CHAPTER 233: CHAPTER 39: FIVE ELEMENT COMPLETION

Core Formation Treasure Land...

If it exists, that would naturally be better.

"Thanks, Senior Sister." Lin Jing expressed his gratitude.

The situation with the Foundation Establishment Fire Dragon... must have been told to Senior Sister by Senior Brother Ouyang.

After all, Senior Brother Ouyang, being a Golden Core, was chased by a Foundation Establishment Fire Dragon, which must have left a significant shadow.

Lin Jing chuckled.

Xu Qingyao also smiled slightly.

In fact, when she had expressed her intention to accompany Ouyang Hao, she had already made up her mind to take Lin Jing away.

Lin Jing didn’t want to go to the Demon Court, mainly because he was worried about being exposed.

So, as long as she solved this issue, Lin Jing would have no such concerns.

And for Lin Jing, she had significant use. Not to mention Lin Jing’s alchemical achievements, his title as the number one prodigy of the Ancient Country alone showcased his terrifying strength.

Even if some methods could not be used, Xu Qingyao felt using him against those followers cultivated by the other two Saintesses was more than sufficient.

......

Before leaving with Senior Sister Xu Qingyao, Lin Jing had one more thing to do.

He went to the Cyan Nether Trade Association. After requesting an audience, he was immediately invited up to the attic by Venerable Ling Quan.

"Young friend, why didn’t you say earlier that your master was the Pill Venerable of the Demon Court?" Venerable Ling Quan smiled wryly.

If Lin Jing had mentioned it sooner, things wouldn’t have come to this.

He was almost scared into senility by the Demon Emperor’s coercion.

Qingzhou is different from the Ancient Country. In the Ancient Country, the Human race was dominant, with no demon beast forces, only wild demon beasts available for the Human race to hunt.

The Beast Taming Sect’s slight trend of demon luck overshadowing human luck immediately prompted a request for sect reform... all to ensure the prosperity of the Ancient Country and the Human race’s national fortune!

However, Qingzhou is different. The Human race gathers in the sixteen paths of Qingzhou, but beyond those, there are many demon beast forces. Together, the Human and demon beast forces form the vast Qingzhou.

In fact, overall, in Qingzhou, the strength of the demon beast forces far surpasses that of the Human forces.

In Qingzhou, there’s only one Human sect at the Dao Seeker phase, the Heaven-Reaching Tower.

But near Qingzhou, there are three demon beast forces with Demon Emperors comparable to the Dao Seeker phase!

Thus, in the face of powerful demon beast forces, Qingzhou’s cultivation sects don’t adopt the aggressive purging attitude seen in the Ancient Country.

Even the leader of Human alchemy forces, the Heaven-Reaching Tower, has quite a few demon beast disciples and collaborates with many demon beast clans.

If he had known Lin Jing was from the Demon Court, Venerable Ling Quan would never have helped the Supreme Profound Sect post a wanted notice, drawing trouble upon himself.

"There’s no need to worry, Venerable Ling Quan. I will soon leave with Lady Saintess, here is the Gluttonous Pill I owed you." Lin Jing smiled, returning the owed pill. Though nearly a year had passed inside the hourglass, little time had passed in the outside world, so no interest was accrued.

"Besides that, there’s one more thing I’d like to ask Venerable Ling Quan to assist with."

"Please feel free to ask, young friend." Venerable Ling Quan responded.

Lin Jing took out a few storage bags: "These are the storage bags of disciples from the Supreme Profound Sect, plus two from cultivators who died in the Grotto Heaven... I’ve taken out their spirit stones, but there are lots of pills, magical artifacts, and various resources remaining... I’d like to ask Venerable Ling Quan to handle them, converting everything to spirit stones."

Venerable Ling Quan coughed lightly, dealing with black-market goods...

Under normal circumstances, it’s fine, but he’s quite curious now about which factions the other storage bags belonged to.

He accepted the storage bags, scanned them with his divine sense, and felt his heart skip a beat.

"So many specialties from near the East Sea, and a sea clan magical artifact trident, young friend, did you also kill a sea clan genius?"

"So many Thunder Pearls and treasures marked with the Thunder Clan’s imprint, is this storage bag from a genius of the Lei Clan in Martial Emperor City?"

"Can they be handled?" Lin Jing inquired.

Venerable Ling Quan took a deep breath: "Yes, I suppose. The sea clan inhabits island areas in the four seas and seldom ventures onto the mainland. Martial Emperor City is west of the Ancient Country, Qingzhou is east of it, so geographically they are very far apart, reducing the risk involved."

"All to be exchanged for spirit stones?" Though these two clans are not simple, seeing as Lin Jing has the Demon Court’s backing and seems to have the favor of the Demon Court Saintess, Venerable Ling Quan kept his thoughts to himself.

"Yes, change them all into spirit stones, and then I’d like to ask Venerable Ling Quan to use these spirit stones to purchase three types of plants for me."

Originally, Lin Jing was quite short on spirit stones, but after acquiring these three storage bags, he found himself wealthy once again.

The speed of getting money this way seemed not much slower than alchemy.

No wonder so many loose cultivators love to rob and kill, even in the law-bound Ancient Country, it remains rampant.

"Second-tier plants, Earth Spirit Ginseng."

"Second-tier plants, Desiccation Iris."

"Second-tier plants, Earth-Devouring Tree."

"One hundred portions of each, plus seeds."

Venerable Ling Quan said: "No problem."

After agreeing, Venerable Ling Quan was curious, not understanding why Lin Jing was buying these plants, for alchemy?

These three plants all share a common trait of being earth and wood dual-attributed plants.

The Earth Spirit Ginseng can solidify unstable foundations and enhance the thickness of true essence, a top-notch resource for cultivators with earth-attributed constitutions and techniques.

The Desiccation Iris, a poisonous plant growing in desert areas, resembles a hand with sharp needles all over, and its poison can rapidly drain life once contacted.

The Earth-Devouring Tree, a vicious plant that absorbs underground nutrients quickly, turning its surrounding area barren.

After absorbing a lot of nutrients, an Earth-Devouring Tree grows rapidly, but it has no other use; its flowers, fruits, bark, and peel are hard to chew and provide no nourishment, completely useless.

Lin Jing’s desire for large amounts of these three plants puzzled Venerable Ling Quan—except for the Earth Spirit Ginseng, neither of the other two seems suitable as alchemical ingredients, nor has he heard of any pill requiring Desiccation Iris or Earth-Devouring Tree...

Not long after.

Lin Jing left, intending to wait for the Cyan Nether Trade Association to prepare the things, before departing with his senior sister.

His purchase of these three plants was, of course, for the Pine Leaf Rodent.

To study the Transformation Pill, it was necessary to have the Pine Leaf Rodent enter Core Formation, only then would it possess the ability to synthesize third-tier Transformation Grass.

And in terms of materials for the Pine Leaf Rodent’s five-element Core Formation, the gold, wood, water, fire, and earth plant organ materials, Lin Jing was still missing one last item!

Now, he looked for suitable earth-attributed materials for the Pine Leaf Rodent to synthesize an earth organ. These three spirit plants, all unavailable in the Ancient Country, allowed Lin Jing to be more selective with his second attempt, opting for two seemingly impressive poisonous and vicious plants to see what they might yield.

......

Just one day later, Venerable Ling Quan had arranged everything for Lin Jing. As he was about to head to the third Saintess’s palace grotto with his senior sister and Senior Brother Ouyang, the Pine Leaf Rodent was already making great strides in its beast taming space, beginning to synthesize three different earth-wood spirit plants!!!

"Squeak! Squeak! Squeak---"