Beast Taming Clan: I Have a Jade Book

Chapter 369: Chapter 345: The Stone Spirit Awakens

Inside the room, accompanied by the dim moonlight softly shining, Ye Jingcheng opened his eyes, and an astonishing soul power shot out from them.

“This Jade Soul Pill truly lives up to being the most suitable spirit pill for the Celestial Soul Technique.”

Ye Jingcheng felt his Divine Soul recovering some more within him and nodded with satisfaction once again.

That day, after seeing Xu Xiuqing off, he returned to his room. With enough spirit pills in the family now, he planned to start refining a Tier Two High-grade spirit pill to augment the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon and the Red Flame Fox, hoping to shorten their breakthrough time once again.

When refining pills, it was naturally essential to maintain the integrity of the Divine Soul, so he consumed another Jade Soul Pill.

He could now stabilize five to six pills in one batch of Jade Soul Pills, unlike before when he had to overly conserve them.

The spirit materials for a batch of Jade Soul Pills cost around twelve hundred spirit stones. If the spirit stones were sufficient and sales were good, Ye Jingcheng could make considerable profits just from refining Jade Soul Pills.

But this idea was just a thought; the materials for Jade Soul Pills are quite rare, not easy to find.

Plus, its natural effect on enhancing the Divine Soul wasn’t particularly great, so the price would naturally decrease with more available.

“It’s time to enhance the Spiritual Wisdom of the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven!” Ye Jingcheng thought with great anticipation. He flipped his hand, and a white jade box appeared in his palm.

Inside the jade box was a Wisdom Fruit.

At that moment, a shallow mouse tooth impression was visible on the Wisdom Fruit. Although it wasn’t noticed at the auction, upon opening the jade box now, it seemed the tooth mark wasn’t left by an ordinary Spirit Rat.

There were also traces of Demon Beast spiritual power left behind.

One must know that most Spirit Rats are toxic, such as Ye Jingcheng’s Jade Ring Rat, which is also poisonous.

And it’s particularly difficult to clean. This Wisdom Fruit is already small; cleaning too much may lead to the fruit losing its effect, while cleaning too little might not remove the poison.

Thus, the value of this Wisdom Fruit could potentially be significantly reduced.

But Ye Jingcheng cared little after a glance or two.

A stone is just a stone; what harm could poison possibly cause it?

He immediately activated an array and pulled out a large stone from under the bed, ensuring the unity of the Grotto Heaven and Secret Realm so that Ye Jingcheng kept the Grotto Heaven flowing.

Of course, when he wasn’t cultivating, the Grotto Heaven wouldn’t draw in spiritual energy.

Only when he was cultivating did it absorb spiritual energy. This way, even if the Taiyi Sect kept an eye on the spiritual energy in the market, they wouldn’t find it suspicious. After all, some cultivators prefer setting up large spirit gathering arrays to enhance their spiritual absorption speed, which is perfectly normal.

And if he guessed correctly, the market had at least one Tier Three High-Grade Spiritual Vein, and the amount of spiritual power he absorbed was negligible.

The spiritual stone rent collected by Taichang Market wasn’t cheap; just the Ye Family shop required ten thousand spirit stones a year, and including the Chu Family’s, a full three-entry courtyard cost nearly twenty thousand spirit stones.

If he didn’t absorb any, Ye Jingcheng felt it would be somewhat of a loss.

Moreover, several families were surely absorbing abundant spiritual energy, not just his.

The only downside was the rate at which the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven absorbed energy. Without Spiritual Wisdom, it needed his control, costing him considerable Heart Spirit.

This was exactly why he wanted the Stone Spirit to gain Spiritual Wisdom quickly.

After retrieving the Grotto Heaven, Ye Jingcheng communicated through the soul contract. Under his control, the Swallowing Python Spirit Pattern on the Stone Spirit’s surface eerily surfaced, emitting a faint spiritual light.

Ye Jingcheng placed the Wisdom Fruit on top of the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven, and he also took out several Spirit Transformation Pills from the Ye Family.

In the past, the pills were ground into powder, but this time, to enhance the effect, he used as many as three complete Spirit Transformation Pills.

Of course, such actions were strictly forbidden in the Ye Family; enhancing a demon beast’s Spiritual Wisdom must be done carefully and gradually. Otherwise, the spirit beast could easily break free from its blood contract, even if it was raised from a young age.

Especially with such an unknown Stone Spirit!

But for Ye Jingcheng, equipped with the Treasure Book and soul contract, there was truly nothing to fear.

The Swallowing Python on the Stone Spirit’s surface opened its mouth wider, and a strange spiritual light enveloped the Wisdom Fruit, while the Wisdom Fruit and Spirit Transformation Pills began to slowly lose their glow.

As if drained of spirituality, this absorption resembled the soul-absorbing breath of the Three-Colored Cloud Deer.

This scene lasted for almost half an hour.

Left on the scene were only a thin layer of powder and a green poison powder.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng collected the green poison powder into a pill bottle. If he guessed correctly, this green poison powder should be the mouse poison.

The exact type of this mouse poison couldn’t be determined, but it didn’t hinder Ye Jingcheng from applying it on a Profound Silver Needle or other stealth magical artifacts.

To Ye Jingcheng, the method used was not important; what mattered was finding ways to win in each and every magical combat.

Once the powder was collected, Ye Jingcheng looked back at the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven.

There was nothing unusual on its surface, but Ye Jingcheng could feel an odd thought within his soul contract.

It was as if something was emitting mysterious Divine Soul Fluctuations that he couldn’t comprehend.

Like a baby learning to speak, it mumbled continuously.

This feeling was extremely wondrous.

Ye Jingcheng immediately began responding.

Being connected by the soul contract, he had a general understanding and could sense emotions like joy, anger, and sadness.

At this moment, the spiritual shadow of the Stone Spirit Grotto Heaven was visibly excited and curious.

Ye Jingcheng communicated for almost half an hour but didn’t achieve much of anything.

He then started giving instructions, but his more complex commands had no effect, except for instructing the other to condense a spiritual shadow.

Which was quickly accomplished.

On the surface of the stone, a python-shaped spiritual shadow emerged.

The python-like spirit shadow roamed the surface of the stone, continuously moving, seemingly very excited, and finally emerged from the stone.

Ye Jingcheng attempted to communicate again, but found that the other party still didn’t understand.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng estimated that the Stone Spirit was just starting out and needed time to settle and someone to teach it.

So he directly entered the grotto heaven, wanting to find out if the spirit shadow of the Stone Spirit could also enter.

Sure enough, as Ye Jingcheng entered the grotto heaven, a python-like spirit shadow appeared behind him, timidly following him.

“Roar!”

“Chirp chirp!”

In the distance, the Red Flame Fox was the first to descend from the pavilion, and from a nearby low spot, the Jade Qilin Flood Dragon also inquired.

Apparently, both were curious about the python shadow.

Especially the latter, it kept growling as if telling Ye Jingcheng that having one Flood Dragon was enough, no need for a snake.

At this moment, however, Ye Jingcheng was not concerned with the two spirit beasts but walked straight to the Peach Wood Demon body.

And to his surprise, the Peach Wood had once again blossomed with a large number of flower buds, with large pink flower buds covering the branches, looking very attractive.

A slight inhale revealed an enchanting Spirit Fragrance.

Evidently, after three years, the Peach Wood was going to bear Spirit Fruit again.

However, even with the peach blossom blooming now, it would take nearly two more years for the fruit to truly mature.

This was also the first time it blossomed after the Peach Wood advanced to Tier Two.

For Ye Jingcheng, it was another point worth looking forward to.

“Master, is this the newly contracted demon spirit?” Unlike the Red Flame Fox and Jade Qilin Flood Dragon, the Wood Demon instantly recognized that the Stone Spirit wasn’t a Spiritual Python but a demon spirit like itself.

“Why is this demon spirit so foolish?”

“It has just awakened its spiritual wisdom, so for the next few days, you should lead it and ensure it learns how to communicate. In the future, your advancement won’t be excluded,” Ye Jingcheng instructed.

He himself didn’t have much time to guide the Stone Spirit, but the Wood Demon was different, as it would have free time anyway.

Moreover, the Wood Demon had presumably experienced a lot in the past and knew a lot.

“Rest assured, Master, Peach Wood guarantees to take good care of it and will not delay the Master’s grand cultivation endeavors!” At first, Peach Wood was a bit resistant, but hearing that it could advance again, its eyes lit up.

The last advancement seemed like just yesterday, and it couldn’t forget it!

After expressing gratitude, it even started to kowtow.

Based on its past observations, cultivators generally appreciated being kowtowed to.

Only at this moment did Ye Jingcheng, after leaving the instruction of the spirit-transformed Swallowing Python to the Wood Demon, walk to one side.

He first fed some Spirit Pills and Spirit Beast Meat to the Red Flame Fox and Jade Qilin Flood Dragon, then began feeding twenty Thunder Rhinoceros Insects.

The Thunder Rhinoceros Insects, after more than two months of taming, were comparable to the Five Poison Bees, but Ye Jingcheng would continue to intensify their training gradually.

As for the distant Golden Falcon, seeing Ye Jingcheng look over, it also soared downwards.

Ye Jingcheng threw out a few Tier One Top-Grade Spirit Nurturing Pills.

Then he extended his palm, but the Golden Falcon just swooped across the sky, grabbing the Spirit Nurturing Pills without stopping to perch on Ye Jingcheng’s hand.

Nowadays, the Golden Falcon no longer harbored immense resentment towards Ye Jingcheng, but it likewise didn’t show much closeness.

After three unsuccessful beckoning attempts, Ye Jingcheng forcibly summoned the Golden Falcon through the soul contract, infusing a few wisps of Treasure Light.

The Golden Falcon’s gaze instantly softened.

With the Golden Falcon entranced, Ye Jingcheng promptly tossed it back into the air.

The latter immediately squealed in protest, displaying strong dissatisfaction.

Ye Jingcheng remained indifferent to this, and once again summoned the Thunder Rhinoceros Insects, inputting Treasure Light.

In addition to Treasure Light, Ye Jingcheng also took out a large number of Spirit Nurturing Pills and Spirit Beast Meat.

By comparison, the treatment of the Golden Falcon was significantly poorer, its golden pupils evidently moved.

Still in mid-air, it continued chirping.

Both aloof and anxious!

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng’s face broke into a smile, sensing that perhaps in another two or three months, the Golden Falcon could be fully tamed, and he could even prepare an Advancement Pill for it.

This Advancement Pill for the Golden Falcon was still Tier One, with the spirit medicine easy for Ye Jingcheng to gather.

The only uncertainty was whether the Advancement Pill could offer the Golden Falcon an opportunity to become a Tier Three Great Demon, which Ye Jingcheng wasn’t certain about.

But for him, it wasn’t of high concern, as the Golden Falcon wasn’t his lifebound spirit beast, providing no benefit to his cultivation breakthroughs.

After handling the few beasts, Ye Jingcheng took a prolonged look at the Purple Jade Vine and Vajra Vine.

The Purple Jade Vine had now completely transformed to purple, which meant successful planting, and the Vajra Vine, under the enhancement of Treasure Light, had sprouted two golden spiritual buds.

Ye Jingcheng was immediately satisfied as he exited the grotto heaven, accompanied by the Red Flame Fox.

Next, he planned to refine Tier Two Upper-grade Fire Beast Pills and Tier Two Middle-grade Profound Water Pills.

The Fire Beast Pill was a recipe given by the family, while the Profound Water Pill was to be refined on behalf of Chu Yanqing.

Moreover, for Ye Jingcheng, the Profound Water Pill wasn’t only for Chu Yanqing to use; even his Jade Qilin Flood Dragon could use it.