Chapter 243: Astonishing Bounty

Outside.

The entire Sky Lion Clan was chanting the sacrificial text in unison. Just as the moment to offer the Longevity Blood and flesh arrived, countless Yao Beasts and Cultivators at the scene suddenly discovered with shock that a young man was slowly floating up from the crowd!!

It was none other than Lin Jing, who had just returned to the crowd from the altar!

After he floated up from the crowd, he instantly drew the attention of the entire audience, causing countless Sky Lion Clan members to glare at him in rage.

“How bold!!!”

“You brat, you’re courting death!!”

The crowd of people and Yao Beasts around Lin Jing were instantly stunned, scrambling away from him in terror.

At this critical moment of the Sky Lion Clan’s Ancestral Ritual Ceremony, Lin Jing’s actions were tantamount to causing chaos. In their eyes, Lin Jing was already as good as dead.

Even if the Sky Lion Clan didn’t execute Lin Jing on the spot, they would certainly capture him and subject him to endless torture.

“Take him down!!” the Sky Lion Clan Chief, who was presiding over the ceremony, roared in fury. However, the next moment, as Lin Jing slowly raised his palm and repeated his old trick, a drop of blood exuding an alluring aura appeared. The Sky Lion Clan members who were about to act suddenly paused.

“Longevity Blood???”

They abruptly turned their gazes toward the Sky Lion Saintess on the altar. Discovering that she was still standing there without any changes, their gazes focused back on Lin Jing.

“That’s not right, this isn’t the Saintess’s blood; the aura is completely different.” The participants of the Ancestral Ritual Ceremony spoke in shock: “Is it the blood of another Longevity Body??”

“Brat, you are—”

Seeing that all eyes were on him, before Lin Jing could even introduce himself, someone had already recognized him.

“The Suspended Gourd, the Pine Leaf Squirrel in a Daoist robe—he is the number one Prodigy of the Ancient Kingdom who was previously wanted by all the major Sects, the Lin Jing who refined the Ten Unique Gu!”

Someone spoke in disbelief, not understanding why this person had suddenly appeared in the Sky Lion Clan, and even less understanding why he would appear with Longevity Blood!!

“Lin Jing?” A powerhouse of the Sky Lion Clan was stunned, “That Human Race wanted by the Yin Corpse Sect??”

Suddenly, the Sky Lion Clan members’ expressions changed. They thought of something and seemed to realize why this person was wanted by the Yin Corpse Sect!

It wasn’t because of the Ten Unique Gu…

“That’s right, I am that Lin Jing, wanted by the Yin Corpse Sect and targeted by two major Demonic Sects combined,” Lin Jing’s illusion smiled slightly and said, “I apologize for interrupting this Ancestral Ritual Ceremony.”

“I only heard that the Sky Lion Clan’s ceremony was exceptionally grand, so I came here specifically to borrow this precious place to announce something.”

“Are you all curious why the Yin Corpse Sect wants to capture a lowly Beast Taming Cultivator like me? It’s very simple. It’s not because I possess the Ten Unique Gu, nor is it because I have extraordinary potential, but because—”

“I am a Longevity Body.”

“I am a Longevity Body, the second one in this world. I am of great use to the Yin Corpse Sect, which is why I am being hunted by the Demonic Sect.”

“However, I have always believed in repaying grudges. Since the Yin Corpse Sect wants to capture me, I naturally have to retaliate.”

“It is a pity that my strength is limited, so I can only issue a bounty here, entrusting my friends in the Yao Beast world to help me eradicate the Demonic Sect.”

“Anyone who can hunt a Nascent Soul Demonic Cultivator of the Yin Corpse Sect can exchange the opponent’s remnant Nascent Soul for a drop of Longevity Blood from me. Anyone who can hunt a Soul Transformation Demonic Cultivator can exchange the opponent’s remnant Primordial Spirit for one hundred drops of Longevity Blood!”

“And anyone who can kill a Void Profound Demonic Cultivator of the Yin Corpse Sect can take any one of my Longevity organs.”

“Oh, right, the Gu God Sect works too.”

“The first round of the bounty will be settled in ten years. By then, I will redeem the bounties outside the territory of the Sky Lion Clan.”

While Lin Jing was speaking, the entire scene of the Ancestral Ritual Ceremony was deathly silent. Everyone felt it was absurd and unimaginable.

Not to mention the shocking news that the number one Foundation Establishment Prodigy of the Ancient Kingdom was actually a Longevity Body.

This Longevity Body had actually come to the Sky Lion Clan’s Ancestral Ritual Ceremony to place a bounty on a Demonic Sect?

What kind of joke is this?

How dare he?

By disrupting the Sky Lion Clan’s Ancestral Ritual Ceremony like this, did he think he could return alive?

This overly crazy behavior made it difficult for the beasts to comprehend for a moment.

However, when they looked at Lin Jing’s expression, they found that he seemed exceptionally serious, not like he was joking.

“Brat, having disrupted the important ceremony of my Sky Lion Clan, do you think nothing will happen???”

The Sky Lion Clan Chief laughed in anger, seemingly laughing out of extreme rage. However, in the eyes of the many Yao Beasts and Cultivators, it wasn’t angry at all; it was purely laughing.

If they hadn’t known about Lin Jing’s situation at the beginning, the ceremony being disrupted would certainly have been infuriating.

But now that they knew Lin Jing was a Longevity Body, for the Sky Lion Clan, the ceremony being interrupted was just an interruption. What was an Ancestral Ritual Ceremony compared to a living Longevity Body?

The Sky Lion Clan already possessed one Longevity Body. If they could possess another, the clan’s destiny would be unimaginable.

Most importantly, in the eyes of the Sky Lion Clan Chief, capturing Lin Jing meant they could use the Longevity Body for breeding.

The current Sky Lion Saintess could not break her Primordial Yin in order to maintain the purity of her blood and the characteristics of her Cultivation Technique, but Lin Jing, this Longevity Body, did not have that problem. Although it was difficult for a Longevity Body to pass on the trait to offspring through reproduction, that was in the past!

The Medicinal Pill known as the Tadpole Pill created by the Medicine Toad Clan could, at least as demonstrated at the Alchemy Conference, ensure that most Cultivation Physiques were 100% inherited by the offspring. Although the Physiques used in the experiments were all ordinary Spiritual Physiques and did not include Divine Physiques or special Physiques like the Longevity Body, in the eyes of the Sky Lion Clan Chief, this Medicinal Pill could definitely increase the probability of offspring inheriting their parents’ Physiques.

As long as they obtained the Tadpole Pill and captured this Longevity Body, Lin Jing, it would be a blessing from the heavens for the Sky Lion Clan!

It locked its gaze tightly onto Lin Jing, only to discover that this Longevity Body seemed completely unaware of the severity of the problem.

“Disrupted the Sky Lion Clan’s Ancestral Ritual Ceremony—”

“So what?” Lin Jing floated in mid-air, completely unconcerned by the Sky Lion Clan Chief’s threat: “Could it be that the Sky Lion Clan wants to keep me as well, crown me as the Sky Lion Saint, and drain my blood day and night to feed the clan members?”

“Hahahaha?”

“Brat, it’s good that you know!!!” The Sky Lion Clan Chief’s body gradually grew larger: “Don’t worry, if you become my Sky Lion Saint, the Yin Corpse Sect will never dare to capture you again!!”

After speaking, it stretched out its giant palm to grab Lin Jing. The illusions of Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel were incredibly realistic; no one could tell they were just Clones. Even a body double had the possibility of being exposed, but Lin Jing’s illusions were truly superb.

Sizzle.

Lin Jing squeezed one hand, his expression calm, and burned his Longevity Blood to destruction. He was just about to self-destruct when suddenly, an unexpected change occurred.

Boom!!!

A shocking aura swept past, and the arm of the Sky Lion Clan Chief, whose cultivation had reached the Peak of Soul Transformation, suddenly flew off, severed by an unknown force.

It looked in a certain direction with a horrified expression.

It saw the Sky Lion Saintess, who had always been like a walking corpse, suddenly surge with an incomparably terrifying power, causing the space around her to twist and shatter.

The Sky Lion Saintess raised her head, a luster appearing in her eyes. Under the incredulous gazes of everyone, her cultivation fluctuation reached the Void Profound Realm!

“Thank you for your secret technique…” She slowly looked toward Lin Jing, who was dumbfounded in mid-air.