Responsibility

North of the Seven Domains of Cloudswallow lay the great sect closest to Kunyun Sect.

Occupying six domains, it was rich in resources, complex in terrain, and blessed with distinct seasons. It also possessed an extraordinary inheritance, placing it at the forefront of raising spirit beasts, exotic beasts, and desolate beasts. They valued their companion beasts even more than themselves.

Clearly, not just anyone could obtain a spirit beast that had transcended the ordinary and entered sainthood, nor did everyone possess the wealth to support both their own cultivation and that of a spirit beast.

By all rights, Beastmaster Sect should not have been such a powerful force.

Yet it could establish branch sects and outer helms throughout the lands, just like Hehuan Sect and Myriad Dharma Sect.

Normally, its cultivators' strength should have become severely polarized. Strong cultivators would grow ever stronger, weak cultivators ever weaker, and cultivators would instead see their own cultivation delayed by the resources required for their spirit beasts.

The reality was precisely the opposite. Beastmaster Sect's cultivators were powerful, its internal structure stable, and the resources it consumed were nowhere near as vast as other cultivators imagined.

The reason lay in Beastmaster Sect's unique secret art.

"A unique secret art?"

"Beastmaster Sect possesses a secret art that allows cultivators and spirit beasts to share one heart. A spirit beast's innate talents are reflected upon its cultivator, while the cultivator's own talent for cultivation is likewise mirrored in the spirit beast. This grants spirit beasts the swift cultivation of human cultivators, while human cultivators gain the sea-like breath of spirit beasts as they draw in and exhale spiritual qi."

"With the two combined, Beastmaster Sect's cultivators naturally cultivate twice as effectively with half the effort," Taiyi explained.

Tu Shan Jun praised, "Impressive!"

It truly was