I'm Just a Beast Tamer

Chapter 110: Chapter 108: Life and Death Technique Perfection

After deciding to settle here, Jiang Zuo scattered a large amount of Longevity Jade into the sea around the island.

He still needed to continue raising the Seated Mountain Eagles. First, for their flight capabilities, and second, because it was difficult to find a better creature to raise.

Not to mention their attributes, simply in terms of lifespan, raising a Seated Mountain Eagle for one year could increase his own life by more than twenty years.

Raising other Pet Beasts couldn’t even come close.

Having consumed a great deal of his lifespan, Jiang Zuo was now eager to replenish it.

Jiang Zuo also didn’t want to give up on investigating those six Mysterious Islands.

Most importantly, he had truly caused a major disaster this time.

Guan Shiping had already made it clear that the Worldwide Bank and the Cultivation Realm were definitely closely related.

In other words, the Mortal Territory was actually crawling with spies from the Cultivation Realm.

Jiang Zuo had killed several Dao Foundation Cultivators, and although he didn’t know what kind of background they had in the Cultivation Realm, he was absolutely unwilling to show his face in any populated area for at least the next few decades.

He could only hide and secretly raise his Pet Beasts.

And aside from a remote island overseas, Jiang Zuo couldn’t think of a more suitable place.

In any other place with people, he was afraid it wouldn’t be long before someone came looking for him.

As for the Longevity Jade, Jiang Zuo had already confirmed that it was created by Heaven and Earth Primordial Power leaking from the Heaven and Earth Primordial Power Ore.

Right now, a large amount of Heaven and Earth Primordial Power Ore was piled up inside his Pet Beast Spirit Garden, so he could have as much Longevity Jade as he wanted.

Thus, he didn’t feel the slightest bit of regret using it.

Several more months passed.

Seeing that no one was tracking him, Jiang Zuo finally released eight second-generation mutated Seated Mountain Eagles from the Pet Beast Spirit Garden.

The Pet Beast Spirit Garden could only hold ten Pet Beasts. After seeing Cultivators arrive on Fire Mist Island, Jiang Zuo had taken the eight best-raised, second-generation mutated Seated Mountain Eagles and stored them inside.

He had let the rest fly off in batches to different locations.

The eight second-generation Seated Mountain Eagles quickly familiarized themselves with the new place.

However, under Jiang Zuo’s orders, they couldn’t fly freely in the sky as they used to. They were only allowed to fly for a short while at night.

Most of the time, especially during the day, they could only move around on the island like flightless chickens.

In his spare time, Jiang Zuo also took a look at the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill he had obtained from Guan Shiping.

With Jiang Zuo’s current attainments in the Martial Dao, a few glances were all it took to see that the core of this Cultivation Technique was to break through one’s attribute limits by repeatedly scattering one’s cultivation and recultivating.

The principle was the same as what he was currently doing.

It was just that ordinary people didn’t have a Beast Taming System. After they reached the upper limit of a Cultivation Technique, it became very difficult for them to raise their attributes any further.

But the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill provided a stable path for doing so.

As long as one followed the steps and cultivated, they could raise their attribute limits.

Furthermore, even after reaching the attribute cap of 999, it could still improve the quality of one’s attributes.

After nine rounds of recultivation, it could ensure one’s attributes were powerful enough to break through to the Innate realm.

Jiang Zuo had initially felt this Cultivation Technique was dispensable. After all, with his attributes, he could break through to the Innate realm whenever he wished.

The only thing holding him back was that he couldn’t guarantee he would awaken a Spirit Root after breaking through to the Innate realm.

But after careful study, two aspects of the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill caught Jiang Zuo’s attention.

First, according to the Cultivation Technique, the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill was an Earth Attribute Cultivation Technique. By cultivating it, one’s chances of awakening a Spirit Root upon breaking through to the Innate realm would increase, and the awakened Spirit Root would most likely be an Earth Spirit Root.

Second, the Dissipating Technique.

The Dissipating Technique from the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill didn’t simply dissipate one’s Cultivation; it dispersed it into the physical body.

Doing so would make the physical body stronger, but it would also make future cultivation more difficult.

However, once the cultivation was successful, one would be much stronger than they were at the same level of Cultivation previously.

However, what Jiang Zuo valued about this Dissipating Technique was not this effect.

Instead, it was that according to the Cultivation Technique, this Dissipating Technique also seemed to work on Innate Martial Artists.

’If I break through to an Innate Martial Artist in the future but don’t awaken a Spirit Root, could I use this method to dissipate my Cultivation and recultivate back to an Innate Martial Artist?’

Jiang Zuo’s heart pounded at the thought.

’If this works, awakening a Spirit Root would be a 100% certainty.’

’If it doesn’t work the first time, I’ll just do it a few more times.’

However, Jiang Zuo wouldn’t act so rashly.

If awakening a Spirit Root only worked on the first breakthrough to the Innate realm, and if it failed the first time, it would never work again... he would be in for a rude awakening.

All in all, it was a good backup plan. If all else failed, he could give it a try.

...

After traveling on the seabed for nearly a year, Jiang Zuo had no idea where he was.

But that wasn’t a problem.

Soon, Jiang Zuo calculated the time. It was about time for the first pair of second-generation Seated Mountain Eagles to return.

Jiang Zuo immediately had two pairs of Seated Mountain Eagles follow the call of the Mysterious Giant Tree and head toward the Mysterious Island.

However, they also had another mission: to wait outside the Mysterious Island, intercept the other returning Seated Mountain Eagles, and guide them to fly toward Jiang Zuo’s location.

With the current intelligence of these Seated Mountain Eagles, this wouldn’t be a problem.

The only thing Jiang Zuo needed to worry about was the Seated Mountain Eagles being followed.

Jiang Zuo’s approach was very direct. He first tailed the two pairs of Seated Mountain Eagles for two or three months, then found a hiding spot by the sea on a deserted island along their route.

When the guided Seated Mountain Eagles flew back and passed this place, Jiang Zuo could observe them secretly to determine if anyone was following.

If no one was following, he would then follow the Seated Mountain Eagles back.

If anyone was going to follow them, the first batch was the most likely to be tailed.

Jiang Zuo was therefore extremely cautious about this.

「Two months later.」

Several Seated Mountain Eagles flew over the island.

After waiting on the island for more than a day, Jiang Zuo’s tense heart finally relaxed a little.

...

Years passed one by one. For the first few years, Jiang Zuo would go out every two years to follow the Seated Mountain Eagles and confirm that the returning ones were not being tailed.

In the blink of an eye, a decade went by. Only after confirming it was safe did Jiang Zuo stop doing this.

Although the Seated Mountain Eagles he had raised couldn’t find Jiang Zuo themselves, after they were summoned to the Mysterious Island to compete for the fruits and then emerged, they would be guided over by the Seated Mountain Eagles already with him.

After ten years, basically all of the Seated Mountain Eagles that had flown away had returned to Jiang Zuo’s side.

This island, in its unknown location, had become the new home for the Seated Mountain Eagles.

The mutated second-generation Seated Mountain Eagles displayed incredible might in the battle for the fruits.

They mostly entered the competition for the fruits at the Great Success stage of Blood Exchange.

Since it was their first time competing for the fruits, they all had to start by competing for the lowest-level ones.

However, after winning and devouring a low-level fruit, they could compete for a higher-level one once it was digested.

This situation was within Jiang Zuo’s expectations.

With the Seated Mountain Eagles’ combat abilities and their Cultivation at the Great Success of Blood Exchange, competing for the fourth-layer fruits was no problem at all.

However, Jiang Zuo instructed them not to eat the fourth-layer fruits after winning them, but to bring them back instead.

Although the Mysterious Island could make the birds compete in an orderly fashion, it was clearly not perfect.

Pet Beasts with higher Spiritual Wisdom could resist the urge to eat the fruits and choose to take them away.

The first batch of Seated Mountain Eagles had seen a bird carry a fruit away, and that was because the bird had chosen not to eat it.

If they chose to eat the fruit, the next time they came, they could only compete for a fruit from a higher tier.

Even though a Seated Mountain Eagle would break through to the Meridian Passage stage after eating a fourth-layer fruit, that level of Cultivation might still be very dangerous on their next visit.

So, Jiang Zuo simply had them delay for a round.

This way, they could bring the fruits back for Jiang Zuo to study.

They could also use this round to break through to the Meridian Passage stage through their own cultivation.

Once they had greater strength, they could then proceed to the next round of competition for the fruits.

And so, Jiang Zuo lived on the Nameless Island for ten years.

The Seated Mountain Eagles’ second trip to the Mysterious Island had ended, and Jiang Zuo now had six fourth-tier fruits of different colors.

Because he wanted to make a comparison, Jiang Zuo hadn’t touched the fruits as he gradually acquired them.

The only thing he could confirm for now was that these things were purely natural; the moment he took out that broken piece of Innate Spiritual Soil, it would stir restlessly toward the fruits.

’Red, yellow, blue, green, cyan, and purple... Just looking at the colors, I can’t see anything special.’

Jiang Zuo had already asked Xiaoqing, who expressed no interest in the fruits.

Great Black also said it could eat them, but wasn’t very interested.

But the Seated Mountain Eagles were different; every single one of them was desperate to eat the fruits.

Jiang Zuo could understand Xiaoqing and Great Black’s reactions.

After all, one had already returned to its rank, even if it was just a Rank 1 Spirit Beast.

The other was a veteran Grandmaster.

These fruits, in the end, were only things of the Blood Exchange realm.

But judging from the reactions of those two, Jiang Zuo felt that the fruits might not be as good as he had imagined.

Jiang Zuo already had an idea of how to deal with them.

He planned to first place them in the Pet Beast Spirit Garden and let the Heaven and Earth Primordial Power nourish them for a while to see if they would undergo any other changes.

Then, Jiang Zuo planned to have a single Seated Mountain Eagle that had broken through to the Meridian Passage stage eat all six types of fruits.

If there was nothing wrong with the fruits, a Seated Mountain Eagle at the Meridian Passage stage should be fine after eating them and might even gain unexpected benefits.

This would have to wait until a new batch of Seated Mountain Eagles brought back new fruits from the Divine Mystery Island and advanced to the Meridian Passage stage.

After putting away the six fruits, Jiang Zuo made a move, and the Life Essence Returning Skill Jade Stone appeared in his hand.

The progress of breaking through the last twelve acupoints of the Life Element Birth and Destruction Technique was very slow, taking Jiang Zuo more than ten years.

Basically, it took him a little over a year to break through a single acupoint.

After living in seclusion on the new island for a full ten years, the last twelve acupoints were finally all cleared.

The Life Element Birth and Destruction Technique has reached Perfection! Hold this Cultivation Jade Stone and go to a place where the Spiritual Qi is not too thin to enter the "Cyan Wood Secret Realm" and obtain an Innate Secret Method. The Secret Realm opens once every hundred years. There are nineteen years remaining until the next opening.

Jiang Zuo had just been about to see what kind of method the Life Essence Returning Skill had for promoting to the Innate realm, but instead, he heard this message.

’Cyan Wood Secret Realm?’

’So it really is a key to a Secret Realm.’

’But...’

Hmph!

’These Cultivation Technique owners are really no good. Every single one of them holds onto the methods for promoting to the Innate realm, hiding them away and refusing to hand them over freely.’

Jiang Zuo couldn’t help but complain as he looked at the Cultivation Jade Stone.

Now, even the Nine Revolutions Returning Essence Skill was starting to look quite appealing to Jiang Zuo.

At least its breakthrough method was laid out plain and clear.

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