Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 474 - 45: Taking Command in Crisis

Within the Immortal City, chaos had already erupted.

The Cang Hai Celestial Spirits invaded the city, not only forcing Li Tianyi out of the Origin Realm but also with ulterior motives.

In the sky above the city, Li Tianyi held a massive water comet in one hand and battled the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits with the other, occupying the entire sky battlefield. The collision between the chaotic light and the sea of origin shrouded the entire Immortal City in fog.

Below, one water ball after another enveloped the defeated cultivators of the alliance, suspending them in the air and drawing nutrients from human and demon cultivators, continuously providing power for various oceanic spirit monsters.

"The life essence of humans is truly delicious."

In the sea of void, a giant octopus connected to the water balls with its tentacles. Though some cultivators sensed the problem and tried to join forces to kill the octopus, there were an extraordinary number of spirit monsters guarding it.

Octopus Ancestor, a veteran spirit monster under the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits, had the ability to extract life essence and bestow it onto other oceanic spirit monsters, strengthening their power.

"Mmm...mmm!" Under the control of Octopus Ancestor, over a hundred prodigies had already perished, becoming nutrients. Besides those who were completely dead, dozens more dragged their heavily injured bodies, trapped inside water spheres, struggling continuously without breaking free, forced to watch their life fade away.

Inside the water spheres, there were even two Celestial Essence Cultivators. Among them, Emperor Renzong of the Wan Dynasty had lost an arm in battle, his blood staining the water sphere red. With his remaining strength, he tried to break the water sphere suddenly enclosing him, but his punches, strong enough to shatter mountains, were powerless like hitting cotton.

"Damn it..." Emperor Renzong felt a deep sorrow.

If he weren’t a Body Cultivator, with a more robust life source, he would have already become a dried corpse.

On the other side, a female cultivator in blue was trapped in a water sphere. Compared to Emperor Renzong, she was in slightly better condition. However, with a light "hmm," Shui Lingsu from Water Moon Immortal Island felt like she had fallen into an icy abyss.

"Oh, there’s actually an ’Origin Body’ here. No wonder it’s lasted so long." Octopus Ancestor noticed Shui Lingsu. The Water Moon Immortal Island had a cultivation technique to achieve the Acquired Origin Body. The Origin Body could contract with the sea to control the most primal ocean powers. As such, within the Celestial Essence Realm, the ocean was the absolute domain of Water Moon Immortal Island, unassailable even by the Celestial Essence Ancient Country.

However, facing the numerous oceanic spirit monsters under the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits, manifestations of the sea, Shui Lingsu’s Power of Origin had little impact on them, leading to her quick capture. Yet, the Origin Body allowed her to resist being refined for a long time inside the Octopus Ancestor’s devouring water sphere.

"It’s over." Previously unrefined, Shui Lingsu felt her end approaching as Octopus Ancestor turned its gaze on her.

Swish!

Dozens of tentacles reached into the water sphere, binding Shui Lingsu tightly.

"You kill me, and he won’t let you go..." Shui Lingsu, in her desperate situation, spoke with difficulty.

She vaguely remembered the Island Master telling her that if she encountered a life and death crisis in the Origin Realm, she could try seeking help from Lin Jing! 𝐟𝕣𝗲𝕖𝕨𝗲𝐛𝗻𝗼𝐯𝗲𝚕.𝗰𝚘𝐦

"Ah? Who? Li Tianyi? Hahaha, he’s barely managing himself!"

Octopus Ancestor couldn’t help but laugh.

"It’s me..."

However, the next moment, Octopus Ancestor couldn’t laugh anymore.

"You two...have good luck."

Unnoticed, the celestial river covering the city had been blasted open, leaving a massive hole.

Outside the opening, a familiar voice reached Emperor Renzong and Shui Lingsu, recognized instantly by others, including Gu Xinghe, who were engaged in battle elsewhere.

Boom!

Before anyone appeared, a pair of horn-like magical treasures soared through the air, heading straight for Octopus Ancestor. The ocean spirit monsters guarding Octopus Ancestor instinctively tried to block, but these horn-like weapons, terrifying as an Immortal Artifact, turned those touched by their power into water vapor, dissipating from the world, utterly lifeless.

"Immortal Beast! Lin Jing!"

As two figures entered the city, Octopus Ancestor was shocked. According to the intel, the Longevity Body Lin Jing was supposed to be recovering. Moreover, judging from encounters with him and the demon octopus, his control over the Immortal Beast was very weak.

But now, with half white, half black hair, and a body filled with Life and Death Power comparable to Void Profound Mana, Lin Jing entered the city. Octopus Ancestor was horrified to discover Lin Jing didn’t look injured at all. The fearsome mana connecting him to the Immortal Beast’s corpse seemed limitless, as vast as the sea.

Moreover, his necromantic skills had advanced to the point of using the Immortal Beast’s attack organs as magical treasures.

The horns, transformed into beams of light, pierced straight through Octopus Ancestor’s body. In that moment of life and death, Octopus Ancestor transformed into water to flee quickly, while Lin Jing paid no further attention, as many eyes were already on it...

At that moment, the once-devoured cultivators fell from the shattered water spheres, liberated in a sense.

Emperor Renzong, Shui Lingsu, and others saw Lin Jing’s return and felt an inexplicable sense of relief, as if they had found their backbone.

"The Longevity Immortal Body! Haha, Junior Brother, you’ve grown even stronger."

At that moment, Li Tianyi and the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits also noticed Lin Jing. Realizing Lin Jing’s current state, Li Tianyi laughed heartily, a gleam returning to his once-chaotic eyes.

"In your current state, you should be able to freely control the Immortal Beast’s corpse, right?"

"That guy..." The Cang Hai Celestial Spirits looked at Lin Jing, this unforeseen complication, unfavorably.

The next moment, Li Tianyi suddenly felt his power increase.

"You’ve arrived just in time! As the Young Alliance Leader of the Cultivation Alliance, I appoint you as the acting City Lord of the Immortal City, hoping you’ll lead the arriving alliance cultivators to repel these spirit monsters. We must not let Immortal City fall!!!"

"You..." Lin Jing looked at the figure battling the celestial spirits with a comet in hand and realized, after days of battle, Li Tianyi was probably nearing his limit, not because he was losing but because he was on the verge of losing control of his realm!!

The other party had been barely holding on, and Lin Jing’s arrival seemed to have finally allowed him to relax.

"Alliance cultivators have already returned to Pangu Continent. The Cultivation Alliance will quickly gather reinforcements and send them to the Origin Realm. In the meantime, Junior Brother Lin, Immortal City, I’m counting on you. Next, I’ll use the last of my strength to...seal part of the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits’ mana!"

With Lin Jing’s arrival, Li Tianyi was finally free of worries. Although he didn’t know exactly how strong Lin Jing had become, at such a critical moment, there was no one else but Lin Jing capable of resisting the Cang Hai Celestial Spirits.

If Lin Jing could resist even a little, it would buy Pangu Continent more time to come up with solutions... In the present situation, Li Tianyi believed that even if they had to exhaust a variety of immortal-level resources, no matter how wasteful, the Cultivation Alliance’s powerhouses would quickly gather a few prodigies close to the celestial spirits’ power and send them in.

"Acting City Lord... is it me..."