Ling Tian had always been prejudiced against the Beast Taming Courtyard building. He felt it was a useless appendage.
Even if some animals were very powerful, they wouldn't be of much use in front of cultivators, nor against modern firearms.
However, after encountering this leopard today, Ling Tian's opinion completely changed!
With the abundant spiritual energy of heaven and earth, animals had begun their path of evolution. These evolutions had greatly increased the strength of these beasts. It was possible that these creatures would evolve into the various rare and exotic beasts recorded in the ancient text "Shan Hai Jing" from hundreds or thousands of years ago.
Come to think of it, the era when the miraculous book "Shan Hai Jing" existed coincided precisely with the time when the planet "Tiangong" was still near the solar system.
Later, as this planet moved further away from Earth, the spiritual energy on Earth also became increasingly thin.
And now, another cycle had begun, and history was about to repeat itself. The spiritual energy of heaven and earth would become even more concentrated, and these wild beasts would also have their shackles removed.
This greatly enhanced the importance of the Beast Taming Courtyard. He could raise these powerful animals and tame them.
When he truly encountered a formidable opponent in the future, he could unleash a beast army upon them when they were unprepared. How incredibly powerful would that be!
Ling Tian suddenly remembered that before he set off, Wang Bingxia seemed to have rescued a dying little tiger from the roadside.
It was a Siberian tiger, barely clinging to life, so weak that even Ling Tian couldn't perform a miracle.
Ling Tian quickly went to check on the little tiger in the Beast Taming Courtyard. To his surprise, the little fellow had completely recovered from its life-threatening condition. Its previous weak spots had all been repaired and strengthened.
When this little creature first arrived, it was only the size of an ordinary ginger cat. But now, it had grown to the size of a Tibetan Mastiff!
Moreover, based on its fur color and other physical characteristics, Ling Tian identified it as a Siberian tiger, also known as the Amur tiger.
The largest individuals of this species could weigh nearly 400 kilograms.
Ling Tian believed that with this little fellow growing up in the Beast Taming Courtyard within the spiritual realm space, it was very likely to surpass the largest individual of its species in size in the future!
At this moment, in a clearing within the distant mountain forest, countless corpses were arranged on the ground in a bizarre pattern.
It was a formation, a very evil formation, within which five zombies with metallic skin were sealed.
These zombies were constantly absorbing Yin Sha through these formations, and the Yin Sha was being infused into their bodies.
Under the strengthening of Yin Sha, the zombies' bodies became increasingly sturdy, powerful, and agile!
Around the formation, a man and a woman, both clad in black robes, were watching the scene within the formation with excitement.
Behind these two stood over a hundred zombies.
"My dear, this place is truly a treasure trove for our Corpse Refining Sect. In just a few days, we've refined so many Bronze Corpses. If we're given enough time, refining the legendary Golden Corpses wouldn't be impossible."
The man's name was Yin Wuchang, and the woman's name was Leng Yueru.
They were a married couple, as well as senior and junior disciples. Both of them were born into the Corpse Refining Sect.
This sect had been an evil sect since ancient times, a primary target for the Righteous Alliance and all other factions.
Even some unorthodox paths would waver between good and evil, seeking benefits from both sides.
But the Corpse Refining Sect was different. From its inception, it had been an enemy of the entire world.
China revered the deceased. Once a person died, even if they had committed heinous crimes in life, their affairs were settled.
However, these perverts from the Corpse Refining Sect actually refined human corpses into magical artifacts for killing!
It was said that during the Corpse Refining Sect's peak, they had hundreds of disciples who could control over a thousand corpses and fight fearlessly.
Their immense power made the Corpse Refining Sect increasingly rampant. Thus, they roamed the martial world, seeking out powerful cultivators or martial artists, killing them, and then refining them into zombies through secret arts.
The more powerful a person was in life, the more formidable the zombie they became after death!
With their actions, many disciples from other sects in the martial world were captured and turned into zombies.
This immediately created a deep-seated enmity. Consequently, many cultivation sects in China united to form an organization similar to the Righteous Alliance, and these people banded together to trouble the Corpse Refining Sect.
The Corpse Refining Sect had been subjected to countless purges over time, and many of their core disciples and key figures had been killed.
However, the most significant impact on them was the weakening of spiritual energy of heaven and earth.
Without the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the corpses refined by their sect were greatly diminished in quality. The Bronze Corpses that ordinary cultivators found difficult to deal with could have been fielded in large numbers by the Corpse Refining Sect, like a small army.
But now, they had to exhaust all their efforts to find suitable places for corpse refining and use the Yin Sha from these locations to refine their zombies.
The current state of the Corpse Refining Sect could only be described as tragic.
However, for over a year, anomalies had arisen, and supernatural phenomena had appeared in many places.
This couple from the Corpse Refining Sect naturally knew what these phenomena signified, so they also began to act, searching for suitable places for corpse refining across the country.
Finally, not long ago, they arrived at Yinlonggou Village.
Initially, the villagers thought the couple were there for tourism.
After all, in the current era, there were many people with too much leisure time who loved to venture into these deep mountains and old forests.
These people sometimes even live-streamed, venturing into the most sparsely populated and treacherous places.
The villagers welcomed the couple warmly, especially since the couple was very generous. Soon, they were accepted by the villagers.
The couple stayed in the village for a period, and Yin Wuchang was never idle. He spent a large amount of money, causing the villagers to revere them like gods.
Then, with the promise of high rewards, someone finally led the couple to the Corpse Hiding Cave.
Upon seeing the Corpse Hiding Cave, they were overjoyed.
With so many corpses in this cave and such potent Yin Sha energy, there was likely no better place for corpse refining!
So, the couple settled down there and secretly altered the flow of spiritual energy of heaven and earth using a formation.
However, they did not expect that the formation they used drew its power from an ancient book, and its power was immense.
The corresponding records in the ancient book stated that this formation was to be used in places where the spiritual energy of heaven and earth was not too concentrated to gather it.