Chapter 167: Chapter 167: Elders and Members

Fengyu’s shock was because he couldn’t understand why it had formed so early.

And when he looked at Mother Duck, he saw her cultivation rapidly climb from the initial phase of the late stage to the mid phase of the late stage!

Her cultivation rose quickly in that moment of breakthrough! He could only look at her and wait for the spiritual power to slowly dissipate.

"Quack?" she exclaimed when she felt the weird part in her body. It was as if it had always been there and she just saw it, so it wasn’t exactly weird, but simply... new?

"Quack, what’s this?" she asked the obviously shocked Fengyu.

"A Beast Core!" Fengyu exclaimed.

The name instantly made Mother Duck feel a surge of memories, innate beast memories, awaken in her.

"Quack! This is!" she exclaimed in shock, feeling as if she had gained a huge treasure.

Looking at Fengyu, she didn’t know how to express her shock and gratitude.

...

Fengyu and the others stood in shock and finally talked about it, until Fengyu checked the information in his mind, only to find that there was indeed new information regarding the Grand Elder position.

The explanation was rather easy - the benefit of this was exactly as he saw, the Grand Elder would grow a Beast Core from his own dantian!

But because it’s a human dantian, it might look complete but it essentially is only one of three parts of a Beast Core.

Only once the beast reached the second stage would it fully combine and create the Beast Core - and until then, Fengyu wouldn’t gain anything out of it.

Mother Duck, on the other hand, did gain something - even a lacking Beast Core would boost her cultivation speed and spiritual power storage by a lot, making it a lot easier for her to reach the second stage.

Fengyu looked at this information for a long time before sighing. It was such a great matter, yet it was described so uneventfully in the cultivation art’s information, as if it was just like that. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

He shook his head and decided to move on -

Looking over to the two remaining positions, he decided not to use them but save them up for now, at least until Mother Duck reached the second stage and revealed to him what he would gain from this.

Two more kinds of positions were left: the Herd Elder and Herd Beast!

The information didn’t change. Contracting a Herd Elder would give the elder most of the benefits, while Fengyu’s benefit was having an assisting force. Considering it was a herding spell, it was actually very reasonable. It’s just that the mindset of cultivators is to have individual gains, but for a herder, this was a bit unreasonable.

Fengyu called forth the contract and the second largest Qi Bowl manifested right above his head -

Knowledge dawned on him as he asked the children of Mother Duck in front of him, "Are you willing to become Elders of the Herd? Protect and serve it, and lead it to great prosperity? If you are, then swear by the might of heaven and earth!"

Silver Feather stepped forward as the eldest sister, her eyes gleaming with determination, "Quack quack quack, quack quack!"

She swore under the might of heaven and earth to lead their tribe to prosperity!

One duck after another came forward, quacking and swearing -

The Qi Bowl above Fengyu’s head trembled for a moment as invisible lights rose from the seven ducks, wisps entering the middle Qi Bowl!

Fengyu felt a connection forming between them, a deep connection yet seemingly superficially focused on sharing spiritual power. He felt like there was supposed to be more... but he couldn’t directly define what it was.

Looking at the seven ducks who felt a far less impressive change, he smiled and asked them to cast their spells -

One spell after another, cast and sent out, somehow turned out stronger than they had in their memories. In addition, the spiritual power they used was replenished rather quickly, or maybe they had a larger storage of spiritual power... they didn’t really know.

All they knew was that somehow, there was an improvement!

To Fengyu’s dilemma, as they used their spells, he lost spiritual power too quickly and asked them to stop it for his own sake.

They naturally stopped and apologised, but he only smiled and explained the situation, already thinking of how to teach them to sense the changes in spiritual power and control it, so that they wouldn’t uselessly waste his spiritual power.

Finally, it was time to do the last contracting process -

He didn’t need to think long before he decided that the Herd Beasts would be those fifty ducks who laid eggs. Since they would remain with him the longest among the non-spirit beasts, they were naturally the best choice.

Walking to the other side of the duck villa, he asked Mother Duck to gather them around while he already started the contracting process -

This time, it was the largest bowl of all three, the late-stage Qi Bowl!

It manifested in front of him, looking like a water basin with the spiritual power gathered inside.

"Drop a drop of blood into it," he said simply as he had already inspected the process of contracting here.

Although Wild Beasts, these ducks weren’t really stupid. Fengyu could talk with animals, so they naturally understood his command. Having been with him for so many years, they generally followed his command as if he was the big duck leading them all.

Unfortunately, they didn’t know how to drop a drop of blood...

Silver Feather stepped forward and asked each one to stand still. She used her silver feather to create a thin cut on the duck’s chest, instantly followed by a small drop of blood falling down.

Fengyu used his Spiritual Control to take this blood and drop it into the basin.

Instantly, a sense of connection was established and he felt a teeny tiny bit of improvement...