CHAPTER 76: CHAPTER 5: SUPREME BEASTFIRE

Hidden Dragon City, the night was as dark as ink.

Linjing wielded the Fire Carp Zen Staff and walked into an inconspicuous corner, summoning the Pine Leaf Mouse.

After interrupting Fang Shilin’s winning streak, Linjing wandered inside Hidden Dragon City, inquiring about the rates of several inns.

Ultimately... he chose to have the Pine Leaf Mouse build a wooden house to get by for the night.

"Squeak..." A bit of wooden magic operation, construction completed, the Pine Leaf Mouse sighed, finding Linjing’s travels rather convenient.

It could build a home and plant vegetables, the Dragon Carp could ignite a fire for lighting; the division of labor was very clear.

"See... you!" the Pine Leaf Mouse stammered as it finished, and then retreated into the Suspended Gourd.

Although it had never actively learned human speech, it could say one or two simple words after hearing them often.

"Take care of the Void Escape Grass!"

Linjing instructed.

Inside the Suspended Gourd, there were now two new plants, the Bloodsucking Vine and the Void Escape Grass.

The Bloodsucking Vine was easy to maintain, but the Void Escape Grass was not; it required the Pine Leaf Mouse to carefully care for it using the Cyan Emperor’s Immortal Art.

However, Linjing believed that even if he didn’t instruct, given the Pine Leaf Mouse’s obsession with the Space Attribute... even if the Dragon Carp died, the Pine Leaf Mouse might be more upset over the death of the Void Escape Grass.

"You take a rest too." Linjing sat cross-legged on a bed made of stacked leaves, speaking to the Dragon Carp beside him.

It was as good as talking to thin air, for the Dragon Carp was already asleep in the Zen Staff.

"Not bad, it seems tonight I can finally master the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique."

On the bed, Linjing looked at the back of his hand; a pattern of a dragon cub seemingly eager for sustenance had now illuminated over ninety percent of its previously dim lines!

Riding the wave of publicity from the Beast Taming Sect’s closure, and adding in the gimmick of the Qi Cultivation against Foundation Establishment, culminating in an upgrade illusion technique effect, it was not unexpected for Linjing that the result of this battle was already widely sung throughout Hidden Dragon City!

As a transmigrator from an age of information explosion, Linjing didn’t dare claim to be expert in dealing with traffic and marketing, yet without ever having eaten pork, he had certainly seen pigs run; he considered the level of detail in this battle was quite in place.

"If only I had taken journalism as an elective in college."

Buzz!

Just as Linjing was staring at the Hidden Dragon pattern, suddenly, the last dim part was lit up as well.

A lifelike pattern of a white dragon cub with a faint blue glow seemed to come alive on the back of Linjing’s hand.

Meanwhile, a torrent of information surged into Linjing’s mind like a tide.

Hidden Dragon Secret Technique!

Divided into four layers!

And just like the Cyan Emperor’s Immortal Art, corresponds to Beginner, Small Success, Great Success, Perfection!

The current stage Linjing was at, was Beginner.

The progress in the beginner stage is divided based on the color of the dragon cub.

White is the lowest, followed by blue, purple, and achieving gold represents Small Success in the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique!

Upon entering the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, it possesses three remarkable effects, quite exceptional.

First, Spell Deduction.

A practitioner of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique can consume Hidden Dragon Luck to temporarily raise their comprehension and deduce the spells they own, improving the spell level!

Second, Potential Awakening.

Capable of consuming Hidden Dragon Luck to help others discover, activate, awaken hidden potential, also effective on demon beasts, especially for those with dragon blood, not only awakening potential but also enhancing the purity of dragon blood!

Third, Crisis Premonition.

Automatically consumes luck, allowing the bearer to sense an impending crisis moments before it occurs!

"These are all very practical abilities."

After grasping the entrance to the Secret Technique, Linjing immediately mastered some of the wondrous uses of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, whether it’s spell deduction or potential awakening, they were precisely what Linjing needed.

However, there was only one thing; using the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique would consume accumulated Hidden Dragon Luck. To consistently use the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique for cultivation, one’s reputation must be continually propagated in the outside world.

If it’s just a fleeting fame, it may not support the use of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique.

"During the day, I defeated Fang Shilin from Changchun Valley, which at most gives me some renown within Hidden Dragon City and Hidden Dragon Academy. But this fame, as time goes by, will soon vanish like smoke, unmentioned by anyone."

"Although the Qi Cultivation against Foundation Establishment is rare, it occasionally occurs, and besides, Changchun Valley is not a particularly strong sect. Defeating Fang Shilin isn’t a significant achievement."

"If Fang Shilin were really strong, he wouldn’t have resorted to setting up a platform to build fame. Hmm, estimated to be at the bottom level of the academy."

"It’s still necessary to defeat more powerful geniuses..."

Linjing was not attached to the current Hidden Dragon Luck and wanted to immediately experience the wondrous uses of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique.

Spell Deduction? Currently, it seems there is nothing particularly in need of deduction.

He looked at the Dragon Carp sleeping soundly beside him, and shook it awake.

"Pop!" The Dragon Carp awoke, with round eyes, looking toward Linjing.

"Bestow you a fortune!"

The dragon pattern on Linjing’s hand shimmered as he stroked the fish’s head!

Secret Technique, Potential Awakening!

Generally speaking, ninety-nine percent of practitioners of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique use the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique to deduce their own spells, enhancing their prowess.

After all, one’s own strength is the foundation.

Some rare practitioners of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique will help others activate potential, mostly aiding offspring, disciples, as it consumes accumulated Hidden Dragon Luck.

It is quite rare for academy students to use it to nurture pet beasts, because even if the pet beast becomes strong, the relation to oneself isn’t that significant, unlike offspring.

Only someone like Linjing, who can later form a bloodline contract with a Dragon Blood pet beast as a Beast Taming Cultivator, wouldn’t waste the Hidden Dragon Luck nurturing a pet beast.

"Pop!" The Dragon Carp continued staring, immediately feeling its blood boiling, flames flash in its pupils.

The head was so itchy...

Its mind blurred, as if it sneakily consumed Linjing’s Peach Blossom Spirit Pill.

The Dragon Carp wasn’t sure if it was an illusion; it seemed to witness a beast of extraordinary splendor, walking through fire, majestic and awe-inspiring.

This giant beast had a stag’s head, dragon’s horns, ox hooves, horse’s tail, covered in flaming scales, brimming with dominance.

At that moment, the Dragon Carp felt a close connection with it, its skin... ignited with patches of flame, the flame like scales, overflowing with dragon majesty, exceptionally divine!

Externally, Linjing didn’t know everything the Dragon Carp sensed, but seeing the terrifying flames soaring from the Dragon Carp whose potential was awakened, and its aura breaking through towards the ninth layer of Qi Cultivation, he was taken aback!

No way?

Is the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique really that fierce?

"What is this?!" He looked puzzled at the Dragon Carp’s transformation.

"This is Beast Fire! Top-tier Beast Fire!" Suddenly, a familiar voice whispered into Linjing’s ear.

God Pine emerged saying, "I always knew your Dragon Carp had an extraordinary bloodline, but I never expected its ancestry to have ’Fire Qilin’ blood."

"Your Dragon Carp’s initial flame was a mere common Spiritual Fire, just a notch above mortal fire. After three months of potential stimulation, the Immortal Blood Baptism granted it astonishing Divine Power and Netherworld Ghost Fire, but its flame bloodline never altered."

"Although it never changed, it laid an incredibly powerful foundation. It was already a rare mutated bloodline, now further strengthened by the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, finally assisting it in crossing the threshold, unlocking the shackles within its bloodline memory, transforming its Spiritual Fire into Beast Fire!"

"This is Dragon Flame, Qilin Dragon Flame, utterly top-grade Beast Fire, far superior to Spiritual Fire. If it were to battle that squirrel without external aid, the victor would be uncertain."

After God Pine spoke, Linjing was momentarily stunned, Fire Qilin bloodline?

Legend has it, Yinglong gave birth to Jianma, Jianma to Qilin, Qilin to all beasts, Qilin does indeed have dragon blood; he looked towards the Dragon Carp with half-closed eyes, feeling sheer joy within his heart.