Vol 7 Chapter 42: Leaving the Forbidden Zone

To better remain in the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone, Lin Jing immediately began devouring the Creation Immortal King's Dao Fruit without another word.

Compared to the mechanized turtle which took only three years to devour the One-Eyed King's Dao Fruit, the third incarnation took much longer.

First, because his cultivation realm was currently only at the seventh heaven of the Immortal Lord Realm, still some distance from the Quasi-Immortal King Realm.

Another reason was that he lacked foundational inheritance, requiring more time for digestion.

Fortunately, fully activating the pine leaf mouse's attributes also brought one-seventh of its comprehension bonus. This ultimate comprehension provided Lin Jing great convenience, allowing him to digest the Dao Fruit's power as much as possible through the pine leaf body.

"Different from Luo Miao, one of the Tianyuan Realm Dao Alliance leaders who possesses the Creation Immortal Physique."

"Immortal Maiden Luo Miao uses the Creation Immortal Physique closer to beast control arts, transforming various premium resources into spirit creatures, then having them fight for her, combining with divine abilities to form a massive spirit creature army for formations, coordinated attacks, and marching."

"As for the Creation Immortal King, besides similar usage to Immortal Maiden Luo Miao, there's also a core usage: transforming potent immortal medicines into spirits, assisting their cultivation, strengthening medicinal properties, and ultimately..."

"Then personally eating all these medicine spirit creatures he transformed himself, supplementing his own power."

"Truly worthy of being from the Demonic Race."

"Every transformation was equivalent to gifting himself a creation opportunity. After tempering himself through various great medicines, even though the Creation Immortal King possessed an acquired usurped body, he still advanced all the way to the Quasi-Immortal Emperor Realm."

"Reportedly, it was precisely because he cultivated a Personal Fortune Immortal Spirit at the Immortal King Realm, then ultimately devoured and consumed it, that gave him sufficient personal fortune to luckily bear Heaven's Mandate. Although ultimately stripped by another person, this treatment wasn't something ordinary people could obtain."

"The Creation Immortal King's path... indeed contains a trace of the Control Dao in commanding the spirit creature army he transformed, but more so, it's the path of ruthless devouring. The armies he commanded would ultimately all become his own nutrients, consumables that perfected himself!"

"Even though those plant spirits lived and died for him, they ultimately couldn't escape their fate as nutrients."

"And because he devoured countless divine plants and medicines, his plant attainment could be considered the second strongest of his time."

Regarding this, Lin Jing had nothing particular to say.

He had engaged in similar behavior before.

For example, feeding mosquito beasts he personally cultivated to another pet beast. Although he didn't devour them himself, it was essentially the same.

However, from another perspective, he would also offer his own longevity blood... for the mosquito beasts to devour.

The Creation Immortal King gave some spirit creatures life, ultimately stripping them of their lives.

Lin Jing gave some mosquito beasts opportunities for birth and evolution, ultimately also stripping them of their lives.

Through devouring, Lin Jing discovered that besides lacking the Creation Immortal Physique himself and being unable to inherit some creation power, he still shared some compatibility with the other party.

"Your path, I shall accept it."

Eighteen years later.

A surge of Immortal King power rose within the corrosive energy-filled Divine Martial Forbidden Zone. Lin Jing successfully broke through to Immortal King, but unfortunately, since he lacked the Creation Immortal Physique, he didn't gain much benefit during the process of devouring the Creation Dao Fruit.

He only referenced the other's path to perfect his own path.

If one had to name the only power obtained, it should be plant devouring power.

The Creation Immortal King cultivated terrifying plant devouring power, allowing Lin Jing at the Immortal Lord Realm to devour those fiercely medicinal Emperor-grade immortal medicines without harm. Now the pine leaf mouse also obtained similar devouring divine abilities, allowing Lin Jing to cross realms and devour divine medicines.

This was also largely thanks to the pine leaf mouse's power, enabling Lin Jing to have more than just Immortal King breakthrough gains without any harvest. After all, the pine leaf mouse's Emperor Qing's Longevity Technique also enhanced its own lifespan by devouring plants, sharing some similarities.

"This power, placed on my incarnation, is somewhat wasted. In the future, it can be condensed into a second-hand Dao Fruit and gifted to the pine leaf mouse," Lin Jing calculated.

"We... can go out now."

Lin Jing's white robes fluttered in the corrosive winds of the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone. Without the turtle shell on his back, he would have been exceedingly dashing and elegant, but unfortunately, one shell ruined everything.

"Nearly twenty years have passed. After going out, if we're careful, there shouldn't be any problems."

The mechanized turtle transmitted sound: "I've also accumulated nine 'Nuclear Corrosion Bombs.' Each Nuclear Corrosion Bomb equals a full-power strike from a late-stage Immortal King. After explosion, the blast site will maintain at least ten thousand years of Immortal Emperor-level body corrosion, affecting living beings' activities."

"A sect-destroying divine artifact," Lin Jing couldn't help but say. "Even if used against an Immortal Emperor's legacy, the destructive power might be blocked and worn down by the protective sect array, but this Immortal Emperor-level corrosive energy would still cause extremely severe impacts on a legacy."

"Whoever provokes us, we'll throw two bombs at once!" The mechanized turtle eagerly anticipated, greatly liking this technique, even giving each Nuclear Corrosion Bomb a code name.

"Anyway, after using them up, we can return to replenish. I can craft one every two years."

Lin Jing nodded. If opportunity arose, he must properly thank the Glazed Immortal King.

The other's Glazed Immortal Eye was simply an invincible divine ability, especially... when paired with mechanized arts and technological paths.

"Let's go."

"We've left Wu Lingxi unsupervised for twenty years. I wonder how she's doing."

The Immortal Realm wasn't particularly safe either.

Back then, the Movement Cosmos Sect's Immortal King died here.

Engaging in smuggling year-round, how could one not get wet?

Until being targeted, killed, and having treasures seized.

Lin Jing had always taught Wu Lingxi to act low-profile. If she took it to heart, there shouldn't be major issues.

By now, Lin Jing's purpose for coming to the Immortal Realm had finally achieved one goal.

Himself breaking through to Immortal King, paving the way for the main body and second incarnation.

This had already been accomplished.

The second purpose, investigating the Heavenly Court invasion incident, due to its antiquity and his own weakness, made obtaining high-level intelligence difficult, temporarily without progress.

The third was leveraging this cheap disciple's personal fortune to obtain unknown Immortal Emperor legacies.

And the final one...

"This is..."

Lin Jing gazed at the gray sky. Although looking skyward from within the Divine Martial Forbidden Zone showed only gray darkness, Lin Jing still very clearly sensed this familiar feeling...

"Heaven's Mandate appears, Heaven's Mandate emerges..."

"The Immortal Realm's Heaven's Mandate has been nurtured."

"Much, much faster than imagined."

"Currently, it's in the stage of seeking the Mandated One!!!"

Lin Jing's breathing quickened, but clearly, as an incarnation's incarnation, he wasn't qualified to become the Mandated One, since he wasn't even a complete person.

But that was fine. Nobody believed the first person fusing with Heaven's Mandate would be the ultimate Mandated One.

The one laughing last would be the true winner.

Lin Jing's final goal was this Heaven's Mandate, though not to obtain it himself. After all, having no backing in the Immortal Realm made preserving Heaven's Mandate too difficult. His purpose... was simply to cause trouble for the Demonic Race, ensuring they absolutely couldn't obtain Heaven's Mandate, nothing more.

"Heaven's Mandate has emerged. Various forces probably have even less time to focus on the Creation Immortal King ruins matter. Now is the perfect time to exit the forbidden zone. Mechanized turtle, let's go!"