Chapter 259: Seeing Mosquitoes, Thinking of the Pine

“Roar!!!”

Throughout the flight, not only were there Foundation Establishment Late Stage poison beasts, but the annoying Buddhist light on Lin Jing made almost all Advanced poisonous creatures feel nauseated.

After swatting many low-level poison beasts, Lin Jing passed by a poisonous swamp, where a massive poison flood dragon Yao Beast emerged, sweeping purple dragon breath toward him.

“Receive.”

Lin Jing dodged the poisonous breath.

Beneath the Buddhist light, he manifested the ultimate pressure of the Beast Control Body.

The poison flood dragon was instantly thrown into a panic; it had thought this was a tender, soft-skinned bald monk, but who knew it was a Beast Control fiend?

It turned to dive back into the swamp, but Lin Jing’s Magic Treasure had already been thrown out, and the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle directly absorbed it inside.

“Roar!!!”

Inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle, the poison flood dragon struggled, wanting to break through the restraints of the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle.

Unfortunately, inside the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle, Lin Jing had already catalyzed a Rank 4 Soul-Confusing Pill.

Before long, the poison flood dragon fell into a deep sleep, its consciousness wiped away by the Magic Treasure while it was unconscious.

“What is that sound?”

While subduing monsters along the way, Lin Jing, flying through the miasma, suddenly heard a familiar, interwoven sound of “buzzing” and “whooshing.”

“A swarm of mosquitoes is moving!”

Hard work pays off.

Lin Jing felt a surge of joy and quickened his pace.

Before long, several streaks of light brushed past him; they were a few Loose Cultivators with cultivation levels ranging from Foundation Establishment to False Core.

“Freeze!!!”

As these Cultivators brushed past Lin Jing, each of them cast a spell, casually throwing several Immobilization Spells onto Lin Jing.

“Sorry, Fellow Daoist. The mosquito swarm behind us is fierce; you will serve as rations to delay them for a moment!”

“Better you die than me.”

“If a monk doesn’t enter Hell, who will?”

As their hearts pounded wildly, they watched with their Divine Sense as the mosquito swarm devoured Lin Jing.

However, the scene that followed filled them with horror.

The army of the mosquito swarm swept past Lin Jing without the slightest intention of sucking his blood.

Lin Jing stood coldly on the spot, and the speed of the mosquito swarm did not slow down in the slightest.

“Speed it up, suck them dry.”

This Clone of Lin Jing was composed entirely of plants and illusions; there was no flesh or blood to speak of, so this group of Mosquito Beasts naturally wasn’t interested.

Moreover, the Beast Control Body that Lin Jing manifested was an extremely strong suppression for this group of Mosquito Beasts, just like the king of the mosquito swarm.

Even if this group of Loose Cultivators racked their brains, they probably wouldn’t guess that this group of Mosquito Beasts was dropped by Lin Jing—or to be precise, they had multiplied from a certain mosquito he had dropped.

A moment later, the mosquito swarm caught up to the few Loose Cultivators and, in an instant, sucked them all into mummies, without a single drop of blood left in their bodies.

“Are you full? If you’re full, it’s time to follow me back!!!”

The next moment, Lin Jing returned to a smile, his heart stirred as he flew toward the mosquito swarm.

With just a rough scan of his Divine Sense, the number of mosquitoes sweeping before him was at least nearly one hundred thousand.

Although most did not exceed the Qi Refining Sixth Layer, with this quantity, unless one was at the Nascent Soul level, one would definitely not have an easy time encountering them.

“How did you multiply so quickly?”

Lin Jing was suddenly puzzled.

These two Ten Thousand Beasts Circles couldn’t handle so many Mosquito Beasts.

Utilizing the Beast Control Body to suppress these mosquito swarms, Lin Jing pondered while the swarm made noise from time to time, which was giving him a headache.

“Quiet.”

In the end, after he selected a thousand Mosquito Beasts with cultivation levels above the Qi Refining Seventh Layer to take into the Ten Thousand Beasts Circle to bring back, he had an idea for the whereabouts of the remaining nearly one hundred thousand Mosquito Beasts.

“These things are an invasive species to Qingzhou. If I continue to let them roam, once they form a scale of a million, the surrounding cities will likely suffer.”

“Taking them all back is quite troublesome, and killing them directly is a waste. Since that’s the case, I’ll just let them assist me in hunting Yao Kings.”

Although a mosquito swarm of this size could not fight a Yao King at its peak, facing a poisoned Yao King whose condition was declining, their suicide attacks could accelerate the poisoning, which could save Lin Jing quite a bit of time!

“But even the mosquito swarm has been found; I always feel like something is missing.”

Lin Jing looked at the mosquito swarm and fell into deep thought.

That’s right, where exactly is Senior Divine Pine at this time?

It’s been several years since he last saw the old fellow.

Logically speaking, such an outrageous event as him working with Gu Qianqiu to wreak havoc on the Heavenly Lion Clan should slowly spread to the Ancient Kingdom and other regions, right?

If Senior Divine Pine finds out, who knows if he can rush over quickly.

Lin Jing shook his head, looked at the mosquito swarm army, and said, “Let’s go, follow me to hunt kings—”

One month later in Tianyuan Continent time.

One year later in Hourglass of Time time.

On the side of Lin Jing’s main body, the progress of all members was rapid.

Lin Jing had already deduced the Tree-Man Pill for the synthetic version of the Blood-Sucking Vine, Adamantine Wood, Fireburst Fruit, and Earth Devouring Tree, and handed it over to the Dragon Carp to refine.

The Dragon Carp, having broken through to the Demon Core stage and refined a new top-tier exotic fire, was still at the Demon Core Early Stage due to Lin Jing’s Realm restrictions.

However, its Alchemy attainments could now be pushed toward the level of a “Rank 5 Pill Master.”

If successful, it would be the same as Alchemy Master Jiegeng from the Tongtian Pagoda back then; both would be able to refine Rank 5 Medicinal Pills at the Core Formation Stage, with a status in the Immortal Cultivation World comparable to a Soul Transformation Cultivator.

Alchemy Master Jiegeng was the core Genius of the strongest Alchemy power, the Tongtian Pagoda, which was why she could achieve the status of a Pill Master at the Golden Core Stage.

The Dragon Carp, however, was growing completely wildly.

If it could achieve the same accomplishment, while it was certainly due to the Yan Emperor Divine Power, its own hard work could not be denied.

During the period when the Dragon Carp was refining the four types of Tree-Man Pills, the Pine Leaf Squirrel also used the Azure Emperor Longevity Art to absorb all the Spiritual Plants of the Heavenly Lion Clan.

However, achieving Perfection in the Azure Emperor Longevity Art was more difficult than Lin Jing had imagined; he didn’t know if it was a problem with the Cultivation Technique or because the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Realm was too low.

After absorbing all these Spiritual Plants, the Pine Leaf Squirrel barely managed to Cultivate the Longevity Art to Perfection—of course, cultivating a Cultivation Technique to Perfection brought the Pine Leaf Squirrel pleasing gains.

Although it was only at the Foundation Establishment Great Perfection Realm, its attainments regarding plants, meaning its ability to speed up the growth and control of plants, were already completely no less than a Yao King-level plant Spirit Monster.

If nothing unexpected happened, the few Spiritual Plants Lin Jing had brought away from the Beast Taming Sect would be successfully ripened before long.

And the main function of the Longevity Art was actually extending Lifespan.

The perfected Azure Emperor Longevity Art added another 2,000 years to its Lifespan on top of the original foundation, bringing its Lifespan to an astonishing 4,000-plus years.

However, under this astonishing Lifespan, it also meant that the Pine Leaf Squirrel had thoroughly cultivated the “Azure Emperor Longevity Art” to its limit.

This Cultivation Technique was originally meant for plant Spirit Monsters to Cultivate; that Senior Divine Pine could improve it so that Yao Beasts could also Cultivate it was already rare.

It was just a pity that there were too few layers.

“The Pine Leaf Squirrel has already reached the edge of a Breakthrough. The Perfection of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art has made it like the Dragon Carp back when it carried five types of exotic fires; it can hardly suppress its Realm anymore. It’s just waiting for the Dragon Carp’s pill to be finished.”

“I don’t know when Senior Divine Pine will be able to return. When that time comes, I can ask him to see if he can deduce a higher layer of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art for the Pine Leaf Squirrel to Cultivate—”

These past few days, Lin Jing had been missing Senior Divine Pine especially much, perhaps because seeing the mosquitoes made him think of the tree.