Chapter 65: Taming the Strange Beast

  "Is this beast worth 100,000 gold coins?" Zhao Xue asked the boss with a hint of anger.

  "Miss County, we originally sold it for this price. Considering your status as a county miss, we'll lower the price by 5,000. How about that?" The boss said with difficulty.

  "Hmph, I don't quite understand you, business is precise. Fifty thousand gold coins. We have a deal." Zhao Xue said in a low voice.

  "No way, no way, absolutely not. We can get 20,000 gold coins for a single Storage Beast Token, and you want to..." The boss shook his head.

  "How many times have you stored beast symbols?" Zhao Xue said in a low voice.

  "Twice!" The boss's face turned red with embarrassment.

  "Nonsense, a Twice-used Beast Token, used once and only left with one time, you want to buy it back for 20,000 gold coins? Is it still worth the money? Every year I spend at least 100,000 gold coins in your Beast Market, is buying a useless thing back so expensive?" Zhao Xue scolded.

  "Sixty thousand gold coins, can't be less." The boss insisted.

  "Fifty thousand, not one cent more!" Zhao Xue insisted.

  "It's indeed a case of the shop bullying its master, Zhao Xue is also considered half an owner here, I didn't expect this boss to be so bold, it seems that Wan Shou Hang is not simple." Guo Fei thought to himself.

  "Alright, alright. Young master of the county, five thousand is just five thousand, but you must take care of our business more in the future!" The boss said with narrowed eyes.

  "Am I not enough to take care of your business? Take it!" Zhao Xue said in a low voice.

  The boss smiled and called out, a short while later, someone brought over a white jade plaque. The plaque was square in shape, thin, three centimeters long and two centimeters wide. On its surface were carved mysterious patterns, with a faint beastly shadow floating above, which was a miniature version of the Golden Retriever's howl.

  Zhao Xue looked at Guo Fei's eyes and knew he didn't recognize it, so she explained: "This is a Beast Storage Symbol, made by the Ling tribe. It can be used twice, and the method of use is the same as the Sealing Orb. This level of Beast Storage Symbol can only store beast-type creatures without demonic cores, and the target must not resist."

  Guo Fei nodded. The Ling tribe, not for the first time he had heard of them, seemed to permeate every corner of the human world. What Guo Fei couldn't understand was why such a powerful existence would be so keen on accumulating wealth and cultivating resources.

  Guo Fei took the beast storage token, dropped a drop of blood on it, and with a flicker of his mind, the jade token emitted a white light that enveloped the Golden Fur Roar. In an instant, the Golden Fur Roar disappeared. The color on the jade token suddenly dimmed a lot, Guo Fei knew that if he took out the Golden Fur Roar again, this jade token would lose its effect.

  "Sir, the riding beast can't stay in the Jade Symbol for too long, or it will starve to death. Although it can survive inside, there is no essence of sun and moon to absorb, which is not good for beasts." The boss reminded again.

  "Thanks." Guo Fei hurriedly bid farewell and walked out.

  "Send someone to the lord's manor to fetch money!" Zhao Xue also left, she was a bit disappointed that she hadn't found a suitable mount, but she was also very suspicious. Could Guo Fei really tame this untamable strange beast? Recalling the scene with Hei Bi, she suddenly felt a bit more confident.

  "When can I turn over all of your 'bottom'?" Zhao Xue thought to herself as she followed Guo Fei out of the Wan Shou Hang.

  Back in Xiyuan, Zhao Xue left for the Lord's Manor. Guo Fei arrived at the rear garden and released Jinmao Hou.

  "Surrender to me and become my mount, I'll spare your life!" Guo Fei said calmly. Through the horse's shadowy form, this golden-haired beast could understand his meaning.

  The golden fur growled, its eyes showing a struggling expression, and finally nodded reluctantly. It was originally a heavenly beast, and it could only be born from the mother body of the lion tiger beast under the coincidence of opportunities. Its nature was originally unruly, but it didn't want to die.

  Guo Fei's military symbol energy infused into his body, and he sensed a surge of energy coursing through his meridians. This energy was unlike the true qi cluster in his dantian, uncontrollable and slowly expanding. However, this energy seemed to be completely under its control, an ability that would take hundreds of years of cultivation and fortunate coincidences to comprehend - controlling the true qi produced within the body, condensing it into a demonic pellet, marking the first step on the path of cultivation.

  A great temptation, one step to heaven is the demon beast, a great opportunity is right in front of it. The desire for life, the desire to become stronger, the desire to roam freely between heaven and earth, forces it to accept this "gift".

  Guo Fei infused energy into his body, and Jin Mao controlled this energy, starting to flow through the meridians, gradually flowing towards the Dan Tian Qi Hai. As long as the Dan Tian Qi Hai is opened up, the true energy in the Dan Tian Qi Hai will be brought out, not only ensuring safety but also advancing cultivation.

  One day, Jin Mao lay quietly, his body constantly trembling. Guo Fei stood guard beside him, carrying the Xuan Tie sword.

  "Roar!" A low, muffled sound came from within the Golden Fur's body. Its long fur suddenly stood on end and fluttered open in an instant. It was very intelligent, condensing the energy of the military symbol into a thin needle-like energy thorn that continuously pierced forward. After consuming three rounds of energy clusters and slowly re-condensing three times, it finally broke through the Dan Tian Qi Hai.

  The true Qi cluster in the Qihai burst forth like a flood, instantly pouring into its meridians and instantly clearing most of the meridian points around the Dan Tian Qihai.

  "Roar!" The Golden Haired beast let out a mighty roar, controlling the energy within its body, and suddenly leapt up, pouncing fiercely towards Guo Fei. As a heavenly beast, how could it submit to this person before its eyes?

  Guo Fei smiled coldly, having anticipated this. With a shift in his mind, the energy within Jin Mao's body was no longer under its control, and it suddenly went berserk in his meridians. The energy of the soldier symbols controlled by Guo Fei drove the remaining true energy to frantically destroy his meridians and flesh.

  The golden dog let out a mournful howl and fell to the ground, its whole body trembling with deep-seated fear in its eyes.

  "Resistance is futile." Guo Fei said in a low voice.

  "Wooo!" Enduring the intense pain within his body, feeling the power that had been at his beck and call suddenly turn against him, the Golden Fur was thoroughly frightened. He didn't want to die, nor did he want to lose the power he could control. He had no choice but to surrender.

  Guo Fei didn't know the taming method of Wan Shou Palace, but it was definitely a way to torture either the body or the soul. Jin Mao Hou had clearly deceived them - this beast's spiritual intelligence had awakened even faster than its physical cultivation, and its intellect was still extraordinary.

  Guo Fei smiled slightly, raised his hand, and a flash of light flickered. His massive body disappeared from the spot and reappeared in the grid of the Martial Symbol space, merging with the horse's virtual shadow once again.

  "As expected, it can be stored in the Soldier's Space!" Guo Fei secretly rejoiced. With this Golden Retriever assisting him, his cavalry combat level wouldn't be much weaker than that of Jian Bing. Moreover, it was suitable for long-distance galloping, and riding beasts were originally suited for traveling.

  Unfortunately, there is no time to forge my own axe at present, mainly because there are no suitable materials for forging an axe. The energy of the axe cavalry should be a hot flow, which should have the same attribute as the swordsmen, so the material cannot be a cold attribute. Can only be found slowly in the future.

  Just as Guo Fei had guessed, Jīn Máo Hǒu recovered extremely quickly in the Bīng Fú space. By the second day, he was already spirited and lively. After his body unfolded, Guo Fei discovered that it was like a medium-sized horse, with a height of 1.7 meters, a length of 2 meters, and a tail as hard as steel that resembled a 1.5-meter-long chain whip.

  Its skin was as hard as rock, with scales hidden between its hairs. The wounds on its body were not serious to begin with, and with the energy of the military symbol infused into it, it had controllable energy that could repair its flesh, unblock its meridians, and raise its cultivation by a huge margin, making its recovery extremely fast.

  Guo Fei had a servant buy a live pig to feed it, and this golden-haired beast really could eat. A live pig was torn apart and swallowed by it.

  From Hu Xiaoyue, I learned that after the formation of the demon pill, the demon beast gradually reduced its food intake in a wild state. This golden-haired howl has controllable military symbol energy and has penetrated the Dan Tian Qi Hai hole, meeting the conditions for condensing into a demon pill. However, when it can be condensed into a demon pill depends on opportunities and unremitting cultivation.

  "You, you... have really tamed this Golden Retriever!" Zhao Xue was stunned when she came here again. The Golden Retriever lay in the courtyard like a docile big cat, while Guo Fei was practicing his "Fierce Wind" gun skills in the center of the courtyard.

  This golden retriever's intelligence is gradually opening up, and Guo Fei is showing off his gun skills to let it watch, precisely so that they can coordinate seamlessly in the future.

  "Is the princess's golden flower worth it?" Guo Fei smiled faintly and said.

  "It's worth it, it's really worth it! A successful Golden Retriever would cost at least 500,000 gold coins, and I'm sure someone would even buy a Thousand-Year-Old Spirit Stone for that price. This is an exotic beast we're talking about! You must be hiding many things from me!" Zhao Xue said with a smile, looking at Guo Fei.

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