Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming-Chapter 441 - 438 Divine Bird Qingluan Plucking Fleece
Chapter 441: Chapter 438: Divine Bird Qingluan Plucking Fleece from Second Senior Brother
Chapter 441 -438: Divine Bird Qingluan Plucking Fleece from Second Senior Brother
After several comparisons, Qin Feng slowly began to see a clear direction in his heart.
He turned his attention to a noble and majestic bird manifested within the Ten Thousand Demons Catalog.
This was the Qingluan, belonging to the Phoenix Species, just like the Vermilion Bird, one of the Five Phoenixes, an important branch of the five major divisions of the Phoenix Clan.
Unlike the fierce and violent nature of the Vermilion Bird, the Qingluan’s disposition was much more gentle, which might have something to do with its power attribute.
Qing belonged to Wood, Luan to Fire, with Yi Wood generating Fire, thus the Qingluan!
Although wood and fire supported each other, enhancing its ability to fight continuously, the Qingluan’s Lifebound Spiritual Fire was not violent. It was the gentlest among all the Phoenix Species.
For this reason, the Qingluan’s reputation was nowhere near as resounding as that of the Vermilion Bird.
After all, the Vermilion Bird was combative with unparalleled war power, naturally far more feared than the tranquil temperament of the Qingluan.
Qin Feng took a liking to the Qingluan; he felt that this Divine Bird’s power system was the closest to Pure Yang Power.
Pure Yang was a power system of Daoism.
It was also a unique inheritance.
Born out of the Fire Element, yet independent of the Fire Element Principle, Pure Yang was a Dao created uniquely by the Ancient Human Clan’s Pure Yang Daoist Ancestor among the myriad Dao Principles, a new lineage of Cultivation Method passed down.
So, this wasn’t a Principle Divine Power that the Demon Clan could pass down through bloodline inheritance; it could only be achieved through cultivation.
Hence, from the start, Qin Feng wanted to choose a Spiritual Beast from the Fire Element Spirit Beasts whose power attribute was the closest to Pure Yang Power, not to find a Spiritual Beast that possessed Pure Yang Power, because there simply weren’t any.
After comparing and choosing for a long time, he finally settled on the Divine Bird Qingluan.
It’s just that the Qingluan was the best match for the image in his heart, but there was a huge difficulty in front of him.
That was, in the present Biluo Great World, there was no such Divine Bird as the Qingluan.
During the Ancient Great Tribulation, the branch of the Phoenix Clan that was originally born in the Biluo Great World could not withstand the temptation of the Heavenly Demon Great World, nor the pressure of attacks from many other worlds. In the end, for the continuity of their clan, they chose betrayal, bringing a tremendous loss to the Human Clan Cultivators.
In the face of traitors, the Human Clan has always been merciless.
Therefore, at the end of the Ancient Great Tribulation, Grandmaster Ancestor Taixuan cast the Supreme Dao Technique Star Shifting, moving the Biluo Great World from its original place in the Void to this Star Domain. After avoiding the continuous reinforcements from All Realms, and once the cultivators from this world had vanquished all invaders, the pure Phoenix Bloodline was also slaughtered by the enraged cultivators. Naturally, the Cultivation World of today could not find the presence of the Qingluan.
Even within the Beast Taming Sect, there was no existence of a purebred Vermilion Bird among the Vermilion Bird Lineage spiritual beasts ten thousand years ago.
It wasn’t until after tens of thousands of years of continuous cultivation and bloodline purification by the Vermilion Bird Lineage that a Vermilion Bird with a relatively pure bloodline aura emerged.
However, that was the Lifebound Spiritual Beast of another Supreme Elder from the Vermilion Bird Lineage. Hesitant because the bloodline retrogression had made it too strong, it gave birth to few offspring.
Moreover, without another Vermilion Bird with a bloodline as pure as its own, it could only mate with other Spiritual Birds, resulting in offspring whose bloodlines naturally could not compare to it.
Even so, those descendants of bloodlines are reared like treasures by the Vermilion Bird lineage; they would hardly ever consider giving them to disciples for refining. Usually, only after several generations of nurturing a particularly outstanding True Disciple, it might be possible to bestow one upon them. As for other cultivators, they shouldn’t even dream of it.
In this regard, the Vermilion Bird lineage is nowhere near as generous as the Spiritual Snake lineage.
Not only does the Spiritual Snake lineage offer a wide variety of species for disciples to freely choose from, but even Jiao Dragons with True Dragon bloodlines are not uncommon in this world, so there are quite a few from the Spiritual Snake lineage who cultivate the Dragon Transformation Technique.
Fortunately, the Vermilion Bird lineage still has countless other types of avian spiritual beasts available for selection, so disciples needn’t worry about the choice of spiritual birds.
Even the only Vermilion Bird they had evolved after tens of thousands of years of purifying its bloodline. Qin Feng certainly couldn’t immediately find a divine bird like the Qingluan.
Luckily, he had the Demon Refining Pot.
As a special immortal artifact forged by an ancient great power of the Demon Clan, the Demon Refining Pot possessed an extremely adept ability in refining and nurturing spiritual beasts.
Take Qin Feng’s lifebound spiritual beast, the Ruyi Golden Snake, for example. Through multiple fusions of Bloodline Divine Powers, its internal power system had become somewhat mixed. It possessed elements of the Five Elements – gold, wood, water, fire, and earth – as well as Divine Wind, Shadow Transformation, Holy Flame, and the ability to change size among many others. It also bore the likeness of a Nine-Headed Snake and the form of a Jiao Dragon, looking more like a fierce beast than a regular spiritual beast.
But that didn’t deny its strength.
In fact, Qin Feng didn’t care whether the power of the Ruyi Golden Snake was mixed. In fact, the reason why the Ruyi Golden Snake became what it was now was because he did it on purpose.
Otherwise, speaking of a normal spiritual beast, the purer the power, the higher the possibility of future advancement. An existence with a mixed power system like the Ruyi Golden Snake, trying to manage all power systems thoroughly, would only slow down the speed of cultivation. In the long run, it would be a loss rather than a gain.
But Qin Feng never thought about the long term because when the time comes to reach the Dharma Image Realm, the Ruyi Golden Snake would merge into his Dharma Image. Not only would it allow him to fully master all the Divine Power Principles and powers of the Ruyi Golden Snake, but it would also elevate his Dharma Image to a very profound realm in one fell swoop, making him an expert within the Dharma Image Realm.
And this is also the primary reason why cultivators from the Beast Taming Sect could, after advancing to the Dharma Image Realm, dramatically increase their combat power, freeing themselves from the previously weaker stance, and become no weaker than Dharma Image cultivators from other major sects in terms of personal combat power.
Even if their lifebound spiritual beast was stronger, they might surpass many cultivators and become paramount experts in the Dharma Image Realm.
This is also why Qin Feng casually merged various spiritual beast bloodline Divine Powers into his lifebound spiritual beast without scruples.
As for the Swallowing Sky Toad, he now rarely fuses too many Bloodline Divine Powers.
That fellow now primarily focuses on Space, with Stars as a secondary aspect. Just these two Divine Powers are enough for it to cultivate. As for the earlier Water Control and Cold Ice Divine Power, they had become auxiliary, never regarded as a main cultivation focus.
However, this is because the bloodline of the Swallowing Sky Toad is already at the pinnacle. Fusing too many different system Bloodline Divine Powers would cause it obstacles in advancing.
But appropriate fusion could definitely bring greater benefits.
Just as it is now, when the Swallowing Sky Toad cannot advance with its Space Power, it focuses on cultivating Star Power, so it doesn’t remain stagnant in its current realm. If it advances through Star Power first, it could, in turn, accelerate the cultivation of the Space Power. They complement each other, which could be seen as mutually beneficial.
Therefore, Qin Feng didn’t cultivate the Swallowing Sky Toad as he did the Ruyi Golden Snake.
Otherwise, with his current wealth, he could afford to buy out all the top-level Spiritual Toads with the highest bloodlines from the Ten Thousand Demons Pavilion for it to integrate.
However, if the original bloodline level of a spiritual beast wasn’t too strong, integrating those stronger same-origin bloodlines would be a different matter.
For instance, a Snake Demon with an ordinary bloodline, integrating various Spiritual Snakes and Jiao Dragons with True Dragon lineages, would also endow it with the powerful True Dragon Bloodline. If continued to merge, there is a good chance it could transform into a True Dragon in the future.
This was also the main reason the ancient Great Demon King created this Demon Refining Pot.
The Demon Clan Great Power simply wanted to cultivate a group of subordinates with top-level bloodline strength to aid it in its conquests across various territories.
Indeed, it had been successful; otherwise, the severely damaged Demon Refining Pot would not possess such formidable fusion power today.
Therefore, that Demon Clan Great Demon King, relying on its numerous subordinates, countless members of the Demon Clan, and, coupled with the nine layers of space within the Demon Refining Pot housing nine Great Demon Kings, once swept through all directions, invincible, and upon invading the Biluo Great World, it even devastated multiple Major Sects, bringing about boundless slaughter.
But it was precisely because of its tyranny that it drew the attention of the top-level Great Powers of the Biluo Great World.
After repelling the top-level Great Power of the Demon Clan, one of them smote it with a palm, taking out not just the Demon Clan leader but also the Demon Refining Pot and the countless members of the Demon Clan within its nine layers of space, all of whom were buried alongside it.
In the end, this turned out to be a windfall for Qin Feng.
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So, in a sense, Qin Feng also inherited the legacy of that Ancient Human Clan Great Power.
Qin Feng shifted his gaze away from the image of the Qingluan and began searching for Spiritual Birds related to it.
The best would be a Spiritual Bird possessing the Qingluan bloodline.
He intended to gather all the Spiritual Birds with the same origin bloodline, infuse their bloodline power into the body of a single Spiritual Bird, and attempt to cultivate a true Divine Bird Qingluan.
After spending half a day, Qin Feng finally listed many species of Spiritual Birds.
He did not delay any further, immediately getting up and heading for the Internal Affairs Hall.
He did not go to the Ten Thousand Demons Pavilion again.
Although the Spiritual Beasts of the Ten Thousand Demons Pavilion were numerous, they were of mixed quality; those top-level bloodline Spiritual Beasts were all rejects from the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven. Even though these top-level bloodline Spiritual Beasts weren’t too weak, their daily cultivation progress was the worst batch, and hence, they were selected out.
If Qin Feng wanted to cultivate a powerful Divine Bird, he naturally would prefer a Spiritual Bird with a purer bloodline power.
Especially the one he planned to cultivate as the fifth layer Demon King, it had to have the highest talent and aptitude, which made a trip to the Ten Thousand Demons Pavilion quite unnecessary.
With his current status and identity, together with a sufficient amount of merit, he could already mobilize the Sect’s various resources to assist his own cultivation. Therefore, he went directly to the Internal Affairs Hall and found a Vice Hall Master to help him gather these Spiritual Birds.
Although among the Spiritual Birds he needed, there were several rare ones, of which even the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven didn’t have many, the Internal Affairs Hall still did not delay. The Vice Hall Master was curious about why Qin Feng needed so many not-so-strong Spiritual Birds, but he did not ask any further questions.
After all, Qin Feng was now one of the top talents of the Beast Taming Sect, and he had his own purposes in his actions. It was better for a Vice Hall Master, who relied on seniority to handle specific tasks, not to offer any unwarranted advice in these matters.
Geniuses have their own cultivation paths, not something an ordinary cultivator with average cultivation speed could guide.
If one were to instruct a genius on how to cultivate in a conventional way, and if that led to turning a genius into a mediocrity, it would actually be a huge loss for the Sect.
Just like Ning Wuxu, who had exceptional talent but ended up stagnating for many years after advancing to the Primordial Spirit stage because he followed the teachings of his elders too rigidly.
If it were not for the opportune opening of the expedition to the Void that the Biluo Great World was undertaking, and the Sect had just locked onto the coordinates of the Chi Yan Demon Realm, which launched a war that, through various strokes of luck, led him to acquire the Druid Transformation Technique. Afterwards, he daringly merged with a Demon Beast that had condensed a Divine Status, drawing on the beast’s Dao Principles, which finally gave him a chance for a breakthrough and to achieve longevity.
Otherwise, in the case of Ning Wuxu, he would have had to remain stagnant for thousands of years, and might not have found an opportunity for a breakthrough until the end of his life span.
Therefore, the Vice Hall Master of the Internal Affairs Hall didn’t say much, swiftly deploying people to obtain the required Spiritual Birds, and had them delivered to Qin Feng as requested.
This is the advantage of having the backing of a major sect.
If not for being in the Beast Taming Sect, Qin Feng would need at least several years to collect so many spiritual birds, traveling the world to find their traces. Then he would have to personally battle and capture them, and ensure that several of the more haughty ones didn’t self-destruct their demon cores and die after defeat; otherwise, his efforts would be like drawing water with a sieve—fruitless.
A group of Servant Disciples from the Internal Affairs Hall kept flying in and out, running all over the Inner and Outer Sects, and even going to the Ten Thousand Demons Cave Heaven to summon top-level bloodline spiritual birds. In the end, they brought back hundreds of spiritual birds to Qin Feng, many of which were of the same species.
Of course, these spiritual birds were not all intended for cultivating the Qingluan.
Unlike a true dragon that breeds promiscuously, the Qingluan, while inevitably spreading its bloodline power over the long course of reproduction, didn’t do so extensively. Moreover, the spiritual birds with even a slight trace of Qingluan’s bloodline would branch out further, diluting the bloodline. All in all, there were only about a dozen varieties in total, far fewer than the multitude of dragon descendants.
The reason Qin Feng wanted so many spiritual birds, apart from cultivating the Qingluan, was to populate the fifth layer of space in the Demon Refining Pot.
Ever since he integrated the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel into the Demon Refining Pot, he had thoroughly understood the immense power of this immortal artifact.
Not only was the principle intact, but its internal space was also vast, spanning a thousand miles in radius, which, for him now, was already a huge independent space.
Moreover, inside the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel, the Spirit Sun Daoist had introduced multiple Spirit Veins. In addition to a large Spirit Vein formed from the convergence of others, there were also nine medium-sized Spirit Veins surrounding it, with each medium-sized Spirit Vein similarly encircled by nine smaller Spirit Veins. All tallied, this was quite a substantial number.
No wonder Zhong Duanshan was surprised that the Spirit Sun Daoist had placed so many Spirit Veins in the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel, it seems that the old Daoist really had the intention of refining this immortal artifact into a Cave Heaven Treasure.
Because the space was so vast, having only one spiritual bird would be too solitary. Therefore, Qin Feng simply asked the Internal Affairs Hall to provide him with more spiritual birds and other creatures for the fifth layer of space. This would not only allow them to branch out and multiply but also increase the number of spiritual birds inside the Demon Refining Pot. In the future, as their strength gradually increased, they would also be a formidable force.
After all, the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel had its own self-contained ecosystem, with those numerous Spirit Veins, various plants and mountains, and even many spiritual medicines growing. This was sufficient to support the proliferation of these spiritual birds without Qin Feng needing to feed them daily.
Otherwise, if he had to worry every day about how to feed more spiritual beasts as he had in his early years, he would have refrained from taming more spiritual beasts for battle.
Thus, having an independent space with a sustainable cycle carried many benefits.
If he were like that Great Demon King of ancient times, who created nine Cave Heaven Worlds within the Demon Refining Pot, the number of spiritual beasts he could raise inside it would be beyond Qin Feng’s imagination.
The spiritual medicines inside the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel must have grown from seeds sown by the Spirit Sun Daoist in his earlier years.
However, no ancient spiritual medicines remained; likely, the Nine Spirit Sect’s White Bull Venerable had harvested the older ones, leaving behind only these of average quality and insufficient age.
Qin Feng inwardly scorned the shortsightedness of Demon Dao cultivators for failing to plant more spiritual medicines after harvesting. Yet, he also became motivated to sow some seeds of his own within.
He was no expert in cultivating seed spiritual medicines, but his second senior brother, Hao Shicheng, certainly was.
Moreover, his second senior brother had many rare spiritual medicines from the cultivation world and even collected some great items not found in the sect. Qin Feng thought the pure Yang aura in the Spirit Sun Treasure Wheel should help grow many fine spiritual medicines.
Therefore, after expressing his gratitude to the Vice Hall Master of the Internal Affairs Hall and departing, he immediately returned to Heavenly Snake Ridge, found his second senior brother, and then, amid Hao Shicheng’s reluctant gaze, uprooted many spiritual medicines and transplanted them into the fifth layer of space in the Demon Refining Pot.
“Junior brother, you must take good care of those spiritual medicines!”
Hao Shicheng followed behind, nagging incessantly, like a chattering old woman: “These treasures have been painstakingly nurtured by your senior brother over many years. You must not mishandle them.
Moreover, you have never cultivated spiritual medicines before and are unfamiliar with them. Here is a written compilation of insights on cultivating various spiritual medicines. Take it and study it so that you don’t end up nurturing them improperly and causing them to perish.”
