Chapter 81: Flying Leaf Spatial Art!

To hell with a peer of the same race!

How could a blade of grass that hasn't even awakened its intelligence be a peer?

Lin Jing felt that Senior Shen Song was truly acting strange.

He seemed very eager to turn Lin Jing into a "Demonic Cultivator."

It was as if he had already jumped into the water himself and wanted to drag others down with him.

Mo Song spoke in a tone of "wishing iron could turn into steel": "I've already promised to help you, yet you don't even know how to seize the opportunity."

"Dilly-dallying like this—once the hundred-year period of protection ends, you won't even be able to form a Core. My first experience as a protector will be a disgrace."

Lin Jing took a deep breath, pondered it, and said, "Alright then."

"Since Senior has said so, I must ask for your help!"

"It doesn't matter if a peer of your race dies, just don't let anything happen to the Pine-Leaf Rat!"

"That's more like it." The pinecone that Mo Song had transformed into cracked open in satisfaction.

Lin Jing had convinced himself.

A mature Fifth-Rank spatial spirit grass was indeed incredibly rare and had astonishing effects, but who knew how long they would have to wait if they wanted to save it for later.

It would be better to use it right now!

Letting the Pine-Leaf Rat gain stronger combat power sooner was also a valid strategy.

If it really managed to beat that Divine Body during the assessment, it would become famous.

The Hidden Dragon Mark might even immediately enter its next stage!

A higher-level Hidden Dragon Mark would allow them to cultivate spells faster, thereby making their strength grow stronger in the short term!

With greater strength, they could better seize other opportunities if they encountered them.

By then, their strength would snowball, growing larger and larger.

Conversely, if they just hoarded a pile of resources and then fell midway, it would only benefit others—a situation very common in the Cultivation World.

The greatest regret in cultivation is when a person falls and leaves their resources to their enemies.

If the worst-case scenario was just losing a spirit grass they had picked up for free, it didn't seem that bad.

"Many thanks, Senior." Seeing that Shen Song was willing to help, Lin Jing expressed his gratitude.

"Sigh, if I weren't so unfamiliar with your human Demonic Arts, I would have long ago had you, a Longevity Body, switch to cultivating 'Life-Burning' or 'Lifespan-Sacrificing' Demonic Arts. It would definitely be faster than cultivating the Beast-Taming Art!" Mo Song said with regret.

"The Beast-Taming Art is quite good," Lin Jing coughed dryly.

"It's not bad. Although it's a technique cultivated by menial servants who raise horses in the Xiangong, it at least has some connection to the Xiangong, making it much stronger than the native techniques of the Tianyuan Continent." Mo Song gave his affirmation.

Without further delay, Lin Jing summoned the Pine-Leaf Rat.

Upon hearing that it could eat the Void-Escaping Grass right now, it immediately showed a look of reluctance.

After all, it had taken care of this grass for a long time and had developed feelings for it.

"Squeak..." It had originally wanted to wait until it was mature to let the Void-Escaping Grass propagate a bunch of offspring, hoard a pile of them, and eat them all together. Eating it now would mean cutting off its descendants.

"You're thinking quite beautifully! My Green Emperor Longevity Art is far deeper than yours, and even I can't manipulate the Void-Escaping Grass to propagate. Don't even think about it, you little squirrel." Shen Song cut off the Pine-Leaf Rat's wishful thinking.

Hearing this, the Pine-Leaf Rat sighed. Might as well eat it then...

It burrowed back into the Hanging Gourd, pulled out the Void-Escaping Grass, which looked like a white bean sprout, held it in its hand, and returned to the outside world. Its emerald eyes looked at Lin Jing and the pinecone, asking how to eat it.

The pinecone that Shen Song had transformed into scanned the Void-Escaping Grass and the Pine-Leaf Rat with his spiritual sense and said, "First, take out one hundred Golden Spirit Rice grains. Eat ten first, then leave the other ninety to the side."

Pine-Leaf Rat:???

"Squeak!!!" The Pine-Leaf Rat was startled. Eating ten Golden Spirit Rice grains—wouldn't that be fatal? It was afraid that by then, it would be so hungry it would even want to eat the pinecone in front of it!

"Use the Green Emperor Longevity Art to suppress and balance the Golden Spirit Rice and the Void-Escaping Grass. When full, eat the rice; when hungry, digest the grass. When full, eat the rice; when hungry, digest the grass again. Cycle back and forth!"

"Just follow these instructions. If an accident occurs, I will intervene."

What Shen Song said was easy to understand, and the Pine-Leaf Rat understood it too. It just had to wait to be rescued. It couldn't help but look lifeless.

"Any other problems? Not enough spirit rice? Synthesize it now!" Shen Song urged, seeing the Pine-Leaf Rat hesitate.

"That shouldn't be it. The biggest problem now is that asking it to take out so much Golden Rice at once makes it reluctant." As the Pine-Leaf Rat's Beast Tamer, Lin Jing understood it better than Shen Song.

"Eat it! A flower, a world; a leaf, a Bodhi. Have you forgotten?" Lin Jing said, "Perhaps after digesting the Void-Escaping Grass, you'll be able to open an inner-leaf space."

"Squeak!!!!" Hearing this, the Pine-Leaf Rat's pupils, like those of the Long Li resting nearby, ignited with flames.

It gritted its teeth. For the sake of an inner-leaf space, it took out its entire stock of Golden Spirit Rice and piled it to the side. There were actually more than one hundred grains—over a thousand in total, which made Mo Song crack open.

"No, why does this little squirrel have so many of these things? Since you have so many, why were you so reluctant to take out one hundred?" Mo Song didn't understand.

The Pine-Leaf Rat didn't want to explain.

Those with different Daos cannot conspire together.

Then... it grabbed a handful of Golden Spirit Rice and, with a resolute gaze, threw it into its mouth.

The next instant, its emerald pupils turned entirely scarlet, and the rumbling sound from its stomach was like thunder, giving the Long Li nearby a fright.

The Long Li jumped back a few steps, afraid that this squirrel would eat it too in a moment.

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"Let's tie you up first." After eating the Golden Spirit Rice, the Pine-Leaf Rat immediately ate the Void-Escaping Grass. Subsequently, to prevent it from having any major "people-eating," "fish-eating," or "pinecone-eating" behavior, Shen Song controlled several tree trunks to fix the Pine-Leaf Rat in place, allowing it only to reach the spirit rice nearby.

Seeing this, Lin Jing closed his eyes. Because he had a blood contract with the Pine-Leaf Rat, unlike when the Long Li's bloodline awakened and he couldn't empathize, he could now roughly feel the Pine-Leaf Rat's changes.

After entering a state of perception, Lin Jing's vision was entirely covered by a silver-white "waterfall." Mysterious silver substances washed over the Pine-Leaf Rat's body, as if they wanted to crush it.

Inside its body, golden-green true qi acted like a sturdy barrier, simultaneously resisting and disintegrating the silver substances while absorbing and fusing with them.

Outside, the Pine-Leaf Rat's body seemed to be glowing. Golden-green light flickered along with silver radiance, carrying a faint, profound aura, making it seem as if it had fallen into another world, situated on the boundary between "existence" and "disappearance."

After the Pine-Leaf Rat entered this wondrous state, Lin Jing also fell into it with it. Time flew by. Seeing this scene, Shen Song nearby was slightly surprised.

He "looked" at the only one still awake, the Long Li: "This Beast Tamer of yours, and this 'Senior Squirrel' of yours—their talent for perceiving space is very, very high."

"If they have hope of reaching 'Deity Transformation,' this talent should be of great help."

"Bloop..." The Long Li flipped over, resistant to Shen Song, who had been beating it for several days.

Time passed bit by bit.

On the seventh day, the mysterious silver substances could no longer cause a burden on the Pine-Leaf Rat's body.

Ten days later, the Pine-Leaf Rat had completely digested the Void-Escaping Grass. Although its cultivation hadn't undergone any major changes, its perception of space seemed to have become more intense.

Maintaining this perception, it subconsciously took out a red leaf and held it in its arms. Two days later, the Pine-Leaf Rat slowly opened its eyes.

"How do you feel?" Lin Jing, who had been accompanying it the whole time, also opened his eyes. Over these ten days, Lin Jing felt he had undergone some changes, but he couldn't specifically say what they were.

He could only look at the Pine-Leaf Rat; after all, it was the one absorbing the resources.

Over these dozen days, the Pine-Leaf Rat felt muddled. It had eaten I-don't-know-how-much spirit rice to suppress the power of the Void-Escaping Grass. During this time, it had also felt external forces intervene several times—that must have been Shen Song helping it with the Green Emperor Longevity Art!

"Squeak..." The Pine-Leaf Rat held the red leaf, slightly dazed. It didn't feel that a space had been opened inside it, and it couldn't help but feel incredibly sad.

"Why are you crying!" Shen Song said, "How do you feel exactly!"

"Although the Void-Escaping Grass isn't a spirit plant that human cultivators can benefit from by consuming directly, you are different. You are a wood-attribute spirit beast, not a human, and you already have some attainments in space. With the Green Emperor Longevity Art helping you devour it, you shouldn't have zero gains, right?" After working for so many days, Mo Song stared seriously at the Pine-Leaf Rat.

Hearing this, the Pine-Leaf Rat hesitated for a moment.

"Squeak..."

It slowly threw out a flying leaf, and the leaf instantly flew into the sky...

The next instant.

Its figure actually disappeared directly, using the red flying leaf as a coordinate, and appeared next to the leaf, grabbing it and standing in the firmament!

"Spatial Teleportation Art? No, it's not quite complete, there are flaws—it needs the spatial red leaf as a coordinate!" ===== CHAPTER 82 =====