Green Cloud Immortal Domain, Golden Cauldron Immortal Sect.
Spiritual Beast Peak, the Flying Spirit Beast Breeding Ground rented by Xu Feng.
Xu Feng looked at the ten Iron Feather Birds in front of him, his eyes filled with hope.
"You must advance to Spiritual Beasts quickly, for your sake, I even dug into my parents' funeral savings."
Xu Feng's tone was filled with a bitter, tearful sentiment.
Dozens of Feeding Spirit Pills, refined from Heavenly Blue Fruits, were scattered.
The ten Iron Feather Birds began to compete for them and, after eating, looked at Xu Feng with eyes begging for more like kittens wanting food.
"If you don't advance to the Golden Core Stage soon, the cultivation resources for me and Xiao Jin will be cut off, and I'll have to sell you to someone else," Xu Feng threatened.
Hearing Xu Feng's words, the ten Iron Feather Birds quickly nodded.
According to his usual habit, he would definitely share a moment of bonding with these ten Iron Feather Birds before leaving.
But recently, he encountered a bottleneck in his cultivation, so he had to focus on cultivating.
Riding on a Spiritual Crane, Xu Feng gazed at the beautiful mountains below and the towering peaks in the distance.
Above the mountains lay majestic buildings shrouded in mist.
While enjoying the scenery, Xu Feng pondered the promising visions of his future Iron Feather Bird rental company.
Riding the flying crane, he landed on a platform halfway up a small mountain peak, his hands forming seals, a beam of spirit light shot into the mountain wall.
A mountain gate, three zhang high, slowly opened.
"Go play on your own, if you see a very strong female Immortal Crane don't attack, you won't win, if you're hungry eat some free Spirit Fruits in the mountains," Xu Feng waved at the Spiritual Crane.
The Spiritual Crane, somewhat comprehending, nodded, jumped off the platform, and flew towards the sky.
Xu Feng returned to his Cave Mansion, honestly, he had always wondered why cultivators liked living in caves?
Later, when he moved into a small courtyard on the mountaintop, he understood the benefits of Cave Mansions when he heard the sound of Spiritual Beasts breaking wind and Magic Treasures swiftly flying across the sky.
Concealing arrays, soundproof arrays, spirit gathering arrays, cleaning arrays, mist arrays, these are all expensive.
If living in a Cave Mansion, one need only seal the door and set up a Spirit Gathering Array.
Within Xu Feng's Cave Mansion, immediately inside the door was a rather spacious Reception Hall, and further inside were Xu Feng's cultivation room and the area for nurturing young Spiritual Beasts.
The whole Cave Mansion consisted of three levels, covering an area of two acres.
In the Beast Breeding Room, Xu Feng looked at his accompanying Life Spirit Turtle and couldn't help but sigh.
"You have been raised for over 20 years and only reached the Qi Refinement Stage, how long will it take? Will you really see me off one day?"
A Spirit Turtle with a shell as large as a millstone, entirely golden, was coiled in the Beast Breeding Room, slowly moving its limbs, and opened its mouth upon seeing Xu Feng, indicating its hunger.
"Keep on raising it, at worst, pass it on to the descendants." After all, his family had such traditions.
With a flick of his finger, a Feeding Spirit Pill was flipped into the Spirit Turtle's mouth, more Hundred Flowers Spiritual Water was added to the pool, and three Green Spiritual Fruits, a bunch of Spiritual Vegetable Leaves, and a five-pound chunk of huge horned beef were placed in the feeding area.
"You have meat, vegetables, and drinks, you're living an even richer life than I am."
Xu Feng was born when the Golden Armored Spirit Turtle was just hatching from its shell, and according to family tradition, it was bestowed upon him as his accompanying Spiritual Beast.
The Golden Armored Spirit Turtle was the product of a mating between the Earth Immortal Stage Giant Armored Turtle of his family and a mysterious giant turtle, and it was the only golden Spirit Turtle in that clutch, possessing extraordinary bloodline.
Just raising this Golden Armored Spirit Turtle was exhausting for Xu Feng, consuming at least half of his acquired resources each year.
In the cultivation room, Xu Feng helplessly opened his eyes.
"Is it really so hard to break through the Golden Core Stage? This is the Immortal Realm, where the most powerful existences are the Immortal Emperors!" Xu Feng said in distress.
Qi Refinement, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core, Nascent Soul, Divinity Transformation... These realms of cultivation made Xu Feng, who had just started traversing, think he had entered into a fan fiction.
"Been here in this world for twenty-five years, and besides a useless Golden Finger and a normal mortal cultivator, there's no difference."
"Truly a waste being a traverser."
Reborn into a minor family in the Immortal Realm, at birth, he felt like there was a Classic of Mountains and Seas inside his mind.
At six years old, when he cultivated his first strand of Spiritual Energy, he discovered that his spirit could enter into that Classic of Mountains and Seas, which was a huge world of Mountain and Sea Divine Beasts.
Then the most annoying thing happened; he found that all the Divine Beasts in that vast Mountain and Sea World were very resistant to his Divine Thought, resulting in him not unraveling the usage of this Golden Finger over the years.
What's critical was that he couldn't bring anything out from the Mountain and Sea Divine Beast World.
After failing to break through his bottleneck, Xu Feng routinely projected his Divine Thought into the Great Wilderness World, fantasizing about luring them out to make them his mountable Spiritual Beasts.
Xu Feng tried all conceivable methods, but none were effective.
As his Divine Thought entered the Mountain and Sea Divine Beast World, as usual, he first went to Qingqiu Mountain to watch the beautiful young ladies, which was key to keeping his mood joyful daily.
A stunning woman with nine tails and wearing a white dress sat among the flowers; her enchanting eyes seemed capable of captivating everything in the world.
Several small beasts sat around the woman, occasionally rubbing against the nine-tailed lady to curry favor.
"You foreigner, here again to peek at me; if you dare, bring your real body here, and I shall show you what it means to be overwhelmingly enchanted~"
Her seductive and soul-capturing voice rose, paired with the nine-tailed woman's languid posture, extremely tempting.
"Am I peeking? I am looking openly." Xu Feng said earnestly.
"Keep looking then, I can't do anything to you," the nine-tailed woman sighed.
Every time Xu Feng's spirit entered the Great Wilderness World, he would come to Qingqiu Mountain because it was close to where the Xuan Turtle was frolicking.
His family's primary legacy was beast mastery; many of their cultivation techniques and Divine Skills were related to beast mastery, and they even had a Heavenly Immortal Stage Thick Armored Turtle anchored in their family.
Thus, the moment his consciousness entered the Mountain and Sea Divine Beast World, he immediately took a liking to this at least Heavenly Immortal Stage Divine Beast, Xuan Turtle. Even if he couldn't obtain the Divine Turtle for himself, his descendants could.
Unfortunately, despite all his efforts over ten years, all he got from the Xuan Turtle was the word "Scram."
As his consciousness moved thousands of miles, a grand river appeared that seemed as though it was part of the heavens and earth.
In a tributary of the giant river, a robust giant turtle was leisurely basking in the sunlight.
Seeing the state of the giant turtle, Xu Feng slowly approached it.
"Big Turtle Brother, how about I tell you a story of the Divine Turtle unifying the universe today?" Xu Feng said to a Xuan Turtle by the thousands of Zhang wide river, his attitude extremely friendly.
"Scram!"
The thousand Zhang long river stirred up towering waves, the terrifying force seemingly freezing the world.