Within Mocking Heaven Sect, on the mountaintop.
Scholar sat on the hillside, tilting his head toward Chen Qiu, who was playing with the wolf pup on the grass nearby. He smiled without speaking. Signing a Beast-Taming Contract did not involve particularly complicated procedures.
One only needed to set up a simple Spirit-Gathering Array.
It did not even require Mid-Grade Spirit Stones.
A few hundred Lower-Grade Spirit Stones were enough to establish communication between oneself and the demon beast and have the contract recognized by the Heavenly Dao. Once a Beast-Taming Contract was signed, the demon beast could never attack its master, and its cultivation would slowly rise along with its master's.
The downside was that each person could only contract one demon beast, and only one whose cultivation was lower than their own.
After all, one could not make a demon beast with higher cultivation acknowledge them as its master.
That wolf pup was at the Golden Core Fifth Layer. Ordinarily, its cultivation was far higher than Brother Qiu's, so a contract should have been impossible. But everything had exceptions. For instance, the wolf pup seemed to hold Chen Qiu in deep awe for some reason. Under such circumstances, even a demon beast with higher cultivation could successfully be contracted.
"Hey."
At this moment—
Fat Dragon, who was likewise sitting on the hillside with a foxtail grass stem hanging from his mouth, followed Scholar's gaze. With a dazed expression, he murmured, "Say, you were once Great Xia's number one sword cultivator. You were so glorious back then. Didn't you do anything earthshaking?"
"I did."
Scholar said softly, "I did many things that I considered earthshaking, but most people never knew of them. Only a few battles fought in public were witnessed by many."
"There's actually something I've always wanted to