Chapter 107: Killing

"A pinecone?!"

"Daring to ask for a pinecone to refine a 'Foundation Establishment Elixir'—when refining a 'Nascent Soul Elixir,' do you dare to dig out the tree heart?"

Although it had as many pinecones as it wanted, the Demon Pine strongly condemned Lin Jing’s behavior of plotting against it.

Good! It hadn't asked for longevity blood yet, but the other party was already eyeing its fruit!

"Senior..."

"Hehe." The Demon Pine sneered: "It’s not impossible to want a pinecone. You only need to do one thing."

"Hmm? Senior, please speak." Lin Jing was overjoyed. As long as it could be negotiated, the rest was easy to talk about!

"You have practiced until now, but you should have never killed anyone."

"You are only in the Qi Refining stage now, and you spend three years in secluded cultivation at a time. This is not the most terrifying thing. The most terrifying thing is that your cultivation hasn't increased at all. I can't imagine how long you will spend in secluded cultivation after reaching Foundation Establishment!"

"I see that this hundred-year period will pass quickly. Before I leave, I must let you be able to stand on your own, so that I can rest assured when I leave, and it will be worthy of the life-saving grace of your second-generation sect leader! So... I want you to go kill people to hone yourself!"

"..." The Demon Pine’s requirement made Lin Jing fall silent.

Killing one hundred people...

"Oh, the requirement is that they must be cultivators! You must kill them with your own hands; you cannot let your pet beast help." The Demon Pine added.

"Killing..."

The condition for obtaining the pinecone gave Lin Jing a headache.

Regardless of the type of battle in the past, he had never had the heart to kill humans. Even when facing cultivators from the foreign snowfield, he only severely wounded them, and in the end, it was Xu Zhi who delivered the finishing blow.

The Demon Pine asked him to kill one hundred people in one breath. Lin Jing was in a difficult position for a while, but for the pinecone... he was incomparably eager.

"In the mission hall of the Beast Taming Sect, you can often see missions to wipe out mountain bandits. If they are mountain bandits who kill for money, or magic cultivators like the Yin Corpse Sect who traffic in people, killing them is killing them, and I won't be unable to do it."

"However, the Ancient Domain is known as the region with the best public security among the nine domains of the ancient kingdom. At the feet of the imperial city, where are there any mountain bandits or magic cultivators for me to wipe out?"

"Could it be that I really have to follow Gao Sheng’s suggestion and team up to wipe out magic cultivator strongholds across domains?" Lin Jing walked in the academy, talking to himself.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he thought of something.

Lin Jing rose into the air by controlling Qi and flew toward the direction of Gao Sheng’s cave dwelling. When he arrived, he happened to see Gao Sheng stuffing an Ascending Dragon Elixir into the mouth of a dragon horse.

"Eat, eat for me!"

Gao Sheng said while stuffing it. The dragon horse looked very resistant.

"Eh?" Gao Sheng, who was feeding the horse, noticed Lin Jing’s sudden visit and immediately tidied his clothes, shook off the saliva on his hands, and said enthusiastically to Lin Jing: "Brother Lin? What’s the matter? We just parted ways, why did you chase after me again."

He suddenly became alert.

"You wouldn't be eyeing my horse again!"

Lin Jing was speechless. Gao Sheng’s dragon-horned horse’s bloodline was indeed not bad and had the hope of condensing a Demon Core. However, now that he had a dragon carp with Qilin bloodline, he naturally wouldn't eye it like he did in the past.

"Brother Gao, have you ever killed anyone?" Lin Jing asked directly.

Gao Sheng was stunned and recalled: "Naturally, I have. Years ago, in order to cultivate me into an excellent demon suppressor, my father had me execute a death-row prisoner at the Qi Refining stage when I was six years old."

"That’s it!" Lin Jing took a deep breath and said: "I don't know if Brother Gao has any connections to send me to a mortal government office or the Demon Suppression Division to serve as an executioner for heinous death-row prisoners!"

"Ah?" Gao Sheng was dumbfounded: "Are you crazy!"

"Why do you want to do this kind of dirty and tiring work?"

He became alert again and analyzed: "No, something is wrong. You wouldn't have picked up some magic technique with 'killing intent' or 'evil intent' as the core, would you."

Lin Jing rolled his eyes: "How is that possible? I have the Ice Soul Gu, so why would I look at this kind of low-end magic technique."

"That’s true. Magic cultivators who specialize in killing intent and evil intent mostly gathered in third-rate magic sects back then." Gao Sheng agreed.

"This kind of third-rate magic sect that can be wiped out by the ancient kingdom can't compare to the Gu cultivation path."

"At least the ancestor of the Gu God Sect has the cultivation of the Asking Dao stage. If it weren't for the broken immortal path, there would be a possibility of ascension."

"It has nothing to do with magic. It’s just that an elder of mine feels that my cultivation path is too comfortable and intends to let me kill people to hone myself." Lin Jing corrected.

Gao Sheng frowned: "Killing people? This is not the same as killing demon beasts. It is extremely easy to be entangled by evil intent and killing intent, affecting one’s state of mind and hindering cultivation."

"Hmm... but it’s just a shallow attempt. Then use special elixirs to eliminate the evil intent, and there should be no problem."

He pondered for a while and said: "I’ll help you find a way. Give me a few days, wait for my news."

"Thank you." Lin Jing knew that Gao Sheng was reliable. Being away from home, having connections was indeed very important. Didn't the difficult task of the Demon Pine senior get solved?

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Just at this moment, the dragon horse spoke.

"Is there any more of the elixir from just now? I thought you were going to put me to death, but I didn't expect it to be a real treasure! My bloodline purity has improved a lot!"

"I told you, it’s a treasure, it’s a treasure!" Gao Sheng looked at the dragon-horned horse unpromisingly and said: "Is it a treasure or poison, can I not tell?"

The dragon-horned horse said: "I’m just worried you can’t tell."

"Hehe..." Lin Jing laughed on the side and said: "Brother Gao, to thank you, you will have enough Ascending Dragon Elixirs in the future. As long as you provide one main ingredient, 'dragon blood,' I will prepare the other materials and refine them for you for free."

"Is it for real?!" Gao Sheng was incomparably happy: "Is the dragon blood of a dragon horse okay?"

Dragon horse: ?

"It’s a bit weak... it needs to be at the Demon Core stage cultivation."

Gao Sheng shook his head regretfully and then said seriously: "Easy to say, easy to say. You can go back with peace of mind. Within seven days, I will get it done for you!"

Having obtained Gao Sheng’s help, Lin Jing returned to the cave dwelling with peace of mind, continuing to refine Ascending Dragon Elixirs with Long Li, improving his alchemy attainments, and laying the foundation for refining the Longevity Foundation Establishment Elixir...

A few days later.

Under the publicity of this wonderful person Xu Zhi, more than half of the Hidden Dragon City knew the result of the battle between the Heavenly Divine Body Wang Xiao and the dragon carp.

In a teahouse, several cultivators were listening to music, drinking tea, and chatting.

"Have you heard? That Wang family Qilin son, who is expected to enter the 'Heaven’s Pride List,' actually lost to a ninth-level Qi Refining dragon carp!"

"How is that possible? Are you drunk? Isn't the Heavenly Divine Body already at Foundation Establishment?"

"It was a battle with suppressed cultivation! Although the dragon carp’s cultivation is not high, its bloodline is very terrifying, reaching the 'King level.' If it were just like this, it wouldn't be a match for a Divine Body of the same level. But unlike ordinary Demon King bloodlines, that dragon carp is pure dragon race King blood, and even a Divine Body is hard to resist!"

"A Dragon King cub?! Is it a demon pet raised by an academy teacher?"

"No, it’s not! Don't you remember Lin Jing of the Beast Taming Sect? This dragon carp was cultivated by him over three years of secluded cultivation using special elixirs and the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique! It is said that all the luck he accumulated in the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique was used to cultivate the dragon pet, and he intends to contract it after Foundation Establishment!"

"I also heard that the Beast Taming Sect was sealed, and Lin Jing intends to rebuild a Dragon Taming Sect, and is recruiting troops in the academy, intending to be the sect leader himself."

"I also heard that the Beast Taming Sect has been sealed, and Lin Jing intends to rebuild a Dragon Taming Sect, currently recruiting in the academy to become the Sect Master himself."