Beast Taming: I Have an Immortal Mansion-Chapter 75: 4 Talents

The early morning sun shone upon the Qingfeng Tea Garden, its rays passing through the dewdrops on the leaves and casting a golden glow.

Suddenly, the ground in the very center of the Tea Garden turned ethereal, and a Daoist figure emerged from within.

This man was none other than Fang Qingyuan. After surfacing, he looked at the Turtle Shell Spirit Shield in his hand, now covered in several cracks, and winced as he put it away in his storage bag.

A Tier Two Lower Grade Protective Magical Artifact was worth over two thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones. To afford it, Fang Qingyuan would have had to save up four or five years’ worth of his sect benefits without spending a single stone.

In other words, if Fang Qingyuan focused solely on cultivation and didn’t rack his brain for ways to earn Spirit Stones, he might not have been able to afford this Turtle Shell Spirit Shield even after ten years.

And that didn’t even account for the Elixir Pills, Earth Attribute Spirit Stones, and the three Tier One Protective Magical Artifacts he had used up underground over the past few days.

After taking stock of his losses, Fang Qingyuan realized his little excursion of a few days had cost him over two thousand Low-grade Spirit Stones.

’Exploring really is just burning money,’ he thought. ’If you aren’t wealthy, you should give up on such ideas early on.’

After a moment of melancholy, Fang Qingyuan’s expression softened. He reached into his robes and pulled out a tiny bear cub covered in pink fuzz, holding it up to his eyes for a closer look.

The little bear cub’s eyes weren’t even fully open, and it was no bigger than his fist. It was currently sticking out its tiny tongue to lick his palm.

Fang Qingyuan hadn’t expected the hundred-foot-tall giant beast to give birth to something so small. He had originally thought its child would be at least ten feet tall.

However, once Fang Qingyuan saw the cub’s Lifebound Talents, he understood why it was so small.

Fang Qingyuan activated the Spirit Checking Secret Technique passed down by the Beast Taming Sect, slowly extending a thread of his Divine Soul Power into the cub’s sea of consciousness. Within that faint consciousness, four spheres of light revolved around the ethereal image of the bear cub. These four spheres were:

[Size Manipulation: Can alter its body size, changing to anything up to ten times its original form.]

[Metal Devourer: Can consume metallic Spiritual Objects to increase its aptitude and grow.]

[Golden Eye of Truth: Can see through and is immune to all mind-affecting techniques below its own tier.]

[Golden Spirit Body: Body as hard as steel, its defense increasing with its cultivation level.]

After reviewing these four Lifebound Talents, Fang Qingyuan couldn’t hide his delight. He had never seen such a Spirit Beast before; he doubted even Lechuan had.

It was normal for an ordinary Spirit Beast to be born without a single Lifebound Talent. They only had a small chance of awakening one when they advanced to a new tier.

Yet this little beast was born with four Talents, and not a single one was common or useless.

According to the *Comprehensive Guide to Spirit Beast Lifebound Talents* that Fang Qingyuan had read, most of the world’s Lifebound Talents were clearly categorized and graded.

"Size Manipulation" was typically a Talent that only Spirit Beasts at the Golden Core Stage could awaken. Even then, the chances were slim; some Nascent Soul Stage Spirit Beasts didn’t even possess this Innate Divine Technique.

This Talent wasn’t suited for cultivation, but it was perfect for combat. When Wilderness Ancient Beasts fought, their methods were often simple and direct—it was a contest of who was more ferocious and powerful.

Even beasts at the Nascent Soul Stage couldn’t shake the instinct to fight enemies with their physical bodies. Since they couldn’t use external items like Magical Artifacts, they trusted their own bodies far more than they trusted techniques.

The other three Lifebound Talents were also high-quality: two were for growth, and one protected the mind.

In Fang Qingyuan’s understanding, if "Size Manipulation" and "Golden Eye of Truth" were extremely rare epic-tier Talents, then "Metal Devourer" and "Golden Spirit Body" were legendary-tier Talents with growth potential.

Of course, the resources required to develop "Metal Devourer" and "Golden Spirit Body" would surely be astronomical.

If anyone else knew about this bear cub, Fang Qingyuan wouldn’t be able to protect his own life. Someone would definitely try to steal it; even Nascent Soul Cultivators would covet it.

There were many Nascent Soul Stage Cultivators in the Beast Taming Sect, but finding a suitable Nascent Soul Stage Companion Beast was extremely difficult. Those Nascent Soul Old Monsters wouldn’t mind raising a Spirit Beast from infancy, since Nascent Soul Cultivators had lifespans of up to fifteen hundred years. They had more than enough patience to wait. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝒆𝔀𝒆𝙗𝓷𝒐𝙫𝒆𝙡.𝒄𝓸𝓶

Fortunately, the giant beast, buried deep underground, had done something to the cub at birth. Unless one was a Nascent Soul Cultivator, it was impossible to discern the beast’s true origins.

Anyone else who saw it would just assume it was an ordinary Tai Chi Bear Beast cub. Tai Chi Bear Beasts were common in the outside world, so a single cub wouldn’t attract any unwanted attention.

Fang Qingyuan had a theory as to why the cub possessed such incredible aptitude. It had gestated inside its mother for over two hundred years, constantly nurtured by the Nascent Soul mother beast’s own life essence. Such conditions were exceedingly rare.

Furthermore, Fang Qingyuan recalled the giant beast mentioning that to heal her injuries, her mate had exhausted his own fundamental Dao to infuse her with its power. A significant portion of that power must have been absorbed by the cub.

Fang Qingyuan also had a guess about the "mate" the giant beast had spoken of. During the Reclamation War of the past, the Divinity Transformation Ancient Beast that had originally occupied this land was also a bear.

’Sigh, what a noble lineage,’ Fang Qingyuan thought, looking at the whimpering cub. ’Your mother is a Nascent Soul, and your father is a Divinity Transformation. When you grow up, you’ll be a Golden Core at the very least.’

Fang Qingyuan had no intention of handing the beast over to the sect. Leaving aside the fact that the sect could offer no reward comparable to the cub’s value, the measure the giant beast had taken against him was enough to quash any such idea.

Fang Qingyuan touched his chest over his lungs, feeling the Gold Spirit Power coiled within. A shadow fell over his face.

To ensure he would wholeheartedly care for the cub, the Nascent Soul Giant Beast had used a technique on him while they were underground, sealing a considerable amount of Gold Spirit Power inside his body.

Without this cub, he would be blown to pieces by that Gold Spirit Power within a few months, leaving not even a complete corpse behind.

At this thought, Fang Qingyuan sent his divine soul into the Immortal Mansion. He retrieved some Golden Jade Flower Honey from the Bee Queen and carefully fed it, drop by drop, into the cub’s mouth.

Sensing the sweet, delicious Golden Jade Flower Honey, the cub began to lap it up greedily with its tongue, its eyes still shut.

After an amount of Golden Jade Flower Honey equivalent to twice its own body volume had vanished, the cub finally let out a small hiccup and a contented whimper.

Seeing the cub was full, Fang Qingyuan placed the little bear on his chest over his lungs. The next moment, fine wisps of Gold Spirit Power were drawn from his body and into the cub.

’That Nascent Soul Giant Beast’s methods are truly ruthless, her planning so meticulous,’ he thought. ’She probably calculated that the Gold Spirit Power in my body will only be completely drained by the time this cub reaches adulthood.’

That would take at least a hundred years. By then, he would be old and decrepit, his life nearing its end. The moment he kicked the bucket, the cub would be free to roam as it pleased, like a fish in the vast ocean or a bird in the endless sky.

’Hmph. A good plan, but you overlooked one thing,’ he mused. ’I, Fang Qingyuan, possess an Immortal Mansion!’

And so, Fang Qingyuan placed his left hand over his lungs and connected his divine soul to the Immortal Mansion. In the next instant, the strands of Gold Spirit Power began to flow into the Immortal Mansion, drawn out as meticulously as silk from a cocoon.