"So many space attribute materials..." Upon receiving Lin Jing's list, Xu Qingyao browsed through it.

"Are you planning to cultivate a space pet beast?" She put the list away, her gaze falling on Lin Jing. It made a lot of sense. At Lin Jing's level, only something with space attributes would be worthy of him.

As for the Mosquito Maiden, although she is the first demon race of her time and can command a swarm of mosquitoes, eventually, they can be mass-produced, and more and more exceptional demon races will be born, making her not particularly rare. But space-based creatures are a different matter.

"Yes, I got a design diagram for a Mechanical Turtle capable of developing intelligence from the Ancient Divine Strategy Manor. These are the materials needed to create it. However, I can't be certain if the Beast Taming Technique can contract with such a mechanical life... let's give it a shot." Lin Jing said.

Well, this is also something that can be mass-produced...

The Senior Sister shook her head and said, "I don't think so. Don't get your hopes up too high because when I arrived in Qingzhou, I tried it. The Beast Taming Technique can only contract with demon beasts, not even with plant life, let alone try with mechanical beasts or artifact spirits, it seems even less plausible."

"After all, the Beast Taming Technique is essentially cultivation meant for the arduous task of raising demon beasts in the Ancient Immortal Palace, primarily targeting demon beasts. Although our predecessors from the Beast Taming Sect made some improvements, they didn't stray far from the original version."

"The limit of the Beast Taming Technique for contracting is likely biological entities like the Ice Soul Gu. Even though the Ten Strange Gu have also transformed into unique lifeforms, they were originally all types of venomous insects, which are considered demon beasts. However, a mechanical beast is essentially unrelated to demon beasts."

"But it's not entirely impossible. Since the predecessors from the Beast Taming Sect could improve the Beast Taming Technique, maybe you can too." Xu Qingyao smiled and added, "After all, you've even researched the transformation method, and you've entered the Bodhi Grotto Heaven, cultivating the Hidden Dragon Secret Technique, so improving a cultivation technique shouldn't be a problem for you."

"Spirit Plant, demon beast, artifact spirit, corpse puppet, mechanical wonder beast, technique elemental spirit... maybe you could eventually contract them all as pets!"

Lin Jing chuckled and said, "I'll take your auspicious words, Senior Sister."

Lin Jing wasn't 100% sure if the Mechanical Turtle would be his next Golden Core Stage contracted pet beast because he couldn't determine if he would be able to contract it in the end. As the Senior Sister mentioned, it isn't a purely demon beast lifeform.

But even if he couldn't contract it, it didn't matter. The reason he wanted to contract a mechanical beast wasn't for any significant benefit a mechanical beast could provide, but purely because he felt an affinity with mechanical techniques. They had accompanied him for quite some time, and he thought it might be interesting to contract a mechanical beast. There was no strong sense of gain involved.

As for improving the cultivation technique as the Senior Sister suggested, that indeed was an avenue.

Many cultivators initially encounter cultivation techniques of not high grades. When they reach a certain level, those techniques no longer suit them. But they don't want to switch techniques and start all over again, so they often choose another path.

Which is to improve the cultivation technique they have been practicing.

However, very few people can achieve this, and it requires a certain level of talent and intelligence.

......

After returning to the cave abode, Lin Jing began preparing for the Dan Meeting two years later. The Dan Meeting is an alchemy competition, and he definitely couldn't directly use the Transformation Grass for the competition.

He needed to refine the Transformation Grass into a Transformation Pill to reduce the difficulty of using it!

During this period, Lin Jing already had some ideas about how to modify the effects of the Transformation Grass.

If he wanted the mutated Transformation Grass to be effective for higher-level demon beasts, he needed to improve the quality of the mutated Transformation Grass. This could be achieved in two ways.

One way is to improve the quality of the Transformation Grass through external forces, like relocating the mutated Transformation Grass to a special treasure land for further growth.

Another method would be to use quantitative changes to induce qualitative changes, refining the essence of large amounts of mutated Transformation Grass through alchemy, condensing myriad essences into a single portion to enhance the effect. This is a common technique in the Alchemy Dao for enhancing the effect of lower-grade Spirit Plants.

If Lin Jing were to choose, he would definitely choose the second method. However, under the current rules of the Heavenly Dao, the production of ordinary Transformation Grass is extremely low. Even though the Demon Court has dedicated Demon Emperors for its cultivation, the yield is still not high. Relying solely on supplies from the Senior Sister may not be sufficient; she might need to snatch shares from the other two Saintesses.

"But in terms of enhancing the level of the Transformation Pill, that's not urgent. For the Dan Meeting, it's only necessary to demonstrate that the Transformation Pill has the effect of transformation. What level of demon beast it can transform isn't crucial in the short term."

"The key is how to enable most lower-level demon beasts to endure tribulation! Or, in other words, avoid tribulation! This way, the transformation effect can be demonstrated smoothly..."

"I wonder if this method will work." During Lin Jing's deduction aided by Hidden Dragon Fortune, a solution presented itself naturally.

This solution combined Lin Jing's existing conditions with some memories from his past life deep in his mind.

In his past life, he had read many online novels and watched films covering a vast array of topics. In some of these stories, when certain incredibly heaven-defying pills were refined, they would attract a pill tribulation. Only after surviving the pill tribulation would the pill be considered complete.

However, on the Celestial Essence Continent, this phenomenon seemed never to have occurred—there were no records, nor had any pills been known to attract thunder tribulations.

So Lin Jing's ultimate deduction was to refine the pill with thunder. Through a special alchemy technique, when the pill is complete, it would draw the pill tribulation thunder, allowing the pill to bear part of the divine sanction intended for the consumer.

Through the tempering of the heavenly tribulation, the side effects of the pill would be reduced.

Just like the side effect of using the Transformation Grass is to trigger the transformation tribulation, but if through the Thunder Refining Method, the Transformation Pill refined from the Transformation Grass itself bears part of the tribulation's power, it might alleviate the burden on the user.

The path of transformation is already against the heavens. Whether it involves humans or objects, it is inherently defying the natural order. There is no reason that demon beasts should solely bear the cost.

Relatively speaking, if the Transformation Pill itself cannot survive the pill tribulation, then the pill will be destroyed, leading to a waste of materials.

By transferring risks, the difficulty of demon transformation can be shared. As to whether this would reduce the effectiveness of the transformation, Lin Jing was temporarily uncertain.

"It's fortunate that I acquired flame birthed from heavenly tribulation, the Heavenly Thunder Flame, from the Qilin Race. Now that the Dragon Carp has completely refined it, I wonder if this Heavenly Thunder Flame could draw even a faint hint of heavenly thunder to temper the Transformation Pill."

The Pill Tribulation Thunder Refining Method is a technique Lin Jing devised, possibly to weaken the side effects of the Transformation Grass. Taking an unconventional approach, it no longer requires adding other materials or involving pharmacology but instead starts with alchemical techniques. For Lin Jing and the Dragon Carp, it's a tremendous challenge, especially with only two years to study this Thunder Refining Method.

No, more accurately, it's eleven years, since one year could be spent in the Time Hourglass, equivalent to ten years...

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