Vol 7 Chapter 27: Immortal Realm Structure

After listening, Lin Jing remained quite silent.

Cricket fighting and chicken fighting? What kind of spoiled young master hobby was this.

However, it wasn't a big problem. For other cultivators, this would indeed seem like neglecting proper duties and indulging in frivolous pursuits that ruin one's ambition. But from his perspective as a beast taming cultivator, wasn't this an innate beast controlling holy body?

But fighting crickets and chickens while also gambling money was indeed a bad habit. Gambling addicts deserved miserable deaths.

"Didn't you say she has excellent talent? Why don't you discipline her?" Lin Jing asked.

Sect Master Wu smiled bitterly and said, "Her parents died early, and she was born with the Immortal Pupil Physique. We personally raised her, doting on her like a precious granddaughter, but as a result..."

"We were too indulgent and couldn't bear to truly punish her."

Sect Master Wu understood the other deputy sect master's meaning. Since they had personally raised her, they couldn't bring themselves to discipline and punish her. But if they handed her over to an outsider like Lin Jing, he would definitely be able to be strict.

Perhaps this was an opportunity for her to change.

Most importantly, Lin Jing genuinely seemed to have real talent and learning. Learning from Lin Jing might allow her to acquire more interesting skills and eliminate the bad habits of cricket fighting, chicken fighting, and gambling.

"I understand." Lin Jing also understood the intentions of these three people and said, "Then I'll take this disciple under my guidance. But let me say this in advance, I won't be like you. If she disobeys discipline, I, as her master, will definitely punish her."

The three people cupped their hands toward Lin Jing and said, "As long as she doesn't die or become disabled, Fellow Daoist may punish her as you see fit."

"By the way, we still don't know Fellow Daoist's name." Sect Master Wu only now remembered they hadn't asked Lin Jing's name.

Lin Jing smiled slightly: "Lin Qi, just a loose cultivator."

"Fellow Daoist Lin Qi, from today onward, you will be the third deputy sect master of our Invincible Sect."

Sect Master Wu was named Wu Zhengxuan, the head of the Wu Family and the person with the highest cultivation. The woman was named Wu Yuehen, and the other elder was named Wu Mochen.

Lin Jing could be considered the only person who held an important position in the Invincible Sect despite having a different surname.

"Ah, the Invincible Sect's environment is quite humble. We'll immediately find a cave residence for Fellow Daoist, please don't look down on it."

"Of course not." Lin Jing spoke: "What about that disciple of mine?"

"As for Lingxi..." Deputy Sect Master Wu Yuehen moved her immortal sense, her face darkening as she said, "We haven't seen her since earlier. No surprise, she probably ran out of the sect again to go to the gambling den in Crimson Moon City."

"That spendthrift!!!" Wu Mochen also sighed. Gambling was one thing, but the key point was that this girl basically never won. The Invincible Sect wasn't wealthy to begin with, wasn't this just adding frost to snow?

"Not very smart either." Wu Zhengxuan also shook his head. As someone with the Immortal Pupil Physique, she could clearly choose the right gambling events and make some money, but instead... she went to gamble on beast fights, making her Immortal Pupil completely useless.

Of course, this way she avoided the risk of being caught cheating, at least she wouldn't get beaten to death.

"It's fine... Crimson Moon City, right? I'll go find her myself later."

.........

The others began preparing a cave residence for Lin Jing, while Lin Jing's immortal sense also began restlessly wandering around the Invincible Sect.

His immortal sense's main invasion target wasn't the sect's library.

It wasn't to secretly learn others' cultivation methods and divine abilities either. The third incarnation that had inherited a pet beast's abilities lacked divine abilities the least. What he wanted to see were some common knowledge about the Immortal Realm.

Some miscellaneous books recording strange tales of the continent.

Although he had gained some understanding in the Lower Realm, he still planned to learn more through multiple channels in the Immortal Realm.

After all, in the Lower Realm, he passively received information, while in the Immortal Realm, he could actively explore himself. Different perspectives would reveal different things.

"The current Immortal Realm has a total of nine Immortal Emperors."

"Four human Immortal Emperors: Eastern Glorious Immortal Emperor, Extreme Path Immortal Emperor, Exquisite Immortal Emperor, and Solitary Immortal Emperor."

"Among them, except for Solitary Immortal Emperor who works alone, the other three Immortal Emperors all have their own forces."

"Three demonic race Immortal Emperors: the master of Heavenly Demon Mountain, initiator of the Demonic Star Project;

Eternal Life Female Emperor, ancestor of the Star Longevity Crane clan;

Prison Suppressing Immortal Emperor, whose true form is a turtle - no one knows what it's suppressing in the ocean restricted zone."

"Besides these, there's the demonic race Immortal Emperor, the Demon Lord."

"And then, the Bamboo Grove Immortal Emperor who achieved enlightenment through immortal bamboo."

"And these are the publicly known Immortal Emperors."

"The Immortal Realm's two most recent major battles involving the Immortal Emperor realm both resulted in Immortal Emperor deaths."

"One was when the Demon Lord achieved emperor status - an Immortal Emperor died while trying to seize the Demon Lord's Heavenly Dao's Supreme Treasure."

"The other was further back - when the other three Ancient Immortal Realms entered the Era of Ended Dharma, a group of otherworldly Immortal Emperors wanted to bring people into this Immortal Realm. The local Immortal Emperors naturally wouldn't easily permit this, since an Immortal Realm's resources are limited. Thus, the most brutal Immortal Emperor war began, and this time too, Immortal Emperors died."

"Mostly otherworldly Immortal Emperors died."

"Of course, we can't rule out that some Immortal Emperors faked their deaths, since killing an Immortal Emperor isn't easy anyway. There have always been people speculating that some Immortal Emperors didn't actually die but are secretly recovering from injuries. So, nine Immortal Emperors are the currently publicly known Immortal Emperors in the Immortal Realm."

"There might also be some reclusive Immortal Emperors."

Lin Jing exhaled deeply.

His current goal was to find a way to become one of them!

Of course, given the third incarnation's current realm, he should just focus on cultivating properly and not think too much about other things.

The Lower Realm had opportunities, the Ancient Immortal Realm had opportunities, and the Immortal Realm naturally had its own opportunities too.

The third incarnation's mission was to investigate which forces had collaborated with the demonic race to invade the Ancient Heavenly Court back then, while simultaneously seeking out the Immortal Realm's opportunities to strengthen himself, and to send sufficient good things to the main body and second incarnation.

The kind of good things that even the nine great Immortal Emperor traditions might not necessarily possess.

For example, the Invincible Sect, which might be connected to the secret path creator, potentially represented one such opportunity.

And there should be many such opportunities in the Immortal Realm that needed his personal exploration.

.........

Several days later.

Crimson Moon City, an Immortal Realm city.

Crimson Moon City could be considered an independent local power, actually controlled by a cultivation family called the Crimson Family, which had an Immortal Lord overseeing it.

The various facilities in Crimson Moon City, such as taverns, gambling dens, and pill pavilions, were naturally mostly Crimson Family businesses. So Wu Lingxi's decision not to use her Immortal Pupil to cheat was correct, since if discovered, the Invincible Sect couldn't protect her. The Crimson Family was far more powerful than the Invincible Sect.

"Peck it, peck its eyes!!!"

"Quick, quick, quick, the divine ability I taught you, have you forgotten it already?!"

In the beast fighting arena of the Crimson Moon Gambling Den, a young maiden was directing a Nascent Soul Transformation nine-colored rooster on the arena platform, which was locked in fierce combat with another Nascent Soul Transformation black chicken demon. However, in the end, the nine-colored rooster was pecked full of holes and fell down severely injured, making the young maiden's expression despairing.

"Lost again."

"Not a single immortal jade left for this year's allowance money."

Lin Jing entered the beast fighting arena, looked at the bustling "beast fighting" spectacle on various arena platforms, and fell into contemplation. It looked... quite meaningless.

However, he was viewing this from a Beast Taming Cultivator's perspective, so naturally beast fighting seemed meaningless. But actually, this beast fighting was just entertainment for many spoiled young masters, unrelated to their own cultivation. Their level of training fighting beasts naturally couldn't compare to the beast taming inheritance of the Immortal Palace, which was now an Immortal King tradition descended from the former Immortal Emperor's lineage...