Immortal through Beast Taming

Western Desert.

Among those also watching the Qi Luck Golden List were Lin Jing and his group.

After a long search in the Western Desert without any results from Elder Feng Gu, Lin Jing finally experienced an unexpected joy.

The Dragon Carp successfully broke through to the Nascent Soul Stage!

Its bloodline strength reached the ancestral level due to refining the Sun Essence Fire!

This means that, as long as it doesn't perish midway, it can almost seamlessly ascend to the Demon Ancestor Realm and establish its own bloodline clan.

And the benefit this brings to Lin Jing is that his cultivation at the Early-Stage Golden Core is also elevated to Mid-Stage Golden Core due to the Dragon Carp's breakthrough.

The sudden feedback from his cultivation made Lin Jing quickly sit down to digest it.

When he stabilized his realm, he saw the change on the Golden List due to Thunder Dragon Ancestor's reminder.

"Dao Hui, isn't he the monk from the Solar Temple? The one with his head on fire."

"How come His Highness the Dragon Carp... ended up fighting him?"

"Moreover... it won?"

Thunder Dragon Ancestor was astonished.

He actually single-handedly defeated the prodigious Buddha Son from the Solar Temple!

Though Monk Dao Hui suffered quite a setback at Lin Jing's hands due to the Ghost Bride's assistance, Dragon Carp is merely a pet beast under His Highness the Saint Son!

In Thunder Dragon Ancestor's view, Monk Dao Hui is by no means weak.

With a perfected Nascent Soul cultivation, ranked twelfth on the Qi Luck Golden List, possessing a Solar Divine Body ranked in the top twenty of the Divine Body List, and having top-tier Buddhist Technique—Solar Sutra... Thunder Dragon Race's crown prince in the Nascent Soul Stage is definitely not a match for Monk Dao Hui.

Yet such a prodigious figure from the Buddhist sect was defeated across realms.

No wonder it's considered a Half-Immortal Body treasure beast...

"Probably wanted to go to the Immortal Burial Volcano to comprehend the power of heaven and earth and transform into divinity, then met Dragon Carp."

Lin Saint Heir chuckled.

Nascent Soul's ascension to Divinity Transformation requires comprehension of the power of heaven and earth.

The power of heaven and earth also comes in different levels.

Like the power of wind and rain, it's a relatively weak power of heaven and earth.

While the power of the sun and moon is a top-tier power of heaven and earth.

Monk Dao Hui cultivates the Solar Sutra and has a Solar Divine Body, naturally he would want to come to the Immortal Burial Volcano to comprehend the power of the sun for divinity transformation.

Given his foundation, divinity transformation should pose no difficulty.

However, he seems to be quite unlucky, having encountered the Dragon Carp; it's unclear how things are now.

To Lin Jing, it's not surprising that Dragon Carp might defeat him.

During the Heaven-Reaching City battle, Dragon Carp used the souls of many Void Profound, Divinity Transformation, and Nascent Soul cultivators as nourishment and had perfected the Netherworld Ghost Fire technique, likely second only to the Netherworld Hall Master in quality.

Its treasure beast divine technique can also merge countless exotic fires and use any one type of flame as the mainstay, enhancing its power to an abnormal extent...

After all, the quality of its Netherworld Ghost Fire had already reached the lower realm's limit; by using treasure beast divine techniques to merge other exotic fires, its own flame had already achieved the 'quasi-immortal fire' level.

Hence, it could relatively seamlessly enter the Immortal Burial Volcano, and the sunflame it master was a lower-ranked flame to the Sun Essence Fire. Using other flames as nourishment to synthesize quasi-immortal flame-level sunflame allows it to better adapt to the Sun Essence Fire.

This was the key to its entrance to the Immortal Burial Volcano and attempt to refine the Sun Essence Fire. Rather than refining, it was more about upgrading its sunflame. By comparison to its own foundation, His Majesty the Demon Emperor's assistance was secondary.

Otherwise, any other Golden Core Stage, even with assistance from a Seeking Dao cultivator, couldn't refine Sun Essence Fire.

Now, it seems Dragon Carp has perfectly refined the Sun Essence Fire, and its flames, having been fused through the Flame Emperor divine technique, have certainly reached the true immortal fire level!

"With immortal fire in hand, among its peers, unless one borrows strong external forces, no one can defeat it."

"Although Monk Dao Hui has external forces within, the Immortal Burial Volcano is a ghostly forbidden zone, the ghost god power within him can't reveal itself, so he can only rely on the Solar Divine Body and Solar Sutra to fight, though these physique and cultivation techniques are strong, they can only be crushed by immortal fire."

Immortal fire.

Now, Dragon Carp has become invincible.

Within the Celestial Essence Continent, only the quality of the Ascension tribulation can be compared with it among pure natural powers.

The power corresponding to immortal fire is celestial thunder.

The representative of celestial thunder is the heavenly tribulation.

However, not all heavenly tribulations are of immortal quality.

Only the strongest heavenly tribulation known as the Ascension Thunder Tribulation has its intensity and quality perfectly reaching the immortal level, serving as the ultimate test given by the Immortal Realm to the lower realm cultivators.

Although tribulations like the Void Profound Tribulation, Seeking Dao Tribulation, Transformation Tribulation, and heavenly tribulations triggered by Thunder Tribulation Gu only display partial powers of heavenly tribulations, representing pseudo-immortal product or quasi-celestial thunder.

Otherwise, if it were complete celestial thunder, Void Profound and Seeking Dao cultivators wouldn't dare dream of successfully overcoming it.

And now, possessing true immortal fire, though synthesized postnatally and not innate immortal fire, Dragon Carp has enough confidence to ignore all heavenly tribulations except the Ascension Tribulation.

"But none of these are key; the key is, why did the pet beast ascend to the Golden List before me..."

Lin Jing scratched his head.

But this also allowed Lin Jing to understand the rules of the Golden List.

As long as the pet beast acts independently, not relying on any power from him as the Beast Master in battle, it can defeat other prodigies individually and ascend to the list on its own, instead of having its achievements credited to him as the Beast Master.

For him to ascend to the list as a Beast Master, he can't rely solely on his pet beast to defeat strong enemies; he must actively participate and demonstrate some results, meaning at least some use of beast taming secret techniques.

"Anyhow, it's all good news."

"Congratulations, Your Highness the Saint Son, and His Highness the Dragon Carp."

"But Saint Son, doesn't His Highness the Dragon Carp have an authentic name bound to its fate? How come the list shows its species name?"

Half a day later, Thunder Dragon Ancestor voiced his doubt.

"Well..." Lin Jing fell into thought.

"I heard some Feng Shui Masters can give names that bolster one's cultivation path... Back then, I thought I'd temporarily not name them, wait until I met a great master and then request an auspicious name for enhanced fortune."

"I see, no wonder His Highness the Saint Son can cultivate pet beasts to such excellence, not overlooking even such minor details." Thunder Dragon Ancestor praised.

"And then?" it asked.

Lin Jing pondered, "And then calling them by their species name became a habit—Pine Leaf Mouse, Dragon Carp, Ice Soul Gu... and so I forgot to find a Feng Shui Master to get names."

Thunder Dragon Ancestor: "..."

He wiped his brow, saying, "With Your Highness the Saint Son's current status, finding a master proficient in fate should be easy. Here in the Western Desert, there ought to be many such masters; Your Highness could spare some time to get names for them, after all, these are figures on the Qi Luck Golden List, representing the highest talents of the Celestial Essence Realm; it's quite peculiar to be without a name."