Immortal through Beast Taming

"This is the Indestructible Golden Body."

In the pagoda, Lin Jing stood up, enveloped in golden Buddhist light, and after mastering the rudimentary Indestructible Golden Body, his defense increased once more.

"Not only has his defense improved, but in the Golden Body state, he also gains stronger resistance against various demonic forces."

The Magic Mushroom wiped its sweat and flew back into Lin Jing's body after finally witnessing his learning.

Seeing this, Lin Jing mocked himself.

"With illusion techniques and a golden body, am I becoming an Oscar statuette?"

Boom!

At the same time, explosions resonated from afar in the pagoda.

Lin Jing spread out his Divine Sense and saw the Pine Needle Mouse, in its true Demon Emperor form, battling fiercely with the Ice Soul Gu.

Over the course of several months, both pet beasts had gained some insights into the path of obsession and begun to implement them in practical combat under Lin Jing's arrangement.

The rule was that they could not use the Demon Pill Divine Techniques during combat.

And if the Ice Soul Gu won, it could take one-tenth of the Spirit Stones stored by the Pine Needle Mouse for cultivation purposes.

Under these rules, to avoid losing its stash, the Pine Needle Mouse's eyes turned red, and its spiritual power recovery speed increased significantly. After all, without using Demon Pill Divine Techniques, it had no clear advantage over the Ice Soul Gu.

The stash was truly at risk of being lost.

However, the Ice Soul Gu was not after the one-tenth of Spirit Stones; it simply believed that under these rules, it truly had a chance to defeat the Pine Needle Mouse.

Having been used as a fridge by the Pine Needle Mouse so many times, it too wanted to win once and proudly declare its victory. This obsession significantly amplified its strength, leading to an exceptionally fierce battle between the two.

"This is the path of obsession. In the past, they had some obsessions, but these did not significantly enhance their strength. Now, regarding obsessions, they both have nearly a ten percent increase in power, which is rather terrifying."

"In the future, perhaps before the Pine Needle Mouse goes into battle, I could set a penalty for it. If it loses, it must use all its stored resources for self-enhancement... not confiscate them, but purely for self-strengthening. But even if for self-use, for one with a hoarding habit like it, this would be cataclysmic, right?" Lin Jing had a bellyful of wicked ideas.

"Stay humane. The path of obsession isn't for bullying your pet beasts." The Ghost Bride appeared nearby.

She too looked at the ruins of the city.

The Pine Needle Mouse, in its Demon Emperor form, stood a hundred meters tall, resembling a small mountain, its body covered in fierce plants, like a monstrous entity.

The Ice Soul Gu, on the other hand, was parasitizing within the body of the Crab Demon King, engaging in combat with it.

Perhaps influenced by its youth, the Pine Needle Mouse's combat style still leaned towards the mechanistic path, with two wooden turrets on its shoulders modeled after a water cannon turtle, constantly firing self-destructing pine cones.

Each pine cone's shot had power no less than a self-exploding Demon Pill, forming massive fireballs that mushroomed into clouds, leaving the Ice Soul Gu, aligned with ice, in distress and only able to use the Power of Thunder to stimulate the Crab Demon King's body's vitality, dodging like lightning throughout the city. Still, it couldn't avoid being blown away by the shockwaves and injured.

In its true form, despite the Pine Needle Mouse's amazing firepower, its mobility was limited, rendering it a sitting duck for the Ice Soul Gu.

Heavenly thunder constantly struck down at the Pine Needle Mouse, leaving charred and cracked patches over its body intermittently.

However, both had incredible defense capabilities. The Pine Needle Mouse's diamond wood body boasted immense defensive and self-healing properties, preventing the Ice Soul Gu's thunder strikes from causing significant damage. As for the Ice Soul Gu, commanding the Sea God Palace's young elite at the demon king peak body, it protected its core meticulously, and even if the body got damaged, it could quickly repair it with frost power.

For victory... the two continued to clash for several days without reaching a conclusion, expending countless spiritual power replenishing pills.

"Stop now." Lin Jing halted the Ice Soul Gu and Pine Needle Mouse.

The Ghost Bride beside him also agreed that, although still rudimentary, the path of obsession could count as just being grasped.

"Squeak..."

Upon hearing the order to cease battle, the Pine Needle Mouse in Ghost City breathed a sigh of relief, hurriedly reverting to its small form to recuperate, while the Ice Soul Gu, within the Ice Crab, felt somewhat disgruntled.

The pure ice-type demon king's corpse couldn't unleash its full strength...

Indeed, a human pet would be more useful, it looked up at the cosmic fortune gold list, eager to pick a few from the top hundred young elites of the continent.

"The time is almost up." The deadline for the Golden Light Gu's inheritance trial was nearing, and Lin Jing planned to try sealing the Ghost Bride into the Buddha-Demon Pearl.

Despite the Ghost Bride's cooperation, Lin Jing wasn't entirely confident, requiring them to reserve enough time for the attempt.

Just as Lin Jing glanced at the Ghost Bride, intending her to uphold the contract, the tiger tooth he carried suddenly trembled.

In an instant, a terrifying aura that constricted the Ghost Bride's pupils seeped out, prompting her to immediately dive underground, and simultaneously, the Thunder Dragon Ancestor, also in the pagoda, abruptly opened his eyes.

"His Majesty the Demon Emperor."

"His Majesty the Demon Emperor?" Lin Jing took out the tiger tooth, from which the Little Demon Emperor's shadow emerged.

"Lin Jing." Subsequently, from the shadow came a mature voice that completely contradicted his image.

"Your Majesty the Demon Emperor, has the situation with the Dragon Carp concluded?" Lin Jing respectfully inquired, although he seemed unable to sense the Dragon Carp's success in refining the Immortal Burial Fire and breaking through to Nascent Soul.

"I merely have something to notify you." The Demon Emperor's shadow crossed arms, pacing in mid-air, deep in thought.

"Have you sensed the anomaly in the Celestial Essence Realm just now?"

"Anomaly? No." Lin Jing shook his head.

The Demon Emperor looked at Lin Jing, saying, "What you've reported to me may soon occur. Not long ago, the Questioning Summit powerhouses on the Celestial Essence Continent sensed outsiders attempting to penetrate the Celestial Essence Realm, very likely invaders from the Celestial Demon Realm."

Lin Jing's heart skipped a beat, this quickly?

"To prevent this from happening, the Second Ancient Emperor proposed a plan."

Immediately, the Demon Emperor relayed the Second Ancient Emperor's plan to send ten elites into the Source Realm for cultivation—the Celestial Essence Fire Seed Plan—to Lin Jing.

Lin Jing, upon hearing it, was lost in thought, "The Source Realm, His Majesty the Demon Emperor implies I should strive for this spot as well?"

The Demon Emperor's eyes gleamed, "With the Celestial Demon Realm's invasion, you'll certainly be a primary assassination target, not just because you possess the Longevity Body, but also due to your mastery of the demon beast transformation method. The revival of the demon race is a substantial boost for the demon beast species and the overall strength of the Celestial Essence Realm. To prevent such an enhancement from continuing, you must be eliminated."

"Thus, I still wish for you to journey to the Source Realm. What are your own thoughts? Would you be willing to temporarily leave the Celestial Essence Realm... travel far and wide..."