Chapter 115: Refining

"King-level bloodlines are also divided into three, six, and nine grades."

"Like those demon kings in your Beast Taming Sect, if they breed descendants with bloodline inheritance, they are at most ordinary Demon King bloodlines. Their lineage is too poor, and their descendants only have the fate of being suppressed when they encounter geniuses cultivated by major forces, such as that Heavenly God Body or Talisman Body."

"A higher-level King-level bloodline is the descendant of a demon king with a powerful race, like the child of a dragon and phoenix!"

"That Dragon Carp of yours, although not a bloodline inheritor of a dragon demon king, has an amazing bloodline due to mutation and atavism. It is also nurtured by your Longevity Blood, plus the luck accumulated by your small-success Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, most of which was used to cultivate it. With this top-tier Dragon Raising Secret Technique to improve its potential, its bloodline potential is in the second tier of King-level bloodlines!"

"As for the top-tier King-level bloodlines, they are those ancient remnants that can feed on dragons and phoenixes. Even if their bloodline is thinned to the King level due to the long passage of time, they can still suppress dragons and phoenixes of the same level and are supreme Demon Kings."

"The Ice Soul Gu refined by the Gu God Sect is currently at this stage. Also, don't look at it as only having a King-level bloodline now, but that's because it was just born. Give it time, even if you don't cultivate it much, its bloodline will evolve on its own. This is also why ordinary people cannot control the Ten Great Strange Gus."

"That's why I said it is the one with the most hope of possessing an Emperor-level bloodline. Hmm... with its current extreme foundation at the eleventh layer of Qi Refining, I'm afraid once it establishes its foundation, it can evolve into a Gu Emperor. Even without an extreme foundation, evolving its bloodline to the Emperor level is only a matter of time."

After Lin Jing finished listening, he looked at the Pine Leaf Rat and the Dragon Carp. In this way, the Demon Emperor bloodline was indeed hard to come by.

He understood even more the strength of the Nanshan Demon Emperor. A Demon Emperor bloodline only has the possibility of becoming a Demon Emperor, but right now, a truly powerful Demon Emperor had been suppressed and killed by the Senior Senior Shen Song!

"Don't think about that anymore. Plant the tree, refine the pills!" He activated the mountain-sealing formation that came with the cave dwelling, which meant telling outsiders that he was in seclusion and not to disturb him.

With this barrier, there was no need to worry that bleeding to water the sapling would cause a riot of demon beasts in the academy.

When Lin Jing started his seclusion to prepare for refining pills, cultivators from all sides also began to investigate the cause of the anomaly in Hidden Longcheng.

However, the academy side, because they didn't want the outside world to know that a Demon Emperor had successfully invaded Hidden Longcheng and almost succeeded in assassinating an academy genius, forced the matter to subside.

However, there were still people who learned the cause and effect through some means.

"Brother Lin is awesome." Gao Sheng stood in front of the closed mountain-protecting barrier, having already learned about this from Zhang Hu.

What shocked him most was not that Lin Jing was chased by a Demon Emperor to Hidden Longcheng, but that Lin Jing actually had a Deity Transformation level protector!

You know, even his Deity Transformation maternal grandfather was unwilling to protect his Dao!

His family didn't even arrange a Nascent Soul protector for him, just threw a few life-saving magic treasures and a pile of spirit stones to him!

Comparing this, Gao Sheng immediately felt that his treatment was not as good as Lin Jing's!

Although, as a useless playboy, he indeed didn't need much protection; no one would covet him...

"Encountering such a big event, Brother Lin immediately went into seclusion. I think the pressure is very high. A mortal body also has the benefits of a mortal body." After Gao Sheng found that he couldn't see Lin Jing, he shook his head and turned to leave.

In his view, Lin Jing was panicked and urgent to improve his strength. Comparing this, he suddenly discovered that poor aptitude was also a good thing. At least he didn't have to worry about being coveted like special physiques such as the Longevity Body.

Gao Sheng summoned a handsome dragon horse, sat on it lightly, and went to find Xu Zhizhi. During the time Lin Jing was working hard in seclusion, he had to shoulder the responsibility of the Long Gong protector so that the Long Gong wouldn't fall into chaos.

The dragon horse flew, and Gao Sheng analyzed and reasoned:

"Brother Lin's protector hunted a dragon Demon Emperor. Wouldn't that dragon blood be able to refine many top-grade Dragon Ascension Pills? The day Brother Lin leaves seclusion is the time to distribute pills. Whether you can promote to a Demon King bloodline depends on our performance during this time." He patted the white horse and said: "Go, let's go to work."

"Master is wise!!" The dragon horse felt for the first time that its master was not stupid. Although this was all thanks to the information provided by the Demon Suppression Division, the dragon horse was very happy that Gao Sheng could analyze to this extent with his pig brain.

Without Lin Jing knowing, Gao Sheng paid out of his own pocket to build the Long Gong for him.

Whenever a Long Gong genius didn't have money to cultivate pets, he would take out a storage bag and an IOU to lend a large sum of interest-free spirit stones.

"This is the Long Gong's investment in you!"

"You must perform well in the Autumn Hunt!"

"The harvest can be used to repay the spirit stones at that time."

Gao Sheng patted the shoulders of one Long Gong genius after another, then left.

This instantly made the freshmen who joined the Long Gong feel a different kind of warmth.

And during this period.

Outside Lin Jing's cave dwelling, Lin Jing was still watering the sapling with Longevity Blood every day.

Actually, it didn't take long. Under the watering of the Longevity Blood, the sapling grew up.

The Senior Senior Shen Song, whose Green Emperor Longevity Art was perfect, naturally couldn't let Lin Jing wait for a year or a half to get pinecones.

A few days later, nine golden-green pinecones were conceived, and Lin Jing was overjoyed.

He stood in front of the small sapling that was as tall as a person, held the divine fruit that grew on it, and asked:

"Senior Senior Senior Shen Song, what is the effect after eating the pine nuts inside this pinecone?"

"What use can it have? Prolonging life, vigorous vitality, that's it." The Senior Senior Shen Song didn't want to answer.

"Then we can start trying to refine pills!" Lin Jing nodded. What the Senior Senior Shen Song said was simple, but it was enough. What he sought was nothing more than letting the Pine Leaf Rat prolong its life and have vigorous vitality.

Otherwise, the Foundation Establishment Pill refined for the Pine Leaf Rat wouldn't be named the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill.

After he picked the pinecones one by one, he looked at the sapling without pinecones, then summoned the Pine Leaf Rat and muttered:

"Nine pinecones, nine chances to refine, we can always succeed once. This tree is useless. You use the Longevity Art to absorb it. Don't waste it. After all, it is the hard work of me and Senior Senior Senior Shen Song."

The Pine Leaf Rat's eyes were big and bright, looking eagerly at the small pine tree that had been stripped of its pinecones.

However, the next moment, the sapling was taken away by the Senior Senior Shen Song.

"Your Green Emperor Longevity Art is already at small success. This thing has no nutrition. The nutrition is all in the pinecones. It won't be of much use if you absorb it."

"Squeak!!!" The Pine Leaf Rat was unconvinced.

While it was arguing with the Senior Senior Shen Song, Lin Jing had already entered the cave dwelling, holding a pinecone, wanting to try it with the Dragon Carp first.

At this time, the Dragon Carp was recuperating in the Hundred Beast Cauldron. Following Lin Jing's arrival, it immediately jumped out, its eyes flashing.

Is it starting?

The Dragon Carp had also waited a long time for this day.

Because Lin Jing had said that after the Pine Leaf Rat's Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill was successfully refined, he would use the Dragon Ascension Pill and the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill as a foundation to start researching its Dragon Transformation Foundation Establishment Pill.

That is to say, the Pine Leaf Rat was just a test-pill boy for its Dragon Carp.

When it established its foundation and transformed into a dragon, it would be even stronger.

As a proud dragon race, the Dragon Carp did not allow itself to have the lowest strength and lowest status among the three pets.

"The materials are ready, let's start."

Lin Jing stared intently at the Hundred Beast Cauldron, took a deep breath, took out the nine materials for refining the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, and prepared them one by one.

He waved his arm, and fluctuations flashed around the storage bag.

The first bottle, Longevity Blood.

The second bottle, Foundation Establishment Spirit Liquid.

The third item, 500-year-old Spirit Ginseng.

The fourth item, Parasitic Grass.

The fifth item, Pine Leaf Rat's Natal Red Leaf.

The sixth item...

Until the ninth item, Senior Senior Shen Song Pinecone!

"Refine first, I will control the fire temperature." After Lin Jing finished speaking, the Hundred Beast Cauldron was covered by flames, with dragon fire rising inside. The Dragon Carp spat fire, and he threw the Spirit Ginseng into it first, intending to refine the essence of the Spirit Ginseng with the most common fire refining method in pill refining.

Spirit Ginseng... Parasitic Grass... Natal Red Leaf... Lin Jing pinched the formula with one hand, his mind merged into the flames, carefully refining the plant essence, removing the impurities and filth inside.

Until the most difficult Senior Senior Shen Song Pinecone, they didn't encounter any accidents and perfectly refined the essence of all plant materials, placing them in containers one by one.

Lin Jing wiped the sweat on his forehead. Refining essence was the simplest step in the pill refining process. The Hidden Dragon luck he obtained was all used by him to improve his pill refining attainments and improve the Dragon Carp's potential. If they made a mistake in this step, they wouldn't need to continue refining.

"Next is the reconciliation ratio!" Lin Jing looked at the portions of plant essence.

This step required mixing the refined plant powder or spirit liquid essence according to a certain proportion according to the pill formula. Because it was an original pill formula, Lin Jing referred to the experience of predecessors and only had a general direction. He quickly mixed the nine materials, whether spirit liquid, blood, or powder, together, and a pill paste the size of a fist was formed.

Next was the most critical step. Lin Jing threw the pill paste into the cauldron and started the final refining and fusion process. It required suitable pill refining techniques to fully fuse and react various materials with high temperature and shape them into pills!

"Fire Dragon Spits Pearl!"

In the pill cauldron, the leaping flames were like a divine dragon, completely swallowing various materials. The lifelike flame dragon head constantly compressed and bit, which was one of the many pill refining techniques Lin Jing learned from the pill books in the library, the Fire Dragon Spits Pearl most suitable for dragon-type beast fire!

This fire control technique was a composite third-grade pill refining technique, and the operation was very difficult. It was composed of multiple low-level fire control techniques. Although complex, it could deal with various situations and was very versatile.

Outside.

The Pine Leaf Rat and the Senior Senior Shen Song argued for a day and a night, and there was no result. With a "boom," they looked at the cave dwelling in unison.

"Hehe." The Senior Senior Shen Song smiled and said: "It seems the first refining failed with a blown cauldron."

Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp walked out of the cave dwelling, covered in blast injuries.

"During the refining process, I found that there were some problems with the reconciliation ratio. I will try again later." Although Lin Jing felt sorry for the materials, he had no choice.

For this kind of self-created pill refined for the first time, it was very difficult to succeed once. Lin Jing was not discouraged; there were still chances.

In the following days, Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp kept trying. Inside the cave dwelling, the sound of blown cauldrons "boomed" many times.

Failure, improvement, failure, improvement...

The Pine Leaf Rat kept guarding outside the cave dwelling, feeling extremely worried. After all, Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp were refining a Foundation Establishment Pill for it. Seeing Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp fail again and again and come out with blast injuries, the Pine Leaf Rat had the thought of just establishing its foundation directly!

After all, with its current foundation, trying to break through to Foundation Establishment directly was also a very easy thing.

However, it also understood that what Lin Jing wanted was not an ordinary Foundation Establishment, but to let it obtain a more perfect bloodline through the Foundation Establishment Pill.

For this, they had worked hard for more than three years, and now only the last step was missing... it absolutely could not give up.

The Pine Leaf Rat could only pray that Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp could succeed as soon as possible, pray that it could truly be reborn through the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, and then give Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp some help.

In the blink of an eye, another month passed.

During this period, dragon roars often came from the cave dwelling, but the end result was often a blown cauldron. The Pine Leaf Rat was with the Senior Senior Shen Song, constantly promoting various strange spirit plants it synthesized to the Senior Senior Shen Song, hoping to exchange for some treasures from the Senior Senior Shen Song.

However, the first-grade mutated plants synthesized by the Pine Leaf Rat in these three years were mostly only applicable to the Qi Refining stage. Not to mention for the Senior Senior Shen Song, even for themselves, 99% of them were useless synthetic objects.

"You have hoarded so much garbage and want to exchange for treasures from me. You are thinking beautifully." The Senior Senior Shen Song was not fooled at all, and then suddenly, it sensed a pill fragrance flowing out from the cave dwelling...

"The seventh time, is the pill finally formed?"

"Hahahaha..." At the same time, inside the cave dwelling, Lin Jing's loud laughter also came out. The laughter was relieved and contained a sense of bitterness, which not only made the Senior Senior Shen Song sigh that this child indeed had some talent...

"Senior Senior Senior Shen Song, the pill is formed!"

"Please Senior, test the medicine!!!" ===== CHAPTER 116 =====