Reigning Supreme in countless worlds With Beast taming

Chapter 93: Chapter 92 Qi Wushang

“A group of Wolf Demons has emerged from Cuiping Mountain, bringing disaster to the area, causing significant death and injury among the common folk. The local cultivator families are not strong enough and have asked the sect for help. Those who eliminate the Wolf Demons will receive ten bottles of high-quality Spiritual Beast Pills.”

“Nanyue Country has discovered followers of the Demon Sect secretly preaching and bewitching the hearts of the people. Those who exterminate the Demon Cultivators will be credited with a meritorious deed and awarded ten Green Splendor Pills.”

“Recently, it has been rumored that a Red Fire Spirit Ape has been spotted in Fire Cloud Mountain. Elder Li from Spiritual Ape Peak has issued a task to capture the Red Fire Spirit Ape, with a reward of three thousand Spirit Stones!”

“We are recruiting disciples to go to White Bone Ridge to collect Ghost Bamboo, the more the better, with no upper limit. A hundred-year-old piece of Ghost Bamboo can be exchanged for sixty Spirit Stones at the Foreign Affairs Hall.”

Qin Feng stared unceasingly at the tasks posted on the stone wall, the variety of tasks making him somewhat dazzled, especially being attracted by those generous rewards.

However, he eventually shifted his gaze away from those highly rewarding tasks.

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Because, any task that offers a reward of over a thousand Spirit Stones would at least require Foundation Establishment Disciples to complete, which were not tasks he could take on at the moment.

Qin Feng shifted his gaze downward, looking towards the tasks with lesser rewards at the very bottom.

This was where disciples like him, who had just entered the late stage of Qi Cultivation, ought to focus.

Although the rewards here were not very substantial, ranging from a few tens to a few hundreds of Spirit Stones, they were relatively safer and most suitable for disciples like him who were undertaking tasks for the first time.

As he was searching for a task that suited him, he suddenly felt some commotion among the cultivators beside him, who began to step aside.

In his moment of hesitation, a large man with several pockmarks on his face pulled him aside.

Then he saw a young man, radiating an aura of wildness, walking arrogantly through the path that had opened up among the crowd.

This young man was tall and fierce, especially his eyes, which displayed a beastly ferocity, sending a chill through anyone he glanced at.

“Awesome!”

Qin Feng muttered softly to himself.

Although the young man did not deliberately look towards him, the glance this person gave him still instilled a strong sense of crisis in his heart, as if this youth were an Ancient Fierce Beast in human skin, bringing intense oppression.

“That’s Qi Wushang, of course he’s formidable.”

The pock-marked man who had pulled him aside said, then sized Qin Feng up and suddenly a kind-hearted smile appeared on his face: “Is this your first time here at the Foreign Affairs Hall to pick up tasks?”

Qin Feng was startled, “How did you know?”

“You don’t even recognize Qi Wushang, one of the top ten disciples of the Outer Sect. It’s obvious you seldom come to the Foreign Affairs Hall.”

The large man laughed, “Although Qi Wushang isn’t the strongest among the Outer Sect disciples, he is definitely the last one anyone would want to provoke. If you had been here before, at the very least you should have heard of his reputation.”

Qin Feng bowed to the large man, “I am Qin Feng, junior brother. Since entering the sect, I have always been cultivating on Spiritual Snake Peak, and indeed this is my first time here at the Foreign Affairs Hall. May I know how to address you, senior brother?”

The large man looked surprised and scrutinized Qin Feng’s somewhat youthful face, then nodded and said, “So it turns out you are one of last year’s new disciples, not bad at all, reaching the late stage of Qi Cultivation in just one year. I am Ma Jiu from Sky Wolf Peak. Just call me Brother Ma.”

“Pleased to meet you, Brother Ma.”

Qin Feng curiously asked, “Top ten disciples of the Outer Sect, why hasn’t anyone mentioned them before?”

“Outer Disciples are divided into two circles, those who stay in the sect as servants and those like us who go out on missions. Moreover, this so-called ‘top ten disciples’ is just a term that has come into use in recent years. You were a new disciple before and didn’t have contact with our circle, so it’s normal that you don’t know these things.”

Ma Jiu chuckled, “Originally, the title of the top ten disciples was just something that ten disciples from noble families used to praise each other, in order to lift their own value and gain some reputation.

However, while these noble heirs were elevating themselves, they inevitably put others down. Then, some people with ulterior motives exaggerated and spread rumors, which caused dissatisfaction among some of the skilled Outer Disciples.

After several conflicts, most of the disciples from noble families were kicked out. Now, a large majority of the so-called top ten disciples are of ordinary origin, and Qi Wushang is one of them.”

At this point, Ma Jiu couldn’t help but sigh, “The current top ten disciples not only have formidable combat prowess, but their potential is astonishing too. Each one has refined a powerful Lifebound Spiritual Beast, and three of them have even developed Divine Power Seeds in advance. They’re just waiting to ascend to the Golden Core stage to achieve complete divine powers.”

“Divine Power Seeds?”

Qin Feng was taken aback.

Having spent the past year often reading books in the Scripture Pavilion, he knew exactly what these Divine Power Seeds were.

Typically, a cultivator’s methods for self-defense and protecting the Dao include magical treasure divine weapons, alongside Daoist skills, spells, and divine powers.

Daoist Skills, specifically, refer to the abilities cultivators gain from comprehending the Heavenly Dao and understanding the Dao Principles, allowing them to use these principles.

As for spells, they are merely the action of deploying one’s True Yuan in a set manner, without any involvement of Dao Principle power or additional enhancements. The power emitted depends entirely on how much True Yuan is used.

Divine powers, however, are divided into five levels and two main categories. @@novelbin@@

The five levels are Divine Power Seed, Small Divine Power, Divine Power, Great Divine Power, and Supreme Divine Power.

The two categories are Physical Body Divine Power, which is most common among the Demon Clan, who simply need to awaken their bloodline legacy to easily develop various innate divine abilities with varying strengths depending on their racial talents and uses.

The Human Clan, born with weaker physical bodies, do not have the inherent advantages of the Demon Clan and generally rely on cultivating methods to gain divine powers, which is hard. Typically, only by reaching the Purple Mansion Realm and glimpsing the Heavenly Dao Laws can one comprehend the corresponding divine powers.

Another category is Body Cultivation, like the practitioners from the Giant Spirit Sect, who cultivate their physical body, break through various bloodline constraints, and naturally develop various Small Divine Powers when reaching the Golden Core Realm. Once they advance to the Purple Mansion Realm, they can further elevate their divine powers.

The Beast Taming Sect, on the other hand, took a shortcut. They don’t need to wait until the Purple Mansion Realm and can use their Lifebound Spiritual Beasts to acquire divine powers in advance. Some talented geniuses can develop a Divine Power Seed in the Foundation Establishment Realm through their Lifebound Spiritual Beasts. As soon as they advance to the Golden Core, they complete the cultivation of their divine powers, becoming even more powerful than ordinary Golden Core Cultivators.

Certainly, there are also demonic methods that forcibly seize the divine powers of others and turn them into Divine Power Seeds, which after refining, can be used directly without arduous cultivation.

Fang Zheng, who initially led you new disciples into the sect, was such a prodigy who had developed a Divine Power Seed ahead of time.

Qin Feng thought it was impressive enough that an Outer Disciple like Fang Zheng existed, but he never imagined there would be more than one such genius.

Ma Jiu didn’t pay attention to Qin Feng’s shock and continued, “Qi Wushang is one of those geniuses who has comprehended a Divine Power Seed. His Lifebound Spiritual Beast is a Fierce Ape with the Zhu Yan Bloodline. I don’t know if it’s the influence of his Lifebound Spiritual Beast, but this guy is extremely fierce in combat.

Two years ago, he was in a fight with an Inner Sect Disciple from the Giant Spirit Sect and literally tore that disciple to pieces. While being hunted by disciples of the Giant Spirit Sect, he even counter-killed dozens of their members, and his name is still on the Giant Spirit Sect’s bounty list.

Last year, there were a few disciples from noble families in the Outer Disciples who had a disagreement with him. They challenged each other to a duel, and if it weren’t for the timely rescue by a sect elder, those disciples would have been crippled by him.

It’s precisely because he’s so ruthless that no one wants to provoke him. Why do you think so many disciples voluntarily make way for him?”

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