Vol 5 Chapter 5: Nascent Soul Transformation

“That bane, why is he back again... Could it be that the Mountain God stopped him as well?”

Before long, Fang Wuming saw Lin Jing returning, muttering in his heart. But the next second, his heart jumped as he saw Lin Jing appear right in front of his cave dwelling.

“Fellow Daoist, after wandering around, I still find the spiritual energy here to be the densest.” Lin Jing spoke without any emotional fluctuation.

“Ah, here you go.” Fang Wuming cried silently. It was bad enough that he had invested all his resources, but now even the cultivation cave dwelling was thrown into the mix.

The worst part was that he had invested everything yet couldn’t show any dissatisfaction. He could only rub his hands and smile awkwardly: “Actually, if you can’t leave, there’s no need to be too upset.”

“Cultivating here is actually quite good.”

“This Origin Realm is rich with the natural power of heaven and earth, and the territory where the Mountain God is born has the densest spiritual energy—indeed the best in the entire Origin Realm! To be honest, looking across the whole Origin Realm, there are few places better than the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices for cultivation.”

“You can cultivate here peacefully. Once you break through to Nascent Soul Transformation, you’ll be invincible in the Origin Realm. Becoming the Fifth Heavenly King of the Origin Realm will definitely be within reach. At that time, this Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices will be yours to come and go as you please.”

“You focus on your cultivation! I’ll find a place nearby to protect you, gather spiritual stones for you, and if you need anything, just call me!”

It was no surprise that Fang Wuming was so submissive—after all, he was still poisoned by the toxin Lin Jing had left on him!

Right now, his greatest need was not to leave the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices, but to remove the Gu poison inside him!

“Mm.” Lin Jing nodded.

His words seemed like the kind of thing Lin Jing liked to hear, but they weren’t wrong. Lin Jing truly sensed that the spiritual energy within this Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices was terrifyingly dense—nothing in the Tianyuan Realm could compare.

If a congenital spiritual body cultivated here, it might achieve Nascent Soul Transformation within a hundred years.

That was why Lin Jing hadn’t been in a hurry to leave. Even if he left, he would still have to find a place to break through first. Since that was the case, he might as well choose this place.

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After taking over the cave dwelling that Fang Wuming had developed, Lin Jing set up several layers of formation arrays and then began his secluded cultivation breakthrough.

Rather than saying Lin Jing was trying to break through on his own, it was more accurate to say he summoned his three half-step Nascent Soul Transformation spirit beasts—Pine Leaf Mouse, Dragon Carp, and Ice Soul Gu—to break through one after another.

Lin Jing planned to use the feedback from their breakthroughs to guide his final realm breakthrough.

Having arrived in the Origin Realm, these three spirit beasts were quite excited. Bathing in such a place filled with natural power of heaven and earth, they seemed reluctant to return to the Tianyuan Realm!

“They’re over a hundred years old but still act like children.”

After releasing the spirit beasts, Lin Jing watched as they curiously explored the surroundings like puppies in a strange place, sniffing around to absorb the atmosphere.

Only when they were fully satisfied did they each find a place according to Lin Jing’s instructions and attempt their breakthroughs.

For them, without the burden of a longevity body, breaking through to Nascent Soul Transformation was quite simple. Their foundation, talent, and potential had long been sufficient to reach Nascent Soul Transformation. The only reason they hadn’t yet broken through was that they waited until arriving in the Origin Realm to do so.

While the spirit beasts were pushing their bottlenecks, Lin Jing inspected the resources Fang Wuming had offered. He found that the most valuable was still the Wind God Bow, a supreme magic treasure he had previously taken out, and shook his head.

“What a pauper... no wonder he has no money to leave.”

Before leaving, Lin Jing also double-checked his own magic treasures, and that inspection revealed a problem with his spiritual power.

The Hourglass of Time!

That realm treasure, whose internal space-time flow speed was the same as its enclosed cave realm, actually had some effect in the Origin Realm.

“Strange…” Zhu Shu frowned, but after a moment, she understood. That treasure was probably forged by the Immortal Palace using the Tianyuan Dragon Vein. It had no such miraculous effect in the small Tianyuan continent, but once outside the Tianyuan Realm, it could influence time in other regions.

“Well, it’s fine.”

Since the cultivation environment in the Origin Realm was so good, Lin Jing didn’t dwell on the Hourglass of Time. After tossing it into the deepest part of his storage bag, he began cultivating with his spirit beasts.

In the blink of an eye, a year passed.

In the Mountain God’s domain, Pine Leaf Mouse was the first to condense the Heaven-Earth Primordial Spirit form. Inside the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices, there was abundant vegetation. Besides the power of the earth veins, the spiritual power of plants was the densest, so its Nascent Soul transformed the fastest!

Lin Jing hadn’t taken Pine Leaf Mouse’s breakthrough seriously at first, but he had underestimated the changes that occurred when Pine Leaf Mouse reached Nascent Soul Transformation!

While at the Spirit Dao Sect, Pine Leaf Mouse successfully advanced the “Emperor Qing’s Longevity Technique” to the sixth layer.

However, limited by time, energy, and resources, Pine Leaf Mouse itself was only at the fifth layer and had not yet verified the sixth layer!

The fifth layer of “Emperor Qing’s Longevity Technique” already allowed the half-step Nascent Soul Transformation Pine Leaf Mouse to have control over vegetation comparable to Nascent Soul-level plant spirits. The sixth layer was even more powerful;

once mastered, control over plants would rival Void Mystical Stage plant spirits.

Unfortunately, this layer could not be reached by devouring ordinary spiritual plants. To master it, one needed to devour a certain quantity of quasi-immortal grade plants. Even Lin Jing at that time wasn’t rich enough to provide Pine Leaf Mouse with quasi-immortal grade spiritual plants for training.

It wasn’t that such plants couldn’t be found;

the cost-performance ratio was just too low. After all, quasi-immortal grade spiritual plants each had divine effects, like the immortal water lotus used for forging incarnations. Using them solely to boost Pine Leaf Mouse’s power was wasteful and far less cost-effective than directly consuming them.

However, what Lin Jing and Pine Leaf Mouse hadn’t expected was that the nearly solidified plant natural power condensed inside the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices was surprisingly high quality, unexpectedly meeting the cultivation requirements of the sixth layer of “Emperor Qing’s Longevity Technique.”

After Pine Leaf Mouse condensed the Heaven-Earth Primordial Spirit, it seemed able to directly mobilize and absorb this power. Its body uncontrollably began rapidly devouring the power of heaven and earth. The absorption speed was dozens of times faster than an ordinary Nascent Soul cultivator.

“What the hell is going on?!!!”

The Mountain God was almost instantly awakened by the sensation of natural energy being ravenously devoured nearby. It sensed the disturbance coming from Lin Jing’s side!

“That Nascent Soul brat who trespassed here!”

The Mountain God was stunned and couldn’t understand why this brat was absorbing spiritual energy so aggressively. Although restricted by heaven and earth’s rules, it was stuck at the Nascent Soul peak and couldn’t break through, so it didn’t need much spiritual energy for cultivation. But seeing someone enter its territory and absorb energy so violently, the Mountain God felt a bit displeased.

If this continued, it might soon turn from a lush green Mountain God into a desolate, yellowed wasteland, suffering severe damage to its appearance!

“This can’t continue. I have to drive them out.”

“No, kicking them out without paying is too easy on them.”

“Hmph, let’s see how much they can absorb!”

The Mountain God didn’t want to break the rules, so it began absorbing the earth vein power from outside its territory to strengthen the spiritual energy within its domain.