Chapter 42: Squirrel Jumps Over Heaven's Capital

"I'm counting on you, the first Pine-Needle Demon King of our sect! Junior Brother, are you going to find Elder Mo now?"

"If you are going, we can go together. I also happen to have something to ask Elder Mo for help with."

"Good." There's no time like the present. Lin Jing intended to ask Elder Mo whether he could possess a beast-taming space magic treasure now.

When the Pine-Needle Rat heard this, it was energized. It didn't matter whether it was a demon king or not; it wanted the space magic treasure quickly.

"Then let's go. On the way to Lianhuafeng, I'll introduce you to the inner peak scenery."

"Are we walking? Senior Brother, when can we ride a crane? Do we have to wait for true disciples?" Lin Jing asked an extra question.

"Is that something you can just ride? It costs spirit stones! As long as you give spirit stones, even miscellaneous disciples can ride. If you don't give spirit stones, even true disciples shouldn't think about it. That clan is being protected by the Sect Master's wife!"

Lin Jing actually already knew. He was just testing whether Senior Brother Ouyang had spent this unjust money. If he could hitch a ride on a flying crane, he definitely wouldn't want to walk himself.

Both were quite frugal and chose to walk to Lianhuafeng to find Elder Mo. However, as cultivators, even without auxiliary spells like the Wind-Walking Technique, they were still moving as fast as flying, with extremely high speed.

On the suspension bridge between the clouds, while on the road, Senior Brother Ouyang introduced the inner peak scenery to Lin Jing.

"That is the Nine Dragon Waterfall." Senior Brother Ouyang pointed to the distance. The roaring waterfall, with a sound like thunder, was set against the green walls and red rocks, like nine white dragons descending from the sky one after another. The scenery was very spectacular.

"A strange place of Nine Dragon Peak. Nine Dragon Peak has a special kind of dragon-blood carp. As long as they can climb over the Nine Dragon Waterfall by their own strength during the Qi Condensation stage, they can succeed in Foundation Establishment and turn into fish-dragons."

"Actually, the reason I'm looking for Elder Mo this time is related to the new pet beast I want to contract after Foundation Establishment..."

"Have you seen that rising purple mist? That is the Ziyun Spring."

"Senior Brother, what is the use of this hot spring?" Lin Jing hadn't seen it recorded separately in books.

"Usually, many female disciples love to come here to bathe. Don't go over there if you have nothing to do; it's easy to lose your life."

"That is the Hundred-Step Cloud Ladder..."

"Almost at Lianhuafeng. This is your Pine-Needle Rat's ancestor."

Passing by Gengyun Peak, the Pine-Needle Rat looked at Ouyang Hao. You thick-eyebrowed and big-eyed guy, why are you scolding squirrels?

Lin Jing looked over. On a not-so-high peak, there was a strange stone, very similar to a Pine-Needle Rat, dragging its tail, as if wanting to cross the ten-thousand-foot deep ravine and leap onto one of the main peaks of the Beast Taming Sect, Heaven's Capital Mountain, which was towering into the clouds.

"He didn't scold you," Lin Jing said. "That is indeed your ancestor."

Pine-Needle Rat:???

"Doesn't the Beast Taming Sect teach you spirit beast history class? Not to mention this is your racial history." He looked at the Pine-Needle Rat.

"It wouldn't be taught so comprehensively..." On the side, Senior Brother Ouyang said.

Lin Jing spoke, informing the Pine-Needle Rat: "A long time ago, the Pine-Needle Rat clan wasn't a member of the Beast Taming Sect, but just an ordinary race. The probability of opening spiritual wisdom was very low."

"Because the living environment was harsh and there were many natural enemies, in order to find a way out for the clan, a Pine-Needle Rat secretly climbed up the Beast Taming Sect, wanting to seek immortality and Dao to protect the clan."

"It met an immortal on Heaven's Capital Peak. The immortal set a test for it: as long as it could leap from the Gengyun Peak where it was to Heaven's Capital Peak, he would teach it spells."

"Your clan's ancestor began its day-after-day efforts, wanting to jump onto the peak and seek the immortal's guidance."

"However, it is said that until the end, it didn't succeed and finally turned into a stone, maintaining a jumping posture, forever remaining there."

"Although it didn't pass the test, the immortal of the Beast Taming Sect brought the Pine-Needle Rat clan back to the Beast Taming Sect and improved the bloodline level of the Pine-Needle Rat clan. This also laid a foundation for... the Pine-Needle Rat to become one of the five basic spirit beasts of the Beast Taming Sect in the future."

Lin Jing also saw these from books. He estimated that this so-called immortal was a certain ancestor of the Beast Taming Sect, definitely not a true immortal, but in the eyes of the Pine-Needle Rat at that time, it was no different from an immortal.

After hearing the origin of the race, the Pine-Needle Rat was stunned.

"Junior Brother, you really know a lot," Senior Brother Ouyang said. "You must have read a lot of books when you were in the outer sect."

"Yes, I like reading books and knowing more things," Lin Jing said. "Having read ten thousand books, I'm not afraid of traveling all over the world."

"Haha, that's right. But there is one more point you definitely don't know," Senior Brother Ouyang laughed.

"What?"

"That immortal on Heaven's Capital Peak is actually not a human, but one of the guardian gods of the Beast Taming Sect, and is still here today!"

"I told you, from the second sect master, the Beast Taming Sect gave up the way of enslaving pet beasts in the past, and disciples all chose to get along with their pet beasts equally."

"And that second sect master also liked to make friends widely. That immortal was his close friend when he was alive."

"When the second sect master passed away, the sect master signed a contract with it... of course, not a beast-taming contract, agreeing to let this guardian god protect the Beast Taming Sect for ten thousand years and take action to help when the Beast Taming Sect encounters a crisis."

"And in return, one of the three peaks with the most concentrated spiritual energy in the Beast Taming Sect, Heaven's Capital Peak, was given to it as a place for cultivation."

"In our Beast Taming Sect, there are several Nascent Souls. Among them, only the current sect master, the fifth sect master, is in the Nascent Soul stage. The remaining Nascent Soul ancestors are actually the pet beasts of the third and fourth sect masters. Compared to human beast-taming cultivators, those demon kings have longer lifespans because of their special races."

"And this one on Heaven's Capital Peak is the only one who hasn't signed a beast-taming contract with our Beast Taming Sect's Nascent Soul cultivators and still remains in the Beast Taming Sect. Not only that, because our Beast Taming Sect hasn't encountered any special crises, it has never taken action and has always lived in seclusion on Heaven's Capital Peak. If the sect master hadn't told me these, even true disciples or some elders might not know."

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

This is what's called a guest, right?

Having said that, this Beast Taming Sect is really a demon nest.

Above the Nascent Soul stage, almost all are demon kings!

It's scary. I really have to go to the Hidden Dragon Academy. Wait, if only the sect master is Nascent Soul, wouldn't the one guarding me be a demon king?!

"Senior Brother Ouyang, you also know a lot." He praised him commercially, temporarily ignoring that the Beast Taming Sect was also like a Demon Sect.

"Where, what I actually want to say is not this. Passing by here, I remembered that the sect master seemed to have told me that this sect guardian god once made a promise to the Pine-Needle Rat clan."

"Hmm?"

"The Pine-Needle Rat clan, if there are successors, can inherit the will of that Pine-Needle Rat ancestor to jump over Heaven's Capital Peak, and successfully jump from Gengyun Peak to Heaven's Capital Peak. The promise is still valid, and it will teach the Dao."

"However, after so many years, many Pine-Needle Rats in the Foundation Establishment stage have appeared in the sect. They used all kinds of methods, but they couldn't jump onto Heaven's Capital Peak. There is a strong pressure in the sky there, preventing normal jumping."

"Over time, no one cared about this promise anymore because it was a bit unrealistic. The sect master guessed that this guardian god might have just said it casually and didn't want to truly teach the Dao. After all, the test was too difficult."

"Of course, if you have time, you can try. What if you succeed? It is said that the difficulty of this leap is related to one's own cultivation. If the cultivation is low, the difficulty is low; if the cultivation is high, the difficulty is high. Regardless of the cultivation, you can try."

Just as Senior Brother Ouyang finished speaking, he saw Lin Jing's Pine-Needle Rat take out a large red leaf from its storage bag and fly from Gengyun Peak to Tiandoufeng using leaf-flying.

Seeing this, Senior Brother Ouyang was dumbfounded and said, "How can your Pine-Needle Rat fly on a leaf!" ===== CHAPTER 43 =====