1: Book of Contracts

Cloud Sword Sect, living quarters for outer Sect Utility Disciples.

Inside a room less than ten square meters, Zhang Daobai looked at his familiar surroundings and couldn't help but sigh.

When he first transmigrated to the Heavenly Azure Realm, Zhang Daobai found himself in the body of a ten-year-old beggar.

At that time, it happened that the Cloud Sword Sect was recruiting new Disciples, so Zhang Daobai came to participate in the selection with nothing to his name.

Fortunately, Zhang Daobai successfully tested positive for a Spiritual Root, but unfortunately, his was the ultimate trash Spiritual Root—the white spirit root.

What was a white spirit root?

A cultivator's Spiritual Roots have their own attributes, and one Cultivates different Cultivation Techniques and Spiritual Skills according to those attributes.

But the white spirit root was different; it had no attribute. This meant that Zhang Daobai could not Cultivate any Cultivation Techniques or Spiritual Skills that had attribute requirements.

Even worse, Zhang Daobai's Aptitude was only Low Grade. It could be said that he was almost entirely cut off from the path of immortality.

However, the Elder in charge of the selection saw that Zhang Daobai was pitiful, so he kindly took him in and kept him as a Utility Disciple in the outer Sect of the Cloud Sword Sect.

After ten years of tireless effort, Zhang Daobai had exhausted all his strength just to barely achieve a Breakthrough to the Middle Stage of Qi Refining.

Yet, there was still a long way to go before reaching the Late stage of Qi Refining required to be promoted to an Outer Sect Disciple.

The Cloud Sword Sect had an order: if a Utility Disciple failed to be promoted to an Outer Sect Disciple within ten years, they would be expelled from the Sect.

And today was the very last day of Zhang Daobai's ten-year limit.

Feeling the meager spiritual Qi in his body, Zhang Daobai estimated that it would take him at least another three or four months to achieve a Breakthrough to the Late stage of Qi Refining.

But today was already the final day. Even if he achieved a Breakthrough tomorrow, he would still have to leave the Sect according to the rules.

"Cultivation is truly difficult..."

Zhang Daobai relaxed and fell back onto his bed, sighing deeply as he looked at the simple ceiling.

After reminiscing about the past ten years for a while, Zhang Daobai pulled a piece of square white jade from his chest.

This square white jade was only the size of a thumb, shaped like a miniature book, with a profound and strange pattern carved on the cover.

Zhang Daobai had named this square white jade the white jade book. It had transmigrated with him from Blue Star ten years ago.

Before transmigrating, Zhang Daobai had just graduated from university and was looking for a suitable job.

By chance, he saw this white jade at a night market stall and took a liking to it at first sight, so he spent money to buy it.

But as soon as he stepped out of the night market, Zhang Daobai was sent flying over thirty meters by a speeding Dayun truck.

When he opened his eyes again, Zhang Daobai had transmigrated into this body, and the only thing that had come with him was this square white jade.

At first, with ten years of experience reading web novels, Zhang Daobai firmly believed that this square white jade was his Golden Finger.

But after using various methods, including blood dripping, burning, soaking, Qi nurturing... even killing demons and people! None of it caused the square white jade to react.

"Sigh... what on earth is this thing?"

Zhang Daobai looked at the white jade book in his hand with a helpless expression and sighed deeply.

Just then, a loud boom echoed from outside. Zhang Daobai's fingers holding the white jade book reflexively loosened.

"Clack!"

The white jade book, suspended in mid-air, fell directly onto Zhang Daobai's forehead, and the cover with the profound and strange pattern happened to press right against the center of his brow.

In an instant, the white jade book, which Zhang Daobai had failed to activate despite trying countless methods, suddenly emitted a dazzling white light.

Seeing this, Zhang Daobai's heart jolted.

'I knew it! This thing is definitely not simple!'

Before Zhang Daobai could think further, the white jade book on his forehead turned into a beam of white light and bored into his brow.

The next second, a vast stream of information flooded into Zhang Daobai's brain.

Under the impact of the information flow, Zhang Daobai soon couldn't hold on and closed his eyes, falling into a deep sleep.

When he opened his eyes again, Zhang Daobai sat up abruptly and looked out the window.

After confirming that only an hour had passed, he breathed a sigh of relief.

Today was the last day of the ten-year limit. If he didn't go through the procedures to leave the Sect and depart on his own,

What awaited him would be the ruthless Law Enforcement Team, who would violently throw him out of the mountain gates.

After looking away, Zhang Daobai began to slowly sort through the information he had just received.

As he expected, the white jade book was indeed a treasure. To be more precise, it was a Legacy treasure called the 'book of contracts'!

This book of contracts came from a top-tier Holy Land in a Major Thousand Worlds—the Spirit Taming Holy Land.

What was Spirit Taming?

Unlike Beast Taming or enslaving people, Spirit Taming emphasized that any individual with intelligence could be contracted.

Even a rock, a grain of sand, or a blade of grass could be contracted as long as it possessed intelligence.

The book of contracts contained all the knowledge and Legacy regarding Spirit Taming accumulated by the Spirit Taming Holy Land over millions of years; it was one of the Holy Land's most important Legacy treasures.

However, why such an important thing appeared on Blue Star and why it followed him to the Heavenly Azure Realm,

Zhang Daobai couldn't figure out what was going on for a moment.

The book of contracts currently had three functions: first, the Eye of Appraisal; second, the Spirit Fusion Contract Array; and third, the spirit taming space.

The Eye of Appraisal, to put it simply, was similar to the photo recognition of search software from his previous life.

Once it identified the target Zhang Daobai was looking at, the book of contracts would list all the information about the target from its own Legacy of knowledge.

Such as the target's racial information, status, whether it could be contracted, cultivation plans after contracting, and so on.

The second function, the Spirit Fusion Contract Array, was mainly to assist the host in performing a Spirit Taming Contract and subsequently nurturing the spirits.

As for the spirit taming space, it was actually a Small World with special Laws.

As long as a spirit was brought into the spirit taming space, the special Laws within the Small World would quickly stabilize and repair the spirit's injuries and status.

It also had functions such as accelerating the evolution process of spirits, promoting their growth, and suppressing enemies.

After understanding the functions of the book of contracts, before Zhang Daobai could think more, there was a knock at the door.

"Knock, knock, knock!"

"Zhang Daobai, are you home?"

A slightly wretched male voice came from the door.

Li Dashu?

Hearing the voice, a name quickly came to Zhang Daobai's mind.

This person had entered the Cloud Sword Sect two years later than him. Since they lived close to each other, they often met, but they didn't have much interaction.

For someone he usually had little contact with to visit just as he was about to leave the Sect was somewhat intriguing.

Thinking of this, Zhang Daobai's gaze sharpened. He got out of bed and walked toward the door.