Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 372 - 69: Reviving the First Ancient Emperor?
Lin Jing nodded, choosing to wait. He wasn’t afraid of the other party playing tricks; with their strength, they simply weren’t qualified.
Fortunately, the Lv Family Ancestor was also a sensible person. He secretly experimented with the effect of the mutated earth spirit ginseng and, after detecting that a mundane baby in a pregnant Lv Family woman was indeed transforming into an earth spirit body, couldn’t help but exclaim in wonder.
While an earth spirit body doesn’t seem like much, its talent and potential are average, it’s not something that can be easily nurtured. Even if two earth spirit bodies combine, it’s not guaranteed to produce an offspring with an earth spirit body, as randomness is very high.
The Lv Family wasn’t specialized in the earth arts to begin with, making it extremely difficult to produce many offspring with earth spirit bodies.
Perhaps the Lv Family Ancestor could easily take in a dozen disciples with earth spirit bodies, but they wouldn’t have Lv Family blood, making them not worth nurturing.
"Friend Taoist, this is the ’Imperially Bestowed Artifact’. "
Lin Jing didn’t have to wait long before the Lv Family Ancestor brought over a black-gold token.
"Formation Plate." Lin Jing recognized the essence of the artifact at a glance.
"This artifact consists of many pieces, which, when combined with a formation core, can form a grand formation to suppress and question Dao. However, individually, it’s useless, except for the fact that it’s hard enough to make a decent weapon... After the founding of this nation, the First Ancient Emperor dispersed them as tokens, awarding them to some meritorious families, of which my Lv Family is one."
"Indeed, I can feel a trace of true dragon fortune from it." Lin Jing accepted the token with a pleased smile, confirming that this token was indeed crafted by the First Ancient Emperor and carried with him for a long time.
"Well then, friend Taoist, we shall meet again by fate." Having obtained what he wanted, Lin Jing wasn’t inclined to linger and was eager to try out the Divine Spirit Book.
Watching Lin Jing’s departing shadow, the Lv Family Ancestor looked at the ginseng doll in his hand. He was suddenly struck with an inexplicable sense of trembling.
It felt scorching hot.
"Why does this peculiar... friend Taoist insist on obtaining the Imperially Bestowed item?"
"What is his true purpose?"
"In theory, that token is merely a useless component of a large formation..."
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With the sacrifice in hand, Lin Jing next needed a dragon vein, which were plentiful in the Ancient Country, but each one was tightly controlled, making them inconvenient for use.
Thus, Lin Jing directly flew out of the Ancient Country’s territory and went to a place of his own!
This endless mountain range near Martial Emperor City originally belonged to a loose cultivator Demon Ancestor.
The Demon Ancestor possessed significant strength, capable of claiming territory on the border between Martial Emperor City and the Ancient Country, and had been invited by several forces with Demon Emperor backing, all of which were declined.
However, after the resurgence of the demon race and the rise of the Demon Court, this Demon Ancestor quickly pledged allegiance to the Demon Court, waiting for their turn in the transformation technique...
And their territory was established on a fairly decent spiritual qi dragon vein!
Lin Jing appeared above the mountain range, slightly releasing his aura, and scanned the area with his divine sense to locate the Demon Ancestor of this place.
"Where did this wild brat come from, barging into my territory, peeping at me taking a bath?"
A moment later, detected by Lin Jing’s divine sense, the Demon Ancestor burst out in fury, tearing open space, and a creature resembling a phoenix, covered with feathers like stone spines, descended.
The Demon Ancestor, Stone Chicken Lady, was a wild chicken that achieved spirit and accidentally swallowed a piece of phoenix fossil, cultivating to its current level.
She not only possessed the ability to be reborn like a phoenix but could also produce a rare artifact-refining mineral called "Phoenix Essence Ore." 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶
It is precisely because of this ability that Stone Chicken Lady and Martial Emperor City have always maintained a peaceful and cooperative relationship.
"Stone Chicken Lady, nice to meet you for the first time."
"No, it is not the first time. During the battle between me and the heir of the Martial Emperor, Emperor Renzong of the Wan Dynasty, you were watching from the shadows, correct?"
"Sa... Saint Heir?!"
Stone Chicken Lady’s eyes widened, "Your Highness the Saint Son! What brings you here?"
"At that time... my true self was still in seclusion cultivating, only sending an avatar to witness the battle..."
"Meeting the Saint Son with just an avatar was rather rude; I planned to visit you after coming out of seclusion, but who would have thought that you, Your Highness, left so quickly back then..."
Lin Jing smiled and said, "No matter, I’m passing through this area to make use of the dragon vein beneath Stone Chicken Lady’s cave. Rest assured, this Saint Son will not borrow it for free."
He then took out something useless to him personally.
"This is mutated red fire gold. With a century’s worth of tempering in spiritual fire, it should develop intelligence and become spirit rock."
Stone Chicken Lady’s eyes lit up at such a good thing??
Currently, the Celestial Essence Continent has no stone spirits, making this mutated red fire gold extremely precious.
Especially since the stone’s nature matched Stone Chicken Lady perfectly.
"Thank you, Saint Son. I will definitely hatch it with effort and nurture it as if it were my own child!" said Stone Chicken Lady.
"As for the dragon vein, Your Highness can use it as you please."
"Thank you. When advanced Transformation Pills are completed, the Demon Court will arrange for the lady first thing."
Under Stone Chicken Lady’s expectant gaze, Lin Jing proceeded to the depths underground, summoning the Treasure Turtle, which had cultivated the Divine Spirit Book, onto his shoulder.
"With the dragon vein as the formation pattern, heaven and earth as the formation diagram, you as the formation eye, and the Imperially Bestowed Artifact as the offering, the conditions to perform the Divine Spirit Array Book have been fulfilled. The rest is up to you."
Lin Jing spoke to the Longevity Treasure Turtle.
"And it also serves as a way to verify if the First Ancient Emperor is still alive!"
He had once learned from the Demon Emperor that after the First Ancient Emperor nurtured the Second Ancient Emperor, he left the Celestial Essence Realm, entered the cosmos seeking an opportunity to ascend, and never returned.
This journey was fraught with peril. To this day, even the Demon Emperor did not know the current status of the First Ancient Emperor.
Now, perhaps through this top-tier cultivation technique from the Immortal Realm, verification can be made. If the First Ancient Emperor is alive, the Divine Spirit Book will naturally fail to activate successfully, but if he is dead, theoretically, the Divine Spirit Book can summon his projection!
"Your Highness the Saint Son is truly handsome." In the sky outside, Stone Chicken Lady incubated the red fire gold, reminiscing about Lin Jing’s handsome demeanor.
"Once I transform my figure, I might try pursuing His Highness the Saint Son; if I become Lady Saint, then my life will be set."
"I just don’t know what His Highness the Saint Son is using my dragon vein for, cultivation perhaps?" Stone Chicken Lady maintained her guardianship for several days.
Until one day, she exclaimed in shock.
"Good heavens, what is the Saint Son doing, my dragon vein has been completely drained!!! This is the foundation of my cultivation!" Her vision darkened.
Meanwhile, deep within the Earth Vein Cave, Lin Jing, and the Longevity Treasure Turtle watched the Imperially Bestowed Token turn to powder, and the dragon vein drained dry, their pupils contracted, and their hearts trembled.
Lin Jing’s mind was a bit confused now.
"Did it succeed?"
"Does this mean the First Ancient Emperor really died in space?"
"And now we’ve summoned his projection."
"However, just how powerful was the First Ancient Emperor that even sacrificing a top-grade artifact and draining a fine dragon vein couldn’t sustain his projection for long?"
Lin Jing gazed at the slowly sketched domineering figure before him...
