Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 378 The Ancient Emperor Accepts Disciples
"Cough cough."

Lin Jing entered the private room.

When the first ancient emperor saw that Lin Jing had finished, his eyes lit up and he said, "You're finally back. I thought I would never see you again, not even when I die."

"Let me introduce you to this young man I just met..."

Lin Jing was speechless for a moment, then coughed again, a cough that jolted Gao Sheng out of his drunken stupor.

After regaining some composure, Gao Sheng rubbed his head violently, his face turning pale and then purple, before bursting into a tirade: "Damn it, old man, you tricked me into telling you something..."

"Uh, wait a minute, Brother Lin, what are you doing here?!" Gao Sheng was surprised to find Lin Jing standing at the door.

"I was just about to say, what are you doing here?"

Gao Sheng quickly stood up, distancing himself from the first ancient emperor, and asked Lin Jing for help, saying, "Brother Lin, this old man is not a good person. He keeps trying to entice me to say things that are disrespectful to the ancient emperor and disloyal to the ancient country. He definitely has a problem... Please help me catch him. You know, I am an absolute supporter of the second ancient emperor."

"Although I was fooled, if word gets out, my entire family will be doomed."

Gao Sheng looked terrified; who knows what he'd been saying these past few days?

From palace gossip to the future of an ancient kingdom, he seemed to offer his sharp commentary on everything he could say.

Lin Jing was speechless... If you didn't actually have that intention, would you have been able to get drunk and tricked into revealing information?

"What's wrong with you, young man? You were the one who hugged me and insisted I listen, and now it's my fault." The First Ancient Emperor said displeasedly, "By the way, do you two know each other..."

"Don't worry," Lin Jing reassured Gao Sheng, saying, "This guy is one of us."

“I wasn’t here before, and he was wandering around Wudi City by himself. I didn’t expect you two to run into each other.”

"One of our own??" Gao Sheng was taken aback.

He looked at the first ancient emperor and said, "Could it be a transformed senior from the Demon Court?"

"Damn it, they're joining forces with the Demon Court and the Demon Clan to slander the ancient kingdom. If word gets out, I'll be in big trouble for the rest of my life."

Lin Jing waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, he is an ancient projection that I summoned with the Book of Gods, not a demon."

“Projection!” Gao Sheng wiped his sweat and said, “Then I’m relieved. It’s a dead man.”

He suddenly remembered something and looked at the First Generation, saying, "Could it be that you are Feng Ling, the founder of the Feng family?"

“No,” Lin Jing said.

"Although I have successfully summoned the ancestor of the Feng family, he has another identity."

"Huh?" Gao Sheng asked.

"The ancient Tianyuan Kingdom, the first ancient emperor..." Lin Jing looked at Gao Sheng helplessly.

Gao Sheng: "...?"

The next second, Gao Sheng fainted.

"Eh?" Upon seeing this, the First Ancient Emperor stroked his chin and said, "How come this kid's Dao heart is so poor? And you actually told him my identity. Are you on good terms with him?"

Lin Jing nodded and said, "Not bad. Your Majesty, you don't need to take it to heart whether he said a lot of treasonous things. Young people like to comment on politics, which is normal. If you really asked him to rebel, he definitely wouldn't."

The First Ancient Emperor laughed, "I've heard many interesting insights from him. Despite being a second-generation immortal, he's quite compassionate towards ordinary people. Even in my time, that was very rare." "Perhaps it's due to a genetic mutation. Brother Gao wasn't a normal person to begin with," Lin Jing said.

"anyway……"

The ancient emperor looked at Lin Jing, sized him up, and said, "You have an innate, immaculate divine body and a Foundation Establishment Great Perfection cultivation. Isn't the level of your external avatar a bit low... Logically speaking, once an external avatar is successfully refined, its cultivation level is basically at the Nascent Soul stage. Even an underdeveloped external avatar can still reach the early Nascent Soul stage. Your avatar is equivalent to a mild disability."

"There's no other way. To save time, the method of refining the external avatar was a bit rough. I didn't pay attention to the realm or anything like that. I'll improve it later." Because Lin Jing was worried that refining the external avatar would waste too much time, he didn't make perfect use of the power of the Immortal Water Lotus, and the realm of the avatar was greatly reduced.

Otherwise, given the quality of the Immortal Lotus, when it takes form, it would at least reach the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul stage, surpassing its original cultivation level.

However, that might take too much time, anywhere from ten to over a hundred years. The further along you go, the more time and patience you'll need to spend refining it. Lin Jing doesn't have that kind of patience. It's just the realm of an incarnation. Anyway, he has a Golden Core of cultivation. He can improve it later by using the Golden Core refined by the dragon carp.

"Alright, you have the Heavenly Demon Body, so your cultivation level is indeed irrelevant." The First Ancient Emperor picked his nose and asked, "What about your true form?"

"I have other matters to attend to, so I'll be leaving now."

"From now on, this avatar will accompany you." Lin Jing chuckled.

"...Why don't you continue being the Holy Son of the Demon Court in your true form, and this avatar can simply become my disciple and stay in the ancient kingdom!" The First Generation suddenly had a whimsical idea.

"When the time comes, I'll have that second-generation son issue a new policy that recognizes the existence of 'dual citizenship.' Anyway, there are already enough outrageous new policies, so one more won't make a difference."

Lin Jing fell into deep thought, his gaze drifting into the distance.

"Damn it, such a great opportunity, and you're still hesitating? Do you even know how incredible this chance is!"

"If you don't want to take him on, I'll just accept this kid as my disciple!" The first ancient emperor kicked Gao Sheng, who had fainted beside him.

"Having survived for a while, I wanted to leave something behind."

"Since that second-generation guy has concentrated all the resources of the past few thousand years into the ancient clan, then I will pass on some other things to cultivators outside the ancient clan."

Lin Jing was slightly taken aback and said, "Take him as a disciple? Are you sure?"

Will my lifelong reputation be ruined by Gao Sheng...?

…………

Shortly after.

Qingzhou, Xianlao Mountain.

After overcoming numerous hardships, Lin Jing and his group finally returned to this place.

As soon as the forest approached Immortal Prison Mountain, Mosquito Girl led a swarm of mosquitoes to greet them. Thousand Illusion Sect Patriarch Huanli and Longevity Girl Gu Qianqiu also stood on pine branches to welcome the return of the land's master.

"You little brat, shouldn't you explain what happened six months ago?"

Upon seeing Lin Jing, the senior Shensong who had escorted him out immediately inquired, "Damn it, this kid returned not long ago riding the Immortal Sword, and then left again riding the Dao Ink Beast. What exactly happened?"

Lin Jing gave a wry smile and said, "It's all a small matter, not worth mentioning. I just accidentally obtained the method to activate immortal artifacts in the Western Desert, and then used two immortal artifacts to intimidate potential enemies and incidentally wiped out the Gu God Cult. It was just a matter of making an example of someone... It's nothing, nothing at all."

"I came back this time to refine some pills for breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage, and I will probably stay for a while."

As soon as Lin Jing finished speaking, even the mosquito beast, which had little intelligence, wanted to curse. Activating immortal artifacts, destroying the Gu God Sect, and breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage—doesn't something seem off when these words are put together?
(End of this chapter)