480. Trouble? I'm not in the least bit anxious!

Owe one, owe two, it's still a debt.

He will definitely be able to repay the two grade Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone in the future.

So, Song Shuhang nodded. "Okay."

The stall owner quickly handed the Spirit Beast Crystal to Song Shuhang, and then took the Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone from Venerable White.

While rarity increases value, Spirit Beast Crystal are indeed rare items. However, they are rather useless and not easy to sell.

"Fellow Daoist, may I ask what kind of spirit beast's beast crystal this is?" Song Shuhang asked, holding the diamond beast crystal.

"This is a 'Tiger Crystal,' a beast crystal from a tiger-type spirit beast," the stall owner replied.

Tiger Crystal? Why do I feel a resonance with a Tiger Crystal, and even have an intuition that I absolutely must have it?

Thinking it over, Song Shuhang took out the precious pearl he had bought from the female office worker and asked, "Fellow Daoist, do you know what kind of spirit beast's crystal this is?"

This young friend has a penchant for collecting 'Beast Spirit Crystal'? If I'd known that, I might have been able to raise the price of Tiger Crystal a bit! Oh no, this is greed...

The stall owner took the pearl from Song Shuhang, examined it for a moment, and said, "If I'm not mistaken... this beast crystal should be a turtle-type 'beast crystal.' Turtle and snake-type beast crystals are both pearl-shaped like this. And the aura within this Spirit Beast Crystal leans more towards that of a turtle."

"Thank you, stall owner." Song Shuhang nodded and took back his beast crystal.

Both the tiger- Spirit Beast Crystal and turtle-type Spirit Beast Crystal reacted to him.

What special connection do I have with turtles and tigers?

Song Shuhang cleared his mind, organized his belongings and cultivation techniques... and immediately, he thought of something—the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>!

This is the only thing about him that is related to 'beast'.

This unique cultivation method, which allows Houtian to cultivate 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi', contains thirty-three cultivation techniques. Song Shuhang chose the 'Giant Whale Chapter' to cultivate.

Besides the giant whale, the other Thirty-Three Beasts in this extraordinary skill include two types of beasts: the tortoise and the tiger.

Could the resonance between myself and these two Beast Spirit Crystal be the reason for this <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>?

Venerable White continued to lead Song Shuhang and Soft Feather through the Cultivator Trading Market.

"Senior White, will there be any other 'Beast Spirit Crystal' at this Trade Conference?" Song Shuhang asked, wanting to confirm his guess.

If the 'Beast Spirit Crystal' of the thirty-three spirit beasts contained in the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique> all react with him, then it can be confirmed that he is halfway to the truth.

If you can find Beast Spirit Crystal that doesn't belong to any of the 'thirty-three beast types', you can also try to see if there's a reaction. If there's no reaction, then you can be completely certain.

"Take a look around, you're sure to find it," Venerable White said with a smile. "Do you have any guesses in your mind?"

"It's somewhat... perhaps related to the cultivation technique that Senior White taught me," Song Shuhang said in a low voice.

Venerable White pondered for a moment.

Then, circles of golden runes flashed in his eyes—those golden runes represented the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>.

The Venerable White is currently calculating this cultivation method.

After a moment, the Venerable nodded slightly. "That's quite possible... Let's continue exploring and see if we can find more 'Beast Spirit Crystal'."

An hour and a half later.

The three of them visited all the stalls and obtained seven 'Beast Spirit Crystal'.

Seven kinds of Beast Spirit Crystal: rabbit, sheep, deer, dog, bear, horse, and crane.

These are all types of spirit beasts that 'spirit beast breeding sects' will cultivate in large quantities, so most of the Beast Spirit Crystal that can be found on the market are of these seven types.

With these 7 Spirit Stone, Song Shuhang now owes Senior White 9 Fourth-Grade Spirit Stone. Little by little, the debt keeps growing...

In addition, Venerable White and Song Shuhang also discovered several other kinds of Beast Spirit Crystal, including those of 'butterflies' and 'bees'. These two kinds of spirit beasts are also spirit creatures that cultivator sects cultivate in large quantities.

However, as Song Shuhang had predicted, neither of the two Beast Spirit Crystal resonated with him.

Butterflies and bees are not included in the thirty-three types of spiritual creatures in the "Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique".

"Therefore, it can be confirmed that these Beast Spirit Crystal are related to the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>. Perhaps... this is another method for you to condense 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi'," said Venerable White.

"?" Song Shuhang looked at Senior White with a puzzled expression. It was Venerable White who had been researching this extraordinary skill, and he was only responsible for cultivating it.

The Venerable White had previously obtained the first and second volumes of this extraordinary skill from the mastermind behind the 'Thirty-Three Beast God Sect' assassin organization, and after improving them, he passed them on to Song Shuhang.

After Song Shuhang cultivated the Giant Whale Chapter of this extraordinary skill, a needle-shaped stream of true energy formed in his Dantian, standing upright in Dantian very center. This needle-shaped stream of true energy was the prototype of 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi'.

However, he still had no clue how to transform this 'nascent true qi' into Pseudo-Innate True Qi.

"Shuhang, do you still remember those assassins from the 'Thirty-Three Beast God Sect'? Each of them cultivated a beast-type technique of this extraordinary skill," Venerable White said with a smile.

Song Shuhang nodded, especially thinking about Whale Eight, who cultivated the same 'Giant Whale Chapter' as him, and his inhumane act of killing a girl in his arms... He couldn't help but shed tears when he recalled it.

He experienced the entire life of the 'Chu Chu' girl and even clearly enjoyed the process of killing her while holding her in his arms.

"But those assassins didn't have any 'nascent true qi' formed within their bodies, right?" Venerable White chuckled.

Song Shuhang nodded. He remembered that when Venerable White mentioned 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi' to that Whale Eight, the other party was completely dumbfounded, having no idea that his cultivation technique could produce 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi'.

"The cultivation techniques they practiced were modified... just like the 'Volume One and Volume Two' techniques that the person behind the 'Thirty-Three Beast God Sect' sent us back then," Venerable White continued. "They were cultivated as 'True Qi Seed'."

The Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique is named 'Thirty-Three Beasts', but it is impossible for a cultivator to learn all thirty-three of the spirit beast chapter techniques by one person.

However, to condense a trace of 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi', it is necessary to combine the true qi of the 'Thirty-Three Beasts' into one.

In ancient times, when the Thirty-Three Beast God Sect was at its peak, it must have had secret methods to enable its disciples to achieve the unity of the Thirty-Three Beasts' true energy.

Or it could be the secret method of having the thirty-three disciples cooperate with each other and combine their strengths to form the '33 Cultivation' technique.

Or perhaps one can achieve the unity of true qi by using external objects.

But now, this ancient sect has declined.

This method of unifying true qi is no longer complete.

So, this 'behind-the-scenes' came up with a plan.

He trained over thirty subordinates, each cultivating a chapter of the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>, but he modified their cultivation methods. This group of assassins became the seeds of the <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>. Once the time was right, the mastermind would devour the 'Origin True Qi' within them.

This was originally just a guess by Venerable White.

However, when the person behind the scenes came to ransom his subordinates, he circled around the other captured subordinates while ransoming the three captured subordinates.

While circling, it quietly devours the Origin True Qi from its subordinates.

What the person behind the scenes didn't expect was that Venerable White had secretly tampered with the bodies of those subordinates. The Origin True Qi he had quietly absorbed was about to cause problems.

Venerable White was just waiting for the other party to come knocking on his door again—it would be a perfect opportunity to obtain the complete <Thirty-Three Beasts Innate Unity Qi Technique>, as well as the method to fuse 'Pseudo-Innate True Qi'.

However, it now seems that this Beast Spirit Crystal is the key to fusing 'Innate True Qi'?

Perhaps this Beast Spirit Crystal can represent those 'True Qi Seed'.

If that's the case, after Song Shuhang obtains the method of 'fusion of Innate True Qi's and gathers thirty-three Beast Spirit Crystal, he can attempt to condense 'Innate True Qi'.

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"Should I try to collect more 'Beast Spirit Crystal'?" Song Shuhang currently has 9 Beast Spirit Crystal, which is still far from the total of 33.

"Collect as much as you can... Before you advance to the Third-Grade Battle King realm, you must condense the 'Innate True Qi' within your body." Venerable White nodded and said, "After this time, after my fellow Daoists from the Nine Provinces Number One Group and I have explored that 'Primordial Ruins,' I will obtain the complete <Thirty-Three Beasts Unparalleled Qi Technique> and study it. Shuhang, you should take advantage of this time to diligently collect Beast Spirit Crystal."

"No problem!" Song Shuhang, clenching his fist.

"Let's take another look around and see what items you can use during your 'One-Month Space Trip'," Venerable White said, squinting his eyes.

Song Shuhang: "..."

"Senior, a month is too long. We need to seize every minute. No... we can shorten the time a bit, how about half a month?" Song Shuhang pleaded.

"A man's word is his bond." Venerable White turned his head and said, "If I say one month, then one month. Not a minute less."

"Then, when am I going to go to space?" Song Shuhang asked, forcing himself to speak.

Venerable White gave a thumbs up. "I'll send you up after the Trade Conference! Don't worry, I've developed a new model of my 'Disposable Flying Sword' series. After taking you up there, I can bring you back safely in a month. No problem!"

"Senior, could you delay it for a few days?" Song Shuhang hurriedly said, "My Spirit Ghost is still sealed inside the package belonging to the Household Patriarch Chu and refuses to come out. At least let me and Jiang deliver the package to the Household Patriarch Chu, okay?"

"I see." Venerable White stroked his chin. "However, after the Trade Conference, I will be going with my fellow Daoists to explore that Primordial Ruins. Exploring the ruin will take an unknown amount of time, so I won't be able to personally send you to the universe then."

"It's okay, it's okay, I'm not in a hurry, I'm not in a hurry at all," Song Shuhang said excitedly—this is exactly what I wanted!

"Alright, then we'll have to change our plans," said Venerable White.

The method for sending Song Shuhang to space needs to be revised...