Chapter 9: Glazed Immortal Eyes

Over the next few days, after learning the Spirit-Nurturing Art, Lin Jing stopped cultivating and spent his time reading various books to understand this Immortal Cultivation World.

Primarily, his cultivation efficiency was too low.

Instead of cultivating himself, he was waiting for the spiritual energy feedback from the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s Breakthrough to boost his own cultivation level!

This was the normal way for a Beast Taming Sect Disciple to grow stronger.

Right now, although the Pine Leaf Squirrel wasn’t absorbing Spiritual Qi normally, the process of frequently using spiritual energy to ripen the spiritual rice was also a form of tempering its spiritual power.

After a few days, the spiritual rice had grown quite tall and was not far from ripening.

It had to be said, his Pine Leaf Squirrel’s talent was truly excellent.

Lin Jing learned from miscellaneous books that an ordinary Pine Leaf Squirrel at the third level of Qi Refining would take about half a month to ripen a single stalk of spiritual rice without external help.

But his own Pine Leaf Squirrel had finished most of the farm work in less than half that time.

Although he occasionally used his meager True Qi with the “Spirit-Nurturing Art” to alleviate the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s mental fatigue, his help as a mere first-level Qi Refiner wouldn’t be very significant.

It was all thanks to the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s own cultivated spiritual energy being incredibly pure, along with its patience and lack of laziness.

“You’re practically an Innate Farming Saint Body.” Lin Jing closed his book and offered unreserved praise to the Pine Leaf Squirrel as it ripened the rice.

“Squeak!”

Although the Pine Leaf Squirrel didn’t know what an Innate Farming Saint Body was, it figured it was mostly a compliment.

It worked even harder.

Its emerald-green eyes looked expectantly at the spiritual rice in front of it.

Hum!

Before long, the spiritual rice finally turned from milky white to a white-gold color, emitting a rich fragrance—the sign that the spiritual rice was ripe!!

“Is it done?”

Once the spiritual rice ripened, Lin Jing immediately went to the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s side. Together, they peeled back the husks to reveal the crystal-clear, plump white spiritual rice inside, which looked incredibly tempting!

“Judging by the quality, it’s not much different from the bag they gave us.”

Lin Jing’s heart finally settled.

Everything was on track!

“Squeak, squeak, squeak!” The Pine Leaf Squirrel nodded happily.

As expected of itself.

Next, Lin Jing and the rat immediately began separating the remaining husks. Eventually, thousands of grains of spiritual rice appeared on the ground, shining brilliantly.

Looking at the spiritual rice covering the ground, Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel were in high spirits. Although this wouldn’t last long, it was a great start.

The Pine Leaf Squirrel looked at the pile of spiritual rice.

Then it looked at Lin Jing.

Its intention was obvious.

“Hoarding food is a good habit.”

“But we still need to eat these.”

“How about this, you take 100 grains.”

As if seeing through the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s thoughts, Lin Jing said with a smile.

After all, these were the results of the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s hard work. Giving it 100 grains was nothing, and it satisfied the rat’s hoarding instinct.

They wouldn’t starve with 100 fewer grains.

Maybe one day when they were so poor they had to eat dirt, these 100 grains from the Pine Leaf Squirrel could be dug up to fill a gap.

Let it hoard!

“Squeak…” After Lin Jing finished speaking, the Pine Leaf Squirrel was overjoyed. It immediately ran over and took out 100 grains, setting them aside in a separate pile.

100 grains of spiritual rice weren’t many.

But looking at these hundred grains that belonged to it, the Pine Leaf Squirrel felt comfortable all over, as if its pores were opening and spiritual energy was erupting within its body.

However, just then, a sudden change occurred.

A light suddenly flooded the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s emerald-green eyes as it gazed at the hundred grains, making its eyeballs shine like jade.

Then, under the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s panic and Lin Jing’s surprised gaze.

Two beams of jade light shot out from the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s eyes.

They landed on the hundred grains of spiritual rice.

Then, an amazing scene unfolded. Wrapped in the green light, the hundred grains of spiritual rice instantly vanished.

As the green light dissipated, it was replaced by a single, brand-new, golden spiritual rice grain lying on the ground…

…

At the same time.

Within the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s mind.

A surge of unknown Legacy information appeared.

It was like a Divine Ability hidden within its Bloodline.

It understood it instinctively.

“Glazed Immortal Eyes”

Even a pile of waste stones, when reflected in the Glazed Immortal Eyes, would be sublimated into precious lapis lazuli gems.

The Glazed Immortal Eyes could synthesize a certain amount of the same type of resource into another precious resource.

Like an Immortal art, turning stone into gold.

…

“Squeak?”

The hundred white grains of spiritual rice had turned into a single, golden, mysterious spiritual rice grain before the eyes of the Pine Leaf Squirrel and Lin Jing.

Such a turn of events greatly shocked both Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Squirrel.

“I knew there was something special about the change on the day of the Contract.”

“You really have mutated from an ordinary Spirit Beast into a Precious Beast.”

“The Rare Beast Divine Power is this!”

A method of turning the mundane into the miraculous, like turning stone into gold, where a quantitative change leads to a qualitative one!

This golden spiritual rice grain clearly looked more precious than the white ones!

Lin Jing couldn’t help but speak.

But the next moment, he couldn’t keep his composure.

He saw the Pine Leaf Squirrel drop to its knees, pick up the golden spiritual rice grain, and burst into tears.

“Squeak!!!”

It didn’t want one golden spiritual rice grain; it wanted its 100 white grains!!!

Lin Jing’s mouth twitched.

This Squirrel seemed to be beyond help.

“This golden spiritual rice clearly looks more precious, okay?”

“Are you really that attached to those 100 white grains?”

“Fine.”

“I’ll give you another 200 white grains in exchange for…”

Lin Jing was about to say he’d trade 200 ordinary grains for that golden spiritual rice grain to study it.

To his surprise, the grief-stricken Pine Leaf Squirrel glared fiercely at the golden spiritual rice grain.

Then it bit down, crushed it, and swallowed it!

As if seeking revenge against it.

“Holy crap, you just ate it like that.” Lin Jing was startled again.

They still didn’t know its effects.

“A golden spiritual rice grain synthesized from a hundred ordinary ones should, logically, be over a hundred times more effective than ordinary rice, right?”

“Otherwise, this Divine Ability would be meaningless, and the so-called Precious Beast would be unworthy of its name.”

“It’s only a hundred ordinary grains, not a hundred bowls; it shouldn’t burst from overeating.”

Thinking this, Lin Jing relaxed a bit.

“It would be great if the effect could rival a single Spirit Stone.”

Lin Jing had thought this golden spiritual rice grain would be like a Spirit Stone, providing massive help to cultivation.

Unfortunately, that wasn’t the case.

After the golden spiritual rice grain, brimming with Spiritual Qi, entered its stomach, a flash of crimson crossed the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s eyes. Instead of feeling full, a wave of intense hunger swept through its heart.

Then, under Lin Jing’s silent gaze, it acted as if it were starving. Its stomach let out a thunderous growl, and like a reincarnated hungry ghost, it ran to the pile of spiritual rice as if possessed, frantically stuffing the newly harvested rice into its mouth.

Because of the Bloodline Contract with the Pine Leaf Squirrel, Lin Jing could sense its current state.

Hungry. Extremely hungry.

The effect of this golden spiritual rice wasn’t satiety, but rather inducing hunger in the consumer!

Driven by this hunger, the Pine Leaf Squirrel was essentially gluttonous. It quickly stuffed a large amount of spiritual rice into its mouth. Normally, if it ate this much, it would definitely be stuffed and unable to quickly digest the nutrients and Spiritual Qi.

But this time, its digestive capacity seemed to have received a terrifying boost. It swept through the pile of rice, and not only did it show no signs of discomfort, but its aura was also steadily rising, as if… it had instantly digested all the nutrients from the rice and converted them into its own power!

Not until it had finished everything did the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s gluttonous, frenzied state stop, and it gradually regained its senses…

“Enhancing digestive capacity and rapidly absorbing nutrients? The effect of the golden spiritual rice is… so powerful.” Lin Jing took a deep breath. This was much better than simply improving the quality of the rice. Just what was the origin of this Rare Beast Divine Power…

An alien star suspected to be the remains of a fallen Immortal, causing a racial mutation through starlight… could this be considered a kind of Immortal Legacy?

“Regardless, Precious Beasts are indeed as incredible as Elder Mo said. We won’t be short on money in the future.” He remarked.

However… while Lin Jing was happy, once the Pine Leaf Squirrel regained its senses and saw that all the spiritual rice it had worked so hard to grow for a week had vanished—including the 200 grains Lin Jing had given it—it widened its eyes in bewilderment.

The plan to hoard food had failed once again!

“Squeak!!!!” In the courtyard, the Pine Leaf Squirrel let out a heart-wrenching cry. What kind of crappy Divine Ability was this? It couldn’t hoard anything, not a single grain! Why didn’t it awaken a spatial divine ability instead!!!