"Lin Jing?" At the scene of the Talent Battle, under the tireless promotion of the "Dragon Palace External Promotion Personnel" hired by Xu Zhizhi, even the geniuses at the forefront of the Talent Ranking had come to know about Lin Jing.
This business deal, Xu Zhizhi also spent a hefty sum. Although no additional promotional fees were paid, everyone was given a ticket to the Talent Battle, and the ticket prices were not cheap.
"Interesting, I didn’t pay attention to this person before. Now that I see him, this Beast Taming Sect Saint Heir is indeed not simple. Should I temporarily refine a magical treasure to counter demon beasts?" In the audience, an orange-haired giant man opened his mouth, the third genius on the Human Ranking, Yan Xiangbei from the Fire Domain Refining Immortal Valley.
Although Lin Jing had already entered the Talent Ranking before, he was only ranked in the twenties, not attracting special attention from the top geniuses.
Ranked twenty-fifth on the Talent Ranking, Lin Jing, a disciple of the Beast Taming Sect in the Wild Domain, at the eleventh stage of Qi Cultivation, broke through the ultimate limit of Qi Cultivation along with his pet beast, possessing a Foundation Establishment Stage pet beast, effortlessly defeating two true disciples from the Qingzhou Beast Sect who were at the peak of Foundation Establishment!
This was Lin Jing’s new ranking after the Talent Ranking was updated again. The Celestial Secret Tower concealed information like the Longevity Body and blood magic spells to protect Lin Jing. However, even with most information omitted, it still looked quite impressive.
"The eleventh stage of Qi Cultivation, ranking with the Qi Cultivation Stage..." On a bluestone, a young man in black and white robes slowly spoke. Since Lin Jing hadn’t publicly displayed himself after breaking through to the twelfth stage of Qi Cultivation, the Talent Ranking at this time still had a certain lag.
"The characteristic of the Beast Taming Sect’s cultivation technique is the feedback from pet beasts, perhaps that’s how he reached the eleventh stage of Qi Cultivation."
"Typically, cultivators at the tenth stage of Qi Cultivation have strength comparable to the early stage of Foundation Establishment, and the eleventh stage is comparable to the mid-stage of Foundation Establishment."
"This Lin Jing himself is at the eleventh stage of Qi Cultivation, plus a Foundation Establishment pet beast, ranking in the twenties is indeed remarkable. I just wonder if Lin Jing has reached Foundation Establishment now. If he’s established, with the foundation of the eleventh stage of Qi Cultivation, his strength after Foundation Establishment will certainly be strong, especially if he contracts a second pet beast, it indeed requires some attention." Said Chen Chong, the top genius on the Human Ranking.
"Speaking of which, my Technique Elemental Spirit is also like a pet beast. I wonder if Lin Jing can force out my Technique Elemental Spirit."
The top ten on the Talent Ranking are all geniuses who can fight Golden Core with Foundation Establishment. Now after analyzing Lin Jing’s data, most people consider the so-called Dragon Palace Lin Jing as one of the strong opponents. After all, he can rank with Qi Cultivation, and if he has now reached Foundation Establishment, he is definitely a difficult opponent. However, most people didn’t expect that Lin Jing is still hanging around in the Qi Cultivation Stage at this time...
Especially now he has found a method for the thirteenth stage of Qi Cultivation, so it’s even less likely for him to temporarily reach Foundation Establishment.
The next few matches were fairly normal. The geniuses from both sides used their sects or family magic spells to face their opponents normally, without messing around like Gao Sheng.
"Group six, Black Wind Mountain, Cao Yi."
"Fight, Pill Furnace Sect, Zi Ling’Er."
Black Wind Mountain, a sect built in the dangerous wilderness, mainly cultivates wind magic, relying on the special environment for cultivation. The disciples also rarely go out. This Cao Yi, ranked in the nineties on the Talent Ranking, participates now to maintain his ranking, lest he falls out of the top hundred.
Cao Yi moved with the wind, descending onto the stage amidst a swirl of black wind. When he heard that his opponent was an alchemist who hadn’t even entered the Talent Ranking, he understood that this fight should not be difficult.
However, when he saw Zi Ling’Er holding a pill rabbit landing on the stage, Cao Yi fell into deep thought. ᴛhis chapter is ᴜpdated by Novᴇl_Fire(.)net
"You’re not from some Dragon Palace too, are you?" he asked. In the audience stands, he heard the words Dragon Palace so often that his ears were almost calloused.
What’s wrong with those audiences? What’s so great about a shabby student organization, haven’t they seen the world?
"The Dragon Palace you’re talking about... I am indeed a member." Zi Ling’Er looked at her opponent calmly and said, "You don’t need to be afraid, this lady will show mercy."
"Hmm?" Cao Yi was stunned, looking at the pill rabbit in Zi Ling’Er’s arms, "That dragon horse was a king blood demon beast, still made sense, but you think I don’t recognize a pill rabbit?"
Though pill rabbits have strong drug resistance, their strength is...
Zi Ling’Er remained silent, pulling out a handful of elixirs and stuffing them into the mouth of the frail-looking pill rabbit. In the next moment, the pill rabbit, which maintained a frail posture with mimicry pills, suddenly transformed into a dragon-blooded muscular giant rabbit, with long ears turning into dragon horns, a red gleam flashed in its eyes, and stood taller than Zi Ling’Er, who was 1.7 meters tall.
"You win, I’ve really never seen such a pill rabbit." At this moment, Cao Yi felt a strong threat, quickly opening his hands, with black patterns appearing on both sides, from which howling winds burst out, like two black wind dragons swallowing forward.
Unfortunately, after consuming a pile of strength-enhancing elixirs, although the pill rabbit’s bloodline hadn’t reached the king level, its strength was not inferior to Gao Sheng’s dragon horse. The most frightening aspect was, due to the pill rabbit’s special physique, these elixirs had almost no side effects on it.
"Roar!!!" The pill rabbit roared, disappearing in a flash, tearing apart the two black wind dragons with its claws, then kicking Cao Yi, whose pupils shrank. A black wind wall defense was put up by the opponent, but the wind wall was kicked through by the pill rabbit, with Cao Yi’s abdomen getting concaved, directly kicking him off the stage.
"Roar!!!" The pill rabbit stood upright, beating its chest, snapping its bones with a fierce sound, but its expression unchanged, it took out a bone healing pill and swallowed it, as if not feeling a bit of pain in a battle was uncomfortable.
"What’s this thing, what kind of monster is this!" Such a scene left many cultivators specializing in alchemy shocked, wasn’t... the Pill Furnace Sect renowned in the ancient country known for fighting style using fire control techniques combined with exotic fire? How did it become feeding test medicine spirit beasts pills to take down enemies!
Such a fragile trial potion spirit beast like a pill rabbit, could it really become this strong?
First, there was that Gao Sheng, now this Zi Ling’Er, the audience noticed that geniuses joining Lin Jing’s Dragon Palace all have rather unconventional styles in battles!
This Saint Heir of the Beast Taming Sect seems to be leading the talents of other sects astray on the path of taming!
But the audience couldn’t deny, whether it was Gao Sheng or Zi Ling’Er, the strength of the dragon blood pet beasts was extremely high, their masters only needed to assist slightly to effortlessly defeat well-known talents, which seemed almost unreasonable in strength.
For a moment, quite a few cultivators’ minds were swayed, thinking how fun it would be to have such a powerful pet beast themselves.
Up next, the audience saw a sword cultivator from the Celestial Sword Sect not fighting by himself, but instead pulling out a swordsmanship-performing mantis from the gigantic sword box on his back!!!
Who puts a swordsmanship-performing mantis in their sword box instead of a sword weapon, the audience was impressed!
Further, a scholar shook out a bald-haired raccoon from his bag, this raccoon immediately held a brush-shaped treasure in its mouth, using blood as ink, and wrote poems related to the Dragon Ascending Festival through the air which then turned into an ink dragon to attack its enemies!
The audience understood that this peculiar group definitely hailed from the Academy Dragon Palace.
"Not bad." In the audience stands, Lin Jing nodded as things progressed smoothly. After the first round of the battle of talents today is over, it should be a good time to find an opportunity to sell the Dragon Ascending Pills.
Until now, no Dragon Palace cultivators have lost, they were not weak to begin with, and now with the help of these pet beasts, it was almost impossible for them to lose unless facing the top-ranked talents, especially with Gao Sheng, a spiritual luck body fortunate star, present, any setbacks would definitely not occur in this first round.
However, as the competition progressed, the spotlight of the battle of talents was started to be stolen by the true heavenly talents...
Furthermore, Lin Jing finally awaited his opponent.
"Group forty-two, Beast Taming Sect, Lin Jing."
"Versus, Blood Kill Tower, Qi Yuan."
Finally, Lin Jing, the creator of the Dragon Palace, has arrived, and many people wanted to know, if the pet beasts of ordinary members of the Dragon Palace were so strong, how strong was Lin Jing’s pet beast as the creator?
The crowd was excitedly anticipating to see Lin Jing’s dragon blood pet beast.
Unfortunately, Lin Jing’s dragon blood pet beast was busy somewhere in the Profound Domain assisting Mo Song in alchemy and had no appearances scheduled.
"Blood Kill Tower? Is it that Blood Kill Tower I know? Isn’t it a force in Qingzhou? How can it participate in the battle of talents!"
Group forty-two, while Lin Jing caught a lot of attention, some also noticed another point of doubt.
"I’ve heard of it too, Blood Kill Tower is an assassin organization in Qingzhou... Rumor has it, they’ve even assassinated Divinity Transformations!"
In the audience, an elder spoke solemnly, "The ranking of talents has always been only for Ancient Country Cultivators, right?"
As if hearing the doubts from the audience, Celestial Regret Flower explained, "Blood Kill Tower is indeed a Qingzhou force, but a few years ago, it had been approved by the Sect Management Office to join the Ancient Country, becoming one of the Ancient Country’s cultivation sects, and they no longer engage in assassination transactions."
"Qi Yuan is the most promising talent of the Blood Kill Tower, and was invited by the Celestial Secret Tower to participate in this battle of talents."
Hearing Celestial Regret Flower’s explanation, the audience understood, although still found it incredible because even in Qingzhou, Blood Kill Tower was notoriously infamous, how could it be allowed by the Sect Management Office to enter the Ancient Country?
With Celestial Regret Flower’s explanation, a gray-clad, red-haired Qi Yuan descended onto the platform, slowly raising his head to look at Lin Jing, who also descended.
"I’ve heard your name quite a lot just now, I didn’t expect to meet you, lucky me."
"Lucky?" Lin Jing was puzzled.
"After joining the Ancient Country, Blood Kill Tower no longer conducts assassination business. Instead, it will take on the business of hunting demon beasts, whether in the Mist Forest or the Cloud Sea Mountain Range, Blood Kill Tower welcomes all, be it live capture or harvesting organs. As you are a Beast Taming Sect disciple, I assume you raise demon beasts well, so defeating you would also prove that Blood Kill Tower can not only deal with people but also easily handle demon beasts," Qi Yuan calmly said.
Lin Jing chuckled, so you’re here to advertise as well?