The best Spirit Chef in the sect wasn’t Huang Mengzhu.

The best Beast Tamer in the sect, however, was already Huang Mengyang.

Even when his master, Han Fenglin, was still alive, Huang Mengyang had already surpassed him in the art of Beast Taming to become the best in the sect.

Three years ago, Han Fenglin’s Life Span had run out, and he passed away. Having lived for 237 years, Han Fenglin had no regrets, as he had already passed his entire legacy onto Huang Mengyang.

Taking his master’s place, Huang Mengyang was now the second-in-command of Smoke Cloud Peak.

It would have been easy for him to become the leader of Smoke Cloud Peak if he had wanted to, but there was no need. The peak’s leader was his older sister’s master.

Though he was nominally the second-in-command, Huang Mengyang’s actual status on Smoke Cloud Peak was no different from a third-in-command.

Of course, all of this was predicated on Huang Mengyang’s willingness to be deferential.

Fang Yun didn’t know much about Beast Taming. Most of what he knew on the subject came from Huang Mengyang.

He knew a little about the breeding selection stage of the Wind-Traveling Silkworms.

The so-called breeding selection was a process of leveraging the Wind-Traveling Silkworms’ traits to select for those with the greatest potential.

According to what Huang Mengyang had said before, the original Wind-Traveling Silkworms didn’t have the trait of cannibalizing each other. This trait was cultivated by Beast Tamers, resulting in the Wind-Traveling Silkworms of today.

They competed for potential through cannibalism. Without this stage, it would be impossible for an ordinary Wind-Traveling Silkworm to break through to the Second Tier.

With this trait, Wind-Traveling Silkworms gained the potential to reach the Third Tier.

Wind-Traveling Silkworms were bred to produce silk, so their combat strength was quite average. Even a Third Tier Wind-Traveling Silkworm couldn’t be regarded as a normal Demon Beast.

For example, when a normal Demon Beast breaks through to the Third Tier, a Demon Core will invariably form within its body. A Wind-Traveling Silkworm, however, could never produce a Demon Core.

For Demon Beasts, the intervention of a Beast Tamer didn’t always lead to positive developments.

After a brief chat with Huang Mengyang, Fang Yun asked.

"How is that Wind-Traveling Silkworm doing?"

Huang Mengyang knew at once that Fang Yun was asking about *that* Wind-Traveling Silkworm—the one his master had raised for him.

The silkworm was already at the middle stage of the Second Tier when it came into his possession. Not long after, he had raised it to the late stage of the Second Tier.

More than half of this Wind-Traveling Silkworm’s products had gone to Fang Yun.

"It’s already showing signs of breaking through to the Third Tier. I’m confident I can get it to successfully form a cocoon within the next five years."

"And after it successfully forms a cocoon, what are the odds it will break through to the Third Tier?" Fang Yun pressed.

Fang Yun knew that successfully forming a cocoon didn’t guarantee a breakthrough. The probability depended on the Beast Tamer’s nurturing and the individual silkworm’s potential.

"About thirty percent, I’d say," Huang Mengyang replied after a moment of thought. "Don’t worry, Fang Yun. I’ll do everything I can to increase its chances of breaking through to the Third Tier."

Huang Mengyang knew that the silk produced by the Wind-Traveling Silkworm was useful to Fang Yun.

Fang Yun had many needs for it in his Refining.

A thirty percent chance.

In Fang Yun’s opinion, those odds were already quite high.

The breeding selection for the new Wind-Traveling Silkworms continued. Under Huang Mengyang’s control, the silkworms in the grass circle fought with even greater ferocity.

Not wanting to disturb Huang Mengyang any further, Fang Yun went to see Huang Mengzhu, then left Smoke Cloud Peak and headed to Dan Cloud Peak to accept an Alchemy task.

「Early June.」

The Talent Points settled from the previous month had exceeded 800,000.

The bulk of the Talent Points came from Refining the Profound Crystal Shield, a Magical Treasure with One Prohibition. Just as Fang Yun had expected, the points settled from the Profound Crystal Shield exceeded those from the Earth Yellow Sword.

The Earth Yellow Sword’s base settlement had been just over 110,000 Talent Points, while the Profound Crystal Shield’s had surpassed 120,000.

After more than eight hundred Combat Talent draws, his total accumulation of Combat Talent fragments had surpassed fifty percent.

’It hasn’t even been fourteen years since my Life Talent upgrade, and I’ve already accumulated half the fragments I need for my Combat Talent.’

Fang Yun calculated internally.

This aligned with his earlier predictions. If he couldn’t earn Combat Talent points, it would have taken him about forty years to upgrade his six-star Combat Talent to seven stars.

With the Celestial Demon Sect making moves, his rate of acquiring Combat Talent points was naturally much higher than during times of peace.

He had previously estimated that upgrading his Combat Talent to seven stars within thirty years wouldn’t be a problem. Now, less than fifteen years had passed, and he was already halfway there.

’If my luck is good, I should be able to harvest a good amount of Combat Talent points on the way to the Purple Mist Sect...’

As he thought about Talent Points, Fang Yun began to consider his plans for the next month.

He was scheduled to set off in July.

With two Magical Treasures in his possession, traveling alone to the Purple Mist Sect would be easy.

Core Formation Level beings didn’t just wander about aimlessly. Therefore, the chances of him encountering Core Formation Stage Demons, Ghost Cultivators, or Blood Demons on his way to the Purple Mist Sect were slim. As for those at the Foundation Establishment Stage, however, that was still a possibility.

At this thought, Fang Yun quickly took out a map.

The map was large, but because the area it covered was even larger, it was only a rough sketch. The locations marked on it were, at a minimum, Foundation Establishment Influences.

’I need to choose a route... The path I choose must be far from the territories of Core Formation Sects, but it can be closer to some Foundation Establishment Influences. I might even be able to kill a few of those Evil Demons and Crooked Paths along the way.’

The Combat Talent points offered by Evil Demons and Crooked Paths at the Foundation Establishment Stage and above were quite tempting.

The departure was set for next month, but in truth, even if he left in August, he would still arrive at the Purple Mist Sect in plenty of time.

Unlike a normal Foundation Establishment Cultivator, even if he traveled at top speed, he would consume very little Spiritual Power. He could travel from here to the location of the Four-Sect Trials at full tilt without even depleting the Spiritual Power in his Qi Sea.