The Beast-Spirit Dharma Disc in Yang Xuanzhou's hand was a top-tier spiritual treasure his mother, Dongfang Yingcai, had made expressly for him. She had combined the Spirit-Forging Technique with the divine power of the Thousand-Hand Beast God's statue, creating something perfectly suited to the Spirit Puppet Beast-Taming Technique he practiced.
Of the dozen or so beast-spirit manifestations sealed within it, most had been refined from Demon Beasts at the Qi Gathering Realm. Even so, Yang Xuanzhou had chosen each one with care.
Given the Yang Clan's way of raising its young, there was no chance his parents would beat a Demon Beast half to death and deliver it into his hands.
If he wanted to capture powerful Demon Beasts and refine them into beast-spirit manifestations, he had to do it himself. Yang Yuanhong and Dongfang Yingcai would not help their son in the slightest.
Before this journey to the Far North of the Central Region, Yang Xuanzhou had trained at the Beast King Shrine, a major beast-taming sect in the Northwest.
Apart from the wolf fangs and tail stinger he had just refined, every manifestation in the disc had come from beasts he had personally hunted in the Beast King Shrine's Wild Plains Treasure Land.
With the tail-stinger manifestation refined from the Ice-Armored Crystal Scorpion, Yang Xuanzhou now possessed four beast-spirit manifestations at the Core Formation Realm: the scorpion's tail stinger, the shell of a century-old mystic turtle, the single eye of a goshawk, and the wings of a spirit sparrow.
These four manifestations covered his needs in attack, defense, perception, and flight. Against other cultivators at the Qi Gathering Realm, the power and effects of their arts were like striking from an entirely higher plane.
Yang Xuanzhou looked at the deep pit the tail-stinger manifestation had bored into the