Immortal through Beast Taming

"That Alchemist?"

The Artifact Refining Female Cultivator heard this, looked at Lin Jing, and couldn't help but be taken aback.

Couldn't see anything particularly special about Lin Jing.

If I had to say, it's just that his cultivation is the lowest among the group.

"Judging by your attire, you should be a pill servant from the Heaven-Reaching Tower of Qingzhou, right?"

"Don't tell me, that Alchemist is a Wandering Alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower..."

"No." Xia Yan shook his head.

"That's incredible." The Artifact Refining Female Cultivator spoke: "Even if it's an Alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower, they probably wouldn't be a match for that blond-haired youth. If these Alchemists had outstanding combat power, they wouldn't need to cultivate pill servants like you."

"I come from Martial Emperor City... so I know that blond-haired youth should be Lei Zhen, from one of the eight Martial Dao families of Martial Emperor City, the Lei Clan. With an innate dual Spirit Body of Thunder and Fire, possessing two constitutions at birth, his potential is in the absolute top tier among the geniuses in Martial Emperor City."

Xia Yan was taken aback in his heart.

Martial Emperor City!

Martial Emperor City doesn't belong to an Ancient Country, nor to Qingzhou. If Qingzhou is the Alchemy Sacred Land, then Martial Emperor City is the Artifact Refining Holy City, representing the highest level of artifact refining in the entire continent.

In Martial Emperor City, there are eight cultivating families that primarily practice martial arts, integrating Martial Dao, Weapon Dao, and Immortal Dao techniques. Additionally, every family has a virtual realm seated master guarding it and managing a quasi-Immortal Artifact.

As for the ruler of Martial Emperor City, they can control the only Immortal Artifact on the continent.

One person and one soldier, making it so that an Ancient Country has yet to annex Martial Emperor City.

One could say, in every territory on the continent that isn't part of an Ancient Country, there's a supreme guardian.

If this blond youth is indeed a genius from one of the eight Martial Dao families, then even the core Alchemist from the Heaven-Reaching Tower wouldn't be able to handle it.

"Tsk... get it now, don't you." The Artifact Refining Female Cultivator sighed. In fact, she was also from one of the eight families, but unfortunately, she was just a concubine-born child of another family and couldn't compare to a genius like Lei Zhen from the Lei Clan.

She thought entering a Grotto Heaven would be the start of her rise, but who knew she would encounter this monster of the Lei Clan.

"But I still believe... that Alchemist will win." Xia Yan slowly said.

Recalling the funeral of his father Xia Jie, even Venerable Ling Quan, with Divinity Transformation Cultivation, couldn't see that his father had possessed him with a remnant soul of flame.

But... this Wandering Alchemist did it. Not only did he see through it at a glance, but he also easily deciphered how his father became a remnant soul.

Such vision made Xia Yan firmly believe that this Alchemist... is definitely a monster.

......

Ten seconds to decide is too short.

Upon seeing the information about the artifact, ten seconds quickly passed, leaving no time for each cultivator to weigh the pros and cons.

Knowing the unfathomable depth of Lin Jing, pill servant Xia Yan immediately chose to forfeit.

The Artifact Refining Female Cultivator also recognized the blond youth, and promptly chose to forfeit as well.

As for the remaining individuals, they didn't have 100% confidence in crushing others. It was purely the short decision time, and under the reluctance to give up the supreme treasures they saw, they passively made a choice.

Once they realized, they had already become one of the contenders.

They hadn't even had time to carefully judge each opponent's background.

The boatman-dressed youth took a deep breath, but with things being as they were, he resolved to obtain the final reward at all costs.

"What a pity, if you three were able to forfeit like those two, how great that would be." The blond youth in luxurious clothing, with lightning flashing in his eyes, observed the other three and then spoke.

"Wishful thinking." The green dress girl puckered her lips. Although she seemed a bit nervous, her momentum was not inferior at all.

Lin Jing, among the four, was the most inconspicuous, with his cultivation only at the mid-Foundation Establishment stage, while the other three were at the peak of Foundation Establishment.

He looked at the other three with an expressionless face, as if looking at corpses. Although there was no enmity among the few, in the competition of the Grotto Heaven, there was no right or wrong. Everyone was considering their own interests, so they could only decide life and death.

No matter what, it won't be long in Celestial Cyan City.

At the moment, a melee ensued among the four, with no one willing to be the first to attack one side, lest a third party benefit. Instead, they all displayed their Divine Techniques, fortifying themselves.

The green dress girl's forehead displayed a grass and wood mark, her hair floating, and as her cultivation technique operated, her cultivation undulations began to rise, vaguely having the might of a Golden Core. However, upon closer inspection, it wasn't Golden Core fluctuations, but rather a temporary fake core condensed through her cultivation technique!

She seemed unconcerned about interference from others, apparently having subsequent moves, and others did not intend to interfere, each busy with their own matters.

The boatman-dressed youth, with one hand forming a seal, became the center of a frantic influx of water Spiritual Qi into his skin, turning from white to pale green, with the hue continuing to deepen... His expression grew more sinister and joyous.

As for the blond youth, he extended his palm, where a cluster of golden lightning and red flames merged, an abusive force condensing into a small sphere. As time went on, this thunderfire spell continued to intensify, quickly growing from fist-sized to head-sized, apparently with no sign of stopping.

The terrifying ascent of several people's imposing auras watch over the stalemated melee scene as the Artifact Refining Female Cultivator outside the main hall slowly spoke.

"The green dress girl's Mana intensity is almost close to the Golden Core Stage..."

"And that boatman... he isn't a pure-blood human; he has Sea Race blood... His sheer physical strength already rivals a Golden Core Body Cultivator..."

Xia Yan nodded heavily, with a grave expression: "The woman cultivates the Supreme Profound Scripture, Qingzhou's top-tier cultivation technique, which includes the False Core Arts, Illusion Infant Technique, Divinity Transformation Technique, and Void Refining Technique... At the Foundation Establishment Stage, you can manifest the power of Core Formation through the nature of the technique. Upon reaching Golden Core, you can temporarily condense an Illusion Infant. Upon reaching Nascent Soul, you can emulate Divinity Transformation intent... It's a powerful cultivation technique that allows one to consistently exceed their base realms by half a realm. She is a True Disciple of Qingzhou's Supreme Profound Sect!"

"The Sea Race... Under the Ancient Dragon Palace, the strongest battle race... The Sea Race can only perform their full capabilities within sea regions, but the Spiritual Qi quality in this Grotto Heaven is much stronger than that of the Celestial Essence Continent, the contained water Spiritual Qi can perfectly activate his Sea Race Warrior bloodline!!" Xia Yan felt that indeed the people chosen by the Grotto Heaven were much stronger than those from the family clans of Celestial Cyan City.

"But all their effort is in vain. The 'Thunderfire Pearl' that Lei Zhen is condensing, merging the two most abusive forces together, has blown up a real Golden Core before! The only flaw of this Thunderfire Pearl is its difficult condensation and long condensation time. However, as long as he's given enough time to condense it large enough, it's easy to kill a Golden Core. These few people giving him a chance to cocentrate... at least one of them will fall..." The Artifact Refining Female Cultivator spoke up, noticing along with Xia Yan that while the other three were desperately concentrating their killer moves, Lin Jing alone...

Was too plain, simply devouring pills from two bottles.

One bottle was the Essence Replenishing Pill for True Essence replenishment.

The other bottle, Xia Yan recognized, as the Gluttonous Pill.

Before entering the Grotto Heaven, Lin Jing was engaged in Alchemy, consuming a lot, and wasn't in a peak state. His Mana was less than half, and he had to strive to maintain his illusion form, so replenishing some True Essence was a choice.

He wasn't in a rush because he had already drawn a conclusion: these three people, strength-wise, were average, even inferior to the geniuses he defeated over ten years ago like Chen Fan and Yan Xiangbei; they were roughly around the tenth on the genius ranking, relatively young, in their thirties, encountering Lin Jing, who had many more years of experience, were quite unfortunate.