Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 313 Ghost Bride

"The ghost bride was suspected to be a cultivator with a Yin-gathering spirit body in her previous life."

This type of constitution possesses a cold and yin spiritual energy, making it extremely easy for them to transform into powerful ghosts after death.

The ghost bride appears as a spirit dressed in a red wedding gown, with a red veil obscuring her face. Due to her constitution, she became the vessel for countless ancient vengeful spirits after death.

"After the Golden Age descended, the Ghost Bride first appeared in Qibao City, one of the eighty-one Buddhist cities in the Western Desert. All the Buddhist cultivators who wanted to purify her were killed by the Ghost Bride, including the abbot of Qibao Temple, the Seven Treasure Ancestor, whose cultivation had reached the late stage of the Nascent Soul stage."

“Countless cultivators and civilians fled from Qibao City, and soon Qibao City became a ghost town.”

"Buddhist masters launched several attacks, and even a Void Profound Buddhist cultivator descended, attempting to reclaim Seven Treasures City, but all were repelled by the Ghost Bride. There is no doubt about the strength of the Void Profound..."

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"The second one, Ghostly Shadow."

"An invisible ghost, a shadowy body, apart from the ability to 'possess and take over other people', no other special abilities have been discovered so far."

"Possessing an almost unsolvable ability to seize the bodies of others, after the Golden Age descended, it broke free from the seal beneath Xianyuan Temple, occupied the body of a Nascent Soul abbot of Xianyuan Temple, and then left directly."

"When the Buddhist experts pursued it, this thing had already taken over the body of a lone demon ancestor in the Western Desert. The situation was already set and difficult to resolve."

"Their strength is difficult to estimate, and they are extremely dangerous."

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"The third one is the Demon Mother."

"Its appearance is that of a pink jellyfish spirit, born for reasons unknown, and it is a vessel ghost."

"Possesses the strange ability to enter various magical artifacts and weapons and become their spirits."

"After entering the magic weapon, the connection between the magic weapon and its master can be severed, and the magic weapon can unleash power far beyond ordinary reason."

"Because of the Ghost Mother's existence, there have been multiple incidents of 'magical artifacts devouring their masters' in the Western Desert. The highest known victim was a half-step Void Profound cultivator from Martial Emperor City who came to the Western Desert to forge Buddhist artifacts. He was killed by his own numerous magical artifacts..."

"Now, the Ghost Mother has become a mobile treasure trove, possessing countless magical artifacts, and is still collecting weapons."

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After observing these three beings, which were identified by Buddhism as ethereal and ghostly entities, Lin Jing fell into deep thought.

"This ghost bride is a humanoid ghost, not very suitable."

"Although this ghostly figure occupies the body of the Demon Ancestor, the demon beast is merely a shell, and it is impossible to determine whether the ghostly figure is essentially a demon or a ghost."

"As for this artifact ghost, the Ghost Mother, judging from its appearance, it is indeed a jellyfish or a sea beast, but it seems to be more bizarre than the other two."

"The Buddhist sect is really in a sorry state, hehe." The Thunder Dragon Ancestor, who was secretly watching from the side, couldn't help but say, "This is only a ghost at the Void Profound level, not even a demon with a physical form."

"So, Your Highness, which one should we capture?"

After a moment's thought, Lin Jing pointed to the information about the Ghost Mother and said, "I'm quite interested in this ghost. A weapon ghost that controls magical artifacts to kill people... Based on the information we have, it's the only one that can manifest the form of a demon beast. Its true nature in life might have been a jellyfish."

"I don't know why there are jellyfish in this desert."

The Thunder Dragon Ancestor thought, "This place wasn't a desert in ancient times, so it must have existed for a very long time. However, the first two ghosts each had their own territory, but this one is elusive and seems difficult to find..."

"Fishing will suffice." Lin Jing summoned the pine rat. After the little pine tree climbed onto Lin Jing's shoulder, Lin Jing said, "Since this ghost mother is a weapon ghost who likes to steal magical treasures and kill people, we can just take out enough weapons and magical treasures to fish."

"For the next period of time, I would like to ask Senior Lei Long to use his many high-level magic treasures to attract the attention of the Ghost Mother in the Western Desert."

"As for me, I will go into seclusion for a while longer to cultivate the Longevity Body to perfection."

"I will provide Senior Thunder Dragon with the magic weapon used for fishing."

Lin Jing has nothing else but a lot of magical treasures. He has obtained countless magical treasures and weapons in the battle of Tongtian City, all of which are stored in the demon core of the Pine Leaf Rat.

As for cultivating the Longevity Body to its full potential, Lin Jing is only one step away from achieving it.

Gu Qianqiu actually understood the Longevity Body better than Lin Jing. During the thousand years that the Tian Shi clan had been reduced to blood food, the Tian Shi clan had been using all its strength to improve Gu Qianqiu's Longevity Body skills.

This also allowed Gu Qianqiu to achieve the miracle of having already mastered the Longevity Body when he was only at the early stage of the Golden Core realm.

It should be noted that Lin Jing had a foundation of thirteen levels of Qi Refining and Foundation Establishment, but even when he reached the early stage of Golden Core, his Longevity Body was only at the peak of Minor Completion.

Of course, this does not mean that progress in the forest is slow.

Generally speaking, very few people with particularly powerful physiques can reach the pinnacle of cultivation during the Nascent Soul stage. Only those with lower-level physiques like attribute-based spiritual bodies have a chance to quickly achieve mastery in the early stages of cultivation by relying on external forces.

Under normal circumstances, a physique with such strength, comparable to that of a god, almost requires reaching the Nascent Soul stage to have any hope of achieving great success or even perfection.

If one can achieve great success and perfection before reaching the Nascent Soul stage, it means that this cultivator will have the ability to fight beyond their level by relying on their physique!
Although the Longevity Body is not a particularly powerful physique in terms of combat strength, in terms of effectiveness, it is absolutely comparable to the Divine Body. Lin Jing's mere few decades of cultivation have allowed him to approach the perfection of the Longevity Body, which is already quite remarkable.

Now, it is not difficult for him to break through to the Great Longevity Body, because he had already obtained all of Gu Qianqiu's experience in cultivating the Longevity Body before he formed his core.

However, improving his Longevity Body has never been Lin Jing's primary cultivation goal. He has never actively cultivated the Longevity Body, since improving the level of the Longevity Body, apart from increasing his lifespan, does not bring him any boost to his combat power.

Not only will it not bring any boost to combat power, it will also attract the covetous eyes of higher-level monsters.

My current lifespan is sufficient; a few thousand more years wouldn't make much difference.

Naturally, Lin Jing would prioritize strengthening himself through illusion techniques and body tempering.

However, the situation is somewhat different now.

He needed the life force from his greatly grown body to suppress the ghosts. Moreover, after breaking through to the Golden Core stage, Lin Jing's lifespan had more uses, namely, activating Golden Core supernatural powers and divine control techniques.

In this way, achieving the Great Perfection of the Longevity Body and gaining more lifespan would be more cost-effective, so Lin Jing decided to spend time breaking through.

"Alright..." Ancestor Leilong sighed, hoping that the Ghost Mother wasn't too strong. If he couldn't handle her, he would have to ask the Demon Emperor for help, which would be too embarrassing.

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Lin Jing chose to temporarily enhance his Longevity Body and had the Thunder Dragon Ancestor take charge of fishing for the Ghost Mother.

Qibao City.

The red-clad ghost bride, standing atop the ruins, stretched out her hand, asking in confusion, "The fluctuations of something from my past life..."

"Having found this might help me recover more memories." A piece of paper resembling a marriage certificate condensed in her palm before quickly dissipating.

(End of this chapter)