Chapter 325 - 295: The Venerables Gather

Chapter 325: Chapter 295: The Venerables Gather

In the blink of an eye, Jiang Zuo had spent nearly a year in the Secret Realm.

It was almost time for him to leave.

But on this day, after offering his lifespan and Beast Patterns to the Mysterious Stele as he had done countless times before, Jiang Zuo suddenly felt the stele’s refinement progress reach 70%!

At 70% progress, just like before, Jiang Zuo felt he could use the Mysterious Stele to deduce and create another Cultivation Technique.

’But would there be any new abilities besides that?’

His interest piqued, Jiang Zuo began to explore it.

He soon discovered that at 70% refinement, the Mysterious Stele had indeed undergone a new change.

Within his Sea of Consciousness.

As Jiang Zuo’s Divine Sense stirred, black chains shot out from the Mysterious Stele like tentacles, grasping at the space around them.

The black chains could move freely throughout Jiang Zuo’s entire Sea of Consciousness.

There were no targets to test them on, but Jiang Zuo could sense that these black chains felt very similar to the ones from his Celestial Eye Black Pupil.

In other words, if anyone dared to invade his Sea of Consciousness in the future, Jiang Zuo would no longer have to wait for the Mysterious Stele’s passive defense to activate.

He could control these black chains himself and capture the intruder!

Within his Sea of Consciousness, he was the Celestial Dao!

’I really have no idea what the origin of this Mysterious Stele is!’

Jiang Zuo couldn’t help but marvel once again.

’I wonder if the Divine Wood Sect plans to seize my body. If they do, I’m actually looking forward to it a little.’

He went back to refining Array Materials, and in the blink of an eye, more than half a month passed.

’The feeling of rejection from the Secret Realm is getting stronger and stronger. I’ll probably be forced out in the next few days.’

Jiang Zuo thought.

Since he could be ejected from the Secret Realm at any moment, Jiang Zuo recalled all his Spirit Beasts into the Spirit Garden.

Over the past year, Xiaoqing and the others had hunted a large number of Demon Beasts for Jiang Zuo.

Besides obtaining a great deal of Demon Beast Flesh and Blood, Jiang Zuo had also offered the Demon Beast Essence Blood he acquired to the Desolate Heaven Beast Bone Armor, gaining over 3,000 points of Beast Soul Power.

This brought his Beast Soul Power, which had been running low, back up to nearly 4,000.

As for his harvest of Spirit Grass and Spiritual Medicine, there wasn’t much.

The Helian Family had entered the Secret Realm countless times, and they had already picked the realm clean of any valuable Spiritual Medicine.

After recalling Xiaoqing and the others, Jiang Zuo took a moment to look at his Spirit Garden.

The Spirit Garden was bursting with life. Spurred on by the various Miracle Buildings, the Spirit Beasts within were all full of motivation.

Compared to thirty years ago when Jiang Zuo first arrived in the Immortal City, the Spirit Beast population in his Spirit Garden had undergone a massive transformation.

Their bloodlines had evolved, their Races had obtained Bloodline Breathing Techniques, their offspring were born stronger, and their population had begun to explode!

Because of this, Jiang Zuo had been forced to capture a large number of Demon Beasts from the Secret Realm and toss them into the Spirit Garden.

Otherwise, the Spirit Beasts in the Spirit Garden would soon show signs of a food shortage.

Although Jiang Zuo had also transplanted many Spirit Trees into the Spirit Garden, his Spirit Beasts were carnivores.

He had previously captured a large number of Demon Beasts in the Daoist Talisman Holy Land Secret Realm and put them in the Spirit Garden.

They had managed to reproduce in the Spirit Garden, but they had been hunted to the point where their population was no longer sustainable.

The Vermilion Bird Secret Realm had provided a temporary solution, but Jiang Zuo estimated that in a few decades, he would have to go out and capture another large batch of Demon Beasts for the Spirit Garden.

However, Jiang Zuo wasn’t worried about something that was decades away.

Among the low-level Spirit Beasts, Jiang Zuo paid the most attention to the Seated Mountain Eagles.

The first generation of Seated Mountain Eagles he had tamed had long since died off.

However, as the very first species in the Spirit Garden, the Seated Mountain Eagles had always been the most numerous.

With their population advantage, they were able to benefit to the fullest from the effects of all the Miracle Buildings.

In just thirty short years, the Seated Mountain Eagle population had made the leap from Mortal Beasts to Spirit Beasts.

Now, as soon as a Seated Mountain Eagle reached adulthood, it would become a first-rank Spirit Beast and possess a remarkable Bloodline Breathing Technique.

Seeing this, Jiang Zuo was greatly pleased.

Meanwhile, over the past year, the Vermilion Bird and Great Black had been raising hell.

The Vermilion Bird had chased Great Black for over half a year, only to watch helplessly as Great Black refined its Inner Core.

How could the Vermilion Bird swallow such an insult after having its Inner Core stolen?

After that, the two of them came to blows every time they met.

Great Black was naturally no match for the Vermilion Bird, but it wasn’t scared in the slightest.

It treated every fight with the Vermilion Bird as a form of training.

Once it was outmatched and injured, it would turn tail and flee.

The Vermilion Bird would naturally give chase.

But one was in the sky, and the other was on the ground.

With the numerous Miracle Buildings in the Spirit Garden, Great Black would use them to play a game of cat and mouse.

The Vermilion Bird could only screech in fury, completely unable to do anything to Great Black.

Furthermore, without its Inner Core, the Vermilion Bird’s power was greatly diminished.

Until it could reform its Inner Core, taking its anger out on Great Black was basically impossible.

Realizing this, the Vermilion Bird steeled its resolve and went to the Time Cultivation Tower to train bitterly, vowing to reform its Inner Core as soon as possible and make Great Black pay.

As for Great Black, besides its own bitter training, it was busy courting a golden giant wolf.

However, for two fifth-rank Spirit Beasts of different Races, producing offspring didn’t seem to be so easy.

The two had been courting for many years, but the golden giant wolf’s belly showed no signs of swelling.

Even Jiang Zuo couldn’t help but wonder if they were subject to reproductive isolation.

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「Xuri Mountain Range, at the entrance to the Secret Realm.」

’That guy named Gu should be coming out in the next couple of days.’

’This whelp killed Elder An Wen, as well as Changpeng and Changrong. His crime is unforgivable!’

Inside a wooden cabin, Helian Yuyang thought coldly.

When he first received the news, he simply couldn’t believe his ears.