Vol 6 Chapter 27: Boundless Great Love
"Ribbit!"
Among the numerous cultivation methods, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog somehow selected one called "Boundless Great Love Technique."
It was drawn to this technique because of one particular sentence:
"Love knows no racial boundaries."
However, it clearly took the phrase out of context. From Lin Jing's perspective, the technique's actual description read:
Boundless Great Love Technique: Points directly to the Great Dao of universal love, nurturing a heart of boundless【love】. It cultivates【limitless】great love true qi that transcends【racial】boundaries, factions, friend-or-foe relationships, and grievances across time and space. The deeper the love, the stronger the spiritual power, until the heart achieves great perfection and attains the position of Boundless Emperor.
This technique happened to be the lowest grade among those Lin Jing had brought out, only capable of cultivation up to the Seeking the Dao realm.
Unlike other spoils Lin Jing had collected from across the myriad realms, this technique actually originated from the Tianyuan Realm itself—one of the collections from the Demon Court.
It was created by the first leader of the initial demon alliance in the Tianyuan Realm.All living beings that gain intelligence can be called demons. Though demons constitute a major race, within their ranks they divide into countless sub-races: tiger demons, fox demons, frog demons... Each demon race has different interests and even hostile relationships, like cat demons and mouse demons. Each race's leaders and powerful figures only consider their own tribe's interests.
No matter how vast the demon race became, they could never unite into an effective force.
Until one Demon Emperor discarded racial concepts and treated every race equally, using sincere heart to win over most demons, finally gaining massive support to establish the demon alliance.
This Demon Emperor later created the "Boundless Great Love Technique" based on personal experiences.
This technique subsequently became recognized as the orthodox method for the ruler of demonkind—only those who cultivated this technique qualified to become the supreme leader commanding all demons under heaven.
However, this technique proved extremely difficult to cultivate. Although achieving great perfection would grant protection from the fortune of all demons under heaven and qualify one for the position of Emperor of Ten Thousand Demons, very few could reach great perfection.
Later, despite the technique's unlimited potential, the demon race ultimately abandoned it. As time passed, the current ruler of demons—the Demon Emperor of the Demon Court—no longer cultivated the "Boundless Great Love Technique" but instead practiced the inheritance method of their own Divine Tiger race.
The "Boundless Great Love Technique" had been gathering dust in the Demon Court's warehouse.
Yet, though difficult to cultivate, this technique remained undoubtedly the orthodox demon method. Even looking across the entire lower realm beyond the Tianyuan Realm, if the fortune of all demons under heaven were to choose a leader, it would undoubtedly prioritize selecting a cultivator practicing the "Boundless Great Love Technique."
For no other reason than two words: fairness.
"You want to cultivate this? You should know—even its creator failed to perfect this technique."
Lin Jing confirmed again that the Demon Emperor could only be said to love the demons who followed them equally, treating these demons as extensions of themselves. But toward races outside demonkind, like humans, they never achieved true impartiality.
This clearly contradicted the core of the "Boundless Great Love Technique."
Yet, though difficult to cultivate, this technique remained undoubtedly the orthodox demon method. Even looking across the entire lower realm beyond the Tianyuan Realm, if the fortune of all demons under heaven were to choose a leader, it would undoubtedly prioritize selecting a cultivator practicing the "Boundless Great Love Technique."
"Ribbit!"
It explained that Huang Xiaoxian had said it was destined to become the Lin Jing of the demon race. To become such an existence, the "Boundless Great Love Technique" was obviously most suitable.
Only this way could it gain recognition from all demons under heaven.
Besides, it loved humans too.
Suppressing the mosquito clan—wasn't that loving humans?!
"Is that so." Lin Jing pointed at the mosquito beasts and said, "But they also count as demons. Why don't you love them?"
"Loving humans is good, but clearly, it's built on the foundation of preferential treatment."
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog immediately froze, falling into deep thought.
It had indeed underestimated the cultivation difficulty of the "Boundless Great Love Technique."
Just looking at these fierce and vicious mosquito beasts, it couldn't generate even a trace of love in its heart—it couldn't see them as kindred.
"Never mind, I won't make this difficult for you. Your current state is normal—if you could practice universal love and benevolence from the start, you wouldn't need cultivation."
Lin Jing spoke: "This place is an excellent training ground for you. When you can generate mutual affection during your life-and-death struggles with mosquito beasts, your power will probably have reached a certain level."
"Alright."
"Next, it will begin decades of cultivation here. If you have any meeting gifts, now's the time to bring them out."
"Loving humans is good, but clearly, it's built on a foundation of preferential treatment."
The Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse gifted a time-attribute quasi-immortal herb with gentle effects. This immortal herb's function was to enhance one's resistance to temporal changes.
If someone constantly exists in normal time flow, then suddenly enters a space with faster or slower time flow through formations, over time it creates tremendous physical strain.
Even Lin Jing needed to study the Time Dao to reduce the strain from Time Dao formation banners. For a small animal like the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog that hadn't even reached the qi training stage, accelerating its growth through different time flows would create unimaginable physical strain. Thus, the Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse's gift was crucial for the frog's survival.
As for the Dragon Carp, it gifted most of the key pills needed from qi training to Nascent Soul Transformation, plus most importantly—its various cooking methods for mosquito beasts compiled over many years in the "Mosquito Eating Atlas," also called "Eleven Styles of Fire Mosquito," documenting the mosquito beasts' various abilities and weaknesses.
The Ice Soul Gu gifted the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog a mass of "Gu poison." The Gu poison contained the Ice Soul Gu's fused golden core divine technique "Transcending Mortality and Entering Sainthood" that combined thunder and ice paths. This could serve as the frog's trump card for escaping danger or fighting above its level during training in the Life and Death Reincarnation Immortal Domain, temporarily enhancing its physical strength.
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog could naturally recognize the extraordinary nature of these senior's gifts. After respectfully accepting them one by one, it finally looked nervously at Crane Fairy, most anticipating her gift.
Whether it could love mosquito beasts remained unknown, but it knew clearly that from the first glance, it had already developed tremendous fondness for this beautiful Crane Fairy—transcending racial boundaries.
"..."
With an excited heart and trembling hands, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog received a crane feather offered by the Star Longevity Crane.
"This is one of its life feathers with healing properties. You can use this crane feather to treat any injuries in the future," Lin Jing explained.
"!!"
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog's heart nearly exploded as it looked at the Star Longevity Crane with tear-filled eyes, immensely grateful.
Star Longevity Crane: ?
What's wrong with this frog?
After presenting the meeting gift as requested by the Heavenly Emperor, the Star Longevity Crane had been observing this fellow, its thoughts having long since drifted beyond Earth.