Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 402 - 99: Something’s Off About This Squirrel

Chapter 402: Chapter 99: Something’s Off About This Squirrel

"Sure." Lin Jing nodded, and with this, things were even more secure!

He smiled, having his own little thoughts as well.

The rules of the Grotto Heaven are: [The five cultivators from the winning side will each be able to choose a ’Divine Body Pill’ from the Immortal Palace’s treasury as a reward. The better the performance, the larger the selection range of the Divine Body Pills and the higher the quality they can choose.]

If the Squirrel Spirit replaces Duzao the Alchemist in battle, then at that time, wouldn’t the reward go to the Squirrel Spirit?

In that way, Lin Jing could receive two Divine Body Pills as a reward!

"Friend Du, what do you think about letting my pet beast replace you in battle? Although you would miss out on the Divine Body Pill reward, at least it ensures that the Celestial Essence Realm can ultimately achieve victory."

"I’m not taking advantage of you for nothing. After returning to the Celestial Essence, I’ll give you a wisp of Lotus Heart Fire at the Immortal Fire level. Although it’s not an original fire source you can refine, like the Immortal Pill Spirit of your Heaven-Reaching Tower, with this fire, you can virtually heal any injury sustained in the lower realm, even foundational or original injuries!"

"Of course, as one of the mildest of the strange fires, you should know what a Lotus Heart Fire at the Immortal Fire level represents for an alchemist; its value is no less than that of a Divine Body Pill."

Immortal-level fire!

Upon hearing these words, Duzao’s pupils shrank. Lin Jing actually mastered immortal-level fire — was it that Dragon Carp?

So that’s how it is. Now he understood why that Dragon Carp could, with a Late-Stage Nascent Soul, inversely battle an early-stage Divinity Transformation Witch God heir.

"If you put it that way, I have no objections." Duzao agreed immediately, fearing Lin Jing might change his mind — it was, after all, an immortal-level fire.

It should be known that even the Tower Master of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, his master, did not independently grasp immortal-level fire; he only had control of several quasi-immortal fires.

It’s said only with the assistance of the Immortal Pill Spirit can the fire temporarily upgrade to an Immortal Fire.

A Nascent Soul stage Dragon Carp actually... Is this what they call a Treasure Beast?

Just as Lin Jing said, even if an Immortal Fire is not a fire source that can be refined, just a wisp of divided fire, it’s of great value—especially life-saving Immortal Fires like Lotus Heart Fire. Perhaps he didn’t need its healing attributes, but with a gentle Immortal Fire, it meant he could cultivate immersed in it, doubling the results of any fire-attribute cultivation techniques or magic, possibly even creating new magical effects.

In the special cultivation environment of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the best was to cultivate in a gentle quasi-immortal-level strange fire—training in an Immortal Fire... he believed even the Tower Master’s master hadn’t experienced it many times.

Though it was an Immortal Fire created by a Nascent Soul-level Treasure Beast, it was enough for him given his own cultivation level!

Duzao even concluded that a gentle Immortal Fire would not bring much value beyond battle to Lin Jing himself—in the end, Lin Jing was not a fire-path cultivator—but for him, it was different, as he could amplify the value of this wisp of Immortal Fire tenfold.

In comparison, a Divine Body Pill that may or may not suit him was not worth it.

"Since you’ve agreed, Squirrel Spirit, the battle henceforth, please." After Lin Jing finished speaking, he looked toward the arena, where the Squirrel Spirit yawned and teleported onto the stage.

So much time had passed, its spatial comprehension had long since evolved, no longer needing the Red Leaf as a medium; anywhere its Divine Sense reached, it could teleport. This was because the Squirrel Spirit had often been in contact with the spatial attribute treasures within its Demon Pill Space...

"Wait a minute, not the Carp or the Ice Gu?" As Lin Jing released the squirrel beside him, Duzao was taken aback. If he recalled correctly, this squirrel hadn’t been on the gold list before.

Unlike those two, both in the top ten!

"Not much difference; it just hasn’t had the chance to make the list, not lacking the strength." Lin Jing casually uttered a sentence that caused Duzao, the Third Prince, and Bai Yuran nearby to feel a pang in their stomachs.

........

At present.

The side from Tianming Realm, seeing the Celestial Essence Realm side not waiting for the "three-minute preparation time" to end and sending someone onstage prematurely, was momentarily stunned.

Everyone was entering together; no one knew which opponent they’d face, but going onstage ahead of time...

This preemptive revelation of the battle choice made Tianming Realm feel that Celestial Essence Realm underestimated them.

Moreover, what baffled them was that the one sent out by Celestial Essence Realm was none of the original five participants but an unassuming Mid-Stage Nascent Soul Squirrel Spirit!

"Huh? What the heck." The Woodpecker-shaped Treasure Beast scratched its head in bewilderment: "Where did this squirrel come from?"

"It’s the pet beast of the cultivator who practices the ’Beast Taming Technique’," spoke up the Divine Pity Body: "It seems Celestial Essence Realm intends to let this pet beast fight independently, apart from the Beast Master, as a separate entity. This implies they believe that just a pet beast’s strength can surpass one of their originally competing members, increasing their chances of victory."

"But as a cost, when that Beast Taming Cultivator himself enters the battle, this Pet Beast cannot join the fight."

"Even so, isn’t it too arrogant? Just coming up like that; this Squirrel Spirit looks like it’s Wood Attribute. Its bloodline intensity is pretty high, quite close to mine, I’d estimate it’s at the imperial peak. Of course, the main thing is that it used Spatial Instant Teleportation Technique to enter the arena, directly exposing its proficiency in space magic..." the woodpecker muttered.

"Mid-Stage Nascent Soul, a Wood Attribute Squirrel Spirit proficient in space magic? Its physical strength doesn’t seem very robust. Should I handle it?" the Void Body Yuan Liu spoke up.

Everyone nodded. How could a Squirrel Spirit’s spatial proficiency compare to Yuan Liu, who practiced the "Great Void Technique"? Besides being born Void Body, Yuan Liu also has an acquired Void Body, which makes his spatial proficiency exceptional. Since the Squirrel Spirit doesn’t rely on physical strength, it likely depends on mana to fight, and thus would be powerless against the Void Body.

This battle, at first glance, could be easily won.

Once time was up, the Late-Stage Nascent Soul Yuan Liu teleported to the arena and looked at the Pine Needle Mouse with a smile.

At this moment, he even suspected that the opponent intentionally sent a Squirrel Spirit just to give away points.

"Squeak..." After the opponent came up, the Pine Needle Mouse stared blankly at the opponent...or rather the opponent’s storage pouch.

In the next instant, under Yuan Liu’s curious gaze, the Pine Needle Mouse summoned a red leaf, flying on it to the high skies.

"Little squirrel, what are you going to do?" Yuan Liu looked on, not rushing to attack.

He wanted to see if this squirrel could reveal some useful information, however...

At this moment, the Pine Needle Mouse was recalling the intelligence provided by Lin Jing before going up.

[Use physical attacks on him, don’t blend in mana. Hmm, but with your destructive power, blending in mana shouldn’t be a problem. The opponent is only at Late-Stage Nascent Soul. Immunity to Nascent Soul Stage magical attacks is understandable, but he couldn’t possibly be immune to magical attacks powerful enough to instantly kill a typical Divinity Transformation creature, could he?]

Physical attacks...

The Pine Needle Mouse displayed a sharp gaze, raising its claws above its head in the air, and then it sacrificed its Demon Pill.

"Hmm?" The Celestial Xing Realm cultivator Yuan Liu was momentarily stunned, and then his expression shifted drastically, as the previously harmless little squirrel not only violently retrieved its Demon Pill but also saw the Demon Pill instantly expand tremendously, enough to cover the thousands of meters wide arena in a moment.

"Is this a Demon Pill a Nascent Soul Demon Beast can have???" In his shock, he watched as the Pine Needle Mouse gently waved its paw, and the gigantic Demon Pill was violently smashed towards the arena as if it were just a ball.

"Aren’t you afraid of damaging your Demon Pill?" he exclaimed.

"Squeak..." Demon Pill Divine Technique, Five Elements World!

At this moment, not only Yuan Liu but even the other Celestial Xing Realm cultivators were frozen in place, as they felt an incredibly frightening oppressive force from the Demon Pill, comparable to a peak Divinity Transformation Demon Emperor’s Primordial Spirit, manifesting in the void.

Even the one claimed to be the number one in Celestial Xing Nascent Soul, the Taiyin Sun Body, slightly frowned, unable to comprehend how the strength of this Demon Pill could be so heavenly... unprecedented.

"This!" The entire arena was instantly seen as the target of the attack. Yuan Liu’s expression changed drastically as he used Spatial Teleportation to attempt to evade. But to his horror, as he hid in the alternate space above the arena, he became distinctly aware that as the Demon Pill rolled down, even the space he hid in began to collapse and shatter. The power of this attack was beyond his imagination!

It felt as if he were being struck by an independent micro-world!

"Void!" With no choice, Yuan Liu could only rely on his Void Body, hoping it could negate most of the mana damage. But as the Demon Pill, as massive as a celestial body, fell, crushing him, he realized that the Demon Pill was not tainted with any mana on the outside. It was purely that its weight and density had reached an unimaginable degree.

Crack.

Upon colliding with the arena, crushing the opponent beneath the Demon Pill, as the arena cracked, the Pine Needle Mouse standing atop the Demon Pill scratched its head, feeling like it had forgotten something.

"There’s something wrong with this squirrel!"

Meanwhile, as Yuan Liu, barely human-like, was transmitted back to the Celestial Xing Realm side, all the cultivators there held their breaths in silence, looking at the Pine Needle Mouse on the arena retracting its Demon Pill, as if it were a monster.

This squirrel, what the hell is going on? It’s one thing for it to smash people with a Demon Pill, but why is its power so massive???

Is this a Demon Pill, or an ultimate magical treasure!

On the Celestial Essence Realm side, a few people fell into silent understanding of what Lin Jing meant when he said it just hadn’t had the chance to make the charts yet. 𝒻𝘳ℯℯ𝑤ℯ𝒷𝘯ℴ𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝑐ℴ𝑚

"Hehe, otherwise, let my Pet Beast go for the next round as well. This time I brought three Pet Beasts." Lin Jing looked at His Highness the Third Prince and said, "Don’t worry, there’s compensation. For instance, at that time, I’ll introduce you to a senior even more formidable than your father before the Crown Prince."