Vol 6 Chapter 34: First Tomb Exploration
"Speaking of bloodlines."
Lin Jing recalled.
He seemed to still have an unhatched pet beast egg with Immortal Lord bloodline.
Back then, the Mechanized Turtle accidentally discovered the secret realm of Tian Yuan's Immortal Palace, and Lin Jing entered to explore it.
The Star Longevity Crane was contracted there.
Ultimately, he made a shady deal with the relic's mechanical spirit using mechanical materials as exchange.
The three celestial camp rewards... he first took the Celestial Radiance Protection Talisman, which remained unused to this day.
Besides the talisman, there were two other rewards - an Ascension Elixir and a pet beast egg with monarch-level bloodline.
These two items were actually retrieved by Lin Jing sending people with mechanical materials to obtain from the relic spirit during the subsequent two hundred years in the Origin Realm.However, the Ascension Elixir was useless, and that pet beast egg required a cultivator with an Immortal Physique to perform blood recognition for incubation, which was also useless to Lin Jing at that time.
Therefore, Lin Jing didn't have them sent back to the Origin Realm, but directly tossed them into his old lair.
Previously useless... but now things were different. Because he had fused with Heaven's Mandate and obtained the Immortal Physique, upon returning, he might be able to immediately incubate that Immortal Lord-level pet beast egg.
It would become another great asset for him.
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog continued its arduous cultivation. According to the remnant soul of the immortal's meaning, the outermost area of the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb possessed the most basic pressure, and only upon reaching the Nascent Soul stage would one have a chance to move within the tomb under this pressure.
From Golden Core to Nascent Soul, ordinary demonic beasts might require several hundred years of cultivation, but the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog here had continuous resources of all kinds, achieving the Nascent Soul accomplishment in just ten short years. And this was still within a space with different time flow rates - only a very short time had passed in the real outside world.
Unfortunately.
That Dragon Carp fellow hadn't mastered its skills properly.
Even now, it still hadn't fixed the "Wordless Plaque". Otherwise, if they could use a mid-grade immortal artifact to assist cultivation, their cultivation speed could definitely be increased further.
Since it couldn't even fix the "Wordless Plaque", that mysterious bronze mirror of the same grade was even more beyond Dragon Carp's current energy to repair.
"Let's make an initial exploration first. If this immortal's remnant soul turns out to be unreliable, it'll save wasting too much time."
As soon as the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog reached Nascent Soul, Lin Jing immediately shook awake the immortal's remnant soul he had sealed.
"Stop, stop shaking! Any more shaking and my soul will scatter!"
"Take me to the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb. Show me the way." Lin Jing looked at the immortal's remnant soul.
"Yes, yes, yes, leading the way now..."
As the immortal's remnant soul headed straight for the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb, Lin Jing's main consciousness also entered his internal divine consciousness space.
Having just broken through to Nascent Soul and become a generation of demon king, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog's confidence surged dramatically, becoming increasingly fierce and brave. It went to challenge the Mosquito King, then got thoroughly beaten by the Mosquito King and fled back to its corner holding crane feathers, dejectedly nursing its wounds.
"Ribbit!!!"
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog was furious. This Mosquito King didn't follow martial ethics - when it couldn't win against it, it called for backup.
That perverted mosquito beast race - the fewer gathered, the weaker their strength. Completely impossible to fight.
"Looking at you, the Boundless Great Love Technique... can be said to have made no progress whatsoever." Lin Jing descended beside the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog.
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog had chosen the "Boundless Great Love Technique" itself, yet until now it was still using the demonic power from its bloodline to fight, rather than using Great Love True Qi. Clearly, its cultivation hadn't reached proficiency.
Seeing Lin Jing, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog shuddered all over and immediately stood up.
"Ribbit ribbit." It expressed that it really didn't have the ability to love mosquitoes, but it assured Lin Jing it was already improving the "Boundless Great Love Technique". It wouldn't be long before it mastered the technique.
"How about I catch some beautiful frogs, have the Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse synthesize them with mosquitoes to create beautiful mosquito-frogs, and adapt step by step?"
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog shook its head in terror, shaking wildly - No!!
"Even without mentioning the 'Boundless Great Love Technique', your combat progress is too slow." Lin Jing looked at the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog: "We'll soon return to take revenge on the Blood Prison Demon God. With your current strength, not only won't you be able to help, you might not even qualify to participate by then."
The Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog was shocked.
"This won't do," it couldn't help but say.
But... it had been trying hard enough already.
These dozen-plus years, fighting day and night, to help Crane Fairy take revenge, it hadn't even slept - fighting, healing, cultivating... repeating over and over.
"Look at you, so anxious you're speaking human language." Lin Jing said: "Now there's one more opportunity."
"Next, I'll take you to your ancestor's tomb. Your ancestor was an incredibly powerful cultivator. When you reach the tomb, go worship your ancestors devoutly. If the ancestors manifest their spirit and you can receive their protection, then you might have hope to catch up with the others' pace in the shortest time possible."
"However, that tomb carries certain risks with extremely high mortality rates, unlike these mosquito beasts. Are you willing to go?"
"It's possible... you could really die."
Under Lin Jing's inquiry, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog didn't think twice and ribbited, expressing it wanted to go.
With divine consciousness enveloping the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog, confirming it genuinely wanted to become stronger through the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb and then help the Star Longevity Crane take revenge, Lin Jing nodded. Although he didn't understand it, since the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog was willingly going, that was enough.
Because he himself wasn't confident the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog could return alive after going to the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb.
The Emperor's Tomb was mysterious - no one could say for sure what happened inside.
Even if the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog died inside, it was entirely possible.
All Lin Jing could do was provide sufficient safety guarantees after the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog willingly went.
A contract.
"As long as this contract doesn't break, even if you die in the tomb, I can use my Beast Taming Secret Arts to reincarnate and revive you. Throughout the entire cultivation world, I've never encountered an enemy capable of completely erasing contract traces. But..."
This was, after all, the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb. Not to mention completely erasing contract traces - it was possible to trace the contract's causality back to find him. This would be the greatest risk he undertook this time. However, Lin Jing quickly shook his head - how could he be that unlucky.
Hadn't the immortal's remnant soul survived perfectly fine? As long as he instructed the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog not to cause damage and to worship ancestors devoutly, the Emperor's Tomb had no reason to exterminate the Heavenly Emperor's descendant.
Not long after.
Lin Jing arrived at the deep ocean. With the passage of time, the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb's location now resided in a different dimension at the bottom of the deep sea, connected through an ancient tomb gate.
The tomb gate had long been dilapidated, requiring no spatial power mastery to enter. Lin Jing didn't follow the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog inside. After watching it enter the tomb, he waited outside to avoid the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb not recognizing him...
After entering the Heavenly Emperor's Tomb, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog with its arduous task swallowed hard, its eyes meeting an astonishing scene.
Thousands upon thousands of stone figures serving as burial companions stood like heavenly soldiers and generals, guarding the tomb's outermost area. Each stone figure held a decayed low-grade immortal artifact in its hand. Thousands upon thousands of low-grade immortal artifacts - truly felt unbelievable.
However, Lin Jing had already heard about these from the immortal's remnant soul and informed the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog. These... weren't the key.
The key was to proceed inward.
Enduring the pressure emitted by one ancient stone figure after another, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog hopped and kowtowed, carefully jumping toward the interior. The stone figures' gazes seemed sentient, their eyeballs rotating as they glanced at the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog, not collectively attacking to eliminate this intruder...
"Ribbit! (Ancestors above, your incompetent descendant frog comes to worship ancestors!)" What Lin Jing didn't expect was that due to the immense pressure, the Heavenly Emperor Post-Frog felt coming empty-handed wasn't proper. After careful consideration, it took out a bottle of mosquito blood and several roasted mosquito legs, continuing to jump inward, seemingly wanting to offer them to its ancestors.