Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 334 The root of the problem
The list of the most fortunate.

It was created by the second-generation ancient emperor using the supreme treasure Golden Bell as its core, combined with the True Dragon Secret Technique and the Heavenly Secret Technique for a second refinement.

This ranking will automatically sense the competition among the geniuses who are still in their prime cultivation years within a realm, and then arrange the list accordingly, so that those with higher strength can enjoy more favor from the world's fortune.

If any of the prodigies engage in battle in observable areas of the Tianyuan Continent, and there are no extraordinary experts to help conceal the secrets of heaven, they can basically be detected by the Fortune Ranking.

In rare cases, the Fortune Ranking cannot be sensed, such as when a prodigy enters a grotto-heaven or other independent space.

However, the Golden List is, after all, a treasure crafted by human hands. Although it is bound to the fortune of a realm to some extent, the second-generation ancient emperor did not take all the circumstances into account when it was crafted.

Therefore, in addition to its normal operation, there is a sleeping spirit within the Fortune Ranking, responsible for adjusting the ranking.

"What's wrong."

Several years after the start of the Golden Age, the spirit of the Golden Ranking awakened for the first time, causing the ranking to malfunction and lose its ability to rank members independently.

"let me see."

The golden dragon-shaped artifact sensed something and discovered the problem lay in the twelfth place on the current gold list, where the dragon carp had defeated the Buddhist disciple!
"what."

Based on the shape and color of its aura, the dragon carp is a member of the Demon Court and has also signed a contract with another person, thus being recognized by the rules of the Heavenly Origin Realm as being one with that person.

However, since Longli was making its debut on the list and was competing alone, the Golden List included Longli's name as the main subject of the list.

Now, the Golden List Spirit has learned that the beast tamer of this dragon carp is using the power of the beast taming contract to suppress the dragon carp's strength and then beat it up!

Therefore... the current Golden List is malfunctioning. It's unclear whether to retain Long Li's place and add Lin Jing to the Golden List, or to let Lin Jing's name replace Long Li's name.

This is something the second-generation ancient emperor did not consider at all when he first started refining it.

"I see." The spirit of the artifact fell into deep thought.

"That carp's ability to defeat the Buddhist monks on its own is its skill..."

"My purpose is to cultivate geniuses for the Tianyuan Realm, so that the stronger geniuses can enjoy the favor of fortune and receive cultivation bonuses. If their positions are merged, only the main body can enjoy the fortune bonuses, which is not fair to one of them."

"Well, let this beast tamer take its place, and let it step down one place. It's just an isolated case, it shouldn't affect the Fortune Ranking. There's no need to ask the Ancient Emperor for permission for such a trivial matter."

After careful consideration, the spirit of the artifact acknowledged the fact that Lin Jing had defeated the dragon carp.

It believed that if a prodigy couldn't even defeat a pet beast without the assistance of a beast-taming cultivator, they should step aside and leave the world's fortune to individuals with stronger talent and potential.

Meanwhile, at the same time, the Burial Immortal Volcano...

The dragon carp was in great distress. Without a doubt, its strength was definitely above Lin Jing's, after all, it had already reached the Nascent Soul stage, while Lin Jing was only at the Golden Core stage.

The problem is that it has a beast-taming contract with Lin Jing. With this contract in place, it cannot unleash its full power as long as Lin Jing has a single thought.

If it were an ordinary beast-taming cultivator, Long Li would have been able to ignore the contract restrictions with the advantage of being a whole realm higher. However, Lin Jing was at the thirteenth level of Qi Refining and had also cultivated a beast-taming body. The suppression effect of the contract was far stronger than that of an ordinary beast tamer. Therefore, it was quite normal for Long Li to be defeated by Lin Jing.

“Looks like this won’t work—” However, Lin Jing looked at the Fortune Ranking and found that there was no change.

Is it true that you can't get on the list even if you defeat the pet that made it to the top of the rankings? Even ranking coverage is impossible.

Just as Lin Jing was about to give up and decide to try to climb the rankings through official channels, a faint glow spread across the sky above the golden rankings, and a change finally occurred. Many cultivators across Tianyuan noticed this, indicating that the rankings on the golden rankings had changed again. Many cultivators focused their attention, wanting to see which prodigy had made further progress in strength.

However, the monks fell silent the next moment.

Ranking twelfth on the Fortune Ranking, Lin Jing, cultivation level: mid-Golden Core stage, reason for ranking: defeated his contracted pet dragon carp...

On the Fortune Ranking, he ranked thirteenth, a dragon carp, with a cultivation level at the early Nascent Soul stage...

Cultivators from all over: ? ? ?
"Huh?" Not to mention all the cultivators in the world, even Lin Jing himself was dumbfounded. It's really something, but the Golden List reacted way too slowly this time.

Is the computing power insufficient?

And now, this scene has completely dispelled the previous doubts. This dragon carp is indeed the pet beast of the Holy Son of the Demon Court that has mastered the fire-type rare beast divine power!

A Buddhist disciple was actually killed single-handedly by a pet beast from the forest!
"Damn it, what's going on with this Golden List? How can Beast Taming cultivators and their pets be listed together? Shouldn't they be considered as one entity? Also, if a Beast Tamer defeats their contracted pet, shouldn't it be due to the contract's suppression? Is this kind of power, which can only be applied to pets, considered strength? If pets are considered part of their strength, then why are pets listed separately?"

"What kind of tricks is this Holy Son of the Demon Court playing?"

Many prodigies broke through their defenses, almost all because of Lin Jing's intervention, which caused their rankings to drop by one place.

In particular, the Golden Core Perfection prodigy who was squeezed out of the top 100 cursed loudly.

Ancient country.

above the hall.

Soon after, the ancient emperor also received feedback from the cultivators below, saying that it was somewhat inappropriate for beast tamers and pets to be listed together.

"This was the decision of the spirit of the Golden List, and there is nothing wrong with it."

Faced with this situation, the ancient emperor did not choose to change the rules of the Fortune Ranking, but instead accepted the ranking of the artifact spirits.

After the court session ended, the second-generation ancient emperor shook his head. It wasn't that he favored Lin Jing, but the Golden Fortune Ranking had already been formed, and modifying the rules would require some effort. Right now, his main body was supporting the boundary wall outside the heavens, and the power of his current avatar was limited. Since the Golden Fortune Ranking could still operate normally, and only some minor accidents had occurred, ignoring them wouldn't have a significant impact.

Moreover, if he did that, the Second Ancient Emperor believed that the tigress of the Demon Court would definitely not let it go.

Since that's the case, let's leave it at that.

He looked at the list of successful candidates. The first and second place winners were a prince and a princess from an ancient clan. Since they could not affect the ancient clan, it was fine.

"A rare beast? To be able to defeat that solar-bodied prodigy from the Buddhist sect with only the early Nascent Soul stage, its rare beast abilities must be extremely powerful. What a pity, what a pity." The ancient emperor shook his head. It was a pity that fate had other plans. This immortal body was destined to be unrelated to the ancient kingdom.

However, the ancient emperor only felt a slight pity, because even if Lin Jing were still in the ancient kingdom, he would not go all out to cultivate the immortal body, or even the rare beast dragon carp.

Compared to the forest realm, the ancient emperor cared more about the prodigies of the ancient clans and his own descendants.

He took out a secret technique.

"True Dragon Secret Techniques: Physique Chapter": Cultivation requires terrifying world fortune power, and with the help of the Breakthrough Bird, one can break through the limits of the divine body and evolve a strong physique to the level of the immortal body.

"With the arrival of the Golden Age, the world's fortune has surged. The True Dragon Secret Technique: Immortal Body Chapter left by the late emperor finally has the conditions for cultivation. As long as the two of them can gather the power of the ancient clans and the Heavenly Origin and cultivate the 'Acquired Immortal Body,' neither demons nor rare beasts will be able to shake the foundation of the ancient kingdom..."

(End of this chapter)