Chapter 74: Squirrel Swallows Dragon Picture

No one expected that after Fang Shilin defeated a middle-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator by leaping levels with the power of a magic treasure, the next challenger would actually be a Qi Refining stage cultivator.

In this Hidden Dragon City, even a wild dog on the street might be at the seventh or eighth level of Qi Refining, so the Qi Refining cultivation was really not very eye-catching.

Qi Refining stage... Fang Shilin curled his lips. Foundation Establishment fighting Qi Refining, it was useless, and instead, he would be said to be bullying the small with the big, ruining his reputation. And losing to this guy... how could he lose to a Qi Refining cultivator?

Anyway, this challenge that was not worth it, Fang Shilin was really too lazy to scold people. In his view, Lin Jing was just here to make trouble.

"Wait!"

"Your appearance..."

Suddenly, Fang Shilin noticed the Pine Needle Mouse and the Long Li and asked: "Are you a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect in the Great Wilderness Domain!"

As soon as he spoke, the crowd was in an uproar.

"Beast Taming Sect?"

"Is it the Beast Taming Sect that the Sect Management Office recently issued a notice that demon luck is greater than human luck and ordered the sect to be sealed and rectified?"

"I heard that the Nascent Soul ancestors of this sect are all Demon Kings, and there is not a single human cultivator. Every Demon King has three or four human pets. It is terrifying."

The cultivators present looked at Lin Jing with strange eyes.

Lin Jing didn't know how the rumors spread more and more outrageously. He sighed slightly.

"Personally, Beast Taming Sect Lin Jing!"

"The Beast Taming Sect is not as absurd as everyone says. There is still one human powerhouse."

Fang Shilin, as a cultivator in the Great Wilderness, was very familiar with the Beast Taming Sect. He listened to the discussion and laughed: "Did the disciples all run to the Ancient Domain after the Beast Taming Sect was sealed?"

"The Ancient Domain is a place where luck gathers. As a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, coming to the Ancient Domain for training to revitalize the sect is naturally the first choice." Lin Jing said peacefully.

"So that’s it. I also sympathize with your encounter." Fang Shilin said: "Alright, I accept your challenge."

"You are only in the Qi Refining stage. The two spirit beasts, one should be contracted, and one is not contracted. But it doesn't matter. You and the two spirit beasts go up together. This is fairer."

If it were an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator, Fang Shilin would really be too lazy to accept the challenge, but seeing that Lin Jing was a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect, he suddenly became interested.

The Beast Taming Sect was a first-class sect in the Great Wilderness after all, and because of the excessive demon luck, it was sealed. The discussion was not small. Interacting with it might make his setting up a ring spread more widely. Moreover, fighting "three" with one, it was not considered too bullying to say it out.

Lin Jing said very politely: "Many thanks to your Excellency, but I have not contracted this Long Li yet, so sending it to fight is not in line with the rules."

After speaking, he inserted the Zen staff into the ground, let the Long Li act as an audience, and walked out step by step with the Pine Needle Mouse, coming to Fang Shilin.

Seeing this, Fang Shilin narrowed his eyes.

Not only Fang Shilin, but the cultivators among the crowd, whether Qi Refining or Foundation Establishment, all felt that Lin Jing was too arrogant.

Fighting one with three, the winning rate was not high, and cutting off one arm—what was the reason?

Everyone looked at Lin Jing’s cultivation, which was only at the seventh level of Qi Refining. Although the core combat power of a beast-taming cultivator was the spirit beast, in everyone’s eyes, the ninth level of Qi Refining Pine Needle Mouse’s cultivation was not very high. After all, this was a gap of a whole major realm, not a small realm.

"This Beast Taming Sect disciple should want to improve his own popularity to increase the sect’s human luck."

"I don't know what his status is in the Beast Taming Sect. Has the Beast Taming Sect actually fallen to the point of letting a Qi Refining disciple revitalize the sect?"

People only felt puzzled. The most important thing was... even if the Beast Taming Sect disciples could legally fight in groups, choosing a genius from the academy who was a major realm higher than himself as an opponent was really not a wise move.

Was he hoping like this... to let all parties see the efforts of the Beast Taming Sect?

Fang Shilin still did not get up, sat on the wooden chair, opened the wooden fan, and fanned the wind, not urging the magic treasure, but directly casting the entanglement technique with his own magic power.

Dealing with a Qi Refining cultivator, if he used a magic treasure, he would be embarrassed himself.

Pop!

Behind him, the ground cracked, and numerous vines grew, like hundreds of green vine snakes.

The vine snakes attacked. Lin Jing had no expression, and the Pine Needle Mouse had no waves in its heart, only feeling that they were not as powerful as the Blood-Sucking Vine that had absorbed Longevity Blood.

"Can you go all out?" Lin Jing and the Pine Needle Mouse did not move the whole time. Everyone thought they were scared stupid, but the next scene made everyone show a look of astonishment, because these vines actually stopped in mid-air after approaching Lin Jing, not moving at all!

They originally thought it was Fang Shilin holding back, but after seeing Fang Shilin’s surprised expression, the crowd also became serious, noticing the abnormality of this beast-taming cultivator.

"Entanglement technique... was interrupted?" Fang Shilin froze.

Not only that, as Lin Jing took a step forward, walking toward Fang Shilin who was sitting, the sky full of stopped vines actually collapsed, turning into countless green light spots, no longer posing a threat!

The crowd watching the battle finally discovered that at some point, the Pine Needle Mouse on Lin Jing’s shoulder had its Daoist robe fluttering, and it was forming a seal with a single claw, as if casting some magic to break the entanglement technique.

"Squeak!" The Pine Needle Mouse shook its head, as if dissatisfied with the opponent’s strength.

"Damn it!" Lin Jing’s forward movement and the Pine Needle Mouse’s weirdness made Fang Shilin unable to understand. He put away the wooden fan, pointed lightly, and with the help of the magic treasure, summoned more powerful vines—a total of seven vines, each like a green dragon, roaring toward Lin Jing.

Boom!

But the next moment, behind Lin Jing, a terrifying "vision" rose. A wooden god manifested, without facial features, surrounded by the life force of vegetation. It overlooked the world, the spring breeze blew gently, and all things recovered. It wore a green robe, stepped on the void, and slowly descended on this vibrant land.

Accompanied by the terrifying pressure of this astonishing vision, Fang Shilin’s mind shook violently, and his movements to urge the magic treasure slowed down, making frequent mistakes.

"Impossible! You are in the Qi Refining stage?" Fang Shilin looked at the vision in shock. Even among the monsters in the academy, he had never seen anyone with such means...

Not only him, but the cultivators watching the battle were also stunned, their mouths wide open, unable to believe that this was something a Qi Refining stage cultivator could do. Was this person born with an immortal body?

How could it be... What made everyone horrified was that after the god image became clear, it was actually a giant squirrel, grabbing a green dragon phantom and stuffing it into its mouth, swallowing it! Its image was exactly the same as the squirrel on Lin Jing’s shoulder, but the aura was much more terrifying, as if it were the incarnation of the Azure Emperor, the master of spring.

Vision, Squirrel Swallows Dragon Picture!

Fang Shilin was lost for a moment, and the several green vine dragons urged by the magic treasure also quickly collapsed, and the vision and reality corresponded!

"I——"

Fang Shilin wanted to continue acting, but with a "hum," he found that the wooden chair he was sitting on actually grew countless wooden strips, which had already bound him tightly. No matter how he struggled, he could not break free!

Seeing this, Lin Jing stopped.

"Strange."

"I am so strong, with the qualifications for beast-taming ascension, why is the human luck of the sect not working? Is it a misjudgment by the Sect Management Office? It seems that I still have to reverse-cut a few Foundation Establishment stages to show the Sect Management Office." He muttered to himself, letting everyone hear it.

After speaking, the phantom of the Azure Emperor Squirrel dissipated. Lin Jing turned and walked back to the Long Li, and under the shocked eyes of a group of cultivators, he picked up the Zen staff and walked toward the distance, leaving behind merit and fame.

At the same time, a small area of the Hidden Dragon Map on the back of Lin Jing’s hand was lit up. Prestige still needed further fermentation.

Qi Refining fighting Foundation Establishment and winning easily was definitely a huge topic, not to mention that it was related to the Beast Taming Sect that had been sealed recently! In a short time, academy student Fang Shilin became a stepping stone for the Beast Taming Sect’s Lin Jing to make a name for himself. The information of this battle spread rapidly in Hidden Dragon City.

"A cultivator at the seventh level of Qi Refining, a squirrel spirit at the ninth level of Qi Refining, revealed a terrifying vision and easily suppressed a Foundation Establishment cultivator holding a magic treasure? Still a Foundation Establishment genius of the academy?"

"Qi Refining squirrel spirit’s wood method attainment crushed the Young Valley Master of Long Spring Valley? Is this reasonable! Squirrel Swallows Dragon Picture, what is that!"

"What kind of sacred being is this Lin Jing? Is he really just from the third-rate sect of the Beast Taming Sect? Didn't they say that the Beast Taming Sect’s demon luck is greater than human luck? Such a terrifying squirrel spirit, didn't it also recognize a Qi Refining cultivator as its master?"

"Qi Refining reverse-cutting Foundation Establishment, it is hard to imagine that this was done by a disciple of a Great Wilderness sect!"

"I am also from the Great Wilderness. I have never heard of a person named Lin Jing in the Beast Taming Sect, and that squirrel spirit is just one of the five basic spirit beasts of the Beast Taming Sect, with spirit-level bloodline and very weak combat power!"

In the Hidden Dragon Academy, such news also spread extremely fast. Fang Shilin went outside the academy to pretend to be famous but was beaten instead, making many classmates laugh.

In the academy, three geniuses from different regions—a green-shirted scholar, a female alchemist, and a young sword cultivator—heard the name of the Beast Taming Sect’s Lin Jing, and their faces changed in unison, recalling some unpleasant things.

"He is here. This freak from the Beast Taming Sect, he even left a fake name last time! Do you have to be so scary, coming up and taking a Foundation Establishment stage to operate on!"

Lin Jing’s name rose instantly, but only Lin Jing himself was annoyed afterward, because in order to cause trouble, he actually forgot to ask for that one hundred spirit stones. Fortunately, this Brother Fang was a classmate, and there would be opportunities to ask for them in the future!

Lin Jing's name rose to prominence in an instant, though only Lin Jing himself felt deeply regretful afterward; in his eagerness to stir up trouble, he had actually forgotten to ask for those one hundred spirit stones. Fortunately, this Brother Fang was a fellow student, so there would be opportunities to collect later!