"Ribbit~ ribbit~" The frog poked its head out to make sure it was Li Ji'an, then immediately hopped out of the pond. In just a few bounds, it reached his feet and rubbed its head against his thigh.
Two years ago, after the incident with the Medicine Garden, an elder who had returned from the front line took out his anger on the frog. He offered Li Ji'an fifty spirit stones, hoping to buy it so he could rip out its tendons and peel off its skin to vent his hatred.
Fifty spirit stones was already a rather inflated price.
After all, this frog was only a first-tier early-stage spirit beast, with a thin bloodline and almost no potential. It also had only one innate ability: "Swallow Heaven."
Apart from exceptional situations—such as swallowing something like the Medicine Garden, which was connected to the earth veins, difficult to separate, and needed to be properly relocated—its ability was much like a Storage Bag. Its capacity was comparable to a Mid-grade Storage Bag, except it could hold living things for a short time.
Moreover, spirit beasts needed Spirit Food and beast cores to feed them, and they consumed one's spiritual soul to control and tame.
For low-level cultivators, a Storage Bag was still better value for money.
Even for low-level cultivators interested in the Beast Taming Path, it was less valuable than a spirit steed. At least, once they had finished studying a steed, they could still hitch it to a carriage and make money transporting goods between mortal settlements and the marketplace.
Of course, spirit beasts with this kind of bloodline touched upon elementary Space Law and were said to be favored by high-tier cultivators. But those were at least High-grade Bloodline spirit beasts, with the potential to advance to a