Chapter 14: Elder Yu

"Thank you for your blessings." Senior Brother Ouyang sighed deeply.

"It’s good that you understand. I was afraid you wouldn't be able to accept it."

"However, this path is destined to be rugged."

"Even Sect Master Xu cannot see the future."

Lin Jing said: "How so?"

"Man and beast are destined to have no results." Senior Brother Ouyang shook his head.

You still want results?

"Unless, the other party is a demon race, not a demonic beast!" Senior Brother Ouyang said seriously.

"Demon race?"

"Yes, demon race."

"In the Immortal Palace era, a hundred races stood in the Tianyuan Continent. Human race and demon race were both part of the Tianyuan Continent."

"But any beast that cultivates to a certain realm can transform into a human. As time goes by, more and more demonic beasts are like humans, and the demon race was born. They take human form as the main body, retain more or less beast characteristics, and become a brand new race."

"Most importantly, the demon race can reproduce with the human race, called half-demons."

"At the end of the Immortal Palace era, countless races joined the Immortal Alliance composed of the four major sects to resist the tyranny of the Immortal Palace. During this stage, the hundred races sacrificed tragically."

"Among them, the demon race bore the brunt. The Immortal Palace used immortal arts to rewrite the rules of the Tianyuan Continent. Demonic beasts could no longer transform into humans, and the demon race disappeared."

"If the demon race still existed, perhaps Hong’er could cultivate toward the demon race. Unfortunately, unfortunately." Senior Brother Ouyang really felt it was a pity.

Lin Jing was speechless.

These... were also not recorded in the "Brief History."

"Sect Master Xu has been looking for a way to make the demon race reappear. If I become his disciple, I will probably spend my whole life looking for a way to make demonic beasts evolve into the demon race."

Hearing the love story of the current Sect Master and Senior Brother Ouyang, Lin Jing was quite moved.

"You will definitely succeed."

"Zhi." The Pine Leaf Mouse also nodded. It didn't understand, but it didn't hinder it from joining in the fun.

"Alright, let’s hurry on our way." Senior Brother Ouyang said, having forgotten the business because he was so invested.

No words along

The Pine-Leaf Rat had not forgotten its storage bag; it had come out of the mountain for this very thing.

Just now, it had used the red flying leaves to show off its skills on Fierce Tiger Mountain, easily defeating many fierce beasts.

Compared to ordinary tree leaves, it felt the red flying leaves were more to its liking.

It decided that in the future, it would use the Glazed Immortal Pupils to synthesize a few hundred million red flying leaves.

At the thought of being able to possess hundreds of millions of red flying leaves but having nowhere to carry them, the Pine-Leaf Rat felt a wave of melancholy; its sense of security was insufficient.

"I remember." Lin Jing also realized that with the Pine-Leaf Rat's current divine ability, it seemed it could already start making money; a storage bag was not out of reach.

"The fastest way to make money is nothing more than selling golden spiritual rice and earning the price difference."

"However, considering that using your pupil technique consumes a lot of energy, and the matter of your racial mutation hasn't been reported to Elder Mo yet, it's better if we don't expose the Glazed Immortal Pupils for now."

"Other than that, to earn spirit stones quickly, it can only be through sect missions."

Although once Elder Mo returned, the Pine-Leaf Rat could apply for improved disciple benefits based on its status as a rare beast, geniuses like Senior Brother Ouyang, who were favored by the Sect Master, were still working hard on sect missions to earn rewards. Lin Jing did not want to be a salted fish just looking for a free ride.

Most importantly, to be promoted to an inner sect disciple, besides the strength requirement, there was also a requirement for sect contribution points. To obtain sect contributions, one had to perform sect missions; this was unavoidable and had to be done sooner or later.

Lin Jing longed for the inner sect.

Since Senior Brother Ouyang could obtain a natal beast-taming spatial magic treasure at the inner sect disciple stage, he wanted one too.

Lin Jing felt a wave of envy; this was a better thing than a storage bag. With this, he wouldn't have to carry the Pine-Leaf Rat around every day.

For some reason, the Pine-Leaf Rat loved standing on his shoulder, and Lin Jing felt this habit was not good.

It hadn't been long yet, but after a long time, he could already foresee himself having one shoulder higher than the other.

"Squeak!" The Pine-Leaf Rat indicated it would listen to everything Lin Jing said, and then... dragging its cloth bag, it walked out of the courtyard and ran to the roadside trees to pick leaves.

The leaves in their own courtyard had been plucked clean; if it wanted to continue synthesizing red flying leaves, it could only go outside to pick them.

As for using spiritual power to ripen them... wasting spiritual power in such a place was too extravagant; after all, leaves were everywhere on the mountain.

It was better to save the spiritual power for ripening spiritual rice and spiritual beans.

That evening, some passing outer sect disciples saw a squirrel carrying a large bag of leaves, jumping around back and forth.

"So pitiful..." Two female disciples saw the Pine-Leaf Rat collecting broken leaves and said: "Who is its beast tamer? They can't even feed their own pet beast, making it come out to find leaves to eat itself..."

Until the next morning, the Pine-Leaf Rat still hadn't rested, constantly collecting leaves; their courtyard was already piled high with them everywhere.

When Lin Jing woke up and was planning to go to the Mission Hall to see if there were any suitable missions, the Pine-Leaf Rat dragged another huge sack inside.

Besides that, it also had an exquisite pink cloth bag in its hand.

Seeing this, Lin Jing rubbed his eyes and said: "Where did you pick that up? I don't remember us having a bag like that."

"Squeak! Squeak!" The Pine-Leaf Rat opened the cloth bag; inside were actually a few pine nuts!

It indicated that a passing senior sister with a kind heart had stuffed it into its hand, telling it to eat more nutritious things and not to eat leaves anymore.

"It must be that your collecting leaves everywhere made other senior sisters misunderstand something. Don't take other people's things in the future." Lin Jing said helplessly.

The Pine-Leaf Rat nodded, then scanned the pine nuts with its Glazed Immortal Pupils.

Nothing happened.

Outer Sect, Mission Hall.

Because it was still very early, there weren't many people inside except for a supervisor senior brother. Only four outer sect disciples were looking for missions; they seemed to know each other and wanted to form a team, discussing whether to hunt a snake demon or a pig demon.

The supervisor senior brother was reading a book, very engrossed, and didn't have the service attitude of Senior Brother Ouyang. Lin Jing browsed the mission wall himself.

After looking around, he found that apart from missions that required leaving the sect, there were hardly any missions suitable for himself and the Pine-Leaf Rat.

Leaving the sect was impossible unless he could find a high-realm bodyguard to follow him, preferably at the Golden Core stage or above.

As for missions within the sect, like going to help in the sect's spiritual fields... the cost-effectiveness was too low. To save up enough money for a storage bag and the contribution points for inner sect promotion through such missions would take until the year of the monkey.

Although he really didn't lack time.

Just as Lin Jing was hesitating, the Mission Hall suddenly quieted down as a blue-robed old man walked in.

"Greetings, Elder Yu." The four outer sect disciples noticed immediately and spoke respectfully, while the supervisor senior brother, who was reading a miscellaneous book, also jumped up, putting down the "My Sword Spirit Wife" in his hand.