Immortal through Beast Taming

"The Ghost Bride, during her lifetime, was suspected to be a cultivator with a Yin-Gathering Spirit Body.

This constitution, with its cold spiritual power, easily transforms into a powerful ghost after death.

The Ghost Bride appears as a spirit in a red wedding dress, with a red veil obscuring her face. Because of her constitution, she became a vessel for countless ancient grudges after death."

"After the Golden Era descended, the Ghost Bride first appeared in Seven Treasures City, among the eighty-one Buddha Cities in the Western Desert. Every Buddhist cultivator who tried to purify her was killed by the Ghost Bride, including Ancestor Master Qibao, who, with a cultivation at the late stage of Divinity Transformation, was no exception."

"Numerous cultivators and citizens fled Seven Treasures City, and soon after, it became a Ghost City."

"Several attacks by Buddhist experts were made, and a Void Profound Buddhist Cultivator descended, attempting to reclaim Seven Treasures City, but all were repelled by the Ghost Bride. The undisputed strength of Void Profound..."

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"The second, the Ghost Shadow."

"The formless ghost with a shadowy body, aside from the ability of 'possession and seizing others,' has no other known special abilities."

"Possessing an almost unbeatable ability to seize the bodies of others, after the Golden Era descended, it broke free from beneath the Immortal Fate Temple. After taking over the body of a Divinity Transformation Stage abbot, it immediately left."

"When Buddhist strongmen pursued, this entity had already occupied the body of a solitary Demon Ancestor in the Western Desert, significant enough to make it immensely hard to resolve."

"Its strength is hard to estimate, extremely dangerous."

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"The third, the Ghost Mother."

"Appearing as a pink jellyfish spirit body, its origin is unknown, but it's a device ghost."

"With a bizarre ability to enter various artifacts and weapons, transforming into an Artifact Spirit."

"Once inside an artifact, it can sever the connection between the artifact and its owner, unleashing power far beyond normal capabilities."

"Due to the presence of the Ghost Mother, the Western Desert has often experienced 'artifact devourer incidents.' The highest known cultivation victim was an Artifact Refining Cultivator from Martial Emperor City, at half-step Void Profound, crafting Buddhist tools in the Western Desert, killed by his own numerous artifacts..."

"Currently, the Ghost Mother has become a mobile treasure trove, possessing countless artifacts, and continues amassing weapons."

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Lin Jing, after reviewing these three entities recognized by the Buddhists as Void Profound ghosts, fell into contemplation.

"This Ghost Bride, being a humanoid ghost, doesn't seem suitable."

"This Ghost Shadow, although occupying a Demon Ancestor's body, is just a demon beast shell, making it hard to determine if the Ghost Shadow is essentially a demon ghost."

"As for this device ghost, the Ghost Mother, despite being a jellyfish and sea creature, appears to be more bizarre than the other two."

"The Buddhists are indeed miserable, hehe." Elder Leilong, who was peeking from the side, couldn't help but say: "These are merely ghosts at the Void Profound level, not even counting the tangible demons."

"So, Your Highness the Saint Son, which one shall we catch?"

After some thought, Lin Jing pointed to the information on the Ghost Mother and said, "I'm quite interested in this ghost, a device ghost that manipulates artifacts to kill... Based on the current information, only it has displayed a form resembling a demon beast; it might have been a jellyfish in essence during its lifetime."

"Though I'm not sure why there's a jellyfish in this desert."

Elder Leilong mused, "This place wasn't always a desert in ancient times, so it was born a long time ago. However, the first two ghost entities have their own territories, but this one, slipping under the radar, seems a bit hard to locate..."

"Fishing should do the trick."

Lin Jing summoned the Pine Leaf Mouse, and after the small Pine Tree climbed onto Lin Jing's shoulder, Lin Jing said, "Since this Ghost Mother is a device ghost, fond of seizing artifacts and weapons to kill, we'll use enough artifact weapons to fish it out."

"For the next period, I request Elder Leilong to hold many advanced artifacts and draw the Ghost Mother's attention in this Western Desert."

"As for me, I need to undergo another session of closed cultivation to perfect the Longevity Body."

"I will provide the artifacts for luring the ghost to Elder Leilong."

Lin Jing currently has an abundance of artifacts, amassing countless artifact weapons from a battle in Heaven-Reaching City, all stored within the Pine Leaf Mouse's Demon Pill.

As for achieving the perfect Longevity Body, Lin Jing is merely a step away from success.

In terms of understanding the Longevity Body, Gu Qianqiu actually knows more than Lin Jing, given that she fell prey to the Devourer of the Sky Lion Clan for a thousand years, during which the entire efforts of the Sky Lion Clan were aimed at enhancing her mastery of the Longevity Body.

This allowed Gu Qianqiu to accomplish the miracle of achieving a fully perfected Longevity Body while still at the early-stage Golden Core cultivation.

Note that Lin Jing, with the foundation of thirteen layers of Qi Cultivation and Foundation Establishment, was only at the peak of small achievement when reaching the early-stage Golden Core.

Of course, this does not mean Lin Jing's progress was slow.

Generally speaking, for certain powerful constitutions, achieving full perfection in the Nascent Soul Stage is rare. Only with low-level constitutions such as spirit bodies, there may be hope to achieve perfection early with external aid.

Under normal circumstances, such strong constitutions comparable to the Divine Body almost certainly need to reach the Divinity Transformation Stage for perfection and completion.

If one can achieve perfection and completion before the Divinity Transformation stage, it signifies that the cultivator would have the capability to fight across levels based solely on the constitution!

The Longevity Body, although not a combat powerhouse, in terms of effectiveness, is undoubtedly comparable to the Divine Body. For Lin Jing to bring the Longevity Body close to perfection through mere decades of cultivation is already outstanding.

Now, he intends to achieve a perfected Longevity Body, which isn't difficult because he obtained Gu Qianqiu's entire experience on cultivating the Longevity Body long before he even reached Core Formation.

However, improving the Longevity Body has never been Lin Jing's primary cultivation goal, as promoting the Longevity Body level only increased lifespan without providing combat strength enhancement.

Not only does it not bring combat power enhancement, it would attract higher-grade demon beasts' covetous gazes.

The current lifespan is adequate, additional millennia offer no extra benefit.

Understandably, Lin Jing would choose Illusion Techniques and Body Refinement routes for personal enhancement.

However, circumstances have changed slightly now.

He needs the vitality brought by the perfected Longevity Body to suppress ghost entities. Moreover, after surpassing the Golden Core, the lifespan has more utility, particularly in triggering Divine Techniques and Divine Command Skills.

Thus, obtaining more lifespan through a perfected Longevity Body now offers higher cost-efficiency, prompting Lin Jing to decide to invest time in breaking through.

"Alright…" Elder Leilong sighed, hoping the Ghost Mother wouldn't be too powerful. Should he find himself unable to handle it, having to ask the Demon Emperor for help would be disgraceful.

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While Lin Jing chose to temporarily enhance the Longevity Body and left Elder Leilong responsible for luring the Ghost Mother,

Seven Treasures City.

The Red-dressed Ghost Bride standing amidst the ruins extended her hand in puzzlement: "The resonance of something from my past life..."

"Having found this, perhaps I can recover more memories." A paper resembling a marriage certificate formed in her palm, only to quickly dissipate afterward.