Kind Cultivation - Chapter 203

Before heading back to the teleporter area, I evaluate my situation and what’s going to be coming up. Not only that, but I start going through what I might need to Put myself in the best possible position.

I’m currently 7 days in on the 16-day time limit that I was given by senior song. I have a large number of Alchemical materials, including several star renewal flowers, so as long as I can get them to her, I should be all set on that front.

During the fight with Ao Jin, I released my taming and healing contracts.

There’s also released the contracts for all the rats in the outer city.

The vast majority of rats had the contract long enough to intelligence to lay low and wait for further instructions. Any who didn’t, follow the crowd and retreated along with them.

I got lucky in that respect.

If the current batch of rats hadn’t had been safe because of the rats sent out by the Ascending Myriad Monsters group and the Eight Winds Alchemical Research society… they would have been too ‘young’ to not handle the situation carefully.

I’m also getting the sense that the hero group might have been involved.

There’s also an (at least) Peak Nascent Soul expert running around with a vendetta.

Though, now that I think about it, He mentioned his daughter before he ran off. And even if he was going for a vendetta, after just a waking he’s probably information gathering and trying to get back to his old stores of treasures, like every cultivator seems to have.

So, hopefully I won’t have to worry about him too much. Maybe if I’m lucky, he’ll only do something after 100 years.

… Who am I kidding? Of course, he won’t.

The next thing that comes to mind, is my previous thoughts about getting stronger.

Subconsciously, I can’t help but take a glance in the direction of Ao Jin’s body.

If I didn’t have those creatures, I would have been here for even longer, probably even killed after I had attacked him. While the swarms held him off temporarily, the spirit beasts were the ones that weakened him enough for me to finally kill him.

I should take some of them with me.

Since my abilities are primarily support oriented, my best chance for survival is surrounding myself with people and beast to support.

They have to be strong enough in the first place, though. Unless they are a strategic tame, in which trying to raise them up because they’re abilities would be even more effective as they grow, like my resident slime girl, Dana.

I can’t assume that these groups won’t figure out that I can heal, tame, and scan.

While there would be benefits to that, there are also major downsides. Having beings next to me that I know are completely on my side, will be central to navigating those situations.

So that made me reconsider something.

Why wouldn’t I bring all of them?

The only reason that comes to mind, is that it would be extremely questionable how I managed to bring all of these creatures under my control in such a short time.

Without a doubt, I’d be getting a call from the myriad monsters group. It would also raise up the assumption, that I might be the one controlling the rats.

Once again, there are benefits and downsides to that.

More benefits than downsides, though. quickly gain the support of the myriad monsters group.  To be able to get access to many more creatures through them that I normally wouldn’t have a chance to. And if there’s any group that would be able to protect me from the anger of the outer city gangs, They would.  No one wants to Annoy or fight people that can work with and control spirit beasts.

It’s easy to plan for human cultivators’ tactics. Definitely not so for spirit beasts, which can come in any shape or form.

In addition, I also need to get in contact with the eight winds alchemical research society. Since I’m already basically blacklisted by the alchemy Guild, the best way to become a true and certified alchemist would be through this society.

Not only that, but only they would be left to purchase all the items I’ve collected out here at a fair price. Anywhere else would likely be influenced by the alchemy Guild, even my own sect, in some respects.

It could actually work in my favor with them, that I’m the one that controlled the rats from before.

Similar to the Monster’s group, none of the outer gangs will want to mess with the alchemical society either.

If I’m part of both, it will give me some protection from even the Alchemy Guild.

With this thought, I come to a decision.

I’ll try to join these groups.

In Both cases, I’ll need the titles they can provide, if anything else. It is only to a point that you can call yourself an alchemists or tamer.

Case in point, would be my feud with the alchemy Guild. Not only did I take business away from them, I wasn’t even accredited.  The first would be reason enough, while the second makes it somewhat legalized to come after me.

So, I’ll need that if I wanna continue any further legally.

Tamer title, it’ll allow me to take on jobs that will give me more opportunities to tame rare spirit beast. While getting paid for it.

The best of both worlds.

Nonetheless, I need to start getting prepared to leave.

But there’s a few things I will want to grab before I go: the spirit beasts; some seedlings so I can grow rare ingredients; and some final tames that I think could be useful overtime

Immediately, I reactivate all the spirit beasts that I previously had access to. And let them know that they’ll be coming with me. They’ll be set at the same level of percentage increases as I have with the hero team. It’s Massively lower than they were getting when I was in that desperate battle, but overtime it’ll allow them to grow more over a long time.

They seem excited, because not only do they get that but also access to my healing.

As could be expected, being constantly healed and optimized really helps your cultivation and body strength. This is even more important for spirit beasts who rely on their bodies and natural abilities.

To make things more realistic for anyone who may actually see this scene, I also do something that I haven’t done yet with any creature I’ve tamed.

Initiate a traditional connection with them. A sharing of Qi within each others bodies. An imprint of sorts.

This is the way that most tamers actually go about making an initial agreement with the spirit beast and in other cases, demons or demonic creatures.

Depending on the dynamics of the relationship, Qi can go either way.

In this case, I’ve imprinted on them, which shows that they at least agree to follow my orders. It shows up as a small symbol somewhere on their bodies. This is in contrast to a mutual marking, which would mean both of us have an agreement to each other.

Of course, there’s more complex versions of these which or more specific and binding, but wouldn’t be realistic for someone of my cultivation and with the resources I have available, to make.

Next, I go back through the poison area, while using as much of the healing as I can, to quickly grab a few seeds and plants that I think would grow into useful materials and potentially tames. Of course, I also grab a large number of other seeds and growth items around the area as I frequented before.

Since the creatures with may can’t move as faster as far, I had by myself for these forays. Instead, I have them collect, capture, and knockout any creatures they would think would be useful for me to tame and bring along. Not only that, but I have them collect parasites and symbiotes from around their areas.

With a permanent contract in place, they seem to be working together seamlessly, as they can actually trust each other now to stick around for the long haul and not betray each other.

With this being the case, they seem to be using this as an opportunity to get back at some creatures in each of their areas while also bringing them along.

By the time I get back to the central location thatI set up for them to hold everything, there are literal piles of creatures knocked out here.

Only one thought goes through my mind by the time I’m done with my errands and come back to this.

Would they even let me through the teleporter with this many creatures? Guild.