Chapter 3671 - A Good Deal

"What’re you doing? Clap!" Ying Huo said, rapidly flapping its wings. Xian Xian and the metal insects also joined in. Even Lan Huang began clapping, causing the entire lifebound space to shake.

"An earthquake!" Meow Meow snapped awake and looked around with its ears perked. "Oh, I'm safe over here!" It went back to sleep right away.

"Why you little...!" Ying Huo picked it up by the scruff of its neck. "Little Li's life was on the line just now! I was worried out of my mind, but you're here sleeping?!"

"What? Since when was his life on the line?" Meow Meow was stunned. "What time is it? Where are we? Isn’t this Myriadpath Valley?" It looked around in shock.

"Have you gone silly from all that sleeping?! Myriadpath Valley’s no more after the revolution!"

Ying Huo really wanted to beat Meow Meow up. It turned back and looked at the neatly arranged insects and a laughing two-headed dragon, as well as Xian Xian's spiritform, who was inscribing more text onto its trunk. Looking back at the rowdy child outside that Tianming had just tamed, Ying Huo actually began sympathizing with Tianming's plight.

"Well, it finally came home. That's still an occasion worth celebrating!" As the big brother, Ying Huo finally felt relieved that the matter was resolved.

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Sixth's cultivation technique was called the Celestial Sourcepath Codex. The moment the connection formed, Tianming made two decisions. The first was to stop Zi Zhen from coming and to instead focus on rescuing Qingyu and claiming Mu Tianyuan's belongings. The second was to have Moran consume the divine wonders of the Yugongs as fast as she could and see if there was a chance she could claim the imperial-class artifact, the Soulshaker Bell.

Yin Chen reported that the orderlies above were still unaware of the developments down where the Original Sin Pool used to be. They were still worried about the threats the Yugongs had made, so they hesitated to descend, buying Tianming precious time.

Thus, he immediately started cultivating his soul. During the first time when he formed the connection, Tianming had Sixth lead the way, and it was still within his astral brain.

Fortunately, in his clear-minded state, Tianming's evil impulses had gone back into the bottomless hole in his Order-Relic astrons. Only then was Sixth willing to form an energy connection with him.

The astrons in Tianming's astral brain numbered only one-ten-thousandth of Sixth's, but Sixth didn't really have cultivation levels either. From the very beginning, it’d had far too much soul power, so much so that it was like it’d been born after eighteen years of incubation as opposed to the ten months of the other beasts. It had been born completely independent and developed. As such, Sixth learned much faster than normal beasts its age.

Once the Celestial Sourcepath Codex began circulating, Sixth swiftly gained heavenly and divine wills, as well as an order! Before that, it hadn’t had one. When it finally reached the astral god phase, one was born from within it!

Tianming's astral brain now carried a second stream of order apart from Lifesbane Will. The two streams coexisted within his brain, becoming the place in his body with the most concentrated streams of order—and possibly where he was the strongest. It might be even tougher than his seventh astral organ!

"What kind of order is this?" As the orders of Primordial Chaos Beasts were innate, and not ones he’d gained insight into, he had to familiarize himself with them after the fact. It was a white, hexagonal piece of order that seemed like a sea of clouds covered in mist. Every single drop of condensate in the clouds seemed like a soul.

"Lifesoul order," Sixth suddenly said. It no longer sounded annoyed; instead, it seemed rather satisfied.

"Lifesoul order? As in a lively soul that's filled with vigor? That sounds a little similar to Xian Xian's order," Tianming said, but it didn't feel like what he described. Xian Xian's order was colorful and vibrant, an embodiment of life force itself.

"Lifesoul refers to the soul of living beings. It has nothing to do with organic and corporeal organisms!" Sixth said. It seemed to be sensing the changes that its lifesoul order brought.

"Lifesoul order, Celestial Sourcepath Codex, the sea of the caelum, terra, and vita, the origin of life and sentience...." Tianming grasped at the concepts of the order.

"That's right! The source of life and sentience.... The body of flesh is merely a vessel for the soul. The soul is the true source of life. I’m the wellspring of all souls!" Sixth sounded excited and in high spirits.

"So this is lifesoul order!" Tianming could gradually start to feel it. It was a truly great stream of order, worth a lot of bragging rights.

Sixth's level rapidly rose, causing the quality of its soul power to change. It consumed the soul power it had gathered as energy and converted it into its own soul cosmoforce using the Celestial Sourcepath Codex, which in turn flooded into Tianming's astrons and bloodline.

Tianming's spiritform astrons began to split and take on the bloodline of his newest Primordial Chaos Beast, sharing in a portion of Sixth's original power. Man and beast shared energy with one another. As Sixth had to share its power with Tianming, it was no longer at its peak like before.

"Oh? Ooooh?" Sixth seemed to be excited about something.

"What is it?" Tianming asked.

"Having my own order and soul cosmoforce seems much more convenient! My foundations are much more secure! I don't feel hollow at all! I think I can amass even more soul power now!"

Tianming really wanted to pull it out of his brain and give it a good spanking. "And to think you were throwing a tantrum for so long even though you were offered such a good deal! How dare you mock your elder siblings?"

"What elder siblings?" Sixth chuckled.

"What’re you saying?"

"I'm not the youngest. I have a younger sister!" Sixth said, and suddenly felt bad about it. "Of course I knew about the benefits all along! I just didn't want to be scammed into signing a contract with you when I was still a naive babe at birth, alright? If I’d submitted to you from the beginning, it would've been so humiliating!"

Tianming really wanted to feed it more shit for all its bullshit. To think that it had grown even more arrogant after becoming a lifebound beast! He still wondered how an egg that he’d hatched himself had even run away in the first place.