Chapter 588: Asking Dao

"Rich dog, rich dog."

On the side, Senior Mo Song finally knew why this turtle didn't show it its harvest in the Cave Heaven.

It was truly enough to make one unable to resist robbing it.

It shook its head, out of sight out of mind, and left directly.

"Hard work."

Lin Jing summoned the Machine Turtle and touched its shell.

Not keeping the Machine Turtle by his side and sending it to find various treasures was Lin Jing's instruction.

Letting the Machine Turtle transform and upgrade on its own was also the permission Lin Jing gave.

The Machine Turtle self-learning machine techniques, upgrading to the Asking Dao realm, and bringing back many treasures were within Lin Jing's expectations.

However, the path chosen by the Machine Turtle made Lin Jing sigh.

Asking Dao, Asking Dao—every life has its own meaning of cultivation. Lin Jing did not interfere with the Machine Turtle's Asking Dao; he had long given it the power to choose on its own.

The Machine Turtle could choose its future cultivation goal according to its own preferences. No matter what it was, he would give support.

This was the original words Lin Jing said to the Machine Turtle before leaving. Finding treasures for him, this Beast Tamer, was not the whole meaning of its life. The Machine Turtle already possessed intelligence and could choose some goals it liked to pursue. Finding treasures could just be a decoration of its turtle life and cultivation process, not everything.

However, Lin Jing didn't expect that the Machine Turtle still took finding treasures for him as its biggest goal for upgrading and integrated it into its soul heart, Asking Dao with the Path of Wandering.

Without the Beast Tamer's company, a turtle wandering outside could also play a huge help to the Beast Tamer. This is the cultivation path chosen by the Machine Turtle.

As the first pet beast in the team to ask Dao, its path was not for itself, but to fully assist Lin Jing, this Beast Tamer, which made Lin Jing somewhat helpless.

I don't know what kind of path other pet beasts will choose... No matter what, Lin Jing didn't want to interfere. A path interfered with by others cannot be walked for long.

"For the next period of time, you don't need to wander anymore."

The Machine Turtle was startled.

"Master, how can this be? I cultivate the Path of Wandering. Only by leaving the master and wandering can I exert the strongest strength!

We are a pile of shit when gathered, and a sky full of stars when scattered. Only by leaving can I show my skills."

Lin Jing threw the turtle on the ground and said: "It's been hundreds of years, where did you learn these messy words."

"Don't forget, you are not just a treasure-hunting turtle, but also a magic treasure nemesis, a treasure ghost."

"It is the only existence known to be able to control low-grade immortal weapons with Ancestor Kong Xuan cultivation before immortal power and techniques for controlling immortal weapons with immortal power were flooded."

"In terms of talent for controlling magic treasures, in the lower world, you definitely count as first-class."

"Then, my Imperial Dao attainment, combined with your treasure-controlling attainment, we merge into one. It's not as simple as shit. You think we are useless when gathered because we only had low-grade immortal weapons before, and even if we separated, we could control them individually."

"However..."

The next moment, Lin Jing took out the high-grade immortal sword that almost didn't exist in the lower world, Flowing Light Star Meteor. At that moment, the Machine Turtle's eyes turned green, and it couldn't believe that there was such a thing in the lower world.

High-grade... immortal sword!

Even when the Immortal Palace of the Immortal World was at its peak, high-grade immortal weapons were definitely considered heavy treasures, and only top-tier Immortal Monarchs were worthy of possessing them.

"Any interest in studying with me how to smoothly swing a sword with this thing, and not die of exhaustion yourself?"

The Machine Turtle nodded frantically.

"Hehe!" Beside them, Granny Gu was also very expectant. Hurry, hurry, it was also looking forward to it.

Since he wanted to use the sword... before Lin Jing swung the sword, he would definitely merge with it.

After all, to save energy, Lin Jing threw Tianchou Demon Emperor's inheritance to it to comprehend.

By then, Lin Jing would burn his life to improve his Imperial Dao attainment, it would be responsible for the sword path attainment, and the Machine Turtle would be responsible for controlling the immortal sword. With the three in one, perhaps, they could really swing this invincible sword in this lower world!

The consumption of swinging this sword was definitely greater than the Fishing Old Man using the high-grade immortal weapon fishing rod. After all, one is an attack-type immortal weapon, and one is a tool-type immortal weapon. But the Fishing Old Man could become one of the strongest in the lower world relying on a fishing rod. Once they could swing this sword, what Tianchou Demon Emperor, what Prison Blood Demon God—wouldn't it be like hitting a Gu worm baby!

Seeing the Machine Turtle's path, other pet beasts also fell into thought.

After Ancestor Kong Xuan passed the Refining Void stage, they would soon enter the Merging Dao stage, and each pet beast also needed to choose its own cultivation path.

This kind of thing cannot be sloppy. If chosen wrongly, it might affect the upper limit of cultivation like the Thunder Dragon Ancestor back then.

Even if their talent is heaven-defying and they have laid a good immortal foundation in advance, they might not be affected in breaking through to Asking Dao, and they can reach the peak of the lower world relying on an unreliable path, but looking at the more distant future, they will eventually be affected.

At present, only the Heavenly Emperor's Successor Frog doesn't need to worry about these. Its cultivation is the lowest, and it is still far from Merging Dao. After arriving in Tianyuan, after being curious, it started to use the blood crystal of the Blood Clan ancestor to strengthen its bloodline.

Activating that... true bloodline power belonging to the Heavenly Emperor's descendants.

And Lin Jing, although he had planned to cultivate for a period of time using this time, before that, he was holding the Immortal Monarch-level pet egg brought back from the secret realm, constantly dripping blood to hatch it.

One drop, two drops... a basin.

Lin Jing vomited blood. He had already dripped a basin of blood, but this egg had no sign of hatching.

He felt he had been deceived by that machine spirit.

Immortal Monarch-level pet egg, needs to drip immortal blood to hatch.

He had already obtained an immortal body, theoretically already considered an immortal, so, according to normal circumstances, it should have been able to hatch and recognize its master.

However, Lin Jing didn't expect that the amount of blood this egg needed was so much.

"It was said to be dripping immortal blood to hatch, but I didn't say how much blood was needed!" Before Lin Jing's eyes, he could almost see the machine spirit's pale and powerless explanation.

"The blood was indeed absorbed by the egg, but there is still no sign of hatching. Could it be that although I possess an immortal body, my realm is ultimately too low, and the immortal power contained in my blood is not enough to support the egg's hatching..."

Lin Jing himself fell into deep thought, feeling that this egg was just a pit.

He directly stopped bleeding... His blood qi was very difficult to replenish, and every drop was very precious. He couldn't waste it like this anymore, otherwise, very soon, his blood qi would dry up, leading to severe damage to his vitality and regression in cultivation.

Powerlessly sealing the egg into the deepest part of his body space, Lin Jing exhaled, deciding to wait until his cultivation was higher before trying to hatch it. As for now, he really didn't have that capital.

"What is my path."

Lin Jing had thought about this question in front of the Thunder Dragon Ancestor and the Ghost Bride. At that time, he was only at the Golden Core stage, and now, a thousand years had passed, and he still didn't have a satisfactory answer to this question. Although his strength had long exceeded most Asking Dao powerhouses, his exploration of his own path had always lagged behind.

"Looking at my experience, surviving in troubled times, being able to protect myself under various threats, seems to be my strongest cultivation thought since now, but this..." Lin Jing was sure that this experience was just forced by the situation, not the path he truly wanted to cultivate.

Could it be that he wanted to rely on immortal power, not explore his original heart, and ask Dao with strength?

He closed his eyes. While improving his realm, he began to interrogate his original heart, what he should cultivate for next.

Unknowingly, Lin Jing's cultivation quickly improved to the mid-stage of Ancestor Kong Xuan.

The falling heavenly tribulation was waved away by Lin Jing casually.

He was still thinking about his next path.

Compared to Lin Jing, each pet beast had a simple mind and didn't have so many thoughts.

With the Machine Turtle as an example, the pet beasts merged into the Dao one after another.

The foundation accumulated in the Source World could finally be exploded.

Pine Needle Rat looked back at its cultivation path and chose the Path of Hoarding, the Path of the Hoarding Rat. However, it was not just a simple Path of Hoarding, but like the Machine Turtle... the path was cultivated for others.

Regardless of whether it was useful or useless, it had to be frugal, hoarding a large amount of resources to prepare for a rainy day, giving help to the Beast Tamer at the critical moment, using the vast quantity and myriad effects of resources to reverse unfavorable situations and escort Lin Jing's cultivation path.

As Lin Jing's first pet beast, it only hoped that Lin Jing could always be well.

Long Li was the most simple and also very clear about his original heart. Although he had been working like a cow and a horse in the team, being both an alchemy master and a tool cultivator, Long Li actually possessed a heart of the strongest. Because of the pride of being a dragon, he wanted to be the strongest trump card by Lin Jing's side, rather than being known as an alchemy master and a maintenance worker.

He thought for a while and decided to pursue the "Path of the Strongest," using this as a goal to continue cultivating. Although he didn't like alchemy and refining, if these means could lead him to the Path of the Strongest, he was willing to endure the tempering brought by these.

It was just that until one day, he wanted the entire Cultivation World, and even the entire Immortal World, to know that he, Long Li, was Lin Jing's strongest trump card, rather than being known as the imperial alchemy master. This was the biggest motivation for him to continue cultivating, and it was also the initial thought of Long Li's excited heart when Lin Jing helped him leap over the dragon gate and transform into a dragon—he wanted to be the strongest one.

The Ice Soul Gu thought the least. As a Gu worm artificially refined, it was born for "symbiosis" with cultivators. When it first saw Lin Jing, it felt that he was very fragrant and wanted to suck a mouthful of Lin Jing every day to survive. But after a long time of contract, the Ice Soul Gu discovered that although it didn't suck much of Lin Jing's flesh and blood, Lin Jing fed it good things without reservation in order to cultivate it—the Nine Great Strange Gu, the Gu God... the inheritance of top-tier powerhouses. It was not stingy at all to this Gu worm that was eyeing his flesh and blood. Slowly, the Ice Soul Gu got used to getting along with Lin Jing.

It only had one wish: to continue cultivating and not be separated from Lin Jing, to live together.

This is the Path of Symbiosis.

Compared to the straightforwardness of the first four pets, the Star Life Crane did not choose to follow Lin Jing when Lin Jing was weak. Although the time spent together was not short, in this nearly a thousand years, Lin Jing didn't have much experience other than cultivation, unlike the more experiences he had with Pine Needle Rat and the others.

Therefore, the Star Life Crane was relatively the most confused one.

She originally wanted to pursue the Path of Revenge, taking revenge as the biggest goal of her cultivation. After all, the Prison Blood Demon God Legion of the Heavenly Demon World killed her parents and imprisoned her whole clan.

As a princess, she should inherit her parents' legacy and lead the clan to overthrow the enemy's rule. However, what about after that?

The Star Life Crane asked herself.

The Star Life Crane, who was only twenty-something when she was first contracted, was no different from a child. Unknowingly, she looked back and realized that she had already treated Lin Jing, who accompanied her in cultivating spells and gave her a new life, Pine Needle Rat, who often used the Glazed Immortal Pupil to lay a foundation for her, Long Li, who regularly sent cultivation elixirs to help her become stronger, and Granny Gu, who liked to suck a mouthful of her for no reason and expressed that she would take care of the revenge, as new family members.

The Star Life Crane also figured it out. Revenge must be taken, but instead of letting herself sink into hatred, it is better to protect new bonds.

The Path of Protection is a path chosen by many cultivators.

The Star Life Crane wants to protect these contracts concluded by Lin Jing and does not want her new home to repeat the same mistakes as before.

One pet beast after another rapidly improved their realm and completed Merging Dao. Lin Jing, this Beast Tamer, naturally perceived all their cultivation hearts in his heart.

"You guys, really casual..."

Lin Jing looked at the starry sky. He was not a traditional cultivator. He didn't want to pursue longevity, didn't pursue money, and didn't pursue powerful power to control others' life and death. He just wanted to survive in troubled times and survive under various threats.

Now, he has survived.

Not only did he survive, but he also became a very powerful cultivator.

But this was not entirely his own credit.

He initially chose the Beast Taming Path. These beasts all paid different degrees of effort for his becoming stronger.

He chose a batch of pet beasts and helped them become stronger. These pet beasts also gave Lin Jing equal help, allowing Lin Jing to overcome all difficulties and become a great cultivator from a Longevity Body coveted by others.

And next, it seems that this group of beasts still wants to continue to escort him...

Lin Jing began to think about what the Imperial Dao is.

"I have little interest in becoming an Immortal King or Immortal Emperor, and I have no interest in ascension."

"It was this group of pet beasts that helped me get to where I am today and helped me survive. Then, my path is definitely not just for myself."

"As a Beast Tamer, I should help these pet beasts to fulfill their dreams. However, their dreams are all related to me."

"They have poured everything into me now, so what I can do is not let them down and not let their wishes fall through."

"My path..."

Lin Jing thought for a while. It seems that the "Path of Contract" is the most suitable for him. In the name of the Beast Taming Contract, he promised Pine Needle Rat that he would live well, promised Long Li that his name would resound through the heavens, promised Ice Soul Gu that they would be together forever, promised Star Life Crane that he would protect everyone...

This contract will be the motivation for Lin Jing to become stronger next.

This is not his own path, but a combination of the paths of many pet beasts, which is powerful and incomparable.

Lin Jing used the Beast Taming Contract to integrate the Dao will of the pet beasts together and completed the fusion with his own will!

In the Dao Array of Time, time flows.

Outside, not much time had passed.

Following that, the soaring fluctuations shocked the entire continent.

The Heavenly Mandate accelerated the cultivation speed, and Lin Jing, who was no longer dragged down by the Longevity Body, had the feedback from the pet beasts' breakthroughs. He finally stood up, ahead of Pine Needle Rat, Long Li, and Ice Soul Gu... and broke through to the Asking Dao realm.

A new Asking Dao was born, and the eyes of countless powerhouses looked towards Qingzhou.

"Is it another monster... or? Wait, this power fluctuation... how can it be so terrifying."

One powerhouse after another looked in shock towards the direction of the new breakthrough... it seemed that even the heavenly tribulation had not condensed.

"Damn, this kid finally asked Dao. It's fast enough... I don't know about Tianchou Demon Emperor, but the Spirit King will definitely be beaten up." Only the nearest Senior Mo Song clearly saw that the Asking Dao heavenly tribulation had just appeared in its embryonic form when it was dispersed by a glance from within the array. It had lived for so long, and this was the first time it had seen such a badass Asking Dao practitioner. The Asking Dao tribulation didn't even have the idea of testing whether the other party's path was firm and powerful! ===== CHAPTER 589 =====