Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 414 The Great Xing Ancient Kingdom
The group remained frozen in place for a moment.

Lin Jing looked into the distance, tore at the contract with the mechanical turtle, and with a little more force, the contract was broken.

This was the only way Lin Jing could think of to quickly make the mechanical turtle sense its location, no matter where it was.

really.

As Lin Jing tore a crack in the contract, in a certain region of the ancient kingdom, the mechanical turtle that was spying on a little girl immediately felt a sharp pain in its soul.

"Understood." The mechanical turtle reluctantly followed the direction of the contract's fluctuations. As it got closer to the forest, it soon heard a message from the contract.

Come quickly!

At the same time, Liu Gongzhuo and Gai You broke out in a sweat when faced with Lin Jing's sudden silence. Although their cultivation was far superior to Lin Jing's, they couldn't help but feel a bit wary in the face of the Demon Court's Holy Son's various ferocious battle records.

As the head of the Demon Extermination Division, they were naturally aware of the power of the Heavenly Demon Body and did not regard Lin Jing as a Nascent Soul cultivator at all.

Swish.

Gai Sizhu immediately contacted the ancient prince who was now in charge of the court, briefly explained the situation, and waited for a response.

The Holy Son of the Demon Court... If not handled properly, it could become a serious diplomatic incident.

At the same moment, in the Heavenly Realm, at the Heavenly Mystery Tower.

In order to fulfill his promise to Lin Jing, the ancient prince asked the master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion to help him find the "Green Ox Taoist".

"How is this possible? The other party is at most a Foundation Establishment stage demonic cultivator, yet we can't find a trace of their existence?!" The ancient prince found it hard to understand the words of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion Master.

“That’s true. Although we only know the other party’s past locations, name, and experiences—just these simple pieces of information—if the other party were truly just a Foundation Establishment cultivator, finding them and determining their life or death would be very easy. But in the current situation, we can’t even detect a trace of them. There’s only one possibility…”

"The abbot of the Green Ox Taoist Temple, whom Your Highness mentioned, who once sold the Holy Son of the Demon Court to the Yin Corpse Sect, is not just a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator. His true cultivation level, or even his divination skills, may be higher than we imagine," said the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

"But this raises an even bigger question. If this Green Ox Daoist is so powerful, and not just a Foundation Establishment demonic cultivator who has a cooperative relationship with the Yin Corpse Sect, how could he casually sell such a precious physique as the Longevity Body to a small stronghold of the Yin Corpse Sect? Someone who could do such a thing should be a Foundation Establishment rogue cultivator with shallow knowledge, not some kind of expert."

Damn it.

The ancient prince originally thought that the biggest difficulty in the deal with Lin Jing might be that the Green Ox Taoist died, and he would have to use forbidden techniques to make him neither human nor ghost and send him to the Holy Son of the Demon Court. But he never expected that the Green Ox Taoist was not as simple as he seemed.

Just then, the ancient prince noticed the contact made by Gai You, the head of the Demon Extermination Bureau.

Confused by the matter at hand, the ancient prince was too lazy to bother with other trivial matters, ignored the message, and continued to press the Tianji Tower Master for details.

After all, the Holy Son of the Demon Court said that if there was no result within a year, he would be considered to have breached the contract and challenge him for the top spot on the Golden List.

"Could it be that the Holy Son of the Demon Court found this person long ago, then used a celestial artifact to erase any trace of his existence, just to deliberately torment me?" The ancient prince thought of a certain possibility.

"Is there really no other way?" the ancient prince asked. To find the Green Ox Taoist, he could only rely on the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion at the moment.

"I'll awaken the Star Turtle again and head to the ancient region where the incident occurred to continue the investigation," sighed the Lord of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

The ancient prince nodded.

That's all we can do. But just then...

"Stop investigating! Stop investigating! I am the Green Ox Taoist." An old Taoist with a cow-nose nose appeared and sat by the window of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

Upon seeing this person, the ancient prince's expression changed, and the master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion also showed an expression of disbelief.

"Master?!"

"The previous master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion," the ancient prince said incredulously.

"You, you're not...?" The master of Tianji Tower looked at "Qingniu Daoren" in disbelief.

He remembered that his master should have already "passed away".

"He's not dead, he's not dead. After the first generation left, he didn't want to work for the second generation, so he faked his death and went to travel the continent," said the Green Ox Taoist, picking his nose, which surprised the ancient prince next to him.

"Don't look at me like that. Although I've been traveling across the continent, I've done my part in discovering many talented individuals for the ancient kingdom!" Qingniu Daoist said, looking at the ancient prince.

"Master, are you saying that it was you who sold the Holy Son of the Demon Court to the Yin Corpse Sect's stronghold??" The Lord of Tianji Tower could hardly believe it.

The Green Ox Daoist looked distressed and said, "When I first met that kid, he was still a mortal. I did a little divination on him and found that he had great fortune and could greatly revitalize the ancient kingdom. However, the prerequisite was that he would embark on the path of beast taming and that his growth would not be interfered with too much... I calculated that throwing him into a small stronghold of the Yin Corpse Sect, where there were Beast Taming Sect cultivators as spies, would allow him to enter the Beast Taming Sect. So I directly sold him a few spirit stones, and at first, things went smoothly..."

The current master of Tianji Tower, the ancient prince: ? ? ?
The ancient kingdom of Daxing?

Are you sure it's not the Great Demon Court?

Is this the genius he unearthed for the ancient kingdom during his travels across the continent?

“Master, Lin Jing is now the Holy Son of the Demon Court, and has even found a way to revive the demon race. He has completely broken away from the ancient kingdom. Let alone revitalize the ancient kingdom, it would be good enough if the ancient kingdom didn’t decline because of the rise of the demon race.” The Lord of Tianji Tower remained silent.

The Green Ox Taoist was also troubled. When he paid attention to Lin Jing again, Lin Jing was already the Holy Son of the Demon Court!

This is different from what he predicted in the divination!
"I don't know either. My ability to judge people was taught by the first ancient emperor. Moreover, my cultivation has already reached the Dao Inquiry stage. Even if I were to misjudge the fortune of a mere mortal, I wouldn't be so terribly wrong..."

"Where exactly did things go wrong? Unfortunately, I can no longer discern his fate if I try to divine it now..."

"This guy is so annoying." Although he had found the Green Ox Taoist, the ancient prince was not happy at all. He couldn't believe that such an absurd thing was happening. The Green Ox Taoist was actually the previous master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion.

How can we hand over "Green Ox Taoist" to Lin Jing now?

What's most infuriating is that the previous master of the Heavenly Mystery Pavilion even said that Lin Jing's destiny was to greatly prosper the ancient kingdom...

"What is it?" Even at this critical moment, Gai Sizhu still tried to contact him urgently, calling his name more than ten times in a short period of time, finally prompting the ancient prince to respond with some temper.

"...What is all this nonsense?" Upon hearing Lord Gai's claim that Lin Jing, the Holy Son of the Demon Court, colluded with Gao Sheng, a cultivator from the Gao family, to smuggle a dragon vein, the Ancient Prince felt a headache coming on. The Ancient Kingdom still owed the Holy Son of the Demon Court a top-tier cultivation dragon vein. If Lin Jing wanted more dragon veins, he could have openly traded with him, making several demands. Why would he need to rely on a cultivator from a demon-slaying family to smuggle them?
Why would I keep contacting him over something so absurd?

"Your Highness, they say that manipulating the dragon vein is to summon the first ancient emperor! It's to bring back the former emperor and revitalize the ancient kingdom. This Holy Son of the Demon Court is simply spreading heresy and even wants to use the Demon Extermination Bureau's dragon vein. I suggest..."

(End of this chapter)