Chapter 49: Treasure

Lin Jing felt nothing at all regarding the demonic might on the first floor; his assessment was that it was inferior to the Soul-Bewitching Pill.

He walked forward, heading toward the stairs leading to the second floor, waiting for the Buddha light to bathe him and strengthen his mind.

However, he waited for a long time, his footsteps growing slower and slower, yet the so-called Buddha light did not appear. Instead, more demonic power fluctuations seeped out from the walls of this floor, causing Lin Jing to frown.

The Pine-Needle Rat also sensed that something was wrong. It crawled out from the monk's hat and poked Lin Jing. How was this different from what Elder Mo described? Where was the opportunity? It wouldn't really be that Lin Jing's crow's mouth was right, and trouble started the moment they arrived, would it?

Absolutely impossible...

Lin Jing hesitated, stepping back slightly, wondering if he should go back first.

Now that he thought about it, cultivation really required steady progress, taking it one step at a time.

"Let's go back."

The Pine-Needle Rat expressed its agreement. After saying this, Lin Jing turned around and walked back, suppressing his curiosity.

Unfortunately, a strange change finally occurred. The spreading demonic power condensed into a snake, but this snake... was as small as a loach, looking extremely weak, as if it would die in the next second.

"Gao Seng, stay your steps!" the black loach shouted.

Lin Jing stopped his stiff footsteps and looked at the black loach with a sorrowful face.

Gao Seng?

Me?

Lin Jing pondered in his heart.

He probed: "So many years have passed; it seems it is time to strengthen the seal of this tower."

"Gao Seng!" The black loach was startled: "This small demon already knows its mistake; please give this small demon a chance to repent!"

"The tower's seal is still very firm! It was only because this small demon paid a huge, painful, and irreversible price... that a sliver of consciousness leaked out; it couldn't cause any influence at all."

"Having been sealed here for many years, this small demon has sincerely repented. I request the Gao Seng to undo the Buddha seal. I am willing to acknowledge the Gao Seng as my master, become a demon servant, accompany you by your side, and turn over a new leaf."

Lin Jing watched it with cold eyes, his expression gradually becoming arrogant.

"Bold demon, still trying to bewitch people's hearts!"

"This doesn't look like the sincerity of someone who has already repented."

The Pine-Needle Rat's heart rate accelerated in the center of the hat. Beast Master, what are you doing?

"Ah!" The demon hardened its heart and said: "This small demon understands and is willing to reveal the location of the treasure from back then to show my loyalty."

Upon hearing this, Lin Jing felt there must be a secret, so he watched the snake demon with an expressionless face.

"The location of my treasure is at 'Mount Tianyin' at the border of the Desolate Domain and the Void Domain. However, the entrance to the treasure can only be opened by me. The Gao Seng can go and search for it. If you find it, you can come and take me as your servant. This small demon is willing to offer everything obtained in the cave heaven!"

Before Lin Jing could speak, suddenly, a golden Buddha light pierced through the high tower walls wrapped in demonic power fluctuations, illuminating the entire Buddha tower from all directions.

Accompanied by the snake demon's shrill scream, a phantom condensed within the Buddha light.

It was an extremely delicate young monk in white robes.

He looked at the snake demon, which looked like a black loach, and then looked at Lin Jing, pondering slightly.

"You, you, you..." When the black loach saw this white-robed monk, its face was full of terror. However, the monk just sighed and said: "So many years have passed, Undying Profound Snake, your perception has actually dropped so much."

"You went to such great lengths just to leak a sliver of consciousness and seek help from a 'Gao Seng' hallucinated by a 'Qi Refining Stage cultivator'?"

"If the demon kings who were once under your command knew, I wonder how they would mock you."

After the white-robed monk finished speaking, the black loach was stunned and looked at Lin Jing carefully, but still couldn't see anything.

It was only when the white-robed monk waved his hand that the illusionary true qi covering Lin Jing and the others drifted away.

Seeing the previously boundless, enlightened Gao Seng turn into a weak beast-taming cultivator, the black loach rolled a few times in the pool, and the atmosphere at the scene was quite dead silent.

"Beast Taming Sect cultivator..."

"Qi Refining Stage..."

"Ahhhhhhhhh!" The black loach was suddenly furious, angry to an extreme degree. Looking at the innocent-looking Lin Jing, it shouted and yelled: "Damn Beast Taming Sect, damn it, you are a beast-taming cultivator, why cultivate the illusion path!! You make me so angry!"

"Damn, damn boy, you wait. When I get out, I will definitely tear you into ten thousand pieces and definitely destroy your entire Beast Taming Sect!"

It shouted, and was then purified by a Buddha light, leaving behind an innocent-looking Lin Jing.

Heaven is my witness, he was very innocent. Apart from chatting with this old demon for a few sentences, he was completely a victim and did nothing at all.

Where did the other party's such great resentment come from?

"He decided to give it a desperate try because of the Buddhist aura you hallucinated. After all, this Buddha tower seal requires Buddhist methods to be undone," the white-robed monk said.

"The Gao Seng you hallucinated had high magic power, which gave him hope of breaking the seal. After all, the image you hallucinated is the second Buddhist cultivator to enter this tower in so many years."

"Junior Lin Jing, a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, pays respects to the Senior." Lin Jing wanted to slap himself twice; why did he have to transform into Fahai for no reason?

"No need to be nervous."

"A disciple of the Beast Taming Sect actually cultivated such a profound illusion path method; it seems the outside world has changed quite a bit... This is a sliver of my consciousness. I sealed my consciousness here precisely for the occurrence of today's situation."

"Thousands of years ago, it was also a great demon that feared nothing. I didn't expect that today, in order to break the seal, it has fallen to such a pitiful state, actually crawling to beg a Qi Refining cultivator for help," the white-robed monk felt it was funny.

Lin Jing was speechless; anyone would go crazy after being sealed for thousands of years.

Even the monkey was only pressed for 500 years.

"Little friend, there is good news and bad news now. Which one do you want to hear?" the white-robed monk continued to smile.

Lin Jing's heart skipped a beat; he had a bad premonition.

"Senior, what is the bad news?"

"The bad news is that I sealed my consciousness in the Buddha tower. This seal and the Buddha tower are one body. My consciousness being unsealed also means that the overall sealing structure of the Buddha tower will loosen, and the effect of sealing the demon will also get worse and worse."

"This backup plan was originally intended to be activated after a much longer time when it truly had the ability to break the seal. I didn't expect that it would lead to a false alarm for all three parties because of the illusion technique," the white-robed monk shook his head; it was an outcome he hadn't anticipated.

Lin Jing's face turned black.

So, the Demon-Suppressing Tower was really going to loosen?

"That is a matter for decades later. You don't need to blame yourself or worry. Just report it truthfully to the sect."

"Although its ability is strange and difficult to kill, its cultivation base is not high, and it is very easy to suppress. With the Demon-Elimination Division, it will be fine."

"Perhaps you can also listen to the good news," the white-robed monk said: "The 'treasure' revealed by the Undying Profound Snake just now was obtained by it when it mistakenly entered a cave heaven in its early years and killed the geniuses of various sects. It obtained several seeds of strange plants from the cave heaven."

"Back then, it was besieged by various sects not only because it brought disaster to the region, but also because the various sects wanted to obtain the items of the cave heaven from its hands. Back then, it wouldn't open its mouth no matter what. Today, it actually yielded to you, a Qi Refining cultivator, and it is natural that it felt huge anger after learning it was deceived."

Let it be angry, let it be angry. Lin Jing didn't care; anyway, there would be no chance to meet again.

"The news of this treasure location might be of some use to your Beast Taming Sect. It's just that I don't know if the intelligence is true or false. That will depend on you to distinguish it yourselves," the white-robed monk said.

"Many thanks for the guidance, Senior." Lin Jing took a deep breath. As long as it wasn't all bad news, it was fine. After all, that King... Batian Ancestor over there looked quite fierce.

"Little friend entered the Demon-Suppressing Tower, it should be for the Buddha light. Since that is the case, I cannot let you make the trip in vain. This Buddha light is my Buddha's elixir divine ability, and it indeed has the effect of strengthening the mind. I observe that little friend also has an affinity with my Buddhist sect. If you don't mind, I will give little friend a stroke of fortune; it is also the fate of our meeting."

The young monk said this, revealing a smile. Without caring about the replies of Lin Jing and the Pine-Needle Rat, he shone down the Buddha light that filled the sky. ===== CHAPTER 50 =====