CHAPTER 214: CHAPTER 20: THE LONGEVITY BODY’S INTIMIDATION

After seeing off the first pair of distinguished guests, Lin Jing continued to lie down and read a book.

One person and three pets, except for the Ice Soul Gu, were extremely busy.

As for the Ice Soul Gu, it couldn’t help it; it sealed itself in ice and went into hibernation, entering a state of suspended animation to avoid being detected by the Gu God Sect through special secret techniques.

In any case, the Ice Soul Gu belongs to the Gu God Sect, and being cautious is always good.

The Fire Qilin Dragon, meanwhile, was busy in the alchemy cave mansion pendant of the zen staff, where it was refining pills. Most of the pills in the Nameless Pill Pavilion, including the Gluttonous Pill, currently required its provision.

As for the Pine Leaf Mouse, it was the busiest of all.

Inside its floating gourd, it was cultivating three great spirit seeds acquired during the profit-sharing with Mo Song: the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, the Nine-Life Exquisite Grass, and the Cloud Concealed Phantom Orchid!

All were treasures of an even higher grade than the previous Holy Fire Lotus.

These treasures were all still immature; even though the Pine Leaf Mouse had perfected its Longevity Techniques, it had yet to fully mature a single one.

If Lin Jing had known he would lose contact with Elder Shen Song, he would have insisted on the elder’s help to mature them back then, sparing him from only being able to look at them now without using them.

Currently, the Pine Leaf Mouse was prioritizing the maturation of the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom.

This divine mushroom is a fifth-tier fire attribute treasure. According to Elder Shen Song, once the Fire Qilin Dragon reaches the Golden Core Stage, consuming this would be enough to break through from the early-stage Golden Core to the Great Perfection of the Golden Core Stage, gaining the ability to impact the Nascent Soul.

Therefore, Lin Jing’s plan was to collect various strange fires while maturing the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, allowing the Fire Qilin Dragon to form its core and condense an invincible Flame Demon Pill...

Subsequently, the Fire Qilin Dragon, bound by contract, would be stuck at the early-stage Demon Core, but this was no major issue, as the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom would likely not have matured yet at that point.

During that time, he would strive to achieve core formation himself, thereby lifting the boundaries on his pet beast’s realm...

By then, the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom should be matured.

At that time, the newly core-formed Fire Qilin Dragon could use this supreme spiritual object to charge from the initial stage of the Demon Core straight to the Nascent Soul Realm, with its Demon Emperor bloodline, advancing directly from the core formation to the Nascent Soul without encountering any bottleneck.

Finally, with Lin Jing at the Golden Core Stage, using secret techniques such as transformations and beast taming, he could control the Nascent Soul Stage Fire Qilin Dragon, effectively attaining Nascent Soul level combat power himself!

With the violent divine techniques of a Treasure Beast, even under the Divinity Transformation, it would be difficult to find an opponent.

With combat power at the Nascent Soul level, if Lin Jing also succeeds in cultivating the Celestial Demon Body, as long as he is willing to burn his life force, he would have the qualifications to contend with the strong!

After all, at that time, he would likely have nearly ten thousand years of lifespan to burn...

Already invincible under Divinity Transformation, coupled with the Life-Burning Demon Technique, anyone still eyeing his Longevity Body would find him as ferocious as a mad dog.

In this state, although his Longevity Body greatly reduces in nourishment from life force burning, it gains overwhelming combat power for counterattack. No matter how you look at it, capturing him would be a losing trade.

With the majority of the Longevity Body’s nutrition gone and having to prevent a counterattack, one must weigh whether it is worth it.

Besides maturing the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, the other task for the Pine Leaf Mouse is to find its own path to core formation!

Lin Jing wants to form a core, relying still on the guidance from his pet beast.

Moreover, to allow the Glazed Immortal Pupil to evolve and combine with resources besides plants, its core formation method must be somewhat unique.

It needs to evolve from a wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse into a five-element attribute Pine Leaf Mouse!

The method involves the Treant Pill!

The Treant Pill is one of the referenced pill recipes initially used to refine the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill. It is a pill that can add plant organs to the body...

The plant organs are the key.

Like the Holy Fire Lotus and the Nine Yang Divine Mushroom, which are both plants and possess fire attributes, what Lin Jing needs to do is find four suitable plants with "metal wood", "water wood", "fire wood", and "earth wood" properties to become the new organs for the Pine Leaf Mouse, melding with its body.

Then, with the five elements revolving around the wood element in a cycle of mutual generation, the Pine Leaf Mouse would have the opportunity to forge the Five Elements Demon Pill, thoroughly incorporating five attributes into itself.

Though it is unknown if this can trigger the evolution of the Glazed Immortal Pupil, the Path of the Five Elements is incredibly formidable and will certainly not impede the Pine Leaf Mouse’s growth.

However, selecting the four additional attribute plant organs is quite intricate.

Because researching the Treant Pill involving them is necessary, these plants must exist in substantial quantities to allow ample trial and error, improving the Treant Pill.

Thus, advanced spirit plants like the Holy Fire Lotus and Nine Yang Divine Mushroom have to be abandoned; though excellent, Lin Jing and others don’t yet have the capability to integrate such spirit plants into the Treant Pill.

However, if they are ordinary first to third-tier plants, they seem insufficiently powerful.

Thus, the Pine Leaf Mouse’s synthesized substances become the optimal solution.

Just like the previous Fire Cloud Chili, which was merely an ordinary first-tier ferocious plant, but after synthesis, it could bring about Netherworld Ghost Fire, becoming rarer and more formidable than advanced spirit plants!

During this time, Lin Jing needed to gather low-level plants with extra attributes like "fire attribute", "water attribute", "metal attribute", "earth attribute", etc., in Qingzhou, letting the Pine Leaf Mouse synthesize them to see which synthesized product was suitable as an organ material for modifying into Treant Pill, integrating into the Pine Leaf Mouse’s body.

Among them, Lin Jing already had a candidate in mind for the metal-wood attribute spiritual plant: the reflective golden steel wood synthesized from the shell of the mosquito-powered mecha!

It can bounce back most of the damage to the enemy, very suitable for conversion into the skin of the Pine Leaf Mouse’s demon king’s true form wooden body.

Should they not find a more suitable metal attribute plant organ, the reflective golden steel wood was Lin Jing’s first choice.

Regarding fire, water, and earth attribute plants, he hadn’t found compatible ones in the academy, so now settled in on Qingzhou Business Street, he resumed his search.

Qingzhou was rich in unique plants, offering a broader selection compared to the ancient country.

"Fellow cultivator, your order of a hundred ’Fiery Fruits’ and a hundred ’Sun Grasses’ has arrived."

Before long, the leisurely seated Lin Jing was met by the second guest...

Rather than calling the guest a visitor, it was more like one of the cultivators from a nearby spirit plant shop.

Before opening this pill pavilion, Lin Jing had conveniently ordered two types of fire attribute tier two plants from the other shop, costing him quite a few Spirit Stones.

Fiery Fruit and Sun Grass are both special plants native to Qingzhou.

The Fiery Fruit is a ferocious plant, a fierce fruit, with effects similar to spirit bean bombs; when violently collided, it explodes, creating a blast wave like a fireball, capable of killing even Foundation Establishment Stage cultivators.

Initially, wanting to purchase a hundred Fiery Fruits, Lin Jing made the store owner ponder for a long time, speculating on Lin Jing’s intentions.

As for Sun Grass, it’s a spirit grass that enhances fire attribute spiritual power. After consuming this spirit grass, practicing fire attribute magic and cultivation techniques in the sunlight becomes highly efficient.

Lin Jing just wanted to see what kind of mutation these two types of fire plants would produce when synthesized through the Glazed Immortal Pupil, to determine whether they were suitable as the Pine Leaf Mouse’s new plant organs.

"The goods have arrived, let’s synthesize them." Having the precedent of the Fire Cloud Chili, Lin Jing was still quite eager to see their changes after synthesis, like whether they would bring about a new type of strange fire like the Fire Cloud Chili did. By that time, the Fire Qilin Dragon could join in gaining benefits.

"Squeak?" From within the gourd, the Pine Leaf Mouse halted the ripening process, removed its straw hat, and looked up, revealing a sharp gaze.