Chapter 320: Traveling Far from Home

“So this is the Imperishable Golden Body.”

Inside the pagoda, Lin Jing stood up, his entire body suffused with golden Buddhist light. After gaining a rudimentary mastery of the Imperishable Golden Body, his defensive power had increased once again.

“Not only has my defense improved, but in the Golden Body state, I also have stronger resistance against various evil forces.”

Seeing that Lin Jing had finally learned it, the Mystic Art Spirit Mushroom wiped its sweat and flew back into his body.

【Remember this site’s domain name…】

Seeing this, Lin Jing laughed at himself.

“Illusion plus a golden body… have I become an Oscar statuette?”

Boom!

At the same time, the sound of explosions echoed from a distance away from the pagoda.

Lin Jing spread his Divine Sense; it was the Pine Leaf Squirrel, in its Demon Emperor True Form, engaged in a fierce battle with the Ice Soul Gu.

Over the past few months, both Pet Beasts had gained some insights into the Path of Obsession, and under Lin Jing’s arrangement, they had begun to apply it in actual combat.

The rule was that they were not allowed to use Demon Core Divine Abilities during the fight.

Furthermore, if the Ice Soul Gu won, it could take ten percent of the Spirit Stones the Pine Leaf Squirrel had hoarded for its own cultivation.

Under these rules, to avoid losing its hoard, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s eyes turned blood-red, and its spiritual energy recovery speed increased significantly. After all, without using Demon Core Divine Abilities, it didn’t have much of an advantage against the Ice Soul Gu.

Its hoard really might be lost.

As for the Ice Soul Gu, it wasn’t after that ten percent of Spirit Stones; it simply believed that under these rules, it truly had a chance to defeat the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

Having been used as a refrigerator by the Pine Leaf Squirrel so many times, it also wanted to win once to vent its frustration. This obsession gave its power a significant boost, and the two sides fought exceptionally fiercely.

“This is the Path of Obsession. In the past, although they had some obsessions, the power boost wasn’t much. But now, when it involves their obsessions, they basically have a power boost of nearly ten percent. This boost is already quite terrifying.”

“In the future, before sending the Pine Leaf Squirrel into battle, maybe I can set a punishment: if it loses, it has to use up all its hoarded resources—not confiscating them, but purely for strengthening its own power. But even if it’s for its own use, for a creature with a hoarding obsession, that would still be like the sky falling, wouldn’t it?” Lin Jing thought mischievously.

“Try to be a decent person. The Path of Obsession isn’t meant for you to bully your Pet Beasts.” Beside him, the Ghost Bride appeared.

She also looked toward the city, which had been turned into ruins by the battle.

In its Demon Emperor True Form, the Pine Leaf Squirrel stood a hundred meters tall, like a small mountain. It was covered in various ferocious plants, resembling a monster.

Meanwhile, the Ice Soul Gu was parasitizing the body of a Crab Demon King, clashing with it.

Perhaps influenced by its youth, the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s fighting style still leaned toward the Path of Mechanisms. Referencing a Water Cannon Turtle, it had built two wooden cannons on its shoulders, which continuously fired Self-Exploding Pine Cones.

Each Pine Cone fired had a power no less than a Demon Core self-destructing, forming massive fireballs and rising mushroom clouds. Facing this terrifying firepower, the ice-attributed Ice Soul Gu suffered greatly. It could only use the power of lightning to stimulate the vitality of the Crab Demon King’s body, dodging around the city like lightning. Yet even so, it couldn’t avoid being blown away and injured by the shockwaves.

However, in its True Form, while the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s firepower was astonishing, its movement speed was limited, making it a sitting duck for the Ice Soul Gu.

Heavenly thunder continuously struck down on the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s head, causing charred patches and cracks to appear all over its body from time to time.

However, both sides’ defenses were top-notch. The Pine Leaf Squirrel possessed the Vajra Wood Body; both its defense and self-healing attributes were extremely powerful, so the Ice Soul Gu’s lightning strikes couldn’t cause it heavy damage. As for the Ice Soul Gu, it controlled the body of a Sea God Palace Prodigy at the Peak Demon King level, keeping its true body well-protected. Even if this corpse was damaged, it could quickly repair it using the power of frost.

For the sake of victory, the two sides had been blasting each other like this for several days without a winner, consuming an unknown number of Medicinal Pills to replenish their spiritual energy.

“Stop.” Lin Jing called a halt to the Ice Soul Gu and the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

The Ghost Bride beside him also felt that, although still very rudimentary, they had barely reached the entry level of the Path of Obsession.

“Sigh—”

Hearing the command to end the battle, the Pine Leaf Squirrel in the Ghost City breathed a sigh of relief and quickly returned to its small form to rest and recover. Meanwhile, the Ice Soul Gu was somewhat depressed inside the ice crab.

A simple ice-attributed Demon King corpse simply couldn’t allow it to exert its full power…

As expected, human pets were more useful. It looked at the qi luck gold list in the sky, really wanting to pick a few from the top hundred continental Prodigies.

“Time’s almost up.” With the end of the Golden Light Gu’s Legacy trial approaching, Lin Jing intended to try sealing the Ghost Bride into the buddha-demon pearl.

Even with the Ghost Bride’s cooperation, Lin Jing wasn’t entirely confident in this process, so he needed to set aside some time.

Just as Lin Jing looked at the Ghost Bride, intending for her to fulfill the Contract, a tiger tooth he was carrying suddenly vibrated.

In the next instant, a terrifying aura that made the Ghost Bride’s pupils shrink slowly leaked out, startling her so much that she immediately dove into the ground. At the same time, the Thunder Dragon Old Ancestor, also within the pagoda, abruptly opened his eyes.

“Your Majesty the Demon Emperor.”

“Your Majesty?” Lin Jing took out the tiger tooth, and from it, the phantom of the Little Demon Emperor emerged.

“Lin Jing.” Then, a mature voice, completely at odds with the phantom’s appearance, came from the Demon Emperor.

“Your Majesty, is it over on the Dragon Carp’s side?” Lin Jing spoke respectfully, though he didn’t seem to sense that the Dragon Carp had successfully refined the Immortal-Burying Fire and achieved a Nascent Soul Breakthrough.

“There is just one thing I need to inform you of.” The Demon Emperor’s phantom paced back and forth in mid-air with his hands behind his back, looking deep in thought.

“Did you sense any disturbances in the Tian Yuan World just now?”

“Disturbances? No.” Lin Jing shook his head.

The Demon Emperor looked at Lin Jing and said, “The matter you reported to me might be about to happen. Not long ago, the Asking Dao experts of the Tian Yuan Continent sensed that people from beyond the heavens are trying to enter the Tian Yuan World. It’s very likely they are invaders from the Heavenly Demon Realm.”

Lin Jing’s heart skipped a beat. So soon?

“To prevent this from actually happening, the Second Generation Ancient Emperor proposed a plan.”

Following that, the Demon Emperor told Lin Jing everything about what the Second Generation Ancient Emperor had said—the Tian Yuan Spark Project to send ten Prodigies to the Source World to Cultivate.

After hearing this, Lin Jing fell into deep thought. “The Source World… Your Majesty, do you mean you want me to compete for one of those spots as well?”

The Demon Emperor’s eyes flashed. “If the Heavenly Demon Realm invades, you will definitely be one of their primary assassination targets. Not only because you possess the Longevity Body, but also because you master the Yao Beast Transformation Method. The revival of the Yao Race would be a massive boost for the Yao Beast species and the overall strength of the Tian Yuan World. To prevent this boost from continuing, you are someone they must eliminate.”

“Therefore, I still want you to go to the Source World. What are your own thoughts? Are you willing to temporarily leave the Tian Yuan World and travel far from home?”