Chapter 94

After Lin Jing had the thought of contracting the Ice Soul Gu first, he stopped wasting time and immediately took action, sitting cross-legged on the snow.

"Pine-Needle Rat, guard me."

Upon hearing this, the Pine-Needle Rat was dumbfounded, not expecting the Ice Soul Gu to displace the Long Li's contract slot and immediately become the second-in-command.

Poor Long Li, not only did it not get to enjoy the cave-heaven opportunity, but now even its second contract slot had been snatched away!

"Squeak..." It manipulated the grass and trees to build a wooden bunker, protecting Lin Jing within, while it stood atop the bunker to fend off the demon beasts of the Dragon-Phoenix Cave-Heaven, lest they hinder Lin Jing from contracting the Ice Soul Gu.

Regarding Lin Jing's decision, the Pine-Needle Rat knew that persuasion was useless, so it directly obeyed the order.

Sealed Space.

Lin Jing's consciousness manifested. He looked at the Ice Soul Gu, which was still sleeping before him but whose cultivation had already reached the Qi Refining perfection, and his thoughts shifted.

"Back then, the Ice Soul Gu's companion Gu had not yet had time to absorb nutrients and feed them back to the mother Gu before it was completely wiped out by the Cold Moon Sword Immortal, causing the Ice Soul Gu to be somewhat underdeveloped..."

"After entering my body, it was sealed and suppressed again, and its growth rate was extremely slow. However, now, nourished by the Dragon-Phoenix Cave-Heaven, given its bloodline, it is possible that after leaving the cave-heaven, it will reach Foundation Establishment and wake up. By then, I will not have contracted the Long Li yet, and it will likely be difficult to keep it in check. Only by contracting it before it reaches Foundation Establishment and wakes up can I achieve balance and suppress it."

The current Beast Taming Art, improved by the Beast Taming Sect, was not the master-servant life-and-death contract of the past and claimed to be equal. In reality, however, the Beast Tamer still had a suppressive effect on the pet, like "older brother and younger brother, father and son"—it was not absolute equality, but the extreme situation where the Beast Tamer could decide the pet's life or death with a single thought did not exist.

"Blood, go." Lin Jing raised his hand, and in a single thought, golden light flickered above the sealed space. A massive golden blood drop descended from the sky, slowly falling toward the sleeping Ice Soul Gu.

This situation was likely no longer the traditional contract method of the current Beast Taming Sect, but rather more like the early Beast Taming Sect: knocking the demon beast unconscious, sealing it, and forcibly contracting it when it could not resist.

The golden contract blood flowed along the cracks of the Divine Wood seal into the Ice Soul Gu's body. Although the Ice Soul Gu showed no resistance, Lin Jing still felt tremendous pressure during this process. The Ice Soul Gu's bloodline power was too strong; even though he now possessed the Beast Taming Body, contracting it was not smooth sailing.

Crack, crack, crack...

Lin Jing's consciousness body also gradually froze.

It could be said that as one of the Ten Great Strange Gu, its power level was not necessarily weaker than a Heavenly God Body of the same rank.

Inside the wooden bunker, as the contract progressed, even more terrifying cold air surged from Lin Jing's body, freezing the bunker in an instant. Seeing this, the Pine-Needle Rat shivered and immediately flew on a leaf to guard from the air.

"Squeak, squeak..."

During the guarding period, the Pine-Needle Rat nervously looked back several times. Inside the bunker, Lin Jing was suffering immense pain. The reason he made no sound was that Lin Jing's entire body had already turned into an ice sculpture. If it weren't for the contract connection letting it know Lin Jing still had consciousness, the Pine-Needle Rat would have thought Lin Jing had died during the contract process.

Inside the sealed space, during the contract process, the sleeping Ice Soul Gu struggled constantly as if having a nightmare, impacting the seal. Fortunately, the seal had been laid by the Divine Pine, not by Lin Jing and the Pine-Needle Rat, otherwise, it would likely have been broken through by now.

"This Ice Soul Gu..."

"Is forcibly changing my constitution!" After a period of time, Lin Jing noticed the abnormality. Perhaps because the Ice Soul Gu's bloodline was too strong, or perhaps because of the unique nature of Gu insects, when Lin Jing contracted it, it produced a reaction different from contracting normal spirit beasts or demon beasts.

During the bloodline contract establishment stage, the Ice Soul Gu indeed did not resist too strongly, but this increasingly tight bloodline connection caused the Ice Soul Gu to feed back a layer of power, forcibly changing Lin Jing's physical body!

"So cold..."

"This is..." Lin Jing did not know how much time had passed. In the dark, he felt the Ice Soul Gu's ultimate freezing power seemingly merging completely into his body. Even without borrowing the Ice Soul Gu's power, he could use it; the ice-attribute power seemed to have become a part of his own body.

The most outrageous thing was that as his body temperature dropped lower and lower, Lin Jing felt that the rate of his life passing away had slowed down significantly. Although he was a Longevity Body with a long lifespan, the rate of his life passing was no different from an ordinary person's; one year passed meant one year of lifespan reduced.

But now, Lin Jing perceived that during the process of the Ice Soul Gu contracting with him and his constitution changing again, his lifespan had been extended in an alternative way.

He... had become even more long-lived.

"It is said that cultivators with ice-attribute constitutions... have more youthful appearances than normal cultivators and do not age easily. Is this a similar situation for me right now?"

Inside the wooden bunker, the ice on Lin Jing's body slowly sublimated, turning into white cold air. The contract blood had perfectly merged into the Ice Soul Gu's body. In the sealed space, the Ice Soul Gu remained asleep and did not wake up. It had been contracted by Lin Jing in a daze; he did not know what its reaction would be once it fully woke up.

"However, this power seems to still come with a price."

Outside.

Lin Jing's figure reappeared, flying through the air by controlling Qi. At this moment, the Pine-Needle Rat was cautiously observing the four Dragon-Blood Centipedes attacking from all sides.

"I'll handle it." Lin Jing told the Pine-Needle Rat not to intervene.

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As his words fell, the cold air within his body erupted. As the nine-fold spiritual energy vortex expanded with a roar, the surrounding Dragon-Blood Centipedes were instantly coated in a layer of white frost, and a large number of centipede legs froze and fell off.

At the same time, Lin Jing felt that, just like before, when he channeled this ice-attribute power, he would still suffer "frostbite."

"I do not have an innate ice-attribute constitution, but rather, influenced by the Ice Soul Gu's power, I have cultivated an acquired ice-attribute constitution similar to an acquired Ice Spirit Body. Compared to an innate constitution, it is not perfect, so channeling this ice-attribute power, which is even more overbearing than an Ice Spirit Body, will still cause me to suffer frostbite just like before."

"Not only the physical body, but even the soul has been frostbitten together. However, the degree of frostbite is much, much smaller than before. This is also the benefit of the contract. As long as I don't abuse it and often use top-grade fire-attribute or yang-attribute spirit herbs and pills to alleviate it, there should be no major issues."

"Not bad, I'll call you the Acquired Ice Soul Body." Lin Jing was delighted. In this way, his own strength had once again greatly improved, and this Ice Soul Body could even be disguised as an Ice Spirit Body, causing others to misjudge his constitution.

"Squeak?!!" The Dragon-Blood Centipede died. The Pine-Needle Rat looked at Lin Jing, who was flying by controlling Qi, and discovered that his hair color and eye color had changed back. It seemed he had initially mastered the Ice Soul Gu's power.

"Squeak, squeak, squeak!!" The Pine-Needle Rat was also happy for Lin Jing and did not feel jealous because Lin Jing had contracted another pet.

It often worried about a problem: some of the resources it hoarded would easily rot if it didn't "maintain" them with wood-attribute true qi over a long period.

But now that Lin Jing had contracted an ice pet, it shouldn't have this worry anymore. As long as the place where the fruits were stored was cold enough, the freshness of the food would last for a very long time, and it wouldn't need to maintain them itself!

In the future, the Ice Gu would be responsible for preservation, and the Long Li would be responsible for refining grass and trees into pills. The Pine-Needle Rat felt this was not bad!

"Thanks. I have already resealed the Ice Soul Gu. The power just now... has already been converted into my own power. Although it is not as good as when borrowing the Ice Soul Gu's power, it is not far off, enough to instantly kill these Dragon-Blood and Phoenix-Blood demon beasts." Lin Jing spoke, his whole body wreathed in cold air.

"Let's continue." He did not know if the changes in his body counted as having two more special constitutions. If they did, wouldn't he, like that Ancient Imperial Prince, have become a "three-constitution person"?