Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming

Qin Feng and Zhao Yuantuo were pulling each other's skin, constantly unleashing various spells with their hands.

Zhao Yuantuo's cultivation was profound, possessing the strength of the late stages of the Purple Mansion Realm, making the power of his magic divine skills much greater than the attack power Qin Feng manifested using the Rock Giant's demon core.

Furthermore, Qin Feng had already expended a great deal of the demon core's power in the earlier battles, so it was not long before there were signs that he was struggling to keep up.

"Hm?"

Seeing this, Zhao Yuantuo felt great joy in his heart. He thought he was up against someone formidable, but it turned out Qin Feng was just a paper tiger!

Therefore, he intensified his offensive, striking at Qin Feng, making him retreat continuously in a matter of moments.

On the other side, the White Dragon roared and forcibly broke through the obstruction of the Dragon-Beating Whip, getting close and swinging a paw at Zhao Yuantuo.

Zhao Yuantuo's figure was like the wind, lightly floating to the distance. Then his fingers danced through various changing spells, and a barrage of magic divine powers descended on Qin Feng and the White Dragon like a violent storm.

Although this man was not a true disciple of the Wanfa Sect, his Daoist divine powers were still inherited from it, so his casting speed was equally astonishingly fast.

Eventually, Qin Feng felt that the power within the demon core had nearly all been depleted; the strength drawn from the earth below was simply insufficient to sustain such intense fighting; thus, he had no choice but to revert from his Rock Giant transformation back to his original form.

"Zhao Yuantuo! You dare obstruct my taming of the spiritual beast; this is not over between us!"

Qin Feng roared, summoning his Sky Battle Halberd. Without waiting for Zhao Yuantuo to speak, he executed the "Azure Dragon Emerges from the Sea" and his figure, following the halberd, rapidly charged toward his opponent.

At the same time, the White Dragon was continuously casting spells from its mouth and occasionally spewing out a breath of dragon fire, keeping Zhao Yuantuo busy trying to fend them off.

Seeing Qin Feng's true form, Zhao Yuantuo was not pleased by Qin Feng's Golden Core Realm cultivation; instead, he was shocked.

Having the combat power of the Purple Mansion Realm while only at the Golden Core Realm indicated that this young man was definitely a super-genius disciple of the Beast Taming Sect.

It was fortunate that he had not killed him earlier. Such a disciple's death would have been impossible for Zhao to escape!

However, since he had already offended Qin Feng, retreating now would not be accepted as a gesture of goodwill by Qin Feng. It would be better to be the villain to the end and directly snatch the Jiao Dragon.

If his plan could succeed, not only would he be able to slay a major enemy later but also seize an opportunity to cultivate to higher realms. By that time, even if Qin Feng was a genius, he would be of no concern.

With the Wanfa Sect covering him, even if Qin Feng became an immortal in the future, he would not kill Zhao over such a small feud, as that would surely trigger a conflict between the sects.

The two sides battled in midair for a while. Even though Qin Feng's physical war power was strong, and he had some power of laws on his side, his realm was far inferior to Zhao Yuantuo's. And the White Dragon, having fought fiercely earlier and receiving a hit from the Golden Jiao's Spirit Transformation Golden Wind, was also less potent than in its prime. Thus, the two, even when combined, gradually fell into disadvantage, suppressed by Zhao Yuantuo, who was in his prime and wielding the Dragon-Beating Whip.

Zhao Yuantuo used his divine power to repel Qin Feng a thousand feet away and the Dragon-Beating Whip disoriented the White Dragon. Seizing the opportunity, he quickly turned around, intending to snatch the Golden Jiao and leave.

But when he turned back, he couldn't help but widen his eyes, exclaiming, "Where's my Jiao Dragon?"

It turned out that the Jiao Dragon, previously knocked unconscious by his whip, had vanished!

"Damn it, did it wake up and escape while I was fighting that little whelp from the Beast Taming Sect?"

Zhao Yuantuo was extremely annoyed.

Had he known it would come to this, he should have disregarded injuring Qin Feng earlier and used great divine powers to forcefully repel Qin Feng and his spiritual beast, and then taken the Golden Jiao with him. Then it wouldn't have had the chance to escape.

He looked at the entrance of the cave, which only had a half remained after being demolished by the Golden Jiao, and was about to chase after it to see if he could still find the Jiao Dragon when he heard the angry voice of Qin Feng from afar: "Zhao Yuantuo, you dare to snatch my spiritual beast. If I'm no match for you, I'll let you have it. Wait until I advance to the Purple Mansion, and then I will come to experience your divine powers!"

After saying that, Qin Feng rode the White Dragon, made a circle, and left without looking back.

Zhao Yuantuo opened his mouth to explain but didn't know what to say.

He couldn't help feeling regretful. He had offended a true disciple of the Beast Taming Sect for nothing and didn't get any benefits in the end. How unlucky!

Zhao Yuantuo sighed helplessly and eventually descended to the ground, walking towards the entrance of the cave.

He only hoped that the Jiao Dragon, severely injured, did not escape too far. If he could catch up with it, there might still be a chance to recover his losses.

However, upon entering the nest and raising his head to see the scene in front of him, he was first stunned and then cursed fiercely, "Bah! Shameless brat, to think that you dared to deceive me!"

Not only were there several broken spider webs in the cave, but there were also drag marks on the ground leading deep into the cave.

Zhao Yuantuo's divine sense followed the trail and discovered that there was actually a passageway leading several tens of miles to the other side of the mountain cliff.

Combining this with the direction Qin Feng had specifically circled before departing, Zhao Yuantuo realized that the Golden Jiao hadn't woken up and escaped by itself. Instead, it had been dragged away by a Spider Demon.

He recalled how Qin Feng had used dazzling spells during their fight to obscure his vision, and the White Dragon's relentless attacks prevented him from checking elsewhere, allowing the Spider Demon hidden in the cave to take away the Golden Jiao without a trace.

Enraged, Zhao Yuantuo speedily pursued the trail left on the ground.

But by the time he came out of the passageway, the outside was empty and Qin Feng was nowhere to be seen.

"Scoundrel!"

Zhao Yuantuo cursed furiously, "He clearly took a big advantage, yet he pretended to be at a great loss – truly infuriating!"

Recalling Qin Feng's wronged demeanor as if he was going to settle accounts with him come autumn, he felt a mix of shame and anger. As a Purple Mansion Cultivator with a thousand years of fame, he had been deceived by a young junior's trickery, which made him feel both furious and humiliated.

But Qin Feng had long since disappeared, and Zhao was not a cultivator of the Beast Taming Sect, nor did he possess spells to track down spiritual beasts through their scent in the void.

"The Golden Jiao is gone; what use is this iron whip to me now?"

Zhao Yuantuo felt his heart turn to ash, he flung the Dragon-Beating Whip in his hand with all his might, letting it land on the peak below, then turned and flew back towards his family home.

However, he had only flown out ten-odd miles before he couldn't help but fly back cautiously to retrieve the Dragon-Beating Whip.

After all, it was a Spiritual Treasure that had consumed a vast amount of resources and taken years of painstaking refinement to craft. Though it was impractical for regular combat, he truly couldn't bear to just toss it aside!

...

Qin Feng, riding the White Dragon, took advantage of the time Zhao Yuantuo entered the cave to meet up with the Ghost-Faced Spider. They trapped the Golden Jiao with layers of spider webs, bundled it up, and put it into the Demon Refining Pot. Immediately afterward, he jumped onto the back of the White Dragon and left.

The White Dragon exerted all its strength to fly, and to avoid Zhao Yuantuo catching up again, Qin Feng did not fly towards the Beast Taming Sect right away. Instead, he went in the opposite direction for a while and changed course several times along the way.

Only after the White Dragon had flown wildly for several hours, having left Pingyang County far behind, did Qin Feng command it to stop. He found a secluded cave, set up the Nine Palace Illusion Array to hide their presence, and placed the White Dragon into the Demon Refining Pot to let it rest properly.

In the previous battle, the White Dragon had expended a great deal of energy. Afterwards, it had continued to fly wildly for several hours non-stop, indeed exhausting it considerably.

In fact, after their fight with the Golden Jiao, both Qin Feng's and the White Dragon's combat effectiveness had seriously declined. He could only maintain his transformation into the Rock Giant for a limited time and couldn't continue fighting indefinitely. After all, the Rock Giant's Demon Core was not his Golden Core; restoring magic power wasn't that simple.

And the White Dragon had suffered from the Spirit Transformation Golden Wind and had also used a Forbidden Curse Magic that consumed a lot of strength, causing significant depletion of its power. Towards the end of the fight, they had reached the point where they could not afford not to leave.

Of course, it wouldn't be impossible to summon the Ghost-Faced Spider from its nest to continue the fight, but there was no need.

Once the Ghost-Faced Spider appeared, it would not only reveal all of his trump cards, but it also might not be able to defeat Zhao Yuantuo, who was at the late stage of Purple Mansion Realm. It was better to do as he did now, letting the Ghost-Faced Spider take the opportunity to capture the Golden Jiao while they distracted Zhao Yuantuo.

In fact, the Golden Jiao had long since woken up, but unfortunately, it was entangled in dozens of layers of spider web and formed into a tight bundle. It was impossible for it to exert any force to struggle free, and it could only be resigned to Qin Feng placing it into the Demon Refining Pot.

Initially, the creature had thought that Qin Feng would put it into something like a Spiritual Beast Bag or a Space Magical Treasure like the Demon Suppression Tower, which are used to subdue Demon Beasts. That would have given it some time to recover its strength, so that by the time Qin Feng wanted to subdue it, it wouldn't be without the power to resist.

But when it was placed into the Demon Refining Pot, it immediately discovered with great fear that it was surrounded by an immense force of Laws. The power of Laws that pervaded the void everywhere sought to enter its body and the deepest part of its Divine Soul to refine it away.

The Golden Jiao wanted to resist, and it also desperately tried to activate its own power of Laws to fight against the Demon Refining Pot.

Regrettably, in comparison, its Laws were far weaker than those of the Demon Refining Pot, and it ended up in a state of constant retreat.

Even though it could still hold on for the time being and not be completely refined, it couldn't escape either, only waiting sullenly for that terrifying moment to come.

It wasn't that the Golden Jiao didn't want to try breaking out of this space to escape, but its entire body was tightly bound by spider webs. Even if it managed to tear through a few layers of webs, the Ghost-Faced Spider guarding it would immediately come forward to trap it with even more layers of webs, never giving it a chance to flee.

As Qin Feng sat in the cave, directing all his spirit into the Demon Refining Pot, the situation changed abruptly.

He had dedicated time to earnestly refine this Immortal artifact before and could control part of the prohibitions and Laws of the Demon Refining Pot. Thus, when he used his own Laws to activate the full power of the Demon Refining Pot's restraints to refine the Golden Jiao, the creature immediately came under immense pressure and couldn't hold on for long. It was utterly defeated and its body transformed into a mist of blood that merged into the Ruyi Golden Snake.

This fusion took even longer than the last time with the Nine-Headed Snake's bloodline; it took nearly two days for the Golden Jiao's bloodline to be completely integrated into the body of the Ruyi Golden Snake.

The strength of the Golden Jiao did not far surpass that of the Nine-Headed Snake; it was the presence of the True Dragon Bloodline and a fraction of the Dragon Clan's bloodline inheritance within the Jiao Dragon's body that rendered it inherently much more powerful than the Nine-Headed Snake, which was precisely why the process had taken so long.

After integrating the Golden Jiao's Bloodline Divine Power, the Ruyi Golden Snake fell into slumber for a second time.

Qin Feng paid it no mind, nor did he leave immediately.

With the Pure Spirit Power provided by the Demon Refining Pot, coupled with a good supply of Elixir Pills, there wasn't much difference for him in where to cultivate at this stage, so he decided to wait for the Ruyi Golden Snake to wake up before returning to his Sect. It was a suitable opportunity to consolidate his own Spells and ponder over the Cultivation Technique Divine Powers he possessed.

Three months later, Qin Feng awoke from his cultivation.

Through this period of cultivation and relying on the power of the Demon Refining Pot, he had not only advanced his cultivation from the Golden Core Middle Stage peak to the Golden Core Late Stage but also deepened his understanding of Cultivation Technique Divine Powers.

However, the most significant change was in his Lifebound Spiritual Beast.

Several years had passed since the Ruyi Golden Snake had first merged with the Nine-Headed Snake's bloodline, and with Qin Feng's constant provision of various resources, the Ruyi Golden Snake had not only greatly increased its Demon Core Realm but had also developed nine heads.

Now, having fully absorbed the Golden Jiao's Bloodline Power, the Ruyi Golden Snake underwent another transformation. It grew limbs with sharp claws and even its nine heads transformed, shifting from the original snake heads to the fierce visages of Jiao Dragon skulls.

Not only had a spiral-shaped horn emerged on its head, but its mouth had also undergone changes. Although the fangs within remained densely packed and sharp, the upper and lower jaws now possessed four exceptionally elongated and sharp tusks!

These were but superficial changes; what filled Qin Feng with joy was that his Lifebound Spiritual Beast had indeed inherited some of the Dragon Clan's legacy from the Golden Jiao's bloodline.

Although the inheritance was not substantial, it was enough to give him a glimpse, providing him with some understanding of the Dragon Clan's Cultivation Techniques.

The scales on the Ruyi Golden Snake's body had grown even tougher, and within its body, it was also nurturing a form of Spirit Transformation Golden Wind.

The reason Qin Feng hadn't left seclusion for so long was that he wanted to integrate the nascent and imperfect Spirit Transformation Golden Wind with the Ruyi Golden Light.

By using the formidable attack power of the Spirit Transformation Golden Wind to compensate for the slightly weaker offense of the Ruyi Golden Light, and conversely, allowing the Ruyi Golden Light to bestow upon the Spirit Transformation Golden Wind endless variability thanks to its own infinite transformations.

Qin Feng extended his hand, and a ball of golden light emerged in his palm.

The golden light was like water, seemingly calm and undisturbed.

But as Qin Feng flicked his wrist, the golden light instantly transformed into a golden wind flying outwards.

Wherever the golden wind passed, all grass, trees, and rocks were reduced to ash, shredded by the golden wind.

Upon closer inspection, one could discern countless tiny specks of golden sword light within the wind.

These specks of golden light shifted according to Qin Feng's will, altering into various forms, now spears and halberds, then axes and tridents, at times like sword light and sword energy, and at others becoming myriad golden needles.

Infinite in variability, boundless in might, it was truly a formidable Divine Power!