I Have an Omen System-Chapter 122 - 114: Longevity Spirit Turtle (2)
"You have a sharp eye, Junior Brother Wei."
The imposter Qin Xuan gave an awkward smile. The Ink-Bone Folding Fan in his hand, which had been pulsing with a faint, dark light, snapped shut.
Wei Wuxian slowly lowered the hand he held behind his back, which had been ready to unleash a Positional Divine Technique at a moment’s notice. A kind smile appeared on his face.
...
「Inside the Cave Mansion」
The aura of the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Seventh Level surged around Ye Lan.
After shielding his presence from others, he impatiently took out the earthy yellow Array Chessboard he had just snatched.
A stream of information flooded his mind.
"So that’s what this is. It’s a Body Protection Secret Technique."
Earth Secret: Star Sand Body Protection Gang!
It draws upon the Power of the Stars to condense a layer of flowing, sand-like Gang Qi on the body’s surface, providing astonishing defense.
It is especially effective against sinister, evil arts and Divine Soul attacks.
A joyful expression appeared on Ye Lan’s face.
For some unknown reason, as if invisibly bewitched, the eyes of the Divine Soul Little Man in his sea of consciousness became shrouded in a thick mist.
As if possessed, Ye Lan began cultivating this Divine Power Secret Technique.
It had to be said that Ye Lan’s innate talent was truly remarkable.
In just a few short days.
"Power of the Stars, heed my command! Form the Star Armor!"
Ye Lan let out a soft cry, and the pores all over his body opened like stellar vortexes.
In the sky above, the stars in their celestial orbits seemed to answer his call, showering down a faint glimmer of light.
Specks of brilliant starlight gushed forth from his Purple Mansion Star Order, instantly blanketing his entire body and forming a constantly flowing suit of Star Sand Armor.
"What incredible defensive power! At its limit, it could probably withstand an attack from someone at the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Ninth Level!"
Ye Lan looked down at himself, satisfied.
Just as he was about to head out and find a Demon Cultivator to test its strength...
The next moment, for some unknown reason, his suit of Star Sand Armor suddenly disintegrated!
"PUH!" Ye Lan violently spat out a mouthful of blood.
It felt as if a colossal mountain had suddenly slammed down on top of him.
His bones creaked and groaned, and his skin began to crack and split, seeping out a thick mist of blood.
Fortunately, the towering, majestic phantom of his Golden Robe Emperor Monarch Dharma Aspect appeared behind him just in time to protect him.
’How can this be? Could it be that by using my Foundation Establishment body to forcibly draw upon the Circulation Star Power, I suffered a backlash?’
Ye Lan felt a coppery sweetness rise in his throat. He retracted the Secret Technique with incredible speed, barely managing to avoid damaging his foundation.
He couldn’t make sense of it no matter how hard he thought.
In the end, he had no choice but to give up. He decided he would ask the Astronomical Bureau about it after returning to the Imperial Capital, then look for another opportunity to cultivate the technique.
...
「Deep within the Bone-Eroding Demon Sea」
In a region of the sea isolated by an invisible force field.
Qin Xuan sat cross-legged on a pitch-black reef. Within a radius of several feet around him, the bone-dissolving, soul-destroying waters of the Ruishui River seemed to hit an invisible barrier, forming a perfect vacuum sphere that the water could not penetrate in the slightest.
’I didn’t expect a simple turtle egg to have its own water-repelling effect,’ Qin Xuan thought.
Qin Xuan grew increasingly interested in the dark green Turtle Shell before him, pondering how he could achieve its Refinement.
"Little Zhen Zi, get your ass out here!"
Qin Xuan roared and brandished the Soul-devouring Banner.
Countless fine, bloody threads writhed on the pitch-black surface of the banner, and the soul of Xuanzhen Ascendant quietly materialized.
"Greetings, Master." Xuanzhen Ascendant was like an old ox, his body stooped and a thick rein looped around his neck.
The moment he saw Qin Xuan, he proactively handed one end of the rein to him, his murky eyes filled with an expectant glimmer.
Goosebumps immediately erupted all over Qin Xuan’s skin, and a chill ran down his spine.
Then he recalled that he had made them cultivate a Holy Sect Technique.
’Oh, right. I haven’t been oppressive enough with them!’
Qin Xuan glared, and a leather whip suddenly appeared in his hand.
CRACK!
The whip struck Xuanzhen Ascendant fiercely across the back.
It left a bloody gash on his soul, so deep the bone was almost visible.
"Ahhh~"
The white-bearded Xuanzhen Ascendant let out a blissful-sounding tremor. 𝙛𝒓𝒆𝙚𝒘𝒆𝓫𝙣𝓸𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝒄𝒐𝓶
Qin Xuan asked, "Little Zhen Zi, let me ask you: how do you members of the Righteous Dao nurture a Spirit Beast and turn it into your own Spirit Pet?"
Xuanzhen Ascendant was still savoring the blissful sensation. He said in a trembling voice, "Master, you must feed it your Life Essence Blood day and night to establish a connection."
Qin Xuan raised an eyebrow slightly. "Life Essence Blood?"
"I’m a Demon Cultivator, and you dare ask me to bleed myself?"
CRACK!
Another vicious lash of the whip.
"Ahhh—" An expression of utter intoxication and pleasure appeared on Xuanzhen Ascendant’s wrinkled face.
Qin Xuan said, "Find another way. Preferably one that will make it think I’m its own father."
"My Lord, if you don’t wish to establish a master-servant bond with the Spirit Pet but still want to control it, then you could use this method..."
Xuanzhen Ascendant conveyed the Secret Technique via voice transmission.
The more Qin Xuan listened, the brighter his eyes grew.
"Not bad, not bad at all. Now get lost!"
Qin Xuan kicked Xuanzhen Ascendant’s soul back into the Soul-devouring Banner. He could vaguely see the faces of Chen Lixuan, Zheng Qi, and the other souls filled with envy.
They seemed to envy Xuanzhen Ascendant for having been beaten and berated by Qin Xuan.
...
「On an unnamed island」
Xiao Ran’s clothes were in tatters and his body was covered in wounds. His aura had weakened to a critical point.
He had only just managed to escape the pursuit of a Cyan Cloud Sect disciple at the Heavenly Dao Foundation Establishment Fourth Level.
"Haaa..."
Xiao Ran let out a long sigh, leaning his back against a massive reef. He gently rubbed the simple, black pendant hanging from his neck.
His eyes were vacant as he dazedly muttered the same words he had repeated thousands of times.
"Master, you haven’t appeared for almost half a year... If you don’t awaken soon, your disciple is truly going to die in this Foundation Establishment Chaos War..."
Just as Xiao Ran, who held no hope for Elder Chen’s awakening, was about to give up, he thought he saw a faint glimmer of light from the ring-pendant.
At first, Xiao Ran thought it was a hallucination.
But then it glowed again. He rubbed his eyes hard and saw that the dark light from the ring-pendant was growing brighter and brighter.
"It’s not a hallucination!"
Xiao Ran’s heart pounded with excitement, and his breathing grew ragged.
Sure enough, a moment later, a cloud of white mist billowed out from the black ring, accompanied by a long, drawn-out sigh.
"My disciple, you have suffered."
Xiao Ran choked back tears. "Master, I haven’t suffered. As long as you are alright, Master, everything I’ve done has been worth it."
"It is good to hear you say that."
Elder Chen nodded in satisfaction as a strange Demonic Qi billowed from his form. "Then... are you willing to help this old master possess a body?"
BOOM!
Xiao Ran looked as if he’d been struck by lightning. The expression on his face froze solid.
...
「Inside a particular Cave Mansion」
A small Blood Pool gurgled, viscous bubbles of blood rising to the surface. A foul Demon Qi mingled with the cloying, metallic scent of rust, filling the entire Cave Mansion.
And submerged within it, soaking quietly, was the Longevity Turtle Egg, its dark green shell covered in silvery patterns.
Qin Xuan’s eyes gleamed as he rubbed his hands together in anticipation.
’I never thought there’d be such a convenient, accelerated method for contracting a Spirit Beast.’
’It seems that for a Righteous Cultivator, Little Zhen Zi has done his fair share of dirty work!’
Only a few months had passed.
The Longevity Turtle Egg before him, which would normally have taken several years to hatch, was already showing faint signs of cracking.
The process had been shortened by a factor of more than ten.
The price, however, was steep: it required the Essence Blood of three Foundation Establishment Fourth Level Longevity Turtles from the same bloodline to nourish it!
In addition, Qin Xuan had even restrained their souls, locking them within the Blood Pool to provide a continuous supply of malevolent, resentful energy.
’Nourish it with the Essence Blood of its own kind, use the deathly aura of Resentful Spirits as a medium to forcibly establish a master-servant contract, and finally stamp it with my own Divine Soul Brand...’
’Why didn’t I think of this before?!’
Qin Xuan was currently in the guise of Du Legu.
Qin Xuan felt that Xuanzhen Ascendant’s method had opened up a whole new world for him.
The method was called Blood Sacrifice Slave Spirit.
A Spirit Beast nurtured this way could even break through its original bloodline shackles and mutate. Moreover, it would remain forever loyal only to its master.
’The only drawback, unfortunately, is that it might not be very bright, with its sea of consciousness saturated by malevolent energy.’
’It will only recognize me from now on.’
But what use was intelligence to a Spirit Pet?
Obedience was more important than intelligence.
The silver patterns on the Turtle Egg were gradually being replaced by pitch-black Demonic Qi.
The shattered shells of adult Longevity Turtles and the skeletal remains of Demon Race corpses, now bleached white, were scattered across the floor.
These were clearly the remains of the Spirit Turtle Royal Family members that Qin Xuan had slain during this period.
However, Qin Xuan felt no psychological burden whatsoever.
’I’m a Demon Cultivator. The fact that I’m using a Righteous Dao method to refine a Spirit Pet is already giving the Demon Race plenty of face!’
’No, that’s not right. The one who killed those demons was clearly the Demon Flood Dragon, Aao Peak. It had nothing to do with me.’
He remembered how enthusiastic those three Longevity Spirit Turtles had been when he met them.
"Lord Aao, we are willing to serve under your command!" Before they even finished speaking, the three Longevity Spirit Turtles were kowtowing, their heads thudding against the ground.
Qin Xuan had nodded with a wide smile.
Then, with a flash of cold sword light, he had slit their throats—one clean strike for each.
