Chapter 33: Blood Oath Beast-Taming Technique
Yang Hong left.
Xu Zhengyang returned to the rear courtyard and sorted all the items Yang Hong had brought into his jade gourd.
Then he instructed the Su sisters, “You two go clean up the beast pen. I’m heading out.”
“Yes, Senior Brother Xu.”
The Su sisters replied in unison.
Xu Zhengyang nodded, then glanced at the time displayed on his retina.
Seeing it was already noon and Divine Mechanism Peak had opened to disciples, he took out a Paper Crane Talisman, preparing to ride it to the peak to the Scripture Repository to exchange for a beast-taming technique.
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Divine Mechanism Peak, Scripture Repository.
The Scripture Repository was a seven-story pagoda-like building.
At the entrance of the repository lay a gray-robed Daoist, reeking of alcohol, half-reclined in a hammock, leafing through an ancient text and taking occasional sips.
He saw Xu Zhengyang approach and lazily asked, “Where’s your True Essence Token?”
“It’s here.”
Xu Zhengyang respectfully retrieved the True Essence Token from his jade gourd and handed it to the gray-robed Daoist with both hands.
“Hm.”
The Daoist nodded, pocketed the token, then explained, “In the True Essence Sect’s Scripture Repository, there aren’t many rules. You can look through anything inside. But the jade slips only record the catalog and summary. If you want to exchange for the corresponding cultivation method, secret art, or scripture, come find me at the entrance.”
“Thank you for clarifying, Senior.”
Xu Zhengyang cupped his hands and bowed, then with a trace of excitement stepped inside the repository.
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Ever since arriving in the cultivation world, this was Xu Zhengyang’s first time in a place like a library!
In his past life, Xu Zhengyang’s favorite place was always the library.
So as soon as he stepped through the main doors of the Scripture Repository, his electronic-hamster syndrome flared up; even though the jade slips only contained catalogs and summaries, he desperately wanted to store them all in his personal database!
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An hour and a half later.
After labeling the final jade slip, Xu Zhengyang, thoroughly satisfied, returned it to its spot and silently summarized in his mind:
[There are a total of 3,241 jade slips in the Scripture Repository. Among them, 412 are cultivation methods; 2,482 are spells; 148 are secret arts;
The rest are miscellaneous scriptures, including many unverified fragments...
If classified by realm:
Tier 1: 2,841 entries; Tier 2: 336; Tier 3: only 64...]
Reflecting further, he highlighted in his mind the beast-taming techniques that could be exchanged with a single True Essence Token and used by a Qi‑Refining cultivator:
[At present, the only beast-taming art available for exchange with one True Essence Token that a Qi‑Refining cultivator can use is the Blood-Oath Beast-Taming Technique.]
With no other options,
Xu Zhengyang didn’t hesitate.
He exited the repository and said to the gray-robed Daoist outside, “I respectfully report, Senior…”
“The disciple wishes to exchange for the Blood-Oath Beast-Taming Technique.”
“Mm.”
The gray-robed Daoist nodded and waved his large hand, sending a stream of green light into Xu Zhengyang’s forehead.
At the same time, a flood of complex information surged into Xu Zhengyang’s mind.
After transmitting the technique, the gray-robed Daoist reminded him, “You are a true disciple, so I won’t make you swear an oath by your Dao Heart. This technique is for your use only—do not pass it on to outsiders, understand?”
“The disciple understands,” Xu Zhengyang replied respectfully.
“Mm, go.”
The Daoist nodded again, not even raising his head, continuing to frown at the tattered scripture in his hands…
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The Blood-Oath Beast-Taming Technique was a variant of a curse spell.
On the way back, Xu Zhengyang had already studied the Blood-Oath Beast-Taming Technique thoroughly enough to use it at any moment.
To cast the technique, two conditions must be met:
First, the caster’s cultivation must be higher than the subject’s;
Second, the subject must be in a state of inability to resist, with muddled consciousness.
The caster only needed to enchant a drop of their own blood, then apply it with specific brushstrokes onto the subject’s forehead.
The spell would then be successfully cast.
At that moment, the caster could connect mentally with the subject and would gain the power to punish the subject at will.
Moreover, if the caster were to die, regardless of where the subject was, they would also die simultaneously—an extremely domineering beast-controlling technique!
Upon returning to the Twilight Shadow Pavilion,
Xu Zhengyang dove straight into the meditation room and took Da Fei out from the spirit beast pouch, placing him on the cushion.
Recently, Da Fei had soaked in Heart‑Spirit Nectar and taken pills; despite having a demon king as a father and having triggered Bloodline Completion himself, even so, Da Fei still needed time to fully digest the medicinal power.
Seeing that Da Fei was still asleep, with muddled consciousness, just right for the requirement of being unable to resist,
Xu Zhengyang didn’t hesitate.
He directly pricked the index finger of his right hand, squeezed out a drop of blood, and began casting the Blood-Oath Beast-Taming Technique!
Moments later, as Xu Zhengyang used his own blood as ink to draw a mysterious blood-red rune on Da Fei’s forehead, suddenly, a profound sensation surged in Xu Zhengyang’s heart!
As if, at that moment,
Da Fei had completely become his subordinate on a soul level—utterly incapable of betrayal!
“Hurry and grow up,”
Xu Zhengyang patted Da Fei’s little head, returned him to the spirit beast pouch, then took out and swallowed a supreme-grade Blood Pill.
As the Divine Mechanism Art circulated his blood and qi automatically,
Xu Zhengyang came before the pile of spiritual materials Pei Zhen had left for him yesterday, and said with a headache, “Next, I need to create a new entry for ‘Immortal Materials’ in the cultivation database. Then I’ll test the properties of each of these materials one by one, and record them in the database.
Only by understanding the specific properties of these materials can I make full use of them and maximize their effectiveness!”
As he spoke,
Xu Zhengyang dug out some performance parameters from his past-life materials science:
Mechanical properties: hardness, strength, toughness…
Physical properties: density, thermal conductivity, electrical conductivity…
Chemical properties: corrosion resistance, oxidation…
Environmental adaptability: fatigue, creep, weather resistance…
…
Looking at this dense list of parameters needing measurement, Xu Zhengyang gave a bitter smile, “This is really a massive workload…”
As he spoke,
Xu Zhengyang added a few new material properties after the original ones:
Five-element attribute, spiritual conductivity, spiritual accumulation rate…
In total,
Xu Zhengyang listed all the spiritual properties he could think of.
Then said, “These surely aren’t enough to fully describe the nature of immortal materials. The rest can be added to the database when I think of them later or encounter new properties during practical experiments.”
At this point,
Xu Zhengyang glanced at the bare meditation room with only one cushion and complained, “Next, I need to first transform this meditation room into a laboratory. Then I’ll make some basic experimental tools, and under current experimental conditions, test all the material properties I can.”