Chapter 4: Pet Beast

His constitution, like a mortal body, was attribute-less.

After Lin Jing learned this, he looked at Elder Mo and said: "Then, Elder Mo, I will choose the Pine Leaf Mouse."

"Oh?" Elder Mo said: "Are you sure?"

Lin Jing nodded: "Sure."

His thinking was also very simple. With his Longevity Constitution, he was not suitable for running out to fight and kill in the early stages. Raising a wood-attribute pet beast that could farm and cultivate spirit plants, hiding in the sect to farm, and slowly improving his strength might be better.

In addition, although the Longevity Constitution had no attributes, most wood magic was related to vitality and life force, and wood-attribute spirit beasts were obviously more suitable for him.

As for pet beasts good at combat, it wouldn't be too late to look for one in the sect after his cultivation base was higher and he became an Inner Disciple.

"Elder Mo, is there something wrong with this Pine Leaf Mouse?" Lin Jing was worried and asked.

"En..." Elder Mo said: "The sect raises many spirit beasts. After they are born, the sect will instill their mission into them, help them open their intelligence, and issue them spirit stones every month to cultivate."

"And those that can be chosen by sect disciples are basically spirit beasts born within a year that, through the sect’s resource cultivation, can reach the third level of Qi Refining and have opened their intelligence enough to understand human language."

"After all, under such cultivation intensity, if they still can't reach the third level of Qi Refining and can't understand human language, it means they are not suitable for cultivation at all, let alone helping human disciples—not holding them back would be good enough."

"And this one... when the previous batch of disciples chose pet beasts, it only reached the second level of Qi Refining and did not meet the standard."

"Normally, it would be released into the pine forest afterward and would no longer be a pet beast issued to disciples."

"But according to the investigation by the Elder in charge of basic spirit beast cultivation, the reason this Pine Leaf Mouse only reached the second level of Qi Refining at that time was because of some special reasons."

"What is it?" Lin Jing was startled.

After Elder Mo hesitated, he said: "This Pine Leaf Mouse has some quirks; it treated the resources issued by the sect like treasures and hoarded them, hiding them very deeply. It didn't use a single one, and relied solely on its own talent to reach the third level of Qi Refining recently."

"I don't understand what it's thinking. Can these spirit stones increase if you hoard them?"

"..."

"Maybe it's a sense of security." Lin Jing.

"Considering that its talent is actually not bad, and can even be said to be an excellent talent seen once in ten years, that Elder has not yet erased its quota and gave it a second chance to enter the Outer Sect."

"In short, I will take you to see it first. If it is not suitable, then go see other pet beasts. And if you can subdue it, with its talent, it will also be of great benefit to your cultivation." Elder Mo said.

"Disciple understands..." After listening, Lin Jing planned to see it first before deciding.

Pine Forest Peak.

Two cranes landed.

A short while later, Elder Mo and the others arrived outside a pine forest.

"Pine Forest Peak, this is the activity place of the Pine Leaf Mouse group."

In the pine forest, Lin Jing saw many squirrels. In Lin Jing’s view, the Pine Leaf Mouse was a squirrel that had become a spirit. Looking at its appearance, it was generally no different from an ordinary squirrel, possessing soft and beautiful fur, dotted with fine light yellow stripes, which was very cute.

A bit like a Huangshan squirrel! But if there was any difference from an ordinary squirrel, it was that they had a pair of emerald green pupils, the color of which was like the dreamy color of fallen leaves and morning light intertwined in the forest.

"Zhi..."

One Pine Leaf Mouse after another leaped past. These Pine Leaf Mice that had just opened their intelligence or had not opened their intelligence were obviously unable to speak human language like Elder Black Bear and the cranes just now.

"The Pine Leaf Mice living in the pine forest now basically have talent and potential that do not meet the contract standards."

After arriving, Elder Mo walked in front, and Lin Jing followed.

"Except for the one I mentioned that is relatively special."

Under Elder Mo’s guidance, Lin Jing soon saw that Pine Leaf Mouse.

It was standing on the ground.

The Pine Leaf Mouse was meditating on a pine tree, eyes closed.

Only when someone arrived did it open its eyes.

"Zhi?"

Four eyes met.

At this moment, a few of Elder Mo’s disobedient hairs fluttered in the wind, adding a bit of uninhibited and immortal aura to him.

"I have already greeted Elder Jiang. This is a new disciple of the sect who wants to choose you as his first pet beast. What do you think?" He asked the Pine Leaf Mouse with his hands behind his back.

"Zhi..." This Pine Leaf Mouse hesitated for a moment, looking at Lin Jing, its voice milky.

Emerald green eyes observed Lin Jing.

On the side, Elder Mo said: "You need to introduce yourself to it. Generally, spirit beasts will decide whether to follow the other party based on the disciple’s situation."

"The Beast Taming Sect disciples’ choice of pet beasts has always been a two-way choice. To take the other party away, you also need to get the pet beast’s approval."

"This process is also a test of the disciple. Whether you can get the pet beast’s approval with your own ability is also very important for Beast Taming Sect disciples."

"Only when both the cultivator and the pet beast approve of each other can they achieve twice the result with half the effort in cultivation."

"So that's how it is." Lin Jing nodded.

Is this painting a big cake?

But he was a down-to-earth, honest person.

"I am Lin Jing, with a special constitution, so my cultivation speed is a bit slow. If you become my pet beast, we might have to work harder together."

Lin Jing looked at the Pine Leaf Mouse and gave the other party a preventive shot. Since he wanted the other party to help him cultivate, he did not hide his constitution’s flaws.

After all, the Longevity Constitution is known as a constitution with an extremely slow cultivation speed.

He believed that sincerity was enough to move the other party.

However...

"Zhi!!!" The Pine Leaf Mouse was startled.

Cultivation is slow, wouldn't that mean using up all the spirit stones it had hoarded for a long time?

It took a small step back.

Seeing this, Lin Jing fell silent.

Sure enough, true feelings cannot be kept since ancient times.

On the side, a smile that was hard to detect appeared on the corner of Elder Mo’s mouth.

Such strange pet beasts often have weird personalities and unique ideas, and it is not easy to subdue them.

However, Lin Jing is not an ordinary person either.

Facing such a guy who can endure not using spirit stones, has a firm will, and is like someone who has quit drugs, he thought for a while and said:

"Storage bag."

Sincerity didn't work, so Lin Jing planned to cater to its preferences.

Lin Jing said: "After becoming my pet beast, I will save up spirit stones to buy you an independent space storage bag that can store countless items."

"When we have achieved success in cultivation, it won't matter if I give you ten storage rings with larger space."

"You like hoarding resources, right? When there are more things, can you still fit them here?"

For a hoarding mouse that likes to hoard goods, the most painful thing should be that the backpack capacity is not enough, Lin Jing was sure.

Pine Leaf Mouse: !!??

"Zhi!?"

The next moment, the Pine Leaf Mouse’s eyes lit up, and it was instantly attracted by Lin Jing’s big cake.

"This Longevity Constitution is quite clever." Elder Mo was startled.

"The quirk of liking to hoard items, storage bag..." Compared to the people here, Lin Jing, who had experience as a senior hoarding mouse in his previous life, knew better what this hoarding mouse in front of him needed.

"It's just that this Pine Leaf Mouse doesn't look smart."

"But after all, it has just opened its intelligence."

On the side, Elder Mo shook his head when he saw this. A storage bag, that is very expensive.

No matter what, this Pine Leaf Mouse was considered hooked.

Afterward.

One, two, three... dozens of low-grade spirit stones were thrown out of the tree hole by the Pine Leaf Mouse under the silent expressions of the two, and finally, this Pine Leaf Mouse also crawled out again.

"Zhi zhi zhi!"

Looking at Lin Jing, the Pine Leaf Mouse’s tone was excited, as if it had identified him and planned to take all its belongings to join Lin Jing and start a new cultivation life together.

Lin Jing also smiled.

"In order for us to buy a storage bag as soon as possible, I will keep these spirit stones for you first, and we will plan and use them reasonably."

The Pine Leaf Mouse was startled, looked at Lin Jing’s sincere gaze, and nodded ignorantly.

Full of expectations for the future. ===== CHAPTER 5 =====