CHAPTER 259: CHAPTER 65: OLD FRIENDS

After helping Gu Qianqiu with her frozen age, Lin Jing no longer disturbed her cultivation.

Xu Qingyao’s palace was now the best place for Gu Qianqiu to cultivate.

Although demons came and went here, given her current physical condition, she no longer attracted demon beasts.

As for the enemy, the Celestial Lion Ancestor, trying to snatch people from the Demon Court Saintess’s territory required some consideration of one’s abilities.

Perhaps it could kill a Demon Ancestor of the Demon Court without anyone questioning it, but if it harmed one of the three Half-Demon Saintesses, responsible for the demon race’s revival plan, it might face a slap from the Demon Emperor.

Over there, Gu Qianqiu was diligently cultivating, and Lin Jing was not willing to fall behind.

He first tossed all the spirit plants snatched from the Celestial Lion Race to the pine leaf rat, letting it choose some less useful ones for cultivation.

Then, he threw the essence of the heavenly thunder flame to the dragon carp, letting it refine a top-tier exotic fire.

As for the Ice Soul Gu, Lin Jing didn’t have any special resources for it at the moment, so he let it go back to sleep.

Although it wasn’t willing to sleep.

He believed that before it woke up again, he would surely find some extraordinary resources to assist it in Core Formation.

With the arrangements for the three pet beasts done, Lin Jing also began to use the latent dragon luck he had gained during this period to deduce the Treant Pill...

...

Sometime later, the Master Sister finally brought the spiritual object to repair the Golden Core/Demon Pill.

"Here’s what I promised you."

"Thank you, Master Sister." Lin Jing accepted the storage bag from the other party.

Xu Qingyao inquired, "How is Gu Qianqiu’s condition?"

"She’s doing alright. Her body is almost recovered, and the Ice Soul Gu has helped slow down the loss of life, giving her about twenty more years to cultivate."

"Additionally, I asked around; it seems the Celestial Lion Race gave her many life-extending cultivation techniques, which led to her body’s significant rejection of such resources now, making it difficult to extend her lifespan through external means."

"Oh. I hope she can successfully form a Nascent Soul; otherwise, all these resources would have been wasted." The Master Sister shook her head; she had never used so many spirit stones for cultivation so lavishly.

"By the way, you’re here just in time, Master Sister. I have a few things to ask you to help with." Lin Jing also took out a storage bag and said, "Inside here are the demon pills stored externally by the Celestial Lion Race, about ten thousand of them..."

"I want to refine them all into ’Ascending Yuan Pills’ to enhance Gu Qianqiu’s cultivation, but I don’t have enough energy on my own. Could you lend me the alchemists from the ’Crane Cauldron’...?"

The Master Sister interrupted, "They’re still researching the Transformation Pill; there’s no time to split their focus to refine this."

Lin Jing smiled and said, "They’ve been researching for another ten years without any progress. Taking a break for change of mind by refining some simple Ascending Yuan Pills isn’t bad either."

"Treat it as giving them a little vacation."

Xu Qingyao twitched her mouth, "When did you start researching the Transformation Pill?"

"Soon, soon." Lin Jing explained, "Once my squirrel forms a core, then it will need to cultivate a new breed of Transformation Grass, starting with the materials, rather than the pill principles, which is my usual alchemy style."

"Alright then, as you say, this task is temporarily handed over to the Crane Cauldron." The Master Sister accepted the demon pills and then said, "Is there anything else? If not, I have something else to tell you."

"The Gu Family investigation that Gu Qianqiu entrusted us with, I used the Demon Court’s intelligence network to find some things."

"After the information about Gu Qianqiu’s Longevity Body was exposed a thousand years ago, soon the entire Gu Family mysteriously disappeared. Due to the distant past and the Gu Family being a small family, we haven’t been able to find out which force was responsible. Only one family member, named ’Gu Qiantong,’ survived because he married into the Piaomiao Dao’s Piaomiao Immortal Race."

"Considering bloodline, this Gu Qiantong should still be considered Gu Qianqiu’s half-brother."

"Piaomiao Immortal Race?" Lin Jing said upon hearing this, "The largest family of Piaomiao Dao, Master Sister, you mentioned before that a fairy from the Piaomiao Immortal Race was recently getting married, right?"

"Yes, the members of the Piaomiao Immortal Race never marry outside, even ordinary Female Cultivators with mediocre qualifications will have men marry into their family. Gu Qianqiu’s brother fell in love with an ordinary female from the Piaomiao Immortal Race and married into it."

"However, a thousand years have passed, and with their mediocre qualifications, they long turned into mere dirt, never able to break through to the Nascent Soul. But among their descendants, there is one with good talent who has cultivated to the Nascent Soul Stage and is still living."

Lin Jing nodded and said, "Understood, keep investigating. It’s nothing more than a force eyeing the bloodline potential of the Gu Family to study it. No need to tell Gu Qianqiu yet; we can wait until we’ve investigated the results, and she has broken through to the Nascent Soul before informing her."

By then, aside from the Celestial Lion Race, there would be another major power to target for revenge, Lin Jing chuckled to himself.

The treasures of the Celestial Lion Race were too tempting, and he wanted to seize more from different places.

Coming from a peace-loving country in a past life, his favorite saying was: "Marching with a justification."

"You." Xu Qingyao noticed that the violent tendencies within Lin Jing exceeded her own, and wondered if he was already considering how to encourage Gu Qianqiu to seek revenge for her family?

Just unsure which force had attacked the Gu Family...

"I’m leaving." Xu Qingyao departed.

Leaving Lin Jing alone, gazing slightly skyward, he planned to go out once more.

This time, however, it wasn’t to stir up trouble, but to catch a few live demons to test the effect of the Ten Thousand Flames Cauldron...

......

Soon after, the pine leaf rat, which was practicing Longevity Techniques, had another year of lifespan spoiled by Lin Jing, condensing an embryonic body of a plant clone.

Lin Jing used this humanoid plant clone as a foundation, then shaped it into an illusion clone through Illusion Technique. However, this time, it was neither a clone of Lin Jing nor a clone of the Fire Dragon Alchemist, and not even the image of Huang Yu, but rather, a whole new identity.

With a strong build and remarkable appearance, teeth white as if made of silver, lips red with a wide mouth...

Wearing a kasaya and holding a monk’s staff, it is clearly a bald monk.

"Let me see, where are there demon beasts causing trouble to the people." The illusion body secretly carried two Ten Thousand Beasts Circles and left the place alone, intending to capture some demons.

He first arrived at the Independent Practitioner Alliance outside Shuangxian City, one of the sixteen Dao of Qingzhou, near his real body. This large hall was the intelligence exchange center for Loose Cultivators... gathering various information.

This time, Lin Jing planned to capture one demon beast each from Qi Cultivation, Foundation Establishment, Demon Pill, and Demon King realms for comparative alchemical experiments. To avoid wrongly capturing good demons and accidentally harming the brothers in the Demon Court, he chose to conduct a pre-investigation.

As soon as the monk entered, he saw several Loose Cultivators complaining over there.

"What’s the situation with those monsters on Soul Soothing Mountain, a dark mass, even cultivators at the Golden Core Stage are sucked into dry husks."

"I don’t know, where on earth did these mosquito beasts come from."

"I heard someone saw a few unfamiliar mosquito beasts wandering around Soul Soothing Mountain long ago, with very low cultivation, seemingly without any value, so they didn’t care. Who knew they’d proliferate into such a terrifying swarm over a few years, making the Soul Revival Grass on Soul Soothing Mountain difficult to harvest in the future..."