Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 317 Ghost Town
In order to better understand the Ghost Bride's Dao and thus better utilize her power, Thunder Dragon Ancestor and Lin Jing subsequently arrived at the Ghost Bride's stronghold, which was the Buddhist City occupied by the Ghost Bride.

After learning about the ghost bride, the Buddhist community gave up fighting her.

Firstly, because the Ghost Bride's strength has reached the Void Profound level, the price to pay for completely suppressing her might be too high.

The second and most important reason is that Buddhism has realized that the form of the ghost bride is unstable. In this unstable state, the ghost bride may collapse and perish after a period of time.

Since there is hope of waiting for the Ghost Bride to perish on her own without bloodshed, there is no need to pay a huge price to subdue her.

However, what the Buddhist sect could never have imagined was that, by sheer coincidence, the marriage certificate that Lin Jing brought from the ancient kingdom successfully helped the ghost bride stabilize her form, transforming her into a ghost with absolute dominance.

"There are still six months left, Your Highness. In these six months, as long as you get a basic understanding of the Way of Obsession, you will be able to better integrate with the power of the Ghost Bride. Combined with your advantages, no one will be your match in the Golden Light Gu assessment."

The role of the Thunder Dragon Ancestor is not limited to providing blood for body tempering; his cultivation experience along the way is enough to serve as a teacher for Lin Jing and the Ghost Bride.

Within the ghost town.

Lin Jing looked at the ghost bride who was walking absentmindedly ahead and asked, "Senior, have you remembered your name?"

“Tang Ling,” the ghost bride said.

"Senior, you're thinking about your fiancée, aren't you? Does she have a name? Only with more information can we find traces of her."

"My Demon Court can help you search, senior."

The ghost bride shook her head: "All I can remember is that she was a sword cultivator with great talent. That's all I can recall."

"Sword cultivators..." Lin Jing and Thunder Dragon Ancestor exchanged glances, the scope of which was far too broad.

The ghost bride must have lived 50,000 years ago.

Fifty thousand years ago, even the Lord of the Demon Court and the first ancient emperor had not yet been born. It would have been extremely difficult to find any trace of a sword cultivator during that chaotic period.

However, since it is something that has already happened, there are ways to resolve it.

The Ancient Kingdom's Heavenly Secrets Tower is said to be able to predict the future, so it's not impossible for it to also rewind to the past.

The ancient kingdom's Tianji Tower is not the only entity that possesses similar abilities to the Dao of Time. Among the demon beast races, there are also demon beasts who are proficient in the Dao of Time.

Lin Jing thought for a moment and said, "After leaving the Western Desert, I will seek out a powerful expert in my Demon Court who is proficient in the Dao of Time to help you travel back in time and find her whereabouts."

"Thank you." The ghost bride's blood-red eyes softened a bit as she looked at Lin Jing, though it was still terrifying to Lin Jing.

"Next, I will help you comprehend the 'Way of Obsession.' In my understanding, the Way of Obsession is an unshakable thought, even in death. Even if you die, you must become a ghost and crawl out to complete a certain task."

She stopped and looked at Ancestor Leilong and Lin Jing. Through Ancestor Leilong's explanation, she had gained a deeper understanding of the Path of Obsession.

She also understood why the Thunder Dragon Ancestor said that if her obsession wasn't extinguished, she would have a hard time dying completely.

However, after glancing at Ancestor Leilong and Lin Jing, she shook her head.

“You don’t have any strong obsessions,” the Ghost Bride commented on the Thunder Dragon Ancestor.

The Thunder Dragon Ancestor twitched its whiskers. Indeed, its greatest obsession before was to see the demon race revive. It valued the revival of the demon race more than its own breakthrough to the Dao. This should also be the obsession of most of the powerful demons. However, with the advent of the Transformation Pill, its obsession has weakened considerably.

"And you, without any strong desires, it is actually very difficult for you to comprehend my Dao. In half a year, I'm afraid you won't achieve anything."

The ghost bride also saw that Lin Jing's personality was extremely carefree. Having grown up to this point, he hadn't let anything cause him to become obsessed. Such a foundation wasn't suitable for exploring the path of obsession.

"No obsessions?" Upon hearing this, Ancestor Leilong looked at Lin Jing. No, it's one thing for him, but as the human race with the most complex thoughts and emotions, how could he not have obsessions!
The Thunder Dragon Ancestor asked, "Your Highness, is there nothing you wish to pursue?"

Standing amidst the ruins of the ghost city, Lin Jing shook his head: "Does strength count? But as for persistence, I wasn't overly persistent. When I first entered Qingzhou, I was perhaps eager to improve my strength to protect myself, but after being protected by the Demon Court, my mindset during cultivation became much more relaxed."

"I don't have any particular desire to become the number one on the mainland or to ascend to immortality."

"This is going to be difficult..." Old Ancestor Lei Long was taken aback. Lin Jing possessed the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, and Old Ancestor Lei Long originally thought that with the Ghost Bride's cooperation, Lin Jing would be able to gain a preliminary understanding of the Dao of Obsession within half a year.

However, judging from Lin Jing's current mindset, it is completely incompatible with the Dao of Obsession, which may greatly increase the difficulty of comprehending it.

However, the ghost bride found another angle the next moment.

"Although it has no obsession, there seems to be something else inside it, and the obsessions of those two things are very strong."

"It may have already reached the point where, if it is not completed, the person will die with their eyes wide open and be resurrected as a vengeful ghost."

"Hmm?" Lin Jing and Thunder Dragon Ancestor were taken aback when the Ghost Bride finished speaking.

"Senior Tang Ling, you mean..." Lin Jing pulled out the Pine Leaf Rat and the Ice Soul Gu.

"squeak!!"

"what?"

The pine leaf rats and ice soul gu, which were constantly stockpiling and absorbing the power of the lightning tribulation gu, landed on Lin Jing's shoulders, one on each side.

“That’s right, it’s those two.” The ghost bride looked over.

"The intensity of their obsession is... terrifyingly strong."

Lin Jing fell into deep thought, glancing left and right at the Pine Leaf Rat and the Ice Soul Gu.

He could roughly guess that the pine needle rat's obsession was probably hoarding.

The thought of filling all its storage equipment, including the demon core space, was on its mind. After all, the leaf rat could even forget about cultivation in order to hoard goods.

This was a strong predilection it possessed even before it was contracted.

And the Ice Soul Gu...

Lin Jingtian swept his divine sense across the Ice Soul Gu's heart. He had never done this before because he didn't want to invade the privacy of his pets, but now, the Ghost Bride's perception of the Ice Soul Gu's obsession was no less than that of the Pine Leaf Rat, so he wanted to take a look.

Deep within the Ice Soul Gu's heart, one could see that it possessed a spider-like body resembling ice crystals, with half of an ice maiden extending from its head.

With her countless legs, she suppressed the leaf rat and the dragon carp.

Within her crystalline body, she had frozen all nine extraordinary Gu, including the Thunder Tribulation Gu and the Golden Light Gu.

"So this is what this guy is obsessed with?" Lin Jing was speechless. The Ice Soul Gu's obsession seemed to be to devour the other nine strange Gu, gain absolute power, defeat the Pine Leaf Rat and the Dragon Carp, and even transform into a demon. All of this was within her obsession with becoming stronger.

(End of this chapter)