Chapter 60: Choosing a Fire Pet

After Lin Jing woke up again, Elder Yu, Elder Mo, and others all came to visit.

During the time he was asleep, everyone had already learned about what happened in Snow Moon City from the Pine-Leaf Rat, which kept gesturing. It’s just that with the Pine-Leaf Rat’s embellishment, the story added a scene of it fighting the companion Gu spider and consuming many spiritual beans for this.

The Pine-Leaf Rat... requested the sect to replenish it.

Elder Mo casually agreed to such a small matter. He didn't expect that the mission in Snow Moon City involved the Lotus Pavilion and the strange Gu of the Gu God Sect, and he didn't expect that in just a short time, an innocent Pine-Leaf Rat would become so scheming.

"But keeping the Gu insect in the body... is it really okay? Junior brother, don't become a demonic cultivator in the end just to raise it," Brother Ouyang worried. Gu insects are not something everyone can raise. He was afraid that in order to raise Gu, he would eventually step into a crooked path and stop at nothing!

"If you can't raise it anymore, don't do evil. You can let it absorb Senior Brother’s power. Senior Brother will carry it for you!" Brother Ouyang said.

"It is indeed a pity not to keep such a strange Gu for yourself. Who says Gu insects are not beasts? Why can't they be tamed? Since Divine Pine Senior said it is fine, and Lingyue Sword Immortal of the Demon-Elimination Division didn't say anything, then it should be fine," Elder Mo said.

"Yes, and controlling puppets and mechanisms also uses the method of true qi turning into silk. Now with the Ice Soul Gu spider silk, it has greater help for his cultivation of mechanism arts and controlling mechanism beasts!" Elder Yu was full of mechanism arts.

Lin Jing’s mouth twitched a few times. It seems that the black chili that Black Bear Elder strongly requested to destroy can be taken out and replanted. Just as the Divine Pine said, debt does not weigh down the body. Since he has become a container for Gu insects, is he still afraid of becoming a ghost-fire cultivator?

"Don't worry about me. If I am unable to control it, I will definitely not force it," Lin Jing looked up and said. "However, Divine Pine Senior said that to perfectly control the Ice Soul Gu, it is best to contract a fire pet after the Foundation Establishment stage to balance the power of the Ice Soul Gu. Speaking of which... in the sect, are there suitable fire pets?"

"Fire pets are good," Black Bear Elder, who was keeping watch outside the door, suddenly came in and said: "If I find you a fire pet, you will have a pet beast to assist in alchemy!"

In other words, whether he finds the beast fire he promised Lin Jing or not is optional. Black Bear Elder chuckled.

Upon hearing this, the Pine-Leaf Rat also felt that fire pets are good, saving Lin Jing from forcing it to eat chili again.

"Fire pets..." Elder Yu fell into deep thought, and then said: "Fire Spirit Sparrow is definitely not okay. It is only a spirit-level bloodline, and it is not strong among spirit-level bloodlines. As a basic pet beast, it is okay, but wanting to use it to balance the innate Gu King Ice Soul Gu is as difficult as ascending to heaven."

"But my Beast-Taming Sect... doesn't seem to have a fire pet with demon king bloodline to provide to Junior Brother Lin, right?" Brother Ouyang said: "Demon king bloodline... in the entire Great Desolate Domain, such bloodlines can be counted on one’s fingers."

Elder Mo said: "It doesn't have to pursue a king-level bloodline fire pet. The most important thing is... the bloodline must be strong! Strong enough to suppress the Gu King!"

"Ordinary demon beasts don't have this bloodline. The only ones that have this ability are... the Dragon Race!"

Dragon Race! Elder Yu and Brother Ouyang heard this and felt it made sense. In the era when the demon race had not yet gone extinct, the Dragon Race was the head of the demon race, and its bloodline strength was unmatched by any beast. Using it to balance Gu insects was absolutely the first choice.

"So, just find a demon beast that has both fire attribute and dragon blood!"

Elder Mo added: "It doesn't matter if it is not a king-level bloodline... Don't forget, if he goes to the Qianlong Academy to study later... he will have the opportunity to learn the Qianlong Secret Technique. Senior Cao is right. The Qianlong Secret Technique is the top secret technique for the Beast-Taming Sect to cultivate dragon blood pet beasts."

"With the blessing of the Qianlong Secret Technique, it can definitely evolve into a king-level bloodline fire dragon beast acquiredly!"

"Right!!!" Elder Yu realized, almost forgetting this. "As long as it has fire attribute and dragon blood, everything else depends on the Qianlong Secret Technique to cultivate!"

Lin Jing listened and asked: "I remember the most common dragon blood pet beast on Jiulong Peak seems to be the Dragon Blood Carp? But that is a water-attribute spiritual beast."

Dragon Blood Carp is not one of the five basic spiritual beasts of the Beast-Taming Sect.

It is because at the Qi Refining stage, the Dragon Blood Carp’s combat power is very weak and it relies heavily on the water environment, unlike the rain frog which can also move freely on land.

Only when the Dragon Blood Carp leaps over the Jiulong Waterfall and turns into a fish-dragon can it be considered a carp leaping over the dragon gate, soaring into the sky, and becoming a rare beast that even Foundation Establishment true disciples covet.

However, a Dragon Blood Carp that can achieve such an achievement has not appeared in the Beast-Taming Sect for many years, and it is very rare.

"No need to worry," Elder Mo waved his hand. "There are too many dragon blood demon beasts on Jiulong Peak. This is also the domineering nature of the Dragon Race bloodline."

"In the ancient demon race era, the Dragon Race was in its prime. Because its own bloodline was too powerful, the Dragon Race could ignore the reproduction of offspring of different races... Over time, there were more and more beast races with dragon blood in the Tianyuan Continent."

"For other sects, dragon blood demon beasts may be rare, but for my Beast-Taming Sect, we are not lacking!"

"Besides this, the fourth sect master of our Beast-Taming Sect also made a great contribution to the diversity of the sect’s pet beasts! Rest assured, I will communicate with Elder Jiang to see if there is one suitable for you!" Elder Mo left without looking back.

The fourth sect master of the Beast-Taming Sect, perhaps he could not reform the sect like the second sect master, making friends widely, perhaps he could not create many beast-taming secret techniques like the third sect master, accumulating the sect’s art foundation, but he...

He did something very remarkable.

That is to encourage the spiritual beasts and demon beasts in the sect to mate across species and attributes, assisted by pills, to optimize the bloodline of the offspring... Under his lifelong efforts, the Beast-Taming Sect indeed gave birth to many strange pet beasts. Some had powerful bloodlines, and of course, some were not as good as the previous generation, but overall, the merits outweighed the demerits.

Among them, under the efforts of the fourth sect master, the breeding between dragon blood demon beasts was the most outstanding one, so the disciples of Jiulong Peak... always had extraordinary combat power!

Lin Jing rested for a while, during which many elders came to visit, some he knew, some he didn't.

If Lin Jing were only a longevity body, he wouldn't be worth such concern from some elders. What if the longevity body has high potential and has entered the cave heaven? By the time Lin Jing grows up and can help them, they will have been dead for who knows how long.

The reason why some elders were so concerned was because the Divine Pine, the guardian deity of Tiandu Peak, which had been silent for thousands of years, had come out, and also served as Lin Jing’s protector.

Lin Jing’s identity suddenly became hot, and the degree of attention far exceeded Ouyang Hao.

After all, Ouyang Hao was only a disciple who might become the sect master, and not the only true disciple of the sect master.

Moreover, the sect master is currently in the early Nascent Soul stage, but the Divine Pine guardian deity was already in the Nascent Soul stage during the second sect master period. Now that so much time has passed, even if it hasn't stepped into Soul Transformation, it should be at the Nascent Soul perfection stage. Lin Jing being favored by such an ancestor is simply a great stroke of fortune.

However... only Lin Jing himself knew that the identity of this temporary protector pine was exchanged for blood. Of course, Divine Pine Senior is indeed good, helping him and the Pine-Leaf Rat a lot.

Elder Mo didn't let Lin Jing wait long before bringing a list, which recorded three kinds of fire-attribute dragon blood demon beasts!

"Come and take a look." He handed the list to Lin Jing.

1: Early Foundation Establishment stage, Heavenly Feather Crane.

A variant of the Heavenly Feather Crane race, possessing fire-feather dragon bloodline, feathers can turn into white dragon flames, deeply loved by the sect master’s wife, with very high standards, many true disciples are eager to contract.

2: Middle Foundation Establishment stage, Dragon Lion.

A wild fire lion that mutated after mistakenly swallowing dragon blood spiritual plants, was subdued by the Beast-Taming Sect, and is now one of the outer sect guest ministers of the Beast-Taming Sect, waiting for a fated person.

3: Ninth-layer Qi Refining stage, Arm-Passing Fire Monkey.

A reversion of the Dou Ape race, its ancestors were the sect’s demon king who had passed away, the pet beast of the fourth sect master, possessing the red-scaled ape monkey of the fire-scaled dragon bloodline.