Celestial Beast Taming

If the Crying Moon Goddess, an expert at the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations whose life was nearing its end, were to go on a rampage, Zhong Yi would lose Qin Ruyue, a subordinate he held in high regard.

With this Longevity Pill, not only could he stabilize the Crying Moon Goddess,

but it would also allow Qin Ruyue to receive treatment akin to an honored guest within the Purifying Moon Sect.

The person delivering the Longevity Pill to Qin Ruyue didn’t need to be particularly strong.

𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

Flower Venerable had arranged for plenty of manpower to help Zhou Yang establish a chamber of commerce.

They had also sent dozens of experts at the Mythical Tier and above to help him capture Bizarre creatures of all Tiers.

As a result, the few Mythical Tier Ant Successors that Zhong Yi had dispatched to Zhou Yang were now idle.

Zhong Yi decided to dispatch an Ant Successor for the sole purpose of delivering this Longevity Pill.

After speaking with Zhong Yi, Qin Ruyue breathed a huge sigh of relief.

The Crying Moon Goddess had mentioned the meeting to select the Moon Listener Apostles, which would be held in three days.

This was both a promise from the Crying Moon Goddess and a deadline she had set for Qin Ruyue.

She had to deliver a result to the Crying Moon Goddess before the meeting to select the Moon Listener Apostles.

At this moment, Qin Ruyue’s joy stemmed not only from the fact that she could become a Moon Listener Apostle and enter Yingyue Pond,

but also because the Crying Moon Goddess’s life would be extended, allowing her to live much longer.

Qin Ruyue didn’t delay, immediately relaying the news to the Crying Moon Goddess.

Previously, the members of the Purifying Moon Sect had been scattered all across the Dragon’s Roost Continent.

The sect’s members enjoyed relative freedom and, unless on a mission, typically did not stay at the sect’s headquarters.

But now, all members had received the Crying Moon Goddess’s summons and returned to the Purifying Moon Sect’s headquarters, their attention fixed on the selection of the Moon Listener Apostles.

All the Moon Judges qualified to participate in the selection were giving it their all, determined to win the competition.

With the Crying Moon Goddess’s life nearing its end, it was the perfect time for her to pass on her mantle.

And the three chosen Moon Listener Apostles would be the ones with the greatest chance of inheriting the Crying Moon Goddess’s legacy.

Ever since the Crying Moon Goddess had started to worry about her lifespan over a decade ago,

the atmosphere within the Purifying Moon Sect’s headquarters had been extremely oppressive.

But in the last few days, the higher-ups of the Purifying Moon Sect suddenly discovered that the Crying Moon Goddess was in an exceptionally good mood.

They even heard the Crying Moon Goddess’s laughter, a sound they hadn’t heard in a long time!

What surprised the sect’s higher-ups even more was that Qin Ruyue, a Moon Judge who had not been particularly prominent in the Purifying Moon Sect before,

had been allowed to serve by the Crying Moon Goddess’s side constantly over the past few days.

Qin Ruyue’s power had not even reached the Immortal Tier!

No one knew how someone with such meager strength had managed to win the Crying Moon Goddess’s favor.

Fortunately, however, there were a total of three positions for Moon Listener Apostle.

Even if the other Moon Judges felt it was highly likely that a position of Moon Listener Apostle had already been reserved for Qin Ruyue,

they were merely envious and wanted to get closer to her.

They didn’t feel excessive jealousy or try to secretly sabotage her.

Of course, if anyone had dared to do so, they would have immediately faced the Crying Moon Goddess’s thunderous wrath.

Because in the Crying Moon Goddess’s mind, she already viewed Qin Ruyue as a means to extend her own life.

Anyone who moved against Qin Ruyue would essentially be jeopardizing the Goddess’s own chance at a longer life.

Zhong Yi had now fed the core of the Holy Healing Celestial Wood, the calyx of the Soul Reviving Demon Flower, and nearly 200 milliliters of Biluo Essence Water to the Resurrection Celestial Lord.

Back when he acquired the core of the Holy Healing Celestial Wood from Xian Zhe,

Zhong Yi had also obtained two pieces of its bark.

The core of the Holy Healing Celestial Wood was more potent than its bark.

Though both came from the same source and had similar effects,

Zhong Yi had not fed these two pieces of Holy Healing Celestial Wood bark to the Resurrection Celestial Lord.

Instead, he treated them as Soul Foundation Material. He cut them into small pieces and placed them into the Plain Jade Basins where he cultivated his Healing Element, flower-type Guardian Beasts inside his Soul Base.

The Energy released by the Holy Healing Celestial Wood’s bark could effectively extend the blooming period of these Healing Element, flower-type Guardian Beasts,

ensuring that the offspring produced by the Longevity Empress Bee would always have pollen to collect.

As an Order Beast that wielded a complete Rule Authority, the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s Bloodline could not undergo another Evolution while its Quality was being improved.

Only at the moment when both Zhong Yi and the Resurrection Celestial Lord reached the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations would the Guardian Beast have a chance for its Bloodline to transform.

Therefore, even when absorbing a high-grade material like the core of the Holy Healing Celestial Wood—an ingredient at the Peak of Ten Thousand Nations Level—

the Mortal Beast Tier Resurrection Celestial Lord did not appear overly strained.

Outwardly, the Resurrection Celestial Lord was a noble and mysterious being, shrouded in golden-green robes.

But once it assumed its child-sized form, the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s personality transformed into that of an adorable, squishy little thing.

The slightest thing going wrong would turn it into a little crybaby!

’I feel like every one of my Guardian Beasts has a somewhat contradictory personality,’ Zhong Yi thought.

’This can’t be related to my Beastmaster Talent, Extreme Reversal, can it!?’

Just as Zhong Yi was muttering to himself internally,

he suddenly noticed that the dark green, two-meter domain surrounding the Resurrection Celestial Lord, a product of its Exclusive Trait, Withered Oasis, had expanded.

An area more than ten meters in diameter, with the Resurrection Celestial Lord at its core, was now suffused with dense Healing Energy.

Lush, emerald-green moss sprouted on the ground within this area.

The moss looked even thicker than the cashmere carpet in Zhong Yi’s bedroom.

A sapling pushed up from the ground at the center of the domain, right where the Resurrection Celestial Lord was standing.

Zhong Yi had used the core of the Holy Healing Celestial Wood as the main material for improving the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s Quality and defining its role.

His intention was to use this pure Healing Element material to enhance the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s Healing Ability.

He never imagined, however, that it would cause the Resurrection Celestial Lord to generate a tree-like symbiote during its advancement.

The sapling extended its branches and sprouted green leaves at an incredible speed.

In less than three minutes, it grew into a dense little tree nearly four meters tall.

It wasn’t just the trunk of this tree-like symbiote that was gnarled like a coiling dragon; every single leaf was also engraved with exquisite totem patterns.

The totems on the trunk and leaves greatly resembled the silhouette of the Resurrection Celestial Lord in profile.

Aside from the appearance of this four-meter-tall tree derivative, the Resurrection Celestial Lord itself hadn’t changed much.

Just as Zhong Yi was preparing to use All Things Exploration to inspect the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s new Tier and Quality,

he suddenly noticed that the tree derivative had borne a single, crystal-clear, golden-green fruit.

The fruit looked exactly like a Core of Resurgence!

This change had to be related to a new Skill or Exclusive Trait the Resurrection Celestial Lord had acquired.

Zhong Yi was incredibly eager to see the Resurrection Celestial Lord’s new Skills and Exclusive Traits.

[Guardian Beast Name]: Resurrection Celestial Lord

[Guardian Beast Species]: Celestial Human Species / Celestial Lord Species

[Guardian Beast Level]: Extraordinary Tier (1/10)

[Guardian Beast Type]: Rule Element

[Guardian Beast Quality]: Gold Quality

Skills:

[Recovery Enlightenment]: Guides a target through an enlightenment, causing the target to consume its own Energy to recover from injuries. At the same time, it has a certain purifying effect on negative statuses like curses and toxins that inhibit recovery.

[Life Healing Totem]: Consumes a Core of Resurgence to trace a totem influenced by Rule Authority onto an injured target. The target with the engraved totem will remain under the effects of the Rule Authority until its injuries are completely healed.

Exclusive Traits:

[Withered Oasis]: When healing other targets via Rule Authority, it stores the injuries they sustained within the oasis that surrounds its body. When necessary, the stored injuries can be projected onto other targets using a Core of Resurgence as a medium.

[Celestial Praise]: When a Core of Resurgence is placed upon a target’s soul, it chants a hymn to wash the target’s soul, expelling all impurities that do not belong to it.

[Celestial Lord’s Holy Tree]: Plants a Holy Tree within its own domain which condenses Authority Fruits. When it is not required to heal any target and its internal Energy is full, it can condense Cores of Resurgence on the Holy Tree.

Rule Authority:

[Eternal Life Reformation]: Fuses a Core of Resurgence into a target’s body, activating its Life Template. This causes the target to reform damaged or diseased parts according to its Life Template.