Chapter 21: The Foundation of Heaven and Earth (4), Section 84

  "It's good this way, take advantage of the next few months while you're out on a mission to improve your actual combat experience. If nothing unexpected happens, I hope to see you at the Outer Gate Grand Competition five months from now! I hope you can make it all the way to the top and shine with exceptional brilliance! As my disciple, if you don't achieve outstanding results, how can you be worthy of being called a student of mine?! At this moment, Yan Long had once again regained his former demeanor as a supreme leader!"

  Looking at the confident and proud master, Chang Sheng's heart was filled with admiration! A surge of heroic passion arose in his heart, deciding that this time out he would definitely accumulate real combat experience, for himself and even more so for his master. In the outer sect's grand competition five months later, he would triumphantly pass through the stages! He would use outstanding results to repay his master's high expectations of him!

  When parting ways, Yan Long gave Chang Sheng a few bottles of low-grade spiritual pills for healing injuries and told him about the current situation within the sect domain and some basic common sense for living in the wilderness. He also shared with him some things to pay attention to and suggestions for his future cultivation.

  ……

  The next day, Chang Sheng and Pang Hai gathered together with three people, and then went to the Foreign Affairs Hall together to receive their mission. However, when they saw the task directory, Chang Sheng and the other four were stunned.

  "Slay the three-stage spirit beast Earth Spirit Wolf and take its beast core."

  "Annihilate three 2nd-tier Spirit Beasts, Thunder Lions, and bring back their intact hides and beast cores."

  "Find 20 pieces of 500-year-old spiritual medicine and spiritual materials."

  "Seeking panaceas and spiritual materials in great numbers."

  "Assist in defending Changchun City, and annihilate a group of bloodthirsty ants that have taken up residence."

  "Enter the misty forest, find the array eye, and explore the origin of the gray fog."

  ……

  Pang Hai read through the ten tasks one by one, and found that they were not something that he or his peers could accomplish. Seeing this, Pang Hai was no longer as indignant as before, because these tasks were not simple at all, but rather suitable for Tongmai period disciples to practice.

  Just like the three-stage spirit beast, Earth Wolf, that was killed in the first task. Its cultivation is already equivalent to the foundation period, and the spirit beasts have been living in extremely harsh environments since they were young, constantly killing each other, wandering on the edge of death, and fighting has become their instinct. Unless one holds a spiritual instrument, otherwise, a single foundation-period cultivator is basically not an opponent for a three-stage spirit beast.

  ……

  At this point, Chang Sheng remembered a passage from the "Ling Shou Pu". The passage said: "In the Qingyun Continent, there is a kind of animal that is different from ordinary beasts. They absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth or the treasures of heaven and earth to evolve, often possessing some strange and powerful abilities, such as swallowing clouds and spitting out fog, or controlling fire and water. Various abilities emerge one after another, and until now, they have not been fully understood by people. Also, because their spiritual intelligence is opened, compared with ordinary beasts, they are more capable of thinking, so people call them Ling Shou."

  "The spiritual beast is also divided into twelve levels, just like the cultivator. From the first level, a beast dan will be born in the brain, containing a large amount of heavenly and earthly spiritual energy! When cultivated to the fusion period, that is, the ninth level, one can re-mold the body, with two options: one is to strengthen the beast body, open up the bloodline inheritance, and become a demon beast. Two is to transform into human form and become a demon spirit. Generally, ancient rare spiritual beasts will choose the first option, while some ordinary spiritual beasts who are lucky enough to advance with heavenly materials and earthly treasures or have thin bloodlines will choose the second option."