Beast Tamer Ascension

Vol 4 Chapter 82: Rare Gu

If it were an ordinary Beast Tamer, the first thought upon encountering a Rare Beast would indeed be to form a contract with it and turn it into an ally.

Even if the Immortal Demon Serpent’s power source was too sinister and would bring many negative effects, most Beast Tamers wouldn’t easily give up. They’d try every possible way to overcome those obstacles.

But Lin Jing was different.

He had encountered too many Rare Beasts—from the Lord of the Demon Court to the Dragon Carp—he had become desensitized to their allure.

No matter how talented or full of potential the Immortal Demon Serpent was, it didn’t appeal to Lin Jing at all. He had no intention of nurturing or contracting it.

He only wanted to squeeze out every bit of value it had right now, regardless of the consequences.

He directly used his Control Dao Ability to forcibly make it strip its own source. In the process, the Immortal Demon Serpent’s foundation would be gravely damaged. Unless some Celestial Item repaired it, its cultivation realm would hardly progress again.

What Lin Jing was doing was essentially abolishing its Rare Beast bloodline—and in a very low-cost-efficiency way at that. After all, the extracted source would also lose its growth potential.

“No wonder it’s the source of a Rare Beast bloodline. This intense death energy—I’ve never seen anything like it.” As Lin Jing extracted the bloodline source, he couldn’t help but marvel.

The death energy contained in this mere Nascent Soul Stage beast was even deeper and purer than that of a Void Mystical ghost entity. It was more intense and potent than the Netherworld Ghostfire cultivated to the extreme by the Dragon Carp.

Even when the Buddha-Demon Pearl absorbed negative power from Rare Gu, it could still maintain balance. Even when sealing the Ghost Bride, it wasn’t affected. But now, it had only sealed part of the Immortal Demon Serpent’s bloodline source, and it had completely turned into a Demon Pearl.

Its Buddhist nature could no longer suppress the demonic nature.

This death energy had directly transformed the Buddha-Demon Pearl into a Death God Pearl filled with death power.

“Seal!” Lin Jing called out in a low voice. Spiritual power inside him turned into branches that tightly bound the Death God Pearl.

If he hadn’t used other techniques to re-seal the Buddha-Demon Pearl—already a sealing artifact—the power of this bloodline source would surely have gone berserk and affected his vitality.

“But this bloodline source is this stubborn? Seems it won’t be easily rooted out.”

After stripping away ninety percent of the Immortal Demon Serpent’s bloodline, even with his Nascent Soul Transformation cultivation as a foundation and lifespan-burning use of the Divine Control Technique—equivalent to Void Mystical level Control Dao Ability—he still couldn’t force it to release the last core source.

No matter how hard he tried, Lin Jing couldn’t affect it at all.

“So be it.”

Lin Jing pulled out the now-drained Immortal Demon Serpent.

It was on its last breath. With a palm strike from Lin Jing, the Immortal Demon Serpent “died” completely.

But with a sweep of his Divine Sense, Lin Jing could still sense that its source could not be entirely destroyed.

Given time, it would eventually revive.

Of course, before, it might have revived quickly. But now that more than half its bloodline source had been extracted, it was basically sealed away.

It might take thousands of years to gather enough strength to revive again.

“Sacred Wood, seal!”

Lin Jing took out several saplings and formed a hand seal. Instantly, countless sacred trees wrapped around the entire Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

Regardless of when the Immortal Demon Serpent would revive, Lin Jing directly sealed the entire pagoda to prevent any chance of escape.

After finishing everything, Lin Jing turned his attention inward.

The Death God Pearl, entangled in sacred wood, radiated overwhelming death energy. Around it flowed the vibrant Longevity Blood.

The ultimate forces of life and death were now present.

All he needed now was to master the Corpse Manipulation Secret Art from the Yin Corpse Sect, and he could try to control the corpse of the Celestial Cow.

“Compared to the regenerative, endless Longevity Bloodline, this stripped deathly bloodline source isn’t my own power. Not only can it not grow, but it also can’t regenerate. I need to find a way to transform it into a growing, regenerating force. Only then can I control the Celestial Beast corpse for the long term—not just two or three times.”

Lin Jing quickly thought of a solution.

“I can refine this deathly bloodline source into an External Incarnation—one that’s filled with powerful death energy. That way, it’ll have regenerative and growth potential.

Though it can’t match the Immortal Demon Serpent or perfectly inherit its Rare Beast bloodline, it’d still be like a man-made ‘budget version’ of an Immortal Rare Beast.”

“Ice Soul Gu... Mechanical Turtle—among the team, they’re the only ones who are Rare Beasts.”

“This death source… might be perfect for use.”

“Have the Ice Soul Gu use this death bloodline source to refine an External Incarnation.

Then, it can merge into the host body and assist you in using the Corpse Manipulation Secret Art.”

The serpent made a decision—since the Ice Soul Gu had bad luck and even mutated due to its contract, they might as well artificially grant it part of a Rare Beast bloodline!

As for why it wasn’t the Artifact Ghost—it was purely because the Artifact Ghost was even more bizarre than Gu worms.

Gu worms at least reached Core Formation or Nascent Soul stages and had things like “Monster Core” or “Nascent Soul.”

But the combination of Artifact Ghost and Mechanical Beast was simply power-level-wise at the Nascent Soul stage.

They didn’t even have a Core Formation level, let alone Divine Abilities.

One was an artificial artifact spirit, the other an artificial mechanism—completely non-living entities.

The serpent didn’t know how to refine them into External Incarnations via Nascent Soul methods.

If he hadn’t worked so hard to modify the Beast Taming Art, he wouldn’t even be able to form contracts with them.

“Let’s go.”

Before making any more decisions, the serpent left the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda.

What he had done inside was bound to have caused a stir and drawn attention from the Beast Taming Sect.

Right now, many cultivators of the Beast Taming Sect had already gathered around the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda to observe the situation.

Just as they were deciding whether or not to enter and investigate, Lin Jing’s figure flashed out of the pagoda with a burst of spiritual light.

“Lin Jing?!”

So that’s why there was a disturbance in the Demon-Suppressing Pagoda—it was you!

Senior Brother Ouyang was among them and looked at Lin Jing in surprise and joy.

Aside from him, Elder Mo, the Black Bear Spirit, and other old acquaintances had all reached the Nascent Soul Stage.

As for the Elders who were already at Nascent Soul like the Demon King Elders and Sect Leader Xu Xiaoyao, their cultivation had now reached the peak of the Nascent Soul Stage—just shy of Nascent Soul Transformation.

The overall strength of the Beast Taming Sect still wasn’t particularly powerful, but under the protection of the Demon Court, it was thriving.

“It’s me. Greetings, Sect Leader, Grand Elders, and Elders,” Lin Jing said with a faint smile.

A bunch of Demon King Grand Elders waved their hands repeatedly.

“No need for formalities, no need at all.”

They wiped their sweat nervously—how could they accept Lin Jing’s bow?

This divine disciple of the Beast Taming Sect had already slain several Void Mystical Demon Ancestors. They couldn't bear the courtesy.

“Sorry to disturb you all. I returned this time not only to check on the Immortal Demon but also to discuss an important matter with the Sect Leader.”

Lin Jing turned to look at Xu Daoyao.