Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 188: Ten Years of Foundation Building
When Lin Jing's cultivation level reached the thirteenth level of Qi training, before he could even have time to be surprised, he suddenly felt as if his whole body was about to explode, and his entire body seemed to be swelling up.

"Build the foundation."

Noticing Lin Jing's abnormality, Shen Song immediately said, "It seems that your current physical condition cannot withstand the power of the thirteenth level of Qi training. Quickly compress your Qi and build your foundation."

"You don't have a special physique that can carry a huge amount of true energy. Although the Ice Soul Gu has improved your body to a certain extent, carrying the power of the twelfth level of Qi training is already the limit."

"Though you have raised your realm to the thirteenth level of Qi training through the means of the universe, you cannot stay in this realm for too long. However, your goal has been achieved, and now you should just build your foundation!"

"Okay." Upon hearing this, Lin Jing sat down cross-legged and began to build his foundation before he had the chance to congratulate Long Li. He did not need any foundation-building pills or natural treasures to build his foundation at the thirteenth level of Qi training. This unparalleled foundation would help him build his foundation more than anything else.

Those are just external forces, and the thirteenth level of Qi training is his own foundation! Of course, given his current situation, it seems impossible to accumulate more foundation, and he has reached the extreme.

At this moment, Lin Jing, who was sitting cross-legged, was like the center of a black hole. The thirteen layers of Qi whirlpools around him were spinning wildly. The huge amount of spiritual energy from heaven and earth poured into his body, making Lin Jing's expression ferocious.

"You three."

Shen Song was worried sick, and shouted to Songyeshu, Longli who had successfully transformed into a dragon, and Bingpo Gu: "Protect him, use the power of the contract to input your true essence into him, and help him compress his true energy. At the same time, when he succeeds in building his foundation, you can continue to break through."

"The resources you absorb during the Qi training and foundation building stages can improve your cultivation far beyond your current realm. Once you are no longer bound by his contract, your cultivation realm will advance by leaps and bounds!"

The pine leaf mouse has absorbed a large amount of the life essence of high-grade plants and trees...

The Ice Soul Gu absorbed the power of an entire extremely cold land...

As for the dragon carp, it absorbed a huge amount of latent dragon luck and the power of the dragon emperor's blood...

The current initial stage of foundation building is far from their limit.

With the breakthrough in Lin Jing, their cultivation realm will also usher in a second explosive outburst.

"Roar!!!" The dragon carp, no, the fire scale dragon, relying on the blood of the Dragon Emperor, easily controlled the size of its body, and quickly shrunk to the thickness of an arm and landed on one side of the forest.

The Ice Soul Gu also came out, glanced at the Fire Scale Dragon, and then silently protected Lin Jing and did not disturb Lin Jing's foundation building within his body.

The pine leaf mouse also sat cross-legged on one side of the forest. The three pets protected the forest in the center and entered a "seclusion" state together, digesting the foundation accumulated during their practice.

"This kid is still too greedy."

Seeing Lin Jing's state, Shen Song said to himself, "The thirteenth level of Qi training... Given his situation, it seems difficult to control. Originally, he could easily build a foundation with the twelfth level of Qi training, but now, with the burden of his immortal body, he will probably have to retreat for a long time before he can successfully stabilize his foundation."

"But once it succeeds, the benefits it will bring will be unimaginable. I just don't know to what extent it can improve his three major physical qualities."

"No matter what, I've been working so hard for so long, I can finally have a good sleep..."

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Time flies and years pass.

Qianlong City, Qianlong Academy.

Ten years have passed since Lin Jing, the saint of the Beast Taming Sect and a student of the academy, won first place in the Battle of Prodigies and topped the list of Prodigies.

Since the Battle of Tianjiao, Lin Jing returned to the academy to meditate, as if he had disappeared from the face of the earth. There has been no news of him for ten years. Many people speculate that Lin Jing has been hiding in the academy to avoid the evil cultivators of the Gushen Sect.

People guessed half right, because even if he was hiding in the academy, he would not hide his face at all. The teachers and students in the academy had not seen Lin Jing for ten years. During these ten years, Lin Jing had been in seclusion.

The barrier outside the cave and the sacred pine trees that protect the way block anyone who wants to visit the forest.

"Retreat to build your foundation."

This is Shensong's response to visitors.

This made some of Lin Jing's old friends a little confused. They had heard of a ten-year seclusion for building the foundation to achieve the Golden Core, and they had heard of a ten-year seclusion for the Golden Core to achieve the Nascent Soul. But they had never heard of a seclusion for so long for Qi training to break through the foundation. What kind of foundation was this?

"City Lord Xu."

"Senior Xu..." The academy is the stronghold of the Dragon Palace organization. Xu Zhizhi, who has now achieved golden elixir, has graduated for many years and serves as the lord of a city in the ancient domain. However, although he has become the lord of a city, he will occasionally return to the academy to check on the development of the Dragon Palace organization and make connections.

Lin Jing went into seclusion in a hurry, so he didn't leave behind many Shenglong Pills, nor did he have time to spread the method of refining Shenglong Pills. As a result, although many new students from the academy wanted to join Dragon Palace after Lin Jing became the number one on the Tianjiao List, Dragon Palace had no choice but to choose the elite route and no longer recruit large numbers of people.

The Dragon Palace is no longer an organization that helps new students train powerful dragon pets. Instead, it has become a gathering place for some geniuses who want to make friends with the forest realm. The dragon pet is just a symbol of the identity of a Dragon Palace cultivator.

"It's you two." Xu Zhizhi saw the brother and sister in front of him and said, "Middle stage of foundation building... You are both in the middle stage of foundation building, but Lin Jing hasn't succeeded in building his foundation yet? I am also convinced."

"Maybe the senior is practicing some special magical skills. How dare we compare with him?" The twins of the Jiang family smiled bitterly.

The two people in front of him were none other than the twins of the Jiang family that Lin Jing had brought back from the airspace to raise the Ice Soul Gu. In the past ten years, they had been with Gao Sheng and had both reached the middle stage of foundation building. With Gao Sheng's help, they entered Qianlong Academy and managed the Dragon Palace on behalf of the first batch of elders.

Ten years ago, after learning from Gao Sheng the truth about Lin Jing's contract with the Ice Soul Gu, the two became more willing to follow Lin Jing.

It’s just that... Lin Jing is too good at seclusion.

"I hope so. In the past ten years, the number one on the Tianjiao List has changed three or four times..." Xu Zhizhi shook his head and looked in the direction of Lin Jing's cave.

Ten years may not be a big deal for cultivators above the Jindan stage, but for the human ranking centered on geniuses under the age of thirty who have established their foundation, Lin Jing is already a legendary figure from a long time ago. Many new geniuses first want to challenge this legendary figure, Lin Jing, but unfortunately they have never been able to meet him.

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At the same time, in Linjing Cave.

Lin Jing himself didn’t even know that he had been practicing for ten years. While practicing, he had completely lost his sense of time.

He had successfully established his foundation some time ago, and was now consolidating his cultivation realm and calming down the turbulent sea of ​​true essence and spirit.

The process of compressing his true energy was far more difficult than he had imagined, but with repeated compressions, Lin Jing felt that all aspects of himself had been incomparably improved.

For example, the immortal body is no longer as simple as entering the minor stage, but is approaching the major stage. The lifespan is no longer as simple as ten times that of the cultivators at the same level. Just after building the foundation, the lifespan has reached a terrifying five thousand years, comparable to the cultivator Kongxuan. This is the terrifying bonus of the thirteenth level of Qi training foundation for special physiques.

In addition, the Ice Soul Body and the Beast Taming Body that Lin Jing obtained from the Ice Soul Gu were directly perfected, allowing Lin Jing to obtain ice power comparable to that of a golden elixir and the ability to suppress the beast of a demon elixir with his momentum without relying on the power of a pet beast during the foundation-building period.

The only thing that made Lin Jing feel pity was that after building his foundation, no new contract blood was born. Perhaps he would have to form a pill before he could contract the next pet.

"My realm is finally stabilized, I'm in the middle stage of foundation building... As expected!" Lin Jing opened his eyes and found that his three pets also had their eyes closed, practicing beside him.

Pine Leaf Rat, late stage of foundation building.

Ice Soul Gu, late stage of foundation building.

Fire Scale Dragon, late stage of foundation building.

The three pets have all reached the late stage of foundation building. Lin Jing can sense that these pets helped him a lot during his breakthrough, otherwise he might have to spend a longer time compressing his true energy... This damn immortal body has such a hard time breaking through, but the biggest reason is that he overestimated the upper limit of his own true energy carrying capacity, which resulted in him spending a lot of effort to compress the surging true energy.

Fortunately... Lin Jing was very satisfied with the increase in strength. The current cultivation level of his pets also made Lin Jing smile. Without the restrictions of his contract, they indeed broke through faster, allowing him to reach the middle stage from the early stage of foundation building!

But suddenly, his smile came to an abrupt end.

"Senior Shensong, how long has it been since I made the breakthrough?"

"Hehe, ten years." The voice of Shensong who was still asleep came from the void.

"You should let them consolidate their realm, and you yourself... I'll sleep for a while."

Lin Jing fell into silence, but then he shook his head. Just ten years, which was nothing compared to his current lifespan of five thousand years.

"Then let's continue to consolidate our strength before leaving. After all, it's been ten years, so there's no need to rush."

He took out two books of secret techniques and prepared to study them further.

One is the "Demon Body" of the Devil Sect. If you practice this, you can make use of your lifespan advantage. The other is the "Beast Transformation Treasure", the second of the three beast-controlling secrets of the Beast-controlling Sect. If you practice this, you don't need to refine magic weapons at all...

(End of this chapter)