Chapter 38: Beast Pet Contract Formation Array

"Huff......"

Cang Luo exhaled a mouthful of blood-red turbid Qi; the forty-second circulation of the first layer of Meiti Shengong was complete.

At the same time, one portion of the demon cores accumulated in his body had also been digested.

At this pace, in another three days the first layer of Meiti Shengong would be successfully cultivated.

Since arriving at the Demon Beast Mountain Range for training, Cang Luo had discovered one after another of the satellite's many abilities.

Infinite Yuan Power, healing wounds, dynamic capture—each one was a heaven-defying cheat!

Cang Luo should have been happy, yet he couldn't smile, because the contents of that anonymous text message weighed on his heart, leaving him unable to breathe.

Once the Profound Heaven Sect reached Earth, they would surely realize his phone could connect to Earth's internet, and by then he would undoubtedly be a dead man.

Even an idiot could figure out that he must be secretly sending intelligence to Earth for the fisherman's benefit; facing a spy, they would absolutely not let him off easy.

Cang Luo had also thought about asking Earth's various countries to keep it secret for him, but, putting aside the fact that secrets always leak eventually.

Take Chen Jun, for instance—he might leak it, and so would Huaxia's hostile forces.

And then there was the fact that Elder Xuan and the others had already seen what a phone looked like; as long as they saw a phone on Earth, they would connect the dots one hundred percent.

"Sigh! No solution! Forget it, things will work themselves out when the time comes......"

Cang Luo let out a sigh, forcing himself to stop thinking about it.

At this moment, the video had finished transmitting, and the labor fee of over three million US dollars had been received in full; without hesitation, Cang Luo transferred the money once again to his cousin Yang Yongshan.

Now Cang Luo had truly achieved treating Earth's money like dirt; in his eyes there was only cultivation, and things related to cultivation.

Demon beasts, demon cores, as well as medicinal pills, spiritual herbs, Yuan stones, and so on.

Suddenly, Cang Luo saw someone @-ing him in a WeChat group—it was John Shi Misi, the person in charge of Eden.

Though whether it was actually him was unknown; after all, the person in charge of a department couldn't be glued to his phone all the time, right?

He wrote in the group: "Cang, according to our speculation, the reason your rate of absorbing demon cores has decreased is very likely that your body has developed a resistance to demon cores.

There are two solutions: one is to take second-tier or higher demon cores, the other is to have them refined into medicinal pills as you mentioned......"

After reading it, Cang Luo expressed slight surprise; he hadn't expected them to deduce the reason so quickly—he certainly hadn't told them about resistance.

But thinking about it, it was understandable; after all, they commanded the resources of an entire nation, with countless scientific researchers, so deducing this much wasn't hard.

Second-tier or higher demon cores? You want me to go die?

Refine them into medicinal pills?

Cang Luo had thought about it too, but he didn't know how much it would cost; he'd have to go back and ask, see if demon cores could be used as substitute payment—he was flat broke!

Others in the group also expressed agreement with John Shi Misi's take, and demanded Cang Luo provide more detailed data.

For example, what were the differences in energy between demon cores from different first-tier demon beasts, and demon beasts of different attributes.

How much Yuan Power could be converted? How many Yuan Wheels could be condensed? Could it increase Yuan Sense, and so on.

Faced with the various demands of the bigwigs of every nation, Cang Luo replied with just two words: busy

He couldn't even be bothered to type punctuation, and as a result the once-bustling WeChat group instantly fell silent; some of the bigwigs of various nations sitting in front of their phones were left speechless with rage at Cang Luo's reply, with nowhere to vent their anger.

When had the high-ranking bigwigs of various nations ever been so rudely refused? And by a commoner, no less.

If they were on Earth, they would have ten thousand ways to make Cang Luo die without a burial place, to vanish from Earth.

Unfortunately Cang Luo wasn't on Earth, but in another world; they had almost no way to deal with him.

Not only did they have no way to deal with Cang Luo, they had to coddle him—who asked Cang Luo to be the only transmigrator?

Cang Luo snorted coldly and was about to put away his phone when Li Weiguo suddenly sent a message: "Little Cang, can't Martial Artists subdue demon beasts as beast pets? Why don't you go subdue one?

With the help of a beast pet, you might be able to kill second-tier demon beasts; even if you can't kill them, it could still raise your efficiency in killing first-tier demon beasts—win through quantity."

After reading it, Cang Luo simply turned off the screen, too lazy to reply—hadn't he told them that Martial Artists at the Wu Shi cultivation level weren't suited to subduing demon beasts?

Because summoning a beast pet consumed a large amount of Yuan Power, and Wu Shi-level Martial Artists had relatively little Yuan Power; after summoning a beast pet, they wouldn't have surplus Yuan Power to fight, let alone recall and nurture the beast pet.

So under normal circumstances, only Martial Artists at the Wu Jiang cultivation level or above would subdue beast pets, using them as mounts or auxiliary combat power.

Cang Luo put away his phone, connected the satellite camera, and began searching again for lone first-tier demon beasts.

To reach Wu Jiang sooner, he needed to hunt more demon beasts to obtain demon cores, exchange them for medicinal pills and Yuan stones, and advance to Wu Jiang cultivation as soon as possible to subdue a beast pet.

Cang Luo very much wanted to have a beast pet—a flying beast pet would be best......

Thinking and thinking, Cang Luo suddenly froze.

"Wait, don't I have infinite Yuan Power? The Yuan Power consumed by summoning a beast pet would recover right away, right?"

Cang Luo cursed himself for being a fool, then broke into a delighted grin.

"Why didn't I think of this earlier? If I'd had a beast pet helping me fight from the start, I wouldn't have had to be so cautious.

For the past half month, Cang Luo had been picking fights with low-strength demon beasts, avoiding those that were too strong; otherwise he wouldn't have only hunted twenty-five."

The more Cang Luo thought about it, the more excited he got, but he immediately furrowed his brow—he thought of an important question.

How does one subdue a demon beast?

Seeing Xuan Qingqing had only told him that subduing a demon beast required sacrificing an organ, and hadn't mentioned the specific details.

How to perform the sacrifice?

Did the demon beast need to be dead or alive?

Thinking of these things, Cang Luo decided to first make a trip back to the Profound Heaven Sect and ask Cang Feng and the others.

Two hours later, Cang Luo walked out of the Demon Beast Mountain Range.

But he didn't return to the Profound Heaven Sect right away; instead he first went to the camp to check whether his tent had been taken away by Cang Feng and the others—there were spare clothes inside, and he planned to change before going back.

Cang Luo hadn't bathed in half a month; his body stank, his beard was scraggly, and his clothes were filthy and tattered.

The camp was still the same camp, unchanged; there was still a group of Profound Heaven Sect disciples resting—some chatting, some running stalls.

"Come look, come look! A freshly hunted second-tier demon beast, Blazing Fire Rabbit—eat it to boost your virility, boost your virility! Only ten low-grade Yuan stones."

"Passing by, don't miss it—second-grade spiritual herb, Sulfur Grass, only one low-grade Yuan stone, bulk discounts available."

"High-price buyback for Tier One, Tier Two, and Tier Three Demon Cores; bulk discounts available. Also selling Beast Pet Contract Arrays..."

Hearing this shout, Cang Luo suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Beast Pet Contract Array? Could it be used to subdue demon beasts?

Cang Luo's eyes lit up, and he walked briskly toward the stall shouting about buying back demon cores and selling beast pet contract arrays.

Cang Luo said to the chubby stall owner, "Senior Brother, may I ask if the Beast Pet Contract Array can be used to subdue demon beasts?"

Seeing business come his way, the chubby stall owner sized Cang Luo up a few times; seeing his ragged appearance, he knew Cang Luo had returned from training in the Demon Beast Mountains.

Moreover, he saw Cang Luo carrying a bag on his back.

This indicated that Cang Luo had made a harvest, and thus had purchasing power.

The chubby stall owner smiled, "That's right. Did you just return from training in the Demon Beast Mountains? You look like you're not lightly injured."

"Sigh, you lack a powerful beast pet. Come, come, Senior Brother here sells Beast Pet Contract Arrays."

Saying this, he took a dark brown beast-skin scroll from the tent behind him; after unrolling it, it was about the size of an A4 sheet of paper.

Pointing at the complex array patterns on the beast-skin scroll, he said, "It's still warm, absolutely genuine, no cheating on old or young, selling for only six Lower-Grade Spirit Stones."

"That expensive?"

Cang Luo blurted it out. Although he didn't know if this price was truly high or just the standard price, he shouted first to boost his momentum; momentum is the foundation of successful bargaining.

"Expensive?" The chubby stall owner instantly dropped his smile and said coldly, "The Treasure Pavilion sells for five Lower-Grade Spirit Stones. Senior Brother brought it all the way here to sell for one more, what's wrong with that?

Don't I want to earn the price difference? If you don't buy, plenty of others will. Do you know how many people come to the Demon Beast Mountains every day to subdue demon beasts?

And do you know how many of them didn't bring a Beast Pet Contract Array or had their arrays damaged?"

"Uh..." Cang Luo smiled awkwardly.

Cang Luo felt that if it were truly so, it wasn't expensive. As the saying goes, where there is demand, there is supply; how much it sells for is their business. If you think it's expensive, you don't have to buy.

Cang Luo thought for a moment and decided to buy right now, but he had no money on him, so he asked, "How much do you pay for a Tier One Demon Core?"

The chubby stall owner said indifferently, "Tier One Demon Cores are one Lower-Grade Spirit Stone, Tier Two Demon Cores are five Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, and Tier Three Demon Cores are twenty-five Lower-Grade Spirit Stones. This is the market price."

Cang Luo understood; converting the prices of demon cores of different ranks into Lower-Grade Spirit Stones, a Tier One Demon Core equals one Lower-Grade Spirit Stone, and for every rank higher, multiply by five.

At the same time, Cang Luo breathed a sigh of relief. He had thirteen demon cores, meaning he could exchange them for thirteen Lower-Grade Spirit Stones.

One Lower-Grade Spirit Stone equals ten taels; thirteen equals one hundred and thirty taels. If calculated according to Earth's silver prices, that would be about twenty-six thousand RMB.

Tsk tsk tsk!

Cang Luo's heart blossomed with joy. Martial artists in this otherworld indeed make money fast. Why should I even work a job? I can just hang out in the Demon Beast Mountains every day.

Calculating based on the harvest from these half a month, I could hunt at least fifty Tier One demon beasts a month, that's over one hundred thousand RMB...

Uh... why so little? It's not even as much as I earn selling videos.

Hmm? Cang Luo suddenly had a flash of inspiration.

After returning to Earth, if I exchange Earth money for silver, then bring it to the Yuanwu Continent to buy Spirit Stones, wouldn't I possess endless cultivation resources?

Thinking of this, Cang Luo couldn't help but laugh. Earth money isn't entirely useless after all!

This is a method to get rich, and a method to get rich on both Earth and the Yuanwu Continent.

Exchange Earth money for information from the Yuanwu Continent, then use that money to invest in business so money begets money; this is already being done. My cousin Yang Yongshan is opening companies, opening factories, and developing real estate.

Then, after the Teleportation Array opens, I will exchange Earth money for silver to buy Spirit Stones and other cultivation resources on the Yuanwu Continent.

Finally, I will bring these otherworld specialties back to Earth to exchange for silver and earn the price difference, repeating this step endlessly. Isn't this just inter-world smuggling?

But there is a prerequisite: I must survive. Thinking of this, Cang Luo smiled bitterly again.

"Hey, what are you smiling at stupidly? If you're not buying, get moving quickly. Don't stand here blocking my business." The chubby stall owner looked at Cang Luo with obvious impatience, his facial muscles twitching as he spoke.

"I'm buying, I'm buying."

Cang Luo snapped out of his daydream about the future, took out six Tier One Demon Cores, and handed them to him, indicating he wanted to buy the Beast Pet Contract Array with demon cores.

The chubby stall owner took Cang Luo's demon cores, weighed them in his hand, and even released a wisp of Spiritual Sense to inspect them carefully.

Only after finishing the inspection did he say, "The quality is quite good. You just hunted them, right?"

Saying this, he didn't wait for Cang Luo to answer, directly stored the demon cores, and casually handed the beast-skin scroll depicting the Beast Pet Contract Array to Cang Luo.

Cang Luo happily took the scroll, holding it in his arms, feeling the faint Spiritual Power contained within, and nodded with satisfaction.

"Hmm, all hunted these past few days. By the way, Senior Brother, how is this array used?"

"You don't know?"

Seeing that Cang Luo didn't even know this, the chubby stall owner guessed that Cang Luo must have recently become an outer sect disciple.

So his eyes rolled, and he took out a pale yellow book from behind him, saying to Cang Luo, "Here, it's written in this book. Seeing that you know nothing, I'll sell this book to you cheaply, just for one demon core."

Cang Luo frowned, feeling very displeased in his heart.

Damn! It's a matter of one sentence, yet you insist on selling me a book? Do I look like someone so easy to scam?

Despite his displeasure, Cang Luo still took the book; he would look at it first.

"Array Basics?"

Seeing the book title, Cang Luo immediately became interested. Thinking of Elder Xuan's mention of the Teleportation Array, he figured he could probably learn something from this "Array Basics."

However, Cang Luo didn't hold out much hope; he just wanted to understand a little.

Even Elder Xuan, with Wu Di cultivation, is still researching it; the Teleportation Array to Earth won't be fully set up until next year at the earliest.

How could Cang Luo possibly accomplish it?

Not to mention, this book is only the basics of arrays; there must be more advanced array teachings.

Cang Luo readily took out a demon core and handed it to the fat swindler, then, not lingering to wander, went directly to find a tent.

At this moment, the sky was gradually darkening.

Cang Luo didn't return to Profound Tianmen either; he planned to sleep well and enter the Demon Beast Mountains directly tomorrow to search for a demon beast, determined to find a suitable one to be his beast pet.

With the help of the satellite, Cang Luo quickly found the tent he had set up half a month ago.

But only one remained; there had been two tents, so Qian Feng and the others must have taken one away.

The tent was now covered in leaves, weeds, and dust; Cang Luo cleared away a little and stepped inside.

Inside the tent, Cang Luo immediately spotted his pack, which contained a change of clothes and some dried rations—the rations were probably inedible.

"Better change clothes first—I've never worn one garment this long..."

Cang Luo muttered to himself in good spirits, reached for the pack to open it, but the pack unraveled on its own, spilling the blue robe and dried rations onto the ground.

"Was it not tied tightly... or did someone tamper with it?"

Cang Luo frowned slightly, gathered up the rations and clothes, and carefully examined the tent's interior; soon he spotted several faint footprints on the ground.

Cang Luo shook his head, dismissing it—he'd become overly cautious from fighting beasts in the Beastwood; these were probably the marks left by Li Zhanxing and the others when they packed up.

After changing clothes, Cang Luo eagerly pulled out Foundations of Spell Arrays and began reading intently...