Chapter 83: You Are Already a Mature Fish

Lin Jing naturally couldn't mess around with Gao Sheng; he still had to make money!

Although he also had the heart to exterminate demons and wanted to uproot the Yin Corpse Sect, a demon sect that trafficked people, it wasn't the time yet!

He felt that if he went to exterminate demons with Gao Sheng, the most likely outcome was that they would both be captured by the Demon Sect, the Demon Sect would send Gao Sheng back safely, and then keep him.

Because the first Mechanism Bamboo Spear had a very good response—although the final transaction price had factors of a rich second-generation throwing money around—it had already made Lin Jing decide to sell them all by auction... and then, after the auction price dropped, put them into the market on a large scale and sell them at a low price.

After Lin Jing left the auction house, Gao Sheng was still following him. The two stopped in a deserted corner.

"Brother Gao, are you going to participate in the academy assessment four months from now?" Lin Jing asked.

"Yes," Gao Sheng said: "My family forced me. Actually, I don't want to come."

"I estimate I'll cultivate the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique at most; it's impossible for me to attend classes. I heard that one lecture at the academy lasts ten days or half a month. It's so boring. I still prefer to go around solving cases. I think I have talent in that area."

"In our place, everyone my age has innate spirit bodies or innate special constitutions. I am the only one with a mortal body, so I lost interest in cultivation when I was young. But when I grew up, I realized that if an immortal closes a door for someone, they will open a window for them. My talent might be here." He pointed to his head.

"I am going to serve as an examiner for one of the segments in the assessment, and I have to go into seclusion for hard cultivation during this period, so I cannot explore cases with Brother Gao," Lin Jing said with regret and heartache.

"This!" Gao Sheng looked regretful and said: "The 'unsolved cases' I secretly unsealed are really special!"

"One of them is related to the Gu God Sect!"

"There is even one related to the Heavenly Demon Sect, the former number one demon sect in the cultivation world that has been completely destroyed!"

"But since you don't have time, let's wait a few more months. After that, we will team up and go together."

"..." Lin Jing.

"Brother Gao, you should also prepare for the academy assessment. If you get eliminated in the assessment... with the academy teachers watching, I won't be able to go easy on you."

"That's fine."

Gao Sheng nodded: "It's a deal. Once I learn the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, I will invite you to explore cases and exterminate demons together. If we can solve these unsolved cases, the names of us brothers will surely become famous throughout the ancient kingdom. It can be said that we won't delay either side."

"By the way, do you know who else is serving as an examiner with you?"

"Just you alone, and many academy students."

"It seems there are many people," Lin Jing said: "According to what I've learned, candidates may need to choose one of them to challenge to demonstrate their strength."

Gao Sheng looked at Lin Jing and said: "If I didn't know you, I would definitely choose you."

"After all, the individual strength of cultivators from the Beast-Taming Sect is basically very weak. Even if I haven't cultivated much in the past few years, I think I can defeat a beast-taming cultivator."

"But forget about you. After all, you are raising that thing inside you."

Lin Jing rolled his eyes and said: "How could I use that thing in the assessment?"

The Ice Soul Gu is incredibly powerful. Using it, Lin Jing has the confidence to challenge the Prodigy Ranking right now.

"That's true. After all, the candidates have no grudge against you, haha!" Gao Sheng laughed loudly.

"By the way, Brother Lin, help me out. Help me find out which examiner is the weakest, and tell me when the time comes!"

"I cannot help you cheat. I am a person of integrity. Let's talk after the assessment when we become classmates. Brother Gao, you should work hard yourself." Lin Jing cupped his hands.

"I was just testing your character. I really didn't misjudge you. You are a person worth teaming up with!" Gao Sheng cupped his hands.

"By the way, Brother Gao, where is your horse?"

"Are you still thinking about my horse?" Gao Sheng was alert.

Lin Jing curled his lips: "No, I was just asking casually."

Now that he had the Long Li with the Qilin bloodline, how could he still be thinking about that Dragon-Horned White Horse.

It would be better to wait for the Long Li to turn into a dragon.

He was just lacking some rare beast blood for refining Beast Blood Pills.

"That's it for today. I'll go buy a fish tank for my pet beast first. I recently subdued another carp spirit!" Lin Jing began to bid farewell to Gao Sheng.

Thanks to Brother Gao's good fortune, he made a big profit today, and the Pine-Leaf Rat had learned a superior spatial technique. Lin Jing felt he should spend some money to celebrate.

Thinking that the Long Li still couldn't enter the beast-taming space magic treasure and could only stay outside all day, he couldn't help but want to prepare a fireproof and spacious fish tank for it.

Not long after, in the back mountain of the academy, Lin Jing's grotto-dwelling.

Lin Jing came outside the grotto-dwelling and saw the Long Li basking in the sun while looking at the sky.

Seeing the Long Li, Lin Jing smiled and said: "Look what gift I brought you?!"

"A fish tank! Fireproof!"

Lin Jing was back, and the Long Li was very happy. Hearing that Lin Jing brought a gift, it was even more pleasantly surprised.

Although the Long Li didn't remember things before, after its bloodline awakened, its childhood memories slowly came back.

As a fire carp that was excluded from the group due to mutation, it was a great fortune to meet a good beast tamer like Lin Jing.

Until...

The Long Li looked blankly at the pill furnace Lin Jing took out, furious. Who calls this thing a fish tank?!

Isn't this something used for burning fire and refining pills?!

Bullying it for having little knowledge!

This is no better than being stuck on a monk's staff!

At least there were hot springs to soak in within the Beast-Taming Sect. After leaving the sect, life was getting worse day by day.

But it was indeed fireproof.

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"This is the Hundred Beast Cauldron, refined from the companion minerals of various monster beasts. It has multiple auxiliary pill-refining array patterns engraved inside, and it has a huge strengthening effect on pills that use monster beast materials." Lin Jing said with heartache: "It cost me nine thousand nine hundred and ninety-nine spirit stones."

This was the most suitable furnace he found on the Lotus Pavilion commercial street for his subsequent use.

After all, the materials for Beast Blood Pills were almost all from monster beasts.

Even ordinary Foundation Establishment Pills had several monster beast materials in them.

This cauldron had a great restraining effect on monster beast materials. Lin Jing felt that it could also be used to refine the fish's body.

After all, a certain monkey seemed to have had its supernatural powers refined out in a pill furnace.

"Bo..." The Long Li looked at Lin Jing's gaze, extremely sharp.

It felt that this cauldron was not used for refining pills, but for refining it. It guessed very accurately.

"The reason I bought this fireproof cauldron is also for your own good."

"Fire that is too strong is not a good thing." Lin Jing shook his head and said: "I was too busy helping you stimulate your potential before, but I ignored whether you had the ability to control these stimulated potentials."

"For the next period of time, you will live in the cauldron! I will teach you how to refine pills. By learning to refine pills, you can improve your fire control. Strive to be able to refine pills yourself without me controlling the fire in the end!"

You are already a mature fire carp; you should learn to control fire and refine pills yourself.

"You remember how I refined Spirit-Replenishing Pills before, right? I'll have the Pine-Leaf Rat prepare a thousand portions of materials for you. You refine a thousand Spirit-Replenishing Pills for me first."

"Bo..." The Long Li was stunned. Divine Pine only knew how to make it control fire by beating it up. Lin Jing letting it learn to control fire by refining pills was indeed more humane, but it always felt that something was not quite right.

"Bo bo!!" It asked, it uses the pill cauldron, then what about Lin Jing? Having studied pill books for so many days, is he not refining pills?

"The situation has changed. I might not have time to study pill-refining techniques in the next few months. We'll talk after the academy assessment. I'll study mechanism techniques first." Lin Jing took out two items.

One was a palm-sized mechanism bamboo turtle.

One was the core of a mechanism beast, the Mechanism Soul Core he obtained from Elder Yu during the Rising Dragon Festival in the sect.

He planned to use the next period of time to upgrade and strengthen this simple mechanism turtle.

In combat, he certainly couldn't use the Long Li. The Long Li and he had not yet performed a bloodline contract and were still "two separate individuals."

If he sent the Long Li to fight, it would be "two against one." This was fine when hunting monster beasts in the Great Desolate, but in formal combat, if not specifically stated, it did not comply with the rules.

The Pine-Leaf Rat was fine because it had already signed a bloodline contract with Lin Jing. The beast-taming techniques of the Immortal Palace were extremely special. Any pet beast that signed a contract with a cultivator could almost be recognized by any environment as "a single individual."

Even in some "inheritance secret realms" set up by Void Profound stage great experts that only allowed one person to enter, there had been beast tamers who brought multiple pet beasts in successfully. Over time, due to the special nature of the Beast-Taming Sect's techniques, Beast-Taming Sect cultivators and their contracted pet beasts were reasonably recognized as one individual.

Although the Long Li couldn't be used, mechanism beasts were different. Mechanism beasts were regarded as the same as magic treasure equipment; they had no life, so naturally, there were no usage restrictions. As long as the cultivator could drive and control them, they belonged to the cultivator's own power.

Therefore, for the sake of being more secure, Lin Jing still had to strengthen the mechanism turtle to avoid flipping over when serving as an examiner.

After the mechanism turtle fused with the Mechanism Soul Core, it had one advantage: it could be directly controlled by the mechanism master's mind. The stronger the mechanism master's soul power, the more ferocious and flexible the mechanism beast. Although Lin Jing's cultivation base was low, his soul strength was not low!

Having lived two lives and been personally strengthened and developed by the Buddhist cultivator of the Demon-Suppressing Tower, his soul strength had long since far exceeded that of ordinary Qi Refining cultivators!

After using the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique to deeply study better mechanism books in the academy, even if he didn't send the Pine-Leaf Rat, just by controlling the mechanism turtle, he should be able to burst out with Foundation Establishment combat power!