Chapter 429 - Chapter 429: 421 (1/2)

Chapter 429: 421

He risked his life to save the Black Spider Gu and could clearly feel the relationship between him and the Black Spider Gu had grown much closer.

This change was hard to put into words, but with his long-honed sharp insight, he could vaguely detect it.

Having tamed so many pets, he was crystal clear about which ones were extremely loyal to him and which ones were compelled into submission by the power of a soul contract.

Take the Fire Phoenix for instance, he was able to tame it entirely by taking advantage of its vulnerability.

When he first tamed it, the Fire Phoenix even harboured deep hatred towards Qin Niu.

Later, Qin Niu devoted his full effort to help it successfully undergo its nirvana, which greatly improved their relationship.

The taming of the Black Spider Gu had been equally difficult at first.

After taming it, its loyalty had never been high.

Even though Qin Niu used the Green Demon Bee’s venom to help it increase its strength and later went out of his way to find even more potent venoms to feed it, he still couldn’t raise its loyalty.

Later, he mistakenly believed that all Gus were cold-blooded and unfeeling, that they were thankless wolves and hearts cold as stone that couldn’t be warmed, so he simply gave up.

After all, with a master-servant contract in place, he could still command the Black Spider Gu to kill enemies and perform tasks.

However, every Insect Master or Beast Tamer hopes for the highest possible loyalty from their pets.

If the loyalty is too low, when they are ordered to work, they are likely to slack off.

This would greatly diminish the pets’ combat effectiveness and agility.

Even more frightening is that when the master is weakened, or the pet’s level greatly exceeds their master’s, they would turn on their master without hesitation.

This is terrifying.

Many such tragedies have occurred throughout history.

The once-dominant Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch died from being turned on by his own pet. It is said that Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch had tamed an extremely powerful centipede, a rare species among heaven and earth, and a top existence among strange insects.

Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch made his fortune with this centipede, progressing rapidly and becoming an Immortal Master of an Immortal Sect.

The centipede was Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch’s darling. Whatever high-grade resources he obtained, he would give to the centipede first. It is said that once, Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch got a very good Demonic Beast Inner Alchemy Elixir.

This was a Water Attribute Demon Elixir, which matched the Cultivation Technique practiced by Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch very well.

If it had been someone else, they definitely would have asked an elixir master to refine it into an elixir and then take it to increase cultivation.

Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch instead exchanged this demon core for a Fire Attribute Demon Elixir and had it refined into an elixir for the centipede to consume.

At that time, those around Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch advised him against such foolishness.

Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch didn’t listen and was determined to nurture his beloved centipede.

After consuming the elixir, the centipede performed impressively, successfully advancing two levels. With the newly advanced centipede, Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch slaughtered his way through opponents and wiped out his strongest enemy in one fell swoop.

Since then, Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch, like possessed, recklessly sought various high-grade resources for his centipede, to make it stronger.

In doing so, the gap between his own cultivation level and the centipede’s grew ever wider without him realizing.

This laid the groundwork for later tragedy.

Having conquered the world with the help of the centipede, Hundred-Eyes Immortal Monarch had not completely neglected his own cultivation.

It was just that he focused primarily on the centipede.

Once, he accidentally obtained a ten-thousand-year-old frost ginseng.

This was a treasure that could not only nourish qi and blood and prolong life but also enhance cultivation. He too thought of using this rare millennia-old medicament to break through his cultivation bottleneck.

For this, he invited the best elixir master to refine it into an elixir, made thorough preparations, and then entered seclusion for life-or-death cultivation.

He brought only the centipede with him into the cave abode.