Sunset Forest.
The sun shone brightly.
Yan Lingji darted through the jungle.
She was preparing to hunt Soul Beasts and find a Ten-Thousand-Year Soul Beast suited specifically to her.
Besides that, she had an additional task: kill Soul Beasts with fire, sound-wave, and lightning attributes.
After all, the Venom symbiote feared high temperatures, sound waves, and lightning.
Especially ultra-high-frequency sound waves. They could even injure the symbiote and make it detach from its host.
When Yan Lingji learned that Jiang Ce wanted to find and kill Soul Beasts with those specific attributes, the corner of her mouth curled up. Understanding dawned, and she couldn't help teasing him:
"Master, you're being far too obvious. Now that I know your weaknesses, I might overthrow you one day."
And then—
She was hung from several trees and given a thorough lesson.
Jiang Ce had firmly established his authority as her master.
Yan Lingji prostrated herself on the ground in a deserted grove.
"Master, this servant was wrong."
Yan Lingji was exceedingly well-behaved now.
Teasing people too much sometimes came back to bite you.
Besides, her master wasn't human. Where she came from, he'd be called a demon.
And this little demoness of his had been thoroughly subdued.
Still, she resolved to temper her willpower properly.
She'd always been the one teasing others, but when it came to her master... she simply couldn't take it.
"Enough. Let's get started," Jiang Ce said coolly. "Finish what you need to do as soon as possible."
"Yes, Master."
Yan Lingji staggered to her feet, her legs giving way beneath her. She fell to the ground again.
"Master... this servant's legs are weak..."
Yan Lingji looked pitifully at him.
After all, she was a demon. She wasn't like an ordinary human.
She was a martial artist. What ordinary person could wear her out like this?
It wasn't as if she'd been thrown into the army as a camp follower.
"Enough. Get to work, you little demon."
Jiang Ce used Venom's healing ability to restore her strength.
"...Yes."
Black Venom tendrils spread once more.
At the same time,
"But this servant isn't suited for battle!"
"That's why I need to train you properly."
"Heaven is about to entrust someone with a great task. It first hardens their resolve and makes their bones and muscles toil."
Jiang Ce drawled, "You're the Captain of the Anti-Demon Ninjas I appointed."
"Captain of the Anti-Demon Ninjas?" Yan Lingji stood up, curiosity all over her face. "What's that?"
"Someone who can take three thousand times as much."
Yan Lingji's face turned pale.
Wait... what kind of person was that supposed to be?
She couldn't even take three times as much.
"Enough. Get to work!"
"Yes..."
Yan Lingji began searching for Soul Beasts.
Before long, she encountered a five-thousand-year-old Flame Wolf.
A long sword made of Venom formed in Yan Lingji's hand. She flashed forward and cleanly chopped off its head with a single stroke.
A tendril emerged from Yan Lingji's chest. Venom quickly covered the corpse and devoured it.
She gained five hundred years of lifespan.
His total lifespan now reached one thousand six hundred and twenty-seven years.
At the same time, one-tenth of the Soul Beast's lifespan—
fifty years—was passed on to Yan Lingji, becoming an all-around increase in cultivation, physique, and mental strength.
Yan Lingji felt power surge through her body, leaving her warm from head to toe.
In just this brief time, she'd gained the equivalent of four days of hard cultivation.
[Note: With the same Soul Power, someone with Innate Full Soul Power should need less time to cultivate. In my previous calculations, fifteen years of Soul Beast lifespan equaled one week for someone with innate level eight. But I actually made the time longer for someone with Innate Full Soul Power. I'll revise the earlier parts.]
"Isn't this just incredible?"
"Why are you standing there? Keep looking." Jiang Ce's little whip came out again, making Yan Lingji stumble as it struck her.
She glared at her master with a resentful look in her eyes, then immediately began hunting at full speed.
Soul Beasts with fire, sound-wave, and lightning attributes, ranging from two thousand to eight thousand years old—more than twenty of them fell one after another to her sword.
Jiang Ce devoured them as they went, extracting one-tenth of each Soul Beast's lifespan.
His total lifespan had now reached eleven thousand years.
His fire resistance was maxed out, while his lightning resistance was at thirty percent and his sound-wave resistance at forty percent.
It wouldn't be long before he maxed out his other two resistances as well.
Yan Lingji also gained one-tenth of the total lifespan devoured—that is, one thousand years.
Her level rose from fifty-two to the threshold of fifty-four. She'd soon break through to level fifty-five.
"When did cultivation become this fast?"
It was so comfortable it was practically addictive.
Then she was whipped again until she looked utterly wretched, pleading with her master in a coquettish, alluring voice to comfort her.
Jiang Ce knew perfectly well that the little demon was pretending to beg for mercy. He pinched her cheek with a tendril and teased her a little.
The devouring continued.
During that time, Jiang Ce gained an incredible skill.
[Split]
Sacrifice half of the accumulated lifespan and cultivation to split off half of the body.
This body had no independent consciousness and was controlled entirely by the original body. Consciousness could freely move between the original and the split body.
Jiang Ce's eyes suddenly lit up.
This meant he could split into many pieces and possess multiple mounts at once.
His consciousness could move freely between them, like a wireless broadcast.
He suddenly thought of the Stone Bead in his hand.
It had been this very bead that dragged him and Yan Lingji from The Legend of Qin into this world.
Maybe they could travel back again someday?
Or perhaps the Stone Bead could bring people from The Legend of Qin here?
He had no leads for now. He could only take things one step at a time.
First, he'd cultivate Yan Lingji into a God King.
Then he'd become the God King's master.
He'd thoroughly train God King Yan Lingji!
That would feel even better than being a God King himself.
Heh heh.
Yan Lingji led Jiang Ce through the Sunset Forest for quite a while.
Jiang Ce deliberately let her wander farther, hoping she'd find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well.
From the memories of the mercenaries he'd devoured, he'd learned that Qian Xunji was still in the prime of his life and remained the current pope of Spirit Hall. The saintess, Bibi Dong, was only sixteen, in the bloom of youth.
In other words, Yu Xiaogang hadn't yet made that lovesick fool Bibi Dong fall for him.
Naturally, he'd have to steal her away first.
Gangzi didn't deserve someone that good.
That also made the timeline clear: Tang San wouldn't be born for another twenty years.
There was no need for him to enter an Immortal Herb redemption code, since Dugu Bo was still in the prime of his life.
So he naturally had to find the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well first.
Just as he was thinking—
A deafening roar suddenly rang out ahead.
It boomed like thunder, shaking leaves from the trees as the air grew scorching hot.
Yan Lingji's peach-blossom eyes immediately lit up.
"Master—"
She turned back to Jiang Ce, a brilliant smile curling across her lips.
Jiang Ce gave a slight nod.
"Let's go see."
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