15: Chapter 15: My Natal Spirit Beast's Satiety Level is Low!

Despite the many places where money still needed to be spent, despite the high probability that the first month's funds wouldn't be enough, and despite the fact that permanently binding the Divine Beast [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] cost 1.98 million!

Jiang Lan still chose to permanently bind the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox].

The reason was simple: in the memories of his past life, before he passed away, only three Divine Beasts had ever dropped in the game [qixian continent].

Furthermore, every Divine Beast was a Heaven-Defying existence, possessing their own Heaven-Defying skills.

To put it bluntly, money could be earned again, but the opportunity to bind a Divine Beast only came once!

[Ding! Congratulations! The Divine Beast [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] has officially recognized you as its master and become your Natal Spirit Beast. Would you like to view the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]'s attribute panel now?]

Jiang Lan's hands were even trembling slightly; after all, it was a Divine Beast, it truly was too exciting!

Name: Nine-Tailed Ice Fox

Attribute: Ice-type Divine Beast

Realm: [Qi Refining Third Layer] 560/2000

Satiety: 300/20000

Skills: [Thousand Faces Immortal Art], [Phantom Charm Art], [Body Fusion Art]

The Nine-Tailed Ice Fox's attribute panel looked alright. Although the upgrade experience for [Qi Refining Third Layer] was 2000 points, compared to his own [Qi Refining Fifth Layer] upgrade requirement of 50,000 points, it was just a drop in the bucket after all.

However, the satiety was indeed ridiculously low!

He would get more food for the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] tonight; this little fellow must be starving.

He didn't know yet what Divine Beasts ate, but he would research it tonight.

Jiang Lan continued to look at the little fellow's skills.

Skill Name: [Thousand Faces Immortal Art]

Rank: [Heaven Rank] B-grade

Skill Characteristics: The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] can merge into a Cultivator's body, changing their facial features, body shape, and even gender!

Except for the [Fiery Golden Eyes Immortal Art], no other cultivation level or Cultivation Technique can see through it.

Holy crap, this skill is awesome!

Jiang Lan was just worrying about how to get out with over a dozen Nascent Soul Old Monsters blocking the door outside!

Hasn't the solution just arrived?

With this skill, Jiang Lan could transform into a Disciple of the nine major sects of the [Taixu Realm] and easily sneak out of the [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm]!

The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] truly lives up to being a Divine Beast; its skills are simply too Heaven-Defying!

This game is so much fun! I want to top up more money to play!

Jiang Lan continued looking down; perhaps the later skills would be even more Heaven-Defying!

Skill Name: [Phantom Charm Art]

Rank: [High Rank]

Skill Characteristics: The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] can create illusions, trapping Cultivators or Spirit Beasts of the same rank or with a lower cultivation level than itself within the illusion.

To be honest, this skill was a bit of a white elephant!

For a Divine Beast, it was almost invincible at the same rank!

If I can win in a fight, why would I use illusions?

And in cross-Realm combat, illusions are useless!

The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] is a Divine Beast after all; surely the last skill won't be trash too?

Skill Name: [Body Fusion Art]

Rank: [Heaven Rank] SSS-grade

Skill Characteristics: The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] can merge into one with the Cultivator, and the Cultivator enters [Nine-Tails State]!

Speed, strength, and defense increase by 100%, and the Cultivator immediately fuses all of the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]'s cultivation while simultaneously fully obtaining all of the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]'s spiritual power.

Holy shit!

This is insane!

This is way too insane!

This is the core skill of the Divine Beast [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]!

Imagine, when fighting an enemy until both sides' spiritual power is exhausted, merging with the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] would immediately refill your spiritual power, double your speed, strength, and defense, and cause your cultivation level to skyrocket!

Then, you could look down upon the enemy like a transcendent immortal looking at an ant, and while they looked at you like they'd seen a ghost, you'd explode their head with one punch!

That's right!

It's just that Heaven-Defying!

At this moment, Jiang Lan finally understood why Divine Beasts were called Divine Beasts!

And why only three had dropped in the entire server!

Because they were simply too strong!

Jiang Lan snapped out of his shock and hurriedly opened his own attribute panel.

Since he went offline to idle at 1 AM last night, he had been practicing in the [Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation] for 10 hours.

Jiang Lan wanted to see exactly how much cultivation experience he had gained.

Jiang Lan glanced at his attribute panel,

Sure enough! His guess was correct!

[Qi Refining Fifth Layer] 6050/50000.

The concentration of the [Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation] is 200 times that of the outside world, and the Spiritual Qi concentration in the [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm] is 3 times the outside world. When the two are stacked, the Spiritual Qi concentration is actually 600 times the outside world.

That means one hour of cultivation experience is 600 points, and 10 hours is exactly 6000 points. However, his cultivation speed was still far too slow.

Jiang Lan then opened the [immortal ring] Small World to take a look. The Low-Grade Spirit Stones he had placed in the [void cauldron] before going offline yesterday had all been enhanced into Top-Grade Spirit Stones!

They were scattered all over the [immortal ring] Small World.

Jiang Lan spent quite a while picking them up before piling all the Top-Grade Spirit Stones together.

Jiang Lan counted them; there were 487 Top-Grade Spirit Stones in total!

Now, for the short term, the Top-Grade Spirit Stones should be enough.

Suddenly, the palm-sized [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] trembled slightly, slowly opened its eyes, and jumped onto Jiang Lan's shoulder.

It rubbed its fluffy little head against Jiang Lan and then stuck out its little ice tongue to lick Jiang Lan's cheek!

A cold and refreshing sensation came from his cheek. It traveled down his tailbone and straight up to the crown of his head!

The little fellow was extremely well-behaved, but it was already skin and bones from hunger, which was truly heartbreaking to see.

As expected!

The game planners still understood the players' hearts best.

The next second!

[Ding! system prompt: Your Natal Spirit Beast [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] has a satiety level that is too low. The System thoughtfully provides you with:]

[Spend 30,000 yuan to purchase one [ten thousand year spirit fruit], increasing satiety by 5000 points.]

[Spend 3,000 yuan to purchase one [thousand-year spirit fruit], increasing satiety by 400 points.]

[Spend 300 yuan to purchase one [hundred-year spirit fruit], increasing satiety by 30 points.]

[Spend 0 yuan, do not purchase.]

"Thoughtful my ass, you stupid planner, screw you."

Jiang Lan really couldn't hold back and cordially greeted the planner's entire family in his heart again.

This was truly such a money trap!

Cultivating costs money, satiety costs money, binding a Divine Beast costs money...

Jiang Lan felt at this moment that this was a game world where even breathing cost money; the air was permeated with the scent of money!

Finally, Jiang Lan chose [Spend 300 yuan to purchase one [hundred-year spirit fruit], increasing satiety by 30 points.].

The reason was simple: his natal Immortal Artifact, the [void cauldron], should be able to enhance the [hundred-year spirit fruit]. There was absolutely no need to be a sucker and spend 30,000 to buy a [ten thousand year spirit fruit].

"Clang!"

Accompanied by the sound of metal clashing, Jiang Lan placed the [hundred-year spirit fruit] into the [void cauldron].

After half an incense stick of time, the [hundred-year spirit fruit] became a [thousand-year spirit fruit].

After another two incense sticks of time, it actually did become a [ten thousand year spirit fruit], and its quality was even a Top-Grade [ten thousand year spirit fruit]!

The only drawback was that the time used for enhancement was indeed a bit long.

Jiang Lan took out the Top-Grade [ten thousand year spirit fruit]. The little fellow's eyes went straight, and saliva instantly dripped from the corner of its mouth!

But the little fellow just sat there, eyes staring fixedly at the [ten thousand year spirit fruit], its Adam's apple rolling continuously as it swallowed its saliva.

Unless Jiang Lan fed the [ten thousand year spirit fruit] to it, no matter how hungry it was, the little fellow wouldn't eat it.

"This little fellow really knows the rules!"

A spirit pet that knows the rules is especially likable, especially a Divine Beast spirit pet that knows the rules.

Jiang Lan rubbed the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]'s little head and fed the Top-Grade [ten thousand year spirit fruit] to the little fellow's mouth.

The little fellow was truly starving and ate very heartily, but as it ate, its eyes gradually became red and moist, shimmering with tears. Two pearl-like teardrops rolled down its cheeks and onto the cold ground, splashing into two tear-flowers!

While the little fellow was eating the Top-Grade [ten thousand year spirit fruit], its heart was full of thoughts of its mother.

If it had met this Silver-haired Cultivator earlier, perhaps its mother wouldn't have died.

Yes! The little Divine Beast could sense its mother's tragic death.

This was also why the little fellow had actively left its nest and sought out Jiang Lan's place of cultivation.

Because it knew that its dearest mother was dead and would never return!

It had become an orphan from then on!

Jiang Lan pulled the little fellow into his arms and gently stroked its head with his hand.

After a good while, the little fellow's mood finally calmed down.

After finishing the [ten thousand year spirit fruit], the little fellow's belly was bulging and its body had become rounded.

Jiang Lan opened the [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox]'s attribute panel to take a look!

"Whoa!"

[Satiety] 10300/20000.

Holy shit!

The Top-Grade [ten thousand year spirit fruit] is so Heaven-Defying; one can actually replenish 10,000 points of satiety!

Since there can be Divine Beasts in the [Ancient Desolate Secret Realm], there must be spirit fruits; he would find more for the little fellow tonight.

He could even reclaim a piece of land in the [immortal ring]'s Small World and transplant whole spirit fruit plants from the Secret Realm directly into it. That way, he would never have to worry about the little fellow's rations again.

Jiang Lan took out eighteen Top-Grade Spirit Stones and placed them on the remaining points of the [Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation].

Suddenly!

In the [Supreme Spirit Gathering Formation], Spiritual Qi with 500 times concentration soared into the sky, turning into hundred-zhang-long Spirit Dragons that crashed into Jiang Lan's body.

A sensation similar to an orgasm traveled down his tailbone and straight up to the crown of his head!

Comfortable!

It was simply too comfortable!

The [Nine-Tailed Ice Fox] also felt the Spiritual Qi becoming denser. Its dark brown eyes rolled around, and it burrowed into Jiang Lan's arms with a look of contentment, soon letting out small snores.

Jiang Lan checked the time; there were 10 minutes left before class ended. He hurriedly threw the 54 Low-Grade Qi Gathering Pills he had won from the lottery into the [void cauldron] for enhancement, and then went offline to idle and Cultivate.

Jiang Lan opened his phone's stopwatch, staring at the jumping time on the screen, silently counting down in his heart, "10, 9, 8..."