Beast Tamer Ascension-Chapter 77Book 4: : Ancient Emperor Takes a Disciple

Vol 4 Chapter 77: Ancient Emperor Takes a Disciple

"Cough, cough."

Lin Jing walked into the private room.

The First Ancient Emperor's eyes lit up when he saw Lin Jing had returned. He said, "You’re finally back. I thought I’d never see you again before I died."

"Let me introduce you to this young brother I just met..."

Lin Jing fell silent for a moment, then coughed again, the sound sobering Gao Sheng up from his drunken state.

Once a bit clearer, Gao Sheng suddenly rubbed his head, his face flushing purple, then pale, before bursting out, "D*mn it, old man, you tricked me into talking..."

"Huh—wait a sec—Brother Lin, why are you here?!" Gao Sheng suddenly noticed Lin Jing standing at the door, completely shocked.

"I was just about to ask why you’re here."

Gao Sheng shot up, quickly distancing himself from the First Ancient Emperor and turned to Lin Jing for help. "Brother Lin, this old man is no good. He kept coaxing me to say disrespectful things about the Ancient Emperor and disloyal things about the Ancient Kingdom. There’s definitely something wrong with him... Please help me catch him. You know I’m a loyal supporter of the Second Ancient Emperor!"

"Even if I was tricked, if this gets out, my whole clan is done for."

Gao Sheng looked terrified. Who knew what kind of nonsense he'd been spouting over the past few days—

From imperial harem gossip to the kingdom’s future, anything he could comment on, he probably did.

Lin Jing was speechless... If you didn’t already have those thoughts, would you have spilled your guts just from being drunk?

"What’s with you, kid? You were the one hugging me, begging me to listen. Now you're saying it's my fault?" The First Ancient Emperor complained, "Wait—hold on, you two know each other?"

"Don’t worry." Lin Jing reassured Gao Sheng, saying, "This guy’s one of us."

"I wasn’t around earlier, and he was wandering around Martial Emperor City alone. Didn’t expect you two to actually run into each other."

"One of us??" Gao Sheng froze.

He looked at the First Ancient Emperor. "Don’t tell me... an elder from the Demon Court in disguise?"

"Hell, if word gets out I’ve been hanging around with a demon from the Demon Court sabotaging the Ancient Kingdom, I’m done for!"

Lin Jing waved his hand. "Relax. He’s a projection of an ancient person I summoned using the Divine Scripture, not a demon."

"A projection!" Gao Sheng wiped his sweat and said, "Well, that’s a relief. He’s dead then."

Suddenly remembering something, he turned to the old man. "Wait, could you be Ancestor Feng Ling of the Feng Family?"

"Nope," Lin Jing replied.

"I’ve already summoned the Feng Family Ancestor too, but he has a different identity."

"What?" Gao Sheng asked.

"Tianyuan Ancient Kingdom. The First Ancient Emperor..." Lin Jing looked helplessly at Gao Sheng.

Gao Sheng: ".....?"

The next second, Gao Sheng passed out cold.

"Huh?" The First Ancient Emperor scratched his chin. "This kid’s Dao Heart is really that weak? And you actually told him who I am. Are you two that close?"

Lin Jing nodded. "Pretty close. He might’ve said a bunch of rebellious stuff, but Your Majesty the Ancient Emperor, no need to mind it. Young people like to criticize the government. Totally normal. If you really told him to rebel, he still wouldn’t do it."

The First Ancient Emperor laughed. "Actually, I heard quite a few interesting opinions from him. Even though he’s a second-generation cultivator, he seems to care about the common people. That was rare even in my time."

"Probably a genetic mutation. Brother Gao’s never been normal," Lin Jing said.

"Anyway..."

The Ancient Emperor looked Lin Jing up and down and said, "Innate Flawless Divine Body, Peak Foundation Establishment Stage. But this External Incarnation’s realm—don’t you think it’s a bit low? Normally, once an External Incarnation is successfully refined, the cultivation level should be at least Nascent Soul. Even the underdeveloped ones should be Early Nascent Soul. Yours is like, mildly disabled."

"Couldn’t help it. To save time, I rushed the refinement method. I didn’t pay much attention to its realm. I’ll upgrade it later," Lin Jing replied.

He had worried that refining an External Incarnation would take too long, so he hadn’t fully utilized the power of the Immortal Water Lotus. As a result, the incarnation's realm ended up far lower than it should have.

Otherwise, given the quality of the Immortal Water Lotus, it could’ve reached Perfected Nascent Soul Stage when formed, even surpassing the original body’s cultivation.

But that could’ve taken ten years, or even centuries. The more advanced it got, the more time and patience it would need. Lin Jing didn’t have the patience. Realm? Whatever. He had a Cultivation Core Pill anyway. He could just upgrade using the Core refined from the Dragon Carp later.

"Fair enough. You’ve got the Heavenly Demon Physique, so your realm doesn’t matter anyway," the First Ancient Emperor said, picking his nose. "What about your main body?"

"My real body had other business. Already left." ƒreewebɳovel.com

"For now, this incarnation will accompany you," Lin Jing chuckled.

"How about this—your main body stays as Holy Son of the Demon Court, and this incarnation becomes my disciple and stays in the Ancient Kingdom?" the Ancient Emperor suddenly suggested.

"I’ll get my Second Generation son to pass a new law recognizing 'dual citizenship.' It’s not like we’re lacking outrageous policies already—one more won’t hurt."

Lin Jing fell into deep thought, his gaze drifting.

"D*mn it, you’re actually hesitating? Do you realize what a massive opportunity this is?!"

"If you’re not going to do it, I’ll just make this kid my disciple!" The First Ancient Emperor kicked the unconscious Gao Sheng lying next to them.

"Since I’ve managed to come back for a while, I figured I might as well leave something behind."

"Now that the Second Generation guy has funneled all recent resources into the Ancient Clans, I’ll just pass some other stuff to cultivators outside the clans."

Lin Jing raised a brow and said, "Take him as your disciple?? You sure?"

You sure your legacy won’t be ruined by this guy...?

...

Not long after.

Qingzhou, Immortal Prison Mountain.

After many hardships, Lin Jing’s true body and party finally returned.

As soon as Lin Jing approached Immortal Prison Mountain, the Mosquito Woman led a swarm of mosquitoes to welcome him. The Grand Elder Huan Li of the Thousand Illusions Sect and the Longevity Body Girl Gu Qianqiu each stood atop a pine branch, welcoming back the master of this place.

"You brat, care to explain what happened six months ago?"

Senior Pine, who had escorted someone out before, immediately asked upon seeing Lin Jing. Dmn it, last time the kid had just flown back on a Celestial Sword, then left on the Wen Dao Ink Beast. What the hll was that about?

Lin Jing gave a bitter smile. "Just a small matter, not worth mentioning. I accidentally discovered a method to activate Celestial Artifacts in the Western Desert. So I used two of them to shake up some potential enemies and took out the Gu God Sect as a warning to others... Nothing worth mentioning, really."

"This time, I’m back to refine some pills for breaking into the Nascent Soul Stage. I’ll be staying for a while."

After Lin Jing finished speaking, even the mindless Mosquito Beasts wanted to cuss him out.

Activate Celestial Artifacts. Annihilate the Gu God Sect. Break into Nascent Soul Stage.

All these phrases together—wasn’t there something seriously wrong with this picture?