Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 400 This squirrel is acting strangely
"Sure." Lin Jing nodded. If that's the case, then it's even more certain!
He smiled, but he also had his own little thoughts.

The rules of the grotto are: [Each of the five cultivators on the winning side will be able to choose one 'Divine Body Pill' as a reward from the Immortal Palace's treasury. The better their performance, the wider their selection of Divine Body Pills, and the higher the quality they can choose.]

If Pine Leaf Rat replaces Alchemist Du Zao in the battle, wouldn't Pine Leaf Rat be the one to receive the reward?

In that case, Lin Jing will receive two Divine Body Pills as a reward!
"Fellow Daoist Du, what do you think? Let my pet beast fight in your place. Although you will miss out on the Divine Body Pill reward, at least it will ensure that Tianyuan Realm can ultimately achieve victory."

"I won't take advantage of you for nothing. After returning to Tianyuan, I will give you a wisp of Lotus Heart Flame of the Immortal Flame level. Although it is not the primordial flame and you cannot refine it, it is the same as the spirit of the immortal pill in your Tower of Babel. With this flame, you can heal almost any injury you suffer in the lower realm, even injuries to your foundation or origin!"

"Of course, as one of the gentlest exotic flames, you should know what a celestial flame-level lotus heart fire represents to a pill master. Its value is no less than that of a divine body pill."

Celestial-level flames!

Upon hearing this, Du Zao's pupils contracted. Lin Jing actually possessed a Celestial-level flame. Was it that dragon carp?
So that's how it is. Now he understands why that dragon carp, at the late Nascent Soul stage, was able to defeat the early-stage Divine Transformation stage Witch God Child.

“If that’s how you want it to be, I have no objection.” Du Zao immediately agreed, afraid that Lin Jing would change his mind, since that was a celestial-level flame.

It should be noted that even the tower master of the Tower of Babel, his master, did not control a celestial-level flame on his own; he only controlled a few quasi-celestial flames.

It is said that only with the assistance of the spirit of the elixir can the flame be temporarily upgraded to celestial fire.

A Nascent Soul stage dragon carp... Is this what they call a rare beast?
As Lin Jing said, even if a wisp of immortal fire is not a refinable source of fire, it is still of great value. Especially a life-saving immortal fire like the Healing Heart-Connecting Fire. Perhaps he doesn't need the healing attribute, but a gentle immortal fire means that he can cultivate in the immortal fire. All fire attribute techniques and spells will be cultivated more efficiently, and may even give rise to new spell effects.

In the special cultivation environment of the Tower of Babel, the best one can do is cultivate in a gentle, exotic fire of near-immortal fire level. Cultivating in an immortal fire... he believed that even the tower master probably hadn't experienced it many times.

Although it was only immortal fire created by a rare beast at the Nascent Soul level, his own cultivation level wasn't high either, so it was enough!

Du Zao even asserted that Lin Jing himself couldn't utilize much of the gentle immortal fire beyond combat, since Lin Jing wasn't a fire cultivator. However, he was different; he could maximize the value of this wisp of immortal fire tenfold.

Compared to that, a Divine Body Pill that might not even be suitable for me is better off not having.

"Since you've agreed, Pine Leaf Rat, you can go and fight the rest of the battle." After Lin Jing finished speaking, he looked at the arena. Pine Leaf Rat yawned and teleported onto the arena.

So much time has passed, its spatial abilities have long since evolved. It no longer needs red leaves as a medium; it can teleport anywhere its divine sense reaches. This is also because the Pine Leaf Rat has been collecting spatial attribute items from its demon core space quite a bit...

"Wait, isn't that carp or the Ice Gu?" Du Zao was taken aback as Lin Jing released the squirrel beside him. If he remembered correctly, this squirrel should never have been on the Golden List.

Unlike those two, they're both in the top ten!

"That's pretty much it. It just didn't have time to make the list, not that it lacked the ability." Lin Jing casually said something that made Du Zao, the Third Prince, and Bai Yuran next to him feel a stomachache.

…………

at the moment.

The Tianming Realm side was taken aback when they saw that the Tianyuan Realm side had sent one of their members onto the field before the "three-minute preparation time" was over.

Everyone went on stage together, and no one knew which opponent they would face, but they all went on stage early...

This premature disclosure of the contestants made Tianming Realm feel that Tianyuan Realm was looking down on them.

What they found even more incomprehensible was that the one sent by Tianyuan Realm was not any of the original five, but a... squirrel spirit in the mid-Nascent Soul stage who appeared out of nowhere!
"Huh? What is this?" The woodpecker, now in human form, scratched its head, looking completely bewildered. "Where did this squirrel come from?"

“It’s the pet beast of that cultivator who practices the ‘Beast Taming Technique’,” Shen Lianti said. “It seems that the Tianyuan Realm intends to let this pet beast fight independently of the Beast Tamer. This means that the other side believes that a pet beast alone can surpass the strength of a person who was originally going to fight, and that this would increase their chances of winning.”

"However, as a price, when that beast-taming cultivator goes into battle himself, this pet beast will not be able to participate in the battle."

"Even so, this is too arrogant. It just came straight up here. This squirrel spirit is obviously a wood-type, and its bloodline strength is quite high, very close to mine. It's probably at the peak of the Emperor level. Of course, the most important thing is that it used spatial teleportation to get onto the arena, directly exposing its ability to use spatial magic..." The woodpecker muttered. "A mid-Nascent Soul stage, a wood-type squirrel spirit that knows spatial magic? Its physical strength doesn't seem very strong. Should I handle it?" Yuan Liu, the Void Body, spoke up.

Everyone nodded. How could a squirrel spirit's spatial mastery compare to Yuan Liu, who cultivated the "Great Void Technique"? Besides having an innate void body, Yuan Liu also had an acquired void body, making his spatial mastery extremely impressive. Moreover, the squirrel spirit didn't seem to rely on physical strength like other demonic beasts; it mostly relied on magic power to fight. So, it would be even more powerless against a void body.

This battle looks like it can be won easily.

When the time came, Yuan Liu, who was in the late stage of the Nascent Soul realm, also teleported to the arena and looked at the Pine Leaf Rat with a smile.

At this point, he even suspected that the other party had deliberately sent a squirrel spirit to give away points.

"Squeak..." After its opponent came up, the leaf rat stared blankly at its opponent's... storage bag.

The next instant, under Yuan Liu's intrigued gaze, the Pine Leaf Rat summoned a red leaf and flew into the sky.

"Little squirrel, what are you doing?" Yuan Liu looked over but did not rush to attack.

He wanted to see if he could get any useful information from the squirrel, but...

At this moment, the leaf rat is recalling the information provided by the forest before it took over.

[Use physical attacks to hit him, don't mix in magic. Hmm, but with your destructive power, mixing in magic shouldn't be a problem. The opponent is only at the late Nascent Soul stage, so it's understandable that he's immune to Nascent Soul stage spells, but surely he can't be completely immune to spells that are enough to instantly kill an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator, right?]

Physical attack...

The leaf rat revealed its sharp eyes, raised its paws high above its head, and then offered up its demon core.

"Huh?" Yuan Liu, a cultivator from the Tianming Realm, was taken aback, and then his expression changed drastically. He saw that the seemingly harmless little squirrel had not only ferociously pulled out its demon core, but the demon core had also grown wildly, instantly covering the arena, which was thousands of meters long and wide.

"This is a demon core that a Nascent Soul demon beast can have???" In his bewilderment, he saw the Pine Leaf Rat gently wave its paw, and the giant demon core was violently smashed onto the arena like a ball.

"Aren't you afraid of damaging your demon core?" he exclaimed.

"Squeak..." Demon Core Divine Power, Five Elements World!

At this moment, not only Yuan Liu, but also the other cultivators of the Tianming Realm were stunned. They felt an extremely absurd sense of pressure from this demon core, comparable to the primordial spirit of a demon emperor at the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, which was revealed in the void.

Even the Taiyin-Taiyang Body, hailed as the number one Nascent Soul cultivator in the Heavenly Cry Realm, frowned slightly at this moment, unable to understand how the strength of this demon core could be so heaven-defying... unprecedented.

"This!" At that moment, the entire arena was seen as the target of the attack. Yuan Liu's expression changed drastically. He could only try to hide in another dimension to avoid it. But what horrified him was that when he hid in the other dimension above the arena, he noticed even more clearly that as the demon core crushed down, even the space he hid in began to collapse and shatter. The power of this attack was beyond his imagination!
It was as if he was being impacted by a separate little world!
"Void!" Helpless, Yuan Liu could only rely on the Void Body, hoping to be immune to most magical damage. But when a demon core, as big as a star, fell and crushed on his body, he realized that this demon core was not tainted with any magical power on the outside. It was purely that its weight and density had reached an unimaginable level.

Click.

It crashed into the arena, crushing its opponent beneath the demon core. As cracks appeared in the arena, the pine needle rat standing on the demon core scratched its head, feeling as if it had forgotten something.

"Something's wrong with this squirrel!"

At the same time, as Yuan Liu was teleported back to the Tianming Realm without a trace of human form, the cultivators on this side all held their breath and fell into silence, looking at the squirrel spirit on the arena who was retrieving its demon core as if it were a monster.

What the hell is wrong with this squirrel? It's one thing to throw a demon core at people, but why is it so powerful?!

Is this a demon core, or a top-grade magic weapon?
On the Tianyuan Realm side, the group silently understood what Lin Jing meant when he said that it simply hadn't had time to be listed.

"Hehe, how about I bring my pets again for the next round? I brought three pets this time." Lin Jing looked at the Third Prince and said, "Don't worry, there will be compensation. For example, I will introduce you to a senior who is even more powerful than your father before the Crown Prince."

(End of this chapter)