Beast Taming: I gained the talent of a spirit pet

Just as he was speaking, Tie Hu suddenly stopped.

Because at that moment, a black rat with glossy fur darted out of the nearby bushes and quickly climbed onto Gu Yuan's shoulder.

At the same time, he felt a tingling sensation on his back, as if something was watching him.

Tie Hu turned his head sharply and saw a centipede more than two feet long, with jaws as sharp as knives and an iron-blue carapace, coiled on a rock not far away.

Wisps of gray mist emanating from the centipede's body gathered rapidly, like living things, and transformed into a gray arrow, shooting towards him.

"Demonic art?!"

Tie Hu was shocked and, without thinking, raised his ghost-head saber and slashed down!

His ghost-head saber was dark green, forged from a hundred-refined fine iron mixed with refined copper, thick and sharp. With his strength, a single strike could cleave an iron man in two.

The ghost-head saber accurately struck the gray arrow, shattering it with a clang.

However, the shattered fragments of the gray arrow transformed into streams of gray mist, rapidly spreading out.

Sizzle, sizzle!

The hard ghost-head saber was corroded by the gray mist, sizzling as it rapidly melted into a pool of gray-black molten iron, dripping onto the ground and corroding a sunken pit.

As for Tie Hu himself, his arms and face were also stained by the spreading gray mist.

Tie Hu initially screamed a few times, his voice shrill and strange, but after barely holding on for a moment, he collapsed to the ground, lifeless.

This notorious peak martial artist perished here.

The power of demonic arts is terrifying!

"A Wu, well done!"

Gu Yuan gave A Wu a thumbs up, praising it.

A Wu seemed quite excited by the praise, its antennae swaying as its long body quickly crawled over, wanting to climb onto Gu Yuan like A Huang and be affectionate with him.

Seeing this, Gu Yuan's scalp tingled, and he quickly waved his hand to stop it:

"Damn it! Wait, don't come over here!"

A Huang was fine, just a rat.

But A Wu's two rows of sharp feet were even sharper than iron hooks, and he couldn't handle that!

Rejected by Gu Yuan, A Wu curled up into a ball, its antennae swaying gently, with none of its previous ferocity, looking quite aggrieved.

"Alright, alright, I know you're upset. I'll get you something good to eat later."

After comforting the sad A Wu, Gu Yuan stepped forward and carefully searched Tie Hu's body.

Before long, he found three things on him.

One of them was a stack of silver notes, of varying denominations, totaling more than five hundred taels of silver.

This money was obviously Tie Hu's savings over the years. Such a large sum of money would take an ordinary family a lifetime of hard work to save.

Now, it all went to Gu Yuan.

With this money, he would at least have enough medicine and food supplements for his martial arts practice for a while.

Another item was a martial arts manual called "Black Tiger Fist", and it was even a middle-grade martial art.

【 Dao Rhythm Points + 43! 】

When he touched this martial arts manual, it contributed 43 Dao Rhythm points to Gu Yuan.

Gu Yuan glanced through it and found that although "Black Tiger Fist" was named "Fist", it was actually an internal refinement martial art. The cultivation methods and tips were quite detailed.

However, compared to the "Golden Serpent Devouring Essence Technique", this martial art was obviously inferior by one or two levels. The cultivation methods recorded on it had four stages: skin refinement, tendon refinement, bone refinement, and organ refinement, but lacked the marrow cleansing and blood exchange stages. At most, it could only allow one to break through and become an Innate martial artist.

In other words, this was a martial art that directly pointed to the Innate Organ Refinement Realm.

Even so, this "Black Tiger Fist" was quite precious.

If he hadn't obtained the "Golden Serpent Devouring Essence Technique" by chance, Gu Yuan wouldn't even have been able to learn this kind of middle-grade martial art.

"Although this "Black Tiger Fist" isn't very useful to me, it can expand and increase my martial arts foundation. Moreover, as long as it hasn't been collected by Jade Cauldron Tower, I can give it to Jade Cauldron Tower in exchange for other martial arts or even contribution points that I need."

Thinking this, Gu Yuan carefully put it away.

Then, he held the last item in his hand, carefully examining it.

This item was a jade pendant, which he had taken from Tie Hu's neck.

【 Dao Rhythm Points + 529! 】

Obtaining 43 Dao Rhythm points from the "Black Tiger Fist" manual was already quite a lot, but the Dao Rhythm on this jade pendant was more than ten times that amount!

This instantly made Gu Yuan realize that this item was definitely not simple!

The jade pendant in front of him was a small, emerald green gourd.

To be precise, it was a fingertip-sized, verdant jade gourd, as if carved from the finest jade.

Its carving was excellent, simply natural, and there were no traces of carving on the surface at all.

Holding it in his hand, Gu Yuan could also feel wisps of cool air pouring into his body, invigorating him and subtly nourishing his Qi and blood, even his muscles and bones.

"Could this be a magical artifact?"

Gu Yuan speculated, feeling somewhat excited.

What he had seen and heard today made him feel like his eyes had been opened.

Whether it was the astonishing and bizarre methods of the several Innate martial artists, or Old Mo's jade scepter artifact, they had left a deep impression on him.

The gourd jade pendant with so many Dao Rhythm points inevitably gave Gu Yuan some associations.

However, after examining it over and over again, he found that although this jade gourd could release cool air to slowly nourish the body, this effect was slow and not outstanding. Apart from this, there was nothing special about it.

"It seems that this item either hides some kind of secret, or has some unique function that I don't know about, but I am ignorant and can't see it at all, or it is just a simple, somewhat special pendant."

Gu Yuan's eyes flickered:

"Forget it, no matter what, being able to nourish the body is still a very good treasure. I'll keep it for now."

Coming to the river, Gu Yuan washed the emerald green gourd pendant with water and hung it around his neck.

Next, he summoned the three little ones over.

Big Mouth had a special physique, so Gu Yuan had it wrap around his arm and covered it with his sleeve.

As for A Wu and A Huang, they followed behind him, and the one man and three pets returned to the caravan.

After a night of rest, the caravan set off again.

Three days later, the caravan finally returned to North Liang County.

However, when they set off before, the caravan was a mighty and lively group.

But this time when they returned, there were only a few stragglers, which looked really shabby.

Gu Yuan ignored these things. After rushing for several days, eating poorly and sleeping poorly, he was somewhat tired.

Moreover, he also knew that Luo Sheng, Yang Han and others must have things to do now, busy reporting the situation to Xia Mingyang, and had no time to pay attention to him.

So he greeted Luo Sheng and went home to rest.

However, Gu Yuan didn't know that just after he left, a figure emerged from a street corner not far away, looked at his departing back, and went in another direction of the street, disappearing into the crowd.