Beast Taming Ascension

Chapter 587 Asking
"Big tycoon, big tycoon!"

Nearby, Mo Song finally understood why the tortoise hadn't shown him its harvest in the cave.

It's so tempting that you can't help but want to snatch it.

It shook its head, deciding to ignore it and leave.

"Thanks for your hard work."

Lin Jing summoned the mechanical turtle and touched its shell.

Lin Jing's order was not to keep the mechanical tortoise by his side, but to send it to search for various treasures.

Allowing the mechanical turtle to modify and upgrade itself was also a privilege granted by the forest.

The mechanical turtle taught itself mechanical arts, upgraded to the Dao Inquiry Realm, and brought back many treasures, which was within the Lin Jing's expectations.

However, the path chosen by the mechanical turtle made Lin Jing sigh.

The question of "asking the way" is a question that every life has its own meaning in cultivation. The Forest Realm did not interfere with the mechanical turtle's questioning, having long ago given it the right to choose for itself.

The mechanical turtle can choose its own future training goals based on its own preferences, and whatever they are, it will be supported.

These are Lin Jing's exact words to the mechanical turtle before he left. Finding treasures for him, the beast tamer, is not the sole purpose of its life. The mechanical turtle has already gained intelligence and can choose some goals it likes to pursue. Finding treasures can be just an embellishment to its life and cultivation process, not the whole thing.

However, Lin Jing did not expect that the mechanical turtle would still make finding treasures for him its biggest goal for leveling up and integrate them into its soul, seeking the Dao through the Way of Wandering.

Even without the companionship of a beast tamer, a tortoise wandering the world can be of great help to a beast tamer; this is the path of cultivation chosen by the mechanical tortoise.

As the first pet beast in the team to seek enlightenment, its path was not for itself, but to fully assist Lin Jing, the beast tamer, which left Lin Jing somewhat helpless.

I don't know what path the other pets will choose... In any case, Lin Jing doesn't want to interfere. A path that is interfered with by others cannot last long.

"For the next period of time, you won't have to wander anymore."

The mechanical turtle was greatly alarmed.

“Master, how can this be? I cultivate the Way of Wandering. Only by leaving you and wandering can I unleash my full power!”

"Together we're a pile of dung, but scattered we're a sky full of stars. Only by leaving can I truly demonstrate my abilities."

Lin Jing threw the tortoise on the ground and said, "It's been hundreds of years. Where did you learn all this nonsense?"

"Don't forget, you're not just a treasure-hunting turtle, but also a nemesis of magical artifacts, a weapon demon."

"Before the proliferation of immortal power and techniques for controlling immortal artifacts with immortal power, it was the only known existence that allowed one to control a low-grade immortal artifact with the help of Void Profound cultivation."

"In terms of talent for manipulating magical artifacts, you are definitely top-notch in the lower realm."

"So, my mastery of the Dao of Control, combined with your mastery of the Treasure Control, when we become one, it's not as simple as shit. You think we're useless together because we only had low-grade immortal artifacts before. Even if we were separate, we could still control them individually."

"but……"

The next moment, Lin Jing took out a superior-grade immortal sword that was almost impossible to exist in this lower realm. At the moment the flowing light and falling star appeared, the mechanical turtle's eyes turned green. It simply could not believe that such a thing existed in the lower realm.

Top-grade...a legendary sword!
Even at the peak of the Immortal Realm and Immortal Palace, top-grade immortal artifacts were considered extremely valuable treasures, and only top-tier Immortal Lords were worthy of possessing them.

"Are you interested in learning with me how to successfully swing this thing with a sword without dying from exhaustion?"

The mechanical turtle nodded frantically.

"Hehehe!" Beside her, Grandma Gu was also looking forward to it. Hurry up, hurry up, she was looking forward to it too.

Since he's going to use a sword... Lin Jing will definitely merge with it before swinging the sword.

After all, in order to save energy, Lin Jing entrusted the inheritance of the Heavenly Vengeance Demon Emperor to it for comprehension.

At that time, Lin Jing will use his life force to improve his mastery of the Imperial Dao, while the mechanical turtle will provide him with mastery of the Sword Dao. The mechanical turtle will be responsible for controlling the immortal sword. With the three of them working together, they might actually be able to unleash an invincible sword strike in this lower realm.

The energy expenditure of this sword strike is definitely greater than that of the old fisherman using a high-grade immortal artifact fishing rod. After all, one is an offensive immortal artifact and the other is a tool-type immortal artifact. However, the old fisherman can become one of the strongest in the lower realm with just a fishing rod. So when they can wield this sword strike, wouldn't the Heavenly Hatred Demon Emperor and the Hellblood Demon God be as easy as fighting a Gu worm baby?
…………

Seeing the mechanical turtle's path, the other pets also fell into thought.

After Kongxuan passes through the Refining Emptiness stage, he will immediately enter the Fusion of the Dao stage, and each pet beast will need to choose its own path of cultivation.

This is a matter that cannot be taken lightly. If you make the wrong choice, you might end up like the Thunder Dragon Ancestor, affecting your cultivation ceiling.

Even if they possess extraordinary talent and have laid a solid foundation for immortality in advance, it might not affect their breakthrough in the Dao of Immortality. They could even reach the pinnacle of the lower realm with an unreliable path. However, looking towards the more distant future, they will ultimately be affected.

At present, only the Heavenly Emperor Frog doesn't have to worry about these things. Its cultivation level is the lowest, and it is still far from merging with the Dao. After arriving in Tianyuan, it began to use the blood crystal of the Blood Clan's ancestor to strengthen its bloodline.

Activate that... the true bloodline power belonging to the descendants of the Heavenly Emperor.

Lin Jing, although he had planned to use this time to cultivate, before that, he was constantly dripping blood to incubate the Immortal Lord-level pet egg he had brought back from the secret realm.

One drop, two drops... a whole basin.

Lin Jing coughed up blood; he had already dripped a basin full of blood, but the egg showed no signs of hatching.

He felt he had been deceived by the spirit of the mechanism.

A Celestial Lord-level pet egg requires a drop of Celestial Blood to hatch.

He has already obtained the body of an immortal, and theoretically he can be considered an immortal. Therefore, under normal circumstances, he should be able to hatch and recognize a master.

However, Lin Jing did not expect that this egg would require so much blood.

"I said it would be hatched with drops of immortal blood, but I didn't say how much blood was needed!" Lin Jing could almost see the pale and powerless explanation from the spirit of the mechanism.

"The blood was indeed absorbed by the egg, but there's still no sign of it hatching. Could it be that although I possess the body of an immortal, my cultivation level is still too low, and the immortal power contained in my blood is insufficient to support the egg's hatching..."

Lin Jing himself fell into deep thought, and in short, he felt that this egg was a trap.

He immediately stopped the bloodletting... It was extremely difficult for him to replenish his blood energy; every drop was precious and he couldn't waste it like this. Otherwise, he would soon suffer from depleted blood energy, resulting in a significant loss of vital energy and a decline in his cultivation level.

Helplessly sealing the egg deep within his body, Lin Jing sighed and decided to try hatching it when his cultivation level was higher; right now, he simply didn't have the ability.

"What is my Dao?"

Lin Jing had pondered this question before, in front of the Thunder Dragon Ancestor and the Ghost Bride, when he was only at the Golden Core stage. Now, a thousand years later, he still hadn't found a satisfactory answer. Although his strength had long surpassed most Dao Inquiry stage experts, his exploration of his own path remained lagging behind. "Considering my experiences, merely surviving in chaotic times, preserving myself under various threats, seems to be my strongest cultivation goal right now. But this..." Lin Jing was certain that this experience was merely a product of circumstances, not the true path he wanted to cultivate.

Could it be that one must rely on immortal power, without exploring one's true nature, and instead seek the Dao through force?

He closed his eyes and, as he advanced his cultivation level, began to question his own heart, asking himself why he should continue his cultivation.

Before he knew it, Lin Jing's cultivation level had quickly risen to the mid-stage of the Void Profound Realm.

The descending heavenly tribulation was casually dispersed by Lin Jing.

He is still contemplating his next steps.

Compared to the forest, the pets are simple-minded and don't have as many thoughts.

With the mechanical tortoise setting an example, the pets followed suit and merged with the Dao.

The accumulated resources of the Origin Realm can finally be unleashed.

The leaf rat, reflecting on its cultivation path, chose the path of hoarding, the hoarding rat's path. However, it was not simply the path of hoarding, but rather, like the mechanical turtle, it was a path cultivated for the sake of others.

Regardless of whether they are useful or not, we must save every penny and hoard a large amount of resources for unforeseen circumstances. In critical moments, we can provide assistance to the Beast Tamers, using a vast amount of resources with countless effects to reverse unfavorable situations and safeguard the cultivation path of the Forest Realm.

As the first pet of the forest, it only hoped that the forest could always be well.

Long Li is the most simple and honest, and he is very clear about his true self. Although he has always worked hard in the team, doing alchemy and weapon repair, Long Li has always had the strongest heart. As a proud member of the dragon race, he wants to become the strongest ace by Lin Jing's side, rather than being known as an alchemist and repairman.

After some thought, it decided to pursue the "path of the strongest" and continue its cultivation with that goal in mind. Although it disliked alchemy and weapon crafting, it was willing to endure the trials that came with these methods if they could lead it to the path of the strongest.

However, one day, it wanted the entire cultivation world, and even the entire immortal world, to know that it, the Dragon Carp, was Lin Jing's strongest trump card, not known for being a royal alchemist. This was its greatest motivation to continue cultivating, and it was also the initial thought in the Dragon Carp's heart when Lin Jing helped it leap over the dragon gate and transform into a dragon: to be the strongest one.

The Ice Soul Gu thought the least. As an artificially created Gu worm, it was born to "coexist" with cultivators. When it first saw Lin Jing, it felt that he smelled very good and wanted to suck on Lin Jing every day. However, as the contract between them lasted longer, the Ice Soul Gu found that although it did not suck on much of Lin Jing's flesh and blood, Lin Jing really fed it good things in order to cultivate it. The inheritance of the Nine Great Gu, the Gu God... top experts were not stingy with it, a Gu worm that coveted its flesh and blood. Gradually, the Ice Soul Gu got used to being with Lin Jing.

It has only one wish: to continue cultivating and not be separated from the forest realm, to live together.

This is the way of symbiosis.

Compared to the decisiveness of the previous four pets, Xing Shouhe did not choose to follow Lin Jing when Lin Jing was weak. Although they spent a considerable amount of time together, Lin Jing did not have many experiences in the past thousand years except for cultivation, unlike when he was with the Pine Leaf Rat and the others.

Therefore, Hoshino is the most confused one.

She originally intended to pursue the path of revenge, making it her greatest goal in cultivation. After all, the Blood Demon God Legion of the Heavenly Demon Realm had killed her parents and imprisoned her entire clan.

As a princess, she should have inherited her parents' wishes and led her entire tribe to overthrow the enemy's rule. But what happened after that?

Xing Shouhe asked himself.

When she first made the contract, Xing Shouhe was only in her early twenties, no different from a child. Before she knew it, she looked back and realized that she had already taken Lin Jing, who accompanied her in cultivating magic and gave her a new life, the pine leaf rat who often used the Glazed Immortal Eye to lay the foundation for her, the dragon carp that regularly delivered cultivation pills to help her become stronger, and the Gu Grandma who liked to suck her breath from time to time and said that she would take care of revenge when the time came.

Hoshino Shoho also figured it out: although revenge was necessary, it was better to protect new bonds than to wallow in hatred.

The path of protection is a path chosen by many cultivators.

Xing Shouhe wants to protect the contracts made in the forest and doesn't want his new home to repeat the mistakes of the past.

One after another, the pet beasts rapidly improved their cultivation levels and completed the fusion with the Dao. Lin Jing, the beast tamer, naturally sensed all their cultivation aspirations.

"You guys are so casual..."

Lin Jing looked at the starry sky. He was not a traditional cultivator. He did not seek immortality, money, or the power to control the life and death of others. He simply wanted to survive in this chaotic world and live under various threats.

He survived.

Not only did he survive, but he also became a very powerful cultivator.

But this is not entirely his own achievement.

He initially chose the path of beast taming, and all these beasts contributed to his growing stronger to varying degrees.

He selected a group of pet beasts and helped them become stronger. These pet beasts, in turn, gave Lin Jing the same amount of help, enabling Lin Jing to overcome all difficulties and become the great cultivator he is today, instead of being a coveted immortal being.

And it seems that these beasts intend to continue protecting themselves...

Lin Jing began to ponder what exactly the Imperial Path was.

"I have little interest in becoming a Celestial King or Celestial Emperor, and I have no interest in ascension."

"It was these pets that helped me get to where I am today and helped me survive. Therefore, my path is not just for myself."

"As a beast tamer, I should help these pets fulfill their dreams, but alas, their dreams are all related to me."

"They've poured all their hopes into me now, so all I can do is not let them down and not let their wishes be in vain."

"My Way..."

Lin Jing thought for a moment and realized that the "Way of Contract" seemed to suit him best. In the name of the Beast Taming Contract, he promised the Pine Leaf Rat that he would live well, promised the Dragon Carp that its name would resound throughout the heavens, promised the Ice Soul Gu that they would be together forever, and promised the Star Longevity Crane that he would protect everyone...

This contract will be the driving force for Lin Jing to become stronger in the future.

This is not his own path, but a combination of many paths of pet beasts, making it incredibly powerful.

Lin Jing used the Beast Taming Contract to integrate the Dao Will of his pets and merge it with his own will!
Within the Grand Array of the Universe, time flows.

Not much time had passed for the outside world.

The resulting towering shockwaves reverberated across the entire continent.

Destiny accelerated his cultivation speed. No longer hampered by the Longevity Body, and with the feedback from his pets' breakthroughs, Lin Jing finally stood up and broke through to the Dao Inquiry Realm before the Pine Leaf Rat, Dragon Carp, Ice Soul Gu, and the others.

A new path to enlightenment has been born, and countless powerful figures are turning their gazes toward Qingzhou.

"Is it another spirit or something else? Wait, this power fluctuation... how can it be so terrifying?"

One powerful figure after another looked in shock toward the direction of the new breakthrough... It seemed that even the Heavenly Tribulation had not yet materialized.

"Damn, this kid finally asked the question, that's fast enough... I don't know about the Heavenly Vengeance Demon Emperor, but the Spirit King is definitely going to get a beating." Only the Demon Pine, who was closest to the Demon Pine, could clearly see that the Heavenly Tribulation of Asking the Question had only just begun to take shape when it was dispelled by a gaze from within the great formation. In all its long life, this was the first time it had seen such a powerful seeker of the question. The Heavenly Tribulation of Asking the Question didn't even have the intention of testing whether the seeker's path was firm and strong!

(End of this chapter)