CHAPTER 93: CHAPTER 22: UNPRECEDENTED

With the power of the Ice Soul Gu, Lin Jing instantly slaughtered a Dragon-blooded demon beast at the ninth level of Qi Cultivation Stage, without any resistance from the opponent.

The Dragon-blooded demon beasts are inherently strong, some with high purity bloodlines can even compare to Foundation Establishment demon beasts, but under the power of the Ice Soul Gu, they are completely no match.

"The ten great Gu... the Innate Gu King is by no means as simple as the Demon King’s bloodline among demon beasts, it’s more like dozens to hundreds of king-level bloodline venomous insects thrown together to fight, finally nurturing the Poison King."

Lin Jing only used a trace of power and felt the bone-chilling cold.

"Squeak..." The Pine Leaf Mouse disliked the cold aura and stayed far away.

The Dragon-blooded demon beast perished, turning into two streaks of light again, the Pine Leaf Mouse was ready for a feast, only to find both lights flew into Lin Jing’s body.

One was absorbed by Lin Jing, the other flew into the Divine Wood Seal, merging into the dormant body of the Ice Soul Gu.

The Ice Soul Gu, which had not absorbed nutrients since birth, immediately grew a bit, its size suddenly increased by a circle.

"This..." Lin Jing realized something was wrong, but sensing the increase in power that surpassed a few months of hard cultivation with spirit stones, his eyes turned red and he didn’t care what would happen to the Ice Soul Gu.

"Give me half of the pills to replenish True Qi!"

...

At the same time, other candidates who entered the Grotto Heaven were also killing passionately, hunting dragons and phoenixes.

However, not everyone is as brave as Lin Jing, most candidates, after fighting a single beast, were panting heavily, sitting down to rest and swallowing pills to replenish True Qi.

"Damn it, why did I only bring these few bottles of pills?? Why couldn’t I bring more?"

"Ah, magic artifacts are such a hassle, you have to stimulate them with True Qi, I wish I had ten Mechanical Bamboo Spears!"

Many candidates regretted not being adequately prepared for this opportunity.

"Fortunately, I brought enough spirit stones!" Although Gao Sheng did not carry enough pills, his storage bag was full of a large number of low-grade spirit stones, as well as medium-grade and high-grade ones.

With one hand on the spirit stones and the other activating magic artifacts, he fought dragons and phoenixes.

Like him, Chen Lingxi of Divine Talisman Sect, in her struggle with Lin Jing, only used a small part of her talismans, and now most of them could be used to hunt dragons and phoenixes with extraordinary efficiency.

But though there were geniuses with rich backgrounds, none were as efficient as Lin Jing, who used long-life blood to activate the Gu King’s power to defend against enemies.

Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Mouse flew over, swathes of dragon and phoenix corpses turned into lights, entering their bodies. Before long, Lin Jing had stepped into the ninth level of Qi Cultivation Stage, catching up to the Pine Leaf Mouse’s cultivation realm.

"Die!"

Another flying dragon attacked, Lin Jing waved his hand, and several white spider silks disintegrated the dragon in an instant, the dragon corpse was like sliced by an ice blade, the cross-section filled with frost, the blood frozen.

Boom!!

In another position, the Pine Leaf Mouse, holding a bottle of long-life blood, kept teleporting, feeding spirit beans bombs to attack dragons and phoenixes. If the taste of the feedback from dragons and phoenixes hadn’t satisfied it, it would have been tempted to devour the long-life blood in its hand.

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A day later.

Above Flying Dragon Mountain of Hidden Dragon Academy, a brilliant light suddenly bloomed.

As the ripple of the formation converged, a Nascent Soul Perfection Cultivator of extraordinary bearing slowly stepped out from within.

Upon descending, he looked at two light pillars and laughed heartily.

"My son Wang Xiao has the potential to ask the way of Dao!"

"Fellow Daoist Wang, congratulations." Cao Zhiwei, sitting cross-legged above the academy, congratulated upon seeing this person.

"Thank you, Mr. Cao, the Hidden Dragon Academy truly deserves its reputation as a place where fortune gathers. After the baptism of the Dragon and Phoenix Grotto Heaven, if Xiao’Er can successfully reach the tenth level in Qi Cultivation Stage and then break through Foundation Establishment, his Divine Body might achieve ’minor success.’ The Wang family cultivator from Cultivation Wang Family, having heard of his offspring’s opportunity, hurried to the academy to personally wait.

"Wang Xiao, Chen Lingxi indeed are the most hopeful to break through to the ’tenth level of Qi Cultivation Stage.’" Cao Zhiwei acknowledged, after all, the only cultivators truly chosen by the Dragon and Phoenix Heaven are these two.

Although other cultivators entered through the opportunity, ultimately they were not the ones chosen by Dragon and Phoenix Heaven. The best possible outcome would be to condense their True Qi dozens, if not hundreds of times, so that the strength of their True Qi would be comparable to True Essence, and that’s it.

But the tenth level in Qi Cultivation is a special realm selected by the Immortal Palace for geniuses, it’s not something one can achieve easily, and the difficulties are immense.

Cao Zhiwei also thought of Xu Zhizhi and Lin Jing, both of whom had entered the Grotto Heaven, but he believed that perhaps both would gain significant reward, yet reaching the tenth level in Qi Cultivation Stage should be out of reach.

Especially Lin Jing, as a Beast Taming Cultivator, his opportunities would be split in two, shared by him and his Pet Beast, the hope was even less.

"Tenth level of Qi Cultivation Stage, both innate ability and acquired opportunity are indispensable, if not for a powerful innate physique, the physical body might not withstand, nor accommodate the True Qi of the tenth level in Qi Cultivation Stage."

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Cao Zhiwei’s judgment was correct, inside Dragon and Phoenix Grotto Heaven, although Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Mouse fought hard to slay enemies, the opportunity manifested by the dragon and phoenix projection was divided into three, greatly reducing the effect on individual entities.

Lin Jing and his companions constantly consumed golden spirit rice to replenish True Qi while searching for dragon and phoenix projections, having slain countless, yet the Pine Leaf Mouse’s realm remained at the ninth level of Qi Cultivation Stage, unable to break through.

Though its Cyan Emperor True Qi has been refined over a hundred times, as a spirit-grade bloodline, the amount of True Qi it could hold had reached its limit, making it difficult to break through no matter what, it could only continue to improve the quality of True Qi.

Lin Jing faced the same situation, stuck at Great Perfection of Qi Cultivation Stage, his True Qi was extremely pure, but still unable to increase.

According to Cao Zhiwei’s thoughts, Lin Jing’s physique and the Pine Leaf Mouse’s bloodline were far less suitable for this opportunity compared to the Divine Body and Innate Talisman Body, it’s possible they would both stop at the pinnacle of the ninth level of Qi Cultivation Stage.

However, what Cao Zhiwei did not know is that the Ice Soul Gu’s power was too abnormal, coupled with the Longevity Body attracting too many dragon and phoenixes, the number of dragon and phoenix projections that they killed was far more than just three times the ordinary, saying thirty times wouldn’t be strange, even with the opportunity divided into three, it yielded tremendous gains.

Though limited by physique and bloodline, unable to continue increasing the Qi capacity, under such circumstances, they nonetheless broke the norm, their True Qi being refined to the point it couldn’t be further refined, after becoming exceedingly pure, they almost reached ’half step Foundation Establishment’ before reaching the tenth level of Qi Cultivation Stage, inadvertently their pure True Qi began autonomously strengthening their bodies.

The Pine Leaf Mouse’s Glazed Immortal Pupil flickered, a three-leaf clover pattern appeared in its emerald-green eyes, seemingly signaling that the Glazed Immortal Pupil had advanced to the next stage.

While Lin Jing also paused, sensing his body with astonishment, he had not reached the Foundation Establishment Stage, but... under the extremely perfect refinement of the Beast Taming True Qi in his body, he had actually coagulated a second drop of golden blood within.

This blood was the contract blood of the Beast Taming Technique, normally a cultivator practicing the Beast Taming Technique would coagulate one drop during the Qi Cultivation Stage and a second during the Foundation Establishment Stage. However, Lin Jing now had coagulated two drops of contract blood during the Qi Cultivation Stage. This meant that he could contract two Pet Beasts during the Qi Cultivation Stage, an unprecedented situation for the Beast Taming Sect!