Chapter 116: Squirrel Foundation Establishment!

The Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, after the unremitting efforts of Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp, was finally formed!

However, because the refining of the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill was too difficult, the materials were extremely rare, and it was an exclusive pill, Lin Jing could no longer find a test-pill boy to test the medicine.

This pill was tailored for the Pine-Leaf Rat. Where in the world could one find a second Pine-Leaf Rat with a Natal Red Leaf?

He could only ask Senior Divine Pine, this plant-based Soul Transformation expert, to judge whether there were any problems with the pill. It wasn't to let Senior Divine Pine eat the pill and become a test-pill boy, but to let him use his Soul Transformation realm to probe the pill!

"Let me see."

Lin Jing walked out of the cave, radiant. The Dragon Carp, however, didn't have the strength; the moment the pill was formed, it was exhausted and fainted in the pill cauldron.

Actually, Lin Jing was also very exhausted, but now that the pill was formed, his conviction supported him; he had to see the Pine-Leaf Rat’s Foundation Establishment evolution!

Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill.

After the pill was formed, it was a black pill the size of a candy. Although the Divine Pine didn't understand pill arts, it understood plants. After looking at the black pill, it was slightly silent.

"The toxicity is minimal, almost non-existent."

"The aura is highly nourishing. A mortal smelling a wisp of the pill’s aura could live over a hundred years."

"The medicinal power is harmonious, naturally formed."

"Without a doubt, it is a quite perfect Foundation Establishment pill, it’s just that the color is a bit ugly, giving people the feeling of a poison pill."

"The color and appearance don't matter," Lin Jing laughed. "The color of the pill is basically determined by the refining materials. It might be because the materials for this pill are too complex. As long as there is no problem with the pill, it’s fine, right, Pine-Leaf Rat?"

Lin Jing looked at the Pine-Leaf Rat with full expectation. After cultivating for nearly five years, it was finally going to establish its foundation. Although it wasn't his own foundation establishment, for a Beast Tamer, a pet’s foundation establishment... was no different from his own!

"Squeak..." The Pine-Leaf Rat looked at the pitch-black Foundation Establishment Pill. In order not to make Lin Jing, who had worked hard for a month, sad, it nodded trustingly. It would eat it!

"Senior Divine Pine will protect your Dao, there will be no problem." Lin Jing threw the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill to the Pine-Leaf Rat.

The Pine-Leaf Rat caught the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill in a panic and held it in its hand.

Although it trusted Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp... this color was indeed a bit strange.

It gulped.

"Squeak!" Strange is strange. The Pine-Leaf Rat was in a perfect state now. In order to break through, it had been recuperating, so it could establish its foundation at any time. It took a deep breath, pulled off its Daoist robe, and threw it away. The robe blew with the wind and hung on a tree branch outside the cave.

After feeling light, the Pine-Leaf Rat put the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill into its mouth and swallowed it!

At this moment, the wind stopped blowing, time seemed to stand still, and even Senior Divine Pine watched quietly as the Pine-Leaf Rat ate the Foundation Establishment Pill and immediately sat cross-legged on the ground, closing its eyes.

"It will definitely succeed."

Lin Jing’s eyes drifted. Even though he was very optimistic, he couldn't help but feel nervous at this moment, his clenched fists trembling slightly.

Boom!!!

Not long after eating the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill, changes soon occurred within the Pine-Leaf Rat, which was sitting cross-legged on the ground with its eyes closed. The massive medicinal power of the pill pushed the Pine-Leaf Rat to compress the Green Emperor True Qi in its body.

With a boom, a surging true qi fluctuation erupted from its body, rushing into the sky like a ten-fold vortex, causing countless fine grasses and leaves in the mountains to sway.

This Green Emperor True Qi was incomparably domineering, and then it suddenly contracted, condensing and flickering like a green meteor, all compressing into the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body. At this moment, the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body seemed like a newborn world, with spiritual light filling the sky. In the spiritual mist, it was as if raindrops were falling, countless raindrops gathering into a lake, flickering with white light.

The spiritual rain baptized the newborn world, nurturing everything and merging into every part. This was the process of breaking through from Qi Refining to Foundation Establishment, compressing true qi into true essence, and giving birth to a sea of true essence in the body.

Because Lin Jing had a bloodline contract with the Pine-Leaf Rat, his consciousness projected into this newborn body world to perceive it. He watched as the rain that revived everything created a spiritual sea, the water level of which kept rising—one foot, two feet... a hundred feet... a thousand feet... It was clearly a conscious observation, clearly inside the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body, it was impossible to really have such a height, but Lin Jing really felt as if he had gone to another world, his various perceptions assimilated by this place.

"Foundation Establishment stage: true qi liquefies into true essence, gathering in the spiritual sea within the body. The spiritual sea is born, the body undergoes baptism, and the mental consciousness transforms into spiritual sense, which can perceive surrounding things with a single thought."

"The depth of the spiritual sea is basically equivalent to the perception range of the spiritual sense."

"For ordinary early-stage Foundation Establishment, whether human cultivator or demonic beast, the spiritual sense can reach a hundred zhang."

"However, due to different bloodlines, aptitudes, and cultivation techniques, there are also special cases. Even if just entering Foundation Establishment, the spiritual sea depth and spiritual sense strength far exceed those of the same level..."

As the Divine Pine finished speaking, Lin Jing’s consciousness had already fallen into the Pine-Leaf Rat’s spiritual sea—a thousand feet... fifteen hundred feet... two thousand feet... bottomless.

Outside, the Pine-Leaf Rat itself didn't realize that its spiritual sense, which was expanding involuntarily, was still expanding rapidly, as if it wanted to cover the entire mountain peak.

"With such a posture, the power is already comparable to mid-stage Foundation Establishment, approaching late-stage Foundation Establishment!"

"And this... is just a normal breakthrough for a little squirrel at the 10th layer of Qi Refining who cultivates the Green Emperor Longevity Technique."

"The Foundation Establishment Pill... should also be taking effect." The Divine Pine stared at the Pine-Leaf Rat’s changes, as if it could also see the process of its body’s transformation.

At this very moment, the Pine-Leaf Rat’s whole body was covered in golden-green light, and the massive spiritual rain in its body quickly changed, turning from colorless raindrops into golden-green plant spiritual liquid. Under the watering of the golden-green rain, the color of the entire spiritual sea also changed, and the spiritual sea began a new round of washing the body!!

Boom!!

Accompanied by the light filling the sky, a terrifying aura erupted from the Pine-Leaf Rat. Its bloodline was transforming, evolving, and sublimating. The powerful bloodline pressure caused the Dragon Carp, which was sleeping in the pill cauldron in the cave, to suddenly open its blank eyes and wake up in shock.

It jumped out of the cave, lay on the hilltop, and looked at the little squirrel sitting cross-legged below, which was undergoing bloodline evolution, its bloodline trembling.

At this moment, the Pine-Leaf Rat’s whole body was already covered in spiritual light, and its figure couldn't be seen clearly. Even the Divine Pine could only vaguely perceive that because of the bloodline mutation, this squirrel’s life level and life form were mutating in a direction that no one could explain.

Although the specific result was not yet known, the Divine Pine was silent at its almost perverted spiritual sense!

Two hundred zhang... three hundred zhang... a thousand meters of spiritual sense, which usually requires Foundation Establishment Great Perfection to reach, had actually appeared on a little squirrel that had just established its foundation.

And this didn't seem to be the limit at all—a thousand meters... eleven hundred meters... fifteen hundred meters...

Boom!!!

The powerful spiritual sense that was enough to spread for two thousand meters made even the Divine Pine marvel. This had almost exceeded the normal scope of ordinary Foundation Establishment. Only those "False Core cultivators" who had no hope of the Golden Core Great Dao and used other means to simulate Core Formation could possess such spiritual sense strength.

"Possessing a powerful spiritual sense can give one an absolute advantage in fighting..."

"It should be that it frequently used the rare beast divine ability, using its mind to control leaves, which laid a strong foundation, hence it possesses such a terrifying spiritual sense."

When the Pine-Leaf Rat’s spiritual sense expanded to two thousand meters, it stopped. At the same time, the bloodline evolution light covering its body also slowly dissipated. Lin Jing’s consciousness returned, looking at the Pine-Leaf Rat that slowly stood up and opened its eyes, his gaze dazed.

As its spiritual sense returned, the clover in the Pine-Leaf Rat’s eyes spun crazily, and a terrifying aura radiated from its body. This was not the appearance of an ordinary Foundation Establishment demonic beast. However, what surprised Lin Jing most was not the astonishing transformation of its strength, but the change in its appearance!!!

Although it still maintained the basic appearance of a squirrel, with soft and bright brown fur, now, compared to an animal, it was more like a symbiotic body of animal and plant!

The Pine-Leaf Rat... its two ears had turned into diamond-shaped red leaves, and the end of its big tail had also evolved into a plant like a maple leaf. Perhaps compared to Pine-Leaf Rat, the name Maple-Leaf Rat was closer to it.

Unlike its weak physique in the past, the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body now gave Lin Jing a feeling of extreme strength, especially the maple leaf at the end of its tail. Each leaf seemed like a sharp blade, incomparably sharp, far exceeding the red leaf by a hundred times. Even Yuan Jing’s Demon-Slaying Sword, which contained sword intent, Lin Jing felt was not as terrifying as the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body now.

"That special plant like the Natal Red Leaf has indeed become a part of its body."

"This power... just entering Foundation Establishment, it can fight peak Foundation Establishment. It is a supreme Demon King bloodline!"

"The Longevity Pinecone watered by my Longevity Blood has endowed it with incomparable vitality. I’m afraid its current lifespan..."

"No, that’s not right!"

The Divine Pine was suddenly shocked. It saw that the Pine-Leaf Rat’s evolution hadn't finished. As its glazed immortal pupils turned, tree-like substances began to spread on its body surface. This substance grew continuously, radiating astonishing vitality, just like a divine tree being nurtured outside the Pine-Leaf Rat’s body!!!

Rumble!!!

In the blink of an eye, the Pine-Leaf Rat disappeared, replaced by a giant squirrel statue whose body had expanded to dozens of zhang, huge and incomparable, as if its whole body was made of wood!!

The giant squirrel statue was roughly similar to the Pine-Leaf Rat’s original appearance, but the whole body was like a mountain, covered with branches, and on the branches were endless pinecones, as if it had turned into a divine pine of heaven and earth itself!

"How is it possible? It’s one thing for it to assimilate the red leaves, but it actually perfectly assimilated my pinecones, becoming a part of itself." The Divine Pine couldn't understand. You have to know it was a plant-based Soul Transformation, and the red leaves were synthesized by the Pine-Leaf Rat, so it was natural for them to be assimilated, but its own power had actually been refined by this squirrel?

Even according to Lin Jing’s pill formula theory, this pinecone only provided Foundation Establishment energy!

"Is it the power of those pupils?" Then, an even more shocking scene appeared to the Divine Pine. As the light of the Pine-Leaf Rat’s glazed immortal pupils covered it, the endless pinecones on the giant squirrel statue slowly disappeared. Following that, a third eye actually opened on the Pine-Leaf Rat’s forehead. But looking closely, it wasn't a pupil, but a pinecone, which had merged into the Pine-Leaf Rat’s forehead like a third eye, which was extremely miraculous.

Boom!

This giant statue was extremely eerie. At the moment of its birth, the plants on the mountain began to wither, their vitality flowing away, turning into countless life essences and merging into the statue.

Even the Divine Pine felt an unprovoked disaster, feeling that a force was trying to swallow and plunder its vitality.

And as the vitality gathered, the Pine-Leaf Rat’s bloodline strength seemed to be temporarily improved, erupting with stronger pressure, directly causing the Dragon Carp, which had just woken up, to faint again.

"This is... the Demon King True Body!!!" The Divine Pine exclaimed, finally encountering a situation that even it found incredible.

"What is the Demon King True Body?"

Lin Jing was also shocked by the unexpected change before his eyes. Now he could perceive that the Pine-Leaf Rat was in an unconscious state of experiencing its body after bloodline evolution. As for the Demon King True Body in the Divine Pine’s mouth, Lin Jing had read many books and had never heard of it.

The Divine Pine took a deep breath and said, "You human cultivators, after reaching the Nascent Soul realm, can use Nascent Soul power to condense a Nascent Soul Dharma Image to amplify the power of spells."

"And the Demon King True Body is a similar means, but unlike any Nascent Soul cultivator who can display a Nascent Soul Dharma Image, the Demon King True Body can only be mastered by a very small number of supreme Demon Kings. The amplification is stronger, and it can be considered a unique 'racial talent,' a special 'transformation,' which is even rarer than the human divine body."

"In the Demon King True Body state, although the consumption is huge, the bloodline bonus is terrifying. If a Demon King masters the Demon King True Body, even a semi-divine being must retreat three times, because their bloodline strength at this moment is comparable to an Emperor-level bloodline!"

"The most powerful thing is that this racial talent will upgrade as the cultivation improves, advancing to the Demon Emperor True Body... or even the Demon Emperor True Body."

The Divine Pine muttered, "But the Demon King True Body is usually innate, and I have never heard of it being acquired later. Is it because it is a rare beast? Regardless, now, just relying on this little squirrel at early-stage Foundation Establishment, you should be able to crush most of the so-called Foundation Establishment cultivators on the Genius List."

"Supreme Demon King bloodline, Demon King True Body, even if a Demon Emperor bloodline comes, this squirrel of yours can fight it!"

At this moment, immersed in the Pine-Leaf Rat’s changes, Lin Jing didn't even realize that his own cultivation had stepped into the 11th layer of Qi Refining. Under the Pine-Leaf Rat’s spiritual power feedback, he had even approached the 12th layer of Qi Refining, and this... was still without the feedback from the other monster in his body, the Ice Soul Gu at the 11th layer of Qi Refining, which hadn't established its foundation yet!