Chapter 258: Old Friend

After helping Gu Qianqiu freeze her age, Lin Jing stopped disturbing her cultivation.

Xu Qingyao's palace was now the best place for Gu Qianqiu to cultivate.

Although demons came and went here, with her current physical condition, she no longer had any attraction to demon beasts.

And for the enemy, the Heavenly Lion Ancestor, coming to the Demon Court Saintess's territory to snatch someone required weighing his own abilities.

Perhaps if he killed a Demon Court Demon Ancestor, no one would pick a fight with him, but if he injured one of the only three and a half Demon Saintesses of the Demon Court who shouldered the Demon Clan's revival plan, he might be met with a slap from the Demon Emperor.

Over there, Gu Qianqiu began to cultivate diligently, and Lin Jing was not willing to fall behind.

He first threw all the herbs and spiritual plants that Gu Qianqiu had snatched from the Heavenly Lion clan to the Pine-Needle Rat, letting it pick out the useless ones to practice its skills.

Afterward, he threw the Heavenly Thunder Flame origin to Long Li, letting it refine another top-tier strange fire.

As for the Ice Soul Gu, Lin Jing didn't have any special resources for it for the time being, so he let it fall back into a deep sleep.

Although it didn't want to sleep.

He believed that before it woke up again, he would definitely be able to find top-tier resources suitable for helping it form a core.

After arranging the three pet beasts, Lin Jing himself began to use the Hidden Dragon Luck he had harvested during this time to deduce the Tree-Man Pill...

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After a period of time, the Senior Sister finally sent over the spiritual items to repair the Golden Core/Demon Core.

"The things you promised."

"Thank you, Senior Sister." Lin Jing took the other party's storage bag.

Xu Qingyao asked: "How is Gu Qianqiu's situation?"

"It's alright. Her body has recovered quite a bit, and she has also slowed down her loss of life through the Ice Soul sub-gu. She probably has about twenty years left to cultivate."

"In addition, I also inquired a bit. The Heavenly Lion clan seems to have fed her many longevity-increasing resources and cultivation techniques, causing her body to have a greater rejection of such resources now. It is estimated that her current lifespan is difficult to extend through external forces."

"Oh. I hope she can successfully form a Nascent Soul in the end, otherwise, so many resources would be wasted." The Senior Sister shook her head. She had never used so many spirit stones to cultivate so extravagantly.

"By the way, Senior Sister, you came at the right time. I have a few more things to ask of you." Lin Jing also took out a storage bag and said: "This contains the demon cores stored externally by the Heavenly Lion clan, about ten thousand of them..."

"I want to refine them all into 'Ascension Yuan Pills' that increase cultivation for Gu Qianqiu to use, but I don't have enough energy by myself. Can I borrow your 'Crane Cauldron' alchemists to use..."

The Senior Sister interrupted: "They are still researching the Transformation Pill. How can they have time to be distracted by refining this?"

Lin Jing laughed: "Haven't they been researching for another ten years without any progress? Let them combine work and rest,

change their minds, and refining simple Ascension Yuan Pills is also not bad."

"Just consider it giving them a vacation."

Xu Qingyao's mouth twitched: "Tell me, when will you start the research on the Transformation Pill?"

"Soon, soon." Lin Jing explained: "When my squirrel forms a core, I will need to use it to cultivate a new variety of Transformation Grass. Start with the materials, not the alchemy theory. This is my consistent style of alchemy."

"Alright, just as you said, this task will be handed over to the Crane Cauldron for the time being." The Senior Sister took the demon cores and then said: "Nothing else, right? If there's nothing else, I'll tell you one more thing."

"Regarding the Gu family that Gu Qianqiu asked us to investigate, I used the Demon Court's intelligence network to find some things."

"A thousand years ago, after the information about Gu Qianqiu's Longevity Body was exposed, the entire Gu family disappeared mysteriously not long after. Because the time was too long ago and the Gu family was a small family, it hasn't been found out which force did it yet. Only one clansman named 'Gu Qiantong' did not become one of the missing members because he married into the Ethereal Dao Ethereal Immortal clan."

"Calculating the bloodline, this Gu Qiantong should still be considered Gu Qianqiu's half-brother."

"Ethereal Immortal clan?" Lin Jing heard this and said: "The number one clan of the Ethereal Dao. Senior Sister, you told me before that an immortal fairy of the Ethereal Immortal clan is also getting married recently, right?"

"Yes. The clansmen of the Ethereal Immortal clan never marry out. Even if they are ordinary female cultivators with mediocre aptitude, they will choose to let men marry into their family. This brother of Gu Qianqiu fell in love with an ordinary female clansman of the Ethereal Immortal clan and married into the Ethereal Immortal clan."

"However, a thousand years have passed, and they, with mediocre aptitude, have long since turned into yellow soil, never breaking through to the Nascent Soul stage in their lifetime. However, among their descendants, one has good aptitude and has already cultivated to the Nascent Soul stage, currently still alive in the world."

Lin Jing nodded and said: "Understood, continue the investigation. It's nothing more than a certain force taking a fancy to the Gu family's bloodline potential and wanting to study it. Don't tell Gu Qianqiu yet. It won't be too late to tell her after the investigation results are out and she breaks through to the Nascent Soul stage."

At that time, besides the Heavenly Lion clan, there would be another major force that could be used as a target for revenge, Lin Jing chuckled.

The Heavenly Lion clan's treasures were too fragrant; he still wanted to snatch a few more places.

In his previous life, coming from a country that loved peace, his favorite idiom was: "A teacher must have a name."

"You guy." Xu Qingyao discovered that the violent factors in Lin Jing's body were more than her own. He wouldn't already be thinking about how to incite Gu Qianqiu to take revenge for her family, would he?

It's just that I don't know which force took action against the Gu family...

"I'm leaving." Xu Qingyao left.

Leaving Lin Jing alone, looking slightly at the sky, planning to go out again.

This time going out was not to cause trouble, but to catch a few live demons,

to test the effect of the Ten Thousand Fire Cauldron...

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Not long after, the Pine-Needle Rat, which was cultivating the Longevity Art, had another year of its lifespan ruined by Lin Jing, condensing an embryo of a plant clone.

Lin Jing used this human-shaped plant clone as a foundation and also used illusion to shape and create an illusion clone. However, this time it was not Lin Jing's clone, nor the Fire Dragon Alchemist clone, and certainly not the previous Huang Yu image, but a brand-new identity.

Heroic in appearance, with a noble look. Teeth as white as silver, lips red and mouth square...

Dressed in a cassock, holding a Zen staff, he was strikingly a bald monk.

"Let me see, which place has demon beasts causing trouble for the people." The illusion clone hid the two Ten Thousand Beast Circles and left this place alone, planning to go catch demons.

He first came to the Loose Cultivator Alliance in the Twin Immortal City outside Chenghua Dao, one of the sixteen Daos of Qingzhou closest to the main body. This hall was the intelligence exchange center for loose cultivators... gathering various news.

This time, Lin Jing planned to catch one demon beast each of the Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Demon Core, and Demon King realms to conduct comparative alchemy experiments. In order not to catch the wrong good demons and accidentally injure the brothers in the Demon Court, he chose to conduct a background check first.

As soon as the monk entered, he saw several loose cultivators complaining there.

"What's the situation with those monsters in Danghun Mountain? It's pitch black, and even Golden Core stage cultivators are being sucked into dried corpses."

"I don't know, where did this group of mosquito beasts come from."

"I heard that a long time ago, someone saw a few mosquito beasts that hadn't been seen before wandering in Danghun Mountain. Their cultivation was very low, and they didn't seem to have any value, so they didn't pay attention. Who knew that a few years later they would multiply into such a terrifying mosquito swarm? The Soul-Restoring Grass on this Danghun Mountain, I'm afraid it will be difficult to collect from now on..." ===== CHAPTER 259 =====