Beast Tamer Ascension
Book 5: Chapter 49: Revival! Revival!

Vol 5 Chapter 49: Revival! Revival!

Lin Jing didn't take the Dark Emperor's remains to use with corpse driving techniques.

The Yin Corpse Sect's corpse driving techniques could only be used on humans and demonic beasts—after all, there weren't many other races in the Tianyuan Realm back then.

Lin Jing was drawn to the Dark Emperor's potential, which was no less than that of the Sea Spirit Beast and Meteor Spirit Beast...

Falling at the Nascent Soul Transformation Stage was truly a pity.

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After inspecting the treasury's resources, Lin Jing took the Dark Emperor's remains and left first.

"Sect Master." Lady Nethersoil, who had been waiting outside Xianlin City, grinned upon seeing Lin Jing emerge. "This time... we've truly reaped bountiful rewards."

"A harvest is good." Lin Jing replied, "We'll discuss reproduction matters later. Can you accomplish what I mentioned earlier, Vice Sect Master?"

"No problem. These people haven't been dead long. With sufficient resources, I can do it." Lady Nethersoil said casually.

As the embodiment of death energy in the Origin Realm, she could pull back any creature that died within the realm, provided they hadn't been completely "digested" by the Origin Realm.

Of course, minor issues like missing limbs or souls were beyond her control.

Generally speaking, revival was possible.

"Good. Also... can you revive this?" Lin Jing produced the Dark Emperor's remains.

"This..." Seeing the nine-tailed fox composed entirely of dark elements, Lady Nethersoil froze momentarily before exclaiming in shock, "Could this be the Dark Emperor? Its remains still exist!"

"Correct." Lin Jing nodded seriously. "Is there a way?"

"Impossible. Sect Master, you know I can only revive flesh-and-blood creatures who died within a hundred years. Spirit beasts are beyond my power." Lady Nethersoil shook her head.

"But spirit beasts don't even need my help to revive! Unless they died of old age, creatures like this that fell in battle can resurrect on their own if placed in an environment rich with their element—just takes a few millennia!"

Lin Jing shook his head. "Ten thousand years is too long. I want immediate revival."

"This...this..."

"Forget it. Dead is dead." Seeing Lady Nethersoil's helplessness, Lin Jing sighed.

"Eh?" Under Lady Nethersoil's puzzled gaze, Lin Jing departed after saying, "I'll return later. Prepare yourself—I'll provide resources for reviving Xianlin City's war dead."

"Really now..." Lady Nethersoil cursed under her breath. Such a demanding taskmaster.

Damn it, she'd still ended up as manual labor...

............

In the blink of an eye, Lin Jing returned to his cave dwelling in Xianlin City. His intention to revive the Dark Emperor was to have the Heavenly Demon Avatar use it as the next body for soul usurpation.

Having abandoned the plan to usurp the Limitless Immortal, Lin Jing needed to find another suitable vessel. Among human immortal physiques, he hadn't found anything suitable yet.

Discovering the Dark Emperor's remains today had stirred his interest. Though not human, its dark attributes perfectly complemented the Heavenly Demon's power and demonic bloodline. Combined, they could elevate the avatar's strength to new heights.

The only drawback was not knowing how long the Dark Emperor had been dead.

Normal soul usurpation only worked on recently deceased members of the same species.

The Heavenly Demon Scripture's soul usurpation ability was more formidable—capable of perfectly taking over bodies of different species, including demons and spirit beasts... It could also usurp corpses that had been dead for some time.

However, the difficulty would be significantly higher than usurping a freshly dead body.

Lin Jing's original plan was to revive the Dark Emperor's remains first to make usurpation easier. But since even Lady Nethersoil couldn't help, Lin Jing would have to make do with the current state.

At least the avatar's spirit had nothing better to do—it could slowly work on usurping the Dark Emperor's remains.

Several days later.

News arrived—the battle between the Meteor Spirit Beast and the Demon Sect's Sacred Son Sheng Kun had concluded days ago with the Meteor Spirit Beast severely wounded and Sheng Kun expelled from the Origin Realm.

Thus, all four of the Origin Realm's top combatants had temporarily withdrawn in different ways.

Though Lin Jing knew the Sea Spirit Beast and Meteor Spirit Beast would recover quickly for the upcoming millennium war, and that the two major human factions would send more prodigies within ten years, none of that mattered.

This decade would be his stage. Lin Jing intended to rapidly increase his strength during these ten years, striving to reach Heavenly King level as soon as possible.

"Sheng Kun has left after all. In that case, this can be used now."

Lin Jing took out the Time Dao Immortal Banner and tossed it to the released Heavenly Demon Avatar spirit: "With this, no matter how difficult usurping the Dark Emperor's remains is, ten years should suffice."

"And we're not lacking immortal energy to power the banner now."

"Exactly." The Heavenly Demon Avatar grew excited. "With the Origin Sources from the city treasury, perhaps we won't need to wait for the premium-grade Origin Sources in ten years—the Wood-attribute Pine Leaf Mouse and others might advance to Celestial Beasts early! Then we wouldn't need to rely so heavily on the immortal ox corpse!"

"True." Lin Jing nodded. His only current concern was that the Cultivation Alliance outside, upon learning how he was squandering the city treasury, might immediately send someone to replace him as acting city lord. Conflict would then be inevitable.

Recently, more alliance cultivators had broken through and left. After major battles, it was common for cultivators to fail suppressing their realms and depart abruptly.

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Pangu Star, Pangu Continent, Cultivation Alliance.

Several days had passed since Li Tianyi of the Chaotic Immortal Physique returned.

The alliance's powerhouses had basically learned about the Origin Realm's situation and were urgently summoning top-tier prodigies to send into the Origin Realm.

Over a hundred prodigies from different cultivation continents arrived at alliance headquarters via teleportation arrays. At their current strength, these prodigies couldn't change anything in the Origin Realm—unless the alliance employed unconventional methods to temporarily boost their power by overdrafting their potential.

But before the alliance could begin these forced enhancements, returning Origin Realm prodigies brought news that stunned the alliance's powerhouses and left Li Tianyi dumbfounded.

"The acting city lord appointed by Senior Brother Tianyi has recruited dozens of native Origin Realm spirit creatures led by Lady Nethersoil and the Mountain of Lewd Sacrifices, establishing the Heaven-Earth Sect!"

"Commanding these spirit creatures, the new city lord effortlessly repelled the Sea Spirit Beast! The war has ended!"

What's going on! Li Tianyi was flabbergasted. When had Lin Jing subjugated these spirit creatures—especially Lady Nethersoil? The Cultivation Alliance had previously failed to recruit her despite offering multiple immortal artifacts for her unique revival ability!

"Tianyi, you've rendered great service!" Some powerhouses began praising Li Tianyi. But soon, more reports arrived that made Li Tianyi and many alliance elders want to vomit blood.

"The new city lord is collaborating with Lady Nethersoil to systematically revive fallen cultivators... seems like... seems like the alliance treasury is being emptied."

"According to revived cultivators, the new city lord and Lady Nethersoil are operating at a loss—each revived person must sign an IOU for the revival cost difference... And there's a squirrel... it's even dug up all the immortal flowers and plants in the city, mobilizing the entire city's resources to revive those who shed blood for Xianlin City."

An elder raged: "That's the alliance's accumulated resources in the Origin Realm over many years! What's he doing reviving useless people? Stop him immediately!"