Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 396 - 93: The Fifth Pet Beast?
After discussions, the Second Ancient Emperor decided to use great magical power to alter the rules of the Golden List of Fate.
Just as the Lord of the Demon Court planned to temporarily send Lin Jing away, Lin Jing hesitated and quickly transmitted a message to the Demon Emperor.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the Second Ancient Emperor promised that I wouldn’t challenge the top-tier cultivation Dragon Vein gifted by Prince Gu, but it hasn’t been given yet."
"It hasn’t been given?" The Demon Emperor questioned the Second Ancient Emperor.
The Second Ancient Emperor was silent for a moment and said, "Extracting a top-tier cultivation Dragon Vein causes significant damage to the national fortune, and requires extremely careful handling. This Emperor promises it will be delivered within half a year."
"As for the Immortal Body secret manual of the True Dragon Secret Art, it will be given to him upon entering the Realm of Origin after the ten-year period ends."
The Second Ancient Emperor was concerned that obtaining the Immortal Body manual in advance might lead the Demon Court to temporarily renege and compete with Prince Gu and Princess Chuko for the world’s fate to cultivate this Immortal Body.
However, after Prince Gu and Princess Chuko have successfully cultivated the Immortal Body and entered the Realm of Origin, handing over the manual to Lin Jing would not matter anymore.
By then, having already nurtured two Immortal Bodies, even in the Golden Era, it would be challenging to easily nurture a third; Lin Jing would have to search for cultivation methods within the Realm of Origin.
However, unexpectedly, Lin Jing suddenly shook his head and said, "Your Majesty the Ancient Emperor, I suddenly lost interest in the True Dragon Secret Art Immortal Body manual. Could I possibly exchange this trade condition for something else?"
"What do you wish to exchange for?" The Second Ancient Emperor’s expression did not change.
Lin Jing indeed no longer wanted the True Dragon Secret Art Immortal Body Chapter; kidding aside, the real creator of the Immortal Body Chapter was currently beside his incarnation, so why bother trading with the Second Ancient Emperor?
Just by speaking ill of the Second Ancient Emperor in front of the First Ancient Emperor and currying favor with this old man, obtaining the complete True Dragon Secret Art is not impossible.
After all, the First Ancient Emperor seemed indifferent to the concept of the "Ancient Race," not thinking that the True Dragon Secret Art must be cultivated exclusively by the Ancient Race Cultivators.
Of course, given the various backlashes of the True Dragon Secret Art upon leaving the Celestial Essence Realm, Lin Jing might not even want to cultivate it.
"The Celestial Flame Gu of one of the Directors of the Demon Extermination Bureau, Liu Gongzhuo."
"Simultaneously, I want all the severe criminals above the Divinity Transformation Stage held in the Ancient Country."
The Second Ancient Emperor found Lin Jing’s request not excessive. He knew Lin Jing was collecting legendary Gu; even if Lin Jing collected all ten legendary Gu, it wouldn’t matter much to him.
The fusion of the ten legendary Gu is merely an additive equation, not causing any qualitative change, at most raising the potential of a single legendary Gu from normal Void Profound to the potential of a half-step Dao-seeking.
In the eyes of the Ancient Emperor, it was naturally nothing. Even if the Gu God came personally, it wouldn’t be an issue.
As for Liu Gongzhuo’s side, acquiring the Celestial Flame Gu would not be too difficult, only requiring suitable compensation with equivalent or even higher-level resources.
However, what puzzled the Second Ancient Emperor was why Lin Jing wanted so many severe criminals.
To practice Demon Techniques?
"Agreed." In the end, the Second Ancient Emperor still agreed to change the trade condition. Compared to the Immortal Body manual, these were nothing. If possible, the Second Ancient Emperor did not want Lin Jing to have an opportunity to cultivate an Immortal Body, although he saw that opportunity as slim.
After all, no one matched the True Dragon Secret Art better than the Ancient Race, even if Lin Jing practiced it, his progress would not be very good.
As for why Lin Jing wanted the prisoners held by the Ancient Country, it was mainly because the ones locked by the Demon Court on his side were nearly all refined by the Dragon Koi.
The cultivation of Golden Core was nearly depleted as well.
While his and his Pet Beasts’ cultivation realms still had significant growth potential.
By then, obtaining a new batch of criminals, sweeping with the Celestial Demon Divine Sense, those truly guilty would be directly refined.
And those wrongfully convicted, not deserving death, would be directly incorporated into the demon-catching team to serve him, capturing more pill materials to repay the favor of being saved.
Originally, Lin Jing felt there might not be any, but his incarnations had seen too many along with Gao Sheng and the First Emperor.
Some local officials, in order to quickly solve cases, would directly use the magic of "Great Memory Technique" to alter the memories of some Loose Cultivators, forcing them to take the blame and becoming Demon Cultivators.
Although cases involving Divinity Transformation Stage should be large cases handled by the Demon Extermination Bureau headquarters and shouldn’t be handled carelessly, who can say for sure? Lin Jing still trusted his Celestial Demon Divine Sense technique, peering into others’ inner thoughts.
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Shortly after, Lin Jing was sent back to Qingzhou by the Demon Emperor. At the same time, slight changes occurred in the rankings of the Golden List of Fate.
The names of the Dragon Koi and Ice Soul Gu disappeared from the top ten, vanished from the list, as the two jostled down Totem Saint Child of the Snowfield and the Witch God Hall Divine Son, who returned to the top ten.
"Good, good..." The Witch God Hall Divine Son, who was making his way to the Cloud Sea Mountain Range with a dusty and dirty face, wiped his nose. This was the most he had supported the Second Ancient Emperor, seemingly the shameful behavior of that Demon Court Saint Child had finally been suppressed.
Many cultivators thought it was the Second Ancient Emperor’s intervention, prohibiting Pet Beasts and Beast Masters from ranking separately, thus punishing Lin Jing. However, in reality, Lin Jing’s side completely gained greater benefits.
Although off the list, the Dragon Koi and Ice Soul Gu gained a greater enlightenment bonus, almost equivalent to the sixth place on the Golden List, which was Lin Jing’s place.
Furthermore, the Pine Needle Rat, which had not yet appeared on the list, similarly enjoyed the sixth place enlightenment bonus.
Even the Mechanical Turtle, as a mechanical lifeform without qualification to appear on the list, enjoyed the fate bonus due to its contract with Lin Jing.
"In other words, now each of my Contracted Beasts, regardless of race or realm, can enjoy the sixth place bonus on the list. Excellent, excellent." Lin Jing licked his lips. 𝒇𝙧𝙚𝓮𝔀𝓮𝒃𝙣𝓸𝒗𝒆𝒍.𝙘𝒐𝒎
"In this way, the most cost-effective approach should be to contract the ’fifth’ Contracted Beast as quickly as possible."
He had just broken through to the Nascent Soul Stage, acquiring an additional contract slot.
If quickly used, not only can this new Contracted Beast enjoy nearly ten years of enlightenment fate bonus, but it can also accompany him to the Realm of Origin.
Originally, after reaching the Realm of Origin, Lin Jing thought of looking for any special Pet Beast contracts there, but now, he decided to use it within the Celestial Essence Realm first!
Lin Jing pondered on a suitable Contracted Beast...
"An Immortal Beast corpse? If I can contract it, it would undoubtedly be easier to control in the future."
"No, although it’s a corpse, it’s still an Immortal Beast, the level is too high to contract, a dead beast also can’t comprehend the Dao, wasting a slot."
"An external incarnation? I can contract my external incarnation!"
"Seems like a loss though, after all, the external incarnation can already enjoy the Golden List fate bonus like the main body without occupying a contract slot and can follow to the Realm of Origin like the main body, so even if I contract it, not now."
"Auction it? There should be many Dao-seeking forces unable to enter the Realm of Origin, like the Heaven-Reaching Tower; if they send someone to contract with me, they can easily enter."
"Wait, if I contract my senior sister Xu Qingyao, and she then cultivates a modified Human Taming Technique and contracts a Beast Taming Sect Cultivator, going infinitely down this nesting doll path, wouldn’t it be possible to bring the entire Beast Taming Sect into the Realm of Origin? Err." However, Lin Jing suspected that he might be banished by the will of the Realm of Origin and be forced to wander the starry sky with the Beast Taming Sect.
