Only at the Mahayana Stage Does the Reversal System Appear - Chapter 325

Chapter 325: Inverted Master-Servant Relationship

Jiang Li had long noticed a problem with the master-servant contract in Lingxi World, but he wasn’t sure then. Today, after carefully observing how the humans in Lingxi World cultivate their contracted beasts, he confirmed the authenticity of the contract. The

contract between humans and contracted beasts is indeed a master-servant contract, with the beastmaster as the servant and the contracted beast as the master.

This is why he allowed Xia Chao to sign a master-servant contract with him.

Xia Chao is his servant.

Humans can sense spiritual energy because of the master-servant contract, but the process isn’t as people imagine, where a close connection with a contracted beast leads to enhanced perception.

The truth is, contracted beasts with high potential transfer some of their perception to their servant beastmasters.

Jiang Li could erase his master-servant contract with Xia Chao, but he wasn’t sure if he could erase it if Xia Chao had already signed a contract with Qingchong.

After all, he was his servant, so he had to be cautious with him.

…

“Qingchong has high potential. You can sign a contract with him,” Jiang Li suggested.

“High potential?” This was the first time Xia Chao had heard such a statement. At most, mutating into a one-star giant fluttering moth was considered high potential?

“I’ve told you before, your world is called Lingxi World, and I’m from Jiuzhou World. And above our shared world, there exists the Immortal Realm.”

“Immortal Realm? I think I’ve heard of it.” Xia Chao recalled a legend from the corner of his memory.

“Legend has it that long, long ago, in an era impossible to trace, someone broke through the limits and raised their contracted beast to eight stars. Both man and beast ascended to the Immortal Realm. Is the legend true?”

The star rating system for contracted beasts resembled the system of immortal cultivation.

One star corresponded to the Qi Training Stage, two stars to the Foundation Establishment Stage, three stars to the Golden Core Stage… six stars to the Fusion Stage, seven stars to the Tribulation Crossing Stage, and eight stars to the Earthly Immortal.

“I don’t know whether your legend is true, but the Immortal Realm does exist.”

If the legend was true, then the potential of Lingxi World was considerable.

“In the immortal realm, there’s a kind of immortal beast called the dragon. It’s incredibly vigorous, leaving offspring across the heavens and myriad realms. Your green worm is no exception. Its ancestors must have had a relationship with a true immortal dragon.”

Jiang Li casually used his spiritual energy to transform into a majestic true dragon, its scales shimmering in golden light, its form elegant and slender, its eyes bulging with energy. Its mighty and domineering aura beckoned worshippers.

Xia Chao couldn’t imagine how this creature could be related to the green worm’s ancestors.

Jiang Li couldn’t imagine either.

“If you really trace it back to its origins, most demonic beasts have a history of having a relationship with dragons.”

“This green worm also has true dragon blood in its veins, but it’s very weak and difficult to activate.”

“Doesn’t that mean it’s difficult to evolve?” Xia Chao wondered.

“With me here, let alone if it has true dragon blood, even if it doesn’t, I can make it evolve into a dragon.” Jiang Li was confident.

“So, the green worm’s potential isn’t just sporadic?”

“The potential you’re talking about is probably the limit of a demon beast’s bloodline. According to this calculation, the green worm’s potential is six stars.”

Even a demon beast can’t force its way to the seven-star Tribulation Crossing stage through bloodline alone.

“Not only does the green worm have great potential, you have a single wood-element spiritual root as well.” The people of the Lingxi World don’t prioritize spiritual roots, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have them.

Everyone has spiritual roots; that’s a given.

In fact, the humans of the Lingxi World don’t rely on luck to summon contracted beasts. Instead, the higher the beastmaster

‘s cultivation talent, the higher the potential of the contracted beast they summon. The two are proportional. Qiu Shi, who previously summoned the Bone-Winged White Tiger, was also quite talented, possessing dual spiritual roots.

“Spiritual roots? Wood-element?” Xia Chao had never heard of these terms, so Jiang Li gave him some basic cultivation tips.

Xia Chao had never considered that humans could become powerful without relying on contracted beasts.

“Then can I become as strong as Brother Jiang?”

Jiang Li patted his shoulder. “Having dreams is a good thing.”

Xia Chao didn’t know whether Jiang Li was encouraging or discouraging him.

“Don’t use the contract from your world. I’ll teach you a new beast taming contract.”

Jiang Li intended to teach Xia Chao the Beast Taming Sect’s beast taming methods.

The Beast Taming Sect was a prestigious and prestigious sect in Jiuzhou. Within its ranks were not only several Fusion-stage cultivators but also several Fusion-stage demon kings. With the combined strength of humans and beasts, they were rarely rivaled by their peers. After all,

it was a one-on-two situation.

Xia Chao was puzzled by his meaning, and Jiang Li didn’t elaborate further. Many questions remained unanswered regarding the

master-servant contract. It reversed the relationship between beastmaster and contracted beast. Who had created it? Was there an extraterritorial demon behind this?

If an extraterritorial demon took action, how could it use the master-servant contract to destroy humanity? From the current situation, humanity was merely assisting the contracted beasts in their cultivation and posed no threat.

Humans claimed they could control contracted beasts against demonic beasts, but with the master-servant roles reversed, Jiang Li felt it was more like a civil war among the demonic beasts.

As a servant, Xia Chao naturally trusted Jiang Li and did whatever he commanded.

Xia Chao quickly mastered the Beast Tamer Sect’s contract and the technique Jiang Li had taught him—the “Eternal Green Art.” This technique boosted defense and recovery, serving more as a means of survival than combat.

Jiang Li didn’t need to first teach Xia Chao the “Spiritual Energy Diagram” and then tailor a technique for him. Since Xia Chao wanted to be a Beast Tamer and enjoyed fighting alongside his contracted beasts, Jiang Li simply gave him the “Eternal Green Art.”

“And this Dragon-Tiger Arhat Power, learn that, too.” Jiang Li handed Xia Chao the system reward he’d received after defeating Jiang Yixing.

Of course, it was a modified version, several times more powerful than the original.

Xia Chao held the green insect in his palm and signed his new Beast Tamer contract with it.

Unlike the contract he’d signed with Jiang Li, Xia Chao felt a blood connection with the green insect, even able to understand its words.

“Hungry, hungry…”

Xia Chao thought he was hallucinating; he had never heard of anyone who could understand a contracted beast’s words.

“It’s not an illusion. This is the wonder of the Beast Taming Sect’s contract.”

The green worm hadn’t yet awakened its intelligence, so it could only express simple meanings.

“I remember green worms eat leaves. I’ll go buy some outside.” Xia Chao gritted his teeth. The food that contracted beasts eat is cultivated with spiritual energy, which can increase the level of the contracted beast, and it is not cheap.

Jiang Li directly bought some spiritual plant leaves from the system, ground the medicinal pills into powder, and fed it to the green worm, activating the trace of true dragon blood in the green worm.

The green worm’s body was as green as leaves, full of vitality, and it officially became a one-star contracted beast.

“My first task now is to face the green worm. Don’t lose too badly.”

“Go, Xiaoqing, defeat him!” Jiang Li excitedly commanded the green worm to attack Xia Chao.

The green worm was now in the Qi training stage, while Xia Chao had not yet drawn Qi into his body and was still a mortal.

Faced with the aggressive green worm, Xia Chao quickly retreated: “Hey, hey, hey, whose contracted beast are you?”

(End of this chapter)