Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 20: Dragon and Beast Fight
Mechanical engineering.

The skills in the hundred arts of cultivating immortals also have different levels of difficulty. For example, taming beasts is relatively easy to get started.

Even if other cultivators do not practice the art of taming beasts and cannot sign a blood contract with spirit beasts, they still have other means, such as elixirs, magic weapons, and poison techniques to control monster beasts.

In addition to the Beast Taming Sect, it is also very common for cultivators from other sects to keep one or two pets or mounts.

As for the art of mechanical engineering, Lin Jing didn't know much, but he heard that Elder Yu had been obsessed with it for many years, but had never been able to create a mechanical beast with combat power comparable to that of his contracted pet.

"Elder Yu is planning to pass on his mechanical arts. He really loves it. However, I'm afraid no one in the Beast Taming Sect is willing to learn mechanical arts." Lin Jing crossed his arms across his chest and continued to look at the task announcement. From a rational point of view, mechanical beasts without intelligence are far inferior to pet beasts with their own ideas.

The upgrade of the mechanical beast depends entirely on the mechanical master himself. For some complex mechanical beasts, the mechanical master has to put in a lot of energy to control them during battle. It is also more difficult to repair a damaged mechanical beast. However, pet beasts... can not only practice on their own, but also fight on their own. Even if they are injured, there are healing pills and herbs that can be used, but mechanical beasts cannot take healing pills.

Mechanical beasts may have their own advantages, but they should have nothing to do with most of the Beast Taming Sect's disciples, because the Beast Taming Sect does not have any advanced skills suitable for practicing mechanical arts.

Lin Jing is currently learning "alchemy" and is at the stage of memorizing thousands of alchemy materials. He has not yet put it into practice and does not have the energy to learn the art of mechanical engineering for the time being.

Therefore, this reward is not particularly attractive to Lin Jing.

Although from a long-term perspective, it wouldn't hurt for the immortal to learn more.

"A bamboo dragon at the seventh level of Qi training should be able to deal with it."

He withdrew from the crowd. His cultivation was his cultivation, and his combat power was his combat power. Just like most types of cultivators who were both at the seventh level of Qi training were probably no match for a sword cultivator. However, the combination of the mechanical device and the dragon would not be weak.

However, the rare beast is even more powerful. Although the Glazed Fairy Eyes cannot allow the Pine Leaf Rat to fight for a long period of time, it gives it unimaginable suppression power during the Qi training stage. For example, the Spirit Bean Bomb synthesized by the Fairy Eyes using Spirit Beans is quite powerful, which scared the Black Bear Monster. It is powerful enough to severely damage it in the late stage of Qi training.

"Unfortunately, the rewards are not cumulative. Once you reach the final tier, you will not be able to claim the rewards for the previous tier."

In fact, the sixth tier reward, “Dragon Blood Pill”, is also pretty good.

This second-grade elixir is made from the blood of a dragon. After taking it, it can strengthen the blood of animals, and there is a small chance that it will produce dragon veins!

Of course, in terms of value, even without including the knowledge of mechanical arts, the "Mechanical Soul Core" alone would definitely be more than the Dragon Blood Pill. However, Lin Jing felt that if he obtained the "Mechanical Soul Core" and then sold it in exchange for a storage ring, Elder Yu would definitely be so angry that his beard would be crooked.

……

"There are still three days until the Shenglong Festival." After Lin Jing borrowed a book and returned to the yard, he glanced at the pine leaf mouse sitting cross-legged and practicing under a bare tree.

And... in the box behind it, there are piles of red flying leaves and spirit bean bombs!

Ever since discovering the power of the red flying leaves, the pine leaf rat no longer hoards spirit stones.

Its practice is to have more points and lines.

I went there early in the morning to ripen the magical rice and magical beans.

Afterwards, he sat aside and used spirit stones and spirit pills to replenish the energy consumed.

Then he synthesized the golden spiritual rice, lay in the rice pile, and ate the golden spiritual rice with a determined look on his face.

With the help of perfect digestion state, the nutrients brought by eating ordinary spiritual rice can be transformed to enhance spiritual power.

After you have eaten and drunk enough, you can synthesize red flying leaves and spirit bean bombs and stockpile them.

As a result, there are more and more red flying leaves and spirit bean bombs.

Resources such as spirit stones are becoming increasingly scarce.

But the pine leaf squirrel didn't care.

After all, no matter how many spirit stones it has, they cannot help it in battle, but red leaves can.

Songyeshu wanted to seize the opportunity of the Shenglong Festival to earn more resources and fight for the big with the small. With a spirit of hard work, it didn't take long for Songyeshu to use up most of the new resources sent by the sect this month, as well as the mission resources and the soul-boosting pills.

Unlike Lin Jing, with so many resources accumulated, the pine leaf mouse's cultivation results were gratifying. While synthesizing a bunch of trump cards, its own realm also began to approach the fifth level of Qi training.

Lin Jing didn't get any spirit stones. At most, he ate some leftover spirit rice and made himself some leaf fried rice.

If there is any difference between the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect and the cultivators of other sects in raising spiritual beasts, it must be that most of the disciples of the Beast Taming Sect give the best resources to their pet beasts, while the cultivators of other sects only give some leftover resources to their pets and mounts at most.

Lin Jing came back quietly without disturbing the pine leaf mouse. He sat aside and read a book.

Half a day later, Songyeshu stopped practicing and discussed with Lin Jing the rewards of the "Dragon and Beast Fight"...

When it learned that the best reward was mechanical skills and mechanical materials, it suddenly felt like the sky was falling.

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak!"

"Calm down, mechanical arts are not bad. You don't have to make mechanical beasts after learning them."

"Have you ever heard of 'machine gun'?"

"Using that thing to launch the spirit bean bomb will definitely consume less energy than throwing it with the Flying Leaf Technique."

With Lin Jing's comfort, time passed little by little.

……

In the blink of an eye.

It was the day of Thang Long Festival.

The dragon and beast fighting event starts at noon on the day of the Rising Dragon Festival.

In the courtyard, Lin Jing was wearing a long green gown, the standard attire for an outer sect disciple. On his shoulder squatted a pine leaf rat that had reached the "fifth level of Qi training" and had a troubled look on its face.

It looked at the sides of Lin Jing's Taoist robe and the slightly bulging cloth bags, which contained all its belongings.

When he thought about the upcoming battle, which might cause a large part of these belongings to disappear, Songyeshu felt an urge not to go.

"squeak……"

Lin Jing didn't care what it thought. Three days later, he came to the central square again.

There were more people here, and before the time came, the crowd and pets had already surrounded the square.

There were a large number of outer disciples wearing the same attire, of different ages. The youngest was just over ten years old, while the oldest already looked like an uncle. It was unclear whether it was because they were too old or just growing up too fast.

In the center of the square, a lifelike bamboo dragon was floating in the air with the help of a small wind magic formation.

Looking from the forest, this bamboo dragon is several meters long, and each bamboo scale sparkles with emerald green light. The dragon head is very delicate, and the two dragon eyes carefully carved from bamboo strips are bright and spirited; the dragon horns are made of tough bamboo joints, which are upright and sharp, adding a bit of majesty.

The dragon's mouth opened slightly, revealing the complex internal structure. You can vaguely see the delicate bamboo wheels and gears made of slender bamboo threads, as well as... a white dragon ball.

"It feels like the mechanical dragon Elder Yu created this time... is more carefully crafted than the mechanical dragons of previous years." A disciple whispered, looking at the bamboo dragon's body.

It was covered with staggered bamboo pieces, all of which looked like they had been finely polished. On the dragon's spine, rows of bamboo nodes were closely connected, forming smooth curves, just like the spine of a real dragon, making the entire mechanism structure look very smooth.

"Yes, this feeling doesn't seem like a Qi training beast at all. It's as if it's a foundation-building beast that was forcibly castrated to the Qi training stage." A disciple made malicious speculations.

"You should be overthinking it. It's a festival, we should celebrate it. Why would Elder Yu bother to make things difficult for us?"

(End of this chapter)