Vol 5 Chapter 100: Harvesting Dao Fruit
Lin Jing put away the Dark Origin Source and stepped out of the cave dwelling.
First, he descended to the depths of the Immortal Prison.
There, deep within the Immortal Prison, were three figures.
The Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor, with disheveled hair and a feral appearance.
The Corpse Emperor, youthful but with the look of a zombie.
The Netherworld Hall Master, Corpse Emperor, a bony skeleton figure.
These three demonic pillars were all bound in midair by Immortal Binding Chains, completely unconscious.
Lin Jing approached the Corpse Emperor and shook his head.
This Corpse Emperor had long ago been defeated by the Demon Emperor and forced into corpse dissolution and rebirth. Fortunately, the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor discovered him early and took him under his wing, quickly helping him return to the Questioning Dao realm.However, after the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor was suppressed and killed by Demon Emperor Tianchou, these demonic Questioning Dao cultivators lost their backing. Not long after, they were led by the Demon Court to be wiped out, ambushed and slain by the Heavenly Origin Dao Alliance.
These Heavenly Origin Questioning Dao cultivators, though enhanced by immortal energy, were difficult to match with the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor but were more than sufficient to face the former three great demonic lords.
At Lin Jing’s request, these demonic lords were successively sent by the Demon Emperor to Immortal Prison Mountain under Lin Jing’s control.
Lin Jing’s reason for wanting them was simple: he just wanted to extract their Dao Fruit.
“A total of six Dao Fruits.”
Ice Soul Gu presented the Dao Fruits, wearing an expression as if it had suffered through great hardship.
“Well done,” Lin Jing praised.
Of the six Dao Fruits, four came from the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor,
and two came from Emperor Hu and the Corpse Emperor.
The four from the Demon Ancestor represented his secrets of soul refining, gu refining, pill refining, and artifact refining.
Compared to the difficulty of first extracting the living synthesis secret technique, Ice Soul Gu’s divine ability grew more skilled with each attempt, and the speed increased considerably.
This was also related to Lin Jing’s urgency, as he provided it with precious immortal energy to stimulate the Dao Fruit technique.
Besides the Demon Ancestor’s demonic synthetic research, he was also an outstanding pill master and artifact master. Regarding pill refining skill, with his longevity body bonus, he was definitely not inferior to the Tongtian Tower’s master.
He simply did not put much effort into the righteous path of pill and artifact refining afterward.
Lin Jing also had Ice Soul Gu extract his pill and artifact refining techniques to gift to Dragon Carp for reference and learning. Only in this way could it unleash more value from its Flame Emperor Divine Ability...
The soul refining secret technique, of course, belonged to Pine Leaf Mouse. With the living synthesis technique, it could perfect the process of synthesizing life.
As for the gu refining secret technique, the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor’s gu refining was more like poison refining; gu were only carriers of poison. The Demon Ancestor had little interest in the pill path but was very interested in the poison path derived from pill refining.
This, naturally, belonged to Ice Soul Gu and it was its turn.
Lin Jing was too lazy to extract the corpse control and spirit control attainments from Emperor Hu and the Corpse Emperor.
He planned to directly give them to Gu Qianqiu. That longevity cultivator had also switched to the Beast Taming Art, though it was the pre-improved version by Ice Soul Gu. Since he had not contracted a single beast spirit after reaching the Questioning Dao stage, without the corpse and spirit control mastery of the Questioning Dao stage, Ice Soul Gu could not find any corpses or souls to contract for him. The strength difference between those and contracted abnormal beasts would be minimal.
The main point was that normal spirit beasts had too short a lifespan and would easily be lost first when accompanying longevity bodies. But if Gu Qianqiu contracted dead corpses’ souls, this worry disappeared.
“Do you want to squeeze out a little more?” Lin Jing looked at the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor and then said to Ice Soul Gu, “Keep going and see if you can extract the Demon Ancestor’s spatial attainments.”
“Although the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor was not known for the spatial Dao, he did pass through the Void Mystical Stage. His spatial comprehension, while not as valuable as his refining Dao attainments, was still far above ours.”
“Ah?” Ice Soul Gu’s body went limp.
More work?
It had already exhausted all its strength extracting these six Dao Fruits.
“Woo-woo…” Ice Soul Gu whimpered tearfully.
“Tired already?” Lin Jing pondered for a moment, “Forget it. If you’re tired, take a rest. I’m not very keen on comprehending the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor’s spatial Dao anyway.”
Ice Soul Gu immediately jumped up.
“No way.”
“No worries. Asking you to extract the spatial Dao Fruit last was because it was optional. Since you’re tired, you can rest.” Lin Jing stroked his chin thoughtfully.
“So no more cultivation of the spatial Dao?” Ice Soul Gu asked with its ice crystal big eyes.
“I will cultivate it, but there are many ways. The Dao Fruit technique is just an auxiliary method to help us understand a certain domain. Don’t forget when absorbing Dao Fruits, you don’t have to take everything at face value.”
“After all, it’s someone else’s path.”
“If we learn everything from them, our ceiling is just their ceiling. If the Dao Fruit source isn’t skilled in their magic, it might mislead us down the wrong path. We can’t tell if their magical experience is right or wrong.”
“The refining Dao is one thing, since he was a Heaven Refining Immortal Physique. But the spatial Dao? Who knows if his comprehension was correct,” Lin Jing muttered.
“For example, Pine Leaf Mouse absorbed living synthesis and soul synthesis experience just to upgrade its Glazed Immortal Eye, not to inherit the old path of the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor.”
“The spatial Dao is the same. Besides referencing the Demon Ancestor’s spatial Dao comprehension, maybe we can use it to understand something more subtle. It might mean slower comprehension speed.” Lin Jing took out a spatial flying leaf, and Ice Soul Gu immediately understood.
“With Pine Leaf Mouse’s current ability, consuming immortal energy, it can even synthesize flying leaves to ‘quasi-immortal-grade.’ The spatial flying leaf’s teleportation effect can even break the Immortal Binding Chains of Fuzzy Immortal. After all, this is a derivative of an ‘Immortal King Divine Ability’ containing the Immortal King’s spatial comprehension.”
“But essentially, this is not Pine Leaf Mouse’s own spatial comprehension; it is aided by external power. But isn’t the Dao Fruit also an external power? We can try using this spatial flying leaf to comprehend spatial techniques. If one day we can detach from the flying leaf and achieve similar spatial teleportation effects ourselves, our spatial comprehension will definitely surpass that of the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor.”
After saying this, Lin Jing waved his hand, took the Dao Fruits, and left the Immortal Prison. Meanwhile, he sent a voice message to Senior Divine Pine:
“Senior Divine Pine, I’ve finished using the Heaven Refining Demon Ancestor’s body...”
“If you have time, you can tend to it and then perform soul usurpation.”
“As for the bodies of Emperor Hu and the Corpse Emperor, I’ll just send them to you as fertilizer.”
“You little brat!” Hearing Lin Jing’s voice, Divine Pine cursed while thinking about the immortal feces Lin Jing once gave it as a gift.
Is this something a person can do?
However, the nutrients from Emperor Hu and the Corpse Emperor’s decomposition were indeed greatly beneficial to it.
“I won’t thank you for this. When I obtain the Heaven Refining Immortal Physique, just let me know if you need anything.”
“When I complete my soul usurpation and my strength reaches this Heavenly Origin level, I might not be the strongest, but it’ll be close enough. Hehehe, hehehe.”