The Effects of the Spirit Ascension Liquid

"Well, the courtyard is quiet again."

Looking at the sleeping Little Blue and Eleven, who was cultivating within his Beast Taming Space, Xu Bai gave a self-deprecating smile.

"Since you both have things to do, I can't just sit idle."

After tidying up the courtyard, Xu Bai left his home and headed straight for the Qinghe City branch of the Spirit Hall.

Ever since his mental power had improved, he hadn't spent time browsing books on Soul Beasts. Now that he had nothing else to do, it was the perfect time to return to his old routine.

The Spirit Hall in Qinghe City wasn't much different from the one in Qingshan City; it felt as though they had both been built from the same set of blueprints.

Thus, after Xu Bai presented his Soul Master credentials, he found the library with practiced ease.

The decor and layout of the library were identical to the one in Huangshan City, though the books themselves were naturally different.

And what differed were precisely the books on Soul Beasts that Xu Bai needed. As for the books regarding Soul Masters, they remained limited to basic common knowledge.

One could only say that it was truly a dark and decaying feudal society.

Even an organization like the Spirit Hall, which was founded with the intention of serving the vast majority of Soul Masters, would keep the books that Soul Masters truly needed locked away, fearing that such knowledge might shake their leadership position in the Soul Master world.

"Greater ability brings greater responsibility, but conversely, lesser ability brings lesser responsibility. I'm just a Great Soul Master right now; why am I thinking about all this? I should take care of myself before worrying about anything else."

Xu Bai shook his head slowly, pulled a book he hadn't read yet from the shelf, found a seat, and spent the entire day in quiet study.

By evening, he returned home.

Xu Bai glanced at Little Blue in the corner; it was still fast asleep, the silver stripes on its leaves emitting a faint, rhythmic glow.

The glow pulsed like a steady breath.

Inside the Beast Taming Space, Eleven's cultivation hadn't ceased either. The energy vortex above its body showed no signs of stopping; in fact, it felt as if it were faintly expanding.

"It seems the effect of the Life Night was quite good. It actually kept Eleven from eating for an entire day."

Xu Bai clicked his tongue and went to the kitchen to prepare a simple dinner.

After eating his fill, he went to bed.

Days passed like this, and in the blink of an eye, the seventh day arrived.

As soon as Xu Bai opened his eyes in bed, he felt an urgent emotion coming from Eleven within the Beast Taming Space, as if something major were about to happen.

He would have been happy about Eleven waking up, but given the circumstances, he felt a sense of gravity and hurriedly summoned it out.

"What's wrong, Eleven? What could be so important that you couldn't just tell me through the contract mark?"

Once out, Eleven saw its surroundings, its eyes lit up, and it let out a somewhat shy cry:

"Um, Beast Tamer, I'm hungry. Could you please go and make me a meal..."

Xu Bai: ?????

"So, you were acting so urgent just because you wanted to come out and eat?"

"Heaven and earth are vast, but eating is the most important thing!"

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Xu Bai rubbed his forehead. "Couldn't you have just said that in the Beast Taming Space? You had me thinking something terrible had happened."

Eleven looked bashful. "I wanted to eat as soon as I woke up, but I was afraid of making you angry. I thought if you got mad, you'd lock me back in the Beast Taming Space and not give me any food..."

"So you knew, huh?"

Xu Bai shot a glance at Eleven, who was beginning to resemble Gong Baiwan, and said irritably, "If I really didn't want to cook for you, do you think coming out would change my mind?"

Hearing this, Eleven immediately put on a pitiful expression. "Beast Tamer, please, I'm starving..."

Seeing this, Xu Bai shook his head helplessly and reached out to give the Little White Tiger a firm pat on the head. "Look at you, there's not a shred of the King of Beasts left in that attitude."

"Even if I become the King of Soul Beasts in the future, I'll still be like this in front of my Beast Tamer." Eleven said with a fawning expression.

Xu Bai narrowed his eyes, satisfied with Eleven's flattery. "Fine, for the sake of that comment, I won't hold it against you today."

With that, he left the bedroom and headed straight for the kitchen.

Eleven followed happily, its tail wagging slightly; it looked like it was evolving from a feline into a golden retriever.

It wasn't until he was finished with breakfast and had some leisure time that Xu Bai suddenly remembered something important.

He glanced at Eleven, who was lying in the courtyard basking in the sun, feeling completely satisfied. With a flick of his mind, he opened the Manual in his consciousness:

[Beast Taming Top 1]: Mutated Green-Red Tiger (Eleven)

[Attribute]: Metal

[Current Age]: 121 years

[Race Potential]: Millennium

[Race Skill]: Metal Spirit Power (Mastery)

[Evolution Path]: Golden Spirit Holy Tiger

[Beast Taming Top 2]: Mutated Blue Silver Grass (Little Blue)

[Attributes]:...

[Current Manual Recorded Soul Beasts]: 183 (Viewable)

"One hundred and twenty-one years. What was the age before? It seems it was exactly one hundred years."

Xu Bai rubbed his chin, his eyes brightening slightly. "In other words, the effect of the Spirit Ascension Liquid can increase Eleven's age by about twenty years every seven days..."

Twenty years of age every seven days; following this calculation, for Eleven to become a thousand-year Soul Beast would take less than a year!

The cost was merely a bit high; if everything went smoothly, it would require an investment of about sixty to seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins.

Sixty to seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins was enough to buy the corpses of dozens of thousand-year Soul Beasts.

However, that was not important. What Xu Bai was buying with those sixty to seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins was time, and time was money!

Given Eleven's aptitude, if it were to cultivate normally, it might take four or five hundred years to reach a thousand-year age.

But now, Xu Bai only needed to spend sixty to seventy thousand Gold Soul Coins to offset those four or five hundred years in just one year. It was an absolute steal!

Thinking this to himself, Xu Bai cast his gaze toward Little Blue in the corner.

The usage method for the Thousand Wood Spirit Powder provided by the Manual was "once every three months, one portion at a time."

In other words, Little Blue would likely remain in this slumber for three months.

Three months... he wondered how many years of age the Thousand Wood Spirit Powder, priced at around one thousand Gold Soul Coins, could add to Little Blue?

I hope the Manual pulls through...

Xu Bai prayed silently in his heart.

The days that followed remained simple.

After letting Eleven rest for a day or two, Xu Bai refined another bottle of Spirit Ascension Liquid for it and sent it back into the Beast Taming Space to continue cultivating, while Xu Bai, who loved to learn, continued to immerse himself in the ocean of knowledge, unable to pull himself away.

In the blink of an eye, three months passed.

These three months should have slipped by in a hurry, but a minor incident occurred during this time.

Among the more than three hundred Clear Heart Orange Trees that Xu Bai had planted in his Beast Taming Space, a few had advanced into hundred-year Soul Beasts.

A few was not many, but it meant that the remaining Clear Heart Orange Trees would all eventually advance into hundred-year Soul Beasts one after another.

For other families, this would be considered a good thing, but for Xu Bai, it was a bad thing.

After all, the Hundred Herb Liquid was only effective on plant-type Soul Beasts under one hundred years old. Without it, the efficiency of bearing fruit every six days would be lost, which would in turn affect Xu Bai's little treasury.

And just at this critical juncture, a flash of inspiration hit Xu Bai. He suddenly realized that his golden finger didn't seem to be limited to only deducing the Soul Beasts he had contracted...

Looking at the book in his hand, Xu Bai twitched his mouth, then abruptly slammed it shut and tossed it aside.

"Damn it, I've really been reading until I've gone stupid lately. I only just realized this now!"