Beast Taming: I Have an Immortal Mansion

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. Although Huo Gan wasn’t stationed on Yuanling Mountain, the several thousand cultivators charging into the Wilderness Forest still needed a transit point to the outside world.

Yuanling Mountain was the closest Spiritual Land to Red Camp. Without any specific orders from Huo Gan, subsequent supplies and personnel from Celestial Gate Mountain began to gather at Yuanling Mountain like a surging tide.

As a result, Yuanling Mountain had become extraordinarily bustling lately. As the front line expanded, the first batch of casualties appeared among the cultivators fighting the demon beasts in the Wilderness Forest.

Jiang Kui and Zhang Yuan were swamped with work. As the Mountain Master of Yuanling Mountain, Jiang Kui had many matters to coordinate. Just as Yuanling Mountain was about to become a major military stronghold, Fang Qingyuan left.

Fang Qingyuan had a reason he had to leave Yuanling Mountain: as news from the front lines trickled in, Huo Gan’s presence was no longer a complete secret.

Fang Qingyuan had learned this news from Jiang Kui, who in turn had heard it from Lechuan. Given that Jiang Kui was the Seventh Foundation Establishment of the Southern Border Beast Taming Sect, the Mountain Master of Yuanling Mountain, and a candidate for future promotion to the Sixth Foundation Establishment, Lechuan had not kept Huo Gan’s arrival from her.

Jiang Kui had told Fang Qingyuan entirely to boost his morale; after all, with a Beast Taming Nascent Soul cultivator present, this place could be considered one of the safer locations in this world.

With Divinity Transformation Cultivators not making appearances for years on end, Nascent Soul Cultivators were the highest level of combat power everyone in this world was familiar with. Moreover, as a Nascent Soul of the Beast Taming Sect, his combat strength and status were naturally guaranteed.

When Fang Qingyuan heard this news, his face showed immense joy. The very next day, however, he packed up his belongings, found Jiang Kui, and explained that something had gone wrong with the Cultivation Technique he had been practicing recently. He said he needed to go out and search for an opportunity to resolve it.

Hearing Fang Qingyuan’s explanation, Jiang Kui couldn’t very well keep him there. After all, cultivation concerned one’s fundamental Great Dao; obstructing someone’s path was akin to murdering their parents.

So, on the second day, Fang Qingyuan took Jinbao and Yinbao, left Yuanling Mountain, and headed for the Nanchu Sect’s ferry crossing.

Fang Qingyuan left in a hurry, even with a hint of panic. The reason for this was entirely because he knew Huo Gan was here.

Jinbao’s origins had been disguised by the Nascent Soul Giant Beast from beneath Qingfeng Mountain. She had disguised Jinbao as a Tai Chi Bear Beast and had explicitly told Fang Qingyuan at the time that no one below the Nascent Soul Cultivator realm would be able to see through the disguise.

But now Huo Gan had arrived, and he was a Nascent Soul Cultivator from the Beast Taming Sect. In front of him, Jinbao’s disguise would probably be seen through with just a few glances.

Fang Qingyuan didn’t want to lose Jinbao, a Spirit Beast that had a chance to achieve Divinity Transformation in the future. But in front of Huo Gan, Fang Qingyuan would have no room to refuse.

Therefore, the best solution was to get far away from this place. Once the war here was over and Huo Gan had returned to the Beast Taming Sect’s Main Mountain, Fang Qingyuan would consider coming back.

This came with another benefit: he could avoid being conscripted by Lechuan. One of the many reasons Fang Qingyuan had chosen to follow Jiang Kui to the remote Yuanling Mountain back then was precisely to evade Lechuan’s draft.

’Now, it’s proven that my choice back then was the right one. If I were still at Celestial Gate Mountain, I probably would have been on the front lines, fighting to the death against those endless demon beasts in the Wilderness Forest. How could I just up and leave like I am now?’

’Although it seems the source of this war was my own discovery of the Crimson Iron Ore, if it hadn’t been the ore, something else would have been waiting for me anyway.’

Currently, the Wei and Luo Families were fighting in Northern White Mountain, the Beast Taming Sect was fighting Wilderness Demon Beasts here in the Southern Border, and the Sea of Death hadn’t been a good place to go for the past few decades. After thinking it over, Fang Qingyuan finally chose the Chaotic Star Sea Region.

’The Chaotic Star Sea Region has the Three Thousand Islands. I don’t need to seize an island and declare myself king. I just need to rent a cave residence from some sect, cultivate for seven or eight years, and then come back. By then, the trouble here will be over, and everything will have returned to normal. Wouldn’t that be perfect?’

That was what Fang Qingyuan thought, and that was what he did. After leaving Yuanling Mountain, he rushed nonstop to the ferry crossing belonging to the Nanchu Sect. After waiting for a few days, he boarded a Tier Three flying shuttle. Following a flight of over a month, he finally arrived at the Chaotic Star Sea Region, a paradise for the Loose Cultivators of this world.

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It was the height of summer. At the ferry dock of Haidong City, a Tier Three Giant Ship slowly came to a stop. After a long while, a group of cultivators, each with their own purpose, filed out from the massive vessel.

Among them, a cultivator in a green Daoist Robe, accompanied by a Tai Chi Bear Beast and steering a massive Flying Manta Ray, was particularly eye-catching.

To have both a Spirit Beast and a Camel Beast made him seem quite wealthy among the Loose Cultivators. Many Loose Cultivators struggled just to support themselves, let alone raise a Spirit Beast and a Camel Beast.

The cultivator flew off the Giant Ship and slowly joined the queue to enter the city. Seeing him, the surrounding Loose Cultivators intentionally made space for him to accommodate the enormous Flying Manta Ray.

This cultivator was, of course, Fang Qingyuan. He had spent a month and a half to finally travel from the Southern Border to the Chaotic Star Sea.

This Chaotic Star Sea Region, located east of Qi Yun, was a gathering place for overseas Loose Cultivators. Haidong Island, meanwhile, was the first Great Cultivation City one had to pass through when leaving the mainland for the sea.

Haidong Island was a major cultivation island with a Tier Five Spirit Vein. Its master was the Qin Family, which possessed Divinity Transformation-level combat power. The Qin Family originated from Qi Yun, and although they and Qi Yun were considered two separate factions, the outside world generally believed that the Qin Family was still a force affiliated with Qi Yun.