Beast Tamer Ascension

Vol 4 Chapter 93: The Fifth Pet Beast

After discussion, the second-generation Ancient Emperor decided to use great power to revise the rules of the Fortune Golden Ranking.

Just as the Demon Court Lord was about to temporarily send Lin Jing away, Lin Jing hesitated and quickly sent a voice transmission to the Demon Emperor,

“Your Majesty, Your Majesty, the top-grade cultivation dragon vein that the second-generation Ancient Emperor promised me—he hasn’t given it yet.”

“Hasn’t given it yet?” the Demon Emperor questioned the second-generation Ancient Emperor.

After a brief silence, the second-generation Ancient Emperor said, “Extracting a top-grade cultivation dragon vein deals considerable damage to national fortune. It requires extremely cautious handling. I promise to deliver the dragon vein within half a year.”

“As for the True Dragon Secret Arts’ Immortal Body manual, that must wait until the ten-year agreement is up—only then, before he enters the Origin Realm, can it be handed over.”

The second-generation Ancient Emperor worried that if Lin Jing got the Immortal Body manual early, the Demon Court might flip the script and compete with the Ancient Emperor’s prince and princess for the world’s fortune by cultivating this immortal body.

But if the prince and princess of the Ancient Clan had already completed the Immortal Body and entered the Origin Realm, it wouldn’t matter if Lin Jing got the manual then.

However, what the second-generation Ancient Emperor didn’t expect was that Lin Jing suddenly shook his head and said, “Your Majesty Ancient Emperor, I’ve suddenly lost interest in the True Dragon Secret Arts’ Immortal Body manual. May I trade this deal for something else instead?”

“What do you want instead?” the second-generation Ancient Emperor’s expression didn’t change.

Truthfully, Lin Jing no longer wanted the Immortal Body manual—what a joke. The actual creator of that manual was right next to his avatar; why bother trading with the second-generation Ancient Emperor?

All he needed to do was speak a few ill words about the second-generation Ancient Emperor in front of the first-generation Ancient Emperor, curry a bit of favor, and getting the complete True Dragon Secret Arts wouldn’t be out of the question.

After all, the first-generation Ancient Emperor didn’t seem to hold much regard for the concept of “Ancient Clans” and didn’t think only Ancient Clan cultivators could cultivate the True Dragon Secret Arts.

Of course, considering the various backlash issues when taking the arts beyond the Tianyuan Realm, Lin Jing wasn’t necessarily interested in cultivating it at all.

“One of the Demon Extermination Division’s leaders, Liu Gongzhuo’s Heavenly Flame Gu.”

“And, I want all high-security prisoners above the Nascent Soul Transformation Stage held by the Ancient Kingdom.”

The second-generation Ancient Emperor didn’t find Lin Jing’s request excessive. He knew Lin Jing was collecting rare Gu. Even if Lin Jing collected all ten Great Rare Gu, he didn’t think much of it.

The fusion of the ten Rare Gu was merely additive; it wouldn’t cause any qualitative leap—at most, it would boost the individual Gu from standard Void Mystical Stage potential to half-step Seeking the Way level.

To the Ancient Emperor, that was nothing. Even the arrival of the Gu God wouldn’t impress him.

As for Liu Gongzhuo, it wouldn’t be difficult to obtain the Heavenly Flame Gu—just compensate with equivalent or superior resources.

However, the second-generation Ancient Emperor couldn’t understand why Lin Jing wanted so many high-security prisoners.

Was he cultivating demonic arts?

“Fine.” In the end, the second-generation Ancient Emperor still agreed to the new trade. Compared to the Immortal Body manual, these requests were insignificant. In fact, if possible, the second-generation Ancient Emperor would prefer Lin Jing never get the chance to cultivate the Immortal Body at all, even if the chance was slim.

After all, no one was more suited for the True Dragon Secret Arts than the Ancient Clan. Even if Lin Jing cultivated it, the progress wouldn’t be great.

As for why Lin Jing wanted the Ancient Kingdom’s prisoners—it was mainly because those held by the Demon Court had nearly all been refined by the Dragon Carp.

The Golden Core cultivators were nearly depleted.

Yet his own and his pet beasts’ cultivation still had much room for growth.

So when he obtained a new batch of criminals, he’d sweep through them with his Heavenly Demon Divine Sense—those who were truly vile and unforgivable would be refined on the spot.

As for those falsely accused or whose crimes weren’t severe enough to warrant death, he’d recruit them into the demon-catching squad to serve him and collect more pill materials as repayment for their rescue.

Originally, Lin Jing didn’t think many would qualify—but after what his avatar saw with Gao Sheng and the first-generation side, he’d changed his mind.

Some local officials, eager to close cases quickly, would use large-scale memory-altering spells to rewrite rogue cultivators’ memories and coerce them into confessing to crimes, branding them as demonic cultivators.

Although cases above the Nascent Soul Transformation level should be handled directly by the Demon Extermination Division headquarters and shouldn’t be that sloppy—who could really say? Lin Jing trusted his Heavenly Demon Divine Sense more, which could peer into the depths of a person’s mind.

Soon after, Lin Jing was sent back to Qingzhou by the Demon Emperor. At the same time, the rankings on the Fortune Golden Ranking changed slightly.

The names of the Dragon Carp and Ice Spirit Gu disappeared from the top ten—vanished from the rankings. The two who had been bumped out before, the Totem Holy Son of the Snowfield and the Holy Son of the Wu God Hall, returned to the top ten.

“Good, good, good...” The Wu God Hall’s Holy Son, with a snot-covered face, wiped his nose as he rushed through the Cloud Sea Mountain Range. This was the one time he truly supported the second-generation Ancient Emperor. Looks like that shameless move by the Demon Court’s Holy Son had finally been shut down.

Many cultivators believed it was the second-generation Ancient Emperor who acted, banning the practice of listing pet beasts and beast tamers separately, thereby punishing Lin Jing. But in reality, Lin Jing had gained far more.

Though they were removed from the list, the Dragon Carp and Ice Spirit Gu now received even greater Enlightenment bonuses—almost identical to the sixth place on the Golden Ranking, which was Lin Jing’s position.

Even the Pine Leaf Mouse, who hadn’t appeared on the ranking, now enjoyed the sixth-place bonus.

And even the Mechanized Turtle—being an artificial lifeform and ineligible for the ranking—received the fortune bonus thanks to its contract with Lin Jing.

“In other words, all my contract beasts now get the sixth-place bonus, regardless of race or stage. Not bad at all,” Lin Jing licked his lips.

“In that case, the most cost-effective move now is to quickly contract a ‘fifth’ contract beast.”

He had just broken through to the Nascent Soul stage and gained another contract slot.

If he used it quickly, the new pet beast could enjoy nearly ten years of Enlightenment fortune bonus—and could travel to the Origin Realm with him.

Originally, Lin Jing had thought about waiting until he reached the Origin Realm to see if any special pet beasts were worth contracting. But now, he decided it’d be better to use the slot while still in the Tianyuan Realm.

He began thinking carefully—what beast would be suitable...

“A Celestial Beast corpse? If I could contract one, it’d definitely make commanding it easier in the future.”

“No good. Even if it’s a corpse, it’s still a Celestial Beast—too high in rank to contract. And it’s dead; it can’t gain Enlightenment. A waste of a slot.”

“My external avatar? I could contract that!”

“But that also feels like a waste. After all, an external avatar can already enjoy my fortune bonus and enter the Origin Realm with me without taking up a contract slot. Even if I did contract it, now’s not the time.”

“A public auction? There must be Seeking the Way forces who can’t enter the Origin Realm—like Tongtian Tower. If they sent someone to contract with me, they could easily gain entry. But Tongtian Tower only has a single Celestial Pill worth contracting...”

“Wait, if I contract my senior sister Xu Qingyao, then have her cultivate an improved Beast Control Technique and contract someone from the Beast Master Sect... and repeat the process—wouldn’t I be able to bring the entire Beast Master Sect into the Origin Realm?”

But Lin Jing suspected that if he tried that, the will of the Origin Realm might blacklist him—and he’d be forced to wander the stars with the whole Beast Master Sect.