Beast Taming: Sharing Pets' Abilities-Chapter 410 - 409: The Current State of the Spirit Pets
In the Southern Border Cultivation Realm, Gu Yuan’s reputation is no less than that of Li Changsheng.
In fact, due to his fearsome martial prowess and incredible battle achievements, his name tends to garner even more attention.
Now, Gu Yuan has become a true disciple of Medicine King Mountain, which means that from now on, he will receive the sect’s attention and more training. Gu Yuan’s future achievements will be even greater!
Of course, the uproar it caused externally, although significant, was merely a source of amusement for outsiders.
However, for many disciples within Medicine King Mountain, this news was truly shocking, creating quite a stir.
Some were envious, some resentful, some unwilling to accept it, while others felt desolate... and there were disciples who began to make plans in their hearts.
Gu Yuan had heard a little about this, but he paid no attention to it.
In the past few days, he was busy dealing with various trivial matters on White Cloud Mountain.
Although White Cloud Mountain has now become Gu Yuan’s personal territory, its pavilions and towers needed to be modified and constructed according to his ideas.
Fortunately, there were already some buildings there, and since Gu Yuan was not a picky person, he did not alter the main structures but only had the warriors modify the parts he was dissatisfied with, which was not too time-consuming or labor-intensive.
After a few more days, once these trivial matters were handled, Gu Yuan finally moved into his cave mansion.
Gu Yuan sat in the main seat within the grand hall, feeling the empty and silent surroundings. Instead of finding it boring or lonely, he felt a special sense of security.
This place was his alone.
No living under someone else’s roof, no need to be overly cautious, and no need for defenses and vigilance.
He was now, for once, able to relax.
Next, Gu Yuan took out a stone plate.
This grayish-white stone plate was carved with dense patterns, intricate and mysterious, emitting a faint spiritual light.
Gu Yuan’s mind delved into it, allowing him to "see" the various situations within a radius of dozens of miles.
In fact, this area had been tightly secured with restrictions and arrays laid down by the sect, all controlled by this array disc, which served as the array’s core magical artifact.
Thus, relying on this object, Gu Yuan was able to monitor and control the restrictions and arrays of this entire area.
Through the array disc, Gu Yuan clearly saw the two warriors standing guard at the mountain’s foot, muttering about something.
Technically speaking, warriors are body cultivators, but due to often lacking talent, they abandon the slow progression of Immortal Daoist Techniques to focus on the faster body cultivation techniques.
Although these warriors possessed robust physiques and great strength, their status was often not very high. They usually took on tasks like guarding the mountain gates, medicine gardens, and cave mansions, and carrying heavy objects unless they reached the Fourth Realm, the Golden Core Realm, where they would gain attention.
Compared to the stringent requirements of Immortal Daoist Techniques, body cultivation demanded less in terms of qualifications and talents. It also offered a slight chance of longevity for ordinary cultivators with no hope for immortality.
Thus, some servant disciples or outer disciples, upon realizing they have no hope of achieving longevity or advancing further, often choose the path of body cultivation.
Gu Yuan currently commanded thirty warriors, with twenty-seven being Innate Martial Master Level body cultivators, and the remaining three being Celestial Human Realm body cultivators.
The thirty maids under his command, however, had slightly weaker cultivation.
Nevertheless, such a group of experts would be considered quite formidable in the secular world.
But in an Immortal Dao sect like Medicine King Mountain, they were just seen as laborers in the eyes of true disciples, elders, and ancestors, no different from servants.
Gu Yuan paid no mind to these two, as "slacking" on the job was not a significant issue.
To the southeast of White Cloud Mountain, there was a great lake, where various animals frolicked, drank water, and sunbathed on its shores.
There were Spiritual Herons, White Cranes, old turtles, and spotted deer, alongside other fierce beasts such as tigers and leopards.
Due to the denser spiritual energy near Medicine King Mountain’s gate compared to other areas, the spirit beasts within this range thrived, becoming plump and strong, and not lacking in spiritual wisdom.
Even more so, some possessed intelligence akin to humans and had become demons.
Nonetheless, this was Medicine King Mountain, where any malevolent demons were long eradicated, leaving only those demons that fed on spirit medicine and spiritual springs.
Gurgle, gurgle...
A black-jade-colored "floating island," uneven and resembling a small mountain, slowly emerged from the lake, causing some big fish and water beasts nearby to scramble away.
This was a giant Spiritual Ao, as large as a small hill.
Its body was ink-black like jade, uneven, with many bony protrusions, its Ao head resembling a dragon’s head, with a bony horn, four incredibly sharp claws, and a tail resembling a flood dragon, exuding a faint pressure.
This ink-jade Spiritual Ao was, of course, Gu Yuan’s spirit pet—Ao Da.
Previously, it spent most of its time cramped within Gu Yuan’s Spirit Beast Bag, its massive body having to shrink, truly pitiful.
But now, Ao Da was finally free.
It freely swam around the lake, and wherever it went, all water beasts, big fish, and even some demons fled, making it appear leisurely and at ease.
When Gu Yuan entered the Red Dragon Small World, he obtained not only top-notch spirit objects and heavenly materials and earthly treasures but also numerous fierce beast inner cores and flesh.
These fierce beast inner cores and flesh contained abundant spiritual energy and essence, which were greatly beneficial for cultivators when consumed. Long-term consumption could enhance cultivation.
For spirit beasts like Ao Da, the benefits were even greater.
Gu Yuan had often fed those things to Ao Da.
As a result, Ao Da had grown rapidly, reaching 69% of its growth stage.
In the depths of the lake, a small golden-red Dragon Loach darted around, turning into a golden-red streak, moving incredibly fast, almost like teleportation.
This was naturally Gu Yuan’s spirit pet, the Blood-lined Dragon Loach King.
It too, was quite joyous in the lake.
It should be said that the Dragon Loach and the black-jade Spiritual Ao both had True Dragon bloodlines and thus shared a complex relationship.
There was an air of hostility between them, while also a subtle closeness.
The hostility arose because the bloodlines of each held benefits for the other, inciting mutual coveting. The closeness, on the other hand, stemmed from serving under Gu Yuan.
However, both spirit pets possessed considerable wisdom.
Ao Da had intelligence no less than a human. As for the Blood-lined Dragon Loach King, its intelligence was equally lively, and so while they both existed in the lake, they practiced mutual restraint.
The Blood-lined Dragon Loach King claimed the area near the waterfall, while Ao Da stayed within the lake.
