Shennong Dao Master
Chapter 624 - 4: The Shock of the Military Minister of Agriculture Brought by Mr. Zhao (15,000) _5

Chapter 624: Chapter 4: The Shock of the Military Minister of Agriculture Brought by Mr. Zhao (15,000) _5

The Slave Seal Skill emerged in response, and this spell was generally aimed at King Beasts and adult King Beasts.

"The third is the Soul Contract, which can only be performed after establishing the Divine Chosen Department."

The Mountain Cat and Zhao Xing had formed a Soul Contract.

The Soul Contract was also very popular within the Daoist Academy.

After forming it, mutual understanding could be achieved.

However, it required higher demands on spiritual wisdom, bloodline, and the caster.

"I am here to nurture and train exotic beasts for the court, but these beasts will eventually be sent to various royal families or into the army."

"Three categories of spells, advancing step by step, starting with the General Knowledge Skill," Zhao Xing thought to himself.

He opened a spell manual named Ten Thousand Beasts True Word and simultaneously took out a treasure, the Echo Shell.

It recorded the sounds of various beasts.

"To learn the Ten Thousand Beasts True Word, one must meet certain prerequisites."

"For example, vocal cord exercises, such as Penetrating Ears."

"Fortunately, I had previously cultivated the Sound Wave Martial Skill and consumed many Spiritual Beauties in the cave world’s spiritual beauty, which enhanced my physique, allowing me to hear sounds of different frequencies and meet these prerequisites."

Zhao Xing opened the Beast Clan True Word Technique manual.

On the first day, the sound of a horse neighing echoed within the residence.

"Neigh~"

At first, it didn’t sound quite right, but with his panel’s corrections, if the progress didn’t increase, he knew the cultivation direction was wrong, so he didn’t get trapped in a loop.

Soon, he mastered the first Ten Thousand Beasts True Word—Purple Horned Horse.

Once the progress stopped increasing, Zhao Xing would switch to another Beast Clan True Word and continue cultivating.

...

On the second day, the Ten Thousand Beasts True Word mastered by Zhao Xing increased to three kinds.

On the seventh day, the Ten Thousand Beasts True Word mastered by Zhao Xing increased to the eighteenth kind.

On the fifteenth day, Zhao Xing had thoroughly mastered the True Word Techniques for low-grade beasts.

He began to cultivate the True Word Techniques for middle-grade beasts, including Heavenly Horse, Unicorn, Unihorn Earth Dragon, Tiger Flood Dragon...

...

Time passed day by day, and soon it was December 15th of the 20th year of Jingxin.

By then, it had been two and a half months since Zhao Xing started his job.

He no longer remained in seclusion and walked out from the Justice Department.

However, Zhao Xing quietly left without notifying anyone.

"First, let’s check out the Heavenly Horse Warehouse at Tuquan Palace."

Mr. Zhao didn’t consider exotic beasts that were not graded.

Among three hundred thousand heads, he didn’t even bother to check each one, as these were mostly free-range on the island.

Most of them wouldn’t become battle beasts, essentially serving as a type of livestock, ultimately ending up as dishes on the tables of high-ranking officials and nobles.

After being free-ranged, as long as the Heavenly Time and Earth Advantage on the island were adjusted, making the environment suitable for living, they would quickly reproduce.

Of course, if a beast passed the grading, it might escape the fate of being slaughtered and enter Tuquan Palace, where it could truly be nurtured.

Additionally, the Dragon Horse Guard had over a thousand graded exotic beasts, only these exotic beasts were qualified to reside within Tuquan Palace.

"After the last chief officer was transferred three years ago, only a few dozen graded exotic beasts were left, and over three years, the staff of the Dragon Horse Guard raised the number to a thousand."

"However, this number was still too small," Zhao Xing thought to himself, "With such a small population, it’s impossible to talk about any selection and training."

The number of graded exotic beasts was 1,054, yet there were over eight hundred officials in the Dragon Horse Guard.

The number of officials nearly matched the number of exotic beasts!

Honestly, it was merciful of the court not to have laid off any staff.

Because the Dragon Horse Guard was barely making ends meet.

With over a thousand graded exotic beasts, impossible to reproduce, there was no point in talking about providing battle beasts to the court, or even attracting students from the Daoist Academy to come to Twin Islands to select beasts.

In the past three years, it could be said the Dragon Horse Guard had been running a loss for the court.

Zhao Xing arrived outside Tuquan Palace. The guard on duty was dozing off, leaning on his spear.

That wasn’t too bad, at least he hadn’t left his post, just slacking off at work.

After all, there wasn’t much worth guarding in Tuquan Palace.

"Collect!" Zhao Xing lightly flicked his finger and immediately collected the Sleeping Bug from the Ninth Grade guard.

"Hmm?" The spear guard instantly woke up and saw Zhao Xing, dressed in a Sixth-Rank official’s robe.

"Ah, sub, subordinate, greets, greets my lord!" The guard hurriedly adjusted his helmet and armor and then planted his spear into the ground, bowing to Zhao Xing.

"What is your name?"

"Subordinate’s name is Zhang Tao."

"Do you know the way to the Heavenly Horse Supervisor of Tuquan Palace?"

"I do."

"Lead the way."

"Yes, sir."

Zhang Tao cautiously led the way, feeling anxious, but seeing that this superior showed no intention of reprimanding him, he felt somewhat relieved.

Tuquan Palace was vast, consisting of interconnected palaces.

Currently, many palaces within Tuquan Palace were unused, left to gather dust.

For example, there’s a palace that Zhao Xing passed by called Tao Tu Palace, which originally housed a type of divine horse called Tao Tu.

Its fur was green, and although it had no wings, it could tread the waves and traverse mountains with ease.

It could travel ten thousand miles a day without rest, covering ten thousand miles in six two-hour periods—a speed and endurance nearly on par with high-speed rail!

However, there were no more Tao Tu in Tao Tu Palace.

Under the aggressive leadership of the previous Justice Director, eighty percent of the 105 Tao Tu in Tao Tu Palace died in internal elimination, and the remaining twenty percent died in competitive pre-selection tests.

Next, they passed by a sealed palace with the sign Purple Lightning Palace.

This was also home to an excellent breed of horses. The bones of Purple Lightning were hard, and its hooves could emit thunder.

In the army’s blood spirit battle formations, Purple Lightning Horses were, at their peak, included in the Sixth Level battle formations.