Lin Feng tested as having a mixed five-element spirit root, and the Qingyun Sect publicly denounced him as a good-for-nothing and threw him out. With nowhere else to go, he was tricked into joining a down-on-its-luck minor sect: the Beast Taming Sect. He thought he had found a way out of his desperate situation, but the sect had no intention of accepting disciples. They kept him like a human-shaped spirit beast, whipping him day after day to help their cultivators train.
The instant the whip came down, his Chaos Spirit Root awakened! [Getting beaten makes me stronger! Every lash is cultivation!] [The more they whip me, the higher my cultivation rises; the more they beat me, the tougher my body gets!]
From then on, the Beast Taming Sect went completely off the rails. While everyone else meditated and took pills to cultivate, all Lin Feng had to do was get beaten. Disciple: "Are we whipping you again today?" Lin Feng: "Keep going. Put some muscle into it. Did you skip dinner?"
The elders panicked. "That's no spirit beast, that's our ancestor!" The Qingyun Sect was overcome with regret. "We let a peerless genius slip through our fingers!"
Lin Feng smiled faintly. "Didn't you want to tame a beast? Come on, tame me."
