Fengtou Mountain, with winds coming from eight directions and Qi Gathering from four sides.
“What a good place!” Upon reaching the mountaintop, Zhangzuo Dajiu exclaimed.
When Golden Tiger Brother returned here, his spirit became stronger.
Qian Duoduo took out the tortoise shell tent and led Golden Tiger Brother inside. The original tent had been worn out by Yu Yixiang and Wang Longyu, so this was a new one Liu Boli had made for Qian Duoduo.
Zhangzuo Dajiu did not follow them in; he still respected Qian Duoduo’s privacy.
After setting up several shielding Formations, Liu Boli floated out from the Golden Toad.
“Little fellow, we meet again.” Liu Boli gently stroked Golden Tiger Brother. Golden Tiger Brother lay down, tears welling up in his eyes, like a wronged child.
“Bad things might turn into good things,” Liu Boli coaxed. “Bu Huan, get some Spirit Liquid for the little fellow to drink.”
Qian Duoduo immediately took out three bottles, gurgling them down as he fed Golden Tiger Brother and helped smooth his fur.
“This Liang Family Old Ancestor is truly ruthless.” Qian Duoduo felt the lumps on Golden Tiger Brother’s body and couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart.
“This is a Mystic Art of the Shengling Sect. This place is unusual, and these seeds are also unusual. Count them, how many are there?”
Qian Duoduo counted them carefully, “One hundred and eight.” One lump, one seed. The Liang Family Old Ancestor planted one hundred and eight seeds into Golden Tiger Brother’s body.
“This is a spiritual plant Mystic Art. These one hundred and eight are all tiger-related spiritual plants, collectively called Tiger Plants. They are buried in the Spiritual Veins and Acupoints of a living Golden Tiger, forming a Golden Tiger Formation. When these Tiger Plants mature, it will be when the Golden Tiger is drained dry. These matured Tiger Plants will transform into a Golden Tiger Pill. A Yuanying Perfected cultivator who takes this pill will have a fifty percent higher chance of breaking through to the Heavenly Human Realm.” Liu Boli explained.
All of this, meticulously arranged by the Liang Family Old Ancestor, was originally preparation for his advancement to a Heavenly Human Cultivator.
He lowered his head and asked Golden Tiger Brother. “Little fellow, do you want to upgrade?”
Golden Tiger Brother nodded.
“Good. Then in a bit, little fellow, you must endure it.” Liu Boli turned his head and said to Qian Duoduo, “At that time, you will circulate the Eternal Wealth and Nobility Cultivation Technique to help the little fellow sort out his meridians.”
After Qian Duoduo fed Golden Tiger Brother a few more Spirit Chickens, Golden Tiger Brother’s spirit had almost recovered. Liu Boli pressed his hand down, and Golden Tiger Brother obediently lay on the ground, his head propped up, and his four limbs stretched out.
Liu Boli touched his fingertip, precisely on a large lump on Golden Tiger Brother’s head, transforming a Tiger Plant into a ball of Spirit Medicine Liquid. Golden Tiger Brother’s eyes immediately widened in pain, and all the tiger whiskers around his mouth spread out. Just as he was about to let out a tiger roar, Liu Boli softly said, “Hold it in.”
Golden Tiger Brother’s arched back lowered again, his tiger ears flapped a few times, and he forcibly swallowed the tiger roar.
Following Golden Tiger Brother’s spine, Liu Boli continuously tapped. “Alright, go.” He gave Qian Duoduo a look.
Qian Duoduo’s palm stroked the top of Golden Tiger Brother’s head, pushing the ball of Spirit Medicine Liquid that Liu Boli had just dissolved, along the path Liu Boli had tapped. At the point of contact, he felt a concentrated, warm liquid slowly moving inside.
Golden Tiger Brother’s muscles twitched with pain, and his mouth bled from biting, yet he still didn’t let out a single roar.
Thirty, fifty, eighty… all one hundred and eight lumps were dissolved by Liu Boli.
“That Liang Family Old Ancestor probably never expected that the one hundred and eight kinds of Tiger Plants he painstakingly sought out would all turn into Spirit Medicine, benefiting you.” Liu Boli said to Golden Tiger Brother, chuckling.
Qian Duoduo’s Spiritual Veins were now close to azure, and his Spiritual Qi was more abundant than ever, making it effortless to push these Spirit Medicine Liquids through Golden Tiger Brother.
After pushing them through Golden Tiger’s body once, Qian Duoduo was about to stop when Liu Boli said, “Keep pushing until all the Spirit Medicine Liquid is gone.”
With a wry smile, Qian Duoduo, familiar with the task, pushed them through again. The second time, Golden Tiger Brother was clearly much more comfortable, and his muscles no longer trembled.
Just as the third round began, Liu Boli suddenly asked, “Golden Manor Lord, Golden Pillar Head, what do you think is the difference between a Golden Tiger’s Spiritual Veins and a human’s Spiritual Veins?”
“What is the difference between a tiger’s Spiritual Veins and a human’s Spiritual Veins?” This question immediately stumped Qian Duoduo.
Qian Duoduo was confident that he had thoroughly read the Spiritual Beast Scroll and understood Spiritual Beasts like the back of his hand. However, he had never thought about, let alone analyzed, the similarities and differences between the Spiritual Veins of beasts and humans.
Qian Duoduo became serious, slowly experiencing the path of Spiritual Qi flowing within Golden Tiger Brother’s body. Its starting and ending points, length, and thickness were completely different from a human’s. The Golden Tiger’s power output was closely related to this.
Starting the fourth round, Qian Duoduo looked at Liu Boli, waiting for him to ask a question.
Liu Boli smiled, “You have the Eternal Wealth and Nobility Cultivation Technique, why don’t you think about how to let the little fellow possess the power of the Eternal Wealth and Nobility Cultivation Technique?”
Qian Duoduo’s heart tightened again. This was another new challenge.
Qian Duoduo’s Spiritual Veins could be compressed, and Golden Tiger Brother’s Spiritual Veins could naturally also be compressed.
However, Qian Duoduo needed to learn Cultivation Techniques, while Golden Tiger Brother didn’t; Qian Duoduo could directly lead him in practice.
Qian Duoduo sat cross-legged, first drank a bottle of Spirit Liquid, and then gave Golden Tiger Brother a bottle. “Golden Tiger Brother, let’s get to it!”
One time, ten times, a hundred times… Golden Tiger Brother’s Spiritual Veins slowly changed color. At the same time, Qian Duoduo’s Spiritual Veins were also changing, almost all turning azure.
“Think again, what is the best Spirit Food for a Golden Tiger to eat? If it’s Spirit Chicken, then what kind of spiritual plant should the Spirit Chicken that the Golden Tiger eats consume…” Liu Boli, from the side, occasionally threw out incredible questions. And the answers to these questions opened up doors for Qian Duoduo, connecting the content from the spiritual plant scroll, Spiritual Beast Scroll, Spirit Birds Scroll, spirit mine scroll, and weaponry scroll.
Tigers eat chickens, chickens eat worms, worms eat sticks, sticks beat tigers. This world truly is a grand chain.
“Hoo, hoo, hoo…” Suddenly, Qian Duoduo heard a snoring sound beside his ear. He looked down and saw that Golden Tiger Brother had fallen asleep comfortably.
“Sleep, sleep, you sleep, I’ll practice.” Qian Duoduo combed through Golden Tiger Brother’s Spiritual Veins again and again, pondering the questions Liu Boli had posed.
Qian Duoduo suddenly thought, since the sublimation of Artifact Refining is to refine Magical Artifacts with spirits, then why can’t one directly refine beasts, birds, or even humans with spirits? Will refining with spirits and refining out spirits lead to the same destination?
While he was lost in thought, Golden Tiger Brother suddenly trembled all over, shaking the tortoise shell tent and raising dust.
Did he fart in his dream? Qian Duoduo was about to cover his nose, but then he realized something was off—there was no foul smell in the air.
“The little fellow has broken through,” Liu Boli said with a smile. “Not only has he entered Foundation Establishment, but because you helped him compress his Spiritual Veins, he has also advanced to a Battle Beast, and in the future, he even has a chance to become a Xuan Beast.”
Qian Duoduo lightly patted Golden Tiger Brother’s backside, “You lucky fellow. Someone heals you, someone massages you, and you just sleep and break through.”
However, Golden Tiger Brother’s Breakthrough was indeed a great thing. In the future, his offspring with Head Seat Chu’s Purple-Forehead Golden Tiger would certainly not be weak. If they had more children, Purple Gold Manor would become even more formidable.
The next day, when Golden Tiger Brother reappeared before everyone, including Zhangzuo Dajiu, everyone was stunned—was this the same sickly, dying Golden Tiger from yesterday?
His eyes were bright with spirit, his entire body’s tiger fur was neat and shiny, all the wounds and swellings on his body had disappeared, and the pressure of a Foundation Establishment Cultivator swept over them.
“What Spirit Pill or wondrous medicine did you give him?” Zhangzuo Dajiu asked with a smile, “Compared to you, I might be mistreating my companion.”
He patted the Seven-Colored Golden Bull beside him. The Seven-Colored Golden Bull’s injuries had not yet fully healed.
Qian Duoduo immediately understood Zhangzuo Dajiu’s meaning. The Seven-Colored Golden Bull was also a member of Purple Gold Manor; he couldn’t show favoritism.
Qian Duoduo walked over and said to the Seven-Colored Golden Bull, “Golden Bull Brother, tonight, wanna hang out?”