Chapter 40: Inner Sect Life

After pacifying the future Fire Cloud Rat, Lin Jing entered the alchemy room inside the cave dwelling.

The walls of this alchemy room were embedded with thousand-year cold stones, regulating the temperature inside the cave. Under an old alchemy stove in the center of the room, it was connected to the burning flames deep underground.

Besides this, there was nothing else.

"This cave dwelling... looks like it has some age."

"Elder Shen said this was already the best cave dwelling left. Is that true..."

Lin Jing activated the "Fire Control Technique" jade slip and absorbed the method of controlling flames into his mind.

Having had the experience of creating "Thousand Changes, Ten Thousand Phantoms," Lin Jing found that this basic fire control spell was very simple in its use of true Qi.

He formed a seal with one hand. On his first attempt, he easily drew the earth fire up with his true Qi. He only almost burned the Pine-Leaf Rat watching from the side and didn't cause much damage.

"Squeak!"

Firelight scattered everywhere. The Pine-Leaf Rat jumped to the side and looked at Lin Jing with extreme anger.

Attempted murder of a pet!

Attempted!

"Sorry, it was my first time, so I was a bit unskilled," Lin Jing said. "However, if you learn fire magic, you won't be afraid of fire anymore."

The Pine-Leaf Rat protested. Does it look stupid to you!

"Alright, it won't happen next time. With a little practice, mastering the Fire Control Technique shouldn't be difficult. Let’s go out and stroll around first," Lin Jing continued to pacify it.

Walking out of the cave dwelling, Lin Jing first went to the Harvest Pavilion Alchemy Cloud Peak branch, which was a chain store of the entire sect.

Compared to the outer sect Harvest Pavilion, what was sold here were not basic spirit crops like spirit rice and spirit beans.

"Fire Cloud Chili? The Beast Taming Sect doesn't have this kind of thing."

However, it was a pity that the Beast Taming Sect didn't have the Fire Cloud Chili seeds Lin Jing needed.

After leaving the Harvest Pavilion, the Pine-Leaf Rat on Lin Jing’s shoulder was in a good mood. It seemed it wouldn't have to eat chili. But soon, its smile disappeared again.

Lin Jing... walked from the Alchemy Cloud Peak to the highest peak of the Beast Taming Sect and arrived at the Inner Sect Task Hall.

The tasks in the Inner Sect Task Hall were more advanced than those in the Outer Sect Task Hall. Tasks to slay monsters and eliminate demons were everywhere. Senior Brother Ouyang’s undercover task in the Demon Sect was probably accepted here.

"I want to issue a task: 'Find Fire Cloud Chili Seeds'." Among a pile of high-level tasks, Lin Jing inserted a task that looked very much like an outer sect task.

"Hmm? A new face?" The person in charge of the Inner Sect Task Hall was not a disciple, but a Foundation Establishment stage bird monster, looking very much like a magpie.

It was one of the pets of the elder in charge of the Inner Sect Task Hall, managing the place on the elder’s behalf. It was said that whenever a disciple went out to perform a task, it would sing a "Good Luck Song" to them, wishing them a safe return.

Every time a disciple didn't return safely after hearing the song, someone would see it weeping bitterly.

"Senior, I am Lin Jing, a newly promoted inner sect disciple of the Alchemy Cloud Peak."

"Calculating the time, it is indeed just after the inner sect assessment," the magpie spirit said. "Issuing a task requires one spirit stone. What is the reward for your task?"

"Spirit stones," Lin Jing said. Although there was nothing valuable in the Snow Plains cultivator’s storage bag, there were some of the basic currency of cultivators. He had given the beast blood inside to the senior brothers and sisters, so he would use these remaining spirit stones to treat the Pine-Leaf Rat to chili.

After issuing the task, Lin Jing left the Task Hall with satisfaction. On the way back to the cave dwelling, he stopped again in front of the Alchemy Building of the Alchemy Cloud Peak.

The Alchemy Building could be said to be the exclusive library of the Alchemy Cloud Peak. Unlike the Inner Sect Library which collected various spells, this place was a pile of pill recipes for Alchemy Cloud Peak disciples to consult.

"Alchemy room, Fire Control Technique—I have them. If I want to learn alchemy, it’s best to do it in practice. Let’s go get two basic pill recipes," Lin Jing said to the Pine-Leaf Rat, who was very depressed on his shoulder.

"Squeak..." It didn't want to eat chili.

"Don't worry, I won't force you. After I experiment with Elder Black Bear and find there are no side effects, I’ll spit fire myself." Lin Jing felt he was still kind-hearted and couldn't bear to see his pet suffer.

Arriving at the Alchemy Building, the guard was not a human, but a Foundation Establishment stage rabbit monster with red eyes.

Lin Jing shook his head. The outer sect was fine, but how did the inner sect feel like entering a monster den? There were more monsters than humans.

"Are you Lin Jing, who just joined the Alchemy Cloud Peak?"

"Does Senior know me?"

"My beast tamer is Elder Shen, and she informed me. She said that if you came to the Alchemy Building, I should pick suitable pill recipes for you to practice with. But I didn't expect you to come so soon," the rabbit monster said. "Have you finished memorizing the Plant Chapter? Have you learned the Fire Control Technique? And you’re in such a hurry to find pill recipes?"

Lin Jing nodded. "The 'Compendium of All Plants' has been memorized, and the Fire Control Technique has also been mastered."

"As expected of a genius valued by Elder Shen," the rabbit monster nodded with satisfaction. "The basic pill recipes on the first floor can be chosen at will. They are all recipes and techniques for refining first-grade pills suitable for the Qi Refining stage."

"As for the second floor, they are some high-end pills, such as various types of Foundation Establishment Pills, which require sect contribution points to exchange."

"I’ll just pick two books on the first floor," Lin Jing said.

"Then you pick them yourself first, and then I’ll give you suggestions!" The rabbit monster rolled a cigarette, sat back leisurely, took a puff, and exhaled white smoke.

Seeing this, Lin Jing was silent.

How is this rabbit monster still smoking!

He covered the curious gaze of the Pine-Leaf Rat on his shoulder, not letting it look.

Subsequently, he looked at the pill recipes on the first floor himself.

Spirit-Replenishing Pill... Lin Jing and the others had eaten quite a few. The effect was to replenish magic power, which could be said to be universal for all realms, just that the recipes for each grade were different.

Beast-Strength Pill, which could allow a cultivator to temporarily possess the strength of a monster.

Inedia Pill...

Hmm? Contraceptive Pill?

Lin Jing saw something familiar again. It seemed there was something called a Contraceptive Spell before.

Besides the Contraceptive Pill, next to it were Heat-Inducing Powder and Soul-Bewitching Pill.

He opened his mouth slightly. If he didn't know this was the Beast Taming Sect, he would have thought he had accidentally entered the Joyous Sect.

"Senior, I’ve chosen."

After a while, Lin Jing took two pill recipes to show the rabbit monster senior.

"Spirit-Replenishing Pill, hmm, the basic of basics, very suitable for introductory practice."

"Soul-Bewitching Pill... why are you choosing this?" the rabbit monster asked.

"I suggest you choose the Beast-Strength Pill. Your pet, the Pine-Leaf Rat, is too fragile, and the beast tamer himself is also very fragile. With a Beast-Strength Pill, if you take one in battle, your body can possess the strength of a tiger or elephant!"

"Most importantly... the Beast-Strength Pill sells better than the Soul-Bewitching Pill!"

"The Soul-Bewitching Pill can cause the user to have hallucinations for a period of time, unable to distinguish between illusion and reality," Lin Jing said. "This disciple has been researching phantom-path spells recently, so I wanted to take a few Soul-Bewitching Pills myself to find the feeling."

"So that’s it," the rabbit monster said. "That’s very reasonable. Then you choose."

Taking the pill recipes, they finally returned to the cave dwelling. The Pine-Leaf Rat went to count the things in the two storage bags, while Lin Jing fell asleep as soon as his head hit the pillow.

Having been too exhausted and overusing his brain for a period of time, he now needed to rest well.

In his dream, Lin Jing dreamed that he swallowed a Golden Core into his abdomen, the Pine-Leaf Rat sliced open the path to ascension with a leaf, and both became the only cultivators who successfully ascended to the Immortal Realm in the Great Ming Continent.

This Immortal Realm... before they could observe it carefully, they were knocked unconscious, tied up, and sent to a grotto to mine. ===== CHAPTER 41 =====