Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 466 - 37: Reproduction Is the Number 1 Productive Force
"Hybrid Spirit Monster Technique???"
The crowd erupted in murmurs, finding the name of this secret technique somewhat bizarre.
What a load of nonsense.
"Sect Leader, instead of researching how to get us out of the Origin Realm, you’re busy studying this ’Hybrid Spirit Monster Technique’... Can’t you focus on something useful?" a Spirit Monster complained.
Lin Jing chuckled and said, "You’ll see in a moment."
With that, he waved his hand, and a Pine Leaf Mouse appeared in front of the group of Spirit Monsters. As they looked at the Pet Beast summoned by Lin Jing, they squinted their eyes.
"Everyone."
Lin Jing continued, "Do you know what the most instinctive behavior of animals is?"
"It’s reproduction!"
"Whether it’s Demon Beasts or humans, reproducing offspring to continue their species and bloodline inheritance is an absolute instinct."
"Demon Beasts and humans can pass down their bloodline and power through generations. Many generations of efforts are concentrated to accomplish one thing."
"However, most of us natural Spirit Monsters don’t have this instinct, and we are not keen on reproducing offspring..."
"Of course, this doesn’t mean we can’t reproduce. By using our strength to transform similar things around us into spirits and endowing them with intelligence, we see this as reproduction. But in reality, it is not."
"I believe most of you here do not cultivate the Spirit Monsters created by your transformation as successors but just see them as subordinates."
"Because you know that the descendants you transform will have talents and potential that cannot compare to yours. There are no expectations for them; whatever you can’t achieve, they certainly can’t either. If you reproduce this way, each generation will be worse than the last."
"This is the difference between animals and Spirit Monsters. When animals reproduce, even the most ordinary parents have the chance of producing offspring with mutated bloodlines. Two humans with mortal bodies can give birth to an Immortal Body. Two ordinary Demon Beasts can produce offspring with the potential of a king. This is one reason animals are keen on reproduction."
"Nonetheless, even though the Heavenly Dao didn’t bestow this ability on us Spirit Monsters, we’ve gained one thing for another—Spirit Monsters have a much longer lifespan than ordinary animals. What animals can accomplish through generations of bloodlines, we Spirit Monsters can achieve within our own lifetimes."
"But, if I say I have a way for natural Spirit Monsters to breed offspring that are several times more talented and potential than themselves as animals do... In that case, would you be willing to cultivate them? To entrust your ambitions and will to the next generation."
"Think about it. Although in the present Origin Realm, Spirit Monsters, Demon Beasts, and humans stand as equals, it’s because you are the first batch of Spirit Monsters nurtured by the Origin Realm. You possess the best talents and the strength to stand against people from outside, able to outlast wave after wave of human prodigies. But even your lifespan has limits. The Spirit Monsters born in the Origin Realm afterward will only get worse compared to you."
"However, the reproduction of humans and Demon Beasts maintains a relatively stable inheritance. In tens of thousands of years, when you turn to dust and new prodigies enter from outside, even if they’re just at the same level as today’s prodigies, the Origin Realm will present two entirely different pictures. The Spirit Monsters of the Origin Realm would only become materials for their Alchemy and Artifact Refining. Competing for Immortal Source? A fool’s dream."
"You’re saying that we can breed offspring better than our own talents. How is that possible!!" Even the Mingtu Lady couldn’t help but question this at this point; the more she listened, the less sense it made.
The Spirit Monsters present were all born from the mountains and rivers of the Origin Realm, gaining intelligence after billions of years of nurturing, forming today’s physical and intellectual forms.
Such conditions are hard to replicate. The offspring they transform are definitely impossible to surpass themselves after being tempered by time.
"That’s why I mentioned the need for hybrid techniques!" Lin Jing replied seriously.
"Just like how Demon Beasts that take human form can unite with humans to produce half-demon offspring, inheriting the talents of both and having far greater potential!"
"For us Spirit Monsters, mere transformations and asexual reproduction can’t produce more excellent offspring because all of the offspring comes from us without any external influence to trigger bloodline evolution."
"But what if different types of Spirit Monsters, like a Mountain God and a Lake Spirit, could birth offspring with shared bloodlines?"
"That’s even more impossible." The group of Spirit Monsters stated outright, thinking it a joke; who do they think they’re fooling? Such words, but how can it be done?
"Just watch."
Lin Jing took out a red stone and said, "Do you know what this is?"
"Red Fire Gold, quite spiritual. If tempered in Spiritual Fire, it can nurture a spirit in a thousand years. If awakened with Immortal Fire, it can instantly gain intelligence and become a Gold Stone Spirit Monster!" The Mountain God immediately recognized it.
Lin Jing nodded, then took out another block of purple-gold stone.
"Purple-Gold Stone! This isn’t something from my cave; when did you take it?" The Magnet Dragon was startled.
The Purple-Gold Stone is produced after being bathed by the Purple Cloud Divine Thunder for years, carrying electric attributes. The Magnet Dragon before them is the product of intelligence born within an Immortal-grade Purple-Gold Stone.
Its reproduction of offspring was simply using its Immortal Thunder to transform Purple-Gold Stones.
"Pine Leaf Mouse," Lin Jing called softly. The Pine Leaf Mouse immediately jumped onto Lin Jing’s shoulder, eyes glowing with a jade-green radiance, akin to Glazed Immortal Light.
"Could it be?" Feng Ning, who had been watching all along, gazed in astonishment.
Under the scrutiny of the Pine Leaf Mouse’s radiant gaze directed at the two stones thrown together by Lin Jing, a miraculous scene unfolded. Bathed in the glow from its immortal pupil, the two Spirit Stones inexplicably merged into a single new Spirit Stone, interwoven with red and purple, combining flame and lightning.
This sight left the Spirit Monsters slightly stunned.
This was, indeed, a new evolution produced by the Divine Technique of the Glazed Immortal Pupil of the Pine Leaf Mouse, enhanced by celestial energy from Lin Jing.
It could already combine two different resources to create a new item.
[Flash Flame Stone, containing tremendous power of lightning and flame. Its explosive power is infinite, and after absorbing the Heaven and Earth Spiritual Qi for a hundred years, it can gain intelligence and become a living spirit.]
"Esteemed ones, I’m sure you can tell that the power contained within this Flash Flame Stone is entirely beyond what the Red Fire Gold and Purple-Gold Stone could compare. They are not only perfectly fused but also, unlike Artifact Refining and Pill Refining, which destroy the spiritual nature of the materials, there still remains the opportunity to nurture intelligence."
"Doesn’t that just perfectly fuse two different Spirit Monster species?" Lin Jing laughed lightly. "Now, do you still think that breeding offspring with more talent and potential is a fool’s dream?"
"Imagine if we took a top-quality mountain from Deputy Sect Leader of the Mountain God and premium Mingtu soil from Deputy Sect Leader of Mingtu, fused them together, what kind of offspring would they produce..."
Lin Jing himself was thrilled, already deciding to hybridize a top-notch Spirit Monster contract when the time came. He believed that this group of Spirit Monsters would also be tempted.
As expected, every Spirit Monster present had bloodshot eyes, glowing a mix of red and green as they looked at the Pine Leaf Mouse behind Lin Jing. What kind of Immortal Technique is this?
