I Built A Family Of Immortal Cultivators

Chapter 82: Taming the Purple Golden Toad

Even if the Foundation Building demonic beast is being lazy, it is still a Foundation Building demonic beast, not something that Qi Refining can compare to. Moreover, the Purple Golden Toad is considered to be in the middle tier in terms of its overall abilities, and its auxiliary capabilities are not weak at all.

However, the biggest problem with this Purple Golden Toad is that it used to be the spirit beast of the late elder of the Wu family's Foundation Building stage. This elder is undoubtedly dead now, otherwise he would have returned long ago. Although he is dead, he had previously formed a contract with this Purple Golden Toad, and this Purple Golden Toad is loyal. Lin Qing feels that it may not be so easy for it to form a new contract with him.

Releasing the Purple Golden Toad from the spirit beast bag, it tries to escape but is immediately trapped by Lin Qing.

Lin Qing tries to use the method in the beast taming book, using his divine sense to touch the Purple Golden Toad. This step is to familiarize themselves with each other. If it were a Qi Refining cultivator, they would naturally use their hands, which would be more dangerous.

The Purple Golden Toad looks at Lin Qing with confusion, seemingly because Lin Qing fed it and saved it in the dense forest before. The Purple Golden Toad doesn't resist and even seems to enjoy it.

Lin Qing is delighted. Although this Purple Golden Toad is loyal, it has been lying in a tomb for over fifty years, which is enough time to erase everything.

However, when Lin Qing tries to take the next step, the Purple Golden Toad shows resistance. Lin Qing stops in time, realizing that it will take some more time.

After bringing back these books, not only Lin Qing but also the rest of Lin Qing's family have not gone out during this time. They are all studying new knowledge. And for the next half month, Lin Qing has been playing with the Purple Golden Toad, gradually gaining its friendship.

During this period, Lin Qing also fed it a few pieces of snake meat, making the Purple Golden Toad even more intimate.

On this day, the Purple Golden Toad sits on the ground, still trapped by the formation, but it raises its head and seems to be reminiscing about something. After a while, it turns its head to look at Lin Qing, repeating this several times. Lin Qing has been watching it all along, and finally can't help but say, "I know that you used to follow a cultivator, but his family has already been destroyed. I brought you out of the tomb, and in the future, if you follow me, I will treat you better. As for the tomb where you were dug out, I have already buried it, so you have nothing to worry about. Is that okay with you?"

The Purple Golden Toad can't speak, but Lin Qing feels that it should be able to understand. So he says this. After saying it, whether it's an illusion or a real change, Lin Qing feels that the expression in the Purple Golden Toad's eyes seems to have changed.

At this moment, Lin Qing waits for a while and then uses the contract method recorded in the beast taming book. The Purple Golden Toad no longer resists and successfully binds itself to Lin Qing, becoming his spirit beast.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Qing releases the trapping formation on the Purple Golden Toad and happily strokes it.

From this day on, he has his first spirit beast.

Named Purple Golden Toad.

After successfully forming the contract, Lin Qing feeds the Purple Golden Toad with the snake meat from the early Foundation Building stage. According to the records in the beast taming book, feeding demonic beast meat to spirit beasts can help them grow quickly.

Generally speaking, for a Qi Refining spirit beast to break through the Foundation Building stage, sometimes they need to eat special breakthrough pills refined specifically for Qi Refining demonic beasts. But this Purple Golden Toad used to be in the early Foundation Building stage and has fallen to the Qi Refining stage, so it doesn't need that. As long as it eats more demonic beast meat and spends some time, it can recover on its own.

Lin Qing estimates that it will take several years for the Purple Golden Toad to finish eating the snake meat. After all, this is the meat of a Foundation Building stage snake, which is not easy to digest. After finishing it, it will almost be able to restore its Foundation Building stage strength.

After two months, Lin Xuzhe and Lin Xuyuan, the two brothers, set off again. This time, they have mastered many spells and their strength is stronger than before.

While Lin Xuchang continued to manage the shop, Lin Xuqing and Che Yun were still studying the art of alchemy.

In this situation, Lin Qing began his career in formation deployment. With the formations he now mastered, not only was it rare in the city of Chiyang Xiancheng, but it was also uncommon throughout the entire Zhao Kingdom. Soon, someone came looking for him.

It wasn't for setting up formations outside, but rather for setting up a defensive formation in a residence within the inner city. Lin Qing gladly accepted the invitation and, according to the host's request, set up a set of second-grade lower-quality defensive formations. Compared to the second-grade middle-quality defensive formation in his own residence, this formation was naturally much weaker, but the spirit stones were cheap.

Compared to the formation in his own residence, this set of formations, including materials, cost Lin Qing eight hundred spirit stones, but he only made half of that as profit.

Now, after obtaining the inheritance of the Zhao family ancestors and the Wu family clan, Lin Qing has mastered a great number of formations. He can deploy formations as needed, even replacing materials himself, making considerable profits.

After setting up this formation, the host was extremely satisfied after testing it and immediately paid Lin Qing with spirit stones.

With the first client, the rest went smoothly. In the following two years, Lin Qing set up more than ten sets of formations in various places. The title of Formation Master Lin had already spread throughout the city of Chiyang Xiancheng. As for the title of the Sixteen Thousand Cultivator from before, no one mentioned it anymore. When people saw him, they respectfully called him "Master Lin, the Great Formation Master."

There were even Qi Refining cultivators who wanted to apprentice under him, but Lin Qing naturally refused.

On this day, Lin Qing turned ninety years old, and his family held a birthday banquet for him. Sitting at the head of the table, Lin Qing looked at his family and felt nothing but joy in his heart.

However, although his own lifespan was still long, Lin Qing had already started thinking about his sons getting married. He looked at Lin Xuzhe and Lin Xuyuan and remembered that when they were still outside Xuan Yu Lane, they seemed to have some interactions with female cultivators. How come after so many years, there was still no progress?

"Xuzhe, Xuyuan, have you not had any further contact with the female cultivators outside?" Lin Qing asked.

"Dad, Xuyuan and I have thought it through. Cultivating and improving our strength should be our priority. The matter of female cultivators was just our immaturity when we first left home. Now we understand that strength is the most important thing in the cultivation world, and female cultivators are just distractions," Lin Xuzhe said.

"That's right, Dad. We were immature back then, but now we understand. Strength is everything in the cultivation world. Female cultivators are just passing clouds," Lin Xuyuan also said.

Lin Qing took a deep breath. It seemed like his two sons misunderstood his meaning, but what they said wasn't wrong.

Without saying anything more, they finished the birthday banquet, and there was a formation waiting for Lin Qing to set up.

This time, he was going to set up a defensive formation for a market jointly opened by several small clans. In the Zhao Kingdom, the markets were not peaceful. In addition to the fierce competition, in recent years, there had been incidents of Blood Sea bandits and Foundation Building thieves from the Wuji Sect, Qingfeng Sect, and Xianxia Sect causing trouble in the markets. Not to mention the small markets, they were already worried and wanted to have formations set up.

This time, Lin Qing was going to set up a second-grade middle-quality formation and several sets of trapping formations. It would take about three to four days.

This market was called Wujia Market, easy to remember, as it was opened by five cultivation families.

When Lin Qing flew over on his flying boat, representatives from the five families of Wujia Market came to greet him. These five families were not strong, with the highest cultivation level being only Qi Refining ninth layer. None of the five families had even reached the Foundation Building stage. However, these five families were particularly united and had some reputation in the Zhao Kingdom. They advanced and retreated together, and with the help of some formation talismans, ordinary Foundation Building cultivators dared not trouble them.

(End of this chapter)