Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 380 - 77: The Ancient Emperor Accepts a Disciple
"Cough, cough."
Lin Jing walked into the private room.
The First Ancient Emperor’s eyes lit up when he saw Lin Jing was done with his business, and he said, "You’ve finally returned. I thought I wouldn’t see you before I died."
"Let me introduce you to a young fellow I just met..."
Lin Jing was speechless for a moment and coughed dryly again, which jolted Gao Sheng sober from his drunk stupor.
Once he was slightly sobered up, Gao Sheng suddenly rubbed his head, his face turning green and then purple, before cursing loudly, "Damn it, old man, you tricked me..."
"Uh, wait a minute, Brother Lin, what are you doing here??!" Gao Sheng suddenly noticed Lin Jing standing at the door and was extremely surprised.
"I was going to ask you the same thing."
Gao Sheng quickly got up, distanced himself from the First Ancient Emperor, and sought help from Lin Jing, saying, "Brother Lin, this old man is not a good person. He keeps tricking me into saying things disrespectful to the Ancient Emperor and disloyal to the Ancient Country. There must be something wrong with him... Hurry and help me catch him; you know I’m a staunch supporter of the Second Ancient Emperor."
"Even though I was fooled, if this gets out, my entire clan will be doomed."
Gao Sheng looked terrified, who knows what he had said these past few days.
From gossip in the harem to the future of the Ancient Country, whatever he could talk about, it seems he sharply criticized.
Lin Jing was quite speechless... If you didn’t have such thoughts, would you have been drunk and tricked into talking?
"What’s up with you, young man? Clearly, it was you who held onto me, insisting on me listening, and now you’re blaming me," the First Ancient Emperor discontentedly said, "By the way, you two know each other..."
"Don’t worry." Lin Jing comforted Gao Sheng and said, "This guy is one of us."
"I wasn’t around earlier, and he was wandering alone in Martial Emperor City. I didn’t expect you two to bump into each other."
"One of us??" Gao Sheng was puzzled.
He looked at the First Ancient Emperor and said, "Could he be a senior of the Demon Court in human form?"
"Damn, disparaging the Ancient Country together with Demon Court demons, if a word of this slips out, my life is over."
Lin Jing waved his hand, saying, "Don’t worry, he is an ancient projection I summoned with the Divine Spirit Book, not a demon."
"Projection!" Gao Sheng wiped his sweat and said, "Then I can rest easy. He’s not alive."
He suddenly remembered something and looked at the First Ancient Emperor, saying, "Could you be Feng Ling, the founder of the Feng Family?"
"No," Lin Jing said.
"Though I’ve successfully summoned Feng Family’s founder, he has another identity."
"What?" Gao Sheng asked.
"Celestial Essence Ancient Country, First Ancient Emperor..." Lin Jing looked at Gao Sheng helplessly.
Gao Sheng: "...?"
The next second, Gao Sheng directly fainted.
"Eh?" Seeing this, the First Ancient Emperor stroked his chin and said, "Why is this kid’s Dao heart so weak, and you actually told him my identity, do you two get along well?"
Lin Jing nodded and said, "Not bad, did he say a bunch of rebellious things? Your Majesty the Ancient Emperor, don’t mind it; young people love to sharply comment on politics, it’s very normal. If you really want him to rebel and betray the country, he definitely wouldn’t."
The First Ancient Emperor laughed and said, "I actually heard many interesting insights from him. Clearly, he’s a second-generation immortal, but he has compassion for commoners. Even in my era, such a person was very rare."
"Maybe it’s because of a genetic mutation, Brother Gao is not a normal person," Lin Jing said.
"Speaking of which..."
The Ancient Emperor looked at Lin Jing, sizing him up and down, "Innate Purity Divine Body, Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivation, isn’t the realm of this avatar of yours a bit too low... Logically speaking, once an avatar is successfully refained, its cultivation should basically reach Nascent Soul Stage. Even a poorly developed avatar should be at the Early-Stage Nascent Soul. Your avatar is equivalent to having a mild disability."
"Can’t help it, to save time, the method for refining the avatar was a bit rough, I didn’t mind about the realm much, I’ll enhance it later," Lin Jing, concerned about wasting too much time on refining the avatar, didn’t perfectly utilize the power of the Immortal Water Lotus, resulting in a significantly reduced realm for the avatar.
Otherwise, with the quality of Immortal Water Lotus, when the avatar forms, it could at least reach great completion of Nascent Soul Stage, surpassing the original body’s cultivation.
But that might take too much time, at least ten years, at most a few hundred years. The further along, the more time-consuming it becomes, and Lin Jing doesn’t have the patience for that. It’s just the realm of an avatar, after all, he has the Cultivation Golden Core, which he can elevate later through the Golden Core refined by Dragon Koi.
"Alright, you have the Celestial Demon Body, realm indeed doesn’t matter," the First Ancient Emperor said while picking his nose, "What about your main body?"
"My main body has other things to do, so it left first."
"Next, this avatar will accompany you." Lin Jing chuckled.
"...How about, you continue being the Demon Court Saint Child with your main body, and let this avatar just take me as a teacher and stay in the Ancient Country!" the First Ancient Emperor had a sudden idea.
"By that time, I’ll have my son of the second generation issue a new policy to acknowledge ’dual citizenship’. Anyway, there are already plenty of ridiculous new policies, one more won’t hurt."
Lin Jing fell into contemplation, his gaze drifting far away.
"Damn, you’re still hesitating when given such a great opportunity. Do you realize what a huge opportunity this is!"
"If you don’t become my disciple, I’ll directly take this kid as my disciple!" The First Ancient Emperor kicked the fainted Gao Sheng beside him.
"It’s rare to get a chance to live again for a short while, just want to leave something behind."
"Since that guy from the second generation has concentrated resources from the past few thousand years into the Ancient Clan, I’ll pass on other things to cultivators outside the ancient clans."
Lin Jing was slightly taken aback and said, "Take him as a disciple?? Are you sure?"
Sure it won’t ruin your noble reputation with Gao Sheng fellow...
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Not long after.
Qingzhou, Immortal Prison Mountain.
After enduring numerous hardships, Lin Jing’s original body and his group finally returned to this place.
As Lin Jing approached Immortal Prison Mountain, Mosquito Maiden led a vast swarm of mosquitoes to welcome him, and Grandmaster Huanli of the Thousand Illusion Sect and the Longevity Maiden Gu Qianqiu each stood on a pine tree branch, coming to greet the return of the local master.
"You brat, shouldn’t you explain what happened half a year ago?"
Seeing Lin Jing, Elder Shen Song, who saw off people last time, immediately asked. Damn this kid, last time he rode the Immortal Sword back not long before he again rode the Ink Beast to leave, what’s the matter!
Lin Jing bitterly smiled and said, "It’s all nothing, not worth mentioning. Just accidentally obtained the method to activate Immortal Artifacts in the Western Desert, then used two Immortal Artifacts to deter potential enemies, and casually wiped out a Gu God Sect as a warning... Nothing worth mentioning, really not worth mentioning."
"This time coming back is to refine some pills for breaking through the Nascent Soul Stage, should be staying for a while."
After Lin Jing finished speaking, even the mosquito beasts without much intelligence couldn’t resist wanting to curse, activating Immortal Artifacts, eradicating the Gu God Sect, breaking through to Nascent Soul Stage—aren’t there some mismatches with these words put together?
