Chapter 127: Spirit Stealing Secret Technique
Zhang Chi immediately replied to Lan Xuan’s letter, asking her to help collect more Black Wind Winged Serpent Beast Eggs.
After all, the Spirit Control Sect certainly wouldn’t be short on various kinds of Spirit Beast Eggs; it was just a matter of quantity. Unlike over here, where even people like Chen Bufan didn’t recognize the Black Wind Winged Serpent Beast.
The point of collecting more was to ensure he didn’t run out.
After that, Zhang Chi bought some auxiliary materials to help perform the Secret Technique, exchanged all his Middle Grade spirit stones for Low Grade Spirit Stones at the Ten Thousand Treasures Tower, and then returned to Azure Dragon Ridge.
Just like last time, the journey was uneventful because he was careful enough.
Upon arriving at the Medicinal Garden, Zhang Chi first summoned Hong Hu and the others, telling them he was giving them a vacation.
Hong Hu and the others were naturally overjoyed. Without a second thought, they bolted from the Medicinal Garden like wild horses set free.
The reason he had them leave temporarily was to prevent the Corpse Puppet’s breakthrough from causing too much of a commotion and attracting unwanted attention.
Next, Zhang Chi fully activated the Array, then brought out the Black Coffin in the Inner Garden and fed one hundred thousand of his newly acquired Spirit Stones into it.
As a result, light flowed within the coffin, and the Corpse Puppet rapidly grew stronger, but it was still a long way from reaching Tier Two Middle Stage.
So, Zhang Chi continued to feed it Spirit Stones until he had used up the remaining 150,000, but it still wasn’t enough.
Helpless, he had no choice but to throw in the Spirit Stones he already had on him, as well as all the ones he had earned over the past three months.
Only then did the Corpse Puppet finally let out a roar, erupting with a more powerful pressure. It violently absorbed the surrounding Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi and the light from within the Black Coffin, then broke through to Tier Two Middle Stage in one go.
Its Realm was now comparable to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, but its Combat Power was much greater than that of a typical cultivator at that stage.
If the Corpse Puppet had been this strong when Zhang Chi encountered the Tribulation Cultivators three months ago, he wouldn’t have even needed to act personally; the Corpse Puppet alone could have killed them all.
’Not bad. As expected, you can level up quickly as long as you have Spirit Stones. It’s just that the consumption is getting bigger and bigger. All in all, it was 300,000 this time. And this is just for the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage. I’m afraid it’ll be even more outrageous for the Foundation Establishment Late Stage.’
’But it’s going to take me a while to reach the Foundation Establishment Late Stage, so there’s no rush to upgrade this Corpse Puppet again in the meantime. I can just let it nurture itself slowly in the Black Coffin!’
Zhang Chi nodded in satisfaction, though he also had a bit of a headache over the cost.
Afterward, he activated the Corpse Puppet to test it out and found that its Combat Power was indeed several times stronger than before, and its Corpse Evil was also more potent.
Then, Zhang Chi recalled the Corpse Puppet into the Black Coffin, which gave him a much greater sense of security.
After that, he once again began his Cultivation in Seclusion.
However, he added a new task to his daily routine: comprehending and then cultivating the Secret Technique he had just obtained.
This Secret Technique was called the Spirit-Seizing Technique, and it was specifically used to extract the bloodline power from within certain types of Demon Beast Eggs.
However, the technique was too profound and mysterious. For an ordinary Foundation Establishment Early Stage Cultivator, even reaching the Entry Level was extremely difficult.
Moreover, if one’s mastery was insufficient, the success rate when performing it would be very low.
And regardless of success or failure, the target would die instantly, so there was only one chance.
Fortunately, the Demon Beast Eggs hatched very slowly, so there was no immediate rush.
Furthermore, Zhang Chi’s Divine Soul was powerful, infinitely close to the Golden Core Realm, and he had the cultivation insights provided by Lan Xuan. Therefore, he easily comprehended the Secret Technique and successfully reached the Entry Level in just three days.
Seven days later, he had already reached Minor Success in the technique.
But Zhang Chi didn’t stop cultivating it. He spent another twenty days and successfully brought it to the Great Success Realm.
However, going from Great Success to the Perfection Realm took him a full two months.
During this period, Zhang Chi also made two secret trips to Shifang Immortal City. The first time was to buy some Low Tier Spirit Beast Eggs to practice on.
The second time was to retrieve the Spirit Beast Eggs that Lan Xuan had successfully bought for him and to send some Spirit Stones to her.
After all, even if Lan Xuan was his servant, making her pay out of her own pocket would affect her motivation.
By the time he reached the Perfection Realm in the Spirit-Seizing Technique, Zhang Chi had also accumulated enough practical experience, so he finally decided to begin for real.
At this point, the three Demon Beast Eggs indeed still looked the same, only their life auras were a bit stronger.
At the same time, twenty more Black Wind Winged Serpent Beast Eggs were laid out on the scene.
None of these Beast Eggs had been contracted, but Zhang Chi already knew that aside from being able to fly and fight, this Demon Beast wasn’t remarkable in other aspects. So, he had no intention of forming a contract and decided to use them all as consumables.
Following the requirements of the Secret Technique, Zhang Chi first used various materials to draw a profound, blood-red Array on the ground, about ten feet in diameter. He then placed a Demon Beast Egg inside, formed a Spirit Technique Seal, and began to perform the Secret Technique.
ROAR!
Soon, a small, blood-colored phantom was forcefully pulled out of the Demon Beast Egg by Zhang Chi using the Secret Technique.
The phantom looked very much like the Demon Beast that had been killed, only smaller and more juvenile, but it was also struggling violently.
This was, in fact, the bloodline power of the Black Wind Winged Serpent Beast.
BANG!
But the next moment, just as the bloodline phantom was about to be successfully collected, it suddenly exploded.
At the same time, the first Demon Beast Egg completely lost its unique life fluctuation.
’What a pity!’
Resigned, Zhang Chi could only pause for a moment to reflect on the experience before taking another Demon Beast Egg and placing it in the Array.
Fortunately, he finally succeeded this time. A bloodline phantom was tightly wrapped by the Spirit Technique’s seal and then swiftly stored by Zhang Chi into a previously prepared Jade Bottle.
After that came the third time, the fourth time...
’Whew... not bad. The Spirit-Seizing Technique at the Perfection Realm really is effective. Although I only managed to extract thirteen portions of bloodline, the success rate is actually extremely high. And this is enough for the six Spirit Snakes.’
Zhang Chi breathed a sigh of relief. He was a little tired, but his spirits were high, filled with a sense of accomplishment and anticipation.
Next, instead of immediately letting the Four-legged Spirit Snakes make their attempt, he took out a Tier Two Turtle Shell and first performed a divination for them.
Soon, he determined the optimal time and procedure.
He first fed the lifeless Demon Beast Eggs and the Demon Beast Blood Spirit Pill separately to the six Four-legged Spirit Snakes.
A few days later, on the chosen auspicious day and hour, he finally took out the sealed Demon Beast bloodlines and tossed them toward the Spirit Snakes.
Seeing this, the Spirit Snakes immediately hissed in excitement and lunged forward as fast as lightning, each instinctively choosing a portion of bloodline to devour.
After that, they all fell into a deep slumber.
According to Zhang Chi’s deduction, they would likely slumber for about a year, and upon waking, they would advance in rank and undergo a mutation.
Of course, even with his Divination Technique, Zhang Chi couldn’t be one hundred percent certain they would succeed.
Zhang Chi could only calculate that their bloodlines were fairly compatible with that of the Black Wind Winged Serpent Beast, so the success rate was over sixty percent.
Of course, according to what Lan Xuan had said, each Demon Beast could only fuse with another bloodline once in its lifetime, and only one portion at a time.
If they failed, they would never get another chance, and their own potential would even decrease.
But Zhang Chi wasn’t worried. With the help of his Jade Pendant, as long as he gave the Spirit Snakes a hand at the critical moment, they could become immune to the price of failure. They could even try to fuse again and again.
By trying a few more times like this, they were bound to succeed sooner or later.
Besides, with the Jade Pendant’s help, it might not be impossible for the Spirit Snakes to fuse with other suitable Demon Beast bloodlines in the future.
But that was all a matter for the future.
Seeing the Spirit Snakes in their deep slumber, Zhang Chi paid them no more mind and continued his Cultivation in Seclusion.
Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, a year and a half had passed. This was now the seventh year since Zhang Chi had started his cultivation journey.
It had been exactly three and a half years since Zhang Chi had reached Foundation Establishment. Aided by a massive amount of resources and various methods, his Cultivation had finally been pushed to the very limit of the Foundation Establishment Early Stage.
And so, on this day, Zhang Chi once again gave Hong Hu and the others a vacation. He then settled down in the Inner Garden and began his assault on the next Realm.