Chapter 92: Unprecedented

With the power of the Ice Soul Gu, Lin Jing instantly killed a ninth layer of the Qi Training Stage Dragon Blood Demon Beast; the opponent had no power to resist.

Dragon Blood Demon Beasts were inherently powerful, and those with high Bloodline purity could even rival Foundation Establishment Stage Yao Beasts. However, right now, under the power of the Ice Soul Gu, it was no match at all.

“The Ten Unique Gu—Innate Gu King, is by no means as simple as the demon king bloodline among Yao Beasts. Instead, it is more like taking dozens or hundreds of poisonous insects with King-level Bloodline, putting them together to slaughter each other, and finally raising a Poison King.”

Lin Jing only used a sliver of its power, yet he already felt a bone-chilling cold.

“Squeak—” The Pine Leaf Squirrel, not liking this cold aura, stayed far away.

The Dragon Blood Demon Beast died and turned into two streams of light again. The Pine Leaf Squirrel had already prepared to welcome the delicious treat, but who knew that both streams of light flew into Lin Jing’s body.

One was absorbed by Lin Jing, while the other flew into the Divine Wood Seal and merged into the body of the sleeping Ice Soul Gu.

The Ice Soul Gu, which had not been able to absorb any nutrients since birth, immediately grew a bit, and its body size instantly expanded by a circle.

“This…” Lin Jing realized something was amiss. However, sensing that the increase in his cultivation power just now was equivalent to months of hard work using Spirit Stones, his eyes turned red, and he stopped caring about what would happen to the Ice Soul Gu.

“Share half of your Medicinal Pill for replenishing True Qi with me!”

Meanwhile, the other candidates who had entered the Dragon Phoenix Cave Heaven were also killing with bloodshot eyes, hunting dragons and phoenixes.

However, not everyone was as brave as Lin Jing. After fighting one, most candidates were panting, sat down to rest on the spot, and ate Medicinal Pills to replenish their True Qi.

“Damn it, why did I only bring these few bottles of Medicinal Pills?? Why couldn’t I bring more?”

“Ah, Magic Treasures are so troublesome, they still need to be activated with True Qi. If only I had ten Mechanical Bamboo Guns!”

Many candidates regretted not being sufficiently prepared to handle this Opportunity.

“Fortunately, this Young Master brought enough Spirit Stones!” Although Gao Sheng did not bring enough Medicinal Pills, his Storage Pouch contained not only a large amount of Low-Grade Spirit Stones but also Medium Grade and High-Grade Spirit Stones.

With Spirit Stones in one hand and activating his Magic Treasure with the other, he battled the dragons and phoenixes.

Also as dashing as him was Chen Lingxi of the Divine Symbol Sect. When dueling with Lin Jing, she had only used a small portion of her Talismanic Incantations. Now, she could use most of her talismans to hunt dragons and phoenixes, with extraordinary efficiency.

However, although there were geniuses with deep foundations, none were as efficient as Lin Jing, who used Longevity Blood as bait to activate the power of the Gu King to fight the enemy.

Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel flew past. The dragon corpses and phoenix corpses covering the mountains and plains turned into streams of light and flew into their bodies. Not long after, Lin Jing had already stepped into the ninth layer of the Qi Training Stage, and his cultivation Realm caught up to that of the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

“Die!”

Another flying dragon attacked. Lin Jing waved one hand, and several snow-white spider threads instantly disassembled the flying dragon. The dragon corpse seemed to have been cut by ice blades, with a layer of frost covering the cut surfaces, and the blood frozen.

Boom!! In another direction, the Pine Leaf Squirrel, holding a bottle of Longevity Blood, kept teleporting its body, feeding Spirit Bean Bombs to one dragon or phoenix after another. If it weren’t for the fact that the delicious feedback from the dragons and phoenixes had already satisfied it, it would have been unable to resist the temptation of the Longevity Blood in its hands.

One day later. Above Flying Dragon Mountain at the Hidden Dragon Academy, a brilliant, extreme radiance suddenly bloomed.

Array ripples condensed, and a remarkably dressed Nascent Soul Perfection Cultivator slowly stepped out from within.

After descending, he looked at the two beams of light and laughed loudly.

“My son Wang Xiao has the Aptitude for Asking Dao!”

“Fellow Daoist Wang, congratulations.” Seeing this person, Cao Ziwei, who was sitting cross-legged above the academy, immediately congratulated him.

“Many thanks, Mister Cao. The Hidden Dragon Academy is indeed a place where Luck gathers. After the baptism of the Dragon Phoenix Cave Heaven, if Xiao’er can successfully reach the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage and then make a Breakthrough to Foundation Establishment, his Heavenly God Body might be able to reach ‘Minor Achievement’.” The Wang-surname Cultivator came from the Wang family of Cultivators. Hearing that his offspring had such an Opportunity, he did not hesitate to rush to the academy to wait in person.

“Wang Xiao and Chen Lingxi are indeed the geniuses with the most hope of breaking through to the ‘tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage’.” Cao Ziwei was noncommittal; after all, they were the only two Cultivators truly chosen by the Dragon Phoenix Cave Heaven.

Although other Cultivators used the Opportunity to enter together, they were ultimately not the people chosen by the Dragon Phoenix Heaven. It is estimated that the best case scenario is just condensing their True Qi dozens or hundreds of times, making the True Qi intensity comparable to True Essence, and that is all.

However, the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage is a special Realm for the Immortal Palace to select geniuses, and it will not be easily reached; it is full of difficulties.

Cao Ziwei also thought of Xu Zhizhi and Lin Jing, the two geniuses who had entered the Cave Heaven before. But he felt that perhaps the two could have great gains, but as for the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage, there should be no hope.

Especially Lin Jing. As a Pet Control Cultivator, the Opportunity obtained would be split in two, shared by the Cultivator and the Pet Beast, so the hope was even smaller.

“For the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage, both Innate Aptitude and Acquired Opportunity are indispensable. If it is not a powerful Innate Physique, I am afraid the Physical Body will be unable to withstand and accommodate the True Qi of the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage.”

Cao Ziwei’s judgment was not wrong. Inside the Dragon Phoenix Cave Heaven, although Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel fought hard to kill the enemy, the Opportunity transformed from the Dragon Phoenix projections was split into three, greatly discounting the effect on individual entities.

Lin Jing and the others were consuming resources to replenish True Qi through golden spiritual rice while searching for Dragon Phoenix projections. They didn’t know how many they had killed, yet the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Realm was still at the ninth layer of the Qi Training Stage and had not been able to make a Breakthrough.

Although its Azure Emperor True Qi had been tempered hundreds of times, as a Spirit Rank Bloodline, the amount of True Qi it could carry in its body had reached a limit. No matter what, it was difficult to break through the Realm, so it could only continue to improve the quality of its True Qi.

Lin Jing’s side was in the same situation, stuck at the Great Perfection of the Qi Training Stage. Although his True Qi was incomparably pure, he could never make the amount of True Qi go any further.

According to Cao Ziwei’s thoughts, Lin Jing’s Physique and the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Bloodline were far less compatible with this Opportunity than the Heavenly God Body or the Innate Talismanic Incantation Physique; the two of them might stop at the extreme of the ninth layer of the Qi Training Stage.

However, what Cao Ziwei did not know was that because the power of the Ice Gu was too abnormal, and coupled with the fact that the Longevity Physique attracted too many dragons and phoenixes, the number of Dragon Phoenix projections they killed was not just three times that of ordinary people; it would not be surprising to say thirty times. Even if the Opportunity was split into three, the gains were still huge.

Although they were limited by their Physique and Bloodline and could not continue to increase the volume of Qi, under these circumstances, they eventually broke the norm. After the True Qi was tempered to the point where it could no longer be tempered and became extremely pure, they actually, before the tenth layer of the Qi Training Stage, almost reached “Half-step Foundation Establishment”, with their flawless True Qi autonomously strengthening their Physical Bodies first.

The Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Glazed Immortal Eyes flickered. In its emerald green eyes, a clover pattern appeared, seemingly marking that the Glazed Immortal Eyes had completed an evolution and reached the next stage.

As for Lin Jing, he also stopped his pace and perceived his body in astonishment. He had not reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, but—under the tempering of the incomparably perfect Pet Control True Qi within him, he had actually condensed a second drop of golden blood inside his body.

This blood was precisely the Blood of Contract of the Beast Taming Art. Normally, for Cultivators practicing the Beast Taming Art, one drop could be condensed in the Qi Training Stage, and a second drop could be condensed in the Foundation Establishment Stage. Yet Lin Jing, now, had actually condensed two drops of Blood of Contract during the Qi Training Stage. This meant that he could Contract two Pet Beasts during the Qi Training Stage; such a situation was unprecedented in the Beast Taming Sect!