Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 424 - 121: Was It Deliberate or Accidental?
The years pass by leisurely.
In a blink of an eye, it has been ten years since the various factions plotted their journey to the Source Realm.
During these ten years, the continent’s situation remained stable without large-scale conflicts, and the feared Celestial Demon Sect had yet to arrive.
There was some unrest within the Ancient Country, but it was a domestic issue among the Ancient Race. The abdicating First Ancient Emperor ultimately couldn’t change the Second Ancient Emperor’s mind... The cultivators up and down the Ancient Race didn’t want to relinquish their benefits to outsiders.
Even though the First Ancient Emperor is the ancestor of the Ancient Race, he now exists merely as a remnant body, restricted by outsiders. In the Ancient Race, everyone respects and fears him, yet no one is willing to defy the Second Ancient Emperor’s decision because of him... Not even the Third Prince recommended by Lin Jing to the First Ancient Emperor.
In anger, the First Ancient Emperor no longer concerned himself with the affairs of the Ancient Country and instead followed the example of the Celestial Secret Elder. He took Gao Sheng and the Mechanical Turtle to travel around the Ancient Country, intending to discover and cultivate prodigies himself.
During this time, Lin Jing remained in retreat in the Spirit Dao Sect’s rear mountains, hardly paying attention to external matters, as focus is the essence of cultivation.
Ten years... it was not just ten years. Occasionally, Lin Jing and others would enter the Hourglass of Time, and in several decades, they had gained immensely.
Lin Jing’s true self, avatar, Pine Leaf Mouse, Dragon Carp, and Ice Soul Gu’s cultivation realms all reached the demigod realm, just a step away from transforming their Nascent Souls into Heaven and Earth Primordial Spirits, refining their Nascent Souls through the Power of Heaven and Earth.
It’s not that they couldn’t break through, but they were deliberately suppressing their realms because the gap between Nascent Soul and Divinity Transformation, to Lin Jing, who now possesses the Celestial Demon Body, wasn’t particularly significant.
Establishing a stronger foundation is beneficial for advancing to higher realms afterward.
To break through from Nascent Soul to Divinity Transformation, traveling to the Source Realm is actually a better choice. Within the Source Realm, the intensity of the Power of Heaven and Earth is conservatively estimated to be ten times that of other Cultivation Realms, making the Primordial Spirit transformed within more powerful.
Besides, there is no rush to break through, as there are excellent resources like the Fortune Golden Rankings, Enlightenment Pool, and Bodhi Tree available now, making it more cost-effective to spend time on comprehending the Dao.
Thus, during these ten years, the greatest gain for Lin Jing and others wasn’t the enhancement of their basic realms but the dramatic advancement in the proficiency of various magics.
First is the Dragon Carp, who, under Lin Jing’s instruction, devoted all its energy to improving its alchemy skills. Now, with the advantage of Immortal Fire, it has a certain chance of refining "Seventh-grade Pills." Apart from the Immortal Pill from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, Seventh-grade Pills are considered top-quality pills on the Celestial Essence Continent.
Although the current success rate is worrying, there’s no denying that the Dragon Carp’s alchemical skills, with the Immortal Fire advantage, have now entered the second-tier on the Celestial Essence Continent, only lacking in its basic realm to reach the first tier.
The improvement in alchemy skills also signifies the Dragon Carp’s stable proficiency in fire control. The efficiency and power of using the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron to refine Cultivation Golden Cores have also increased exponentially.
Next is the Ice Soul Gu, which, over these decades, has mainly focused on the Sword Dao, taking an unconventional path due to its innate capabilities as one of the ten strange Gu. Over lifetimes, it has polished its abilities to perfection, and merely through normal growth, it can perfectly utilize them, making further efforts in Gu magic yield diminishing returns.
On the contrary, with resources like the Primal Sword Intent and the protective sword intent of the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor, along with a series of resources to boost insight, the Ice Soul Gu diverged into a path distinct from other Gu insects.
The Primal Sword Intent can transform into any sword intent by adapting to one’s Dao. For the Ice Soul Gu, its Dao is poison. With the transformation of the ten strange Gu’s power through the Primal Sword Intent, it became the Ice Soul Gu’s "Poisonous Sword Intent."
Unlike directly spreading Gu poison, embedding the power of Gu poison into the carrier of sword intent for attacks greatly enhances the invasion and destructive capabilities of the Gu poison, allowing it to better penetrate some magical treasures, Secret Techniques, and physical defenses.
While being poisoned is terrifying, top-tier cultivators have far more refined methods of resisting toxins compared to lower-tier cultivators. Since the consequences of being poisoned are severe, one must simply avoid getting poisoned.
As for sword intent, Sword Cultivators, regardless of the stage, are renowned for their offensiveness. In Lin Jing’s understanding, Sword Cultivators are like stat monsters, while Poison Cultivators are mechanism monsters. When stats and mechanisms combine, the poison of the Ice Soul Gu becomes truly unstoppable.
The protective sword intent from the Heaven-Sundering Sword Ancestor, at the Dao-seeking level, is purely for the Ice Soul Gu to climb and comprehend the Sword Dao. As the continual insights exhaust this Dao-seeking-level protective sword intent, the Ice Soul Gu’s Sword Dao level now rivals that of a top Divinity Transformation stage Sword Cultivator.
Although it may not seem impressive, it is merely a Gu insect, a spider starting its journey in the Sword Dao from scratch.
The most crucial point is that when the Ice Soul Gu and Lin Jing merge, Lin Jing can also gain the Ice Soul Gu’s entire swordsmanship proficiency, so even if he doesn’t know swordsmanship, he can instantly become a top Sword Dao master, with a Sword Dao realm equivalent to a peak Divinity Transformation Sword Cultivator, essentially acquiring an excellent skill.
Lastly, the Pine Leaf Mouse reaped the most among the three pet beasts. First, it deduced another layer of the "Cyan Emperor Longevity Technique," enhancing its cap to the Void Profound Realm. Subsequently, it devoted all its energy to the study of the Path of Space.
Even top-level space Secret Techniques like "Celestial Demon Crossing" were successfully mastered by it, with quite proficient usage.
However, the Pine Leaf Mouse studies the Path of Space not for escape or travel but for greater storage space. Through relentless efforts, it finally realized the grand vision Lin Jing had bestowed upon it during Lin Jing’s youth.
"A flower, a world; a leaf, a space."
Now, at the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul, the Pine Leaf Mouse can, like a Void Profound Cultivator, open an independent space "within an object."
A randomly condensed flying leaf by it contains space comparable to a small Storage Ring.
If that’s all, it wouldn’t be much, but the key point is, the Pine Leaf Mouse can, with a mere thought, detonate this small space, causing intense space turbulence damage. Although the power can’t match up to Golden Core Divine Techniques, the spatial attribute damage is the Pine Leaf Mouse’s second most destructive magical means.
The main thing is... it can accumulate such space leaves!
The power of one or two might not surpass Golden Core Divine Techniques, but a hundred million, ten billion...
However, no matter how significant the pet beasts’ gains are, they don’t match the gains of Lin Jing, the Beast Master.
For the true self aspect, beyond elevating the realm to the Great Perfection in the Nascent Soul, Lin Jing also perfected the corpse-driving Secret Technique of the Yin Corpse Sect. Through Lin Jing’s deduction, as long as his and the Ice Soul Gu’s basic cultivation reach the Divinity Transformation Stage and then merge, he can burn his lifespans to perform the "Art of Divine Manipulation" to elevate the Beast Control Dao realm. Coupled with the Power of Origin of life and death, he can preliminarily control the Immortal Beast’s corpse, forming formidable combat power.
If this Immortal Beast corpse can be manipulated, it would be a true weapon of mass destruction inside the Source Realm.
In addition, regarding the incarnate, this Celestial Demon incarnate is finally achieving mighty powers, cultivating to the major completion of the Celestial Demon Finger, which holds destructive power in the Celestial Demon Secret Techniques.
Also, the demonic bloodline achieves major completion throughout cultivating the Celestial Demon Secret Techniques, just shy of reaching the perfect stage comparable to an Immortal Body.
The major completion of the Celestial Demon Finger, at its final stage, requires the cultivator to sever an arm, continuously refining that arm into a Magical Treasure. Through this arm, casting the Celestial Demon Finger yields its utmost power...
Currently, Lin Jing’s true self can perform sword flight, beast flight, and ride the clouds, whereas the incarnate is impressive; it can fly on its Celestial Demon arm, ejecting Celestial Demon Fingers whenever, shockingly sinister.
"I have to maintain my limbs at intervals, it feels odd. Previous magics didn’t evoke such sentiments, but cultivating the Celestial Demon Finger increasingly makes one resemble a Demon Cultivator..."
Lin Jing sits cross-legged on the ground, in front of him a floating black arm, whose palm holds a protruding meat face somewhat resembling Lin Jing’s appearance...
"Counting the time, the Celestial Essence Grand Assembly deciding the final quotas for heading to the Source Realm is about to take place, right?"
Lin Jing called for Yu Xun’Er, who had been cultivating in the Spirit Dao Sect. Over these nearly ten years, she transformed from a small servant girl into a graceful Female Cultivator. Upon arriving, she gently and respectfully attended to Lin Jing by his side.
"Senior, you’ve emerged from seclusion."
"Hmm, Xun’Er, has the Ancient Country begun preparing for the Celestial Essence Grand Assembly?"
"Celestial Essence Grand Assembly? Today is the last day of the assembly, it’s about to end."
Lin Jing: ?
