Chapter 72: Secret Imperial Beast Art
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
Qing Wu Ya nodded his head, saying, "I can. This Pu Luo Mountain Range has some areas that are relatively more dangerous than others. I'll tell you what they are so you can avoid having to enter those places."
"You all can continue talking, I'll go and prepare food." Sima You Yue stood up and said.
Qing Wu Ya was right, the day did get darker relatively earlier, so they had to eat their dinner earlier.
Everyone knew that his taste was more refined. As long as he had time, he wouldn't eat rations. As a result, everyone felt blessed that they followed Sima You Yue.
She came to a large open space and took out everything she needed to cook. She had all kinds of pots, pans and ladles, causing the mercenaries from the Green Ridge Mercenary Group to stare blankly.
"Tsktsk, looks like you're someone from one of the large clans. You even brought these kind of things with you." A mercenary looked at Sima You Yue's cooking equipment and lamented.
"Of course. You just have to take a look at what these guys are wearing to know that they're definitely not average people."
"This interspatial ring is really huge!"
"Enough, don't be jealous, let's drink."
Sima You Yue did not care about the admiration that she had received, taking a few ingredients from her Spirit Pearl, focusing on her own task of cooking dinner.
Qing Wu Ya had also been shocked at what Sima You Yue did. This was the first time that he seen someone actually bring cooking utensils with him.
"Big Brother Qing, don't be surprised. His palette is a bit more refined and doesn't like to eat rations." Wei Zi Qi explained, "Just now you mentioned something about how there have been more people coming to Pu Luo Mountain range?"
Qing Wu Ya moved his gaze away from watching Sima You Yue's cooking equipment and nodded his head, saying, "That's right, this is something I have noticed. We, from the Green Ridge Mercenaries can be seen as being deployed often in Yancheng. We often go in and out of Pu Luo Mountain Range, so we'll be able to detect even the smallest difference. Although there has always been quite a large number of people coming to this Pu Luo Mountain Range, within this half a month, the number of people inside has increased by quite a lot. Further, most of them are from the large clans."
"Oh? Why would there suddenly be such an increase in the number of people?" Fatty Qu was curious and asked.
"In the beginning, we didn't know. But after awhile, we accidentally overheard a bunch of people say that it appeared that some treasured object had appeared or whatever strange pill ingredient matured. We're not too clear on what that that item actually is." Qing Wu Ya shrugged and said, "Because it doesn't really have much to do with us so we didn't pay too much attention to it."
"Does Big Brother Qing not have any interest towards this thing?" Fatty Qu asked.
"It has nothing to do with whether or not I am interested in it, but the fact that the item would either be found in the inner area or at least near the inner area. How would we dare to enter that place! So we just listen to hearsay." Qing Wu Ya explained. "Brother Wei, you all better not be captivated by that treasured object. Although treasures are great, one's life is the most important that you can't do without."
"Hehe, we understand that logic." Wei Zi Qi smiled.
The inner area, this was a place that Saint Ranked beasts lived in. Although the strength of the few of them could compare to others who were the same age, when compared to other, they weren't any kind of experts. They had no guts to go and pick a fight with those Saint Ranked beasts.
Sima You Yue was listening to the information that Qing Wu Ya was giving them while she fried her vegetables. Hearing them talk about treasured items, her movements hesitated for a while.
Treasures? Those were her favorite. If she had the chance, she would go alone to check it out.
She quickly made a table full of food and the smell wafted through the forest, attracting the attention of quite a few people.
"Brother Sima's food smells really great." Qing Wu Ya smelled the fragrance and could not help but praise it.
"Haha, in order to thank Big Brother Qing to telling us all about the Pu Luo Mountain Range, since everyone has been chatting so happily, why don't we drink together?" Wei Zi Qi said.
"This… wouldn't be too good, right?" Qing Wu Ya was a bit embarrassed.
"I've cooked a bit too much food, Big Brother Qing, you should eat with us." Sima You Yue smiled and invited.
This Qing Wu Ya's character was not bad, the things that he had told them earlier were very useful to them. Inviting him to eat and drink with them was nothing much.
"Let's go, Big Brother Qing, You Yue's dishes are really delicious. If you wanted to eat these anywhere else, you wouldn't be able to. Come, let's drink a few rounds!" Wei Zi Qi said.
"Since you've all said it that way, then I won't hold back and will impose." Qing Wu Ya smiled as he cupped his hands in thanks.
He had quite a good impression of Wei Zi Qi and the others so although he could tell that their identities were not ordinary, they didn't have the usual arrogance that accompanied those of large family clans.
The dishes that Sima You Yue had made were naturally eaten well by the others and they drank well too. After eating, Qing Wu Ya even praised that this was the best meal he had ever eaten in his life.
After eating dinner, the sky was more or less pitch dark. Qing Wu Ya also returned to his own area with his military team mates. Sima You Yue and Bei Gong Tang cleaned up together, bringing it to a brook nearby to wash it clean.
"We're going to enter the mountain range tomorrow so everyone should rest early, I'll keep watch tonight." Ouyang Fei waited for them to come back before saying.
"No need, you can go to sleep. Just let Little Roar take care of the night watch." Sima You Yue looked over at Little Roar, who was hugging a chicken drumstick, eating it right down to the bone.
Ouyang Fei glanced at Little Roar and could tell that it was powerful. He also had no desire to fight over keeping watch so he nodded his head to everyone and returned to his tent.
"Goodnight everyone." Wei Zi Qi returned after saying.
"Goodnight."
Sima You Yue returned to her own tent and crossed both legs on the bed. Little Roar hugged the chicken drumstick and flew in.
"Little Roar, keep watch tonight."
"No problem! You can rest assured!" Little Roar bit a mouthful of drumstick while saying.
Sima You Yue nodded. However, she did not fall asleep and she only closed her eyes. She injected all of her spiritual qi into her sea of consciousness. There, the Imperial Beast Art and the Secrets of Soul Refinement quietly floated in the the air.
Her mental energy became reduced to a little person and flew in front of the Imperial Beast Art, stretching out a hand to pick it up.
The Imperial Beast Art was not long winded, the important parts talked about how to tame Spirit beasts and even had a few different methods of forming contracts. Looking at what it wrote, Sima You Yue just realised that there were different methods of forming contracts and each had different results.
Contracts were generally divided into Life Contract, Spirit Contract and Master-Servant contract.
Life Contract, as the name implied, was interdependent on the life and death of both parties. If one side died, the other party would also follow him in death. This was the most common method of contracts. The contract between Sima You Yue and that nameless egg was a Life Contract.
Spirit Contract was a kind of contract that formed a link between the spirits of two parties. With this contract, if one side died, as long as the Spirit was still around, the Spirit Beast would also not die. This was the contract she had with Little Roar.
Master-Servant contract was that the Person was the master while the Spirit beast was the Servant. For this kind of contract, even if the Spirit Beast died, the Master would not die. At most, he would lose a bit of strength. This kind of contract was the kind of contract that the Spirit Beasts hated the most.
Some Life contracts and Spirit Contracts could only contract one beast, so at that time, when that egg had felt the Spirit contract between Sima You Yue and Little roar much earlier, it settled for the next best thing, which was the Life Contract.
People of this age only knew about Life contracts and Master-Servant contracts. It was rare for people to know about Spirit Contracts.
Apart from that, contracts were also very much related to a person's mental power. The stronger one's mental power, the more contracts they would be able to form with Spirit Beasts. Most Spirit Masters could only contract one Spirit Beast and only those who were stronger were able to contract a second.
People like Sima You Yue, who were able to contract three of them, if we were talking about her strength, she was the most powerful of the most powerful.
Chapter 73: Crisis approaches
Editor: Misty Cloud Translations
After she finished reading Imperial Beast Art, she realized that the methods were actually not difficult. She didn't know how they could have possibly gotten lost over time.
The book ended with one sentence, that the rank of beasts that could be tamed were dependent on her mental power. The higher the rank of the Spirit Beast, the stronger one's mental power would have to be. This was a point similar to alchemy.
"Sigh, looks like I have to increase my mental strength first!"
Sima You Yue sighed. Initially, she thought that cultivating Spiritual Qi was the most important, who would have thought that the art of Beast Taming and cultivating Spiritual Qi were just as important as each other.
She put down the Imperial Art of Beast Taming and came in front of the Secrets of Soul Cultivation and took down the book. The shining light that had suffused the book dissipated, letting her see the entirety of the book.
She gently flipped open to the first page. The first sentence on the front gave her heart a huge shock.
"The highest limit of Soul Cultivation allows a soul to remain even without a body." When Sima You Yue read this sentence, she thought of that transparent ethereal spirit, "So he practiced this art, allowing his spirit to remain in this world? Looks like this Soul Cultivation is of standard."
She continued reading and it wrote about some ranks of Soul Cultivation. It started out with Reveal, followed by Manifestation, then Refining Emptiness and, finally, Transcendence.
Furthermore, the degree of Soul Cultivation that would be demonstrated was dependent on one's mental powers.
Reveal was a range that any mental power would be able to reach and would allow one's perception to reach one kilometer.
Manifestation allowed one's mental power to condense concretely outside of the body.
Refining Emptiness allowed one's mental power to condense a second type of form.
Transcendence allowed one's Soul to remain independently.
Every single degree was separated from the other by a huge chasm. Crossing over each rank would reap huge rewards.
After the section of ranks, they had methods of cultivating one's Soul. Sima You Yue read it for a bit and initially thought it was relatively easy. Only a few chants were used to cultivate the soul, after that were some methods of increasing one's mental power.
"Looks like this Soul Cultivation and Mental Power are closely related and I can't lack a bit of either. No wonder Mo Sha said that my Mental Powers would increase after practicing Soul Cultivation." After complaining for a while, she left her sea of consciousness and began to practice while following the steps listed on that book.
Time flew while she was cultivating and by the time Sima You Yue had been awoken from her meditation, the sky was already bright.
She never thought that she would unknowingly cultivate the entire night and was completely energized. She didn't have the lethargy that came with a sleepless night at all.
"Looks like I'll be practicing this at night whenever I have nothing to do." She got down from the bed and tidied her clothes before placing the things in her tent into her interspatial ring along with the tent.
"Brother Sima, you're awake as well." Qing Wu Ya saw that Sima You Yue was keeping his things and smiled as he waved.
"Good morning, Big Brother Qing!" Sima You Yue smiled as she nodded to him. After that, she went to the small lake to wash up, coming back to take her cooking utensils to cook breakfast.
As she was cooking breakfast, Bei Gong Tang and the rest also woke up successively, packing their own things before waiting to eat.
"Brother Wei, we will be entering the mountain as well. You definitely have to remember the things that I told you all yesterday. Definitely don't go to those dangerous places." Qing Wu Ya told Wei Zi Qi after his own team had finished packing their stuff.
"Big Brother Qing will be entering the mountain so early?" Wei Zi Qi said when he saw that the team of mercenaries were already ready and waiting.
"Yep, the mission this time is relatively more difficult and time is more tight so we have a leave a bit earlier." Qing Wu Ya replied.
"I see. Then I hope Big Brother Qing will be able to finish the mission earlier." Wei Zi Qi said.
"Thanks, Brother Wei. Hope we meet again!"
"Hope we meet again."
Qing Wu Ya cupped his hands towards Sima You Yue and the rest before returning to his own team saying, "Let's go."
Fatty Qu watched as Qing Wu Ya and his team left, saying, "These mercenaries from Green Ridge are really not bad."
"Not bad. Much better than those we've met before."
"Let's eat." Sima You Yue placed the food on the table and beckoned to everyone.
Being different from the Green Ridge Mercenaries, they were not in a rush, so Sima You Yue and the gang ate their breakfast before heading into the mountains.
This time, they had to harvest quite a few different types of pill ingredients and each person had to also bring back one Spirit Beast body. Their mission was already quite difficult.
The mission of searching for Pill ingredients was much easier for Sima You Yue because she was well acquainted with pill ingredients and knew what kind of environment which pill ingredient would be growing in. As a result, the scope of her search was greatly reduced.
After one day, they found their first pill ingredient.
"You Yue, I never thought that you would be so familiar with pill ingredients." Wei ZI Qi looked at the pill ingredient that was lying in the basket and sighed.
"That's right, You Yue. How come we never knew you were so familiar with pill ingredients?" Fatty Qu said.
"It's not like you all are with me 24 hours a day, how would you know what I do or don't know?" Sima You glanced at Fatty Qu, directly avoiding answering their question.
"Now that we've found Earth's Core Grass, we still have to look for Fire Flame Grass and four other types of pill ingredients." Ouyang Fei said.
"I know about Fire Flame Grass, it grows facing the sun. However, there will be powerful Spirit Beasts living near the Fire Flame Grass."
"Yep, I propose leaving the search for Fire Flame Grass to the end. We should look for the other types of pill ingredients first." Wei Zi Qi suggested.
"Agreed." Sima You Yue nodded, "The Spirit Beasts on the periphery of the Pu Luo Mountain Range are not high in rank, if we meet them, we will be able to practice a bit of combat."
"Okay. Then let's continue to look." Wei Zi Qi said.
"Yup."
Not long after they left the valley, another group of people arrived at the place they were at.
"Boss, that group of people don't follow any pattern when they walk. We have no way of encountering them!" One of them said.
"Even if there's no way, we have to think of a way!" The black clothed man said, "She caused Nalan Lan to be expelled from school so we definitely have to avenge this on her behalf."
"Boss, we can't directly do something to her, so how should we go about it?" Yet another person asked.
The black clothed man thought about it for a while, saying, "Didn't they say that they wanted to look for Spirit Beasts to practice some combat? We can help them look for partners to practice with. If they are killed by the Spirit Beasts on Pu Luo Mountain Range, the school cannot place their deaths on our heads."
"But boss, I heard that the ranks of these few people are quite high. Aside from Sima You Yue, that waste, the others are not weaker than us. How can we do that would cause them to… by those Spirit Beasts…?"
"Of course I have an idea for that. Do you guys know where we can find Spirit Beasts and flock together?" The black clothed man said.
"Boss, I know! I heard a mercenary mention it just now."
"That's good, let's go, we will help them look for Spirit Beasts to practice combat…"
Sima You Yue and her five man team searched the mountain for an entire day but they had no harvests at all. However, while searching, they had encountered a Spirit Beast of the sixth rank. They managed to settle it very quickly by working together, letting Sima You Yue keep it. As for why she was the one to keep it, the reason was because her interspatial ring was the largest.
Just as they were resting, Sima You Yue suddenly felt a sense of danger and subconsciously stood up.
"You Yue, what's wrong?" Fatty Qu asked when he saw Sima You Yue panic.
"I hear something!' Sima You Yue said.
The others had yet to say anything when they heard the chaotic sound of footsteps. Following which, a pack of Fire Wolves appeared in front of them, running towards them with terrifying speed.
"So… so many Spirit Beasts." Fatty Qu could not help but gulp when he saw so many Fire Wolves.
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