Chapter 128

Dragon-Transforming Blood Pool.

With Lin Jing and the mosquito beasts here, no one could compete with the Long Gong. As time passed, only the Long Gong crowd remained here, with no outsiders.

Soaking in the Demon Emperor's blood, the Long Gong crowd's cultivation base increased greatly, and most of them were only one step away from mid Foundation Establishment.

And their dragon-blood pet beasts gained even greater benefits; almost all dragon-blood pet beasts at early Foundation Establishment broke through to mid Foundation Establishment.

The most outrageous thing was the change in the mosquito swarm. Mosquito eggs were laid one after another in the blood pool. The Long Gong crowd felt their scalps tingle, yet they were reluctant to leave.

By absorbing the nutrients of the dragon blood, in just a short while, hundreds of mosquito eggs were laid. Although they had not yet hatched, the mosquito swarm's team was growing further, unstoppable.

"This cannot go on." Even Lin Jing felt that he could not let them continue to multiply like this.

He could still suppress hundreds of mosquito beasts by coordinating the Ten Thousand Beast Circle with his Beast-Taming Body, but if there were thousands of mosquito beasts, he worried that he would not be able to suppress them with an ordinary Ten Thousand Beast Circle.

This Ten Thousand Beast Circle was only a low-grade magic treasure. Unless the quality reached mid-grade, Lin Jing felt that controlling hundreds of mosquito beasts was currently the limit!

"Must feed a batch to the Long Li quickly..." As Lin Jing sighed, he suddenly raised his head slightly and saw the Pine-Needle Rat dragging a vine back.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!!!"

The Pine-Needle Rat made nervous and excited calls from afar, causing the Long Gong crowd to look over in unison. At this look, the Long Gong crowd was all dumbfounded.

They saw a pile of storage bags and numerous magic treasures that had already been refined and could not be put into storage spaces tied to the vine.

"Damn! Soaked too hard, the brain seems to have gotten blood water in it." Xu Zhizhi exclaimed upon seeing this. Didn't Lin Jing send the Pine-Needle Rat to see what was going on with the fierce plant on the eastern mountain peak??

How did this squirrel... bring back a pile of storage bags and magic treasures!

The Pine-Needle Rat landed. Lin Jing met its eyes and knew everything that had happened, and could not help but show a helpless smile.

He directly transmitted ninety percent of his true qi to the Pine-Needle Rat.

With a certain foundation of magic power, the Pine-Needle Rat's state improved quite a bit, and it dared to stuff elixirs into its mouth in handfuls, killing its way back with a fierce look in its eyes!!

"Don't go too far; just repel them and come back." Lin Jing said, "The reputation of our Beast-Taming Sect is already not good; we must leave a good impression on everyone."

In the rear, the geniuses who had originally come to hunt the Pine-Needle Rat intended to take back the snatched resources while the Pine-Needle Rat's true qi was exhausted. Who knew that as they chased, the Pine-Needle Rat would turn back with high spirits, showing no signs of the weakness from just a moment ago.

"Run!!!"

Seeing the Pine-Needle Rat's fierce gaze, this group of geniuses turned and ran, fearing that more of their resources would be snatched away.

Above the sea of clouds, the academy teachers watched this scene, unable to comment. Even if it spread out, it would probably be hard for people to believe that the geniuses of various major forces were now being chased all over the mountains by a squirrel spirit, with expressions of terror.

"This autumn hunt... really opened my eyes." Tianji Tower's Tian Huihua sighed, "It seems that the geniuses still studying in the academy are all helpless against this Lin Jing. That Liu-surnamed genius seems to have given up on pursuing the matter... I wonder what he felt on that pinecone."

Cao Ziwei was also very moved, but at the thought that Lin Jing had a Deity Transformation plant secretly guiding him behind the scenes, he felt relieved.

Even for super geniuses of Deity Transformation-level forces, it was rare to have a Deity Transformation Venerable personally protect their path.

"However, looking at his bone age, it seems he will exceed thirty years old soon." Tian Huihua said, "If he himself also reaches Foundation Establishment, he definitely has the possibility of impacting the top five of the Heaven's Pride List."

"If he leaves the list because he is over thirty years old and hasn't entered the top few, it would be a pity."

"Teachers, after the autumn hunt ends, you can communicate with this Lin Jing. If he can reach Foundation Establishment before the age of thirty, Tianji Tower doesn't mind creating an opportunity for him—an opportunity to practice the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique and make a name for himself."

"The Heaven's Pride List in recent years is like a pool of stagnant water; it's time for it to move."

Hearing this, Cao Ziwei immediately said, "Thank you, your Excellency. After the autumn hunt ends, I will go and communicate with Lin Jing."

Before long, the Pine-Needle Rat snatched another pile of resources back, making the Long Gong crowd feel terrified.

Has the Pine-Needle Rat treated the other students of the academy as monsters of the Vast Mountain Range to be hunted?

"Brother Lin, this, this, this..."

Although Xu Zhizhi knew that the evolved Pine-Needle Rat was very fierce, he was truly afraid of reaching this point. After all, his philosophy of being an official was to make enemies few and friends many.

But this wave of operations by the Pine-Needle Rat made it no exaggeration to say that the Long Gong had become the public enemy of the academy. Xu Zhizhi chickened out.

"It doesn't matter." Lin Jing knew what Xu Zhizhi was worried about. He looked at the Pine-Needle Rat, which was extremely happy on the side, and smiled, saying, "A weak sect has no diplomacy; if you are weak, you will be beaten. After showing our fists, the Long Gong's situation will only get better."

"Alright." Xu Zhizhi felt that what Lin Jing said was not unreasonable.

"And most of these things are to be returned." Lin Jing said, "It is too troublesome to re-refine magic treasures that have already been refined. There are also some things that are relatively important to the cultivators themselves, so let's return them. Just keep the spirit stones, elixirs, talismans, and so on."

He looked at the scroll that the Pine-Needle Rat was holding in a daze.

On the scroll was a beautiful fairy, naked. He didn't know which academy student collected this thing. Lin Jing shook his head, thinking it must be a very precious item to the other party, so return it to them.

"Good." Xu Zhizhi breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed this Palace Master still understood human relationships and worldly wisdom.

"When the time comes, you go and do it. Whoever wants to redeem their magic treasures, find you to hand over spirit stones."

Xu Zhizhi:???

"You still want money? If you want me to be beaten to death, just say so."

Lin Jing smiled without saying a word, handing everything over to Xu Zhizhi to do. It could be considered a test of Brother Xu's talent...

After Xu Zhizhi dejectedly burrowed back into the blood pool, Gao Sheng climbed out again. Soaking in this blood pool was truly boring for him; it wasn't as effective as the medicinal baths at home.

He leaned over to Lin Jing's side and whispered, "Brother Lin is fierce. Speaking of which, your pet beast has reached Foundation Establishment, so you count as having reached Foundation Establishment, right? After the autumn hunt ends, should we consider teaming up to solve cases?"

While Lin Jing was sitting in meditation to restore true qi, he rolled his eyes at Gao Sheng. Why did this guy still want to solve cases?

"What case." Lin Jing asked with a sigh.

Gao Sheng had helped him so much; if the case was simple and safe...

"Remember what I said before, the now-destroyed former number one demonic sect of the continent, the Heavenly Demon Sect!"

"This cold case is about the mystery of the Heavenly Demon Sect Master's identity. There is no trace of him on the Tianyuan Continent at all. He is like someone who shuttled over from the subordinate interface of other Immortal World forces; he is not a person of this continent!"

"If we can find conclusive evidence that he is an extraterrestrial demon, my family's Deity Transformation old man might even get a promotion."

"In the Void Region, there are ruins of the Heavenly Demon Sect!"

"You go soak in the bath first." Lin Jing broke out in a cold sweat. He knew that exploring cases with this kid would definitely not lead to anything good.