Mo Jiuli, upon hearing this, remained silent...
She looked at Little Book beside her; she clearly remembered Little Book telling her that, apart from the Soul Life Contract, all other equal contracts and Master-Servant Contracts were cancellable...
Moreover, wasn't it true that each person could only have one Life-bound Contract Beast? If she remembered correctly, her contract with Purple Moon was a Soul Life Contract, which meant that Xue Feng's contract should not be one of those. So why couldn't it be cancelled...
Receiving the gaze from her master, Little Book hesitated for a moment, looking somewhat embarrassed. "Master, I've never seen the contract between you two, so..."
Mo Jiuli stared speechlessly at Little Book, her eyes clearly saying, "How could you know so little? Who claimed to know everything and having seen everything, sharing the lifespan of heaven and earth?"
About this point, Little Book was also quite frustrated. After recognizing Mo Jiuli as its master, it found that it, who used to know everything, had suddenly turned into a bumpkin...
Mo Jiuli always encountered things Little Book had never seen before, like the egg contract, the scalpels Mo Jiuli had created, and so on. Little Book had been alive for countless years, yet it had never seen them. This had a significant impact on Little Book, an Artifact Spirit, who had been quite arrogant...
Finally, Little Book concluded that it wasn't that it had become too common, but rather that its master was simply too extraordinary, encountering things that even it didn't know...
"Alright, so be it! Xue Feng, from now on, you follow me. We will be family. While I don't know how powerful your enemy is, I promise to help you take revenge whenever I have the chance..." Mo Jiuli said to Xue Feng.
Upon hearing that, Xue Feng was taken aback and then said, "Thank you, Master..."
Mo Jiuli smiled, not because she had suddenly become more fond of Xue Feng, but because she had gotten to know this world better through these five years...
No matter the time and space, human nature is always similar! In this world where strength reigns supreme, human life is the cheapest. As she watched ancient dramas in the modern era, she would think about how cruel people in those court dramas truly were...
But compared to those people in palace dramas, the cruelty of this world, where strength and martial prowess were held in the highest regard, was hardly even worth mentioning...
Here, there was no such thing as family bonds. All that mattered was the chance to cultivate and improve one's strength...
Mo Jiuli had seen the notes left by her predecessors in the Heavenly Book, including records of people annihilating their own families for better cultivation resources, which included their parents and children...
There were also records of some people going as far as spending decades spinning a web of deception in order to seize their loved one's possessions and cruelly kill them afterward...
Mainly because she wasn't inherently kind-hearted, and she didn't want to raise her treasure in a greenhouse, to make her believe the world was beautiful. Although Baobao was still a child, she was also smart. Raising her to think the world was beautiful wouldn't benefit her...
She would rather have Baobao be a little colder, so she wouldn't be hurt and would be better at protecting herself...
In this cruel world, trust was the cheapest commodity. It wasn't that everyone was untrustworthy; rather, there were far too few people who could be trusted...
Mo Jiuli felt much safer with the Beast Clan than with humans, like with Xue Feng who had a contract with her. At least, once the Beast Clan submitted to humans, they would be loyal and never betray...
Humans, on the other hand, no matter how long they've known each other or how good they've been to you, could at any moment stab you in the back...
Contracts and oaths in this world were unbreakable, indisputable Heavenly Dao Laws...
They were even more powerful than the laws in the modern age. In this world, oaths couldn't be casually made and forgotten. Once an oath was made, it would immediately take effect. If it were violated, the person would be punished by the Heavenly Dao Rules...
Additionally, they were inescapable and unresistant. The Heavenly Dao recognized people, not anything else. Even if you changed your name or face after making an oath, as long as your soul remained unchanged, there was no way to escape...
If you swore to do something and failed, your oath would take effect immediately, and you would suffer the punishment corresponding to your oath, such as being struck by lightning and dying...
No matter whether they were human, beast, demon, devil, or god, once an oath was made, it could not be changed; it could only be fulfilled...
At first, when Mo Jiuli learned about these things, she couldn't help but sigh in admiration. If modern times had such powerful oaths, so much contract signing could be avoided, and there would be fewer lovesick men and resentful women...
As for contracts, they were another type of Heavenly Dao Rule. Little Book told Mo Jiuli that there were mainly three types of contracts: Soul Life Contract, Equal Contract, and Master-Servant Contract...
Generally, contracts were made between the strong and the weak...
In this world, both humans and beasts revered the strong. Human contract beasts could provide support in battle...
Strong people would choose powerful demon beasts to make contracts with, whereas powerful spiritual beasts and demon beasts would choose to be contracted with human strong people...
Every individual in the Lingtian Continent who could cultivate could contract with spiritual beasts. Apart from the Life-bound Contract Beast, it was also possible to contract 2-3 additional spiritual beasts...
The number and level of contracted spiritual beasts depended on one's innate Soul Power, as it was difficult to enhance that after birth...
Some people weren't strong but had strong Soul Power, so they could contract with powerful demon beasts to improve their overall strength...
A Soul Life Contract was a very overbearing contract; both master and contract beast were dependent on each other's life and death. If one lived, the other would too; if one died, the other would die as well. But because it was a soul contract, even if both master and beast died, as long as their souls didn't completely dissipate, the contract beast could still find the master through the soul contract when they reincarnated...
Equal Contract was a mutual collaboration contract. Some powerful demon beasts, due to injuries or other special reasons, would also sign Equal Contracts with weaker humans...
Both parties reached an agreement, such as the demon beast providing help in times of danger for the weaker human in exchange for something they needed. Generally...
These contracts were the rarest kind: usually, if the master was injured, the demon beast would also be injured, but if the master died, the demon beast would only be injured, and the contract would become invalid. The same applied in reverse...
A Master-Servant Contract was the most common contract type, usually established between stronger and weaker parties. If the master was injured, so would the demon beast. If the master died, the beast would also die, but if the beast died, the master would only be injured...