Chapter 142: Secret Technique · Blood Descendant
The journey leaving Cloud Mist Basin was not particularly peaceful, but for Zhou Ming, as long as he did not encounter a Professional Beast Tamer or a Hunting Corps numbering over a hundred people, they were basically nothing more than Wealth Boys delivering themselves to him.
As a result, he had no choice but to abandon low-value spoils. Even so, he still stuffed a large-capacity backpack full, along with two smaller backpacks.
From a distance, he looked just like a refugee.
As for the Spatial Ring on Zhou Ming’s finger, it had long been unable to store any additional items. Inside were mostly precious resources he had no intention of trading lightly.
When he entered the city gates of Qinghui Base, the hunters coming and going saw Zhou Ming carrying a bag in each hand, with a large pack on his back. A trace of apprehension unconsciously appeared in their eyes.
Even the City Defense Army captain responsible for guarding the gate stared at Zhou Ming for quite some time, because he was clearly a dangerous individual.
However, the Alliance had its rules. As long as one did not violate fundamental principles, no one could be held legally responsible for slaughter in the wilderness. Thus, the City Defense Army squad leader guarding the gate could only let Zhou Ming enter the base.
After entering the base, Zhou Ming stopped a taxi and went straight to the Hunter Guild.
This time, when he arrived at the Hunter Guild, no one dared to open their mouth to mock him again.
Three backpacks of different styles, all stained with a pungent smell of blood—anyone could tell that the young man before them was not someone to be trifled with.
After entering the Hunter Guild, Zhou Ming directly asked the staff for a trading room. He was carrying far too many items.
Half an hour later, after several staff members finished sorting everything out, the total value of the items Zhou Ming handed over finally had a concrete figure.
“This lord, based on the medicinal materials and Ferocious Beast materials you provided, the total value is thirty-seven million two hundred and fifty thousand. The corresponding contribution points are three thousand seven hundred and twenty-five. Please check whether there are any errors?”
Seeing the list handed over by the staff member, Zhou Ming merely glanced through it briefly. After confirming that the prices matched his own estimates, he nodded and agreed to the transaction.
A moment later, Zhou Ming received his bank card and Hunter Emblem. He then directly left the Hunter Guild and rented a move-in-ready room nearby.
The Snake Swarm Will had already been perfected. Now, he only needed to construct the corresponding secret technique model. After that, he could find ways to purchase class advancement resources and begin advancing to a Professional Beast Tamer.
Time slowly passed, and the cold winds of November began blowing down from the north.
However, compared to Qinshan Base, Qinghui Base was located farther south, so the chill in the air was not particularly obvious.
Inside an apartment not far from the Hunter Guild, Zhou Ming was currently sitting cross-legged in his bedroom, his mind fully immersed in constructing the secret technique model within his Spiritual Sea.
Silver rays of light condensed from Spiritual Power shuttled along special trajectories, slowly outlining a three-dimensional pattern.
If one observed carefully, the secret technique model Zhou Ming was constructing resembled the brain core of an Army Ant Queen.
The silver rays were like golden threads within the brain core, twisting and weaving back and forth. Then, at the core, they began to give rise to profound fluctuations.
As these fluctuations appeared, the nebula within the Spiritual Sea began to alter its rotational trajectory. At the same time, the Ironthread Snakes sealed within the nebula also faintly emitted waves of consciousness.
The frequencies of both sides’ fluctuations slowly drew closer, eventually converging toward the same frequency.
“Si—”
Within the Spiritual Sea, it was as if the hiss of a colossal serpent rang out, like a great bell echoing throughout the entire Spiritual Sea.
When the secret technique model was successfully constructed, the vast nebula formed from the origin of the Spiritual Seed suddenly underwent violent changes.
Specks of starlight shifted like celestial bodies moving in their orbits. Using starlight as scales, a heaven-reaching giant serpent was constructed, coiling within the Spiritual Sea.
One thousand and eight starlights represented one thousand and eight Ironthread Snakes, not a single one missing.
Each Ironthread Snake sealed within the starlight split off a strand of consciousness, which ultimately condensed into a black snake no thicker than a finger.
The white bone phantom formed through Zhou Ming’s meditation sat cross-legged atop the giant serpent. The black snake continuously shuttled through the white bones, eventually transforming into a dark-gold crown upon the skull.
“I am the Snake Swarm Will.”
As Zhou Ming’s declaration resounded, all one thousand and eight Ironthread Snakes immediately began to hiss.
They were offering their congratulations to the supreme sovereign.
At the same time, Ironthread Snakes scattered across Blue Star raised their heads and looked toward the direction where Zhou Ming was located.
These ordinary Ironthread Snakes seemed to sense the emergence of a great existence, one capable of influencing the entire Ironthread Snake race.
“It finally succeeded.”
Inside the bedroom, when Zhou Ming opened his eyes, a trace of sovereign aura unexpectedly emanated from his body.
Although it vanished in an instant, that aura was incomparably real.
“Although the fragmentation of the Spiritual Seed nearly severed my path of advancement, it was also an immense stroke of fortune.”
Feeling the gains brought about by the successful completion of the Snake Swarm Will plan, Zhou Ming could not help but feel deeply moved.
On Blue Star, the path by which Beast Tamers grasped the extraordinary began with meditation and sensing the existence of the Spiritual Sea.
Whether one could sense the Spiritual Sea determined whether one possessed Beast Tamer talent.
The next step was to condense a Spiritual Seed. If one’s talent was insufficient, precious resources had to be used as assistance.
The Spiritual Seed possessed uniqueness, representing the Beast Tamer’s origin aura. Thus, once implanted into a Ferocious Beast’s consciousness, it would grow using the beast’s spiritual awareness, allowing complete control over the beast without fear of betrayal.
The connection between a Beast Tamer and their beast was that intangible Spiritual Thread—one end connected to the beast, and the other to the origin of the Beast Tamer’s Spiritual Sea.
The origin of Zhou Ming’s manifested Spiritual Sea was precisely the nebula formed from those one thousand and eight starlights.
The strength of a Beast Tamer’s talent represented the quality of the Spiritual Seed, corresponding to the level of Ferocious Beasts they could command.
Due to the influence of the bloodline origin power of lord-level Ferocious Beasts, an Apprentice Beast Tamer’s Spiritual Seed could at most be implanted into the spiritual consciousness of a high-tier Ferocious Beast cub.
Then, through continuous class advancements to break spiritual limits, and by enhancing the strength of their beasts, they would gradually grasp power beyond the mundane.
Zhou Ming’s previous self had died from forcibly condensing a Spiritual Seed. When the Spiritual Seed began to shatter along with that death, Zhou Ming transmigrated and accidentally inherited the freshly fractured Spiritual Seed.
Although the Spiritual Seed had not completely vanished, its quality had fallen to the point where it could only command ordinary mutated animals.
According to the current Beast Taming Cultivation System, Zhou Ming’s Beast Taming path should have been severed. Fortunately, he obtained Half-Beastman class advancement materials, thereby opening up a new path.
A path belonging to bloodlines.
The secret technique model Zhou Ming constructed was named “Blood Descendant,” and it was also the core of the Snake Swarm Will.
It was a special secret technique that ordinary Beast Tamers could not master.
It allowed Zhou Ming to ignore the influence brought by the Ironthread Snake bloodline, because the Snake Swarm Will stood above bloodline will.
Moreover, without relying on a Spiritual Seed, Zhou Ming could control ordinary Ironthread Snakes, and he could also help the Ironthread Snakes bound to his Spiritual Seed break through their bloodline limitations.
After breaking through to the Professional Beast Tamer rank, Zhou Ming would gain the ability to command the entire Ironthread Snake race. Even if he ordered Ironthread Snakes he had not bonded with to die, they would not resist his will.
He even had the opportunity to command all snakekind and transform into the conceptual embodiment of “snake.”
However, to reach that goal, the road he had to walk was still very, very long.