Spirit Book's Abilities

At the foot of Soaring Cloud Peak, quite a few low, blue-brick houses with tiled roofs stood scattered about.

Ye Jingcheng's room was among those houses as well.

He pushed open the door. There was not much furniture inside.

A bare stone table, two wooden shelves respectively piled with herbs and ancient books, and a wooden bed—that was all.

The only thing that could be called good was that the entire room was neat and fresh, spotless.

Ye Jingcheng sat upright on a stool, setting the Jade Ring Rat aside before carefully placing the Crimson Flame Fox on the stone table.

By now, he had already poured quite a bit of the Spirit Book's glow into the Crimson Flame Fox.

The Crimson Flame Fox's wound was still blackened and dried out.

Yet its blue-violet pupils had clearly grown much brighter.

Its chirping cries had also become crisper, no longer as weak and faint as when it had first been at death's door!

Ye Jingcheng did not dare stop, continuing to channel the ancient book's glow into the Crimson Flame Fox.

Under his watchful gaze, the Crimson Flame Fox's fur grew increasingly lustrous, radiating an incomparably warm body heat like a blazing furnace.

Meanwhile, its shriveled, blackened wound gradually faded, returning to its original color.

"There's hope!" Ye Jingcheng's eyes shone brighter and brighter!

The mysterious ancient book's special glow truly could heal demon beasts.

He simply still did not know what use the page depicting the nine-tailed demon fox, which had changed earlier, had.

He could only continue treating the Crimson Flame Fox!

The Crimson Flame Fox consumed an enormous amount of glow. After a quarter of an hour, the glow had been entirely depleted.

It completely returned to the same dim appearance as before.

"Slurp!" The Crimson Flame Fox began licking Ye Jingcheng's arm.

Its tiny tongue swept over him again and again, bringing waves of itchy warmth.

Most of its injuries had healed. At this point, only a small scar remained on the Crimson Flame Fox's foreleg.

It was utterly miraculous!

Ye Jingcheng's heart pounded wildly. With how miraculous this book was, as long as he had sufficient glow in the future, he would no longer need to worry about demon beasts being injured!

The Crimson Flame Fox's cries became even more pleasant. It shifted over to the edge of the table near Ye Jingcheng's chest, then lazily lay down.

Seeing this, Ye Jingcheng hurriedly performed the blood contract as well. He pressed down a finger, bit it until it bled, and began tracing the spiritual-pattern spell.

Although it was his first time performing a blood contract, as a member of a beast-taming family, he had practiced it countless times since childhood. There was not the slightest unfamiliarity.

Yet as his blood fell onto the Crimson Flame Fox's brow—

The first page opened in the ancient book seemed to light up, becoming exceptionally dazzling.

The spirit fox upon it also began to grow extraordinarily distinct.

The spirit fox spewed blazing flames, proud and untamed, and continued to evolve.

Before long, it transformed into the appearance of a two-tailed crimson fox. At this moment, it looked even more magnificent and heroic, its back arched and head raised, glaring furiously as its two tails danced ceaselessly behind it.

Beyond that, countless images of spirit herbs and spirit leaves appeared.

"Heartless Flower, Crimson Ginseng, Falling Flame Grass, Red Dragon Fruit..."

Ye Jingcheng murmured the names of the herbs one by one. Since he had studied alchemy, he knew most spirit medicines like the back of his hand, though there were still several he did not recognize.

But according to the instructions in the images, it seemed that as long as these spirit medicines were used to refine medicinal liquid or pills for the Crimson Flame Fox, it could become two-tailed after consuming them.

These spirit medicines were all fire-attributed, and several among them were incomparably precious.

Ye Jingcheng was an alchemist himself, and he knew that although such medicinal liquid was beyond belief, it had a strong chance of being feasible.

Yet compared to the preciousness of the spirit medicines, what moved him even more was this: an ordinary Crimson Flame Fox could grow to the late second rank—so where would the future of a two-tailed Crimson Flame Fox lie?

Not to mention the nine tails at the very beginning of that page...

Ye Jingcheng's eyes grew brighter and brighter.

"Chirp!"

The Crimson Flame Fox continued calling out, but at this moment, Ye Jingcheng already understood what it meant.

It was hungry.

It wanted to eat!

What made Ye Jingcheng hesitate, however, was that this Crimson Flame Fox's blood contract seemed different from what he had learned about.

That sense of contract felt as though it had been completed through the ancient book.

Ye Jingcheng took out a bottle of Spirit-Feeding Pills, poured out two, and fed them to the Crimson Flame Fox.

The Crimson Flame Fox sniffed them for a while, sensing the spiritual fragrance of the pills, before crying out happily. The next moment, it used its tongue to roll both Spirit-Feeding Pills into its mouth and swallowed them all without leaving a single one behind.

A red glow began flowing through its fur like waves of fire, exceptionally beautiful.

Ye Jingcheng had no mind to watch at the moment. He looked at the Jade Ring Rat beside him, wanting to run a test.

Could the Jade Ring Rat be drawn into the pages of the ancient book?

The Jade Ring Rat squeaked as well, as though it had spotted Ye Jingcheng feeding it and wanted to eat spirit pills.

But its intelligence was far inferior to that of the Crimson Flame Fox.

Ye Jingcheng was not annoyed. Instead, he extended a finger and continued casting the blood pact.

He still inscribed spirit patterns, only this time, he did so more slowly.

He needed to grasp the finer details in order to judge the Spirit Book's abilities.

Before long, blood fell onto the Jade Ring Rat's brow.

The blood pact took shape, and that unusual sensation arose again, yet the Spirit Book showed no change, nor did any phantom image of spirit medicine appear.

Unwilling to give up, he transferred the last trace of spiritual radiance to the Jade Ring Rat.

The Jade Ring Rat's grunting grew louder, as if it were thoroughly enjoying itself.

Yet the Spirit Book still did not change.

After studying it for quite a while, Ye Jingcheng reached several conclusions.

First, ordinary spirit beasts were clearly not within the consideration range of that mysterious ancient book.

Second, the mysterious ancient book's spiritual radiance could heal injuries and even improve one's physique. At the same time, for certain exceptionally gifted demonic beasts, it could provide pill formulas or medicinal liquids for growth and even evolution!

Third, the mysterious ancient book's blood pact was even more domineering!

Having figured out the mysterious ancient book's functions, Ye Jingcheng's heart surged with excitement for quite some time.

But soon afterward, he began to frown. Of his four hundred contribution points, after exchanging some for spirit beast meat and Spirit Tempering Pills needed for his own cultivation, fewer than one hundred and twenty remained.

Now that he had to raise two spirit beasts, the pressure on him was greater than ever before.

Only then did he personally understand why the Ye Family, a grand Foundation Establishment family, was notorious for its financial problems throughout the Taihang Mountain region.

The title of a beast-taming family sounded impressive, but it also meant a far greater consumption of resources.

And before him lay two paths: one was to hunt demonic beasts alongside the family's demon-hunting team; the other was to enter one of the family market's shops and continue refining pills.

His gaze could not help falling upon the Crimson Flame Fox. Once it grew a little larger, it would be able to breathe blazing fire, no different from earthfire, and could fully serve as the flame for pill refinement.

By then, he might be able to save some rent and earn more spirit stones and contribution points.