Translator: Exodus Tales Editor: Exodus Tales
It was silver in color, its eyes blood-red. After it took a look at Zong Shou, it roared out, pouncing right at him. It was an illusion, it was a spiritual body, but each step it took caused the ground to shake.
“Back off!” Zong Shou was unfazed, throwing out two talismans. They both turned into two balls of greenish-blue flames as they hit the paws of the bear.
The giant silver bear instantly leaned backwards like he had just touched lightning, pulling back his paws.
Zong Shou formed a seal with his hand and said some incantations. Just as the giant silver bear was about to pounce at him once more, he suddenly coldly shouted out, “Talisman chains thousand coils, bind him!”
Dozens of rune locks instantly rose from the formation and directly wrapped around the body of the giant bear.
It continued to struggle. It tried to stand up, its immense strength actually breaking the chains one by one.
Zong Shou didn’t panic, taking out yet another talisman, directly causing a yellow light to charge up into the sky.
“Stone Gathering Talisman, form!”
In an instant, earth element spiritual energy gathered from all around, slowly drawing out many giant stones and pressing them onto the body of the giant bear.
The giant stones gradually increased in size. At the start the bear could still resist, but slowly it couldn’t take it anymore. It was ferociously pulled down by the chains, and its entire body collapsed to the ground.
The red glow in its eyes became heavier. A bright glow shone out and suddenly a red mark appeared at the center of its forehead. A silver light was spat out from within, flashing towards the altar right next to it.
Zong Shou reacted quickly, using his will to fly the Black Wave Sword to fly over. He heard the spiritual sword being actually shocked backwards like it had struck metal. That silver light shivered, its power not reduced as it pounced over.
Just as it rushed to the front of the table, it was stopped by an invisible energy, frozen in mid-air.
A yellow talisman pasted onto the table ignited without a flame. The silver light finally showed its true appearance: it was actually a silver cone, sharp and glimmering coldly.
“This Broken Mountain Bear is mutated. I have already used this spiritual formation to prevent it from being unable to borrow energy from Heaven and Earth, and also used the chains and stone talismans to lock it down. To think it could actually still retaliate! Zu Renkuang said that this thing and the two Human Pinnacle Pills could be compared to the Broken Blade Sword in value, it seems he was being too humble…”
Zong Shou didn’t dare to take this lightly, the giant bear nearby roaring out once more, revealing its teeth. The strength of that small silver cone also increased, forming ripples in front of it. He made a Sword Forming Seal and had the Black Wave Sword charge down once more, nailing it right into the blood mark on the bear’s forehead.
It roared furiously, the entire room rembled.
The silver bear still wasn’t willing to be restricted. It seemed to notice that it was a soul body, turning into green smoke as it rose and dissipated in all directions, breaking away from the stone and the chains.
When Zong Shou saw that, he laughed instead, his eyes were filled with coldness.
“Bastard! Since I want to tame you, how could I not defend against this move? Although you are strong, you are too dumb. But that’s good, I like it!”
Stepping onto the ground, another talisman on the table burned. A lightning-like glow formed from thin air. Who knows if it was because of the Lightning Phoenix mark within his soul, but that silver lightning was slightly purple as it spread along the rune chains.
The bundles of green smoke surged and rolled. After a short moment, it gathered up and formed into shape once more.
Not only did it look much more dispirited, its body also shrank a little. It was like a trapped beast who couldn’t escape, looking towards the altar with vengeful and hateful eyes.
Zong Shou didn’t care, jumping up right in front of the silver bear. He wasn’t afraid that the beast would attack him, using his finger to dot on its forehead, where the Black Wave Sword had hit.
Out of his current Protector Spirit Beasts, be it Little Gold or the Rising Moon Lion, they all had physical bodies.
Recruiting a spirit beast was a first for him.
Luckily he had seen this done several times in his last life. Not only in reality, in the game he had even personally tried.
He used the Lightning Tooth Sword to cut open his veins. Fresh blood spurted out, but it was only one of the ingredients. Zong Shou opened up a small bottle, and a lot of jade-green, dark, and cold liquid flowed out.
It was made of numerous beast spirit stones directly refined, taking out their essence and then combining them with some special materials to form a spirit liquid.
Zong Shou naturally didn’t have the time to personally do that, but this item was really common and one could purchase it casually in any city.
The one Zong Shou was using now was a Grade Four spiritual liquid, the highest one he could purchase in Cloud Saint City.
After mixing in his blood, the color became even more devilish, green with a little bit of red. It was restricted by a certain sort of power as it seeped into the forehead of the giant bear.
In just a short while, a small talisman was drawn up, similar to the one when he tamed Little Gold, the only difference being the last few strokes could not be completed.
Sweat started to appear on Zong Shou’s face, feeling that the intent of this spirit beast was really crazy and violent, like waves crashing onto the shore, resisting and trying to destroy this spirit controlling formation to the death.
Laughing coldly, Zong Shou’s empty left hand directly grabbed a Grade Four spirit stone in his sleeves. “Swallow energy!”
That crystal immediately broke apart, exploding into pieces within Zong Shou’s hands. On the right fingertip he placed on the forehead of the giant beast, a ball of bloody light glowed.
Along with the last bit of talisman being completed, the red in the Broken Mountain Bear’s eyes became much dimmer. Even its expression was much tamer.
If it was a normal beast spirit, it would be totally tamed at this step to become his Protector Spirit Beast, from that moment on living and dying with the spirit master. However, Zong Shou could feel that there was still some resistance within the heart of the bear, the violence and hatred there was still not solved.
After that blood talisman was formed, it continued to expand and spread out to the bear’s four limbs. The Broken Mountain Bear’s entire body turned pale red.
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After a full eight hours, Zong Shou found a chair and sat down, panting profusely.
Taming this Protector Spirit Beast was as dangerous as expected. The other things weren’t much; with him being well prepared, this Grade Five beast couldn’t do anything to him.
What was hard was to focus continuously for so many hours. The talisman would collapse with just a moment of lapse.
The focus used up was several times more than three days ago. That day it was very painful, but it couldn’t be compared to today, where his energy was used up and his soul was dried up, like a lamp without oil.
In front of him, that originally sixty feet high giant beast had contracted to twenty feet tall. Even if it stood up on two feet it wouldn’t touch the ceiling.
Although it didn’t have the threatening aura from before, its expression was also much more peaceful, and it didn’t oppose Zong Shou’s orders.
The amount of soul power he had to provide was enormous. Even if he used the formation to suppress it to Grade Four, it was equal to Little Gold and the Rising Moon Lion added together.
Combined with the latter two, who had physical bodies and whose connection to him couldn’t be broken, three Protector Spirit Beasts were close to his maximum.
Even if he used the Energy Swallowing Technique to absorb spiritual energy from Heaven and Earth, it wouldn’t solve the problem.
“This Broken Mountain Bear was born with a silver demonic eye. Although it is unable to fully open, it can break through gold and smash stone. In the future, let’s call it Little Demon…”
Casually thinking of a name for the silver bear, Zong Shou thought back to how that Rising Moon Lion who was following his orders and hiding outside the city still didn’t have a name.
Although Rising Moon Lions were really rare, there were some in the world, so he couldn’t call his Protector Spirit Beast that.
After a beast reached Grade Six, it would have a unique name. Its life would be related to the name, so ‘Rising Moon Lion’ was not suitable.
“Its comprehension is decent and it has some intellect. Its future achievements will be far more than this, let’s call it Little Zhi.”
He didn’t think that the way he named things was like a small child, instead feeling delight that he was really close to the beasts.
Just as he thought of the name, he could feel that his soul had crossed twenty-odd miles, connecting to that Rising Moon Lion outside of the city.
This was a spiritual connection between a spirit beast and his soul. With his Out of Body Realm, it was around ten miles, unless one side had an especially strong will or the other cooperated, in which case he would be able to jump past that restriction.
“Oh? You found a treasure outside, similar to that Seven Immortal Loop. There are also two woman that look evil. Little Zhi, you aren’t their opponent, and want me to go take a look?”
Zong Shou closed his eyes for a moment before smiling. “A beast that just became Grade Four who has never seen a Spiritual Artifact, knows what a treasure is? There are so many experts in the world, even Cloud Saint City where a Martial Saint came from has people coming over to seek their luck. To see two slightly strong woman outside is normal…”
In his heart he was curious. Saying it was similar to the Seven Celestial Loop was worth him going out to take a look. Unfortunately he was worn out and found it difficult to even stand up, so he had no way to exit the city.
Speaking of women, Zong Shou thought about Xuanyuan Yiren and Li Yunniang. Who knows for what reason but after the two of them left three days ago he still hadn’t seen a sign of them again.
Did they suddenly regret and leave? If that was the case then it would be for the best.
His head felt giddy and heavy as he stopped thinking about that. Zong Shou waved his hand, and the bear to turned into smoke and entered his sleeves. After that, he lost consciousness and fell into slumber.
