A mortal cultivating immortality can nurture spirit beasts.

Chapter 176 The Grinning Bloodline

Before me stretched a blue sky and white clouds, an endless expanse of emerald green grassland, and distant, faintly visible, towering mountains, making it feel as if I were on some kind of land.

Zi Ling and Xin Ruyin both looked surprised. This place didn't seem like the Void Heaven Palace at all.

"This must be a small space created by ancient cultivators. Let's go!"

The three flew to a secluded place, and Lin He's figure changed, transforming into a burly, strong man with his cultivation level reaching the mid-stage of Core Formation.

The two women were somewhat surprised, but did not press the matter. Lin He took out a set of concealment formations, and then took out a small bottle. A dark, yin energy appeared inside the bottle, which was Xuan Gu's soul.

As soon as Xuan Gu emerged, it immediately tried to escape. However, Lin He was now a Nascent Soul cultivator, and his strength far surpassed what it had been before. With just a golden light, he easily trapped it. Then, Lin He grabbed it with his large hand and began to search its soul.

After a long while, Lin He stopped, then took out the Soul-Crying Beast, absorbed the Xuan Bone's soul, and completely annihilated it.

Putting away the Crying Soul Beast, Lin He pondered and said, "As agreed before, I will go with Wan'er and Qing Shi to pick the Longevity Fruit later. However, before that, there is one more treasure that we must obtain."

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"What kind of treasure is it?" Zi Ling was also a little curious.

"Zi Ling, have you ever heard of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng?"

Zi Ling looked surprised upon hearing this, clearly having heard of it before. Xin Ruyin shook her head. Lin He could only continue flying with them while explaining, "This is the main ingredient for refining the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng Pill, and this pill can increase the success rate of Nascent Soul formation!"

Upon hearing that it could increase the success rate of forming a Nascent Soul, both Zi Ling and Xin Ruyin were excited, after all, who wouldn't want to condense a Nascent Soul?

This thing is useless to Lin He, but it is very useful to Xin Ruyin, Yan Ruyan and others.

The three flew to an inconspicuous little rocky hill. The spiritual energy here was thin, and if Xuan Gu hadn't been tracking a strange beast, he probably wouldn't have discovered the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.

Lin He first had Xin Ruyin set up an earth-attribute formation here to prevent the spirit ginseng from escaping. He then took out a golden net, which he didn't know which unlucky person he had obtained it from, and it was perfect for capturing the spirit ginseng.

Then he took out a piece of orchid beast droppings. Lin He had searched for a long time to get this stuff. It smelled terrible, but it was the spirit ginseng's favorite.

With everything arranged, Lin He took out the level 5 Earth Armor Dragon. This beast was best at finding rare and precious materials and was also proficient in earth-遁 (earth-遁 is a type of magic that allows one to escape from the ground). Lin He attached a wisp of his divine sense to the Earth Armor Dragon, and then urged it with his divine sense. The Earth Armor Dragon immediately transformed into a yellow light and burrowed into the ground. It quickly discovered the location of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.

"You go and dig out the main body of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, while I will stay here to capture the ginseng's incarnation."

The two women naturally nodded, while Lin He placed the musk orchid beast's droppings into the formation and hid himself to the side.

Sure enough, not long after, a white rabbit-shaped spirit creature ran over; it was the incarnation of the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng.

The white rabbit stared intently at the musk orchid beast's droppings with its pair of red eyes, but it was also very careful not to walk over rashly.

However, the temptation of this thing was too great for it, and it finally couldn't resist and entered the fray.

The next moment, the formation was activated, and the white rabbit hurriedly fled in all directions, even trying to escape using earth magic, but was blocked by the formation.

The white rabbit frantically spun around, only to be entangled by a golden net that fell from the sky, from which it could no longer escape. Lin He then put it away in a jade box.

A short while later, Zi Ling and Xin Ruyin also flew over, bringing the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng itself, and only then was the mission accomplished.

Just as Lin He finished capturing the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng, two streaks of light flew towards them; it was Nangong Wan and Qing Yi.

Nangong Wan and Lin He had already exchanged spiritual energy marks, so they could naturally sense each other. Lin He was not surprised to see this and quickly stepped forward to greet them, "Master Qing, Wan'er!"

Master Qingyi was very satisfied with Lin He's attitude. He stroked his beard and said with some pride, "Disciple, you are really amazing. You made a fool of Wan Tianming and Manhuzi. Even your master admires you."

Nangong Wan frowned and said, "It would be a stroke of genius for us to join the righteous and demonic camps respectively, so that we can act according to the circumstances when we take the cauldron. However, the risks are quite great. Husband, we are dancing on the edge of a knife now."

Lin He naturally understood that the Barbarian Beard and Wan Tianming were powerful, and the Grand Elder of the Star Palace, Jin Kui, was hiding in the shadows, waiting for an opportunity to strike. If there was any oversight, the consequences would be unimaginable.

"I understand, of course, but how can there be no risk involved in taking the cauldron?"

Seeing Lin He's words, Nangong Wan didn't say anything more. After all, she already knew Lin He's determination to take the cauldron. The reason she said those words earlier was to remind Lin He to think things through carefully.

Nangong Wan suddenly remembered something and quickly asked, "By the way, husband, have you caught the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng?"

Lin He placed the white rabbit avatar into the spirit ginseng's body and sealed it with a talisman before carefully putting it away. Nangong Wan was relieved to see this.

Qingyi nodded and said, "So this is the Nine-Bend Spirit Ginseng. It is indeed extremely spiritual. No wonder it can help with Nascent Soul formation."

"Let's go, time is limited. We only have one day. Let's take this opportunity to find more Longevity Fruits, which may come in handy later."

Lin He said something profound, and Qing Yi and Nangong Wan exchanged a thoughtful glance.

Seeing that they had finished talking, Zi Ling cautiously tugged at Lin He's sleeve and asked, "Brother Lin, you—you've become this Senior Qing Yi's disciple?"

It's no wonder Zi Ling was surprised; she was the only one here who didn't know about this.

Lin He nodded and said, "Master Qing has taught me everything he knows, which has been of great help to my Nascent Soul stage."

Upon hearing this, Zi Ling suddenly realized why Lin He was able to form his Nascent Soul in such a short time.

To avoid attracting attention, Lin He and Nangong Wan, who had changed their appearances, traveled with Qing Yi, while Xin Ruyin traveled with Zi Ling.

Lin He and his two companions flew in a certain direction, and soon they arrived above a Longevity Fruit tree.

The fruit tree bore six fruits, each brimming with spiritual energy, clearly not ordinary objects.

However, Lin He didn't pay much attention to the Longevity Fruit, but instead focused his attention on the guardian beast under the fruit tree.

This is a strange-looking monster, resembling a dragon but not quite, covered in hard scales, and with a third vertical eye growing from its ferocious head, making it look extremely bizarre.

However, upon seeing this beast, Qing Yi exclaimed in surprise, "It's such a rare three-eyed demon beast! Could this beast actually possess a trace of the bloodline of the Cili Beast?"