vrcanaries Chapter 926 - 20: The Path of Beast Taming
Chapter 926 - 20: The Path of Beast Taming
To be honest, Ning Zheng has never doubted the cruelty of the Immortal Realm.For the Beast Taming System, sooner or later they have to cultivate "Destiny"; after they become Immortals, they must find an Auspicious Beast of Destiny.
In this regard, that type of beast-taming category is definitely the rarest one.
After all.
The Auspicious Beasts normally born in the Nine-State... amount to nothing more than a single Ancient Bronze Emperor.
The rest of the Auspicious Beasts are basically mixed-blood branches evolved from the Ancient Bronze Emperor as the source, such as Money Child, Golden Turtle and the like.
The bloodline on these fellows has already thinned to the point that it's almost unusable for Destiny.
Even the Taoist System was something that Sword Casting Manor developed from the Ancient Bronze Emperor's mutated Super Golden Mud, which Ning Zheng used in his Destiny gambling table and, through extremely irrational means, forcibly induced a throwback mutation before it started to expand.
Other people don't have a Destiny gambling table; they can only stare blankly and wait for a naturally born Auspicious Beast race.
All in all, naturally born Auspicious Beasts are extremely scarce!
It's possible that even the Immortal Realm's Beast-Taming Core Great Power System doesn't have many Auspicious Beast species in their hands to breed.
And as for the Night Emperor?
He's probably the Immortals' favorite.
Leading along an era's Ancestor—the Tao Venerate Night Emperor—and making him your tenth Auspicious Beast slot, how much face does that give an Immortal? How cool is that?
"Looks like we have to think long-term!"
"Earlier I was planning to hide the Nine-State and expose the Celestial Destiny World, but now that probably isn't a good idea either. Once it's exposed, the Night Emperor will be in danger; the Immortals will likely all fix their gaze on him."
Ning Zheng showed a thoughtful look.
Of course, it's not impossible that the shameless Night Emperor might voluntarily go be some Immortal's tenth beast-taming slot, skyrocketing to become the mount of the strongest Powerhouse in the Immortal Realm.
Either way.
His Luck was pretty good; he arrived directly in the Ten Thousand Beasts Domain and managed to get some intel.
Otherwise he'd be blind, while all the Nine-State big shots got shoved into cages as exhibits, up for purchase by those top-tier beast-taming Immortals.
From Ning Zheng's perspective, which is already on par with an "Immortal", the Beast Tamer lineage is very formidable, a kind of alternative Clone Series, and their cultivation speed is fast.
They entrust their power to their beasts, let the beasts help cultivate together...
The upper limit is terrifyingly high; multiple beasts cultivate quickly, coordinate well, and you can also feed them all kinds of Cultivation Pill Medicine and equip them with all sorts of Divine Artifact gear—an extremely powerful system.
The advantages are too many. Add a coordinated strike Array on top and it's almost too beautiful.
Although fully arming the beasts, feeding them pills, gearing them up, training Divine Techniques... is basically a bottomless money pit, which counts as a flaw, that "being broke" flaw belongs to the Beast Tamer, not to the System itself.
Theoretically, they don't seem any weaker than our Nine-State sticky foul-smelling people.
They might even have stronger offensive power than Nine-State Cultivators of the same level; every beast can carry gear and form a Battle Array, but in essence they're also kind of glass cannons.
The weakness of the Beast Tamer's main body is too fatal...
Fragile body, high damage.
After he'd figured out the regional system of this Ten Thousand Beasts Domain, he began pondering the path ahead.
Different systems will suffer suppression when entering an Otherworld.
Logically speaking, his Pseudo-human should be heavily suppressed.
But apparently...
The Immortal Realm's System has too high a compatibility.
Any system can perform perfectly here, so Ning Zheng found that his Pseudo-human basically functions at full capacity.
Embers virus might even work here too?
Of course.
Even if it can infect.
Once those big shots notice it, Ning Zheng has no doubt they'll have all sorts of great powers to easily wipe out the virus's spread.
At least this current virus version...
Is still far behind.
It wasn't developed with Immortals in mind.
Unless he later updates Embers' virus.
As for Embers, he doesn't intend to spread it anymore; Possession via Pseudo-human, though, can be quietly tested.
This Beast Taming System is quite special...
The essence of their beasts is external avatars—if I Possess one of their beasts in advance, then what?
What'll happen when they later tame that beast?
If I Possess their Body Beast, does that equal Possessing their flesh body?
If I Possess their Soul Beast, is that Possessing their soul?
Ning Zheng pondered, "If only that woman just now had bought this little rabbit, then I could have tested whether a pseudo-human beast, once contracted, can still Possess."
But it's fine even if she didn't buy it.
This little rabbit is too ordinary, equivalent to a Lower Grade Spiritual Root; even Loose Cultivators aren't very interested.
If I Possess one of those store-treasuring beasts, an Upper Grade Spiritual Root with powerful Divine Techniques, they'll definitely be sold quickly.
With that thought.
Ning Zheng let the little rabbit feign sleep and quietly logged off.
At night, with no one in the store, Ning Zheng quietly logged on; a Three Flowers Pseudo-human silently crawled out.
The detection Array didn't react.
Ning Zheng had already inspected it thoroughly.
The Arrays here only guard against the outside; they don't monitor the inside of the shop constantly.
After all, it's just a small shop; its three Upper Grade Spirit Beasts are already their store's treasures—what level of security could they have?
The Marketplace's security is already high enough; no one dares cause trouble and attack shops.
Rustle!
The Three Flowers quietly crawled along.
It reached a Subspace glass case, entered a patch of grass, and stealthily Possessed the Spirit Deer that was feigning sleep.
Rustle!
The next second, it drove its roots in hard.
Ultimately it was a beast cub; this little baby's Cultivation was only on the level of the Five-Body Realm.
Possession succeeded in an instant.
And this Three Flowers Pseudo-human wasn't controlled by Ning Zheng; it directly became a truly newborn Pseudo-human consciousness, no different from the newly born fawn.
Ning Zheng wanted to use this most reliable approach to avoid being spotted as abnormal.
Anyone who can afford an Upper Grade Spirit Beast probably has a decent family background.
If they discover that a Spirit Beast isn't blank and ignorant, but is born with Innate Wisdom, that's bound to trigger a major incident.
...
...
The next morning.
The whole day, no one came to buy the Spirit Deer.
Ning Zheng merely glanced over and saw that the newborn Pseudo-human was still dazedly looking around, seemingly learning and observing its surroundings.
It was just that its expression carried that unique stiffness, eeriness, and gloom of a Pseudo-human...
Fortunately, deer as animals don't really have much in the way of facial expressions.
The shop's clerk was just an ordinary person; he carried out the usual feeding, then went back to sit in the shop.
Seeing nothing unusual, Ning Zheng continued his cultivation.
The second day.
The Spirit Deer—or the Pseudo-human... began to show the aggressiveness a Pseudo-human should have.
As Pseudo-humans, parasitic species, they're born with extremely strong learning, mimicking, and adaptive abilities, to help them blend into the host species' group.
What's more, the seed Ning Zheng planted is a special Pseudo-human of the Human God Flower version: a Line-type Pseudo-Person.
Nine Chapters and Hongmeng were all created by these things.
This special type of Pseudo-human isn't like the others with various Divine Techniques; it only has one fixed Divine Technique: [Linear Neural Brain: possesses extremely strong logical analysis, calculation, and data aggregation ability.]
The third day.
The Pseudo-human Deer's... Divine Technique began to change.
The Spirit Deer manifested the Divine Technique of the Pseudo-human.
The batch of Pseudo-humans that Ning Zheng brought to the Immortal Realm includes Lower Grade, Middle Grade, Upper Grade, and Celestial Grade Pseudo-humans.
To avoid attracting attention, he's currently deploying an Upper Grade Spiritual Root-level [Linear Neural Brain].
Originally, Ning Zheng chose this thing as his first wave of Pseudo-humans because this type hides best and is the smartest.
But now...
Once it becomes a beast...
The Spirit Deer's mutated Divine Technique Spiritual Root will be exposed.
Once discovered, it will definitely draw attention and might trigger unpredictable changes.
Good change: it's assumed to be a racial mutation Divine Technique; its super-calculation ability is discovered and it gets bought.
Bad change: it's discovered to be some strange creature's Possession.
And Ning Zheng's Qi Fortune Value, a massive 20.1 billion, tells him it'll be a good change.
In fact, the probability of it being identified as parasitic isn't high; Pseudo-humans are not something that can be detected by normal means.
Otherwise the Nine-State wouldn't be so terrified of them.
Even Self-Transformation Realm Cultivators can't detect them.
Nine-State Cultivators catching Pseudo-humans have to rely on specially made Magical Artifacts that detect Pseudo-human-exclusive brainwaves to locate them.
And this world doesn't even have the concept of Pseudo-humans, so why would anyone guard against them?
Unless this Spirit Deer's Luck is extremely bad and it encounters an Immortal—one with special detection methods—only then might the Pseudo-human be discovered.
This probability is extremely low, absurdly low...
Ning Zheng's own Luck is also extremely good.
The fourth day.
Events unfolded as Ning Zheng had predicted.
"Ah, Young Master Liu, what brings you here!?" The shop clerk went up to greet him.
A meticulously dressed youth stepped in, "I came to take a look at the Upper Grade Spirit Beasts you've gotten in recently."