Chapter 276: Longevity Treasure Turtle

Not long after.

The Demon Emperor's eyes appeared at the palace of the Third Holy Lady, outside Lin Jing's cave dwelling.

However, this time the Demon Emperor did not express anything; it threw down the origin of the Candle-Age Fire and left this place.

Lin Jing originally thought that the Demon Emperor was too lazy to talk to him, but after the other party's eyes disappeared for a moment, a voice actually entered Lin Jing's mind.

"You want to burn your life through the Candle-Age Fire to comprehend the Heavenly Demon Body; it is indeed a good idea. I do not know if you can succeed, but to cultivate the Heavenly Demon Body, the most critical thing is the 'determination to die.' I fear you are unlikely to possess it. If you still cannot cultivate it, then focus on refining pills for the Demon Court and do not waste your energy excessively."

The determination to die...

Lin Jing was startled. He did not expect the Demon Emperor to also have a certain understanding of the Heavenly Demon Body. Also, it made sense; the Demon Emperor had lived for so long, and its seniority was about the same as the First-Generation Ancient Emperor. It must have experienced the Heavenly Demon Sect era, so it was normal to be familiar with the Heavenly Demon Body.

"So that's how it is." Hearing the Demon Emperor's description, Lin Jing knew that he could not cultivate the Heavenly Demon Body; it was indeed a lack of mindset.

Think carefully, the Mo cultivator who cultivated the Heavenly Demon Body in the mouth of the Child Immortal was at that time surrounded and suppressed by the powerful people of the various righteous paths and must have been forced into a desperate situation.

Similarly, there was Gu Qianqiu, who was also tortured for a thousand years. Under the condition that he had no attachment to life, holding the determination to die, he cultivated the Heavenly Demon Body.

And he himself purely wanted to cultivate the Heavenly Demon Body for self-preservation and deterrence, far from reaching their kind of desperate situation.

Especially now, he had become a Holy Son of the Demon Court and obtained the protection of the Demon Emperor. Next, it might be even harder to encounter any desperate situation, so he had no determination to die. When encountering danger, his first thought would definitely be to seek protection, rather than burning himself and reversing everything.

"In other words, the Heavenly Demon Body is almost always cultivated in a desperate situation after having the belief of death."

"... However, even so, I must try. I have worked hard for so long." Lin Jing threw the fire seed of the Candle-Age Fire to Long Li. After the Heavenly Thunder Flame, it had harvested another top-tier strange fire, and it was still a top-tier strange fire with the attribute of time!

"You refine this fire first. After you refine it, we will continue to research the method of thunder refining," Lin Jing flicked his sleeves and left.

"Bo~~" Long Li happily sent Lin Jing away, and then began to go into seclusion in the cave dwelling...

Lin Jing walked out of the cave dwelling and came to Senior Sister's side to ask about the progress of collecting materials for manufacturing the Longevity Treasure Turtle.

While waiting for Long Li to refine the strange fire, he planned to see if he could manufacture the Longevity Treasure Turtle.

"One space material is missing. Out of five space-attribute materials, only one has not been found. This Void Hidden Stone is a specialty of the Ancient Kingdom and is very, very rare in Qingzhou. The Demon Court does not have it in its collection either. I have already sent people to the Ancient Kingdom. Can you wait a little longer?"

Xu Qingyao took out the other four

space-attribute materials and nine ordinary materials. Lin Jing pondered slightly and said: "Only the Void Hidden Stone is missing?"

"Forget it, it doesn't matter. I have studied the design drawing of the Longevity Treasure Turtle. The Void Hidden Stone is not a key material; it only endows the Longevity Treasure Turtle with the ability of spatial concealment, making it impossible for the spiritual sense of Nascent Soul cultivators to discover its tracks, facilitating it to steal things."

"Even if there is no Void Hidden Stone for the time being, I will imprint the invisibility illusion technique on its body, and I can achieve a similar effect... I will take these materials first."

"Okay," Xu Qingyao nodded and said: "Then I will send it to you once the Void Hidden Stone is found, and you can upgrade the mechanical beast yourself."

Lin Jing smiled and agreed, then took a pile of mechanical materials back to the cave dwelling and began to assemble the Longevity Treasure Turtle according to the design drawing.

A few days later.

Lin Jing dismantled the Mechanical Water Cannon Turtle, took out its soul core, and placed it into a new body.

Finally, he took out the most critical prop.

A black iron piece.

According to Fairy Mo of the Divine Machine Shanzhuang, this thing is the key to activating the intelligence of the soul core, which can allow the mechanical beast to develop consciousness...

"Forget it." After thinking about it, Lin Jing did not insert the black iron piece into the soul core too early to activate the intelligence of the Longevity Treasure Turtle. Currently, he had not reached the Golden Core stage and did not have a contract slot, so activating it was meaningless...

Moreover, this Longevity Treasure Turtle was entirely built by him according to the design drawing given by Fairy Mo. He did not know much about the essence of the black iron piece. Rashly creating a conscious life to stay by his side, Lin Jing was not very at ease. One must guard against others; he wanted to study mechanical arts again in the future before talking about it.

Qingzhou also had forces related to mechanical arts. Although they might not be as good as the Divine Machine Shanzhuang, they were not much worse. With his current identity as a Holy Son of the Demon Court, he could completely go and make contact, just to further his studies, which would be convenient for upgrading the Treasure Turtle in the future.

"Except for not having developed intelligence and not having the ability of void concealment, it already possesses all other abilities of the Longevity Treasure Turtle. For now, it is almost enough."

Lin Jing summoned the Spell Elemental Mushroom and gently placed it on the palm-sized turtle in front of him...

This Longevity Treasure Turtle had a very ordinary appearance, possessing an earth-brown turtle shell, and there was no big difference from most land turtles. It could be said to be simple and unadorned.

However, under its very earthy appearance, the internal structure was extremely complex. It was not a flesh-and-blood body. Under the turtle shell were extremely complex mechanical structures and array patterns, driving this little turtle to move.

After applying an illusion technique to it that could last for a long time, Lin Jing gave the first instruction.

"Alright, go on a trip."

He was not worried that the Longevity Treasure Turtle would not be able to be found or return after leaving, because he had refined the soul core, so within a small range, he could perceive the existence of the Treasure Turtle.

And if the Longevity

Treasure Turtle left this range and went to a farther place to search for treasure, Lin Jing could still find it through a grass-and-wood clone embryo condensed by the Pine Leaf Rat placed in its body.

Anyway, he was not in a hurry to try contracting it now. Lin Jing planned to see its abilities first.

As long as there were no bugs.

"Instruction received... Starting up..."

"About to set off to search for treasure..."

This was the sound of the recording array pattern inside the mechanical turtle. They were all fixed array synthesis sounds to make the mechanical beast look more vibrant.

If he disliked the noise, he could erase it. Lin Jing, out of interest, drew it according to the design drawing. However, the recording array pattern was relatively cumbersome, and Lin Jing did not know what fixed voice commands there were.

"Go."

Lin Jing nodded, and the next moment, the mechanical bamboo turtle turned and left.

"Starting to set off, wishing the master a long life of ten thousand years, must live to wait for me to return..."

Lin Jing:???

Although there was nothing wrong with this blessing, why did it sound so much like a curse to him?

Forget it, as long as there were no bugs, at least it successfully left him to search for treasure.

A moment later.

The Longevity Treasure Turtle sneaked into Gu Qianqiu's cave dwelling, blankly looking at this Longevity Body, not knowing how to take this longevity-increasing object into its body.

"Why do I feel like someone is peeping."

At the same time, Gu Qianqiu, who was cultivating, opened his eyes. He found nothing, but he always felt that a pair of eyes were staring at him...

"Damn it, as expected, there is still a bug." Lin Jing perceived the dynamics of the Longevity Treasure Turtle nearby in the cave dwelling and rubbed his head. It might be because he had refined the soul core, this guy did not treat him as a longevity-increasing object, but as a master, but in the end... it still set its sights on Gu Qianqiu.

"It seems that a mechanical beast without intelligence is indeed mentally retarded. How could it set its sights on a living thing? It seems that its designer did not design it perfectly enough. It really needs further study of mechanical arts to improve it..." ===== CHAPTER 277 =====