NOVEL WEB Ch. 44
Chapter 44: All Laws Converge
"Eat some dried meat to fill your belly first."
Chen Beiwu took out a piece of Phantom Rat Wolf meat from his storage pouch and handed it to Golden Egg.
"Gu wu."
As Golden Egg opened and closed its mouth, the piece of Phantom Rat Wolf meat, larger than its own body, immediately turned into a streak of gray light and vanished.
"Er."
Golden Egg burped, and its belly, already as round as a basketball, swelled up two more sizes.
If not for its golden scales, Chen Beiwu would have thought he had contracted a pufferfish just by looking at its appearance.
‘Very well, let me see just how terrifying the enhancement effect of the Sea-Absorbing Spiritual Technique really is.’ Chen Beiwu stared at Golden Egg with anticipation.
"Gulu."
Golden Egg’s mouth curved upward, its belly rising and falling.
"???" A trace of doubt appeared in Chen Beiwu’s eyes.
Through the resonance of the Companion Beast contract, he could confirm that Golden Egg had not activated the and had simply swallowed the Phantom Rat Wolf meat.
‘What are you doing?’ Chen Beiwu transmitted with his mind.
"Gulu?"
Golden Egg widened its fish eyes, revealing a dull-witted expression.
Seeing this, an absurd thought suddenly surfaced in Chen Beiwu’s mind.
Could it be that he really had contracted a mentally deficient fish?
A dim-witted fish that didn’t even know the instinct of a Beast Creature, nor how to activate its innate spiritual technique.
"Gulu."
Golden Egg’s fins stopped moving, seemingly full and ready to sleep.
Chen Beiwu: "..."
For some reason, the more he looked at Golden Egg, the more he felt his guess was right.
It was precisely because it didn’t know how to use its innate spiritual technique, Sea-Absorbing, that Golden Egg’s belly was so bloated, lacking any of the dominance and radiance typical of a variant Golden Scale.
"Get up." Chen Beiwu grabbed Golden Egg’s tail fin, not allowing it to sleep with its eyes open.
"Gulu?"
Being handled like that, Golden Egg’s lifeless fish eyes regained a bit of liveliness.
Without hesitation, Chen Beiwu closed his eyes and, through the connection of the Companion Beast contract, used his divine sense to guide Golden Egg in using its innate spiritual technique.
"Buzz!"
As time passed, the scales on Golden Egg’s body began to stir the spiritual energy within the cultivation room. Its belly, swollen like a basketball, began to shrink visibly as the radiance of the scales pulsed.
"Hu!"
Chen Beiwu withdrew his divine sense and exhaled a murky breath, his gaze filled with surprise as he looked at Golden Egg.
After the refinement of the Sea-Absorbing innate ability, Golden Egg’s strength surged, its Cultivation Years leaping from ten years to fifteen years.
And this significant increase in strength wasn’t due to the recently consumed Phantom Rat Wolf meat, but from the accumulation within its belly that had not been completely refined until now.
"Gulu?"
Golden Egg blinked its fish eyes in confusion.
Strange, it had just finished eating—why was it hungry again?
Sensing Golden Egg’s emotion, Chen Beiwu felt quite speechless.
No wonder the cultivators of the Dongxuan Immortal Sect hadn’t noticed Golden Egg’s extraordinariness.
If not for the contract allowing him to sense Golden Egg’s innate spiritual technique through its Law Meridian, Chen Beiwu would never have thought that a Second-Tier Spirit Beast cub didn’t even know how to activate its inborn ability.
He would’ve just assumed it was a variant Golden Scale that hadn’t awakened its innate arts yet.
‘Being dumb has its advantages. If Golden Egg wasn’t so stupid, I probably wouldn’t have gotten such a lucky deal.’ Chen Beiwu showed a genuinely heartfelt smile.
No matter how dumb, Golden Egg was still a Second-Tier variant with a bloodline rivaling that of a Treasure Beast.
As long as Chen Beiwu guided it often with divine sense, it would eventually master its own innate abilities.
"Beep beep!"
At that moment, a prompt tone sounded, and the spiritual energy in the cultivation room quickly depleted.
Chen Beiwu stood up, fed Golden Egg another piece of wolf meat, stored it away, and pushed open the door of the cultivation room.
‘Now that the Companion Beast is confirmed, the most important task is to find a suitable cultivation method for me and Golden Egg on the Immortal Alliance Official Website.’ While pondering, Chen Beiwu picked up his phone and opened the Immortal Alliance Official Website.
Beast Creatures could rely on their bloodline instincts to absorb the world’s spiritual energy and accumulate Cultivation Years, but a cultivator’s Companion Beast could not.
After forming the Three-Treasures Companion Seal, a cultivator needed to convert the beast’s demonic energy into magical power. Only then could they cultivate using the beast, maximizing the benefit from the Companion Beast’s Three Meridians, instead of merely helping the beast cultivate its own demonic energy.
At that point, the Companion Beast could also use the cultivator’s cultivation method to refine magical power and swiftly accumulate Cultivation Years.
[True Water Secret Codex of Taiyi]
[True Scripture of Returning Ruins of the Northern Sea]
[Ninefold Boundless Scripture of the Heavenly River]
[Eight-Treasure Scripture of Calamity Transformation in the Azure Sea]
Looking at the many renowned cultivation methods listed on the Immortal Alliance Official Website, Chen Beiwu hesitated.
The first step to cleanse the demonic energy from a Companion Beast’s body was simple—have the contracted Spirit Beast abandon its bloodline instinct and switch to a human cultivator’s method.
However, he hadn’t considered contracting a Golden Scale previously, so all the water-attribute cultivation methods in his shopping cart were high-grade Nascent Soul-level methods suited for Azure Blue Spirit Salamanders, Azure‑Wave Spirit Carps, and Submergent Water Spirit Turtles.
‘Forget it, let’s look for other methods.’
Chen Beiwu opened the method filters, selected wood and water (Heavenly Root) for spiritual roots, selected Ten Thousand Beasts Manual under advancement methods, and chose Golden Scale under Companion Beast.
The Ten Thousand Beasts Manual was one of the four foundational methods famously promoted by the Immortal Alliance, and the advancement techniques compatible with it had already been extrapolated to the limit by countless cultivation titans.
As a result, even with those three filters, Chen Beiwu still had hundreds of top-tier methods to choose from.
He browsed through the descriptions and finally opened the general outline of the [All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree].
"All rivers return to the sea, the Divine Tree connects to the heavens. Water and wood nurture each other, Dao follows nature."
"To cultivate this Heaven Book, one must moisten wood with water, strengthen water with wood, both complementing each other. With the Divine Tree of Heaven and Earth as the core, forge a Divine Tree Dao Body into which all laws converge. Thus, longevity is attained."
Reading this, Chen Beiwu became interested and clicked on the introduction for [All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree].
The ambition of this cultivation method was extremely high, pointing directly to the Divine Transformation stage, but since Chen Beiwu hadn’t purchased the method yet, his access was limited to only the four major chapters.
"This method is extremely difficult. Those with wood root purity below 70 or water root purity below 80 may not cultivate it!"
Seeing the limitations, Chen Beiwu’s interest grew even stronger, and he eagerly clicked to the next page.
Qi Refining Chapter: [Water Nourishes Wood]
Foundation Establishment Chapter: [Water and Wood in Harmony]
Golden Core Chapter: [Divine Tree Merges with the Laws]
Nascent Soul Chapter: [All Laws Converge]
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After reading the summaries of the four chapters of [All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree], Chen Beiwu generally understood its concept.
Though the method appeared to cultivate both water and wood, in truth, one of the two attributes served as the primary driver.
In the forward direction, water nourishes wood to forge the Divine Tree Dao Body for longevity. In reverse, one could reverse the five elements, let wood produce water, and forsake wood techniques to cultivate water techniques, thereby forging an All Laws Converge Dao Body capable of accommodating all, refining all methods.
Both Chen Beiwu and Golden Egg possessed wood and water dual spiritual roots with impressively high purity, making them perfectly suited for this method.
‘It’s decided. You’re the one.’
Chen Beiwu didn’t hesitate further and added the Qi Refining chapter of [All Laws Converge, Heaven Book of the Divine Tree] to his shopping cart—but did not proceed to checkout.
Because he couldn’t afford it yet.