"Greetings, master."
The person who had arrived was the disheveled old man, the master of Weapon Peak. Su Zimo bowed.
The disheveled old man nodded slightly and shifted his gaze to Linghu who was behind Su Zimo, frowning.
Linghu lamented internally. He had initially wanted to make use of the opportunity to escape but this old man appeared out of nowhere. By the looks of it, this ugly old man was the master of this perverted human!
Wasn't that even more perverted?
"This hole is a little deep. I'm doomed …"
The disheveled old man asked with a frown, "This is your spirit beast?"
In the cultivation world, there was no lack of cultivators keeping spirit beasts as pets. In battle, spirit beasts were a part of the cultivator's strength as well.
Su Zimo hesitated for a moment before nodding.
The disheveled old man looked at Linghu and said in a low voice, "This spirit beast's potential is ordinary and nothing special. However, since you've chosen it, you'll have to sign a blood oath with it."
Su Zimo remained silent.
The disheveled old man continued, "Lad, remember this. Those who aren't of our race are bound to have ulterior motives. Furthermore, humans and demons are different and it's hard to get rid of the bestial nature of demons. Cultivators have weak physiques and spirit beasts often accompany them. If they betray them and they're caught off guard, it's easy for them to die in the mouths of beasts. "
In the cultivation world, to prevent spirit beasts from betraying their masters, cultivators would sign a blood oath with spirit beasts – it was known as a blood oath in the cultivation world.
If both parties were to sign a blood oath and the spirit beast had ulterior motives, its bloodline would flow in reverse and it would die on the spot.
If a cultivator had a strong spirit beast, a mutated bloodline or an ancient ferocious beast, the increase in their strength would be obvious.
Of course, the difference in strength between both parties must not be too great when signing a blood oath. Furthermore, the spirit beast could not resist or the blood oath would not be signed successfully.
Therefore, super sects would provide spirit beast eggs or spirit beast eggs of mutated ferocious beasts to groom paragons.
The success rate of signing a blood oath with a spirit beast when it was still young and ignorant was extremely high.
Su Zimo had heard Ji Yaoxue mention the Blood Oath before, but he was extremely conflicted about this Blood Oath.
It wasn't just because of Die Yue, nor was it because of his own demonic cultivation. It was more because Su Zimo didn't like being enslaved from the bottom of his heart, nor did he like enslaving others.
This was tantamount to restricting the freedom of a life.
This was even crueler than killing them.
Su Zimo was more willing to use another method to interact with spirit beasts, just like how he interacted with the spirit monkey.
Su Zimo believed that even without the blood oath, the spirit monkey would not harm him.
When the disheveled old man saw that Su Zimo was silent the entire time, he thought that the latter did not know about the blood oath and smiled. Retrieving a piece of white paper from his storage bag, he wrote down a few incantations and handed it to Su Zimo, instructing, "Learn it. Consider it a small gift from your master."
Incantations like the blood oath could only be exchanged with contribution points in the sect. This was equivalent to the disheveled old man secretly giving Su Zimo benefits.
Su Zimo received the paper and nodded in thanks.
"Yes, head back. Hurry up and sign the blood oath with this Linghu before getting a spirit beast badge from the old gatekeeper. Don't drag it out for too long," The disheveled old man instructed again before soaring into the air and speeding out of the sect.
At Misty Peak, the spirit beasts of cultivators would have a fixed badge to identify them as well as allow them to freely enter the fog formation outside the sect.
Linghu witnessed the entire process and his heart turned cold as he cried internally. "It's really over now! I can't run anymore. After signing the blood oath, I'll truly be his' tiger 'from now on … "
Su Zimo rode on his sword and Linghu followed suit. Before long, they arrived at Weapon Peak's cave abode.
Throughout the entire process, Su Zimo said nothing with a calm expression.
Arriving at the cave abode, Su Zimo casually crushed the white paper filled with the blood oath incantations into dust and disappeared into the air.
When Linghu saw that, his mouth opened slightly in shock.
Along the way, Linghu had been paying close attention – Su Zimo had not even glanced at the blood oath incantations at all.
Now that he had destroyed the paper, could he have known about it beforehand?
Turning around, Su Zimo looked at Linghu and said indifferently, "I'm not going to sign a blood oath with you. If you choose to follow me, nod your head. If you don't, you can leave right now."
Linghu was stunned.
A choice!
This human could have signed a blood oath with him and he would not have dared to resist. But now, the human was giving him a choice!
Linghu felt an unprecedented sense of respect and trust.
"Ow! Ow!"
Instantly, Linghu's blood surged and his head heated up as he nodded furiously like a chick pecking at rice.
Su Zimo smiled. "Alright, since you've chosen to follow me, you can't betray me. Of course, the same goes for me. "
The man and beast did not notice that in the depths of the clouds above their heads, there was a pair of eyes hidden, watching the scene below and hearing the conversation between the man and beast.
Su Zimo walked into the cave abode and Linghu followed.
The clouds in the sky churned as a pair of huge wings flapped across, blocking out the sun as they flew towards Misty Peak.
After returning to this familiar cave abode where he had been tortured for the past few days, Linghu gradually calmed down and started to feel vexed again. "Damn it, what happened to me just now? Why did I agree on impulse? This kid is obviously trying to bribe me! "
"Sigh, that was irrational!"
Linghu regretted it …
However, Linghu also felt a little embarrassed that he regretted it so quickly after agreeing.
"As long as he doesn't 'do' me, I'll tolerate it even if he wants me to roar. Hmm … I'll just stay here for now. Since I didn't sign a blood oath, I'm free to come and go. "
At that thought, Linghu no longer felt burdened and stayed in Su Zimo's cave abode for the time being.
With an additional spirit beast by his side, Su Zimo's life did not change much.
Linghu would occasionally head out to hunt for food and would even bring some back for Su Zimo.
Su Zimo also needed to devour flesh for his demonic cultivation. This saved him some effort and the essence of the Scarlet Flame Fruit that was sealed in his body.
In the following period of time, Su Zimo cultivated the Marrow Cleansing section in the cave abode while raising his cultivation realm and continuing to study weapon refinement.
With the disheveled old man's hint, Su Zimo could look for him at the Weapon Refinement Hall if he had any doubts and watch the images left behind by the seniors of the sect.
During this period of time, Su Zimo had improved tremendously in the first four steps of weapon refinement.
However, Su Zimo still had no progress on the most crucial fifth step of spirit gathering and did not manage to refine an inferior-grade spirit weapon. However, there was a huge pile of pseudo spirit flying swords in his storage bag.
As for spirit gathering, the disheveled old man once said that Weapon Refinement Masters would cultivate a unique spirit perception after refining for a long time.
For example, Advanced Weapon Refinement Masters, the success rate of refining inferior-grade spirit weapons with a single spirit pattern was very high and was close to 100%.
Su Zimo had spirit perception as well but it was different from that of Weapon Refinement Masters.
He had been trying to use his spirit perception on spirit gathering but could not find a breakthrough.
During this period of time, Weapon Peak had another end of month test. Once again, Feng Haoyu came to Weapon Peak and even sent Qi Refinement Warriors to Su Zimo's cave abode to challenge Su Zimo.
Su Zimo closed his door and refused to meet them.
The reason why he participated in the previous end of month test was because he wanted to watch the images of the seniors of the sect refining weapons. Now that he could watch as he pleased, there was no need for him to waste time on it.
As for Feng Haoyu's challenge, Su Zimo could not be bothered with it.
Su Zimo did not realize that his rejection of the challenge had unknowingly caused the greatest storm in the history of Misty Peak!
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