Chapter 112: Chapter 41: Prison Break?
In the following days, Lin Jing executed one demon cultivator each day.
The rest of the time was spent recruiting with the Dragon Ascending Pill crafted from dragon koi.
Squirrels farm, dragon koi craft pills, Lin Jing presells.
Soon, orders flooded in, but due to the limited production capacity of dragon koi, Lin Jing could only prioritize selling to those willing to join the Dragon Palace.
Meanwhile, in the capital of the Ancient Country, Celestial Essence Immortal City.
Cultivation family, Wang Family.
As an established cultivation family, the ancestors of the Wang Family were renowned cultivators of the Void Profound period, famous throughout the Ancient Country.
Although this Void Profound Ancestor has passed away, there is still an ancestor at the peak of Divinity Transformation overseeing the Wang Family.
Wang Xiao, the most talented junior of this generation of the Wang Family, receives considerable attention.
"Xiao’Er, why have you returned?" asked King Father one day as Wang Xiao returned to the family.
"..." Seeing King Father, Wang Xiao was silent for a moment, then said, "I’m back to retrieve a battle tiger."
Battle tigers are the mounts of the family’s children, possessing battle beast bloodlines, and extraordinary strength, with outstanding ones even capable of temporarily resisting the Wang beasts.
Earlier, when Wang Xiao left home for the academy, King Father had asked if Wang Xiao needed a mount, but Wang Xiao refused.
Now, Wang Xiao returning home to ask for a battle tiger puzzled King Father.
After Wang Xiao took away a battle tiger with a bloodline closest to the Wang level from within the family, a Shadow Guard appeared beside King Father.
"Investigate what happened in Hidden Dragon Academy," instructed the family patriarch.
Soon, the Shadow Guard returned: "Patriarch, in Hidden Dragon City, everyone is talking about a divine child’s contest of spells..."
"Xiao’Er lost?" The family patriarch’s heart lacked much turmoil; he had decided to send Wang Xiao to the academy partly to train him.
Though the divine body is strong, it ranks only over ninety on the divine body list.
For the Wang Family, it’s decent, but neither in the cultivation realm nor the academy does it qualify as the most elite.
In the academy, there are several divine bodies, and some constitutions had entered the divine body list only to fall off, such as the Talisman Body; their differences aren’t as significant as imagined, and the true strength depends on the possessor.
King Father was prepared for Wang Xiao to face setbacks.
"Didn’t lose, tied." said the Shadow Guard.
"Tied with whom? To make Xiao’Er return to the family to take a battle beast to strengthen his power, knowing he once overlooked even Wang blood demon beasts." King Father asked.
The Shadow Guard said, "The divine child... tied with the Beast Taming Sect’s Lin Jing."
"That Lin Jing with both self and pet beast at the tenth level of qi cultivation?" The family patriarch froze, then said, "He’s established the foundation, the Beast Taming Sect has risen anew, birthed a genius with great destiny; I’ve seen him, quite remarkable. If Xiao’Er tied with him, it’s possible."
"Xiao’Er must have fought many opponents, felt stifled, thus wanting to take a mount to aid." The family patriarch shook his head.
The Shadow Guard said, "Patriarch, that’s not it. Rumor has it the divine child... tied with the new qi-cultivating dragon koi of the Beast Taming Sect’s Lin Jing; Lin Jing and his contracted squirrel didn’t make a move, Lin Jing himself hasn’t broken through to the foundation, but the divine child suppressed his realm and fought it, witnessed by many."
Family Patriarch: ???
"Xiao’Er lost to a carp spirit? Hahahaha, impossible, absolutely impossible! Investigate further and report back." King Father waved his hand grandly, laughing uproariously.
...
Returning from the academy and taking a battle tiger with blood close to Wang blood from the family, Wang Xiao then disappeared, and no one knows where he went. However, as the days passed, the Dragon Palace grew stronger using Wang Xiao’s name.
Xu Zhizhi, dressed in strategist attire, reported to Lin Jing in front of Lin Jing’s cave residence: "In the past three months, the Dragon Palace has absorbed twenty-four people, totaling twenty new early-stage Foundation Establishment members and four mid-stage Foundation Establishment veterans."
"Currently, these twenty-four people already possess a dragon blood pet beast, and they’re training them in different ways, planning to take them to participate in the Autumn Hunt."
"Good." Lin Jing looked at the morning sun and said, "If they perform well in the Autumn Hunt, more people will order the Dragon Ascending Pill. Tell them to train their pet beasts, but also not to neglect their own cultivation; the best is for both themselves and their pet beasts to battle and enhance their combat power together."
"This set of dragon blood pet beast cultivation insights, you copy it and distribute it to them. Also inform them that if they perform well in the Autumn Hunt, I will gift Dragon Ascending Pills as a reward." Lin Jing took out a notebook.
Over the three months, Lin Jing had sold the Dragon Ascending Pill to every genius joining the Dragon Palace, including a few who were quite poor, because buying pills, purchasing demon pets, and preparing methods to counter demon pets all require Spirit Stones.
Kind-hearted Lin Jing, seeing their urgent quest for the Way, also used another method to let them acquire the Dragon Blood Pet Beast.
He directly transferred some demon beasts he tested pills on at a low price to them, like that small dragon-scale green bug.
Aside from the geniuses joining the Dragon Palace, even though others have also ordered the Dragon Ascending Pill, Lin Jing hasn’t sold it yet, planning to wait until after the academy’s Autumn Hunt.
This Dragon Ascending Pill is indeed highly profitable; with each sale, Lin Jing earns considerable profit, and the subsequent cultivation of dragon pets also requires a continuous supply of Dragon Ascending Pills...
Lin Jing envisioned the bright future of the Dragon Palace organization.
Currently, the Dragon Palace has four stewards: Gao Sheng, Xu Zhizhi, Yuan Jing, Zi Ling’Er.
Gao Sheng originally wanted to be a strategist but was persuaded by Lin Jing to stay.
Xu Zhizhi is responsible for promotion, planning affairs, and discussing with Lin Jing.
Yuan Jing and Gao Sheng are temporarily the core combat strength of the Dragon Palace.
As for Zi Ling’Er, Lin Jing plans to teach her the formula for the Dragon Ascending Pill so she can replace the dragon koi in pill crafting.
After all, the core material for crafting the Dragon Ascending Pill is held by the pine leaf squirrel, so he’s not worried about leakage.
The only thing Lin Jing regrets is that Wang Xiao has vanished and Chen Lingxi has joined another student organization, so he couldn’t bring the two strongest new students into the Dragon Palace.
Moments later, Lin Jing sent Xu Zhizhi away and also left the academy, heading to the Underground Immortal Prison managed by the Demon Extermination Bureau.
Today is his hundredth day of execution.
Just one more person must die to earn pine cones.
Over the past three months, the dragon koi has been frantically crafting Dragon Ascending Pills, and the technique for crafting Foundation Establishment Pills has almost matured.
Once the pine cones are acquired, they can attempt crafting the Longevity Foundation Establishment Pill.
In the execution chamber.
With Vajra Fist, Lin Jing smashed today’s demon cultivator’s head with a single punch.
Vajra Fist.
Buddhist techniques Lin Jing cultivated afterward.
The reason for cultivating Buddhist techniques is that after sealing much ice soul power, the Buddha Beads emit Buddhist nature, imbuing Lin Jing’s ordinary punches and kicks with Buddhist power. After experimenting with the Vajra Fist, he found strong Buddhist nature can enhance Buddhist technique’s power, showcasing far stronger force than ordinary techniques, an unexpected benefit.
This led Lin Jing to execute mostly with Vajra Fist, a fusion of "punch, palm, and finger," killing demon cultivators and enhancing his physique.
Vajra Fist, besides subduing demons, has body-strengthening effects.
"Thank you, Elder Zhang, for your care these months." Having executed the last prisoner, Lin Jing bid farewell to Demon Exterminator Zhang Hu.
"No need for formalities." Zhang Hu laughed heartily and said, "I’ll escort you."
"Honestly, I wanted to keep you here. You’re the most competent executioner I’ve encountered since coming here. Most Foundation Establishment cultivators would turn mad after three months of high-intensity work here, unlike you, unaffected."
Lin Jing smiled, considering the remark a compliment.
Zhang Hu escorted Lin Jing to the surface, and the two were about to part, but suddenly, Lin Jing’s expression changed, his body intensely warned him.
Sky anomaly!
Demon Exterminator Zhang Hu gazed at the huge claw extending from the void vortex appearing in the sky, astonished.
"Someone’s planning a jail break?!!!"
Feeling life-and-death crisis, Lin Jing stiffened; this broken prison’s utmost is a Golden Core Demon, why would a strong force come to break it?
Clearly, they were coming for him!
In an instant, Lin Jing pondered who might come to rescue or kill him.