27: Chapter 27 The Hidden Struggle Between Spirit Beasts

Watching Yu Jin's sneakily departing figure, Fang Yuan smiled helplessly.

This whole thing was being handled like espionage.

He turned and entered his Immortal Cave.

First, he went to the Spirit Beast room.

One by one, the Spirit Beasts poked their heads out, looking at him with cute and eager expressions.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily. "You must all be hungry!"

With a wave of his hand, twelve Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills flew into the mouths of these Spirit Beasts.

The Spirit Beasts immediately swallowed them and began digesting the Medicinal Pills.

If the Disciples who scrambled to buy Medicinal Pills saw this, they would never believe their eyes. These were Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills! To think they were just fed to Spirit Beasts like this.

Fang Yuan left five more Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills in each of their rooms, and then returned to his cultivation room to Cultivate.

Half an hour after Fang Yuan entered the cultivation room,

In the third room, the Thunder-Winged Tiger, Little Thunder, opened its tiger eyes.

It glanced at its own five Spirit Pills, picked them up in its mouth to hide them in its room, and then walked out, arriving at the entrance of the adjacent room.

"Moo!"

The Great Strength Ox seemed to sense the Thunder-Winged Tiger's gaze and opened its bovine eyes to look over.

"Roar!" (Give me one.)

The Thunder-Winged Tiger growled low, as if lightning flashed across its body. It extended its paw, reaching for a Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill.

"Moo!" (Scram.)

The Great Strength Ox let out a cold moo, refusing to yield an inch as its horns lunged toward the Thunder-Winged Tiger's paw.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger's paw collided with the ox horns.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger's paw was actually pushed back by the Great Strength Ox, but the Great Strength Ox seemed to suffer from the paralyzing effect of the lightning, freezing in place.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger turned and snatched, taking advantage of the moment to grab a Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill into its paw.

The Great Strength Ox was enraged. It leaped on all fours, charging at the Thunder-Winged Tiger with all its might.

Its massive bovine body charged forward relentlessly.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger let out another low growl: "Roar!" (Wait.)

It conveyed the meaning of not disturbing their master.

The Great Strength Ox stopped in its tracks, glaring at the Medicinal Pill in the Thunder-Winged Tiger's paw.

"Roar!" (Here, take it back.)

The Thunder-Winged Tiger growled softly and ultimately put the Medicinal Pill back down.

Then, taking a step forward, it went to find the Black-Scaled Rat in another room.

The Black-Scaled Rat was terrified, watching helplessly as the Thunder-Winged Tiger snatched away one of its Medicinal Pills.

It hurriedly scooped up the remaining Medicinal Pills, hopped out of the room, and scrambled onto the Great Strength Ox's back in a few bounds, holding a pill to the ox's mouth.

"Squeak squeak!" (For you.)

The Great Strength Ox shook its head: "Moo!" (No need.)

"Squeak!" (Eat it.)

Xiao Hei insisted on giving it.

The Great Strength Ox thought about it and swallowed the Medicinal Pill given by Xiao Hei, which could be considered as reaching an alliance agreement.

Xiao Hei let out a sigh of relief, clutching the remaining three Medicinal Pills tightly while warily watching the Thunder-Winged Tiger walk out of its room.

Seeing this, the other Spirit Beasts began to have their own thoughts.

Seemingly inspired by the Thunder-Winged Tiger, the Blazing Wolf rushed out, its eyes locked onto the Medicinal Pill in the Flash-Shadow Rabbit's paws, and immediately charged over.

The Flash-Shadow Rabbit was extremely fast. Surrounded by wind spiritual qi, it scooped up its Medicinal Pills and leaped to the side of the Blazing Fire Horse, seeking its help.

Halfway through its charge, the Blazing Wolf opened its mouth and spat a burst of fire, blasting it toward the Flash-Shadow Rabbit.

The Blazing Fire Horse snorted, raised a hoof, and kicked the fire, directly dispersing it into scattered sparks.

The Blazing Wolf paused. This horse countered it. It then swept its gaze toward the Five-Colored Brocade Chicken.

"Cluck cluck!"

The Five-Colored Brocade Chicken immediately spread its wings, flapping them as it flew up to a beam, staring warily at the Blazing Wolf.

The Crimson-Blood Python and the Black Water Snake also slithered out of their rooms, their eyes darting around.

They naturally gravitated toward each other, forming a small team.

The White-Wood Goat also panicked and ran over to the Red-Leaf Monkey.

The two Spirit Beasts murmured to each other for a bit, then moved into the Earth-Thorn Pig's room.

The Earth-Thorn Pig lay there lazily, not caring at all about the arrival of the two Spirit Beasts. Its defense was extremely strong; if anyone dared to provoke it, it would give them an earth thorn to taste!

The Blazing Wolf looked around and suddenly realized that none of them were easy targets. Instead, it found itself being stared down by the Thunder-Winged Tiger.

It let out a low growl at the Thunder-Winged Tiger, signaling an offer to form an alliance.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger turned its head and roared, completely dismissing the offer.

The Blazing Wolf then saw the Crimson-Blood Python turn its head, seeming to target it as well.

Feeling a chill, it quickly drew closer to the Five-Colored Brocade Chicken, letting out friendly cries to express its intention to form an alliance.

The Five-Colored Brocade Chicken reluctantly agreed, flapping its wings toward the Blazing Wolf.

At this, the Crimson-Blood Python also gave up its designs and returned to its room.

The Thunder-Winged Tiger cast a disdainful glance at the group of Spirit Beasts and returned to its room alone to Cultivate.

Thus, the conflict among the Spirit Beasts came to an end.

However, because of this, their respective statuses and relationships were established.

In the room.

Fang Yuan had no idea about the subtle rivalry among his Spirit Beasts.

He took out one hundred Spirit Stones.

Then, he decomposed them one by one.

The Spirit Stones crumbled into stone dust, and bursts of rich, pure Spiritual Qi were released.

The concentration of Spiritual Qi in the cultivation room quickly surged.

The surrounding Spiritual Qi swarmed toward his body.

The three major Cultivation Techniques in his body operated simultaneously, rapidly absorbing this pure Spiritual Qi.

"The pure Spiritual Qi released by two Low-Grade Spirit Stones is equivalent to the concentration of a single Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pill. As expected, Low-Grade Spirit Stones are much more cost-effective."

Fang Yuan smiled and continued decomposing the Spirit Stones.

In one breath, he decomposed ten thousand Spirit Stones, which was equivalent to the amount of Spiritual Qi in five thousand Top-grade Qi-Nourishing Pills.

A massive amount of Spiritual Qi was released in the narrow cultivation room, turning the entire room into a dense white mist, with even spiritual liquid beginning to condense within it.

The Spirit-Gathering Formation of the cultivation room could not even contain this overly dense and pure Spiritual Qi, and a small amount began to leak out.

Fang Yuan immediately began to Cultivate with all his might.

Every pore and acupoint in his body seemed to turn into a channel for Spiritual Qi, devouring wisps of Spiritual Qi.

Fang Yuan felt as if he were floating on air, as if he had entered a fairyland.

This state actually harmonized with the Cloud Momentum, accelerating the cultivation effects of the Cloud Qi Art and the Cloud Body Art.

On the 206 bones in his body, there were a total of six cloud patterns. The three interconnected ones formed the Cloud Pattern Array he had cultivated during the Early Stage, while the other three were cultivated during the Middle Stage and were not yet connected, with the sixth cloud pattern still being incomplete.

But now, the sixth cloud pattern was becoming complete at an astonishing speed.

Under normal circumstances, when a Cultivator cultivated, they did so bone by bone. Only after one bone reached Perfection would they Cultivate the next. This was the normal way of cultivation, and also the reason why Body Refining was so difficult.

Not only the bones, but the flesh, blood, and fascia of the entire body had to be cultivated one by one, which was extremely tedious.

But Fang Yuan was different; the Perfection-grade Cloud Body Art allowed him to Cultivate as if it were instinct!

All of his bones cultivated the Cloud Body Art simultaneously, absorbing spiritual energy and drawing cloud patterns at the same time.

Combined with the infinite supply of Spiritual Qi, his cultivation speed was like lightning!

A large amount of Spiritual Qi was plundered by his Physical Body. This was also intentional on Fang Yuan's part; while it was inconvenient for his spiritual energy cultivation to progress too quickly, his Physical Body and Spiritual Sense cultivation could continue to grow.