Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 386 The Hunt
Originally, Shen Song didn't have high expectations for the Blood Bodhi, after all, it was already at the Void Profound stage. However, the Blood Bodhi's effects exceeded Shen Song's expectations.

It can even make spells train automatically!
This is terrible.

Of course, Shen Song could sense that the speed at which its spells were being automatically cultivated was not fast at the moment, much slower than when it cultivated them on its own.

But the significance of this tree lies not in that, but in the fact that even when severely injured, it allows cultivators to continue their cultivation without having to actively cultivate!
Imagine a Golden Core cultivator whose Golden Core has been severely damaged and who is on the verge of death due to frequent use of Golden Core supernatural powers. It would take him an unknown amount of time to recover, perhaps decades or even centuries.

During this period, he will waste countless precious hours healing his wounds, and his cultivation and training will be completely neglected.

However, if there is a Blood Bodhi, then it is no ordinary thing. He only needs to lie under the Blood Bodhi, and his magic can be cultivated automatically. He can heal his injuries and cultivate at the same time!

Under normal circumstances, a person who has suffered serious injuries simply does not have the willpower to concentrate on cultivation. Therefore, Shen Song was not optimistic about the Blood Bodhi at first. However, if it could enable magic to cultivate automatically as if it had gained sentience, then it would be of extraordinary significance.

"Although the speed is a bit slow, I am not actively cultivating right now. If I actively cultivate in conjunction with this, wouldn't the speed be even faster?"

“It’s a good thing.”

Shen Song's eyes flashed, and he began to cultivate the magic technique "Heavenly Demon Crossing" from his previous life. He found that the Heavenly Demon Secret Technique, which was difficult to cultivate with his pine tree body, was now much easier to operate.

"Forget healing, let's cultivate first!"

……

a few days later.

Shensong threw the core essence of the tree, which had transformed into a sapling, to Lin Jing, and at the same time transmitted his voice: "Here you go. The Blood Bodhi is very effective. You can combine another one yourselves. There are still many immature Bodhi saplings on the mountain. Find resources to accelerate their growth... I will use this one first."

Palace of the Holy Son.

Lin Jing caught the divine pine essence falling from the sky and was slightly taken aback. It seemed that the Blood Bodhi must be very effective, otherwise Senior Divine Pine would not have kept it for himself.

"Alright, Senior Shensong is quite generous. The fluctuations of this tree heart's essence are at least two-thirds of its essence."

Lin Jing handed the materials for this external avatar to the Pine Leaf Rat, looked at the barren Bodhi Forest, sighed, and took out a sixth-grade spiritual spring from the Pine Leaf Rat's demon core space, intending to make another Blood Bodhi tree for himself.

……

A month later.

In the hourglass of time.

Beneath a blood-red Bodhi tree.

With a "crack" sound, Lin Jing's aura broke through from the Great Perfection of the Golden Core realm to the Nascent Soul realm with unstoppable force. His Golden Core shattered completely, and a miniature infant emerged from it, sitting cross-legged in his dantian, radiating powerful fluctuations.

Lin Jing opened his eyes, wincing in pain. His whole body felt like it was falling apart. His once strong meridians now had several cracks, bleeding profusely from within.

Using the Immortal Breakthrough Fruit for his breakthrough, Lin Jing didn't experience the refreshing feeling that comes with a normal breakthrough; instead, he felt like he was about to die.

Having completed his breakthrough, Lin Jing's strength has undergone another earth-shattering change.

Aside from the pine needle rat, which is still refining its external avatar and remains in the early Nascent Soul stage, the dragon carp's cultivation level has directly reached the mid-Nascent Soul stage after the removal of the forest realm's limitations. It seems that the ancestral bloodline has greatly enhanced it, making its breakthrough speed exceptionally fast. But the dragon carp is nothing compared to the Ice Soul Gu; its cultivation level has truly become absurd after the removal of the beast tamer's limitations.

It had only recently broken through to the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, but with Lin Jing's breakthrough, it directly reached the Great Perfection of the Nascent Soul realm. The power of the eight extraordinary Gu combined was indeed due to Lin Jing's previous limitations, which prevented it from fully digesting the power. There was still too much nutrition that the Ice Soul Gu could not absorb, which was hidden in its bloodline.

Now that Lin Jing has broken free of his shackles and swallowed the Ice Soul Gu, which contains the origins of seven kinds of rare Gu, he is only one step away from the Nascent Soul stage!
Furthermore, its bloodline level, along with the complete digestion of the Qi Gu's origin, also reached the Ancestral level, standing shoulder to shoulder with the Dragon Carp.

Perhaps it's not as good as the dragon carp that possesses immortal fire and rare beast bloodline right now, but Lin Jing thinks that once the Ice Soul Gu swallows the last two strange Gu, absorbs the blood of the Gu God, and refines the origin of the Undying Xuan Snake, even if it can't achieve "Emperor-level bloodline," it probably won't be too far off.

Of course, compared to the changes on Lin Jing's main body, the mechanical turtle that accompanied Lin Jing's avatar was the one that changed the most.

"Huh...?"

The reason its realm remained at the early stage of Nascent Soul was because it was restricted by its own realm and sealed by the Forest Realm, only able to maintain the early stage of Nascent Soul. But now, it has broken the seal in one fell swoop and recovered to the highest realm that a Nascent Soul stage beast tamer can support, the early stage of Deity Transformation!

It instantly became the highest-level pet beast in the Linjing team.

"Huh." The First Ancient Emperor glanced at the little turtle on the avatar's head and said, "Your true self has broken through to the Nascent Soul stage."

"Well, I will also come to the ancient kingdom in a while... For now... let it go out and have some fun."

Lin Jing's avatar grinned and looked at the excited mechanical turtle.

"Finally, I can travel alone???" The mechanical turtle had been waiting for this day for far too long.

“Yes, but you must promise to return before His Majesty the Ancient Emperor dissipates to extend its life,” Lin Jing said. “In addition, I will also designate your travel destination.”

The mechanical turtle was extremely frustrated, but it still nodded.

Previously, Lin Jing hesitated to release the mechanical turtle because its cultivation level was too low. However, now that the mechanical turtle is at the early stage of the Nascent Soul realm, it is fully capable of wielding a quasi-immortal weapon and has the strength to allow Lin Jing to release it with peace of mind.

Lin Jing's avatar looked at the Fortune List.

Ancient prince, ancient princess, Daoist disciple of the Spirit Dao Sect, Crown Prince of the Sea God Palace, Young Master Longliu, the most handsome Holy Son of the Demon Court, Wan Renzong, successor of the Martial Emperor, Senior Sister of Water Moon Immortal Island, Divine Son of the Witch God Temple, Holy Son of the Snowfield Totem...

These are the top ten.

Lin Jing pointed to the four people from the seventh to the tenth and said, "These four people have never paid protection money. You can travel to any of these four places: Martial Emperor City, Water Moon Immortal Island, Cloud Sea Mountain Range, and Snowfield. The goal is to kill one of them. Of course, I don't mean you have to kill them, just defeat them."

"Hmm... The Martial Emperor's successor has dropped the Stone Man Gu, and Water Moon Immortal Island has dropped the Yin God Gu. Let's prioritize the latter two."

"Since your current life essence is a mechanical beast, I don't know if you can be listed on the Golden List... According to the age of the artifact spirit, you are already an old ghost, but according to the age of the mechanical materials, you are still an infant. However, as a mechanical creation, you do not have the so-called golden age of cultivation. I don't know how the Golden List will judge you."

"But no matter what, let's give it a try. Even if we can't make it onto the Golden List, consider it a scouting mission for the Pine Leaf Rat, Dragon Carp, and Ice Soul Gu, to test their strength. Once I'm done with my main body, I'll have them hunt down these Golden List prodigies one by one..."

Beside him, the first ancient emperor mourned for these prodigies, while urging, "Alright, let's go save Gao Sheng!"

The first ancient emperor wanted to test the ancient kingdom's reporting mechanism. Who knew that as soon as he had Gao Sheng disguise himself as a rogue cultivator and report corrupt local officials using a monitoring artifact issued by "above," he was arrested by the local demon-slaying bureau as a demon cultivator.

(End of this chapter)