Chapter 110: Dual Cultivation of Buddha and Demon

Outside.

Zhang Hu and Gao Sheng looked at Lin Jing, who was sitting in meditation. Only a few minutes had passed, and the two were amazed to find that he began to emit a faint golden light, and his whole person was incomparably sacred, as if shrouded in Buddha light.

"Buddha nature!"

Zhang Hu saw this and was very surprised: "It’s not even a stick of incense time, and he has already condensed the Buddha bead? This Buddhist cultivation talent is indeed exaggerated. I don't know which powerful Buddhist figure enlightened Young Master Lin."

"Did he succeed?" Gao Sheng was stunned, thought for a while and said: "I seem to know who it is. Perhaps it is Master Kong Lin, a powerful Buddhist figure who joined the Demon Suppression Division for a period of time thousands of years ago. He once sealed an immortal rare beast in the Wilderness Domain. He has now returned to the Western Desert and has had no news for a long time. I don't know if he is still alive."

"If he is alive, his cultivation must have reached a very terrifying level."

Nascent Soul stage has a lifespan of a thousand years, Soul Transformation stage has a lifespan of two thousand years, Kongxuan stage has a lifespan of five thousand years, and Asking Dao stage has a lifespan of ten thousand years!

Gao Sheng calculated that if the other party’s final cultivation was the Soul Transformation stage, then he should be dead by now. If he successfully broke through to the Kongxuan stage, then he might

After thinking this, he looked at Lin Jing with immense envy. This guy, with a Longevity Body... his lifespan at the Nascent Soul stage could already rival the strongest experts on this continent; it was truly enough to make one jealous.

While the two were communicating via sound transmission, Lin Jing had already opened his eyes, golden light flickering within them.

"The Buddha bead has condensed," he said slowly.

"Congratulations, congratulations," Gao Sheng quickly laughed. However, looking at the continuously glowing Lin Jing, he scratched his head and said, "But isn't your talent for Buddha cultivation a bit too good? How come it feels like you haven't done anything, yet your Buddha nature keeps increasing?"

Lin Jing was silent, sensing his own body. How could he have done nothing?

The power leaking from the Ice Soul Gu sealed within his body originally required him to use his Ice Soul Body to neutralize it, bearing the burden himself. But now, this condensed Buddha bead was automatically absorbing and sealing the power of the Ice Soul Gu.

The Ice Soul Gu was blood-refined from countless poisonous insects using Gu arts, and the process likely involved many heinous methods. It was only natural for the Buddha bead to judge it as demonic power.

But in this way, by using the Buddha bead to seal his own Ice Soul Gu power, wouldn't he be able to generate supreme Buddha nature and boundless merit without doing anything at all?

"That's your misconception," Lin Jing said. Doesn't Gao Sheng like to deduce things?

Since Gao Sheng knew he had an Ice Soul Gu sealed inside, it shouldn't be hard to deduce that he was already sealing demons with his own body.

This Buddha-Demon Bead was extremely compatible with him.

"Is that so?" Gao Sheng rubbed his chin. Just then, Demon-Slaying Guard Zhang Hu spoke up: "Since you've succeeded in your cultivation, do you want to execute a death-row prisoner now to test the power of the Buddha bead?"

"I'll have to trouble you, Senior Zhang." Lin Jing bowed, wishing he could execute a hundred people right now so he could go ask Senior Shen Song for pine nuts.

Executing a death-row prisoner was still killing; surely Senior Shen Song couldn't go back on his word then, right?

Lin Jing was led by Zhang Hu to the outside of the deeper-level execution rooms.

The surrounding guards remained expressionless as they stood watch when they saw Zhang Hu and Lin Jing. Zhang Hu held a high position here, so they passed through without obstruction.

"The demonic cultivator locked in Execution Room No. 19 is the one to be executed today."

"The Yin Corpse Sect? The Gu God Sect? The Netherworld Palace? Which demonic sect does this cultivator come from?" Lin Jing asked curiously.

Zhang Hu beside him shook his head: "It's not that easy to catch demonic cultivators from the three major demonic sects; it's none of those."

"This person was originally a Core Formation-stage Elder of the 'Heavenly River Gate'. Due to his own aptitude, he had no hope of forming a Jin Dan. He doesn't know where he got the 'Blood Dan Great Art' of the long-destroyed Blood God Sect, which requires the heart's blood of a hundred Foundation Establishment cultivators, a thousand Qi Refining cultivators, and ten thousand mortals to cultivate."

"He set his sights on rogue cultivators, wandering through various cities and secretly harming them. Before he was arrested, he had already killed countless people; his hands were stained with heavy sin."

"He certainly deserves to die." Lin Jing frowned: "Senior Zhang, can I just go in directly?"

He looked at the stone prison door, which featured a divine tiger pattern.

"The demonic cultivator's spiritual power is currently exhausted, and he is locked on the execution platform. Just kill him by any means you choose."

"Afterwards, throw him along with his corpse into the incinerator connected to the back of the execution room."

Lin Jing nodded, pushed open the prison doors one by one, and finally saw a red-haired old man locked by iron chains on the execution platform in the dim, lamp-lit room.

As Lin Jing entered, the red-haired old man's closed eyes slowly opened, his dead, silent gaze fixed on Lin Jing.

Boom!

An intense killing intent surged toward Lin Jing. Although it contained no spiritual power, it still made Lin Jing feel as if he were seeing layers of blood shadows.

"To think you'd let a Qi Refining brat execute this old..." He spoke weakly, but before he could finish, his head flew off, and two white spider threads twisted around his severed neck.

The head on the ground stared with eyes wide open, dying with grievances unavenged.

Lin Jing met its gaze. It was his first time killing, yet he felt no discomfort at all.

The next moment, in the dark, Lin Jing felt a sense of resentment wrapping around him. This resentment was formless and colorless; if it were only a small amount, it would not affect a cultivator.

However, if it accumulated in a massive quantity, it could cause a cultivator to develop inner demons at a critical moment, affecting their state of mind.

"I'm just the executioner; why are you resenting me?"

After sealing the resentment with the Buddha bead, Lin Jing flicked his hand, and threads of true qi threw the person's corpse into the incinerator in the execution room.

Having killed the person cleanly and efficiently, Lin Jing did not stay in the execution room for long.

"How does it feel?" Zhang Hu, who was waiting outside, asked after he walked out of the execution room.

"Not bad, no discomfort at all." Lin Jing smiled. For some reason, he felt quite refreshed after killing this person.

"That's good." Zhang Hu said: "In that case, how about I arrange one death-row prisoner for you every seven days from now on?"

"One every seven days? Senior Zhang, could you arrange seven for me in one day?" Lin Jing was worried. At one every seven days, it would take two years to meet Senior Shen Song's requirements.

Zhang Hu: ?

"Seven in one day? Do you think this is a slaughterhouse?" he said, annoyed.

Lin Jing was also quite helpless.

He was twenty-seven years old now.

Although for a Longevity Body, he was very young.

But the requirement to enter the Heaven's Pride List (Human List) was for cultivators under thirty.

This meant he had to help the Pine-Needle Mouse reach Foundation Establishment within three years and attempt to challenge the Heaven's Pride Human List.

He had spent three years in seclusion, refining his alchemy skills, all to help the Pine-Needle Mouse achieve a perfect Foundation Establishment and complete its bloodline evolution, thereby gaining the qualifications to challenge the Heaven's Pride List.

If he missed the Heaven's Pride List, a promotional tool known across the continent, his progress in the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique would be severely limited, and the Long Li would not be able to transform into a dragon perfectly.

In the end, after Lin Jing's bargaining, it became one execution per day. It would take about three months for him to complete the task assigned by Senior Shen Song.

When Lin Jing came out of the Immortal Prison, Shen Song, who was observing from the shadows, snorted.

"The little brat is playing tricks, but never mind..."

"Burning, killing, and looting—he's learned to burn, and he's tried killing. As a demonic cultivator, he can't be bad at looting! Next time he asks me for help, I'll make him go rob someone else! Every time he fights, he gets no spoils and even gives others elixirs. He has all the consumption but no gain; no wonder he's poor, and it's a waste of that squirrel's spatial talent!"