Vol 5 Chapter 74: Half-Immortal Lin

"The Dao-Seekers of Tianyuan should be holding a meeting right about now."

After nurturing the Premium Immortal Source for some time, Lin Jing stood atop the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices, murmuring to himself.

"I wonder how long I'll have to stay in this Origin Realm..."

After the nine Tianyuan prodigies returned, Lin Jing only had his old companions like the Pine Leaf Mouse left for company in the Origin Realm.

As a Longevity Body possessor, he wouldn't uncontrollably advance realms like Li Tianyi or Sheng Kun. Theoretically, he could remain in the Origin Realm for an extremely long time.

Of course, Lin Jing could also temporarily elevate his realm using the Heavenly Demon Physique method to briefly leave the Origin Realm, then have the Tianyuan Dao-Seekers send him back.

However, frequently forcing temporary realm advancement was quite dangerous. As the saying goes, you can't stay by the river without getting wet - it would be easy to lose control and genuinely break through, making suppression difficult.

Therefore, unless special circumstances arose, Lin Jing didn't plan to frequently "return home."

But staying in the Origin Realm solely to monopolize immortal sources seemed rather inefficient to Lin Jing.

If he stayed for thousands of years only to emerge and find his peers had all reached Dao-Seeking while he'd just broken through to Void Mystical Stage, no amount of immortal sources would prevent him from being instantly overwhelmed.

Thus, besides hoarding immortal sources, he needed to find ways to strengthen himself without realm advancement, ensuring these years wouldn't be wasted.

He considered Li Tianyi's approach.

Li Tianyi possessed the Chaotic Immortal Physique, allowing unlimited cultivation method training. He'd cleverly used the Origin Realm's limitations to divide his focus, practicing numerous useful and useless techniques - no one knew exactly how many.

While currently these diverse skills might seem unproductive, if he later wanted to create his own unique cultivation method, this accumulated foundation would provide terrifying depth, incorporating hundreds of schools' strengths into one!

Many prodigies followed this path - since they couldn't advance realms, they refined their spell mastery until their understanding surpassed even Void Mystical and Dao-Seeking experts, ensuring their time wasn't wasted.

Seeing this trend, Lin Jing naturally considered it too, though with more time and higher standards, he preferred researching more promising secret arts.

"During Qi Refining, I reached the thirteenth layer, establishing an invincible foundation."

"In Foundation Establishment, I tempered my base with top-tier Tianyuan methods like Thunder Dragon blood and tribulation lightning-fire energy. Without forming a Golden Core, my physique already matched Core Formation body refiners."

"At Golden Core realm, I synthesized multiple enlightenment methods to refine the Beast Taming Art, making my Control Dao mastery combined with core abilities the pinnacle of Tianyuan."

"During Nascent Soul, I focused on avatar cultivation, perfected my demonic bloodline, mastered all Heavenly Demon techniques. The fusion of my true form and avatar created the perfect balance of Longevity and Heavenly Demon power, enabling me to challenge higher-realm cultivators."

"For Nascent Soul Transformation, I condensed a Life-Death Primordial Spirit in the Origin Realm - a supreme achievement. I also cultivated an acquired Longevity Immortal Physique, allowing me to easily control immortal-level corpses with my Control Dao. Outside this realm, combined with my Heavenly Demon form, I might even tame a True Immortal corpse."

"While not absolutely perfect, each realm's cultivation has reached the limits of my potential. Yet even so, I can barely match those top-tier immortal physiques, never surpassing them." Lin Jing's eyes burned as he recalled the Cultivation Alliance's Young Master Li Tianyi.

Chaotic Immortal Physique.

This Li Tianyi was likely an immortal reincarnated from the Immortal Realm.

The lower realm's future would be turbulent.

The conflict between Sheng Kun and Li Tianyi was merely a microcosm of higher realm warfare.

He needed even stronger power to ensure he wouldn't be killed before leaving the Origin Realm.

"Could I accumulate deeper foundations when breaking through?"

"Nascent Soul Transformation cultivators advancing need substantial spatial attainment - the minimum threshold requires opening an internal spatial dimension. After succeeding, they're called Half-Step Void Mystical."

"For Origin Realm prodigies, this step isn't difficult. Under their masters' guidance, they may start studying spatial laws during Foundation Establishment or Golden Core. By Nascent Soul perfection, it comes naturally."

"But truly entering Void Mystical Stage requires using Heaven-Earth Primordial Spirit energy to expand this internal space. If spatial attainment is insufficient, the dimension collapses and advancement fails. If spirit energy can't expand the space, breakthrough also fails..."

"Success grants sharper spatial perception and control. Depending on spirit attributes, everyone's internal space differs."

"Some manifest icy mountains, others starry skies or sword forests. Regardless, this space reflects the spirit's nature. Void Mystical cultivators can project their space outward, creating a domain to annihilate foes."

"With my Life-Death Primordial Spirit, my internal space will likely manifest life and death realms. But while this standard path isn't weak, given my extended Origin Realm stay, I should strengthen my future domain..."

Lin Jing gazed at the sky where Premium Immortal Sources formed, conceiving an audacious idea.

"Rumor says Deputy Leader Zhou Banxian is the lower realm's only cultivator who naturally generates immortal energy. Whether from special physique, techniques, or reincarnation, the fact remains - lower realm cultivators can produce immortal energy."

"So perhaps I could fuse my spirit with immortal sources? A spirit-immortal source fusion might create a Void Mystical power that autonomously generates immortal energy like the Origin Realm. If successful...I'd become Half-Immortal Lin!" Lin Jing shook his head - this was too difficult. First stealing Zhou Banxian's Origin Realm position, now his title?

He did conceive one method.

That Fuzzy Immortal once said the Glazed Immortal Eye could synthesize life and souls.

If the Pine Leaf Mouse's Glazed Immortal Eye reached that level, they could experiment with spirit-immortal source synthesis...

But forget life/soul synthesis - the mouse couldn't even synthesize basic immortal energy yet.

"Though nothing's absolute." Lin Jing's eyes flashed.

"Worst case, have the Pine Leaf Mouse advance to Void Mystical and return to Tianyuan Realm to research."

"Higher realms would strengthen its Glazed Immortal Eye."

"I could temporarily return to Tianyuan via Heavenly Demon form to acquire its findings."

"But this risks accelerating my own advancement since pet breakthroughs feedback cultivation energy."

"However, succeeding with spirit-immortal source fusion would justify the risk."

"Of course, if I could train a successor to guard the Origin Realm in my absence, my presence here would become unnecessary."