Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 199 - The Tenth Transformation of the Precious Pearl (Unexpected Event)
After scanning the memories of the water bandit leader, Lin Le shook his head. The Nine Treasures Sect was utterly rotten.

They dared to let someone rob them and take back the things they were selling.

Although, according to the memories of the water bandit leader, it was done by an outer sect steward, from Jiang Hanfei's perspective, that outer sect steward was merely a mid-level manager in a chain of interests.

Lin Le continued rowing, this time in a different direction.

He wasn't going to the water bandits' lair; he wouldn't even look at some of the goods that, when added together, weren't worth ten mid-grade spirit stones.

However, a message caught the water bandit's attention: the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King were about to reincarnate once again.

The Black and White Forest has no demon race, but it has a special pair of beings: the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King.

They were born together and will die together. No one knows when they will die, but the people of the Nine Treasures Sect and the Wei Lu Kingdom know.

Whenever the older generation of Black Living Tree King and White Dead Mushroom King passes away, a new generation of Black Living Tree King and White Dead Mushroom King is immediately born.

The heartwood of the old Black Living Tree King, mixed with the spiritual liquid of the White Dead Mushroom King, gave birth to a special spiritual object called the Black and White Reincarnation Pearl.

This precious pearl can enable a person to experience a cycle of reincarnation, thereby allowing the nascent soul to rapidly transform.

Once you reach the Nascent Soul Realm, it's no longer a stage where you can quickly improve simply by having enough ordinary resources; comprehension, resources, and time are all indispensable.

The key to reaching the Nascent Soul Realm lies in the word "transformation".

According to Lin Le, just like the metamorphosis of insects, each change is a transformation that takes time to accumulate.

Lin Le still needs this kind of treasure.

Somewhere in the Black and White Forest, a black tree a hundred feet tall stands proudly, and a huge white mushroom grows on its lower third, shaped like a hook.

Be like a man.

The cultivators who had long been stationed here were used to this bizarre situation. Some of them, who had lived longer, thought it was... well, rather bizarre.

Anyway, every generation of Black Living Tree King and White Dead Mushroom King looks strange, so I suspect that most of the gods and demons buried in this land in ancient times were also abnormal.

Looking at the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King, Ling Muzhu couldn't help but slightly open her mouth. Then, she nudged Lin Le beside her and said with a smile:

"Junior brother, this looks like you."

I don’t know if it’s because of the ageless effect, but apart from her hair and eyebrows, Lin Le looks like she has no hair at all, and her skin is all white and jade-like.

Lin Le glanced at her sideways: "I'll feed you later."

"No." Ling Muzhu subconsciously pressed her hand to her throat.

She's not a snake; her throat can expand.

Lin Le activated the True Meaning of Death Omens, observing the impending deaths of the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King.

Then he raised an eyebrow, because he couldn't see.

That's true; there's no such thing as death for the creatures of heaven and earth.

Lin Le used his psychic eyes to observe the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King more closely with his divine sense, and finally discovered a pattern at the junction of the two.

The cycle of life and death between the two is collapsing at a certain speed.

Based on my estimation, it will take another half a month before it completely collapses. I estimate that that will be the beginning of the new cycle of the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King.

Lin Le hung the leopard skin pouch on a treetop, then led Ling Muzhu inside.

Since it will take another half month, we can't waste that time.

Sitting at the intersection of Yin and Yang, Lin Le and Ling Muzhu joined hands and skillfully activated the Yin-Yang Interaction Technique.

Yin and Yang are in harmony, with affection but no desire. The Yin and Yang energies envelop the two like a yin-yang fish, and the two wholeheartedly control and refine their own magical power.

Eight days later, during another dual cultivation session, Lin Le's golden core reached its peak rotation speed first, and then easily crushed the bottleneck blocking his way.

The Golden Elixir undergoes ten cycles, with three cycles per breath.

The moment Lin Le broke through to the tenth stage of the Golden Core realm, he had a sudden realization: he could implant the spells, techniques, and secret methods he had learned into it.

It will nurture and elevate innate supernatural powers to a higher level.

Lin Le quickly made his decision. There was no need to hesitate about planting the three ten-turn Hunyuan Golden Pills into the Three Caves Hunyuan Burning World True Scripture, since his foundation was all in this fundamental method.

The Yellow Court Primordial Seed is planted into the Primordial Qi Technique; the Spirit Platform Primordial Seed is planted into the Dragon Sparrow Fighting Heaven Technique; the Heavenly Gate Primordial Seed is planted into the Heaven and Earth Only I Observe.

The remaining Hunyuan Chapter, Fenshi Chapter, and Wanxiang Chapter were each re-enhanced.

As for the Azure Golden Core, its foundation was slightly weaker, so it was unable to break through to the tenth level of the Golden Core stage.

After Lin Le finished imparting the Burning World Scripture, he merged his consciousness with Ling Muzhu's and slowly transferred the knowledge he had learned from the books he had read to her.

As for the restrictions imposed by the sect, Lin Le had already lifted them. Nobody wants to have a bunch of time bombs stuck in their head. Even if it's a main restriction, it's still unacceptable if it's not very harmful.

So when he was updating the Burning World Sutra, he also took the opportunity to study it.

It took Lin Le three days to pass on all his knowledge to Ling Muzhu.

You can force-feed the Golden Elixir, but you can't do that with people.

Lin Le then gave her another 100,000 merits.

With her current level of understanding, she should be able to organize her own thoughts into this vast knowledge base.

Just as she was about to break through to the tenth level of the Golden Core stage after digesting what she had learned, Lin Le suddenly made a move to suppress her.

Ling Muzhu looked at Lin Le with a puzzled expression. Lin Le shook his head slightly and said, "This place is isolated from the outside world. Breaking through here is not conducive to the revival of your Dao body." The leopard skin bag is not a blessed land connected to the rules of the outside world. Apart from the rules of heaven and earth inherent in the spiritual object itself, you can't comprehend anything here.

Ling Muzhu nodded slightly.

Lin Le appeared outside the leopard skin pouch with Ling Muzhu.

He wasn't in a hurry to take Ling Muzhu away, after all, the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King were about to die.

Lin Le carefully observed the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King. After half a day, the two finally stepped into the boundary of collapse.

As he watched the collapse, Lin Le seemed to have an epiphany, and used 10,000 human merits to achieve enlightenment.

Ling Muzhu seemed to sense something as well, and entered a state of enlightenment.

However, as the two were comprehending, the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King began to collapse, and the surrounding cultivators prepared to pluck them.

One after another, the pitch-black leaves fell, and the Black Living Tree King began to turn into powder from top to bottom, scattering in the wind like spores.

When it dissipated to about a third of its original size, the White Dead Mushroom King fell and crashed to the ground with a loud bang, just like a thick tree trunk.

Meanwhile, in a certain part of the Black and White Forest, a black living tree and a white dead mushroom seemed to have received extremely abundant nutrients and began to grow rapidly.

But after growing for a short time, or rather, it sensed something and abandoned the pair of black living trees and white dead mushrooms.

Lin Le suddenly sensed something was wrong and immediately exited his state of enlightenment.

Ignoring his annoyance at who interrupted his state of enlightenment, Lin Le scanned the area with his spiritual eye and immediately sensed the anomaly.

An extremely powerful spiritual force rushed towards him.

In an instant, Lin Le determined the source of this spirituality: the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King!
Why are they rushing this way?
Lin Le frowned. Although he didn't know what they wanted to do, he knew it was definitely not a good thing. Otherwise, he wouldn't have felt threatened and exited the state of enlightenment.

How to deal with it?
This spirituality is extremely vast, exceeding even the level of a Nascent Soul Dao Lord in terms of quantity.

As his thoughts continued to race, Lin Le quickly came up with an idea.

Lin Le carried Ling Muzhu and soared into the sky.

When they see their target and are about to leave, how can they be willing to do so?

boom!
A beam of black and white light shot out from the ground, heading straight for Lin Le, who was flying high in the sky.

Seeing the black and white light flying towards him, Lin Le frowned, because he realized that the black and white light was aimed at Ling Muzhu in his arms.

Are they after the Mysterious Female Dao Body?

Lin Le pondered for a moment, then a sudden inspiration struck him, and his face immediately darkened.

This thing actually wants to pull that "rebirth by borrowing someone else's body" trick!

Rebirth through possession is mostly a trick played by remnants of ancient gods and demons and high-level cultivators.

For example, ancient books record that a woman saw a bird egg while traveling, swallowed it, and gave birth to a child named Qi without having intercourse with a man.

Qi possessed innate superhuman strength and astonishing comprehension. Even without a Dao Body, he could rival those with one, ultimately achieving great success.

That contract was the reincarnation of a remnant spirit of a primordial god or demon; its mother merely served as its mother body.

Most people would probably accept it with joy, since when one person attains enlightenment, even their chickens and dogs benefit.

Even though these remnants of innate gods and demons lack the physical constitution and talents of their previous lives, they have retained their affinity for the Great Dao of their past lives.

It is not the body of the Dao, but it is better than the body of the Dao, and it is destined to be revered as an ancestor.

Faced with such a chance to rise to prominence, most people accept things like getting pregnant before marriage.

But Lin Le is no good. What's the difference between that and stepping on his face and making him green with envy?
He also figured out why the Black Living Tree King and the White Dead Mushroom King kept reincarnating. It turned out that this guy wanted to understand the secret of reversing death and rebirth, hoping to live another life.

However, having stayed in this place for so many years, it probably thought it was impossible, so after sensing an extremely superior mother body, it couldn't wait to rush over.

Seeing the approaching black and white light, Lin Le gritted his teeth and then threw a punch.

The red and blue qi swept towards it.

The black and white light rushed straight ahead, its intelligence having been almost completely destroyed over time.

Only after sensing Ling Muzhu's overflowing Daoist aura did it instinctively rush over.

The red and blue aura collided with the black and white mystic light, and then a leopard skin pouch suddenly appeared, swallowing it up.

Seeing this, Lin Le felt relieved; this thing indeed belonged to the category of rare and precious creatures.

Lin Le frantically channeled his magic power into the leopard skin pouch, activating its third characteristic: Spirit Transformation.

Spiritual transformation allows one to absorb spiritual objects and create a suitable environment, which can then produce special products such as spiritual materials, spiritual plants, or mystical crystals.

As drops of elixir and spiritual essence were consumed, Lin Le and the black and white mystic light became locked in a tug-of-war.

Although the black and white light was once part of the innate gods and demons, it could not withstand the erosion of time. The leopard skin pouch still retains the status of a mid-grade magic weapon, which can barely suppress the black and white light.

Below, the Nascent Soul cultivator who was about to put away the Black Living Tree Heart and the White Necromancer Liquid was also attracted by Lin Le's movements.

Sensing that Lin Le's cultivation was only at the Golden Core stage, a hint of greed appeared in the eyes of the Nascent Soul cultivator.

He sensed that the black and white light must be something good.

(End of this chapter)