Chapter 62

The arrival of the fire Long Li made Lin Jing's cave dwelling even warmer.

Originally, it was just him and the Pine Needle Rat as the two living creatures; now it had become three.

It's a pity the mechanical bamboo turtle has no intelligence, otherwise it could have been even livelier.

However, whether the bamboo turtle has intelligence or not doesn't affect the Long Li being at the same table; both are on the side of having no thoughts.

These past few days, Lin Jing hadn't gone out, staying in bed the whole time, at most feeding the fish. He was too tired, and he didn't know if it was the frequent use of illusions or the aftereffects of using the Ice Soul Gu, but he had become much more haggard.

However, although he was weak, the Pine Needle Rat was surprisingly energetic, engaging in major construction and reforestation inside the suspended gourd.

Spirit rice, spirit beans, spirit bamboo... were all planted by it throughout the suspended gourd.

Besides that, with Lin Jing's permission, it also replanted the few chili seeds it had secretly hidden away.

In just a few short days, these spirit plants had all matured!

Lin Jing took a look; inside the gourd, the Pine Needle Rat, dressed in a Daoist robe, moved along with green true qi. As it raised its hands, a gale blew, and many golden spirit rice plants grew wildly as if they had eaten hormones.

"The Green Emperor Longevity Art is indeed very suitable for it."

The Pine Needle Rat had been practicing the "Green Emperor Longevity Art" during this period, and had already converted all the ordinary wood-attributed spirit power in its body into Green Emperor true qi.

Green Emperor true qi has miraculous effects in controlling vegetation; whether it's ripening spirit plants or controlling red leaves, it allows the Pine Needle Rat to achieve twice the result with half the effort.

Cultivation techniques that spirit beasts can practice are already few and far between; being able to obtain the "Green Emperor Longevity Art" that suits it is no less than completing a bloodline evolution for the Pine Needle Rat.

With this Green Emperor Longevity Art combined with the Glazed Immortal Pupils, if the Pine Needle Rat is given some time to hoard resources, even without a King-level bloodline, after a long time, it is estimated that it would be enough to challenge King Beast cubs!

After Lin Jing recovered, he walked out of the cave dwelling and looked toward the sky outside; the mysterious rosy clouds were colorful and dazzling, gently sprinkling over Danxia Peak.

He didn't disturb the Pine Needle Rat, which was working hard to hoard goods, and planned to go find some nutritious food for the Long Li, and buy some seeds while he was at it.

After feeding it spirit rice for a few days... he felt that the fish pond already had the fragrance of fish soup over rice; his cave dwelling would sooner or later turn into a land of fish and rice.

It's fine for the Pine Needle Rat to eat spirit rice, but for the Long Li, it's best to feed it some small shrimp and small insects.

In the end, Lin Jing spent a huge sum of money to buy a bag of small shrimp raised in a spirit spring from Nine Dragon Peak for the Long Li, which were said to be very nutritious.

"Eat up, eat up~" Carrying the shrimp back, he poured the small shrimp one by one into the fish pond.

At this time, inside the cave dwelling, Lin Jing had already cleared out a small fish pond for the Long Li's activities; the fish tank was still a bit too small, unless he needed to go on a long journey in the future, then he would need to carry the fish tank on his back.

While feeding the Long Li, Lin Jing conducted some early education.

"Don't learn from the Pine Needle Rat; it isn't even willing to turn into a weapon for me, its Beast Master, to use."

"I'll raise you well; after you transform into a dragon, how about I use a 'Beast-Transformation Treasure' to turn you into a 'long spear'?"

Lin Jing fantasized about his handsome image, clad in silver armor, with his spear striking like a dragon.

However, as he fantasized, the long spear in his hand turned into a sniper rifle... Lin Jing shook his head frantically.

"Cultivate!"

He walked to the depths of the cave dwelling, entered the alchemy room, and began to practice alchemy himself.

Since the Long Li didn't look like it could provide spirit fire at the moment, he still used geothermal fire for alchemy.

Although the quality of the pills produced this way would be lower and the success rate would also be lower, it truly tested the proficiency of the Fire Control Technique more, allowing Lin Jing to practice better.

Whether it's Spirit-Replenishing Pills or Soul-Bewitching Pills, Lin Jing had already let the Pine Needle Rat plant the spirit plants for refining these two pills and had them ripened in large quantities. Next, he would have a large amount of materials available to improve his alchemy attainments.

He wasn't afraid of low alchemy talent; practice makes perfect! Besides, he didn't learn things slowly either.

In the blink of an eye, a month later.

During this month, the cultivation of the Pine Needle Rat, Lin Jing, and the Long Li remained the same, without any breakthroughs, only their foundations had become richer.

The Pine Needle Rat had been hoarding goods, while Lin Jing had been refining pills, and had also hoarded quite a few Soul-Bewitching Pills.

Through a month of practice, Lin Jing's success rate in refining Spirit-Replenishing Pills and Soul-Bewitching Pills had both reached over 90%, which could be said to be quite good.

After all, he himself only had the cultivation of the fourth layer of Qi Refining, the fire he used was ordinary geothermal fire, and he didn't have a good alchemy cauldron or furnace. If the configuration were better, a 100% success rate wouldn't be impossible.

Mechanism arts... alchemy arts... Lin Jing had entered the door to each one, and the things he mastered were becoming more and more numerous, but he still had many things to do; he hadn't yet learned the "Divine Wood Seal" taught by Shen Song.

The Divine Wood Seal requires wood-attributed power to be cast, and Lin Jing himself has no wood attribute, so this sealing technique could only be cast by him and the Pine Needle Rat together, and it also required him and the Pine Needle Rat to practice together.

The learning of this sealing technique... could not be neglected either, as it concerned whether he could mobilize the power of the Ice Soul Strange Gu.

Closing the alchemy room, Lin Jing called out to the Pine Needle Rat in the suspended gourd and said: "It's been a month; next, we will practice the sealing technique together."

"Once the sealing technique is mastered, you go and improve your Qi Refining cultivation, and I should also improve my cultivation."

After speaking, he took out the object to be sealed: a bag of small shrimp.

And just as Lin Jing was immersed in cultivation, in the distance, a flock of cranes flew into the Great Wilderness Region, flew to the outside of the Beast Sect's sect-protecting array, and flew into the sect.

Above the flock of cranes, sitting at the head was a man with a weathered face; on the other cranes were extremely young cultivators, some male, some female, and some neither male nor female, each with an extraordinary temperament.

Besides that, there were also several terrifying Demon King figures accompanying the flock of cranes, escorting them, each with a fierce expression.

"The Sect Master and the ancestors have returned!!!"

Many elders went out together to welcome them, not understanding why the Sect Master and others, who had taken the true disciples out for training, would return to the sect so early.

Wasn't it agreed that after the training was completed, they would go directly to participate in the Tianyuan Grand Meeting?

Beast Peak Conference Hall.

The fifth-generation Sect Master of the Beast Sect, Xu Xiaoyao, sat on the Sect Master's throne. Below, on both sides, were the sect's Golden Core elders. Even for some unknown reason, several Nascent Soul Demon King ancestors, who rarely participated in sect meetings, had all arrived in their true bodies and clones this time.

Elder Mo sat on one side; although he didn't know why the Sect Master and others had returned so early, he couldn't wait to inform the Sect Master of the news that he had unearthed a genius like Lin Jing, to shock him.

He believed that with Lin Jing, the Beast Sect could at least flourish for another ten thousand years! By then, the situation of the six Demon King ancestors present each having a higher cultivation than the Sect Master would not occur again...

However, who would have thought that the next sentence from Sect Master Xu Xiaoyao would cause the expressions of the elders present to change in unison, revealing looks of incomprehension.

"Everyone, our Beast Sect... may have to be dissolved for a period of time. Soon, the sect's spirit veins will be sealed."

"The Sect Management Office has issued a notice that our Beast Sect's 'demon luck' is greater than its 'human luck'. In terms of luck, it is no longer a human sect, and it goes against the general trend of national luck. They found me and ordered the sect to be sealed for rectification, with a deadline of one hundred years. After one hundred years, if it is still in the current state of a demon sect, the Beast Sect... may cease to exist."