Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 380 All Members Reach Nascent Soul Stage
Xianlao Mountain, within the Immortal Prison.

Screams of agony rang out.

Two identical dragon carp continuously used their rare beast powers to refine various demons.

One after another, golden cores of cultivation were refined from the lives of demons.

"Demon Court Saint Son, I will haunt you even as a ghost!!"

"You damned immortal being, if there is an afterlife, I will definitely eat you!!"

Curses echoed continuously from the Immortal Prison, and the two dragon carp, wiping their sweat, were getting tired of hearing them.

At this moment, the dragon carp itself was on the verge of tears, feeling that refining cultivation golden pills was even more tiring than refining ordinary pills.

Fortunately, after this last job, I should be free.

With the nourishment of high-quality pills, it didn't take long for the leaf rat to break through to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core stage.

With the help of the new level of the Azure Emperor's Longevity Technique deduced by Senior Demon Pine, a month later, the Pine Leaf Rat in the hourglass of time broke through from the Golden Core stage to the early Nascent Soul stage.

Meanwhile, the advanced version of the "Azure Emperor's Longevity Technique" deduced by Senior Demon Pine was also easily cultivated to perfection by Pine Leaf Rat.

The current state of perfection of the "Azure Emperor's Longevity Technique" represents an increase in lifespan of several thousand years, and also represents the plant and tree mastery of a plant spirit at the level of a Nascent Soul Demon Emperor. Logically speaking, it is extremely difficult to achieve perfection in cultivation. Normally, it would be impossible to do so without thousands of years of practice.

However, the forest was overflowing with wood-attribute loot, and the pine needle rat's power increased like water as it devoured it without restraint.

"Rumor has it that the disciple of the Forest Sea Dragon Emperor is a willow tree spirit at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm. I wonder how the current strength of the Pine Leaf Rat can match it!"

After observing the condition of the leaf rat, Lin Jing began to speculate.

The Azure Emperor's Longevity Technique is undoubtedly very effective against plant spirits. After all, it is the trump card of Senior Demon Pine, a traitor to the plant world. Even though the Pine Leaf Rat's cultivation level is a whole level lower, it may still be able to put up a fight thanks to the technique's countermeasure and its abnormally powerful demon core.

Although the leaf rat consumed nearly half of the plant resources in order to cultivate the Azure Emperor's Longevity Technique.

However, the demon core space of the pine leaf rat still accumulates a massive amount of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth.

Furthermore, wood-element resources are inherently more abundant than those of the other elements. Even with half of them consumed, the Five Elements World remains unbalanced and extremely powerful.

"It won't be long before I fall back to the Golden Core stage."

While Pine Leaf Rat was consolidating his realm, Lin Jing calculated the remaining time of the Heavenly Demon Body. When he fought against the successor of the Martial Emperor, he did not burn too much of his lifespan and did not intend to maintain the Nascent Soul stage for ten years in one go, but only limited it to half a year.

After all, his basic cultivation level was too low, and maintaining it for ten years would be extremely taxing.

Now, once his cultivation level drops back to the Golden Core stage, he can use the Golden Core refined by the dragon carp to raise it to the Nascent Soul stage. At that time, he can use the Heavenly Demon Body to raise it to the Divine Transformation stage, which will consume much less energy.

Seeing that his cultivation level was about to drop back, this was why Lin Jing wanted to quickly return to his own territory.

Finally, before heading to the Origin Realm, with the resources sent by the Sea God Palace to restore lifespan, this whole process shouldn't result in too much loss of lifespan, but the benefits will be enormous.

"what……"

Just as Lin Jing was consolidating his realm with the protection of the Pine Leaf Rat and waiting for the Heavenly Demon Body to become ineffective, the Ice Soul Gu finally devoured all the remaining strange Gu origins.

The source of the strange Gu provided it with abundant nutrients, eliminating the need for it to consume cultivation pills. Upon awakening, accompanied by a powerful aura, its cultivation level remained at the early Nascent Soul stage. It's unclear whether this was the limit of its growth after absorbing several strange Gu, or simply a limitation imposed by Lin Jing's Beast Tamer realm, limiting it to the early Nascent Soul stage.

"In this way, the four contracted pet beasts—the Leaf Rat, the Ice Soul Gu, the Dragon Carp, and the Mechanical Turtle—have all reached the Nascent Soul stage..."

Lin Jing was quite pleased; he was the only one missing. Once he broke through, everyone would be at the Nascent Soul stage...

"How are you feeling?" Lin Jing pulled the Ice Soul Gu, which had just finished digesting the Sands of Time and awakened, out into the outside world.

Still somewhat dazed, the Ice Soul Gu shook its head and mumbled, "So full, so bloated, I feel a little nauseous..."

"Is that so? I was originally planning to take some time to go to the Tower of Babel and try to get the wooden gu for you to swallow as well."

"Waaah!!" The Ice Soul Gu took a step back and cried out in panic, "I can't eat anymore, I can't eat even one!"

Lin Jing chuckled and said, "Weren't you the one who was ambitious enough to devour all the strange Gu and replace the Gu God back then?"

"By the way, you should drink this bottle of Gu God's Blood when you have time. It was collected and purified for you by His Majesty the Demon Emperor."

"After drinking it, you'll be one step closer to the God of Gu."

After Lin Jing finished speaking, Ice Soul Gu's legs went weak. She admitted that she had been putting on an act before.

Having lived for so long, the Ice Soul Gu had never imagined that one day it would feel fear because it couldn't digest the treasure.

She didn't know what kind of life other strange Gu lived with Gu Masters, but hers was living a life that was a little too good.

"I'd better go and consolidate my strength before drinking it," the Ice Soul Gu said, frightened.

“Alright…” Lin Jing thought for a moment and said, “Then go and create more Yin God Gu offspring. My avatar needs to devour inner demons to cultivate the ‘Heavenly Demon Finger,’ but it’s not easy to find cultivators with powerful inner demons.”

"So, I'll just use the Yin God Gu to manually create some inner demons for other cultivators, and then devour and heal them for them. I'm really clever."

Lin Jing flicked the belly of the Ice Soul Gu. This was the benefit of devouring multiple rare Gu; its functionality had greatly increased.

Hearing that the Beast Tamer had another wicked idea, the Ice Soul Gu nodded, revealing an evil expression. Too wicked, but it liked it…

…………

at the same time.

Lin Jing's avatar also returned to the Tianyuan Ancient Kingdom along with the first ancient emperor. Besides Lin Jing and the first emperor, Gao Sheng, who was highly regarded by the ancient emperor, originally wanted to find the Lingyue Sword Immortal to exorcise demons together, but now he was forced to join the incognito expedition team...

"Guide me well, and if you perform well, I will accept you as my disciple." Gao Sheng was stunned by the promise of the first ancient emperor and could hardly believe that this was reality.

Meanwhile, Lin Jing's avatar had already learned the "Heavenly Demon Codex," "Heavenly Demon Finger," and "Heavenly Demon Crossing" from the ancient emperor, and was content to be a mere accessory, cultivating while enjoying the gossip.

On his own side, he also obtained the "Heavenly Demon Codex," "Heavenly Demon Finger," and "Heavenly Demon Crossing" from Senior Demon Pine. After comparing the two versions and finding them to be consistent and without any problems, he began to cultivate with peace of mind.

However, what's giving Lin Jing a headache now is that although Senior Demon Pine agreed to pass on a portion of his power to Pine Leaf Rat, there were conditions.

“I do have a way to spare half of my essence to refine an avatar for it, but the consumption is too great. The vital energy cannot be replenished by the excrement of immortal beasts or the blood of immortality. If you can get a wisp of ‘immortal pill aura’, that is, a pinch of pill dust from the spirit of the immortal pill in the Tower of Babel, I will go all out. However, I have heard that the immortal pill is very timid and not easy to obtain.”

(End of this chapter)