Immortal Venerable of the Beast Race
Chapter 96 - 96 74 New Changes in the Spirit Control Tower_3

96: 74 New Changes in the Spirit Control Tower_3 96: 74 New Changes in the Spirit Control Tower_3 Seven days later, a Sound Transmission Talisman flew in, hovering in front of him.

Shen Long quickly ceased his cultivation and let out a long exhalation of turbid air.

He had successfully completed the first layer of cultivation and could clearly feel that his Qi strength had increased significantly, his body was filled with power.

Shen Long grabbed the Sound Transmission Talisman and, with a squeeze, ignited it.

Zhao Qian’s voice emerged, “Junior Brother Shen, are you available now?

A junior sister would like to rent your cave dwelling.”

“Finally, a tenant comes.

Hopefully, I can exchange it for a good sum of Spirit Stones,”

Shen Long muttered to himself as he walked out.

Zhao Qian and a slender young lady in a green dress stood at the entrance of Qinglian Garden, and Shen Long pushed the door open and stepped out.

“Junior Brother Shen, let me introduce you.

This is Wang Yumei, Junior Sister Wang,”

Zhao Qian introduced.

“So it’s Senior Sister Wang, please come inside,”

Shen Long invited Zhao Qian and Wang Yumei inside and took them on a tour.

Wang Yumei was quite pleased and asked, “Junior Brother Shen, how many Spirit Stones do you want for a year’s rent?”

“Three thousand, how about that?”

Shen Long said.

With forty acres of Spirit Field, even if planting Silver Marrow Spirit Rice, based on a yield of six hundred catties per acre, after three years when the crop matures, it would yield twenty-four thousand catties of Silver Marrow Spirit Rice.

At the price of three Spirit Stones per ten catties, it could sell for seven thousand two hundred Spirit Stones.

This means an income of two thousand four hundred Spirit Stones each year, not to mention the earnings from the fish ponds and Spirit Lake.

“That price is too expensive, one thousand five hundred is more reasonable,”

Wang Yumei bargained.

After some back-and-forth negotiation, they finally reached an agreement.

The annual rent was set at two thousand seven hundred Spirit Stones, and Wang Yumei paid ten years’ rent in one go.

If after ten years Shen Long had not returned, the contract would be automatically renewed for another fifteen years.

If after fifteen years Shen Long still had not come back, it would be automatically renewed for twenty years.

After twenty years, the tenancy would be void.

During this period, if Shen Long were to return early, he would only have residential rights without the right to manage the Spirit Fields, fish ponds, and Spirit Lake.

In the presence of Zhao Qian, they signed the contract, with three copies made—one for each of them—and Shen Long received twenty-seven thousand Spirit Stones.

“Junior Brother Shen, I will take my leave now.

I’ll come back in half a year,”

Wang Yumei said goodbye and left.

“Senior Sister Zhao, thank you for your trouble.

This is a small token of my appreciation, please accept it,”

Shen Long took out a blue Storage Bag and handed it to Zhao Qian, containing one thousand Spirit Stones.

Zhao Qian did not refuse and took it with her.

After chatting with Zhao Qian for a while, Shen Long bought a Demon-Purity Mirror from her at a discounted price, mainly used to test the purity of bloodlines in Spirit Beasts and Spirit Insects.

After seeing Zhao Qian off, Shen Long entered a secret chamber to refine the Demon-Purity Mirror.

The Demon-Purity Mirror was a medium-quality Magic Artifact, capable of testing the bloodline purity of second-order Spirit Beasts without any issue, let alone first-order ones.

He released his Fire Rock Beast, Gold Ant Queen, Iron Tail Scorpion, Snow Wind Sparrow, and Hundred Eyes Cicada, using the Demon-Purity Mirror to test their bloodline purity one by one.

The bloodline purity of the Iron Tail Scorpion and the Hundred Eyes Cicada were two; the others were all one.

Shen Long could now select a Life-Bound Spirit Beast.

He planned to choose a Spirit Beast, Spirit Bird, or Spirit Insect with a high bloodline purity as his Life-Bound Spirit Beast.

Currently, he had no suitable targets, which is why he hadn’t chosen one yet.

According to the experiences of past cultivators from the Spirt Control Sect, a Life-Bound Spirit Beast must have a bloodline purity of at least two to have the potential and value for cultivation.

The Spirt Control Sect’s ancestral guardian Spirit Beasts had a maximum bloodline purity of four, and it was extremely difficult for Spirit Beasts to improve their bloodline purity.

It wasn’t that the purity of a Spirit Beast’s bloodline would definitely increase each time they advanced a major realm.

Some Spirit Beasts hatched with a bloodline purity of two, while three was quite rare.

Some second-order Spirit Beasts also had a bloodline purity of one, and if nothing unexpected occurred, they would stop advancing at the second order; their divine skills also wouldn’t be too strong.

“Strange, the Iron Tail Scorpion just consumed some Twin-Tailed Scorpion corpses and not only underwent mutation but also increased its bloodline purity?

Could it be because of the Spirt Control Tower?”

Shen Long pondered.

According to the experiences of the Spirt Control Sect’s ancestors in cultivating mutant Spirit Scorpions, if one in a thousand first-order Spirit Scorpions mutated, it was considered very good, a one in a thousand chance.

The Iron Tail Scorpion had not only mutated but also improved in bloodline purity.

Either the Iron Tail Scorpion was special, or it was because of the Spirt Control Tower.

He was more inclined to believe the latter; if the Iron Tail Scorpion had been special, it would have shown earlier.

He couldn’t believe that just by consuming some corpses of first-order Twin-Tailed Scorpions and Ink Mustard Grass, the Iron Tail Scorpion could both mutate and increase bloodline purity.

The previous cultivators of the Spirt Control Sect who managed to breed mutant first-order Spirit Scorpions with a bloodline purity of two was an occurrence in ten thousand.

From this, it could be inferred that the mutation and increase in bloodline purity of the Iron Tail Scorpion had a significant relationship with the Spirt Control Tower.

Of course, this was just Shen Long’s personal speculation.

The truth would be known later since he had many Spirit Beasts under his care.

If the Spirt Control Tower really had such an extraordinary divine skill, abnormalities would be noticeable in the Fire Rock Beast, Snow Wind Sparrow, Gold Ant, and Hundred Eyes Cicada.

Shen Long fed each of them a Spirit Feeding Pill, now that he had more than forty thousand Spirit Stones, feeling financially robust.

Shen Long made a trip to the Free Trade Valley to purchase a batch of basic Artifact Refining materials, then arrived at the entrance of a sprawling estate.

The signboard read “Golden Crow Garden.”

Shen Long sent out a Sound Transmission Talisman and before long, the gate opened.

A slender young lady in a purple dress walked out, “Uncle Shen, grandfather invites you.”

The purple-dress girl was Chen Changsheng’s granddaughter, Chen Ziyi, only at the Qi Refinement Realm.

Shen Long nodded and followed Chen Ziyi inside, passing through three arched gate courtyards until they arrived at a secluded small courtyard.

Within the courtyard stood a three-story red pavilion with a signboard reading “Golden Crow Pavilion.”