Vol 7 Chapter 41: A New Technique

"This Body Corrosion seems to affect different racial bloodlines differently."

Lin Jing discovered that this Body Corrosion had the greatest impact on flesh-and-blood bodies like humans and demonic beasts.

But for mechanical lifeforms like the mechanized turtle, while there was still some effect, the degree of impact was much smaller.

Therefore, he had specifically adjusted to a mechanical body before merging with the mechanized turtle.

His power, due to the contract, contained the strength of seven pet beasts, allowing him to freely switch his attributes among each pet beast and determine the proportion of any particular power. When he had activated the superior immortal artifact Feather Crown before, he had used the power of the Immortal Longevity Crane.

Now moving through the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone, he needed to merge with the mechanized turtle, so switching to the power most compatible with it would make their activities here more convenient.

The Divine Martial Forbidden Zone was completely barren, without any trace of living creatures.

The fierce corrosive winds extinguished all life. After Lin Jing and the others in their turtle immortal king state went deeper inside, they began considering their next steps.

"Master, do you plan to devour the Creation Dao Fruit here and attempt to break through to immortal king?"

Lin Jing nodded: "Let's give it a try."

"When you devoured the One-Eyed King's Dao Fruit before, you simultaneously transformed yourself, right?"

The mechanized turtle chuckled: "I used his bones as mechanical materials to transform myself."

Lin Jing smiled: "The demon race people came to collect the One-Eyed King's remains, but with his bones already devoured by you, there were no remains left to collect."

"The cultivation method I practice is different from the Creation Immortal King's, and I don't possess the Creation Immortal Physique, nor have I received the Creation Immortal King's inheritance. Directly devouring his Dao Fruit has uncertain success rates."

"Plus, we don't know how long we can stay in this place, so let's not devour it for now."

"Master, what's your plan?!" The mechanized turtle sensed that Lin Jing must have some scheme in mind.

"Let's first strive to become 'residents' of this place and more perfectly adapt to this corrosive energy!"

"Only then can I peacefully undergo closed-door cultivation here to break through."

"Although I don't have the Creation Immortal Physique, the Creation Immortal King mainly cultivated the 'path of plants and vegetation.' His use of the Creation Immortal Physique mostly involved using it to enlighten various immortal herbs and divine medicines, allowing them to gain sentience to possess stronger medicinal effects that could assist him - just like before his death, when he used the Creation Immortal Physique to enlighten an emperor-grade immortal herb, buying himself this last soul usurpation opportunity."

"Since he mainly cultivated the path of plants and vegetation, I can switch my power to the wood attribute of the pine leaf mouse and attempt to devour the Creation Dao Fruit."

"This way, if successful, it would essentially pave an immortal king path for the pine leaf mouse in advance, allowing it to use it as reference later."

The mechanized turtle thought this was feasible, but what about this Body Corrosion... this pervasive corrosive energy everywhere, how to adapt to it?!

If it could be controlled, would this place still be a forbidden zone...

Lin Jing smiled slightly and said: "How would we know without trying?"

Lin Jing stopped walking, took out an immortal sword, and forcefully stabbed it into the ground.

Crack.

A piece of earth rock entwined with immortal emperor corrosive energy was dug out by Lin Jing.

"Look."

"Hmm?"

"Over countless years, although this place shows no traces of life, the land here has perfectly coexisted with the 'Body Corrosion.'"

"We can try to transform this thing into part of your mechanical body too."

The mechanized turtle fell silent, saying: "That's impossible, right? This earth rock has already become indistinguishable from the Body Corrosion, there's no difference. It seems no different from directly introducing Body Corrosion into the body."

Lin Jing said: "That's true, but we have no other options. First absorb the 'corrosive stone power.' After the corrosive energy of the 'corrosive stone' enters your body, seal it and store it aside until the power of the *corrosive stone* is completely consumed."

"Once the corrosive energy of the corrosive stone is exhausted, after countless years of coexistence, it must have become different from ordinary earth rock and will be the perfect carrier for Body Corrosion."

"At that time, I'll use the Glazed Immortal King's divine ability, the Glazed Immortal Eye, to attempt transforming this corrosive stone into mechanical materials to combine with you."

"Whether any miracles can happen will depend on our fortune."

"..." The mechanized turtle nodded. It carried quite a lot of mechanical materials, so they might as well try.

............

"Blurred and unclear."

"That turtle has immortal emperor power shielding its heavenly secrets."

"Prison Suppressing Immortal Emperor..."

"Perhaps this is his doing!!!"

While Lin Jing and the mechanized turtle, transformed into turtle immortals, were conducting mechanical experiments in the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone, various forces began deducing the situation regarding the mechanized turtle and the Creation Immortal King's ruins.

But just as the mechanized turtle and others had anticipated, hiding in the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone - this immortal emperor cursed land - greatly affected others' deduction results.

This gave them a relatively long breathing space.

Many forces began speculating that the mechanized turtle might not be as simple as just being the Creation Immortal King's creation, but rather was directed by the Prison Suppressing Immortal Emperor to go to the Creation Immortal King's ruins to carry out some mission.

But even with this speculation, no one dared to question the Prison Suppressing Immortal Emperor. This one was the oldest known immortal emperor in the Immortal Realm who had lived the longest. He basically didn't participate in Immortal Realm affairs - he hadn't participated in the previous immortal emperor battles or the resistance against the Demon Sect, instead single-mindedly suppressing something deep in the ocean.

Facing such an ancient immortal emperor maintaining absolute neutrality, even immortal emperor legacies wouldn't proactively provoke him.

One year later.

Having successfully survived for a year in the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone, Lin Jing and the others had been continuously researching this Body Corrosion according to their initial plan. Over the year, the mechanized turtle had already reached its limit - to avoid affecting its own mobility, it had constantly been sealing the invading Body Corrosion, reaching its maximum capacity.

If it lost control, it would certainly cause unimaginable, unparalleled disaster.

Not only would it die, but like a self-detonation, the place of its death would probably become the next forbidden zone.

However, high risk brought high rewards. As Lin Jing used the Glazed Immortal Eye to attempt fusing the corrosive stones that had exhausted their corrosive energy with different mechanical materials, they finally found the most compatible mechanical material. After the mechanized turtle used this to transform itself, its resistance to corrosive energy showed tremendous improvement.

Originally, as a mechanical lifeform, it was already more resistant to Body Corrosion than flesh-and-blood bodies. Now fused with corrosive stones, Lin Jing and the turtle felt that even if they stayed here for over ten more years, there probably wouldn't be major issues.

"This is sufficient."

This outcome made Lin Jing sigh in relief and made the mechanized turtle pleasantly surprised.

"That way, you can seal all the Body Corrosion into the 'corrosive stone organs.' Controlling your own power is more reliable than controlling someone else's corrosive energy. Then, you can completely throw out the corrosive stones as disposable magical treasures!!"

"A treasure land! This Divine Martial Forbidden Zone is full of terrifying war energy!" The mechanized turtle felt that perhaps it could create a new technique here.

Let's call it... Nuclear Corrosion Technique! Not only would its power be extraordinary, but the lingering, persistent Body Corrosion released after casting would be the most lethal damage!