Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 527 - 98: Ascension to Immortality

Bait?

Star-life Crane stepped back slightly, feeling that its future would be particularly tortuous.

"Do you still want to save your clan?"

"If you follow the ordinary path of cultivation, the Star Crane Realm can’t wait for you. Even if you move at the fastest speed, you can only save your people who have been captive for countless generations by the demon race a thousand years later."

"If you’re not harsh on yourself, enemies will surely be harsh on you."

"Yes." Star-life Crane fell silent, with a particularly heavy heart.

With only twenty years of cultivation, it had not formed a deep bond with the Star-life Crane clan.

However, as a descendant of the clan leader, it instinctively bore a sense of responsibility. Its parents and elder siblings all died resisting the demon race, and even if not for the Star-life Crane clan, it held a deep hatred against the Celestial Demon Sect.

This hatred must be avenged.

"Let’s begin." Star-life Crane accepted its fate.

"No need to act as if you’re martyring yourself, it’s not like you’re going to die." Lin Jing smiled.

Soon, with the help of hundreds of barely visible particles of Immortal Pill Dust, the innate deficiencies in Star-life Crane’s foundation began to be rebuilt.

At the same time, its body fused with the pill’s power. The blood and flesh that would originally extend life now, marinated with the pill’s fragrance, became more crystal-clear and enticing, with a rich aroma that undoubtedly added numerous life-enhancing effects.

Lin Jing had already outlined the cultivation path for Star-life Crane.

Focusing on the Path of Time.

Not long ago, Lin Jing had also been considering delving into the Path of Time. However, due to its difficult entry and his numerous other responsibilities, he had not yet embarked on this path.

The arrival of Star-life Crane marked a pivotal turning point.

The rare attacking-type Time Storm, a divine technique of its treasure beast lineage, could warp the time around living entities.

With this technique, Lin Jing could experience the Power of Time by allowing Star-life Crane to continually attack him.

Furthermore, through the Beast Taming Secret Technique "Integration," Lin Jing could harness Star-life Crane’s power to use time-related divine techniques and experience them firsthand.

If Star-life Crane’s main path was time-related divine techniques, then its auxiliary path might be the Path of Blessing.

This wasn’t a sudden whim of Lin Jing’s; rather, the racial talent of the Star-life Cranes leaned towards the Path of Blessing.

Apart from their racial talent to extend life, Star-life Cranes in the Immortal Realm were reared by many major forces to welcome new ascenders and to bestow blessings upon them, due to their astounding effects when cultivating blessing-type magic.

Each Star-life Crane nurtured by an Immortal Realm force had different auxiliary blessing-type divine techniques; some could enhance fortune, others could enhance cultivation speed, or comprehension... In short, almost every ascendant from a major force had a "newcomer protection period," during which they could thrive in the Immortal Realm thanks to the blessings of a Star-life Crane, and quickly establish themselves.

Since Star-life Crane excelled in this aspect, Lin Jing naturally would not abandon the fundamental path for something less critical.

By fusing Immortal Pill Dust with Star-life Crane, Lin Jing also had this aspect in mind; the Immortal Pill Spirit of the Heaven-Reaching Tower had a multitude of pill effects that could enhance cultivation speed, strengthen combat power, and increase talent potential, all of which could transform into the Power of Blessing.

Then, Star-life Crane could combine its innate talents with the Path of Blessing to wield them.

Buzz!

As Star-life Crane began its metamorphosis, using the supreme-grade immortal energy to activate its precious beast divine technique for a second time, Pine Leaf Mouse’s bloodline started to exhibit significant abnormalities, like boiling magma flowing through its marrow, with immortal essence permeating its entire bloodline.

"Squeak!"

Pine Leaf Mouse let out an exclamation, and Lin Jing quickly observed its state, feeling immense delight.

"Sit down and meditate," Lin Jing instructed. "Persistent activation of divine techniques using Immortal Power has finally drawn your bloodline to resonate with the Immortal Power. Quickly, see if you can nurture your bloodline with Immortal Power to possess immortal-level potential. Let’s see if it’s possible!"

"Squeak!"

Pine Leaf Mouse lifted its little hands, its robe fluttering, and sat down cross-legged, closing its glazed eyes, and began to impact its immortal-level bloodline.

Lin Jing stood guard by Pine Leaf Mouse’s side while other pet beasts quickly spread across Immortal Prison Mountain to eliminate all possible disturbances to Pine Leaf Mouse’s breakthrough.

"This fluctuation..."

Meanwhile, on Immortal Prison Mountain, God Pine sighed intriguingly. This little squirrel... had it actually reached this level?

Clearly its disciple, yet it, the old one, achieved immortal bloodline first!

"Promising, indeed a disciple of mine," it mused.

At present, among the living Immortal Beasts on the Celestial Essence Continent, it was perhaps only the Demon Emperor, a recent rearer, who existed. If Pine Leaf Mouse succeeded, it would be the second Immortal Beast on this continent.

On Immortal Prison Mountain, winds surged and clouds billowed.

In its wake, the ordinary grass and trees on the mountain elevated in rank collectively.

With the sun and moon rotating, eight years swiftly passed since Pine Leaf Mouse began to impact its immortal-level bloodline – a more challenging task compared to the Demon Emperor.

Due to its inherently low realm, merely in the Divinity Transformation Realm, its control over blood power was evidently not as strong as the Demon Emperor’s.

Additionally, it needed to suppress its realm, preventing a breakthrough to the Void Profound Stage caused by obtaining an immortal-level bloodline, for this would render it incapable of venturing into the Source Realm with Lin Jing.

This dual task of bloodline breakthrough and realm suppression expended considerable effort from Pine Leaf Mouse.

Until nine years later, as Pine Leaf Mouse’s aura stabilized, it finally opened its eyes within the cave abode, radiant immortal essence flickering within its gaze, an ethereal glow enveloping its entire form.

Like a descending immortal spirit, its entire being brimmed with an extraordinarily mysterious celestial aura.

"Squeak..." Pine Leaf Mouse shared a glance with Lin Jing, who had guarded it throughout, and Lin Jing responded with a light smile, "Seems like a success."

Swish.

Pine Leaf Mouse lifted its little paw and nodded, ready to showcase to Lin Jing its abilities upon becoming an Immortal Beast.

Buzz.

With a flick of its vibrant green mana, the vines entwining the corner of the cave abode quivered, awakening sentience and transforming into a Vine Demon!

Such feats, Pine Leaf Mouse had achieved in the Source Realm, but these were two different realms. The Source Realm, with its rich natural forces, naturally bore an infinite number of plant spirit monsters. However, in this Celestial Essence realm, the birth of plant spirit monsters was always under the suppression of the Heavenly Dao, a daunting task!

Yet now, transcending its prior Creation Immortal Body, it easily awakened spirit monsters!

Rumble.

To impede the birth of this Vine Demon, the skies outside gathered tribulation clouds. The Guardian-Role Dragon Carp and Ice Soul Gu, witnessing this, furrowed their brows.

"Boom!"

Merely a minor celestial tribulation aimed at preventing the spirit monster Vine Demon’s birth, the Dragon Carp shot a disdainful glance, and the residual power of the tribulation was swiftly engulfed by the lightning-absorption line raised by the Ice Soul Gu, both creatures looked up to the sky and sneered.

Is that all?