Chapter 519 - 439: I’m Fine, Master, You... You Continue

After completing the Opening of Spirit Veins, Jiang Qiu began to impart his teachings to the Nine-tailed Fox. During this time, Xiong Batian went off to hunt on his own.

Hunting, which meant fighting other Great Demons, was a way to test his own strength, gain more combat experience, and stabilize his Realm through continuous battle.

As a new Dominator who had just entered the Spirit Control Realm, if he didn’t fight enough, his combat abilities would obviously be inferior to those of other Dominators.

One had to understand that every member of the Demon Race had fought their way up. No one simply waited for resources to come to them and coasted their way to the Spirit Control Realm. The path of exploring Cultivation was destined to be a bloody and brutal one, and this was unavoidable.

So, Jiang Qiu could only let him go out to fight, improving his practical combat experience while also tempering his body and properly implementing the Cultivation path he had just comprehended.

When Xiong Batian broke through to the Spirit Control Realm, he followed the path of Extreme Cultivation provided by Jiang Qiu. This involved gathering Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm in his limbs and continuously strengthening them to pursue the most powerful burst of force, which also granted him greater speed.

Now was the time for him to adapt. At the same time, he also had to hunt Great Demons to bring back food for Jiang Qiu. Otherwise, what would they eat?

With Xiong Batian out hunting, Jiang Qiu’s instruction for the Nine-tailed Fox became much more focused. The two of them, inside the cave, began to try and guide the Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm.

After Jiang Qiu had Opened his Spirit Veins, he quickly grasped the essence of this world’s Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm. He mastered how to use it in an instant and then began to analyze the internal connection between the Spirit Charm and the Secret Techniques he knew.

In less than an hour, he had already developed a Clone Secret Technique suitable for the Nine-tailed Fox—the Nine-tailed Form.

The principle behind this Secret Technique wasn’t difficult; Jiang Qiu had already mastered it back when he was in the Xia Country. Now, in the Dragon Emperor Secret Realm, he just needed to adapt it to the Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm, which wasn’t too hard.

Of course, there was still the most difficult step: adapting it for the Nine-tailed Fox. This was Jiang Qiu’s first time encountering the Demon Race’s path of Cultivation and creating a suitable Secret Technique for one of them.

That’s right. Jiang Qiu first had to understand the bodily structure of the Nine-tailed Fox and the principles of how she mobilized Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm within it before he could create a compatible Secret Technique.

In other words, after adapting the Secret Technique to the activation conditions of this world’s Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm, he had the Nine-tailed Fox remove her scant vine dress, sit down, and turn her back to him.

The Nine-tailed Fox didn’t know how to sit cross-legged and found it awkward, so she knelt before him instead. Her fair back was as pure as a snow-capped mountain, and her nine fluffy white tails twitched about. A heat surged in Jiang Qiu’s chest, but his pair of small, tender claws still gently rested upon her back.

The moment they touched her skin, he could feel the white-jade-like flesh beneath his claws tremble slightly. He didn’t know if it was out of fear or shyness.

’Then again, what does the Nine-tailed Fox have to be shy about? She doesn’t even understand those things. It’s more likely fear. After all, her back is turned to me, and that body of hers is still so delicate. It’s normal for her to feel completely insecure.’

Indeed, even after her Transformation, the Nine-tailed Fox still possessed incredibly tough skin. In other words, her physical Realm hadn’t weakened; on the contrary, it had become more condensed and powerful. Yet, she looked as pure, flawless, and fragile as white jade, and was soft to the touch.

When his fingertips touched her back, her slightly slouched posture straightened a bit. She was really like a common girl from the Human Race. But she was much taller than Jiang Qiu; right now, he wasn’t even as tall as her legs...

So, the Nine-tailed Fox knelt in front, her slender fingers resting on her thighs, while Jiang Qiu stood behind her. He touched her back with both hands and guided a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm inside to investigate her bodily structure.

Before, when Jiang Qiu hadn’t Opened his Spirit Veins, he couldn’t draw upon the Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm at all, which made many things very troublesome. Now, things were better. He could directly guide a wisp of Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm to investigate her body’s structure.

To be honest, this was Jiang Qiu’s first time investigating the body of a member of the Transformed Demon Clan. It felt almost identical to that of the Human Race, except her bloodline was unique. The ancient aura it exuded, stretching back to time immemorial, was far purer than that of any Demon Race members he had encountered back on Blue Star.

To put it another way, the members of the Demon Race he met on Blue Star constantly pursued Cultivation for the sake of Ancestral Return, hoping to make their bloodline more like their ancestors’. But the Nine-tailed Fox he was touching now—her bloodline was one of constant optimization, turning herself into the purest and most powerful ancestor.

She seemed to have no parents, knew nothing of procreation, and had no idea how a Nine-tailed Fox like her had come into being.

Speaking of which, the Demon Race in this world was truly endless. Moreover, they all began their pursuit of Cultivation from Spiritual Awakening, without any unique bloodline connections—though it was said the Chaos Bloodline had such connections, the outer Demon Race members all started their Cultivation from scratch.

And the Nine-tailed Fox was one who had reached her current stage step-by-step, starting her Cultivation from scratch. A wisp of Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm drilled into her spine and traveled through her meridians, slithering through her whole body like a brazen little snake. It spied out every last pathway of Heaven and Earth Spirit Charm within her, leaving no privacy whatsoever—except for her Soul.

For now, Jiang Qiu couldn’t directly investigate her Soul. On one hand, her Realm was far higher than his. On the other, the Soul was simply too important. Unless absolutely necessary, it was better not to probe it, as it could easily trigger a massive change.