Vol 7 Chapter 22: Double Contract

"Even a broken Immortal Realm indeed has a much better cultivation environment than the Lower Realm."

"Thanks to the cultivation environment, my current strength has probably surpassed the Main Body by quite a bit."

Looking at the group of pet beasts that came to support him, the incarnation couldn't help but laugh.

The pet beasts looked at each other.

Probably?

Although Lin Jing's current realm had reached the fourteenth step of the Seeking the Way Stage, it still probably couldn't compare to the incarnation.

The Seeking the Way Stage had four sub-realms: initial, middle, late, and perfection. Upon reaching perfection, one could summon the Ascension Heavenly Tribulation and enter the Ascension Realm.

During the period when the ascension channel was closed, some parts of the Cultivation World preferred to use step numbers to divide the Seeking the Way Stage.

The initial stage corresponded to the first step, perfection corresponded to the fourth step, and those who passed the Ascension Tribulation were called the fifth step of the Seeking the Way Stage, which was also the normal endpoint of the Seeking the Way Stage.

With each of these five steps taken, one's own Dao would become stronger and more indestructible.

After this point, to undergo another transformation, one could only ascend to become an immortal and use their own Dao to sense the Way of Heaven of the Immortal Realm.

But in the Lower Realm, Lin Jing definitely didn't have this condition.

The Way of Heaven of the Lower Realm only permitted cultivation up to the Seeking the Way Stage at most.

Therefore, he could only abandon the cultivation method of sensing the Way of Heaven and continue to strengthen and cultivate his own Dao.

Under normal circumstances, restricted by world rules, Lin Jing would definitely find it difficult to continue cultivating. However, something like the Limitless Immortal Physique was an exception.

Over these past few thousand years, Lin Jing successfully walked the sixth step, seventh step... in the Seeking the Way Stage.

The method he used to confirm his breakthroughs was by observing the Contract Blood.

Starting from the sixth step, with each additional step taken, one additional drop of Contract Blood would appear.

By the seventh step, he already had two extra drops, representing the ability to contract two additional pet beasts.

At this point, even without using the Immortal Dao Primordial Spirit to generate Immortal Energy, and using only ordinary true essence, the quality of Lin Jing's true essence was completely comparable to Immortal Energy.

And because the Main Body cultivated the Path of Contracts, the true essence generated by the Beast Taming Art strengthened pet beasts almost several times more than before.

And this wasn't the end.

The initial exploration was often the most difficult and time-consuming.

After finding his own cultivation direction in the Lower Realm, the foundation Lin Jing built completely erupted when his pet beasts ascended to the Ancient Immortal Realm Earth and broke through to the True Immortal Realm.

As his seven contracted pet beasts ascended, Lin Jing's cultivation endlessly improved again, breaking through seven more realms.

He reached the unbelievable fourteenth step of the Seeking the Way Stage, equivalent to having exactly nine additional drops of Contract Blood compared to before.

"So that's how it is." Hearing the pet beasts' description, the incarnation smiled.

He was Lin Jing, and Lin Jing was him. Therefore, although separated across two realms without the Main Body's cultivation experience, he instantly understood the Main Body's thoughts.

"He won't contract new pet beasts."

"Because what he wants is to fuse every drop of Contract Blood cultivated afterward... into one drop, giving birth to the ultimate contract power!"

"As for what to use it to contract..."

The incarnation naturally understood very clearly.

Whatever the Demon Lord was coveting, the Main Body was coveting the same thing.

However, the rules of the Lower Realm were quite complete compared to Earth. While he could luckily contract fragments of the Way of Heaven, it probably wouldn't be so easy for the Main Body to accomplish something even the Demon Lord found difficult.

But it didn't matter... with him here, once he cultivated to the Immortal Emperor realm, he could go help the Main Body then.

"Speaking of which, are you the only ones who came?"

The incarnation looked at the seven pet beasts.

He knew himself best, and he felt that if possible, the Main Body would definitely send others to ascend to the Ancient Immortal Realm as well.

"Bubbles!!!" The Dragon Carp nodded.

The pet beasts chattered excitedly.

Soon, the incarnation learned the reason.

The main plan was to first send the seven most combat-capable pet beasts to support him.

Afterward, the Taoist Zhu Yan, Senior Mo Pine, and the Demon Emperor would all come.

But they would come only after ensuring the Ancient Immortal Realm wasn't dangerous.

After all, in terms of combat power, these people had some gap compared to the pet beasts possessing the Heavenly Emperor's Seven Dominions. If they came early, the help they could provide would be limited.

"Anyway, welcome to Earth, or rather, welcome to your ascension to the Ancient Immortal Realm." After understanding everything clearly, Lin Jing was extremely happy.

"For you, it's also been a long time since we last met..."

"Coincidentally, I intercepted these Demonic Race members and obtained some spoils of war. I'll give them to you as gifts."

The incarnation chuckled and took out the superior-grade immortal artifact Five Elements Pearl that functioned as five in one.

This superior-grade magical treasure brought by the five Demon Lords was composed of five high-grade immortal artifacts. Each pearl corresponded to one of the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. When the five elements gathered, they could unleash the power of a superior-grade immortal artifact.

This was considered these people's strongest trump card...

However, no matter how good, a superior-grade immortal artifact couldn't withstand the onslaught of Control Soul and the Heavenly Emperor's army. Because whenever one Immortal General controlled by Control Soul fell in battle, another would immediately take its place.

On Lin Jing's side, there was no consumption. To be precise, what were sacrificed were stone generals one after another, while he himself had no consumption.

But on the Demonic Race side, whenever these five used the superior-grade immortal artifact, they would bear a certain burden themselves. Over time, as one side weakened while the other strengthened, plus this was only their disadvantage against Control Soul, not even counting the incarnation's own combat power, Lin Jing naturally ultimately won the victory.

In this battle, a total of twenty-three Immortal Generals were sacrificed. They were all guards from the first level of the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb. Regarding this, Lin Jing had no alternative. However, having been dead for so long, their remnants could still continue guarding the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb. For them, this was also a relatively good outcome.

"Wood Pearl, Pine Leaf Mouse, for you."

"Eh?!" The Pine Leaf Mouse was delighted.

"Fire Pearl, Dragon Carp, for you."

"?!" The Dragon Carp's eyes lit up.

"Water Pearl, Froglet, for you."

"Ribbit." The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog was surprised.

"Metal Pearl, Mechanized Turtle, for you."

The Mechanized Turtle nodded.

Its current composition was mostly immortal metal, accounting for over 90%. With this Metal Pearl, it could strengthen itself further.

"Earth Pearl, Holy Egg, for you."

The Holy Egg scratched its egg head - it had a share too?

"Yes, I leave it to you. Please transform Earth's environment to be like the Pangu Continent, with the earth containing holy breath that can automatically suppress the Demonic Race."

"..." The Holy Egg looked up at the sky. After following the Main Body for so many years, it had almost forgotten that the incarnation's personality and thoughts were no different from the Main Body's.

Seemingly a gift, actually work.

The Ice Soul Gu and Immortal Longevity Crane, who didn't receive gifts, looked at the incarnation.

The incarnation said: "There are only five Five Elements Pearls... Well, Ice Soul Gu, Immortal Longevity Crane, these five Demon Lord remnants, if you repair them... I'll give them to you? After all, they're five ninth heaven Immortal Lords. If made into puppets, they'll be very powerful. With both of your abilities working together, they'll become five Immortal Lord puppets!"

'It's settled then. Next... let's talk with you about the matter of double contracts.'