CHAPTER 331: CHAPTER 28: PROJECTION OF THE POWERHOUSES

"It seems Dragon Carp wasn’t transported in?"

After entering the Grotto Heaven, Lin Jing found that the small carp, which had just reached the Nascent Soul stage, appeared to have been rejected by the Grotto Heaven...

"This unlucky kid."

Indeed, beast taming cultivators are quite an unusual group.

The cultivation level of a beast taming cultivator and their pet beast can sometimes differ by an entire major stage.

Generally speaking, in the cultivation realm, the higher stage between the cultivator or the pet beast is considered the true stage of the beast taming cultivator.

For example, if the beast taming cultivator is at the Golden Core stage and the pet beast is at the Nascent Soul stage, then the beast taming cultivator is considered to be at the Nascent Soul stage.

However, this Immortal Palace Grotto Heaven doesn’t seem to follow this rule.

"Fortunately, I have two other pet beasts, and my own strength is not weak."

Lin Jing shook his head. If his own battle strength wasn’t strong, and he was selected into the Grotto Heaven as a beast taming cultivator with only a Demon King level pet beast at the Golden Core stage, wouldn’t it be over for him?

If the pet beast is rejected due to its high level and all one’s strength is in the pet beast... how could one compete for opportunities?

At this moment, upon entering the Grotto Heaven, Song Leaf Mouse and Ice Soul Gu were eager to try.

And paid seven seconds of silence for Fellow Daoist Dragon Carp.

"Why is there no one here, what kind of Grotto Heaven is this?"

At this moment, Lin Jing hadn’t found anyone else, and the surroundings were pitch black.

However, after a while, as three projections appeared in mid-air, Lin Jing finally knew which Grotto Heaven this was.

Projection Heaven.

Just like the previous Dragon and Phoenix Grotto Heaven, there is no competitive relationship among cultivators, each has an independent challenge mechanism.

In history, many prodigies from the Celestial Essence Continent have entered various Grotto Heavens.

Upon entering a Grotto Heaven, the strength they displayed at that time would be branded and recorded by the Grotto Heaven.

These imprints would then be used in this Projection Heaven.

Projection Heaven would choose three prodigies of the same level as the entrant from countless prodigies, allowing the challenger to choose one for challenge.

If the challenge fails, the level drops by one small stage.

If the challenge succeeds, the challenger receives a cultivation technique or secret technique from the Immortal Palace as a reward.

The three projections have different difficulties, and the more difficult the projection, the better the reward for winning.

"It’s quite an interesting Grotto Heaven."

Lin Jing looked at the three prodigies refreshed by the Grotto Heaven for himself, and this glance immediately made him feel it was quite remarkable.

The first projection was actually an old acquaintance.

Though he had young features unfamiliar to Lin Jing, his name and cultivation technique were known to Lin Jing.

Name: Zhang Jiuying.

Cultivation: Late-stage Golden Core.

Physique: Innate Netherworld Body (when one’s lifespan is exhausted, they can transform into a corpse cultivator and live another lifetime.)

Cultivation Technique: Nine Revolutions Pill Ascension Technique (can cultivate multiple dantians, allowing for more Golden Cores and Nascent Souls.)

Secret Techniques: Pill Seizing Great Technique (seize other cultivators’ Golden Cores and integrate them into one’s body), Soul Seizing Great Technique (seize other cultivators’ Nascent Souls and integrate them into one’s body)...

Magic: Corpse Nurturing Technique, Corpse Command Technique...

Challenge Difficulty: Low

"The Nine-Child Demon Venerable of the Yin Corpse Sect, one of the culprits responsible for my being stranded in Qingzhou, he also entered the Grotto Heaven."

"One of the three major demon sects, one of the four Void Profound of the Yin Corpse Sect, and the projection from his Golden Core period is the lowest difficulty of the three projections?"

"This Grotto Heaven... it’s very hard to challenge without Void Profound potential."

His cultivation techniques and secret techniques, though evil, honestly, are all very powerful.

It’s said that the Golden Cores and Nascent Souls seized and merged by the Nine-Child Demon Venerable also contain the original master’s divine techniques.

You could say that this set of cultivation techniques and secret techniques can make him possess multiple Golden Core divine techniques simultaneously, extremely heaven-defying, even if it doesn’t quite fit himself, under the Void Profound stage, he is almost invincible.

He continued to look at the second one.

Though not an old acquaintance, there was also quite a connection.

This was a young man with centipedes crawling in his eyes.

Name: Duan Chong.

Cultivation: Mid-stage Golden Core.

Physique: Acquired Gu God Body (can fuse multiple Gu insects simultaneously, transforming into a Gu God)

Cultivation Technique: Gu God Technique (can enhance the power of Gu insects, immune to the side effects of fusing Gu insects, allowing the Gu insects residing within the body to constantly evolve.)

Secret Techniques: Gu Cultivation Technique (a secret technique for cultivating Gu insects from various poisonous insects)...

Magic: Insect Curse Technique (using insects to curse, taking lives from thousands of miles away)...

Challenge Difficulty: Medium

"This guy, I remember, was the original founder of the Gu God Sect, and the current Gu God of Inquiry in the Gu God Sect is the one he nurtured, passing down the Gu for many generations, though people leave, the Gu remains." Lin Jing fell into contemplation, having created a major demon sect, ascending to the Realm of Inquiry, and even has the hope of ascension, the great demon is only of medium challenge difficulty.

And why are they all demon cultivators?

He continued to look forward.

It’s a female cultivator with an obscured face, veiled with white gauze.

Name: Luo Miao

Cultivation: Early-stage Golden Core.

Physique: Creation Immortal Body (can transform the mountains, rivers, grasses, and trees in nature into spirits, making them recognize oneself as their master.)

Cultivation Technique: Creation Immortal Technique (a cultivation technique based on the Creation Immortal Body, can absorb the power of self-transformed spirits for one’s own use.)

Secret Techniques: Tree Realm Array (instantly transforms and enlivens multiple ancient trees as tree demons brought along, forming the Tree Realm Killing Array), Dragon Vein Pulse Heaven Technique (transforms a carried dragon vein into a spirit, controlling the true dragon of earth veins to fight the enemy), Great Flood Technique (transforms a carried small lake into a lake spirit, engulfing everything), Absolute Spirit Finger (transforms the surrounding heaven and earth spiritual qi into spirits, all for one’s own use, preventing enemies around from absorbing heaven and earth spiritual qi to recover strength)...

Challenge Difficulty: High

Lin Jing: ?

"Damn." Lin Jing couldn’t help but curse seeing the last projection, the Creation Immortal Body, one of the top ten Immortal Bodies!

Luo Miao...

The name made Lin Jing recall a moment, realizing it was this ancient figure.

Early on in the Beast Taming Sect, Lin Jing learned about the history of the Celestial Essence Continent and knew that the Immortal Palace was annihilated by the alliance of four top sects on the Celestial Essence Continent with numerous forces.

Initially, Lin Jing did not know what the situation of these four top sects was, as after the Ancient Country wiped out the Immortal Alliance, they erased that part of history, at least in the Ancient Country, that history is rarely seen.

But stepping out of the Ancient Country, for example when arriving in Qingzhou, some knowledge can still be obtained.

Luo Miao was the sect leader of one of the four leading sects of the Immortal Alliance, Innate Immortal Body.

This person was extremely powerful, alone making the Immortal Palace wary, almost collapsing the weakened Lower Immortal Palace.

It’s said that the greatest reason the Immortal Palace used an Immortal Artifact to rewrite the rules on the Celestial Essence Continent, restricting vegetation and minerals from becoming spirits, was due to this Creation Immortal Body. She could freely transform tens of thousands, or even millions, of years old spirit plants into spirits and have them join her camp... practically forming an army by herself.

Alas, a starved camel is still bigger than a horse, and the Immortal Palace, being deeply rooted, eventually executed this Creation Immortal Body, or else it was speculated by later generations that if the Creation Immortal Body had left behind a terrifying army, the Ancient Country would not have stood a chance, even if the Immortal Society was in decline.

Unfortunately, the camel that was once rich is bigger than a horse; the Immortal Palace, with its profound heritage, eventually subdued her in the end.

Finally, when the Celestial Essence Continent reached its Ancient Country stage, she simply vanished altogether before passing the Golden Core Stage, as many suspected it was due to the terrible potential of her Immortal Body.

For if her potential was too terrifying, and the Immortal Alliance was to weaken again, it would definitely be nothing for the Ancient Country, the Creation Immortal Body could definitely leave behind an immense army of terror, ensuring the Ancient Country would never have been of any concern.

"This is really difficult to challenge without the talents of the Void Profound stage."