Vol 2 Chapter 66: Reinventing the Technique


    Over the past month, aside from Lin Jing, the pet beasts hadn’t been idle either.


    The Pine Leaf Mouse sat atop the Bodhi Tree, guarding Lin Jing’s cultivation while burning through resources to raise its cultivation level.


    It had now reached the Late Core Formation Stage.


    Before, the Pine Leaf Mouse might not have cared much about levels and only focused on hoarding goods, but things were different now.


    After the battle at the Gu God Sect, the Pine Leaf Mouse suffered a major blow.


    During the battle in Tongtian City, Lin Jing had shoved all the loot into the Pine Leaf Mouse’s Five-Element Monster Core, making its Monster Core Divine Ability incredibly overbearing—capable even of injuring an equal-level Immortal Physique.


    And after the Gu God Sect battle, Lin Jing once again gained tons of loot.


    Although the Void Mystical Stage experts of the Gu God Sect weren’t as numerous as those in Tongtian City, this time they were raiding the enemy’s headquarters, their base of operations, so the resources obtained were on another level entirely.


    After all, strong cultivators may not carry much with them,


    But a sect’s foundation always contains a massive hoard of resources!


    Especially since the Gu God Sect nurtured and refined Gu, which required large quantities of Five-Element items!


    However, what should have been a wildly satisfying haul for the Pine Leaf Mouse ran into a problem.


    Its Monster Core space hit its limit. No matter how it tried to pack it in, there was simply no room left.


    Who knew that the Monster Core space even had a limit!


    That broke the Pine Leaf Mouse completely—it began working hard on cultivation, because this way, the Monster Core could be strengthened.


    “Ugh ugh ugh....”


    Also, after seeing how Lin Jing used the Fortune Gold List ranking to extort so many resources, the Pine Leaf Mouse was filled with envy.


    If it could get into the top ten of the Gold List too, wouldn’t it also be able to auction off its ranking like Lin Jing?


    Even if it didn’t auction, with the attribute boost from the Gold List, it could improve its comprehension of the Spatial Dao and avoid a situation like this again.


    Although the top ten on the Gold List were all Nascent Soul Transformation experts, the Pine Leaf Mouse was full of confidence.


    After all, once it reached the Nascent Soul Stage, the burden of using Core Formation Divine Abilities wouldn’t be as heavy.


    By then, it could shove the Gu God Sect’s legacy inside too.


    With one Monster Core slam, even a Nascent Soul genius might not survive it.


    After all, this would be an impact backed by the foundation of a Dao-Seeking demonic sect!!!


    If that’s still not enough, it could always go to the Demon Court for another big load.


    Compared to the Pine Leaf Mouse working hard on cultivation, the Dragon Carp was much more relaxed, refining Gluttonous Pills inside the Hourglass.


    Its cultivation was now at the Early Nascent Soul Stage, limited only because Lin Jing’s original realm wasn’t high enough—it couldn’t go further yet.


    Following the principle of the strong leading the weak, it was now fully acting in service of the Ice Soul Gu.


    The Ice Soul Gu had happily devoured the Golden Light Gu and was just about to show off its power, only to open its eyes and find itself surrounded by the origins of Stone Man Gu, Wind Plague Gu, Yin Spirit Gu, Yang Origin Gu, and Deathbane Gu.


    It looked at its round spider belly in confusion for a moment, then could only continue devouring.


    To keep it from dying of overstuffing, the Dragon Carp, under Lin Jing’s orders, kept refining “Digestive Pills.”


    “Once the Pine Leaf Mouse breaks through to Nascent Soul and with the resources from these two battles, its power will be terrifying.”


    “When the Dragon Carp fully masters its Immortal Flame, that will be its trump card for crossing realms.”


    “As for the Ice Soul Gu, after swallowing so many Rare Gu origins, who knows what level it’ll reach. If I can get the Ten Thousand Poison Gu from the Tongtian Tower and the Heavenly Flame Gu from the Demon-Slaying Bureau, then with ten Gu combined—it’ll be perfect.”


    “Hopefully by then, they’ll all be strong enough to enter the top ten of the Gold List. Even though I won’t stir up trouble on the Gold List anymore, there’s no rule saying pet beasts can’t compete. If they knock those top five guys off their spots, they can’t blame me.” Lin Jing murmured.


    Of course, the difficulty of that was massive. After all, those monsters were also geniuses favored by the Dao.


    “What’s urgent now is to keep comprehending the Dao and improve the Beast Taming Art—figure out a way to contract it!” Lin Jing looked at the Mechanical Turtle.


    In cultivation, time flies.


    Lin Jing felt like a long time had passed.


    But in truth, not much time had gone by at all. Sёar?h the n?velFire.net website on Google to access chapters of novels early and in the highest quality.


    Under multiple comprehension boosts, he felt as though a hundred years had passed, yet he had only taken a month to refine the Beast Taming Art by combining it with Mechanized Control Arts—making it a technique that could contract mechanized beasts.


    And with this rare opportunity, Lin Jing didn’t stop after that.


    He continued further refining the Beast Taming Art, gradually removing its contract limitations.


    From being able to contract only demonic beasts, now even plant spirits and corpse-type demons could be contracted!


    “Based on the Divine Control Technique’s principles applied to the Beast Taming Art, in the current state...”


    Lin Jing circulated the technique several times and felt that now, he could even contract fellow humans!


    In other words, even if a human genius stood next to him—so long as they were in the Early Nascent Soul Stage—and he had spare Contract Blood, he could contract them just like a pet beast!


    And that person’s cultivation breakthroughs would still provide feedback to him.


    “Dmn it, what the hll am I even doing.”


    By the time Lin Jing came back to his senses, he had completely overhauled the Beast Taming Art.


    In this epiphany state, he’d gotten so immersed in it that he couldn’t pull himself out.


    Originally, he only meant to refine the Beast Taming Art into a Beast Control Art that could contract shape-shifted demons.


    Who would’ve thought he’d go so overboard by accident.


    “Let’s hope I’ll never actually need to use this ability.”


    Lin Jing shook his head but suddenly had a thought.


    Since with his refinements, the Beast Taming Art could now even contract humans,


    Then theoretically—could he contract his own External Incarnation?


    If so, the link between his main body and his avatar would be even deeper.


    And unlike other cultivators, he wouldn’t need to fear losing his incarnation.


    Because with the Beast Taming secret techniques, the External Incarnation could be resurrected through Immortal Rebirth, just like a pet beast.


    “I’ll wait until I’ve refined an incarnation and test it out then.”


    “But yeah, half a year just went by like that. Improving techniques really eats up time.”


    Lin Jing sensed his surroundings—half a year had already passed since he entered the Spirit Dao Sect.


    With all those boosts, and it still took half a year—honestly, it’s because he got a bit greedy.


    Because during the process of refining the Beast Taming Art, he even tried to see if he could produce two drops of Contract Blood in one realm, like when he reached the limit during the Qi Refinement Stage.


    Unfortunately, even after successfully making the technique compatible with contracting all beings, the idea of producing two drops of Contract Blood in a single realm still failed.


    At the moment, with other tasks on hand, Lin Jing stopped fussing over it and looked toward the Mechanical Turtle still cultivating nearby.


    “Finished cultivating?”


    By now, Lin Jing had already passed the Divine Scripture onto the Mechanical Turtle for cultivation—it had officially become his fourth pet beast.


    Judging by the timeline, it should be around the point of minor success with its talent.


    “Already finished!”


    “When can I go treasure hunting again?”


    “It’s been six months since I went out—I’m gonna die here.”


    “Yet another day of failing to find any longevity items...


    “How about starting a war to relieve some boredom? I still have lots of weapons here.”


    The Longevity Turtle sluggishly crawled over, now weird beyond words after all of Lin Jing’s ‘adjustments.’