Chapter 604: Hatching

Aaron rummaged through Ye Jiuniang's miscellaneous items and finally took out an ice jade box.

After opening it, a burst of cold air overflowed.

Inside this box was, shockingly, a sheet of ice, and within the massive ice block was a special Monster Beast egg.

This Monster Beast egg was the size of a chicken egg, and after Aaron probed it with a sliver of Dharma Power, he discovered that a trace of life force still remained!

"This is... a Wushou Turtle Egg?"

"So, one of the people who bid on the turtle egg at the original Auction House was Ye Jiuniang!"

Aaron gazed at this turtle egg and sighed inwardly: "This Ye Jiuniang really is a very good person."

However, the Black Blood Sect enslaved and controlled a large number of cannon-fodder cultivators, all of whom practiced this 'Demon Flame Art' or other Blood Path Magic Art; each one had astonishing killing power and they were the most superior cannon fodder or Dao Soldiers.

Aaron silently committed this spell to memory and continued his cultivation.

Having successfully broken through to the Qi Refining Middle Stage, Aaron rode the 'Iron Leaf Boat' and cautiously headed toward Spirit Medicine Island.

But this spell was extremely harsh to cast, requiring the consumption of a massive amount of lifespan!

An ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivator might grow old and die after casting it once or twice!

Therefore, proper Black Blood Sect Disciples avoided it like the plague and would never practice it, so there was no such luck as finding the spell Jade Slip in a Storage Bag.

Drip!

The strongest among them was a 'Fire Feather Arrow' spell, which came from Ye Jiuniang; it was said to have quite extraordinary power.

Following that was a 'Diamond Shield', whose defensive power was even greater than the Golden Light Shield, also from Ye Jiuniang.

And after the Contract was established, the Spirit Beast could not resist any order from its master; if the master died without having dissolved the Contract, the Spirit Beast would also die along with them!

"Oh? Is it finally going to hatch?"

Xiaoqing stared with a pair of innocent, large eyes, as if saying: 'Master... please, I beg you to act like a human...'

The Master-Recognition Array for the 'Wushou Turtle' was not complicated, and after Aaron practiced it a few times, he had it set up.

By recycling and dispersing the Spirit Medicine Garden, accompanied by the help of this good friend over time, it would inevitably accumulate wealth for him in an endless stream.

In the end, he discovered that there were no traces of other cultivators having been on the island, and the small mechanism by his Cave Abode and the spring eye had not been triggered, so he immediately let out a long sigh of relief, moved his Cave Abode back to 'Spirit Medicine Island', and continued his bitter cultivation.

……

"Go!"

In the blink of an eye, another ten-plus years passed, and Aaron's cultivation had reached the peak of the Qi Refining Sixth Layer!

The blood bead landed on the surface of the 'Wushou Turtle's' body and quickly merged into it.

And the remaining two layers correspond to the Foundation Establishment Initial Stage and Middle Stage...

……

Immediately, he lifted the palm-sized, ink-green turtle, placed it on his palm, and said solemnly: "Very good... from today on, you shall be called 'Xiaoqing'... let us compete to see who lives longer!"

However, Aaron only had the Array provided by the Auction House on hand, so he made do with it.

……

During this period, those few stalks of 'Nine-Eyed Begonia' successfully attained a hundred years of medicinal potency, and the Spirit Medicine developed eye-like patterns, which brought Aaron slight joy.

The 'Mingyu Art' in Aaron's possession was divided into twelve layers!

The first ten layers correspond to the Qi Refining Tenth Layer realm.

The little 'Wushou Turtle' seemed to be in some pain, but upon seeing Aaron, it did not struggle and docilely allowed the blood bead to merge into its body.

This day.

As for the rest, they were incomplete, otherwise this technique would not have been so cheap.

This was the 'Blood Contract Dharma Seal', and the requirements for signing were extremely harsh; the Spirit Beast had to have absolutely no intention of resistance.

According to Aaron's personal experience, the progress of practicing this 'Mingyu Art' was clearly much faster than the 'Hunyuan Art'.

Ten years later.

"'Demon Flame Art', is it? If I obtain this spell in the future, I can use it as a trump card!"

In those Black Blood Sect Disciples' Storage Bags, there was a book of cultivation notes, similar to a journal.

There was also a 'Soul Bewitching Technique' from the Black Blood Sect, which could bewitch cultivators and interrogate them for information; it was considered a simplified version of the Soul Searching Technique.

Furthermore, as his cultivation grew deeper day by day, he could clearly sense that his bones were also gradually changing, becoming as crystalline as jade.

Even... the 'Bone Shrinking Technique', which he had been unable to break through for a long time, was stimulated, breaking through the bottleneck in one go and subsequently advancing by leaps and bounds.

……

As for the Spirit Medicine raised in other places, some were good and some were bad; after Aaron inspected them, he stopped worrying about them, only replanting a few to make up for the consumption of the batch he had harvested early to sell.

Sensing the admiration and attachment from the other consciousness, Aaron nodded inwardly, urged the little turtle to crawl out of the eggshell, and then ate the eggshell.

After Aaron read it, he discovered that it contained a record that within the Black Flame Branch of the Black Blood Sect, there was a 'Demon Flame Art', which was exclusive to cannon fodder and could only be practiced by Qi Refining Late Stage cultivators.

"It's done!"

Spirit Beasts still possessed the characteristics of wild beasts and were often very close to the first creature they saw.

At this moment, accompanied by a crisp sound, a small head topped with eggshell poked out from the turtle egg, and its watery, large eyes looked directly at Aaron.

There, buried in a pile of sand, the Wushou Turtle Egg was trembling violently.

At this time, Aaron also bit his fingertip, forced out a drop of fresh blood, and cast a series of Dharma Seals, which flew toward the 'Wushou Turtle'.

Aaron arrived before the sand dune and began to set up the 'Master-Recognition Array'.

"'Wushou Turtle' actually doesn't have high intelligence among Spirit Beasts, no wonder I thought it didn't look very smart... and its later spiritual enlightenment and learning are also very slow; its only advantage is that its temperament is docile and it lives a long time."

If it were other sects or families, they might use other master-recognition methods, such as refining 'Life Tablets' or the like.

After organizing the spoils of war, Aaron selected a few spells, preparing to use them as backups during his cultivation.

Inside Ye Jiuniang's Storage Bag, along with this turtle egg, was a Jade Slip provided by the Auction House, which clearly recorded the master-recognition and feeding methods for the Wushou Turtle.

As for the last one, it was an 'Entanglement Technique' from that lecherous cultivator before; the reason Aaron chose it was entirely because he lacked an entanglement spell, and it just so happened that his Spirit Root Divine Attribute matched it—it was absolutely not because he had awakened some strange hobby!

In reality, what made Aaron even more covetous were the spells of the Black Flame Branch of the Black Blood Sect.

Once cultivated, one could release a type of "Black Sun Demon Fire," which was said to have the power to destroy the heavens and extinguish the earth; a Low-grade Magical Artifact would be destroyed the moment it touched it... even a Foundation Establishment cultivator would have to avoid its edge!

And that ice seal was clearly to prevent the turtle egg from hatching accidentally.

The Array around them lit up with Light, and one after another, Talismans appeared out of thin air, sinking into the drop of blood.

He was meditating and practicing Qi Refining when he suddenly heard a crisp sound from beside him, and he could not help but look toward a corner of the Cave Abode.

While playing with the turtle, Aaron flipped through the previous Jade Slip on raising it: "Raising it in a Spirit Vein or Spirit Spring can slightly increase the growth speed of a 'Longevity Turtle,' and feeding it some Spirit Medicine or Spirit Pills is also possible... otherwise, it will take about a hundred years to leave the juvenile stage and possess Qi Refining strength..."

"Keep dreaming; I, the master, don't even have a Spirit Vein to cultivate with, so you'll just have to endure it slowly, Xiaoqing... anyway, it's only a hundred years, I can afford to wait!"

(End of this chapter)