Chapter 3: Spirit Book's Ability
At the foot of Lingyun Peak, there were scattered clusters of low houses made of green bricks and tiles.
Ye Jingcheng’s room was located among these houses.
He pushed open the door, and greeted the slightly barren inside.
There wasn’t much furniture.
An empty stone table, two wooden shelves filled with herbs and ancient books, and a wooden bed. That was all there was.
The only thing that could be considered good about it was that the room was very neat and clean, spotless.
Seating himself on a stool, Ye Jingcheng set the Jade Ring Mouse aside and carefully laid the Crimson Flame Fox on the stone table.
By now, he had already injected quite a bit of spiritual light from the yellowed ancient book into the Crimson Flame Fox.
The wound on the Crimson Flame Fox’s foreleg was still blackened and dry.
But its bluish-purple pupils had clearly become brighter.
Its cries, too, were sharper and more spirited, no longer as weak and dying as before!
Ye Jingcheng didn’t dare stop and continued to channel the spiritual light from the ancient book into it.
Under his observation, the Crimson Flame Fox’s fur grew more lustrous, radiating an intense warmth like a blazing furnace.
And the blackened, dried-up wound began to gradually fade, returning to its original color.
“There’s hope!” Ye Jingcheng’s eyes lit up even more!
The mysterious spiritual light from the yellowed ancient book really could heal beasts.
The only thing he still didn’t understand was the use of that nine-tailed demon fox page earlier.
He could only continue treating the Crimson Flame Fox!
The fox consumed a massive amount of spiritual light. After just a quarter of an hour, the light had been completely depleted.
It returned to its previously dim state.
“Slurp-!” The Crimson Flame Fox had already started licking Ye Jingcheng’s arm.
Its small tongue swept over his skin again and again, bringing a warm, ticklish sensation.
Its injuries were mostly healed, and only a small scar remained on its foreleg.
It was nothing short of miraculous!
Ye Jingcheng’s heart pounded. With the miraculous nature of this book, it meant that as long as he had enough spiritual light in the future, he’d never have to worry about his beasts getting injured!
The Crimson Flame Fox let out an even more pleasant cry. It shifted itself closer to the edge of the table near Ye Jingcheng’s chest and lazily laid down.
Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng quickly performed the blood contract. He bit his finger, drawing blood, and started tracing the spirit pattern!
Although this was his first time performing a blood contract, having grown up in a beast taming family, he had practiced it countless times and felt no unfamiliarity whatsoever.
However, as the blood dropped onto the Crimson Flame Fox's brow—
The first page of the ancient book suddenly lit up, becoming extremely dazzling.
The spirit fox depicted on the page also became incredibly vivid.
It breathed fierce flames, wild and unruly, and it continued to evolve.
In a short while, it transformed into a two-tailed red fox. It became even more majestic, its head proudly raised, eyes fierce and glaring, and its two tails dancing behind it.
In addition to this, countless illustrations of spirit herbs and spirit leaves began to appear.
“Heartless Blossom, Red Ginseng, Emberfall Grass, Red Dragon Fruit….”
Ye Jingcheng murmured the names of the herbs one by one. Because he studied alchemy, he was familiar with most spirit herbs, but there were still a few he didn’t recognize.
But according to the depiction, it seemed that by using these herbs to refine medicinal liquid or pills for the Crimson Flame Fox to consume, it would be able to transform into a two-tailed form.
All of these were fire-attribute spirit herbs, and several of them were extremely precious.
As an alchemist himself, Ye Jingcheng understood that although this seemed unbelievable, it wasn’t impossible.
But more than the value of the herbs, what truly stirred him was that if an ordinary Crimson Flame Fox could grow to the late stage of Rank 2, then what's the future of a two-tailed Crimson Flame Fox?
And even, the nine tails from the very beginning of the page….
Ye Jingcheng’s eyes grew increasingly bright.
“Yip yip!”
The Crimson Flame Fox cried out again. At this moment, Ye Jingcheng understood exactly what it meant.
It was hungry.
It wanted to eat!
However, what made Ye Jingcheng hesitate was that the blood contract with the Crimson Flame Fox seemed different from what he had learned before.
It felt as if the contract had been completed through the ancient book.
Ye Jingcheng took out a bottle of Spirit Nourishing Pills, grabbed two, and fed them to the Crimson Flame Fox.
The fox sniffed them for a moment, then chirped joyfully before swallowing both pills without leaving a single one behind.
Its fur began to glow with a red light, like beautiful rippling flames.
But Ye Jingcheng wasn’t in the mood to admire it. He turned to the Jade Ring Mouse, wanting to test something.
He wanted to see if the Jade Ring Mouse could also be drawn into the pages of the ancient book.
The mouse squeaked incessantly. It had seen Ye Jingcheng feed the fox and wanted spirit pills as well.
But compared to the Crimson Flame Fox, it was far less intelligent.
Ye Jingcheng didn’t get annoyed. Instead, he reached out his finger and performed the blood contract again.
He traced the spirit pattern even slower this time.
He needed to grasp the finer details in order to assess the ability of the spirit book.
Very soon, his blood dropped onto the Jade Ring Mouse’s forehead.
The blood contract was formed, and that strange feeling also appeared, but the spirit book did not change, and there were no herbs or images.
Unwilling to give up, he used the last bit of the spiritual light and channeled it into the Jade Ring Mouse.
The mouse squeaked louder, clearly enjoying it.
But still, there was no reaction from the spirit book.
After studying it for quite a while, Ye Jingcheng came to a few conclusions.
First, ordinary spirit beasts were clearly not within the scope of the mysterious ancient book.
Second, the spiritual light from the mysterious ancient book could heal injuries and even improve physical constitution. At the same time, for exceptionally gifted beasts, it could provide pill recipes or medicinal liquids for growth and even evolution!
Third, the blood contract formed through the mysterious ancient book was more domineering!
After studying the mysterious ancient book’s abilities, Ye Jingcheng remained excited for a long time.
But then he began to frown. Of the 400 contribution points he had, he had already spent some on spirit beast meat and Spirit Tempering Pills needed for his own cultivation. Now, he had less than 50 left.
And now he had to raise two spirit beasts. The pressure was unlike anything.
He finally experienced firsthand why the Ye Family, a large Foundation Establishment family, was famously struggling with finances in the Taihang Mountains.
The reputation of a beast taming clan sounded impressive, but it also meant greater resource consumption.
And now, two paths lay before him—join the family’s demon hunting team to hunt beasts, or continue refining pills in the family's shop.
His gaze couldn’t help but fall on the Crimson Flame Fox. Once it grew a little more, it would be able to breathe fire, which was no different from earth fire and could be used for alchemy.
At that time, he might be able to save some rent.