In the newly opened beast space, under the huge and flourishing Heavenspan tree, stood the Void Empress’ clone, A.I. Joanne and the hollow jade frog.
It was only at this time did anyone have a time to properly observe the beast space.
Zi Yang was not got for a moment when he returned with a spiritual clone. Any beast master can condense a spiritual thought into a clone in his beast master space – which is a basic skill.
Looking at the land under his feet and the sky above his head, Zi Yang felt a sense of satisfaction.
“Zi Yang, your beast master space already contains some elements of lord level spaces and in some cases, it may even rival my own”, Void Empress commended.
“Yes master, I will still have to fill in some landscapes and stars – now the land is all flat and the starry sky is all illusory using dao rhymes.”
Hearing this, the void empress could not help but roll her eyes.
Except for the size of the beast master space which varies from person to person and is not a concrete indication of quality, the strength of space, the laws and the room for growth of this beast master space is the best among all the beast master spaces she has even seen or heard of.
But it is good not to be content.
It drives one to make progress.
The skeletal structure of the beast master space was well done. Now he needs to think about suppressing the sea and the volcanoes first.
Yes.
The dao thunder ripped some stable places and made them unstable. He could only put his hope on mending those places after strengthening the space when his beast master level goes up.
For now, he would need to suppress the weak points to prevent harming this space.
Before he gets something to do this, the bell has to work hard.
After a moment, everyone agreed to withdraw from the space to real world.
Void Empress dispersed her blood clone and, let the frog put it and other things into his storage space.
Outside, as the frog and Joanne came out; Zi Yang also opened his eyes.
He felt comfortable all over.
But then he found that he was lying naked in what seemed like a bigger than usual tub full of powders and gooey liquid.
Baize who was waiting for him, saw him wake up and said, “You have done well, Zi Yang. I will have a bath drawn for you."
Listening to the voice from inside the room, Void Empress knew that Zi Yang had woken up.
She did not enter, but her voice floated in, "Take rest for a day and let’s talk about your options tomorrow. The college examination has passed. We will consider recommendations and other options tomorrow.”
Zi Yang stood up and accidently slipped.
Baize was quick to react and held his arm and supported him to prevent him from slipping in the tub.
Even with this momentary grip, Baize affirmed the significant effect of opening the beast taming space on Zi Yang.
He felt his muscles were firm and contained energy to fight mortal beasts bare handed. His abdominal muscles had become more defines and the back muscles seemed to have become leaner as if a crouching tiger hiding his strength.
The muscles in the thigh, hips and legs seemed to be tight too.
The improvement was to significant and sudden compared to normal methods and that too, in a body like Zi Yang’s which had been burdened for his entire life.
While Baize admired the significant improvement, he did not notice that Zi Yang seemed to shudder.
He woke up, found himself naked and in the company of an old man who admired him from top to bottom while touching him all over.
Even if he a good mental fortitude, this was a little too much. If he had not known Uncle Baize, he would have shouted for protection against sexual harassment.
“Ah, Uncle Baize!”
Even so, he still shouted with an apple-red face and steaming head.
Baize also realized that his behavior might seem a little erogenous. He still teased though, “What, shy, little boy? We’re both men. Relax, go for a bath first.”
As if finding his apple red head funny, he spanked his butt as he signaled.
Soon, Zi Yang emerged after the bath. He still has slightly red neck and a little resentful look when he saw Baize.
However, his master’s entry seemed to have prompted the end of this joke.
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Seeing him, Void Empress had eyes full of affirmation and pride.
She patted his shoulder and smoothed the creases on the collar.
“Alright, off you go home. Zi Ming has been worried sick about you for months.”
Zi Yang only then knew the full story.
It turned out that the entire process of creation, testing and passing took three months!
So, he thanked the empress and went home with the Froggie and the A.I.
He had not fully entered the house when Zi Ming seemed to have a sense and smashed into his stomach like a rocket.
He almost puked.
But there is no way. It was his fault that made Zi Ming anxious.
He could only swallow it back in and pick him up.
Zi Ming was like a koala bear now. He didn’t let go for the fear that Zi Yang would run away.
But the boy seemed to have grown up a lot.
“Zi Yang, how is beast master space? Did you contract a beast? Is it the froggie or Joanne?”
Mama Mei and Uncle Baize also gathered around.
Zi Yang told them how he opened the beast master space and everyone was amazed at it.
Zi Ming shouted excitedly, “When I grow up, I will also open a powerful beast master space like this! I will also have three space like my brother not one like others!”
It could only be said that kids think differently.
While Uncle Baize and Mama Mei were amazed by the sheer difficulty and the tests imposed, Zi Ming grasped the key point – more powerful.
Even if the logic of the greater, the more powerful might not be always true.
In this case – it was!
Three interlinked spaces increased the size, integrity and growth possibility!
“Sure thing, Zi Ming will do well. See what I got you. It will help you do that when you get bigger.”
Then he signaled to the froggie and asked him to spit out the heart.
A while later, a beating heart was pushed in front of everyone.
This was at the dinner table when everyone still had dessert left.
Well, at least Mama Mei’s mood was ruined.
Zi Yang also realized that his enthusiasm of giving gifts to Zi Ming spoiled the mood, so he smiled apologetically at Mama Mei.
What could Mama Mei do now?
She put aside her pudding and asked, “So, this is the heart of your clone? It’s like the size of a normal man. Zi Ming’s essence blood wasn’t that big!”
“Yes, Mama Mei. It got this big because of the various energies in creation.”
Mama Mei looked a little worried now.
She asked worriedly, “I know you want to return this essence to Zi Ming. But can he handle such a powerful resource now?”
Actually, Zi Yang was worried too.
He wondered if he should use it when Zi Ming grows up.
But Uncle Baize stopped him and said, “No problem, I will seal most of the power and the tools within the heart and as the power is sealed – it will turn back into an essence blood again.
Putting it in Zi Ming’s heart now will speed up his recovery and also it is better to integrate it slowly over the years as the seal loosens releasing power little by little.”
With this discussion, everyone followed into Zi Yang’s room.
Baize used his powers to suppress the power and forced back the blood essence into Zi Ming’s heart.
Zi Ming twitched slightly but soon his pale face seemed a lot redder.
“It’s done. As he ages and his body strength increases, the seal will release power and keep integrating the power within into his heart.
It will fully unseal when he opens his beast master space or he naturally crossed the level to become Mortal Level 1.”
The second case is rare.
With Zi Ming’s origin deficiency, it is safe to assume that it would only open after he opens beast master space.
With the addition of this supplement, Zi Ming would not need to worry about circulation system anymore.
It is good to have that dealt with.
Finally, everyone went to their rooms and Zi Ming tucked in with Zi Yang.
Lying on the bed, Zi Yang’s mind recounted everything that happened today.
Like many times before, he felt this was a dream too.
Every time he thinks that nothing could amaze him – something happens.
He felt that his psychological quality seemed a little poor. He should work on that.
Be as steady as a rock.
With a second of thinking that, his glands seemed to be overdosed with adrenaline again.
He was excited to check his harvest now.
What aroused his curiosity the most were all the tools and their effects.
Mythology is Mythology.
His spiritual tools certainly won’t be that effective but they can be used by him!
Instead of looking through them one by one, he decided to condense a game panel for himself.
Otherwise, what’s the point of his talent?
Looking for problem solving and searching for insights on difficult problems?
No.
Summary comes first.
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[Name]: Zi Yang
[Race]: Human
[Physique]: Houtian Dao body
[Cultivation Level]: Mortal Level 9 (Perfection)
[Contracted Beasts]: None
[Magical Powers]: None
[Law]:
Initiation: World, Soul, Thunder, Five Elements, Four Elephants, Yin-Yang, Creation, Destruction, Time, Space, Weather, Reincarnation, Devouring, Power, Human
[Spiritual Tools]: Extreme Chaos Bell, Yin-Yang Taichi Diagram, Discordance-calming flag, Soul-snatching hook, Soul stabilizing bridge, reincarnation disc, hell gates, Nine Floored Xuanhuang Creation Pagoda, World Measuring Hongmeng heavenly ruler, Luobao Money Coin
[Spiritual Objects]: Euterpe berries, Yin-Yang stones
[Spiritual Roots]: Heavenspan Tree of Principles, Hollow Plum Tree, Merit Money Tree.
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He was dumbstruck, looking at his panel.
First, the imitation act of opening heavens connected all three of his acupoints and allowed him to possess an acquired physique.
Sensing the meaning of the physique, he learned that this body allows him an extra edge on understanding various laws.
That is to say, this was on top of the edge he already had – his beast master space contained many laws which would help him understand them easily.
The two advantages, stacked on top of each other could allow him to speed up his progress exponentially.
Another advantage of the imitation act was stabilization of his cultivation with solid foundation at Mortal level 9.
That’s without signing a beast contract!
Even now, he could feel that the energy from the beast master space constructed from the three acupoints seem to connect with other orifices, organs and limbs.
A strange circulation of energy seemed to be slowly established which he could not yet figure out.
All he could sense was that his physique seemed to be slowly improving as this energy circulates. Zi Yang had had an idea about improving his body all these years.
Zi Ming’s missing origin has always been driving him ways to identify methods to strengthen physique – if he could identify this route and understand its intricacies – it would be phenomenal!
Leaving that aside for now, Zi Yang once again checked the laws and tools.
These laws are all at the stage of initiation – probably around 1% or 2%. The tools were well, seemed to be good too.
What more could he say?
That they seemed to be ripped off from mythological legends?
There was no need to – they were intended to. But it is good that they work well for him.
Almost all these tools were of the ‘lord’ level personality. They would help him for a long time to come.
Overall, he seemed to have laid an extremely solid pedestal for his dao to stand on.
Sensing his pride, Zi Yang snapped back to senses and warned himself again.
These days, he had attained some of his original flamboyant nature from the previous life.
It was alright before and so is now – but in moderation.
This is a world of strength. Bragging without basis is floating clouds, and pride without strength, nothing but bubbles abound.
It is still a rootless cloud and a feeble bubble after all.