Chapter 116: Squirrel Foundation Establishment!

The Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, after Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp’s unremitting efforts, was finally formed!

However, due to the extreme difficulty in refining the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, the Materials were exceptionally rare, and it was a specialized pill. Lin Jing could no longer find a test subject to try the pill.

This pill was tailor-made for the Pine Leaf Squirrel. Where in the world could a second Pine Leaf Squirrel with a Natal Red Leaf be found?

He could only ask Senior Divine Pine, a Soul Transformation stage plant, to determine if there were any issues with the pill. This wasn’t asking Senior Divine Pine to consume the pill and become a test subject, but rather to use its Soul Transformation Realm to probe the Medicinal Pill!

“Let me see.”

Lin Jing walked out of the Immortal Cave, radiant. The Dragon Carp, however, was exhausted. The moment the pill was formed, it fainted directly into the pill cauldron.

Lin Jing was also very tired, but with the pill now complete, his conviction supported him; he had to witness the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Foundation Establishment evolution!

Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill.

After forming, it was a black Medicinal Pill the size of a candy. Although Divine Pine didn’t understand alchemy, it understood plants. After looking at the black Medicinal Pill, it fell silent for a moment.

“The toxicity is minimal, almost non-existent.”

“The aura is greatly nourishing. If a Mortal inhales a wisp of its Qi, they can live for over a hundred years.”

“The medicinal power is harmonious, naturally formed.”

“Without a doubt, it’s a quite perfect Foundation Establishment Pill. It’s just that the color is a bit unsightly, giving it the impression of a poisonous pill.”

“The color and appearance are not important,” Lin Jing laughed. “The color of a Medicinal Pill is basically determined by the refining Materials. Perhaps the Materials for this pill were too complex. As long as the Medicinal Pill has no problems, that’s fine, right, Pine Leaf Squirrel?”

Lin Jing looked at the Pine Leaf Squirrel with anticipation. After nearly five years of cultivation, it was finally going to undergo Foundation Establishment. Although it wasn’t his own Foundation Establishment, for a Beast Master, a Pet Beast’s Foundation Establishment was no different from his own!

“Squeak—” The Pine Leaf Squirrel looked at the pitch-black Foundation Establishment Pill. To avoid disappointing Lin Jing, who had worked hard for a month, it nodded trustingly. It would eat it!

“Senior Divine Pine will protect your Dao, there’s no problem.” Lin Jing threw the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill to the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

The Pine Leaf Squirrel frantically caught the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill and held it in its paw.

Although it trusted Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp… this color was indeed a bit strange.

It swallowed hard.

“Sigh!” Strange or not, the Pine Leaf Squirrel was in perfect condition. To achieve a Breakthrough, it had been conserving its energy.

It could undergo Foundation Establishment at any time. It took a deep breath, pulled off its Daoist robe, and tossed it. The robe was blown by the wind onto a branch outside the Immortal Cave, hanging there.

Feeling light, the Pine Leaf Squirrel directly put the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill into its mouth and swallowed it!

At this moment, the wind stopped blowing, and time seemed to stand still. Even Senior Divine Pine quietly watched the Pine Leaf Squirrel, who, after eating the Foundation Establishment Pill, immediately sat cross-legged on the ground and closed its eyes.

“It will surely succeed.”

Lin Jing’s eyes flickered. Even though he was very optimistic, he couldn’t help but feel nervous at this moment, his clenched fists trembling slightly.

Boom!!!

Not long after consuming the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, with its eyes closed and sitting cross-legged on the ground, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body quickly underwent changes. The enormous medicinal power of the Foundation Establishment Pill propelled the Pine Leaf Squirrel to compress the Qingdi True Qi within its body.

With a bang, a monstrous True Qi fluctuation erupted from its body, rushing skyward like a tenfold vortex. Countless blades of grass and leaves in the mountains shook.

This Qingdi True Qi was incomparably overbearing, then suddenly contracted, condensing and flashing like a green meteor, all compressing into the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body. At this moment, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body was like a nascent world, with spiritual light filling the sky. In the spiritual mist, it was as if raindrops were falling. Countless raindrops gathered into a lake, shimmering with white light.

The spiritual rain baptized the nascent world, nurturing everything, integrating into every part. This was the process of Qi Refining breaking through to Foundation Establishment, compressing True Qi into True Essence, and giving birth to a True Essence Spiritual Sea within the body.

Because Lin Jing had a Bloodline Contract with the Pine Leaf Squirrel, his consciousness projection descended into this nascent inner world to perceive. He watched with his own eyes as the great rain, which revived everything, created a Spiritual Sea. The water level of the Spiritual Sea continuously rose, one foot,

two feet… a hundred feet… a thousand feet… Although it was a consciousness observation, and it was within the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body, it was impossible for it to actually reach such a height. Yet, Lin Jing truly felt as if he had traveled to another world, with all his perceptions assimilated by this place.

“In the Foundation Establishment Stage, True Qi liquefies into True Essence, gathering in the Spiritual Sea within the body. With the birth of the Spiritual Sea, the body undergoes baptism,

and mental consciousness transforms into Divine Sense, allowing one to perceive surrounding objects with a single thought.”

“The depth of the Spiritual Sea and the range of Divine Sense perception are basically equivalent.”

“Generally, a Foundation Establishment Initial Stage Cultivator, whether Human Race Cultivator or Yao Beast, can have Divine Sense reaching a hundred zhang.”

“However, due to different Bloodlines, Aptitudes, and Cultivation Techniques, there are exceptions. Even upon entering Foundation Establishment, the depth of the Spiritual Sea and the strength of Divine Sense can far exceed those of the same Realm—.”

As Divine Pine finished speaking, Lin Jing’s consciousness had already plunged into the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Spiritual Sea—a thousand feet—fifteen hundred feet—two thousand feet—bottomless.

Outside, the Pine Leaf Squirrel itself didn’t realize it, but its involuntarily expanding Divine Sense was still rapidly growing, seemingly aiming to envelop the entire mountain Peak.

“Such a display, its power is already comparable to the Foundation Establishment Middle Stage, and rapidly approaching the Foundation Establishment Late Stage!”

“And this—is just a normal Breakthrough for a small Squirrel cultivating the Azure Emperor Longevity Art, at Qi Refining Tenth Layer.”

“The Foundation Establishment Pill—should also be taking effect now.” Divine Pine stared at the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s changes, as if it could also perceive the process of its body’s metamorphosis.

At this moment, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s entire body was covered in golden-green light, and the vast spiritual rain within its body quickly changed, transforming from colorless raindrops into golden-green plant spiritual liquid. Under the irrigation of the golden-green rainwater, the color of the entire Spiritual Sea also changed, and the Spiritual Sea began a new round of cleansing the body!!

Boom!!

Accompanied by dazzling light, a terrifying aura erupted from the Pine Leaf Squirrel. Its Bloodline was transforming, evolving, leaping and sublimating. The powerful Bloodline pressure caused the Dragon Carp, sleeping within the Immortal Cave’s pill cauldron, to suddenly open its dull eyes and awaken with a start.

It leaped out of the Immortal Cave, lay on the mountaintop, and looked down at the small Squirrel, which was undergoing Bloodline evolution and sitting cross-legged.

Its Bloodline trembled.

At this point, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s entire body was covered in spiritual light, making its form unclear. Even Divine Pine could only vaguely perceive that, due to the variation in its Bloodline, this Squirrel’s life level and life form were mutating in a direction that no one could describe.

Although the specific outcome was still unknown, Divine Pine was silent at its almost abnormal Divine Sense!

Two hundred zhang—three hundred zhang—a Divine Sense of a thousand meters usually required Foundation Establishment Great Perfection to achieve, but now,

it appeared on a small Squirrel that had just entered Foundation Establishment.

And this, it seemed, was not even the limit—one thousand meters—eleven hundred meters—fifteen hundred meters—boom!!!

A powerful Divine Sense, capable of extending two thousand meters, left even Divine Pine astonished. This had almost surpassed the normal scope of an ordinary Foundation Establishment Stage. Only those “False Core Cultivators” who had no hope for the Golden Core Dao and simulated Core Formation through other means could possess such Divine Sense strength.

“Possessing powerful Divine Sense gives an absolute advantage in combat—”

“It must be its frequent use of Rare Beast Divine Power, controlling leaves with its mind, that laid such a formidable foundation, allowing it to possess such terrifying Divine Sense.”

When the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Divine Sense expanded to two thousand meters, it stopped. At the same moment, the light of Bloodline evolution covering its body slowly dissipated. Lin Jing’s consciousness returned, and he looked at the Pine Leaf Squirrel slowly standing up and opening its eyes, his gaze dazed.

With its Divine Sense returned, the three-leaf clover in the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s eyes spun frantically, and a terrifying aura emanated from its body. It was nothing like an ordinary Foundation Establishment Yao Beast. However, what surprised Lin Jing the most was not its astonishing transformation in strength, but its change in appearance!!!

Although it still maintained the basic appearance of a Squirrel, with soft and bright brown fur, now it looked more like a symbiotic entity of animal and plant rather than just an animal!

Pine Leaf Squirrel—its two ears had transformed into rhomboid red leaves, and the end of its large tail had also evolved into a maple-leaf-like plant. Perhaps ‘Maple Leaf Rat’ would be a more fitting name than ‘Pine Leaf Squirrel’.

Unlike its previously weak physique, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body now gave Lin Jing an extremely formidable feeling, especially the maple leaves at the end of its tail. Each leaf was like a sharp blade, incomparably keen, far surpassing the red leaves a hundredfold. Even Yuan Jing’s demon-slaying sword, imbued with Sword Intent, Lin Jing felt was not as terrifying as the current Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body.

“That special plant, like its Natal Red Leaf, indeed became a part of its body.”

“This power—at the initial stage of Foundation Establishment, it can contend with a Foundation Establishment Peak, it is a supreme Demon King Bloodline!”

“And the Longevity Pine Cone, irrigated by my Longevity Blood, has endowed it with unparalleled vitality. Its current lifespan, I’m afraid—”

“No, that’s not right!”

Divine Pine suddenly exclaimed in surprise. The Pine Leaf Squirrel’s evolution was not yet complete. As its Glazed Immortal Eyes rotated, tree-like matter began to spread across its body. This matter continuously grew, emanating astonishing vitality, as if a Divine Tree was gestating outside the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body!!!

Rumble!!!

In an instant, the Pine Leaf Squirrel disappeared, replaced by a giant Squirrel statue whose body had expanded to dozens of zhang, incredibly massive, and whose entire body seemed to be composed of trees!!

The giant Squirrel statue bore a general resemblance to the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s original appearance, but its entire body was like a massive mountain, covered in branches, and on the branches were countless Pine Cones, as if it had transformed into a heaven-and-earth Divine Pine!

“How is this possible? It assimilated the red leaves, but it also perfectly assimilated my Pine Cones, making them part of itself.” Divine Pine found it hard to comprehend. One must know that it was a Soul Transformation stage plant. The red leaves were originally synthesized by the Pine Leaf Squirrel, so assimilation was natural, but its own power was actually refined by this Squirrel?

Even according to Lin Jing’s Pill Formula theory, these Pine Cones were only supposed to provide Foundation Establishment energy!

“Is it the power of those eyes?” Then, an even more alarming scene appeared to Divine Pine. As the light of the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Glazed Immortal Eyes covered it, the endless Pine Cones on the giant Squirrel statue slowly disappeared. Subsequently, a third eye actually opened on the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s forehead. However, upon closer inspection, it wasn’t an eye but a Pine Cone, like a third eye, integrated into the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s forehead, appearing incredibly mystical.

Boom!

This giant statue was incredibly bizarre. From its birth, all the plants on the mountain began to wither, their vitality draining away and transforming into countless life essences that merged into the statue.

Even Divine Pine felt an unprovoked disaster, sensing a force attempting to devour and plunder its vitality.

And as the vitality gathered, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Bloodline strength seemed to temporarily increase, erupting with even stronger pressure, directly causing the recently awakened Dragon Carp to be stunned once again.

“This is—the Demon King True Body!!!” Divine Pine exclaimed, finally witnessing something that even it found unbelievable.

“What is the Demon King True Body?”

Lin Jing was also startled by this unexpected change before his eyes. He could now perceive that the Pine Leaf Squirrel was in an unconscious state, experiencing its body after Bloodline evolution. As for the Demon King True Body that Divine Pine mentioned, Lin Jing, despite having read extensively, had never heard of it.

Divine Pine took a deep breath and said, “After you Human Race Cultivators reach the Nascent Soul Realm, you can use the power of the Nascent Soul to condense a Nascent Soul Dharma Idol, enhancing the power of your spells.”

“And the Demon King True Body is a similar method, but unlike how any Nascent Soul Cultivator can manifest a Nascent Soul Dharma Idol, the Demon King True Body can only be mastered by a very small number of supreme Demon Kings. It offers a stronger amplification and is a unique ‘racial talent,’ a special ‘transformation,’ even rarer than the Human Race’s Divine Body.”

“In the Demon King True Body state, although the consumption is immense, the Bloodline bonus is terrifying. If a Demon King masters the Demon King True Body, even a Demigod would have to retreat three paces, because their Bloodline strength at that moment is comparable to imperial-level bloodline!”

“The most amazing thing is that this racial talent will upgrade as cultivation increases, advancing to the Demon Emperor True Body—or even the Demon God True Body.

Divine Pine murmured, “But the Demon King True Body is generally Innate. I’ve never heard of it being Acquired through cultivation. Is it because it’s a Rare Beast? Regardless, now, with just this Foundation Establishment Initial Stage Squirrel, you should be able to crush most of the so-called Foundation Establishment Cultivators on the heavenly pride ranking.”

“Supreme Demon King Bloodline, Demon King True Body. Even if an imperial-level bloodline came, your Squirrel could still fight!”

At this moment, immersed in the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s changes, Lin Jing didn’t even realize that his cultivation had already crossed into the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer, and with the spiritual power feedback from the Pine Leaf Squirrel, he was even approaching Qi Refining Twelfth Layer. And this—was without the feedback from another even more monstrous existence within him, the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer Ice Soul Gu, which had yet to undergo Foundation Establishment!