level of a Crimson Fortune Dragon and making it something that could not be underestimated. Moreover, he had the assistance of a Fourth-Tier Mystic Pill like the Myriad Spirits Transformation King Pill.
Using another Crimson Fortune Dragon now would be somewhat wasteful. A single Crimson Fortune would already be enough to make Golden Egg’s probability of advancing to Beast King soar from eighty percent to ninety-nine percent, practically reaching the limit.
After finishing his consideration, Chen Beiwu connected his Divine Sense to the Nine-Breath Chaos and activated his Divine Ability, forming a miniature Golden Bell before him.
“Buzz!”
Chen Beiwu lightly tapped with his fingertip, and the Crimson Fortune wandering through the chaotic world immediately entered the Golden Bell, transforming into a crimson Mystic Fish that emanated profound Dao Rhythm.
“Bang bang bang!”
The crimson fish swam about, attempting to escape its cage, yet it could never break free from the restraints of the Fate Bell.
‘Very good, this crimson fish possesses extremely strong spirituality, comparable to the Crimson Dragon Fortune transformed from Dragon Vein Qi.’
Joy flashed through Chen Beiwu’s eyes as he tapped the Fate Bell with one finger.
That was right. This time, what Chen Beiwu used was not the Fate-Gathering enhancement Divine Ability. Instead, he transformed this Crimson Fortune into a fortuitous encounter and triggered it for Golden Egg, consuming it in a single use.
After all, true knowledge came from practice.
Chen Beiwu vaguely had an intuition that although the Fate-Gathering enhancement Divine Ability was certainly useful, transforming Fate into fortuitous encounters might be no less beneficial.
As for which of the two was more cost-effective, that would require repeated experimentation before he could know.
“Clang!”
As the bell rang, the crimson fish inside the Golden Bell transformed into ripples and vanished.
Chen Beiwu’s mind stirred slightly, and he voluntarily withdrew from the chaotic world.
“It’s ready?”
Golden Egg tilted his head and looked at Chen Beiwu, who had opened his eyes.
“It’s ready, but before breaking through, you’d better first try refining the Spiritual Mechanism of the Three Lights Pool and test your compatibility with it.” Chen Beiwu said cautiously.
“No need to test it. This place suits me very well.”
Golden Egg shook his head. He could faintly sense agitation deep within his bloodline.
“No rush, wait a little longer. I’ll cast a divination.”
Chen Beiwu slightly closed his eyes and performed a deduction and divination using the Karmic Retribution and Causal Scripture of Supreme Spiritual Treasure, guarding against any accident during Golden Egg’s advancement to Fourth-Realm Beast King.
‘Primary hexagram: Heaven Above, Earth Below. This is Earth-Heaven Peace. Three Yangs usher in prosperity, smooth and auspicious, an omen of great fortune.’
Chen Beiwu frowned slightly and cast another divination, but the hexagram remained unchanged.
Three Yangs ushering in prosperity was indeed an extremely auspicious hexagram.
However, extreme prosperity gave birth to stagnation, and safety concealed danger. Such a hexagram was not immutable and still contained several variables. But overall, judging from the hexagram, Golden Egg’s advancement to Fourth-Realm Beast King this time would proceed very smoothly.
Of course, although divination was an art of glimpsing the secrets of Heaven, it was also limited by the cultivator’s attainment and could not be completely trusted.
As a half-baked diviner, Chen Beiwu casting a last-minute divination was partly to reassure himself and partly to give Golden Egg a little more confidence.
“It’s ready.”
Chen Beiwu nodded, took out his phone, and used his authority as Chief Disciple of the Immortal Sect to file a report on the Yuqing Immortal Sect’s official website. The reason for the application was his Companion Beast advancing to Fourth-Realm Beast King.
As expected, his application was approved instantly.
Hearing this, Golden Egg nodded solemnly. His figure flashed as he rushed into the Three Lights Pool.
Chen Beiwu put away his phone, closed his eyes tightly, and meditated while silently reciting the Yuanshi Dongzhen Qinghua Sovereign of Myriad Tribulations and Myriad Spirits Immortal Art.
‘Primordial Origin One Qi transforms into Azure Radiance, myriad spirits pay homage to their origin and attest to Dongzhen.
Use water to commune with the nether and govern the mind and spirit, use wood to reach the heavens and command essence and Qi.
Once beasts enter the snare, they become the Dao, grass and trees awakened to spirit all become methods……’
While Chen Beiwu circulated the Immortal Art, Golden Egg likewise did not dare slacken. He discarded all distracting thoughts and, borrowing the True Intent of the Companion Immortal Art, used the Three Treasures of essence, Qi, and spirit to draw upon the Spiritual Mechanism of Heaven and Earth within the Three Lights Pool.
In only an instant, Golden Egg’s mind became empty and lucid, while waves of scorching heat faintly surged from the depths of his bloodline.
“Woof.”
“Nah.”
Watching the man and beast concentrate on the breakthrough, Iron Egg and the Five Qi Vine became solemn, their gazes vigilantly probing the surroundings.
The Seven-Tailed Purple Fox, meanwhile, held its little milk bottle in its mouth and stared blankly at Chen Beiwu, who was immersed in Companion Cultivation.
The Companion Path lay in seeking truth.
Although the method by which a Fourth-Realm Beast King advanced differed somewhat from the method by which human cultivators attained the position of True Monarch, the two were not without similarities.
It was very curious whether, if Golden Egg successfully advanced to Fourth-Realm Beast King, Chen Beiwu could use this opportunity to glimpse the profundities of the Nascent Soul and comprehend himself.
Time slowly passed. Before anyone realized it, several months had gone by, and Chen Beiwu’s phone vibrated as a message popped up.
‘The Law-Origin Territory will open in three days.’
Chen Beiwu’s Divine Sense stirred, but he quickly returned to calm.
Places in the Law-Heaven Realm were limited and extraordinarily precious.
But no matter how precious that place was, it was still not as important as Golden Egg advancing to Fourth-Realm Beast King.
If he missed it this time, there would always be another opportunity.
……
Yuqing Immortal Sect.
Qingming Peak, Water Evolution Residence.
Yu Zhaohua looked at the completely motionless waterfall and frowned slightly.
She had sought out Chen Beiwu for Dao Combat several times over the past few months, but had never received a reply. He was probably in seclusion.
But now that the Law-Heaven Realm was about to open, logically speaking, even if Chen Beiwu had been cultivating in seclusion, he should emerge within the next few days.
“Senior Sister Yu, are you waiting for someone?”
Upon seeing Yu Zhaohua, Chai Ya’s escaping light paused, and she voluntarily approached to strike up a conversation.
The Tianyuan Yu Clan was one of the Immortal Alliance’s foremost Dao Venerable Immortal Families, and Yu Zhaohua was a direct-line daughter of the Yu Clan. If Chai Ya could establish even a little connection with her, her future cultivation path would become considerably smoother.
“Junior Sister Chai, the Law-Heaven Realm is about to open. Why hasn’t Senior Brother Chen appeared at all during this period?”
Yu Zhaohua glanced at Chai Jing and asked.
She and Chen Beiwu often sparred on the Dueling Platform, so she was not particularly unfamiliar with Chai Jing, who guarded it.
“Senior Sister Yu doesn’t know?” Chai Jing asked curiously.
“Know what?” Yu Zhaohua raised her delicate brows.
“Senior Brother Chen applied several months ago for a Companion Beast breakthrough. I’m afraid he won’t be able to participate in this opening of the Law-Heaven Realm.”
The moment Chai Jing finished speaking, the wind and clouds above suddenly changed. Brilliant light stretched for ten thousand zhang as a magnificent phenomenon formed.
“It’s begun!”
Chai Jing’s expression changed slightly as her Divine Sense probed toward the heavens.
Yu Zhaohua also reacted quickly.
An ordinary Companion Beast breakthrough could not possibly make Chen Beiwu relinquish a place in the Law-Heaven Realm.
The answer was obvious. One of Chen Beiwu’s Companion Beasts had already begun preparing to advance to Fourth-Realm Beast King.
‘Which Companion Beast is advancing, the Three-Aspect Profound Flood Dragon or the Five Qi Vine?’
Yu Zhaohua’s pupils contracted slightly as she carefully sensed the changes in the Spiritual Mechanism of Heaven and Earth.
At the same moment that Yu Zhaohua and Chai Jing discovered the phenomenon of heaven and earth, the teachers and students of Yuqing Immortal Sect also keenly detected this extraordinary phenomenon.
Lecture Hall.
True Monarch Su Miao was explaining the Beast-Taming Companion Landscape.
Suddenly, her voice stopped, and her gaze turned toward the heavens.
‘This Dragon Might seems somewhat familiar.’
True Monarch Su Miao narrowed her eyes slightly, and the figure of a young man suddenly surfaced in her mind.
The younger generation truly was terrifying nowadays.
He was not even eighty years old, yet his contracted Companion Beast had already begun attaining the Dao as a Fourth-Realm Beast King.
No wonder Chen Beiwu had received such attention and generous treatment from the sect and had become Chief Disciple of the Immortal Sect ahead of schedule. His aptitude for Borrowing Beasts to Cultivate Truth was truly terrifying.
Unlike True Monarch Su Miao, the Golden Core True Persons below breathed slightly faster, barely maintaining a trace of composure.
The Foundation Establishment cultivators and Qi Refining prodigies with even lower cultivation, meanwhile, felt an indescribable pressure.
Not only did they find it difficult to breathe, even their hearts seemed to have been tightly grasped by a dragon claw and could be crushed at any moment. They had absolutely no attention left for the lecture.
Noticing this, True Monarch Su Miao swept her sleeve, and the students below immediately returned to normal, no longer showing signs of suffering.
“True Monarch, why is there a Beast King inside Yuqing Immortal Sect daring to recklessly release its pressure?” A Foundation Establishment student could not help speaking, dissatisfaction in his tone.
“It isn’t a Beast King. It is a Third-Realm Beast General advancing to Beast King.” True Monarch Su Miao corrected him.
Hearing this, the student who had spoken immediately widened his eyes, surprise appearing on his face.
Not only him, even the Golden Core True Persons below showed flashes of astonishment in their eyes.
It was not as though Yuqing Immortal Sect had never had Beast Generals advance to Beast Kings before. Among them had been Heavenly-Gang Mystic Beasts with powerful bloodlines capable of stirring the Spiritual Mechanism of Heaven and Earth and forming magnificent phenomena.
But although those phenomena were powerful, they could not make Golden Core True Persons feel the slightest threat.
Yet today, their understanding was overturned!
Even from such a great distance, that terrifying Dragon Might could still cast a shadow over the hearts of Golden Core True Persons, as though they were directly facing a Fourth-Realm Beast King.
‘Could it be a Fifth-Tier Origin Beast bearing an Archean Remnant bloodline, or even a Fortune-Origin Beast, advancing to Beast King?’
One Golden Core True Person’s mind surged as he instantly found what seemed like a reasonable explanation.
“Today’s lesson ends here.”
Seeing where the students’ thoughts had gone, True Monarch Su Miao simply announced the end of class and left, preparing to head near the Three Lights Pool to observe the phenomenon.
The Fifth-Tier Origin Beast she had contracted, the Rainbow Mist Mirage Flood Dragon, was a rare variant among Chi Dragons, which was why its grade could break through the limitations of the Chi Dragon bloodline and reach Fifth-Tier, with hope of becoming a Fifth-Realm Beast Venerable in the future.
And in True Monarch Su Miao’s perception, the Three-Aspect Profound Flood Dragon contracted by Chen Beiwu was an aberrant existence among flood dragons. Its bloodline grade was almost comparable to the Rainbow Mist Mirage Flood Dragon, making it exceedingly rare in the world. There would basically be no accident in its attainment of the Beast King realm this time.
True Monarch Su Miao was going over merely because she wanted to wait until Chen Beiwu successfully emerged from seclusion and exchange experiences with him regarding nurturing dragon species.
After all, in terms of strength, a Three-Aspect Profound Flood Dragon newly advanced to the Beast King realm could not possibly be a match for the Rainbow Mist Mirage Flood Dragon. However, the former’s bloodline was exceptionally unusual, making it an excellent breeding partner worth trying.
Dragons were naturally lustful. If the Three-Aspect Profound Flood Dragon and Rainbow Mist Mirage Flood Dragon took a liking to each other and mated, their future offspring might undergo a bloodline mutation and produce an extremely unusual Fifth-Tier Origin Beast.
……
Outside the Three Lights Pool.
“True Monarch Su, you sensed it too?”
Seeing a familiar face, True Monarch Beast-Hunting Thunder Qin Zheng greeted her.
True Monarch Su Miao nodded slightly. Her Divine Sense swept around, and she discovered that more than ten Nascent Soul True Monarchs had already gathered, curiosity in their eyes as they sought to use this opportunity to observe Chen Beiwu’s foundations.
“The younger generation truly inspires awe.” True Monarch Mountain-Moving Yue Shan sighed.
As time passed, the rosy light surging through the heavens became increasingly vast in scale, while its aura grew increasingly powerful.
The answer was obvious. Barring an accident, a Fourth-Realm Beast King comparable to a Nascent Soul True Monarch was about to be born.
At the same time, within the Three Lights Pool.
Chen Beiwu’s mind was tightly connected with Golden Egg’s, allowing him to clearly sense the latter’s transformation.
Unlike a cultivator attaining the position of True Monarch, which emphasized the transcendence of the Purple Mansion Yang Spirit, the core of a Companion Beast’s advancement to Fourth-Realm Beast King lay in reverting to its ancestral origin and attaining the Dao through its bloodline.
Simply put, Golden Egg needed to merge his spirit into his Core, preserve his true self unchanged, struggle against his bloodline, then use his bloodline foundation to resonate with heaven and earth and seize a trace of the authority of heaven and earth.
This process was extremely dangerous. Golden Egg had to commune with heaven and earth in an unending cycle and achieve the Three Immortalities: Immortal Mana, Immortal Aura, and Immortal Flesh.
Perhaps the Yuanshi Dongzhen Qinghua Sovereign of Myriad Tribulations and Myriad Spirits Immortal Art was simply too powerful, or perhaps Golden Egg’s bloodline foundation was too profound, but the transformation process of achieving the Three Immortalities was far easier than Chen Beiwu had anticipated.
The instant the Three Immortalities were completed, Golden Egg’s Cultivation Years, which had stopped at nine hundred and ninety-nine years, began to soar.
One thousand years of Cultivation Years!
One thousand one hundred years of Cultivation Years!
One thousand two hundred years of Cultivation Years!
Chen Beiwu opened his eyes, and the Myriad Spirits Transformation King Pill in his hand transformed into a streak of flowing light and entered Golden Egg’s mouth.
Achieving the Three Immortalities was merely the beginning. Golden Egg’s Natal Inner Core, which carried the Three Treasures of essence, Qi, and spirit, had now reached a critical point.
At this moment, Golden Egg needed to use his Natal Beast Core as the seed and open up a Natal Beast Domain that was neither illusory nor real and formed a small world unto itself. Only then could he completely step into the Beast King realm.
Without the suppression of the Natal Beast Domain, the Three Immortalities Golden Egg had completed would only be temporary. They could not completely merge with his Natal Inner Core, and he would also face the danger of losing the Dao.
What was the danger of losing the Dao?
A Companion Beast that failed to form its Natal Beast Domain was equivalent to a Nascent Soul True Monarch failing to form a Pure Yang Nascent Soul. Its foundation would be unstable, and the slightest carelessness would result in a failed breakthrough, its Inner Core exhausting its origin and withering while its bloodline declined.
Therefore, for titled Heavenly-Gang Mystic Beasts whose bloodline foundations were sufficiently powerful, the greatest obstacle in advancing to Beast King was forging the Natal Beast Domain. Completing the Three Immortalities was secondary.
And Chen Beiwu happened to possess a Myriad Spirits Transformation King Pill capable of helping a Third-Realm Beast General clearly define its own Dao Path.
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
“Boom!”
The moment the pill entered his belly, all three pairs of Golden Egg’s dragon eyes instantly became bloodshot, releasing Beast King pressure that made one’s heart tremble.
‘Calm your breath and focus your mind. Circulate the Yuanshi Dongzhen Qinghua Sovereign of Myriad Tribulations and Myriad Spirits Immortal Art together with me!’
Chen Beiwu neither worried nor feared. Through the connection of the Companion Contract, he helped Golden Egg continuously circulate the Immortal Art.
As for whether Golden Egg’s Natal Beast Domain could be successfully formed and what grade it would ultimately reach, further thought was already useless at this point、
There was no other reason. In Chen Beiwu’s view, as the Third Exalted Seat of the Yuqing Thirty-Six Divisions Primordial Immortal Arts, the Yuanshi Dongzhen Qinghua Sovereign of Myriad Tribulations and Myriad Spirits Immortal Art possessed unfathomable might and could at least stabilize the lower limit of Golden Egg’s Beast Domain.
As for how high the ultimate limit of that Beast Domain could reach, that depended both on destiny and on Golden Egg’s Innate Spiritual Light and the fortunes of his Three Meridians. Chen Beiwu had already done everything he possibly could to the utmost.
“Buzz!”
Time flowed, and ten years passed.
Golden Egg closed his dragon eyes. An invisible ripple spread outward with him at its center, instantly enveloping the entire Three Lights Pool and causing the surrounding scene of heaven and earth to transform.
At that moment, Golden Egg’s Cultivation Years, which had remained at one thousand two hundred years, suddenly soared to one thousand five hundred years.
Fourth-Realm Beast King, achieved!
Sensing this, indescribable joy instantly surged through Chen Beiwu’s heart.
He was just about to close his eyes and carefully sense the power of the Natal Beast Domain Golden Egg had awakened when, in the next instant, an immense torrent of Mana fed back through the Companion Contract and suddenly surged into Chen Beiwu’s Dantian Qi Sea.
Chapter 385: Finally Became a Beast King
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