Above an endless plain,
A flash of clear light appeared, and Wu Ming’s true body descended into the Huangting Blessed Land.
In an instant, the entire blessed land seemed to resonate with him. A vast amount of domain power gathered around his body, forming a dazzling halo of light.
It was as if Wu Ming at this moment was no longer a mortal, but had already ascended to become an immortal or a sage.
“Heaven opens for me… Earth is arranged for me… Is this… the sensation of a world position?”
Wu Ming murmured softly.
His blessed land wasn’t even a blessed cave, naturally far inferior to a minor thousand worlds, and therefore couldn’t produce a genuine world position.
But from small to great, it was already sufficient.
“Within this blessed land, I am the true sovereign, and everything must be determined by my will!”
Wu Ming watched the blue wolf chasing several snow-white rabbits, lost in thought.
“Aowww!”
The blue wolf howled in agony. All around it, grass and trees grew wildly, tightly entangling its body.
Before it even realized what was happening, the snow rabbits it had been chasing suddenly transformed.
Gurgle! Gurgle!
Underneath the snow-white fur of the rabbit, muscles and joints rippled, instantly expanding several times in size. Veins like earthworms coiled around the muscles, and their red eyes carried a ferocious and mad gleam. With a powerful kick of its legs,
Crack!
The Blue Wolf, bound and unable to dodge, let out a pained cry as its entire front leg was shattered!
“Gurgle! Gurgle!”
After kicking, the snow rabbit immediately returned to normal, blinking its innocent large eyes. Its ears twitched, and upon seeing the grass and trees vanish, it quickly darted away.
Behind it, the blue wolf limped pathetically, feeling utterly wronged.
“Hmm… the experiments with plants and animals were both successful…”
Wu Ming waved his hand, and a ray of clear light fell upon the unfortunate green wolf test subject, causing its wounds to heal rapidly.
“Next, it’s time to test inanimate objects…”
Boom!
With a thought, a thunderous sound erupted. The ground cracked open, and stone slabs automatically assembled and paved themselves, making the surface smooth in an instant. Trees sprouted forth, automatically filling into the structures.
In a moment, a primitive yet uniquely fascinating wooden and stone palace was constructed.
“Woof! Woof!”
Creation at a mere thought! Unfortunately, the only witness to this magnificent scene—the poor blue wolf—completely failed to understand and quickly fled with its tail between its legs.
“As long as there is sufficient world primal energy, within the blessed land, rules can be altered, and I am nearly omnipotent!”
Wu Ming felt a sense of “confidence,” the kind possessed by a terrestrial immortal.
“Master of Beasts…”
Inside the palace, Wu Ming stared at the Beast Taming Venerable One, who was bound in a spread-eagle position, his eyes gleaming with a sharp light: “Still not awake?”
The Master of Beasts opened his eyes, seemingly resigned: “Today I met a terrestrial immortal; I admit defeat… If you are willing to release me, I will hand over my treasures and teach you the method of their refinement…”
Clearly, he had fully recognized the gap between them and offered everything he had.
Unfortunately…
“If I want something, I will naturally learn it myself…”
A mysterious glow shone from Wu Ming’s eyes. To deal with a fourth-level expert and extract every last shred of his memories, doing so within his own blessed land was naturally the safest option.
Seeing the arcane light in Wu Ming’s eyes, the Master of Beasts briefly showed a flash of despair, which quickly turned into blankness.
“What is your name…”
Wu Ming softly asked, while the Master of Beasts answered like a soulless puppet: “Zhao Yisheng…”
…
Unknown how long had passed, Wu Ming strode out of the palace with his hands clasped behind his back. With a mere thought, the entire palace collapsed into nothingness, burying the now lifeless Master of Beasts beneath it.
“Divine Hall, authenticate!”
In his hand, a black ring-shaped spiritual artifact materialized. With a mere thought, the radiance of the Divine Hall descended.
Since the blessed land was within the Divine Palace space, this place was in fact his double stronghold.
And on some day in the distant future, as the blessed land continues to expand, evolving into a blessed realm, and even a world, ultimately enveloping the Divine Hall, a new unity shall emerge.
At that time, Wu Ming will be the sole and true ruler of the Divine Palace across all time and space, with no outsiders able to seize or interfere—even if the original master were to return.
…
[Item Name: Spirit Beast Garden]
[Material: Fragment of Dongtian, Sands of the Forgotten]
[Weight: 2.5 taels]
[Quality: Unknown]
[Effect: Contains a space spanning ten miles, capable of sustaining life!]
[Description: This was originally a fragment of a collapsing grotto-heaven, but some entity stabilized its form. It will never expand, yet the space is now secure. The domain has been modified to accommodate spirit beasts.]
…
“Overall, it’s essentially a massive storage tool capable of holding living creatures…”
Wu Ming rubbed his chin, his expression impassive: “As I predicted, for me, it’s really just a useless item!”
Through this black ring, he could perceive the cave-heaven within, utterly lifeless and devoid of all vitality.
It was a dead space, meaning that everything—water sources, soil, air, and so on—could not be self-generated and had to be imported from the outside. There was no light from sun or moon, making it akin to a prison, torturing any living beings trapped inside.
Now Wu Ming finally understood why those suppressed beasts, after entering his blessed land, appeared so delighted and reluctant to leave.
They had been utterly abused within the Spirit Beast Garden!
“Still… better something than nothing. The fact that it can sustain life already makes it superior to the Bag of Gluttonous Beast!”
Wu Ming immediately removed the Tian Gong Ring from his hand and put on the Spirit Beast Garden.
The item looked like an unremarkable black ring, much like a thumb ring, and fit perfectly on Wu Ming’s thumb, feeling quite comfortable.
“As for this Tian Gong Ring, I can give it away or sell it when I’m short on cash—it should fetch a decent sum…”
Wu Ming thought carelessly as he shook his hand.
Unfortunately, this was just self-entertainment.
After mastering the Divine Palace, if he wished, he could instantly become the wealthiest man in the world!
But for his current self, worldly wealth like gold and silver was no longer impressive. Above the terrestrial immortal, the only true currency was primal world energy! Everything else in the mundane world was merely dung. This was the perspective of great adepts and immortals!
“Compared to this Spirit Beast Garden, what Zhao Yisheng revealed is far more valuable!”
Wu Ming gently stroked the rough surface of the black thumb ring, lost in thought.
According to the Master of Beasts, his name was indeed Zhao Yisheng. Originally just an ordinary disciple of the School of Mo, one day by chance he discovered this black thumb ring in his ancestral home, along with several scrolls of scripture within it!
It turned out that the great adept who crafted the Spirit Beast Garden was the patriarch of an ancient sect—the Yu Shou Sect—and this ring had long served as the symbol of the sect’s leadership, passed down through countless generations.
As the name implies, the Yu Shou Sect specialized in capturing, cultivating, and controlling spirit beasts. During ancient times, it once flourished mightily, with legends even claiming that they had tamed true dragons and phoenixes!
Unfortunately, as time passed, the once mighty Yu Shou Sect mysteriously perished, leaving only this thumb ring and a few scrolls of scriptures, which Zhao Yisheng happened to obtain.
From that point on, his fortunes soared. He defected from the School of Mo and, relying solely on fragments of the scriptures and his own insights, carved out a formidable reputation across the martial world, earning the title of “Master of Beasts,” and was eventually recruited by the imperial court and dispatched to Dingzhou.
“Yu Shou Sect?!”
Wu Ming tapped his head, finding the name quite unfamiliar.
This was quite normal. The Zhou world had a long history, and how much could even a sect like the Jade Purity Dao School remember?
“Yet… judging from the sparse records in the ‘Beast Taming Sutra,’ the teachings of the Yu Shou Sect were indeed ancient orthodox practices… and even produced great masters capable of refining cave heavens—at least Celestial Immortals! How could such a formidable sect suddenly disappear without leaving even a single trace in historical annals…”
Wu Ming furrowed his brows.
But regardless, obtaining this information was worth it this time.
“Unfortunately… I already focus on the Daoist cultivation path. Before, studying puppets was out of necessity. Now, adding another beast-taming technique?”
Wu Ming gave a bitter smile: “At least this technique focuses more on control methods. Otherwise, I wouldn’t even be able to refer to it for inspiration…”
…
The next day, in Pingshan Prefecture.
While Wu Ming was still pondering the true meaning of the Yu Shou Sect scriptures, Qi Lin had completed the purge of the usurpers.
The entire Prefect’s mansion was leveled to the ground. The head of Prefect Gan Youxin was hung from the city gate tower, his eyes wide open, tears of blood streaming down his face, his death extremely tragic.
Not only him, but the entire Gan family—127 people—were imprisoned and soon to be executed and cast into the wilderness. Countless officials, big and small, were implicated.
“Great General! I… I…”
Ge Jin saw Qi Lin, and a thousand words turned into sobs.
“I am safe, thanks to the help of the Wuzhen Envoy…”
Qi Lin waved his hand, feeling slightly apologetic toward this old friend: “Ziyu, I’m glad you’re safe. I’ve already ordered the army to mobilize. Soon we will march into Dingyuan Prefecture to fulfill our promise with Wuzhen and unite our forces. The defense and governance of the prefecture will once again fall on your shoulders…”
“To serve the Great General is worth ten thousand deaths!”
Ge Jin replied firmly, yet hesitated slightly before biting the bullet: “But please, Great General, be cautious. The influence of the Wuzhen faction has spread throughout the entire province. Even Han Zhu Daoist and the Sui Han Dao sect in our Pingshan Prefecture have already been bought by Wuzhen…”
“Hmph! I understand!”
Qi Lin replied, recalling Wu Ming’s divine might from yesterday, his face growing slightly cold.
He naturally knew why Wu Ming was so determined to save him, and no guarantees were needed.
His own strength was the best guarantee.
If he dared to break his promise, the other party would dare to storm the Jiedushi mansion again and take his life!
If a Master of Beasts could turn the Jiedushi mansion upside down, how much more so a terrestrial immortal?
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