Chapter 212: Deterrence of the Longevity Physique

After seeing off the first pair of distinguished guests, Lin Jing lay back down and continued reading his book.

One person and three pets—everyone was exceptionally busy, except for the Ice Soul Gu.

The Ice Soul Gu had no choice; it had sealed itself in ice and entered hibernation, falling into a state of suspended animation to avoid being tracked by the Gu God Sect through special secret methods.

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Regardless of the circumstances, the Ice Soul Gu belonged to the Gu God Sect, so it was always better to be cautious.

Meanwhile, the Fire Scale Dragon was refining pills within the Zen Staff pendant, which had been modified into an Alchemy Immortal Cave. Most of the Medicinal Pills in the Nameless Pill Pavilion, including the Gluttony Pills, currently had to be supplied by it.

As for the Pine Leaf Squirrel, it was the busiest of them all.

Inside its Suspended Gourd, it was growing the three great spiritual seeds it had split with the Demon Pine back then: the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, the Nine Lives Exquisite Grass, and the Cloud Hidden Ghost Orchid!

All of these were treasures of a higher grade than the Saint Fire Lotus from earlier.

These treasures were currently still in an immature state. Even though the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Longevity Technique had reached Major Achievement, it had yet to fully ripen a single one.

Had he known they would be separated from Senior Divine Pine, Lin Jing would have insisted on having Senior Divine Pine help ripen them no matter what; then he wouldn’t be in this position, looking at them but unable to use them.

Currently, the Pine Leaf Squirrel was prioritizing the ripening of the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom.

This Divine Mushroom was a fifth-tier fire-attribute treasure. According to Senior Divine Pine, once the Fire Scale Dragon reached the Golden Core Stage, eating this would be enough to break through from the Early Stage of the Golden Core to the Golden Core Great Perfection, granting it the ability to charge toward the Nascent Soul.

Therefore, Lin Jing’s plan was to first collect various exotic fires while ripening the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, allowing the Fire Scale Dragon to form its core and condense an invincible Flame Demon Core.

Afterward, the Fire Scale Dragon would be limited by the contract and stuck at the Early Stage of the Demon Core, but that wasn’t a big problem because, by then, the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom would likely still not be ripe.

He would use that time to work hard on his own Core Formation, thereby lifting the Realm restriction on his Pet Beast.

By that moment, the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom should have finally ripened.

At that point, the Fire Scale Dragon, currently at the Early Stage of Core Formation, could use this top-tier spiritual item to charge from the Early Stage of the Demon Core all the way to the Nascent Soul Stage in one go. With its Demon Emperor Bloodline, there would certainly be no Bottleneck between Core Formation and Nascent Soul.

Ultimately, Lin Jing at the Golden Core Stage, combined with beast-taming secret methods like ‘Fusion’ and ‘Beast Transformation Treasure’ to command a Nascent Soul Stage Fire Scale Dragon, would mean Lin Jing himself effectively gained Nascent Soul-level combat power immediately!

Coupled with the Fire Scale Dragon’s violent Rare Beast Divine Power, he would hardly have any rivals below the Soul Transformation stage.

If Lin Jing successfully cultivated the Heavenly Demon Body while possessing Nascent Soul-level combat power, then as long as he was willing to burn his life, he would have the qualifications to challenge the truly powerful!

After all, by then he would likely have nearly ten thousand years of Lifespan to burn. He would already be invincible below Soul Transformation, and combined with the life-burning Demonic Technique, if anyone dared to target his Longevity Physique again, he could snap at them like a mad dog.

In this state, not only would his Longevity Physique’s nutritional value plummet due to burning his Lifespan, but he would also gain super-strong combat power to counterattack. No matter how you calculated it, trying to capture him would be a losing proposition.

With most of the Longevity Physique’s nutrition gone and the need to prevent the opponent’s counterattack, anyone would have to weigh whether it was worth it.

Besides ripening the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s other current task was to find its own path to Core Formation!

Lin Jing’s desire for Core Formation still relied on being driven by his Pet Beasts.

Furthermore, to allow the Glazed Immortal Eyes to evolve so they could synthesize resources other than plants, its Core Formation method also needed to be quite special.

He needed it to evolve from a wood-attribute Pine Leaf Squirrel into a Five Elements-attribute Pine Leaf Squirrel!

And the method was the Tree-Man Pill!

The Tree-Man Pill was one of the reference Pill Formulas used to refine the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill back then; it was a Medicinal Pill that could add plant organs to a body.

These plant organs were the key.

Just as the Saint Fire Lotus and the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom were plants while also possessing the fire attribute, what Lin Jing needed to do was find four types of plants suitable to become the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s new organs—plants containing ‘Metal-Wood’, ‘Water-Wood’, ‘Fire-Wood’, and ‘Earth-Wood’ properties—and fuse them with its body.

Then, with the Five Elements revolving around the Wood element in a generative cycle, the Pine Leaf Squirrel would have the chance to form a Five Elements Demon Core, granting itself all five attributes completely.

Though he didn’t know if this would stimulate the Glazed Immortal Eyes to evolve, the path of the Five Elements was incredibly powerful and certainly wouldn’t hinder the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s growth.

However, the selection of these four types of plant organs with other attributes also required careful consideration.

Since he needed to research the Tree-Man Pills refined with them as the core, these plants had to be available in large quantities.

Only then would there be plenty of opportunities for trial and error to improve the Tree-Man Pill.

Therefore, Advanced Spiritual Plants like the Saint Fire Lotus and Nine Yang Divine Mushroom had to be discarded. Although they were excellent, Lin Jing and the others didn’t yet have the ability to improve such Spiritual Plants into a Tree-Man Pill.

However, using ordinary first, second, or third-tier plants seemed insufficiently powerful.

Thus, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s own synthesized objects became the optimal solution.

Just like the fire cloud chili from before—it was just an ordinary first-tier Fierce Plant, but after synthesis, it could bring forth Netherworld Ghost Fire and become rarer and more powerful than Advanced Spiritual Plants!

So during this period, Lin Jing needed to collect low-level plants in Qingzhou with additional attributes such as ‘Fire’, ‘Water’, ‘Metal’, and ‘Earth’ to let the Pine Leaf Squirrel synthesize them. He would then see which synthesized product was suitable as an organ material to be modified into a Tree-Man Pill and integrated into the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s body.

Among them, Lin Jing already had a candidate for the Metal-Wood attribute Spiritual Plant: the shell of the Mosquito-Powered Mecha, the Thorns Vajra Wood synthesized from Adamantine Wood!

It could reflect most of the damage received back at the enemy, making it very suitable to be modified into the skin of the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s wooden body after its Demon King True Body transformation.

If he couldn’t find a more suitable metal-attribute plant as an organ later, the Adamantine Wood would be Lin Jing’s first choice.

As for fire, water, and earth-attribute plants, Lin Jing hadn’t synthesized any compatible ones at the academy. Now that he had settled in the Qingzhou commercial street, he began searching again.

Qingzhou was rich in special plants, offering a much wider range of choices than the Ancient Kingdom.

“Fellow Daoist, the one hundred portions of ‘Fireburst Fruit’ and one hundred portions of ‘Sun Grass’ you ordered have arrived.”

Not long after, the leisurely seated Lin Jing welcomed his second guest.

Rather than a guest, it was more like a Cultivator from a Spiritual Plant shop not far next door.

Before opening this pill pavilion, Lin Jing had conveniently ordered two types of fire-attribute second-tier plants from him, which cost him quite a few Spirit Stones.

Fireburst Fruit and Sun Grass were both specialty plants of Qingzhou.

Among them, the Fireburst Fruit was a Fierce Plant and a fierce fruit. Its effect was similar to a Spirit Bean Bomb; once it collided violently, it would explode, producing a blast wave like a fireball that could even kill a Foundation Establishment Stage Cultivator.

When Lin Jing originally wanted to purchase a hundred Fireburst Fruits, it had made the neighboring shop owner ponder for a long time, guessing what Lin Jing wanted to do.

As for the Sun Grass, it was a type of Spiritual Plant that enhanced fire-attribute spiritual power. After consuming this Spiritual Plant, cultivating fire-attribute Spells and techniques under the sun would be extremely efficient.

Lin Jing just wanted to see what kind of mutations would occur after these two fire-type plants were synthesized through the Glazed Immortal Eyes, and whether they would be suitable to become the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s new plant organs.

“The goods are here, let’s synthesize them.” With the precedent of the fire cloud chili, Lin Jing was quite looking forward to the changes after their synthesis. For instance, would they bring a new type of exotic fire like the fire cloud chili did? If so, the Fire Scale Dragon could also benefit along with them.

“Eh?” Inside the calabash, the Pine Leaf Squirrel stopped its ripening work, took off its straw hat, and looked up, revealing a sharp gaze.