Chapter 4

His constitution, like a mortal body, is attribute-less.

After Lin Jing learned this, he looked at Elder Mo and said: "Then Elder Mo, I'll choose the Pine Leaf Rat."

"Oh?" Elder Mo said: "Are you sure."

Lin Jing nodded: "Sure."

His idea was also very simple. His Longevity Body was fundamentally unsuitable for running out to fight and kill in the early stages. Raising a wood-attribute pet beast that could farm and cultivate spirit plants, hiding in the sect to farm, and slowly improving his strength might be better.

In addition, although the Longevity Body had no attributes, most wood arts were related to vitality and life force, and wood-attribute spirit beasts were obviously more suitable for him.

As for pet beasts that excelled in combat, it wouldn't be too late to look for them in the sect after his cultivation was higher and he became an Inner Disciple.

"Elder Mo, is there something wrong with this Pine Leaf Rat?" Lin Jing was worried and asked.

"En..." Elder Mo said: "The sect raises many spirit beasts. After they are born, the sect will instill their mission in them, help them open their intelligence, and issue them spirit stones every month for them to cultivate."

"And those available for sect disciples to choose from are basically spirit beasts born within a year that, through the sect's resource cultivation, can reach the third layer of Qi Condensation and have opened their intelligence enough to understand human speech."

"After all, under this level of cultivation, if they still can't reach the third layer of Qi Condensation and can't understand human speech, it means they are fundamentally unsuitable for cultivation, let alone helping human disciples; not holding them back would be good enough."

"And this one... when the previous batch of disciples were choosing pet beasts, it only reached the second layer of Qi Condensation and didn't meet the standard."

"Normally, it would subsequently be released into the pine forest and would no longer become a pet beast issued to disciples."

"But according to the investigation by the Elder in charge of basic spirit beast cultivation, the reason this Pine Leaf Rat only reached the second layer of Qi Condensation at that time was because of some special reasons."

"What is it?" Lin Jing was startled.

After Elder Mo hesitated, he said: "This Pine Leaf Rat has some eccentricities; it actually hoarded the resources issued by the sect like treasures, hiding them very deeply, not using a single piece, and relied purely on its own talent to cultivate to the third layer of Qi Condensation recently."

"I don't understand what it's thinking. If these spirit stones are hoarded, can they become more?"

"..."

"Maybe it's a sense of security." Lin Jing.

"Considering that its talent is actually not bad, and can even be said to be an excellent talent seen once in ten years, that Elder hasn't erased its quota yet and gave it a second chance to enter the Outer Sect."

"In short, I'll take you to see it first. If it's not suitable, then go see other pet beasts. And if you can subdue it, with its talent, it will also be of great benefit to your cultivation." Elder Mo spoke.

"Disciple understands..." After Lin Jing finished listening, he planned to see it first before deciding.

Pine Lin Feng.

The two immortal cranes landed.

A short while later, Elder Mo and the others arrived outside a pine forest.

"Pine Lin Feng, this is where the Pine Leaf Rat tribe is active."

In the pine forest, Lin Jing saw many squirrels. In Lin Jing's view, the Pine Leaf Rat was a squirrel that had become a spirit. Looking at its appearance in general, it was not much different from an ordinary squirrel, possessing soft and bright fur dotted with fine, pale yellow stripes, which was very cute.

A bit like a Huangshan squirrel! But if there was any difference from an ordinary squirrel, it was that they had a pair of emerald green pupils, and the pupil color was like the dreamy color of fallen leaves and morning light intertwined in the forest.

"Zhi..."

One Pine Leaf Rat after another leaped past. These Pine Leaf Rats that had just opened their intelligence or had not opened their intelligence were obviously still unable to speak human language like Elder Black Bear and the immortal cranes just now.

"The Pine Leaf Rats currently living in the pine forest are basically those whose talent and potential do not meet the contract standards."

After arriving, Elder Mo walked in front, and Lin Jing followed.

"Except for the one I mentioned that is relatively special."

Under Elder Mo's guidance, Lin Jing soon saw that Pine Leaf Rat.

It was standing on the ground.

The Pine Leaf Rat was meditating on a pine tree, closing its eyes.

As someone arrived, it opened its eyes.

"Zhi?"

Four eyes met.

At this moment, a few strands of Elder Mo's unruly hair fluttered in the wind, adding a bit of uninhibited and immortal-like aura to him.

"I have already greeted Elder Jiang. This is a new disciple of the sect who wants to choose you as his first pet beast. What do you think?" He asked the Pine Leaf Rat with his hands behind his back.

"Zhi..." This Pine Leaf Rat hesitated for a moment, looked at Lin Jing, and spoke in a milky voice.

Emerald green eyes observed Lin Jing.

On the side, Elder Mo said: "You need to introduce yourself to it. Generally, spirit beasts will decide whether to follow the other party based on the disciple's situation."

"The Beast-Taming Sect disciples' selection of pet beasts has always been a two-way choice. If you want to take the other party away, you also need to get the pet beast's approval."

"This process is also a test for the disciple. Whether one can get the pet beast's approval based on one's own ability is also very important for Beast-Taming Sect disciples."

"Only when both the cultivator and the pet beast approve of each other can they achieve twice the result with half the effort in cultivation."

"So that's how it is." Lin Jing nodded.

Is this painting a big cake?

But he was a dutiful and honest person.

"I am Lin Jing, and I have a special constitution, so my cultivation speed is a bit slow. If you become my pet beast, we might have to put in more effort together."

Lin Jing looked at the Pine Leaf Rat and gave the other party a preventive shot. Since he wanted the other party to help him cultivate, he didn't hide his constitution's flaws.

After all, the Longevity Body is known as a constitution with an extremely slow cultivation speed.

He believed that sincerity was enough to move the other party.

However...

"Zhi!!!" The Pine Leaf Rat was startled.

Cultivating slowly, wouldn't that use up the spirit stones it had hoarded for a long time?

It took a small step back.

Seeing this, Lin Jing was silent.

Sure enough, true feelings cannot be kept since ancient times.

On the side, a smile that was hard to detect appeared on the corner of Elder Mo's mouth.

This kind of eccentric pet beast often has a strange personality and unique thinking. It is not easy to subdue it.

However, Lin Jing is not an ordinary person either.

Facing this kind of guy who can endure not using spirit stones, has a firm will, and is like someone who has quit an addiction, he thought for a while and said:

"Storage bag."

Sincerity didn't work, so Lin Jing planned to cater to its preferences.

Lin Jing spoke: "After becoming my pet beast, I will save up spirit stones to buy you an independent space storage bag that can store countless items."

"When our cultivation is successful, it wouldn't matter if I give you ten storage rings with larger space."

"Don't you like hoarding resources? When there are more things, can you still put them here?"

For a hoarding rat who likes to hoard goods, the most painful thing should be that the backpack capacity is not enough, Lin Jing was sure.

Pine Leaf Rat:!!??

"Zhi!?"

The next moment, the Pine Leaf Rat's eyes indeed shone, and it was instantly attracted by Lin Jing's big cake.

"This Longevity Body is quite clever." Elder Mo was startled.

"The eccentricity of liking to hoard items, a storage bag..." Compared to the people here, Lin Jing, who had experience as a senior hoarding rat in games in his previous life, knew better what this hoarding rat in front of him needed.

"It's just that this Pine Leaf Rat doesn't look smart."

"But after all, it has only just opened its intelligence."

On the side, Elder Mo shook his head when he saw this. A storage bag, that is very expensive.

Regardless, this Pine Leaf Rat was considered hooked.

Subsequently.

One, two, three... dozens of low-grade spirit stones were thrown out from the tree hole by the Pine Leaf Rat under the silent expressions of the two. Finally, this Pine Leaf Rat also crawled out again.

"Zhi zhi zhi!"

Looking at Lin Jing, the Pine Leaf Rat's tone was excited, as if it had decided on him and planned to take all its belongings, defect to Lin Jing, and start a new cultivation life together.

Lin Jing also had a smile on his face.

"In order for us to buy a storage bag as soon as possible, I will keep these spirit stones for you first. We will plan and use them reasonably."

The Pine Leaf Rat was startled, looked at Lin Jing's sincere gaze, and nodded ignorantly.

It was full of expectations for the future.