New Year's Eve, family reunion.
"Come here, this is the New Year's money given to you by my uncle."
Zhao Lin called his two nephews and a niece to his side and gave each of them one hundred spirit coins and a bottle of elixir.
Zhao Jingzhi and Zhao Wan were not practitioners. Zhao Lin gave them pills to strengthen their bodies, and Zhao Changxing gave them chalcedony pills that could improve the quality of their spiritual roots.
"Thank you uncle."
Zhao Jingzhi and Zhao Wan thanked them obediently.
"Chalcedony Pill!"
Zhao Changxing almost jumped up with joy and said from ear to ear: "Uncle, when I leave the Lingdao Academy, can I work in your shop?"
"We'll talk about what happens in a year's time."
Zhao Lin did not agree directly, but began to think about it in his heart.
Zhao Changxing has a high-grade spiritual root. He has cultivated to the fourth level of Qi refining in two years. He has no talent in cultivation. However, the Taoist art he practices is spiritual planting, which is relatively hard and the speed of accumulating good deeds is not fast.
Letting him come to the store to work would be beneficial to his spiritual practice, and the store also needs manpower, so it was a win-win situation.
Thinking of this, Zhao Lin added another sentence: "No matter what you do, practice seriously first."
Zhao Changxing nodded and said, "Uncle, I understand."
A few days later, the new year turned around, and Lingdao Academy welcomed a new generation of disciples.
Zhao Lin visited the other two foundation-building monks in the courtyard - Zhou Zhangyuan and Elder Nie.
Then he said goodbye to his family and boarded the spirit boat to Yanmen County.
The boat station in Hanchi County was not big, with only a dozen spirit boats. Zhao Lin habitually emitted ultrasonic waves to monitor the surrounding movements, and unexpectedly overheard the conversation between two monks.
"That spiritual boat is going to Yanmen County, right? What is he doing there?"
"Maybe it's a transfer?"
"It's impossible. Yanmen County is located in a remote area and it's very inconvenient to transfer. Eighty percentile is the end point."
"It makes sense. Let's stop guessing and notify the head of the family immediately..."
Two monks were sitting on a spiritual boat a hundred feet away. They thought Zhao Lin couldn't hear them, so they didn't use sound transmission techniques or use barriers to isolate the sound.
Zhao Lin heard that it must be spies from the Li family in Sanshan County who were following him.
"It's really annoying to keep pestering!"
After a while, the spirit boat took off. Zhao Lin glanced down, thinking that he would get rid of these clowns sooner or later.
Half a day later, the spirit boat arrived at Yanmen County.
Yanmen County is located in the west of Nanhezhou, close to a huge primitive jungle.
The jungle is full of mountains, canyons, abyss and swamps, and countless monsters live in them.
As the saying goes, they rely on mountains to eat mountains and water to drink water. Most of the monks in Yanmen County take beast control as their profession, capturing monsters and taming them into spiritual beasts, or obtaining training materials.
There is a large market in Yanmen County, which is bustling with people.
There is a notice board in front of the market, which publishes many notices about purchasing and hunting monsters.
Zhao Lin walked through the market, walked to the mountain gate, showed the body-illuminating stone to the guard, and entered the county.
After thinking for a while, I decided to meet my old friend first.
Zhao Lin exchanged letters with Liang Song and knew that he was in a place called "Tuxingtang". He asked someone to inquire about it and came to a rolling mountain peak.
There is a vast pasture with green grass in front of the mountain.
The pasture is surrounded by fences, and there are Disha apes, Wu Xing deer, violent earth rats, rock turtles, slab-horned cattle, Wutan beasts...
Dozens of spiritual beasts take a leisurely stroll or lie quietly on the grass.
Several young monks stood in the pasture. Some used spells to communicate with the spirit beasts, some observed the growth of the spirit beasts, and some fed food to the spirit beasts.
The monks and the spiritual beasts coexist in harmony, and the scene is quite harmonious.
"Brother Liang!"
Zhao Lin saw a familiar figure and shouted.
Liang Song turned his head, his eyes lit up, he said a few words to the monk next to him, walked over quickly, and said excitedly: "Brother Zhao, why are you here? You didn't even tell me in advance!"
Then a look of surprise flashed across his eyes, "It is indeed you who has broken through to the seventh level of Qi Refining!"
Liang Song has also reached the seventh level of Qi Refining, but the last time they met, he was at the sixth level of Qi Refining, while Zhao Lin only had the second level. Their cultivation speeds were very different.
"I have something to do here, and I want to see you by the way."
Zhao Lin said with a smile and glanced at the pasture, "You are still busy, right?"
Liang Song hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said, "There's still a while. Brother Zhao, please wait here for a moment. I'll be back soon."
Zhao Lin waved his hand and said, "You're not busy, I just want to see how you control the beasts."
“Actually, it’s no different than raising pigs and chickens.”
Liang Song laughed at himself, raised his hand, and returned to the ranch to continue working.
Zhao Lin found a big rock and sat down, observing the spiritual beasts in the pasture.
Monsters and spiritual beasts are actually the same species. The difference is that monsters live in the wild, have relatively ferocious temperaments, and mostly feed on flesh and blood.
Spirit beasts are monster beasts that have been domesticated, or have been in contact with humans since birth, losing most of their wild nature, and thus becoming the spiritual pets of monks.
The relationship between the two is a bit like that of a wolf and a dog.
Zhao Lin observed for a while, and suddenly a thought came to his mind: "Most monsters have innate spells. I wonder if the spiritual map can capture their spells?"
"It should be possible. As long as there is mana fluctuation, the spiritual chart can be analyzed, regardless of whether the person casting the spell is a monk or a monster."
"But the first-level spells are already full, and the second-level spells are also planned. We can only wait until we practice the third-level spells."
After about a meal, Liang Song jumped over the fence and strode over, "We're done, let's get off work!"
Zhao Lin stood up and said, "These spiritual beasts look quite docile."
Liang Song laughed "hehe" twice, "Not necessarily. No matter how smart they are, they are still beasts. They are wild and difficult to tame. Two days ago, a colleague was attacked by a spirit beast and almost lost his life."
Zhao Lin said "Oh" and asked: "The pasture only has fences and doesn't even have a magic circle. Aren't you afraid that they will run away?"
Liang Song laughed loudly when he heard this, "Brother Zhao doesn't know something. Of course these spiritual beasts want to run away, and we have also set up a magic circle."
"As long as they hit the barrier, the magic circle will send out ice arrows to attack. After being severely punished several times, even if the magic circle is removed, most of the spirit beasts will not dare to run out."
After speaking, he pointed to a few gray-haired great apes in the pasture and said: "These Disha apes are very smart. They know that the magic circle is not open and often sneak away."
"We'll beat him up once he's caught, and he's become more honest now."
Zhao Lin also laughed after hearing this, remembering a famous experiment in his previous life.
After talking for a while, Liang Song suddenly slapped his head, "By the way, you just said you came to Yanmen County for something?"
Zhao Lin nodded, "I'm here to find senior Shi Zhenyue."
"What does Brother Zhao want from Senior Shi?"
"Senior Shi is good at fire spells. Elder Wu introduced me to learn a second-level fire spell from him."
Liang Song nodded lightly and said with some worry: "Senior Shi is the master of the Fire Hall. He is usually very busy, so I am afraid he may not have time to teach spells."
Zhao Linxin said that as long as Shi Zhenyue used the Fire Cloud Spiritual Whip once and let the spiritual cultivation map capture the spell.
(End of chapter)
