Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 29: The Inner Gate Test

"absurd!"

The news of Lin Jing eating to his heart's content in the outer sect cafeteria reached many people, including Elder Li Hai who founded the Monster Hunting Hall.

After learning that it was indeed Elder Yu who gave the green light, he said, "This Lin Jing must have a special physique, right? Even if he does, this preferential treatment is too much."

"The more talented a disciple is, the more he should grow through great trials. Taking too good care of him will only waste his talent. Throughout history, the majority of people have achieved great supernatural powers with mortal bodies."

“Master, we can’t help it. How many geniuses with special physiques are willing to join the Beast Taming Sect? Now that someone is willing to join, the sect must treat him well.” An eagle demon next to him said, “Except for this person and Ouyang Hao, all the geniuses with special physiques brought back by Elder Mo have successfully established their foundations and become true disciples. If we don’t treat them well, it will definitely chill their hearts.”

"Of course I can give you preferential treatment." Elder Li said, "But there has to be a limit! The performance of the disciples of the Demon Hunting Hall during their training in the Great Wilderness has made me more determined. When cultivating immortals... character should come first!"

“Look at Luo Yu. His aptitude is average, but he used his ruthlessness, fighting spirit, and wisdom to induce two ninth-level Qi training monsters to kill each other. In the end, he, a small cultivator in the middle stage of Qi training, took advantage of the situation and obtained the monster blood to temper his body!”

"No, even though I don't know what Lin Jing's situation is or what his physique is like, I can't watch him fall into such depravity! I'll go ask him if he wants to join the Demon Hunting Hall!"

"Master, this is Elder Mo's man. Can you beat him?" The eagle demon looked at Elder Li who stood up.

"I can't beat him?" Elder Li looked at the Eagle Demon with cold eyes: "Except for the Sect Master and those Yuanying ancestors, who am I afraid of in the same realm?"

"You are not afraid, but I am the one who gets beaten." The Eagle Demon said, "Master, let's wait until after the inner sect assessment. If that boy doesn't perform well, you have a reason to come and train him again, right?"

"That's fine." Elder Li said, "Just wait until after the assessment."

Fortunately, Elder Mo and Elder Yu did not know what Elder Li was thinking, otherwise, they would have beaten to a pulp this old bastard who wanted to make the Immortal Body suffer for nothing.

……

in the courtyard.

Lin Jing patted his belly and lay on the bamboo chair, looking at things.

What he was looking at was...the announcement of the internal examinations in previous years.

Over the years, the format of the inner sect promotion assessment has remained largely the same, and the elders are too lazy to come up with new ideas every year. At most, they would make some minor changes while keeping the general rules unchanged.

"When you sign up, your cultivation level will be checked. Only if either the beastmaster or the pet has reached the seventh level of Qi training or above, can you participate in the survival trial!"

"For the survival trial, the Beast Taming Sect will throw the outer disciples who meet the requirements to the outskirts of the Great Wilderness and require them to survive there for three days."

"During this process, disciples can earn assessment points. The stronger the monsters they kill, the higher the points they will get. At the same time, we also encourage disciples to compete with each other. Eliminating other disciples can earn more points than hunting monsters!"

"But the highest score... is still for conquering monsters!"

“If we can make wild monsters follow us and recognize our master in the wilderness, we can get far more points than killing monsters and eliminating other disciples!” Lin Jing thought of the process of Brother Ouyang taming the tiger monster.

"Finally... after three days, the eight people with the highest scores passed the assessment."

"And this...is not over yet! The eight people who passed the assessment need to choose the inner peak they want to join and undergo a 'talent assessment'."

"If you choose Danxia Peak, the elders of Danxia Peak will let the disciple have some initial contact with alchemy. If the efficiency of learning alchemy is not high during this period, and if there is no talent in this area, Danxia Peak will not accept the disciple and will throw him to other peaks."

Lin Jing looked at the resources that could be exchanged for the assessment points from previous years.

He found that there were indeed storage bags, and the largest one was actually ten cubic meters! However, he also found that the points required to redeem the storage bag were too exaggerated. Even if he hunted dozens of ninth-level Qi training monsters, he probably couldn't afford it.

This clearly means... that he didn't intend to exchange it for his disciples!

"It is foreseeable that the storage bags that Elder Black Bear will send later will definitely not be able to satisfy the pine leaf rats." With the speed at which pine leaf rats stock up, if the storage bags were filled with some ordinary spiritual rice and spiritual beans, they would not be enough.

"Before I contracted it, I promised to give it a storage bag. This opportunity... is the most suitable one."

"Two months later... the inner sect examination!"

Lin Jing's eyes flickered.

"I have hardly heard of any disciple getting into trouble during the promotion assessments over the years. If nothing unexpected happened, the assessment must have been conducted under the protection of the elders, and the periphery of the Great Wilderness must have been specially cleared. In this case, perhaps we can be a little bolder."

……

With a new goal in mind, Lin Jing continued to prepare for the inner sect promotion assessment with Songyeshu.

Originally, their daily routine should have been to practice, stock up on supplies, and eat in the cafeteria, but because Elder Yu was worried that Lin Jing and his friends would always go to the cafeteria to eat and drink excessively, which would have a bad influence, he gave Lin Jing the same privileges as the wild beasts that the sect had subdued.

Home delivery, meal delivery.

Lin Jing and his friends no longer have to go to the cafeteria by themselves. Every day at mealtime, the cafeteria will pack a large amount of food and send it to Lin Jing.

Neither Lin Jing nor Songyeshu had expected that the boring life of cultivating immortals... could be so joyful.

Time flies like an arrow.

In a blink of an eye, more than two months passed. Lin Jing became more and more accustomed to his new life in the Beast Taming Sect. After a few months of getting along, he and the pine leaf rat had a better understanding and were more dependent on each other. He didn't know if it was because of the pine leaf rat that even Lin Jing wanted to stock up some resources.

After two months, Songyeshu's cultivation successfully reached the seventh level of Qi training, and Lin Jing's cultivation also reached the third level of Qi training, mainly because the resources they enjoyed every day were enough to rival the true teachings.

With such a huge amount of resources, other pets or cultivators with outstanding talents might have already reached the peak of Qi training. But on their side, the pine leaf mouse simply put a lot of energy into stockpiling... Although its cultivation level did not improve much, it filled the storage bag that Elder Black Bear sent later to the brim, without a single gap.

Take out any one of them at random, and it will be a trump card for other Qi-cultivating practitioners, and it... has a bag of them.

In the eyes of Songyeshu, this is more important than cultivating to the ninth level of Qi training. It gives him a full sense of security and peace of mind.

As for Lin Jing, he was simply restricted by his immortal body. Even though he had abundant resources and the feedback from the pine leaf rat, he was still a little short of the fourth level of Qi training. Although it was more difficult to break through from the early to middle stages than from the lower levels, no matter what... he was still in the Qi training stage, which was the easiest stage to cultivate among the many realms.

Lin Jing estimated that if he did not obtain the complete beast taming technique and contract more pets, the pine leaf rat alone might not be able to carry him.

"Let's go."

Today is the registration day for the inner gate examination. After the registration is completed, I will probably go to the examination location.

Lin Jing greeted the pine leaf mouse.

"Squeak!" The pine leaf mouse stretched out his arms and put on a Taoist robe. It was not the one that Elder Black Bear wore, but one that Lin Jing imitated himself... He hung the storage bag on the inside of the robe to make it more convenient to carry.

"By the way, take this too." Lin Jing walked to the spiritual rice and picked up a palm-sized bamboo turtle watering can with a cannon on its back that sprayed water.

(End of this chapter)