Chapter 100: Long, Long Ago

Lin Jing nodded. The cold spiritual power on this item was indeed powerful. If he hadn't reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining and possessed an ice-attribute constitution himself, he would inevitably have been affected upon touching it.

He put the marriage contract away and placed it in his storage bag. Although this item had little use, it at least contained spiritual power. If he threw it away, this lesson would have had no harvest at all.

After putting away the marriage contract, Lin Jing looked at the Pine-Needle Rat. Although it had talent, its Treasure Seeking Art should also have just entered the entry level. It only found one of the three spirit-containing ancient treasures Mr. Cao placed here. It should not have discovered the other two.

However, after knowing that the highest-quality ancient treasure was only something like a resentful marriage contract, Lin Jing no longer had much expectation for the other two ancient treasures.

"Mr. Cao, I learned that you once said that anyone who breaks through to the extreme realm in the Long Feng Cave Heaven can obtain the right to use an academy cave dwelling for sixty years. Both I and the Pine-Needle Rat broke through to the extreme realm in the cave heaven, so do we obtain the right to use a cave dwelling for one hundred and twenty years, or do we obtain the right to use two cave dwellings for sixty years?" Seeing Cao Ziwei, Lin Jing suddenly remembered the important matter.

Mr. Cao smiled upon hearing this: "You are quite slippery, not suffering a loss either way. By logic, you and this pine-needle rat spirit should be counted as one..."

Lin Jing had a bitter expression: "The student's sect is withered, and the family background is poor..."

"A cave dwelling on the mountain peak next to you is still unoccupied. I'll let you use it together," Mr. Cao waved his hand and said: "Use it reasonably."

Lin Jing immediately bowed: "Thank you, Mr. Cao."

A few days passed in a flash. It was unknown whether the other two spirit-containing ancient treasures were found by others, or if the Pine-Needle Rat's Treasure Seeking Art failed to lock onto those two ancient treasures. Until the end of the course, the ancient marriage contract was Lin Jing's only harvest.

He himself had also been working hard to practice the Treasure Seeking Art these past few days, but unfortunately, his talent was very poor. After working hard for several days, he could only find three or five pieces of junk, which was far from the Pine-Needle Rat's talent, making Lin Jing finally give up on learning the Treasure Seeking Art.

However, if one had to talk about the biggest harvest, it was definitely having an extra cave dwelling. Regarding this cave dwelling, Lin Jing thought about it and finally decided not to rent it out, but to transform it into a "spirit field," expand the planting area, and plant alchemy materials himself for the Pine-Needle Rat to use.

As for the current cave dwelling, it would be transformed into an alchemy dwelling, which he and Long Li would use together.

Everyone spreading out would mean more available spiritual Qi, and they wouldn't fight each other for it.

"The Hidden Dragon Secret Technique has finally reached small success..." Returning to the cave dwelling, Lin Jing looked at the back of his hand and found that the golden Qi luck dragon cub had completely gestated. This meant he could enter and exit all levels of the Book Tower at will to learn and understand more things.

"What I need to face next is Foundation Establishment."

"However, I have plenty of time. Staying at the Qi Refining stage for another three or five years has no impact on me at all."

"A ten-thousand-foot tall building rises from the ground. Next, I will use the time advantage to learn as many things as possible, for the sake of a more perfect Foundation Establishment." Lin Jing's gaze was firm, erasing the impatience in his heart, and he tried his best to calm himself down.

Being too impatient was inconsistent with the Longevity Body and even more unfavorable for cultivation.

Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, three years flashed by.

In three years, besides continuing to sell bamboo spears and selling them to various cities in the Ancient Domain, Lin Jing had been living in seclusion. Except for a few academy courses, he had been wholeheartedly delving into the art of alchemy.

His peers had all stepped into Foundation Establishment by now. Xu Zhi, Gao Sheng, Chen Lingxi, Wang Xiao... had all reached Foundation Establishment. Only Lin Jing still remained at the Qi Refining stage, which made many people puzzled. Why did this genius, who had also reached the tenth layer of Qi Refining, delay breaking through?

During this period, Wang Xiao challenged him several times, but was turned away by Lin Jing. After Wang Xiao reached Foundation Establishment, he was too lazy to come and challenge him.

As for Gao Sheng, seeing that Lin Jing hadn't reached Foundation Establishment yet, he didn't feel comfortable inviting him to solve cases together.

In the cave dwelling, alchemy clouds swirled, and dragon fire flew. Lin Jing opened his eyes, and a fire dragon carp floated out from the Hundred Beast Cauldron...

Immediately following, it spat out a red pill.

"Finally succeeded."

Many people didn't know that in three years, Lin Jing had spent most of his time delving into alchemy. The large amount of Hidden Dragon Qi luck he had accumulated was also used to deduce alchemy techniques and nurture Long Li.

Now, both Lin Jing and Long Li could be called third-grade alchemists, both having a certain probability of refining third-grade pills. However, this was not their greatest harvest in three years.

The greatest harvest was that through Qi luck deduction, as well as borrowing and improving various pill formulas, they had added the spirit plants synthesized by the Pine-Needle Rat into the pill formulas, creating one brand-new pill after another.

Right now, what Lin Jing held in his hand was the "Ascending Dragon Pill," refined from dragon-attribute beast fire, purple dragon bone flowers, and dragon blood as core materials.

It was a third-grade pill.

"According to the deduction results of pharmacology, this pill should allow any demon beast to possess dragon blood of extremely high purity and become a dragon-blood demon beast! If it is already a dragon-blood demon beast, it can significantly improve bloodline quality. However, the specific effect and whether it has toxicity still need to be verified by finding a white mouse for an experiment!"

He looked at the exhausted Long Li. He couldn't let it test the pill.

The medicinal properties of a third-grade pill were powerful. If something went wrong, something would really happen. The current effect... was only a deduction.

"I didn't expect that after not needing white mice to synthesize spirit plants, the pills refined with them still need white mice to test the medicine."

Lin Jing walked out of the cave dwelling. To refine this Ascending Dragon Pill, he had been cooped up in the cave dwelling for three months without seeing the sun. Now that he had finally succeeded, he couldn't wait to verify the results.

"Found it." Lin Jing walked a circle and laughed, catching a small green worm that was gnawing on leaves. Because this small green worm was often bathed in spiritual Qi, it also had the cultivation of the first layer of Qi Refining.

"It's you. This old man... will grant you a stroke of good fortune." He said in an old-fashioned tone.

"If you don't die, I will appoint you as the pill-testing attendant under my seat."

Lin Jing grabbed the small green worm with one hand. Under its terrified gaze, he stuffed the Ascending Dragon Pill into its mouth. Worried that it couldn't digest it, Lin Jing also stuffed a golden pill into it.

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The latter was refined from golden spirit rice, eliminating the drawback of losing one's mind after eating golden spirit rice, and significantly improving digestive ability.

He named it the Taotie Pill.

"Zhi---" After eating the Taotie Pill and the Ascending Dragon Pill, the small green worm's eyes went black, and it almost fainted. However, very quickly, a miraculous scene appeared on its body.

"Roar!!!"

On the tiny small green worm, a strong dragon might actually began to emanate. Dragon shadows swirled on its body, and its cultivation rose again and again: second layer of Qi Refining, third layer, fourth layer... until it stopped at the ninth layer of Qi Refining.

At the same time, a strong white light suffused its body. Under the white light, its body size increased continuously, and green scales grew on its body. Although it was still only the size of a small arm in the end and still looked like a worm, its aura was already extraordinary, and its pressure far exceeded that of demon beasts of the same level!

"Hu!!" Its intelligence had already opened. Its gaze was panicked yet fierce. It instantly opened its mouth toward Lin Jing, spat out a green dragon breath, and then turned its head and ran.

Boom.

The dragon breath hit Lin Jing directly. Lin Jing didn't dodge, walked out of the smoke in tattered clothes, his gaze fanatical.

"The intensity of this dragon breath is already stronger than a spirit bean bomb." Seeing this, Lin Jing laughed and said: "And this was mutated from a small green worm, without much cultivation. If it were eaten by a demon beast that was already powerful, perhaps the effect would be even stronger, and its strength would definitely not be weaker than the projections in the Long Feng Cave Heaven."

"However... it should be useless for Long Li. Its bloodline strength has already been raised too high by the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique."

These didn't matter. What made Lin Jing most excited was that the Ascending Dragon Pill was the precursor pill for the "Exclusive Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill" he had envisioned. Various alchemy techniques overlapped. His techniques could refine the Ascending Dragon Pill, which meant he could also refine the exclusive Foundation Establishment Pill very soon.

However, before that... Lin Jing looked at the back of his hand. The golden Qi luck dragon cub was already extremely dim.

"Three years have passed. I guess I've already been forgotten."

"Ascending Dragon Pill, even within the Beast Taming Sect, there are no such dragon-transforming pills. I wonder how the market is!"

"Let's experiment within the academy first."

"Let the many students see the strength of the dragon-blood carp cultivated by the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, and then promote the Ascending Dragon Pill."

"Also, the previous Liu Yu established a student organization named 'Pupil Alliance' in the academy. Can I also establish a student organization with dragon-taming as the core? People with backgrounds like Brother Gao all like dragon-horse pet beasts; there's no reason others wouldn't like handsome dragon beasts as mounts. Liu Yu is right; joining an organization where everyone can look out for each other and practice the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique together will also have better results. Many dragon-taming masters relying on the power behind them to promote for me together is the same principle as borrowing the power of the Lotus Pavilion." Lin Jing's gaze was burning as he formulated a plan. ===== CHAPTER 101 =====