After a long time, Lin Jing voluntarily broke free from the illusion realm and realized that this Immortal Lady Jian couldn't be consumed frequently; perhaps it required some time before one could again receive the Immortal Lady's teachings.

Seeing that Lin Jing emerged so quickly this time, the Pine Leaf Mouse poked its head out, indicating whether to continue eating?

It shrugged, indicating that even if it wanted to continue eating, there was no more left, as it hadn't stored much of this thing.

"Then hurry up and plant some more."

Lin Jing found the effects of the Immortal Lady Jian quite impressive; despite his high attainment in the Illusion Technique, the Immortal Lady could still significantly enhance it. It truly was a treasure synthesized with the Glazed Immortal Pupil.

"Squeak!"

The Pine Leaf Mouse burrowed back into the gourd to continue planting mushrooms, while Lin Jing picked up the Demon Pill to consolidate the recently enhanced magic power of the Illusion Technique.

Thus, the Pine Leaf Mouse continually provided Immortal Lady Jian, while Lin Jing consumed mushrooms and contemplated the power of the Demon Pill...

Time flew by rapidly, and due to encountering too many illusions, year after year, Lin Jing found it hard to distinguish between illusion and reality.

Six months passed in the outside world.

Lin Jing, however, had consumed five years of Immortal Lady Jian in the Hourglass of Time.

Having been constantly practicing illusion techniques, he barely felt the passage of time.

Until a day five years later in the Hourglass of Time, Lin Jing's heart suddenly stopped, realizing he had exhausted the Demon Pill.

A Demon Pill was directly reduced to powder, scattered by the wind.

He couldn't comprehend why a royal-grade Demon Pill was depleted so easily.

"Wouldn't Senior Sister scold me for this?"

But soon, he rubbed his eyes and noticed a floating green mushroom beside him, which he couldn't grab or touch, resembling the Immortal Lady Jian but not being exactly the same.

"Wait, what is this?"

The Demon Pill disappeared, but it appeared.

Lin Jing was sure this wasn't the Immortal Lady Jian; the Pine Leaf Mouse's supply was slow, delivering one Immortal Lady Jian only once a month, and there was still some time before the next delivery. Where did this thing come from?

"Oh no, could it be that consuming too much has affected my mind?"

He was slightly startled, but soon realized something, his expression constantly changing, even somewhat delighted.

"Could it be..." He took a deep breath and immediately used the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique, resonating with the green mushroom floating beside him.

With a thought from Lin Jing, the green mushroom transformed into the appearance of the Pine Leaf Mouse… another thought turned it into the form of a Dragon Carp, and yet another thought morphed it into the shape of the Ice Soul Gu...

The transformed appearances were vivid, lifelike, and even the aura and power fluctuations were identical. Even Lin Jing, the Beast Master and Illusionist himself, found it hard to distinguish the real from the fake for a moment.

Buzz!

In the next instant.

The green mushroom transformed into a young boy in a yellow robe, less than ten years old, exuding a vague but awesome power that was awe-inspiring. Lin Jing's eyes gleamed, finally understanding what this green mushroom was.

"Technique Elemental Spirit!!!"

"I have cultivated the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique using the Immortal Lady Jian and Demon Pill here for five years, and have successfully cultivated a Technique Elemental Spirit."

"Indeed, the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique was self-created through Bodhi Heaven, and it's the magic most likely to give birth to a Technique Elemental Spirit on me. Now, with so many illusion resources aiding cultivation..."

"After cultivating the Technique Elemental Spirit of the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions, I can even simulate the aura of the Void Profound realm, which remarkably mimics the illusion of the Child Immortal from the Demon Extermination Bureau, exactly like when I met Elder Shen Song's Child Immortal!!!"

Lin Jing rejoiced inwardly, astonished to have cultivated the Technique Elemental Spirit of Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions.

But no, wait.

"It's not a complete Technique Elemental Spirit, according to the records, a technique that can give birth to a Technique Elemental Spirit will possess self-awareness, like a living Spirit Body. Now, this Mushroom True Spirit is still like an empty shell, not closely linked to me, and needs my active control, without having developed self-awareness."

"This should be a precursor to the birth of a Technique Elemental Spirit, the so-called embryonic form of the Elemental Spirit, which implies that my aptitude in Illusion Technique is about to reach the pinnacle of the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique, almost like having an Illusion Pet following me."

"No wonder the energy of the Demon Pill suddenly dried up; it must have been absorbed by the Technique Elemental Spirit during its birth."

Holding the image of the Elemental Spirit of Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions—the mushroom, Lin Jing pursed his lips.

He felt that the illusion technique driven by the Technique Elemental Spirit even slightly surpassed the effect amplified by the Demon Pill!

Additionally, the Demon Pill is an external force, while the Technique Elemental Spirit is his own power, so it seems worth it, and he should be able to account for it with Senior Sister...

Just that...

The appearance of a Technique Elemental Spirit usually relates to the type of magic.

It's rumored that the Technique Elemental Spirit cultivated by Master Xuanwu of the Ancient Country Spirit Path Sect through the Black Tortoise Shield was a turtle.

Lin Jing had also battled with Chen Chong, the prodigy of the Spirit Dao Sect who cultivated a Technique Elemental Spirit of the Gravity Technique, whose Technique Elemental Spirit resembled a mini-planet...

As for his side...

"Why is the appearance of the Technique Elemental Spirit of the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique a mushroom?"

"Could it be because I've eaten too many mushrooms in recent years?" Lin Jing pondered deeply. By logic, since the Thousand Changes and Infinite Illusions technique was based on the insights from the mutated Dragon Bone Flower, even if a Technique Elemental Spirit emerged, it should resemble a Fire Dragon Fruit.

Oh well, a mushroom is a mushroom, at least it's not an Immortal Lady.

When the time comes for battle, it's still respectable to summon a mushroom, but summoning a female Immortal Lady would be too improper.

.........

After concluding his studies in illusion techniques, Lin Jing spent five years in the Hourglass of Time cultivating a Technique Elemental Spirit, enhancing his proficiency in illusion techniques. With such a level of illusion skills, Lin Jing was satisfied, confident that individuals like the Void Profound or Demon Ancestor who aren't adept in the Illusion Technique would find it hard to discern his true self!

If the Technique Elemental Spirit develops intelligence, it would be even more remarkable.

"In the blink of an eye, half a year has passed in the outside world; the time for the Centennial Grand Ceremony of the Celestial Lion Clan is drawing closer. It's time to send out my doppelgangers."

"The Hourglass of Time is truly outrageous; originally my age was similar to my peers in the academy, but continuing to cultivate using the Hourglass of Time for a few more years might make me older than even Senior Sister or the Sect Leader."

After all... the flow of time inside and outside is different.

Calculating his age, Lin Jing realized he was nearly 50, with six months outside translating to five years inside.

Although aging a bit quickly, the gains were substantial, achieving the embryonic form of a Technique Elemental Spirit in such a brief period outside.

With the preliminary formation of the Technique Elemental Spirit, before sending out two illusion doppelgangers, Lin Jing chose to enhance the illusory soul's intensity of his plant doppelganger through the green mushroom once again...

Days later, the figures of a person and a Pine Leaf Mouse, both clad in robes, flew towards the Beast God Dao's Celestial Lion Clan encampment.

"I wonder if they will encounter another Longevity Body within the Celestial Lion Clan." Lin Jing and the Pine Leaf Mouse's true selves slightly blurred as they watched the departing doppelgangers.

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