Zhao Qingyue left.

She understood the gap between herself and Lin Jing.

Perhaps Lin Jing from ten years ago and the current top prodigy couldn't be compared in terms of strength.

But now that he has reached the Foundation Establishment Stage and contracted two Treasure Beasts and a unique Gu, Lin Jing has almost no rivals in battles of the same level.

"It's the first time I've seen the Bright Moon Fairy in such a miserable state..." Looking at Zhao Qingyue's departing figure, Jiang Lin was in a trance.

"The senior is just too strong..." Jiang Qi swallowed, becoming more awestruck by Lin Jing.

Beside him, Xu Zhizhi was also feeling completely at ease. He could now confirm that Lin Jing was the most promising person he had encountered.

When he becomes a high-ranking official in the future, this will be his backing!

He even doubted now that even if the legendary top ten Immortal Bodies emerged, they wouldn't be a match for Lin Jing in the same realm.

The Innate Dao Body and Taiyin Body are among the top twenty physiques of all time, but all have been defeated by Lin Jing. He felt that maybe only the top ten Immortal Bodies, destined to become immortals, have a chance to compete with Lin Jing.

But such a level of immortal genius is extremely rare. The last time an Immortal Body appeared was five thousand years ago, Xu Zhizhi sighed, wondering if Lin Jing would even encounter such a prodigy in his lifetime.

That might be a good thing, after all, the emergence of an Immortal Body casts a shadow over not only contemporaneous geniuses but even some old monsters. Not encountering an Immortal Body might not be a bad thing.

"Are all the students from the academy who joined at the same time as me graduated?" Lin Jing asked.

"No, Gao Sheng hasn't graduated yet," Xu Zhizhi replied. "According to him, after graduation, his family will definitely arrange his future, so he keeps hanging onto the title of academy student and is wandering around."

"Alright, no need to mention him." Lin Jing shrugged.

"What's your plan next?" Xu Zhizhi asked curiously. "Are you going to apply for graduation? With your strength, you should be able to become a city lord in the ancient domain and won't be assigned to a remote area. The path of promotion should be very easy!"

"I don't have plans for that at the moment," Lin Jing replied. Although obtaining an official position could further improve his Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, he feels that the current stage of the technique is more than sufficient.

Advancing the third layer of the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique to increase cultivation is not his urgent need. Instead, quickly mastering the Celestial Demon Body is more critical than anything.

The Child Immortal once said that a Divinity Transformation Stage Celestial Demon Body Demon Cultivator consumed a millennium of lifespan to gain the ethereal combat power for a decade!

This benefit is simply defying the heavens.

And for him, who has a five-thousand-year lifespan even at the Foundation Establishment Stage, a millennium of life is truly trivial.

If the Celestial Demon Body can be mastered, even if his foundational cultivation is lower and cultivation progress is more challenging than normal cultivators, the improvement in cultivation obtained at the expense of lifespan burning would definitely surpass the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique.

But the biggest problem now is that Lin Jing just can't learn it...

"I'm going back to seclusion again," Lin Jing said, planning to stay in secluded cultivation for several more years until he learns the Celestial Demon Body.

"Secluding again???" Xu Zhizhi was exasperated, you just came out of seclusion!

"Before going into seclusion, I will provide enough Dragon Ascending Pills," Lin Jing chuckled.

"Alright then." Xu Zhizhi sighed, Lin Jing can do as he pleases. Geniuses have their own ways of cultivation!

Afterward, the Fire Lin Dragon was assigned its second task after its Foundation Establishment and transformation into a dragon, continuing with alchemy…

With its current strength, Lin Jing believed that the quality of the Dragon Ascending Pills it crafted would be even better.

And for the Pine Leaf Mouse, which had reached the late-stage Foundation Establishment and mastered the Longevity Technique, the gathering of materials for the Dragon Ascending Pills became much easier.

Lin Jing himself was wholeheartedly devoted to the cultivation of the Celestial Demon Body…

And so, another three months passed.

The potential and fortune Lin Jing accumulated over ten years from the Hidden Dragon technique were mostly consumed.

Unfortunately, concerning the Celestial Demon Body, he still remained somewhat clueless.

"So weak."

Now Elder Shen Song had also awakened, watching Lin Jing's cultivation, and felt bored seeing that Lin Jing hadn't mastered the Celestial Demon Body yet.

It was more eager than Lin Jing to see what kind of power the Longevity Body combined with the Celestial Demon Body could wield, and it shouldn't be inferior to a single Immortal Body, right?

"Kid, since you can't get a grasp of it, change your mindset first." Seeing Lin Jing's bloodshot eyes, nearly falling into a state of madness, Elder Shen Song advised.

"It shouldn't be this difficult."

"In essence, it's merely using True Essence to transform the heart, cultivating a heart's flame capable of burning life, transforming the heart into a Pill Furnace, using life force as material, and crafting a life pill to elevate cultivation..."

"I've already successfully transformed my heart according to the Secret Technique, so why can't I nurture a heart fire..." Lin Jing introspected his already blackened heart. This was the core of the Celestial Demon Body, where could the transformation have gone wrong?

"Innate talent is innate talent. Your 'Thousand Transformations' technique is fundamentally simpler, merely recombining the composition of Spiritual Power, but aside from you who succeeded with the help of the golden Bodhi Tree, who else could learn it?"

After Elder Shen Song finished speaking, Lin Jing sighed, deciding to obediently listen and temporarily train some other spells to clear his mind.

He sat cross-legged on the ground, with his life force growing weaker and weaker, soon resembling a cultivator meditating to death, without a hint of vitality.

"Let's practice the Art of Metamorphosis and the Thousand Transformations technique," Lin Jing muttered to himself. These two techniques were now particularly important to him.

He already had a five-thousand-year lifespan at the Foundation Establishment Stage, his life force becoming incredibly formidable and impressive. Thanks to the Art of Metamorphosis learned from the Hundred Flower Valley, he could conceal his life force.

But merely doing so was still a bit conspicuous. Due to his shallow mastery of the Art of Metamorphosis, it was still challenging to completely conceal a five-thousand-year life force aura, but combining it with the Thousand Transformations technique, which could perfectly deceive, Lin Jing's state of feigned death could truly fool the heavens.

"Elder Shen Song, what level of cultivation can detect my current state?"

"In the Qi Cultivation Stage, your Thousand Transformations technique could even conceal from a Nascent Soul, and now, with your True Qi compressed into True Essence, the Illusion and Dao Magic have grown stronger, even able to deceive a Divinity Transformation Cultivator to some extent. If I didn't know you were using illusion, I would have been fooled."

"Now, unless a Divinity Transformation Cultivator specializing in Divine Sense is probing with full force, it would be difficult for anyone below the ethereal realm to easily perceive any anomaly in you while you are concealing with illusion and the Art of Metamorphosis."

"Yes, if you had used the fortune from cultivating the Celestial Demon Body to cultivate these two techniques, you might have perfectly deceived a Divinity Transformation..."

"Then I will train the Art of Metamorphosis and the Thousand Transformations for a bit... As for the Celestial Demon Body, relying on my cultivation may be futile, although the method says I don't need external force..."

"Elder, do you think it would be easier if I find a different flame with a nature of burning lifespan and have the Fire Lin Dragon refine it, then use that flame as a reference to forge the heart fire? Its Flame Emperor Treasure Beast constitution makes refining and controlling different flames easy, and I can further explore the essence of such flames through it," Lin Jing inquired.

"Wait, stop thinking about cultivation, something's gone wrong———" As Lin Jing was waiting for Elder Shen Song's reply, suddenly, Elder Shen Song's startled voice echoed from the void.

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