Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 477 - 48: Dark Emperor

Although Lin Jing has now become the proxy city lord of Immortal City, he understands that one shouldn’t be too greedy.

If he were to move the city’s resources without a valid reason, then the Cultivation Alliance would deal with him right after dealing with the Cang Hai Immortal Spirit.

But if he were to mobilize the city’s resources to resurrect those alliance prodigies who died defending the city, the situation would be different.

Although the resources required for resurrection are quite significant, they are used for the alliance’s benefit. 𝙛𝒓𝓮𝙚𝔀𝒆𝒃𝓷𝒐𝓿𝙚𝓵.𝙘𝒐𝒎

By then, regardless of Lin Jing’s initial intentions, those resurrected alliance prodigies and the sects, families, and the cultivation realm behind them would owe a debt of gratitude to Lin Jing.

After all, in the past, Immortal City never voluntarily resurrected the fallen alliance prodigies with its resources.

Lin Jing would be setting a new precedent.

However, this is related to Mingtu Lady’s exorbitant demands before; the cost of resurrecting a cultivator was too high.

Of course, even now, the price will not drop.

On the contrary, due to the large number of resurrections needed, the price will be significantly increased.

But Lin Jing believes that human life is priceless, and it’s still worth it.

"City Lord... Is this really okay?" Yan Yunshuang’s mouth twitched, as they were all cunning like foxes, easily seeing through Lin Jing’s intentions.

No!

Brother, aren’t you rushing things too much!

You’ve just become the proxy city lord, and you can’t wait to dip into the Immortal City treasure vault already???

Now that the Mingtu Lady is yours, wouldn’t you two split the resurrection fees?

"Do you think, Brother Yan, that we shouldn’t resurrect these fallen comrades?"

"Not at all." Yan Yunshuang took a deep breath, not daring to say otherwise.

It would have been fine if Lin Jing hadn’t brought it up, but now that he did, if these people couldn’t be resurrected because of him, the forces behind these prodigies would hold a grudge!

Fine.

Whatever!

Yan Yunshuang decided not to get involved in these matters anymore; after all, it was Senior Brother Li Tianyi who handed the city lord position to Lin Jing.

No matter what happens, Senior Brother Li would be the first one responsible.

"You tally the deceased; I’ll go check the treasure vault."

Lin Jing headed straight to the Immortal City treasure vault, something he had longed for.

The Heaven and Earth Sect members retreated, holding the spoils they had picked up to exchange among themselves, while Yan Yunshuang reluctantly dealt with the aftermath...

A moment later, at the Immortal City treasure vault, Lin Jing was already standing before the treasure building... Li Tianyi left in a hurry and did not inform Lin Jing of the method to enter the treasure building, which was heavily sealed by arrays. However, Lin Jing didn’t need to ask, because as the proxy city lord, his identity was sufficient.

"Array spirit, are you awake?" Lin Jing spoke, and the next moment, an array spirit appeared outside the building.

"Greetings, proxy city lord." The array spirit spoke.

"Senior Brother Tianyi left in a hurry and didn’t tell me how to unlock the array locks. Immortal City is still facing a crisis, and I need to mobilize the treasure vault’s resources to repel foreign enemies."

"I am now the proxy city lord; can you help me open the vault?"

The array spirit nodded, having heard Li Tianyi’s final arrangements and seen Lin Jing repel foreign enemies.

"Please enter, city lord." The array spirit was the final safeguard of the Immortal City treasure vault, and now Lin Jing could easily command it to open the vault doors with his proxy city lord status.

......

Soon after entering the treasure vault, Lin Jing was dazzled by the variety of resources inside.

"No wonder the Cang Hai Immortal Spirit wanted to hold onto Immortal City so desperately after dealing with Li Tianyi!"

Lin Jing took a deep breath, looking at each jade platform enveloped in immortal light with great envy.

The first level of this treasure vault contained at least dozens of ordinary immortal sources. Besides that, there were rare resources native to the source world scattered everywhere.

The most important thing is that as Lin Jing ventured to higher levels, he discovered many remnants of spirit monsters from the source world were also sealed here!

It’s known that source world spirit monsters are born with intelligence from natural elements like mountains and rivers. Even in death, they are top-tier resources.

The Cultivation Alliance, constantly dealing with source world spirit monsters, had collected countless spirit monster remnants.

These items... are excellent materials for alchemy, artifact refining, and enhancing cultivation techniques and magic.

"Such pure dark power..."

Suddenly, Lin Jing looked to the top of the treasure building, furrowing his brows, and quickly ascended. There, he saw a fox sealed inside a large black amber.

This fox seemed composed entirely of black mist, with nine tails emitting deep, dark waves, but it seemed lifeless.

"Array spirit, what is this?" Lin Jing called for the array spirit, and it immediately appeared.

"City lord, I have a name; I’m called Qiuqiu." The array spirit said earnestly.

"Hmm, array spirit, what is this?" Lin Jing asked.

"This is the ’Dark Emperor,’ a spirit monster of the source world. A very formidable monster, it was the intellect born of ’darkness.’ It was supposedly the most powerful monster after the Cang Hai Immortal Spirit and the Meteor Star Immortal Spirit."

"At the time, both ’White Emperor’ and ’Dark Emperor’ were born simultaneously, with astounding potential, but they were at odds and constantly clashed. Meanwhile, the Cang Hai Immortal Spirit and the Meteor Star Immortal Spirit, who had earlier established dominance, attacked them during their confrontation, fearing they might threaten their status."

"The battle turned the heavens and earth upside down. The Celestial Demon Sect and the Cultivation Alliance seized the opportunity to join the fray. In the end, both the White Emperor and the Dark Emperor perished; the White Emperor disintegrated and returned to nature, possibly to be born anew in thousands of years. The remnant of the Dark Emperor was seized by the Cultivation Alliance, and it did not completely vanish."

"However, since then, no top-notch prodigy in Immortal City has cultivated a technique corresponding to its attributes, leaving the Dark Emperor’s remains in the vault as an exchange item until now..." With that, Array Spirit Qiuqiu’s explanation left Lin Jing deep in thought.

Lin Jing said, "I want this thing."

"Huh?" Array Spirit Qiuqiu was puzzled, "City lord, do you want this Dark Emperor remnant?"

"Hmm," Lin Jing nodded, "there should have been alliance prodigies in Immortal City who cultivated dark-attribute techniques, but the value of the Dark Emperor remnant is too high. Unless they were city lord-level prodigies, they wouldn’t have had enough contributions to exchange for it."

Yet, as it happened, there weren’t any city lord-level prodigies who cultivated dark-attribute techniques.

It’s fortunate that the Cultivation Alliance seized it; had the Celestial Demon Sect gotten it, it would’ve been used long ago.

The reason Lin Jing sensed it immediately was that his Celestial Demon Primordial Spirit had suddenly reacted, as if the Dark Emperor remnant was a great tonic for it.

How lucky I am.

"I have a way to ’revive’ the Dark Emperor. With its power, if the two immortal spirits attack, it could provide substantial assistance," Lin Jing said.

"Eh?" Array Spirit Qiuqiu was surprised, "Can the secret art control the corpse of a spirit monster? But even so, this Dark Emperor remnant shouldn’t be as valuable as an immortal beast corpse, right?"

Lin Jing said, "Children shouldn’t ask too many questions."