Chapter 11 Beast Contract True Use
As mentioned, the beast contract is a friendship type contract. It allows both parties to acknowledge that from now on, they are both friends and companion.
Buddies that they could put their trust on.
Reliable ally that they entrust their back.
And this could be achieved because of the nature of the beast contract itself.
The most important two agreement of the contract that were being forged was that first, they both acknowledge one another as friends and give their trust would never betray or disloyal.
And secondly, using the contract as the medium, they agree to establish spiritual and mental connection between both parties.
These are the two basic principle behind the establishment of a beast contract. The first is the acknowledgement while the latter is the enforcement.
The contract is not used to force the beast to be loyal, but they were used to validate the first agreement commitment. By opening a channel at the level of soul, the spiritual and mental strength bond allows them to know whether the other party is loyal and sincerity when interacting with them.
This works on both ways, the master and the beast. This gives each other the assurance and peace of mind they need when dealing with one another. By having this bond, they can forge tacit and reliable partnership.
Under these two premises, it gives both the master and the beast various advantages.
Through such spiritual and mental bond, they can detect each other's existence, allowing them to know each other life and death status.
By the same virtue, feeling each other existence meant allowing them to feel each other presence, general direction and distance. So even if separated a long distance, they can locate the other party's position.
(Though if one were too far away, it would make the presence felt vaguer until it become too negligible to notice)
And since the spiritual bond were already forged between the two, they can overcome language barrier. They can communicate spiritually with each other, without speaking and even without the need to learn the other party's language.
In fact, for those who used specialized beast contract method, could even use the spiritual bond to connect their senses and thus able to hear, see and touch whatever the other party's is hearing, seeing, and touching.
But in general, this specialized method did not spread to the public because it comes at a price. The master must always, at any time, have higher spiritual and mental strength as compared to the beast.
This is because, the bond is consensual bidirectional relationship.
Bidirectional here means that if the master can have his senses to feel what his contracted beast feels, then the beast could also, in-turn, hear, see and touch what its master is hearing, seeing and touching.
That's why only those beast tamers, who generally have stronger spiritual and mental strength would use this kind of techniques.
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But as mentioned, the true use of the contract establishment was to validate their commitment to each other to remain sincere and loyal.
By establishing spiritual bonding, one can feel the other's innermost feeling that spread from the spirit strength.
In general, for anyone alive, if one's emotion were triggered, it would spark various emotional reaction, regardless of their current mood.
It would not only be reflected through their face, behavior and micro expression. But also, through the fluctuation of their spiritual and mental state.
Using the face expression as an example, when one is angry or happy or sad and so on, emotional reaction would show on the face. Even their behavior would be affected. No matter how they tried to recover after realizing their behavior's changes, an attentive third person could always detect the emotional reaction.
Of course, if one had been trained to have an absolute poker face, then there may be no expression.
And those top superstar who had been trained and had improved their acting skills over the years may control and even play an act to confuse and cheat others of their emotional reaction.
Similar truth holds for spiritual strength.
But what's different was that spiritual strength reflects the innermost feeling from the soul. Thus, it is the hardest to control or manipulate, even if one had become a powerhouse.
And a third person with keen perception and high spiritual and mental strength could perceive any spiritual fluctuation of the person next to him.
Unless there's a specialized cultivation method that hide spiritual strength fluctuations, for others, their spiritual state is a mirror that would always reflect their current emotions and feelings.
And this is especially true for the master and the beast who had formed beast contract.
As the contract connects and forms spiritual and mental relationship, it allows them to interact with the other's soul. In this way their senses could always directly connect with the other person spiritually.
Thus, ultimately allowing them to feel the innermost sincere feeling of the other party.
If the other party had malice and wants to sabotage or put it to death trap, they could feel it.
If when interacting with other party, there's emotional fluctuation, they could feel it.
And this spiritual connection cannot be faked by acting nor even the so-called specialized cultivation method. After all, they were connected at spiritual level.
But one must not forget that beast contract only allows one to perceive. The connection does not allow the other party to take over control.
Beast contract is not a method of seizing the shed!
From another perspective, beast control is a show of good will and friendship between the master and the beast.
It is because of these various reasons and advantages that, even if someone had become powerful, they would still establish beast contract when taming a beast.
It is to allow them not only to show friendship with one another, but also obtain a reliable partner and loyal helper.
It does not forcefully a enforce certain state onto others.
But it ascertains the other party's thinking and state. Loyalty and sincerity.
That's the true purpose of having beast contract, regardless of their types.
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After a spirit beast had grown up and matured, their realm is higher, and the strength is bigger.
And they are capable to assist their masters whenever is needed.
They could fight and defend themselves, and carry their master across the land
Some even have special ability, that are unique to each spirit beast race that can be beneficial for them and their master.
So, to form a contract with spirit beast are beneficial to any cultivators.
Of course, the most important factor here is: Willingness to sign beast contract.
A beast contract cannot be signed without the agreement and willingness of both parties.
Thus, to achieve that, one should first tame the beast to be docile enough to hear out the contract details and agree to sign it with them. And this requires skills.
So, the beast courtyard is the Lin Family's core facility to supply tamable spirit beast.
After the beasts had grown up, the Lin Family's older generation could sign beast contract with them.
From then on wherever the master went to, the spirit beasts would accompany them.