This Young Master is not Cannon Fodder

Chapter 118: Daoyi’s Spiritual Beast

Chapter 118: Daoyi’s Spiritual Beast

A few days after Sect Master Xia left, a Unity Realm Elder came over with two jade slips. Since this was sort of an under-the-table deal, it was better to have fewer people know. Tianyi entering the seventh level of the Immortal Scripture Repository would be recorded down. Hence, the delivery.

Tianyi inspected both jade slips; one contained the Three Union Lifebound Weapon Manual, while the other held the Heavenly Truth-Seeking Eye Technique. The Three Union Lifebound Weapon Manual was naturally for Daoyi, while what he wanted was the Heavenly Truth-Seeking Eye Technique.

In the legend of the Monkey King, Sun Wukong learned the Seventy-Two Earthly Transformation Art was able to transform himself into a myriad of objects and beings under heaven. He was virtually incapable of being discovered by anyone except the Erlang Shen, the divinity of purity and decency, and legendary demon slayer.

Born Yang Jian, Erlang Shen was the nephew of the Jade Emperor. Aside from being famed as Heaven Equalling Great Sage’s equal, Erlang Shen possessed three premier techniques. The first was the Trident Spear Divine Art, named after the Three-Pointed Double-Edge Spear wielded by Erlang Shen. The second premier technique of Erlang Shen was his Nine Revolution Divine Skill. This defensive art allowed the user to possess a divine body impervious to all manner of artifacts and spells.Follow the latest novels at novelhall.com

But perhaps, Erlang Shen’s most famed technique was his Heavenly Truth-Seeking Eye. It was this exact skill that allowed Erlang Shen to perceive Sun Wukong’s whereabouts and pursue him to the ends of the Earth. The Heavenly Truth-Seeking Eye was supposedly an innate ability that was born to Yang Jian, so Tianyi had been greatly surprised to see the manual for it. Had he not been so desperate for a soul cultivation method, Tianyi would have chosen this art.

Tianyi curbed his desire to immediately train in the Heavenly Truth-Seeking Eye and went to look for his mother and Daoyi. When he found them, he saw them in a clearing with abundant spiritual qi. His mother was helping Daoyi set up a defensive formation to transcend her Core Formation Heavenly Tribulation. Although the grass was verdant and the trees were vibrant, Tianyi couldn’t help but get a ghostly feeling that tingle on his skin. But he figured it was his own imagination since neither Daoyi nor his mother seemed to feel differently. However, his mother was strangely standing a fair distance away from Daoyi.

Tianyi didn’t think much of it as he walked closer until he felt a chilling sensation, like needles pricking his skin, crawling up his spine, then up his arms. Tianyi rubbed his arms in an attempt to warm up, not thinking of the strangeness until he felt his hand touch a smooth and round object. Looking at his arm, Tianyi’s mind blanked as he took in the sight of it.

It had an inorganic crystal ball for an abdomen. Inside the crystal ball were countless silver streams circling around an argent orb, greatly resembling a galaxy. Attached to the crystal ball was the central body, with eight glittering eyes and eight silver legs.

A sound that should have never come from a man was released from Tianyi as he flung his arm up and down, attempting to throw off the creep crawly off his arm.

Seeing the spider still clinging on, Tianyi hardened his heart as his free hand formed a flat blade. Before he could lop off his own arms, he heard Daoyi’s voice calling out. Like an obedient dog, the spider dropped off of Tianyi and started to crawl towards Daoyi, and once it was standing in her palm, it began to sway back and forth like a dog wagging its tail.

“Good girl, you’re such a good girl~! Aren’t you?” Daoyi cooed to the abomination.

“D-Daoyi, what is that?” Tianyi said as he pointed at the spider with shaking fingers.

“You mean Shuijing?” Daoyi said, gesturing towards the spider in her hand. “It’s the spiritual beast egg you got me during our time at the Fleeting Mist Sect.”

“That’s what hatched from that egg? Why is it a spider of all things?” Tianyi said, disbelieving his horrid luck. He hated cockroaches the most, followed by spiders.

Daoyi will already have a guqin as her primary method of attack. Mom says she will make a defensive Artifact for Daoyi. So what kind of Artifact can I make for Daoyi?

Shoes?

Nah, she already has them, although I might need to make new ones. But shoes just feel... inadequate? Although some people do say, shoes are a women’s best friend.

Something unique of Earth make? Too risky, I can’t and won’t make anything until I test Xi Ri, and I’ll test Xi Ri after my clone acquires the information from Dong Chifan.

Now that I think about it, I recall Daoyi was interested in an earring.

Tianyi searched inside his spatial ring and brought out a crystal earring that shone like moonlight. He recalled that Daoyi especially liked the earring but didn’t buy it because the price was too high. He had secretly purchased it, intending it to be a gift for her, but it was forgotten after the Daoist Lu’s incident. Observing the earring, Tianyi felt inspiration strike him as his face reflected off of the crystal.

Tianyi didn’t know how long he spent working on the auxiliary Artifact. As if obsessed, he burnt through countless materials experimenting with making the perfect earring-shaped Artifact, at least the most perfect he could make at his current state. By the time he was done, there was quite literally a small mountain of failed earrings beside him.

“Ah crap, I went overboard again.”

Tianyi said. When he got into something, he ignored everything around him and only focused on it, screw the consequences. But at least he made the perfect earring-shaped Artifact. He tried not to think about the cost spent forging it, probably several Immortal Realm Artifacts worth of materials if he wasn’t lucky.

But Tianyi smiled with delight as he observed the earring in his hand. The silver-white crystal appeared to be crystallized from pure moonlight, but there was a lotus scent wafting from it. Attached to it was a silver chain connecting to a feather-shaped hairpin. The feather was snow-white and used the Craneswan feather as the base.

Tianyi could sense powerful true qi emanating from it. The feather had the effect of generating its own true qi and supporting the bearer with it. Unlike his own chaos true qi that was too dominating and corrosive to most people, the feather generated clear true qi. Although common, its most significant advantage was its gentleness and its potential to be assimilated by other types of true qi.

The lotus scented earring, on the other hand, nourished the soul. Tianyi could perceive that it was based on the Lotus Soul Ascension Art. If the soul was damaged, it even had the effect of healing it.

There was only one problem.

“How did I make this?”

Tianyi asked. His memories of the past few days or even months were fuzzy. He felt like he would have bags under his eyes if it was possible for his body. And upon closer inspection of his body.

“Huh, I’m a mid-Nascent Soul Grandmaster now.”