Chapter 97 : As-You-Wish

Chapter 97: As-You-Wish

With a casual seal of the Rejuvenation Art, the wound on Chen Beiwu’s fingertip immediately healed, leaving behind only some traces of blood.

“Gulu.” Golden Egg flicked its fins, still a little unaccustomed.

After undergoing the baptism of the Nine Apertures Sun-Moon Pool, it noticed that Chen Beiwu seemed slightly shorter than before, and even his aura had weakened somewhat.

‘You’ve shrunk!’

Sensing Golden Egg’s thoughts, Chen Beiwu patted its head, then urged his divine sense to “look” into its Law Meridians.

At this moment, deep within its meridians, forty-four fundamental Dao Marks were emitting faint radiance.

‘Only one month of baptism, yet its cultivation years skyrocketed to forty-four—instantly becoming a Great Spirit!’ Chen Beiwu’s eyes revealed surprise.

Compared to him, Golden Egg’s speed of accumulating cultivation years was simply terrifying.

Could it be that the bloodline hidden within Golden Egg was especially compatible with the Nine Apertures Sun-Moon Pool?

Still, that was ultimately a good thing. Chen Beiwu shook his head, not dwelling on it, and instead used his divine sense to probe deeper into Golden Egg’s meridians, sensing the changes in its innate arts.

‘Not bad, it actually awakened another innate spiritual art!’ Chen Beiwu’s eyes brightened.

Normally, a Companion Spirit Beast needed to break through to a greater realm.

For example, advancing from the First Realm Spirit to the Second Realm Lesser Beast, or from the Second Realm Lesser Beast to the Third Realm Beast General, before it might unearth the bloodline talents hidden deep within and awaken brand new arts.

But there existed an extremely small number of extraordinary Companion Spirit Beasts who could, through tempering their bloodline during the accumulation of cultivation years, awaken new innate arts.

【Innate Ability】: As-You-Wish

【Grade】: Second-Tier High-Grade Spiritual Art

【Effect】: “When yin and yang revolve within one breath, the body shifts with a thought.” Bathed in the yin and yang energies of heaven and earth through the cycles of sun and moon, Golden Scale could adjust the proportion of qi in its body, altering the density and structure of flesh, bones, and organs—thus freely controlling its size at will.

Sensing the effect of this spiritual art, Chen Beiwu froze slightly.

“As you wish, as my heart desires.” This art actually allowed Golden Egg to shift its form at will, freely changing its size.

It should be known that the Immortal Alliance Official Website did sell similar yin-yang arts like As-You-Wish. But those were mostly Third-Tier or higher Treasure Arts, priced extremely high, and required the buyer to have Golden Core True Person status to even purchase.

Even on the Ten Thousand Spirits app, when a Third-Tier Treasure Beast occasionally performed such a transformation art to the wild applause of the audience, he could only watch enviously.

‘Golden Egg, try shrinking.’ Chen Beiwu urged in a low voice.

“Gulu?” Golden Egg’s eyes showed puzzlement.

Clearly, it didn’t even realize it had awakened a new innate art.

‘This silly thing!’

Chen Beiwu sighed, then channeled his divine sense, guiding Golden Egg through their Companion Contract to sense the As-You-Wish ability.

“Gulu!”

Golden Egg shuddered, and under the nourishment of sun essence and moonlight, its body began shrinking visibly to the naked eye.

After three minutes, a miniature Golden Scale, no longer than a finger, appeared before Chen Beiwu’s eyes.

‘Good, keep that form.’

With a word of praise, Chen Beiwu activated the All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree, using his divine sense to measure the spiritual energy consumption of As-You-Wish.

After the time of one incense stick, Golden Egg could no longer hold on and flicked its fins, instantly resuming normal size.

‘Shrinking consumes little spiritual power, but the duration is limited. It can’t be maintained constantly.’

Reaching this conclusion, Chen Beiwu let Golden Egg rest a while before urging it to try enlarging.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

Unlike shrinking, every expansion of Golden Egg’s size brought gusting winds, creating a great commotion.

After five minutes, a massive Golden Scale nearly twenty feet long lay across the Sun-Moon Pool, its bulk covering more than half the ancient pond.

“Bang!”

Forming a seal, Chen Beiwu circulated his power, condensing a razor-thin Water Blade like cicada’s wings, which struck Golden Egg’s scales with unstoppable force.

‘Good, its scales’ defense did not weaken after enlarging.’

Having tested the general effects of the As-You-Wish art, Chen Beiwu now had a rough measure of Golden Egg’s current combat strength.

In direct battle, even a peak Qi Refining cultivator armed with a Second-Tier Spiritual Artifact would find it difficult to break through Golden Egg’s defense.

If Golden Egg were truly enraged, unleashing the savagery hidden in its beast bloodline, it might even be capable of slaughtering a cultivator at the extreme limit of Qi Refining.

After storing the reluctant Golden Egg into his Beast Pouch, Chen Beiwu slowly closed his eyes, carefully sensing the cultivation increase from his closed-door training.

‘The All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree truly is extraordinary. I only just reached the Ninth Level of Qi Refining, yet my lifespan has increased again—I now have around two hundred and thirty years.’ Chen Beiwu felt joy stir within.

The longer the lifespan of a Qi Refining cultivator, the more time they would have to hone their foundation and advance their cultivation in the future.

It was no exaggeration to say that even if he lost Nine-Breath Chaos now, he still had the confidence to attempt the Golden Core Path through talent and lifespan alone.

‘It’s a pity I’ve never seen a Foundation Establishment cultivator in action.’ Chen Beiwu opened his eyes.

There was a gulf between Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment.

Even though he had read in Immortal Alliance texts that early Foundation Establishment cultivators’ divine sense covered roughly thirty feet, on par with his own range, Chen Beiwu dared not assume his divine sense could truly match theirs.

After all, coverage range was only one aspect of divine sense strength—it did not represent its entirety.

The true depth of a Foundation Establishment cultivator’s divine sense could only be known through firsthand experience.

Otherwise, Chen Beiwu would already have ventured into the mysterious Spirit Lake, attempting to set up a grand formation to slay the Cang Thunder Tiger across realms.

“Hum!”

At that moment, the Nine Apertures Sun-Moon Pool bloomed with spiritual radiance, stirring spatial ripples.

‘So, the time has come.’

Chen Beiwu did not resist, allowing the ripples to envelop and transport him.

……

Atop Water Moon Peak, outside the Sun-Moon Pool secret realm.

A graceful female cultivator, veiled with fine silken threads of Ice Silkworm, stood upon a rock, quietly gazing at the distant Great Sun.

“Greetings, Senior Sister Yun.” Chen Beiwu saluted.

“One month’s time, and you’ve only reached Ninth Level Qi Refining.” Senior Sister Yun frowned slightly, her voice cool.

Hearing this, Chen Beiwu only smiled faintly without retort.

Had he entered the Nine Apertures Sun-Moon Pool alone, absorbing all the sun essence and moonlight for himself, Chen Beiwu was confident he could have cultivated the Qi Refining Volume of the Heaven Book, Water Nourishes Wood, to its tenth layer.

By then, he would only need to acquire the Moon Dew and Withered Thunder Branch—two great spiritual materials—to advance directly to the Tenth Level of Qi Refining, the extreme limit countless Immortal Alliance cultivators yearned for yet could not reach.

But haste made waste.

Chen Beiwu’s goal was not merely the Qi Refining extreme limit, but beyond it—Flawless Foundation Establishment.

To reach that goal, he could not monopolize the Nine Apertures Sun-Moon Pool. He had to share its benefits with Golden Egg.

After all, taming beasts and taming people were not so different.

Empty promises meant little; a Beast Tamer had to provide tangible benefits, letting the Spirit Beast taste reward before wielding authority. That was the true way.

After this Sun-Moon Pool baptism, if nothing else, Chen Beiwu could clearly sense Golden Egg’s affection and trust toward him had risen by a great margin.