I Fabricated the Techniques, but my disciple really mastered them? - Chapter 537

Chapter 537: Chapter 292 Zhu Xingzheng Selling Spirit Beast_2
 

There was a kind of anger that came from betrayal.

“I initially thought you were generous for letting my dad go, and I was so grateful to you, but who knew you sold us out!”

The gold-horned deer roared, its hooves stomping, and the purple light emanating from its body grew even more dazzling.

Li Xuan and his group all looked at Zhu Xingzheng with strange expressions.

“Little Jin, listen to me, don’t get angry!”

Zhu Xingzheng stroked the gold-horned deer’s head and said seriously, “I’m truly doing this for your own good. Think about it, isn’t the effect of this pill quite magical? By following the master of this beautiful lady, won’t you have the chance to get more pills in the future?

“And with the pills, your strength will increase, you might even become a spirit beast above the sixth rank, right?

“But if you stay with me, what can I offer you?

“Rather than having you travel and suffer with me, isn’t it better to follow this beautiful lady? I have such good intentions, yet you suspect me like this?

“I, Zhu Xingzheng, see you as a brother! If it wasn’t to fulfill your potential, would I have sold you at a discount to this lady?”

The gold-horned deer widened its eyes, feeling that Zhu Xingzheng’s words made sense. But it also felt something was off somewhere.

“What about my dad?”

The gold-horned deer thought of its dad. Zhu Xingzheng had said he encountered a great opportunity and let its dad go.

“You know the Supreme Expert, right? There was a Supreme Expert who needed a companion. I set your dad up with them. Isn’t that considered an opportunity?”

Zhu Xingzheng squeezed out a few tears, wiping them as he said, “When I parted with your dad, I cried for a long time, Little Jin! How could you misunderstand me like this?”

The gold-horned deer looked a bit ashamed, lowering its head as it said, “I’m sorry, I misunderstood you!”

The more it thought about it, the more it found sense; being by a Supreme Expert’s side was indeed a great opportunity.

“Little Jin, ensure you follow this lady well, be diligent, and the pills will surely come. You’ll definitely have the chance to become a spirit beast above the sixth rank.”

Zhu Xingzheng let out a sigh of relief in his heart, having appeased the gold-horned deer, was thrilled inside.

He sold another spirit beast, and he earned even more this time!

In his eyes, such precious pills would never be casually given to a steed; it was just fooling the gold-horned deer.

“Miss, Little Jin is now in your care, this is its control token!”

Zhu Xingzheng was secretly pleased, taking a green token from his storage bag, it had a strand of the gold-horned deer’s divine soul aura engraved on it.

This was a control token, and if the gold-horned deer went out of control, this token could forcibly suppress its divine soul, commanding obedience.

Generally, controlling a spirit beast required either raising it from young, with the spirit beast willingly recognizing a master; or forcibly subduing it, forging a control token to manage the beast.

Zhu Xingzheng took a third path: relying on deceit and trickery.

Li Xuan snapped his fingers, taking the gold-horned deer’s token, and after a glance, he realized the token was crudely made and actually had weak control over spirit beasts.

However, as spirit beasts in the Spiritual Realm had no cultivation methods, they grew solely based on their bloodlines. Thus, once their divine soul strand was captured by the control token, they were bound under its command and unable to break free.

For spirit beasts below the sixth rank, not yet having condensed a divine soul, a strand of their mental consciousness is captured and put into the control token.

This control token worked all because of a certain special material within it that could harness spiritual awareness or divine soul force of a spirit beast, not due to the technique of artifact refining.

If faced with a Red Cat, this token would not hold any control power.

However, for spirit beasts of the Spiritual Realm, it bore quite some restraining force.

While Li Xuan fiddled with the spirit beast control token, Zhu Xingzheng continued flattering Su Lingxiu and Yue’er, all while training the gold-horned deer, ostensibly to teach it how to please a new master to receive pill rewards…

Under his guidance, the gold-horned deer became very diligent, sticking out its tongue and bowing its head to curry favor.

“Miss, may I ask your name?” Zhu Xingzheng asked with a foolish grin.

“Su Lingxiu.”

“Yue’er.”

Zhu Xingzheng was overjoyed, pulling out a rein and putting it on the gold-horned deer, handing it over to Su Lingxiu while chirping, “So, it is Miss Su and Miss Yue, I am Zhu Xingzheng, who walks the righteous path, the righteous Zhu Xingzheng.”

The gold-horned deer was somewhat dumbfounded—why was it being leashed? It stared at Zhu Xingzheng, suspecting it had been deceived!

“Where are the two misses heading? It’s quite unstable in the Spiritual Realm right now, Little Jin has a bit of a temper, you must bear with it somewhat.

“Here, take this whip, Miss.”

Zhu Xingzheng handed a whip to Su Lingxiu.

Then, he kicked the gold-horned deer’s leg, saying, “Why are you standing there? Change into your larger form, how can you carry people this small? Be alert, don’t act dumb.”

The gold-horned deer snorted and puffed as Zhu Xingzheng tapped its head angrily, “With this attitude, how will you get pill rewards? I’m doing this for your own good, don’t you understand?”

Under Zhu Xingzheng’s persuasion, the gold-horned deer calmed down right away, finding sense in his words. Without pleasing the new master, how could it get any pill rewards?

Li Xuan quietly marveled, thinking to himself that Zhu Xingzheng had a knack for fooling spirit beasts.

He couldn’t help wonder if spirit beasts in the Heavenly Mausoleum State were so naïve and easily tricked?

If that was so, wouldn’t the Red Cat trick them all once it got there?

The Red Cat was no kind tiger.

The gold-horned deer’s body expanded, Li Xuan took out a seat and placed it on its back, finally having a mount—making the upcoming journey a leisurely one.

Shi’er, Zhou Ying, and Meng Shushu all breathed a sigh of relief, no longer having to endure exhausting travel anymore in case of burden, so they all climbed onto the gold-horned deer’s back too.

“Master, what fine leisure you have!”

Zhu Xingzheng wasn’t leaving, eagerly pouring tea for Li Xuan with every greeting being “Master,” full of enthusiasm.

“Zhu Xingzheng, continue your work; we don’t need you here!” Su Lingxiu stated.

“I’m actually free, you see, miss, the Spiritual Realm isn’t peaceful at the moment. With me here, many dangers can be averted. Besides, my bond with Little Jin runs deep, and it is just about to leave me, so I should escort it for a bit.”

Zhu Xingzheng was thick-skinned.

Su Lingxiu rolled her eyes, disinclined to pay him any mind.

The gold-horned deer soared into the air, heading towards Luo State, with Zhu Xingzheng casually joining the ranks, showing no intent to leave.

Nicely put in the name of a deep bond with the gold-horned deer to escort it on its journey…

As for the task assigned by the Wanshi Alliance, he had long discarded those thoughts.

What fun could be found in that small place of Yuzhou?

“Fatty, you’re a prodigy from the Wanshi Alliance, aren’t you?” Li Xuan laughed as he said this.

“Yes, yes!” Zhu Xingzheng nodded, “Master, are you a Loose Cultivator expert?”

To his view, Su Lingxiu and Yue’er’s strengths were not particularly strong, assuming their master had to be a Divine Refinement Celestial, no weaker than him.

After all, he couldn’t see through them.

As for Shi’er and the others, their strength seemed even poorer, appearing like mere followers.

He had no clue that Su Lingxiu and Yue’er had concealed their strength, which was why he couldn’t detect it.

Li Xuan smiled without answering and asked, “In the Wanshi Alliance, how many prodigies like yourself are there?”

“Not too many, given that I, Zhu Xingzheng, am thoroughly gifted, casually venturing into the great mountains of the Heavenly Mausoleum State to trick a spirit beast into following me to battle.

“The people from Yuling Mansion always love using spirit beasts to assist themselves; they see it as a matter of course, but I, Zhu Xingzheng, know how to do that too.

“If you ask about the best in the Wanshi Alliance, only those two stand out, both in late-stage Divine Refinement, their strength absurdly strong, especially that cold ice woman, holding up…”

Zhu Xingzheng didn’t know why he poured out everything he knew.

He introduced all the prodigies in the Wanshi Alliance, how many they were, what their strengths were.

Among them, two were the strongest, not yet thirty but already in late-stage Divine Refinement.

Those two even claimed they aimed for the top two of the prodigy list, asserting the first-place battle could only be between them two!

Li Xuan frequently nodded as he listened, acknowledging that the Wanshi Alliance really had some prowess, having such strong prodigies.

As for the top two in the prodigy list, that was out of the question, first and second were surely Xu Yan and Meng Chong’s.

If Su Lingxiu also partook, the top four positions would be held by his disciples.

When Li Xuan and his group stepped into Luo State, Xu Yan had already gone to challenge Yu Changfeng of the Sword Pavilion.