Chapter 125: Daoist Rat

Although it wasn’t easy for Lin Jing to leave this place, it didn’t mean he couldn’t seek other Opportunities!

He just needed to send one Pet Beast over.

With the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s strength, Lin Jing wasn’t worried about it suffering a loss.

Releasing the Pine Leaf Squirrel wouldn’t affect him much; with Lin Jing and the Ice Soul Gu both at the Qi Refining Eleventh Layer, plus a swarm of Mosquito Beasts and the Dragon Palace crowd, he rarely met any rivals.

As Lin Jing patted the gourd hanging at his waist, a streak of red light shot out, and a Squirrel Demon using the Flying Leaf immediately attracted everyone’s gaze.

“This is—…” Everyone looked at the Pine Leaf Squirrel, whose appearance had changed drastically after its Bloodline evolution.

The most eye-catching feature was the wide tail behind it, the end of which was shaped like a maple leaf.

That clearly didn’t seem to be made of flesh and blood, but plant matter!

Besides that, those ears like red leaves further confirmed that this Squirrel was unusual—very unusual.

“Is this still that Squirrel?”

Seeing so many people looking at it, the Pine Leaf Squirrel took a snowy-white Daoist robe from its Storage Pouch and draped it over itself. A sense of immortal grace and sage-like character immediately masked its previous eerie aura.

“Foundation Establishment Stage!” Three-Eyed Liu Yu was slightly stunned. It turned out Lin Jing had already Breakthrough to the Foundation Establishment Stage. As a Beast Master, a Pet Beast’s Foundation Establishment was no different from the Beast Master’s own.

But what had he just heard?

Lin Jing actually intended to send this single Pet Beast alone to compete for the Opportunity?

Observing the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s drastic change in appearance, Liu Yu could guess that its Bloodline Rank must have received a decent boost. However, at the thought of a Squirrel Demon going alone to compete with a group of Prodigies, he still felt like laughing.

Was Lin Jing being a bit too naive?

“Squeak—” The Pine Leaf Squirrel’s expression was calm. Upon receiving the command, it immediately used the Flying Leaf to depart, quickly flashing past the members of the Pupil Alliance.

“Isn’t he afraid his Pet Beast will die in battle?”

Liu Yu was puzzled, but the group still followed. They didn’t care for the Dragon blood Opportunity here and chose to go hunt elsewhere instead.

After the Pine Leaf Squirrel left, Wang Xiao worked hard to soothe the King-Blooded War Tiger. In the entire area, only this fellow beast, the King-Blooded War Tiger, vaguely sensed the terrifying nature of the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Bloodline and kept growling uneasily.

Other Yao Beasts without kingly blood were like a speck of dust before the vast sky, completely unable to sense the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s terrifying Bloodline.

“Just what are you—” Wang Xiao was once again shocked. He had thought Lin Jing had only subdued the Mosquito Beasts by chance, but now he was completely certain it was no coincidence. During this time, although he had also raised a powerful battle pet, Lin Jing’s Pine Leaf Squirrel had been cultivated to be even more mysterious and unpredictable.

“Is it really okay to just send that Squirrel?” Outside the Dragon Transformation Blood Pool, Wang Xiao asked, “Are you really not going with it?”

“No need.” Lin Jing closed his eyes again and continued to sit cross-legged in mid-air to Cultivate. Seeing this, Wang Xiao gritted his teeth and rode his war tiger to chase after Liu Yu and the others.

“This Squirrel Demon—” Meanwhile, above the clouds and mist, the instructors were also observing the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

“Could it be that it consumed a Tree-Man Pill and used it to transform its Bloodline?” The Academy Instructors were far more knowledgeable than the average student and quickly deduced the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s situation.

“It looks like an ordinary Foundation Establishment Initial Stage, and its Bloodline seems to be that of a common Squirrel Demon… It must be hiding its power just like Lin Jing. Wang Xiao’s war tiger seems very afraid of it.” The instructors were not wrong; the technique Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel used to hide their power originated from the Divine Pine.

It was an Advanced application of the “Divine Wood Seal,” achieving the effect of hiding cultivation and Bloodline by falsely sealing power. Unless one used Advanced Divine Sense to forcibly break through the Seal for inspection, it was very difficult to detect.

The Academy Instructors naturally saw no need to rush; excessive probing would be quite impolite.

“It seems their goal is that—” Cao Ziwei spoke with a faint smile, and the other instructors also laughed, looking as if they were expecting a good show.

Currently, a significant portion of the academy Geniuses were gathered at a mountain peak. The peak was strange; while the surrounding area was normal, this mountain alone was constantly shrouded in dense, heavy rain.

The rain was colorless, and when it fell to the ground, it looked no different from ordinary rain.

Most of this rain originated from a sky-reaching plant within the mountain. Its leaves were broad and dark green, its inflorescence fresh and elegant, and it towered higher than common ancient trees. Silver patterns flowed and spread across its body; it was this plant that had been constantly absorbing water vapor,

and spitting out rain.

“It won’t work.” A Genius probed with their Divine Sense and immediately felt as if their head had been plunged into lava. Their face turned red with heat, and their mind became muddled.

Some Geniuses traveled with their own “chariots,” riding flying boats that shielded them from wind and rain, hoping to traverse the rain curtain. However, halfway through, the flying boats lost their mana support and plummeted from the sky.

Protective true essence, shielding Magic Treasures, Five Elements escape techniques—the Geniuses used every means at their disposal, yet they still couldn’t break through the rain curtain, instead making themselves look quite pathetic.

“It should be a fourth-Rank Fierce Plant, the Raining Guanyin, a dangerous thing from the Mist Forest.” Chen Lingxi of the Divine Symbol Sect shook her head. Her talismans were perfectly countered by this rain, making it impossible to break through.

“The rain of the Raining Guanyin has the effect of corroding mana and can even affect Core Formation Cultivators—” Under normal circumstances, the dozens of Geniuses gathered here wouldn’t want to go head-to-head with this Fierce Plant. However, anyone could see the world-shaking treasure light emanating from within the mountain.

There must be a supreme treasure within the mountain!

“Can even Tang Yun not break through?” Everyone looked toward a white-haired young man, ranked sixty-sixth on the heavenly pride ranking, Tang Yun.

Possessing the Innate Cloud-Mist Physique, a mutation of the Water Spirit Physique, he could refine clouds and mist into various powerful Magic Treasures and Cloud Beasts.

Currently, he sat cross-legged on a white cloud, which held a halberd condensed from black storm clouds with flickering lightning.

“This rain can even corrode my clouds. Without reaching the Golden Core stage, it’s difficult to pass. However, the Raining Guanyin’s survival is highly dependent on its surrounding environment. Once the surrounding water vapor is depleted, one can pass directly,” the white-haired youth said calmly.

“If you want to know what the treasure is as quickly as possible, the most efficient way is for everyone to work together and continuously cast fire spells in the vicinity to remove the water vapor.”

“Don’t even think about breaking through alone.”

Just as he finished speaking, people saw a red flash pass before their eyes. A strange Squirrel flying on a leaf mingled among them, staring longingly at the world-shaking treasure light within the rain curtain.

“This is—!” As soon as the Pine Leaf Squirrel appeared, everyone was stunned. Only a very few, such as Chen Lingxi of the Divine Symbol Sect, saw a familiar shadow in the Pine Leaf Squirrel after its Bloodline evolution.

“Is this also a rare Spirit Beast the Academy Instructors caught from abroad?” Some Geniuses were eager to try; this Squirrel looked delicious—stir-fry it in a pot, and you’d have both meat and greens.

“How is that possible? Whose wild Spirit Beast wears a Daoist robe?!”

Boom!

Before the Cultivators present could react further, in the direction the Pine Leaf Squirrel flying on the red leaf was looking, the rain forcibly opened a rain-free passage. It flew straight in, leaving everyone staring in a daze.

The others snapped out of it and wanted to follow, but the rain came pouring down again.

“Don’t even think about breaking through alone—but it’s not a person,” Tang Yun added. “This Daoist-robed Squirrel Demon… must have a way to counter the Fierce Plant!”