Following a prescribed procedure, Fang Qianyuan dipped his hand in the eagle's blood, mixed it with spirit essence, and traced the Formation Array's lines and restrictions on the ground.
First came the spirit-channeling Formation Array.
Then came the restrictions for gathering spirits, rebirth, and spirit sealing, linked together with five elements Dao patterns. After more than a quarter of an hour, his work was finally complete.
The snowmen seemed to realize what Fang Qianyuan intended to do. They stood quietly to one side and watched, neither urging him on nor interrupting him with questions.
Once he finished, Fang Qianyuan rubbed his hands vigorously in the snow to clean them, then pressed them against the starting point of the Spirit-Gathering Formation and poured in a steady stream of his spirit essence.
As a blue-gold radiance flared, a lifelike image of a Snake-necked Golden Eagle floated up from the eagle's corpse.
It was the soul of the dead golden eagle!
Snake-necked Golden Eagles were wild and difficult to tame, and Fang Qianyuan lacked the mental disposition needed to tame one quickly. Ultimately, the heart of the wild worked better on furred beasts.
At this point, even his spirit sea was already filled to capacity. He could not take it into his spirit sea and use Spirit Rebirth to turn it into a spirit creature.
But what made humans human was their ability to use tools.
In this world, besides the spirit sea, there was something else that possessed artificially created spirit apertures: Spirit-Sealing Treasures!
Commerce flourished in the lower reaches of the cultivation world. Most human-rank spirit creatures were not personally captured by the Spirit Tamers who used them, but caught and sealed by others, then sold together with their Spirit-Sealing Treasures.
The Moon-Reflecting Wolf Fang Chain Fang Qianyuan possessed could actually