Immortal through Beast Taming-Chapter 664 - 16: Fortuna
The words of Lin Jing did not arouse suspicion among the three sect leaders of the Unmatched Sect.
After all, such things are not uncommon in the Cultivation Realm.
Fate is a very mysterious thing.
Following the direction of fate, there are certainly more benefits than harm.
Every cultivator who is proficient in the Dao of Fate often makes some strange choices.
Like a True Immortal who is skilled in the Dao of Fate, sending his daughter early on to a declining small family to grow up. Years later, this declining family unexpectedly produced an Immortal King powerhouse, and the daughter sent there became the Immortal King's wife, ultimately borrowing fate to become a formidable figure herself.
Therefore, Lin Jing claiming that the Unmatched Sect has extraordinary fate and wanting to join to find an opportunity to break through to Immortal Monarch is a very reasonable reason. Sect Leader Wu also firmly believes that the Unmatched Sect indeed possesses great fate!
After all, the core cultivators of the entire Unmatched Sect are members of the Wu family, and the Wu family's ancestors have produced powerful figures!
After the family's decline, they came to this godforsaken place and established the Unmatched Sect, hoping the ancestral grave would emit some green smoke and make the Wu family great again.
Therefore, if Lin Jing were to say this reasoning to others, they might have some doubts, but to the Unmatched Sect, it's like a frog seeing a green bean, perfectly matching!
Because, in fact, the people of the Wu family also don't know how to harness this fate and turn it into the strength of the Wu family and the Unmatched Sect.
Right now, a cultivator proficient in the Dao of Fate unexpectedly arrives wanting to join the Unmatched Sect. Perhaps he can point the way forward for the Unmatched Sect.
After dismissing others, the three True Immortal sect leaders asked Lin Jing:
"Fellow Daoist, since you can see that this place and our Unmatched Sect have extraordinary fate, do you know how to utilize this fate effectively?"
"To be honest with you, Fellow Daoist, we have been here for quite some time, but we haven't felt any enhancement from the fate."
Lin Jing, after all, is a cultivator from a land established by fate, having dealt with fate from the Secret Technique of Hidden Dragon to the Golden Rank of Fate. Though the Dao of Fate isn't his main focus, and he isn't as proficient as that bunch from the Gu family, he does have his own strengths.
His true self once bore Celestial Destiny and is the person with the strongest fate.
His incarnation has royal-level Celestial Demon bloodline, which specifically counteracts fate.
Moreover, the Mechanical Turtle's extreme Divine Sense talent and his own profound Dao of Time can allow Lin Jing's third self to better perform the art of observing fate.
When combined, these make his third self a master in the Dao of Fate, which is not something ordinary cultivators can compare to.
"The power of destiny isn't completely activated yet," Lin Jing observed for a while, then frowned.
"What do you mean by that?" Sect Leader Wu was puzzled.
"This power of destiny may require the Unmatched Sect to produce an Immortal King to be fully activated, and this Immortal King must be of the Wu family bloodline, not an outsider!"
"Immortal King..." Sect Leader Wu felt his vision go dark.
The other two deputy sect leaders almost spat out old blood.
If it were required to have an Immortal Monarch, the three of them might still have a shot.
But an Immortal King…
Currently, in the Immortal Realm, there are nine Immortal Emperors. An Immortal King is the strongest realm below the Immortal Emperor. If there were hope of producing an Immortal King, would the Wu family be in this decline?
"Fellow Daoist, how many forces could meet such conditions?" The woman-like deputy sect master smiled bitterly and said, "Even for a lineage of Immortal Kings, birthing another Immortal King is something extremely difficult, let alone for a small sect like ours."
"Indeed." The other elderly deputy sect master shook his head helplessly, "Not to mention the Immortal King, besides the three of us, even reaching the Immortal Realm would be quite a feat for others."
Lin Jing said, "The conditions are indeed tough, but looking at it differently, the fact that reaching the Immortal King Realm is necessary to initially utilize this power of destiny suggests that your Wu family ancestor was not a simple cultivator, and the destiny left behind must contain amazing secrets."
One linked to secret paths is either the strong figure who paved the path or the inadvertent discoverer, the Immortal King of Xingyu Sect, and his descendants.
But Lin Jing has met the Sect Leader of Xingyu Sect, and this destiny and Wu family bloodline have no connection with Xingyu Sect.
Thus, it can only be related to the pioneer of the secret path.
Though he doesn't know by what means the secret path was paved, that means is at least on par with combining an Immortal Emperor and a Celestial Dao Treasure!
That is frightening indeed.
This Wu family ancestor might be an Immortal Emperor, from a past era long forgotten, much like the ancestor of the Immortal Palace, as no one knows how long this secret path has existed.
Lin Jing did not expect that upon entering the Immortal Realm, he would make such a significant discovery, and he's curious about the kinds of fortunes that will emerge once the Wu family fully activates this power of destiny.
And what benefits he himself might gain from it.
"No worries," Lin Jing said, "One must have dreams. Who is the most talented prodigy of the Unmatched Sect? Let them become my disciple, and with my guidance, even becoming an Immortal King is not impossible."
Indeed, the overall talent of the Unmatched Sect is not high.
Don't be deceived by the fact that the three of them are True Immortals, with many in the Realm of Seeking Path; you must know, this is the Immortal Realm, where Immortal Spirit Qi pervades the world, making cultivation so favorable that reaching the Seeking Path is not difficult…
The native cultivators in the Immortal Realm have a much easier path before the Seeking Path than those from the lower realms.
But at the Seeking Path, they are inferior to those from the lower realms.
Because in the Immortal Realm, cultivation faces almost no bottlenecks at earlier stages, leading many Immortal Realm cultivators to have unsteady Dao hearts and their Dao being unrefined.
This results in significant setbacks at the Realm of Seeking Path.
Furthermore, the celestial tribulations in the Immortal Realm are far stronger than the Ascension Tribulation of the lower realms.
This makes it harder for more Immortal Realm cultivators to become immortals.
The environmental influence makes the ultimate achievements of native Immortal Realm cultivators not necessarily stronger than the ascended ones from the lower realms.
This is also why many major sects prefer the lower realm ascenders, as they have faced more hardships and have more experience, ensuring talent capable of greater achievements!
But none of this matters much, as the one thing Lin Jing isn't short on is time, and he can cultivate slowly. At present, he's not lacking in resources either, having already nurtured so many pet beasts with the potential of Immortal Kings. Nurturing a disciple to the Immortal King Realm is not impossible.
"Well..." Sect Leader Wu felt troubled. He did not doubt Lin Jing's capability to teach disciples well. Having a genius from the Wu family as such a high-level master would be a good thing and could strengthen the relationship between Lin Jing and the Unmatched Sect.
But he realized that Lin Jing's ambitions seemed even more grandiose than theirs.
You're a True Immortal at Nine Layer Heavens, yet you want to teach someone to become an Immortal King... isn't that too unbeatable?
"Is there a problem?" Lin Jing inquired.
"No problem, I have a descendant, aged twenty-eight, with a Seeking Path cultivation, probably the most talented cultivator of our Unmatched Sect," said the woman deputy sect master, "It's just that..."
"Just what?"
"Just that she's not very keen on fighting and cultivating. She's been spoiled, indulging daily in fighting insects, cockfighting, and beast fighting, gambling with other cultivators. It's despicable, wasting her talent. I have no idea how she picked up these bad habits."
