Chapter 530: Meeting an Old Friend

The news from the Beast-Taming Sect caused half of the Heavenly Origin World to become restless.

The moment they received the news, people began to head towards Qingzhou. After all, the journey was long, and there were no spatial teleportation arrays between various places and Qingzhou. It was possible to walk for a few years.

Fortunately, the Lord of the Misty Forest had joined the Demon Court, so during this critical period, cultivators passing through the Misty Forest would at least not suffer attacks from high-level demon beasts.

"Che'er, don't listen to His Majesty the Ancient Emperor."

In the Heavenly Origin Wang family, Lin Jing's old classmate Wang Xiao spoke up, "What's there that you can't challenge? You are an Innate Immortal Body, fearless of anyone."

"Even if you lose, so what? Victory and defeat are common matters for immortals."

"This time, I will accompany you."

Wang Xiao was incomparably emotional. "I haven't seen that Lin Jing for so many years. It's just right to see this old classmate."

"Hmm." Wang Che stood before his father and nodded. Although he felt that his master must know some information about Lin Jing that his father didn't, he still wanted to challenge this strongest prodigy of the same generation as his father.

"Father, are you going to Qingzhou too?" Wang Che hesitated. "Weren't you planning to go into seclusion to cultivate before?"

Wang Xiao waved his hand and said, "Nothing is as important as your business. We will set off tomorrow to avoid any accidents on the road."

"I heard that Lin Jing is personally hosting this battle for the Source Realm spots this time. It seems he finally has time."

At the border of the Ancient Kingdom, an old man and a strong man were walking in the mountains. Gao Sheng asked, "Master, should we go and see?"

"You don't even cultivate the Beast-Taming Art, what are you going to join in the fun for?" The First Generation Ancient Emperor glanced at Gao Sheng.

"Because Little Junior Sister sent a message saying she is preparing to participate. She wants to go to the Source Realm to take a look."

"What?" The First Generation Ancient Emperor was stunned and said, "Xun'er? What is she going for?"

Gao Sheng shrugged and said, "She said there are too few talented cultivators in the Heavenly Origin native land. After accumulating for so many years, let alone pulling the Second Generation Ancient Emperor off his horse, even whether she can defeat Gu Xinghe and Gu Youran is difficult. She wants to see if she can contract a few powerful spirits from the Source Realm and bring them back. The Human-Driving Art is essentially a Beast-Taming Art, right?"

"Nonsense!" The First Generation Ancient Emperor's nose went crooked. "The Source Realm is so dangerous. Who knows how many people Lin Jing has offended over there? I heard there's a meteorite that has become a spirit. Can that thing be looked at after becoming a spirit?"

"Then you go and tell her." Gao Sheng muttered, knowing very well that the First Generation Ancient Emperor could no longer control Yu Xun'er. The little girl was rebellious.

On the other side.

Lin Jing hadn't returned to the Beast-Taming Sect for a long time. Now, the Sect Master of the Beast-Taming Sect was still Xu Xiaoyao, who had already cultivated to the Ancestor Kong Xuan stage and was the only Ancestor Kong Xuan cultivator in the Beast-Taming Sect besides Xu Qingyao.

That he, an old man, could cultivate to Ancestor Kong Xuan was inseparable from the Demon Court's all-out support.

And besides the Sect Master, most of the elders of the Beast-Taming Sect, after having more generous cultivation resources, had also successively reached Soul Formation and Soul Transformation from the Golden Core stage. For the first batch of old people in the Beast-Taming Sect, even if their talent wasn't worth cultivating, the Beast-Taming Sect hadn't abandoned them but had given them opportunities to go further as much as possible. At least in terms of resources, they had never been treated unfairly.

However, most of the early elders of the Beast-Taming Sect also understood their own talent and potential and knew their own limits. Even after receiving the sect's resource preferential treatment, a large part of them gave up their own progress and instead began to cultivate the new generation. Those who had descendants went to cultivate their descendants, and those who didn't went to find good seedlings to accept as disciples and cultivate.

So now, among the new generation of disciples after the Beast-Taming Sect moved to Qingzhou, the average cultivation level was very strong. The standard for inner disciples had long been raised to the Foundation Establishment stage, and the standard for true disciples had been raised to the Golden Core stage.

And above the true disciples, there was another type of disciple called sequence disciples, who needed to reach the Soul Formation stage. Only by becoming a sequence disciple could one compete for the position of Holy Son.

The current Beast-Taming Sect had twenty-four sequence disciples, all of whom had reached the Soul Formation stage, and among them, four had reached the Soul Transformation cultivation level.

These four Soul Transformation prodigies could be said to be the strongest power of the Beast-Taming Sect's new generation. Among them, Senior Brother Ouyang Hao was one, and he was the only one Lin Jing knew. The other three were completely up-and-coming stars.

However, these three were not without any connection to Lin Jing.

Approaching the Beast-Taming Sect, the Pine-Leaf Rat, the Dragon Carp, and the Ice Soul Gu appeared together to recommend their people to Lin Jing.

Lin Jing released his spiritual sense and saw a woman with a Divine Body cultivating hard in a lush forest at the Beast-Taming mountain gate. On her shoulder sat a small squirrel.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak." The Pine-Leaf Rat introduced her to Lin Jing. This person's name was Fang Baihua, possessing an Innate Four Seasons Divine Body. She was an ally of the Beast-Taming Sect, a prodigy from the Flower Valley. Because her talent was too good, the Flower Valley Master was afraid of delaying her future, so she sent her to the Beast-Taming Sect for cultivation.

And the cause and effect between the Pine-Leaf Rat and this Fang Baihua started from the avatar the Pine-Leaf Rat left in the Heavenly Origin World, responsible for synthesizing Transformation Grass for the Demon Court.

On the avatar's side, in order to plant more Transformation Grass, it needed many wood-type demon beasts and wood-attribute physiques to serve as gardeners for it. At that time, this Fang Baihua was discovered by the Pine-Leaf Rat from the Beast-Taming Sect and pulled over to do hard labor. Among the many gardeners, this Four Seasons Divine Body performed the best and helped the Pine-Leaf Rat's avatar a lot. The Pine-Leaf Rat therefore gave her many benefits, laying a deep foundation for Fang Baihua to become one of the few Soul Transformation prodigies of the Beast-Taming Sect.

Most importantly, the point the Pine-Leaf Rat appreciated about her was that her initial pet was also a member of its own clan, a Pine-Leaf Rat, rather than some Dragon Carp, Ice Gu, or Butterfly.

These were also things Lin Jing learned after the Pine-Leaf Rat and its avatar "assimilated and merged" not long after he returned to the Heavenly Origin World.

"Pop!!"

After the Pine-Leaf Rat finished speaking, the Dragon Carp also began to introduce its alchemy boy, a young man with an Innate Thunder and Fire Dual Divine Body. This young man was a disciple of a cultivation family under the Demon Court, named Qin Lei. Because the power of the Innate Thunder and Fire Divine Body was too overbearing, without a great expert to help suppress it, it was difficult to live past ten years old. So this cultivation family had to seek help from the Demon Court, and then this child was spotted by the Dragon Carp's avatar.

An Innate Thunder and Fire Divine Body, if well-trained, had the hope of inheriting its "Lei Lian Method" to share the burden of refining Transformation Pills for it. After all, there were too few alchemists who met the requirements for inheriting the Lei Lian Method.

It could be said that after Lin Jing and the others left, the Dragon Carp's avatar also quickly found hard labor it could exploit.

"Squeak."

"Pop~"

The Pine-Leaf Rat and the Dragon Carp recommended them to Lin Jing. These two children had worked very hard and were worth taking to the Source Realm for cultivation.

"Don't worry, there are not many disciples in the Beast-Taming Sect who have reached the Soul Transformation stage, so they will definitely have their share. However, I understand what you mean. Although their realm has reached it, their strength looks average. Going to the Source Realm will undoubtedly be very stressful, and they need to improve their strength like Gu Qianqiu."

"Wait a minute, these two have at least reached Soul Transformation, but my two are only at Soul Formation. Help them out." The Ice Soul Gu said anxiously. "Have you forgotten? Jiang Qi and Jiang Lin!" "Those two?"

"Have they also come to the Beast-Taming Sect?" Lin Jing remembered after hearing the Ice Soul Gu mention them.

The Jiang family twins!

The two children he saved from the Demon Sect in his early years.

He even gave them the Ice Soul sub-gu, although he took it back for a period of time, he eventually returned it.

Since then, Lin Jing hadn't really paid much attention to them.

"Hmm, hmm." The Ice Soul Gu said, "After the Golden Age opened, they didn't seem to stay in the Ancient Kingdom for long before they left the Ancient Kingdom, ran to Qingzhou, joined the Beast-Taming Sect, and switched to cultivating the Beast-Taming Art. Not only them, but their entire family also moved to Qingzhou."

"So that's how it is." Lin Jing was emotional and searched for the figures of the two. This pair of siblings, their current cultivation level seemed to be at the Great Perfection of Soul Formation, still a bit short of Soul Transformation.

"Why is the cultivation level so low? Ice Soul Gu, why didn't you look after them?"

The Ice Soul Gu rolled its eyes and said, "Their avatars were both left in Heavenly Origin, and I and my avatar have always been in the Source Realm, how could I look after them!!"

"So, their current cultivation level is not top-notch among the sequence disciples of the Beast-Taming Sect. Let me go and help out, so they can also get a chance to go to the Source Realm."

"Go ahead." Lin Jing smiled slightly. That's right, for Fang Baihua, she could use the synthesis of the Pine-Leaf Rat's Glazed Immortal Pupils for cultivation. For Qin Lei, he could eat the Dragon Carp's cultivation Golden Core. Only these twins could only cultivate with the outdated version of the Ice Soul sub-gu.

Having received Lin Jing's permission, the Ice Soul Gu "whooshed" and ran out, afraid that its human pets would lose face in front of the Pine-Leaf Rat and Dragon Carp's followers.

"Squeak!" "Pop!"

Seeing this, the Pine-Leaf Rat and the Dragon Carp also looked at Lin Jing. Lin Jing said helplessly, "If you want to go, go ahead."

Not long after the Pine-Leaf Rat and the Dragon Carp returned to Heavenly Origin, their avatars were absorbed into their true bodies, and they had been assimilating and improving the power of their avatars, so they hadn't looked after their avatars' followers for a long time.

"Why is it getting competitive?" The three pets all left. Lin Jing shook his head. Oh, Gu Qianqiu, Fang Baihua, Qin Lei, Jiang Qi, Jiang Lin, that's five people already. Now, it won't be easy for others to compete for one of the eight spots.

It was supposed to be a fair competition, but suddenly, so many connections appeared.

Lin Jing finally looked at the only one who didn't have much to do with him, the last Soul Transformation prodigy of the Beast-Taming Sect.

This young man had golden hair and fox-like whiskers. Lin Jing looked and fell silent.

"What is that guy thinking?"

"After reincarnation, with its cultivation, it should have been able to re-cultivate to Asking Dao long ago, but it has been lingering in the Soul Transformation realm, playing house with a human."

Under Lin Jing's gaze, the golden-haired young man didn't notice anything, but from within his body came the voice of an old fox.

"Mingren, someone is peeping at you."

"Who!" Zhang Mingren woke up.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter, not an enemy. Your alertness is too poor." The old fox said again quickly, its illusory gaze meeting Lin Jing's, and it gave a friendly "hehehe".

"Holy Son, hello. You should have heard of me from the old pine tree, right?"

"I know you. Thanks to your help, Senior Shen Song returned to Heavenly Origin. However, after reincarnation, why did you come to my Beast-Taming Sect as a pet?" Lin Jing asked.

This fox was exactly the reincarnated body of the remnant soul of the demon fox from the Meteor Sea that Shen Song encountered in the void.

"That's a long story. There was an accident during reincarnation, I lost my memory, became a mortal for a while, and almost died. Fortunately, this kid saved my life. Later, I found that this kid's fate was also quite bumpy, so I decided to help him. Holy Son, don't worry. With my friendship with that pine tree, I will definitely not do anything harmful to the Beast-Taming Sect."

"Oh, by the way, I don't know if he can go to the Source Realm. I've heard about the matter."

Lin Jing nodded. A fox repaying a debt...

"The top eight in the Beast-Taming Grand Competition can go. You guys can figure it out." Adding this fox demon disciple, Lin Jing felt that there didn't seem to be many spots left for other forces.

Afterwards, Lin Jing met with the Eldest Senior Sister who was currently in charge of the Beast-Taming Sect and finalized the date for the Beast-Taming Grand Competition, setting it five years later to give these beast-taming prodigies some time to prepare.

Five years is a long time for mortals, but for cultivators, it's just a blink of an eye.

If there were no Ancestor Kong Xuan Asking Dao cultivators responsible for leading the way, for a Soul Transformation cultivator to travel from the Heavenly Origin Ancient Kingdom to Qingzhou by themselves, if there were any accidents on the way, it might take more than five years.

During this period, Gu Qianqiu digested the Dao Fruits. Of Lin Jing's three pets, perhaps only the Mechanical Turtle was relatively free, searching for secret realms everywhere. The Pine-Leaf Rat, Dragon Carp, and Ice Soul Gu were also digesting the Dao Fruits, and of course, they would occasionally give their followers some private tutoring.

As for Lin Jing himself, he had already begun the cultivation of the Dao of Space-Time, because he remembered that there was also a master of the Dao of Space-Time on the Heavenly Origin Continent, the "Star Space-Time Turtle". If he encountered any confusion at the beginning of his cultivation, it would be convenient to ask this person for advice at the Heavenly Secret Tower.

In the blink of an eye, the Beast-Taming Grand Competition was getting closer and closer, and more and more cultivators from other regions arrived in Qingzhou. The Beast-Taming Sect also opened up a new city at the foot of the mountain to entertain these guests who had come from afar.

"Gao Sheng?"

"Wang Xiao?!"

In this small city, meeting acquaintances was the most normal thing. Gao Sheng saw Wang Xiao, and both were quite surprised and happy. After graduation, although they were no longer in contact, no matter what, they were members of the Dragon Palace when they were young.

"Could this be..." Gao Sheng looked at Wang Che beside Wang Xiao, saw that the other party had changed his appearance, and couldn't help but be emotional: "You really gave birth to a good son. His cultivation level is almost catching up to mine."

"Senior Gao." Said Wang Che, who possessed an Innate Immortal Body.

Although he was an Innate Immortal Body, he was a disciple of the Second Generation Ancient Emperor, while Gao Sheng was a disciple of the First Generation Ancient Emperor. Even without considering the classmate relationship of his father, he was naturally a senior.

"Haha." Wang Xiao had also changed from the Wang family's Qilin son of that year to someone greasy, saying: "Where is that senior?"

"Che'er told me, that one has awakened, and you have even become his disciple."

Gao Sheng also chuckled and said: "He didn't come with me..."

He went to find Yu Xun'er to persuade her not to go to the Source Realm to mess around with Lin Jing.

"You guys just arrived in Beast-Taming City? It looks like he is also going to participate in the Beast-Taming Grand Competition?" Gao Sheng asked.

"Yes." Wang Xiao nodded: "The opportunity for a trip to the Source Realm is rare. Even if he has to switch to cultivating a new technique, it's worth it. His Majesty the Ancient Emperor also agreed. Most importantly, he has been in the Ancient Kingdom since he was a child, so it's just right for him to go out and see the world."

"That's good, that's good." Gao Sheng nodded and said: "Wang Xiao, I'm going to find Lin Jing to catch up now. I haven't seen him since he came back. Do you want to go together?"

"I do." Wang Xiao looked at Wang Che: "I originally planned to take him to visit Lin Jing. It's just right to go together."

"Go if you want, what's with the fighting spirit on your son's face." Gao Sheng was stunned. ===== CHAPTER 531 =====

"That's fine, that's fine." Gao Sheng nodded and said, "Wang Xiao, I'm going to go find Lin Jing to catch up now. I haven't seen him since he returned. Do you want to come along?"

"I do." Wang Xiao looked at Wang Che. "I originally intended to take him to pay Lin Jing a visit as well, so it's perfect to go together."

"If you're going, then go. What's with that look of battle-intent on your son's face?"

Gao Sheng was stunned.