Chapter 161

When the Jiang family twins woke from their coma, Lin Jing and the others had already arrived at the Ancient Domain.

Upon waking, the twins only felt soreness all over, as if their bones were about to fall apart.

Senior Shen Song's flight speed was too fast, and the cultivation bases of these two twins were too low, resulting in a massive burden on them.

Knocking them unconscious directly could reduce a bit of their suffering; after all, it was impossible for Senior Mo Song to kindly look after the flight experience of miscellaneous people.

"Senior, where is this?" Being able to wake up alive, the twins were already very fortunate.

"Ancient Domain, Qianlong City." Lin Jing looked at the massive immortal city ahead and spoke.

"We have arrived at the Ancient Domain?" Jiang Lin was incomparably surprised.

Just as many people in Lin Jing's past life yearned for the capital, cultivators from other regions were naturally very curious about the central domain of the Ancient Kingdom.

"Qianlong City, could it be the city where the legendary academy is located?" Jiang Qi asked excitedly.

Countless cultivators yearned for this highest Dao academy of the Ancient Kingdom; being able to enter here was even more worth being proud of than entering some large sects.

"It seems you know quite a lot. That's right, I am a student of this academy." Lin Jing spoke: "Over the next few years, or perhaps ten or several decades, you will all have to cultivate here."

"If you cultivate well, I can even send you into the academy to study!"

To enroll in Qianlong Academy, one only needed a recommendation from a cultivator at the Nascent Soul stage or above and to pass an assessment. For the current Lin Jing, obtaining a recommendation quota was not difficult.

"Can we also enter Qianlong Academy?" At this, the Jiang family twins suddenly believed a little that Lin Jing was not a bad person.

After all, how could such a sacred place as Qianlong Academy allow a demonic cultivator to enter?

Although Lin Jing cultivated the Blood Dao Demonic Art and raised Gu insects, wanting to use them as Gu containers, there might be a misunderstanding in this!

The Jiang family twins looked at each other, suddenly feeling that the situation was not that bad.

"Take this."

The next instant, cold air surged on Lin Jing's hand, condensing into ice, and two small spiders the size of fingernails appeared.

Whoosh!

Under the Jiang family twins' great shock, these small spiders flew into their mouths one after another, following their mouths into their bodies.

Ugh!

The two hurriedly clutched their throats, wanting to spit them out, bending over and retching violently.

"These are the Gu insects about to parasitize your bodies. They are currently in a dormant stage and will not wake up for now, nor will they cause you any influence."

"Next, you can find a place to live in Qianlong City yourselves. When I find a cultivation art suitable for you, I will come to find you again."

"At that time, having cultivated the new cultivation art, you will be able to borrow the power of the Gu insects. By then, your strength will undergo a heaven-turning and earth-shattering change."

Lin Jing's expression was calm. These two Ice Soul Gu sub-Gu were painstakingly nurtured by the Ice Soul Gu during this period, and both had the potential to advance to the Gu King bloodline. As long as the two used them well, becoming Nascent Soul stage powerhouses in the future would not be a problem.

After speaking, he transformed into a flying rainbow and left this place, leaving behind only the sweating Jiang Qi and Jiang Lin. The two had miserable expressions; now that the Gu insects were in their bodies, regardless of whether Lin Jing was a good person or not, they could only obey obediently.

Qianlong Academy, after Lin Jing returned, he immediately entered his own cave dwelling.

Returning to his place for alchemy and returning to his own vegetable garden, Long Li and the Pine Leaf Rat were incomparably nostalgic.

Now, Long Li had already realized the advantage of mastering a skill. If it didn't have alchemy, it would have been absolutely impossible to defeat the Ice Soul Gu, which was a small realm higher than itself, back then.

And now that the Ice Soul Gu had already reached Foundation Establishment, besides being unable to wait to reach Foundation Establishment and transform into a dragon, Long Li also wanted to refine more powerful pills to keep for dealing with the Ice Soul Gu.

"Senior, could I trouble you to help ripen the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, Linglong Grass, and Cloud Hidden Orchid?"

Inside the cave dwelling, Lin Jing, who intended to go into seclusion for two years to prepare for the Battle of the Heaven's Pride, asked.

The seeds of these three top-grade spiritual plants were obtained from the Beast Taming Sect back then.

Seven spiritual seeds, four for Senior Shen Song and three for Lin Jing. Among them, Senior Shen Song's four spiritual seeds had already been ripened and refined into an avatar, used to deal with the Yinshi Sect's Ancestor Kong Xuan.

And Lin Jing's three were currently still in the state of spiritual seeds. Although the Pine Leaf Rat also had the ability to ripen spiritual plants, with the Pine Leaf Rat's early Foundation Establishment cultivation base, wanting to ripen spiritual seeds of this level might take a very, very long time.

"First traveling, then protecting you, and exhausting all my strength to ripen four spiritual seeds and rushing to refine them into an avatar to deal with a powerful enemy—do you really take this old man for a beast of burden?" Senior Shen Song said.

Lin Jing gave a bitter smile. He also knew that Senior Shen Song had helped him a lot on this trip. Having finally obtained four top-grade spiritual seeds, he had originally wanted to refine them into a top-grade avatar, but in the end, they were sacrificed to deal with the Kong Xuan Yin Spirit.

And in the end... the benefits from the Demon Extermination Division were still obtained by himself.

"Then Senior, you rest well. These three spiritual seeds are not urgent to use; I will let the Pine Leaf Rat ripen them." Lin Jing decided not to rely too much on Senior Shen Song from now on.

"That's right." Senior Shen Song said: "Ripening spiritual plants is also a process of exercising one's own power. Just leave it to it."

"When it was at the Qi Refining stage, the Azure Emperor Longevity Art was already at the minor success stage, possessing grass and wood attainments invincible at the Foundation Establishment stage. Now that it has reached Foundation Establishment, the minor success Azure Emperor Longevity Art is no longer enough. You find a way to let its Azure Emperor Longevity Art reach major success."

"By then, cooperating with its bloodline, it will possess the grass and wood attainments of a Golden Core stage grass and wood spirit. Whether fighting or ripening spiritual plants, it will be extremely useful."

"I understand." Lin Jing nodded. Wanting to improve the attainments of the Azure Emperor Longevity Art was actually very simple.

That is to absorb the life essence of grass and wood.

However, with its current cultivation art level, ordinary grass and wood, or even first-rank or second-rank grass and wood, could no longer help the Pine Leaf Rat improve its cultivation power.

Back then, Lin Jing and the others used the second-rank fierce plant Blood-Sucking Vine combined with the Longevity Blood cheat combination to quickly create many top-grade fierce plants, only then raising the Pine Leaf Rat's Azure Emperor Longevity Art to the minor success realm.

Now, wanting to let the Pine Leaf Rat's Azure Emperor Longevity Art reach major success, relying on the Blood-Sucking Vine alone definitely wouldn't work anymore.

They needed more and more high-level spiritual plants and fierce plants—quantity first, quality second!

Lin Jing secretly looked at Senior Shen Song. Actually, the fastest method was to let the Pine Leaf Rat directly absorb Senior Shen Song, but how would Lin Jing dare to mention that.

"Two years of time, I don't know if I can improve the Pine Leaf Rat's Azure Emperor Longevity Art."

"The top of the Heaven's Pride Ranking is full of heaven's prides who can kill Golden Cores. I cannot underestimate them; it is best to let the Longevity Art reach major success!"

"It is also time for the 'Long Gong Organization' to feed back to me."

Compared to directly going to buy a large number of high-level spiritual plants, Lin Jing had a better channel.

The Long Gong Organization he established!

The members of the Long Gong Organization came from various cultivation sects and cultivation families and all had spiritual items planted by themselves. Directly letting them help him obtain them could save a lot of energy.

And they needed a large amount of Dragon Ascension Pills to cultivate their dragon pets. Lin Jing could use Dragon Ascension Pills as an exchange. This monopoly business of bartering was far more favorable than Lin Jing directly buying spiritual plants.