Beast Taming: Invincible Breeder-Chapter 57 - 32: Cursed Demon Body

Chapter 57: Chapter 32: Cursed Demon Body
In an unremarkable mountain, an artificially excavated secret chamber was hidden within.
Chu Zhousheng, his face covered with mysterious tattoos, held a strange ram-headed staff alight with purple fire, standing in the center of a ritual. Four of the five corners of the ritual array were already lit, with only the green corner remaining unlit.
He was conducting an ancient ceremony called the Curse Demon Body. Once this ritual was completed, he would obtain the Curse Demon Body and make a breakthrough to the level of a Holy Curse Master, possessing power akin to a King-level Beastmaster.
The Curse Demon Body ancient ceremony required one crucial condition: he needed to use curses with the five elements to curse to death five individuals with a Star of the Calamitous Fate.
Those with the Star of the Calamitous Fate, their friends and relatives easily die, but their own fate is incredibly resilient, making them incredibly difficult to curse to death.
Fortunately, the Curse Demon Body ancient ceremony recorded complementary five-element ancient curses designed to counter those with such resilient fates.
One cursed by the Abyss Fire Curse (Fire).
One cursed by the Earth Fracture Curse (Earth).
One cursed by the Decapitation Curse (Metal).
One cursed by the Sea Disaster Curse (Water).
Only the person cursed with the Peach Blossom Curse (Wood) needed to die.
Originally, he just needed to wait two years until the boy cursed with the Peach Blossom Curse turned eighteen, when the curse would erupt and kill him, completing his ceremony.
However, an unexpected event occurred. A few days ago, a new strength emerged within the cursed boy, suppressing the ancient Peach Blossom Curse, indefinitely delaying the curse’s eruption.
Chu Zhousheng was very eager to understand what happened to that boy, but with the ritual underway, he couldn’t leave, or else all his efforts would be wasted. Moreover, the ritual’s power blocked electronic devices, making it impossible for him to find someone to check on the boy’s situation.
However, he wasn’t particularly worried, as the ancient Peach Blossom Curse would grow stronger in the presence of females and would eventually overpower the new strength suppressing it.
But another unexpected event occurred a few days ago, as the power suppressing the Peach Blossom Curse grew even stronger (the day it absorbed the Red Dragon Curse), surpassing the growth speed of the Peach Blossom Curse significantly.
He couldn’t sit still any longer.
If that power continued to grow, the Peach Blossom Curse would be eternally suppressed, and his ceremony would never be completed.
After much thought, Chu Zhousheng decided to use the Forbidden Technique, Curse Connection, to quickly curse that boy to death, preventing any further incidents.
As for being killed by a backlash from the curse connection if the boy wasn’t cursed to death within a hundred days, he hadn’t even considered it.
As a formidable Great Curse Master, capable of rivaling an Overlord-level Beastmaster and assassinating kings in secret, how could he not be able to curse a mere youth, just beginning his extraordinary journey, to death even at the cost of his own life’s longevity?
Li Cunxu didn’t pay attention to the strengthening Peach Blossom Curse and continued to focus on his cultivation and mining efforts.
At the current strengthening speed of the Peach Blossom Curse, it completely dominated the Golden Dragon Curse and Evil Dragon Curse, and it was estimated that it would take over twenty days to erupt and kill him.
Twenty days of mining in the secret realm passed in the blink of an eye.
He harvested a small amount of gold, a large quantity of silver ore, and an abundance of iron ore.
Meanwhile, Xiaoruan successfully mutated by feeding Iron Slime and Silver Slime with iron and silver ore respectively.
[Pet Beast]: Iron Slime
[Skill]: Ironization
The Iron Slime’s body had a metallic iron gray texture, heavy like ironstone and fed on iron.
Its skill, Ironization, was a Bronze-level skill that hardened its body, making it as tough as iron.
Li Cunxu valued the skill Ironization, which had a hidden effect: the skill proficiency increased with every hit taken.
[Pet Beast]: Silver Slime
[Skill]: Silver Sword
The Silver Slime had a layer of silver skin that resembled genuine silver.
Its skill, Silver Sword, was a Silver-level skill that summoned a silver sword to attack the opponent. It had considerable attack power and an exorcism effect, dealing double damage to undead-type pet beasts.
Feeding the Silver Slime silver didn’t bother Li Cunxu at all.
When the Silver Slime died, it would drop silver blocks, saving the step of refining silver ore.
However, the reproduction process of Silver Slime and Iron Slime was cumbersome.
The Silver Slime needed to accumulate a certain amount of silver within its body before it could split into a small Silver Slime, and the Iron Slime was similar in nature.
Compared to Silver Slime, Iron Slime was relatively easier to deal with.
After all, iron ore was more abundant.
"Should I leave the Silver Slime and Iron Slime in the mining secret realm?"
"Silver Slime and Iron Slime can find food here, allowing them to grow and reproduce quickly."
Both silver and iron contained spiritual energy which, when consumed by the Silver Slime and Iron Slime, rapidly increased their realms, allowing them to expand and strengthen their clans, which in turn would yield higher tax revenues.
As for the Miner Slime, Li Cunxu had no intention of leaving it in the mining secret realm.
The Miner Slime was indeed an adept miner, but there was no need for it in this secret realm as it was a welfare secret realm, designed to let the new generation experience the underground world in advance.
If the Miner Slime was left behind, it would excavate the ores and pile them along the sides of the mine tunnels, enabling others to simply follow its mining path to enjoy the fun of picking up ores.
This would contradict the original intention of opening the secret realm in the first place, which was to let people experience the joy of mining and adapt to life in the underground world, not just to pick up ores.
Therefore, even if the Miner Slime were left behind, it would eventually be expelled.
While staring at a pile of ordinary soil residue, Li Cunxu suddenly realized he had overlooked something—there wasn’t a single earthworm in the soil.
"Forget about leaving anything behind; neither Silver Slime nor Iron Slime should stay," he remembered. "Ever since the Blood God Sect entered this secret realm to cause trouble, the alliance had been periodically controlling the core of the secret realm to expel any living creatures inside as a precaution against potential dangers."
This meant that if Li Cunxu left the Silver Slime and Iron Slime here, it wouldn’t be long before they were forcibly expelled from the secret realm.
Due to the limited space in his pet pouch, Li Cunxu directed Xiaoruan to lead the Silver Slime, Iron Slime, and Miner Slime to eliminate the Earth Slime.
However, some Earth Slime inevitably remained in the secret realm.
The leftover Earth Slime were the ones Li Cunxu had dispatched to find underground rivers, but those Slimes had lost their way.
Since they were lost, Li Cunxu couldn’t determine their location or send them back to the Soul Kingdom.
"There were two regrets in this secret realm journey," Li Cunxu mused.
The first regret: failing to mutate a Golden Slime.
The Golden Slime held a status within the Slime clan equivalent to dragon pets within the pet beast world.
The Golden Slime possessed two skills, one being the Gold-level skill, Golden Shield, and the other being the Silver-level skill, Golden Shield Bash.
Starting off with a Gold-level skill would instantly outclass 99% of the Slime clan.
The second regret: Li Cunxu’s spiritual power hadn’t broken through the intermediate Black Iron level; it was still lacking just a bit.
"Once Xiaoruan completes the monthly tax collection, my spiritual power should be able to break through," Li Cunxu thought.
Tax collection day had arrived.
This time, during the tax collection, Xiaoruan found out he could delay collecting taxes by ten days. It might have always been possible to delay, but perhaps due to eagerness the first time, he hadn’t noticed this.
Thus, Li Cunxu instructed Xiaoruan to delay tax collection for a few days, wanting to achieve the breakthrough to intermediate Black Iron level with his own efforts before Xiaoruan collected the taxes.
Eventually, the result was disappointing, needless to say. He didn’t achieve the breakthrough.
Upon leaving the secret realm, the first thing Li Cunxu did was pay a compensation fee of five thousand yuan for an iron pickaxe to the Gatekeeper.