Ten Thousand Dharmas Return to Flow

"Have some jerky to fill your stomach."

Chen Beiwu took a piece of Illusion Weasel Wolf meat from his Storage Bag and held it out in front of the Golden Egg.

"Goo."

As the Golden Egg's mouth opened and closed, the piece of Illusion Weasel Wolf meat, larger than its body, immediately turned into a streak of gray light and vanished.

"Uh."

The Golden Egg burped, its belly swelling to twice its already basketball-like size.

If not for its still-golden scales, Chen Beiwu would have thought, just from its appearance, that he'd contracted a pufferfish.

Good. Let me see just how terrifying the Sea Absorption Spirit Art's enhancement is. Chen Beiwu gazed at the Golden Egg expectantly.

"Gurgle."

The Golden Egg's mouth curled upward, its belly rising and falling.

"???" A trace of confusion appeared in Chen Beiwu's eyes.

Through the bond of the Companion Beast Contract, he could tell that the Golden Egg hadn't released the Sea Absorption Spirit Art. It had simply swallowed the Illusion Weasel Wolf meat.

What are you doing? Chen Beiwu asked through his thoughts.

"Gurgle?" The Golden Egg widened its fish eyes, wearing an utterly foolish expression.

Seeing this, an outrageous thought suddenly welled up in Chen Beiwu's mind.

Could it be that he'd really contracted a foolish fish?

A fish that didn't even know its demon-beast instincts, and didn't even know how to release its Innate Spell.

"Gurgle."

The Golden Egg stopped moving its fins, as if it were full and wanted to sleep.

Chen Beiwu: "..."

For some reason, the more he looked at the Golden Egg, the more he felt his guess was right.

The Golden Egg's belly was so swollen precisely because it didn't know how to release its Innate Talent, Sea Absorption. It had none of the imposing presence or dazzling golden shine of a Variant Golden Scale.

"Get up." Chen Beiwu grabbed the Golden Egg by its tail fin, refusing to let it sleep with its eyes open.

"Gurgle?" After being jostled around, a glimmer of life returned to the Golden Egg's vacant fish eyes.

Without hesitation, Chen Beiwu closed his eyes and used his Divine Sense to guide the Golden Egg in using its Innate Spell through the connection of their Companion Beast Contract.

"Hum!"

As time passed, the scales covering the Golden Egg's body began to draw in the Spiritual Energy in the Cultivation Room. Its basketball-sized belly rapidly shrank before their eyes, brightening and dimming in time with the glow of its scales.

"Whoo!"

Chen Beiwu withdrew his Divine Sense, exhaled the stale air, and looked at the Golden Egg in surprise.

After refining its Sea Absorption Talent, the Golden Egg's strength surged. Its Dao Practice jumped straight from ten years to fifteen.

And the reason for such a great improvement wasn't the Illusion Weasel Wolf meat it had just swallowed, but the reserves in its belly that it had never fully refined.

"Gurgle?" The Golden Egg stared at him, confused.

Strange. It had only just finished eating, so why was it hungry again?

Feeling the Golden Egg's emotions, Chen Beiwu was rather speechless.

No wonder the cultivators of the Cavern Mystery Immortal Sect hadn't discovered how extraordinary the Golden Egg was.

If not for the fact that he could sense the Golden Egg's Innate Spell through their Technique Meridians after forming a Contract, Chen Beiwu never would have imagined that a Second-Tier Spirit Beast cub couldn't even release its inborn Innate Spell.

He would probably have thought it was simply a Variant Golden Scale that hadn't yet awakened its Innate Spell.

There's an upside to being stupid. If the Golden Egg weren't so foolish, I probably wouldn't have gotten such a bargain. Chen Beiwu smiled from the bottom of his heart.

No matter how foolish the Golden Egg was, it was still a Second-Tier Variant Species whose Bloodline rivaled that of a Treasure Beast.

As long as Chen Beiwu used his Divine Sense to train it, it would sooner or later master its Innate Talent.

"Beep, beep!"

Just then, a notification sounded, and the Spiritual Energy in the Cultivation Room quickly dwindled.

Chen Beiwu stood, fed the Golden Egg a piece of wolf meat, put it away, and pushed open the Cultivation Room door.

Now that I've settled on a Companion Beast, the most important thing is to find a cultivation technique on the Immortal Alliance Official Website that's suitable for me and the Golden Egg. As he pondered, Chen Beiwu picked up his phone and opened the Immortal Alliance Official Website.

Demon Beasts could rely on their Bloodline instincts to devour the spiritual energy of heaven and earth and accumulate Dao Practice, but a cultivator's Companion Beast couldn't.

After forming the Three Treasures Companion Seal, a cultivator had to transform the Demon Power within the demon beast into Magic Power. Only then could they cultivate the True through Borrowed Beasts and make the greatest possible use of the Companion Beast's three meridians for cultivation, instead of cultivating Demon Power on the Companion Beast's behalf.

At that point, the Companion Beast could also quickly accumulate Dao Practice by following the cultivator's circulation of the cultivation technique and refinement of Magic Power.

[Great Unity True Water Manual]

[North Sea Return to Ruins Scripture]

[Heavenly River Nine-Turn Boundless Scripture]

[Azure Sea Calamity-Transcending Eight Treasures Scripture]

Looking at the renowned cultivation techniques on the Immortal Alliance Official Website, Chen Beiwu hesitated.

The first step in washing away the Demon Power within a Companion Beast was simple: make the contracted Spirit Beast abandon its Bloodline instincts and cultivate the human race's techniques instead.

But since he hadn't considered contracting a Golden Scale before, the Water-element cultivation techniques he'd added to his Shopping Cart were all Nascent Soul techniques better suited to Spirit Beasts like the Azure Spirit Newt, Azure-Wave Spirit Carp, and Darkwater Spirit Turtle.

Forget it. I'll look for other techniques.

Chen Beiwu opened the technique filters. Under Spiritual Root, he selected Wood and Water (Heavenly Spiritual Root); under Advanced Technique, he selected the Ten Thousand Beasts Art; and under Companion Beast, he selected Golden Scale.

The Ten Thousand Beasts Art was one of the Immortal Alliance's renowned Four Great Foundation Arts. The advanced techniques suitable for cultivating from it had long since been refined to their limits by countless Cultivation Magnates.

So even after adding all three filters, Chen Beiwu still had several hundred top-tier techniques in the results.

He looked through the introductions one by one, then finally opened [Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book] to read its general outline.

"All rivers return to the sea, while Jianmu reaches the heavens. Water and wood generate each other; the Dao follows nature."

"Those who cultivate this Heavenly Book must use water to nourish wood and wood to strengthen water, letting the two support each other. Using the Jianmu of heaven and earth as their bones, they forge the Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Dao Body. Thus may they attain longevity."

At this, Chen Beiwu grew interested and opened the introduction to [Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book].

This technique had lofty aims and pointed straight toward Spirit Transformation. However, since Chen Beiwu hadn't yet purchased it, his access was limited, and for now he could only view information on its four major chapters.

"This technique is extremely difficult. Those with Wood Spiritual Root Purity below 70 or Water Spiritual Root Purity below 80 cannot cultivate it!"

Seeing the technique's restrictions only heightened Chen Beiwu's interest. He eagerly opened the next page.

Qi Refining Chapter: "Water Generates Wood"

Foundation Establishment Chapter: "Water and Wood Generate Each Other"

Golden Core Chapter: "Jianmu Law Fusion"

Nascent Soul Chapter: "Ten Thousand Dharmas Return to Flow"

After reading the general introductions to the four chapters of [Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book], Chen Beiwu roughly understood the technique's principles.

At first glance, this technique seemed to cultivate both water and wood. In reality, one of the two elements took the lead.

Cultivated in the orthodox way, water could generate wood, forging the Jianmu Longevity Dao Body. Cultivated in reverse, it could reverse the Five Phases and use wood to generate water, damaging the Wood Arts to cultivate Water Arts. This would grant the cultivator an exceptionally powerful Myriad Laws Return to Flow Dao Body, capable of embracing a hundred rivers and melting down all techniques.

Both Chen Beiwu and the Golden Egg had Wood and Water Spiritual Roots with exceptionally high Spiritual Root Purity, making them an excellent fit for this technique.

You're the one.

Chen Beiwu didn't hesitate any longer. He added the Qi Refining Chapter of [Myriad Laws Return to Flow Jianmu Heavenly Book] to his Shopping Cart, but didn't check out.

Because he couldn't afford it right now!

(End of Chapter)