chsdbacks Chapter 505 Contract Aji
Chapter 505 Contract Aji
"What I want isn't important; what's important is whether you want revenge."
Chen Beiwu met Aji's gaze, his tone calm and composed.
revenge?"
The young beast was stunned for a moment, almost thinking it had misheard, and looked at Chen Beiwu with a hint of surprise.
"What, you don't believe me?"
Chen Beiwu smiled slightly, his expression natural.
"I really don't believe it." Aji withdrew his gaze.
Chen Zi'ang's cultivation level was only that of a Nascent Soul True Monarch. In the eyes of the Blazing Sun True Venerable, he was nothing more than a slightly larger ant. How could he possibly avenge him?
"It seems you suffered a crushing defeat, and you don't even have the courage to seek revenge." Chen Beiwu sighed and used a provocation tactic.
"What do you know?"
Aji raised his eyes and stared intently at Chen Ziang: "If you hadn't retreated at the crucial moment, I wouldn't have lost to Lieyang Zhenzun." "A loss is a loss," Chen Beiwu bluntly stated.
"you!"
Aji propped himself up, but drowsiness soon overcame him, and he couldn't help but close his eyes and fall asleep.
"Huh?" (Is he pretending to be asleep?)
Golden Egg asked in surprise.
"No, its soul was severely damaged, and it's already remarkable that it was able to revive for even a short while." Chen Beiwu wasn't too surprised.
Aji's injuries were too severe. Even with Chen Beiwu activating the Primordial Profound Power, he could not completely heal him. He could only stimulate a portion of his life force to barely keep him alive.
three days later.
Aji opened his blurry eyes, and the first thing he saw was Chen Beiwu's face.
In an instant, it immediately recalled what Chen Zi'ang had said earlier.
revenge?
It really wants revenge!
But in its current state, it can't even defeat the Seven-Tailed Fox on Chen Zi'ang's shoulder, let alone deal with the Blazing Sun True Venerable. How can it possibly take revenge? "Since you're awake, eat something."
Chen Beiwu casually took out a box of Immortal Alliance Beast Food (with the packaging removed beforehand) and placed it in front of Aji.
The Immortal Alliance is renowned for its beast-taming and cultivation practices, and its beast-breeding industry is thriving.
Chen Beiwu carefully selected this beast food with an excellent taste. It is specially made from the essence of the treasure fish and is not only suitable for dragon-type and cat-type treasure beasts, but long-term consumption can also purify magic power and refine the physical body.
Aji resembles a cat in appearance and possesses the bloodlines of two true dragons, Qianyang and Kunyin. Its taste is mostly salty and fishy, so it should not resist this high-quality animal food.
"Gurgle."
Aji sniffed lightly, inhaling the aroma that wafted towards him, and instinctively swallowed.
Within the ruins of Lieyang, it had devoured every rare and precious treasure.
But the food in front of me was different; even before I swallowed it, the aroma alone was enough to make me feel its exquisite deliciousness.
After hesitating for a moment, Aji lowered his head and carefully began to taste it.
Although its cultivation level plummeted and it became a minor demon in the second realm, it still retained a trace of the perception of a demon lord, enabling it to keenly sense danger.
Upon seeing this, Jin Dan, Tie Dan, Xue Le, and Zhi Ling exchanged glances but remained silent.
While the beast food from the Immortal Alliance is delicious, its effect on improving cultivation is far inferior to that of the rare and precious herbs of the Southern Wilderness, which they have long been accustomed to.
"Sizzle, sizzle!"
Aji had just woken up and was in poor condition, so he didn't dare to eat much. After taking a few bites, he looked at Chen Beiwu:
"I'm not thinking about revenge right now, how about we make a deal?"
"What kind of deal?" Chen Beiwu asked calmly.
"Let me leave, and I'll give you a chance to become a Nascent Soul cultivator," Aji said in a deep voice.
Having escaped one tiger's mouth, they fell into another wolf's den.
After the scheming of the True Venerable of the Blazing Sun, Aji had no intention of entrusting his life and fortune to Chen Ziang.
In other words, its current cultivation level is too weak, and it is not confident that it can escape from Chen Zi'ang's hands. Otherwise, it would have already urged Xuan Tong to escape.
Chen Beiwu didn't speak, but quietly looked at Aji, making the latter feel uneasy.
"I was defeated by the True Venerable of Blazing Sun, and my treasures accumulated over the years were also taken away. I really have no more opportunities to offer."
Aji made a prior statement to prevent Chen Ziang from taking advantage of the situation and making exorbitant demands.
No, that's not what I meant.
Upon hearing this, Aji's expression relaxed.
But Chen Beiwu's next words made its heart sink.
"Do you think you are more important, or is that opportunity to become a Nascent Soul cultivator more important?" Chen Beiwu asked with great interest.
"It seems we can't reach an agreement."
Aji shook his head, lay flat on all fours, raised his head, closed his eyes, and looked as if he was ready to be dealt with by Chen Beiwu.
Seeing this, Chen Beiwu channeled his magic power and raised his hand to draw his sword.
"etc!"
The young beast opened its eyes, incredulously saying, "We at least cooperated before, you didn't have to abandon your chance to become a Nascent Soul cultivator to kill me!" "Who said I was going to kill you?"
Chen Beiwu gripped the hilt of the Xuan Blade and chuckled, "What good would it do me to kill you?"
"So what are you doing?"
Aji glanced at the Xuan Dao and could clearly feel the terrifying sword intent contained within it.
"Don't you want to restore your cultivation and bloodline, and return to the realm of the Demon Lord?"
As soon as Chen Beiwu finished speaking, Aji's eyes lit up. He didn't have time to pay attention to the former's action of drawing his sword, but he quickly calmed down.
Even it itself is not confident that it can restore its bloodline cultivation, so how can Chen Zi'ang, a Nascent Soul True Monarch, do so?
It's nothing more than using empty words to deceive people into believing it's effective, and then peeling it apart once it's no longer useful!
Human cultivators are such evil beings!
Despite his disbelief, Aji didn't give up hope and tentatively asked, "Of course, do you have a way?"
"I inherited the ancient beast-taming technique and comprehended a profound secret art, which requires a great price to be paid to use it."
"This technique is incredibly powerful, but due to my low cultivation level, it's almost impossible for me to help you return to the Fifth Realm Demon Lord level."
At this point, Chen Beiwu changed the subject: "But I'm 30% confident I can restore some of your bloodline and bring your cultivation back to the level of a fourth-realm demon king."
Aji narrowed his eyes slightly, suppressing the tremor in his heart.
This is not a lie!
If Chen Zi'ang wasn't confident he could help it restore its bloodline, he would never have gone to such great lengths to snatch it away from the hands of the Blazing Sun True Venerable!
Yes, that's right. Because he fell into a coma so early, in Aji's eyes, Chen Ziang most likely used the ancient Taoist sect's inherited resources to escape from the Blazing Sun Ruins and take it with him.
So the young beast opened its mouth and tentatively asked, "What do you want?"
Even if Aji were incredibly foolish, he wouldn't believe he could fob off Chen Ziang with a chance to become a Nascent Soul cultivator.
"Let's forge a contract, cultivate together, and explore the Great Dao together," Chen Beiwu said, enunciating each word clearly.
Aji fell silent.
It knew that Chen Zi'ang was no ordinary Nascent Soul True Monarch, but it did not expect him to be so bold as to try to subdue it.
After a long while, Aji raised his head, staring coldly at Chen Beiwu:
"What kind of fellowship and cultivation is this? It sounds nice, but in the end, it's just a way to make me submit to you!"
"Roar!" "Woof!" "Hey!" "Eek!"
Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Schiller, and Zhiling all spoke up to refute Aji.
Chen Beiwu reached out to stop the little ones, looked at Aji, and asked in return:
"If I consider you a tool, given your current state, you're no match for me forcing a contract. Why bother asking for your opinion?" Aji's mind raced, then he closed his eyes and obediently replied, "I hope you keep your word!"
Unfortunately, while it may seem to offer many choices, it actually offers none at all.
Either choose to make a pact with Chen Zi'ang and take a gamble, or resolutely refuse, live for decades and perish!
"They agreed just like that?" Chen Beiwu was quite surprised.
True dragons are inherently unruly, especially since Aji was a fifth-realm demon lord at his peak, a powerful being who could crush him with a mere breath. Despite his surprise, Chen Beiwu showed no sign of displeasure, drawing his Xuan Blade and drawing upon his own blood essence to begin the Shared Supremacy Contract.
"Buzz!"
As Chen Beiwu's hand seals flew, a Tongcan seal fell into the depths of Aji's soul.
Sensing the unusual sensations emanating from his soul and bloodline, Aji instinctively tried to resist, but quickly regained his composure and suppressed his instincts.
"boom!"
At the same time, the nascent soul seed deep within Chen Beiwu's spiritual realm suddenly opened its eyes, its small face pale.
The moment the Covenant was successfully concluded, Chen Beiwu's Nascent Soul seemed to see two illusory dragons, one yin and one yang, coiled in the sky, radiating the dragon's might that suppressed all things.
Fortunately, this strange phenomenon came and went quickly.
As the illusory image of the true dragon dissipated, Chen Beiwu's gaze met Aji's. He could perceive the other's thoughts and intentions without needing to transmit his divine sense. "The contract has been formed; now it is your turn to fulfill the agreement."
"No rush. Before using my profound abilities, I need to check your current condition."
With a thought, Chen Beiwu entered the depths of Aji's sea of consciousness through the connection of the co-existence contract, and then used the contract to stimulate the latter's essence, energy and spirit, manifesting the three channels of Yuan, Shu and Fa.
The Yuanmai (元脉) represents the innate essence of the Five Elements of a Tongcan beast, which is also the foundation of its bloodline. It can be used to nourish and enhance the purity of a Tongcan cultivator's spiritual root. The stronger the innate Yuanmai of a Tongcan beast, the stronger the nourishment it can provide to the Tongcan cultivator.
Aji possesses the bloodlines of two true dragons, Gan Yang and Kun Yin, making it no exaggeration to call him a primordial beast of creation. Chen Beiwu was very curious about how powerful the innate primordial veins within his body were.
"What grade of Yuan Meridian is this?" Chen Beiwu was shocked.
Unlike the pure and innate essence of metal, wood, and water in the golden egg, Aji's Yuan Meridian is like a Tai Chi symbol, with 365 Yang lines and 365 Yin lines intertwined and interwoven, forming a unique Yuan Meridian that is orderly, separate from each other, yet cyclical.
Unfortunately, this primordial vein suffered a major change. Not only were it covered with cracks and its radiance dimmed to the point of being almost imperceptible, but even the Daoist charm of the Yin-Yang patterns had almost dissipated. "Could this be a primordial vein that surpasses even the Heavenly Grade?" Chen Beiwu thought to himself.
The mere blessing of the Heavenly Grade Yuan Meridians of the four little ones—Golden Egg, Iron Egg, Snowman, and Zhiling—made him a cultivator with the Five Elements Heavenly Spiritual Root.
If Aji had not been injured and his cultivation was still intact, and he had received the blessing of Aji's three veins, wouldn't his spiritual root aptitude have been able to break through the limit of the Heavenly Spiritual Root and possess the legendary Immortal Spiritual Root of the Immortal Alliance?
Thinking of this, Chen Beiwu activated his divine sense to examine the purity of his spiritual root.
"Gold 96, Wood 97, Water 97, Fire 96, Earth 96."
Unfortunately, Aji was too badly injured. With the blessing of Jin Dan, Tie Dan, Xue Le, and Zhi Ling, the increase in the purity of his spiritual root that he could obtain by contracting Aji at this moment was negligible, with almost no change.
Once Zhiling advances to the fourth realm of demon king, Chen Beiwu will use the Primordial Immortal Technique to sublimate his spiritual roots. This may increase the purity of his three elemental spiritual roots (metal, fire, and earth) slightly, achieving a unified purity of the five elements.
"His original meridian is almost ruined, and his subordinate and Dharma meridians should be in much worse shape as well."
Chen Beiwu's divine sense stirred, and he looked at Aji's pulse.
「金79（99），木79（99），水79（99），火79（99），土79（99）。」陈北武瞳孔一缩，心中颇为意外。
He wasn't surprised by the high purity of Aji's spiritual root.
On the contrary, Chen Beiwu believed that Aji's innate spiritual root purity was somewhat low.
I dare not say much, but both the Gan Yang White Dragon and the Kun Yin Black Dragon are true dragon species possessing the bloodline of ancient true dragons, and their strength is comparable to the terrifying existences of the top five on the Creation Ranking. Aji possesses the bloodlines of two true dragons, but the purity of his spiritual root has not broken the limit of the Heavenly Spiritual Root, reaching 100% purity.
"Could it be that the bloodlines of the two true dragons clashed, preventing Aji from breaking through the limits of the Five Elements?"
"Or was Aji's injury too severe, causing damage to the foundation of his innate five elements meridians, falling to the limit of earth spiritual roots, thus affecting the essence of his meridians?"
Chen Beiwu pondered this deeply, feeling quite regretful.
Fortunately, the Five Elements attributes of the Tongcan Beast can be enhanced as its bloodline and cultivation level increase.
Once Aji returns to the Four Realms Demon King, his lost Five Elements attributes will be restored.
With this in mind, Chen Beiwu probed the lineage of Aji.
Deep within the lineage, the countless Dao traces were dim and lifeless, with only a hundred or so scattered Dao traces emitting a faint glow.
Chen Beiwu scanned the area with his divine sense and found that the total number of these Dao traces was exactly ten thousand.
"At his peak, Aji had exactly ten thousand years of cultivation, but now he only has one hundred and fifty-six years left." Chen Beiwu frowned slightly. A fifth-realm demon lord does indeed possess more than ten thousand years of cultivation, but he wouldn't be stuck at such a fixed point, exactly ten thousand years.
Unless Aji, who has just become a fifth-realm demon lord, is captured by the powerful Taixu Array Sect and imprisoned in the Fulong Hall to have his bloodline essence continuously extracted.
While extracting the source, the cultivators of the Taixu Array Sect continuously fed Aji with rare and precious materials to replenish his vital energy in order to prevent Aji's cultivation level from falling due to excessive depletion of his source. This is why such a situation could occur.
"No wonder Aji was defeated so miserably by the Blazing Sun True Venerable."
Chen Beiwu sighed inwardly, his divine sense continuing to probe the depths of the Dharma lineage, but was blocked by an inexplicable force, unable to probe Aji's innate bloodline profundity. "Is it alright now?"
Aji looked at Chen Beiwu with a complicated expression.
As Chen Beiwu explored the three meridians, it also sensed the extraordinary nature of the Covenant of Shared Insights.
Thanks to the feedback from the contract, although its injuries remained severe, its cultivation level had increased significantly, from fifty-six years to one hundred and fifty-six years. If it could fully refine the pure magical power within its body, it was confident that it could increase its cultivation level to four hundred and ninety-nine years, reaching the peak of the second-realm lesser demon. In that case, what Chen Beiwu had said earlier might not have been unfounded.
"That's about it."
Chen Beiwu nodded and didn't continue reading.
"Can we use the ancient secret technique now?"
Suddenly, Aji's eyelids became heavy, and he almost lost control of his injuries.
Chen Beiwu decisively took the elixir and used it to help Aji stabilize his internal injuries.
"For safety's sake, I need to make some preparations before casting the spell, no later than twenty years," Chen Beiwu thought to himself.
If he were using the power of destiny to transform an ordinary mythical beast, he wouldn't need to be so cautious, but Aji is, after all, a fifth-realm demon lord.
To avoid insufficient luck at crucial moments, which could affect his own Heavenly Fortune Purple Dragon, Chen Beiwu plans to acquire another wisp of purple energy within the next twenty years as a safety net.