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Shandian obviously could not mentally communicate with the other demonic beasts—as that ability only worked with the contracted cultivator.

But at least the black tiger had a way of making some sort of signal with the other demonic beasts also 'tamed' by his contractor—which was a little bit higher than the natural form of communication between demonic beasts.

And so without further dawdle, Shandian tried to 'growl' from inside the 'Chui Shi' in an attempt to call the two Dire Wolves.

All of a sudden, the two Dire Wolves successively disappeared leaving some sort of dark smoke on the surface of the ground which implied that the attempt was indubitably a success.

'Twiiishhh,' 'twiiishhh.'

Qai was obviously stunned at the sight of what just took place. He could not believe that his out-of-nowhere thought could be the 'right' way to do it.

'No.. no..,' he thought to himself, 'that couldn't be it..'

Qai felt that such method must be a fluke as it appeared to be very odd. If any, he thought that he simply uncovered an alternative way of making domesticated demonic beast get inside the spatial pendant.

'At the very least,' Qai thought, 'I now know that this 'Chui Shi' is not limited to contracted demonic beasts.'

From then on, Qai's thoughts flew fast as he had begun thinking of several theories regarding the pendant's use.

Using the same method, he mentally communicated with Shandian who apparently played the role of interpreter to test out his guesses.

And for an entire day, he discovered that the specific 'Chui Shi' in his possession could at least 'shelter' three more 'domesticated' demonic beasts apart from his contracted one.

He thought that maybe, like spatial rings, spatial pendants could also vary depending on the space it had. And elite grades could probably 'shelter' much more demonic beasts.'

Apart from that, Qai was interested to know how long can a demonic beast stay inside the spatial pendant, but he obviously cannot answer it in just a day of trial—so in order to figure it out, he placed the two Silvermoon Apes and decided to let them stay there for as long as it can since he would be taking the two with him in his journey.

'Maybe that would do it for now,' he said to himself.

He then called out Shandian from the 'Chui Shi' and then proceeded to the treasury to gather some items he would eventually need.

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(As per request, I'm cutting the chapter short and try to re-introduce all the characters that appeared so far from volume one with their current skills and/or levels):

A. The Hunter's Plateau/Shu Family:

Shu Wei, Earth element, mid Sky stage of Sage realm, weapon: sword—

Skills: Sword Slash (common), Elemental Wall (common), Earthquake Kick (rare), Sludge (rare), and ???

Shu Ling, Water element, half-step Sage realm—

Skills: Basic Healing (rare), Intermediate Healing (rare), and Profound Healing (rare)

Shu Wu, Earth element, peak Earth stage of Sage realm, weapon: sword—

Skills: Sword Slash (common), Elemental Wall (common), Earthquake Kick (rare), and Sludge (rare)

Qinlun, Fire element, initial Earth stage Sage realm—

Skills: Palm Strike (common), Basic Alchemy (rare), Intermediate Alchemy (rare), and Profound Alchemy (rare)

Shu Kongxu, mortal

Shu Liang, Wind Element, initial Earth stage Sage realm, weapon: flying needles—

Skills: Cloud Steps (common), Wind Claw (rare), Wind Blades (rare), and Whirlwind (rare)

Shu Qai (MC): 7, Lightning Element, initial Earth stage Sage realm, weapon: Darkwood Composite Bow—

Skills: Beast Taming (common), flash (rare) Thunder Fists (rare), and Hawkeye (unique, sage)

Shandian, contracted lightning black tiger—

Skills: Thunder Claw and Thunderbolt

Domesticated Demonic Beasts:

War Horse, Stomp (common)

Dire Wolves, Claw (common)

Battle Ox, Charge (common)

Storm Bear, Claw (common)

Silvermoon Apes, ???

Elders:

1. Old Yu, Wind element, peak Sky stage Expert realm—

Skills: Cloud Steps (common) and ???

2. Fatty Lu, Metal element, peak Earth stage Sage realm, weapon: hammer—

Skills: Smash (common), Basic Crafting (rare), Intermediate Crafting (rare), and Profound Crafting (rare)

Inner Disciples:

1. Bing, Fire element, half-step Sage realm—

Skills: Basic Alchemy (rare), Intermedite Alchemy (rare) and Profound Alchemy (rare)

2. Jing, Poison element, half-step Sage realm, weapon: dagger—

Skills: Cloud Steps (common), Incision (common), Poison Haze (rare)

3. Xiao Ning, Wood element, half-step Sage realm, weapon: throwing knives—

Skills: Palm Strike (common), Burgeon (rare), and Drosera (rare)

4. Su Yu, Metal element, mid Earth stage Sage realm, weapon: hammer—

Skills: Smash (common), Basic Crafting (rare), Intermediate Crafting (rare), and Profound Crafting (rare)

5. Yu Yue, Water element, mid Sky stage Expert realm—

Skills: Whip (common) and Basic Healing (rare)

Outer Disciples:

1. Shen, mortal

2. Yuan, mortal

B. Moon Village:

Chief, Sage realm

C. Gale Village:

Chief, Sage realm

D. Purple Mist Sect:

1. Master Han/Emperor Void, Void element, initial Heaven stage Emperor realm—

Skills: Basic Forgery (rare), Intermediate Forgery (rare), Profound Forgery (rare), Master Forgery (rare), Supreme (rare), Warp (rare), ??? and ???

2. Chu Feng, Wind element, core disciple—

Known Skill: Whirlwind

3. Duan Mu, Void element

E. Mo Clan:

1. Mo Chen, Ice element, mid Earth stage of Emperor realm—

2. Mo Shui, Ice element, weapon: sword—

Known Skills: Frozen Rush (rare), Sword Mist (rare) and Ice Wall (rare)

3. Elder Long, initial Earth stage Emperor realm—

Known Skills: Fireball (rare), Inferno (rare, sage) and Spirit Mount (rare, emperor/Python)

4. Lin Qiao, Fire element, peak Earth stage Sage realm, weapon: sword—

Known Skills: Fireball (rare) and Inferno (rare, sage)

5. Hao Ren, Metal element (Defense)—

Known Skill: Metal Wall (rare), Gravity (rare)

F. Han Valley:

Chief Xing Yi, Wood element, half-step emperor—

Known Skills: Burgeon (rare), Wooden Pillars (rare) and Wooden Beam (rare)

G. Blade Masters Clan:

Blazing Sword brothers, Fire element—

Known Skill: Fireball (rare)

H. Black Shadow Clan:

Teng Hu, Poison element—

Known Skill: Poison Haze (rare)

I. Bandits:

Boss Jin, half-step emperor—

Known Skills: Rockslide (rare) and Dripstone (rare)