Renegade Immortal

( 仙逆)
Book 03
Famous in the Sea of Devils
Er Gen
( 耳根)
Story Description:

Wang Lin is a very smart boy with loving parents. Although him
and his parents are shunned by the rest of their relatives, his
parents always held high hopes that he will one day become
someone great. One day, Wang Lin suddenly gained the chance
to walk the path of an immortal, but found that he only had
mediocre talent at best. Watch Wang Lin as he breaks through
his lack of talent and walks the path towards becoming a real
immortal!

Original Story can be found here: Link

Chapter 141: Fighting Evil Sect
The fog was very thick in the Sea of Devils and it was filled with Ying
energy. Wang Lin had only been here for a short while, but his
clothes were already soaked. The sticky feeling of his clothes
clinging to him was very uncomfortable.

As for Li Muwan, her face was no longer pale but slightly red, and
her skin was silky smooth. Her clothes were also soaked by the fog,
revealing her exquisitely charming body.

Wang Lin took one look and withdrew his gaze. His heart wasn’t
moved at all. If it wasn’t for the fact that Li Muwan could make the
Distance Heaven’s Pill and various other pills, he wouldn’t have
allowed her to follow him.

The Sea of Devils was a huge basin. After descending for a long time,
he still hadn’t seen the bottom. However, he noticed that the deeper
he went, the stronger the Ying energy was.

Soon, strange creatures started to appear in the fog, some of them

even had spiritual energy fluctuations. This made Wang Lin very
surprised, but luckily, he was able to detect them soon enough, so
there were only a few scares and never any real danger.

Li Muwan was extremely nervous as she had heard too many rumors
about this Sea of Devils. There was no reasoning with people here as
power was the only thing that mattered. There was also a lack of
female cultivators, so unless she had a powerful backing, she would
likely have a very miserable fate.

Before the upheaval in Hou Fen, there were always a lot of

cultivators stationed at the border of the Sea of Devils. This often
included Nascent Soul cultivators. Their sole purpose was to prevent
demonic cultivators from raiding their country.
Luckily, the powerful forces in the Sea of Devils were all in the
center. The groups on the edges were all small, so as long as they
were careful, nothing too big would happen.

Wang Lin didn’t know how long they had been flying for when he
suddenly stopped. Li Muwan wasn’t able to react fast enough, so she
ran into his back. Wang Lin coldly looked at the fog in the distance
and said, “Come out, now!”

Three thin and tall figures appeared in the fog, but the fog was too
thick for Wang Lin to see their exact figures, though it was obvious
that they were three male cultivators. One of them shouted in a
sharp voice.

“Arrogant! This area belongs to my Fighting Evil Sect. If you are

smart, leave behind the female cultivator or else…”

Before he finished speaking, Wang Lin let out a cold snort. “Noisy!
Die!” The map had stated that there was no reasoning in the Sea of
Devils; only the strong were respected. He waved his right hand and
his Ji Realm Divine Sense spread out. Those three were only mid
stage Foundation Establishment cultivators, so Wang Lin could kill
them at will.

The red lightning suddenly flashed by the three of them. Their eyes
became dimmer and dimmer before their souls shattered and died.

Wang Lin walked forward and grabbed their bags of holding. He

then kicked their bodies into the thick fog and left without taking
another look.

Li Muwan was horrified as she looked at what occurred before her.

This was the first time she had seen Wang Lin act. The other three
were all at the mid stage of Foundation Establishment just like she
was, but they had all died mysteriously without any means to resist.
She was shocked as she looked at Wang Lin’s back, then she
suddenly thought back to half a month ago, when her brother Li
Qiqing said something about the great battle over the spirit vein
where thousands of cultivators participated.

During the early stage of that battle, something strange was

happening to the cultivators of Xuan Xu. All of the Foundation
Establishment cultivators of Xuan Wu were mysteriously dying and
falling from the sky.

If it was only one or two, then it wouldn’t be so bad, but Xuan Wu

only had 200 or so Foundation Establishment cultivators, and
almost half of them died mysteriously like this. When she initially
heard of this, she didn’t believe it; she thought that it was only
rumor, but looking at how those three Foundation Establishment
cultivators had died, she couldn’t help but remember that story.

She followed behind Wang Lin and asked, with a trembling voice,
“Senior… senior apprentice brother, back in the Hou Fen Union,
which army were you part of?”

Wang Lin didn’t turn his head as he coldly said, “The tenth army.”

The moment the words “The tenth army” entered Li Muwan’s ears,
it was like lightning had struck her mind. She clearly remembered
that her brother had said that the 10th army was the one that fought
that battle. Now she was almost certain that this cold-looking youth
was the one responsible for massive amounts of deaths of the
Foundation Establishment cultivators of Xuan Wu.

Thinking about this, her last sliver of will to resist evaporated

completely. She couldn’t even summon the strength to back out. But
just then, she suddenly remembered a description of a strange
technique that she had read back in the Lou He Sect and blurted out,
“The technique you just used, was it the death spell?”
Wang Lin’s heart was slightly startled, but nothing showed on his
face. He calmly replied, without turning his head, “You also know
about the death spell?”

The moment Li Muwan heard Wang Lin’s words, she was even more
certain that he knew the legendary death spell. The death spell was
known as a technique from the ancient cultivation world that was
incredibly hard to master. However, once mastered, all one had to do
was look at someone, say the word “die,” and that person would
immediately die.

This type of technique was considered to be one of the most evil

techniques among demonic cultivators. It requires one to fuse three
types of energy. The first is Yin energy, which comes from female
cultivators’ Nascent Souls, using the Yin harvesting technique. The
second energy is death energy, which is obtained by absorbing
energy from the bones of the dead. Although this is similar to Ying
energy, the quality is very different. The third energy is killing
energy. Once someone has killed enough, their body will produce its
own killing intent. Once this killing intent gains its own
consciousness, it becomes the killing energy needed.

Fusing the three energies pushes the person to have to survive a trial
to continue cultivating this technique. However, every night, the user
suffers unimaginable pain, and they have to survive this trial again
every three years.

Only after having gone through this cycle countless times can an
early stage of the death spell be considered complete. If one wishes
to continue cultivating it, the chance of death is even higher.
According to some calculations, the chances of completely
mastering the death spell are basically zero. Although this technique
is very powerful, it is simply too vicious. Only a few demonic
cultivators were willing to try to learn it.
After listening to Li Muwan describe the death spell with her
trembling voice, Wang Lin’s expression slightly changed and he
remained silent. This silence caused Lu Muwan to became even
more scared and her heart pounded violently.

After traveling in the Sea of Devils for a while, Wang Lin had finally
entered the sea part of the area. The fog was much thicker now and
the Ying energy was a lot stronger.

Staring at the ground below him, Wang Lin muttered a bit before
taking a few steps back. He jumped around until he found a
mountain peak. He stood on a rock that was protruding from the
mountain as he took a flying sword out of his bag of holding and
then pointed at the mountain. The flying sword flew toward the
mountain and began carving.

Sounds of metal scraping rock entered Wang Lin’s ears. He couldn’t

help but frown as the mountain was too tough and the flying sword
was very weak.

He let out a snort and then slapped his bag of holding again. This
time, more than 30 flying swords came out. His Ji Realm Divine
Sense entered each sword and the swords rained down upon the
mountain.

This way, the progress immediately sped up, and a cave appeared on
the side of the mountain. Li Muwan had gotten used to Wang Lin
during their travels. Since this guy could complete the death spell,
then controlling 30 flying swords wasn’t really anything surprising.

She knew that the amount of flying swords one could control was
dependant on a cultivator’s divine sense.

Time slowly passed and a cave with four rooms was slowly carved
out. Thus, a simple cultivation cave was formed. Wang Lin took out
spirit stones and set down various formations around the cave.
After Li Muwan saw the formations, she revealed a surprised
expression, but after seeing the formation, the surprise disappeared
and a sliver of disdain appeared. However, that sliver of disdain
quickly disappeared as she hid it.

However, this sliver of disdain was still caught by Wang Lin.

Although he was focused on placing the formation, his divine sense
had never left Li Muwan. Even on the way here, it was still the same.
If Li Muwan had made any unusual movement, Wang Lin wouldn’t
care that she was a woman; he would’ve mercilessly killed her.

After Wang Lin finished placing down the spirit stones, he didn’t
even turn around as he coldly said, “I plan to stay in this cave for a
long time. If the formation is broken, I can easily escape, but you will
have to rely on yourself.” With that, he turned around and looked at
Li Muwan.

Li Muwan clenched her teeth and moved up without a word. She

took out black flags from her bag of holding and placed them around
the cave. However, she still felt unsafe, so she placed more
formations down around the cave and even organized Wang Lin’s
formations to connect them all.

After doing all of this, she clenched her jaw again and took out a
blue, crystallic, beast bone. She used her flying sword to cut it into
pieces and, after calculating for a while, she placed one piece down.

She continued to place them. When all 18 pieces of the beast bone
were in place, three hours had passed. Li Muwan’s forehead was
covered in sweat. She looked very tired as she said, “Including the
formations you have placed, there are a total of 214 formations.
However, they are only beginner formations that can only stop
Foundation Establishment cultivators from entering. I just used the
bone of a crystal beast to lay down the nine skeleton formation.
Although the formation is only at 30% power due to the lack of
bones, it can still block a Core Formation cultivator for one hour.”
“I only have this many crystal beast bones. If you want the formation
to be even more stable, then we need more spirit beast bones.”

With that, she waved her right hand and tossed out a piece of jade.
Wang Lin caught it and scanned it with his divine sense. Inside was
information on how to enter the formation. After he finished
reading it, he crushed the jade, then looked at Li Muwan and pointed
forward.

Li Muwan knew that she couldn’t trust him, but there was nothing
she could do, so she walked into the formation. Wang Lin left a
sliver of his divine sense on her and followed behind.

After safely passing through the layers of formations and entering

the cave, Li Muwan took out another small flag. She gently waved
the flag and all the formations activated, releasing a thick fog. From
the distance, one couldn’t see anything at all, and even if they were
to take a closer look, they would only see the mountain.

Inside the cave, Wang Lin examined Li Muwan, which caused her
face to became even more pale. She took a few steps back and
whispered, “Senior apprentice brother, should I refine the Distance
Heaven Pill for you now?”

Wang Lin shook his head and said, “I don’t dare to eat the pills you
refine.”

Li Muwan’s eyes immediately became red as she silently lowered her

head. After a long time, she raised her head, revealing a crying face,
and whispered, “Senior apprentice brother has saved my life. Just tell
me what I need to do for you to believe me.” The current her was
very beautiful and alluring.

Wang Lin wasn’t effected by Li Muwan’s beauty at all. His

expression was still calm as he said, “I don’t like forcing people, so I
won’t demand too much from you. All I need you to do is refine
enough pills for me to reach the Core Formation stage. Once I have
reached the Core Formation stage, I’ll escort you out of the Sea of
Devils. But during this period of time, I’ll need you to hand over your
soul essence blood to ensure nothing goes wrong with the pills
during this period of time.”

Li Muwan pondered for a bit, then nodded. She pointed her finger at
her brow and forced out her soul essence blood. Then she sent the
drop to Wang Lin.

After Wang Lin received the soul essence blood, he threw out
several bags of holding and said, “All of the materials are here. See
what kind of pills you can refine.”

Li Muwan checked the bags with her divine sense and immediately
exclaimed, “This… this is desolate wood root, and there is yellow
core grass. This… there is burning golden root and heaven spirit
grass…” The more she looked through the bags, the more shocked
she was. A large majority of the materials were for refining pills, and
some had long been extinct in Hou Fen. Only disciples that came
back from the foreign battleground every 100 years would bring back
some.

Wang Lin rubbed his chin and threw out more than ten bags of
holding. These were his recent spoils. After removing all the
treasures and spirit stones, all that was left were materials he didn’t
know about, so it was perfect to have Li Muwan identify them.

After checking all of the bags of holding, all of Li Muwan’s grief

from before disappeared and her face was now glowing. Her face
was filled with excitement as she raised her head and asked, “Senior
apprentice brother, I can freely use all these materials?”

Wang Lin nodded. “I only want pills. As for the process, you can do
whatever you wish.”

Li Muwan smiled at Wang Lin for the first time. Her smile was very
sweet as she said, with confidence, “Senior apprentice brother can
rest assured. I have calculated that I can make 300 Yellow Spirit
pills that can help increase cultivation, 50 Poison Avoiding pills, and
various other pills with various effects. Once I have finished, I’ll
hand them to senior apprentice brother. Senior apprentice brother,
among the materials you have, the most valuable one is this demon
blood vine.” With that, she took out a very ordinary looking red
wood strip.

“This red wood strip is one of the ingredients for making the
Distance Heaven Pill and one of the most important. I have only
seen this demon blood vine in ancient records. With this, I have
confidence in refining one Distant Heaven Pill; however, the effect
will be a bit weaker as I need to find replacements for the other
materials.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained dull as he calmly said, “I won’t ask

much about matters relating to refining pills.” He pondered a bit and
said, “I plan on making a trip outside. At least three days and at most
half a month. Watch out for yourself.”

With that, he was ready to leave. Li Muwan hesitated for a bit, then
quickly said, “Senior apprentice brother, when you go out, can you
find me a pill furnace? I’m fine with the materials, and the pill
furnace I carry is fine for normal pills. However, if I were to use my
current pill furnace, the success rate of the Distance Heaven Pill
would only be 50%. Normally, the completion of the Distant Heaven
Pill uses the sect’s Heaven Fusing Furnace.”

Wang Lin slightly frowned. He looked at Li Muwan, then left without

a word.

Li Muwan secretly sighed. She originally didn’t want to lie, but she
was afraid that if she had told the truth earlier, he would have left
her. However, now that they had reached this stage and she had
even turned over her soul essence blood, she decided to bring up the
matter of the Distance Heaven Pill’s success rate. If anything were to
happen in the future, he might kill her in a moment of rage.

After leaving the cave, Wang Lin checked his direction and looked
toward where Zhao was. His eyes became cold as he muttered, “Teng
Huayuan, I’m about to reach the Core Formation stage. Once I reach
the Nascent Soul stage, I’ll kill my way back to Zhao and uproot your
entire clan. Teng Huayuan, you better not die early. Live and wait for
my return…”

The coldness in his eyes slowly disappeared. He took a step,

activated the earth escape technique, and quickly charged into the
distance. The reason he was going out was to find more spirit beast
bones. According to Li Muwan, only by adding more spirit beast
bones could the nine skeleton formation be at max power. Wang Lin
knew that he was in a rush to reach the Core Formation stage, and
in a place as dangerous as the Sea of Devils, he needed a relatively
safe place to ensure nothing went wrong.

Another reason was that he needed the skulls of spirit beasts to

make the reaction furnace for the refining technique of the War God
Shrine. With both the formations and the reaction furnace, spirit
beast bones were now a necessity for Wang Lin. According to the
description given in the map jade, there were spirit beasts within the
fog and spirit beasts bones at the bottom of the sea.

However, many of those spirit beast bones had already been dug up
by others, so even after walking for a long time, Wang Lin still
hadn’t found any. Also, the fog was very thick at the bottom of the
sea, so his eyes were useless and he could only see with his divine
sense.

As he moved, his expression suddenly changed and he took a step

back. Then a flying sword, flying in a wavy pattern, flashed by where
Wang Lin was.
Wang Lin was at the peak of late stage Foundation Establishment,
the pseudo Core Formation stage, so he was able to completely see
through this 40 something year old man who was only at the early
stage of Foundation Establishment. This person’s face was dark
purple and his breathing was very rough. It was clear that he had
been hit with a powerful poison, causing him to not be able to fully
control his spiritual energy.

The moment that flying sword passed by, another ray of light chased
closely behind it.

Wang Lin’s face became very strange as the person chasing the early
stage Foundation Establishment cultivator was a young man at the
peak of the 15th layer of Qi Condensation. This person’s face was
snow white, had slender eyes, and had a hint of evil on his face.

The evil-looking young man was holding a black beast bone. As he

leisurely chased after the middle-aged man, he kept on blowing on
the bone. Every time he blew on it, black smoke would come out.

The moment the black smoke appeared, it would quickly catch up to

the Foundation Establishment cultivator and enter his body.

“Senior apprentice brother, run faster. Your junior apprentice

brother wants to see how long you can last with those 16 deadly
poisons inside your body.” The young man blew at the black bone
again and continued, in a creepy voice, “Senior apprentice brother,
junior apprentice brother here has spent a very long time preparing
these 16 different deadly poisons for you. How else would I dare to
act against you with your Foundation Establishment cultivation?
Senior apprentice brother, you won’t be able to run away.”

The middle-aged man clenched his teeth and remained silent as his
flying sword crookedly flew up the mountain.

“Senior apprentice brother, you are already very old. How about you
accept death and let me devour you with the foundation stealing
technique?” The evil looking youth said very slowly as he closed in
on the middle-aged man.

Wang Lin was interested in the beast bone in the young man’s man.
He moved forward and silently followed behind them.

After the middle-aged man heard what the young man said, he
didn’t even turn his head as he cursed with a raspy voice, “Sang
Muya, you bastard. If it wasn’t for me pleading for you back then,
how could master have accepted you as a disciple? You dare to do
such a vicious thing to your fellow disciples? Are you not afraid of
master finding out?”

The evil youth let out a hysterical laugh and said, “Master? If master
didn’t agree to this, how would I dare to openly ambush you like
this?”

The middle-aged man’s body trembled as he coughed out a mouthful

of black blood. His body weakened and he fell off his flying sword.
The evil youth let out a cold snort and stopped three feet away from
the body on his flying sword. He stabbed the corpse several times
with this flying sword to make sure it was dead before grabbing it to
leave.

However, he suddenly stopped as he stared at a dark figure in the

fog. Cold sweat covered his forehead. When he was chasing his
senior apprentice brother, he had his divine sense spread out and
didn’t notice anything. However, this person now appeared silently
before him, meaning that this person’s cultivation level was far
above his own.

He threw the body on the ground, then immediately clasped his

hands and bowed. The evil expression disappeared from his face and
was replaced with a simple and honest expression as he said, “Junior
is the Fighting Evil Sect’s disciple, Sang Muya. What has senior
stopped junior for? Junior will do his best to help senior.”
Wang Lin slowly walked out of the fog and coldly glanced at the
youth.

The youth felt like his simple and honest expression was seen
through at a glance by Wang Lin, so he suddenly felt terrified.

He had only felt like this when he was faced by his master, but his
master was at the peak of late stage Foundation Establishment and
had foot in the Core Formation stage. Could this young man, who
didn’t look much older than him, be at the pseudo Core Formation
stage already…

The youth’s heart trembled and his expression became even more
respectful.

“Bring your beast bone here.” Wang Lin’s voice was cold and void of
any emotion.

The more Wang Lin acted like this, the more Sang Muya panicked in
his heart. He had grown up in the Sea of Devils and had heard of all
kinds of demonic techniques. Although his cultivation level wasn’t
high, he had managed to cultivate a pair of Demonic Knowledge
eyes. He knew that those powerful demonic cultivators were cold
and ruthless, and although he had seen many demonic cultivators
with those eyes, most were only an imitation. But this senior before
him seemed to be cold and ruthless from the soul, especially that
pair of eyes that caused even his heart to feel cold.

He quickly threw out the beast bone that was in his hand as he
didn’t dare to have any thoughts of resisting.
Chapter 142: A Body of Treasures
Wang Lin flew at a low altitude near the bottom of the sea with a
flag in his hand. This was a soul flag with over 100 souls sealed
inside, including the soul of Sang Muya from earlier. The soul flag
used to belong to Sang Muya and he didn’t expect it to be his own
grave.

After talking with Sang Muya, Wang Lin learned that everything
within a one million kilometer radius was considered the outer rim
of the Sea of Devils. There were countless large and small sects in
this area, and the Fighting Evil Sect was one of them.

The highest level cultivator of the sect was the sect head, Liu Sen,
who was Sang Muya’s ancestor. He was at the peak of mid stage
Core Formation and was somewhat famous in this area.

The outer rim of the Sea of Devils was very lacking in resources with
very few spirit veins. There were very few Nascent Soul cultivators
here as many weren’t willing to live in this area. Most of them lived
in the middle section of the Sea of Devils.

In addition to all of this, Wang Lin also learned that there weren’t
any spirit beast bones in the outer rim of the Sea of Devils. Those
powerful spirit beasts all lived in the middle section of the, and even
if one were to wander out here, it was not something the demonic
cultivators that lived here could kill.

But Wang Lin still managed to obtain some useful information.

Within the outer rim of the Sea of Devils, there were three danger
zones. One of the three danger zones, the Corpse Valley, had many
beast bones. If nearby sects needed such materials, they would go
there.

The strange thing was that every so often, new corpses of newly
dead spirit beasts would appear in the Corpse Valley. Some of these
spirit beasts were very powerful when they were alive. There was
actually no explanation for how they appeared there, much less how
they died in the Corpse Valley.

Although the Corpse Valley was mysterious, as long as one doesn’t

enter the central part of the valley, then generally nothing dangerous
happens.

As for the bone Sang Muya was using to deal with his senior
apprentice brother, it came from the Corpse Valley. It was made
from the bones of a mysterious crow beast. After studying it for a
long time, Wang Lin found that this poison only worked on
Foundation Establishment cultivators. The effect was drastically
weaker against more powerful cultivators.

Wang Lin’s current destination was the Corpse Valley. He quickly

flew toward the direction Sang Muya pointed to.

What he saw when he arrived outside the Corpse Valley were

countless mountain ranges. There were tall and low mountains, and
where the mountain ranges met, there were large and small valleys.

This was the Corpse Valley.

The fog here was very thin and didn’t affect visibility at all. However,
as Wang Lin entered, he felt Yin energy that was very different in
terms of quality to the energy outside.

Wang Lin immediately formed a seal and began to chant, then

slivers of light gathered before him. Eventually, they formed a ball of
white light, but right after it appeared, it began to change colors until
it finally settled and became blue.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. This was the technique to determine the type
of Yin energy in the area. Based on the color of the ball, it would tell
him which of the four Yin energies it was. There were four colors:
purple, blue, silver, and red, which represented heaven, earth,
mysterious, and death Yin.

Since the light was blue, then this place contained the very rare
earth Yin energy.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and pointed forward. The ball of light
immediately flew forward. Wang Lin slowly followed behind the ball
of light and observed its color as he searched for beast bones.

Wang Lin’s divine sense found several cultivators inside the Corpse
Valley, but they were all focused on looking for beast bones. Even if
they were to meet, all they would do was nod at each other as they
passed by.

Wang Lin pondered a little. There wasn’t only one Corpse Valley but
countless ones of varying sizes. There were fewer cultivators deep
inside the valley, meaning there was a higher chance of finding
beast bones there.

After passing through the nine valleys, there were much more
remains of beasts. Some of them were terrifyingly large as they took
up a majority of the valley.

Wang Lin was standing on top of a giant beast corpse, but after
examining it for a while, he gave up on the idea of taking it away.
Although this corpse was large, there wasn’t spiritual energy in the
bones, meaning this wasn’t a spirit beast. It just had a large body.

As he got closer and closer to the center of the Corpse Valley, the
deeper the color of the ball of light became. After he passed the
ninth valley, he no longer saw any cultivators, and the amount of
corpses increased.

Wang Lin paused in the ninth valley for a while. He was very careful
and had his divine sense spread out. For some reason, after he
arrived at the ninth valley, he felt that it was different from the
previous eight. He couldn’t clearly say what was different, but he felt
as if countless pairs of eyes were gathered on him the moment he
entered.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart as he swept the surroundings with his
Ji Realm Divine sense. The eyes on him immediately disappeared
and the valley became silent again.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit, then casually collected beast bones
before moving to the tenth valley. When he arrived at the thirteenth
valley, the ball of light split into two.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He knew that this meant that the quality of
Yin energy had broken past rank 10 normal quality and entered rank
1 good quality. Waves of Yin were coming from the 14th valley. Wang
Lin felt his body stiffen.

Wang Lin looked around and let out a sigh. In truth, this was the
best place for him to go into closed door cultivation. However,
although this place looked calm, for it to be considered one of the
three danger zones, it must have its dangers. Wang Lin didn’t dare
to go into closed door cultivation for long no matter how good the
conditions were. Before he fully understands this place, he won’t
stay here for long unless he absolutely has to.

He hesitated for a bit. He had already collected a few beast bones.

Although their quality wasn’t very high, they should at least be able
to increase the power of the nine skeleton formation a bit.

But he was a bit unwilling to walk away now. From his current
position, he could see just how big the fourteenth valley was. This
fourteenth valley was clearly different from the 13 before it. Its size
was almost the same as the previous 13 combined.

In addition to all of this, what was most strange about the 14th valley
was that there were no corpses in sight. The entire ground was
covered in shining blue frost that looked very mysterious.
From a distance, Wang Lin could see that the fourteenth valley
wasn’t the center of the Corpse valley; it could only be considered
the halfway point. Wang Lin shook his head and decided to head
back.

Just as he was about to leave, a roar came from the distance and a
giant dragon over 1,000 feet long appeared from the fog.

Wang Lin’s expression changed as he took a few steps back and

entered the ground. His divine sense spread out and was locked onto
the giant dragon.

The dragon’s body was very large. As it moved its body, it created
huge gusts of wind. In one jump, it crossed 13 valleys and entered
the fourteenth valley.

As the giant dragon passed over Wang Lin, a large amount of fresh
blood fell from the sky. Wang Lin looked up and saw that there was
a giant wound on the dragon’s stomach. The wound covered half of
the dragon’s body length.

Wang Lin looked at the direction the dragon came from and saw a
trail of blood. It seemed the dragon was bleeding non-stop on the
way here.

The dragon stopped above the fourteenth valley and seemed

indifferent about the amount of blood he was shedding as he let out
one last roar. The moment this roar came out, the air around the
dragon rippled and spread out like waves in the ocean.

The bones in the other valleys were turned to dust and were pushed
outward by the air waves.

Wang Lin could feel that three inches of the ground were peeled off.
He was extremely shocked. This dragon was probably even stronger
than a Nascent Soul cultivator.
This roar lasted for one hour before the dragon’s eyes dimmed. It
used the last of its strength to smash into the blue ice on the ground
and dug into it.

At this moment, Wang Lin jumped out of the ground and charged
toward the dragon without any hesitation. In the blink of an eye, he
had entered the fourteenth valley. As he floated in the air, he
grabbed the tail of the sinking dragon and pulled with all his might.

He only heard crackling sounds as the dragon’s body was pulled out
by him. His heart pounded as he carried the heavy body and flew out
of the Corpse Valley.

The dragon was too heavy. Even when using all the spiritual energy
in his body, he could just barely carry it. He could hear his own
bones compressing under the pressure, but when he thought about
obtaining the body of a dragon that had just died, Wang Lin
completely ignored the pain.

After shakily flying out of the Corpse Valley, Wang Lin could see the
cultivators that were collecting bones on the outer rim. All of them
had activated defensive treasures as they looked at him. They were
stunned.

These cultivators were used to these kinds of things happening, so

the moment the dragon appeared, they all scattered, opened up their
defensive treasures, and found a sturdy place to hide. Even so, there
were still people who had their bodies shattered by the roar.

In order to survive, not only would they need a certain level of

cultivation but also a quick mind. These people were here year round
as they relied on selling the bones from the Corpse Valley for a
living.

Because they were here year round, they did sometimes see spirit
beasts dying inside the valley, but this was the first time they had
seen someone carry out the body of a spirit beast that had just died.
They have never even heard of it, let alone seen it. However, this
person had not only done it, but was carrying a complete dragon
corpse.

A complete body that hadn’t rotted! At this moment, most of the

cultivators had lost their reasoning and revealed looks of greed.

Wang Lin could feel countless eyes looking at him. He let out a cold
snort as he stepped on the ground and went underground using the
earth escape technique with the entire dragon.

The moment he sunk down, his Ji Realm divine sense shot out. All
of the cultivators here were below the Core Formation stage, so
every single one of them died.

The dragon’s body was simply too large. Even though he was
constantly drinking spirit liquid, he couldn’t move very fast. He
could only ever so slowly move toward the cave as he was carrying
the dragon.
Chapter 143: Three Cold Cores
It took Wang Lin ten days to slowly move from the Corpse Valley
back to the cave. After he appeared outside the cave, he carefully
checked his surroundings. When he was sure that nothing was
wrong, he came out and dragged the dragon out with him.

The ground shook and alerted Li Muwan. She opened the formation
and poked her head out after Wang Lin called her. However, the
moment she poked her head out, her eyes were drawn to the 1,000
foot long dragon. She was dumbfounded for a long time.

Wang Lin dragged the dragon into the formation and said to Li
Muwan, “Would the bones of this dragon be enough for the
formation?”

Li Muwan nodded in a daze as her mind was a complete mess. She

had seen records of this type of dragon. They were powerful enough
to kill late stage Nascent Soul cultivators and their entire bodies
could be considered treasures.

Inside the head of the dragon was a dragon pill. It was a natural pill
that only needed a bit of refinement to become a real pill that will
increase cultivation. The dragon’s skin was top quality material for
making armor and the dragon’s bones and tendons were also rare
materials. The most precious material of all though was the marrow.

The quality of the marrow depended on the age of the dragon. The
older the dragon, the less marrow. Once it reaches a certain age, it
will become a dragon pill.

The dragon pill was something even ancient cultivators would

dream of. It would allow one to obtain a dragon’s body and allow
them to switch back and forth. Also, from that point on, they will
never reach a bottleneck when cultivating.
However, for a dragon to form a dragon pill, it would need to be alive
for 9,990,000 years. This was why no exact records of the dragon
pill existed. Its effects were still only rumors and legends.

After passing the dragon to Li Muwan, he no longer bothered with it

and went on his way. He had obtained everything he needed besides
a furnace in this trip, but he learned that there was a place called the
Treasure Refining Pavilion where he could buy one.

The Treasure Refining Sect had a lot of shops all over the Sea of
Devils. The closest one was in North Dipper city, 40,000 kilometers
away. However, things like a pill furnace usually cost a lot, and after
hearing Sang Muya say that the head of the Fighting Evil Sect had
spent almost all of the sect’s spirit stones for one pill furnace, he
gave up on the idea of going to buy one.

He decided to put the matter of the furnace aside for now. Because
they had the dragon’s bones, the nine skeleton formation will be
strong enough to provide them decent protection. Wang Lin was
going to go into closed door training, aiming for the Core Formation
stage.

Wang Lin sat down in one of the stone rooms and sealed it with a
large rock. Then he took out 30 flying swords and pointed at the
ground. The flying swords immediately flew into the ground and
started digging a tunnel to the bottom of the mountain.

Wang Lin’s eyes became serious as he shot out some spiritual energy
that became a ball of fire. The color of the fire gradually became
light blue. Wang Lin slightly frowned, but his face immediately
lightened up. Rank 1 common Earth Yin. Although it couldn’t
compare to the Corpse Valley, it was more than enough for common
cold cores.

His body moved and jumped into the bottom of the pit. It reached
rank 3 common Earth Yin. This was clearly the limit, so he put out
the ball of fire and began to cultivate.
Wang Lin had already learned the Underworld Ascension Method
once, so he was able to quickly pick it up again.

Time slowly passed and three days later, Wang Lin opened his eyes.
His eyes revealed a contemplating expression before he took out the
heaven defying bead and gathered the spirit liquid.

Time quickly passed by. Aside from cultivating, Wang Lin only
gathered the spirit liquid from the heaven defying bead every day.
Once he had gathered enough dew, he would spend part of the day
cultivating inside the heaven defying bead with the spirit liquid.

As a result, his progress was very rapid. It only took him one month
to form two cold cores. He only needed to form the last one to
attempt to reach the Core Formation stage.

This last cold core would take longer to make. After all, he had only
formed two cold cores last time. However, he was at the peak of late
stage Foundation Establishment, so at least it wouldn’t take him
years of cultivation for it to finally form.

Wang Lin was confident that he could form his third cold core
within three months. As a result, he wasn’t in a rush at all. Aside
from cultivating and gathering spirit liquid, he found time every day
to nurture some devils.

Wang Lin had tried many times, but he couldn’t imprint his divine
sense onto the devil, so he had to work around it by slowly nurturing
them.

Speaking of the devil, he was of great use for Wang Lin. He slowly
took out souls from the soul flag and fed them to the devil. All of the
souls inside this soul flag were cultivators from the Sea of Devils,
and a majority of them were disciples of the Fighting Evil Sect.
According to Sang Muya, all of these souls belonged to people who
fought with him for the attention of their master. After they were
killed by him, he sealed their souls inside.
Time slowly passed, and by the time the devil had devoured most of
the souls in the soul flag, a sliver of Wang Lin’s divine sense
developed inside the devil.

The devil itself hadn’t realized that this sliver of Wang Lin’s divine
sense had developed within itself as it thought about ways to escape.

Three months had passed since he had gone into closed door
cultivation. The prototype for his third cold core had already formed.
In these three months, he had gone outside several times. The room
Li Muwan was in was filled with materials. She even managed to get
some soil from somewhere and planted some spirit herbs. There
was also a formation of low and medium quality spirit stones laid
out around the spirit herbs to ensure they had enough spiritual
energy to grow.

A small pill furnace was placed in the center of the room with a pile
of failed pills beside it. Li Muwan had started refining pills when
Wang Lin had gone into closed door cultivation.

Aside from the failures on the ground, there were also jades
scattered on the floor. Whenever Li Muwan get stuck or had some
inspiration, she would immediately search through the jades.

Of the four rooms inside the cave, one was used for Wang Lin’s
cultivation, one was for alchemy, one was for growing plants, and
the last one had been renovated into a shower room by Li Muwan.

The Sea of Devils was filled with fog, so the air was very humid. The
inside the cave was no exception. Clothes will get wet very quick and
stick to your body. Li Muwan was a girl, and adding on the sticky
feeling the wet clothes gave her, she really couldn’t stand it
anymore, so she put in a lot of effort to make this shower room.

Wang Lin didn’t care about the shower room at all because all he
have to do was cycle his spiritual energy and all of the Yin energy
would be sucked into his cold core.
The nine skeleton formation’s power had greatly increased with the
dragon’s bones. However, Li Muwan said that it should be called the
nine dragon bone formation instead of the nine skeleton formation.

The moment the formation was turned on, it could trap a Core
Formation cultivator for months, or block a Nascent soul cultivator
for a few days. However, Li Muwan regretted that they couldn’t catch
the dragon while it was alive, because if they had infused the
dragon’s soul into the formation, it would be even stronger. Not only
would it be able to defend, it would also be able to attack. Any Core
Formation cultivator would die instantly, and a Nascent Soul
cultivator would be forced away in a sorry state.

Unfortunately, the soul of a dragon was too hard to obtain, so she

could only dream about it.

As for the dragon, Li Muwan took out the dragon’s pill and stored it
until she obtains a better pill furnace. As for the skin, Li Muwan
spent a month removing it from the dragon and stored it for later.

In addition to all of this, there were the dragon’s tendons. This was
the third mysterious part of the dragon aside from the dragon’s pill
and marrow. If a treasure refiner was here, they would be able to
refine the tendons into weapons that could change their size at will
and split into countless branches.

The last part was a small bottle of bone marrow. It was so precious
that Li Muwan was scared of using it to refine pills. She handed
these things over to Wang Lin and painfully withdrew her gaze.

Wang Lin kept the dragon’s marrow and veins and gave everything
else to Li Muwan. With her tender hands, she made two inner
armors from the dragon’s hide.

After Wang Lin put one on, he looked at the other one that was
clearly made for a woman and threw it at Li Muwan. She let out a
smile as she silently put it away in her bag of holding.
There was still a lot of dragon’s hide left after the armor was made,
so Wang Lin put it all away to exchange for other resources in the
future.

The entire dragon became various treasures.

Another month passed and Wang Lin finally formed his third cold
core. The Yin energy cycled through the cold core at his head, chest,
and dantian.

Wang Lin opened his eyes and revealed an excited look. He closed
his eyes and decided to do it all in one go, so he fused the three cold
cores into one.

Situ Nan had explained in detail before about the process of fusing
the three cold cores into one. The fusion was divided into the initial
step and completion. If he could reach the initial step, then he would
truly be half a step into the Core Formation stage. If he were to take
the Distant Heaven Pill at the same moment he completes the
fusion, then he would have an 80% chance of reaching the Core
Formation stage.

He didn’t let Li Muwan complete the Distant Heaven Pill because it

required a better pill furnace and there was only one incomplete pill.
He had to ensure the highest success rate of the pill being
completed.

At the same time, he made the backup plan of using the demonic
blood root to make a fake Distant Heaven Pill.

Before, he thought buying a pill furnace would be too expensive, but

now that he had the dragon’s hide, he could try to get one. If it was
still not enough, then he would do whatever was necessary to get a
pill furnace. He took a deep breath and began to attempt fusing his
cold cores.
Chapter 144: Core Formation (1)
There were cold cores in his head, chest, and dantian. He had to
break the balance between the three so the cold core at the head
would sink and fuse with the one in the chest. If that succeeded,
then that was the initial fusion.

The next step would be for that fused cold core to sink and fuse with
the one in the dantian. The moment the three cold cores fuse, there
is a chance for a real core to form.

Wang Lin quietly sat inside this small, stone room filled with Yin
energy. His eyes were cold, his divine sense was in his body, and his
focus was on the cold core in his head.

The first step for him was to make this cold core sink.

Wang Lin knew that it would be difficult to fuse the three cores
before, but after experiencing it, he felt like difficult was an
understatement. It was more like unimaginably difficult to fuse the
three cold cores.

Wang Lin had already tried to sink the first cold core for more than
a month, and he never stopped trying the whole time. There seemed
to be some mysterious force blocking him. No matter how hard he
tried, he couldn’t break through.

The requirements to cultivate the Underworld Ascension Method

were to break the Ancestral point, Qi Sea, and dantian three times
each with each time being harder than the last. The first time could
be said to be difficult, the second time was very difficult, and the
third time was extremely difficult. However, what Wang Lin was
attempting to do right now was really making his Ancestral point
break a fourth time, so one could only imagine the difficulty.
After attempting to break through many times, Wang Lin changed
tactics and decided to slowly grind the barrier down. As time went
on, that force that was blocking him weakened greatly.

However, the pain caused when grinding it was not something a

normal person could imagine. Every time he grinded it, his body
would shake and his forehead would be covered in sweat. His
clothes had been dry ever since he had started this process.

Turning three cores into one was not something that could be
achieved without great determination. However, determination was
not something Wang Lin lacked. Even back in the Heng Yue Sect, his
determination had left two streaks of blood on the road up the
mountain.

If it wasn’t for his bad talent, he would have definitely been the
focus of the Heng Yue Sect’s nurture and care. However, all of this
was pointless now with the destruction of the Heng Yue Sect.

Wang Lin’s determination was unimaginable. After enduring three

months of this pain, the Ancestral point finally broke once more.

The fist-sized cold core slowly sank down toward his Qi sea. As it
sunk, slivers of energy from the cold core entered his body,

Every time the cold core sunk, more and more of these threads of
energy appeared until the core was finally right above the Qi sea.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and started grinding the barrier in
front of the Qi sea without any hesitation.

Another three months had passed before the barrier finally broke
and opened. At the same time, the two cold cores collided with each
other. Wang Lin heard a boom as a terrifying energy surged through
his body.
Wang Lin’s face immediately became pale. After his throat moved a
bit, he coughed out a mouthful of blood. The moment the blood
came out, it froze and hit the wall, causing the wall to be covered in
blood-colored ice crystals.

After coughing out the blood, he quickly took out eight medium
quality spirit stones, all of which he crushed and turned to dust. The
dust quickly circled around him and formed a strange symbol.

The symbol faintly glowed before disappearing. Then a black flying

sword appeared and circled Wang Lin once before stopping before
him. The devil’s figure slowly appeared from the sword.

The devil first looked at Wang Lin and began to struggle on what to
do. Just at this moment, the divine sense implanted in the devil
activated and it lost every urge to attack Wang Lin, then started to
obediently guard him.

After finishing all of this, Wang Lin’s body fell to the ground. He
only had enough time to place a formation before he passed out.

Speaking of this formation, Wang Lin had prepared several simple

formations to use during emergency situations.

The devil guarded the cave and secretly glanced at Wang Lin a few
times. He began to struggle again and thought, “Should I attack him?
Well… he doesn’t seem to be faking it… it’s hard to say. This guy is
just too sly… Ah, should I fight with him? But if I can’t defeat him…”
The devil shivered and threw this idea out of his mind.

After one day, the idea he had thrown out of his mind came back
again and he began to struggle. “Should I attack him? This is the
perfect time. If I miss this chance now, then I might never have
another… No, this Wang Lin is too cunning. How could he not have
some sort of defense against me? He was passing out, yet he still let
me out. This doesn’t make any sense.” The devil shook his head and
looked viciously at Wang Lin. “I’m not going to fall for it. You can
continue to pretend.”

The idea was once again thrown aside.

Another day passed. The devil looked at Wang Lin and became
tempted again. “Forget it, lets fight! I don’t think this guy is faking it.
I wanna fight, fight, fight!”

His eyes turned red and he jumped at Wang Lin. The defensive
formation had no effect, so he managed to touch him.

But shortly after, the devil let out a miserable scream as green gas
came out of his body and he seemed like he was about to disappear.
He quickly backed up while miserably crying, “I knew this guy was
cunning. Why else would he let me out without a care? Damn it,
when did he leave that divine sense inside me. How… how am I
going to live from now on?” The devil slumped to the ground and
began wailing.

After experiencing this, the devil obediently stayed in a corner. He

stared at the wall with eyes filled with anger.

On the third day, Wang Lin woke up and let out a bitter smile. He
underestimated the difficulty of the fusion. The destructive force
created by the fusion was the key part of the process.

He couldn’t let this energy escape or the fusion would fail, but if he
were to keep it in his body, his body wouldn’t be able to withstand it.
Wang Lin’s expression was very dark and unsettling.

In truth, his body couldn’t handle this level of Yin energy, which
confused him greatly. How did the senior that practiced the
Underworld Ascension Method fuse the three cold cores? Forget
about others, how did Situ Nan succeed in cultivating the
Underworld Ascension Method?
Wang Lin thought very hard but couldn’t come up with an answer.
This was one point Situ Nan had never brought up.

“How could I make my body be able to withstand the Yin energy?”

Wang Lin muttered to himself for a long time before letting out a
sigh, then his gaze landed on the devil in the corner.

After Wang Lin woke up, the devil had constantly been taking peeks
at him. Now that Wang Lin looked at him, his body quivered and he
quickly said, “I have been guarding you this whole time and was
always vigilant.”

Wang Lin grabbed the devil and threw him into the flying sword
before leaving the stone room.

Wang Lin looked into Li Muwan’s room and saw her slumped over a
table, sleeping soundly. Her silky hair was tied up in a ponytail. Part
of the ponytail was on the side of her face and the rest was behind
her ear. Her face was slightly red and had a glow like sunlight
reflecting off snow.

The purple dress she had on made her look like a painting and
would cause anyone’s heart to beat faster. At this moment, there
were slivers of white smoke escaping from the pill furnace next to
her, making her look like a fairy in a painting.

The decorations Li Muwan had added to her room, like the green
vines she had picked up somewhere, made this scene look even
more like a painting.

A faint aroma of herbs came out of her room. When Wang Lin
breathed it in, his mind immediately became clearer.

He looked for a long time before withdrawing his gaze and looked at
the other stone room. His room. Half of the room was filled with
herbs and the other half was filled with other materials. The
dragon’s skull was among those materials.
The dragon’s corpse was too large, especially the bones. It would be
too wasteful to use it all on the formation, so Wang Lin came out
once to tell Li Muwan to save some of it.

After giving out that order, he began fusing the three cold cores.
Wang Lin began to ponder. There was a bit of purple on this bone
that make it look more like metal than bone. He thought that this
must have been formed due to the dragon’s unique bodily structure.

Just as Wang Lin was observing, his heart suddenly moved and he
turned around. Li Muwan stood up with a yawn and opened the
door. She was surprised to see him. All of her drowsiness went away.

In these past few days, Li Muwan’s mentality had been slowly

changing. At the start, she was always on guard against Wang Lin
because she was afraid he might suddenly attack her. After all,
people who practice the Death Spell often harvested Yin energy.

But then she realized that this Wang Lin was almost always in
closed door training. Before, she thought that her brother was
diligent in cultivation, but after seeing Wang Lin, she felt that he
was truly diligent.

In her view, Wang Lin was already at the peak of the Foundation
Establishment stage and only one step away from the Core
Formation stage. However, how could the Core Formation stage be
that easy to reach? In Li Muwan’s memory, the youngest person to
reach the Foundation Establishment stage was 17 years old, but that
person took 30 years from there before they reached the Core
Formation stage. This person was Hou Fen’s ancestor, the first
person to reach the Nascent Soul stage, and the person who raised
Hou Fen from a rank 2 to a rank 3 cultivation country.

But looking at Wang Lin’s appearance, she thought that he was only
in his 20s. It would be impossible for him to form his core in a short
period of time. When Wang Lin told her that he will send her home
once he reaches the Core Formation stage, she secretly sighed. She
believed that it would take him a few decades to successfully reach
the Core Formation stage. She felt a hint of disdain toward Wang
Lin. If he wanted to keep her, he could have just said so instead of
using this trick.

Li Muwan pondered for a bit, then asked, “Your… your cultivation

has reached a bottleneck?” Her soul blood essence was in his hands,
so if he were to ever have some crazy demand, she wouldn’t know
how to respond. This question had been in her mind for a long time.
Today, when she saw his frown, she couldn’t help but remember that
the death spell required the user to absorb Yin energy from females
to cultivate. Based on her calculations, it has been months since he
had last killed anyone or touched any woman.

Wang Lin didn’t know what Li Muwan’s was thinking. He looked at

her and nodded.

Li Muwan’s heart skipped a beat. She took a few steps back and her
face became pale. She struggled a bit as she bit her lower lip and
said, “I… I only promised to help you refine pills. If I… I … even if I
die, I won’t agree.”

Wang Lin was caught off guard by Li Muwan. He turned his gaze
toward the dragon skull and asked, “Why is the skull of the dragon
this color?”

She bit her lower lip and softly said, “The dragon’s body is filled with
poison, so it is not surprising that the bone is this color.”

“Filled with poison?” Wang Lin was shocked as he carefully

examined the skull.

“Before a dragon dies, its body gets filled with deadly poison. Once it
dies, the poison can change its body to become a type of treasure.
The most poisonous part of the dragon is its marrow, and the most
valuable part is also its marrow.” Li Muwan’s expression gradually
became cold and her voice calm.
Wang Lin silently stared at the dragon’s skull and began to ponder,
his expression unsettled. He muttered, “A body filled with poison…
why isn’t the dragon affected by the poison when it is alive…” An
idea flash across his mind. The idea came quick, but it left just as
quick. Wang Lin only got a hint before becoming confused again.

Li Muwan coldly looked at Wang Lin. Seeing that his frown had
become tighter, she couldn’t help but say, “The dragon’s body is
made of poison from its flesh, bone, innards, and even its saliva, so
it naturally won’t be affected…”

An idea suddenly flashed across Wang Lin’s mind. The idea became
clearer and clear and his frown gradually loosened up until he finally
let out a laugh and put the dragon’s skull inside his bag of holding.

“Since my body couldn’t withstand the Yin energy, then let my body
completely become one with the Yin energy. As a result, I will be
able to withstand it.” Wang Lin took a deep breath, looked at Li
Muwan, and walked toward her.

Li Muwan’s face became every paler. She backed up to the wall, her
body trembling, and just as she was about to kill herself with a bitter
smile on her face, Wang Lin said, “When I reach the Core Formation
stage, I’ll send you back to the Lou He Sect.”

With that, he turned around, rushed out of the cave, and disappeared
in the blink of an eye.

Li Muwan was completely stunned. Her mind was in chaos as

various thoughts flooded her mind. Finally, she sat down with her
back against the wall.

Wang Lin activated his earth escape technique to its peak as he

charged toward the corpse valley. After gaining insight from Li
Muwan’s words, he was now 100% confident in making the three
cold cores fuse.
His speed was very fast. He arrived at the corpse valley in three days.
He charged directly in and flew from the first valley to the thirteenth
valley. Outside of the fourteenth valley, he took a deep breath and
stepped in.

In the fourteenth valley, the ground was covered in a layer of frost.

As Wang Lin walked on it, slivers of Yin energy entered his feet.
Wang Lin hesitated a bit before slowly sinking into the ground with
the earth escape technique.

As he sank, the Yin energy became even more powerful. After he

sank about 100 meters, he had to stop as the powerful earth Yin
energy had frozen his body. This was his limit. If he were to go any
deeper, than even his soul would freeze.

As for how deep the fourteenth valley was and what secrets might
be within it, Wang Lin didn’t care. He carefully controlled his
heartbeat and moved his body into the lotus position.

“I’m not leaving this valley until the three cores fuse into one!”
Wang Lin muttered this in his heart and closed his eyes.

Time flew by and in the blink of an eye, three years had passed.

The disaster at Hou Fen was finally resolved. The rank 4 cultivation
country had sent three Soul Formation cultivators. They had spent 19
days taming all of the fire beasts. They refined them all together into
a medium quality spirit beast, then returned to their country.

The quality of spirit beasts have very wide gaps. They are categorized
into abnormal, spirit, desolate, and celestial beasts. Each stage has
high, medium, and low quality.

The fire spirit that was absorbed by the heaven defying bead was
half a step into becoming a desolate beast. According to this scale, it
would be at the peak stage of a high quality spirit beast. All of its
descendants were low quality spirit beasts. This clearly shows the
difference between high, medium, and low quality. If it wasn’t for
the fact that the fire spirit was in a weakened state, it wouldn’t have
been so easily devoured.

It has to be said that a high quality spirit beast is the equivalent of a

peak late stage Soul Formation cultivator, a medium quality spirit
beast is the same as a peak late stage Nascent Soul cultivator, and an
early stage spirit beast is the same as a peak late stage Core
Formation cultivator.

The dragon that died was a medium quality spirit beast.

Although the fire beasts were gone, the fire spiritual energy in the
country made it impossible to cultivate. They could only wait for the
fire spiritual energy to slowly dissipate with time.

The battle with Xuan Wu continued, but battles between hundreds

of people were very rare now. Most of the battles now were between
a few dozen people. After taking about ⅓ of Xuan Wu, the
cultivators of Hou Fen really didn’t have any more power to push
further, so everything stabilized.

As for the battle between the two countries, it turned from killing
each other to a training ground for the disciples of the two
countries. This was a great insult to all of the disciples that had died
during the start of the war.

As for Wang Lin, after he sunk 100 meters into the ground of the
fourteenth valley, he sat there like an old monk. His heartbeat
slowed down even more as an endless amount Yin energy entered
his body and spread to his flesh and bones.

Gradually, more and more extremely Yin energy gathered in his

body, so his flesh was now blue. It was as if it was about to turn to
ice. In the past six months, his heart had beaten 9,837,543 times and
he had sunken down to 180 meters.
Another six months passed. The Yin energy had invaded all of his
internal organs now. His flesh and blood started to freeze and his
hands and feet had become ice crystals. It felt as if any amount of
force would shatter them. In these six months, his heart had only
beaten 487,659 times and he had sunken down to 730 meters.

Another 6 months passed. The ice crystals had extend to his arms
and legs. If one looked at it closely, they would see his bones inside
the ice. His torso was also starting to turn into ice. His heart had
beaten a total of 3,865 times and his body had sunken down to 1460
meters.

Six more months passed. His entire body, besides his head, had
became an ice crystal and his heart had stopped beating. His body
had had sunken down to 3,672 meters.

Two more years passed. Half way through the third year, his head
turned into an ice crystal as well. There was no more signs of life
from Wang Lin. He had finally reached the Underworld state
required in the Underworld Ascension Cultivation Method.

His body had sunken to 7,979 meters and appeared in a dark blue
space. His surroundings were filled with bones of beasts. For some
reason, all of the flesh of these beasts had disappeared, leaving
behind this sea of corpses.

All of the bones here had been turned into blue ice crystals.

Wang Lin sat inside the sea of bones and spent one month to
restore his heartbeat, two months to recover his divine sense, and
three months to feel the three cold cores.

Afterward, the cold cores from his Ancestral point and Qi sea
collided, creating a surge of powerful Yin energy. However,
compared to the Yin energy currently in Wang Lin’s body, it felt a bit
underwhelming.
He easily fused the two cold cores together and condensed them into
one.

Shortly after, the fused cold core sank and arrived at the dantian.
The barrier at the dantian lasted only half an hour before it
collapsed.

The fused cold core sank and collided with the cold core in the
dantian. Suddenly, more than ten times the Yin energy from last
time surged forth. This Yin energy was very dense, but it was still a
bit short of the Yin energy in Wang Lin’s body. Slowly, the three cold
cores fused into one.

However, its color wasn’t golden but a very full gray.

Wang Lin didn’t know that the Underworld Ascension Cultivation

Method had undergone some changes due to the heaven defying
bead and the Ji Realm. It could be said that the difficulty he faced
had never happened before.

The reason the Underworld Ascension Cultivation Method was said

to be the fastest way to reach the Core Formation stage was because
it formed a prototype cold core first. It would then use spiritual
energy to turn it into a golden core.

He had now completed more than half of it, so he only needed more
spiritual energy to make that final push. However, the Core
Formation stage wasn’t that easy to achieve. There was a certain
chance of failure.

If he were to fail, the prototype core would shatter and he would

have to start again.
Chapter 145: Core Formation (2)
The three cores fused into one to form the prototype core. The next
step will be for it to fuse with the body. If his body doesn’t reject it,
Wang Lin will begin to nurture it with his spiritual energy and divine
sense. After a certain point, it will turn into a golden core. When
that happens, Wang Lin will have stepped into the Core Formation
stage.

The final push with spiritual energy would require the help of the
Distant Heaven Pill. As Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes, cracks
started appearing below his head. His body let out crackling sounds
and soon, the cracks covered his body.

As his body moved, the cracks became even larger. Wang Lin slowly
stood and violently shook his body. The ice fragments quickly fell as
if there was a powerful wind blowing them away.

The clothes on his body also turned to dust and disappeared. Only
the dragon hide inner armor still remained tattered on his body.

Wang Lin silently stood in place and closed his eyes. After a long
time, he opened them. A blue light shined from his eyes. Although
he was only half a step into the Core Formation stage in terms of
cultivation, his Underworld Ascension Cultivation Method had
reached completion.

A mass of blue flames came out of his prototype core and flowed
through his body before appearing in his hand. At this moment,
three inches above his hand, there was a silently burning mass of
blue flame.

Instead of releasing heat, the flame emitted cold. This flame was the
essence of the Underworld Ascension Cultivation Method; the
Underworld Flame.
The moment the Underworld Flame appeared, the blue ice around
him immediately started to emit a white gas. It was as if it was going
to melt. Wang Lin waved his hand and the blue flame disappeared.
The white gas slowly dissipated and a dent was revealed in the ice.

Wang Lin examined the power of the flame before looking around
and putting on another set of clothes. With his eyes locked onto the
bones, he began to think. After a while, he sat down in the lotus
position and took out the dragon’s skull.

Staring at the skull, Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He decided to go to Nan
Dou city to trade for a pill furnace so Li Muwan could complete the
Distant Heaven Pill. Although three years had passed in the blink of
an eye, he knew through the Soul Blood Essence that Li Muwan
didn’t meet any danger.

However, after seeing the countless frozen beast bones, he

hesitated. The War God Shine’s refining technique required a
reaction furnace.

After the first failure, he had he never gotten his hands on more
skulls of spirit beasts. He told Li Muwan to save the dragon’s skull
because he wanted to use it to make the reaction furnace. However,
due to him trying to fuse his three cold cores, plus the fact that he
wasn’t sure he would succeed, he hadn’t tried it yet. After all, should
he fail, it would take a lot of effort to find another one.

But now that he found that he was surrounded by bones, his urge to
make a reaction furnace surfaced again. He recalled the steps to
make the reaction furnace from his memory before taking out the
jade to double check.

He put his hands together, then, as he reopened them, threads of

spiritual energy connected his two hands. Wang Lin’s expression
became serious as he threw his hands up. The threads of spiritual
energy flew up as well.
Wang Lin didn’t even blink as he joined his hands again and
repeated this process over and over again. More and more threads of
spiritual energy gathered before him until they were like a tense
bundle of glowing silk.

After doing all of this, Wang Lin let out a sigh. The first step to
making the reaction furnace was complete. Now he had to see if the
skull could withstand the fusion of the threads.

He pointed at the dragon’s skull and the threads touched it. The
threads slowly fused with the skull and the purple of the skull
gradually lessened.

But before long, cracks started to appear where the threads were
touching. Then the skull shattered into pieces, leaving only the
threads of spiritual energy hanging in the air.

Wang Lin let out a dark sigh, but then he quickly revealed an
unwilling expression. He stood up, grabbed the threads, jumped to
another corpse, and pressed them down. This corpse was about 500
or 600 meters long and was grey. Its head was very big, almost the
same as the size as the dragon’s skull.

The moment the thread reached the corpse, it went right through it.
Wang Lin was startled. He tried again and the threads once again
just went through the bones.

Wang Lin stared at the beast and his eyes lit up. The bones were
covered in his blue ice, as if they were frozen. Wang Lin reached out
and squeezed the bone. There was a series of crackling sounds, but
the bones didn’t break.

Wang Lin pondered a bit, then took out the Underworld Flame. The
moment the flame got near the bone, waves of white gas floated out
of the beast bone. The closer the flame got, the more white gas
appeared, and the blue ice melted at a visible rate. Eventually, all of
the blue ice melted, revealing the grey bone within.
Wang Lin didn’t hesitate; he pressed the threads of spiritual energy
down. This time, the threads directly warped around the skull.

But after half an hour, the skull changed colors three times before
shattering. There were now a lot less threads. It seemed they had
lost a lot of spiritual energy.

Wang Lin frowned. The difficulty of making this reaction furnace

was far higher than he through. It seemed the reason there were so
few people who had managed to learn the refining technique was
due to this reaction furnace.

It already took a large amount of luck to even obtain the skull of a

spirit beast, and for a reaction furnace, you want the skull of a spirit
beast that had just died, and the higher quality the spirit beast, the
better. If you use the skull of a spirit beast that has been dead for a
while, the success rate drastically lowers.

Of course, if one could get the skull of a desolate beast, then even if
the beast had been dead for a long time, the success rate would
increase several fold.

As a result, the difficulty became exponentially more difficult. If he

had tried right as the dragon died, then his chance would have been
higher. However, back then, he didn’t have any time to think about it
as all of his focus was on reaching the Core Formation stage.

Wang Lin let out a soft snort as he looked at the endless sea of
corpses around him. As for how much spirit beast bones there were,
he didn’t know.

“I don’t believe that I can’t make one reaction furnace with this
many spirit beast corpses.” Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as he closed his
hand and created more threads of spiritual energy. After
replenishing the threads, he grabbed them and placed them on
another skull.
One hour later, the skull shattered again.

Just like this, he continued trying. Wang Lin didn’t even remember
how many skulls he had shattered, but he knew that he had
replenished the threads more than 100 times.

His eyebrows furrowed even harder. Finally, he jumped into the air
and coldly looked around. He threw the threads of spiritual energy
out and they began to circle around him.

His hands constantly open and closed. Everytime he did this, more
threads were made. His hand moved faster and faster and the
threads appeared like rain. Gradually, the amount of threads of
spiritual energy increased.

The number threads of spiritual energy greatly increased and he

didn’t stop as he used up all of the spiritual energy in his body. He
quickly took a few gulps of spirit liquid and continued to make
threads.

Time slowly passed and the mass of threads became larger and
larger. It was now more than 100 meters wide.

Wang Lin looked at the size of this sea of corpses and thought, “Still
not enough.” Then he drank more spirit liquid and began to make
more threads. Finally, when the mass of threads was more than
1000 meters wide, he stopped. He spread out his divine sense to
control all of the threads, then pressed them down. With that, blue
flames appeared as well.

There were thunderous rumbles as the threads pressed down and

kicked up waves of ashes. The wave of ashes roared forth and all of
the bones in its path were turned to ashes and joined this wave.

Along with this wave, there was also a mass of white gas. This sight
was very breathtaking. Once all of the white gas dissipated, nothing
was left. Wang Lin clenched his teeth as he drank more spirit liquid
and created more threads before pressing them down again.

Waves of ashes roared across the area. After the white gas
dissipated, Wang Lin’s eyes locked onto the corpse of a small beast
all by itself in this 1000 meter radius open area.

Wang Lin revealed a happy expression and immediately flew toward

the corpse. He took a closer look and found that there was nothing
unusual about it.

The bone was very white and looked very normal. Wang Lin’s eyes
lit up as he pointed at the sky. He quickly grabbed the threads of
spiritual energy and pressed them against the small beast’s skull.

The skull’s color quickly changed. One time, two times, three times…
after it changed color nine times, the skull detached from the spine
and floated into the air.

The threads had completely fused with the skull. After the skull
changed color nine times, it slowly morphed into a bowl shape while
emitting waves of spiritual energy.

Wang Lin caught it in his hand and began to examine it.

The origin of the War God Shrine’s refining technique was very
mysterious. Rumor has it that it was found with the Heaven’s Way
technique by the War God Shrine’s ancestor. The later generations
spent a lot of time developing it into the current refining technique.
The reaction furnace is a part of this and has 10 ranks of quality.

The higher the rank of the reaction furnace, the better it is. It’s also
easy to identify the rank. When it is being made, the number of
times it changes colors determines what rank it is.

“Rank 9!” Wang Lin muttered to himself. He felt very regrettable.

With this vast amount of spirit beast bones at his disposal, he still
wasn’t able to make a rank 10 reaction furnace.

However, a rank 9 was better than none. Wang Lin took out the jade
and checked it again.

What the jade didn’t mention was that even the Nascent Soul
cultivators in the War God Shrine only had rank 6 reaction furnaces.
As for the rest, almost all of them were rank 3 or lower.

Wang Lin’s reaction furnace being rank 9 had a lot to do with the
corpse of that little beast. This little beast was a rare desolate beast
in this sea of beast corpses.

After a desolate beast dies, its bones aren’t much different from a
spirit beasts’. Unless you are an expert on this, it is hard to tell them
apart.

After Wang Lin’s divine sense withdrew from the jade, he began to
ponder. The War God Shrine’s refining technique focused on three
key points: transfer, melt, and fusion.

Wang Lin became very focused as he took out materials from his bag
of holding and threw them into the reaction furnace. These were
some of the materials recorded in the jade. After he got familiar
with the contents of the jade, he was able to find some in his bag.

Chicken Blood Stone: when infused with spiritual energy, it can

produce a lot of heat.

Violent Moon Vine: a type of plant that can produce decomposition

effects after being refined by the Heaven Star Wood.

Heaven Star Wood: a type of wood with corrosive properties.

Wang Lin had all three of these materials in his bag. Although it was
not much, it was enough for refining a treasure. Wang Lin had
always been very confused about the materials he had obtained in
the foreign battleground, but at least he knew a bit now

He started putting the Violent Moon Vine inside the reaction

furnace. Every time he placed a piece, he would crush it with a piece
of spirit beast bone. His divine sense was focused on the inside of
the reaction furnace. Gradually, the reaction furnace was filled with
a thick, violet paste.

Staring at the reaction furnace, Wang Lin muttered as if he was

waiting for something. Then his eyes lit up and he flicked a drop of
his blood inside.

At this moment, bubbles appeared inside the reaction furnace. Wang

Lin didn’t panic as he calmly sent spiritual energy into it.

The jade gave a detailed description of what the reaction furnace

did. The reaction furnace takes a side route in refining by using the
reaction furnace as a medium to allow the refiner to directly
manipulate the materials inside.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. After hesitating for a bit, he took out
the Heaven Star Wood, crushed it, and sprinkled it into the reaction
furnace.

The violet liquid quickly started bubbling and released a pungent

smell. Wang Lin quickly took out his only piece of Chicken Blood
Stone and threw it in.

After finishing all of this, his expression became even more serious
as his hands quickly formed seals. The violet liquid inside the
reaction furnace quickly gathered together to form a violet ball.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit, then waved his hand. The ball split in
half. One half floated upward while the other sank back into the
reaction furnace.
Under Wang Lin’s control, the ball that floated up went higher and
higher. Wang Lin pondered a bit before pointing at his chest and
forehead. He spat out a mouthful of purple spiritual energy, then the
spiritual energy immediately entered the ball.

The first step of the War God Shrine’s refining technique, transfer,
was complete. Now it was time for the second step, melt.

This melting process required treasures to use as materials. Wang

Lin slapped his bag of holding and 35 flying swords came out.

Wang Lin pointed at one of the flying swords and stabbed the ball
with it. Slowly, the tip of the sword melted until the entire sword
melted into the ball.

After that, the remaining 34 flying swords melted into the ball under
Wang Lin’s control. Finally, the ball began to emit a rainbow-colored
light that was very blinding.

The entire process, from placing the Violent Moon Vine into the
reaction furnace to now, had taken two hours. In these two hours,
Wang Lin focused all of his attention on refining. Not only did he
not relax, but he became even more focused as he took out the black
flying sword from his bag of holding.

It could be said that this flying sword had been through a lot with
him. From when he got it after killing Zhang Hu’s master, to being
chased by Teng Li, and finally when he died in the battle outside the
Jue Ming Valley. Then he was saved by Situ Nan’s Nascent Soul and
the sword’s body was destroyed. However, due to its connection with
Wang Lin, the sword spirit was able to survive by staying within
Wang Lin’s soul.

Afterward, Wang Lin tried to find multiple new bodies for it, but
none of them worked. This black sword was the latest one, and after
using teleportation a few times, it was already a mess.
Wang Lin grabbed the sword and gently rubbed it. The sword
hummed loudly. Shortly after, an illusionary image of the sword flew
out. The devil also flew out and stood to the side. He stared blankly
at his surroundings. No one knew what he was thinking about.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and grabbed the ball. He clenched his
teeth, sent out an order, and the black flying sword flew right into
the ball.

Wang Lin’s divine sense immediately spread out and surrounded the
ball. The last step of the War God Shrine’s refining technique,
fusion, started now.

Time slowly passed. The ball slowly elongated and gradually

solidified. After an unknown amount of time had passed, there was
a loud cry, then a crystal-clear flying sword appeared before Wang
Lin.

The moment this flying sword sword appeared, a vortex of spiritual

energy appeared next to Wang Lin. After circling Wang Lin a few
times, the vortex entered the flying sword. Wang Lin looked at the
flying sword for a long time before opening his mouth. The flying
sword flew inside.

The devil was startled. He forced a smile, rubbed his hands, and said,
“This… since you swallowed the sword, where am I going to live?”

Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the devil. He waved his hand
and the dragon’s tendon flew out from his bag of holding. He
reached inside the reaction furnace and scooped out the half of the
ball that had gone back into the reaction furnace. His eyes lit up and
the dragon’s tendon immediately flew into the ball.

After he refined it for a while, the ball became smaller and smaller.
Finally, it turned back into the dragon’s tendon, but now it was a
golden color. Wang Lin looked at the devil and he obediently
entered it.
He waved his right hand and the dragon’s tendon came down. After
observing it for a while, he put it away. He raised his head and
looked at the icey, blue wall above him. The blue Underworld Flame
appeared in his hand and he flew up.

He charged through over 1000 meters of dirt and rock like he was
breaking through paper. His speed was too fast, and adding on the
destructive power of the Underworld Flame, it caused the Corpse
Valley to tremble. This caused the expressions of all the cultivators
inside the Corpse Valley to change. They all quickly left the area as
the trembling on the ground intensified.

A few key cultivators saw that a loud roar came from the 14th valley
as a black shadow charged into the sky and disappeared into the fog.

The cultivators stared confusedly at the 14th valley for a long time.
After all of this happened, various rumors began to spread. Finally,
the rumor became that it was a corpse that had been sleeping inside
the Corpse Valley for tens of thousands of years. Then it suddenly
woke up and charged out from underworld. The thing that flew up
was the cultivating corpse.

After Wang Lin flew out, he didn’t stop and continued flying north.
According to the information he had received from Sang Muya, Nan
Dou city was about 300,000 kilometers north of the Corpse Valley.

Wang Lin knew that he had already spent a lot of time refining, so
he didn’t want to waste any more time. He only had one goal right
now, and that was to get a pill furnace to complete the Distant
Heaven Pill.

After two days and nights of flying, a city came into Wang Lin’s view.
This city was very large, and at first glance, he couldn’t even see
where it ended. This was Nan Dou city, one of the 999 cities in the
Sea of Devils.
The city was named Nan Dou because that was the city’s lord’s
name. He was a Nascent Soul cultivator with many experts under
him. It could be said that he was the ruler of this area.

Basically, if someone owned a city, they must have at least a certain

status, and the city’s lords were always well know. Under the city’s
lord, there were various sects, but none of them could compare to
the city’s lord.

Luckily, Nan Dou City’s lord disappeared 500 years ago, so this area
had been going out of control like a headless dragon. This was also
what allowed large sects like the Fighting Evil Sect to form.

Nan Dou City became a lordless city in the Sea of Devils and was
managed by a few of the large sects. However, Nan Dou City was at
the edge of the Sea of Devils, so resources were scarce, and the lack
of spirit veins made it so Nascent Soul cultivators would rarely come
out here. This resulted in a situation where within millions of miles
of Nan Dou City, there were no Nascent Soul cultivators but a lot of
Core Formation cultivators.

Someone once said that if a Nascent Soul cultivator were to appear

here, that person would become Nan Dou City’s new lord.

It was not like there hadn’t been any Nascent Soul cultivators that
wanted to rule the city, but none of them could stand the lack of
spiritual energy and barren land, so they all eventually gave up.

At some point, Nascent Soul cultivators stopped coming. After all,

there were almost 1000 cities in the Sea of Devils, so there was no
reason to come to a crappy city like Nan Dou.

The current Nan Dou city was managed by the Punishing Heaven
Sect, the Soul Extinguishing Sect, and the One Heaven Path Sect.
Although the Fighting Evil Sect had the power to also be a ruler,
thanks the power of the three sects, they couldn’t get a foothold in
the city.
After all, splitting the ownership of the city three ways was very
different from splitting it four ways. Also, no one liked watching the
Fighting Evil Sect wiping out other sects as they grew in power, so
the three sects agreed on this matter.

After paying ten low quality spirit stones and obtaining the token for
entering the city, Wang Lin quickly walked through the streets
toward the Treasure Refining Pavilion in the east.

The Treasure Refining Pavilion had three floors. The items in each
floor were several time more expensive than the ones in the last.
Currently, there were about seven or eight cultivators bargaining
with the workers inside.
Chapter 146: Core Formation (3)
Before Wang Lin entered, he took out a black cloak to cover his
head. After entering, he looked around the first floor and found that
it mostly contained flying swords. All of the swords were high
quality and sealed in boxes with talismans on each end to prevent
the sword qi from escaping.

In addition to all of these swords, there was a crystal pillar in the

center of the room with three flying swords floating in the middle
with the tips of the swords pointing down.

The three flying swords dimmed and brightened. Sometimes they

would even shine brightly.

As Wang Lin looked at the three swords in the center, a worker

walked up. He was about 20 years old and looked very bright. He
carefully examined Wang Lin. It was pretty normal for customers to
hide their faces because many cultivators didn’t want to be
recognized. As for Wang Lin’s cultivation level, he had the Treasure
Refining Pavilion’s own special technique to check. The more he
checked, the more excited he became, because Wang Lin’s
cultivation level kept changing between Core Formation and peak
late stage Foundation Establishment.

Although this worker was surprised, he didn’t show it on his face.

He respectfully asked, “Does senior have his eyes on these flying
swords?”

Wang Lin withdrew his gaze and looked at the worker. He was
instantly able to see that the worker was at 7th or 8th layer of Qi
Condensation and calmly asked, “Does the Treasure Refining
Pavilion sell pill furnaces?”

The worker nodded and smiled. “Senior, I’m afraid that you will only
find pill furnaces in our Treasure Refining Pavilion, as they are not
things normal people can buy. If senior is interested, please follow
me to the second floor.”

Wang Lin calmly walked toward the stairs. The worker quickly
followed to lead the way. Just before he stepped on the ladder, he
turned and looked at a cultivator that was currently bargaining with
a worker. He pondered for a moment before stepping onto the
stairs.

After arriving at the second floor, the worker quickly went to talk to
a middle-aged man in a room to the right before quickly returning
downstairs.

The middle-aged man didn’t have any hair and his eyes occasionally
shone. He got up, clasped his hands, and said, “What quality of pill
furnace does fellow cultivator want?”

Wang Lin took a look at the middle-aged man and found that this
middle aged man’s cultivation level was at the peak of Foundation
Establishment, just like him. He was surprised by this. The first floor
had a Qi Condensation cultivator and the second floor had a
Foundation Establishment cultivator. Does this mean that there is a
Core Formation cultivator in charge of the third floor?

Wang Lin’s expression was relaxed as he asked, “Could you take out
a few for me to see?”

The middle-aged man laughed and pointed at the chair to the side.
“Fellow cultivator, please sit and I’ll go grab them for you.” With
that, he poured a cup of tea before walking next to a wall and hitting
it. Ripples appeared on the wall, then it turned more and more
illusionary.

Then three beautiful girls walked out, each holding a white jade tray.
On each tray was a large, red box. Each box was about two square
feet.
These three wooden boxes were the exact same size, but the
patterns engraved on them were different. There were also seals
placed on every box.

The three beautiful girls walked up to Wang Lin and gazed at him.

The middle-aged man picked up one of the wooden boxes, placed it

on the table, and said, “Fellow cultivator, this is forged from the
Greenstar Rock and Mysterious Fog Crystal from the depths of the
Sea of Devils. It took 49 months of refining to create this Mysterious
Green Pill Furnace. This is a rank 3 pill furnace.” With that, he
tapped the box, causing it to open, revealing a fist-sized pill furnace.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm. He remembered that Li Muwan

told him that the pill furnace she carried around was only a rank 2
one and that she would need a rank 4 or better pill furnace to ensure
there weren’t any problems with the Distant Heaven Pill.

After taking one look, Wang Lin withdrew his gaze. He didn’t say a
word.

The middle-aged man faintly smiled. He waved his arms and the box
returned to the jade tray. He passed over the second girl and directly
grabbed the box from the third girl’s tray. He gently placed it on the
table and smiled. “I believe fellow cultivator must be refining a top
quality pill. This pill furnace is refined from the cores of 99 low
quality spirit beasts from the Sea of Devils. It’s called the Hundred
Beast Pill Furnace. If you use this pill furnace to refine a pill, there is
a high chance of the pill absorbing some of the beast cores’ aura.
This will increase the quality of the pill.” With that, he tapped the
wooden box. The box slowly opened, revealing a blood-red pill
furnace. If one looked closely at it, they would see the face of 99
spirit beasts.

These spirit beasts looked as if they were real. They even gave off
slivers of spiritual energy. This furnace was also in a sealed state. If
it was unsealed, the spiritual energy inside it would surge forth.
Even Wang Lin was tempted by this Hundred Beast Pill Furnace, but
his expression didn’t change at all.

The middle-aged man touched the wooden box and said, “Fellow
cultivator must know that low quality spirit beasts are equal to Core
Formation cultivators. Our sect spent a lot of time and effort to
make this pill furnace. This pill furnace has reached rank 5.”

Wang Lin withdrew his gaze. After pondering for a bit, he asked,
“What price?”

The middle-aged man smiled and answered, “The standard price is

100,000 high quality spirit stones, or you can take out a treasure
that is equal to that price.”

After hearing this price, Wang Lin’s heart sank, even though he was
prepared for it. No wonder the Fighting Evil Sect’s sect head used up
almost all the money of the sect to buy just one.

The smile remained on the middle-aged man’s face as he poured

himself a cup of tea, took a sip, and said, “This Hundred Beast Pill
Furnace is indeed expensive. How about fellow cultivator considers
the Mysterious Green Pill furnace from before instead? Although it
is still 100,000 spirit stones, it is mid quality spirit stones, which is
only 10,000 high quality spirit stones.”

Wang Lin looked at him and slapped his bag of holding. A piece of
dragon hide appeared on the table.

“Dragon’s hide!” The middle aged man said, in surprised tone. He

picked it up and carefully examined it, then said, “This is the hide of
a medium quality dragon spirit beast. How much more of this do you
have?”

Wang Lin’s expression remained calm. He didn’t answer. Instead, he

asked, “How much is needed to exchange for the Hundred Beast Pill
Furnace?”
The middle-aged man lowered his head and calculated for a bit
before raising it. He looked at Wang Lin and said, “If the dragon is at
least 1,000 meters long, then the entire hide would be enough to
exchange for it.”

Without a word, Wang Lin slapped his bag of holding and the
dragon’s hide formed a small mountain before the middle-aged
man. Wang Lin didn’t even look at the middle-aged man as he
grabbed the pill furnace and walked down the stairs.

The middle-aged man breathed rapidly and looked at the dragon’s

hide. He spread out his divine sense and found that although it was
missing a small piece, it was not much different from a complete
dragon.

The complete hide of a medium quality dragon spirit beast. It has to

be said that a medium quality spirit beast is the same as a Nascent
Soul cultivator. Even in the inner parts of the Sea of Devils, it could
be considered a powerhouse. Although the middle-aged man had
seen a lot, he had only seen the complete hides of low quality spirit
beasts. As for the hides of medium quality spirit beasts, he had only
seen pieces. This was the first time he had seen the complete hide of
a medium quality spirit beast.

When he raised his head, Wang Lin had already put the box inside
his bag of holding and quickly went down stairs.

Wang Lin knew well that it was not wise to display his wealth to
others. This was why he decided to cover himself. However, he still
didn’t feel safe. Even though he didn’t understand the value of the
dragon hide as much as the middle-aged man, he knew that it was a
rare material. If the middle-aged man were to start thinking about
the other parts of the dragon and got greedy, it would cause trouble.

Unless it was absolutely necessary, he didn’t want to trade the

dragon’s hide, but the price of the pill furnace was simply too high.
Aside from the dragon’s hide, the only other thing he had was the
spirit liquid.

In comparison, if he were to take out out something heaven defying

like the spirit liquid, it would cause even more problems. After
considering the choices, he decided to trade the dragon’s hide and
quickly leave.

He left the Treasure Refining Pavilion and coldly looked across the
street. When he went upstairs, he had already noticed someone
spying on him, so he left a trace of his divine sense on that person.
When he came out, he noticed that that person was in the inn across
the street.

There were quite a few people in the inn, including three Core
Formation cultivators next to the person Wang Lin had left a trace of
his divine sense in. Wang Lin pondered a bit and decided to not
detonate the divine sense. After making a few turns, he took a step
and activated his earth escape technique. However, there was a flash
of white light and he didn’t enter the ground. The entire city was
covered in a formation that prevented his earth escape technique
from working.

Wang Lin’s brow furrowed as he jumped into the air and flew
toward the city gates.

He only flew for a bit before a black-clothed cultivator arrived at the

spot where Wang Lin attempted to use the earth escape technique.
He looked at the direction Wang Lin flew in and licked his lips. His
eyes were filled with greed. This cultivator was one of the people
that was bargaining on the first floor when Wang Lin entered.

This person was named Wei San. He was one of the disciples of the
Fighting Evil Sect who had come to buy stuff in Nan Dou. When he
saw Wang Lin enter the second floor, he was tempted and casually
took a few glances before watching from the inn across the street.
He even sent out a voice transmission jade to fellow Fighting Evil
Sect disciples who were also in town buying stuff. After a long time,
he saw Wang Lin leave and calculated that Wang Lin must have
gotten some treasures. Wei San couldn’t help but get some evil
ideas.

But he couldn’t see through Wang Lin’s cultivation level. Based on

his guesses, Wang Lin must have been at the Core Formation stage.
This made him want to back down, but when his fellow disciples
arrived with some elders, he was very happy and explained
everything in detail.

Besides him, more than ten people appeared, all at various

cultivation levels. Most of them were at the Foundation
Establishment stage, but three of them were covered in black fog.

These three were the three cultivators that caused Wang Lin to
worry.

Wei San turned around and respectfully said, “Elders, I can’t believe
that you three are in Nan Dou as well. I’m sure that that person
must have some sort of treasure on him.”

A husky voice filled with anger said, “Wei San, you exaggerated too
much. I thought it was really a Core Formation cultivator. Hmph,
how could a mere pseudo Core Formation cultivator have any
treasure? What a waste of time.”
Chapter 147: Core Formation (4)
Another person covered in black fog said, “You, damn it!” A hand
reached out to slap Wei San.

Wei San’s face immediately became pale and he knelt onto the
ground. He chattered, “Disciple…everything disciple said is true.
Aside from me guessing his cultivation level wrongly, disciple…” The
fear caused his words to become incoherent.

None of the other Fighting Evil Sect disciples revealed any

expressions. Some even felt happy watching his misery. Seeing this
made Wei San’s heart become even colder. He saw the hand come
closer, then suddenly had an idea and shouted, “I… I remember now.
He asked the worker at the Treasure Refining Pavilion if there is any
rank 5 or higher pill furnace!”

In truth, Wei San didn’t clearly hear those words, but in this stressful
situation, he began to make stuff up. As he spoke, even he himself
began to believe that maybe that person really was there to buy a pill
furnace.

The hand suddenly stopped. A husky voice said, “Pill furnace? Wei
San, do you know the consequences of lying to me?”

Wei San clenched his teeth and said, “Disciple is willing to bet his
life on it.” He couldn’t help but bitterly smile in his heart. If he
didn’t promise now, then he would die instantly, so he might as well
risk it. He was going to die anyway, but if he was right, then he
would get to keep his life.

The third elder that still hadn’t said a word finally said, “It doesn’t
matter if he is telling the truth or not. Let us just go and see for
ourselves.”
The moment those words came out, the three of them no longer
hesitated and followed after Wang Lin. The other disciples quickly
followed them. Wei San wiped the cold sweat off his forehead and
secretly cursed but still followed them.

The three elders of the Fighting Evil Sect came to Nan Dou City to
have a very important meeting with the elders of the three other
sects, so orders were given to not obstruct them. Now that the
meeting was over, no one stopped them, even though there was a
large group of Fighting Evil Sect members together.

As for Wang Lin, someone would stop him to check his token every
once in a while. This made him move very slowly, and adding on the
fact that he noticed people following him, he decided to just charge
through everything.

Soon, he arrived at the gate and charged out of the city. Shortly after,
the Fighting Evil Sect members flew by the gate as well. After they
left, disciples of the three major sects of Nan Dou city appeared at
the gate. They were being lead by a few Core Formation cultivators.

They had received orders to kick out the members of the Fighting
Evil Sect if they started fighting inside the city, but if they leave the
city, don’t stop them or help them.

After Wang Lin left Nan Dou City, he quickly went underground
using the earth escape technique and quickly escaped.

One of the three Core Formation cultivators was surprised. He

waved his hand and an ancient mirror appeared in his grasp. He spat
out a mouthful of spiritual energy and guided it into the ancient
mirror. The ancient mirror shined and a rainbow-colored light shot
out from it. The light pointed at the ground toward where Wang Lin
went and quickly went forward.

The three of them sneered and followed the light.

The disciples of the Fighting Evil Sect were all every excited. Hunting
prey with the elders of the sect made them very excited.

Wang Lin slightly frowned and let out a snort as the divine sense left
in Wei San detonated.

Wei San, who was with the group of Fighting Evil Sect members,
suddenly let out a miserable scream, coughed out blood, and fell off
his sword. His fellow disciples’ expressions immediately changed.

Wang Lin’s speed didn’t slow down. He spread out his divine sense
and focused on one person. Once again, another disciple of the
Fighting Evil Sect let out a miserable scream and fell down.

As a result, the disciples of the Fighting Evil Sect all stopped, not
daring to continue chasing. Only the three Core Formation
cultivators didn’t care. They continued to chase after Wang Lin.

One of the cultivators waved his hand and a giant, black stamp
appeared. It circled him once, then he let out a cold smile and waved
his hand. The black stamp smashed down.

The moment the stamp smashed into the ground, Wang Lin quickly
turned and dodged it. The cultivator’s smile became even colder. He
controlled the stamp to continue smashing into the ground. A figure
then came out from under the ground. After coldly looking at the
three of them, Wang Lin quickly flew away.

The cultivator with the ancient mirror shouted, “Hand over the
treasure you got at the Treasure Refining Pavilion, or die!”

Just as he said those words, a bright light appeared before his eyes as
a flying sword stabbed toward him. He felt terrified as he forced his
body to move left a bit. He felt pain as the flying sword went through
his chest and came out the other side. He couldn’t help but cough
out a mouthful of blood.
“What kind of flying sword is this?” His face was pale and filled with
lingering fear. If he hadn’t reacted fast enough there, he would have
died.

Wang Lin secretly sighed and waved his hand. The crystal sword
reappeared in his hand.

The other Core Formation cultivators were shocked. They quickly

took out a few defensive formations before finally staring at Wang
Lin.

“Scram!” Wang Lin’s eyes were cold. After saying that one word, he
continued to fly forward.

The three Core Formation cultivators looked at each other, then at

the flying sword around Wang Lin. This powerful of a flying sword
was very rare. Greed appeared in the three’s eyes and they continued
to chase Wang Lin.

The wounded cultivator took out several defensive treasures before

finally relaxing a bit. Then he took out pills to help himself heal.
Finally, he crushed some of the pills and smeared them on the
wound.

Then he hesitated a bit and took out a jade. He placed it on his

forehead and threw it out. In a few breaths of time, the jade
disappeared.

Wang Lin spread out his divine sense and found that the three were
still chasing him. He couldn’t help but sneer. The three of them
must be wanting to kill him to steal his treasure. For Wang Lin,
being chased by three Core Formation cultivators wasn’t much. If it
was only one, he could fight; however, there were three of them.
Even though they were all at the early stage of Core Formation, he
couldn’t underestimate them when they were together.
However, once he succeeds in forming his core, killing the three of
them would be as easy as crushing ants.

Under the pursuit of the three Core Formation cultivators, Wang Lin
ran for a whole day. During this time, the three used various
treasures, causing Wang Lin to slow down. After the first sneak
attack with the crystal sword, the three of them started to be on
guard, so future attacks weren’t as effective.

Wang Lin’s gaze became colder and colder. His divine sense locked
onto the three of them and the Ji Realm red lightning shot out. The
three Core Formation cultivators saw a flash of red light before
feeling like hammers had hit their heads. Blood came out of their
mouths and noses and, after stumbling a bit, the three of them
revealed terror they had never shown before.

The already wounded cultivator coughed out another mouthful of

blood. His eyes were red and filled with pain. If it wasn’t for
someone next to him grabbing him, he would have fallen off his
flying sword.

He took a deep breath, calmed down his divine sense, then said to
the other two, “He is no ordinary Foundation Establishment
cultivator. He must be someone who is only an inch away from the
Core Formation stage.”

“We must kill him. If we let him succeed in forming his core, then
with his technique, the three of us will surely die!”

“I have already informed the sect head. I believe he will send backup
soon.”

Wang Lin’s brow furrowed. Normally, the Ji Realm would have no

effect on Core Formation cultivators, but it was affected by his
current cultivation level. With the completion of the Underworld
Ascension Cultivation Method and the formation of the prototype
core, he was able to wound Core Formation cultivators but not kill
them.

Although the injuries seemed really heavy, the Core Formation

cultivators would only need to rest for a bit to recover.

If there was only one person, then using all his power, along with
help from the devil, he would win, but there were three people, so he
could only run right now.

Wang Lin secretly sighed as he quickly flew forward.

Eight hours later, when the day had darkened. He had used his Ji
Realm several times, but it could only slow them down. He spread
out his divine sense, then suddenly stopped. He turned to look at the
enemies that had chased him for two days and one night.

The three of them were also very tired, but they couldn’t stop
chasing. If they were to let Wang Lin get away and reach the Core
Formation stage, the three of them would die for sure. Suddenly
seeing Wang Lin stop, the three of them were very confused.

Just at this moment, Wang Lin raised his hand into the air as if he
was going to fight the heavens. His gaze became even colder and his
hair flowed in the wind.

The crystal flying sword released a cold aura below his feet.

Soon, a mass of blue flames appeared in his right hand. The moment
the fire appeared, the air surrounding the area immediately became
colder. This blue flame was Wang Lin’s other ace besides his Ji
Realm. Since he had already used Ji Realm, he didn’t want to use this
blue flame. In the fourteenth valley, he found out that this blue
flame was not re-useable. Every time he uses it, there would be less
left. However, since the three wouldn’t stop chasing him, he had no
choice but to use it.
The moment the blue flame appeared, the three Core Formation
cultivators’ faces greatly changed. Before they could do anything,
Wang Lin waved his hand and the blue flame slowly flew toward
them.

Although it looked very slow, it was very fast. The harsh wind froze
and smashed toward the three of them.

The three of them didn’t hesitate to split up. However, the blue
flame’s speed quickly increased several fold and landed on the Core
Formation cultivator that had been injured multiple times. In the
blink of an eye, his body released a blue light and disappeared. He
didn’t even have time to scream.

The blue flame weakened a bit and quickly went after the next
target. However, just at this moment, a thunderous roar came from
the distance. Wang Lin spotted seven or eight rays of light quickly
flew toward this direction.

Wang Lin’s expression changed. He reached out with his right hand
and recovered the blue flame before escaping. This time, he used
120% of his spiritual energy and ran for his life.
Chapter 148: Core Formation (5)
As he escaped, he checked the weakened blue flame. This blue flame
came from his prototype core. The more he uses it, the weaker it will
become. He didn’t want to use it too much before reaching the Core
Formation stage because he believed that it getting weaker would
affect his chance of breaking through.

Although it was powerful, it was like something without a root.

Every time it was used, it would shrink a little. Back in the
fourteenth valley, he didn’t really use it; he relied on its ambient
temperature to melt the ice.

But when used to kill an enemy, it was very different. It wouldn’t be

too bad if it could simply kill an enemy without much resistance, but
if he were to start fighting against the enemy’s treasures, the flame
would get used several more times than normal.

Also, there were three people. The reason that last attack worked so
well was because they were all scared like little birds after seeing the
techniques Wang Lin threw at them along the way. This was proven
when the other two had plenty of time to attack him but didn’t.

This was also why he didn’t use it before now. After all, he hadn’t
reached the Core Formation stage yet, so he didn’t want anything to
go wrong. It was best to only use this blue flame when absolutely
necessary.

If that wasn’t the case, with Wang Lin’s personality, he would have
used it at the start and killed the enemies before letting it get to this
stage. Wang Lin really didn’t want to waste all the effort he had put
into making this prototype core.

If it wasn’t for the fact that they had pushed Wang Lin into a
desperate position, he really wouldn’t have risked it. However, they
never stopped chasing, so Wang Lin decided to risk breaking the
prototype core to kill them.

But suddenly, seven or eight more Core Formation cultivators

showed up, and one of them was at the mid stage of Core
Formation. Wang Lin was shocked. This caused him to give up on
the idea of killing them.

At the moment he escaped, he knew that he has walking down a

path with no return. If he doesn’t reach the Core Formation stage,
the repercussions will be very bad.

The 300,000 mile escape was reaching its end as the Core
Formation cultivators carefully chased after Wang Lin.

The head elder slowly said, “This old man wants to see where this
junior can run to. For killing an elder of the Fighting Evil Sect, even if
you escape to the most remote corner of the world, you are still
dead.” He waved his hand and a golden symbol suddenly appeared.
Then he pressed forward and the golden symbol flew out.

The hair on the back of Wang Lin’s neck stood up, his body shivered,
and he barely dodged the symbol, but shortly after, more symbols
appeared. Wang Lin dodged all of them. He clenched his teeth and
quickly flew forward. Gradually, the cultivators behind him got
closer and closer. He thought of one method. Although this method
was very dangerous, if it succeeds, then all the danger would
dissolve.

Thinking about this, Wang Lin’s eyes became cold. Then he turned
around and changed directions.

Soon, a mountain covered in fog appeared before Wang Lin’s eyes.

After seeing the mountain, Wang Lin charged into it without any
hesitation.
The moment he got near the fog, the fog opened up a path and a
beautiful girl in purple revealed her frightened figure.

However, just at this moment, a series of golden symbols charged

out like lightning and landed on Wang Lin’s back the moment he
entered the fog. Wang Lin spat out a mouthful of blood and fell into
the fog like a kite with its string broken.

The girl in purple looked at the Core Formation cultivators with a

pale face. She waved her hands and the fog hid her figure.

At the same time, the ten Core Formation cultivators of the Fighting
Evil Sect arrived outside the fog. One of the old men, whose head
was clearly larger than everyone else’s, rubbed his head and sneered.
“That little girl belongs to this old man. I was just lacking a
cultivation furnace.” With that, he licked his lips, formed a giant
hand, and grabbed at the fog. However, the moment his hand
touched the fog, the image of a thousand foot long dragon appeared.

The big-headed cultivator let out a scream and quickly backed up

with a surprised look in his eyes. The other Core Formation
cultivators also revealed looks of surprise as they stared at the fog.

The head elder, Qian Kun, coldly said, “When did a formation like
this appear?”

The remaining cultivators all looked at each other, but no one

responded.

Qian Kun let out a snort and carefully looked at the formation, then
said, “Since this formation can summon a dragon, it must not be
normal. Kun San, try using the Ten Thousand Seal Stamp.”

Kun Sang was one of the three elders that were chasing Wang Lin at
the start. Without a word, he stepped forward and waved his right
hand, making a black stamp appear. It quickly grew to the size of a
small mountain as Kun Sang’s eyes locked onto the fog. He moved
his hand and the small mountain smashed down.

The dragon formed by the fog quickly let out a roar, charged up, and
collided with the small mountain. A thunderous roar exploded forth
and the small mountain was thrown back. Kun Sang’s face became
pale. It took him a while to stabilize his breathing.

The same moment the mountain was blown away, the dragon turned
back into fog and disappeared. The formation returned to normal.

Qian Kun sneered. “Kun Sang, let me use your stamp.” With that, he
didn’t wait for Kun Sang to agree and reached out. A powerful force
pulled the small mountain towards him, but by the time it reached
his hand, it had returned to its original shape.

Qian Kun swept his hand over the stamp to remove Kun Sang’s
divine sense and left his own. Then he spat out a mouthful of
spiritual energy. After the spiritual energy was fused with the stamp,
he threw it into the air again. The stamp turned back into a small
mountain, but this time, it was at least twice as large as last time.

The small mountain floated in the sky, covering the area with its
shadow.

Qian Kun stared at the fog and waved his hand, making the small
mountain smash down again. The fog formed the dragon again,
which charged at the small mountain.

The scene from before played out again, but the result was very
different. The moment they collided, the small mountain stopped
for a moment, but the dragon dissipated and the mountain
continued to descend.

But as it fell, ten more dragons took shape in the fog and charged at
the mountain. Qian Kun sneered. “Fellow elders, attack!”
With those words, the remaining Core Formation cultivators took
out their treasures and began to try to break the formation by force.

As for Wang Lin, after being brought into the cave, he immediately
coughed out several more mouthfuls of blood. The dragon vest on
his back caved inwards and released black smoke as it moved. Soon,
the vest returned to normal as if was never damaged.

If he didn’t have this dragon vest, then he would be more than just
injured. Although Qian Kun was only a mid stage Core Formation
cultivator, his Destructive Symbol was very powerful. People who
were hit by it would have all of the bones in their bodies shattered
and would die.

Wang Lin’s face was very pale. Once he was inside the cave, he
quickly took out the wooden box containing the Hundred Beast Pill
furnace. He then gave it to Li Muwan and weakly said, “This is a rank
5 pill furnace. Quickly, complete the Distant Heaven Pill.” With that,
he spat out the crystal flying sword.

The flying sword slowly landed on his shoulder. It was emitting a

cold light. Although he had Li Muwan’s soul essence blood, he didn’t
trust her completely. Necessary precautions still needed to be made.

Li Muwan stared at the wooden box in her hand. After taking a

glance, she already knew how precious this pill furnace was, so she
asked, “Are they chasing you because of this?”

Wang Lin closed his his eyes and focused on cultivating as he

casually replied, “No.”

Li Muwan looked at Wang Lin with a complex expression. With her

cleverness, she had already guessed that the ten cultivators were
after this pill furnace. Wang Lin might not know the worth of this
pill furnace, but how could she not know? A rank 5 pill furnace’s
price was sky high.
She stared at Wang Lin. Her gaze became more gentle as she softly
asked, “You… what did you use to exchange for it?… or did you steal
it?”

Wang Lin frowned. He opened his eyes and coldly said, “Go refine
the pill!”

Just at this moment, the cave violently shook as sounds of fighting

came in from outside. Wang Lin took a deep breath and began to
cultivate again.

Li Muwan hadn’t seen Wang Lin for three years. In those three
years, she analyzed the time she had spent with him. Her conclusion
was that he wouldn’t do anything bad to her.

In the past three years, she had been too scared to go outside.
Luckily, cultivators don’t need much food; some spirit fruits and pills
were enough. In the past three years, every time she thought of
Wang Lin, she felt complicated. Someday, she might suddenly die,
which would mean that Wang Lin had died outside as well.

She also imagined Wang Lin suddenly reappearing inside the cave,
but she never imagined that Wang Lin would return with ten Core
Formation cultivators chasing him.

She let out a sigh, then grabbed the pill furnace and quickly returned
to her room to refine the Distant Heaven Pill.

Time slowly passed. Whenever Li Muwan started refining pills, she

would throw out all distracting thoughts and would focus solely on
refining. She still felt very nervous though. Not even when she
refined for the first time before the eyes of her master was she this
nervous.

She kept telling herself in her heart that she must succeed,
othertwise, once the formation breaks, there will be unimaginable
consequences. If she could succeed, there was still a chance. At least
there should be no problems in escaping.

The cave shook more and more violently. Dust fell from the ceiling
and walls until a layer of it formed on the floor. The sounds of
fighting from outside became louder and closer.
Chapter 149: Core Formation (5)
Wang Lin cultivated the entire time. Every now and then he would
look outside and his gaze would turn colder. The aroma of
medication floated out and after taking a sniff, Wang Lin calmly
opened his bag of holding and began to organize the stuff inside.

When he took out the dragon’s tendons, his eyes narrowed. This
treasure wasn’t very powerful. Although it could split many times to
warp around a target, if it were to meet a sharp flying sword, it would
be cut in half.

Even a powerful fire technique could burn this dragon tendon. As he

thought about it, he let out a cold smile. Once he reaches the Core
Formation stage, there would be a use for this dragon tendon.

The sounds from outside became even louder. It was as if they were
right beside him. When he looked toward Li Muwans’s room, his
heart became heavy and he let out a sigh.

Li Muwan bit her lower lip until it bled and her eyes were filled with
tears. That incomplete Distant Heaven pill had failed at the moment
of its completion.

As an alchemist, she had failed many times, but none of them had
ever felt as bad as this. This was one of those times where she
absolutely couldn’t fail.

Li Muwan looked at Wang Lin, who was cultivating outside, and her
tears finally started flowing down. The current her looked very weak.
After a while, she bit her teeth and took out the demonic blood vine.
Since the first one failed, then she must hurry and use the demonic
blood vine to make another.

Time slowly passed and the cave was starting to collapse. Chunks of
rock fell down from the ceiling and the fog outside had been greatly
reduced. It seemed like it could collapse at any time.

Wang Lin’s calm expression slowly changed, revealing a hint of

anxiety.

Just at this moment, Li Muwan rushed out of her room. Her hair was
a mess, her eyes were bloodshot, and she looked extremely tired as
she threw a blood-red pill at Wang Lin. There were traces of
powerful spiritual energy coming from the pill that made Wang Lin
excited.

“This is a Distant Heaven Pill made from the demonic blood vine. Its
effect isn’t … as good.”

Without a word, Wang Lin picked up the pill and looked at it. He
looked back at Li Muwan and threw the pill into his mouth. After
the pill entered his body, he felt a fire in his dantian.

Wang Lin slapped his bag of holding and drank a lot of spirit liquid.
Then he closed his eyes and began attempting to break into the Core
Formation stage.

The cave shook again as more rocks fell down from the ceiling.
There was only a thin layer of fog left outside. Li Muwan stared
dumbfoundedly for a bit before taking out her flying sword. She
stood in front of Wang Lin, guarding him, and knocked away any
falling rocks.

Qian Kun continued to smash the small mountain down on the

formation. His gaze swept past the other cultivators. He found that
all of them were attacking the formation with excitement on their
faces.

His mouth twisted into a faint, vicious smile and said, “Big Head, we
can give you that girl, but once this formation breaks, you have to let
us play with her first.”
The big-headed cultivator paused for a moment, then he let out a
bitter smile. “Head elder, since you already spoke, how could I dare
to disagree?”

Qian Kun sneered. He controlled the small mountain to smash down

again and said, “This brat is merely at the pseudo Core Formation
stage, but he has techniques that can kill a Core Formation
cultivator. He is not simple. But today, he will die for sure.” With
that, his eyes lit up and he thought, “I especially want that blue
flame. That is definitely a rare treasure.”

The big-headed cultivator felt every gloomy. When he first saw that
girl, he had only caught a short glimpse, but his heart itched, so he
said those words. Originally, he thought that no one would challenge
him, but he didn’t think that the head elder, who never cared about
women, would say those words. He angrily attacked with his
treasure to vent his anger.

The fog created by the formation had become very thin. Only one of
the ten 1000 meter long dragons formed by the fog remained, and it
was only 30 meters long at this point. Qian Kun waved his hand.
The stamp changed back to its normal shape and return to the
hands of Kun Sang.

After returning the stamp, Qian Kun let out a roar and arrived next
to the dragon. He closed his hands, and when he reopened them, an
electric net appeared and covered the dragon. He let out a laugh and
shouted, “Break!”

The fog dragon let out a miserable scream as it disappeared. Along

with it went the fog forming the nine skeleton formation. Although
the formation was powerful, under the attack of ten Core Formation
cultivators, it was broken after stalling for three days.

If Li Muwan hadn’t been refining the pill and were controlling the
formation instead, then this formation wouldn’t have been broken
like this.
With the formation broken, a tattered cave was exposed to the open.
The ten Fighting Evil Sect Core Formation cultivators rushed forth,
but just as they arrived within 20 meters of the cave, bolts of
lightning fell from the sky. Although the lightning wasn’t powerful,
there was a lot of it, so it looked very threatening.

The hundreds of basic formations Wang Lin had placed down came
into effect. However, they were only basic formations, so they were
continuously broken by the angry roars of the Core Formation
cultivators.

Qian Kun looked onward coldly, but he didn’t do anything. His target
was that pseudo Core Formation junior. He prepared an electric net
in his hand and decided to capture that junior the moment he
appears.

When all of the basic formations were broken, the cave no longer
had any protection, so the demonic cultivators could see inside.

An exquisite figure appeared at the entrance of the cave. Her clothes

were plain, but she looked very elegant and refined. Her skin was
white and her cheeks were red. Her appearance would make
anyone’s heart beat faster.

Even Qian Kun couldn’t help but narrow his eyes. However, he
quickly looked past her into the cave, but the cave was completely
dark and he couldn’t see anything.

Li Muwan looked at the demonic Core Formation cultivators. She

waved her hand and the Hundred Beast Pill Furnace appeared. She
coldly asked, “Are you guys here for this?”

Qian Kun saw this and let out a smile. The person who started
chasing Wang Lin in the beginning, Kun Song, stared at the pill
furnace and laughed. “I didn’t think that that brat really had a pill
furnace, and it is even the Hundred Beast Pill Furnace that costs
100,000 high quality spirit stones from the Treasure Refining
Pavilion. You’re correct; originally, our goal was this pill furnace.
Little girl, hand the pill furnace over.” With that, he reached out and
grabbed the pill furnace from Li Muwan. Everyone here knew the
value of this pill furnace, so he decided to just point it out before
everyone.

Kun Song and the other elder that was chasing Wang Lin from the
start clasped their hands and said, “Head elder, this pill furnace will
belong to the two of us. In the future, we will definitely send out
gifts to thank you all. How about it?”

Qian Kun’s gaze swept past the pill furnace, then he silently nodded.
The big-headed cultivator let out a devious smile as he reached out
to grab Li Muwan. “Little girl, after you finish serving my fellow sect
members here, you will be my personal cultivation furnace.”

Li Muwan’s face became pale. Just as she was about to end her own
life, the big-headed cultivator stopped and let out a miserable
scream.

He coughed out a large amount of blood and then even more blood
came out of his orifices. His body then flew back as if it had been hit
by some powerful force. But before he landed, he was grabbed by
another force and pulled back. His head exploded and his golden
core flew past Li Muwan and entered the cave.

“From this moment on, I will be the strongest person below the
Nascent Soul stage. If there is no Nascent Soul cultivator hiding his
cultivation level, then you can all… die!”

A very cold voice came out from deeper inside the cave. Then a dark
figure walked out and appeared before everyone.

He has a head full of black hair, his expression was cold, and his eyes
revealed a cruel look. It was as if he was a piece of never-melting ice.
A feeling of meeting their natural predator took hold of the hearts of
everyone present. This feeling came from their souls. It was as if
they had met some prehistoric beast.

This disturbance caused all of their souls to become so chaotic that

they were on the verge of collapsing. This disturbance raged inside
them like thunder, striking next to their ears.

Pu Lin’s soul was already damaged from the Ji Realm attack from
before, and although he suppressed it, he hadn’t had time to recover.
At this moment, his soul shattered and he coughed out blood before
collapsing. His body twitched on the ground, and every time he
twitched, blood squirted out of his orifices.

Qian Kun’s heart shook. Thanks to this shock, the electric net in his
hand broke. His expression was unsettled as he took a few steps
back and tried to escape. The idea of stealing the blue flame was
already gone without a trace.

He was scared. As a mid stage Core Formation cultivator in Nan Dou

City, he had never been scared before. He had even met late stage
Core Formation cultivators before. They were messengers from the
inner parts of the Sea of Devils that would come every year to take
materials. Although he couldn’t beat them, he had never felt scared
of them.

This was the first time since he had reached the Core Formation
stage, and the last time, where he was scared. As a result, he decided
to escape without hesitation. Normally, he would never be the first
to run. He would wait for others to escape first, then choose a safe
direction to escape toward.

But right now, he had a feeling that if he didn’t immediately escape,

the only result would be his death.

As for the rest of them, after seeing each other’s faces change, Pu Lin
mysteriously dying, and head elder Qian Kun running without any
hesitation, they all activated all of the spirit energy in their bodies
and escaped in all directions. They were afraid that if they were a tad
bit slow, they would die.
Chapter 150: Kill
The moment Li Muwan saw this figure, she let out a sigh of relief
and her body went soft. She had to lean against the wall. A cold hand
went under her armpit, which surprised her, then she immediately
found herself take off from the ground.

A familiar smell entered her nose and made her relax. Seeing the fog
before her, she was about to speak when she heard Wang Lin’s
indifferent voice say,

“Don’t move. I’m taking you to kill people.”

Wang Lin held Li Muwan and paused in the air for a moment. He
took out the dragon tendon, which was now like a whip, and swung
it. One end wrapped around the headless corpse of the big-headed
cultivator and then the end split and grabbed Pu Lin’s corpse.

Wang Lin’s right hand held the dragon tendon as his divine sense
spread out and located the ones that ran away. He let out a sneer as
he flew northeast, and as he flew, the dragon tendon flew behind
him with the bodies of the two Core Formation cultivators.

Kun Sang’s heart was in panic. The moment he saw Wang Lin, he
felt like there was a large hand stirring up his soul, and all it would
have to do was use a little force to destroy it.

Pu Lin’s mysterious death frightened him the most. There were no

words that could describe the regret he felt in his heart right now.
For a pill furnace, two out of the three of them had already died. Just
thinking about this caused him to feel rattled as he quickly took out
some pills and threw them in his mouth. After his spiritual energy
was refilled, he bit his tongue and spat out some blood. His hand
quickly formed seals, which he then he sent into the blood. As he
made the seals, his body quickly withered, but his speed increased
several fold.
He left an afterimage as his body charged out hundreds of meters.

Wang Lin sneered as he flew through the sky like a meteor. When
he saw Kun Sang, a cold light flashed across his eyes. He opened his
mouth and a crystal-colored light flew out. In almost an instant, the
crystal light flew hundreds of meters.

As Kun Sang ran, he suddenly felt a pain in his chest. When he

lowered his head, he saw a crystal light penetrating his chest. His
core flew out from his chest and slowly flew backwards. He opened
his mouth, but he couldn’t make a sound. His vision grew darker and
darker as he fell from the sky. Even until the moment of his death,
he couldn’t understand how all of it had changed so quickly. The
prey suddenly became the predator.

As his body fell, a thin, golden light extended from the dragon
tendon toward the body. When Wang Lin flew by, the body was
bound by the dragon tendon and floated behind him.

The three bodies of the Core Formation cultivators became like

three feathers of a peacock’s tail, and Wang Lin was the head.

“The third one!” Wang Lin’s face was gloomy as he placed the golden
core inside his bag of holding and flew toward his next target.

Li Muwan looked at everything that was happening before her. Even

though she was prepared, she couldn’t help but be shocked. Wang
Lin’s strength was deeply engraved in her heart.

Chen Hai was an elder of the Fighting Evil Sect who normally
enjoyed a lot of respect. He knew that his speed wasn’t fast enough,
so after running for a while, he dug a big hole in the ground,
withdrew his presence, and buried himself.

When he was only at the Foundation Establishment stage, he had

used this trick many times. As he lied underground, he couldn’t help
but let out a bitter smile and think about how long it had been since
he had to use this lifesaving technique.

He let out a sigh, but his sigh froze in his mouth as his eyes suddenly
widened, revealing the red lightning flashing across it. Blood
endlessly flowed out of his orifices and red lightning filled his soul.

A golden thread drilled into the ground, grabbed Chen Hai’s body,
and dragged it out along with a large chunk of dirt.

“The fourth one!” The dragon tendon split into four, holding a body
in each thread. Aside from the one body without a head, the
remaining bodies were all complete and covered in blood, which
made them look very frightening.

After killing two people, the coldness in Wang Lin’s eyes had not
only not lessened but became even stronger as he continued to
chase.

One hour later, the number of bodies behind Wang Lin had risen
from four to nine.

The last remaining person was the head elder, Qian Kun, who ran
away first. The more he ran, the more scared he became. This fear
reached its peak as his divine sense detected Wang Lin and the nine
bodies flying behind him. His scalp went numb at the sight.

In just this short period of time, Wang Lin was able to kill all of the
other Core Formation cultivators. What kind of cultivation level was
needed to do something like this?

“Could he be a Nascent Soul cultivator?” Qian Kun’s heart shook at

the thought of this idea, but he quickly dismissed it. When they were
chasing Wang Lin before, they clearly saw through his cultivation
level. He was only at the peak of the Foundation Establishment
stage, a pseudo Core Formation cultivator.
If that wasn’t the case, they wouldn’t have chased so leisurely.
However, everything happened too fast, to the point that Qian Kun
still thought that he was daydreaming, only this dream was a
nightmare.

As Wang Lin closely followed behind, his eyes became even colder.
He sneered as he looked at Qian Kun before him. This Qian Kun
was, after all, mid stage Core Formation cultivator, so he was several
times faster than the others. However, flying at this speed would
waste a lot of spiritual energy, so Wang Lin was in no rush. Once
Qian Kun starts to run out of spiritual energy, he will have to slow
down.

Qian Kun clenched his teeth and turned his head. He remembered
that there was a Fighting Evil Sect branch nearby with two Core
Formation cultivators in charge. He hoped that they could hold
Wang Lin off long enough for him to save himself.

He used 120% of his spiritual energy as he charged toward the

branch of the Fighting Evil Sect.

Wu Ding mountain was a huge mountain with many lofts built on

top of it. It used to be the home of a very large sect thousands of
years ago, but after they fell from power, they were wiped out by the
Fighting Evil Sect and became a branch of the Fighting Evil Sect.

On this day, the disciples of the branch were cultivating when the
two Core Formation elders in charge, the brothers Mu Nan and Mu
Bei, opened the door and went out.

In the air, Qian Kun was battered and exhausted. He didn’t even wait
until he got close to shout, “Mu Nan, Mu Bei, I order the two of you
to gather all of the disciples at Wu Ding and stop the person behind
me. Do not allow this person leave Wu Ding mountain! If you
succeed, I’ll reward you two with 10,000 high quality spirit stones.”
With that, he fled in panic.
The moment Mu Nan and Mu Bei walked out, they heard the head
elder’s words and were startled. How would the two of them be able
to stop someone even the head elder had to run away from?

Just at this moment, Wang Lin appeared before their eyes. The two
of them wondered what kind of person would force even the head
elder to run away. The moment they saw Wang Lin, they were
shocked, especially after seeing the nine bodies flying behind him.

The two of them carefully looked at each other. Their faces changed
color repeatedly. Mu Nan bursted out, “The nine elders from
headquarters… this… this…”

Mu Bei took a deep breath. He felt chills all over his body. He quickly
dragged Mu Nan and respectfully said, “Junior Mu Bei greets senior.”

Mu Nan’s body shivered and he quickly said, “Junior Mu Nan greets

senior.”

Wang Lin coldly looked at the two. He went past them without
slowing down. That one look caused their skins to crawl. Their backs
were soon covered in sweat.

Qian Kun had been flying at top speed for such a long time that his
spiritual energy was about to run out. He quickly took out some pills,
but just this pause allowed Wang Lin to close in even further.

Seeing that Wang Lin was getting closer and closer, he let out a
pitiful smile before turning around and giving Wang Lin a vicious
look. He clenched his teeth and took out a red token from his bag of
holding. On this token was the word “Punish” written in dark red.

This token was the famous Ten Thousand Devils Hundred Day Kill
Order token in the Sea of Devils. This token came from ancient
times, and the method of making them has been long lost. Even in
the Sea of Devils, there were only ten or so remaining. Qian Kun
accidently obtained it and immediately refined it. He was afraid of
others finding out about it and had always kept it as his ace. He was
hoping to use this to help increase the power of his techniques in
the future.

The requirement for activating this token was very strict. It required
someone at the Core Formation stage or higher to trade their life to
activate it. The person who activates it will have their entire
cultivation refined into a pill, which will be gifted to the person who
manages to kill the target.

Because of the special ability of this token, whenever a demonic

cultivator sees someone who is marked, they will attack them. It was
also because of this strict requirement that the owners of the tokens
rarely ever used them themselves. They would find a Core
Formation cultivator and force them to use it. As for the target, they
could just find someone nearby. That way, they could easily obtain a
cultivation pill.

As a result, the amount of tokens has greatly decreased, so even

saying that there were ten tokens left might be a little too much.
Qian Kun also originally planned to force someone to use the token,
but now that he was about to die, he became ruthless and waited for
Wang Lin to catch up.

Anyone who was marked by token rarely lasts 100 days if they are
within the Sea of Devils. However, if they can last more than 100
days, then they can devour the pill themselves.

Seeing Wang Lin closing in, Qian Kun held the Ten Thousand Devils
Hundred Day Kill Order and shouted, “Stop! Do you know this token?
I have refined this with my soul. If you kill me, you will be marked by
the kill order! Today’s matter is my fault, but you have already killed
nine elders, so why kill more? If you spare me, I can refer you and
allow you to become a head elder at the Fighting Evil Sect like me.
How about it?”
Chapter 151: Ten Thousand Devil
Hundred Day Kill Order
Wang Lin stopped. He glanced at the token before his cold gaze
locked onto Qian Kun. After Li Muwan saw the token, she hesitated
before taking a closer look and was startled. She said, “That is the
Ten Thousand Devil Hundred Day Kill Order. I can’t believe the Sea
of Devils has this kind of treasure. I have only seen it in ancient
records.”

Li Muwan quickly explained the details of the token to Wang Lin.

Her breathing was ragged by the time she was finished and there
was a sense of dread in her eyes when she looked at the token.

Qian Kun was really afraid that Wang Lin wouldn’t recognize the
token. If Wang Lin didn’t believe him and killed him anyways, it
would be really bad.

However, after seeing the girl explaining it, he finally relaxed. He

didn’t believe that there would be someone who would be willing to
kill after learning of the effect of the kill order. He relaxed in his
heart and said, “Fellow cultivator, what do you think of my proposal?
Don’t be too stubborn. If you were to really kill me, you would be
marked by the kill order and it would create a lot of trouble for you.
The girl with you will also be dragged in as well, so why be like this?
Am I wrong?”

Wang Lin didn’t even look at Qian Kun. He turned to Li Muwan and
asked,“Are you sure? If I can last 100 days, I can obtain all of his
cultivation?”

Li Muwan took a deep breath and nodded.

Qian Kun’s heart skipped a beat as he realized that something was

wrong. He started to back away, but Wang Lin’s cold gaze suddenly
locked onto him. Wang Lin spat out one word, “Die!”

Qian Kun let out a miserable scream as blood came out of his mouth
and nose. Blood also gushed out from his eyes and ears as he died.
As he fell, the token in his hand broke and a red light suddenly flew
out, forming the world “punish” in the air.

This word was blood-red. It was as if it had just been pulled out of a
pool of blood. It floated above Wang Lin’s head and looked very
bright.

Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the giant “punish” above
him, but there was no expression on his face. The dragon tendon
reached out with a strand and grabbed Qian Kun’s body. Wang Lin
grabbed Li Muwan and returned to Wu Ding Mountain in the blink
of an eye.

Mu Nan and Mu Bei stared dumbfoundedly at the giant, red “Punish”

in the air and felt an urge of greed. However, it quickly disappeared
as they stood respectfully on top of Mu Ding Mountain with a chill
on their backs.

Wang Lin coldly looked at them and asked, “Does the Fighting Evil
Sect headquarters have Nascent Soul cultivators?”

Mu Nan quickly said, “There are none. Not to mention the Fight Evil
Sect, there are no Nascent Soul cultivators within ten million
kilometers of Nan Dou City. How could those seniors be here? They
are all at the inner sea.”

Wang Lin stared at Mu Nan’s eyes until Mu Nan’s legs began to

quiver before he asked, “What cultivation level is the Fighting Evil
Sect’s sect head?”

Mu Bei quickly took a step forward and said. “Senior, the sect head
of the Fighting Evil Sect is at the mid stage of Core Formation.
However, he is at the peak and is said to be only one step away from
the late stage.”

Wang Lin sneered in his heart. A hint of coldness flashed across his
eyes as he said, “The two of you, lead the way. We are going to take a
trip to the Fighting Evil Sect’s headquarters.”

How would Mu Nan and Mu Bei dare to refuse? They stood up and
respectfully led the way. While flying, the two of them looked at the
red word above Wang Lin’s head. They prayed that it would attract
more people to kill Wang Lin.

Everywhere Wang Lin went, he caused an uproar as all the

cultivators below him that saw the red word took deep breaths.

The most conspicuous thing was the blood-red “punish” above Wang
Lin’s head. After that were the ten bodies flying behind him like
meteors. People couldn’t help but think that those ten people had
also tried to kill this person due to the kill order but instead were
killed themselves.

This person must have tied up those bodies as a warning to everyone

else. Everyone who saw this became unsettled, but they all took out
sound transmission jades and sent the news to friends and sects.

The news that the Ten Thousand Devil Hundred Day Kill Order had
reappeared in the Sea of Devils quickly spread through various
means. This means that if anyone is able to kill this person, they
would be able to obtain at least the complete cultivation of an early
stage Core Formation cultivator.

This kind of thing was a huge temptation for Core Formation or

Foundation Establishment cultivators. For the latter, it would mean
becoming reaching the Core Formation stage.

It was also possible for those mid stage Core Formation cultivators
to step into the late stage of Core Formation.
What especially made people curious was what cultivation level was
the person who activated the kill order at. If it was a late stage Core
Formation cultivator, than the craze for it would be even greater.

As Wang Lin flew, a fist-sized golden core was now at the spot
where the prototype core was and it filled his body with spiritual
energy.

Wang Lin calculated that his Core Formation cultivation was 100x
more powerful than Foundation Establishment. He stared at the
inner part of the Sea of Devils. His eyes seemed to go directly
through the inner sea and landed on Zhao on the other side. He
revealed a cold smile and muttered in his heart, “Teng Huayuan,
today I have reached the Core Formation stage. The day I reach the
Nascent Soul stage is they day I’ll kill my way back to Zhao. Teng
Huayuan, you better not die early. I’ll bury every Teng family
member with you.”

Mu Nan secretly looked at Wang Lin. The expression he saw made

his skin crawl and his heart beat faster. He secretly cursed, “How
come no one is coming to kill this person? With that big of a word
above his head, someone quickly come and kill him! If we really lead
him back, then even if we aren’t killed by him, the sect head will kill
us.”

Just as he was praying, a person walked out from the fog. This
person looked like a monster. As he walked out, the fog moved out
of the way. He had black hair, black eyes, and wore a black robe. His
entire person gave off a black light.

If this person had a cool-looking face, he would look like he was

filled with killing intent, but sadly, this person was already middle-
aged. His stomach bulged out and he had a smile on his face.

As a result, there wasn’t any killing intent. Instead, he looked very

sly. Mu Nan and Mu Bei’s expressions immediately changed when
they saw this person, but a flash of joy quickly appeared on their
faces.

The middle-aged fat man stared at the word above Wang Lin, let out
a big laugh, and praised him. “Tsk, Tsk, Ten Thousand Devil
Hundred Day Kill Order, good! Good!”

“Junior, I give you half an hour to deal with your affairs before you
die. Don’t try to resist; with your mere early stage Core Formation
cultivation, you aren’t a match for me, the Black Cloak Devil Lord.”
After he finished speaking, he looked to the sky with his hands
behind his back, revealing a look as if he was looking down upon the
heavens.

Li Muwan let out a smile as she looked at the arrogant fat man. She
then looked at Wang Lin and the smile widened.

Mu Nan became excited. Now this was a real expert. This was a
rouge cultivator that even the sect head had to be weary of, the Devil
Lord Shang Guanmo. It was rumored that his cultivation level was
the same as the sect head’s, peak of mid stage Core Formation and
one step from late stage Core Formation. His cultivation method
was also a step above the head elder’s.

Wang Lin frowned and sneered, “You’re courting death!”

Shang Guanmo was startled as his green eyes looked at Wang Lin
and snorted in disdain. “You are really overestimating yourself. Then
let this old man send you along. Let me show you what mid stage
Core Formation really is…”

Without waiting for him to finish speaking, Wang Lin pointed at the
Black Cloak Devil Lord Shang Guanmo and said, “Die!”

The moment the the word “die” came out, a jade flew out from
Shang Guanmo’s chest and split into two pieces. It released a cloud
of smoke that disappeared into the Sea of Devils.
“What is this?” Wang Lin reached out and grabbed the two pieces of
jade. He scanned them with his divine sense, then a look of surprise
flashed across his face. After putting the two pieces of jade into his
bag of holding, he stared at the terrified Shang Guanmo.

“Death spell!!!” Cold sweat poured down from Shang Guanmo’s face.
This piece of jade was given to him by his long dead master. It was
said to be able to block an attack from a Nascent Soul cultivator at
full power. In these years, he had always been at the outer part of the
Sea of Devils and always hid himself whenever he met Nascent Soul
cultivators as he didn’t dare to mess with them. If he encountered
someone with a cultivation level below his, he would extort
everything he could out of them. He created a name for himself by
doing this. However, now he finally realized what was happening
after seeing Wang Lin’s cold gaze and was afraid that Wang Lin
would say die again. His legs became soft and he quickly knelt to the
ground and begged, “Senior, have mercy, senior have mercy. Junior
Shang Guanmo knows he was wrong, please forgive me.”

Mu Nan stared dumbfoundedly at what was happening, then he

secretly looked at Wang Lin. After seeing his cold gaze, he no longer
dared to have those thoughts that he had before. Mu Bei also
lowered his head to hide his fear.

When Shang Guanmo saw that Wang Lin’s gaze was still cold, his
heart skipped a beat. He clenched his teeth and said, “Senior, junior
is willing to become your disciple and listen to your every command.
Master, please accept me as your disciple.” He looked at Li Muwan
and said, “You must be his wife. Please ask him to accept me as his
disciple!”

Li Muwan blushed and looked at Wang Lin. However, after seeing

his cold expression, she let out a sigh and lowered her head in
silence.
Wang Lin stared coldly at Shang Guanmo. The Ji Realm surged in his
mind and red lightning could be seen in his eyes. Shang Guanmo
was carefully observing Wang Lin this entire time and realized that
things were not going well. He knew that because Wang Lin was
able to activate his protection jade and split it in half, Wang Lin
must have attack power similar to that of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
Adding on the death spell, he guessed that even if he ran, it would be
hard to avoid death.

Stressed and anxious, he pointed at his brow and his soul essence
blood flew out. This drop of soul essence blood was gold-colored.
The moment this drop of blood appeared, Shang Guanmo’s body
shook as the spiritual energy in his body surged. It seemed like his
cultivation level was about to drop.

The higher one’s cultivation level, the more important the soul
essence blood becomes. If it is taken, their cultivation level is
damaged, and the higher the cultivation level, the more damage
there is.
Chapter 152: Carving a Bloody
Path
As the drop of golden blood floated out of Shang Guanmo’s
forehead, it released a gentle glow. Wang Lin’s expression remained
the same as he reached out and grabbed the drop of blood.

After scanning it, Wang Lin swallowed it without any hesitation. The
drop of blood was now inside his consciousness and surrounded by
his Ji Realm. Right now, all he needed was one thought to kill Shang
Guanmo.

Similarly, if Wang Lin were to die, then Shang Guanmo would die as
well.

The soul essence blood is kind of like a restriction, only much more
direct. Although a person’s consciousness looks sturdy, it’s actually
very fragile. Once one holds too many drops of soul essence blood, it
will cause one’s own consciousness to enter a state of chaos,
resulting in unimaginable consequences.

Therefore, taking someone’s soul essence blood is only a temporary

measure, and many cultivators don’t like doing so. After all, there
are thousands of restrictions that do the exact same thing.

There is also another point: soul essence blood can only be extracted
if the cultivator willingly gives it. Otherwise, unless one possesses a
very powerful technique, it is impossible to force it out.

Shang Guanmo was also forced into a corner. He knew that Wang
Lin wouldn’t easily forgive him and would most likely place some
kind of restriction on him. The reason he pleaded for Wang Lin to
accept him as a disciple was to simply give Wang Lin a reason to let
him live.
But he could never have guessed that Wang Lin wouldn’t care at all.
Only then was he forced to hand over his soul essence blood. Only
after seeing Wang Lin accept the soul essence blood did his heart
finally calm down a little.

Wang Lin coldly looked at him before turning around and coldly
saiying to Mu Nan, “Continue to lead the way.”

After Wang Lin killed the first elder of the Fighting Evil Sect, he
knew that he would have to wipe them out. If he had only killed a
disciple, it wouldn’t have been an issue, but since he killed an elder,
they will definitely come looking for him. He was no longer the
naive village boy from back then; he had grown a lot.

All of the things that happened after he killed Teng Li taught Wang
Lin many things. Since he already killed one, then he might as well
kill ten. Since he already killed ten, then he might as well wipe out
the Fighting Evil Sect.

Only by wiping out the entire Fighting Evil Sect can he prevent any
more problems in the future. With this in mind, he grabbed Li
Muwan and quickly flew forward. At the same time, the attraction
force technique formed two large hands, grabbed Mu Nan and Mu
Bei, and threw them forward.

The two brothers’ faces were pale, but they didn’t dare to complain
at all as they quickly stabilized themselves and led the way with
their heads down.

As for Shang Guanmo, he wiped the cold sweat from his forehead
and quickly followed behind. He cursed bitterly in his heart but
didn’t dare to show it as he was afraid that that fiend would think of
killing him again.

“Death spell… the technique he used must be the death spell! To be

able to master a technique as vicious as that, he isn’t simple.” Shang
Guangmo kept measuring Wang Lin in his heart as he secretly
looked at him.

Li Muwan felt a very complex emotion. She never thought that

Wang Lin would really reach the Core Formation stage. He also
proved what he had said the entire way so far.

“Against cultivators below the Nascent Soul stage, he is invincible.”

She felt like she was dreaming when she thought about the last
several years she had spent in the Sea of Devils. Everything was just
too different from what her normal life was before.

The Li Muwan from before she would only cultivate or refine pills.
Whenever she went out, her brother would also go with her. With
her brother around, there wasn’t any real danger.

Due to her talent in pill refining and formations, she was loved by
the elders and was very popular in her sect. There were many people
in her generation that chased her, but none of them had managed to
make her heart move.

The first time she met Wang Lin, they mistook him for Sun Youcai
and had a misunderstanding. Thinking about it now, if they had
really fought back then, then not even her brother would have been
his match. With her understanding of Wang Lin now, she knew that
if they had fought, the only result would have been them being
slaughtered by Wang Lin. Even her, with her beauty, would have
died, as it wouldn’t have any effect on Wang Lin.

“He is a heartless person…” Li Muwan watched Wang Lin and

sighed. After all these years, she knew that he wouldn’t have any
perverted ideas about her. After all, in his eyes, she was only a pill
furnace.

Li Muwan felt bitter in her heart. This bitterness became stronger

and stronger until it spread across her whole body. Wang Lin
frowned as he looked at Li Muwan and coldly said, “Don’t worry.
Once I finish dealing with the matters here, I’ll return you to the
Hou Fen Alliance.”

Li Muwan’s face became even paler as she bit her lower lip and
nodded.

The two of them became silent. Soon, the two that were leading the
way suddenly stopped. Their expressions were very gloomy and
unsettling as more than one hundred cultivators’ shadows appeared
from the fog before them. Each of them stared at the large, red
“punish” above Wang Lin’s head. Greed filled their eyes, but within
that greed there was a sliver of dread.

Wang Lin coldly looked at the group and calmly said, “Continue
leading the way. If anyone dares to block our way, kill them!”

Shang Guanmo realized that this was his chance and that he must
do a good job. He jumped out and landed before Mu Nan and Mu
Bei. He smiled at them and said, “A group of trash Foundation
Establishment cultivators. Listen well: anyone that dares to block
our path will die!”

As they continued forward, all of the cultivators moved out of the

way. None of them planned to act in the first place; they all just
wanted to see what kind of person had activated the Ten Thousand
Devil Hundred Day Kill Order.

The ten bodies trapped by the dragon tendon behind Wang Lin
caused their bodies to shiver. Even if they wanted to act, they would
hesitate after seeing those bodies.

However, the news of the Ten Thousand Devil Hundred Day Kill
Order spread too fast. Soon, everyone within ten million kilometers
of Nan Dou knew about it and started asking around. Gradually,
more and more cultivators appeared in the sky.
Along the way, Wang Lin met these kinds of cultivators every now
and then. Due to all the cultivators showing up, their speed was
affected. Wang Lin became impatient. After seeing all the greed in
their eyes, he wanted to kill them all.

There were also a lot of cultivators following behind them with ill
intent.

Mu Nan and Mu Bei’s hearts trembled. Along the way, they met
many people with higher cultivation level than them. Even some of
the old guys who normally would never showed their faces were
following behind them.

This caused them to become very unsettled. Forget them, even

Shang Guanmo became nervous. If this were to continue, then it
would start attracting the attention of cultivators outside of Na
Dou’s area. After that, it would be hard to say whether or not a
Nascent Soul cultivator would appear.

He felt very worried and secretly wondered why that fiend hadn’t
started killing yet. If it was him, he would have started killing and
used sheer power to suppress this situation. If more people gather, it
will get complicated.

The countless cultivators surrounding them caused Li Muwan to feel

a bit scared, but after looking at Wang Lin, she calmed down a bit.

Wang Lin’s eyes became even colder as he suddenly stopped and

looked at the surrounding cultivators with a cold smile on his face.
His cold voice spread out to the crowd surrounding them. “Anyone
who is still here after three breaths will die!”

With that, he closed his eyes. After one breath, he opened his eyes.
They were filled with red lightning. He switch from holding Li
Muwan by her arm to her waist. With no time to enjoy that soft
feeling, he suddenly charged backwards.
The Ji Realm Divine Sense spread out like crazy and a golden light
shot out from his mouth that disappeared after a few flashes. This
was the first time Wang Lin had began a large scale killing spree.

Killing Foundation Establishment cultivators within the range of the

Ji Realm was as easy as crushing ants. After hearing countless
miserable screams, the remaining cultivators became terrified and
quickly backed away.

Eventually, a majority of the cultivators used up all of their spiritual

energy to run, but before most would get far, there would be a flash
of golden light and their heads would explode.

Wang Lin’s face was very cold and ruthless. As his cold gaze swept
passed each cultivator, they would bleed out of their orifices and die
miserably.

Every time a body fell from the sky, the dragon tendon behind him
would make a new branch and bring the body back.

Wang Lin’s speed didn’t slow down. Instead, he became even faster.
His main targets were the Core Formation cultivators. As for the
Foundation Establishment cultivators, they were merely hit by the
aftermath.

At this moment, none of the surrounding cultivators had any greed

left in their heads. The greed had been replaced with terror. With
every kill, the word “Punish” became a bit more red until it was like a
bright candle in the darkness. It was so red that it looked like it
could bleed.

In addition to all of this, all of the escaping cultivators were terrified

of the golden light. Every time it appeared, someone would die a
mysterious death.

In only one short hour, a majority of the escaping cultivators were

killed by the crystal sword, and an unfathomable number of people
had died to Wang Lin’s Ji Realm.

There were already more than 1,000 corpses entangled in the

dragon tendon behind Wang Lin. The tendon was like a cape of
death flowing behind Wang Lin.

At this moment, in the fog 1,000 kilometers away, stood seven or

eight old demonic cultivators. None of them talked, but the dread in
their eyes became more and more apparent.
Chapter 153: A Show of Strength at
Nan Dou
These cultivators were all at the mid stage of Core Formation. They
normally only focused on cultivation. Whether it was the three
ruling sects, or the Fighting Evil Sect, they would all be courteous to
these people.

If it wasn’t for the appearance of the killing order, these people

would not appear.

A man with a ruddy complexion but evil expression looked at Wang

Lin. His pupils shrank as he slowly said, “We must act soon. If this
continues, it will definitely attract Nascent Soul cultivators. Even
though there aren’t any Nascent Soul cultivators within 100 million
kilometers of Nan Dou, what about beyond that? Once a Nascent
Soul cultivator arrives, we will have no chance of succeeding.”

An old man who saw Wang Lin easily kill a Core Formation
cultivator slowly said, “This person is only at the early stage Core
Formation, but why is he so powerful? Seeing how the old devil
Shanguan is even willing to become his disciple, even if we were to
act, we probably wouldn’t be able to get anything out of it.”

“There’s also that flying sword. I have never seen a flying sword that
could teleport before. That sword must be at least a Nascent Soul
level treasure, or even a Soul Formation level treasure. It has already
killed 100 people.”

“Hmph, didn’t you see the ten bodies that were originally being
dragged behind that fiend? Those were elders of the Fighting Evil
Sect. He can kill Core Formation cultivators as easily as he can kill
bugs. If you guys are still filled with greed, that is your problem. I’m
not getting into this mess. Goodbye!” One of the cultivators looked
at Wang Lin, his eyes filled with dread. After he finished speaking,
he took out a boat and quickly left.

The remaining cultivators silently pondered until one of them

suddenly said, “The messenger from the inner sea is going to arrive
soon. I’m willing to kill this person to save my hundred years worth
of savings. Once I get that cultivation pill, I’ll be able to reach the
late stage of Core Formation and be able to protect my savings.”

An old man filled with wrinkles took a deep breath and slowly said,
“Same for me. My life is going to end if I can’t increase my
cultivation level in the next 10 years… this time, no matter what, I
have to try!”

With that, his body moved like lightning toward where Wang Lin
was and the other cultivators followed.

The remaining cultivators remained silent but carefully watched the

two. They had decided that if the two showed even a small chance of
winning, they would all act, but if they didn’t stand a chance at all,
they would all leave in order to not make this person their enemy.

Wang Lin pushed aside the already dead Core Formation cultivator
and held the golden core in his hand. He looked at the scattered
cultivators and sneered in his heart. He slapped the dragon tendon
and said, “Come out. For today, you can devour as much as you
wish.”

The devil that had been inside the dragon tendon couldn’t stand the
allure of all the delicious food before him. However, he didn’t dare
to come out without Wang Lin’s order, but after hearing Wang Lin’s
words, he let out a laugh and jumped out of the dragon Tendon.
Revealing his true form, he quickly jumped onto an escaping Core
Formation cultivator. That cultivator’s body twitched a little before
finally withering and becoming a skeleton. A red mist came out
from his head and he laughed. “That felt good! I can finally eat now,
so I’m going to eat my fill!”
Wang Lin took one look at the devil and then turned his attention to
Li Muwan. Li Muwan’s face was pale as she stared at the devil while
biting her lower lip.

She didn’t know what it was, but she was terrified the moment the
devil appeared.

Wang Lin withdrew his gaze and coldly stared at the devil. The devil
quickly went away and thought, “Who wants to be next to you? The
farther away you are, the better. Best if I never see you again. The
world is big; how comfortable it would be to be free.”

But even he himself knew that that was simply asking for too much.
The devil mumbled to himself as he chased after the cultivators. Just
as he revealed an evil smile and was just about to devour a
cultivator, a golden light pierced through the cultivator’s chest. He
cursed out loud. Just as he was about to jump on another cultivator,
there was another flash of golden light.

After the devil left, Li Muwan’s heart gradually calmed down. She
hesitated a little before turning to Wang Lin and asking, “He… he
is?”

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. There were no other cultivators within 100
meters of him. All of the dead cultivators were wrapped up by the
dragon tendon and flew behind him like a cape.

This battle caused Wang Lin’s name to spread across the entire area
of Nan Dou. There were at least 1000 bodies spread out out behind
him, covering the sky.

The red “Punish” above his head have turned from a great
temptation to the sign of a powerful cultivator.

“That is a devil,” Wang Lin calmly said, as he stared at the two rays
of light coming toward him from over 1000 kilometers away. He
closed his eyes for a bit before turning around and leaving.
“Shan Guanmo, Mu Nan, Me Bei, have the three of you seen
enough?”

The cold voice rang inside the three’s heads. Shang Guanmo’s body
shivered as he focused himself once more and flew toward the two
cultivators heading this way. His heart was in complete chaos right
now. Although he knew that this fiend was strong, he didn’t think
that he would be this strong.

“The death spell… is really terrifying… if I don’t die this time, then no
matter what, I have to try cultivating it. If I have this power, I can
walk sideways in the outer part of the sea of devils.” Shang Guanmo
took a deep breath and no longer felt bad about handing over his
soul blood essence.

No matter where they were, the strong will be respected. This was
especially true for the sea of devils.

Mu Nan and Mu Bei’s attitudes became the same as Shang

Guanmo’s. With the power this fiend possessed, the Fighting Evil
Sect stood no chance. If they wished to live, then they would have to
follow the powerful fiend.

The two of them looked at each other before clenching their teeth
and quickly followed Shang Guanmo.

Shang Guanmo looked at one of the people and laughed. “Ha ha, if it
isn’t old man Ouyang. We haven’t seen each other for a long time, so
let’s get intimate for a bit.” He immediately touched the sword
behind his back. The black sword flew out and charged toward the
old man.

As for the Mu brothers, although they were both early stage Core
Formation cultivators, they were used to fighting together. They
were fighting at a disadvantage but were still able to hold out for a
bit.
Wang Lin’s gaze swept across the Core Formation cultivators 1000
kilometers away and his eyes became cold.

The surviving cultivators had already escaped into the distance. They
all wished they could grow an extra pair of legs to run away faster.
Wang Lin’s figure was now engraved in their hearts and will never
disappear.

Among the four remaining mid stage Core Formation cultivators

watching from 1000 kilometers away, the old man with a ruddy
complexion shook his head. He turned around and was about to
leave before this pupils suddenly shrank.

A male and a female stood ten feet behind him. Floating above the
male’s head was a blood-red “Punish” symbol.

The remaining cultivators noticed what was wrong and all took out
their treasures as if they were facing a great enemy, but none of
them dared to act first.

Wang Lin scanned the four of them and coldly said, “Scram!”

Among the four, only the old man who was ready to leave revealed a
look of gratitude and quickly left. The remaining three’s faces turned
from red to white as they slowly backed up. One of them snorted
and said, “Today’s matter…”

Li Muwan secretly sighed and thought, “Why aren’t you quickly

leaving? What is the point in saying these useless things?” Sure
enough, before he finished speaking, Wang Lin frowned and waved
his hand. His Ji Realm flew out and the cultivator’s eyes immediately
became blood-red. He held his head before it exploded with a bang
and a blood-covered golden core flew out into Wang Lin’s hand.

The remaining two cultivators turned around and ran without a

word. Wang Lin stared at the two. He left an imprint on them with
his Ji Realm.
At this moment, the cultivator fighting Shang Guanmo let out a
miserable scream and quickly ran off. As he escaped, the devil and
crystal sword suddenly appeared before him. The devil growled,
“Stop stealing from me! This one is mine! Mine!”

However, he was still a step too late. After a flash of golden light, a
large hole appeared in the cultivator’s chest.

After half an hour, the cultivator fighting the Mu brothers died

under the sneak attack of Shang Guanmo. Wang Lin put the crystal
sword away inside his body again and the devil unwillingly returned
to the dragon tendon.

“Continue to lead the way!” Wang Lin’s voice was very cold and his
killing intent was oppressing.

Wang Lin knew that if he wanted to have a footing here, he must

show off his power, and the Fighting Evil Sect was the best place to
do so.

At this moment, Mu Nan and Mu Bei deeply respected Wang Lin

from the bottom of their hearts. Especially Mu Bei, who showed
unreserved respect in his eyes as he quickly lead the way to the
Fighting Evil Sect.

Before Wang Lin, the large amount of bodies emitted a deathly aura.
This display was more effective than any words. Many cultivators
who had evil intentions who saw the thousands of bodies
immediately became pale and backed away, afraid of getting caught
in this mess.
Chapter 154: The Great Battle
Dragon Formation
As a result, their speed increased.

As Wang Lin flew, he adjusted his Ji Realm. After all these uses, it
was damaged, so it sat inside his consciousness and slowly repaired
itself.

At noon of the second day, the Fighting Evil Sect appeared in sight.
Wang Lin’s Ji Realm had recovered at this point. Looking at the
mountain, the top of the mountain had been changed to the shape of
a dragon. It looked like there was a dragon sitting on top of the
mountain. On top of the dragon’s head stood a white-haired old
man. His face was dark and his gaze was cold as he stared at Wang
Lin.

In the air floated ten Core Formation cultivators. Together, they

formed a sword formation. When they saw Wang Lin, they all
revealed complex expressions. They were filled with fear and shock.
The ten formed a circle with ten flying swords interlaced in the
middle. The swords clattered as they hit each other, causing sparks
to fly out.

The person above the dragon’s head waved his hand. The eyes of the
dragon lit up and waves of spiritual energy came out from the
dragon. There was one cultivator standing on each of the dragon’s
scales. With the shine of their swords, it looked like the dragon was
alive.

Shang Guanmo looked carefully for a bit and said, “The Great Battle
Dragon Formation!”

Mu Bei quickly explained, “This Great Battle Dragon Formation is

the sect-protecting-formation of the Fighting Evil Sect. Rumor has it
that only Nascent Soul level cultivators can break through it, but not
many in the sect believe it. After all, no one in this area has a
formation that powerful.”

Wang Lin was a bit proficient in formations, and after looking at it

for a bit, Li Muwan suddenly said, “This isn’t a formation, but an
amazing spell that channels the souls of everyone on the dragon to
the person on top of the head, giving him a certain level of
cultivation.”

At this moment, the person standing on the dragon’s head’s eyes lit
up and he shouted, “Fellow cultivator who has the punish mark, I am
the Fighting Evil Sect’s sect head, Jie Donglei, with the Fighting Evil
sect’s 13,562 disciples. Since head elder Qian Kun provoked you, you
killing him is not a big deal, but then you came here. If you win this
battle, the entire Fighting Evil sect will listen to you, but if you lose,
then don’t blame this old man for taking the cultivation pill. Do you
dare to fight?”

His voice roared out like thunder and it spread across the area. The
13,562 disciples all shouted at the same time, creating a sound wave
that split the clouds in the sky apart. Starting from the bottom of the
dragon and quickly progressing to the top, over ten thousand flying
swords shined and formed rings of spiritual energy. The higher up,
the denser the rings were, with the ones at the top emitting
powerful pressure.

At the same time, the ten Core Formation cultivators quickly flew
toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin let go of Li Muwan and jumped forward with red lightning
flashing in his eyes. The ten cultivators’ bodies quivered. They didn’t
dare to move forward. These ten people had used various methods
to learn of Wang Lin’s strength in these few days, so when they saw
Wang Lin charging at them, they couldn’t help but hesitate.
Wang Lin’s gaze swept past them before dragging the dragon tendon
behind him, causing the thousands of bodies to slam against the
dragon.

When the thousands of bodies collided with the dragon, they

became a large wall of red mist. This was thanks to a protection
barrier. Suddenly, the entire protection formation of the Fighting
Evil Sect was dyed dark red.

The rings all gathered at the old man on the head of the dragon. A
powerful aura came from his body, then his clothes ripped apart as
he suddenly grew several times his original size.

Powerful spiritual energy surged out like ocean waves from the old
man and pushed him directly from the mid stage of Core Formation
to the late stage of Core Formation. Then it continued to break
through, reaching a stage like early stage Nascent Soul without the
Nascent Soul.

This pseudo Nascent Soul stage normally only occurred in puppets

created by the higher cultivation countries.

Jei Donglei let out a roar as he jumped into the air. He looked coldly
at the Core Formation cultivators and shouted, “Unless trash,
scram!”

The ten Core Formation cultivators revealed relieved expressions as

they quickly moved to the side and then stared coldly at Wang Lin.

Jie Donglei’s gaze landed on Wang Lin, then he grinned and said, “I
have managed to gather all of the rumors about on you on your way
here. It seems that people under the Nascent Soul stage can’t harm
you, but now that I have the power of a Nascent Soul cultivator, let
me see how you will beat me!”

Li Muwan’s face became pale. She looked at Wang Lin with a

concerned gaze. However, when she saw a hint of disdain in Wang
Lin’s eyes, she relaxed for some unknown reason.

Nan Mu and Nan Bei secretly groaned. They originally thought that
Wang Lin would win for sure, but now the situation had changed.
What was awaiting them was the fury of sect head Jie Donglei, it has
to be said that the Fighting Evil Sect has a very evil method of
dealing with traitors.

Shang Guanmo’s soul blood essence was in Wang Lin’s hands, so if

Wang Lin were to die, he would die as well. He was secretly cursing
in his mind while trying to think of a way to break out of this
situation.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart as he jumped forward and landed 30

feet in front of Jie Donglei while coldly staring at him.

“Don’t you know the death spell? Let this old man see how powerful
your death spell is!” Jie Donglei’s body disappeared and reappeared
more than 300 feet away from Wang Lin.

The moment Jei Donglei disappeared, Wang Lin backed up until he

was 500 feet away from Jei Donglei. Jei Donglei disappeared again
and Wang Lin backed up once more to 700 feet away. At this
distance, he began to think.

Jei Donglei frowned as he stared at Wang Lin and sneered, “What is

the meaning of this?”

Wang Lin eyes revealed a thoughtful expression before he said, “I’m

not going to fight anymore.” With that, he flew to Li Muwan’s side
and grabbed her waist. He moved to a mountain 1000 feet away, sat
down, and sneered at Jei Donglei.

Jei Donglei frowned even harder and said, with a heavy tone, “If that
is the case, then this matter…” Before he finished speaking, his body
disappeared. When he reappeared, he was right in front of Wang
Lin. He opened his mouth and spat out a ray of white light. The light
turned into a fierce tiger that pounced at Wang Lin.

At the same time, his right waved and an electric net appeared. The
net quickly flew toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin remained calm as he let out a sneer. As the tiger jumped
toward him, the devil inside the dragon tendon jumped out and ate
the tiger.

At the same time, the crystal sword flew out and the surrounding
net, released popping sounds. After several strikes from the sword,
the electric net shattered to pieces.

As for Jei Donglei, an ice flame that emitted waves of cold energy
appeared in Wang Lin’s hand. The moment the ice flame appeared,
Jei Donglei’s expression changed and he immediately backed up, but
at that moment, he saw the red lightning in Wang Lin’s eyes move
and his soul shook.

The shock to his soul caused his body to stop. As a result, the ice
flame hit his chest. The ice rapidly spread and blood came out of his
mouth. He quickly backed up and didn’t stop until he was within
300 feet of the dragon’s head.

Both of his hands formed seals and hit his chest multiple times.
Then he ate some pills and let out a roar. Only then did the ice that
was already covering half of his body begin to shrink back to his
chest and then was forced out.

The ice flame flickered. Its color had dimmed a lot as it flew back
into Wang Lin’s hand.

From the begining, Wang Lin didn’t take the initiative and just stood
1000 feet away with a mocking expression.
Jei Donglei’s hand stopped hitting his chest. He stared at Wang Lin
and suddenly asked, “How did you find out?”

Wang Lin calmly said, “I didn’t figure anything out. I just noticed
that your aura felt different at 300 feet compare to 500 feet, and at
1000 feet your aura almost dropped out of the Nascent Soul realm.”

Li Muwan was really smart and immediately realized what was

going on. She softly asked, “His injury is also fake?”

“The wound inflicted by the ice flame was real, but when he
retreated to within 300 feet of the dragon’s head, the spiritual
energy had already healed him completely. He was simply trying to
get me to fight him within 300 feet of the dragon’s head.” This was
the first time Wang Lin had talked this much to Li Muwan, but
although he was conversing with her, his gaze never left Jei Donglei.

When he first saw the formation, he was shocked. If such a thing

existed, then wouldn’t he be invincible in this area? As long as he
had enough people feeding spiritual energy, he could truly obtain a
level of power as high as a Soul Formation cultivator’s. If that was
the case, then wouldn’t the Fighting Evil Sect already be the ruler of
this area?

Considering that, this technique must have some sort of fatal flaw.
The first thing everyone would think of was that the time was short
and the user of this technique must know it as well, so they should
be able to use some method to help cover up this flaw.

If that was the only flaw, it was still a very powerful technique.
However, Wang Lin noticed that Jie Donglei had taunted him to
fight instead of directly coming up to kill him. He found this very
strange. He then calculated the distance between them at the time
and he was about 900 feet away.

With that in mind, Wang Lin charged forth to 300 feet, then back up
to 500 feet, 700 feet, and finally 1000 feet before finding out the
true fatal flaw of this technique.

The further he got from the dragon’s head, the lower the sect head’s
cultivation level dropped.

Jei Donglei’s expression was very unsettling. Even though he had

this high of a cultivation level, he couldn’t really use it. Although
Wang Lin’s guess was a bit off, it was not far from the truth. His
cultivation level would be weakened a lot at 900 feet, and at that
range, his chance of winning was low. And if Wang Lin were to back
up even more, past 1000 feet, then his cultivation level would
immediately fall out of the Nascent Soul realm and plummet back
into the Core Formation stage.
Chapter 155: After Image Sword
Cultivation
If this stalemate were to continue, it would definitely be bad for Jie
Donglei. After all, the formation would only last for two hours, and
half of that time had already passed. He thought carefully about
what he should do.

Originally, he planned on using the Core Formation cultivators to

trap Wang Lin for a while to give him time to attack. However, at the
most important moment, the fear of death swallowed those elders,
so they backed down. His only choice was to act on his own, but he
didn’t expect Wang Lin to be able to see through the weakness of
the formation.

Now that he had gotten on the tiger it would be hard to get off, he
silently stared at Wang Lin.

Wang Lin looked at him, then grabbed Li Muwan and backed up 100
more feet. The mocking expression on his face intensified. Jie
Donglei let out a sigh. He jumped back onto the head of the dragon
and said, “Forget it. This old man admits defeat.” With that, he
stomped on the dragon’s head and all of the spiritual energy in his
body returned to the dragon.

The light inside the dragon’s eyes became brighter. As the spiritual
energy returned to it, Jie Donglei’s body trembled and he revealed a
painful expression.

Gradually, his expression became even more painful and his body
began to shrink. After he finished shrinking, he knelt on one leg on
the dragon’s head. He looked like he had aged decades. He raised his
head and weakly said, “This old man admits defeat. From now
onward, we will listen to what you say. This is the order from the
Fighting Evil Sect’s sect head.” With that, his hand trembled as he
took out a purple triangular token and barely managed to put some
spiritual energy inside it to make it fly forward.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He looked at Jie Donglei and then at the
token before suddenly pulling Li Muwan back several dozen feet.

The moment Wang Lin’s body backed up, an afterimage of Ji Donglei

suddenly appeared at the spot Wang Lin was just in and turned into
a ray of sword energy that stabbed toward him.

Wang Lin’s speed was really fast, but he couldn’t match a flying
sword. By the time he backed up 30 feet, the flying sword had
already reached him. This flying sword was very fast; it wasn’t much
slower than the crystal sword using teleportation.

In the blink of an eye, the flying sword pierced his chest, but it was
stopped for a moment by the dragon skin vest. Wang Lin’s fingers
caught the body of the sword like a pair of claws.

Wang Lin’s face was gloomy. The enemy’s flying sword was almost
impossible to defend against. Luckily, he was far enough away to
have a bit of time to react, or else the consequences would have
been unthinkable.

The flying sword trembled a bit before snapping into two from the
center. A black flame appeared where the sword broke and quickly
turned the entire sword to dust.

The moment the black fire appeared, Wang Lin quickly let go and
coldly looked at Jie Donglei, who was still at the top of the dragon’s
head.

Jei Donglei let out a regretful look as his body turned to ashes. This
last attack was his ace in the hole and his greatest secret.

“This… he was a sword cultivator!” Li Muwan’s face was filled with

shock. The scene from before was still causing her body to tremble.
A lot of people in ancient times were sword cultivators, but
nowadays, not many people cultivated only the sword. Instead, they
used swords as treasures.

A sword cultivators’ speed and power are all stronger than normal
cultivators’. There are many sword cultivation methods, but only
with a top quality sword cultivation method and a top quality sword
can one truly use a sword cultivator’s terrifying power.

Jie Donglei’s sword cultivation wasn’t very good, and his flying
sword was also not good. Otherwise, with his power as a sword
cultivator, he would have easily swept aside the cultivators in Nan
Dou City instead of being forced to stay here.

If he was fighting one on one, then his flying sword was powerful,
but he couldn’t split his attention when fighting multiple people, so
he only had one chance to act.

Jei Donglei sent out his sword core on this last blow. This could be
considered his golden core. This was planned to be a surprise final
attack, but sadly, it failed.

With the death of Jei Donglei, Mu Nan and Mu Bei were the
happiest. They quickly realized what was happening and knelt
before Wang Lin. “Congratulations, sect head!”

Shang Guanmo secretly cursed these two brothers for being

shameless, but he himself quickly flew up to Wang Lin and bowed.
“Congratulations, teacher, on becoming the sect head of the Fighting
Evil Sect.”

The ten elders of the Fighting Evil Sect that had formed the sword
formation put away their swords. They were feeling very awkward.
After pondering for a bit, they all bowed toward Wang Lin. Their
meaning was obvious.
As for the tens of thousands of disciples on the dragon formation,
they all had more than 80% of their spiritual energy used up by Jei
Donglei. They struggled to stand up as they looked at the red
“Punish” that looked like it would bleed and loudly welcomed Wang
Lin.

Wang Lin felt no joy with Jei Donglei’s death. Instead, he felt
helpless. There was no right or wrong in the cultivation world; only
the law of the jungle. If he wished to survive, then he must destroy
everything that threatened him. He imagined that if he hadn’t come
here himself, what awaited him was the Fighting Evil Sect’s endless
retaliation.

If he wanted to protect himself, then he must let everyone know that

he was someone they couldn’t mess with and that the consequences
of doing so would be very serious. Wang Lin’s first display of power
in the Sea of Devils was over.

This first display of power was very successful. At least within one
million kilometers of Nan Dou City, no one hadn’t heard of the
mountain of corpses Wang Lin had created. At least this stopped any
more people from being greedy over the killing order.

Looking at the tens of thousands of disciples bowing before him,

Wang Lin looked toward the inner sea and thought, “Teng Huayuan,
whether it’s being an immortal or a devil, as long as I can get my
revenge, what’s wrong with becoming a demon king?!”

He let out a cold smile as his gaze swept over to Shang Guanmo.
“From today onward, you are the Fighting Evil Sect’s sect head,” said
Wang Lin.

Shang Guanmo was startled. He was about to speak, but when he

saw the coldness in Wang Lin’s eyes, he quickly stopped himself and
nodded.
“Prepare a room for me. I’m going into closed door cultivation.”
Wang Lin grabbed Li Muwan and flew toward the Fighting Evil Sect.

The room was quickly prepared. It was Jei Donglei’s personal room,
which was located inside the head of the dragon. Wang Lin sit down
cross-legged and looked at Li Muwan, who had a complicated
expression on her face, and said, “After my closed door cultivation is
completed, I’ll bring you back home. Until then, you are free to do as
you wish.” With that, he closed his eyes and silently cultivated.

Li Muwan stared at Wang Lin. After a long time, she said, “Thank
you…” With that, she felt her heart tighten as she turned and left.

After she left, Wang Lin opened his eyes. Instead of the usual
coldness, there was confusion. The confusion became even stronger
as time went on, until there was a hint of sadness as he recalled a
scene from the past…

“Tie Zhu, you are not young anymore. Many people have come to ask
about marriage in these past few days. Mom heard that immortals
can marry too. Since you came back, you should stay for a while.
Come with mom to look around, and if you find someone you like,
then we can settle things.”

“Little brat, other people your age already have kids running around
the village.”

“My wife, why are you worrying about pointless things? Our son is
an immortal! Do you understand what an immortal is? How could he
take a mortal as a wife? Tie Zhu’s meaning is that he will find you an
immortal daughter-in-law.”

“What is so good about an immortal daughter-in-law? An immortal

cannot come home for five years. If I have an immortal daughter-in-
law, then they might not even come home once in ten years.”
“Fine, I’ll listen to your dad. If your standards are too high for one of
the girls in the village to catch your attention, then mom will wait to
see who you bring back.”

“Mom, you can rest assured; your son will definitely bring you back a
good daughter-in-law.”

Gradually, two rows of blood flowed from his eyes as he clutched his
fists. After a long time, he wiped away the blood tears, hit the side of
the wall, and the dragon’s mouth closed, leaving no cracks.

Then, after placing a few more formations around him, Wang Lin
focused his divine sense on the heaven defying bead in his mind. His
body suddenly disappeared from the room. Even the word “Punish”
disappeared.

This was the first time Wang Lin had entered the heaven defying
bead after reaching the Core Formation stage. The moment he
entered the heaven defying bead, Shang Guanmo, who was
managing the Fighting Evil Sect, trembled as he could feel that that
terrifying fiend had disappeared.

To be more accurate, his soul essence disappeared without a trace.

This caused him to be shocked and terrified as he quickly flew into
the air. After awhile, he turned around, revealing a look of disbelief.

Li Muwan, who had just walked down from the dragon’s head, was
startled as she looked up before letting out a sigh.

Somewhere in the heaven defying bead’s space, Situ Nan’s Nascent

Soul floated in the sky with both of his eyes closed and spiritual
energy flowing through his body. On his sides floated two faint
white lights.

Wang Lin stood below the Nascent Soul and looked at the two balls
of light. He knelt on the ground, kowtowed, and said, “Mom, Dad, Tie
Zhu will definitely bring you two back a good daughter-in-law, but
now is not the time…”

After a long time, Wang Lin took a deep breath and raised his head
toward Situ Nan’s Nascent Soul. His eyes revealed a deep sense of
gratitude as he whispered, “Situ, you can rest assured, as I have
already reached the Core Formation stage. Someday, I’ll reach the
nascent soul stage, then soul formation, and finally soul
transformation so I can bring you out of here. Then I’ll find you a
body. This is my promise to you!”

With that, Wang Lin stood up and bowed at Situ Nan’s Nascent Soul.
Then his body disappeared as he left this place.
Chapter 156: I’ll Fight Him to the
Death
Inside the secret room inside the dragon’s head, a rainbow-colored
light appeared. More and more lights suddenly gathered until Wang
Lin’s figure finally came into view.

The moment he appeared, Shang Guanmo’s heart started beating

rapidly. He wondered what kind of technique this fiend was
cultivating that would allow him to hide his presence completely.
Before, he was wondering if he could use this time to escape Wang
Lin’s control, but now he didn’t dare to have those ideas anymore.

Li Muwan touched the dragon’s scale as if she was calculating

something. The current her looked very graceful and focused as she
touched the dragon scale.

Even the fluctuations of her soul essence blood didn’t affect her.
Gradually, a look of understanding appeared in her eyes as she
looked at the piece of dragon scale before her.

Wang Lin appeared inside the room and sat down in the lotus
position before taking out his bag of holding. After killing all those
cultivators, there were hundreds of golden cores inside his bag of
holding.

In addition to this, almost all of the bags of holding of the dead

cultivators were taken by Wang Lin. He quickly sorted them all and
found that there were a lot of treasures and flying swords. However,
besides a scroll, none of them were good enough to catch Wang
Lin’s eyes.

This scroll was about two feet long and as thick as his arm. It also
emitted a hint of spiritual energy. Wang Lin remembered that it
came from a Core Formation cultivator who had already opened it
half-way. There were currently waves of roars coming from the
scroll.

However, Wang Lin’s Ji Realm Divine Sense’s power wasn’t affected

by the amount of people. Whether it was one person or a group,
once it swept past them, as long as they were below the Nascent Soul
stage, they would die. Toward the Ji Realm, Wang Lin still had an
indescribable feeling. Under the pressure of the transfer array at the
Foreign Battleground, he clearly felt its existence for the first time
and gained a hint of understanding. The following years of use and
fighting allowed him to understand the Ji Realm’s terrifying power.

However, he didn’t know that the Ji Realm’s limit was late stage
Nascent Soul. If he wished to enter the Soul Formation stage with it,
the chances were very low.

The original owner of the scroll was already dead, so the divine
sense imprinted on it had long since disappeared. Wang Lin had
imprinted his divine sense on the scroll, but the weird thing was
that there was nothing different about the scroll. It felt the same as
before he imprinted his divine sense.

Wang Lin quickly revealed a look of interest. If it was a normal

treasure, he would have been able to use it freely after wiping out
the previous owner’s divine sense and imprinting his own. As long
as it was not a Nascent Soul level treasure, this would always be true.

Judging by the spiritual energy fluctuations coming from the scroll, it

didn’t feel like a Nascent Soul level treasure. Wang Lin had a few
Nascent Soul level treasures himself, one of them being the
protective jade given to him by Hou Fen’s Nascent Soul cultivator,
Zhou Jin.

The most notable feature of Nascent Soul level treasures was the
powerful spiritual energy fluctuations that they emitted. A Core
Formation treasure could never compare to it.
In addition to the jade, there was the flying sword that could
teleport. According to his guesses, it was also a Nascent Soul level
treasure. If he hadn’t blood refined it, there was no way he would be
able to use it without refining it for a very long time.

Thinking about this, he couldn’t help but be reminded of the ancient

sword sheath. When combined with the flying sword, it could
increase the flying sword’s power.  Even Situ Nan couldn’t see
through its true nature. It must be at least beyond Nascent Soul
level, maybe a Soul Formation, or even Soul Transformation
treasure. After all, there wasn’t much Situ Nan couldn’t see through.

Wang Lin let out a sigh. It was destroyed when Teng Huayuan
destroyed his bag of holding. Then Wang Lin suddenly realized that
something was off. If that treasure was indeed that high quality,
then Teng Huayuan shouldn’t have been able to destroy it.

If it wasn’t destroyed, then where could the sword sheath have

gone?

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as he put down the scroll and suddenly stood
up. He walked back and forth for a bit before putting some low
quality materials into a bag of holding. Then he gathered a bit of
spiritual energy on his finger and turned the bag to dust.

Wang Lin’s eyes focused on the bag of holding as it turned to dust.

Then he tried it out a few more times before a hint of understanding
appeared in his eyes.

Although the bag of holding was destroyed, the items inside it were
not. The space inside the bag was like a boundless vault with the bag
itself as the lock. Even though the lock was broken, the vault would
forever be shut with the items still inside.

If he could find a way to open it up again, then it wouldn’t be

impossible to take back what was inside.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He then sat down in the lotus position
again. Looking at the scroll, it didn’t seem to be a Nascent Soul level
treasure, but Wang Lin couldn’t guess why he didn’t get the feeling
he could control it as he wished after he imprinted his divine sense
into it. After thinking for a bit, he suddenly opened the scroll. His
expression became serious.

The entire scroll was completely black without any pictures on it.

Looking at it, Wang Lin suddenly felt a sense of danger coming from
the scroll. A pair of triangular eyes on the black paper suddenly
opened up. Then a loud roar came from inside the scroll, causing it
to shake.

Wang Lin didn’t hesitate to quickly close the scroll. The roar slowly
became softer and softer until it completely disappeared.

Sweat covered Wang Lin’s forehead. The moment the roar came out,
Wang Lin could feel that its power was no less than the dragon’s
that had died in the 14th valley. The only difference was that the
spiritual energy was trapped inside the scroll.

At this moment, he finally understood why he still couldn’t use this

scroll even after imprinting his divine sense into it. This scroll was
only a seal. The real power of this treasure came from the spirit
beast trapped inside.

After carefully putting away the scroll, Wang Lin began to ponder.
After a long time, he took out a golden core from his bag of holding.
Its color had already darkened. He pondered for a bit before taking
out more than 100 golden cores. All of them were dim, emanating a
feeling of death.

If it was in the past, Wang Lin would immediately devour them as he

got them, but on the way here, Li Muwan told him that although
devouring golden cores would increase his cultivation level, it would
also cause his spiritual energy to become tainted, as well as cause
the spiritual energy in his body to become a mess. Also, golden cores
had different properties. If too much of the opposite was absorbed, it
would make his spiritual energy go crazy, making him lose control
and go mad half the time.

After hearing this, although Wang Lin was unwilling, he dismissed

the idea of consuming them directly. According to Li Muwan, eating
them would inflict no negative effects if they were first refined
through the five element method.

It was just that this type of refining skill was considered a demonic
method, so she had only ever heard of it. Wang Lin pondered a bit
before putting all of them into one bag of holding for when he finds
the five element refining method.

Then Wang Lin took out the dragon tendon. With a gentle flick, the
devil flew out. The devil flew around the room once before looking
at Wang Lin with an aggrieved expression.

The red light on the devil was much richer than last time. Wang Lin
looked at him with a cold expression and said, “To what degree has
your cultivation level recovered?”

The devil carefully backed up and said, “I have only recovered to the
late stage of Foundation Establishment. If it wasn’t for that sword
stealing from me, I could have recovered to Core Formation!”

Wang Lin sneered and stared at the devil. The devil felt his hairs
stand up from the stare. He  backed up some more and then
muttered, “I am at the peak of late stage Foundation Establishment,
only one step from the Core Formation stage.” With that, he secretly
cursed and thought that if Wang Lin kept pushing him, then he
would just go and fight him with all his might. But this was only an
idea. The devil believed that even if he gave it his all, he wouldn’t get
anything good out of it.
Wang Lin’s eyes became cold and his hand reach out. The devil let
out a scream. He wanted to dodge, but he found formations around
him. He could only watch himself be caught and brought toward
Wang Lin.

Wang Lin searched through the devil’s body. Little by little, slivers of
red kept appearing until a golden core appeared in the devil’s gas-
like body.

The devil’s anger quickly disappeared. He embarrassingly said,

“”What is this? When did I form my core? I must have devoured too
much and formed it without realizing…” As he spoke, he saw Wang
Lin’s cold gaze and stopped talking.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before suddenly asking, “You recovered
your memory?”

The devil immediately trembled. This was his biggest secret. When
he reached the Core Formation stage, something extra suddenly
appeared in his mind, but he didn’t dare to tell Wang Lin. Now that
he was seen through by Wang Lin, he immediately became scared.

He kept thinking inside his heart, “Should I go out all against him?
Fight? No, I don’t think I can beat him… I have decided, I’m going all
out!”

He just had finally made up its mind and was ready to act when he
raised his head and saw a red light inside Wang Lin’s eyes. He
immediately realized that things were getting bad when he suddenly
let out a miserable scream from the pain. Green smoke came out of
his body and even his golden core shrank.

Wang Lin’s Ji Realm Divine Sense originally wouldn’t be this

powerful, but he used to be a soul devourer. The pressure and the
abilities of a soul devourer were still there.
This made Wang Lin the devil’s biggest weakness. After the devil
screamed for a while, Wang Lin withdrew his Ji Realm Divine Sense.
The devil stood there shaking. All traces of resistance were gone.
Instead, he revealed an obedient expression.

He wasn’t afraid of anyone but Wang Lin. If Wang Lin had kept it up
for half an hour, then his newly formed golden core would have
shattered.

Wang Lin calmly said, “Spit out all the souls you devoured.”
Chapter 157: A Sad and Beautiful
Complexion
The devil’s face immediately became very grim as he slowly spat out
one soul after another. After spitting out more than 40 souls, his
golden core was on the brink of shattering.

Wang Lin waved his hand and all 43 souls flew into his forehead.
They entered his consciousness and floated next to the soul of the
Core Formation cultivator from Xuan Wu.

The Ji Realm red lightning flew through each of the souls. As they
disappeared, Wang Lin could feel his own soul become a bit
stronger.

The devil secretly relaxed a bit as he stared at Wang Lin but

complained in his heart, “This is too much! These are all souls I
managed to steal back from the damn sword! Sooner or later, I’ll
have my revenge! Just wait until my cultivation recovers to the
Nascent Soul stage!”

Just as he was thinking about how he was going to deal with Wang
Lin once he recovers to the Nascent Soul stage, his body was grabbed
by Wang Lin and was thrown back into the dragon tendon. The devil
let out a few frustrated sighs. The urge to go all out against Wang
Lin appeared again. However, the urge died down again when he
thought about how he wouldn’t get a good result even if he were to
shatter his golden core.

After taking a gulp of spirit liquid, Wang Lin sat down to cultivate.
After thinking about the power of Jie Donglei’s sword cultivation
method, he took out several hundred spirit stones. He was going to
use these to place several hundred layers of the turtle shell’s
defensive formation on himself.
After completing all of this, he took a deep breath and hit the side of
the wall. The dragon’s mouth slowly opened up. He got up and
walked out.

Just as he walked out of the dragon’s mouth, he saw a charming and

delicate figure standing near the tail of the dragon. Li Muwan’s
expression looked haggard, but her eyes were shining as she stared
at one of the scales on the dragon’s tail.

Shang Guanmo stood next to her with a glowing pearl, providing

light for her.

Wang Lin remained silent. This time, his closed door cultivation
didn’t take long, but from the looks of Li Muwan, she hadn’t left at
all. He sighed in his heart as he jumped down. His body glided down
along the dragon and landed behind her.

When Shang Guanmo saw Wang Lin, he immediately put even more
spiritual energy into the pearl to make it shine brighter. He also
forced sweat to appear on his forehead to make it look like he was
focused.

Wang Lin watched her delicate face making a serious expression.

Her eyebrows, which were as beautiful as a painting, were furrowed,
and she was biting her lower lip as she carefully examined the
scales. A gentle wind blew by, moving a few strands of her hair.

Wang Lin’s voice was gentle as he slowly said, “Let us go, I’ll take
you home…”

Li Muwan’s fingers trembled. She raised her head toward Wang Lin
and stared at him for a long time before whispering, “Are you really
going to send me back?”

Wang Lin dodged Li Muwan’s gaze and nodded.

Li Muwan chuckled, but this chuckle contained a trace of
helplessness. She stood up, tidied up her clothes, and said, “Give me
three days of time, okay?”

Wang Lin looked at her once before floating back to the dragon’s
head and sat down in the lotus position.

Li Muwan took out a piece of jade from her bag of holding and
placed it on her forehead. After recording the pattern of the scales
she had memorized, she turned to Shang Guanmo and calmly said,
“Prepare a room for me.”

Shang Guanmo quickly agreed. He felt like he was wrong about what
he saw back then. This fiend and this little girl’s relationship wasn’t
what he originally thought it was.

Inside the room, Li Muwan calmly sat on the ground as scenes from
these past few years flashed through her eyes. From when she was
being chased by that Core Formation cultivator from Xuan Wu, to
being saved by Wang Lin, and the two of them escaping together.
Then to being chased by the fire beasts and charging through the
fire beasts into the Sea of Devils. Creating the cave where she
focused on alchemy and he focused on cultivation… until he left for
three years and brought her back the pill furnace. When he returned,
he was being chased by Core Formation cultivators. He was then
able to reach the Core Formation stage and carved up a path of
blood.

When Wang Lin was reaching the Core Formation stage, a weak girl
like herself went out to face those Core Formation demonic
cultivators herself. Just as she was about to kill herself, Wang Lin
suddenly appeared and saved her. She wasn’t able to comprehend
this sudden change. It caused her body to weaken and she was about
to fall over when he caught her.

“Don’t move. I’m taking you to kill people.” This phrase kept
echoing inside Li Muwan’s ears. Thinking about that phrase made
many complicated feelings appear in her heart and her face turned
red. Along the way, she thought about it many times and couldn’t
help but bitterly smile about it. However, as Wang Lin killed his way
here, that phrase weighted heavily in her heart.

Li Muwan muttered, “I’m taking you to kill people…” Her lips curled
up into a faint smile as she took a breath. “Other people would take
me to watch a beautiful moon or the setting sun, and yet he takes
me to kill people…”

Shortly after, she exhaled and muttered, “Over these years, he never
asked for my name and I still don’t know what his is either. Perhaps
in his eyes, my name is not important. What’s important is that I
know alchemy… Now that the pills have been refined, I guess I have
lost my value…” Thinking about this, the complicated feelings in her
heart became even stronger until they became a heart piercing pain.
A stream of blood leaked out from the corner of her mouth. This
line of blood in contrast with her immaculate beauty was a very
shocking.

The term sad beauty was very fitting for her right now.

After a long time, she bit her lower lip and took out pieces of jade
scales from her bag of holding. There was a total of 18,874, the same
as the number of scales on the dragon.

Earlier, Jie Donglei didn’t have enough disciples to stand on every

single scale.

These pieces of jade scales were the fruits of her last half a month of
sleepless effort. She spent all that time recording each scale. The
amount of mental stress she had accumulated cost her at least five
years of her life…

It was just that Li Muwan didn’t care about any of that anymore. She
took up the scales one by one and linked them together. Sometimes
she would even change what was inside them.
First she fused the almost 20,000 pieces of jade into 10,000 pieces,
then 5,000 pieces, and so on.

Three days later, Li Muwan’s face was pale and her body was very
weak. She felt like she would fall over if the wind were to blow on
her. She walked out of the cave leaning against the wall.

Wang Lin was holding an object that he had been studying for the
last three days in his hand. When Li Muwan came out, he put the
object away before jumping down before her. When he saw her even
more worn out face, he frowned and asked, “What were you doing in
the the last three days? Drink this.” He took out a jade bottle that
contained 300 drops of spiritual liquid and placed it in Li Muwan’s
hand.

Li Muwan put away the jade bottle like a treasure and whispered,
“Thank you, senior brother. I am fine. Let us… go…” With that, her
face regained some color as she leaned on Wang Lin’s shoulder and
said, “Come on… let’s go home…”

Wang Lin pondered for a very long time before wrapping his left
hand around Li Muwan’s waist. His body immediately flew into the
air and cut open a path in the fog before them, then the two quickly
disappeared into the sky.

The plum blossom is an elegant thing. If there it had a hint of gold,

it would look too grand. However, that red in the center changes the
entire feel of the flower; from plain to awe-inspiring, from elegant to
something strange.

There were many cultivators talking to each other at the inn, but
when the old man entered, the talking stopped. A few gazes turned
toward the old man before they were withdrawn.

After the old man entered the inn, he didn’t even look around and
sat down on a seat near the window. After ordering some light wine,
he sat there and drank by himself. His brow sometimes furrowed
and sometimes loosened. His heart was clearly very heavy.

At this moment, the talking in the inn returned.

At one of the tables, a few cultivators revealed worried expressions

and whispered, “That fiend killed his way here and then fought with
the Fighting Evil Sect’s Jie Donglei for three days and three nights.
Finally, he used a mysterious magic treasure to kill Jie Donglei in an
instant and then whipped his body for seven days and seven nights.
Hehe, I think Nan Dou City will have a new owner.”

The old man’s expression changed when he heard the words

“mysterious magic treasure”.

A round-faced cultivator revealed a reminiscent look and sighed.

“Hehe, so what about it? I personally saw that fiend myself. At that
moment, the sky was filled with bodies he had trapped. There were
at least 1000 bodies being dragged behind him. That fiend really
knows how to enjoy himself. He was even holding a beautiful girl in
his arms as he flew across the sky. That scene is something I will
never forget in my life.

The old man slightly frowned and muttered to himself.

A cold-faced young man took a drink and sneered, “You guys should
be quiet. I heard that that person cultivates the very vicious death
spell and hates it when people talk about him. Be careful, if words
reaches his ears, you guys will die without a grave.”

The moment the old man heard the words “death spell,” his eyes
immediately lit up.

The young man sneered as he took another gulp. “In my opinion,

since that person has the kill order on him, if he is still within Nan
Dou City, then he won’t live for much longer. Right now there are no
Nascent Soul cultivators near Nan Dou City, but once the news
spreads, Nascent Soul cultivators might make their way here. If I
were him, I would find a place to hide out these 100 days.”

“Hundred day kill order!?” The old man’s eyes immediately lit up
even more. His right hand reached out and the young man’s face
immediately turned red as his neck was grabbed by an invisible
forced and pulled over.

“Boy, this old man is very interested in the person you talked about.
Could you tell me about him in detail?”
Chapter 158: The Fog Turns to Sea
The inn suddenly became silent. Everyone’s eyes were on the green-
robed old man. The old man held the young man in his hand and
coldly looked at everyone else.

“Eyes like lightning” These three words came to the minds of the
surrounding cultivators. They felt like their entire beings were being
seen through and a bucket of cold water was being poured over their
heads at the same time.

An early stage Core Formation cultivator’s cup immediately fell to

the ground as he quickly lowered his head, his eyes filled with terror.
He secretly groaned, “This feeling, it should be a Nascent Soul…”

The old man withdrew his gaze and loosened his hand. The young
man’s neck was covered in a black bruise.

The old man poured a cup for him, took a drink, and slowly said,
“Speak, how did all of this happen?”

The young man didn’t even dare to breath too loudly. With his late
stage Foundation Establishment cultivation, he wasn’t able to see
through this old man at all. However, with his many years of
experience, he knew that this old man was at least a mid stage Core
Formation, or even late stage Core Formation cultivator.

“That person suddenly appeared half a month ago, killed ten of the
Fighting Evil Sect’s elders, and for some reason got tagged with the
kill order…” The young man explained everything he knew in detail.

The old man closed his eyes and casually waved his hand. The young
man’s eyes widened as his entire body was turned into a mist of
blood and then a strange wind came and carried the blood mist
away.
The cultivators in the inn were all terrified. They wanted to leave,
but no one dared to move first.

The old man pondered a bit. He opened his eyes as he locked on to

the early stage Core Formation cultivator and said, “You, come over
here.”

The Core Formation cultivator’s body trembled as he quickly stood

up and arrived one foot away from the old man. With a trembling
voice, he respectfully said, “Junior Xu Mu greets senior. Whatever
senior needs, please ask. Junior swears on my own golden core that
everything I say is true, just please have mercy.”

The old man poured a cup of wine. After he drank it, he said, “Since I
entered the inn, every time that person was brought up, the spiritual
energy in your body went out of control. I guess you must have seen
him in person.”

Xu Mu took a deep breath. Fear lingered in his eyes as he whispered,

“Junior has indeed seen that fiend in person.”

“What is his cultivation level?” A mysterious light appeared in the

old man’s eyes as he asked the question. He wanted to know this the
most. This was also why he killed the young man. The young man
had said a lot of useless things but never said what cultivation level
that person was at.

“Early stage Core Formation!” Xu Mu felt a bit uneasy, so he quickly

added, “Senior, the person looks like he is just at the early stage of
Core Formation, but he has two treasures…”

Hearing the words “two treasures,” although the old man’s

expression remained the same, he became alert.

“One of them is a flying sword that can teleport…”

The old man felt a bit disappointed as he poured a cup of wine and
drank it.

Xu Mu carefully observed the old man as he nervously said, “There is

another one. It is… junior really doesn’t understand what it is either.
I only see a red light and there is something inside the red light.
However, whoever gets touched by the red light dies and their body
gets turned into a skeleton.”

The old man pondered for a bit, then stood up, dropped a piece of
low quality spirit stone, and grabbed Xu Mu. Both of them instantly
traveled more than 1000 kilometers.

The moment he left, all of the cultivators in the inn were filled with
terror. The three words in everyone’s minds were “Nascent Soul
cultivator!”

Under Xu Mu’s guidance, the old man teleported to the Fighting Evil
Sect in just half an hour. He spread out his powerful divine sense
and found Shang Guanmo.

To Shang Guanmo’s shock, the old man was able to take another
drop of his soul essence blood to use the connection between the
two drops to track Wang Lin. He then threw Xu Mu down and
quickly left.

As for Wang Lin, he moved very fast while carrying Li Muwan. The
flying sword made an opening through the thick fog of the Sea of
Devils.

The Sea of Devils is surrounded by fog all year round, but for only
one month out of every year, the fog turns into water. In all the years
that Wang Lin had stayed in the Sea of Devils, due to him being in
closed door cultivation, he hadn’t encountered this phenomenon.

One month after he entered the 14th valley, the fog turned into sea.
This happened every year for the three years he had spent there, and
now it was about to happen again.

Li Muwan was different. She had personally experienced it every

single year. With the protection of the formation, the seawater
couldn’t enter the cave, but she could clearly see the deep blue ocean
outside, along with some of the rare spirit beasts that would swim
by.

Close to four years of time meant the fog had turned into sea four
times. Every time, Li Muwan would personally manage the
formation and only relax after it was over.

The fog was even denser now than when they first arrived in the Sea
of Devils. Some parts of the fog had already turned into water.

As the two flew higher, the fog got denser and denser, until it felt
like they were swimming in water.

Li Muwan whispered, “It’s about to turn into a sea…”

Wang Lin didn’t answer. He suddenly stopped to look behind and

started to observe the surrounding fog. He could see that the slowly
moving fog was moving faster than before. It was as if it were being
pushed forward. Even some of the surrounding creatures were
moving in every direction but forward.

Li Muwan saw Wang Lin’s expression and whispered, “What is it,

senior brother?”

“Nothing.” After Wang Lin finished speaking, he flew forward even

faster. He felt very uneasy. From the movement of the fog, it was
clear that someone was flying in this direction at a very fast pace.
The person chasing from behind had to be a very powerful
cultivator; it would be impossible to produce this pushing effect on
the fog otherwise.
Also, the surrounding creatures were scattering in all directions
except for forward. This made Wang Lin even more sure that
someone was closing in from behind.

In fact, this is very easy to explain. If there is a school of small fish

swimming in the water and then a very fast sword flies through
them, they would immediately scatter in all directions but forward.

Wang Lin played a lot in the rivers near the village with the other
kids when he was a boy. After seeing this happen, he was able to
make the connection and detect the abnormality.

Wang Lin’s eyes became cold as he took out the spirit liquid and
took a big gulp. The golden core in his body quickly spun as it
absorbed the spiritual energy in the liquid, allowing him to release
even more spiritual energy. This resulted in his speed increasing.

Li Muwan was able to feel Wang Lin’s nervousness. She quickly took
out some materials and made some simple formations to throw
behind them.

Wang Lin looked behind him and revealed a look of admiration. Li

Muwan felt a sense of sweetness in her heart, but she had used too
much energy before, so now felt like she had no strength left. When
she saw Wang Lin’s speed increase after drinking the spirit liquid,
she hesitated a bit before taking out the bottle of spirit liquid that
Wang Lin had given her. She drank a few drops and was
immediately shocked. She carefully put it away and continued to
make those small formations.

As the two flew higher, an invisible force eventually appeared. This

was the pressure of the sea that was unique to the Sea of Devils.
Anyone that tried to leave would have to face this pressure.

70,000 kilometers behind Wang Lin, the old man slapped his bag of
holding and took out a green gourd. The gourd immediately grew to
100 times its original size. The old man casually sat on the gourd as
it flew forward. Thanks to the gourd, his speed was at least doubled.

As Wang Lin moved, he could feel the pushing force of the fog
getting stronger. Although some of it was due to his own speed, it
was obvious that the person chasing him had increased their speed
through some unknown method.

The fog in the Sea of Devils had thinned down a lot as water began
to appear. If one were to look from above the Sea of Devils, then
they would see that the fog was thin enough to see through.

Under the moonlight, the Sea of Devils sparkled. It was as if a layer

of water had already formed. The water quickly spread as time
passed and waves roared as they hit the land.

The old man frowned from his seat on the gourd. Before him were
well-placed, active formations. Although the formations were weak
and he didn’t mind them, if he continued to ram into them one by
one, they would still hinder him.

The old man let out a snort as he waved his hand and slapped the
gourd. The seal on the gourd opened up and a powerful force pushed
out.

A ripple began to spread out from the mouth of the gourd. All of the
formations that the ripples touched were instantly destroyed. Even
the fog and sea water were pushed aside, creating a tunnel forward.

The old man sat on top of the gourd as he quickly charged into the
tunnel.

Wang Lin’s body had already been soaked by the water. He took
another gulp of spirit liquid and quickly charged forward into the
descending sea.
He hugged Li Muwan and pushed his body forward. His body moved
through the water like a fish. Soon, he could see the surface. His eyes
became cold as he pointed forward and the flying sword suddenly
disappeared.

Then Wang Lin dragged Li Muwan out of the water like a sword
piercing the heavens. The moment the two came out of the water,
they disappeared in a trail of light.

The crystal sword moved in rhythm with the waves, waiting for the
right moment to attack.

Half an hour later, a large swirl appeared in the sea. The swirl was
about 100 meters wide and it moved in one direction.

There was a black tunnel connected to the bottom of the Sea of

Devils at the center of the swirl. A green gourd slowly rose from
within the tunnel.
Chapter 159: The Green Robed Old
Man
The green-robed old man sat on top of the gourd and looked up at
the sky. He slapped the gourd and was just about to fly upward when
his expression changed. He raised two fingers and pinched down on
a crystal light that suddenly appeared in front of his face. He
sneered, but that sneer immediately changed.

The crystal light in between his fingers slowly disappeared. It was an

afterimage.

The old man suddenly moved his head as the crystal light brushed by
his face. The crystal light flashed a few times before disappearing.

The old man didn’t stop, but his face was gloomy. He wiped the
blood from his cheek with his finger, then he placed this finger next
to his mouth and licked the blood off before closing his eyes to
think.

“This little guy is very bold!” After a long time, he opened his eyes
and slapped the gourd. The gourd shrank back to its original size. He
opened up the gourd and took a drink. The liquid inside released the
sweet scent of wine.

Hou Fen

Although the disaster of the fire beasts was resolved by the rank 4
cultivation country, the spiritual energy there was filled with fire
element, making it impossible to cultivate. Adding on the fact that
the ground was too hot, the country was mostly covered in lava and
volcanos kept on erupting, turning the mortal kingdoms into
patches of wasteland.
The former imperial city was covered in lava and all of the buildings
were gone. There was no living creatures left in Hou Fen; the entire
country was like a silent grave.

Wang Lin and Li Muwan quickly flew over the country. They both
silently pondered as they saw what had become of Hou Fen.
Although Wang Lin had some mixed feelings about all of this, if it
wasn’t for the heaven defying bead absorbing the fire spirit, then he
would have already been devoured by it.

All of this could only be considered a coincidence; there was no right

or wrong. If he was given a choice at that moment, even knowing
the result, he would have still done the same thing.

The two of them flew across the sky like a shooting star. Soon, they
passed by the place where they first met. Li Muwan looked at Wang
Lin but didn’t say a word.

As for Wang Lin, he was thinking about the person chasing them
and had no time to think about anything else. Wang Lin suddenly
stretched his arm out behind him and the crystal flying sword
landed in his hand.

Wang Lin suddenly stopped as he stared at the trace of blood on the

flying sword. He smeared the blood onto his hand and then, after
staring at it for a while, his expression became very unsettled. He
could feel dense spiritual energy from this blood. There was this
much spiritual energy in this small amount of blood. Just what kind
of cultivation level had this person reached?

He took out a jade bottle and placed the blood inside. Right now, he
felt like there was a mountain weighing down his heart. He looked
at the giant “Punish” above his head and sneered, then he flew even
faster while holding Li Muwan.

After quickly crossing the border of Hou Fen, they could see the
mountain where the Hou Fen Union had originally built their base.
The four flags of Hou Fen were hung high on the top of the
mountain, signifying that this area belonged to the Hou Fen Union.

After they arrived here, Wang Lin stopped. He pondered for a bit and
then said, “I’ll be sending you off.”

Li Muwan bit her lower lip as she looked behind them and said,
“How about you follow me back to Lou He Sect to hide for a bit?”

Wang Lin calmly said, “No need.” With that, he hesitated for a bit
while looking at Li Muwan. He slapped his forehead and Li Muwan’s
soul essence blood flew out.

Wang Lin didn’t immediately return it but left a trace of his Ji Realm
inside it before returning it.

Wang Lin slowly said, “Thank you for these past four years. I have
left a sliver of my divine sense in your soul essence blood. Anyone
below the Nascent Soul stage will no longer be able to harm you.”

Li Muwan revealed a complicated look and asked, “Will we have a

chance to meet in the future?”

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before letting out a sigh. He didn’t
answer the question but took something out from his bag of holding
and handed it to Li Muwan. It was the hundred beast pill furnace. He
had gotten it back after killing Kun Sang.

Li Muwan took the hundred beast pill furnace. After looking at it for
a while, she raised her head and said, “These are pills I have made in
the past few years. The jade has an explanation of all of them.” With
that, she took out more than 10 small bottles and passed them to
Wang Lin, along with a piece of jade.

After Wang Lin received them, he put them into his bag of holding.
He then looked at Li Muwan and clasped his hands. “Four years ago,
I promised to bring you back here safely. Now that I have, we no
longer owe each other anything. Goodbye!”

Wang Lin was about to leave when Li Muwan suddenly shouted,

“Senior brother, this is my gift to you!” With that, she took out a
white jade and threw it at Wang Lin. Then, without looking back, she
flew toward the Hou Fen Union.

Wang Lin caught the jade and scanned it. The message Li Muwan
left inside echoed in his ears.

“Senior brother, Wan Er doesn’t know what your name is because

you’ve never told me in these past four years. I believe you don’t
know mine either… Wan Er thanks you for the countless times you
have saved me in these past four years. The time I spent in the Sea
of Devils is something I’ll never forget… Since our separation is
inevitable, and Wan Er knows that senior brother goes into closed
door cultivation a lot, Wan Er is gifting you this jade. This jade is the
epitome of Wan Er’s formation skills. It contains the Fighting Evil
Sect’s battle dragon formation with improvements.”

“This formation is a fusion of attack and defense, but compared to

attack, defense is the true purpose of his formation. If it can protect
senior brother for a while when you encounter danger, then Wan Er
is satisfied…”

Holding the jade, listening to Li Muwan’s words, and watching her

figure disappear into the distance, Wang Lin began to ponder. He put
away the jade, then his body suddenly landed on the ground. After
taking one step, he disappeared. After moving far away, he touched
his forehead and his body disappeared in a flash of light.

He entered the heaven defying bead, and at this moment, his

presence disappeared. Wang Lin had already decided that he would
enter the heaven defying bead after bringing Li Muwan back. The
kill order was going to last 100 days. For him, it was just a few extra
days of cultivation inside the heaven defying bead.
This was also why, even though he knew of the danger of the kill
order, he still killed Qian Kun.

The old man chasing Wang Lin quickly arrived in Hou Fen. He
arrived at the spot where Wang Lin disappeared shortly after he
entered the heaven defying bead. The old man’s face was filled with
doubt as his body descended further into the ground. After searching
for a while, he came out of the ground with an even stronger look of
doubt than before. “Gone… even the connection between the soul
blood essence is gone. It seems that that little guy has quite a few
secrets.”

Just at this moment, he suddenly raised his head and looked without
any expression at the three rays of light flying at him. Soon, the
three rays of light arrived, revealing one woman and two men.

The woman was wearing a formal dress. She looked very high
statured. To her left was a very handsome man in black robes. He
had an overall very elegant presence.

To the woman’s right was a tall, red-faced old man. The old man’s
face was different from normal people’s. His eyes were like two
large bells and his pupils were like two burning flames.

The old man looked at the three and calmly asked, “Why are you
three here?”

That woman was Feng Luan, and as for the elegant, scholarly-
looking man, it was without a doubt her cultivation partner, Yang
Sen. As for the old man, he was one of the Nascent Soul ancestors
from the War God Shrine. His cultivation level was the same as
Yang Sen’s.

Yang Sen looked at the old man with dread because he couldn’t see
through the old man’s cultivation. He clasped his hands and asked,
“Is fellow cultivator from Xuan Wu?”
The old man rolled his eyes and said, “Who is your follow cultivator?
Scram, or else I’m going to take your Nascent Soul and use it to
refine treasures.”

Yang Sen’s expression changed. He sneered and was about to speak

when the red-faced man stopped him. His bell-like eyes stared at the
seven golden plum flowers on the old man’s clothes and asked, “Is
your excellency from the Sea of Devils?”

Yang Sen and Feng Luan looked at each other before looking at the
golden plum flower on the old man’s shirt.

The old man frowned and became impatient. He waved his hand and
the three of them were pushed back. A powerful wind pushed them
far away. Even the Nascent Souls in their bodies felt like they were
going to be blown out.

After they were finally able to stop themselves, the three’s

expressions became gloomy and Yang Sen asked, “What cultivation
level?”

The red-faced old man bitterly replied, “At least late stage Nascent
Soul…”

Feng Luan frowned and whispered, “Zou Bin, what was that golden
plum flower?”

“I believe the two of you have heard about this before. 300 years
ago, before I entered the War God Shrine, I traveled through the Sea
of Devils. My early stage Nascent Soul cultivation was enough to
keep myself safe as long as I didn’t enter any dangerous areas.”

“The Sea of Devils has a total of 999 cities, and a bit more than 300
of them are in the inner sea. Among those 300 or so cities, seven of
them are called the Land of Seven Plums.”
“The seven cities connected form the petal of a plum flower. If you
look from a distance, it does resemble it. There are a total of seven
city lords who’s cultivation levels are unfathomable. Rumor has it
that they have already reached the Soul Formation stage, but those
rumors are not confirmed.”

Fang Luan’s frown tightened as he asked, “That person just now…”

The old man’s expression became serious as he said, “If I’m not
wrong, then that person just now was one of the city lords of one of
the seven cities! However, the demonic cultivators of the Sea of
Devils, especially ones from inner sea, don’t leave the Sea of Devils
so easily. I don’t believe he will stay here for long.”

The three of them looked at each other. Each of them could feel the
weight on each other’s hearts. They went around the old man as
they returned to the Hou Fen Union’s mountain.

The three of them sensed the aura of a foreign Nascent Soul

cultivator earlier, so they came to check; however, they didn’t expect
the result to be someone so difficult to deal with.

The old man wandered around the area for a bit before letting out a
snort and spreading out his divine sense. This time he wasn’t going
to miss a thing. He carefully scanned the area from the ground to
the sky.

The old man’s divine sense slowly swept the area. He gradually
began to spread out further and further, until it even affected the
Hou Fen Union. However, the old man didn’t care; he swept the area
several times but was still unable to find anything.
Chapter 160: Cultivating the Core
The doubt in his heart became even stronger. He pondered for a bit
before disappearing and crossing Hou Fen at a frightening pace. He
went into one of its bordering nations, Tian Mao.

His goal was the Heaven’s Tower at the center of Tian Mo. The
person inside it was a messenger from an upper cultivation country.

Not all rank 3 cultivation countries have a Heaven’s Tower. Hou Fen
and Xuan Wu don’t have one. This is also why Hou Fen decided to
invade Xuan Wu rather than Tian Mo.

Time slowly passed as Wang Lin cultivated inside the the heaven
defying bead. Soon, 100 days had passed.

On this day, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. The “Punish” above
his head became less and less red, until it went from blood-red to
grey.

An invisible wave appeared and began to slowly push outwards. The

heaven defying bead originally released gentle light, but at this
moment, it began to shine brightly. As the wave spread out, more
and more of the lights began to shine brightly. Eventually, every light
in the area was shining brightly.

Wang Lin stared at the scene before him. He was shocked.

Shortly after the “Punish” above his head shrank, Wang Lin could
sense powerful spiritual energy fluctuations. The fluctuations grew
more intense until a grey, spherical pill appeared in the air.

A bit of flame floated above the pill. Wang Lin reached out toward it
and it descended toward Wang Lin’s hand until it was one inch from
his palm.
He scanned it with his divine sense and found that the spiritual
energy contained in this pill matched exactly the full cultivation of
someone at the mid stage of Core Formation. Wang Lin recalled the
information that Li Muwan had given him about the kill order. After
pondering for a bit, he put it away instead of using it immediately.

Wang Lin decided to save this pill for when he attempt to form his
Nascent Soul. It should make the success rate will be higher. The
chances of forming a Nascent Soul were much lower than forming
his golden core. The main reason he was able to form his core was
due to the underworld ascension cultivation method and Li Muwan’s
pill.

If either of these were missing, he might not have been able to

succeed in forming his core and might have been forever stuck at
the Foundation Establishment stage. There was an even harder
hurdle in the future though: the Nascent Soul stage.

Forming a Nascent Soul was simply too hard. Wang Lin believed that
even with Ma Liang’s body’s talent, there was almost no hope unless
he could find those legendary pills that could increase the chance of
forming a Nascent Soul that Li Muwan talked about. However,
almost all of those pills were in rank 5 or higher cultivation
countries, and they rarely ever leaked out.

Wang Lin muttered to himself, “Nascent Soul… Nascent Soul… even

with the heaven defying bead, I’m afraid I will need hundreds of
years to succeed… what’s most important now is to find a new
cultivation method. The underworld ascension cultivation method
has reached its peak and Situ Nan is still asleep, so I have to rely on
myself.” The first thing he needed to find was a cultivation method
for the Core Formation stage.

But the choosing this cultivation method was very difficult. Right
now, all of the cultivation methods he had were from people he had
killed. Although there were some that were fitting for a Core
Formation cultivator to use, they were all too different, making it
hard to choose one.

These were not the key points though. The key point was he wanted
to pick a cultivation method that would increase his chance of
forming his Nascent Soul. Thinking about this, his eyes lit up. From
Ma Liang’s memories, the War God Shrine’s Divine Path seemed to
have this effect.

However, what confused Wang Lin was that if the War God Shrine
really had a cultivation method like this, on top of people within
their own country being greedy, even rank 4 or rank 5 cultivation
countries wouldn’t just leave it be.

However, according to Ma Liang’s memories, the War God Shrine’s

Divine Path never peaked the interest of the higher ranked
cultivation countries. This confused Wang Lin.

However, the only clue he had was this Divine Path. Wang Lin
decided that he had to get his hands on the Divine Path no matter
what. The Divine Path that Ma Liang knew about was something
derived from a senior who had gained insight to the original Divine
Path, so it was actually a fake. What Wang Lin wanted was the
original Divine Path.

Everything Wang Lin had done was to ensure that he would

successfully form his Nascent Soul in the future. Only by preparing
now could he increase the success rate as much as possible

But a mere cultivation method wasn’t enough to make Wang Lin

confident. Forming a Nascent Soul was very difficult. It has to be
said that the qualification for a rank 2 cultivation country to reach
rank 3 is someone reaching the Nascent Soul stage. This alone
showed how difficult it was.

Wang Lin secretly sighed and went back to cultivating. After staying
inside the heaven defying bead for a few more days, he prepared to
leave.

Before he left, he went to visit Situ Nan and his parents’ souls. After
silently standing there for a bit, he left the heaven defying bead.

At some location underground, there was a flash of rainbow-colored

light as Wang Lin appeared. Right after he appeared, he quickly
dashed off into the distance.

At the same time, he spread out his divine sense and carefully
observed the outside. It was the dead of night and everything was
quiet. Wang Lin pondered for a bit before quickly moving toward the
Hou Fen Union.

But before he moved much, he suddenly felt a sense of danger

coming from his divine sense. He used his earth escape technique to
its limit to quickly go further underground. From 300 feet to 1000
feet, he continued to go down and his speed only increased.

An old voice echoed throughout Wang Lin’s divine sense. “This old
man has waited 97 days for you, little guy!”

Wang Lin’s skull tingled, his hair stood up, and his face was gloomy.
Without a word, he continued to descend. 1000 feet, 2000 feet,
3000 feet, 4000 feet…. 10,000 feet. Wang Lin descended straight
down, and as he got deeper, he felt a force resisting him, causing
him to immediately change directions into a diagonal descent.

“Hehe, good thing I borrowed this earth boat from someone. It

would be really hard to catch you when you escape past the earth’s
crust thanks to the force there.” The voice continued to echo in
Wang Lin’s divine sense.

Wang Lin remained silent as he suddenly changed directions and

started heading up. From 1000 feet underground to 100 feet, and he
charged out to the surface with the Hou Fen Union mountain range
right before him.
The moment he appeared, he charged toward the mountain. A
screen of light appeared around the mountain. The moment he
touched the light, he took out the identification jade he was given.
He effortlessly passed through the light and then looked back.

At this moment, a large, black, wooden boat came up from the

ground. The old man stood on top of the boat and looked at Wang
Lin on the other side of the light screen. He nodded and said, “Not
bad. Your divine sense is very strange. Although you have adjusted it
to your body, it is still a bit off. It seems you’ve stolen that body.
Little guy, come with me. This place can’t protect you.”

Wang Lin’s face was gloomy as he silently sneered.

The old man’s lips moved, revealing a strange smile. His right hand
gently pressed against the light screen, making a few cracks appear
before the entire light screen completely shattered. The entire
mountain shook, kicking up a lot of dirt and dust.

The Hou Fen Union’s Nascent Soul cultivators flew out one by one,
terrified.

Wang Lin’s pupils shrank. He turned around and sunk back into the
ground to escape again.

The old man sneered and was about to chase when one of the Evil
Devil Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators bit the bullet and asked, “Fellow
cultivator, why did you destroy our sect’s protective formation?”

This person had been around for three months. He didn’t do much
most of the time besides scan past the area with his divine sense.
His divine sense was very strong and it shocked all of the Nascent
Soul cultivators present.

Secretly, the cultivators of Hou Fen were keeping a tab on the old
man. Today they saw a disciple of the Hou Fen Union coming, but
before they could take a closer look, they were all dumbfounded by
the old man destroying their sect’s protective formation with one
press of his palm.

If they were to let this go, the Hou Fen Union would lose all face. It
was the Evil Demon Sect’s turn to guard the mountain today, which
was why this Nascent Soul cultivator was the one to bite the bullet
and ask the question. This way, their attitude on this matter was
voiced. Whether or not the old man answered, the Nascent Soul
cultivator wasn’t going to force the subject either way.

The old man stared at the cultivators of Hou Fen and said one word:
“Scram!”

This one word sent out a powerful shockwave that rang inside the
cultivators’ ears.

After the sound wave passed, the old man had already disappeared
without a trace. The cultivators all looked at each other. Some of
them are bleeding out of their mouths and noses. None of them
were able to utter a word.

But the old man soon returned. His face was very gloomy as he
stared at the mountain. His eyes closed and then suddenly opened as
his powerful divine sense spread out. He scanned every single
person in the mountain and even searched up to 1000 feet
underground. The more he scanned, the more he burrowed his brow.
Finally, his body moved and from one he became two, then from two
he became four.

Four identical-looking old men spread out in four directions, each

scanning with their own divine sense, but they still found nothing.
The old man stomped the ground as he and his three avatars each
went to the four corners of Xuan Wu. Their divine senses connected
and encircled the entire country.

“There are only three years left. Little guy, in these three years, I, the
Eighth Extreme Demon Lord, will refine Xuan Wu to find you. Ah, if
it wasn’t for that place needing the death spell to pass through, I
wouldn’t spend all this time trying to capture you!”
Chapter 161: Eight Clawed Divine
Sense
One main body and three avatars. Their divine senses linked
together and completely locked down Xuan Wu.

Any cultivator entering or leaving Xuan Wu would have to go

through this line of divine sense. This way, the Eighth Extreme
Demon Lord would have full control.

This old man was forced to do this. He chased Wang Lin all the way
from the Sea of Devils, through Hou Fen, and pushed his way to
Xuan Wu, but then Wang Lin’s presence just completely
disappeared.

Despite his power, he still couldn’t find Wang Lin. He thought that
Wang Lin was hiding deep underground, but even after scanning
there, he still found nothing.

But he didn’t give up. After he heard that Wang Lin could use the
death spell in Nan Dou, he was tempted. In his grand plan, one part
would be very easy if he had someone who could use the death spell.

This was the only reason he had expended all this effort chasing
Wang Lin. Normally, with his abilities, catching Wang Lin should’ve
been easy, but Wang Lin was elusive like a worm and disappeared
without a trace. He waited for 97 days the first time, but when Wang
Lin finally came out and he was just about to have his way, the little
brat went underground using an earth escape technique.

Fortunately, he had borrowed the earth boat. This treasure contained

a powerful earth escape technique, so using it would make things a
lot easier. Although he couldn’t use a lot of his techniques
underground, he thought that it would be fine as long as he got
close. However, he didn’t think that the little brat’s destination was
the Hou Fen Union’s mountain.

Although he was able to destroy the sect’s protection formation with

one palm, he once against lost track of the little brat. This was why
he risked angering the rank 4 cultivation country behind Xuan Wu
and Hou Fen to lock down the country with his divine sense.

In truth, he hadn’t killed a single person from either of the two

countries. This was largely due to the rank 4 cultivation country
behind them. The higher someone’s cultivation level, the more they
know about the inner workings of Suzaku. Both Xuan Wu and Hou
Fen had the backing of the same rank 4 cultivation country, so no
matter how much they fought each other, it would be fine. However,
if someone from the outside came in, then they would act.

If it was before, it would have been fine to just kill as needed, but
since that place was going to open up soon, he didn’t want to cause
too many problems here.

This lockdown lasted two years.

During these two years of time, both Xuan Wu and the Hou Fen
Union had become used to being scanned by the old man’s divine
sense. This could occur several times throughout the day.

Almost everyone knew the source of all of this. The elders had all
warned them that they were not allowed to go the four directions
from which the divine senses were coming from..

The Eighth Extreme Demon Lord became more and more nervous
because that place was going to open up in only one year, and if he
were late, the consequences would be unimaginable. In the heat of
the moment, he decided that he would wait for half a year more. If
he still wasn’t able to find that brat in half a year, then he would risk
angering the rank 4 cultivation country and would refine the entire
country to find that little brat.
Time slowly passed. One month, two months… until five months
had passed. As time passed, the complexion of the Eighth Extreme
Demon Lord darkened, and the hostility on his face gradually
increased.

Wang Lin sat in the lotus position inside the heaven defying bead’s
space. His face was even more ugly than the Eighth Extreme Demon
Lord’s. He had checked everything on his body and found something
different about Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood. It seemed the
reason the old man was able to chase him this far was due to Shang
Guanmo’s soul essence blood.

On this day, the limit of the heaven defying bead’s space was
drawing near. He could feel that if he didn’t leave soon, he would
never be able to leave again.

He had to leave and go out for three days before he could return
again. However, if the person that was chasing him was still out
there, then it would be very difficult to stay safe for three days.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit. The light in the heaven defying bead
was gradually dimming. The moment they completely went out, he
came out of the heaven defying bead.

The moment he appeared, the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord suddenly

opened his eyes and disappeared from where he was.

Wang Lin’s body slowly condensed. He suddenly felt very dizzy, but
he forced himself to take out Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood
from his brow. Without a word, he quickly flicked it up and shot it
far away.

At the same time, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. Wang Lin

sneered as he quickly flew toward the opposite direction.

The old man followed the soul essence blood’s connection and
arrived in the air above its location. He let out as smile as he hit the
ground, causing it to tremble. His body entered the ground using the
earth boat. However, he soon came out of the ground holding Shang
Guanmo’s soul essence blood. In a fit of anger, he crushed it.

“You can’t run away!” The old man shouted as he spread out his
divine sense. It covered all of Xuan Mo, then he let out a snort
before quickly chasing after Wang Lin.

As Wang Lin traveled through the earth, he suddenly sensed that the
surrounding earth was filled with spiritual energy fluctuations. He
knew that the old man was already chasing after him and that he
wouldn’t be able to get away for three days. After thinking about it,
he quickly flew up and out of the ground.

The moment he stepped aboveground, four identical figures

appeared around him.

The old man coldly stared at Wang Lin as his four clones slowly
fused back into one. He loudly shouted, “Including the 97 days at the
start, I have waited for you for almost three years.”

Wang Lin’s expression was gloomy as he coldly stared at the old

man. He didn’t say a word.

The old man snorted and asked, “What is your name?”

Wang Lin said “Ma Liang!” The old man’s cultivation was like a calm
sea to Wang Lin, too deep to see through.

The old man’s eyes stared at Wang Lin as he said, word for word,
“Ma Liang, I’m going to ask you this: do you know the death spell?”
There was killing intent hidden in his eyes. If Wang Lin’s response
was no, the old man would immediately kill his brat in his anger. He
would then go back to Nan Dou to kill everyone for lying to him and
use their souls to refine treasures.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit and then nodded. He could feel the
killing intent from the old man. If he took one wrong step, he would
die without a grave.

The old man’s eyes narrowed. Without a word, he slapped his bag of
holding and a three-foot-long green python appeared in his hand.

The green python stuck out its tongue as its black eyes stared at
Wang Lin.

The old man threw the green python on the ground and coldly said,
“Use your death spell. The target is this python!”

The moment the python landed on the ground, it curled up before

jumping toward Wang Lin with its mouth open. Wang Lin looked
down at the python. Red lightning flashed across his eyes as he
muttered, “Die!”

Wang Lin’s target wasn’t the python, but the old man. This time, he
used his ji realm to its limit.

The moment he said the word “die,” Wang Lin immediately backed
up. The old man felt his mind shake as a ray of red lightning drilled
into his sea of consciousness. His consciousness was completely
empty except for an octopus laying on its stomach. The moment the
red lightning entered, the octopus opened its mouth, creating a
powerful suction force. The red lightning was immediately sucked
into its mouth.

But the ji realm was powerful beyond imagination. Although the old
man’s cultivation level was very high, the octopus still shivered after
sucking in the red lightning.

This shiver caused a chain reaction in which even his consciousness

shivered, forcing his body to pause for a moment.
As Wang Lin backed up, he opened his mouth and spat out the
crystal sword. The sword cut the snake in half and moved like
lightning to stab the old man’s brow.

However, rings of white light came out, preventing the flying sword
from getting any closer. Wang Lin waved his right hand to call back
the flying sword before quickly escaping underground.

Soon, the old man recovered from the shock as he looked at the
python on the ground and touched his brow. He was filled with rage
as his hand formed seal. He shouted, “Go!”

A knife emitting a rainbow-colored light appeared before him. The

knife was made entirely of a clear crystal and light traveled within it.
Following the order of the old man, the knife flew out with rings of
rainbow-colored light. It pierced into the ground and quickly chased
after Wang Lin.

Along the way, as the knife traveled the dirt around, it just
disappeared and soon was within 100 feet of Wang Lin. Wang Lin
felt his head go numb. Without any hesitation, he took out the
charm Yang Sen had given him.

This charm could block the attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator. The
moment he threw the charm, the knife arrived.

The charm immediately expanded and protected Wang Lin from

behind. It collided with the knife and, after a series of crackling
sounds, it shattered. The knife was also pushed back a few feet.
From where they collided, a shock wave spread, causing the dirt on
the surface to kick up.

If one were look from aboveground, they would see a small circle
expand as the earth was kicked up. It was as if there was an earth
dragon moving underground.
Wang Lin was hit by the shock wave and coughed out a mouthful of
blood. He quickly came out from underground and barely dodged the
main shock wave.

After he came out of the ground, he didn’t pause at all and quickly
continued to escape.

Feeling the shock wave underground, the old man’s anger lessened
as he muttered to himself, “That attack just now was even able to
stop me for a moment. Rumor has it that the death spell focuses on
training one’s divine sense and using it to attack. Following that
logic, that little brat really does control the death spell.”

Thinking about this, his body disappeared from the spot. Wang Lin
felt pain in his chest as he quickly took out one of the pills Li
Muwan had given him to heal his wounds. Suddenly, he sensed
fluctuations of spiritual energy before him. He had dealt with
Nascent Soul cultivators a lot, so he knew that this was sign of
teleportation. Without any hesitation, he turned around and began
to fly the other way.

At this moment, the old man walked out from where the spiritual
energy fluctuation was.

“Little friend, this old man doesn’t want to hurt you. How about you
listen to me first?”
Chapter 162: Reaching an
Agreement
As the old man said this, he waved his hand and lightning came
from all directions. Soon, there was cage of lightning trapping Wang
Lin.

Wang Lin’s face was gloomy. He stopped moving, turned to the old
man, and coldly asked, “What does senior want?”

The old man stared at Wang Lin. After a long time, he said, “I want
to borrow your death spell.”

Wang Lin pondered for a bit, then looked at the surrounding

lightning cage. The sounds of crackling from the lightning came in
from all around him.

“I want to know why.”

The old man pondered for a bit before shaking his head. “It is not
yet time to talk about this matter, but don’t worry; this old man
won’t ask you to go for nothing. If you come with me, I’ll gift you an
earth transformation pill!”

Wang Lin’s expression remained calm, but he was very tempted. He

had heard of the earth transformation pill from Li Muwan and how
it was very rare. It was a pill that was used to help increase
cultivation by one level during the Core Formation stage. It had a
high chance to elevate an early stage Core Formation cultivator to
the mid stage. While the chances to increase from mid stage to late
stage weren’t as high, it would still increase his spiritual energy and
lay the foundation for the future.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before raising his head to look at the
old man, but he didn’t say a word. He was very confused. Although
he couldn’t see through the old man’s cultivation, he was able to
destroy the Hou Fen Union’s sect protection formation with one
palm and was able to scare away Nascent Soul cultivators with one
roar. He either had to be at the peak of the late stage of Nascent Soul
or already stepped into the Soul Formation stage.

With the old man’s cultivation, he could easily put a few restrictions
on Wang Lin to threaten him, or even just refine Wang Lin into a
puppet that would listen to his every command. There didn’t seem
to be a need for the old man to talk to Wang Lin with a bargaining
tone.

Wang Lin secretly thought, “There must be a problem here.”

However, he didn’t reveal anything abnormal on the surface. He
pondered for a bit before staring back at the old man and shaking
his head.

The old man calmly said, “You’re looking for death.” He closed his
right hand and the lightning cage that was surrounding Wang Lin
began to shrink. Wang Lin stared at the old man, revealing a
mocking expression.

The lightning cage got closer and closer until it was almost touching
him. The edges of his hair and clothes touched the cage when the
wind blew and turned to dust.

As the cage was about to come into contact with Wang Lin, the old
man stopped and looked at Wang Lin. “Your mental strength is
good, but you don’t know your place. Do you really think I won’t kill
you?”

The mocking expression on Wang Lin’s face intensified as he calmly

said, “One earth transformation pill is not enough.”

The old man stared at Wang Lin and secretly cursed. If it wasn’t for
that fact that people going to that place couldn’t have any
restrictions placed on them, he would have already placed
restrictions on this brat and avoided all this trouble.

Even if he were to use any restrictions, all of them would be

destroyed once they enter that place. Also, at the stage where they
would need the death spell, if the brat had any resentment, he could
easily lead everyone to death.

This was the exact reason why he almost died the first time he had
entered 1000 years ago. It had taken him 1000 years to recover his
cultivation, and although it was now a bit higher than it was before,
he couldn’t help but shiver every time he thought of that place.

Therefore, he couldn’t place restrictions or anything of the sort on

Wang Lin. After hearing Wang Lin’s words, he relaxed a bit as he
waved his hand and the lightning cage loosened.

Wang Lin didn’t even blink or look at the lightning cage. He only
calmly looked at the old man.

The old man firmly said, “What do you want? Just speak your mind.”

“I want to know how dangerous the place I’ll be going is,” Wang Lin
said, with a calm but determined voice.

The old man laughed. “This old man won’t lie to you about how
dangerous it is. Early stage Nascent Soul cultivators have a 90%
chance of dying. As for mid stage Nascent Soul cultivators, with luck,
they can survive. Only late stage Nascent Soul cultivators who have
reached pseudo Soul Formation can safely move around there, but if
they aren’t careful, they will still die.”

“However, although that place is dangerous, the harvest is also great.

Magic treasures, pills, cultivation methods… it can be said that
anything you want is there. There is also the rumored Soul
Transformation Pill. With just one pill, there is a chance for you to
become a Soul Transformation cultivator.”
“As for the dangers, you don’t have to worry too much. Your death
spell has a great use in one of the trials there. At the least until then,
you won’t encounter any danger. After that, as long as you aren’t too
greedy and wait, then once the time has passed, you will naturally be
teleported outside.”

Wang Lin heard this and began to ponder. After hearing the old
man’s words, he only believed 30% of it.

“I see that you have just reached the Core Formation stage. Forget it;
I have a Nascent Forming Pill that I will give you if you agree to come
with me. Also, I promise to give you one magic treasure that I get
from that place. How about it?”

He had heard of this Nascent Forming Pill from Li Muwan before. It

could increase the chance of forming a Nascent Soul by a little. It
was very scarce in rank 3 cultivation countries and still rare in rank
4 countries. As for the recipe, it was controlled by rank 5 cultivation
countries.

Wang Lin pondered for a while. He was a bit tempted by the

mysterious place the old man was talking about. He didn’t really
think about obtaining the Soul Transformation pill, but hoped to
find some pill and cultivation method to help him reach the Nascent
Soul stage. Otherwise, without any external help, he didn’t know
how long he would have to cultivate for to reach the Nascent Soul
stage.

And if he continued to reject the deal, the old man would kill him in
a fit of anger. There was only one path before him right now.

Wang Lin nodded and calmly said, “Okay, I agree!”

The old man stared at Wang Lin for a while before suddenly asking,
“Those last two times where you completely disappeared, how did
you do it?”
Wang Lin stared at the old man and didn’t say a word. The two of
them just looked at each other for a while. The old man withdrew
his gaze and no longer questioned Wang Lin. He coldly said, “Let’s
go. There is less than half a year of time before that place opens up.
If you attempt to escape along the way, then you won’t get another
chance. I’ll simply refine you.” Then the old man quickly drew a
symbol in the air that flew into Wang Lin’s body.

“This is a divine sense marker. It will do you no harm as it is only

used to track you. Once we have arrived at that place, I’ll release it
for you.”

Wang Lin was already prepared for this as he would have done the
same if it was him. Also, if the old man wanted to place any harmful
restrictions, there was no need to wait until now.

Wang Lin didn’t move. He looked toward Hou Fen and said, “Junior
still has one more thing to do. I hope senior can wait a few more
days.”

The old man frowned as he stared at Wang Lin and asked, “What is
it?”

Wang Lin suddenly thought of something and asked, “Has senior

heard of the War God Shrine’s Divine Path?”

The old man sneered. “The cultivation method that can increase
one’s chance of forming their Nascent Soul. Back then, that little
brat who found it caused such an uproar with it. However, even if
you go, you won’t find the original Divine Path unless you go a rank 4
cultivation country called Tian Gang.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same on the outside, but his
heart skipped a beat. As he originally thought, the War God Shrine
indeed no longer had the original Divine Path.
However, he wasn’t going to let this go before going and checking it
out himself. As a result, he flew toward the Hou Fen Union. The old
man’s eyes lit up before casually following behind Wang Lin.

Not long after, the Hou Fen Union’s mountain appeared before him.
He waited until the old man caught up before shouting, “Ma Liang
greets War God Shrine senior Feng Luan!”

His voice spread out like thunder across the mountain. Soon, a few
people flew out from the mountain. There was a beautiful lady
leading the group. It was Feng Luan.

The first thing she noticed was the old man behind Wang Lin, which
caused her pupils to shrink, before her gaze settled on Wang Lin.
She was secretly shocked. In a few short years, he had already
formed his core. However, thinking about how he had taken over the
body, he must have already been at the Core Formation stage. This
was why he was able to reach it again so quickly. She pondered for a
bit before coldly asking, “The person he was searching for in the past
three years was you?”

Wang Lin’s expression remained calm as he dodged the question

and said, “Senior Feng Luan, junior has one request that I hope you
can agree to.”

Feng Luan looked at the old man with dread before she calmly said,
“Speak.”

Wang Lin calmly and slowly said, “Junior would like to look at the
Divine Path.”

Feng Luan pondered for a bit before looking at the old man to find
that he was looking at the sky. In these past three days, they had
gained an idea of what the old man’s cultivation level was. Seeing
that he had come to their doorstep, they couldn’t help but be secretly
shocked.
At this moment, a red-faced old man walked out from behind Feng
Luan. He looked at Wang Lin with a serious gaze and said, “Since you
are a disciple of my War God Shrine, there is no problem for you to
see it. Follow me.” With that, he looked at the old man in his
peripheral vision.

Without a word, Wang Lin flew behind him.

The old man’s expression remained indifferent. He wasn’t an idiot,

so it was obvious to him that Wang Lin was using him to see the
Divine Path. However, he really couldn’t be bothered to get mad at
such a little thing. Since he was going to help the brat, he might as
well help to the end. This way, he would be doing the brat a favor to
mend their relationship.

Thinking of this, he said, “Little friend, I’ll wait for you out here. If
you are harmed in any way, I’ll make sure every living thing on this
mountain is buried with you.”

The red-faced old man’s body shivered slightly, but he quickly

recovered. Along with Wang Lin, the two of them went into the back
mountain and stopped before a slab of stone.

The red-faced old man decided to break the silence as he turned

around toward Wang Lin and said, word for word, “Should I call you
Wang Lin?”

Wang Lin silently nodded.

The old man took a deep breath and said, with a heavy tone, “Wang
Lin, let everything in the past be wiped clean. I don’t care what
trouble you have gotten yourself into, but don’t drag the War God
Shrine into it. If you can promise me that, then I’ll open up the
temple to let you see the Divine Path!”
Chapter 163: The Divine Path
Wang Lin raised his head toward the old man and said, “Senior,
don’t worry; once I finish reading the Divine Path, I will leave this
place. After that, I shouldn’t ever have to come back here again.”

The old man stared at Wang Lin. After a long time, he waved his
right hand and a piece of jade appeared in his palm. He slammed the
jade into the slab of stone and white light spread across the stone
slab. Then a clear light spread across the stone slab until its entire
surface was like a mirror.

The old man didn’t turn around; he stepped into the mirror. The
surface rippled as if he were walking into water. Wang Lin followed
behind.

A cool and refreshing feeling entered his body the moment he

walked through the stone slab. It was as if his face had been wiped
with a cool, moist towel. After that, Wang Lin found that he had
walked through the stone slab. He turned around to find that the
surface of the slab on this side was the same as it was outside. The
surface rippled like water.

Wang Lin put his hand inside and the cool feeling appeared again.

The red-faced old man calmly said, “This is the water mirror door
created by my War God Shrine’s refining method. Without the jade
to open, it’s impossible to enter unless you have reached the Soul
Formation stage.”

After Wang Lin heard the words “refining method,” something

stirred in his heart before he followed the red-faced old man.

The space inside this stone temple was very large. It had a main hall
in the middle and hundreds of stone rooms on the sides. Outside of
each stone room was a stone wall. After carefully inspecting them,
Wang Lin believed that each of them was also a water mirror door.

The old man saw Wang Lin stare at the doors and said, “There is a
total of 365 stone rooms here. Every one those stones are water
mirror doors. Making a water mirror door is a symbol that a disciple
is no longer a novice in treasure refining.”

Wang Lin looked for a while before withdrawing his gaze. They had
arrived in the hall in the middle. Before them was a shelf with four
layers. There were some tokens on each layer.

Aside from the top layer, which only had one token, the other layers
had quite a few tokens on them.

Wang Lin’s gaze fell on the token at the top. It read: “War God
Shrine Founder —- Gong Mo”

“Ancestor Gong is the founder of my War God Shrine and is also the
person who found the Divine Path.” The red-faced elder bowed
toward the token before turning toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit and then bowed.

The red-faced elder turned and walked forward. He stopped before a

green wall that was covered in countless small words. These words
had all been carved on this wall. At the top of the wall, Wang Lin
could clearly see the two words “Divine Path”.

However, after looking down, his heart sank as it read: “Disciple

Chen Chong carved this from memory. Future disciples need to
cultivate with caution.”

“Disappointed?” The red-faced elder looked at Wang Lin and sighed.

“The second year after my ancestor found the Divine Path, there was
a traitor, so the news of the Divine Path suddenly spread far and
wide. Soon after, the rank 4 cultivation country, Tian Gang, arrived.
After secretly talking to ancestor Gong, they took it away. Ancestor
Gong then left the War God Shrine and never came back.”

“This Divine Path is the most strange cultivation method I have ever
seen in my life. Anyone that sees it can comprehend it, but they
cannot remember it. It is as if there is a mysterious force preventing
them.”

“Ancestor Chen Chong’s talent was very ordinary, and he was the
weakest of ancestor Gong’s disciples. But he was able to use his
memory to do something no one thought was possible: carve the
Divine Path. After he finished carving, he died. Just before his death,
he said that this cultivation method is very powerful. His own life
span wasn’t enough and he could only carve down 10% of it, so
future disciples have to cultivate with caution.”

“In truth, ancestor Chen Chong was worrying too much. How could
this Divine Path be so easily comprehended? Since then, only about
30 people have managed to comprehend it at all, and only half of
them successfully entered the Nascent Soul stage.”

“As for the Divine Path the other sects of Hou Fen saw, it was fake,
so the number of outsiders that have comprehended it is even
lower.”

As Wang Lin heard the red-faced old man’s words, he looked at the
green stone wall. He could picture a weak, young man using his life
to carve on it.

“You can look at it yourself. I’ll wait for you outside. Don’t trespass
into any of the water mirror door rooms.” After the red-faced old
man finished speaking, he turned around to leave.

Wang Lin looked at the stone wall and read every word on it. The
words were difficult to understand, and some parts seemed to
contradict each other. As he read it, he slowly began to frown.
After a long time, he sat down in the lotus position with an
unsettling expression on his face. However, he didn’t blink even
once as he stared at the stone wall. The words written on it slowly
appeared in his mind.

The more he looked at it, the more confused he became. This Divine
Path was completely incomprehensible. He frowned even harder
until he finally finished reading it all. Then he just closed his eyes
and recalled everything on the stone wall.

Time slowly passed. Wang Lin still didn’t understand anything. He

slowly opened his eyes and let out a sigh before looking back toward
the stone wall. However, at that moment, his pupils shrank as he
muttered, “Something is wrong!”

When he looked toward the wall again, all of the words he had
memorized suddenly disappeared from his memory as if they had
never been there. Wang Lin looked at the familiar words he had
memorized earlier, but now it was as if there was something
missing in his memory. All of it had disappeared.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and became focused. This Divine Path
was simply too strange. No wonder no one was able to make a copy
of it. Back then, he asked Zhou Zihong to make a copy for him, but
she said that whenever she tried, she would forget. He didn’t take it
too seriously back then, but now that he had experienced it himself,
he immediately became very serious.

Wang Lin again looked at the words “Disciple Chen Chong carved
this from memory. Future disciples need to cultivate with caution.”
He was even more shocked than before. Although he had heard it
from others, this was the first time he had experienced for himself
how difficult recording down the Divine Path was. He memorized
the name Chen Chong in his heart.

Wang Lin took a deep breath as his eyes went past those words and
back onto the Divine Path. After one hour, Wang Lin memorized all
of it again, but what happened before occurred again after a little
while.

After repeating it a few times, Wang Lin’s face darkened. This time,
he stared at the wall and didn’t attempt to memorize it but continue
to read it over and over again.

The first time Wang Lin read through the Divine Path, it took him
three hours, but now it only took him one hour. His eyes became
faster and faster. Now it only took him half an hour to read it all.

Time slowly passed and Wang Lin’s reading speed became faster and
faster. From reading it one time in half an hour to three times in
half a hour. His eyes moved faster and faster. At some point, he
began to feel pain pulsating from his eyes.

After an unknown amount of time, Wang Lin unconsciously closed

his eyes, but the stone wall still seemed to be darting past his view.

Those words began to move even faster, and even after Wang Lin
closed his eyes, they still hurt. Soon, two streams of blood flowed
down from his eyes, but just at that moment, Wang Lin opened
them. His eyes were completely bloodshot and filled with shock.

Wang Lin clearly saw the words on the wall slowly disappear and a
figure wearing white suddenly appeared. His face was blurred, so
Wang Lin could only clearly see his hands form several seals. The
figure then became two figures, and then three.

The difference between the original and the avatars in most cases
was that the avatars were a bit dull. Every movement they made
would only be a mimicry of the original’s movements.

But the avatars of the white-robed figure were all very smart and
nimble. Wang Lin felt like he couldn’t tell which one was the
original body.
In truth, what Wang Lin didn’t know was that the old man’s avatars
were created from a powerful magic treasure by force and not a
powerful avatar technique.

After some time, the white-robed figure began to slowly dim until it
dissipated.

Wang Lin closed his eyes again. His face was pale and he began to
ponder. A few chants mysteriously appeared in his mind. After
analysing them for a bit, Wang Lin opened his eyes and let out a
bitter smile. He finally understood a bit about the Divine Path.

This was a technique to cultivate an avatar. As for how it could

increase the chances of reaching the Nascent Soul stage, it was to
use the avatar. One could cultivate with the main body along with
the avatar and then fuse back into one to help increase the success
rate of reaching the Nascent Soul stage.

However, this technique was incomplete and contained fatal flaws.

The avatar created would have no cultivation and had a lifespan of
less than 30 years. As a result, this technique was more like a
burden.

Along with the chants, Chen Chong also left some messages. Along
with the fact that the technique was incomplete and he didn’t have a
long enough lifespan to carve it all down, he also left a solution.

The solution was to use the technique to create an avatar and use its
30 year life span to consume pills. Stockpile as many pills as
possible and push the avatar’s cultivation to the highest level
possible. No matter what, when you fuse back together, it would
increase your chance of breaking into the Nascent Soul stage by a
bit.

If enough pills were saved up, then it would be possible to reach the
Core Formation stage on the avatar, thus increasing the chance of
forming one’s Nascent Soul by a lot.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit before bitterly putting away the thought
of using the Divine Path. He didn’t have that many pills to give to his
avatar. Even if he were to obtain pills, he didn’t even have enough to
use on himself, so how could he be willing to give them to his
avatar?

Instead of using this technique, it would be more reliable to find

some pills that could increase his chance of forming his Nascent
Soul.
Chapter 164: The Mysterious
Corpse
Of the four major sects, only the Corpse Sect had returned to Hou
Fen after the rank 4 cultivation country came and cleared out the fire
beasts.

This move confused many people. Although the fire beasts had been
cleared out, the spiritual energy there was too violent to cultivate. As
a result, the entire country was a dead zone for cultivators.

The Corpse Sect didn’t give any explanation and just disappeared
one night.

The Corpse Sect was very mysterious in the eyes of the other three
sects. Although they didn’t have many Nascent Soul cultivators,
every time the Nascent Soul cultivators gathered, they could feel a
terrifying power within the Corpse Sect’s Nascent Soul cultivators.

Taking that into consideration, the three major sects just kept silent
and didn’t attempt to stop them.

In the western part of Hou Fen, below the erupting volcanos, there
was a huge cave leading into a network of interconnecting tunnels
and caves that formed its own underground world.

Compared to Zhao’s Corpse Sect, the structure was fairly similar,

only it was a bit larger.

The current Corpse Sect’s sect head, Zhao Chuanliang, was down on
one knee before an irregularly-shaped crystal made of many
intersecting crystals.

Zhao Chuanliang was being very respectful. Hints of fear would

occasionally surface and then disappear from his face. He whispered,
“Shang Zong, please give me just a few more days and I promise I’ll
find out what happened to soul number 4876.”

“If I give you a few days, then who will give me a few days? Soul
number 4876 is a disciple of the Tian Gang Sect of Tian Gang, which
is where I’m in charge, and now they have come looking for him.
According to calculations, soul number 4876 should have already
finish possessing the body. What am I going to tell them?”

Zhao Chuanliang secretly cursed. His face revealed a look of panic

and he quickly said, “Shang Zong, I have already found some clues
and found where soul number 4876 disappeared. From analysing the
clues, it seems like a disciple of the War God Shrine named Ma
Liang is related. I have received news that he recently appeared in
Xuan Wu, so I have sent people over. As long as you give me ten
days, I’ll definitely be able to find the truth.”

The face of the person inside the crystal became a little more
relaxed as he looked at Zhao Chuanliang and sighed. “Chuanliang,
I’ll give you ten days to find it because it’s “that” body. However, if
you still show no results in ten days, don’t blame me for reporting
this to the rank 5 cultivation country division. With how they work,
they will definitely take away your right to choose a body after you
have been possessed.”

With that, the face in the crystal slowly disappeared.

Zhao Chuanliang slumped to the ground and bitterly smiled. “If that
soul number 4867 is someone from Tian Gang, then wouldn’t it be
better for him to just posses a body there instead? Why must he be
thrown to me, ah?!” However, in his heart he understood that when
someone needed to possess a body, they would always do it in
another country.

A cold voice came out from Zhao Chuanliang. “Forget about your
chance to choose a body, Zhao Chuanliang. You seem to be in a bad
situation!”
Zhao Chuanliang sighed and asked, “Ye Zizai, what should I do?”

“What to do? I don’t know either, but as Zhao’s former Corpse Sect
sect head, I have encountered a similar situation. The situation with
my junior disciple was similar, but slightly different too. Soul
number 4876’s soul lamp hasn’t gone out yet, meaning he is still
alive. If you can find him, it will be for the best, but if you can’t, then
you will be in danger.”

“However, I’m very curious. Shang Zong said that he would give you
ten days because it’s this body. What is your relationship with the
former owner of that body?”

Zhao Chuanliang calmly said, “It was my younger brother. Both of us

entered the Corpse Sect 400 years ago. His talent was better than
mine, so he was picked by Shang Zong.”

Ye Zizai sneered. His voice was filled with discontent. “If it wasn’t
for the fact that the perfect body I had prepared for myself was
found by the rank 5 cultivation country and taken away from me, I
would have already recovered my cultivation and finished the
possession.”

Zhao Chuanliang took a deep breath as he placed a piece of jade on

his forehead. After a few moments, he threw the jade.

“All Core Formation and above cultivators, follow me on a trip to the

Hou Fen Union!” With one order, all of the disciples of the Corpse
Sect opened their eyes. A ghostly light appeared in their eyes.

As for Wang Lin, although the Divine Path was indeed extraordinary,
it was not fitting for him to cultivate. He pondered for a bit before
letting out a sigh and began to leave. What surprised Wang Lin was
that the Divine Path now remained in his head instead of
disappearing like normal.
However, when Wang Lin attempted to make a copy of it, he still
couldn’t do it. It felt like there was an invisible force preventing the
Divine Path from being recorded.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before giving up on writing it down. He

looked around at the water mirror doors. All of them were dark and
looked exactly the same.

He pondered for a bit before spreading out his divine sense, but
there seemed to be a layer of protection on the water mirror doors
that would bounce his divine sense back. Wang Lin’s eyes lit up and
he looked at the entrance. The red-faced old man was just probably
outside that door.

He jumped and landed before one of the water mirror doors. He

reached into the water mirror door with his hand and felt the cool
sensation. Soon, he reached a stone wall.

Wang Lin withdrew his hand and began to ponder. He quickly took
out the jade containing the War God Shrine’s refining methods and
began to search through it.

The three main parts of the War God Shrine’s refining method were
extract, melt, and fuse. All magic treasure refining followed these
three processes. Wang Lin quickly found something called reverse
refining in the jade.

Reverse refining was originally meant for cultivators to exchange

refining methods. To reverse engineer the magic treasure to find out
how it is created and then recreate the same magic treasure.

Long term practice of reverse refining can increase one’s refining

capability. To reverse refine other people’s products, to learn their
methods, and to use those methods to refine your own treasures.

However, this kind of reverse refining can only be used on a treasure

that is created through extract, melt, and fusion.
Wang Lin carefully looked at the process before putting the jade
away. He put his hands together before his chest and sent spiritual
energy into them. When he moved his hands, there were threads of
spiritual energy connecting his two palms.

Wang Lin shouted, “Go!”

The threads were cut down the middle. The broken ends drilled into
the water mirror door with the other ends still connected to Wang
Lin’s hand. As Wang Lin poured spiritual energy into his hand, more
and more threads appeared until there was enough to wrap around
the entire water mirror door.

The fusion part of the refining process was similar to balancing the
spiritual energy and formation inside a magic treasure to reach a
mysterious balance.

The reverse refining process requires the exact opposite, as the first
step was to break this balance. Once it succeeded, the balance would
be broken. Wang Lin kept pouring spiritual energy in with a calm
expression, but his gaze was locked onto the water mirror door.

His expression suddenly changed as the threads coming out of his

hand began to tremble and a very bright ring of light appeared at the
center of the water mirror door. This ring released soft crackling
sounds until it completely shattered. The moment it shattered, the
the light expanded to the edges of the temple and disappeared.

The water mirror door became dim. Wang Lin knew that the balance
inside had been broken. What was next was to split the materials
and the spirit core that were used to make the door in the melting
process.

Wang Lin’s expression was serious as he slowly withdrew the

threads of spiritual energy.
As the thread was withdrawn, the water mirror door began to shake
and the edges of the temple began to shine. The light slowly
withdrew from the edges of the temple and became a ball of light.

There were countless threads on the ball of light, all of which were
connected to Wang Lin’s hand.

Wang Lin shouted, “Withdraw!”

The ball of light was pulled out of the door as Wang Lin quickly
shook his hand and the thread disappeared back into his body.

Wang Lin looked at the ball of light with a smile on his face. He
completed the second step of reverse refining, which was to split the
melting process. The spirit core had been split from the other
materials of the treasure.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and looked back at the entrance. He
didn’t know how long he had been in here, but these water mirror
doors cut off divine sense and spiritual energy, so no matter how
much of a commotion he created in here, no one outside would
notice.

In addition to that, the red-faced elder didn’t believe that Wang Lin
could break the water mirror door with only his Core Formation
cultivation, so he didn’t wait inside.

This gave Wang Lin a chance, but he knew that he had to be quick,
otherwise the red-faced elder would suddenly come in. Everything
would be for nothing if he did.

Thinking about this, he quickly took out the reaction furnace he had
made in the 14th valley. He carefully put the spirit core inside the
reaction furnace and placed a seal on it. Then the reaction furnace
immediately began to spin. It was slow at first, but then it went
faster and faster.
After sending out the seal, he walked toward the door.

This water mirror door was made of two parts: the stone door’s
device core and the spirit core. Now that he had removed the spirit
core, the only thing that blocked him was the stone door’s device
core.

Wang Lin raised his hand and pressed on the door. His divine sense
quickly went inside. After sweeping it with his divine sense, his
expression immediately became strange.

Inside the stone room was only a corpse that contained an invisible
power that prevented it from rotting. The corpse was sitting there
with its finger pointing to the ground. A trace of black aura was
going from the finger into the ground.

Wang Lin’s divine sense carefully examined the inside of the room
before he withdrew it. What he saw inside made him start rubbing
his chin. He reached out toward the reaction furnace, causing it to
stop and making the spirit core come out. The spirit core was now
dimmer than it was before.

Wang Lin looked at it before throwing it back into the reaction

furnace. The furnace began to spin again when the spirit core was
inside it. His gaze fell onto the next stone room. After opening ten
more water mirror doors, his expression became ever more strange.

Wang Lin muttered to himself, “What the hell is the War God Shrine
doing? Could this place be a grave?” Every single stone room
contained a corpse and nothing else.

Wang Lin looked around and began to ponder. He quickly opened

the water mirror doors, checked inside, and then put the spirit cores
back to return the water mirror doors to normal. After checking
everyone single stone room, he finally found something abnormal.
One corpse was clearly different from all the others. Instead of
sitting down, it was floating in the air. Slivers of black gas were
coming out of the walls and making their way into the body.

Wang Lin’s heart immediately tightened.

This person wasn’t dead; there were signs of life on him, and the
amount of life in that body would shock anyone.

Wang Lin was about to exit the room when he noticed the black, silk
bag under the body. This was obviously a bag of holding. Wang Lin’s
eyes narrowed after he had looked at it for a bit. After pondering for
a while, he didn’t act recklessly but instead withdrew his divine
sense and backed up.

After backing out of the room, Wang Lin looked toward the reaction
furnace. The speed at which the reaction furnace was spinning had
slowed down and the spirit core had already melted into a clear
liquid. Without a second thought, Wang Lin reached into the liquid.

He grabbed a portion and molded it back into a ball before throwing

it back at the first door he had opened. That door immediately
returned to the way it was before.

After that, he revealed an undecided expression. That bag of holding

appeared to be very different from ones he had seen before.
However, this was the War God Shrine’s temple. They allowed him
to view the Divine Path, so it was really hard to justify taking
something from here as well.

If the stone rooms contained refining materials, he wouldn’t mind

taking some of it, but only this one stone room was different from
the rest.

After pondering for a bit, Wang Lin suddenly gained some insight.
Could it be that all of the corpses in those stone rooms were in fact
used for the person in the abnormal room to cultivate with?
While thinking about this, a thought struck Wang Lin. The black gas
going into that person’s body was the same as the black gas the
corpses were emitting.

Wang Lin’s face was filled with terror. He was now convinced that
his guess was 80% or 90% correct. This person had to be cultivating
some type of technique. He had looked at the more than 100 stone
rooms. The corpses inside them must have been prepared for this
person to use.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He began to suspect that this person
was not a member of the War God Shrine. It was likely that the War
God Shrine didn’t even know this person, or else the red-faced elder
wouldn’t have been so casual in here, and more importantly, he
wouldn’t have left Wang Lin in here by himself.

Of course, there was a chance that the red-faced elder had evil
intentions, but after thinking about it, Wang Lin’s death would bring
no benefit to the War God Shrine. There was really no need for all
this trouble.

The more he analysed it, the more he was certain of his own
speculations. This place must have been the resting place for the
War God Shrine’s ancestors. For some reason, it attracted this
person to cultivate his technique here.

Thinking about this, Wang Lin backed up a few steps. He felt waves
of cold air pass by. It was like a pair of eyes had been staring at him
these past few days.

But his eyes quickly moved back onto the bag of holding. He spat out
a mouthful of spiritual energy and the crystal sword appeared.

The flying sword cut into the bottom right corner of the door and
carved out a hole. Wang Lin held his breath. His whole body was
tense as he used the attraction force technique to bring the black
bag of holding out from the hole.
He didn’t look at it as he held it against his chest and immediately
backed up. His hand moved very fast to quickly return the spirit core
to the door. In the blink of an eye, the door returned to normal.
However, there was a not-so-noticeable hole at the bottom right
corner.

Wang Lin didn’t pause for a moment before quickly exiting the
temple. As soon as he came out, he saw the red-faced elder
cultivating outside.

The red-faced elder looked at Wang Lin and said, with a deep tone,
“You stayed inside for seven days. Did you comprehend it?”

Wang Lin shook his head and bitterly smiled. “The Divine Path is
simply too strange. I kept on forgetting what I had read and was
unable to comprehend it. Senior, I want to ask, what exactly is in
those stone rooms sealed by the water mirror doors? Can you tell
me?”

The red-faced old man looked at Wang Lin and said, “All of the
ancestors of the War God Shrine are placed in a stone room after
they die.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same, but his heart trembled.
He was now sure that his guess was correct. He clasped his hands
and said, “Junior will no longer bother you anymore. Goodbye!”

The red-faced old man nodded and walked into the temple. The
moment the red-faced old man old man walked into the water
mirror door, Wang Lin quickly flew out of the mountain.

In the blink of an eye, he left the Hou Fen Union’s mountain and
saw the old man sitting on top of a cloud. He opened his eyes as
Wang Lin got close and snorted. “If you had stayed in there any
longer, I would have gone inside to look for you.”
Without a word, Wang Lin flew away. The old man moved his body
and the clouds quickly dispersed, revealing the gourd underneath
him. He quickly followed behind Wang Lin.

Wang Lin stepped onto the gourd and disappeared into the sky along
with the old man.

The gourd’s speed was very fast. It was even faster than Wang Lin’s
earth escape technique. They could slowly see the border of Xuan
Wu and Hou Fen coming into sight.

Along the way, the two of them didn’t say a single word to each
other. Wang Lin could feel the bag of holding in his clothes, but he
didn’t check what was inside it and he didn’t use his divine sense to
probe it.

After all, the old man was right next to him. If he were to make any
unusual movements, there would likely be more problems.

It didn’t take long for the gourd to reach the border of Xuan Wu and
cross into Hou Fen. One day later, they arrived at the border of the
Sea of Devils. The Sea of Devils was completely covered by thick
layers of rolling fog. One could sometimes see spirit beasts
appearing and disappearing in the fog.

Outside the Sea of Devils, the old man slapped the gourd, causing it
to shrink. It land in his hand. Wang Lin jumped off the gourd and
landed on the ground. The old man put the gourd away and said,
“We are going to wait here for a few days for one more person. Once
that person is here, the three of us will go together.”

With that, he sat down in the lotus position and closed his eyes.

Wang Lin stared at the Sea of Devils. The layer of fog rolled before
him and sent out waves of cold energy. He pondered for a bit before
sitting down to cultivate.
Not much time had passed before Wang Lin suddenly opened his
eyes. A mysterious scene occurred above the Sea of Devils. Eight rays
of purple light suddenly appeared out of thin air. Each ray of light
condensed into a wooden pillar, making eight pillars in total. The
pillars intersected to form a circular formation. The spiritual energy
fluctuations coming from it were so powerful that all of the fog
around it was pushed away, revealing the whirlpool underneath.

There were many strange symbols and images carved onto the eight
wooden pillars, making them a very shocking sight. There were
interconnecting rays of light that formed rings inside the eight
wooden pillars. Looking closely, there was total of 49 rings.

The old man opened his eyes, let out a snort, and said, “That is a
special teleportation formation from the Corpse Sect. I wonder what
made those freaks have the guts to come here.”

Wang Lin was very familiar with the Corpse Sect. Even this
formation looked familiar. It was the same formation he had seen
back in Zhao, only it was many times bigger.

At this moment, the rings of light began to shine one after another
until all 49 rings were shining brightly. More than 30 dark figures
appeared. Although their spiritual energy was a bit unstable, their
eyes all contained a ghostly light. Every single one of them was at
least at the late stage of Core Formation, with five of them having
reached the Nascent Soul stage.

Aside from the five people at the Nascent Soul stage, everyone else
had a black coffin floating behind them.

Zhao Chuanliang was among the five Nascent Soul cultivators. He

stood in the center of the formation as his gaze stopped on the old
man for a while before moving onto Wang Lin.

He hesitated for a bit before reaching out with his hand. It turned
into a giant, black cloud of smoke that reached toward Wang Lin.
Wang Lin sneered. Instead of dodging, he continued to sit there as if
nothing was happening. As the black smoke closed in on Wang Lin,
he could feel the cold air coming from it. Just as it was about to
touch Wang Lin, the old man’s face darkened and he waved his right
hand. The black smoke disappeared without a trace.
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Eagerness
The old man grumbled, “This is really troublesome!” He coldly
looked up at Zhao Chuanliang and said, “I don’t want to kill right
now, so scram!” The old man wasn’t lying; the mysterious Corpse
Sect was more scary to him than rank 4 or 5 cultivation countries.

Unless he had to, he really didn’t want to get into a fight with them.
What angered him the most was that the fight wasn’t even for
himself but for a junior that had no relation to him other than him
needing to use this brat.

Zhao Chuanliang’s pupils shrank as he stared at the old man. That

casual wave of the old man’s hand was able to destroy his attack.
This secretly shocked him. He had already heard about this old man
from Hou Fen. The reason he had brought all of the Nascent Soul
cultivators from the sect was to prevent this person from acting.

But now it seemed that this person’s cultivation level was much
higher than he had anticipated. Zhao Chuanliang pondered for a bit
and then said, “Senior, this person is connected to an important
matter of my Corpse Sect. I have to take him with me today.”

The old man secretly sighed. He wondered why this brat was so
troublesome. Out of all the people he could have offended, why did
this brat have to offend the Corpse Sect? If he had a choice, he
would just leave and not get involved in this anymore.

But he had no choice. Offending the Corpse Sect wasn’t a big deal if
he were successful in that place.

And looking back at that brat Ma Liang’s previous actions, the brat
was sure that he was going to act. Although he hated this, he
couldn’t help but admire this brat as well.
Those who cultivated the demonic method were different from
normal people. The Eighth Extreme Demon Lord believed that Wang
Lin’s actions were correct. If it was he himself in that position, he
would have done the same thing.

After hearing Zhao Chuanliang’s words, the Eighth Extreme Demon

Lord frowned. He looked at Wang Lin and asked, in a lukewarm
tone, “How did you offend the Corpse Sect?”

Wang Lin looked at the vicious members of the Corpse Sect and
calmly said, “I don’t know.”

Zhao Chuanliang’s eyes were like lightning as he stared at Wang Lin

and said, “You don’t know? You killed Corpse Sect disciples on the
Burning Gold mountains and you dare to say you don’t know?”

Wang Lin rolled his eyes and said, “I still don’t know.” With that, he
didn’t even look at Zhao Chuanliang as he closed his eyes and began
to cultivate. However, in his heart, he was prepared to escape into
the Sea of Devils with his earth escape technique if the old man
decided to not help him.

Zhao Chaunliang sneered. He looked toward the old man and said,
“Senior, not only has this person killed disciples of my Corpse Sect,
he also captured the soul of a disciple of Tian Gang, Xu Liguo, who
came to possess a body. I spent a lot effort and even took a trip to
Tian Gang to buy this information from old man Tian Di. This can’t
be wrong.”

The old man’s face became a bit ugly as he muttered, “Old man Tian
Di…”

“Old man Tian Di’s cultivation is very powerful. He was able to find
out what happened back then using Xu Liguo’s soul lamp. It was this
person called Ma Liang who killed my Corpse Sect’s disciples and
trapped Xu Liguo’s soul!” With that, Zhao Chuanliang waved his
hand and his body disappeared.
The four Nascent Soul cultivators behind him also disappeared and
reappeared before the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord. As for Zhao
Chuanliang, he appeared above Wang Lin and quickly threw down a
mass of black smoke from his hand. At the same time, the Core
Formation cultivators inside the formation began a mysterious
chant. The formation immediately expanded at a very quick pace and
covered the surrounding 1000 kilometers.

A cold light flashed across the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord’s eyes as
he quickly split from one to two. This avatar quickly appeared
between Zhao Chuanliang and Wang Lin. He opened his mouth and
sucked in all the black gas.

“Impudent!” the avatar shouted, as a green gourd suddenly appeared

in his hand. With a slap, the cork on the bottle came out and a
powerful force came out of the gourd.

Ripples appeared in the air with the mouth of the gourd as the origin
and spread wider and wider. Zhao Chuanliang’s expression
immediately changed as he and the other four Nascent Soul
cultivators teleported multiple times to return to the formation.

The old man’s eyes were cold. His voice was low as he slowly said,
“There are several reasons why I haven’t massacred people in a long
time, yet a mere early stage Nascent Soul cultivator dares to act so
impudently before me. If you harm even a hair on Ma Liang’s head
today, I, the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord, will go wipe out your
Corpse Sect!”

With that, he reached up and formed a giant hand. Like breaking a

child’s toy, the Corpse Sect’s transfer formation was shattered. The
energy within it quickly spread out in all directions and disappeared.

Aside from five pale-faced Nascent Soul cultivators who were able to
dodge it, all of the Core Formation cultivators were turned to dust by
this shock wave along with the coffins behind them.
Zhao Chuanliang’s body shivered as he stared at the old man and
bitterly said, “Senior’s cultivation level is very high, but becoming
enemies with the Corpse Sect is not wise! With senior’s cultivation,
you should have some understanding of our Corpse Sect, but what
you understand is only the tip of the iceberg. I once again advise
senior to not make an enemy of the Corpse Sect. Even if senior is
the city lord of one of the Seven Plum Flower Cities, it would be hard
to escape death!”

The Eighth Extreme Demon Lord didn’t want to offend the Corpse
Sect, so he didn’t kill these five. As for those Core Formation
cultivators, he checked them with his divine sense to make sure that
none of them were being possessed. He killed them all only after he
confirmed that they weren’t.

The old man frowned and slowly said, “This person is of great use to
me. I wouldn’t bother protecting him otherwise. You guys should
leave. If it wasn’t today, I wouldn’t be bothered with this.”

Wang Lin looked coldly at everything that was happening. Although

his expression remained normal when the old man broke the
transfer formation, his heart was shocked. This Eighth Extreme
Demon Lord was able to break the Hou Fen Union’s sect protection
formation with one palm and easily crushed the transfer formation
of the Corpse Sect. Wang Lin had been wondering what exact
cultivation level this old man was at and reached a conclusion that
caused him to stop breathing.

In truth, he already had this guess very early on. From when the old
man started chasing him in the Sea of Devils, everything this old
man had done showed how powerful his cultivation was.

Soul Formation!

This Eighth Extreme Demon Lord’s cultivation level was very likely
Soul Formation, or else there was no way for him to be able to so
easily do what he had done.
After hearing Zhao Chuanliang speak of the Seven Plum Flower
Cities of the inner Sea of Devils, Wang Lin recalled that name. His
eyes turned to the old man and locked onto the seven plum flower
on old man’s clothes.

Zhao Chuanliang pondered for a bit before staring coldly at Wang

Lin. He slowly said, “Ma Liang, the Corpse Sect is far beyond your
imagination. Offending the Corpse Sect is the biggest mistake of
your life!” With that, he disappeared.

The four Nascent Soul cultivators also coldly looked at Wang Lin
before disappearing.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit. If it wasn’t for the Corpse Sect
disciples attacking him first with the intent to kill, he wouldn’t have
killed them. If he had let Xu Liguo go, it would have created a series
of problems.

However, the cultivation world runs by the law of the jungle. The
Corpse Sect was like a very large and powerful creature. If it said it
was your fault, it was your fault. Even if it wasn’t your fault, it still
was your fault.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. Even though he had already been very
careful, he still got into this much trouble. In the end, it was because
his cultivation level wasn’t high enough. If he had the same
cultivation level as the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord, then even if he
had killed one person, it wouldn’t be such a big deal.

Wang Lin became even more determined to reach the Nascent Soul
stage. Whether it was for himself or for returning to Zhao to get
revenge on Teng Huayuan, he absolutely had to succeed in reaching
the Nascent Soul stage, or everything he wanted to do would just be
dream.

The Eighth Extreme Demon Lord turned toward Wang Lin and
gloomily said, “Little guy, this is the second time I have helped you.
No matter what misunderstanding we have, this should be more
than enough to make up for it. I hope that when we go in, you won’t
try any unnecessary scheming!”

The Eighth Extreme Demon Lord now had some understanding of

Wang Lin’s schemes from these days with Wang Lin and the time he
had spent chasing him. This Ma Liang was a good seed for demonic
cultivation. He easily guessed what had happened after hearing
about the matter from Zhao Chuanliang. This brat was very ruthless
and bold.

In the Sea of Devils, the brat dared to move around openly with the
kill order. He used the kill order to draw people to him in order to
kill them until they ran away scared. It could be said that this person
was very decisive and ruthless.

When he chased him out of the Sea of Devils, the brat dared to leave
a flying sword to ambush him, which even drew blood. This showed
just how bold this person was.

If those were the only things, then he wouldn’t really be much, but
this person even borrowed someone’s power to force the War God
Shrine to let him see the Divine Path. This person was a true
schemer.

Just now, when Zhao Chuanliang attacked him, he was able to not
even bat an eye. He didn’t show a hint of panic. This showed just
how calm and determined he was.

In addition to all of this, the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord

remembered that it took him three years to finally trap this person.
In the end, the only words the old man had that could describe him
was “as sly as a fox.”

This person was ruthless, bold, and decisive. He was also very brave,
cunning, determined, and as sly as a fox.
Even the Eighth Extreme Demon Lord became tempted after
carefully analysing the situation. He stared at Wang Lin as one
thought entered his mind.
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Array
But just as the idea appeared, it disappeared. He secretly sighed in
regret. If it wasn’t for the fact that they needed to enter that place,
he would have taken him as an inner disciple. However, whether or
not the kid would still be alive in the end was still up for debate.

At this moment, his expression suddenly changed as he raised his

head and looked into the distance. Wang Lin immediately noticed an
unnatural spiritual energy fluctuation coming in from the distance.
This fluctuation was very mild, but it was also filled with a sense of
power.

He saw a scholarly person wearing a grey robe with a square

bandana on his head coming in from the distance. This person’s face
was as white as snow and hints of coldness could be seen in his
eyes.

His body moved like a willow swaying in the wind as he descended

from the sky. He waved his hand and calmly said, “Duanmu Ji, was
my earth boat useful?”

Wang Lin’s pupils shrank. He wasn’t able to see through this

person’s cultivation just like he couldn’t see through Eighth Extreme
Demon Lord’s. Seeing how he talked to Eighth Extreme Demon Lord
as equals, their cultivation levels must’ve been similar.

Eighth Extreme Demon Lord Duanmu Ji snorted as he took out the

earth boat and threw it at him. He said, “As useful as a fart! You
consider this broken thing a treasure? I wouldn’t even want it if you
gave it to me for free.”

The grey-robed scholar caught the earth boat with his right hand
and put it away. His gaze fell on Wang Lin as he calmly asked, “Why
is there a Core Formation junior?”

Duanmu Ji rolled his eyes and said, “I obviously have a use for him.
Let’s go. That place is about to open.” With that, he threw out the
gourd, which immediately expanded. With one step, he jumped onto
the gourd.

Wang Lin looked at the grey-robed scholar before taking a step and
jumping onto the gourd. He was very cautious because ever since the
grey-robed scholar arrived, his divine sense had been scanning
Wang Lin.

Just at this moment, he suddenly heard a voice transmission from

Duanmu Ji. “This person is Wang Qingyue. He is a messenger sent
by the Yin and Yang Sect from a rank 4 cultivation country. His
cultivation is terrifying, so don’t anger him.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same, but he became even

more vigilant in his heart. The three of them quickly charged into
the Sea of Devils. Wang Lin coldly observed Wang Qingyue the
whole time. He didn’t have any treasure under his feet, but he was
moving as fast as the gourd. The fog three feet in front of him would
automatically move to the sides.

Not long after, the three of them were deep inside the Sea of Devils.
Nan Dou city quickly appeared before them, but the three of them
didn’t stop there.

Along the way, the face of any cultivator who saw the three of them
would immediately change. Some of them seemed to recognize the
gourd and would respectfully stand to the side. Only after the gourd
disappeared did they dare to move.

Wang Qingyue’s expression remained calm. As he flew, he slowly

said, “Eighth Extreme Demon Lord’s reputation is not bad. There are
even people in the outer sea that recognize you.”
The three of them were moving very fast, but the words clearly
entered everyone’s ears. The old man Duanmu Ji glanced over and
said, “If we were in the inner sea, then there would be even more
people that know me. If you saw that, would you want to say even
more insults?”

Wang Qingyue chuckled as his gaze swept past Wang Lin and he
said to Duanmu Ji, “You’re taking a Core Formation cultivator into
that place. Aren’t you asking him to die?”

Duanmu Ji blandly said, “Don’t underestimate this guy. He knows

the death spell, which can be very useful in the third realm!”

Wang Qingyue was stunned, but soon his eyes shined like they had
never shined before. He revealed a very strange smile as he stared at
Wang Lin. Soon, the light in his eyes disappeared as he shook his
head. “Regrettable. If you were at the Nascent Soul stage, I would
have liked to have a fight with you.”

Wang Lin remained silent.

Wang Qingyue stared at Duanmu Ji and suddenly said, “Duanmu Ji,

when you went there 1000 years ago, you must have gotten some
treasures. Why else would you want to go back so badly? Where
exactly is that place? Is the thing you talked about really there?”

Duanmu Ji pondered for a bit before saying, “I got this gourd for that
place. Wang Qingyu, I can only tell you this much: once you are
there, you will naturally know. Sorry.”

Wang Qingyu looked at the gourd without displaying any abnormal

expression. After that, he silently followed Duanmu Ji. The three of
them flew at a very high speed. In the blink of an eye, one month
passed.

During this one month of time, the three of them never stopped
once. Along the way, Wang Lin saw a total of four cities. Each city
had more cultivators then the last. These cities were much more
developed than Nan Dou City.

On this day, a very large mountain range with no end in sight

appeared before them. Duanmu Ji hit the gourd and quickly flew
toward the mountain range.

Soon, he went around the mountain peak and arrived in a valley

inside the mountain. The valley was very quiet without any signs of
life.

Duanmu Ji was very familiar with this place. They soon arrived at
the center of the valley. He jumped off the gourd and formed a seal
with his hand. A strange wind appeared and cleared out everything
in the surrounding area, creating an opening.

Wang Lin jumped down from the gourd and immediately saw a
circular formation in the clearing. There were countless symbols
carved on this formation that released an ancient aura.

After Wang Qingyue saw the formation, he revealed a strange

expression and thoughtfully looked at Duanmu Ji.

Duanmu Ji slapped his bag of holding. He carefully took out a spirit

stone that released a milky white light. He revealed a sad expression
as he placed it into the groove in the formation.

Duanmu muttered, “This damn formation is made to eat spirit

stones. After the transfer is complete, this top quality spirit stone
will be destroyed.”

Wang Qingyue’s eyes shined again as he stared at the spirit stone

and asked, “Duanmu Ji, that top quality spirit stone is also from…
that place?”

Duanmu Ji grumpily said, as he messed with the formation, “That is

correct. Back then, I was able to obtain three pieces, or else it would
be impossible to enter that place. Only this ancient formation can
take us there. Back then, me and some old friends searched through
ancient texts and spent 1000 years to find this place. Then we used a
lot of spirit stones and materials to exchange for a few top quality
spirit stones from Suzaku in order to enter.”

Wang Qingyue stared at the top quality spirit stone and said, “Top
quality spirit stone… top quality spirit stones are very rare
everywhere in this planet. Rumor has it that it is the main currency
used to do business between planets. If that place really has top
quality spirit stones, then even if there is no Soul Transformation
pill, it is still worth exploring it.”

Duanmu Ji stared at Wang Lin and muttered, “This transfer array is

not what you imagine it to be. It does not take us directly there but
to the Chaotic Broken Stars in the Sea of Devils. Once we are there,
we will meet with a few friends and go inside together. Otherwise, it
would take too long to fly there. Without one hundred years, it
would be impossible to make it there in time. Not to mention the
dangers outside the Broken Stars, just the red mist between the
outer and inner seas is bad enough. With our cultivation levels, just
being careful is enough, but this kid will die for sure. Why else do
you think I would be so wasteful as to use a top quality spirit stone
to rush there?”

Duanmu Ji formed a few seals with his hand and sent it to the
transfer array. The top quality spirit stone at the center of the
formation began to shine. Shortly after, the countless symbols on
the formation began to light up. When all of the symbols were lit up,
the top quality spirit stone shattered.

The entire transfer array suddenly began to move as it released a

large amount of spiritual energy. This spiritual energy almost
became solid as it moved like the wind, moving the fog along with it.
Soon, a giant vortex of spiritual energy appeared. The vortex became
larger and larger.
Such a shocking scene caused Wang Lin to take a deep breath as he
stared at the groove in the center of the transfer array. The top
quality spirit stone had already turned to dust and was blown away
by the wind.

However, the spiritual energy inside the top quality spirit stone
tempted Wang Lin. Not even tens of thousands of high quality spirit
stones could match this amount of spiritual energy. They weren’t
even on the same level.

Duanmu Ji moved next to Wang Lin and said, “Go inside!”

Wang Lin sneered in his heart as he saw through Duanmu Ji’s

thoughts. He must’ve been afraid that there might be a problem if
he let Wang Lin go last. Wang Lin silently walked through the vortex
and stood at the center of the array.

Duanmu Ji quickly walked into the array as well. The last one was
Wang Qingyue. He carefully checked it before walking in.

Shortly after, the vortex suddenly paused. Then it all came crashing
down, causing the whole mountain to shake. The three of them
inside the formation suddenly disappeared.

It took a long time for the place to return to normal. The fog that
was pushed aside slowly surrounded the area again.

The Sea of Devils was very large. Between the inner and outsider
seas, there was a zone of red mist. If one didn’t have a high enough
cultivation level, their body would decay the moment they come into
contact with the red mist. Their soul would also not be able to
escape and would be forever trapped within the red mist.

This red mist was a natural barrier between the inner and outer
seas. The barrier was only passable for one day when the fog turns
into sea.
Most cultivators that wished to enter or leave the inner sea would
choose to quickly pass through on that day.

The inner sea was filled with powerful cultivators. Many infamous
demonic cultivators lived in the inner sea.

The inner sea was also very large. If one were to fly, it would take at
least 100 years to cross it. To the extreme north of the inner sea,
there was a plain called the Chaotic Broken Stars.

This was the one place in the Sea of Devils that was never affected
when the fog became sea. There was a ring of mysterious broken
stones that created a natural barrier around the area.
Chapter 167: Gathering of Devils
There was a mysterious force holding these shattered rocks in place.
This 1000 foot wide area was what gave this place the name
“Chaotic Broken Stars.”

This was also considered a dead zone. If someone at the Nascent

Soul stage wanted to get through the red mist by force without
waiting for that one day, then out of ten people, a few would still
succeed.

However, if they wanted to get through the Chaotic Broken Stars by

force, then out of the ten of them, all of them would die. This was
considered one of the most dangerous places in the Sea of Devils.

Legend had it that this place existed before all of the water in the
Sea of Devil became fog. Throughout the countless years, many
cultivators wanted to go inside but were forced to give up. Even
those that had successfully entered never came back out.

Even the rank 5 cultivation countries found it hard to send people

here due to how chaotic the area was. Also, no one knew exactly
what was inside, so if they were to spend all this effort only to find
nothing inside, it really wouldn’t be worth it.

As time passed, fewer and fewer cultivators wanted to go inside.

However, this situation changed 10,000 years ago. A powerful

cultivator from the only rank 6 cultivation country in Suzaku came.
He had challenged countless powerful cultivators and none of them
were a match for him. In the end, he entered the chaotic broken
stars, but he was never heard from again.

Ten years later, Suzaku sent countless experts to the Sea of Devils to
seal the Chaotic Broken Stars. They announced that anyone who
dared to enter would be killed without mercy.
As a result, this place became a forbidden area. Although the fear
had died down after all these years, there were still no cultivators
within 10,000 kilometers of it.

On this day, in a dark valley outside the Chaotic Broken Stars, a giant
vortex appeared. This vortex continued to grow until an opening
appeared on the ground. There was a very ancient transfery array on
the ground that began shine. It shined brighter and brighter until
three figures appeared within it.

The moment Wang Lin appeared in the transfer array, the first thing
he saw was the circular area with rocks floating around. Stones of
various sizes connected by threads of purple lightning moved in a
circular motion.

From a distance, that area was 1000 feet wide with no end in sight.

This was also the first time Wang Qingyue had been here. His eyes
shined as he stared at the Chaotic Broken Stars and asked, “This
place is the Chaotic Broken Stars?”

Duanmu Ji looked over with regret. After a long time, he slowly said,
“Yes, this is the place. After 1000 years, there is no change at all.”

Wang Qingyue’s eyes shined as he licked his lips and said, “Rumor
has it that 10,000 years ago, Suzaku’s number one expert
disappeared in the Chaotic Broken Stars. I want to see what’s so
mysterious about this place.”

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before saying to Duanmu Ji, “The place
senior talked about is inside this Chaotic Broken Stars?”

Duanmu Ji nodded as he looked toward the Chaotic Broken Stars.

He revealed a worried expression as he said, “That area of broken
rocks contains a mysterious force. Once you have entered the area,
the mysterious force will enter your body. Those broken rocks will
use an extraordinary power to create an avatar exactly the same as
you. This avatar will also be one level above you in cultivation. No
matter what method you use to suppress your cultivation, it won’t
work. Once the avatar appears, you must defeat it to move 500 feet.
Once you pass those 500 feet, two more avatars will appear. Only by
defeating them can you pass through the Chaotic Broken Stars.”

Wang Lin raised his head and looked up. Duanmu Ji seemed to know
what Wang Lin was thinking and said, “Although you can avoid the
rocks by flying above or below, the avatars will still appear, and it
will be ten at a time.

Wang Lin stared at the area and silently pondered.

Wang Qingyue stared at it for a while before his eyes shined and he
let out a cruel smile. He said, “Such an interesting place. I have to go
check it out for myself!” With that, his body disappeared and
reappeared outside the Chaotic Broken Stars. Without any
hesitation, he stepped inside.

Wang Lin became focused as he carefully looked over without even

blinking once. He only saw that right when Wang Qingyue entered,
some of the broken rocks gathered together and formed a net of
purple lightning. Inside the net of purple lightning, an avatar that
looked exactly the same as Wang Qingyue appeared.

Even the smile on their faces were exactly the same. Without a word,
the avatar charged forward and the sounds of fighting echoed from
where the two were.

Duanmu Ji snorted. “It won’t be long before he comes back. How do

you fight an avatar that is one level above you?”

Wang Lin pondered for a bit and suddenly asked, “How did you guys
enter last time?”

Duanmu Ji pointed at the transfer array and said, “Through that! We

had a transfer array expert last time. We had obtained some
inheritance item from the Chaotic Broken Stars which documented
a method to create the transfer array to go inside. Only by using ten
top-quality spirit stones did we manage to enter.”

Wang Lin slightly frowned and asked, “What exactly is inside the
Chaotic Broken Stars?”

Duanmu Ji looked at Wang Lin before waving his hand and taking
back the divine sense mark he had left on him. He slowly said,
“Forget it. Since we are already here, it’s fine to tell you. From the
recording we found, the corpse of an ancient god is inside the
Chaotic Broken Stars.”

Wang Lin was startled. “Ancient god?”

“Ancient god is an existence similar to the ancient celestial

cultivators, and even more powerful than the ancient celestial
cultivators in some regards!” This wasn’t said by Duanmu Ji. It was
an old man in black who had suddenly arrived next to Duanmu Ji.

The old man was very tall and skinny. His long, white beard flowed
in the wind and his face was filled with the air of an immortal. With
the whisk in his hand, he really did look like an immortal. He had a
friendly expression as he smiled and nodded at Wang Lin. “Little
friend, the power of the ancient god has already broken past our
realm of comprehension and reached an unimagined limit. It has to
be said that the time when ancient gods were alive was even before
the ancient cultivation world.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained calm, but he was very cautious on

the inside. Although this person looked friendly, he had a vague
feeling that this person’s cultivation level was even higher than
Duanmu Ji’s.

The old man finished speaking and waved the whisk in his hand
with a smile on his face. However, that smile contained a sliver of
malice.
Wang Lin had been on guard the whole time. When the old man
waved the whisk, he felt a powerful sense of danger. He didn’t
hesitate to quickly back up. He slapped his bag of holding to take out
a large amount of charms. All of these charms were defensive types.

A series of crackling sounds could be heard as all those charms

shattered.

At the same time, Duanmu Ji took a step forward and stood between
Wang Lin and the old man. A half-circle black light screen appeared.
It negated the attack from the whisk. The light screen wavered as
Duanmu Ji looked at the old man with a serious expression that
Wang Lin had never seen before. He said, word for word, “Ancient
Emperor, this kid is very important for getting past the third realm.
Don’t mess around!”

After Ancient Emperor heard those words, he didn’t act, but the
smile on his face slowly disappeared. The air of a celestial
completely disappeared and now he looked much more frightening
as he calmly asked, “Are you sure?”

Duanmu Ji nodded and said, “He knows the death spell!”

Ancient Emperor looked at Wang Lin before turning and walking to

the side. He stopped 30 feet from then and silently looked toward
the Chaotic Broken Stars.

Wang Lin’s expression was very gloomy. This Ancient Emperor was
clearly a madman. One moment he talks to you in a friendly tone
and the next moment he attacks you, revealing his ugly nature.

Duanmu Ji stood beside Wang Lin and sent a voice transmission

saying, “He is called Gun Lan, but we all call him Ancient Emperor.
This person’s cultivation is very powerful; even I have no confidence
in taking him on. He pretends to be a righteous person, but he’s
actually ruthless. He has slaughtered countless people and is just a
madman. He is a very famous demon in the Sea of Devils.”
Wang Lin was very sullen as he looked at the Ancient Emperor and
then at Wang Qingyue, who was having fun fighting his own avatar
while occasionally letting out bloodthirsty growls. He felt his heart
become heavy.

Ancient Emperor was a madman and this Wang Qingyue was crazy.
Only Duanmu Ji seemed normal.

Duanmu Ji’s expression slightly changed as he whispered, “Another

one has arrived.

From the edge of the sky came a dragon boat. On the boat stood a
very handsome man, but his lips were a bit thin, revealing a sense of
ruthlessness. His hands were behind his back and his head was held
up high. He was wearing bright red clothes with golden threads
embroidered on them. His long, black hair was scattered behind him
and moved with the wind.

Beside him stood a person. This person was very young; he looked to
be about 20 or so years old. This young man looked plain, but a red
light would occasionally appear in his eyes. After the dragon boat got
close, the man in red jumped down and the young man behind him
quickly followed.

Wang Lin examined the man in red. This person gave off a cold aura.
This coldness pierced the bones like a piece of never-melting ice.

After the man in red landed, he coldly looked around. His gaze
stopped on Wang Qingyue, who was inside the Chaotic Broken Stars,
then he glanced at Wang Lin before turning to Duanmu Ji. His voice
was as cold as ice. “How festive!”

Duanmu Ji laughed and said, “Six Desire Devil Lord, I haven’t seen
you in 100 years. It seems your cultivation level has increased!” With
that, his mouth slightly moved as he sent a voice transmission to the
man in red. Six Desire Devil Lord listened until he suddenly became
startled and turned his gaze toward Wang Lin. After looking for a
while, he said, “Little brother, if you can get us past the third realm,
then I, Xu Liqing, promise your safety!”

Just as he finished speaking, the expression of the young man

behind him changed. The gaze he had toward Wang Lin gradually
turned hostile.

Wang Lin clasped his hands and said, “Many thanks!”

The man in red nodded before withdrawing his gaze and said to
Duanmu Ji, “The only one left is Hunchback Meng. I heard that he
offended the Giant Demon Clan 300 years ago and was being
chased by ten of the battle demons. I don’t know if he is still alive or
not.”
Chapter 168: Land of the Ancient
God
“Even if old hunchback dies, he will drag the entire Giant Demon
Clan with him!” A hoarse voice came from the sky. In the horizon, a
giant, green toad slowly came closer.

The toad landed on the ground far away, causing the earth to shake.
Even though Wang Lin was very far away, he could still feel the
ground shake. Shortly after, that toad kicked with its hind legs and
disappeared from sight. When it appeared again, it was already close
by.

The toad descended from the sky like a small mountain falling
down. It landed about 100 feet away from them, creating a
shockwave that sent the fog in all directions.

After the fog was pushed apart, it revealed the giant toad. There
were countless pustules on the toad’s body, each one slowly moving,
and every one of them emitted a powerful spiritual energy
fluctuation.

As the toad’s eyes moved, it revealed a powerful desire for blood.

There was a person sitting on the back of the toad. He was wearing a
green robe and was very short. His back bulged out like a hunchback.
His eyes were triangular, his chin was sharp, and his mouth was like
a monkey’s.

He touched the pustule on his face as he laughed and said, with a

hoarse voice, “Those old guys from the Giant Demon Clan that
chased me for more than 300 years were all poisoned to death by
me. If it wasn’t for the fact that the 1000 year time limit was coming
up and this place was about to open, I would have gone to the Giant
Demon Clan for revenge.”
With that, he took a step on top of the toad. The toad seemed to
know what he wanted as it stuck out its blood-red tongue and
touched the ground with it. The hunchback walked down the tongue
toward the ground. As he walked, he would sometimes cough.

After he landed, he casually waved his right hand and the giant toad
quickly shrank until it was the size of his palm. It then jumped onto
his shoulder. Its stomach rapidly expanded and shrank while it
crocked.

When he landed on the ground, everything within three feet of him

immediately began to sizzle and a stream of black gas rose from the
ground.

Wang Lin calmly retreated a few a steps as he coldly observed the

person. This person used poison, so his caution was raised by
another level.

Six Desire Devil Lord Xu Liqing frowned and said, “I haven’t seen
you in 1000 years. Why is that poisonous stink on you even worse
now?”

The old hunchback rolled his eyes and said, “Others might be afraid
of your six desire spell, but I’m not. One thousand years ago, we
fought to a stalemate. Could it be that you want to fight again?”
With that, he touched the toad on his shoulder and creepily laughed.

Six Desire Devil Lord coldly stared at the hunchback. Soon, the
spiritual energy between them began to go crazy, but the
fluctuations soon calmed down as the two withdrew their spiritual
energy.

Just at this moment, Ancient Emperor, who had been looking coldly
from the side, suddenly said, “Looks like everyone is here. I have
stolen the Icy Wind Shield from a rank 4 cultivation country. It
should help us finish more than half of the first trial.”
Six Desire Devil Lord coldly said, “I’ll deal with the second half of
the first trial.”

Hunchback Meng touched the pustule on his face and said, with a
hoarse voice, “Just watch this old man for the second trial.”

Duanmu Ji looked toward Wang Qingyue and said, “That person is

Wang Qingyue. He knows the five element escape technique, which
is useful to us. This little friend knows the death spell. The third
trial’s divine sense attack will depend on him.”

Hunchback Meng’s foggy eyes swept past Wang Lin, but he didn’t say
a word.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s hand formed mysterious seals as he walked

toward the transfer array. After sending out several seals, the entire
formation began to shatter from the inside. Bursts of green gas
came from the transfer array until no more came out and the array
was completely shattered. Then his body disappeared as he began to
walk through the shattered array.

Every time he took a step, he would leave a trace of spiritual energy

on the ground. He began to move faster and faster and more and
more traces of spiritual energy were left on the ground. Finally, he
began to leave behind afterimages. Now it looked like there were
several people walking around the array.

After a short period of time, all of the afterimages disappeared. Only

the original body remained at the center of the array. Then his hand
began to move, taking out a lot of precious materials. Finally, he spat
out a purple flame. All of those materials melted when they were
touched by the fire.

Six Desire Devil Lord pointed with this finger. The liquids of various
colors began to move and entered the array in a certain order. When
the final liquid entered the array, it began to rumble.
A different transfer array appeared where the old one was. This one
contained at least double the number of symbols the previous one
had, plus ten pillars of light that shot into the sky.

One by one, disembodied creatures let out silent screams as they

moved within the pillars of light. Six Desire Devil Lord took a deep
breath and shouted, “The transfer array has been opened. Quickly
toss over the top quality spirit stones that we agreed upon. I will use
four pieces this time.”

With that, four top quality spirit stones appeared from his bag of
holding. The four stones each flew into one of the pillars and stayed
in place.

This change attracted the attention of Wang Qingyue, who was still
fighting with his own avatar. He was losing the fight at the moment.
The avatar’s endless attacks, along with it being one level higher
than him, meant that he could die if he made one mistake, causing
him to be in a sorry state. He was pushed out of the Chaotic Broken
Stars many times, but the more he fought, the more his eyes lit up,
and the bloodlust in his eyes became even stronger.

After seeing the change in the transfer array, he began to hesitate

and backed out of the Chaotic Broken Stars. He arrived next to
Duanmu Ji as he stared at the four top quality spirit stones. A hint of
greed flashed across his eyes.

After he returned, his avatar slowly faded away and returned to

rocks that slowly rotated around the area.

Wang Lin also stared at the top quality spirit stones with temptation
in his eyes. The Sea of Devils was very large. If not for the ancient
transfer arrays allowing people to teleport across it, it would take too
long to travel through it. It was also filled with danger.

However, the only way to use these ancient transfer arrays was to
have top quality spirit stones. Since top quality spirit stones were so
rare, all of the ancient transfer arrays in the Sea of Devils were in a
state of disrepair, and many of them were completely useless.

At this moment, Ancient Emperor took out two top quality spirit
stones and looked at them with great importance. Then he threw
them toward the pillars of light, where they remained unmoving.

Duanmu Ji clenched his teeth as he took out his last two top quality
spirit stones from his bag of holding. His heart ached as he threw
them toward the light. Of the ten pillars, eight of them had top
quality spirit stones.

The last person was Hunchback Meng. He patted the toad on his
shoulder. The toad’s belly expanded as it spat two things into the
light pillars.

At this moment, all ten pillars had top quality spirit stones in them.
The light pillars suddenly disappeared. All of the light had gathered
on the top quality spirit stones.

These ten spirit stones were shining like ten bright suns. They
slowly descended onto the transfer array, causing it to slowly spin.

Six Desire Devil Lord revealed a look of excitement as he shouted,

“1000 years ago, more than 100 of us entered, but we didn’t even
really get to enter the inner area. Just the restrictions on the outside
made us struggle, and we were forced to retreat on the third trial,
which only the four of us managed to survive through luck. 1000
years later, all of our cultivation levels have increased quite a bit. We
must break through the restrictions and see what’s inside!”

Even Ancient Emperor’s eyes couldn’t help but sparkle as he stepped

into the transfer array.

Behind him was Hunchback Meng, Duanmu Ji, and the young man
who came with Six Desire Devil Lord. As for Wang Qingyue, he
pondered a bit before walking into the array. Wang Lin lowered his
head. His eyes sparkled as he walked in.

After all seven of them had entered the transfer array, Six Desire
Devil Lord let out a roar and the array began to move. The ten top
quality spirit stones shattered, creating a powerful surge of spiritual
energy. All of the surrounding mountains turned to dust and even
the Chaotic Broken Stars shook.

It took a very long time before the spiritual energy dissipated. The
transfer array was completely broken and unable to be used again.

There was a plain inside the Chaotic Broken Stars, and in the sky
above the plain was an oval-shaped ring of light. The inside of the
ring was completely dark.

Below the ring was a transfer array. At this moment, the transfer
array started shining, and seven figures appeared.

Ancient Emperor was the first to walk out. He stared at the oval-
shaped ring in the sky with a hint of obsession. He jumped up and
appeared next to the ring of light before circling around it for a bit.
He said, “It seems that no one else has come here in these past 1000
years. The seal we left is still intact.”

With that, he opened his arms and moved around before the ring.
Every now and then, there would be black slivers that came out and
entered his hand.

Wang Lin could clearly feel Duanmu Ji, Six Desire Devil Lord, and
Hunchback Meng let out a breath of relief after hearing those words.

He looked around and saw that the plain inside the Chaotic Broken
Stars was completely empty. It looked endless and was covered by a
similarly endless dark sky. Wang Lin understood that this was some
kind of powerful restriction.
There was complete silence in this plain without any signs of
activity.

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at Wang Qingyue and Wang Lin before
saying, in a heavy tone, “Welcome to the Chaotic Broken Stars. No
matter if Duanmu has talked to you two about this place before, I
must emphasize again.”

“After passing through the oval ring, you will enter a mysterious
space. According to the information we got from an inheritance, the
corpse of an ancient god is there. The ancient gods’ power came
from their bodies, so their bodies were extremely large. Even the
weakest ancient god was at least the size of planet Suzaku. I can tell
you that this ancient god is a fully grown adult. Its size is like
countless planet Suzakus.”

“The reason why there are countless treasures inside is because

although the ancient god is dead, its divine sense is not destroyed
but remains in a hibernating state. If we can get inside and obtain its
memory, then any technique from its memories will be an
unimaginably powerful technique today.”

“As for magic treasures, because none of the magic treasures used by
the ancient gods can fit inside a bag of holding, all of them are held
within its body. If you are lucky, you will be able to find one.”

“There are also pills. The ancient god’s cultivation requires pills, and
the things they consume are far more valuable then we can ever
imagine. However, they don’t absorb 100% of the pills, so some of
the remains are stored in their bodies. Our goal this time is the Soul
Transformation Pill, which can be found inside the ancient god’s
veins.”

Wang Qingyue’s eyes lit up as he stared at the oval ring in the sky
and began to ponder.
Hunchback Meng touched the pustule on his face and said, “Six
Desire, Duanmu, this won’t matter if we can’t break through the
restriction, but if we do manage to break through, how will we split
the items?”

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at Wang Qingyue and said, “As for
items, they will be distributed equally, but if there is a Soul
Transformation Pill, then let our skills decide.”

Duanmu Ji let out a sly chuckle and said, “It is a bit too early to talk
about this matter. It won’t be too late to decide once we break the
restriction.”

Hunchback Meng’s gaze landed on the young man following Six

Desire Devil Lord. He said, “I wonder what this little friend will do to
help us break through the restriction?”

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at Wang Lin and coldly said, “Same as
him; this person will be of use in the third trial. This person is a
cultivator from the rank 3 cultivation country Tian Zhu. He is good
at ghost techniques that might be useful against the creatures inside
the third trial. I spent quite a few years to find him.”

“So it’s like that, hehe… the third trial. Back then, we were stopped at
the third trial. I hope we can break through that trial this time!”
Hunchback Meng let out a strange smile as his gaze swept between
Wang Lin and that young man.

Ancient Emperor, who was in front of the oval, began to move his
arms even faster, causing black slivers to appear like rain. His
expression became serious as he closed his hand and pushed
forward. Suddenly, countless black slivers came out from the ring.
They gathered and formed the shape of a dragon. It let out a roar
before shrinking down and landing in Ancient Emperor’s palm.

“It is ready. Come in!” Ancient Emperor took a deep breath. After
putting away the dragon, he took out two jade bracelets. The larger
bracelet was red while and the smaller bracelet was grey.

Holding the two bracelets, Ancient Emperor hesitated for a bit

before stepping into the ring and disappearing.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s eyes narrowed as he grabbed the young man
and jumped in. Wang Qingyue licked his lips and followed in.

The last two remaining were Duanmu Ji and Hunchback Meng. After
they looked at each other, they turned to Wang Lin. Without a word,
Wang Lin flew into the air and stopped before the ring of light. He
extended his hand to Duanmu Ji and said, “Since I have arrived at
this place, I hope senior can keep his promise.”

Duanmu Ji laughed and said, “There is no rush. Once we have

broken past the third trial, I’ll naturally give it to you.”

Wang Lin coldly looked at him and didn’t say a word.

Hunchback Meng let out a sly chuckled as he watched them. He was

done watching the two of them, so he walked past Duanmu Ji and
into the ring.

Duanmu Ji stared at Wang Lin. He pondered for a bit before taking

out two pills and threw them at Wang Lin. He said, with a heavy
tone, “Take them!”

Wang Lin caught them and examined them. They were indeed as Li
Muwan had described. The smaller one was the earth
transformation pill and the larger one was the Nascent Forming pill.

After carefully putting them away, Wang Lin walked into the ring
without a word. When he entered, he felt like he had walked
through a thin film.

The scene before him made him suck in a breath of cold air and
stare at what was before him dumbfoundedly.
This place was very similar to the world of decay. It was also a place
of endless darkness. The only difference was that there were
countless large, stone pillars here. These stone pillars were being
kept afloat by a mysterious force and were slowly moving forward.

Wang Lin was standing on one of the stone pillars. The top of the
pillar was 300 feet wide and he was the only one on it.

Under the stone pillar was endless void.

He looked around and saw that everyone who had entered was just
like him. Everyone was standing on a stone pillar by themselves.

From Wang Lin’s observation, he could see that Duanmu Ji, Six
Desire Devil Lord, Hunchback Meng, and Ancient Emperor were very
calm. Wang Qingyue was pondering as he looked over the edge of
the pillar into the void.

Finally, there was the young man. He was sitting on the stone pillar
as he stared dumbfoundedly at the surroundings with shock in his
eyes.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and slowly spread out his divine sense.
There was no force stopping his divine sense, but considering the
powerful old monsters around him, he didn’t spread it out too far.
He only covered the stone pillar he was on and stopped.

At this moment, Six Desire Devil Lord’s voice came in from the
distance. “There are no dangers here as it is just a passageway. You
only need to remain on the stone pillar.”

After Wang Lin heard this, he sat down and looked at the stone
pillars slowly moving forward. He noticed that no one was paying
attention to him, so he put his hand into his shirt and touched the
bag of holding he had gotten at the Hou Fen Union.
His divine sense entered the bag but there was no reaction. Wang
Lin was startled, but it was not the time to test it, so he slowly
withdrew his right hand and looked at his surroundings.

Wang Qingyue, who had been looking over the edge of the stone
pillar, suddenly shouted, “What is that?”

In the endless void below them, two bright lamps suddenly lit up.
These two lamps were several feet wide. Wang Lin spread out his
divine sense and found that they weren’t lamps at all but a pair of
eyes.

Shortly after, the pair of eyes disappeared but soon reappeared, only
this time they were even larger. Hunchback Meng walked to the
edge of his pillar and looked down with a gloomy expression. He
waved his right hand and blue powder fell down from his palm. As
the blue powder descended, it released a ghostly light. The more it
descended, the brighter the ghostly light became, and when it finally
landed on the pair of eyes, a scene that caused everyone to suck in a
breath of cold air unfolded.

The creature below was a very large, snake-like creature. Its size was
impossible to estimate. With just what was shown by the ghostly
light, it was at least 10,000 feet long and at least 1000 feet wide. A
body covered in a reddish-purple shined under the ghostly light.

There were nine horns on its big head, and when it opened its
mouth, the sharpness of its teeth would cause anyone to shiver.

Hunchback Meng’s expression became very ugly as he waved his

hand. The light immediately disappeared and the darkness covered
the area again.

Hunchback Meng pondered for a bit before slowly saying, “At the
weakest, it is a desolate beast, which is the same as a peak late stage
Soul Formation cultivator!”
Six Desire Devil Lord’s expression was gloomy as he calmly said,
“Don’t anger it. We were able to pass safely last time, so as long as
we don’t anger it, it should be fine.”

Just as he finished speaking, a roar came from below him. The pair
of eyes became larger and larger as a curtain of foul smell came
towards him.

Everyone immediately stood up. Hunchback Meng quickly took out

several pills and threw them out. He shouted, “Holding them in your
mouths will prevent the poison from killing you.”

Six Desire Devil Lord jumped and arrived next to the young man he
had brought with him. He grabbed the young man, caught the pill,
and quickly escaped into the distance.

At the same time, Duanmu Ji looked toward Wang Lin. When he saw
that Wang Lin’s expression was calm, he hesitated a bit before
sending a voice transmission saying, “Follow me!” With that, he
quickly flew into the distance.

Wang Lin caught Hunchback Meng’s pill, but he didn’t immediately

take it. He looked around and after seeing everyone else take them,
he put it into his mouth as he jumped into the air.

Everyone quickly escaped by jumping from one stone pillar to the

next. The pillars seemed to go on endlessly. Wang Lin stayed close
behind Duanmu Ji. The roar from below became louder and louder
and the surrounding stone pillars seemed to tremble.

At this moment, one of the stone pillars behind them shattered as

the snake’s head smashed into it. After the pillar shattered, the giant
head came up, revealing its cold gaze.

A wave of fishy smell came from behind them. Wang Lin held the
pill in his mouth as he jumped as quickly as he could behind
everyone. As for the abnormality behind them, no one but the young
man turned back to look. Everyone else was focused entirely on
moving forward.

As a result, everyone was traveling at top speed. The fastest person

was Wang Qingyue, who knew the five element escape technique.
This person was half transparent and flew in a different arc than
everyone else. He flew straight ahead, and whenever there was a
stone pillar blocking him, he would charge right toward it. His body
would disappear the moment he touched a pillar and reappear on
the other side.

The snake-like desolate beast coldly stared at the people jumping

before it. After letting out waves of roars, it raised its body
immediately, revealing its more than 10,000 feet length, and
slammed down.
Chapter 169: Obtaining the
Marrow
It was like the sky was collapsing upon them due to a powerful gust
of wind descending from above. Without a word, Wang Lin slapped
his bag of holding and took out countless defensive charms. He had
a lot of these charms to spare. After killing so many people and
stealing their stuff, he had countless low quality charms and
treasures.

These charms formed countless light screens around him. Then, at

the moment the wind descended, he jumped to the side.

At the same time, Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor
stopped moving. The two of them didn’t say any useless words to
each other. Ancient Emperor had a very serious expression as he
threw out an ancient bell. The moment the ancient bell appeared, it
immediately became large and began to wave back and forth. As the
bell rang, it sent shockwaves out, causing the surrounding stone
pillars to shatter.

The snake who was descending from the sky twisted its body to turn
and landed head first into the shockwave. It immediately let out a
roar and spat out black smoke.

This black smoke was very powerful; the moment the surrounding
stone pillars touched it, they would turn into black dust and
disappear.

The black smoke that was spat out by the snake was dealt with by
Hunchback Meng. He touched one of the pustules on his face and
popped it. A very powerful stench came from that popped pustule as
well as a black liquid.
The hunchback’s body suddenly disappeared. When he reappeared,
he was already before the black smoke. His face looked terrifying at
this moment as he opened his mouth and sucked in all of the black
smoke. Gradually, the hump on his back became larger and larger.
After all the black smoke was sucked up by him, it looked as if he
had a small mountain on his back.

He stood wobbling back and forth on a stone pillar while staring at

the snake-like creature. He was silently pondering. Slivers of black
gas that came out of the pustule that he had broken was sucked in by
the toad on his shoulder.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s hand moved to form seals and as he recited a
mysterious chant. At the same time, Ancient Emperor threw out the
bell. When he did this, his gaze fell on Wang Lin.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He quickly backed up and without any
hesitation took out the nascent level charm. At the same time, he
opened his mouth to spit out the crystal sword. The crystal sword
floated before him with its tip pointed at Six Desire Devil Lord.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s gaze paused for a moment before shifting it
to the young man next to him. The young man’s face looked terrified
as he stared at the snake-like creature, his body trembling.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s eyes lit up as he suddenly shouted, “Fear!”

The young man’s body suddenly started trembling. Black gas came
out of his nostrils and his mouth. The black gas quickly gathered to
form a black sword that floated in front of Six Desire Devil Lord.

The young man’s body waved back and forth as he stood there
dumbfounded with a look of confusion in his eyes.

His right hand pointed at the black sword as Six Desire Devil Lord
began to chant. The sword gradually became larger and larger until it
became an extremely large sword.
All of this happened in a very short amount of time. Right at this
moment, the snake collided with the shock wave from the bell and
spat out black smoke again. Six Desire Devil Lord shouted, “Go!”

The black sword before him suddenly began to move and swung
down on the neck of the snake-like creature. It landed on the snake-
like creature, causing it a lot of pain. The snake jerked its head and
sent the black sword flying into the distance.

This caused the young man beside Six Desire Devil Lord to bleed out
of his mouth and nose. His body became very weak, and the
confusion in his eyes deepened.

Ancient Emperor turned his right hand, causing the bell to ring even
faster. One by one, shockwaves were created and sent toward the
creature.

Just as the snake-like creature knocked the black sword away again,
it was hit by the shockwaves created by the bell. It suddenly shook
its body as it revealed a bloodthirsty gaze and opened its mouth. As
it opened its mouth, which could swallow a small mountain, a
ghostly figure suddenly flew out. Ancient Emperor’s expression
changed and the bell quickly disappeared.

Wang Lin’s divine sense had been locked onto the snake-like
creature the entire time. When it opened its mouth, Wang Lin
clearly saw a smaller snake fly out. It bit the bell and then quickly
withdrew.

Hunchback Meng’s eyes lit up as he stared at the snake-like creature

from a stone pillar in the distance. He licked his lips and was about
to charge out, but the creature had already closed its big mouth.

Hunchback Meng’s abnormal behavior was noticed by Wang Lin. He

was wary of everyone present, especially this expert poison user.
At this moment, Six Desire Devil Lord’s gaze turned to the young
man beside him again. He pointed at the young man’s head and
shouted, “Anger!”

A reddish-purple gas came out of the young man’s mouth and nose.
The gas shaped another sword that floated before Six Desire Devil
Lord.

Duanmu Ji’s expression was dark as he looked toward Wang

Qingyue. They seemed to understand each other as they both quickly
jumped down to the snake’s body, took out their magic treasures,
and began their attacks.

Duanmu Ji no longer used the gourd but a very large hammer.

Everytime he lifted the hammer, many balls of lighting would form
and would fall down along with it.

Wang Qingyue didn’t use any magic treasures. When his hands
formed a seal, the ancient words for metal, wood, water, fire, and
earth appeared. They formed a five elemental formation that
slammed into the body of the snake.

Wang Lin’s heart trembled. The techniques of these five people were
all powerful beyond imagination. They were not at all things normal
people could match. The one that caught his eye the most was Six
Desire Devil Lord’s technique. This technique required a sacrifice to
be used and that young man became the unfortunate target.

The snake-like creature felt pain. It let out a roar and frantically
twisted its body. A vortex began to form around it and the
surrounding stone pillars began to be pulled in toward the snake-
like creature.

After this large vortex appeared, Duanmu Ji and Wang Qingyue were
the first ones to charge back in. The two of them had very dark
expressions on their faces. As for Ancient Emperor, his face was
even more ugly as the connection between him and his treasure had
disappeared.

The vortex became larger and larger. The powerful suction force
forced everyone to quickly back away.

The reddish-purple sword in front of Six Desire Devil Lord released

a very evil light before darting forward. The black sword that had
been knocked always also reappeared and each sword stabbed
toward one of the snake-like creature’s eyes.

The moment the swords touched the creature’s eyes, they turned
back into smoke and drilled into the creature.

The snake-like creature’s body suddenly paused for a moment as it

let out a howl of madness. Its eyes were bloodshot as two streams of
smoke, one reddish-purple and one black, were forced out of its eyes.
It opened its mouth again and the small snake came back out and
devoured the two streams of smoke.

At this moment, a hint of coldness flashed across Wang Lin’s eyes.

This was the moment he had been waiting for. He quickly jumped
forth and, by borrowing the suction of the vortex, he entered the
snake-like creature’s mouth.

At the same time, a green light flashed by him, which turned out to
be Hunchback Meng, who had been looking with a cold gaze from a
distance with the same idea. Hunchback Meng was slightly startled
at the sight of Wang Lin before letting out a faint smile of
admiration.

However, this faint smile seemed to contain a sense of cruelty.

Hunchback Meng flew past Wang Lin. His goal was the other snake
inside this snake’s mouth. Wang Lin saw this and immediately
switched directions. He followed the throat and went in deeper. His
target was this creature’s spine.
Li Muwan once said that with any of these dragon-like creatures, the
most valuable part wasn’t the core, but the marrow. The reason why
Wang Lin risked going in there was for the marrow.

From the moment he saw this snake-like creature, he had been

secretly observing it. Li Muwan once said that the effect of the bone
marrow depended on the age of the dragon. If the dragon had
reached a certain age, then it could help increase the chance of
forming one’s Nascent Soul.

Although he didn’t know if this creature was considered a dragon,

even if it wasn’t, it should be considered the same type of creature. If
he could get the marrow, then it should at least have some effect.

This was why he charged in the moment the creature opened its
mouth a second time. He also knew that Hunchback Meng would
come in as well. When the snake first opened its mouth, he saw
Hunchback Meng’s various expressions.

This made him even more committed to do this. At first he was

afraid that people would suspect him after he obtained the marrow,
but now that Hunchback Meng was in here, then if anything
abnormal were to happen to the creature, it could be blamed on
Hunchback Meng.

Also, the two choose two different paths that had no chance of
intersecting with each other. Hunchback Meng wouldn’t be able to
notice what Wang Lin was doing, so there shouldn’t be any
problems.

And even if there were any problems, they wouldn’t act against him.
After all, those people were not here for the marrow of this creature
but for the corpse of the ancient god.

Wang Lin used the crystal sword as he moved inside the snake, but
he was unable to inflict a single wound on the creature.
The deeper Wang Lin moved within the snake, the more heavy his
heart felt. Aside from the smaller snake inside its body, there was
nothing else but the black flesh walls that surrounded him.

Wang Lin controlled the flying sword and stabbed the flesh with all
his might, but he was still unable to leave a mark. The spine was
right under this flesh, but not being able to harm it at all caused him
to frown.

His eyes sparkled as he quickly moved to a different spot. This time,

his target was where the head and the neck connected.

Just at this moment, the smaller snake inside began to tremble and
release slivers of black gas. Wang Lin quickly dodged to the side and
charged toward the snake’s head.

Soon, he arrived at the head. There was a flashing red filament at

the spot where the head and neck connected. Wang Lin took a deep
breath and activated all of the spiritual energy in his body. He
slapped his bag of holding and suddenly hundreds of flying swords
appeared. His divine sense spread out to take control of all of them.
All of the flying swords’ tips pointed at the red filament and
attacked it fiercely.
Chapter 170: Splitting from the
team
All of the swords stabbed down at the filament, causing it to
tremble. The filament shined brightly as it resisted the sword
energy, but a concave soon appeared on it.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as the crystal sword suddenly appeared

and repetitively stabbed the concave spot. Soon, the filament began
to cave down even more.

At this moment, the snake-like creature seemed to notice that

something was wrong, so it started to violently twist its body. Wang
Lin was now worried. He waved his hand and the hundreds of flying
swords began to attack again.

Finally, after a loud bang, the filament broke and a powerful, fishy
stench flooded out. Wang Lin quickly moved to the side and hugged
the wall. The pill in his mouth came into effect, blocking out the
fishy stench.

After the fishy stench had passed, Wang Lin quickly entered the hole
he had created. At this moment, the body of the smaller snake that
was inside the large body began to shrink. Wang Lin had a feeling
that this creature wouldn’t be killed so easily. If the large snake had
a smaller snake inside, could the smaller snake have another snake
inside it?

More importantly, Hunchback Meng said that this snake was a

desolate beast, which was the same as a peak late stage Soul
Formation cultivator. It has to be said that peak late stage Soul
Formation cultivators are the most powerful people in rank 4
cultivation countries.
Unless Ancient Emperor and them were also at the peak of late
stage Soul Formation, they wouldn’t be able to kill it. According to
Hunchback Meng’s words from before, Wang Lin believed that none
of them were at the peak of late stage Soul Formation. At most, they
were at the mid stage.

As a result, there was no chance for infighting it at all, and each

person could only escape on their own. Wang Lin’s original plan was
to escape, but after observing it, he noticed that aside from having a
very tough body and being able to spew that black smoke, the snake
didn’t seem to have any other abilities. This surprised Wang Lin
greatly.

He looked at everyone else. Although none of those old guys had

said a word, they were all filled with doubt.

Wang Lin had a wild guess that this beast only had the body of a
desolate beast but not the techniques of one.

He was even more sure about this guess after seeing the smaller
snake inside its mouth. It was precisely due to this that he dared to
enter the creature’s mouth to obtain its marrow.

In his mind, a desolate beast would have a powerful outer body, so if

he was inside, there should be no danger. Wang Lin began to have
an even stranger idea. Maybe this was the type of creature where
there is a snake inside the big snake, and a smaller snake inside that
snake, and finally the smallest snake at the very end was the true
desolate beast.

As for the bodies on the outside, they were only used for show,
which was why they had the bodies of desolate beasts but not the
techniques.

Thinking about this, Wang Lin’s heart tightened and he quickly

regained his focus. He quickly arrived at the where the head and
neck connected. The filament was gone, revealing the white bone
underneath. Wang Lin touched the bone and pulled with his
attraction force technique, causing the snake to roll around
frantically.

At the same time, the head of the smaller snake released a black
light while its skin and body quickly melted. Hunchback Meng had a
look of terror on his face as he quickly jumped away in a sorry state
and flew toward the head of the big snake.

When he passed the area where the head and neck connected, he
saw Wang Lin. After hesitating for a moment, he quickly shouted,
“Leave quickly! This is a parasitic dragon snake. There is a total of
nine snakes inside and the innermost one is the truth desolate beast
with desolate beast techniques!”

With that, his right hand hit the wall of flesh. The flesh that the
flying sword couldn’t damage at all turned black, causing the snake a
lot of pain. The snake opened its mouth in pain and Hunchback
Meng jumped out.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled. Not only did he not leave, but he hugged
the wall of flesh to hide himself.

Just at this moment, a smaller, red dragon came out from the dried
up smaller snake. It passed by Wang Lin in a flash and chased after
Hunchback Meng.

Wang Lin remained motionless as he hugged the wall. After

Hunchback Meng and the dragon passed by, his eyes sparkled.
Hunchback Meng had no good intentions when he told Wang Lin to
escape. He most likely wanted Wang Lin leave with him so that
Wang Lin could help him split the attention of the red dragon.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart. He did not want to get involved with
these people. If he could open the third trial then there would be no
problem, but he didn’t really know any death spell. If he can’t open
the third trial, those demonic cultivators will definitely kill him to
vent their anger.

And even if he somehow opens the third trial, although they

wouldn’t kill him right away, he would likely become used for Six
Desire Devil Lord’s technique. Wang Lin had a very vivid memory of
that young man’s confused eyes.

Wang Lin originally wanted to try to look for a chance to escape

during the first two trials, and if he couldn’t find a chance, then he
would stir up some trouble in the third trial. When everyone runs
for their lives, they won’t have time to bother paying attention to
him.

However, Wang Lin changed his mind because with that red dragon
outside, the inside of the body of this snake was probably the safest
place. His eyes lit up as he placed his hand on the snake’s spine and
sucked with his attraction force technique. The snake’s body
suddenly began to shake. Wang Lin felt his blood rush to his head as
his body uncontrollably flew up.

With a dark expression on his face, he used the spiritual energy in

his body to stabilize himself. He still felt his blood rushing upwards,
so he spread out his divine sense. His divine sense followed the
snake’s throat to its mouth and looked outside through the gap
between the snake’s teeth. He was stunned by what he saw.

The large, snake-like creature was rapidly falling down into the dark
void.

It took half an hour before the falling finally slowed down and the
snake hit the ground. The collision caused shockwaves that rumbled
for a long time before everything finally became silent again.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and without a word continued to

absorb the marrow. The snake was no longer trembling at this point,
and there was nothing abnormal happening. After some time, a drop
of golden liquid came out of the beast’s spine along with a fragrant
smell. Wang Lin became very serious. He carefully took out a jade
bottle.

He carefully placed the golden drop of liquid into the jade bottle and
finally let out a sigh of relief. After putting it away in his bag of
holding, he quickly moved toward the snake’s head and exited
through the gap between the snake’s teeth.

Before him was complete darkness without any source of light.

Wang Lin’s hand formed seals as he shouted, “Go!” Suddenly, a ball
of fire the size of his head appeared and floated forward.

Using the light from the fire, Wang Lin observed his surroundings.
His expression gradually became stranger.

This place was also another pillar floating in the void, only this pillar
was hundreds of times larger than the ones from before.

The huge, snake-like creature had its head resting on this stone
pillar while the rest of its body was dangling down into the void. The
creature’s eyes were closed and it didn’t show any signs of life.

Wang Lin assumed that when the red dragon left, it was like when a
Nascent Soul cultivator’s nascent soul leaves their body. The beast
most likely temporarily lost its vitals and fell down here.

This would also explain why the creature didn’t move at all when he
extracted the marrow.

Wang Lin looked at the snake with sparkling eyes before finally
letting out a sigh and giving up on the idea he had. This giant snake
before him was like a mountain of treasure just waiting to be
harvested. Just its core and skin were already worth a fortune. But
Wang Lin was not blinded by those things. He wasn’t even sure if he
could get through the meat to get to the snake’s brain or if he even
had the ability to separate the skin from its body. The biggest
problem was that the red dragon was most likely going to come back
soon, and if Wang Lin were to meet it, then even if he had 100 years
left to live, he would lose them all in an instant.

Wang Lin took another look before taking out the pill Hunchback
Meng had given him. The pill had already shrunk to half of its
original size, but Wang Lin still carefully placed it inside his bag of
holding. Without a word, he put out the fire and jumped forward. In
this endless void, the light of the fire was simply too noticeable. For
the sake of safety, Wang Lin had no choice but to fly in the darkness.

Gradually, his eyes got used to the darkness. Although he couldn’t

clearly see his surroundings, he was able to see the general outlines
of things.

Apart from the fact that the stone pillars were hundreds of times
larger, the speed at which these stone pillars moved was also a bit
faster. In addition to all of this, he could sense danger coming from
all sides.

Wang Lin took each step very carefully. Most of the time he would
only move a few meters before stopping to observe his
surroundings. Only when he was sure that it was safe did he dare to
move. At this moment, he had just landed on a stone pillar when his
body froze. A black figure flashed by before him.

Wang Lin held his breath and remained motionless. All he did was
stare straight ahead. After some time, he was able to make out an
outline. At the center of the pillar was a mass with countless
tentacles extending from its body and moving in a random fashion.

The black figure that flashed by was one of its tentacles.

After Wang Lin saw this, he began to back up. If this creature could
survive here, then it must be very powerful, so it was not something
he could mess with. He backed up several meters and arrived at the
edge of the pillar. He kept his eyes on the figure in the center as he
jumped off the edge and gently floated away.

It wasn’t until he was more than 100 feet away that Wang Lin dared
to exhale. He looked at the endless void above him and couldn’t help
but let out a bitter smile. Only by returning to the set of stone pillars
he was on before could he find the ring of light to leave this place.

Wang Lin pondered for a while. He didn’t dare to spread out his
divine sense too far in fear of provoking some powerful creature
that would bring him a lot of danger. His body slowly flew upward
and immediately stopped once he saw a black figure. Only after
making sure it was a stone pillar did he slowly close in on it.

But just at this moment, a ray of red light suddenly appeared above
him and charged down with a strange whistling sound. Wang Lin’s
body quickly moved to the side. He hugged the bottom part of the
stone pillar and remained motionless.

The only thing he saw was a red light darting by the stone pillar. It
continued to fall down and disappeared without a trace. Wang Lin
felt his scalp go numb. He realized that the red light was the red
dragon that came out of the snake and chased after Hunchback
Meng.

The dragon had returned, but he didn’t know if Hunchback Meng

and them were dead or alive. Wang Lin sneered as he slowly flew up
to the top of the stone pillar. Once he arrived at the top, he carefully
observed his surroundings.

There were no signs of life on this stone pillar, so after a long time,
Wang Lin relaxed, sat down, and drank a gulp of spirit liquid before
carefully staring at what was below him.

Once that red dragon returns to its body, it will definitely notice
something wrong. Wang Lin sank into the stone pillar and then
touched his forehead to bring out the heaven defying bead. His eyes
sparkled before quickly entering the heaven defying bead’s space.

Not long after he entered the heaven defying bead, a rage-filled howl
came from below. The red dragon flew up like lightning and
shattered a pillar several hundred feet wide with its body. Its gaze
was cold as it began to search around.

This red dragon had already obtained a certain level of intelligence

and knew that the person who stole the marrow couldn’t have
gotten far, so it continued to search with a fierce gaze. After finding
nothing for a long time, it smashed into a few more stone pillars
before it unwillingly lied down on top of one stone pillar and started
to calm down.

But soon it moved again and charged toward the figure with
countless tentacles that Wang Lin had previously seen.

As the dragon rushed toward it, the tentacles formed a cone with the
creature’s core as the base and faced the dragon without any sign of
fear.

A series of rumbles came from below and at the same time various
colored lights flashed in the darkness. Powerful fluctuation of
spiritual energy spread out like a hurricane. One by one, the stone
pillars nearby were destroyed. Even the stone pillar Wang Lin was in
was effected; half of it was destroyed.

This epic battle lasted about a day before it slowly calmed down. The
shadow that was angered by the dragon was in the end defeated and
forced to retreat. The dragon was also seriously injured though. It let
out a few roars before laying down on the stone pillar.

Ten days later, Wang Lin came out of the heaven defying bead and
landed on top of the stone pillar. He immediately spread out his
divine sense and carefully observed his surroundings.
It was very clear that there were fewer stone pillars around and a lot
more pieces of shattered stones. Only after a long time did Wang Lin
let out a breath of relief. He pondered for a bit before flying
upwards.

After passing a few stone pillars, Wang Lin suddenly stopped. He

saw that one of the stone pillars further ahead suddenly disappear.

Wang Lin’s expression became serious as he slowly backed up. He

waved his hand and some of the shattered stones came toward him.
He pointed at one and whispered, “Go!”

That shattered stone quickly flew forward. Wang Lin stared straight
ahead and saw that after the stone flew forward for a bit, it suddenly
disappeared.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. He saw that when the stone
disappeared, a black hole opened up for an instant. Because the
speed was too fast and it was hard to see, it looked like the stone
had just mysteriously disappeared.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit as he stared forward and took out a
flying sword. When the flying sword appeared before him, he
pointed forward and it shot out.

It suddenly arrived at spot where the stones had disappeared. The

black hole suddenly appeared again to devour the flying sword, but
just at that moment Wang Lin shouted, “Shatter!”

The sword shattered with a bang and scattered in all directions the
moment the black hole closed. Wang Lin stared at the scene before
him. He waved his right hand and commanded one of the shattered
pieces to change directions and return to his hand.

There were a few drops of black liquid on the shattered sword, and
upon closer inspection, he spotted signs of decay where the black
liquid had touched.
“It is not a spacial rift!” Wang Lin was now sure of this. The reason
he tested it so many times was because he was afraid that there
would be spacial rifts here. If there were really spacial rifts here,
then the danger of this place would have increased by another level.

Wang Lin wasn’t a soul devourer anymore; he had a flesh body. The
power of a spacial rift would destroy him completely.

Wang Lin relaxed a bit and extended his hand. He suddenly waved
his hand, causing the surrounding shattered stones to come near
him and orbit around him like a ring of rocks.

He flew to the side for a long time before moving forward again.
Every time he saw a stone disappear, he would change directions.
After getting a better grasp of the situation with multiple tests,
Wang Lin understood that it was no spacial rift but a mysterious
creature that was invisible.

The biological structure of these creatures were extremely strange.

Even with his divine sense, it was hard to find any clues. Wang Lin
was only able to come to this conclusion due to the fact that he was
a soul devourer for many years and had encountered spacial rifts
countless times.

Wang Lin was very careful along the way. Every step in this place
was dangerous. If he was careless for even a moment, he could die.
This was especially true for a mere Core Formation cultivator like
himself. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that he was in a completely
forbidden area where the smallest oversight could get him killed.

After spending a lot of time, Wang Lin calculated that he had only
moved about 10,000 feet. These 10,000 feet would have only taken
him a moment to traverse normally, but now it had taken him
several days.

Wang Lin could no longer calculate exactly how many days it had
been as all of his energy was spent on being alert.
Time slowly passed. Wang Lin himself had lost track of how long he
had been in here. Being on full alert all the time had time and time
again let him slip past dangerous situations.

On this day, Wang Lin was sitting on a stone pillar to rest. Although
he hadn’t used up much spiritual energy, his mind was very tired.
This was all thanks to the fact that before ending up here, Wang Lin
had always been extremely cautious. If it was anyone else, they
would have already been tired out from being on high alert for so
long and died.

After resting for a while, Wang Lin took a deep breath and stood up.
He pointed to the air several times to bring out the crystal sword.
The sword circled the stone pillar and shaved off small pieces of
stone that were sticking out.

Wang Lin waved his hands and the shattered stones gathered
around him. Over the past several days, he had used theses
shattered stones to pave the way for him. Now that all of them were
used up, he had to get more from a nearby pillar.

After these shattered stones formed a ring around him, he jumped

off the pillar and slowly flew forward.

Once he had flown out a bit, he stopped and carefully looked around.
The darkness here was not as bad. The higher up he went, brighter it
got.

As for where this light was coming from, he didn’t have time to
think about it. Right now he was carefully observing his
surroundings because he felt like something bad was about to
happen.

His eyes had gotten completely used to the darkness, so with this
amount of light, he could clearly see everything. He calculated for a
bit and realized that in a radius of about 100,000 feet, there was
only one floating stone pillar.
Everything about this area was too different from normal. Wang Lin
knew that there should’ve been a stone pillar ever few hundred feet.
Even if they had been shattered, there would still be rubble floating
around. However, there was nothing here.

There were only two explanations. The first was there was a huge
battle here at some point and the shockwave was so powerful that it
pushed everything except for that stone pillar far away, resulting in
what he was seeing now.

The second was that there were countless of those invisible

creatures here and they had cleaned this place up after years of
devouring.

Wang Lin thought this because he had just seen a large stone pillar
being devoured by a large mouth. He watched a 700 to 800 feet
stone pillar disappear without a trace in less than one hour.

Wang Lin frowned. If this place was indeed like this, then he had no
choice but to go around. Otherwise, he would be in a lot of danger.

After pondering for a bit, Wang Lin pointed at one of the shattered
stones around him and it began to slowly float forward. It soon
entered the area and traveled for a long time without being
devoured. Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He pointed around and then
all of the stones that were surrounding him began to move forward.

Wang Lin wasn’t in a hurry, so he patiently watched the stones

slowly move forward. Gradually, all of the stones came close to the
only stone pillar around.

Around the stone pillar, one of the stones suddenly disappeared.

Wang Lin’s pupils shrank as he carefully observed what was
happening. The stones began to disappear one after another as they
approached the stone pillar.
Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as he memorized those few points where
the rocks were devoured. From his experiences in these past several
days, he assumed that these creatures weren’t able to move and
were locked in one place.

But he didn’t discount the fact that they might be able to move. After
pondering for a long time, Wang Lin gave up on the idea of going
through the calm area. This place was simply too strange, and Wang
Lin didn’t want to risk going in. He decided that he would rather
spend the extra time to go around. After all, the price of failure was
something he couldn’t afford.

After making his decision, he backed up and used the crystal sword
to get himself more shattered stones to surround himself with
before flying to the side.

Wang Lin’s face gradually became even more gloomy. He had

already flown very far, but this empty area seemed to be endless..

After flying for several days, he had to give up on the idea of going
around the creatures.
Chapter 171: The Jade Li Muwan
Left
It was very clear that he couldn’t go around it. If he wished to leave
here, he would have to go through it.

Wang Lin secretly sighed. He pointed at the crystal sword and

commanded it toward a stone pillar behind him. The crystal sword
kept breaking pieces of the stone pillar off and they all floated into
the ring around Wang Lin.

Gradually, more and more shattered stones gathered around him.

After reaching five or six rings, he withdrew the crystal sword after
making some calculations.

Wang Lin charged into the empty area with a massive amount of
stones revolving around him. He slowed down once he went deep
into the blank area and calmly moved forward. There were no signs
of danger.

However, this did not make Wang Lin stop being cautious; it made
him even more alert. After being in this strange place for so long,
Wang Lin didn’t believe that such a calm and peaceful place existed.

Instead, he thought that he was only feeling a false sense of safety

because there was a very powerful creature somewhere near.

He was on full alert, the crystal sword was hidden among the
shattered stones, and he was holding a Nascent Soul level charm in
his hand. His divine sense was spread out and checking his
surroundings. There was also a sliver of it connected to his bag of
holding to ensure that he was ready to take stuff out of it in any
situation.
He slowly made his way to the center of the calm area. From his
current position, if he were to look to his side, he would be able to
draw a straight line to where the stone disappeared before.

Wang Lin became even more alert. After traveling for a few steps, he
suddenly sensed a great amount of danger from his divine sense. He
didn’t hesitate at all to quickly back up and use the Nascent Soul
level charm to form a light screen before him.

The moment his body backed up, two arcs appeared where he was
just standing. The two arcs connected and formed the shape of a big,
open mouth.

The Nascent Soul level charm shook violently in his hand and
turned to dust. Using this chance, Wang Lin quickly backed up. Cold
sweat appeared on his forehead as he stared at the big mouth that
was closing. His heart was shaking violently.

This spacial rift-like creature didn’t open its mouth when the rocks
came through but waited for when he passed by. It seemed that it
had made Wang Lin its target.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit. Looking at the remaining distance, he

was only half way across. He couldn’t help but let out a bitter smile
because that was the only Nascent Soul level charm he had. This
showed that the power of that mouth was stronger than the attack
of a Nascent Soul cultivator.

If Wang Lin had been touched by that creature’s mouth at all, then
he would at least be heavily injured, if not dead.

He took a deep breath. After pondering for a bit, he took out a large
amount of defensive treasures from his bag of holding without any
hesitation. These were treasures he had gotten from killing all those
cultivators. However, because they were all low quality treasures,
they had been used by him because he saw them as expendable.
After hesitating for a bit, he began to move forward along with the
ring of stones. This time he was even more careful as he moved
forward with his divine sense spread out. He decided that he would
immediately back up if he noticed anything off.

Then, a 100-foot-long half circle appeared before him and more than
half of the stones in front of him suddenly disappeared. Wang Lin
immediately backed up, but more than half of the stones behind him
disappeared as well, and then so did the stones in other directions.
This meant that no matter where he went, there would be more of
those invisible creatures.

Wang Lin immediately moved to the side, but then the protective
layer formed by the hundreds of defensive treasures began to crackle
and shatter one by one.

Wang Lin was aghast as he curled himself up and slid to the side,
barely dodging past it. He stood 100 feet away with his shirt
completely covered in sweat. The spot he was just flying through
was surrounded by at least seven open mouths. If it wasn’t for those
treasures stalling for a bit of time, he would have already died.

Wang Lin let out a wry smile. All of the stones around him were now
gone. While he still had more defensive treasures, they would be all
used up if he encountered dangers like this a few more times. Most
importantly, Wang Lin was worried that if he was surrounded in all
directions by those mouths, then he would die for sure.

He let out a sigh as he took out more defensive treasures. After

activating them, he spread out his divine sense and began to
carefully move forward again. He looked toward the border of this
calm area. If he were to fly at full speed, he could cross this area in
only a few moments. However, if he were to really do so, then it was
very likely that he would run headfirst into the mouth of one those
creatures. At that point, not even a fairy could save him.
He took a deep breath and clenched his teeth as he slowly moved
forward. His divine sense was carefully checking his surroundings.
Three days later, Wang Lin was completely exhausted, and all of the
defensive treasures in his bag of holding had been used up.

In these three days of time, he encountered many life and death

situations. One time, half of his body was inside a mouth. If he
hadn’t entered the heaven defying bead in time, he would have
already died.

Luckily, the heaven defying bead was not inside the mouth of the
creatures, so when he came back out, he was not inside the
creature’s mouth. However, Wang Lin was afraid of entering the
heaven defying bead now because if the heaven defying bead were to
get devoured, then even if he avoided death for the moment, he
wouldn’t be able to avoid it when the time to be inside it runs out.

Seeing that there was less than ten kilometers left, Wang Lin took a
deep breath and pushed forward. Suddenly, a mouth began to open
before him. Just as Wang Lin was about to dodge, his divine sense
suddenly felt a sense of danger. The one thing he was most afraid of
happened.

Mouths shaped like arcs appeared all around him. Those creatures
were all opening their mouths simultaneously. Wang Lin felt very
frustrated as he frantically searched through his bag of holding until
he came upon a very plain-looking, white jade.

This was the defensive formation that Li Muwan had given him as a
parting gift to use when he went into closed door cultivation. Wang
Lin didn’t hesitate to throw out the jade. He had already made up his
mind; if things went bad, he could only enter the heaven defying
bead. Even if the space the bead was in ended up being devoured, it
was the only choice.

The moment he threw out the jade, the surrounding mouths all
opened completely and approached him. However, just at this
moment, a ring of green light appeared next to Wang Lin. Then it
suddenly spread out and a green dragon came out of the jade. As the
dragon appeared, the mouths began to devour the ring of light that
had spread out.

The ring of light continued to shake as the dragon circled around

Wang Lin. Wang Lin jumped and forcibly charged out through the
gap between two of the mouths.

During this process, the dragon continued to roar as its figure

became more and more faded. With this charge, Wang Lin covered
the last ten kilometers without stopping. Many mouths opened up
along the way, but they were all blocked by the green dragon around
him.

After completely leaving the calm area, the green dragon was about
to collapse. Wang Lin quickly sent out a few seals, causing the
dragon become a green gas again and sending it back into the white
jade.

Wang Lin heard a quiet ping. When he looked down, he saw a that
small crack had appeared on the jade. Wang Lin’s heart ached. He
checked it with his divine sense. After finding that it hadn’t become
useless, he let out a sigh of relief and carefully put it back into his
bag of holding. He turned around to look back at the calm area. His
heart was still shivering.

After pondering for a while, he raised his head and jumped onto a
stone pillar. He then stomped on the pillar, causing it to shatter. The
shattered stones reformed the ring around Wang Lin as he flew
upwards.

After several more days passed, Wang Lin’s speed became even
faster. After leaving that strange area, it felt like he had entered a
different world. He didn’t meet any more of those spacial rift-like
creatures, and what was even more surprising was that he didn’t
meet any powerful creatures like the dragon either.
As a result, his speed naturally increased. However, he didn’t throw
away the stones around him; better safe than sorry. Wang Lin was so
caution that unless he was 100% sure he was safe, then there was no
way he would throw aways these rocks right now.

As his speed increased, Wang Lin was getting to where he needed to

go quicker and quicker. After some time, Wang Lin noticed that the
stone pillars around here were the same size as the one he was on
when he entered.

This void was simply too large. Wang Lin didn’t believe that he could
pinpoint the location of that oval ring of light, so he could only use
the size of the stone pillars to estimate his location.

On this day, he stood on top of a cone-shaped stone pillar. His eyes

lit up as he looked up. He had been flying horizontally among stone
pillars of this size for a very long time, and now he found that oval
ring of light.

In the void above him floated a very large oval ring of light. He felt a
bit of regret because he didn’t go to the trials. If he completed the
trials, he would be able enter the ancient god’s body. There would
definitely be things he needed in there, but after going through the
dangers of this place, Wang Lin knew that with his cultivation, there
was no way for him to survive here.

He let out a sigh of regret as he jumped up and flew toward the ring
of light. However, just as he was about to touch the ring, bolts of
purple lightning appeared. The bolts intersected with each other and
formed a concave, rhombic pattern.

Wang Lin was startled. He couldn’t move forward; it was as if there

was a powerful force preventing him from doing so. His eyes
sparkled as he stared at the concave, rhombic pattern. This concave
was just big enough for a top quality spirit stone.
Wang Lin immediately backed up. At the same time, the concave
rhombic pattern disappeared and the purple lightning returned to
the ring of light.

He tried it again several times, and the concave rhombic pattern

appeared every time. Wang Lin began to ponder. His eyes sparkled
as he looked at it for a while before turning around and flying
upwards.

He remembered that this place was simply the passage to the first
trial. As long as he sat on top of a stone pillar, he would be able to
pass through here.
Chapter 172: Earth Trial
He stayed here for a long time. The path in which the pillars moved
spiraled upwards. Wang Lin continued to fly for half a month. He
followed the stone pillars until he finally reached the top.

This was the final destination of these stone pillars. There was a
giant vortex here, and all of the stone pillars were disappearing into
the vortex.

Wang Lin looked at the vortex and began to ponder. He made a seal
with his hand as a flying sword came out of his bag of holding and
floated motionlessly in front of him. He placed a small piece of his
divine sense on the flying sword before sending it into the swirl.

Wang Lin slightly closed his eyes. The flying sword charged toward
the vortex and entered without any resistance.

When the flying sword reached the vortex, it was like it was sinking
through mud. After a while, it slowly passed and came out on the
other side. What appeared before Wang Lin was a world filled with
bright light. A thick layer of ice covered the ground. The sky was
dark, but there was still light shining down and being reflected by
the ice.

The wind spun around on the ice for a bit before moving into the
distance.

This place was very vast with no end in sight, but one could clearly
see black towers in the distance. The closest black tower was only
100 feet tall, but the further away the black towers were, the taller
they got. The most distant tower that Wang Lin could see exceeded
400 feet.

These black towers formed a straight line.

The black towers were very eye-catching because they were made of
black stone. Even when the light reflected off the ice and onto the
tower, it was all absorbed; none of it reflected off the tower.

The flying sword paused here for a bit before going back through the
vortex and landing in Wang Lin’s hand.

Outside of the giant vortex, Wang Lin opened up his eyes as he

withdrew the divine sense from the flying sword and put the sword
back into his bag of holding. After pondering for a bit, he took out
the dragon’s tendon, shook it, and the devil immediately flew out.
He was filled with excitement as he stared at Wang Lin and shouted,
“Who are we killing this time?… Ehh… what is this place?” The
excited devil was startled after taking a look at his surroundings.

He quickly flew around the area. He then looked at the giant vortex
before looking back at Wang Lin. He rubbed his hands and
cautiously said, “You… could it be that you want me to go inside
there? No, not possible! Absolutely not possible!”

Wang Lin didn’t say a word as he pointed at the vortex and stared at
the devil with a cold gaze.

This place was filled with danger. Until he had thoroughly scouted
the place, he wouldn’t recklessly charge in.

The devil had a bitter expression on his face as he firmly said, “Who
knows what is inside there? This damn place gives me a weird
feeling. I won’t go. I absolutely won’t go!”

Wang Lin slapped his bag of holding and took out several soul flags.
All of these used to belong to someone else. Wang Lin picked up one
of the flags. His eyes lit up as he reached out and grabbed Sang
Muya’s soul.

Back when Wang Lin met Sang Muya, who killed his own senior
brother to steal his foundation, Wang Lin asked him about many
things before killing him and sealing his soul within his own soul
flag.

A white light flickered in Wang Lin’s hand, revealing Sang Muya’s

terrified face. Wang Lin waved his right hand and the white light
flew toward the devil.

The devil licked his lips as he stared at the soul with greed in his
eyes and devoured it without any hesitation. After rubbing his
stomach, he shook his head like a rattle and said, “Not going, still
not going!”

Wang Lin’s eyes suddenly became cold as his Ji Realm Divine Sense
flew out. The devil let out a painful howl and green smoke appeared
on its body again. He began begging for mercy before unwillingly
walking toward the vortex.

By using the trace of divine sense he had left inside the devil, he
once again saw the scene on the other side of the vortex, but then
his expressions suddenly changed.

After passing through the vortex this time, it was not a world of ice
but a sea of fire. This was indeed a sea of fire. The further in he
looked, the darker the flames got. Looking into the distance, it was a
sea of raging, black fire that had colored the sky purple. A wave of
hot air surged forth.

In addition to all of this, various beasts formed from the fire could
been seen moving about. Just like the world of ice, in this world of
fire there was also a line of black towers that extended into the
distance.

The devil let out a scream. It seemed to be afraid of the heat wave,
so it quickly retreated.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit. His eyes lit up as he pointed toward the
vortex again and looked toward the devil. The devil immediately
cried, “Give me another soul!”

Wang Lin glanced at the devil before taking out another soul and
throwing it over. The devil immediately swallowed it and revealed
the expression of a hero ready for death as he charged back into the
vortex.

This time, the world inside changed again and it was a world of
sand. It was filled with countless large cacti as well as many
tornados in the distance.

The row of black towers extending endlessly into the distance was
exactly the same as the other two places.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. The following tests were a mountain of
blades and a jungle. Combining everything, they represented metal,
wood, water, fire, and earth; the five elements.

Wang Lin suddenly understood why Duanmu Ji went looking for

Wang Qingyue. With Wang Qingyue’s five element escape
technique, then no matter what trial, whether it was the blade
mountain, jungle, world of ice, sea of fire, or endless desert, it would
be very easy for them to pass through.

If Wang Lin could choose, then he would definitely pick the desert.
After all, he knew the earth escape technique, which would be very
useful there.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before flying to the top of a nearby
stone pillar and riding it toward the vortex. He looked over and
glanced at the devil. The devil let out a sigh and obediently entered
the vortex

Not long after, just as the stone was about to enter, Wang Lin
jumped back to a stone behind it. The devil came out with a sad
expression and went back into the vortex
This continued and on the fourth time the devil went inside, Wang
Lin’s eyes lit up and he charged into the vortex.

What appeared before him was an endless desert with violent desert
winds heading toward him. Countless black tornados could be seen
in the distance. They extended from the ground all the way into the
sky. It wouldn’t be wrong to say that they were everywhere.

Along with the wind was the sand, which would pack a hard punch if
it were to hit someone.

He put the devil away, touched the sand on the ground, took a step
forward, and disappeared into the ground. When he reappeared, he
was already 1000 feet away.

1000 feet away was the first tower in the earth trial. When he
walked into the tower, the sound of the wind outside suddenly
disappeared. It was completely silent inside the tower.

As Wang Lin carefully examined the tower, his expression became

serious. This tower had a total of three floors. While the first two
floors had nothing in them, the third floor had a table that was
covered in a thick layer of dust. Wang Lin looked around and was
about to go back down, but his eyes suddenly lit up when he stared at
the table.

When he looked at it from the side, he noticed that one spot on the
table was higher than the rest. He stepped closer to take a look
before waving his hand and creating a breeze that blew away a layer
of dust.

A row of words began to appear on the table. Wang Lin waved a few
more times and the breeze created by him gradually caused the
words to become more visible.

It was clear that these words were left by people who came here
before and were covered by dust over a long period of time.
“Because I entered this place, I decided to leave my signature!” These
few words were filled with power, like a force that pushed at him. He
pondered for a bit before leaving the black tower.

The moment he left the black tower, the howling wind came back
again. The sand was raging in the sky, covering it and making it
dark.

Wang Lin only moved through the ground using his earth escape
technique. He didn’t dare to fly, because if there were powerful
restrictions in the sky, then he would die the moment he took off.
He pondered for a bit before taking out a flying sword and throwing
it to the sky. The flying sword charged into the sky. When it was
about 1000 feet into the air, a black wind appeared out of nowhere
and turned the flying sword into dust.

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same. He had already guessed

that something like this would happen, and the flying sword was
only a confirmation. He took a look around him. This place was
about 100 kilometers away from the next tower. After pondering for
a bit, he took a step and moved forward underground using the earth
escape technique.

This time, Wang Lin could clearly feel a force preventing him from
using the earth escape technique. However, this force wasn’t very
powerful, so Wang Lin only had to use a bit of spiritual energy to
counter it. This allowed him to safely pass this 100 kilometer
distance.

After arriving at the second tower, he searched through it and found

nothing. He was not sure if Ancient Emperor and them had also
passed through this earth trial. However, from what he had heard
them say and with the mention of the ice shield, it seemed like they
were going to pass through the water trial instead.

At this very moment, several tens of thousands of kilometers in

front of Wang Lin, Hunchback Meng stood in a black tower with a
gloomy expression. He looked outside and saw that the black wind
had surrounded the area. The howling of the wind sounded like the
cries of ghosts as they leaked into the tower.

He was currently in a very sorry state. Even the toad on his shoulder
looked very weak; it swayed its head while letting out weak croaks.

As he touched the toad on his shoulder, he felt deep hatred in his

heart. Several months ago, he, Six Desire Devil Lord, and the others
were chased by the red dragon. None of them were a match for the
dragon, and even when they worked together, they still couldn’t
stand up to it. In the end, each of them could only escape on their
own.

Everyone’s goal was the swirl at the top of the passage. Only by
going into the swirl and entering the first trial would they be able to
get away from this danger, but that red dragon was close behind
them, so their original plan was destroyed.

They originally planned to enter the first trial together and use
everyone’s power to get through it. This way, the difficulty of the
first trial would decrease greatly. They would also be able to preserve
their spiritual energy and use it for the second trial.

Unfortunately, the red dragon was simply too strong, and its ability
was really hard for everyone to deal with, so they could only run.
When they arrived before the vortex, everyone rushed into it without
any thought other than escaping. As a result, everyone encountered
a different environment.

The one Hunchback Meng entered was the earth trial. When he saw
the desert, his heart sank. They originally planned on going through
the water trial, which was the world of ice. Last time they came here,
they were able to get through the water trial after many deaths.
Although it was dangerous, these lucky four had already been
through it once. They also all prepared treasures to counter that
place, so they were confident in passing through it.
However, Hunchback Meng had never experienced the earth trial
before. As a result, he could only bite the bullet and force his way
through. The first 10,000 kilometers were relatively safe, but after
that, the black wind covered the sky and beat him down. There were
also mysterious creatures inside the black wind that used sound to
attack, making it very hard to defend against.

Originally, there weren’t a lot of these creatures, so he killed them

one by one with his poison. However, he soon realized that the more
he killed, the more appeared. In the last big battle, there were cries
from at least 10,000 of those creatures.

However, Hunchback Meng was a Soul Formation cultivator, and one

that specialized in poison. Although the sound attacks from those
creature made him put up his guard, he still killed them all in the
end. But before he moved very far, more than 10,000 of those
creatures appeared again.

After killing 100,000, there were 1 million. After killing 1 million,

there were 10 million. Inside each black tornado were countless
creatures. In fact, these black winds were created by the movement
of these creatures’ wings.

He continued to kill more and more until he lost track of how many
he killed. The spiritual energy in his body was running out and it was
becoming unstable. In the end, he was finally able to create an
opening that allowed him to rush past creatures and enter the black
tower. He didn’t dare to leave.

Even though he was a Soul Formation cultivator and had poison, he

was shaken. There were simply too many enemies, and he was afraid
that if he did manage to kill all of the ones that were outside, ten
times as many of them would appear right after.

There were countless black tornados in this endless desert. Not to

mention 10 times more, 100 times, 1,000 times, or even 10,000
times more was likely. Thinking about this, Hunchback Meng’s heart
went cold.

Although none of the creatures were individually powerful, if there

were 1 billion or 10 billion of them, then their combined sound
attacks would shatter the soul of even a Soul Formation cultivator
like himself and would even break his body.

The more Wang Lin moved forward, the more confused he became.
He had already moved more than 1,000 kilometers, but aside from a
few large tornados, there weren’t any other dangers. It was just that
the resistance underground became even more powerful, forcing
him to slow down. More than half of the spiritual energy in his body
had been used to fend off this force.

Wang Lin appeared before a black tower. This black tower was 1000
feet tall and pierced right through the sky. Just as Wang Lin entered
the tower, his expression changed when he looked at the ground.
There were a few minor traces of movement on the thick layer of
dust. It was as if something had gently brushed against it.

Wang Lin slowly walked over and looked down at the ground. His
eyes sparkled as he quickly and carefully checked each floor of the
tower. On the top of the tower, he found that there were a lot of foot
prints that made a mess of the dust.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. He was not sure if there was someone
else who had entered the earth trial before him. From the looks of
the marks here, they weren’t here that long ago.

Wang Lin stood at the top of the tower and looked outside. He could
see very far from here, but aside from the countless black tornados,
there was nothing in the distance.

After pondering for a bit, he slowed down a lot as he casually moved

forward. It didn’t really matter who was before him; once he meets
them, he will definitely be controlled by them. However, if he can
control the distance between them, then he can borrow their power
to safely pass this earth trial.

With this in mind, Wang Lin slowly advanced with the earth escape
technique. As a result, he arrived at the black tower 10,000
kilometers from the start. Along the way, he would send the devil
out first every time he encountered a black tower. Only after it had
been checked by the devil did he carefully enter.

Time slowly passed. Half a month later, the height of the towers had
reached 8000 feet. Wang Lin looked down from the top of the
tower.

Along the way, he had gotten used to going to the top of each tower
and looking into the distance from there. His pupils suddenly shrank
as he saw tornados of various sizes going toward one direction as if
something was calling them.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He looked at them for a while before going
down the tower. At the bottom of the tower, he entered the ground
and continued forward.

The resistance underground was now even more powerful. He now

needed to use 80% of his spiritual energy to fend off the force and
continue to use his earth escape technique. Wang Lin suddenly
stopped when he noticed with his divine sense a black light in the
sand before him. A stench suddenly appeared, and without
hesitation, Wang Lin took out the pill Hunchback Meng had given
him and put it in his mouth. After that, he went up and appeared
aboveground.

This was the first time he had surfaced before reaching a black
tower.

The moment he appeared on the surface, the sound of the howls of

the wind increased. The pressure caused by the wind hitting his body
was painful. But at this moment, Wang Lin could not be bothered to
worry about those things anymore as his hand formed a seal and he
shouted, “Go!”

A strange wind suddenly appeared. It moved between the black

tornados and then began to move around in the desert. Gradually,
the desert seemed to be to be searched through by an invisible hand.
This hand found countless black beast corpses.

These creatures were only about the size of his fist with a pair of
thin wings on their backs. Their mouths were sharp and their faces
were fierce.

Wang Lin’s divine sense spread out. He frowned at what he saw.

There were no less than 10,000 corpses here, and their bodies were
all black, meaning they had died from a powerful poison.

Wang Lin quickly realized that the person that was ahead of him
was Hunchback Meng.

Thinking of Hunchback Meng, Wang Lin sneered, but in his heart he

became even more on guard. He sank back into the ground and
continued toward the next tower.

A few hours later, Wang Lin’s divine sense found the next tower,
only there was a small tornado in front of the tower moving back
and forth.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit as he backed up. He decided to go

around it and go straight for the next black tower. However, just at
this moment, the black tornado began to slowly move toward him.
The tornado dragged up the sand from the ground and shot it back
out. Some of the sand hit the tower, creating a series of pattering
sounds.

Wang Lin sneered. He spread out his divine sense and found that
this was the only tornado around. His Ji Realm Divine Sense
appeared and entered the black tornado. He found that there were
more than 1,000 divine senses inside it.

Each of those divine senses was roughly equal to that of a Core

Formation cultivator. As long as none of them were above the
Nascent Soul stage, they were no danger to Wang Lin. In just one
sweep, about 100 divine senses were destroyed. However, the
remaining 900 divine senses fused together to form a sword that
stabbed toward Wang Lin’s divine sense.

The tornado suddenly paused for a moment, and this pause caused
the tornado to disappear, revealing the countless small creatures
inside.

These small creatures were exactly the same as the ones Wang Lin
saw before. They were all crowded together with their wings beating
and letting out strange cries.

These sounds gathered together to make one large sound wave. At

the same time, their divine senses mixed together to form a sword.
Shortly after that sword was formed, it lunged toward Wang Lin with
the sound wave right behind it.

Wang Lin frowned as he quickly withdrew his divine sense. He

slapped his bag of holding and the devil flew out. When it saw the
sword made of divine sense, it immediately became excited and
jumped toward it without waiting for Wang Lin’s order.

As the devil flew out, the divine sense sword and sound waves
arrived one after the other. The devil let out an excited roar as his
body turned into a cloud of smoke. The cloud of smoke spread out
and quickly surrounded the sword formed from the divine sense of
all those small beasts. As for that sound wave attack, it had no effect
on the devil because he didn’t really have a body, so passed through
him.
At the same time, Wang Lin opened his mouth and spat out a crystal
light. The crystal sword shot toward the group of creatures. When it
got close, all of the small creatures scattered. There were so many of
them that they covered the sky.

All of this happened in an instant. After Wang Lin saw the small
beasts scatter, he quickly slapped his bag of holding and hundreds of
flying swords flew out. Wang Lin’s divine sense latched onto each
sword. Using the might of his Ji Realm Divine Sense, the flying
swords rained down on the small creatures.
Chapter 173: The second devil
Wang Lin didn’t want to deal with all of them in one go; he wanted
to force them to split up. Sure enough, under the rain of swords, the
small beasts split up once more. Wang Lin went through the gaps
the small creatures had left and arrived outside the tower. He
stopped before the door and turned around to retrieve all of the
flying swords that were flying back toward him.

At the same time, he called the devil back. The devil was too busy
devouring the divine senses of the small creatures and completely
ignored Wang Lin. Wang Lin let out a cold snort as his Ji Realm
Divine Sense flew out.

When that snort reached the devil’s ears, it made him shiver in fear.
He no longer dared to continue devouring the divine senses, so he
reformed his body from the cloud of black smoke and went into the
tower along with Wang Lin. While he was floating around Wang Lin,
he felt like he had been wronged. He longingly looked at the divine
senses of those beasts one last time before going back into the
dragon tendon.

He didn’t understand what was wrong with this fiend’s brain to

leave all these enemies unkilled and telling him to come back.

Wang Lin’s expression was very serious as he stared at those small

creatures from inside the black tower. There was a reason why he
stopped the devil from devouring them all. He thought about it and
came to the conclusion that these small creatures gathered together
to form these large tornados. The one thing this place had the most
of were these black tornados.

This meant that there was virtually an unlimited number of these

small creatures. Their main means of attack were divine sense and
sound waves. Although their attacks were fairly powerful, their
bodies were extremely weak.
As a result, it made destroying these small creatures very easy,
especially for someone like Hunchback Meng, who only needed to
throw out some poison. However, Wang Lin couldn’t forget what he
saw from the top of the last black tower, when countless black
tornados were gathering in one spot.

That kind of movement had purpose, which meant that these small
creatures had a way of calling each other. After too many of them
die, they call their friends. If he were to get trapped in that kind of
cycle, then he would certainly end up dead. There were simply too
many tornados.

At the same time, if he killed too many, then they might call back
those black tornados that were heading toward Hunchback Meng. If
that were to happen, it wouldn’t be Hunchback Meng opening the
path for him but him helping Hunchback Meng by distracting the
black tornados.

In that last battle, around 200 of those small creatures were

destroyed by Wang Lin and the devil. His eyes sparkled as he stared
at the small creatures outside. The creatures gathered together again
to form the black tornado. After circling the tower a few times, they
no longer cared about Wang Lin and continued to move forward.

After the black tornado left, Wang Lin let out a sigh of relief. At the
same time, his heart turned cold. This earth trial was very strange.
The logic here was completely opposite of what was normal. When
someone notices that those small creature specialize in divine sense
and sound attacks but have weak bodies, their first reaction would
be to kill them as quickly as possible to prevent attracting more.

But as a result, once a certain amount of these small creatures are

killed and they begin to call for help, then unless your cultivation is
heavenly, the only road left is death.

Wang Lin cultivated at the top of the black tower and stared into the
distance, looking at where all of the black tornados were gathering.
After pondering for a while, he decided to not rush things and to
wait inside the black tower.

He then looked at the devil. The devil’s face was filled with greed as
he watched the black tornado leave.

Wang Lin didn’t explain but coldly said, “I don’t care how many souls
you have devoured; spit out half of them for me.”

The devil struggled with the decision. If he were to escape right now,
would this fiend chase after him? He hesitated for a bit before
looking at Wang Lin. When he saw Wang Lin’s gaze turn hostile, he
quickly began to spit out large number of those small beasts’ souls.

After spitting out 20, he pretended to look weak. He secretly

thought, “No matter how powerful you are, you still have to eat what
I spit out! If you have skill, then don’t eat it!”

Wang Lin didn’t know what the devil was thinking, but after seeing
the pride in the devil’s face, he was about to take a guess. However,
Wang Lin couldn’t be bothered with such things. All of his attention
was focused on the 20 souls of those small creatures.

After carefully looking at them for a while, he grabbed the souls and
walked up the tower. After finding a floor of the right size, his Ji
Realm spread out and surrounded the area.

The devil followed behind Wang Lin. He wanted to see Wang Lin
eating the souls covered in his drool with his own eyes. While he
still feeling proud of himself, he suddenly noticed that the
surroundings were covered in Wang Lin’s divine sense. This divine
sense that made him feel pain worse than death, the red lightning
that caused him nightmares, was moving around the room. His
entire body suddenly became soft. He secretly thought, “It’s over! It’s
over! It seems like this fiend is going to end me…”
Terrified, he was about to start begging for mercy when he noticed
that Wang Lin wasn’t even looking at him. Wang Lin was currently
silently staring at the 20 souls of the small creatures. The devil
swallowed the words he was going to say and considered himself
lucky.

Wang Lin carefully observed the souls of these small creatures. They
had about the same strength as an early stage Core Formation
cultivator. They weren’t strong, but not really weak either. If it
wasn’t for the fact that he had forcefully nurtured the devil to be like
the wandering souls, the devil wouldn’t have been able to easily
devour all of these souls that were similar to him.

It was due to the devil’s success that he came up with the idea of
making another devil. He knew that his main weakness was that he
lacked magic treasures. Even now, the only one he could use for a
fight was the flying sword. As for the others, they were all too low
quality to be of any use.

Aside from the flying sword, there was the devil. This devil proved to
be quite useful earlier. If he hadn’t used the devil against that divine
sense sword, he would’ve had a much harder time.

The only other treasures he had were the dragon tendon and the
scroll. However, the aura in the scroll was too strange. Wang Lin
decided that until he fully understands what the scroll is, he will not
use it.

The key to raising a devil was the special nature of the soul. The first
devil’s soul had the potential of a Nascent Soul cultivator. This
allowed Wang Lin to raise it in such a way that it managed to gain a
few of a wandering soul’s attributes. However, compared to the
wandering souls of the world of decay, there were still many
differences.

If it were a true wandering soul, then no matter what cultivation

level the enemy is at, once it jumps on them, it will be able to devour
their soul and suck away all of the essence of their flesh. Unless they
meet some very powerful cultivator that can destroy them, their only
natural enemies are soul devourers.

However, the devil Xu Liguo could only devour souls that were at the
same cultivation level as him. If he tried to devour the soul of a
Nascent Soul cultivator, then there was a chance that he would be
repelled.

What attracted Wang Lin was the small creatures’ ability to fuse
together. This was the first time he had seen divine sense able to
fuse together to form a new divine sense.

This special ability made Wang Lin want to use it to make a devil.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before slapping his bag of holding,
causing a few soul flags to fly out and float around him. The souls
inside the flags were mostly demonic cultivators of the Sea of Devils,
as well as some creatures from the Sea of Devils.

He waved his right hand, trapping 19 of the souls inside a cage of

spiritual energy and leaving only one of them all by itself.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as he retrieved a soul from one of the

flags. He threw the soul out after leaving a mark on it.

Unfortunately, just like Xu Liguo back then, the soul of the small
beast didn’t know how to devour at all, so it stared dumbfoundedly
at the surroundings instead. However, Wang Lin wasn’t in a rush.
After having experienced raising a devil once, he knew that to make
a soul have abilities similar to a wandering soul’s would take time.

However, this first step required him to be a little bit more forceful.
Red lightning appeared in Wang Lin’s eyes as his Ji Realm formed a
net around the small creature and slowly closed in on it.
Under the pressure of the net, the soul of the small creature began
to move. Seeing that there was nowhere to go, it started to move
toward the other soul.

Wang Lin was completely focused on watching the soul of the small
creature only to see the small creature suddenly speed up and ram
into the other soul. It didn’t devour the other soul but fused with it.
Wang Lin could feel that the small creature’s soul had become a bit
stronger.

He was surprised. He originally thought that he would have to spend

a lot of effort to force it to devour. After all, the devil Xu Liguo took
some effort back then. He didn’t expect that he would only need to
push it a little and it would fuse with the other soul by itself.
Although it was not devouring, the effect was the same.

Without a word, Wang Lin withdrew the red net, took out another
soul, and threw it out after leaving his mark on it. This time, the
small creature charged forth and fused with it without any input
from Wang Lin.

As a result, Wang Lin was now very interested. His eyes lit up and he
pointed at the soul flags multiple times. More than a dozen souls
flew out. After leaving his mark on them, he threw them out.

At this moment, the soul of the small creature suddenly began to

move, ramming into the souls one by one. Every time it collided with
one, it would fuse with it and become stronger before moving on to
the next one.

In less than one hour of time, the small creature finished fusing
with more than a dozen souls. It looked like it was even about to
break through from the early stage of Core Formation to the mid
stage.

Wang Lin was even more interested now as he took one of the soul
flags and shook it. More than a hundred souls flew out. After leaving
his mark on all of them, they flew toward the small creature.

The soul of the small creature let out a sharp cry. This was the first
time it had made a sound inside the tower. As it howled, a sound
wave began to spread out. When Wang Lin saw this, he was very
happy. His eyes sparkled; his attention was completely on the small
creature.

He knew that he had found a treasure. For some reason, this small
creature’s soul was very strange. It seemed like it was made to be
made into a devil. With almost no forcefulness needed, it would
start fusing with other souls on its own. In addition to this, what
surprised Wang Lin the most was the sound wave attack. He
originally thought that the creature would require a body to use this
attack, but it could be used with just the soul.

When Wang Lin took a closer look, he realized that this sound wave
was designed to attack the soul. After the sound wave spread out, all
of the souls that were charging toward it slowed down and seemed
to be dying.

Just at this moment, the soul of the small creature charged out. In
less than half an hour, it completely devoured these more than 100
souls. Shortly after, the soul exploded into a red mist about 10 feet
wide and slowly fell down.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as he waved the soul flag. The remaining 19
souls of the small creatures were sucked into the flag before it was
placed back inside his bag of holding. He then turned around and
stared at the red mist. He could feel the slivers of divine sense he
had marked the souls with slowly fusing with the soul of the small
creature.

The devil stood on the side and stared dumbfoundedly at everything

that was happening. He secretly thought, “Violent! This little brother
is too violent! Looks like I’ll have to start working harder, or else
this fiend might feed me to this little brother!” The devil’s body
trembled as he backed away. He floated in the air and began to
quickly digest the souls he had devoured.

This wait lasted three days. During these days, there was no change
to the red mist at all. Aside from observing the red mist, he saw
countless black tornados pass by. One of the black tornados was
more than 10,000 feet tall. It was like the king of black tornados had
passed by the black tower.

As the biggest tornado passed by, it paused for a moment as

countless divine senses surged forth. Their target wasn’t Wang Lin
but the red mist.

However, the moment those divine senses hit the black tower, they
were bounced back. The king-like black tornado lingered around the
black tower for a bit before leaving.

Wang Lin could clearly feel that when the divine sense from the
black tornado came, there was an abnormal fluctuation inside the
red mist. This surprised Wang Lin and made him observe the red
mist even more carefully.

Gradually, more and more black tornados appeared. They were all
heading toward one direction. Wang Lin sneered; there was no need
to guess if that direction was where Hunchback Meng was.

Hunchback Meng’s face was very gloomy. In truth, when he killed

the first wave of the small creatures and was immediately
surrounded by a second wave that had ten times more than the first
wave, he realized he messed up.

His actions were based off the experience in the world of ice. In that
trial, there was also a type of creature that lived there and appeared
in massive groups. One had to kill them as quickly as possible or
else they would attract more.
However, this damn earth trial was the exact opposite. This thought
made Hunchback Meng let out a bitter smile. But since he had
already reached this point, even if he no longer attacked them, those
small beasts would continue to attack him with sound waves and
divine sense attacks.

Eventually, Hunchback Meng’s demonic side began to show. He gave

up on restraining himself and threw out large amounts of poison. As
a result, the small creatures began to call for help more and more, to
the point that even though he was inside a black tower, the amount
of small creatures that had gathered had reached a point that made
even his mind go blank.

He was currently standing inside the black tower and looking out at
the endless black tornados. At the same time, the number of small
creatures kept increasing as they called for more back up. He had
attempted to use the tower as a base and throwing poison out from
inside it, but the tower had a powerful restriction on it. While it
prevented the small creatures from attacking, it also prevented
people inside the tower from attacking what was outside.

Hunchback Meng wasn’t sure what would happen if he were to leave

the tower. He was sure that he would receive the combined divine
sense and sound wave attacks of 100 million, or even 1 billion, of
those small creatures the moment he walked out.

Even though he was a Soul Formation cultivator that could cause 10

million cultivators to tremble with a single stomp from his foot,
there was no way for him to take the combined divine senses and
sound wave attacks of more than 1 billion of those small creatures.

After pondering for a bit, he touched the toad on his shoulder and
revealed a vicious expression. Without a word, he pointed at the
toad. The toad then jumped down from his shoulder and began to
croak.
Hunchback Meng’s heart ached as he looked at the toad. He let out a
sigh and then put it away. After pondering for a bit, he took out a
100-foot-long python. On the head of the snake there was a single
horn. The moment it appeared, the air around it became hot.

“If I use the toad, then I won’t get injured, but the toad will die for
sure. Ah, this one-horned python is a mid quality spirit beast.
Although I can still use this, I will receive some injuries,” Hunchback
Meng muttered to himself as his index finger slashed his middle
finger to draw out a drop of blood. He chanted some strange words
and the drop of blood rapidly became lighter in color until it was
milky white. The white drop of blood landed on the head of the
python.

Hunchback Meng quickly formed seals with a serious expression on

his face. He slowly pointed at his own forehead and pulled
something out. A crystal, silk-like thread was pulled out from his
forehead. The thread was then slowly pressed against that milky
white spot on the python’s forehead.

After a very long time, Hunchback Meng took a deep breath, stood
up, and then casually threw the python on the ground. The moment
the python landed, it coiled up and remained still.

Hunchback Meng’s eyes became fierce as he walked out of the tower

without any hesitation. The moment he walked out, the howling of
the black tornados increased countless fold. All of the small
creatures fused their divine senses and unleashed a torrent of
attacks upon Hunchback Meng.

At this moment, even the sky changed colors, and the restriction
that was placed at the top of the earth trial began to shake.

Wang Lin wasn’t very close to that place, but even he felt the
pressure. He opened his eyes and looked toward where Hunchback
Meng was.
At the same time, an abnormal fluctuation happened in the red mist.
This pulled his attention away from what was going on with
Hunchback Meng. He reached out with his hand and a blue flame
appeared.

If the devil that comes out of the red mist wasn’t under his control,
he would use his Ji Realm and the blue flame to completely destroy
it. If it could be controlled, then it would be for the better.

When the powerful divine sense attack came, Hunchback Meng

didn’t dodge but waved his sleeves. A large amount of black smoke
poured out of them.

The black smoke gathered and became a cloud. This cloud began to
spread out. Any of the small creatures that touched the black cloud
immediately fell from the sky and began to twitch. Its body would
then turn into black smoke, which would soon after join the black
cloud.

Right after he finished pouring out the smoke, the series of powerful
divine sense attacks arrived. Hunchback Meng let out a miserable
groan. His body then became more and more illusionary until it was
replaced by a 100-foot-long python with a horn on its head. The
snake rolled around for a bit before being completely disintegrated
by the divine sense attacks. Even its core was turned to dust.

At the same time, the python that was inside the tower became
blurry and soon turned into Hunchback Meng. His face was pale and
he coughed out a mouthful of blood. He revealed a bloodthirsty
smile as he muttered, “My heaven-destroying poison is considered
the number 1 poison in the Sea of Devils, and I have used it all up. I
don’t believe that I can’t kill all of you!”

The black cloud covered the area around the tower. As soon as it
touched a tornado, the tornado would collapse into countless small
creatures. Soon after, those small creatures would turn into black
smoke and become part of the black cloud.
As result, the black cloud became larger and larger. The speed at
which it expanded rapidly increased.

As for Wang Lin, his expression was very serious as he stared at the
red mist. The fluctuations in the red mist became much more
frequent until the red mist began to slowly condense again. Wang
Lin didn’t even blink. The sound of fire burning could be heard
coming from the blue flame in his hand.

At this moment, red lightning appeared in his eyes and the

restrictions he had set using his Ji Realm became even more sturdy.
Even the devil Xu Liguo regained his senses. After looking around
for a bit, he became very happy and secretly thought, “It seems this
little brother will not be so easy to control. It is best that both of you
heavily injure each other so that I can devour you both. Haha, now
that is a good idea!”

The more he thought about it, the more excited he became. His eyes
sparkled endlessly. Although the devil Xu Liguo had recovered a bit
of his memory, it was only but a sliver. The remaining memories
vanished when he became a devil. He didn’t consider himself a
cultivator at all; he only thought of himself as a devil.

Time slowly passed. The red mist became smaller and smaller until
finally, all of the rest mist suddenly condensed into a red, glowing
orb. After a few crackling sounds, the orb shattered, releasing a dark
red gas. The gas quickly took the shape of the head of the small
creature with its sharp beak and emitted a cold aura.

The moment it appeared, it disappeared. Although Wang Lin was

secretly shocked, his face remained calm as he turned to the right
and shot his Ji Realm out.

The red creature appeared in the direction Wang Lin turned to. It
was shocked and quickly disappeared again. This was the first time
Wang Lin’s Ji Realm had missed.
This showed just how fast the new devil was. Wang Lin remained
calm. Not only did he not panic, but he became even more calm. His
eyes became cold as his Ji Realm shot out behind him.

A miserable scream came from behind him. The moment the devil
appeared, it collided headfirst with Wang Lin’s Ji Realm. It wasn’t
able to dodge it in time, so the Ji Realm filled its body.

Its body involuntarily floated into the air and moved before Wang
Lin. It looked at Wang Lin with a terrified expression as it let out
miserable cries.

The devil Xu Liguo took a deep breath and quickly discarded the idea
of rebelling. He didn’t think that the fiend could so easily defeat his
little brother. After pondering for a bit, he realized what had
happened and secretly cursed, “Evil!”
Chapter 174: The devil’s mutation
Wang Lin’s gaze became cold as he stared at the newly formed devil.
His Ji Realm left his body, took the shape of a red dragon, and then
roared at the small creature.

His majesty as a soul devourer was suddenly on full display. Not to

mention the small creature, even the devil Xu Liguo was so scared
that he sank to the ground and didn’t dare to move. The pressure of
a natural predator caused his heart to tremble.

The small beast began to struggle and let our roars of its own, but
compared to Wang Lin’s roar, it was filled with helplessness. The
small creature eventually began to beg for mercy with its eyes.

The dragon formed by Wang Lin’s Ji Realm coldly stared at the small
creature for a long time before finally returning to Wang Lin’s body.
He then he waved his hand and took out a soul flag. The devil didn’t
hesitate at all to turn into red mist and enter the soul flag.

Wang Lin left a sliver of his divine sense in the soul flag before
putting it back into his bag of holding. Then he waved his other
hand and threads appeared all over the room. This was a
countermeasure he had set up against the devil.

As Wang Lin waved his hand, those threads of divine sense returned
to him.

The reason why he was able to find the small creature no matter
how fast it was was partly due to these threads of divine sense.
When he first noticed the abnormal fluctuations in the red mist, he
used the divine sense restriction he had placed to silently create a
spider web of divine sense threads.

No matter where that small creature went, Wang Lin would be able
to track it. Also, after it had devoured so many souls with slivers of
Wang Lin’s divine sense, the mark left on the small creature also
played a big role.

Under the effect of both of these, it was no surprise that Wang Lin
could track it.

After withdrawing his divine sense, he stood up and looked outside

the window. After pondering for a bit, he walked down the tower. At
the door of the tower, he organized everything before walking
outside. The devil saw Wang Lin go underground and quickly
followed.

Unfortunately, before he followed for long, he was caught by Wang

Lin and was thrown into the dragon tendon.

In this location, the resisting force was very powerful. Wand Lin had
to use almost 90% of his spiritual energy to resist it. As a result, his
speed involuntarily slowed down.

As he slowly moved forward, his divine sense was spread out to

carefully observe what was in the distance.

A few days later, Wang Lin’s expression changed. He saw through

his divine sense that there was a black cloud quickly flying towards
him.

Whenever the black cloud moved, the black tornados would attempt
to dodge. Those that weren’t fast enough would scatter into
countless small creatures and be devoured by the black cloud. Wang
Lin put the pill into his mouth again as he stared at the black cloud
and sank even lower.

Before long, the the black cloud passed by. Behind the black cloud
was the king tornado. It was currently spinning rapidly to create as
much wind as possible. This was what was causing the black cloud
to move so quickly.
The king tornado pushed the black cloud past where Wang Lin was
and went into the distance. Not long after, the king tornado
returned. This time, it moved even faster as it let out loud howls and
disappeared again.

After it left, Wang Lin continued to slowly move forward. He

sneered. That black cloud must have been created by Hunchback
Meng. If it wasn’t for the king tornado pushing it away, then the
small creatures would have suffered greatly once it spread out.

After pondering for a while, his eyes lit up. Hunchback Meng must
have quite a bit of treasures and pills on him; if these small
creatures could kill him, then Wang Lin might be able to take some.
Thinking about the treasure of a powerful Soul Formation cultivator,
Wang Lin’s heart began to beat faster. However, he quickly dispelled
the idea. Compared to treasures, his life was much more important.

After letting out a sigh, Wang Lin discarded all of these unrealistic
ideas and continued to move forward. However, after confirming
Hunchback Meng’s location, he no longer went straight forward; he
went around instead.

Half a month later, he passed an area filled with black tornados that
stunned him the moment he saw them with his divine sense.

It was a very dense group of tornados. The amount of small

creatures there must have exceeded 100 million. Wang Lin’s head
tingled. This made him even more cautious. He spent a month going
around this group of tornados.

Most of the black tornados had been attracted by Hunchback Meng,

so although there were same scares along the way, there was no real
danger. Wang Lin was currently inside a black tower as he looked
back at where Hunchback Meng was.

After sneering in his heart, Wang Lin left the tower and continued
forward. He could see a giant vortex in the sky in the very far
distance.

That vortex was the same as the one in the void. It clearly led to the
second trial!

Wang Lin took a deep breath and walked toward the vortex. At this
point, he could no longer use the earth escape technique because the
resisting force underground was too great. Even if he were to use
100% of his spiritual energy, he couldn’t move with the earth escape
technique at all.

However, the earth escape technique didn’t increase one’s speed

only when they were underground. As long as there was earth under
his feet, then although it wouldn’t be as fast as a flying sword, it was
still faster than running.

In these past few months, Wang Lin had been constantly using the
earth escape technique, so his mastery of it had increased a lot.
Wang Lin could feel that the earth escape technique he knew was
nothing compared to the real earth escape technique that was said
to allow one to travel tens of thousands of kilometers in a few
breaths of time.

As Wang Lin sighed, he didn’t forget to keep his divine sense spread
out to carefully check the surroundings. Luckily, large amounts of
black tornados were attracted by Hunchback Meng. As Wang Lin
flew forward, he didn’t meet too much danger.

Three days later, the vortex was now in sight. As he walked along,
Wang Lin’s expression suddenly changed and he drilled into the
ground. Suddenly, a powerful force began to resist him. He drank a
large gulp of spirit liquid for the power to fend it off.

Not far away, ten black tornados suddenly appeared in the direction
of the vortex. Their target was Hunchback Meng. When they arrived
at the spot where Wang Lin was hiding, the black tornados suddenly
stopped and began to circle the area.
Wang Lin’s heart sank. He had tried to enter the heaven defying
bead’s space before, but he couldn’t enter it since arriving in this
desert. Otherwise, he would have just gone inside it until the
tornados passed.

Wang Lin looked at the vortex in the distance and began to

calculate. He clenched his teeth as he slapped his bag of holding to
bring out the devil. When the devil saw all the small creatures above
them, he became very excited and immediately charged toward
them.

Unfortunately, the moment he appeared, all of the surrounding ten

tornados let out howls. More than 10,000 divine senses merged
together and crashed down on the devil.

The devil let out a miserable scream. The combined divine sense
attack was not something he could handle. His body began to release
green smoke, making him want to retreat to where Wang Lin was,
but then the second attack came.

At the same time, Wang Lin took out a soul flag and shook it,
causing the second devil to come out. The second devil was startled
for a moment before letting out a sharp cry.

After the sharp cry, all of the tornados paused and stopped spinning,
revealing the countless small creatures inside. All of the small
creatures were startled as they stared at the second devil. Even the
second attack on Xu Liguo was stopped.

The second devil’s eyes turned red as it let out another cry. All of the
small creatures began to back up. Their eyes were filled with terror
when they looked at the second devil.

Wang Lin was surprised. His eyes sparkled as he began to ponder. As

for Xu Liguo, he felt very humiliated. It could be said that recovering
his memory wasn’t always a good thing. At least he wouldn’t feel
humiliated before he recovered his memory. At this moment, he
secretly thought, “This is too shameful; I was saved by little brother.
No matter what, I was the first to follow this fiend. No, if this
continues, then every little brother this fiend makes will be stronger
than me. No, I can’t let it happen!”

The devil gritted his teeth and charged into one of the tornados.
After grabbing a few of those small creatures, he began to devour
them.

The small creatures began to panic and began to dodge, but the
second devil let out another cry. Those small creatures no longer
dared to move; the fear in their eyes deepened.

The more Wang Lin saw, the more his eyes lit up. He suddenly came
up with an idea. The second devil must’ve seemed like a mutation to
these small creatures. It must’ve been some mysterious connection
between them that caused this scene to happen.

If this was true, then the reason why these small creatures’ divine
senses could merge made sense. His eyes lit up as he came out from
underground.

Although the small creatures were cautious when he appeared, they

didn’t panic or attack.

At this moment, the second devil looked at Xu Liguo, who was

devouring the small creatures, and let out a few strange cries. All of
the small creatures’ bodies shook. Their divine senses left their
bodies to fuse into an attack that was directed at Xu Liguo.

Xu Liguo immediately smiled and revealed an expression that

looked like he was trying to please the second devil. He quickly spat
out all of the souls he had devoured before quickly returning to
Wang Lin. Once he was behind Wang Lin, his expression changed to
one filled with hatred as he stared viciously at the second devil.
He secretly complained in his heart, “You wait! Just you wait! Push
me too far and I’ll fight you to the death!”

Wang Lin didn’t even look at Xu Liguo. He was secretly holding the
defensive jade Li Muwan had given him. His divine sense spread out
and checked the small creatures one by one. In the end, he found
that about ten of them were considered mutants, because they had
more powerful divine senses.

While Wang Lin observed, he was able to find a total of 10 variants,

then one of them suddenly flew before the second devil and let out a
few sharp crys.
Chapter 175: Stealing Treasure
The second devil’s eyes turned red. Without any warning, it charged
toward the small creature. The small creature was also fierce; its
divine sense flew out and charged forth as well.

The two immediately collided with each other, and due to the divine
sense mark Wang Lin had left on the second devil, he was able to
immediately notice the change. This confrontation was filled with
many dangers as only one of them could exist. It was either the
second devil would be devoured or that variant small creature would
merge with the second devil.

Soon after, Wang Lin let out a soul. The devils he had made as a soul
devourer already contained characteristics of a wandering soul; how
could this variant compare?

The two souls began to fuse together and the second devil began to
surface. The variant’s divine sense gradually faded until it was
completely devoured by the second devil.

A group of small creatures quickly surrounded the second devil and

formed the black tornado again. Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. The reason
why these small creatures could merge their divine senses was
because there was a powerful leader guiding them. The fact that
these small creatures’ divine senses could merge and even devour
each other were related to their nature.

The second devil let out a few cries and was ready to charge toward
the variant in another black tornado when Wang Lin let out a cold
snort. The second devil immediately stopped. Even the tornado
stopped spinning and turned back into countless small creatures.

Wang Lin could clearly see that within the small creatures, the
second devil revealed a painful expression with deep fear for Wang
Lin in its eyes.
Wang Lin sent out a message. The second devil quickly let out a cry
and the surrounding small beasts surrounded Wang Lin. Wang Lin
remained calm; his eyes were as calm as water. He didn’t have any
reaction toward the small creatures flapping their wings around
him.

After those small creatures got close to him, they didn’t attack.
Instead, they lifted him up and turned back into a black tornado.

The devil Xu Liguo wanted to follow him in, but he was repelled by
the black tornado. He let out a series of roars because he felt very
wronged. In the end, it was Wang Lin who reached out and dragged
him inside.

While inside the black tornado, he didn’t even have to fly at all; he
was standing on a few of the small creatures. Also, he was
surrounded by the combined divine senses of all these small
creatures, so the ones in other tornados could barely notice him
through it.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He gave the second devil an order and the
tornado immediately flew toward where Hunchback Meng was.
When he did that, the rest of the tornados followed. Soon, the ten
tornados arrived at where all the other tornados were gathering.

When they got close, a powerful divine sense went past them. Wang
Lin became alert, but the divine sense didn’t stop and just swept past
them.

The divine sense clearly didn’t observe closely; it only took a glance
and found nothing wrong.

Maybe in its view there couldn’t be any abnormality in the tornado.

Wang Lin stared at the king tornado and sneered in his heart.
Needless to say, that divine sense definitely belonged to the variant
inside the king tornado.
He already had some understanding of these small creatures. In
every single tornado, there was a more powerful variant inside. They
were the ones that allowed the small creatures to merge their divine
senses and gave orders.

This was like the difference between generals and soldiers. The
normal small creatures were soldiers, the more powerful variants
were generals, and the one in the tornado that seemed to reach the
heavens was the king.

After getting close, Wang Lin could see that among this giant cluster
of tornados, there was a sky high black tower. Hunchback Meng
must’ve been inside.

Wang Lin wasn’t in a rush. The reason he asked the second devil to
bring him here was because he realized that he could get close
without being noticed. He acted based on the opportunities given.
He didn’t think he could kill Hunchback Meng, but he wanted to use
this chance to steal some treasures.

The divine sense mark left inside the second devil was different
from the one left inside the devil Xu Liguo. The devil Xu Liguo was
cultivated for a very long time, so Wang Lin’s divine sense mark was
deeply ingrained in him. In fact, Wang Lin wouldn’t even need his Ji
Realm, all he needed was but a thought to destroy Xu Liguo.
However, in normal circumstances, he wouldn’t use the mark he had
left to attack. He kept it as his last resort.

He normally used his Ji Realm to threaten and the mark to secretly

manipulate. After all, Xu Liguo had recovered some of his memories,
making him very different from wandering souls.

But the second devil was different. Although Wang Lin’s mark on
the second devil wasn’t deep, he took the initiative at the start to
make it so the second devil wouldn’t ever dare to rebel.
The reason Wang Lin stopped the second devil from merging with
more of the variant creatures inside the other tornados was because
he was afraid the fusion would dilute his divine sense mark. This
would cause problems. With Wang Lin’s cunning, there was no way
he would let something like that happen.

When even someone as tenacious as Xu Liguo was completely tamed

by Wang Lin, there was no way a devil created from a simple beast
could be a match.

Hunchback Meng’s face was as gloomy as mud water as he looked

bitterly at the tornados outside. He paid special attention to the
largest tornado with a look of dread on his face. The divine sense
inside the largest tornado was as powerful as all the other tornados’
combined. It was able to use just its divine sense to push his heaven-
destroying poison far away.

During this time, he had used up all of the spirit beasts inside his
bag of holding. Although the techniques he used after using a spirit
beast as a substitute was able to kill a lot of them, more creatures
quickly arrived.

It was impossible to kill them all!

And if he made a mistake, then he would be hit by the combined

divine senses of all those small creatures. Even though he was a Soul
Formation cultivator, this would still injure him.

This wouldn’t be a light injury but a major injury that could cause his
cultivation to drop greatly.

As for treasures, he had also used quite a few. Although they had
some effect, the result was the same.

At this moment, he had reached the end of his rope. It was not that
he hadn’t considered charging out; he had already tried doing so.
That time, he used more than ten spirit beasts as substitutes, but
just as he was about to break through the siege, the largest tornado
hit him. Not only did it prevent him from leaving, it also injured
him.

Hunchback Meng bitterly thought, “Could the heavens want me

dead? I have already defied the heavens as I cultivated and finally
reached the mid stage of Soul Formation. I originally thought I could
use this cultivation to get a Soul Transformation pill and reach the
Soul Transformation stage in one go, but…” He couldn’t help but
think back to 1000 years ago when the last group came. Everyone
but them four died.

There were many people among them that had higher cultivation
levels than they did, but they all died. The four of them only survived
due to sheer luck.

After 1000 years of preparation, he was able to increase his

cultivation level from late stage Nascent Soul to mid stage Soul
Formation. The reason he was able to increase his cultivation so fast
was because he consumed one of the Giant Demon Clan’s major
treasures, the Ancestral Demon Heart!

This was also why he was wanted and being hunted by the Giant
Demon Clan!

Hunchback Meng revealed an expression of unwillingness. He

clenched his teeth as his gaze fell on the toad. This toad, Li Tian, had
been with him for thousands of years and had never abandoned
him. He watched it grow from a low quality spirit beast to a high
quality spirit beast. It was already considered a pseudo desolate
beast. If there were some pills to help it, it could truly become a
desolate beast in another 1000 years.

But now Hunchback Meng had no other option. He caressed the toad
and whispered, “If I could teleport in this damn place, then I
wouldn’t be in this situation. Li Tian, this time I’m depending on
you!”
As he spoke, his right hand suddenly reached into the toad’s mouth.
The toad’s body trembled and it revealed a painful expression.
However, it didn’t resist; it only calmly looked at its owner.

Hunchback Meng closed his eyes but quickly reopened them. His
eyes were now merciless as he said, with a heavy tone, “Li Tian, I’m
sorry!” With that, his right hand viciously pulled back. In his hand
was a green core that was emitting powerful spiritual energy
fluctuations.

The toad, Li Tian, weakened until fell on its side. It let out a weak
croak as all the pustules on its back began to break and leak a foul-
smelling black liquid that covered its body. Even its croaking had no
real strength behind it anymore.

Without any hesitation, Hunchback Meng threw the toad’s origin

core into his mouth. His body immediately began to twitch and black
smoke emerged from his face. He let out a few roars as all the
pustules on his face broke. Black liquid shot out everywhere and
released black smoke as it landed on the walls.

There are many levels of cores in a spirit beast, but only when a
creature reaches spirit beast level does a true core form. Although
some variants also have cores, those are just fakes. They are just
formed by their spiritual energy and used as storage.

A real core is very different as they are the basis for all of that
beast’s techniques. When a beast reaches low quality spirit beast
rank, an earth core similar to that of a Core Formation cultivator’s
core is formed. However, it is still very different from the core of a
Core Formation cultivator.

When they become mid quality spirit beasts, their earth cores turn
into heaven cores, and when they become high quality spirit beasts,
their heaven cores turn into origin cores, only one step away from a
desolate beast’s origin soul!
Only when they reach desolate beast rank do their origin cores turn
into origin souls. At that point, they truly become powerful desolate
beasts.

The black gas on Hunchback Meng became even denser as he lied

on the ground and grabbed the toad. After grabbing the toad, he
pressed it against his forehead.

More and more black liquid came out of the toad. This liquid
covered the pustules on Hunchback Meng’s face and entered them.
Eventually, the entire toad turned into black liquid, which was
absorbed by Hunchback Meng.

The hump on Hunchback Meng’s back suddenly swelled up and

numerous pustules appeared on it. These pustules covered his entire
back. Looking at him now, he looked similar to the toad.

Hunchback Meng closed his eyes. Black gas gathered on his

forehead and formed a vortex. Then he suddenly opened his eyes.
His pupils were now triangular. They revealed a ruthless gaze.

As Hunchback Meng clenched his fists, black lightning appeared and

crackled in his hand. He took a deep breath and muttered to himself,
in a husky voice, “This ancient demonic technique is really amazing.
By using the origin core of the high quality spirit beast toad, it was
able to increase my cultivation to the peak of late stage Soul
Formation. This time I will be able to charge through! However, this
price is simply too great. If I wasn’t forced into this helpless
situation… alas!”

With that, he slowly walked out of the black tower. When he came
out, lightning formed by the merged divine senses suddenly
descended. Hunchback Meng, with eyes fierce, spat out green gas.
The moment the divine sense lightning entered the green gas, it
slowed down a bit. Taking this opportunity, Hunchback Meng
jumped into one of the tornados.
The tornado suddenly stopped spinning and the small creatures
inside it spread out. However, they didn’t move far before exploding.
Their blood rain downed from the sky.

Hunchback Meng’s eyes were ruthless as he jumped into the next

tornado.

But shortly after, millions of divine senses merged together to form

a lance that charged forth like it was going to break the sky.

This lance left many after images as it travel across the sky. One
second it was in the air and the next it was closing in on Hunchback
Meng, leaving behind sonic booms. Even the restrictions of the
earth trial were affected; they let out thunderous roars.

The tornado Wang Lin was in was far in the back, so it didn’t affect
him much. He stared at Hunchback Meng’s inhuman figure. He paid
extra attention to the bag of holding on Hunchback Meng’s waist.

As for the divine sense lance, Hunchback Meng only took one gaze
at it before forming a seal with his hands and letting out a complex
chant. Suddenly, a small, four-legged cauldron covered in gas flew
out of his mouth.

The moment the cauldron appeared, a thick, green gas began to

spread out of it. The lance landed on the small cauldron. The
collision of the two created a thunderous rumble and a 10-foot-thick
shock wave quickly spread out. Even the tornados were forced to
escape. Those that weren’t quick enough were hit by the shock wave.
All of the small creatures inside those tornados turned to dust.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as he backed up along with the other

tornados, but his gaze was still locked onto Hunchback Meng. He
didn’t blink even once.

The small cauldron in the air snapped in half and fell from the sky.
But the lance that hit it began to turn green starting from the tip.
Soon, the entire lance was green. It trembled before shattering into
individual divine senses.

This was when something strange happened. Almost every divine

sense that was part of the lance had a sliver of green on it. The green
began to quickly spread and within only a few seconds all of the
divine senses that were part of the lance became completely green.

The moment the green cauldron snapped in half, Hunchback Meng’s

body suddenly weakened. He coughed out several mouthfuls of
essence blood. That green cauldron was his life treasure. Using his
late stage Soul Formation cultivation, he was able to use it to
withstand the attack of more than a billion divine senses merged
together, but it was split in half in the end.

Hunchback Meng didn’t have time to feel pain over the loss. His
eyes were bloodshot as he stared at the green divine senses covering
the sky.

All of the divine senses that were colored green exploded and turned
into spiritual energy. Once their divine senses shattered, their
bodies also died.

As the divine senses exploded, a large number of the tornados

stopped spinning and the small creatures within them fell from the
sky.

Hunchback Meng reached out and put the green cauldron that had
snapped in half back into his bag of holding. He took this chance to
escape, and the direction he went toward just happened to be where
Wang Lin’s tornado was.

At this moment, the king tornado let out a thunderous roar. The
tornado suddenly stopped spinning, revealing 30-foot-long flying
creature.
Its size was many times larger than the rest of its kind, but to Wang
Lin, it couldn’t even compare to the desolate dragon in the tunnel.

As the beast roared, it jumped forth. Sound waves spread out from
its sharp beak as it flew. Wherever the sound wave traveled, the
space of the earth trial showed signs of tearing. This showed just
how powerful it was.

At the same time, all of the remaining tornados charged toward

Hunchback Meng, especially the ones that were where Hunchback
Meng was going. They all charged forth, not caring about their lives
as they attempted to stop Hunchback Meng. Divine sense, sound
waves, and various attacks rained down on Hunchback Meng.
However, none of them were able to stop Hunchback Meng. Every
tornado was destroyed when Hunchback Meng rammed into them.

However, every time he collided with one, the black vortex on his
forehead became a bit fainter. He secretly complained in his heart.
He knew that the increase to his cultivation level was about to end.
If he paused for even one moment, he would be hit by the sound
wave of the king tornado. Thinking about this, he flew even faster.

Wang Lin saw that at the moment the king creature let out the
sound wave, there was a flash of light coming from the creature’s
forehead. There was a golden finger sticking out of its forehead.

He didn’t have too much time to think about it, because Hunchback
Meng was closing in. Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as he sneered and
slapped his bag of holding. The dragon tendon suddenly flew out. It
quickly condensed and created branches that also condensed around
the same spot, creating a thick stick.

The moment Hunchback Meng closed in, the tornado he was in

backed up. Among all the other tornados, his tornado was almost
unnoticeable.
When Hunchback Meng charged by, Wang Lin threw out the dragon
tendon. Hunchback Meng had just charged through a tornado when
he suddenly noticed an abnormal fluctuation of spiritual energy. But
at this moment, the area was filled with spiritual energy from the
dead creatures, so unless he checked very carefully, it was hard to
detect exactly what it was.

Hunchback Meng was dead set on fleeing, so while he noticed it, he

didn’t think much of it. Hunchback Meng didn’t think there were
any other human cultivators here besides himself.

However, when he suddenly felt his right leg being pulled by a

powerful force, his expression changed greatly. Without even
needing to turn his head, thanks to his experience, he was able to
tell that it was a magic treasure made from the tendon of a beast.
There was no way for those small creatures to use magic treasures,
so the only other answer meant that it was a human cultivator!

Hunchback Meng normally wouldn’t care much about these kinds of

treasures. All he had to do was use a bit of spiritual energy to shatter
it and use poison on it to poison the user.

However, he was currently surrounded by black tornados that were

sending endless waves of divine sense and sound wave attacks. He
was already struggling to charge through by force on this last breath
of spiritual energy. Especially due to the fact that his life treasure
had shattered, he was in a sorry state. If it wasn’t for the
combination of the ancient demonic technique and the toad, he
would already be dead.

At this critical moment, this normally insignificant dragon tendon

was like a death rune that was imprinted on his body. Although that
dragon tendon shattered under his force, this caused him to pause
for a moment.

It was just one pause, but it lasted long enough for the sound waves
to arrive at his back and for the attacks from the nearby tornados to
close in.

The straw can’t kill the camel, but it can be the breaking point that
causes the camel to be crushed to death.

The effect of the dragon tendon was like that straw.

As Hunchback Meng was hit in the back by the sound waves, he

coughed out blood and was sent flying. Just at this moment, a giant
tornado passed by him. A hand reached out of it and grabbed the bag
of holding on his waist.

At that moment, Hunchback Meng vaguely saw through the tornado.

He saw Wang Lin’s mocking smile. He became furious and coughed
out another mouthful of blood. The blood turned into a gas that
would make people nauseous and chased after the tornado.

After Wang Lin grabbed the bag of holding, he ordered the second
devil to fly as quickly as possible toward the vortex without any
hesitation. That was the entrance to the second trial.

As for the blood, it was blocked by the small creatures that formed
the tornado. However, the toxins inside that blood were no joke, and
since Wang Lin was always cautious, he jumped out of the tornado
the moment it was hit by the blood. Close behind him were the two
devils.

The moment Wang Lin landed, he entered the ground with his earth
escape technique and quickly moved forward. As for the tornado, the
blood completely infected it and all the small creatures inside it
died.

Although a lot of things happened, they happened very fast. In just

the blink of an eye, the bag of holding on Hunchback Meng’s waist
disappeared.
When Hunchback Meng was hit by the sound wave, his bones and
flesh began to break. The many pustules on his back broke, releasing
a black, foul-smelling liquid. Any small creatures that touched the
black liquid immediately died.

At this moment, he saw that his blood attack was blocked and Wang
Lin escaped. He didn’t even feel heartbroken about his stolen bag of
holding. Instead, he was filled with a deep urge to kill Wang Lin. If it
wasn’t for Wang Lin, he would have already made it through this
blockade and reached the second trial.

However, all of this changed due to Wang Lin’s appearance. With

Hunchback Meng’s intelligence, he immediately realized that he had
been making a path for Wang Lin this whole time. He even attracted
the attention of all the tornados. Otherwise, with that kid’s Core
Formation cultivation, how else could he have safely passed through
the first trial?
Chapter 176: Capturing the wind
pack
When Hunchback Meng was caught by the king tornado, he was
drowned by a flood of hatred.

Wang Lin’s body turned into a cloud of smoke as he quickly escaped

from the group of tornados. There were some scattered tornados
that came to try and stop Wang Lin like they did with Hunchback
Meng.

Wang Lin sneered. His eyes were completely calm without a trace of
panic. As the group of tornados got closer, one of the tornados
suddenly sped up and arrived next to Wang Lin. The tornado picked
up Wang Lin and quickly charged out of the encirclement of
tornados.

This all happened too quickly for the other tornados to react, and
even if they could have reacted, they weren’t smart enough to realize
the problem.

Wang Lin stood within the tornado and charged toward the vortex to
the second trial. The moment he charged out of the tornado, he
secretly ordered the second devil to take control of another one.

He was able to escape so quickly because up to this moment

everything has gone just as planned.

That king creature scanned the distance before landing in Wang

Lin’s tornado. It revealed a confused look before letting out a
thunderous roar. All of the tornados started chasing after Wang Lin.

As for the king tornado, it had a strange expression on its face while
it carried Hunchback Meng and slowly disappeared into the opposite
direction.
The difference between the tornados varied a lot; it depended on the
amount of small creatures inside. The more there were, the faster
that tornado went. As a result, the tornados formed a line while they
chased after Wang Lin. The tornado Wang Lin controlled had a
decent amount of small creatures, so its speed was not slow either.

Although the tornados were chasing Wang Lin, he wasn’t scared.

Instead, he calculated the speed of those tornados before turning
back to look at the closest ones. He opened his mouth and spat out a
crystal light. The flying sword quickly teleported toward the
tornados Wang Lin had in mind.

His Ji Realm was traveling inside the flying sword. His targets
weren’t the little creatures that were like soldiers, but the ones
leading each tornado.

With the presence of the Ji Realm Divine Sense and the sharp blade
of the flying sword, in just the blink of an eye one of the tornados
Wang Lin was eyeing suddenly stopped. All of the small creatures
inside it suddenly scattered with confused looks on their faces.

Wang Lin didn’t stop at all. His hand quickly pointed and a ray of
light zipped between the tornados. Suddenly, a majority of the large
tornados Wang Lin was paying attention to collapsed.

At this moment, he began to see the divine senses behind him begin
to merge, so he waved his hand and the crystal sword returned in a
flash. It was not that Wang Lin didn’t want to fight, but those small
creatures were now on guard. He was able to catch them by surprise
before, but if he continued, then the flying sword would be blocked
by the merged divine senses when it approaches a tornado.

He didn’t want to be like Hunchback Meng, fighting until his life

treasure splits in half.

Wang Lin sneered while the flying sword was coming back to him.
He continued to escape. Soon, the distance between him and the
tornados widened. All of the tornados he targeted were the largest
ones that were slightly faster than him.

All of this happened in an instant. In the blink of an eye, a gap

appeared between Wang Lin and the tornados. However, the small
creatures had finished merging their divine senses, and a series of
divine sense lightning bolts rushed towards Wang Lin.

Wang Lin’s eyes were still calm. When the divine sense lightning
arrived, Wang Lin gave the second devil an order. The small
creatures controlled by the second devil suddenly turned around and
charged out, creating sound waves that began to spread out.

This sound wave attack created a shock wave that pushed Wang
Lin’s tornado forward, causing the divine sense lightning to miss.
When the small creatures chasing Wang Lin merged their divine
senses for another attack, Wang Lin was already far away from
them.

As the large vortex in the sky came into Wang Lin’s sight, his eyes
started sparkling. In truth, if he hadn’t decided to steal from
Hunchback Meng, he would already have safely entered the second
trial.

Even now, if he gave up on hiding inside the tornado and charged

out using all of his strength, he had an 80% chance of making it, but
this was not what Wang Lin planned to do.

He didn’t know what kind of dangers were in the second trial. It was
very unlikely he would have the luck of someone opening the path
for him like here in the first trial, so he mustn’t recklessly charge in.

As a result, the ever so cautious Wang Lin set his sights on the
tornados behind him. Wang Lin’s plan was to bring some of those
tornados with him to the second trial. This way, he would have some
means of self-defense in the second trial.
With this thought in mind, he couldn’t just enter the vortex on his
own. He carefully looked back at the tornados behind him and began
to ponder. Then he clenched his teeth and gave an order to the
second devil. His tornado slowed down.

The moment he slowed down, the tornados behind him immediately

closed the distance to 500 feet, and a series of attacks also quickly
closed in on Wang Lin.

The tornado Wang Lindo was in only needed one breath of time at
full speed to reach the vortex.

That is to say that it would take one breath of time for the tornados
to catch up and two breaths of time for them to enter the vortex.

During the first breath of time, Wang Lin took an item out of his bag
of holding. When the divine senses attack arrived, Wang Lin didn’t
suddenly speed up to avoid the attack but instead used the small
creatures in his tornado to block it.

In just one breath of time, more than half of the small creatures in
Wang Lin’s tornado died.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm. There was no hint of panic in his
eyes. At this moment, Wang Lin was even closer to the vortex, and
the tornados behind him quickly closed in.

In the second breath of time, Wang Lin’s body charged out of his
tornado like an arrow. The group of tornados closed in while their
sound attacks burst forth.

The moment Wang Lin left his tornado, all of the small creatures
besides the second devil died.

At this time, Wang Lin’s body was already inside the vortex. The
tornados chasing him had also entered the vortex. The tornados
suddenly stopped, and some in the back of the pack were about to
retreat.

However, how could Wang Lin let them do as they wished? He

looked at the 40 or so tornados that were chasing him and shouted,
“Stay here for me!”

As he spoke, he sent spiritual energy into the object he had taken

out of his bag of holding during the first breath. Suddenly, a ring of
light expanded and surrounded all the tornados.

The image of the dragon appeared, and under Wang Lin’s control, it
circled along the ring of light. At this very moment, purple lightning
reached out from the vortex. The purple lightning landed on Wang
Lin and went through him into the ring of light. The vortex quickly
pulled them all into it.

In the blink of an eye, Wang Lin and the 40 or so tornados were

pulled into the vortex.

At this point, the rest of the tornados had caught up, but when they
touched the vortex, they were bounced back. More and more
tornados gathered here, but after trying for a very long time, they
still weren’t able to enter the vortex. After some time, they slowly
began to disperse.

The first trial, the earth trial, gradually calmed back down. In an
unknown location inside the earth trial, Hunchback Meng floated in
the air. His body was a bloody mess, and his eyes were filled with
confusion. In front of him was the king creature’s body. The golden
finger bone on its head was slowly appearing.

It pointed to Hunchback Meng’s brow…

As for Wang Lin, after he came out of the vortex, he quickly spread
out his divine sense and was shocked. The place he was at now was
a grey world with nothing but a bridge made of black stone.
Wang Lin withdrew his divine sense and looked back. The dragon
formation was still there with more than 40 tornados inside. They
were still trying to escape by colliding wildly against the surrounding
rings of light.

Every time they collided, the ring became a bit dimmer. Wang Lin let
out a cold snort as he put away the dragon formation. As soon as the
formation disappeared, the 40 plus tornados scattered.

At the same time, Wang Lin pointed at his brow. The second devil
quickly appeared and let out a challenging roar toward those
tornados.

The tornados all suddenly stopped. One of the small creatures flew
out from one of the tornados and collided with the second devil.
Wang Lin calmly watched this all happen. This was a part of his
plan. The reason he didn’t let the second devil challenge them in the
first trial was because there were simply too many tornados chasing
them to stop. The moment the second devil began challenging them,
they would attract even more tornados. If the second devil ever
failed, then Wang Lin would be left without any means of escape.

But now there were only these 40 plus tornados, making it a very
different situation.

Three days later, Wang Lin looked into the distance while standing
next to the black bridge. Forty-two black tornados were packed
closely together. If one looked closely, they would see that the
tornados were all surrounding one tornado in the center with slivers
of red light connecting them.

The leaders of all tornados were fused with the second devil.
However, through force, Wang Lin pulled them all out and put them
in a soul flag to use for making more devils in the future.

He did this to prevent himself from losing control of the second

devil because the second devil had merged with too many of them.
Chapter 177: King poison cauldron
Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as he stared at the stone bridge. During
these three days, he had been observing the stone bridge and still
hadn’t taken one step onto it.

Aside from this stone bridge, there was nothing in this grey world.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before waving his hand. All 42 tornados
behind him suddenly stopped spinning. They turned into tens of
thousands of small creatures, and then the creatures began to spread
out.

Wang Lin slightly closed his eyes and used his connection with the
second devil to perceive the small beasts. The small beasts scattered,
leaving behind only the sound of wings fluttering. After a bit of time,
even those sounds were gone.

After a very long time, he suddenly opened his eyes and flew
northwest. The small creatures began to gather from all directions
and reformed the tornados behind him.

Before long, Wang Lin stopped as he arrived before a stone tablet

more than 30 feet tall. The tablet gave off a red light, giving it a
demonic feel. There were a few small creatures on the stone tablet.
They were flapping their wings and letting out buzzing sounds.

After seeing Wang Lin arrive, those small creatures flew toward him
and rejoined the tornados behind him. Wang Lin saw four big words
on the stone tablet — Road of No Return.

These three words contained an ancient feel. Wang Lin looked at

them for a bit before shifting his gaze to the bottom right corner. He
seriously looked at it for a while before waving his hand. A gust blew
by, blowing away all the dust and dirt on the tablet and uncovering a
small row of words to appear.
“I have passed through the earth trial and captured the king creature
there before arriving at this Road of No Return. This place is very
interesting; if anyone in the future sees this, then consider it fate. I’ll
give you one piece of advice: ponder the meaning of ‘No Return’.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained calm, but he was secretly shocked.

These small words were the same as the one he saw in the black
tower. They were clearly written by the same person.

From the look of these words, the earth trial was beyond easy for
this person. Even the powerful king creature there was captured by
him.

However, on second thought, Wang Lin narrowed his eyes. If this

person had captured the king creature in the earth trial, why was it
still there? There must be some lie in these words. The word
“capture” implied that it now followed this person.

There was of course the chance that he really did capture it and
another one was simply born after countless years.

Wang Lin wasn’t interested in whether this was true or false. His
gaze returned to the words “Road of No Return” and he began to
ponder.

After a long time, he turned and flew toward the stone bridge with
the tornados following closely behind him.

After returning to the bridge, Wang Lin slapped his bag of holding
and the devil Xu Liguo immediately flew out. He looked jealously at
the small creatures and secretly complained in his heart, “So what if
he has a lot of little brothers following him? I’ll just get my own
followers!”

Wan Lin looked at the stone bridge and pointed at it. This time, Xu
Liguo immediately sprinted toward the bridge without trying to
bargain like in the past. He was full of energy as he proudly looked at
the tornado and thought, “See this? This fiend still thinks I’m more
important. Why wouldn’t he let number two do it instead
otherwise?”

When he looked at Wang Lin, he revealed an appeasing look before

flying toward the stone bridge. He flew for a long time without
finding any danger and even circled it a few times before returning.

Wang Lin slightly frowned. He stretched his hand out. A small

creature flew out from the tornado and landed in his palm. It looked
at him with its small eyes and remained still.

Wang Lin threw the small creature toward the black stone bridge.
The small creature moved three steps before stopping. Wang Lin
stared at the small creature with a serious expression.

The small creature’s body trembled while it slowly turned around.

Its eyes were filled with fear. Then, just as it turned around, a vortex
appeared under the small creature, sucking it in. An instant later,
everything returned to normal.

Wang Lin pondered for a while. He understood that the stone bridge
was the key to leave this Road of No Return. He tested the bridge out
with a few more small creatures, and the result was the same.

However, Wang Lin noticed that when a group of small creatures

went, only one would be affected at a time while the others were not
affected until the first one died. Then another small creature would
be affected and so forth.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled as he muttered “No Return… No Return… it

means that once you take a step forward, you can’t turn back…” He
pondered this but still didn’t step onto the bridge.

He sat down in the lotus position next to the bridge and took out
two bags of holding. One of them had a golden thread. This was the
one he had stolen from the mysterious corpse while he was learning
the Divine Path in the War God Shrine.

Unfortunately, there was a mysterious force on the bag that

prevented his divine sense from going inside and opening it. Wang
Lin knew that the bag contained someone else’s divine sense and
that he had to erase it before he could open it.

However, this divine sense was too powerful; after trying a few
times, Wang Lin gave up. Instead, he surrounded it with his divine
sense so that the divine sense in the bag would be cut off from the
outside world, making it so its owner couldn’t sense it.

Although Wang Lin wasn’t powerful enough to erase the divine

sense, he still managed to hide it with his Ji Realm divine sense.

The other bag of holding was the one he had stolen from Hunchback
Meng. The divine sense on there had already disappeared, meaning
that Hunchback Meng was dead.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart. His eyes lit up when he opened it.
This was indeed thousands of years of savings of a Soul Formation
cultivator. Just spirit stones alone, there were more than 300,000
piled up like a small mountain, and all of them were high quality.

What made Wang Lin’s eyes shine even more were the two pieces of
stone with halos around them. They were the very rare, top quality
spirit stones.

Wang Lin’s heart suddenly skipped a beat. Just these two top quality
spirit stones were worth the risk of stealing from Hunchback Meng.

In addition to the spirit stone, there were several bottles. Finally, for
magic treasures, there was only the green cauldron that was split in
half and nothing else.
Wang Lin understood after he pondered for a bit. Hunchback Meng
was trapped for a long time, so he must have used up all his
treasures.

His guess was very accurate. Hunchback Meng had many treasures,
and they were all Nascent level or higher. However, after trying to
break through the tornados multiple times, he used up all his
treasures, especially during that one time when he used ten spirit
beasts as substitutes. He threw out countless treasures in that
attempt. He was even willing to explode his treasures to make a
path, but sadly, he still failed in the end.

It was because of this that the only magic treasure he had left was
the green cauldron.

Aside from all of this, there were also many jades inside the bag of
holding. Wang Lin checked them one by one, and the smile on his
face got wider after each one. These jades were filled with alchemy
methods, refining methods, and records of spirit beasts.

These things were very useful to the current Wang Lin. At least
there wouldn’t be any more issues of not recognizing a valuable
material when he sees it.

Also, Hunchback Meng specialized in alchemy and poison, so the

bag contained a lot of jades that specialized in those. Wang Lin
spent a long time reading them all. This made his knowledge
increase by over 100 times.

There was a dark green jade that caught Wang Lin’s attention. It was
a cultivation method, and its name was only one word: Underworld.

This method was described to have come from the demon god Qi,
who used poison as the basis of one’s dao. There were a total of nine
layers, and by layer six, even Soul Formation cultivators would not be
able to resist the poison.
However, this method was very vicious. One would have to endure
unimaginable pain because various poisons would have to be
injected into the body to create a full poison body.

This side effect stays until one reaches the ninth layer. This was
when all of the poison would be expelled from the body to form the
true underworld poison, allowing a person to return to normal.
Before all of that, a person would suffer deformities. The first thing
that would happen was pustules would grow on the person.

After Wang Lin finished looking through it, he pondered for a bit
and gave up on the idea of cultivating this. Hunchback Meng
must’ve had that stench because he practiced this method. Although
Wang Lin wasn’t one to care about his looks, it was described in the
jade that by cultivating this method, your body would be filled with
poison. There was a chance that the poison would invade your
consciousness, thus turning you into a hollow shell that only knows
how to kill.

This was the main reason why he gave up on cultivating this

method. Although he couldn’t use this cultivation method, there
were still many techniques in the jade that he could use if he had the
poison.

As for refining poison, Wang Lin had already read the jade
containing all of Hunchback Meng’s experiences, which made Wang
Lin’s heart tremble with excitement.

He took out all those bottles from the bag of holding and used the
jades to identify each of them. Almost all of them were poison, and
only one bottle contained pills Wang Lin knew, which was the pill he
had taken to prevent himself from being poisoned.

This anti poison pill was only medium quality. Only by taking a mild
poison along with this pill could the pill’s effect increase.
Wang Lin put everything into his bag of holding and threw
Hunchback Meng’s on the ground. Then he picked up an object and
his expression became serious.

This object was Hunchback Meng’s life treasure, the green cauldron.

Although this cauldron had split in half, there was still powerful
spiritual energy coming from it. However, this spiritual energy was
filled with poison. The green substance that could kill divine sense
made Wang Lin extra cautious when examining it.

He knew that aside from the top quality spirit stones and the green
jade, the next most valuable thing in Hunchback Meng’s bag was
this cauldron. After all, this cauldron was a Soul Formation
cultivator’s life treasure, and it had been refined in his body for
thousands of years.

When he checked the jades, there was an explanation on it. When

one reaches the second layer, they require a treasure to suppress the
poison in their body.

This cauldron was an imitation of the legendary King Medicine

Cauldron. Although it was an imitation, the materials this green
cauldron was made of were not worse than the King Medicine
Cauldron’s. What made it inferior was that it couldn’t absorb the
spiritual energy from tens of thousands of plants like the King
Medicine Cauldron could.

This cauldron was the most important treasure of a sect in a rank 3

cultivation country. Hunchback Meng spent hundreds of years to get
it. He first joined the sect and became the sect head’s personal
disciple due to his talent. Then, when he got the chance to get close
to the cauldron, he stole it, killed his master, and escaped to the Sea
of Devils. After that, he used the cauldron as his life treasure.

He forcibly took a King Medicine Cauldron and refined it into a King

Poison Cauldron. If he had managed to reach the ninth layer, then
although it wouldn’t reach the level of the legendary King Medicine
Cauldron, it would be pretty close. However, instead of a King
Medicine Cauldron, it would be a King Poison Cauldron.

Unfortunately, he died before getting there, and due to chance, this

cauldron was now in Wang Lin’s hands.

Wang Lin recalled what the jade said about this cauldron. After
pondering for a bit, if he also cultivated the same technique, then
after he reaches a certain level, he could devour it and make it his
own life treasure. However, he had already decided to not cultivate
this method, which made this cauldron hard to deal with.

Wang Lin would feel very frustrated if he couldn’t use this kind of
treasure. The reason for doing all of this was to become stronger.
Although he wasn’t close to reaching the Nascent Soul stage and this
wouldn’t increase his chances of getting there, he had to travel
through this dangerous place, and this green cauldron could
definitely increase his survival rate.

Wang Lin’s face was gloomy. He raised his head and looked at the
stone bridge. His eyes sparkled before he opened his mouth for the
crystal sword to fly out. The sword flew around him a few times
before stopping in front of him.

Wang Lin looked at the flying sword with a lingering expression on

this face. He clenched his teeth and hit the crystal sword. The sword
trembled for a bit before letting out a sword hymn. Then, red lines
appeared on the body of the sword.

This was the soul essence blood he had used to blood refine this
sword back in Zhao. Although both his and the sword’s bodies were
destroyed, the blood refining technique was very tyrannical. It
forcibly carved the soul essence blood onto the sword’s spirit.

This sword spirit was originally without shape or intelligence, but it

was inside Wang Lin’s soul for so many years, and it underwent a
change when Wang Lin became a soul devourer. The sword spirit
gained a hint of intelligence and was preserved.

It wasn’t until Wang Lin used the War God Shrine’s refining
technique to make it another body that it completed its
transformation.

It could be said that this flying sword had done much for Wang Lin.
Countless people had died to this sword. The sword had garnered so
much killing intent that it could now be considered a killing
treasure.

Wang Lin revealed a serious expression while moving his right hand
over the sword. The blood lines on the sword became even more
noticeable until the sword cracked along those lines and fell to the
ground in pieces.

There were only lines of blood floating in the air now, and the image
of a sword would appear and disappear.

Wang Lin took a deep breath before slapping his bag of holding. The
reaction furnace flew out. He threw the two halfs of the green
cauldron into the reaction furnace. A green gas immediately covered
the reaction furnace while sizzling sounds came from inside.

Wang Lin’s eyes became cold. His hand formed seals that he placed
on the reaction furnace. The reaction furnace began to spin faster
and faster until it even caused the green gas surrounding it to spin,
creating a green tornado.

Wang Lin reached out and grabbed all of the shattered pieces of the
crystal sword. He picked up one piece and stared at the rapidly
spinning reaction furnace. After a very long time, he threw one piece
into the fast-spinning reaction furnace.

The moment it entered, the crystal piece melted and mixed with
what was inside the furnace.
Wang Lin calmly threw the pieces into the furnace, and after one
hour, all of the pieces were inside the furnace. Wang Lin let out a
sigh of relief. Then, his hand formed seals and he placed them on
the reaction furnace.

After doing this, the reaction furnace started spinning much faster.
Now he couldn’t see what was inside anymore; there was only a
spanning mass. The green vortex looked like it had stopped, but if
one looked closely, they would see that it had not stopped moving. It
just moved so fast that it looked like it was still.

Wang Lin muttered, “Still not enough!” With his divine sense, he
could see that the heat created from the spinning of the reaction
furnace wasn’t enough. This heat had only caused the green
cauldron to turn slightly red, but it hadn’t melted yet.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as several objects flew out of his bag of
holding. He didn’t even look at them as he grabbed one and
accurately threw it into the reaction furnace.

When the object fell in, there was a puff of green smoke. Although
the reaction furnace wasn’t spinning faster, the temperature inside
it increased by one fold. The green cauldron inside it was now
completely red.

But there was still no sign of it melting.

The object he threw inside was a special refining material of the

War God Shrine, the Chicken Blood Stone. When stimulated by
spiritual energy, it can generate high temperatures.

If too many are used, then instead of increasing temperature, it

lowers it instead. Which was why Wang Lin put them away after
using a few.

The inside of the reaction furnace had reached a terrifying

temperature, but the green cauldron was still just burning red with
no signs of melting.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before throwing out Purple Moon
Vines, Shattered Flower Stones, Blue Moon Wood, and dozens of
other War God Shrine refining materials. After these things were
thrown into the reaction furnace one by one, a multicolored cloud of
smoke rose from the reaction furnace in the shape of a cauldron.

This cauldron of smoke shattered the green vortex, but then, in a

mysterious manner, it went back inside the reaction furnace,
dragging the green gas along with it.

A series of thunderous roars came from the reaction furnace and

cracks began to appear on it. Wang Lin focused himself and watched
the green cauldron inside. The green cauldron had started to melt,
but the speed at which it melted was very slow. At this rate, there
was a high chance that the reaction furnace would shatter before the
cauldron was finished melting.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled. He raised his right hand and a blue flame
appeared, causing the temperature around him to immediately drop.
This was the underworld flame created when he completed the
underworld ascension cultivation method.

This ice flame had already fused with Wang Lin’s golden core, so it
will never disappear, but if it was overused, it would damage his
golden core.

This was why he had only used this as his ace before. He wouldn’t
casually use it.

Seeing that the reaction furnace was at its limit and about to shatter,
he sent the blue flame forward.

Wang Lin was highly concentrated as he controlled the flame to

slowly move forward. He had to make sure that there weren’t any
fluctuations in the flame to maintain it at a constant, low
temperature.

At this moment, the number of cracks on the reaction furnace

suddenly increased, but before they could spread, they were
surrounded by the ice flame, solidifying the furnace.

After just these few breaths, Wang Lin was covered in sweat. He had
taken a big risk. If he controlled the flame well, it would help keep
the reaction furnace together, but if he messed up, it would increase
the speed of the reaction furnace shattering.

Right now, thanks to the reinforcement from the ice flame, the
cracking of the reaction furnace was slowed down. However, if he
didn’t limit how cold the flame was, then it would affect the melting
of the green cauldron inside. This made Wang Lin even more
focused, because he needed to keep the temperature at a point
where it would help keep the furnace stable but wouldn’t affect the
melting of the green cauldron.

The green cauldron slowly melted. Wang Lin didn’t dare to relax this
entire time. After an unknown amount of time had passed, the green
cauldron completely melted into a puddle of dark green liquid.

Wang Lin let out a sigh of relief as his hand formed a seal that
landed on the reaction furnace. This caused the reaction furnace to
stop spinning. Wang Lin reached out and pulled out all of the green
liquid.

Inside the liquid, the image of a small cauldron would appear and
disappear. Wang Lin knew that this was the cauldron spirit of this
King Poison Cauldron. Without any hesitation, he waved his hand
and the sword spirit floating in the air merged with the green liquid.

The cauldron spirit merged with it as well. Wang Lin’s expression

was serious. The two spirits didn’t act as Wang Lin predicted and
attacked each other. After some resistance, the cauldron spirit
turned into green gas and entered the sword spirit.

After the two merged, Wang Lin finally relaxed. His hand pointed a
few times while the green liquid slowly solidified according to Wang
Lin’s will into the shape of a 6-inch shortsword.

Two rows of countless small thorns grew out from the two sides of
the sword. They gave off a green glow that looked very stunning.

The flying sword had completely solidified and was now dark green.
The sword also contained the poison of the King Poison Cauldron. If
one was hit by it, if the sword didn’t immediately kill them, the
poison eventually would.

Even if a Nascent Soul cultivator were to get hit by this flying sword,
it would be hard for them to escape death. After all, the poison in
this sword was from Hunchback Meng’s King Poison Cauldron.

However, after reforming this sword, he no longer dared to swallow

it and instead nurtured it in his golden core. Even when he uses it,
he will have to be careful because if he is hit by it, it will be hard for
him to live as well.

There was no antidote for the poison of this King Poison Cauldron.
Aside from Hunchback Meng, no one could cure it.

Wang Lin was confident in its power, particularly the thorns on the
sides of the sword. With just a thought, the thorns could break off to
attack the enemy, making it very hard to guard against.
Chapter 178: Restriction mountain
Wang Lin waved his right hand and the flying sword flew toward
him. He carefully guided the flying sword into his bag of holding
before relaxing. He didn’t want to be cut by the sword he had refined
and die from the poison.

After putting the flying sword away, Wang Lin stood up and walked
toward the stone bridge without any hesitation. The tornados
howled as they quickly followed him.

Wang Lin carefully moved forward. Although this bridge looked

normal, the scene changed and the bridge became 1000 feet long
the moment he stepped on it.

A vortex appeared on the other side of the bridge.

Wang Lin’s eyes sparkled. He pondered for a bit before reaching out
with his hand. A small creature flew out and landed on his palm. He
threw the small creature and it shot out like an arrow toward the
vortex.

However, after the small creature only flew 100 feet, a bolt of purple
lightning accurately landed on the small creature and turned it to
dust.

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same. If there were no

restrictions here, he could just fly across without any issue. However,
he could only take it step by step now. He had to move slowly and
without any sudden acceleration. He looked at the 1000-foot-long
bridge, took a deep breath, and stepped forward.

Wang Lin remained completely focused with each step. On the tenth
step, he was suddenly surrounded by fog and the tornados behind
him disappeared.
The second devil also disappeared along with the tornados; even the
connection between them was blocked by a mysterious force. Wang
Lin couldn’t detect it at all.

Wang Lin wanted to look back, but just as he was about to turn
around, he forced himself to stop. Wang Lin’s face was sullen while
he pondered, then he sneered and continued to walk forward.

This time it was 100 feet.

A thunderous roar suddenly rang out behind Wang Lin that even
caused the bridge before him to shake. Wang Lin immediately
stabilized his body. He knew this roar; it was the roar of the desolate
dragon from the tunnel.

A fishy and hot breath blew on his back. Wang Lin controlled
himself to not even check with his divine sense. This bridge was
called the Path of No Return, meaning that once one steps on it, they
can’t go back.

Wang Lin didn’t believe that this place could be so simple. Not only
could he not go back, but he couldn’t even turn his head around. He
most likely couldn’t spread his divine sense toward his back either.
In the end, everything must follow the two words of No Return, or
else he would die here like that small creature.

Although he couldn’t turn his head or check with his divine sense,
he knew that for him to feel this heat it meant that the dragon had
opened its big mouth and was right behind him.

Wang Lin was surprised, but he didn’t panic. There was no way for
that dragon to appear behind him; it had to be some type of illusion.

Just at this moment, a red light flashed by his right shoulder. His
pupils shrank. He clearly saw that the red light was the dragon’s
forked tongue. His forehead was covered in cold sweat. He looked
sideways and found a sticky substance that released a strange smell
on his shoulder.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and began to calm down. His steps
were still steady while he gently walked forward. The forked tongue
kept flashing by his body, and his clothes flapped under the hot
breath. Suddenly, a powerful killing intent appeared behind him.

Wang Lin looked at his flapping clothes and let out a mocking smile.
If it was before, he would still be a bit unsure, especially after seeing
the sticky substance on his shoulder. However, after seeing his
clothes flap like this, he was confident that this was an illusion.

The reason was the thing behind him was supposed to be a desolate
beast. Normally, just one breath would have blown him far away at
this range, but now it could only make his clothes flap.

Wang Lin was very determined; no matter what kind of sound or

movements there were behind him, he still just calmly walked
forward. At this moment, the red dragon let out a violent roar and
attempted to devour him. Wang Lin could see the dragon coming
from the corner of his eye, but he didn’t panic and continued to
calmly walk forward.

The moment the dragon devoured him, it turned into a cloud of

smoke. Wang Lin slowly walked out of the smoke.

He had walked 900 feet and had only 100 feet left, but just at this
moment, he heard a soft cough.

This cough was very soft, but in Wang Lin’s ears it was like thunder
booming. He couldn’t help but stop. His body trembled and two
streams of tears rolled down his face.

That cough continued. Wang Lin knew that all of this was an illusion
and was fake, but he still had the urge to turn around to take a look.
“Tie Zhu… turn around and let dad have a look…”

The familiar voice entered his ears, causing Wang Lin to clench his
fist and close his eyes. When he opened them again, his eyes were
filled with determination and he began to walk forward again.

“Tie Zhu… mother just wants to see her child. How could you be so
ruthless as to not even turn your head…”

Wang Lin closed his eyes again. His body was trembling with each
step, but he continued forward without any hesitation. Soon, he
arrived at the end of the stone bridge. Throughout these last 100
feet, his parents’ voices never stopped.

When he reached the end of the bridge, his parents’ voices

disappeared. The howls of the tornados returned and he regained
his connection with the second devil.

Wang Lin still didn’t turn around. After pondering for a long time
before the vortex, he took out the jade Li Muwan had given him and
activated it. He surrounded the tornados behind him and they
entered the vortex together.

Wang Lin disappeared inside the vortex after being pulled by the
purple lightning.

What appeared before him when he walked out of the vortex was a
large mountain that was covered by clouds. It was so tall that it was
impossible to see all of it with all the clouds around it. Compared to
the mountain, Wang Lin looked very small.

After seeing the mountain, Wang Lin was shocked, but he was soon
able to figure out that the Path of No Return was clearly not the
second trial. Otherwise, all of this didn’t match what Ancient
Emperor and Duanmu Ji said about needing Wang Lin’s death spell.
He still couldn’t see anything that required divine sense attacks to
get past. He continued to look at the mountain and guessed that
maybe this was the real second trial.

He spread out his divine sense and his pupils immediately shrank.
There was clearly a broken restriction in the foot of the mountain
with slivers of red light flashing around it.

Wang Lin pondered for a bit before walking toward the mountain.
Before long, he reached where the restriction was. The restriction
had clearly been destroyed by someone, leaving behind a hole big
enough for one person to pass.

Red light shined from the sides of the hole. He then looked up
toward the mountain peak. He immediately became very cautious,
because he was certain that there was someone ahead of him.

There was nothing else here besides this mountain, meaning that
this mountain was the key for this trial. There was also only one
choice, which was to climb to the peak of this mountain.

To a mortal, climbing a mountain like this would be a very difficult

task, but to a cultivator, it wasn’t difficult at all.

However, with Wang Lin’s experience here so far, there had to be a

restriction that prevented him from flying, so he had to walk up the
mountain.

After pondering for a while, Wang Lin turned around and looked at
the tornados. He waved his hand and the tornados began to merge
together to form a large tornado. Wang Lin jumped toward the
tornado. When he got close to it, an opening appeared on the
tornado as if it were welcoming him in.

Standing inside the tornado, Wang Lin sent out a command and the
giant tornado immediately moved forward.
Right after they passed the restriction, Wang Lin saw with his divine
sense that the restriction began to recover and soon returned to
normal.

Wang Lin’s heart sank. If the restrictions could recover, then he

couldn’t let the person before him open the path for him like he did
in the first trial.

Thinking about this, the countless divine senses of the small

creatures merged together under Wang Lin’s control through the
second devil and spread out.

He carefully controlled this powerful divine sense to check the

surrounding area. His heart sank. This place was completely covered
with restrictions.

It wouldn’t be wrong to call this place a restriction mountain. Forget

climbing straight up; just one wrong step would get him killed.

While Wang Lin was exploring the area with his divine sense, one of
the restrictions was recovering and completely returned to normal
in the blink of an eye.

Wang Lin withdrew his divine sense. After pondering for a bit, he
walked out from the giant tornado. He took out a bag of holding and
waved his hand. The tornados, along with the second devil, entered
the bag. This bag of holding was one he got from an insect
cultivator. It couldn’t hold items, but living creatures could stay
inside it.

Wang Lin had tested it with a few small creatures a few days ago.
Once he found out that it worked, he was using it to store the small
creatures.

After the small creatures entered the bag, he tied that bag to his
waist and took a deep breath before he began walking forward. His
divine sense was spread out, carefully observing his surroundings.
While he used the small creatures’ divine senses to scan the area, he
found that there were openings between the restrictions. However,
the openings were too small for the giant tornados to pass through,
and the surrounding restrictions were fully functional, so they would
activate if touched.

This was why he gave up on the idea of using the giant tornados to
charge up to the mountaintop.
Chapter 179: Studying Restrictions
It was not that Wang Lin didn’t think about going back the way he
came after he got his hands on the top quality spirit stones, it was
that the situation was too dangerous back in the first trial, and
without Hunchback Meng to open the path for him, he didn’t even
know if he could make it back. Even if he were to spend all that
effort to make it through, the vortex wouldn’t take him back. The
only path that would be left for him was death, because there was no
way for him to be lucky enough to pass through the first trial again.

Wang Lin’s personality wouldn’t allow him to make bets easily,

especially when things he couldn’t afford to lose were on the line.

However, according to Wang Lin’s analysis, if Hunchback Meng and

them were able to leave this place 1000 years ago, that means there
was a transfer array out of here. Otherwise, there was no way those
four would dare to come here again.

Unfortunately, Hunchback Meng didn’t have anything in his bag of

holding that contained information about this place. The
inheritance item they had was not in Hunchback Meng’s possession.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He believed that if he could get his hands on
that inheritance item, he would be able to find a way out of here.

After carefully looking around, Wang Lin walked forward. Before

long, he suddenly stopped while looking at a large rock in the
distance. This rock was emitting waves of spiritual energy. Wang Lin
took a few steps to the side and walked around.

The sky was dark. It gave off a feeling of oppression like a giant rock
on someone’s heart. Wang Lin carefully walked through the gap
between two restrictions before letting out a sigh of relief.
He looked around. A mere 300 feet took him several hours to get
through. He had to make sure that there was no problem with each
step before he took it.

He looked up toward the mountain that seemed to never end. He

wondered how many years it would take for him to reach the top if
he kept going at this pace.

He let out a heavy sigh. On the first trial, he managed to get through
it by luck, but it seemed he would have to rely on himself for this
second trial. After Wang Lin pondered for a bit, his face darkened.
With his mere Core Formation cultivation, it was simply too
dangerous here, but if he were go to back, it would be even more
dangerous.

If he wanted to live, he would have to force his way forward. Wang

Lin pondered for a bit and then his eyes lit up. He didn’t continue
forward but instead turned back and carefully went through the gap
between the two restrictions. He continued to go back until he was
at the foot of the mountain again.

At the very bottom of the mountain, where the first restrictions

appeared, he knelt down and carefully studied the restriction.

This was a patch of grass about a dozen feet wide. There were many
patches of grass like this here at the foot of the mountain, but there
were less patches of grass higher up the mountain. At first glance,
there was nothing special about it, but when Wang Lin took a closer
look, he could see that the grass here contained a mysterious order.

Wang Lin carefully examined each blade of grass. When he finished,

he recorded his thoughts in a jade.

Using three days of time, he record details of every blade of grass.

He wanted to use this to find a way to break through the restriction.
Wang Lin knew that if he were to try to break through by force, there
would be no hope for him to reach the top. It would be an
impossible task for him.

Also, the higher one climbs, the more powerful the restrictions
become. There will be a point where there will be no way to get
around the restrictions. If he didn’t prepare ahead of time, he would
die for sure.

If he wanted to pass this trial, he would have to learn to control the

restrictions on this mountain. The more he understands about
restrictions, the higher his chance for survival. There was no other
way.

This was why Wang Lin came back down and began to study the first
restriction in detail.

Restrictions are very different from formations. Formations use very

specific methods to create a very specific effect. The components
used in a formation are very complex. If one tries to study it by force,
they will only gain an elementary understanding.

Restrictions are considered a type of formation, only they are much

more versatile. They can change based on the will of the user.
Restrictions are much like divine sense in a way.

Powerful cultivators can place down restrictions with just their

divine sense. Even after hundreds of thousands of years, as long as
the divine sense isn’t destroyed, then those restrictions will still be
active.

Sometimes even if the user is dead, the divine sense in a restriction

will form its own consciousness and continue to maintain the
restriction.

Restrictions are always changing. Almost no one but the caster can
completely see through them. There are two ways to get through a
restriction. The first is to break through by force, but that is not
something ordinary people can do.

The second method is to research it. Once you understand the

principle and rules of the restriction to a certain degree, you will
naturally be able to open the restriction.

Wang Lin was using the second method.

After recording the first restriction onto the jade, he carefully

studied what he had recorded. Luckily, he learned the basics of
formations during the time he was a soul devourer, so he wasn’t
completely lost when studying this.

Time slowly passed. Ten days later, when Wang Lin was staring at
this area, his right hand suddenly grabbed the grass. The grass then
started to move. However, Wang Lin seemed to have already seen
this coming and moved with the grass.

His right hand moved to the left, then it moved to the right, and his
other hand joined in as well. At a glance, it looked like he was
moving without any pattern, but upon closer inspection, he was
moving in sync with the grass.

In just a few breaths of time, the speed at which his right hand was
moving had reached some kind of limit and started to create
afterimages. Most of the time, when one afterimage appeared, the
previous one had already disappeared.

Ten breaths later, sweat appeared on his forehead and he was

completely focused. He quickly pulled back his right hand and a ray
of red light appeared. It was chasing his right hand.

While Wang Lin pulled his hand back he suddenly began to move
his hand once more. The red light became weaker and weaker until
it finally disappeared.
When he withdrew his right hand, it was completely numb. Wang
Lin looked toward the grass. It had already returned to normal
without anything out of place.

The restriction here was to kill anyone that tried to enter. If one had
a high enough cultivation level to charge through by force, then that
red light would appear and chase the person until it killed them.

After studying the restriction for a few days, Wang Lin gained a basic
understanding of it. This time, it was just an experiment. He had
conducted experiments like this more than ten times in the past few
days.

He could only last three breaths the first time he tried, and he would
be injured by the red light when he did. Now he could last ten
breaths and was able to stop the red light. Wang Lin believed that if
he had just a bit more time, he would be able to break through.

This means that if he were to completely enter the restriction, he

could survive for ten breaths of time, and if he leaves it within that
ten breath period, then even the red light couldn’t stop him.

Wang Lin became excited. Although this restriction was the

simplest one on this mountain, he believed he had found the right
path. As long as he continued down this path, then it wasn’t be
impossible to leave this place.

If Wang Lin’s original purpose for learning restrictions was to leave

this place, then now he had one more goal. The more he researched,
the more he became interested in restrictions. He had never thought
about how powerful restrictions could be.

For example, the restrictions in the grass here; although Wang Lin
could safely pass through it, he couldn’t place one down himself
because he hadn’t completely understood it yet. Once he completely
masters the restriction and can make it his own, then he can place it
down himself.
Although it wouldn’t be as powerful as this one, the strange nature
of the restriction wouldn’t be any weaker.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. His face contained a hint of

excitement while he became absorbed in his research. One month
later, Wang Lin put away the jades and walked into the grass.

The moment he entered, the grass suddenly began to move and a red
mist appeared. Every blade of grass began to move violently before
flying up like sharp weapons and disappearing within the red mist.

At the same time, howls came from all directions while sharp
weapons rained down on Wang Lin.

Wang Lin remained calm and paid no attention to the weapons at

all. He continued to walk like it was his own backyard as all of the
weapons closed in.

Wang Lin casually waved his right hand. Although it looked very
slow, his hand mysteriously has already arrived before the weapons.
If there was someone else looking in from the outside, they would
be shocked. This was only possible if someone had gained full
understanding of the restriction.

Wang Lin didn’t know any special techniques, but he knew that his
hand would be faster than the weapons, and he became faster by
thinking he was faster.

As his hand waved, he drew a circle. This simple action was the fruit
of Wang Lin’s research. Although it looked like a simple circle, his
hand made thousands of different seals all in one go without any
pauses while he drew it.

After this circle was completed, all of those weapons slowed down,
turned back into grass, and flew around Wang Lin.
Wang Lin’s expression was still calm. From the moment he entered,
he always walked at the same calm pace, and even now it was no
different.

As he walked forward, the patch of grass parted in the middle like it

wouldn’t dare to block him. When he was about to leave the area,
red lights appeared in the red mist around him. Wang Lin suddenly
reached up with his right hand and grabbed.

All of the red lights stopped like they were all caught by a giant hand
and crushed to bits. The red lights quickly gathered again, but this
time they formed a road under Wang Lin’s feet that led to the
outside of the restriction.

Wang Lin’s expression remained normal as he walked on the red

road and out of the restriction.

He let out a laugh when he walked out of the restriction. After

spending all this time, he finally completely understood this
restriction and made it his own. His interest for restrictions had
reached its peak. He looked back at the restriction with a mocking
expression and moved his hand within it.

The restriction suddenly shook, and the movement of the grass

changed. If one were to look at it closely, they would see that the
movement was more complex than before.

Wang Lin muttered to himself, “If someone appears behind me, they
will have to be careful!” With his understanding of the restriction, he
added another layer onto it.

From now on, whenever someone enters that restriction, no matter

what they do, they will trigger his second restriction. With the
addition of that second restriction, there was a chance that someone
will die in that patch of grass.
Of course, if they use the same method as Wang Lin, then the
difficulty of researching the restriction would also increase.

Wang Lin looked around with a cold smile on his face. He suddenly
moved to another patch of grass and increased the difficulty of the
restriction in that one. He kept doing this until every patch of grass
had been tampered with.

After doing all of this, Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He felt like this
wasn’t enough and sealed all of the gaps between the restrictions.
This means that if someone wished to enter, they would have to
walk through the restrictions.

After finishing all of this, Wang Lin began to walk up the mountain.

At this very moment, Six Desire Devil Lord was staring at the thick
cloud before him. This cloud had been there for three days. No
matter what Six Desire Devil Lord did, he couldn’t make it scatter.

He expression was gloomy. On his side stood the young man who
came with him. The young man stood there, dazed, and just stared at
the fog.

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at the young man and then looked
behind him before letting out a cold smile. The first trial he had
entered was the ice trial, which he was very familiar with. Although
he didn’t have Ancient Emperor’s treasure, how could he not be
prepared after 1000 years?

Back then, he said that he was able to take everyone through the
second half of the ice trial. If he said it, than he was 100% confident
he could do it.

The truth was that 500 years ago, he obtained a treasure that
allowed him to use the water escape technique, which had the same
effect as Wang Qingyue’s earth boat.
As a result, with his cultivation and his understanding of the ice
trial, he easily passed through it with the young man.

As for the Road of No Return between the first and second trials, it
was also no problem for him. Although he almost died the first time
he came here, he had now mastered the Six Desire Demonic
Cultivation Method. The thing he was least afraid of now were
things that messed with his emotions. He had researched a lot about
emotions.

The Road of No Return was like child’s play to him. If it wasn’t for
him having to protect the young man, it wouldn’t have taken any
time.

Although protecting one person made it a bit slower, the result was
still the same.

The one thing that made him worry was this second trial, the so
called Restriction Mountain. The reason it was called Restriction
Mountain was because the entire mountain was covered in
restrictions, and the higher up one climbs, the more powerful the
restrictions become.

Back then, the four of them arrived here with other powerful
cultivators and were able to get through. However, many died
because they were forced by the powerful cultivators to test the
power of the restrictions.

If Six Desire Devil Lord hadn’t come with his master, it probably
would have been hard for him to escape death in this place.

However, his master was the main force in breaking the restrictions.
His master was a master of restrictions and formations who had
studied and broke the restrictions until 1000 feet before the exit.
However, he wasn’t able to get any further. In the end, he placed
down a restriction on top of it. Then he worked together with the
other Soul Formation cultivators to kill a mid stage Soul Formation
cultivator. Only by using that cultivator’s body were they able to
open a 1000-foot-long tunnel to get through.

This tunnel would only last three breaths of time. The lucky
survivors all charged into the tunnel. In the end, only a small group
of them made it. Everyone else died.

Every time Six Desire Devil Lord thought about this, he would feel
how dangerous it was. Only now that he had finally reached the mid
stage of Soul Formation himself did he dare to come here again.

The luck he had in the first trial made Six Desire Devil Lord very
confident again. He considered himself lucky because the key to get
through the third trial was in his hand. Based on Six Desire Devil
Lord’s years of observation, he believed that this person could get
him through the third trial, but the price would be the young man’s
life.

However, Six Desire Devil Lord didn’t care about this person’s life at
all.

What he was worried about was how he would get past those last
1000 feet at the top of the mountain. Although it had been 1000
years and he had prepared, he was only 50% confident.

He had spent most of the last 1000 years studying restrictions, and
with his extraordinary memory, he was able to memorize most of
the restrictions here. Only after 1000 years did he feel confident in
coming here. Along the way, he easily broke through all of the
restrictions, but right after he broke through them, he returned
them to normal.

He also added more restrictions on top of them. His goal was the
same as Wang Lin’s.

However, the restrictions on Restriction Mountain got progressively

more complicated as he climbed higher, so Six Desire Devil Lord’s
pace gradually became slower. At this point, he had to study the
restrictions for a long time before taking one step.

For example, this cloud wasn’t here 1000 years ago, but it was here
now, which surprised him.

As for Wang Lin, after 1000 feet, the number of grass patches
decreased. What he saw now were black rocks. Wang Lin took the
jade out and began to record again.

The restriction on this rock was completely different from the one
in the grass. The restriction on the grass was formed by the
movement pattern of the grass.

However, this rock was different. Besides some patterns on the rock,
there was nothing notable about it. If it wasn’t for the faint spiritual
energy it was emitting, it would be impossible to tell that it was a
restriction.

Wang Lin looked around and found many similar restrictions

nearby. If he wanted to, he could get through them by walking
through the gaps between each restriction. However, compared to
leaving, Wang Lin preferred to gain a complete understanding of
these restrictions instead.

He knew that passing through this area was easy, but he also knew
he had to spend a lot of time and effort here if he wished to reach
the top of the mountain.

Wang Lin began to carefully research the restriction.

There was no sense of time in the mountain, so in the blink of an

eye, seven years had passed. On this day, Wang Lin drank some
spirit liquid as he stood on a rock on the side of the mountain. In
these past seven years, half of Wang Lin’s hair had turned white.
He had devoted himself to studying restrictions, causing him to be
mentally stressed all the time. Four years ago, his hair started
turning white at the root.

However, his divine sense also became more powerful under this
stress, and he unknowingly entered the mid stage of Core
Formation. He was now one step closer to the Nascent Soul stage.

His eyes were even more sharp, and his temperament had changed
greatly. If Wang Lin was like never-melting ice seven years ago, then
now he was also impossible to see through.

This feeling came from his eyes. His eyes seemed to be able to see
everything, and there were stars within them that would sometimes
flash. If Duanmu Ji saw Wang Lin now, he probably wouldn’t believe
it. These were the divine sense eyes that were only obtained once
someone had reached a certain level of mastery in restrictions.

Wang spent these past seven years refining his eyes. In these seven
years, he had encountered countless restrictions. All of them
required him to carefully study and examine them. He was almost
killed by those restrictions many times.

This was especially true for some restrictions that clearly had other
restrictions added onto them. Luckily, Wang Lin had always been
cautious, so he noticed that these restrictions were different than
the ones from the mountain. After carefully studying them, he
realized that the person above him was also an expert in
restrictions.

Just from looking at the restrictions, Wang Lin could see that this
person’s understanding of restrictions was much deeper than his.

However, Wang Lin wasn’t scared at all. His interest in leaving the
second trial had decreased a lot. From his point of view, this was the
dreamland for learning restrictions. The way the restrictions became
progressively more complex meant that a person could start at the
basics and work their way up

This kind of place was almost impossible to find. The restrictions

went from simple to difficult. It was a very valuable place.
Chapter 180: The Unlucky Ancient
Emperor
With great concentration, Wang Lin walked the path in the
mountain. It had been seven years. Every time he broke a restriction,
he would change it a little and add on a few more. If the path he
took was like hell and full of danger at every step, he would make it
feel like the grass had turned to ice. Everything combined would
make it feel like the heavens and earth were swallowing you.

If there was anyone unlucky enough to run into them, they would
still lose a layer of skin if they didn’t die.

In these seven years, Wang Lin changed a lot in regards to his

restriction technique. He had gained a lot of enlightenment. Now he
could easily wield all of the restrictions broken by him as his own,
and more effectively than they originally were.

This surprised Wang Lin and increased his interest even more. After
all, the only way to exit this mountain was through restriction
techniques.

In the past seven years of his restriction research, Wang Lin never
just made simple observations; he was able to produce his own
method of deducing how to get past the restrictions. This method
was the result of countless trials and errors. He always worked
slowly from the starting point, never missing a single detail. While
he slowly he progressed, each of his steps forward were firm.

When it came to rare and difficult restrictions, he always started

from the basics and slowly progressed through. Without any
impatience in his heart, he slowly developed the mindset to practice
restriction techniques.
There were many who could use restriction techniques; however,
there are very few that have a deep understanding of them. Aside
from a few old experts, no one else could match Wang Lin in
restriction techniques.

Even Wang Lin himself was very confused. It seemed like his
mediocre talent didn’t matter at all when practicing restriction
techniques.

At this moment, Wang Lin sat cross-legged on a large rock. He was

staring straight ahead at the cloud in the distance. The cloud was
motionless.

As of two days ago, Wang Lin started staring at the cloud in deep
meditation. He took out a jade and recorded a few words on it, then
he drew on the ground.

This cloud appeared to be very subtle to Wang Lin. His restrictions

were all around the mountain. If anyone wanted to get passed them,
they would have to fly through and rely on their luck to survive.

If it was seven years ago, Wang Lin would need to use small animals
to experience a breakthrough in the restriction technique. However,
with his now developed understanding of restrictions, especially
with his soul piercing eyes, he only needed to stare at the cloud for a
bit. While not fully comprehending the restriction, he was able to
tell what restriction was in place. It was one that prevented flying.

In this way, the cloud restriction became even more ingenious. If

there were no clouds, while the restriction would still be difficult to
break, one would not be completely lost. However, the cloud covered
the center of the restriction.

This increased the unknown variable within this restriction.

Even in this situation, Wang Lin’s heart didn’t become flustered. His
eyes gleamed as he stared at the cloud. Suddenly, his hand started
moving in a blur in front of him.

Afterimages of his hand started appearing until it looked like he had

thousands of hands. These afterimages started to tremble, and then
began to spread rapidly.

The afterimages created by Wang Lin’s hand formed a illusionary

circle. He suddenly paused and thrusted his right hand forward. The
illusionary circle formed by the afterimages flew toward the cloud.

After the illusionary circle entered the cloud, it started to dissipate.

The illusionary caused waves to surge through the cloud. Wang Lin
sat cross-legged, not even glancing at the clouds. With his eyes
closed, he slowly started to frown.

This illusionary circle was a technique developed by Wang Lin to

break restrictions. After seven years of research and improvement,
he had mastered this technique.

He didn’t even need to look with his eyes. By examining on the wave
produced by the illusionary circle, he was able to understand the
structure and rules of the restriction. After a while, he opened his
eyes. His right hand waved in front of him again. This time with a
serious face, he moved his hand until the amount of time it takes for
one incense stick to burn passed by. Layers of the illusionary circle
quickly appeared before him.

When the ten illusionary circles appeared, Wang Lin started to

breath hard. He was losing control of his right hand. With the last of
his strength, he thrusted his arm ten times.

The ten illusionary circles fell on the cloud one by one.

While forming the illusionary circles looked easy, it required Wang

Ling to circle his hand tens of thousands of time for one circle to
form.
This technique was the result of seven years of studying restriction
techniques. One could say that the illusionary circle itself was a
restriction technique.

The ten illusionary circles penetrated the cloud and faded away. This
created endless amounts of ripples within the cloud, causing it to
pulsate rapidly.

Wang Lin concealed his presence. His left hand then repeatedly
drew a picture on the ground. After a long time, he opened his eyes
and let out a smile. He waved his left hand and wiped away all the
pictures on the rock. His eyes were shining as he stood up, wiped
away the pictures with his left hand, and then started rubbing it with
his right hand. He looked down and calculated the time. He then
suddenly moved his right hand and shot out a beam of light.

The light shot toward the cloud, causing it to tremble, then it slowly
dissipated. As the cloud disappeared, what was hidden inside it was
revealed.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. He took out a jade and carefully
recorded its characteristics as he analysed the restriction. In the last
seven years, whenever Wang Lin opened a restriction, he would
record it so that he may use it again in the future.

After the time it takes for a full incense stick to burn passed, he put
away the jade. He stared at where the cloud was and saw a broken
bridge only ten feet away from him.

This was the true face of the restriction. As Wang Lin was about to
step forward, he carefully scanned the bridge. His eyes landed on a
small tree growing next to the broken bridge.

With Wang Lin’s experience from breaking restrictions for the past
seven years, he noticed that there was something wrong with the
small tree. In all of the restrictions that Wang Lin had come across
in this mountain, although very rarely, he would sometimes find two
restrictions stacked on top of each other. But this restriction was
very different from the precious restrictions.

This one must’ve been added by someone else. He himself had done
the same thing many times in the past seven years. This little tree
must have been placed here by someone else.

Wang Lin laughed coldly. He looked at the restriction on the little

tree once and immediately recognized the same level of foul play he
had encountered several times before. They were all created by the
same person.

About four years ago, someone started to try to obstruct him with
restrictions. After breaking them one by one, he had a good
understanding of their restrictions.

The restrictions in the mountain normally didn’t activate unless he

touched them. However, the restrictions set by this person were very
different. The moment he entered their range, they immediately
attacked him. If its attacks ended up being in vain, it would self-
destruct and active all of the restrictions nearby, trapping the person
in a prison of restrictions.

Wang Lin narrowed his eyes as he stared at the little tree. He sent
out three illusionary circles. They landed on top of the little tree.

The little tree shook a little and the leaves started to fall off. The
trunk quickly turned dark. After some time, it finally started to bend.

Wang Lin’s illusionary circle contained numerous restrictions. Its

main role was to break restrictions. Thus, the restriction on the little
tree broke, layer by layer.

A cold light flashed in Wang Lin’s eye. He quickly took the black
sword out of his bag of holding and sent it towards the tree. At the
same time, the bent tree trunk flew at Wang Lin.
The black sword suddenly flashed by, brushing past the tree trunk
and slicing it in two. When the tree trunk fell to the ground, it curled
up and gradually revealed itself to be a brown centipede.

The centipede twisted a few times before turning into a cloud of

black smoke. This black smoke gave off the feeling of death that
would cause people to panic; however, it disappeared as quickly as it
appeared.

Wang Lin thought with a dignified look in his eyes. This was the
first time he had seen a restriction that used a spirit beast where the
spirit beast’s body created a black smoke that would cause panic. He
felt very familiar with this method.

He was able to tell that this restriction and a few others before this
were set up by the same person. It was really obvious that that
person rarely used this kind of restriction. It wasn’t much stronger
than the rest, but it was much more ingenious. If someone carelessly
walked by, it would be hard to avoid death.

“Six Desire Devil Lord!” Wang Lin whispered. He knew why this felt
so familiar to him. Back then, in the void, Six Desire Devil Lord
wanted to use him to test his outlandish technique.

Wang Lin remembered this in his heart. The first time Six Desire
Devil Lord targeted him, he decided to spare Wang Lin after a quick
interaction. He used the youth he brought with him instead.

He used the body of that youth as a special material to cast spells.

This time it was exactly the same, only the victim was a centipede.

At that very moment, on a rock 5000 feet from the mountain top,
Six Desire Devil Lord suddenly turned around and stared at the
mountain. The eyes of the youth standing at his side were no longer
vacant, but filled with a deep, dull color.
“Who the hell is it that kept breaking my restrictions in the last five
years? He even broke the restriction I set to kill him in the clouds.
Could it be Duanmu? No, it must be Ancient Emperor. That old bag
of bones must have been studying restrictions for the past thousand
years. This person will be my greatest enemy in the third test!” Six
Desire Devil Lord whispered to himself.

A hint of fanaticism showed in his eyes. At the mountain top 5000

feet away, there was a giant whirlpool. That was the entrance to the
third trial.

In the past seven years, Six Desire Devil Lord’s travels started out
smoothly, but as he got closer to the top, the power and complexity
of the restrictions grew. There were some truly stunning
restrictions. It was one of those restrictions that trapped Six Desire
Devil Lord for five years.

He turned away and quickly moved forward.

At that same moment, a person stepped out of the whirlpool at the

foot of the mountain. This person was holding a whisk and wearing
a veil covering his face with a fairy-like, gentle aura. He walked out
confidently.

It was Ancient Emperor.

Although he looked calm, he wrinkled his brow. At the first trial, he

went through the fire trial. It took him seven years to work his way
through it.

There were many monsters within the fire trial. He killed countless
numbers of them. While it would’ve been possible to break out
sooner if he had used all his power, Ancient Emperor was a very
patient man. He would rather waste time fighting than take a risk.

The amount of patience he had was what greatly differed him from
Hunchback Meng.
Ancient Emperor was well prepared for breaking past the trial this
time. Even though he ran into the fire trial, his natural weakness, he
remained strong and made his way out one step at a time.

Although this took him a lot of time, his treasures were not used up,
so when he tries to get past future trials, he will still have them.

However, on the road ahead, nothing could stop him. While there
were many illusion restrictions, none of them were able to affect
him.

After entering the second trial, Ancient Emperor let out a deep sigh.
His eyes were fixed on the mountain top as he revealed a cold smile.
For the past 1000 years, he’d been preparing for today.

If you wish to enter the third trial, you must learn about restriction.
This was something he had learned by heart. If it wasn’t for his
amazing speed that allowed him to cross the tunnel in three breaths
all those years ago, even if he had killed all the people that were
there that day, he would still have died.

He wasn’t like Six Desire Devil Lord, Duanmu, or Hunchback Meng.

Over 1000 years ago, he was already at the mid stage of Soul
Formation and was the leader of the last expedition.

Back then, Six Desire Devil Lord and the others were merely juniors
in his eyes. If it wasn’t for his grave injury after escaping, how could
those three still be alive today?

For the past 1000 years he had been recovering at the Sea of Devils
and started developing his knowledge of restrictions so that he
could attempt to enter the trial again. In those 1000 years, he was
able to recover all of his cultivation, but he was unable to advance it.
After careful analysis, he believed that the injuries from all those
years ago had damaged his foundation. Unless he used some
heavenly treasure, his cultivation would be forever stuck.
As a result, he became even more excited at the thought of re-
entering the Land of the Ancient God. Only here would he find the
treasure that could not only let him recover, but also help him
advance to the Soul Transformation stage, allowing him to become
an Soul Transformation expert. This would make all the hardships
he had suffered more than worth it.

To this end, he gave up cultivating and focused only on restriction

research. He even went to many sects that were famous for their
restriction techniques to study.

After 1000 years of study, he felt very confident in his ability. He

even brought a few amazing surprises with him. He touched his bag
of holding and widened his smile.

Without saying a word, he arrived at the first restriction at the foot

of the mountain.

This was the first restriction he broke by force all those years ago.
After glancing at it once, he stepped forward. He saw that there was
no reason to waste time solving this restriction; it was much better
to just smash it by force.

After all, this was exactly how he had passed it all those years ago.

He recalled that the moment he had entered, the weeds turned into
blades. Things turned out as he expected. The weeds around him
flew up, as he expected, and it flew through the red mist that
suddenly appeared. It then came back around and became a rain of
swords.

Ancient Emperor acted like nothing happened and pressed forward.

As the swords approached his body, they become covered in ice and
instantly exploded.

The continuous popping sounds didn’t slow Ancient Emperor one

bit. He easily reached the edge of the formation. He remembered
that this was where a red light should appear.

Sure enough, just as he was thinking it, pillars of red light appeared
around him. Ancient Emperor let out a short chant. His right hand
made a fist and smashed into one of the red lights. The light
immediately scattered and disappeared.

One after another, he punched the red lights. In less than two hours,
all of the red lights were gone. He easily broke through this
restriction.

Ancient Emperor stepped forward. He was eyeing the second

restriction a few dozen feet away from him. After moving a hundred
feet, his face suddenly changed. The moment he walked out of the
restriction, black fog appeared all around him. This was clearly very
different from the red lights and sounds of beasts that could be
heard from within.

Shortly after, countless black swords and red lights appeared. They
all flew towards him. Their speed was simply too fast; by the time he
heard them, they were already on him.

Ancient Emperor’s face suddenly darkened. He let out a roar, and the
spiritual energy that came out with the roar immediately turned into
a thick wall of ice that surrounded him. Most of the attacks hit the
ice wall.

He then immediately retreated a few steps. He made a fist with this

right hand and punched toward the ice wall. The ice immediately
shattered into millions of pieces.

His left hand continued to shoot out spiritual energy that attached to
the ice shards one by one. The ice rapidly melted and became clones
of Ancient Emperor. They all sent out numerous techniques.

The restriction roared after receiving such a strong attack. It

completely collapsed.
As the black fog disappeared, Ancient Emperor walked out with a
gloomy face. His complexion darkened as he released a strong
killing intent. “Six Desire Devil Lord, this restriction must have been
laid by you!”

The surprise restriction that suddenly appeared made him not know
what to do for a moment. If someone that wasn’t as strong him in
that situation, even if they didn’t die, they would have been left in a
sorry state.

The reason he was so sure it was Six Desire Devil Lord was because
Duanmu didn’t have the temperament to learn restriction
techniques. However, this didn’t exclude that brat Wang Lin.

But he firmly believed that it was Six Desire Devil Lord because he
had completely forgotten about Wang Lin.

Now that he considered how evil the restriction was, he could not
help but curse in his heart. He had secretly decided in his heart that
no matter how simple a restriction may look, he would tread ever so
carefully.

As Wang Lin slowly walked toward the mountain’s peak, he

suddenly paused and looked at the foot of the mountain. He noticed
that the first restriction he set had been broken.

However, Wang Lin felt no panic in his heart. As he was proceeding

up the mountain in the past seven years, he had laid down countless
restrictions to stop anyone behind him. Even if they managed to
break through all the restrictions without dying, they would at least
lose a layer of skin.

If their luck was bad, they might even cause the nearby restrictions
to trigger. Even if it was someone in the Soul Formation stage, the
only road for them was death.
There weren’t many super powerful restrictions behind Wang Lin.
There were only three or four, on top of the restrictions that were
already there. Six Desire Devil Lord had added a few layers on to
them. After Wang Lin had painstakingly gotten through them, he
added even more layers on top. And finally, for good measure, Wang
Lin spent four weeks going back and chaining all the restrictions
together so that if one gets triggered, the result would be disastrous.

Wang Lin let out a cold laugh. The people behind him didn’t matter.
He continued moving forward.

The closer to the top Wang Lin got, the more he slowed down. He
had to spend a lot of mental energy to understand how the
restrictions functioned. He learned every detail of the restriction
before he would attempt to break them.

With the restriction technique he created, he could only create up to

ten illusionary circles. He couldn’t make any more than 10. Not to
mention him, even someone at the Soul Formation stage couldn’t do
more.

With this technique, if it was anyone else, the most they could make
would be about three to five circles. The only reason Wang Lin was
able to make is ten was because of the Ji Realm divine sense.

It was because of the support from this technique being drawn to

the limit that Wang Lin was able to advance one time after another
to the point where he could draw ten illusionary circles.

The jades he had used to record restrictions now numbered over a

hundred. They were his treasures, proof of his growth.

Wang Lin’s will was definitely very strong. Many restrictions took
him many days and nights to study and analyse, and then one day he
finally had a breakthrough.
Time quickly passed by and in the blink of an eye, three years had
passed. Wang Lin’s hair had already turned completely white. His
eyes even sharper, as if they could pierce your soul.

Wang Lin had never thought he would spend ten years on a

mountain top, but for him, these ten year passed by quickly. Every
moment was spent studying restrictions.

From his position, he was 6000 feet from the top of the mountain.
However, starting at 3000 feet from the mountaintop floated a
thick, white fog that made it impossible to reach the top.

After three years, Wang Lin didn’t have much spirit liquid left. He
had to be very careful with how he expended his spiritual energy,
making sure to conserve as much of it as possible.

Researching restrictions required a lot of mental energy, and as one

expended mental energy, their spiritual energy would also be used
up along with it.

Right now, his white hair was tied up. He sat cross-legged on a cliff
surrounded by restrictions. These restrictions had all been destroyed
by the illusionary circles created by this right hand.

As Wang Lin approached the top, he became more nervous,

wondering if the person in front of him had already passed the
second trial. If that person didn’t pass, then he must be waiting for
him up there. The restrictions up where Wang Lin was were so
strong that if he randomly picked one, even someone in the Soul
Formation stage would struggle to survive it.

As a result, Wang Lin couldn’t get distracted at all. His full focus
must be dedicated to analysing the restrictions.

Regarding the person behind Wang Lin, he clearly felt his progress
in the past three years. From the start, he would feel a restriction
being broken every few weeks. Now it would be months before he
felt one being broken. The reason why he was getting slower and
slower was not only because of the increase in strength of the
natural restrictions, it was also due to Wang Lin’s own growth. The
restrictions he laid now were like heaven and earth compared to
ones ten years ago.

Wang Lin slowly exhaled. His gaze shifted forward. Just like how he
could detect the speed of the person behind him, the person in front
also knew the speed in which Wang Lin was progressing. Maybe
there would be some hidden danger that awaited further up.

Wang Lin let out a cold smile. He waved his hand and placed several
restrictions. He had been sitting here for almost a year. He had to
pay attention not only to what was above him, but also to what was
below him. He laid countless restrictions all around this spot.Wang
Lin was in no rush. He had no intention to run head long into the
enemy’s trap. There must not be a single mistake at this point.

Wang Lin was waiting for the person behind him to catch up to let
him pass first.

The person behind him must be at least at the Soul Formation stage.
This was the reason Wang Lin stopped for a year. He had been laying
down countless restriction not to attack, but to hide his presence.

After a year of laying down restrictions, Wang Lin felt confident that
as long as he didn’t move, the other one will have a very hard time
noticing his presence.

A few days later, Wang Lin felt a nearby restriction being broken.

His lip curled into a cold sneer as he stared back, eyes shining.

Ancient Emperor’s anger had not subsided in these three years.

Instead of subsiding, he felt more and more angry. In these past
three years, he not only had to spend a lot of time breaking each
restriction, he also had to be extra careful of the restrictions left
behind by another person.

The thing that pissed him off the most was that when he finally
broke through a restriction, it would set off many other restrictions.
He almost died dozens of times.

All along the way, he felt gloomy and couldn’t help but curse in his
heart. Sometimes he couldn’t hold it in and would curse out loud.
From his point of view, the person who added the restrictions was
simply too vicious.

Sometimes, a restriction would look like it was nothing, but when he

cracked it, that crack would turn out to be the activation for that
restriction.

There were also restrictions that he could just walk past if he didn’t
try to crack them. But if he did try to crack them, they would create
an endless loop of restrictions. Step by step, even knowing the
dangers ahead, he had to keep moving forward to finally escape
from this hell.

Unless he decided to give up halfway, he could only continue to

climb up.

Every time he thought about it, his anger would boil. He wished he
could tear apart the person that did this.

Sometimes, he would feel very strong spiritual energy and spend a

long time observing, but he wouldn’t detect any restriction. After
expending a great deal of spiritual energy, he would send out his
treasures to test for any restriction only to find that there was no
restriction, that the spiritual energy was left on on purpose to trick
him.

What made him the most angry were places that looked completely
normal, but if he watched carefully, a trace amount of spiritual
energy could be sensed. These would be impossible to detect unless
he gave them his undivided attention.

But then he would spend even more spiritual energy to check the
area only to suddenly realize this was also a fake restriction.

In the past three years, Ancient Emperor had to deal with real and
fake restrictions constantly. He would sometimes accidentally
trigger a real restriction, causing a chain reaction.

At the first trial, he had spent more time to save his magic treasures,
but now more than half of them had been used up. They were all
used to defend himself when the restrictions were triggered.

His heart ached and he was full of regret. If only he had used those
treasures to pass through the first trial sooner. If only if he was
walking in front of that man, his path would be lot smoother.

Two years agom when he saw three different types of restrictions, he

realized that Six Desire Devil Lord was only one of the people
responsible for this.

He realized that there were two restriction masters in front of him.

At first he was most weary of Six Desire Devil Lord, but now that
crown went to the mystery man.

Cracking this person’s restrictions would leave one’s heart in dread.

At first, while this person’s restrictions were very clever and
detailed, they didn’t require much power. However, as he progressed,
the mystery man’s skill improved leaps and bounds. The restrictions
were not only smart but mind boggling complex.

At first, Ancient Emperor would easily crack the restrictions, but as

time passed, it took more and more out of him to work his way
through the restrictions.
The presence of the mystery person became more important in his
heart. He felt that at least in terms of knowledge of restrictions, that
person was his rival. He felt that even though that person couldn’t
match up to his thousand years of experience, the cleverness of the
restrictions left him wordless.

What shocked him the most was that the mystery person looked like
he had just started learning restriction techniques. It was very
difficult to believe, but he was sure of this.

The most important part was that the layout of the restrictions were
messy and large at first, but now they were very hard to find and had
been refined to two special characteristics.

The very fast attack speed, method of attack, condition of the trigger,
and timing made it difficult to respond in time.

In his heart, he thought highly of this person, and now even higher.
He finally managed to break a restriction that took a great deal of
effort. He walked out with a gloomy face.

He gazed upwards. He was still seven 7000 feet from the top. If it
was like before, he could easily get there in the blink of an eye.
Forget running there, even if he could fly he would still be forced to
move with great care.

He clearly remembered 1000 years ago when there was a Soul

Formation cultivator that was displaying his unique magic treasure
with the ability to teleport him around the mountain. When he
suddenly disappeared, a purple lightning bolt came crashing down
and interrupted his technique.

The magic treasure was being used like a toy, but it was suddenly
struck by the lightning along with the entire body of the user until
there was no trace remaining.
This scene left everyone in silence. To fly in the air meant attracting
the purple lightning, so everyone opted to trek through the ground
rather than attempting to fly.

Ancient Emperor continued for a month. The distance between him

and Wang Ling had gotten smaller and smaller. This was the first
time Wang Lin got to see a Soul Formation expert break through a
restriction.

Today, Ancient Emperor stood only ten feet away from Wang Lin.
His gaze suddenly shifted to where Wang Lin sat. His eyes gave off
an odd light.
Chapter 181: The Outbreak of
Restrictions
Ancient Emperor’s body was motionless as he took a careful look,
and couldn’t help but curse out, “This is another series of
restrictions. This person is devious beyond all reason!”

He waved his right hand and four white flags appeared. They rotated
once and landed on his four sides.

His eyes suddenly darkened. Under the direction of his hands, the
four flags suddenly started to enlarge. The flags moved around as
they produced white snakes that floated to Wang Lin’s location.

Those white snakes circled around for a while, until one of them
pointed at a rock nearby.

Wang Lin was calm as he sat within his many restrictions. He wasn’t
nervous or surprised at all. He felt very confident in the restriction
techniques he’d been developing for the past ten years. If the
restrictions were laid last minute, they might not fool the target.
These restrictions however, took him a year to set up.

Because of this, even though the other side was using such a unique
method, Wang Lin wasn’t nervous at all. He only sneered and stayed
motionless.

The spot that Ancient Emperor had noticed was a deliberate weak
point left by Wang Lin, and if the he didn’t notice that, then he
would suffer.

The white snakes twisted themselves together, moving faster and

faster, and in the blink of an eye they landed on one of the many
restrictions Wang Lin had placed.
The rock looked very ordinary, but under the white light, it slowly
disappeared, revealing a small trail for one person to pass.

The Ancient Emperor stared at the small trail, but didn’t head
towards it. He waved his right hand, retrieving the white snakes,
then started to carefully observe the area.

Given Ancient Emperor’s years of experience breaking restrictions

in this mountain, this restriction must have some devious killing
method hidden within. If he wasn’t careful, he might set off some
larger restrictions.

As he was very close to the top of the mountain, he would already be

struggling with the current restrictions if not for his thousand years
of studying them. After this point, it would only get harder.

Ancient Emperor was very careful. He sat down on the ground and
used his hand to control the white snakes to slowly break into the
restriction.

Wang Lin let out a snort. The distance between him and Ancient
Emperor was less than 10 feet, but Ancient Emperor didn’t notice
him. Even with a soul sweep, it would be difficult to access the
restriction. Besides Wang Lin himself, no one else knew how many
restrictions he had set up here.

However, given Wang Lin’s temperament, there must’ve been many

restriction set up in the vicinity. In fact, it could be said that all the
knowledge he had obtained in the past 10 years had been placed
here.

After a year, Ancient Emperor was sitting in front of the open trail
with an ugly look on his face. He originally thought that the
restriction was very complex because it was set by that devious
person, but after a month of careful study, he was surprised to find
that the restriction was very simple. The sudden change caused him
to feel very annoyed. Good thing he had encountered these
situations before. He took a deep breath and looked at the top of the
mountain. He decided that if he ever met this mysterious person, he
would definitely teach them a lesson. His hatred for his man had
already turned into an obsession.

But nevertheless, the Ancient Emperor was still very careful and still
held his breath. That mysterious person was best at sudden change.
Many times what had looked to be true would turn out to be false,
but the moment you let your guard down, what is false is in fact true.

As a result, the Ancient Emperor put all his focus on his

surroundings as he walked forward.

He walked toward the trail, but after he moving not even 5 feet, the
rocks around him started shifting. One by one, stone spikes shot
toward him like lightning.

When Ancient Emperor saw the stone spikes he wasn’t surprised,

but relieved. He waved his right hand and a blue light surrounded
his body. The moment the stone spikes hit the blue light, they
turned blue as well.

Looking from a distance, you could see a long trail of intertwining

blue stone spikes.

Then, a wind suddenly blew by and all the stone spikes shattered
and fell to the ground. The trail was now filled with shards of
broken frozen rocks.

Ancient Emperor raised his foot and walked toward the exit. As he
was about reach the exit, deep in the restriction, an illusionary circle
appeared in Wang Lin’s hand. As long as he threw the circle, he
could trigger all the nearby restrictions to attack.

Although the chance of killing the Ancient Emperor was low, it

would at least be able to wound him.
After musing over the idea for a while, Wang Lin put away the
illusionary circle and allowed the Ancient Emperor to leave the
restriction. The reason why he didn’t set off the restrictions was
because he didn’t want to tip the balance. If the Ancient Emperor
was wounded, he would look for a place to heal, and unless
something threatened his life, he wouldn’t move. This wouldn’t
adhere to Wang Lin’s best interest.

However, Wang Lin still decided to act against Ancient Emperor. He

created another illusionary circle and sent it out. The circle spread
out, creating a myriad of afterimages. At this moment, all the
restrictions Wang Lin had placed were activated.

Due to Ancient Emperor’s extensive study on restrictions, he noticed

something was amiss when he was more than half way out of the
trail. He detected layers and layers of restrictions going off. The
amount of restrictions was enough to numb his skull. His face
suddenly turned very ugly has he dashed toward the exit.

Meanwhile, all the restrictions activated.

Rays of colorful lights appeared from the mountainside, flying

toward Ancient Emperor.

Ancient Emperor’s face looked pale. He knew that the colorful light
had no attack power. However, the moment he gets hit, he will be
teleported to wherever the person who set the restriction wanted
him to be.

The Ancient Emperor quickly waved his right hand as 4 small flags
appeared. He regrettably looked at the flags and spit out a mouthful
of Ling Qi. The 4 flags started to rotate and a black tunnel appeared
before them.

Right before the colorful light had arrived, the Ancient Emperor
jumped into the dark tunnel and appeared 10 feet away.
After he left the restriction, he suddenly accelerated forward, sweat
glistening on his brow. He turned around with a sullen face and saw
that the restriction had already returned to normal.

He stayed silent, then turned around and walked away as the 4 flags
spun around him.

Wang Lin’s eyes were on the flags the entire time. The reason he
attacked was because all these old fellows were extremely crafty. If
they pass by without any obstruction, they would grow suspicious at
the change.

Might as well attack and put him in some danger to avoid any
suspicion. After all, this mountain was full of restrictions. It was
only natural to break them in order to pass.

Only, Wang Lin didn’t realize how powerful the flags were. They
were able to create a hole in the restriction to escape from. Those
flags must be the Ancient Emperor’s trump card in passing
restrictions.

Wang Lin thought for a moment and continued to sit there. His eyes
were focused on the giant whirlpool at the top of the mountain.

Six Desire Devil Lord was currently 100 feet away from the top of
the mountain, his face dark. If it wasn’t for that youngster, he would
have arrived at this point 2 years ago.

Even for him, he wouldn’t dare trigger the restrictions at this point.
Before, there was a failure in breaking a restriction that triggered a
teleportation light to shoot at him. This type of thing was what he
hated the most. If he had been teleported, it would be hard to
survive. With no time to dodge, he used the youth he brought with
him as a shield to escape.

Six Desire Devil lord didn’t care whether or not the youth lived.
However, he had spent much sweat and blood on him. So when the
youth was taken away by the light, he chased after him, and after
much trouble, was able to recover the youth.

The youth was standing next to him, eyes closed with no sign of life.
In fact, the moment the teleporting light hit him, he was already
killed by the restriction.

But strangely, the youth still followed Six Desire Devil Lord. Six
Desire Devil Lord looked back and sneered as he felt another one of
his restrictions broken by the person behind him.

This person had continuously broken through the restrictions he

had set up. They had already become the greatest enemy in his
heart. He licked his lips and thought to himself, “This must be
Ancient Emperor. If it wasn’t for all these restrictions around here,
this would be a good time to kill him. But I have placed a few super
strong restrictions in these hundred feet. I want to see if you can
break them.” He looked at the youth at his side and sneered.

His eyes shifted back to the restrictions on the whirlpool. Even with
his abilities, it was impossible to break through. Even his master
was stopped at this point.

This time, Six Desire Devil Lord had the confidence to come here.
How could he not be prepared. He looked at the youth beside him,
let out a proud smile, and said, “I spent hundreds of years this
creating this killer. You’ll definitely allow me to enter the ancient
god’s body.”

He sat down cross legged. With a wave of his left hand, the youth
also sat down cross legged. The Six Desire Devil Lord moved both
his hands to form a spiral restriction that surrounded both of them.

On Ancient Emperor’s side, the restrictions got harder and harder as

he progressed. If it wasn’t for his current strength, he would already
have died.
Even so, he hand to spend a lot of his treasures to have came out of
those restrictions alive.

Some of the restrictions couldn’t just be cracked anymore, some

even required massive amounts of magic power to pass through.
Ancient Emperor was very gloomy.

As Ancient Emperor walked out of another restriction, he was less

than 200 feet away from the top of the mountain. Because there
were no more restrictions blocking his sight, he saw the Six Desire
Devil Lord, who wore a gloomy expression. Behind him was a black
whirlpool that lead to who knows where, and in the middle of the
whirlpool was the youth that had been following Six Desire Devil
Lord.

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at Ancient Emperor. He hadn’t

expected him to get up here so quickly. If he had enough time for 1
incense stick to burn, he could have finished the whirlpool
restriction. Although it would only last 3 seconds, it was more than
enough for him.

But at this moment, Ancient Emperor appeared outside his

expectations, forcing him to change his plan.

Ancient Emperor’s eyes shrunk when he saw the whirlpool. He

remembered that this was exactly the same whirlpool that Six
Desire Devil Lord’s teacher, Sky Devil, used. It’s a restriction
technique that could bypass hundreds of restrictions.

“Six Desire…” Ancient Emperor’s eyes were dull as he suppressed his

anger. Compared to Six Desire Devil Lord, he wanted to find the
mysterious youth even more. His eyes swept the area and landed on
the youth. He frowned and said, “Is he the mysterious youth?
However, there is no feeling of life coming from him…”

The corner of Six Desire Devil Lord’s mouth twitched and he gently
said, “I never expected brother Ancient Emperor would arrive here
as well. This is a cause for celebration!”

Ancient Emperor smirked. While suppressing his anger, he said, “It

was all thanks to the “help” that you and this youth left behind that
this old bag of bones was able to make it here.”

Six Desire Devil Lord looked at the youth, his eyes turned cold, and
said, “Brother Ancient Emperor, what do you mean?

Ancient Emperor’s face was sullen, eyeing the restrictions set up by

Six Desire Devil Lord, he didn’t say a word.

Six Desire Devil Lord sneered in his heart, but there was no change
in his expression, he laughed. “Brother Ancient Emperor, in this
place there is only two of us. With our strength, even if both of us
were to fight then it is bound to trigger many larger restrictions.”

Ancient Emperor stayed silent, then said, “First, remove the

restrictions and let me come over.”

Six Desire Devil Lord faltered a bit as he saw the four flags rotating
around Ancient Emperor.

Ancient Emperor gave the whirlpool a quick look and sneered, “This
whirlpool restriction doesn’t seem to be complete. If I were to
trigger the nearby restrictions, would the passage close
permanently?”

Six Desire Devil Lord’s face didn’t change at all. He nodded his head
and smiled. He waved his hand and the restriction split in half. Since
this restriction was broken by him, he would naturally be able to set
it up again.

Ancient Emperor walked forward without saying a word. His eyes

never left Six Desire Devil Lord. After he walked more than half way
through the restrictions, Ancient Emperor suddenly moved his body.
The four white flags created a tunnel, and Ancient Emperor quickly
entered it.

The moment Ancient Emperor suddenly made a move, Six Desire

Devil Lord closed his hand and the restriction was set up again and
was activated.

But he never thought that Ancient Emperor’s flags were so powerful.

The moment the restriction was set up and activated, Ancient
Emperor came out of the tunnel and was only ten feet away.

The moment he appeared, Ancient Emperor didn’t hesitate. A ray of

light shot out from his mouth. The light wasn’t aimed at Six Desire
Devil Lord, but at the youth in the middle of the whirlpool. The
reason Ancient Emperor showed his life saving treasure was because
his hate for the youth was just monstrous.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s expression changed. Both his hands clapped
onto a printed paper, and yelled, “Desire!” Suddenly, yellow light
came out of the stomach of the youth, turning into a sword. It
slammed into the light shot by Ancient Emperor.

A wave of spirit energy rippled outward and instantly activated some

of the restrictions nearby. With the pressure of the restrictions
activating, Ancient Emperor could no longer attack. He quickly set
up his own restriction to stop the activations.

Six Desire Devil Lord did the same thing. After a while, the nearby
restrictions finally calmed down and were sealed again. Six Desire
Devil Lord’s face was very pale as he stared at Ancient Emperor. He
savagely said, “If you want to die, just charge in to the restriction
right now!”

Ancient Emperor had a dark face. He pointed to the youth and said,
“I, Ancient Emperor, swear to the heavens that if you give me that
youth I won’t fight you until we reach the 3rd realm.”
Six Desire Devil frowned and thought to himself, “Did he see
through it?” However, with his face pale, he said “He is a dead man,
how did he offend you?”

Ancient Emperor let out a loud laugh. “Dead man? Even if he is a

dead man, this old man still wants to have a go.”

“With his body, even if I have to use up all my strength, I’ll drag his
soul back here. Offend me? The hatred this old man has for him
can’t even be described!”

Six Desire Devil Lord frowned and looked at the youth and said,
“Brother Ancient Emperor, this has to be a misunderstanding…”

Ancient Emperor sneered, “Misunderstanding? Ever since this old

man entered the second realm, I have encountered two types of
restrictions. One was set by you. If the other wasn’t set by him, then
who else could have? Also, this old man has been breaking through
many of his restrictions and knows his strength isn’t beyond Yuan
Ying stage, so you tell me, who, besides him, who else has entered
this place that hasn’t already passed the Yuan Ying stage? And if you
want to tell me it’s that kid Wang Lin, both of us saw him sink into
nothingness. Even if he didn’t die, do you think that with his
cultivation only at the Jie Dan stage, he could pass the first realm
and the first barrier and be in front of me?”

Ancient Emperor quickly let out all that he had thought for the past
few years. He had been analyzing who this mysterious youth could
be, and in the end decided it was the youth beside Six Desire Devil
Lord. Only he had the qualifications.

Six Desire Devil Lord carefully analyzed what Ancient Emperor said,
and realized that if what Ancient Emperor said was true, then within
this realm there wasn’t just the three of them, but a fourth as well.

If this was true, it would cause a lot of misfortune in the future. This
person also didn’t come up himself, but allowed Ancient Emperor to
pass him. His motive was obvious.

As he was thinking this, he secretly cursed at how stupid Ancient

Emperor was. Without saying a word, he charged toward the
whirlpool. Ancient Emperor let out a cry, waved his hand, and
produced a light that blocked Six Desire Devil Lord’s path.

Six Desire Devil Lord hated him from the bottom of his heart, but
this wasn’t the place to fight. He glanced at what was behind
Ancient Emperor and sent a mental message.

Ancient Emperor’s face changed and replied, “Are you sure?”

Six Desire Devil Lord didn’t speak, but cut his finger to let out a drop
of blood. He waved his finger and the blood emitted a magic flame.
The magic flame slowly drifted toward Ancient Emperor.

Ancient Emperor was silent, then he too sent out a drop of blood. As
the two collided, they formed a symbol and flew back to their
respective owner’s hand.

This was the Sea of Devil’s highest vow, known as the Devil Heart
Oath. Ancient Emperor’s face darkened and said, “Is it really him?
Impossible!”

Six Desire Devil Lord also had a sullen look. He sneered, “It doesn’t
matter if it’s possible, it’s better if the two of us quickly leave this
place.”

Right as his finished speaking, his face suddenly changed. Not caring
about Ancient Emperor, he suddenly appeared next to the youth,
grabbed his arm, and was about to step into the whirlpool.

“Too Late!” Said a cold voice from all sides. Suddenly, within 300
feet of the mountain top, appeared numerous illusionary circles that
smashed through all the restrictions nearby.
Wang Lin was sitting on a boulder 500 feet away. For the past year,
he had been storing up illusionary circles within his many
restrictions. Now he suddenly released his restrictions and all the
illusionary circles came out and crashed into all the restrictions
within 200 feet of him.

One can even say that every restriction Wang Lin had set up was to
store illusionary circles. Under all the pressure caused by the
illusionary circles, Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor were
suddenly put into a disadvantage.

Six Desire Devil Lord was very good at tricking people, but in the end
he was tricked by someone else. As for Ancient Emperor, he was
mislead from the beginning because he thought deep down in his
heart that Wang Lin was just too weak. It was no wonder this
misunderstanding happened.

At that moment, he finally came to a realization. There was deep

hatred in his eyes.

All the restrictions within 300 feet of the mountaintop were

activated. Suddenly, rays of light, giant fireballs, magic swords that
would even cause immortal gods to have an headache, and spots of
colorful light that gave off very strong death qi came from all sides.

With all the widespread restrictions going off, it even triggered the
restriction in the sky. Suddenly, massive black clouds appeared,
descending to the mountain top. Flashes of lightning could be seen.

Even more, there was a ring of black light formed 300 feet around
the mountain top that shot upwards and contracted. Everything that
the black ring touched was destroyed, even the restrictions set up by
the mountain.

Even Wang Lin was stunned by what happened. He never imagined

that setting off so many restrictions would have such a weird effect,
especially that black ring that contained very strong destructive
power.

Once the restrictions near the mountain top were triggered, they had
only one mission: to kill every living thing within the area.

According to Wang Lin’s analysis, there were many restrictions set

up between him and the other two. If Ancient Emperor and Six
Desire Devil Lord gave up on the mountain and came down to find
him, then around him he still had hundreds of illusionary circles,
enough to trigger all the restrictions in the mountain.

If anything, he could just leave the mountain and wait for all the
restrictions to quiet down before ascending the mountain again.

But now, it seemed all his preparation was pointless. Unless Six
Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor were crazy, they would
never consider coming back here as the ring of black light that was
quickly flying up and contracting was far too intimidating.

According to Wang Lin’s plan, whether Six Desire Devil Lord or

Ancient Emperor made it past the second barrier was of no
importance. The reason why he let the Ancient Emperor pass was
because the restrictions up ahead were simply too hard for him to
crack. He also wanted to test just how powerful the restrictions
within the last 500 feet were to help him crack them in the future.

Although Wang Lin’s objective was complete, he couldn’t help but

stare at the ring of black light. The ring of black light was completely
outside of his expectations. He couldn’t help but stare at it.

“What is that thing?!” Six Desire Devil Lord only took one look at the
black ring and his scalp tingled. Without saying another word, he
grabbed the youth. The moment his body was about to touch the
whirlpool, it was hit by all the surrounding restrictions and collapsed
the whirlpool. He was dumbfounded as he stared at the collapsing
whirlpool. He turned his head in fury, looking at Wang Lin’s
location. However, the area was covered in a fog, he was unable to
see who was within.

He knew he was running out of time. He quickly threw out five

stones from his bag. They quickly formed 5 curtains of light around
him as he charged toward the mountain top.

As for Ancient Emperor, he also saw the black light and became
extremely wary. He took out 4 more flags. Adding on to the 4 flags
from before, there were now 8 flags rapidly rotating around his body.
The attacks from the restrictions nearby were absorbed. His thought
was the same as Six Desire Devil Lord, to charge forward and not
turn back.

The two started rushing toward the top almost simultaneously.

Six Desire Devil Lord was very fast with the 5 stones forming a light
screen around him, protecting him from the restrictions. However, a
few attacks still passed through the light screen and hit him, causing
him to be in a sorry state as he charged forward a few dozen feet.

The Ancient Emperor was in the same situation, only whenever the
attacks hit his flags, his face would turn uglier.

Behind them, the black light was just one step behind, rapidly
contracting. The clouds in the sky also thickened as a ball of purple
lightning was sent flying.

Lightning suddenly appeared in the cloud and then it crashed down

toward the mountain top.

A thunderous noise resonated as the ball of purple lightning rapidly

approached Six Desire Devil Lord. The light screen was unable to
withstand the blow, and the 5 stones started to break one by one.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s eyes were red. He grab the youth next to him
with his right hand and raised him up to block the purple ball of
lightning. As the lightning was about to strike, the youth’s eyes
suddenly opened. There was no light in these eyes. He opened his
mouth and swallowed the lightning ball.

Shortly after, there was a thunderous roar coming from inside the
youth as his skin cracked. The Six Desire Devil Lord was very excited
as he didn’t expect this thing to be able to block the purple lightning.
He quickly continued forward.

Wang Lin’s pupils shrank as he stared at the body of the youth. He

felt a flash of fear in his heart. Six Desire Devil Lord was clearly
afraid of the purple lightning, yet this youth’s body was not
destroyed by it.

Wang Lin sighed. He once again looked at the black light. He

clenched his teeth and produced more than 10 illusionary circles
that he sent toward the black light and began his analysis.

Ancient Emperor shot one look at the youth, and fear filled his
heart. It seemed Six Desire Devil Lord didn’t lie to him, and the
youth was really that thing…

A look of greed appeared in his eyes. He was only 50 feet from the
mountain top. He took a deep breath and waved his hand. The 8
flags started to spin faster and suddenly a black tunnel appeared
before him.

He moved into the black tunnel and appeared at the top of the
mountain. He let out a laugh. As he was about to enter the exit of
the second realm, Six Desire Devil Lord arrived as well.

How could the restrictions within 100 feet of the peak be so easily
passed? The only reason those two were able to rush here was not
only because of their own cultivation level, but also the treasures
that they held.
These two things were the two secret weapons the two brought this
time to break through the realms.

Not to mention the body of the youth, the flags Ancient Emperor had
were from a sect famous for its restrictions in a 5th rank Xiu Zhen
country.

The 8 flags could form numerous different restrictions depending on

the combination. If it wasn’t for Ancient Emperor not knowing
many combinations, his trip up the mountain wouldn’t be as
pathetic.

However, in terms of speed of comprehension between the three,

Ancient Emperor was still the fastest. That in of itself presented a
problem.

These flags took the Ancient Emperor a great deal of effort to

acquire.

If he had these flags a thousand years ago, then the death and injury
rate wouldn’t have been so high.

But needless to say, the restrictions within 100 feet were no joke. As
the two were about to step into the whirlpool, all the attacks came at
once while the cloud in the sky sent countless lightning strikes
down.

Even the speed of the black light increased, contracting even faster.

Wang Lin suddenly stood up and rushed forward. Originally, he

didn’t plan on getting within 300 feet, but now was a rare
opportunity, and if he missed it now, he might regret it forever.
Wang Lin’s eyes showed extreme focus as he formed dozens of
illusionary circles that surrounded him. But right after, he suddenly
stopped and just stared straight ahead, then slowly allowed the
circles to disperse.
Wang Lin forced himself to stop, because he knew that if he was
struck by even one lightning bolt, he would be destroyed. It wasn’t
worth the risk.

Also, Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor were both at the
Spirit Forming stage. He must not rush out. Although time is
precious, the hatred the two held for him was deep. He might not be
able to escape death. There was also the fact that if that black light
wouldn’t disappear on its own, he didn’t have the confidence that he
could break it.

Wang Lin’s heart calmed down as he stared at the two. He decided

that he must be very cautious.

As Six Desire Devil Lord was about to enter the whirlpool, more
than 10 lightning strikes came down. He quickly used the youth’s
body to block them, but was still hit by a few. He spit out a mouthful
of blood. His cultivation was instantly decreased by one level
permanently, and one of the arms of the youth body was sent flying
by the lightning. However, Six Desire Devil Lord clenched his teeth
and disappeared into the whirlpool.

As the arm flew out, it hit the black light and began to smoke. Once
it landed outside the black light, there was no longer any flesh or
blood on it. What remained was the bone with specks of golden light
on it. However the bone was broken. It seemed the black light was
even able to damage the bone.

Meanwhile, the Ancient Emperor was also targeted by more than 10

lightning balls. His 8 flags scattered. He had to sacrifice four of the
flags as he rushed into the whirlpool. However, one of the lightning
balls followed him closely and hit him right as he entered the
whirlpool.

Wang Lin felt a chill as he stared at the arm. He quickly slammed

the bag he was holding on the ground. Roars could be heard as little
beasts came out. They formed a tornado three feet tall.
Wang Lin pointed his right hand, directing the tornado to quickly
leave the fog and fly up to the mountaintop. It followed closely
behind the black light so there was no obstruction, then it picked up
the arm that separated from the youth Six Desire Devil Lord kept by
his side and quickly retreated.

However, before it could make it back, a bolt of purple lightning

destroyed the tornado, leaving only the bone behind.

From the time Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor rushed up
to the mountain top and into the whirlpool, very little time had
passed. In fact, it happened so fast that normal people couldn’t even
fathom the speed. As the two entered the whirlpool, the surrounding
area immediately began to calm down. The black clouds disappeared
and the black light sitting at the top also slowly descended down the
mountain. All the restrictions returned to normal. However,
considering the fluctuation of spirit power, it would take at least a
thousand years before they could return to their full power.

Wang Lin stared at the piece of bone. He knew that the piece of
bone won’t be able to stand the black light a second time. He noticed
the black clouds had disappeared, so he rush out and quickly grabbed
the bone before the black light came back.

He quickly turned back without stopping.

The black ring diffused until 300 feet, then suddenly disappeared.
Wang Lin’s forehead was full of cold sweat. He checked the
restrictions at 300 feet from the top and immediately noticed the
difference.

Wang Lin returned to his boulder and sat down. When he first saw
the golden spots, he immediately thought of the golden bone that
emerged from Beastmaster’s forehead.

He looked at the bone and applied a little pressure. The bone had
already been damaged by the lightning and the black light, thus it
was extremely weak. Under Wang Lin’s pressure, the bone cracked
and shattered, leaving 8 grains of golden particles.

There wasn’t any sign of spiritual power on the bone. Wang Lin
began to ponder.
Chapter 182: The Ancient God Tu
Si
The grains looked like gold but weren’t gold. They looked like bone
but weren’t bone. However, as Wang Lin was about to pick them to
study, the moment his soul came into contact with them, a strong
force resisted his touch.

This resistant force pushed Wang Lin’s soul away, not letting him
inspect the golden grains. Wang Lin held a grain in his hand and
squeezed it. Surprisingly, it wasn’t as hard as it looked. It easily
flattened under his fingers.

But no matter how hard Wang Lin pressured the golden particles,
they would only get flatter and flatter without shattering. Wang Lin
suddenly had an idea. He took all the golden particles and
compressed them together to form a golden bean the size of his
fingertip.

He pondered a bit as he stared at the golden bean. The more he

stared at it, the more it reminded him of the bone on Beastmaster’s
forehead from the first realm. If it was the same, then it was
certainly a living bone.

A bold idea came into Wang Lin’s mind. “Could this be the bone of
the ancient god?” His heart trembled at the thought.

But Wang Lin soon gave up on the idea. From what he heard before,
the ancient god was very large, so his bones would be large as well.
Even if it was just a finger bone, it would be comparable to the horn
on Beastmaster’s forehead.

After thinking for a while, Wang Lin put the golden bean away. He
stood up and looked at the restrictions ahead, then leaped forward.
He had already thoroughly observed the restrictions that were
between the 500 and 300 foot points from the peak of the
mountain. Plus, with the Ancient Emperor acting as his scout,
although he was still careful, it was much easier than before.

However, at 300 feet, Wang Lin started to move slowly and carefully.
He didn’t want to activate the restrictions and get hit by the
lightning.

Wang Lin was in no rush. Time went by slowly, and soon three years
had already passed.

These 300 feet took him three years to pass as he slowly worked his
way forward step by step. His restriction skill had also increased
leaps and bounds as he cracked each restriction.

When Wang Lin stood at the top of the mountain three years after
Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor were there, he knew that
this was only possible because of the mass activation of restrictions
that occurred three years before. All the nearby restrictions had lost
their power. Even if he were to trigger the restrictions, they wouldn’t
have the power to activate. If it wasn’t for this, there would’ve been
no way for him to make it this far with his current cultivation.

Even so, Wang Lin was only 5 feet from the top. Clouds started to
darken and gather. Lightning could be seen. However, Wang Lin only
gave them a calm look before he walked into the whirlpool.

Wang Lin didn’t slow down. He smoothly walked forward step by

step. Since three years ago, he had always wondered what was the
trigger for the restriction in the sky.

He thought back to three years ago, when he sent the tornado to

retrieve the bone. There was no lightning strike when it was
summoned, but when it picked up the arm and rushed back, the
lightning attacked it.
After Wang Lin thought about it and researched it for a while, he
realize that the trigger was speed!

If one exceeded a certain speed or suddenly increased or decreased

their speed, they would trigger the restriction in the sky to attack.
The closer to the top of the mountain, the more sensitive it was.

In other words, if you suddenly accelerated at the foot of the

mountain, nothing would happen. If you do it on the mountain, you
might trigger some restrictions. Near the top of the mountain, you
would likely trigger the restriction in the sky.

After figuring out the trigger for the restriction in the sky, Wang Lin
walked at a steady pace and peacefully enter the whirlpool.

This second realm had taken Wang Lin 13 years to get through.
However, compared to his gains, that amount of time was trivial.

In these 13 years, from simple to complex, from easy to hard, he

learned the art of restriction step by step until he finally reached his
current level. Even if it would have taken more time, Wang Lin
wouldn’t have given up.

From his point of view, the purpose of the second realm wasn’t
really to block intruders, but a systematic way for people to learn
restrictions.

Otherwise, just place the restrictions like the ones at the top of the
mountain at the foot and no one would be able to climb up.

Wang Lin was very confused on this matter. However, he had no one
to ask.

The moment Wang Lin entered the whirlpool, something changed.

Purple lights came out of the whirlpool until it formed a giant ball of
purple lightning.
This ball of purple lightning was different from the ones from the
restriction in the sky, it was darker and more powerful. When this
ball of lightning appeared, Wang Lin felt the entire mountain shake.

From the bottom of the mountain to the top, all the restrictions
started floating up toward the mountain top. Every speck of light
was a restriction, and countless specks of light floated up, higher and
higher.

The countless number of restrictions floating up surprisingly didn’t

set off the restriction in the sky. As they reached a certain point,
they started to come together and formed a giant ball of light until it
was equal to the size of the ball of purple lightning.

At this point, all the specks of light had disappeared from the
mountain. There were no restrictions left on this mountain.

Wang Lin could only stare at what was happening. Ever since the
ball of purple lightning appeared, his body had been frozen in place
by an overwhelming force. He was unable to move even half a step.

The ball of purple lightning and the ball of light moved slowly
toward each other. As they touched, a giant illusion appeared above
the two.

The illusion grew very large, until it took the shape of a giant with its
two feet right above the two balls of lightning and light. The two
balls slowly moved up until they were where the giant’s eyes were
suppose to be. From a distance, it looked like the giant had two
glowing eyes.

While the giant was only an illusion, it gave off a feeling, as if it were
life.

“Welcome. You are the 4th person to meet the qualifications[1] of

the restriction mountain. My name is Tu Si… according to the
ancient rules set up before my body went to sleep, you met the
requirements of the restriction mountain. You can enter my sea of
consciousness and obtain some of my knowledge and memories, but
first, you must identify yourself and make a restriction flag with this
piece of jade.”

The giant spoke in a voice that shook the world. Then, a piece of
jade surrounded by purple lightning appeared and floated toward
Wang Lin.

Wang Lin was frightened. He took a deep breath.

From the tone of the giant, this must be an avatar of the ancient god.
Clearly it’s the ancient god Tu Si.

The ancient god was too powerful. Just the avatar was enough to
make Wang Lin feel like he was suffocating. Wang Lin couldn’t even
begin to imagine how powerful the ancient god Tu Si would be if he
was here in person.

At that moment, the piece of jade was in front of Wang Lin. He

blinked once and reached out to grab it. When he grabbed it, the
purple lightning surged through his body before returning to the
piece of jade.

Wang Lin felt at that moment that something was added to his
mind. He knew the lightning meant no harm and was a method to
confirm its owner.

As his mind came to understand the information on the restriction

flag, his heart couldn’t stop pounding, but at the same time, he let
out a bitter laugh.

This jade didn’t say the exact use of the restriction flag, its materials,
or any specific requirements. It seemed as if this restriction flag
could be made from anything.

There was only one material it must have and that was ink stone!
The information regarding ink stone also entered his head. Ink
stone wasn’t produced on any planets. It was produced in stars.

To the ancient gods, it was very easy to obtain. Just travel a bit in
space and they can find the ink stones.

The information also gave a map of the ancient god’s sea of

consciousness, It marked the location of ink stones. Anyone who
gains insight in those places can obtain one.

Once the ink stone is obtained, you can start making the restriction
flag. The process is simple, yet extremely complex. You must carve
nine hundred ninety nine thousand, nine hundred ninety nine
restrictions on the flag.

Only then can you make one restriction flag.

The use of the restriction flag wasn’t mentioned here, but how could
the weapon bestowed by the ancient god be weak? And that’s not
even taking into consideration the precious materials or the difficult
production process required to make it.

Wang Lin refused to believe that this treasure was weak. Obviously,
the real reward for this realm was the jade and the privilege of being
someone who was selected. If Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient
Emperor knew this, they wouldn’t have rushed forward, and would
have slowly advanced by studying the restrictions one by one
instead.

“Besides me, there are three more people who also received this
jade…” Wang Lin muttered to himself. He quickly deduced that if he
was able to obtain this jade after understanding the second realm,
would he receive a similar reward if he met the requirement in the
first realm?

Wang Lin remembered that he had heard something on the road of

no return. The mystery man casually said, “I subdued the first king!”
Perhaps that was the reward for the first realm. Wang Lin let out a
bitter laugh. He didn’t have the ability to do the same.

At that point, the giant’s body started to disappear. The two balls
began to move apart. The ball of light scattered back into specs of
light and fell back onto the mountain. As the specks of light landed,
the restrictions were set up again and the mountain returned to
what it was before.

The ball of purple lightning floated back into the whirlpool. Then, a
suction force came from the whirlpool and slowly pulled Wang Lin
toward it. His body slowly sunk into the whirlpool.

When Wang Lin appeared from the whirlpool again. He was in what
seemed to be a fairy land, with a large, open grass field. The
surroundings were filled with spiritual energy.

Not far away, there was a lake. In the middle of the lake stood a
three story pagoda that emitted bursts of colorful light.

The moment Wang Lin appeared, he sent out his soul to search the
surroundings. After a long time, he carefully walked forward. He
slapped his bag of holding and the black poison sword came out and
floated around him.

He knew that Six Desire Devil Lord and Ancient Emperor hated him.
Although they both dashed through the whirlpool three years ago,
there was still a chance they were lying in wait for him here. If it was
Wang Lin who was forced to go through all that trouble, he would
certainly wait to kill the culprit.

As Wang Lin walked, he used his Divine Sense to scan the area, but
was unable to find anything. Finally, he started to ponder about the
pagoda.

The pagoda didn’t have any restrictions on it. He quickly moved

toward it and stopped at the edge of the lake. He slammed his bag of
holding and the devil Xu Liguo came flying out.

He had been bored to death these days, so he was very excited when
he was released. However, when he saw Wang Lin, his expression
suddenly froze and changed to an expression of amazement.

Wang Lin had changed since Xu Ligou last saw him. This fiend’s hair
had grown all white and had eyes that could penetrate the heart. Xu
Ligou gave one look and immediately became scared. He groaned to
himself. “How did this fiend get stronger again… at this rate, when
will I escape this evil fiend’s hand … even if I were to fight without
caring for my life, it’d be hopeless.”

Before, only when Wang Lin was using the full power of his soul
would Xu Ligou feel this way. But now he felt like that even though
Wang Lin wasn’t using any power at all. It clearly showed just how
much Wang Lin’s restriction power had grown in the past 13 years.

Wang Lin pointed his finger at the lake. Xu Ligou wanted to bargain
with him, but when he saw Wang Lin’s eyes, he obediently flew out
toward the lake, silently cursing at Wang Lin.

Xu Ligou cursed in his heart. “Just you wait, once I eat a few more
souls, recruit a few little brothers, and increase my own cultivation a
bit, I’ll fight with you to the death!” After venting, he felt lot better
and dove into the lake to begin his search.

Wang Lin used the piece of soul he left in Xu Ligou’s body to check
out the lake while his body remained on the shore. After he was sure
there was nothing wrong with the lake, he flew toward the pagoda.

As Xu Ligou flew up from the lake, he silently cursed a few times but
was still brought up against his will.

In front of the pagoda, Wang Lin also made Xu Ligou go in first to

make sure it was safe before he entered. This pagoda had three
floors, the first floor had a grid of 9 square that was completely
empty.

Wang Lin quickly gained an understanding of this place. This must

be where the reward for all those who passed the second realm was
placed. However, after so many years, all the rewards were taken.
That’s why there was only empty space remaining.

After Wang Lin walked up to the second floor, he was sure of his
guess. There were four empty squares facing north, east, south, and
west.

On the third floor, Wang Lin saw the whirlpool that was the exit and
another empty square.

Wang Lin wasn’t disappointed at all and pondered for awhile. He

remembered the message left by the mysterious man on the road of
no return. Although he didn’t leave any message in the second
realm, he felt that he was one of the three before him that received
the piece of jade.

After a moment of silence, Wang Lin immediately searched all three

floors of the pagoda. It was on the second floor that he saw the
familiar message next to the empty squares.

“After seeing the treasure pagoda, apart from it looking pleasant, I

was very disappointed in this land of the ancient gods.”

This statement was extremely proud. Wang Lin pondered it for a

moment and moved toward the third floor.

On the third floor, he didn’t immediately enter the whirlpool. Wang

Lin sat down and recovered his Ling Qi to its peak, then he
organized his bag of holding. Next, he took a deep breath before
letting out Xu Ligou and pointed toward the whirlpool.
Xu Ligou had a bitter face. He cursed silently many times, but still
dove into the whirlpool, however, the moment he touched the
whirlpool, he let out a scream as his body smoked. He quickly
backed away with a look of fear on his face.

Wang Lin took out a small animal and tossed it toward the
whirlpool. This time, the animal passed through without any
hinderance and begin to sink into it. Just at that moment, the
connection Wang Lin had with the small animal was suddenly
severed.

Wang Lin’s complexion darkened. After pondering for a while, he

thought this that whirlpool must be the one that caused the likes of
Six Desire Devil Lord to stop and flee in panic, the third barrier.

According to what Duanmu said before, this was the third barrier
that required a famous death curse technique to pass through.
Although he didn’t say much about it, Wang Lin still knew a bit.

After this test, he found out that Xu Ligou couldn’t enter the
whirlpool. The moment he got close, his spirit was damaged. The
little animal disappeared the moment it entered and its connection
to him connection was cut.

From observing this, Wang Lin concluded that the third realm must
be very dangerous. He pondered this for a while and finally went up
next to the whirlpool. He slowly extended his hand toward it.

A cold feeling immediately came from his hand, however, he didn’t

encounter the danger the devil Xu Ligou did. Without a second
thought, Wang Lin stepped in.

When Wang Lin exited the whirlpool, he immediately froze. His sea
of consciousness stirred with great tidal waves and bright lightning
flashed. For the first time not under Wang Lin’s control, his eyes
flickered.
“This… this is Nirvana!” Wang Lin thought.

In front of him was an immense area of nothingness with a few

oddly shaped rocks floating around. At the same time, his soul
fluctuated constantly.

Wang Lin let out a cold laugh. One could say that he passed the first
realm due to luck, he passed the second realm due to determination,
then for this third realm…Wang Lin had already determined he
could effortlessly travel this third realm.

He slammed his bag of holding. Xu Ligou and the second devil

immediately appeared. The two devils gawked at the surroundings.
They slowly regained their sense and the surprise in their eyes was
replaced with ecstasy.

Here, the two devils were like fish in water. They had a very
comfortable feeling.

After releasing the two devils, Wang Lin scanned the surroundings
and suddenly grabbed at an empty space with his right hand. An
abrupt cry was heard and a stream of smoke appeared at the spot.
The smoke formed the illusion of a two horned creature. It was a
wandering soul.

It was hiding in the nothingness, hoping to attack Wang Lin,

however, it didn’t expect Wang Lin to pull it out from the
nothingness.

The soul immediately started to panic. Wang Lin didn’t even glance
at it as his Ji Divine Realm jumped out and formed a mouth that
swallowed the wandering soul.

Wang Lin closed his eyes. He hadn’t tasted a wandering soul in a

long time. It felt very good. He could clearly feel his soul getting
stronger.
“Wandering souls are really the best supplement to nourish the soul.
Just for this wandering soul here, the time spent in this realm is
worth it.” Wang Lin said as he charged forward.

The scene of Wang Lin devouring the soul scared Xu Ligou and the
second devil greatly. Both of the two devils, especially Xu Ligou, had
eaten many souls. Xu Ligou’s mouth was watering, and when he saw
Wang Lin devour soul before him, he just felt like someone stole his
food.

However, Xu Ligou felt that the soul that Wang Lin pulled out was
very similar to his own. He even felt like it was an ancestor of his.
He had a very warm feeling. When Wang Lin held the wandering
soul, he thought this fiend was about to recruit a little brother and
was about go to up and greet it.

Unfortunately, the intimacy he felt changed to fear as he saw Wang

Lin devour the soul. He always knew he was going to fight this evil
fiend to the death, but now he realized that not only could this fiend
devour souls, he could even devour him.

As a result, Xu Ligou was very scared.

The scream from the wandering soul before it was devoured and the
intoxicated expression on Wang Lin’s face caused Xu Ligou’s spirit
to waver. He remembered when he used to bargain with this evil
fiend. His body shook in fear.

Before, he felt that Wang Lin using powerful tools to punish him
was the worst that would be done to him, however, that was trivial
compared to being eaten alive..

Xu Ligou immediately decided to not mess around with this evil

fiend anymore. If he one day truly angered him, he might be
swallowed in one bite without a trace of himself remaining.
As for the second devil, although he was a beast after following Xu
Ligou for so long, he also had gained a bit of intelligence. His heart
was also filled with fear.

His intuition was lot stronger than Xu Ligou. When Wang Lin
displayed his ability to devour a soul similar to his, he thought Wang
Lin was like a king.

[1]This means Wang Lin actually went through and mastered each of
the restrictions on the mountain, which fit the standards of this
giant, instead of just running through them like Ancient Emperor. I
couldn’t think of a good way to put this in the text.
Chapter 183: The Sudden Change
The third realm wasn’t the real Nirvana, but a rift in space. It was
just the space in the rift that was huge.

Wang Lin slowly traveled through the third realm. As he moved

forward, he would grab at the seemingly empty space around him,
and every grab would net him another wandering soul to consume.

Wang Lin hadn’t felt the sensation of consuming souls for a long
time. He calculated that it had been dozens of years since he had left
the Foreign Battlefield.

However, due to the power of the law of the world, he still

remembered his time in the Foreign Battlefield like it was yesterday.

Xu Ligou and the second devil followed behind Wang Lin, alarmed
and scared the whole time. They didn’t dare let out a single breath as
they saw ancestors who were many times stronger than them being
consumed without being able to put up a fight. They felt utterly
powerless.

Although Wang Lin’s enormous soul was compressed back then for
a sliver of Ji Realm knowledge, his ability to devour souls still
remained, and as a result, he was a master of souls.

As Wang Lin walked, he sent his Divine Sense out in all directions.
Since this realm was like Nirvana, and contained wandering souls,
then it must also contain soul devourers.

Wang Lin wasn’t sure if soul devourers could devour each other.
Unless it was the last resort, soul devourers wouldn’t attack each
other, but would instead solve their problem in a symbiotic way.

After flying around for a long time, Wang Lin had devoured many
souls, but no soul devourers had contacted him yet. He pondered for
a while, then raised both his hands, and the nearby floating rocks
started to move toward him.

Soon, the rocks crashed into each other to form a large rocky
mountain. Wang Lin jumped onto the top of the mountain, then he
flicked his right hand, causing a blue flame to rise from it.

Wang Lin’s eyes flickered. He put his right hand on the rocky
mountain and the blue flame fused into the mountain. The
mountain that had many large cracks in between the rocks was
quickly surrounded by a blue light that emitted cold air. All the gaps
in the rocky mountain were sealed by ice and it was bound together
tightly.

Wang Lin removed his right hand from the mountain and the blue
flame was absorbed back into his body. He took a deep breath. His
Eyes of Divine Consciousness blinked continuously, and his right
hand moved quickly. After a while, an illusionary circle appeared and
he shot it toward the mountain he had just created.

When the illusionary circle landed on the mountain, the entire

mountain flashed brightly, but quickly returned to normal. Wang Lin
took another deep breath. His right hand moved and illusionary
circles appeared one by one in front of him and fused into the
mountain.

Soon, the mountain quickly turned into a miniature version of the

restriction mountain.

Wang Lin almost fell over when he took a small step. He slowly
started to enter the mountain until he was in the center. He then
formed another illusionary circle and pressed against the stone wall.

The whole mountain shook, and it slowly shrank at a speed visible

to the human eye, until it was the same size as the other rocks
floating by. Anyone who looked at it now wouldn’t be able to
distinguish it from the other rocks that were floating in the vicinity.
With Wang Lin’s body fortified inside the mountain, he left a small
piece of his soul in his body using his Ji Realm Divine
Consciousness and the rest of his soul exited his body. This part of
his soul immediately formed an illusionary body.

Now that Wang Lin’s soul was no longer in his body, it was no
longer restricted by his physical form. His Divine Sense scattered in
all directions. From a distance, you would see layers of Wang Lin’s
Divine Sense being sent out, causing all the nearby wandering souls
to appear from the nothingness, faces pale with fear.

Shortly after, all the wandering souls received their orders. As Wang
Lin’s Divine Sense spread out further, even more wandering souls
felt Wang Lin’s presence. Their faces paled and they started to
scatter.

Immediately after Wang Lin’s soul left his body, he returned to his
soul devourer form. He quickly swept through the nothingness, and
all the wandering souls he passed by would greet him with respect.

Gradually, Wang Lin felt the presence of another very large soul. It
was another soul devourer, however, this soul was in a very strange
state, as if it were sleeping.

The large soul didn’t respond to Wang Lin’s Divine Sense at all.
Wang Lin faltered a little. He ignored the soul devourer and kept
expanding his divine sense to bring more wandering souls under his
control.

At that moment, Duanmu sat on another rock somewhere in the

third realm with a bitter look on his face. Next to him was Wang
QingYue with a cool look on his face.

Duanmu and Wang QingYue crossed the tunnel of nothingness

together and arrived at the golden land of the first realm. In the first
realm, they relied on Wang QingYue’s Five Element Escape
Technique, which allowed them to calmly pass the first realm and
proceed to the restriction mountain.

The fact that Duanmu was able to pass the restriction mountain
would surprise everyone that knew him.

A thousand years ago, he received a treasure from the treasure

pagoda. It was a piece of jade with a single crack on it. Based on his
understanding, this piece of jade only had one use left.

Later on, he did a lot of research and found out that the purpose of
this jade was to break all restrictions. As a result, Duanmu’s resolve
to go back to the Land of the Ancient Gods was reignited.

He knew that his cultivation was lower than the others. Back then, it
was due to his luck and caution that he was able to preserve his life.
He knew his limits very well and had decided to never come back
again, but when he found out about the use of the piece of jade, it
moved his heart.

Still, he was very cautious and hesitant because he couldn’t even

pass the first realm without mastering the Five Element Escape
Technique.

Duanmu pondered this for a long time and gave up on learning the
Five Element technique. In order for him to learn it, he would have
to devote all his time, and even if he did learn it, he wasn’t
guaranteed to pass the first realm. There were also attacks by large
monsters to consider.

He vividly remembered one of his experiences in the ice world.

Thus, Duanmu seeked out his friend Wang QingYue to travel with
him. Wang QingYue was a master of the Five Element Escape
Technique, and after Duanmu told him that the first realm required
the Five Element Escape Technique, he decided to give it a try. After
all, if what Duanmu said was true, the temptation was too great.
In order to convince Wang QingYue, Duanmu took out his piece of
jade. After seeing the jade, Wang QingYue immediately recognized
that it was a long lost ancient weapon, causing the doubt in his heart
to disappear.

However, he was very cautious and didn’t immediately agree. He

wanted to wait until the Land of the Ancient god opened, then make
the decision.

Duanmu didn’t mind. He had already made up his mind. If Wang

QingYue didn’t want to go, then he would trade this jade to the Six
Desire Devil Lord for some magic treasures.

However, he still had to prepare in case Wang QingYue decided to

go. He could pass the first and second realm without any issue,
however, the third realm was the problem. Afterall, it was the third
realm that had forced them to use an inherited treasure to make a
tunnel for them to escape a thousand years ago.

As for the weird creatures in the third realm, if it was only one or
two, he wouldn’t be afraid. If it was eight to ten, as long as he paid a
little attention, he wasn’t worried. Even if it were hundreds, relying
on his cultivation, he could still survive. But if they numbered in the
thousands, even if he was a god, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.

Those creatures were very bizarre. They were immune to almost all
spells. Only the true fire in one’s body could force them to retreat.
However, if there was a lot of them, there was no way to keep track
of them all. If they were to land on someone’s body, they would suck
away that person’s Ling Qi, and if too many landed on them, then
the only road left was death.

As a result, he went searching for magic treasures that protected the

soul. However, these types of magic treasures were simply too rare.
Even though he managed to gather some, he still wasn’t sure about
the third realm.
It wasn’t until he traveled to Nandou city and heard someone
someone talk about the Death Spell that he suddenly remembered
that he had heard of the Death Spell before. The Death Spell was a
spell that specialized in attacking the soul. It was an evil spell. He
was very excited, because if there was a way to get a person with this
ability to help, then there was a chance of passing through the third
realm.

He then began to search, until he found Wang Lin. The trip was
originally very calm. Duanmu believed that as long as they worked
together, the first three realms wouldn’t be an issue, especially after
he learned of the candidate that the Six Desire Devil Lord had picked
to pass the third realm. Duanmu was sure that as long as there was
no internal fighting, reaching the Land of the Ancient God was only
a matter of time.

Although the Land of the Ancient God had four realms, from the
inherited treasure, they found out that the fourth realm was just a
teleportation array that teleported someone to the body of the
Ancient God.

The teleportation array teleported everyone based on the time it

took to pass the first three realms. The less time it took, the closer
one was teleported to the Ancient God’s body. It was even possible
to be teleported directly into the Ancient God’s meridian. Once
inside the meridian, not only would there be condensed dry Linq Qi
Beads, there would also be the residue of numerous drugs. According
to the inherited treasure, YingBian Dan residue would be among the
drug residue.

To the ancient god, it might just be residue, but to them, it would

count as real YingBian Dan.

Unfortunately, his plans were destroyed by a giant dragon inside the

tunnel that caused everyone to scatter, especially Wang Lin, who
charged into the dragon’s mouth. After that, a red dragon appeared.
That series of events surprised Duanmu, and caused him to panic. In
the crisis, he had to give up looking for Wang Lin, and quickly
escaped with Wang QingYue.

In fact, he was the fastest person to get past the first and second
realms and reach the third realm. However, in the third realm, he
had a bitter look on his face.

Without Wang Lin’s Death Spell, even though he was able to keep
himself alive with the treasures he had gathered over the past
thousand years, going deeper to find the entrance to the fourth
realm was impossible.

As a result, although he and Wang QingYue were the first to enter

the third realm, they were stuck here, unable to proceed.

At that moment, Six Desire Devil Lord was also flying around the
third realm, looking for the exit to the fourth realm. Whenever a
wandering soul attacked him, he would wave his hand and a blue
light would flash from the youth’s body. The wandering souls would
give up on Six Desire Devil Lord and jump on the youth.

However, after the wandering souls enter the youth’s body, they
would disappear without a trace. On the surface, there was no
change to the youth’s body.

Six Desire Devil Lord relied on this method as he traveled. Although

there were a few scares, there had been no real danger. The worst
time was when he encountered the group containing thousands of
wandering souls, but with a wave of his hand, the youth’s body
flashed and all the wandering souls immediately flew to the youth
instead.

He looked at the body he was holding and let out a cold smile.
Although he fell into that junior’s trap and was hit by the lightning
that caused his whole cultivation base to permanently drop one
stage, down to the Spirit Forming early stage, with this treasure that
he had spent a thousand years preparing, he was bound to enter the
fourth realm this time.

After thinking about it, his heart pounded, blood surged, and his eyes
were feverish. What is losing a stage of cultivation base compared to
acquiring a YingBian Dan from the Ancient God’s body? After
obtaining a YingBian Dan, he could become a YingBian stage expert.
At that point, let alone the Sea of Devil, even in the Vermilion Bird
star system, as long as he didn’t offend the Vermilion Bird Empire,
he could do as he wished.

After these thoughts, he increased his speed as he searched around.

The inherited treasure from the Land of the Ancient Gods was in his
hands. Originally, it was his master who had it and gathered people
to search this Land of the Ancient Gods.

His master died in the third realm and passed the inherited treasure
to him. His master planned to use this treasure to open a tunnel to
leave this place, but at the most critical moment, caught the eye of a
creature that was much stronger and different from the other
creatures around, ending in his master’s death.

Six Desire Devil Lord was horrified after witnessing his master’s
death, and quickly fled into a tunnel to escape.

At this time, there was another person in the third realm, Ancient
Emperor. He sat crossed legged on top of a rock with four flags
spinning around him and a pagoda the size of his face on top of his
head, emitting lights of harmony.

In the area outside of the light of the the pagoda, if one looked
carefully, they could see countless wandering souls crowded around
the edge of the light, greedily looking at the Ancient Emperor.

However, there wasn’t a single wandering soul willing to enter the

light of the pagoda.
Ancient Emperor had a bitter look on his face. When he had left the
second realm, he was chased by a streak of purple lightning. Relying
on his life saving treasure, he was able to survive, but the treasure
broke and his cultivation dropped down to the Yuan Ying late stage.

After he entered the third realm, he didn’t dare to enter too deep. He
made a base on a rock in the outer area, trying to recover his
cultivation base back to Spirit Forming stage. With his current Yuan
Ying stage cultivation, if he was in the first or second realm, he could
protect himself, but here, in the extremely dangerous third realm,
there was just no way for him to survive.

What made Ancient Emperor truly bitter was that the whirlpool to
the third realm was motionless at first, then it suddenly teleported
him to a very unfavorable location.

He was teleported to the middle of the third realm. If he didn’t

immediately create this pagoda, he would have been swarmed by the
wandering souls.

At that point, he was out of options. He could only keep the light of
the pagoda going, completely trapping himself there.

Thinking about this, his face was full of hate. He blamed the
mysterious person for causing all of this. His hate toward him was
enormous.

He was, however, still confused about the identity of the mysterious

person. According to his analysis, it should be that kid Wang Lin, but
he refused to believe that he was forced into this pathetic state by
someone of a younger generation.

Speaking of Wang Lin, he was currently spreading out his Divine

Sense, until he swept the entire third realm. Besides him, there was
only one other soul devourer, and the number of souls was much
less than the Foreign Battleground. It only looked like there were a
lot because the area was much smaller.
In addition, Wang Lin had already found the entrance to the fourth
realm. It wasn’t in the center, but to the northwest.There was a large
amount of wandering souls around the entrance, almost accounting
for one-fourth of all the souls in the realm.

Meanwhile, all the wandering souls under his control had been
sending him messages using a special method. They had followed
his instructions and found Six Devil Desire Lord and Ancient
Emperor.

What surprised Wang Lin was that the wandering souls also found
Duanmu and Wang QingYue.

Wang Lin pondered a little, then sent his Divine Sense toward the
Ancient Emperor. According to a wandering soul, Ancient Emperor
currently had the lowest cultivation base and was stuck at his
current location.

After a short period of time, Wang Lin’s soul appeared at the end of
the light of the pagoda above Ancient Emperor’s head after
following the wandering souls under his control. He looked at the
pale faced Ancient Emperor and began to ponder.

Wang Lin devoured the souls here and his soul grew very large.
Although it was not the same level as before, in terms of quality, it
was far beyond what it originally was. After all, his soul wasn’t
normal, but a Ji Realm Soul.

When he arrived, Ancient Emperor’s eyes blinked and stared coldly

in Wang Lin’s direction. Although he could only see the dark void,
he could clearly feel a soul that was very different from the other
souls around.

The moment that soul arrived, all the other wandering souls
scattered. If he looked closely at the shadows, he could see their
faces paled with fear.
After seeing this, Ancient Emperor’s heart skipped a beat. He quickly
consumed a pill to make sure he had enough spiritual power to
maintain the light from the pagoda.

Wang Lin stared at Ancient Emperor inside the light. He sent out a
message through his divine sense and ten wandering souls suddenly
came forward. Although their faces were full of fear, they still
charged into the light. The moment they touched the light, they were
met with a strong resistance. They weren’t even able to get within
five feet from Ancient Emperor before a green smoke would appear
on their bodies, forcing them to retreat.

However, the light from the pagoda dimmed.

Wang Lin’s soul sent out another message. This time, all the
wandering souls nearby, more than ten thousand, condensed into
shadows, and stared at the pagoda.

Ancient Emperor’s heart skipped a beat. That was bad. He quickly

made a gesture with his hand and sent waves of light into the
pagoda. With every wave of light, his face paled a bit more. After the
last wave of light, his face was white as chalk and his cultivation
base dropped to Yuan Ying middle stage.

At the same time, all the wandering souls coordinated into waves
and started to assault the light. However, all the wandering souls
started to smoke and were only able to get within ten feet of Ancient
Emperor. The distance to Ancient Emperor was still great.

Ancient Emperor let out a depressed laugh. He had already tried his
best. The amount of wandering souls was just too great for him to
resist. Even those seniors from a thousand years ago were all
consumed by these wandering souls. How could he, who had
damaged his cultivation to his degree, hope to survive? He was
afraid that he would run out of Linq Qi and be unable to keep the
pagoda going, then be swarmed by the wandering souls.
From beginning to end, Wang Lin didn’t make a move. He knew that
if they were outside, Ancient Emperor would be able to kill him with
the twitch of a finger. But here, he was a soul devourer, and could
manipulate wandering souls. Their roles had reversed.

Of course, if he were to directly attack now, he wasn’t a match for

Ancient Emperor. Even though he was a soul devourer, he was still
too weak.

However, it was just that as the ability of a soul devourer was to

devour souls, the ability of these wandering soul was to devour life
force. Even if one’s cultivation base was high, if too many wandering
souls attached on to them, they couldn’t resist.

If one knew wandering souls well enough, they would know that if
just one of them appeared in the mortal world, it could cause a
catastrophe. Of course, it would need to be a complete wandering
soul, far stronger than the likes of the devil Xu Ligou.

The third realm of the Land of the Ancient Gods, in reality, was a
death trap. Only a few had successfully passed this realm. The Land
of the Ancient Gods has existed for countless years, and Six Desire
Devil Lord’s master wasn’t the first to enter the third realm. Many
had entered before, but like him, they all died in the third realm.

The wandering souls there couldn’t be easily destroyed, and they

existed in large numbers. Even if the soul was consumed, as long as
there was a speck of the soul left, it could be resurrected. It was an
endless cycle.

The reason why Wang Lin was so at home here was due to his
experience and some special encounters he had while he was in the
Foreign Battlefield. With those under his belt, he could act like he
was the boss here.

If not for his body having been destroyed by Teng Huayaun, if not for
Situ Nan’ willing to put his Yuan Ying into deep slumber to keep
Wang Lin’s soul from being destroyed, if not for him accidently
entering the crack into the Foreign Battlefield, if not for him to
starting to devour souls until he became a soul devourer… if any one
of those of things didn’t happen, and Wang Lin could still have
reached the third realm, he wouldn’t have the status of a king here
like he does now.

All of the paled faced wandering souls were just food to Wang Lin,
but without this food, in the mind of Ancient Emperor, he was
simply a smart Jie Dan junior. If it wasn’t for the various
circumstances restricting all the people here, all they had to do was
raise a finger to kill Wang Lin.

It’s just that in this world, there were too many unexpected matters,
like under special circumstances an ant could kill an elephant, and
while straws are light, they could still crush a camel. Some things in
this world just don’t have a proper explanation.

One can only say that things change, and there is nothing that’s
forever. Just like how Hunchback Meng, who was supposed to have
died in the first realm, appeared in the third realm with power
similar to the Ancient God Tu Si, and how he died back in the first
realm just couldn’t be explained. Starting in the third realm of the
Land of the Ancient Gods, things just became more confusing and
weird.
Chapter 184: The Blood Sea of the
Demon God
In the tranquil space that was connected to the third realm of the
Land of the Ancient Gods, a speck of white light suddenly appeared.
The light brightened and enlarged until it formed an oval-shaped
tear in space.

From the rift came a hand with long fingernails and full of bone
thorn. The hand looked cold and had extremely sharp fingernails
that were painted black. It was covered in pustules, and sticking out
of every pustule was a bone thorn.

After the weird looking hands came through the rift, they grabbed
hold of the rift and mercilessly tore it apart. The small rift was no
longer a small oval, it became at least 10 feet tall. Waves of red and
black immediately came through the tear in space and a huge figure
came through the rift. The figure had an obvious hump on its back,
making it look like a hunchback.

He was more than ten feet tall and his body was just like his hands,
covered in pustules. Some were even broken and were leaking out a
pungent black liquid. There was a bone thorn in each of the
pustules. If you looked at this person aside from where the joints
were, he was covered in bone thorn.

There were some shredded pieces of cloth hanging on the bone

thorns. If you looked at this person’s ugly face, you could see that it
greatly resembled Hunchback Meng, but his size was many times
greater.

On his head were two spiral shaped horns with blue lightning arcing
between them. He currently looked like a demon from hell. He
dragged himself through the rift and then pinched with this right
hand. The rift instantly shrank until it was just a speck of light
again. It shook violently before disappearing without a trace.

The demon looked into the void and muttered to himself, “The
master has already ordered that no one be allowed to enter the
fourth realm. Everyone here must die!” Finished speaking, he was
about to start flying, but stopped when he sniffed with his nose high
and looked south east. He said, “That’s weird, why do I feel there is
an extremely disgusting smell over there? Makes me want to just go
there and kill whoever is producing it.”

At that moment, a wandering soul suddenly appeared, but when they

saw this demon they just ignored him and passed by. The demon
also ignored the wandering soul, staring at the direction of that
disgusting smell. His body disappeared as he flew toward that smell.

The direction where the demon was heading toward was where
Wang Lin and Ancient Emperor were. Wang Lin calmly looked at
Ancient Emperor, who was trapped in the light. The light from the
pagoda had shrunk from 30 feet to only 15 feet.

After Wang Lin became a soul devourer, he had lost all the emotions
a mortal would have. He was cold and heartless. When he was about
to order the wandering souls to assault again, he felt through a
wandering soul he controlled that a violent fluctuation of the soul
was coming toward him from the northwest.

Shortly after, the wandering soul under his control used a special
technique to transmit what it was seeing to Wang Lin.

“This…This is…. Hunchback Meng!” Wang Lin was surprised, while

Hunchback Meng had changed a lot, Wang Lin could still tell that
this demon was indeed him.

Wang Lin retracted his divine sense to prevent an attack on him

through it and sent a message to Ancient Emperor through divine
sense.
“Hand over the inheritance treasure…”

Ancient Emperor was stunned. Even when he came here a thousand

years ago, he had never seen any of these creatures communicate
with divine sense. But he quickly reacted and replied with his divine
sense, “Se…Seniors, I don’t know what inheritance treasure you are
talking about.”

After Ancient Emperor finished talking, he was bitter in his heart.

After becoming a Spirit Forming stage expert, he hadn’t had to call
anyone senior. When he said that word, he felt bitter.

Suddenly he said, “Senior, if you are looking for the inheritance

treasure of the Land of the Ancient Gods, then you have came
looking for the wrong person. It is in the possession of someone
called Six Desire Devil Lord.”

Wang Lin pondered a little, and felt the strong fluctuation of soul
coming closer. Wang Lin used the wandering souls under his control
to get a good grasp of the distance between them. While Wang Lin
was talking to Ancient Emperor, he was controlling the wandering
souls to block its path.

However, Hunchback Weng’s body was very strange, and no matter

how many wandering souls attacked it, they weren’t able to inflict
even a tiny bit of damage. This surprised Wang Lin.

Wang Lin didn’t believe Ancient Emperor when he said that the
inheritance treasure was not with him, but with Six Desire Devil
Lord. Even if what he said was true, the likes of Ancient Emperor
and the others wouldn’t so carelessly enter the Land of the Ancient
Gods, or else they’d be at the complete mercy of the Six Desire Devil
Lord. After all, he held the key to entering and exiting this place.

In regards to the inheritance treasure, Wang Lin first heard it from

Duanmu and the others, but they weren’t willing to keep talking
about it. It wasn’t until later that Wang Lin figured it out.
Ancient Emperor was willing to fight the Six Desire Devil Lord in the
second realm. He must have his secrets. Wang Lin ordered the
surrounding wandering souls to begin the assault again.

Ancient Emperor gritted his teeth as he sent another message with

his divine sense. “This old man doesn’t have the inheritance
treasures, but when I came here years ago, I received a fragment of
the inheritance treasure. This fragment contains a spell that would
create a passage out of here, however, it can only be used at the exit
whirlpool in each realm to be teleported out of the Land of the
Ancient Gods, or else I wouldn’t be stuck here. As for the fragment, I
destroyed it after I learned the technique.”

What Ancient Emperor said was true. A thousand years ago he was
one of the stronger experts, so he naturally saw the inheritance
treasure and learned of the method it used to leave this place. That
was how he was able to escape this place a thousand years ago and
why he still dared to come back.

There weren’t many that received this spell back then; however, the
reason why almost no one was able to escape was because of the
limitation to use this spell. One must be at an exit whirlpool for it to
work.

Many of the people who passed the first and second realms didn’t
even think about exiting the Land of the Ancient Gods, because they
didn’t want to waste all their effort. As a result, they gave up the
chance to use the exit whirlpool in the second realm, but the third
realm was vast, and finding the exit was like finding a needle in a
haystack. Also, because of the fear of all the wandering souls, no one
dared to spread their divine sense out too far, making the search for
the exit even harder.

This spell must specifically be used at an exit whirlpool. If it was

used at an entry whirlpool, there would be no effect. Back at the exit
of the second realm, Ancient Emperor didn’t have enough time to
use the spell on the exit whirlpool there, and was forced into the
third realm.

“If you just take me to the exit of the third realm I’ll teach you the
spell in exchange!” Ancient Emperor looked calm, but in his heart,
he was secretly trying to figure out why this person wanted this.
Although he didn’t know why, he had to give a response, or the
wandering souls would keep attacking. At that point, the only road
left was death.

Wang Lin didn’t respond anymore. He sent out his divine sense and,
once again, all the surrounding wandering souls started to attack.
Wang Lin carefully calculated. Based on the information from the
wandering souls, Hunchback Meng should arrive here in the time
that it takes for two incense sticks to burn.

The attacks of the wandering souls grew more intense under Wang
Lin’s command. To help speed things up, Wang Lin spread out his
divine sense to call more wandering souls to join the attack.

Ancient Emperor’s face paled. He guessed that what he said before

wasn’t what this person wanted to hear. He gritted his teeth and
swallowed a few more pills to keep the light going.

But the attacks from the wandering souls were endless. At the most
critical moment, Ancient Emperor sent out another message with
his divine sense.

“I’ll give you the spell! Please tell these strange creatures to stop
attacking…” Ancient Emperor quickly took out a piece of jade and
placed it on his forehead for a while. Then he held it tightly in his
hand while looking at his surroundings.

After enough time for one incense stick to burn passed, Wang Lin
sent out his divine sense and all the wandering souls stopped their
attacks. Ancient Emperor relaxed a bit. He hesitated a little, and
gritted his teeth. He then sent the jade outside the range of the light.
The moment the piece of jade flew out, Wang Lin immediately
picked it up with his soul. He scanned the piece of jade and found
that it contained very detailed instructions for the spell.

Ancient Emperor became very nervous after throwing out the piece
of jade. He was afraid that after this person received the piece of
jade, they still wouldn’t let him go.

Wang Lin silently pondered a little, then all the surrounding

wandering souls pounced toward Ancient Emperor and resumed
their attack. Ancient Emperor displayed a depressed smile. He
revealed a poisonous expression and started to use up his own
spiritual energy like crazy to maintain the light of the pagoda.

But the amount of wandering souls attacking was simply too great.
Soon, the pagoda started to shake. Then, with a bang, a rift appeared
on the pagoda, splitting it in two.

At that moment, Ancient Emperor’s body suddenly moved and

disappeared without a trace. Ten feet away, Ancient Emperor let out
a miserable cry and revealed himself. Countless wandering souls
pounced on him and started to quickly consume him.

At the same time, a wandering soul came out from Ancient

Emperor’s body, carrying a bag of holding. Wang Lin took the bag
after the wandering soul delivered it to him and hastily left.

This time, he didn’t go look for the other people, but went back to
where his body was hiding.

In the empty space, Ancient Emperor’s body was shrinking, his face
ashen. His Yuan Ying kept spitting out Yaun Fire to prevent the
wandering souls from devouring him, however, he was only able to
stall for time and not drive them away.

Even if his life saving magic treasure wasn’t broken or if his

cultivation was still at Spirit Forming mid stage, he still couldn’t deal
with so many wandering souls trying to devour him.

Soon after Wang Lin left, Hunchback Meng arrived. His body was
moving like a shooting star. He glanced at Ancient Emperor and his
brow wrinkled. The disgusting smell was no longer here. When he
was about to follow it, he suddenly stopped and he looked at Ancient
Emperor. A thought darted through his mind.

He reached out and grabbed Ancient Emperor’s shriveled up body in

his hands, then shook Ancient Emperor until all the wandering souls
were ejected out of his body.

After all the wandering souls were removed from Ancient Emperor’s
body, with a cold smile on his face, the demon tore a hole through
space and threw Ancient Emperor inside.

After the rift appeared, one could clearly see the other side was a
blood red world. The ground was covered in a thick layer of blood,
and even the the sky was also blood red, like a piece of blue cloth
soaked in blood.

On the blood covered ground sat numerous cultivators who all

looked like the current Hunchback Meng. They were all very large
and had between one and four horns on their head.

In this land of blood, there were many stone pillars, and on top of
each stone pillar sat a cultivator. Looking into the distance, there
were many stone pillars of varying sizes, but the most prominent
one was a stone pillar that looked like it was entering the heavens.
On top of that pillar sat a red haired cultivator. Although his face
couldn’t be seen clearly, an aura of arrogance and pride could be felt
from him.

When Ancient Emperor was thrown in there, his Yuan Ying wasn’t
completely devoured by the wandering souls yet, so his body
immediately started to recover. When he opened his eyes, his face
immediately changed.
“Red Fire Devil Lord …. Unbeatable Southern Madman… Sky Devil
Magician … you are … you all didn’t die?” Ancient Emperor’s face
paled as his sight locked on to the few that entered the Land of the
Ancient Gods with him a thousand years ago among all the demons.

Red Fire Devil Lord was killed in the second realm. Ancient Emperor
personally saw his body destroyed by the purple lightning. Red Fire
Devil Lord’s Yuan Ying didn’t even have time to escape.

There was also Unbeatable Southern Madman, who was swarmed by

tens of thousands of those strange creatures and died in less time
than it takes for half an incense stick to burn.

As for Sky Devil Magician, who was the master of Six Desire Devil
Lord, Ancient Emperor followed him closely a thousand years ago.
He personally saw him create a tunnel using the inheritance
treasure to leave before he was attacked by a very unusual Divine
Sense and died instantly.

Having seen all these people who were suppose to be dead here, he
couldn’t help but feel a chill in his heart. Suddenly, he turned his
head, and he saw a demon that looked like Hunchback Meng
through the rift.

“Hunchback Meng!” Ancient Emperor’s pupils shrank. The rift

closed in that moment. Ancient Emperor was very cautious. While
this place was full of cultivators, it was very clear that all these
people were ones who had died in the Land of the Ancient Gods in
all those years.

A hoarse voice floated in from the distance. “Welcome to the Blood

Sea of the Demon God …“

Wang Lin’s speed was very high. After a short while, he could cross
this third realm. But halfway through, he stopped and noticed the
change of Ancient Emperor’s location through his connection with
the wandering souls. He saw Hunchback Meng open the rift and
Ancient Emperor being tossed in. Even the red light that came out
from the rift was seen by Wang Lin through the wandering souls.

Wang Lin pondered a little. While he possessed the jade piece with
the spell to leave here, he didn’t know if Ancient Emperor tempered
with it or not. To be safe, he was going to seek out Duanmu, Wang
QingYue, and Six Desire Devil Lord and ask them about the method
to leave in the same manner.

But the appearance of Hunchback Meng and the red light from the
rift caused Wang Lin to have a terrible feeling. He gave up looking
for the likes of Duanmu and Wang QingYue and decided to retreat to
where his body was hidden.

On the way back, he was keeping track of Hunchback Meng’s

location with the wandering souls. He noticed that Hunchback Meng
wasn’t going toward him, but toward Duanmu and Wang QingYue.
Wang Lin increased his speed and quickly returned to his body.
When the devil Xu Liguo and the second devil noticed Wang Lin’s
return, they immediately flew out from the rock.

Wang Lin quickly used his divine consciousness and returned into
this physical body. After a short while, his eyes opened. During this
trip, his soul had increased greatly.

He moved his body and went outside the rock. Without any
hesitation, he headed toward the location of the fourth realm.

Wang Lin’s face was gloomy. The appearance of Hunchback Meng

disrupted his plans, and it gave him sense of horror. More
importantly, Hunchback Meng was immune to the attacks of the
wandering souls.

That was the main reason why Wang Lin decided to leave the third
realm as soon as possible. Wang Lin knew that in terms of
cultivation, he was simply far too weak compared to these old
timers. If it wasn’t for the fact that this place contained a lot of
wandering souls, he wouldn’t be able to compete with them at all.
He wouldn’t even have the qualifications to chat with them.

Now that the wandering souls were useless against Hunchback

Meng, Wang Lin had lost his only advantage. If they were to meet,
the only road for him was death. Hunchback Meng would only have
to wave his hand to make Wang Lin disappear like smoke.

Wang Lin understood his own limits very well. Although this whole
time he had the upper hand, in reality, he knew that the reason for
this was he was able to borrow outside force to help.

If Hunchback Meng was surrounded by the storm like back then, he

wouldn’t even have as much of a chance as a drowning dog.

But now the external force was gone and both of them had the same
starting point. No matter how brave Wang Lin was, he had no choice
but to leave immediately.

Wang Lin was never a foolish person. Once he made his decision, he
hurriedly flew toward the exit of the third realm.

Along the way, he didn’t even bother to devour any more wandering
souls. He quickly rushed forward.

If Wang Lin was to give up his physical body and travel with just his
soul, his speed would be many times greater than it was now, that’s
why he left his body to travel the third realm earlier.

When he took just half a step out, Wang Lin suddenly stopped.He
jerked his head toward the direction of Duanmu and Wang Qingyue.
His face turned very dark as he witnessed a horrifying sight through
the wandering souls.

Duanmu and Wang QingYue didn’t last long under the attack of
Hunchback Meng. He teared a rift and out of it came a giant demon
hand that took both Duanmu and Wang QingYue without them
being able to resist.

The demon’s head was full of bone thorns. It had an evil aura
around it that caused people to tremble in fear.

Wang Lin’s face showed his uncertainty. He retrieved the devil Xu

Liguo and the second devil. Then he took a large gulp of Ling Qi
liquid and used all his Linq Qi to quickly leave.

He could already feel that the demon-like Hunchback Meng was

already pursuing him at an extreme speed.

Wang Lin traveled quickly the whole way. His face was sullen as he
was calculating. If they both travel at the current speed, he should be
able to arrive at the whirlpool to the fourth realm before Hunchback
Meng caught up.

Just then, the demon-like Hunchback Meng used some strange

method Wang Ling didn’t know of. Hunchback Meng covered his
body in a blood red light and his speed increased by several times.
As the distance between them got shorter, Hunchback Meng’s speed
not only didn’t decrease, but increased.

Wang Lin’s heart sunk when he realized that if it continued this way,
Hunchback Meng would catch up to him in less time than it takes
for one stick of incense to burn.

It was going to take him at least the time it takes for two sticks of
incense to burn to reach the exit. Wang Lin swept the surroundings
with this divine sense, using the the wandering souls around to
quickly scan the area. His eyes were glued in one direction as he was
thinking of a very bold move.

He hesitated a little, then without hesitation, he slightly changed

this direction and quickly fled that way.
Six Desire Devil Lord was very frustrated. In the third realm, he
didn’t dare to spread his divine sense too far, so he still hadn’t found
the exit. After all these years, he had determined that the exit is to
the northwest.

In fact, he found out that the exit was there two years ago, but the
number of wandering souls there was simply too many for him to
handle, even with his magical treasure. So he had spent the past 2
years slowly luring some away to slowly whittle down their numbers
before proceeding forward.

The speed would be very slow, but it would guarantee his success. It
was only a matter of time before he entered the fourth realm portal
and was teleported to the Ancient God’s body.

He had just lured a large number of wandering souls and was about
to destroy them all using the youth’s body when his expression
changed. While he didn’t dare to spread out his divine sense too far,
he still knew of everything that happened within 1000 feet.

Six Desire Devil Lord noticed a youth coming toward the 1000 feet
range. He was immediately stunned when he saw the person and
then grinned shouting, “He delivered himself to me!”

Wang Lin coldly stared at Six Desire Devil Lord. Instead of slowing
down, he sped up. Immediately, a large number of wandering souls
appeared around Wang Lin. They stayed around him like
bodyguards.

When Six Desire Devi Lord was about to act, he suddenly stopped.
He frowned as he stared at the wandering souls around Wang Lin,
causing a sense of horror in his heart. These strange creatures that
forced him to be very wary and cautious were not only not harming
this junior, but also protecting him. This shocked him greatly.

He didn’t dare to act rashly, but coolly stared at Wang Lin. He would
like to see what this damned junior would do. Wang Lin stopped at
the edge of the 1000 feet radius of Six Desire Devil Lord The reason
Wang Lin had all those wandering souls around him was to warn Six
Desire Devil Lord not to act rashly.

The message Wang Lin sent was successful and Six Desire Devil
Lord didn’t act carelessly. Wang Lin let out a sigh of relief. Although
Wang Lin didn’t fear Six Desire Devil Lord with all the wandering
souls around, Six Desire Devil Lord had a very strange magical
treasure. If they started a fight, it was bound to take time, and
Hunchback Meng was closing in fast.

Wang Lin looked at Six Desire Devil Lord while making an awkward
expression. He was secretly calculating the time in silence. Six
Desire Devil Lord narrowed his eyes. He didn’t have Wang Lin’s
ability to control wandering souls, so he didn’t know of the demon
that was headed toward him. When he saw Wang Lin’s hesitated
expression, while he had his doubts, he let out cold smile.

If it wasn’t for there being so many wandering souls around Wang

Lin, he would have acted already. But right now, he didn’t want to
make the matter complicated, so he coldly snorted, “This time I’ll let
you go, I give you to the count of three to scram, scram as far away as
possible.”

Wang Lin secretly counted a few breaths and revealed a strange

smile. He muttered “Now is the time!” He immediately looked at Six
Desire Devil Lord and said “Thank you!”

After he finished speaking, he immediately charged northwest, into

the crowd of wandering souls.

Six Desire Devil Lord frowned. As he was reflecting on the situation,

his face suddenly paled. He saw a blood red meteor charging at him.
In the blink of an eye, it was already about 1000 feet from Six Desire
Devil Lord. Hunchback Meng’s large demonic figure was revealed.
“You…You are the Hunchback Meng? You..you ate a Ying Bian Dan?”
Six Desire Devil Lord’s pupils shrank. He noticed from the pressure
released from Hunchback Meng he was already at the Spirit Forming
Late Stage, and was only one step away from Ying Bian stage.

The only way to reach this level of cultivation was to consume a Ying
Bian Dan!

However, Six Desire Devil Lord immediately moved the youth’s body
in front of him and turned it horizontal. Staring at Hunchback Meng
he said, “It’s not caused by a Ying Bian Dan. What did you eat to
transform like this?!”

Hunchback Meng stared at Six Desire Devil Lord with his large eyes.
The person in front of him felt very familiar. In fact, it was not the
first time he had felt this. When he saw Ancient Emperor, Duanmu,
and Wang QingYue, they all gave him a very familiar feeling.
However, no matter how hard he tried, he just couldn’t remember
anything at all.

He quickly threw that sensation to the back of his head. He let out a
cruel smile and said, “My name is not Hunchback Meng, It’s Demon
God Tu Si!”

As he was talking, he swiped his bone thorn covered right hand at

the empty space and created a large rift. As the rift suddenly
appeared, waves of red light came out of it. Soon after, a ten foot tall
scarlet red figure appeared from the rift.

“I leave this person to you. I’m going to go after the next one!”
Hunchback Meng flew away when he finished talking.

Six Desire Devil Lord gawked at the person in front of him. He

muttered to himself, “Master…”
Chapter 185: Master of the Blood
Sea
The person that stood there was over ten feet tall. He emitted a
strong killing intent and wore purple armor with extremely sharp
bone thorn sticking out from various places.

His black hair flowed behind his head without wind. His face was
very handsome and sharp. He looked like a devil, especially with his
ruthless expression.

His eyes glowed red and stared at Six Desire Devil Lord. After
pondering a while, he slowly said, “Yi Er, you still remember your
teacher. Very good. But my name is now Demon God Ti Su.”

After Six Desire Devil Lord heard those two words, he was shaken in
his heart and couldn’t believe his eyes. If it was just someone who
looked like his master, he would not be so shaken, but this person
called him by a nickname only a few knew. Besides his master, Sky
Devil Magician, who else could it be?

Six Desire Devil Lord took a deep breath. His face was full of
uncertainty as he stared at the person in front of him and said,
“You…you, are you a human or a demon? Why were you turned into a
demon like Hunchback Meng? Also, a thousand years ago did you…”

Sky Devil Magician closed his eyes, but quickly reopened them and
said, “What you wanted to say was that I should have died a
thousand years ago, then ask how did I revive, correct?”

Six Desire Devil Lord was secretly very alarmed. With the
appearance of Hunchback Meng and his dead master’s resurrection,
he felt that this place was simply too weird. He felt a sense of horror
in his heart as he knew that there must be some big secret here.
His doubt that the Land of the Ancient Gods was not as simple as
just him reaching the body of the Ancient God and receiving all the
treasure within grew.

That doubt began a thousand years ago, when his master received
the inheritance treasure from the Land of the Ancient Gods and
became like a new person.

That point had always puzzled him throughout the years, but now,
like a bolt of lightning, a very bold speculation appeared in his head.

“I am not possessed!” Sky Devil Magician said, while he slowly

looked at the direction Hunchback Meng went.

Six Desire Devil Lord was surprised within, but his face was calm as
he stared at his master and slowly retreated.

Sky Devil Lord said, without even looking at Six Desire Devil Lord,
“Retreat ten more steps and I’ll be forced to act!”

Six Desire Devil Lord stopped and whispered, “Master, what is all
this about? Even if you want to kill this disciple, you have to at least
tell me what all this is about.”

Sky Devil Magician turned and looked at Six Desire Devil Lord. He
pondered a little and said, “Fine , there is no harm in telling you.
This…”

Before he finished speaking, Six Desire Devil Lord made the youth’s
body in his hand explode with a bang. Even though the youth had
been dead for a while, his blood hadn’t dried out yet and it seemed
as if he had only just died.

As the body exploded, a mist of blood suddenly scattered and

instantly warped around Six Desire Devil Lord. His whole body
looked like it had fused into the mist of blood and disappeared as he
charged toward the exit of the third realm.
“Blood Desire Escape…Very good. As expected of my disciple. When
things don’t look good, he escapes.” Sky Devil Magician said with a
smile of approval on his face as he looked at the direction Six Desire
Devil Lord went.

All of Six Desire Devil Lord’s techniques were personally taught by

him. The cultivation method he taught was the Mysterious Sky Devil
Cultivation Method. People have six innate desires. The cultivation
method trained one to controls one’s own desire, then to use it to
influence others’ desires for one’s own purpose.

Compared to the death curse technique, it was only slightly less

vicious. The most important part of the Mysterious Sky Devil
Cultivation Method was to control one’s desires. If one could fully
control four desires, they would reach Spirit Forming stage, and if
one could control all six desires, they would reach Ying Bian.

Six Desire Devil Lord had already gained control over five of his
innate desires. The last one, that he hadn’t gained control of yet, was
obsession. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t gain control of
that desire. His only obsession was his own cultivation. Since the
first day he had started his cultivation, he made a promise to himself
that he would reach Ying Bian stage.

This had always been his dream and life goal. Sky Devil Magician
once predicted that this obsession would become Six Desire Devil
Lord’s greatest obstacle, and it had come true.

This Blood Desire Escape technique was from the Mysterious Sky
Devil Cultivation Method that was used as a last resort. By
sacrificing one’s training over one’s control over one of the desires,
it would give them an unimaginable boost in speed.

Six Devil Desire Lord had always been a very decisive person. The
moment he saw his master, he felt a sense of horror. He decided to
bite the bullet and escape with his life.
At that moment Wang Lin was moving quickly to the northwest,
toward the exit of the third realm. All the wandering souls in the
way automatically moved aside, making a path for him.

His body was moving so fast, it was almost a blur. He was getting
closer and closer to the exit. As for the life and death of Six Desire
Devil Lord, Wang Lin didn’t have time to care. They hardly knew
each other. Whether or not Six Desire Devil Lord’s death helped him
escape was all that mattered.

However, what made him disappointed was that, through the

wandering souls, he saw the moment that Six Desire Devil Lord met
his master.

And that Hunchback Meng only paused for a moment before

continuing to chase him.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and drank another mouthful of Liquid
Ling Qi. He waved his right hand and a cold blue fire appeared. He
slammed his bag of holding and the poisonous black sword came
out, emitting cold pressure.

Wang Lin’s body became unsteady for a moment as he shot the blue
fire and the poisonous black sword backwards, then continued
charging forward. The blue fire and the poisonous black sword split
apart and charged toward Hunchback Meng from two different
directions.

As Hunchback Meng chased, he secretly concluded that this was the

person that gave off that disgusting smell that he couldn’t stand. He
was very confused on this matter, and acted on impulse with the
urge to catch up and rip that person apart to appease his anger.

But Hunchback Meng, in his heart, actually admired this person. He

could tell that they were only at the Jie Dan middle stage and that
this person was very crafty. If he started chasing after them, they
would immediately escape as fast as possible.
What really stunned Hunchback Meng was that all the wandering
souls here didn’t have any aggression toward this person. Even
though this person heedlessly charged through the third realm, they
wouldn’t attack him.

This caused his heart to feel very strange. The only reason he wasn’t
getting attacked was because his master gave him a magic treasure
that devoured souls.

But how was the other person doing the same? Hunchback Meng
was very confused. He took a deep breath. Then he took a step and
quickly rushed forward.

However, shortly after he started moving, he immediately felt the

blue flame charging at him. He sneered and charged forward even
faster.

He didn’t even bother to dodge and just slammed into it. The blue
flame flickered a few times before it exploded into countless ice
flame flowers and dissipated.

Hunchback Meng sneered and was about to accelerate when his face
suddenly changed. Although the ice flame was slowly dissipating, he
looked at his chest and noticed that it was blue. There was a layer of
ice on his chest.

The ice quickly started to spread across Hunchback Meng’s body.

Hunchback Meng stopped. He looked down and put his right hand
on the ice, causing it to crack and stop spreading.

At that moment, he noticed a flash in the distance. Following the

flash, a weirdly shaped black sword instantly arrived next to
Hunchback Meng’s shoulder. The flying sword’s shape was very odd.
There were many tiny blue thorns on the short blade, indicating it
contained very poisonous toxins.
The moment Hunchback Meng saw the sword, his heart was shaken.
He felt a very strong sense of familiarity from the word, as if it were
something very important to him.

For only a short moment, Hunchback Meng lost concentration, and

the sword stabbed into his right shoulder. A ping sound could be
heart as the sword made contact. Although the sword’s speed was
very fast, it was only barely able to pierce Hunchback Meng’s skin.

But even though it only barely broke the skin, the toxin in the sword
started to invade Hunchback Meng’s body. Hunchback Meng didn’t
even bother with the toxin and grabbed the sword. He had a strong
feeling that the sword was originally his.

With Hunchback Meng’s cultivation, catching a flying sword was like

child’s play. As he reached out with his hand to grab the sword,
layers of Qi wrapped around the sword, forming a whirlpool that
made it unable to escape.

Wang Lin was almost at the exit when his face suddenly changed. He
noticed the danger that the flying sword was facing. He didn’t stop,
but both his hands moved rapidly, forming signs, until he finally spat
out a mouthful of golden Qi.

At the same time, the flying sword trapped in the whirlpool of Qi felt
it and the blue toxin on the sword intensified.

As Hunchback Meng reached to grab the sword, the whirlpool

loosened and the sword made a popping sound as eight thorns came
off the sword and charged at Hunchback Meng at extreme speeds.

If one were to analyze the toxin on the sword, they would find that it
really couldn’t compare to the toxin on the thorns. When Wang Lin
made this flying sword, he paid a lot of attention to the 99 thorns.

Almost all the toxins were stored on the thorns, and as a result, the
amount of toxin the eight thorns contained was very high.
If it was used against anyone else, it would be very effective. But
Hunchback Meng was a poison cultivator. The main toxin in the
thorns was Wang Ding Poison. This poison was originally
Hunchback Meng’s treasure, so the toxin wasn’t able to harm
Hunchback Meng.

Earlier, when the sword pierced Hunchback Meng’s shoulder, it only

took a moment for him to absorb the toxin.

But even if the toxin on the thorns was harmless, the force of the
thorns was still like eight flying swords. If it was anyone else, their
palm would be pierced, but Hunchback Meng’s demon like body
already reached an imaginable level of hardness. As the thorns hit
his palm, they split in half under the impact.

Although the thorns were broken, they did slow down the hand that
was reaching toward the sword. At that moment, the flying sword
escaped. Hunchback Meng was only able to grab the edge of the
sword before it disappeared from his hand.

But Hunchback Meng’s cultivation was very strong. Just by touching

it, he was able to make the sword’s color dull and caused a crack to
appear on the blade.

The flying sword quickly disappeared without a trace as it escaped to

more than 1000 feet away from Hunchback Meng.

Hunchback Meng’s face darkened. Staring at the direction the flying

sword disappeared to, he waved his right hand and tore open a rift.

A very overbearing Divine Sense came out of the rift and swept the
nearby area, then proceeded to cover the entire third realm.
However, it carefully went around the place that the soul devourer
was sleeping

“What is it?” The Divine Sense sent out a cold message.

Hunchback Meng immediately kneeled down when the Divine Sense
came out and said, “Master, there is a cultivator who is too close to
the exit. I request help.”

“Okay.” The Divine Sense replied.

Hunchback Meng immediately charged toward Wang Lin after he

heard the reply. He was assured that with the help of the messenger,
there was no way this Jie Dan middle stage kid could make it to the
exit.

The messenger’s Divine Sense quickly scanned the third realm and
found Wang Lin and Six Desire Devil Lord. He first focused his
Divine Sense on Six Desire Devil Lord, who was covered in a ray of
blood colored light that increased Six Desire Devil Lord’s speed
greatly. However, the deeper Six Desire Devil Lord went, the more
wandering souls there were. It was more than his treasure could
handle.

As a result, he was hit by many wandering souls on the way. He

relied on his Ling Qi to fight against the wandering souls rampaging
within his body.

The moment the Divine Sense appeared, Six Desire Devil Lord was
greatly shaken. After finally getting rid of the wandering souls, that
abnormal Divine Sense appeared. He knew that the person’s
cultivation must be abnormal to send out such a powerful Divine
Sense.

After the Divine Sense scanned Six Desire Devil Lord, it sent out a
wave of power that caused the blood red light to fade little by little
until it disappeared, revealing Six Desire Devil Lord’s horror filled
face.

“I can’t act with the soul devourer around. I can only help you block
him(Six Desire Devil Lord) once.” After finishing the act, the
powerful Divine Sense sent the message to Sky Devil Magician, who
was indifferently chasing after Six Desire Devil Lord.

Sky Devil Magician’s face was calm. He nodded his head and
immediately accelerated forward.

Six Desire Devil Lord groaned and gritted his teeth. Without
hesitation, he gave up another desire to active the Blood Desire
Escape Technique again. This time, his body could barely handle the
technique, and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. The wandering
souls in his body started to eat away at him. He give off a wry smile
and charged forward.

The Divine Sense scanned Six Desire Devil Lord again, but didn’t act
this time. After one look, he left. He arrived at the exit to the third
realm and saw Wang Lin 1000 feet from the exit.

The Divine Sense sent out a wave targeting Wang Lin. Wang Lin
noticed the Divine Sense the moment it appeared. Although it was
very powerful, Wang Lin felt a bit strange. He felt like there was
something wrong with this Divine Sense.

As the Divine Sense attacked Wang Lin, he suddenly realized what

was wrong. This Divine Sense didn’t belong to a cultivator, but to a
wandering soul who was about to become a soul devourer.

This was the first time Wang Lin met such a large wandering soul,
however, a wandering soul was still a wandering soul. Until it
become a soul devourer, no matter how large it was, it still below a
soul devourer. That was still a large gap the wandering soul had to
cross.

That large wandering soul dared to attack Wang Lin, who was a soul
devourer. From Wang Lin’s point of view, this large wandering soul
was basically a super immortal pill. If Wang Lin could devour him,
his soul could not only recover to what it originally was, but even
surpass it to an unimaginable degree.
At that moment, the wandering soul’s attack hit Wang Lin, causing
him to be stunned. This surprised the wandering soul greatly.

“Soul Devourer! You…You are a Soul Devourer!” The wandering soul

exclaimed. Although there was a hint of surprise in his voice, there
was also a sense of excitement.

Wang Lin had some doubts in his heart, but he started to devour the
wandering soul that entered his body. The wandering soul
immediately withdrew his Divine Sense, but a part of him had
already been devoured by Wang Lin.

Wang Lin licked his lips. He could clearly feel that his Ji Realm Soul
was rapidly increasing, but he felt a bit of regret. If he could have
devoured the whole soul, his own soul could have increased much
more.

After the large soul escaped, it used a complicated method to open a

rift and disappear from the third realm.

At that moment, in the Blood Sea of the Demon God, a rift appeared
in the sky as the large soul appeared through it. He quickly went to
the tallest pillar that reached the heavens. As he got near it, his soul
took the form of a young man. He kneeled in the air with a weak
look on his face, but his expression was full of excitement.

“My lord, in the third realm I saw a … Soul Devourer!”

On top of the pillar sat a man with red hair. He was looking down, so
his hair covered his face. However, a sense of arrogance was
constantly radiating from his body.

The moment he heard the voice of the wandering soul, his body
suddenly trembled and he raised his head. It revealed a bloody face.
The moment he raised his head, a dense mist of blood appeared in
the Blood Sea.
Meanwhile, all the cultivators on the pillars, and even the ones
sitting on the blood soaked ground, immediately looked at him with
a look of ecstasy on their faces.

“Soul Devourer…Are you sure?” The man’s voice was low, but filled
with overwhelming majesty.

The long haired man formed by the soul said, “ Master, I am sure
that that person is a Soul Devourer. That person is near the exit of
the third realm. If you want to catch him, you must go now!”

“Soul Devourer…” The red haired man’s eyes revealed a dull look. He
waved his hand, and a rift thousands of feet long appeared.

“Demon God Ti Su, all of you, go catch and that Soul Devourer and
bring him back!” The red haired man said, then looked down again
and became silent.

After he finished speaking, all the cultivators in the Blood Sea leaped
off their pillars or the ground and disappeared into the rift.

The large soul also followed them through the rift. The entire blood
sea was suddenly empty. Only the red haired man remained. He used
his red hand and gently wrote a row of small words on the ground.

“I’ve been sealed in the Blood Sea of the Demon God for tens of
thousands of years. Today, I heard of a Soul Devourer appearing
again. My heart is very excited…”

Next to that row of small words, there were several rows of

handwritten words.

“Entering the third realm, I immediately realized that this place was
a rift connected to the World of Decay. After searching, I found the
entrance to the World of Decay, but didn’t enter.
“This Land of the Ancient God has been exaggerated by the rumors.
Aside from the third realm being a bit fun, the other realms were
very disappointing. I originally wanted to leave, but since I’m here, I
might as well check it out, or else I would have just wasted my time.”

“The fourth realm is just a transfer array. The transfer array

transfers the person based on the speed they passed the three realm.
It is very intricate. After spending a long time studying it, I can now
use it to enter any part of the body of the Ancient God.”

“How is this the Land of the Ancient Gods? It is clearly a Land of the
Demon Gods.”

“The Ancient God Tu Si… this person really is a cultivator of great

wisdom. I greatly admire him… to have come up with this method.”

“I never thought I would be trapped at a place for thousands of

years…”
Chapter 186: Beyond the Qi Sea
Wang Lin quickly charged toward the exit. After a short amount of
time, he arrived within 30 feet of the exit whirlpool.

But as he arrived, directly above the exit of the third realm, a rift
thousands of feet long opened. It released a blood red glow.

Wang Lin was shocked, but his face remained calm. He immediately
used the technique that Ancient Emperor had given him on the
whirlpool. The moment the rift appeared, he still charged toward the
whirlpool. Purple lightning appeared, dragging him into the
whirlpool.

The moment he entered the whirlpool, Wang Lin clearly saw large
demons coming out of the rift, all revealing looks of ecstasy in their
eyes as they looked at Wang Lin in the whirlpool. They all charged
toward him.

Wang Lin’s heart skipped a beat. Any one of the demons in the
group could destroy Wang Lin with the wave of a hand. With that
thought in mind, Wang Lin disappeared into the whirlpool.

All the demons followed him without any hesitation.

After Wang Lin came out of the whirlpool, he quickly started to

escape without pausing. The area was a square plaza with dozens of
pillars that reached the sky.

In the middle of the pillars was a circular transfer array that was
glowing a demonic red light. If one looked closely, they could see
that the transfer array was formed by something that looked like
blood vessels. Surrounding it were tubes that connected to the
transfer array. They looked like they were fueling the array with
some dark red liquid.
The demon-like red light was emitted by the liquid being supplied
into the array.

The moment Wang Lin appeared, he scanned the whole area with
his divine sense without hesitation. He found out that there were no
whirlpool in this area, only the transfer array.

Without saying a word, he rushed next to the transfer array, but

didn’t charge into it. After giving it a look, he took out his poison
sword from his bag of holding and broke off 10 thorns.

The poison sword disappeared back into his bag of holding. He

moved his hands to form illusionary circles, then he placed
restrictions on the 10 thorns.

After he finished, he pointed his finger at his brow and spit out a
mouthful of golden Qi. The golden Qi turned to threads as it entered
the thorns.

The thorns’ whole body shook and scattered as they started to spin
with the illusionary circles.

Shortly after, Wang Lin stepped into the transfer array without any
hesitation. The moment his body entered the transfer array, a ray of
red light shot out from the side and covered the entire transfer
array.

[TL Note: The array is saying this]

“The time it took to pass the third realm was over the expected limit,
but you were able to receive qualification in the second realm.
Location: outside the Qi Sea.”

Within the fluctuating rays of blood red light, Wang Lin’s body
started to distort until it disappeared without a trace. The blood red
light started to disperse, until everything returned to normal.
At that moment, the illusionary circles Wang Lin had left behind
scattered in all directions and created restrictions that surrounded
the entire transfer array. Following the sudden movement of the
illusionary circles, the thorns quickly flew at the transfer array,
pierced into the blood vessels, and spread their toxin into them.

After an instant, the entire array no longer emitted a red light, but a
black light, however, that black light didn’t last long and slowly
turned red again.

At the same time, at the entrance of the fourth realm, many demons
from the Blood Sea appeared and quickly arrived next to the transfer
array.

One of the demon cultivators looked at the array once and said, “The
array has been destroyed. It will take three hours to recover.”

“It doesn’t matter. The body is very large. The Soul Devourer won’t
be able to enter the Sea of Knowledge. As long as he doesn’t enter
the Sea of Knowledge, he won’t be able to leave.”

“In three hours, we will split up for the search. This time, we must
capture him alive.”

Wang Lin felt like his soul and his body were separated. Soon after,
he clearly noticed his body was surrounded by an invisible force that
pulled him toward a whirlpool. That whole time, he felt like his body
disappear and only his divine sense remained.

He didn’t know how long it had been. Suddenly, the force around his
body disappeared as he slowly regained control of his body. When he
opened his eyes, he saw a blue world.

This was a very strange place. The sky was blue and so was the
ground. It could be said that this world had no ground, only sky,
because the ground was really just another sky.
Wang Lin was stunned for a moment, then recovered his calmness.
The moment before he was transferred here, he remembered that
the voice said that he would be transferred to the edge of the Qi Sea.

With that sentence, Wang Lin knew that this was the fourth realm.
Only, the fourth realm didn’t have any obstacles, it was only used as
a transfer location.

Wang Lin thought that he had already entered the body of the
Ancient God, just outside the Qi Sea.

He pondered for a little and sighed. He never thought that among all
the cultivators that tried, he would be the first to enter the Land of
the Ancient God.

Before the third realm, Wang Lin still had some hope to enter the
Land of the Ancient God, but now, he felt that this place wasn’t a
place filled with treasure and immortal pills like Duanmu had said.

Especially at the third realm exit, when all those demons like
Hunchback Meng appeared, caused Wang Lin to feel like there was a
large rock weighing down his heart. Wang Lin had a feeling that he
had entered a place he wasn’t supposed to enter.

Especially the naked ecstasy in the eyes of those demons as they

looked at Wang Lin. He was very smart, and after analyzing it once,
he realized it must’ve had something to do with what that large soul
who was almost a Soul Devour said.

“Before, only Hunchback Meng and one other appeared, but as I was
about to leave, so many suddenly appeared. They must be after me. It
seems to have something to do with that large soul realizing my
identity of a Soul Devourer.”

As Wang Lin was thinking, his body never stopped moving forward.
He felt that those demons wouldn’t give up so easily, and may
suddenly appear in front of him.
What Wang Lin needed to do now was to quickly leave this strange
Land of the Ancient God.

Wang Lin slammed his bag of holding and a piece of jade appeared.
He concentrated a little on the piece of jade, then his expression
became unsettled. He put away the piece of jade and quickly formed
illusionary circles with his hand.

The piece of jade contained sets of hand signs one must form to
create a tunnel to leave here, as stated by Ancient Emperor. There
were over 400 signs to make before one could form a tunnel.

Wang Lin felt a bit weird after forming the first set. He continued to
form the set until the 34th set, where he stopped and his face paled.

This 34th set looked like the other sets, but in reality, it used Ling Qi
without the person knowing. That caused his Ling Qi to fluctuate.

Wang Lin pondered a little and moved on to the 35th set. He quickly
formed all the sets in the piece of jade one by one.

When he finished the last set, he pressed his hand forward and a
whirlpool appeared, emitting a dark air. However, the instant the
whirlpool appeared, it collapsed in front of Wang Lin and
disappeared.

As he continued to form the sets, the Ling Qi in his body started to

strongly fluctuate. It wasn’t until the whirlpool disappeared that his
Ling Qi calmed down again.

Wang Lin’s eyes trembled as he stared at the whirlpool that had

appeared.

Wang Lin whispered, “Such a poisonous technique!” He sneered. The

whirlpool formed by this technique spun counter clockwise, while all
the exit whirlpools spun clockwise.
If one didn’t look closely, they wouldn’t notice the difference. As for
if using this technique to form the counter clockwise whirlpool
would create an exit to leave the place, Wang Lin wasn’t sure. But he
was sure that if two whirlpools met, there would be dire
consequences.

Of course, there was also a chance that the exit was created by the
collision of the two whirlpools, however, when Wang Lin was using
the technique, he noticed that from the 34th set and onwards, the
Ling Qi in his body started to fluctuate. The more sets he formed,
the more it fluctuated, until it reached its limit at the last set.

If Wang Lin didn’t already notice that it was only his Ling Qi
fluctuating and that it was harmless, he would have immediately
stopped forming the sets. However, now that he saw the whirlpool,
his eyes suddenly turn cold.

He wasn’t sure if this technique could help him leave this place, but
he knew that the moment the two whirlpools collided, his Ling Qi
would go out of control. Itmight even explode in his body and spread
to his Jie Dan, splitting his Jie Dan in half.

Wang Lin was able to realize this because every time he entered a
whirlpool, he could feel his Ling Qi get excited and act violently for
an instant. Even though it was just for an instant, if it happened in
between two whirlpools with the opposite spin, the aftereffect on
Wang Lin’s body was something he couldn’t even imagine.
Chapter 187: The Ancient God’s
Inheritance (1)
It was silent. The technique had been verified, but it was not
necessary to leave this place yet. First, Wang Lin wanted to see if was
possible to enter the Heaven Revolting space.

If he could enter the Heaven Revolting space, then his chance of

escape would increase a lot. He moved his hand from his brow. His
expression was calm, but there was hint of surprise in his eyes.

There were no restrictions in the Heaven Revolting space. It could

be entered at any time.

Wang Lin let out a breath of relief. He waved his right hand and took
out Ancient Emperor’s bag of holding. With a scan of his divine
sense, a resisting force came from the bag.

The bag of holding’s divine sense blocked out Wang Lin’s divine
sense. This meant that Ancient Emperor was still alive, but Wang
Lin wasn’t sure about the situation himself. Back then, Hunchback
Meng’s bag of holding had lost its divine sense, but Hunchback
Meng still seemed to be alive.

Now Wang Lin had two bag of holdings he couldn’t open. One of
them was Ancient Emperor’s, and the other was the one he found in
a cave at the Shinto War Shrine from a mysterious skeleton.

Both bags of holding still held the divine sense of the previous
master. With that there, Wang Lin couldn’t access the bags. Wang
Lin wasn’t in a rush, he touch the bag of holding and surrounded it
with his own divine sense to prevent Ancient Emperor from sensing
it.
After he finished this, he took a deep breath and darted like an
arrow into the distance. His target was the Ancient God’s Sea of
Knowledge.

He did, after all, received a piece of jade to make a restriction flag,

and the material required to make it was within the Sea of
Knowledge.

After running quickly through this space that had no difference

between earth and sky, Wang Lin still couldn’t see the edge of the
sky.

He remembered that Duanmu and the others had said that the body
of an Ancient God was very large. A mature Ancient God was larger
than the entire Suzaku star. Even just traveling between two blood
vessels, the distance was unimaginable.

Although the area was large, there was no life or any restrictions,
just silence. Wang Lin didn’t make any stops and continued forward.

In the Ancient God’s body, there weren’t any restrictions on one’s

divine sense, just like the outside world. Wang Lin’s soul received a
lot of nourishment in the third realm, especially that large soul that
was almost a soul devourer, that allowed Wang Lin’s soul to grow by
leaps and bounds.

When he spread his divine sense, it could stretch for thousands of

miles. As a result, he kept track of his surroundings with his divine
sense while he flew forward. After a long time, Wang Lin stopped
with a shocked expression as he stared into the distance. The Linq
Qi in his body started to become violent, as if there were some
mysterious force pulling it, causing his Ling Qi to be in an excited
state.

Shortly after, with his divine sense, he detected dark blue Qi waves
rolling in from the distance. The Qi waves were thousands of feet
tall with lengths that couldn’t even be estimated. The Qi wave was
really far, but the earth shattering roar they produced could still be
heard.

After a few seconds, the Qi came a lot closer, causing Ling Qi to

fluctuate even more violently. Without a word, Wang Lin turned and
flew away from it. Those Qi waves were too strange, and Wang Lin
was very alarmed by their appearance.

What made Wang Lin’s heart sink was that he was losing control of
the Ling Qi in his body. When the Ling Qi shook violently, his speed
slowed down by a lot.

The Qi Wave came even closer. The roar made it sound like it was
right behind Wang Lin. Wang Lin was surprised, but his eyes
remained calm. He knew he wouldn’t be able to escape the Qi wave
in time, so he pointed his right hand to his brow, and the Heaven
Revolting bead came out. Wang Lin’s body quickly started to fade
before disappearing completely.

After about ten breaths, the Qi wave roared past where Wang Lin
disappeared, and disappeared into the distance. After a few
moments, Wang Lin’s image gradually started to appear, until he
became real again. He stared at the Qi wave that passed by for a long
time, mulling over what he had just witnessed.

After staring for a while, he continued to fly forward.

Six Desire Devil Lord appeared within a thousand feet of the third
realm’s exit. The blood red light faded around him, revealing a bitter
and skinny face. In his hand, he held a skeleton that was missing an
arm.

There were gold spots on the skeleton, releasing tiny rays of golden
light.

Most the flesh in his body was lost in the struggle against the
wandering souls. His Yuan Ying was on the verge of collapse. There
were countless wandering souls in his body. When they attacked, Six
Desire Devil Lord’s stamina dropped quite a bit.

Now, he didn’t even have the energy to active the Blood Desire
Escape technique anymore. He could only quietly wait for the
wandering souls to consume him, or for his master to catch him.

In his heart, he really hoped that his master could catch up before
the wandering souls consumed him, even if it meant turning into a
demon. He’d rather preserve his life.

Unfortunately, this desire of his would be very difficult to achieve,

because at that moment, his Yuan Ying’s last line of defense
collapsed in an instant from the wandering soul’s attack, exposing
his Zifu soul.

The wandering souls revealed greedy expressions and piled forward.

Six Desire Devil Lord was helpless right now, but the skeleton in his
released a golden light.

Large amounts of golden light came from the skeleton and

surrounded Six Desire Devil Lord. Immediately, the wandering souls
that were pouncing at him started to scream, and quickly left his
body to escape from the golden light.

Six Desire Devil Lord gawked at what had just happened in front of
him. After the wandering souls left, he quickly took control of his
body again. He revealed an excited expression as he stared at the
skeleton in his hand. He felt like he had just escaped certain death.

But soon after, he was very suspicious, but right now was not the
time to ponder over it.

All the wandering souls in his surrounding started backing off, as if

they feared the golden light. Six Desire Devil Lord was a decisive
man. The moment he realized this, he put away the suspicious
feelings in his heart and headed toward the exit of the third realm.
The huge rift near the exit had already closed. Without the
obstruction of the wandering souls, he almost immediately arrived
at the exit and stepped into the whirlpool.

He felt extremely relieved in that moment. The third realm was too
scary. If he could escape from here, he vowed to never return.

When he came here the for first time a thousand years ago, although
he had also reached the third realm, it wasn’t this strange. His
master’s revival, Hunchback Meng turning into a demon, and the
series of events created a fog of confusion in his heart. This fog only
spread out and caused him to be very nervous.

He was inside the whirlpool. The moment the purple lightning came
down, he waved his hands and executed a series of hand techniques.
After he finished, his Yuan Ying had shrunk by a large amount.

The color in his eyes dulled a lot. That technique landed on the
skeleton in his hand. The golden light shined brighter as the bones
started to crack, before bursting into dust and starting to spread in
all directions.

Amidst the cloud of ashes were countless specks of golden light. Six
Desire Devil Lord waved both his hands, making the ashes scatter as
the golden specks came together to form a shiny golden arm bone.

However, on this arm bone, there were only four and half fingers.
Half of the ring finger was missing.

The moment the arm bone appeared, countless purple streaks of

lightning in the whirlpool stopped where they were, completely
motionless. Six Desire Devil Lord didn’t even look as he took the
almost complete arm and spit out a mouthful of Ling Qi.

The Ling Qi was quickly absorbed by the arm. Afterward, the Six
Desire Devil Lord started forming set of hand seals with the arm. If
Wang Lin was here, he would realize that this was the same sets of
hand seals he got from Ancient Emperor, but instead of only 400 or
so sets, there were over 1000 sets.

These thousand plus hand seals were all performed by this arm.
Soon, a whirlpool suddenly appeared before him. Six Desire Devil
Lord’s eyes lit up. The reason he dared to come here was because he
felt he already fully understood this arm bone, and that with it, he
would be able to leave like a thousand year ago.

The arm bone was the inheritance treasure Wang Lin was looking
for. After a thousand years, Six Desire Devil Lord felt he finally
cracked the mysteries of the arm bone.

He worried that it would be stolen, or something unexpected might

happen, so he painstakingly infused the inheritance treasure into a
disciple. No one would have even dreamed that the inheritance
treasure wasn’t in his bag of holding, but in the youth following him.

Thanks to the connection he had with the bone, he could use it at

any time, so it was safe.

Also, the arm bone was an inheritance treasure from the Land of the
Ancient God, so there were no limits placed on it. Thus, his disciple
was able to enter the Land of the Ancient God without any
problems.

After forming the last hand seal, he decided that he would never
come back to this strange place again. But right as he was feeling
confident and stepped into the whirlpool, it suddenly collapsed right
before him and dissipated.

Six Desire Devil Lord was stunned for a while, but at the same time,
the purple lightning that was frozen in midair came down and hit
him, causing him to disappear from the exit of the third realm.

After he disappeared, Sky Devil Magician appeared. He revealed a

strange smile and said, “My good disciple, you must succeed so you
don’t waste your master’s effort of opening the secret of the arm to
save you from the wandering souls and stopping you from leaving.”

Wang Lin’s whole body was like lightning. He quickly flew through
the area outside of the Ancient God’s Qi Sea, however, his direction
had changed. Instead of moving forward, he now went up.

He didn’t know how long he had been flying. His surroundings were
exactly the same as before. If it weren’t for his divine sense, he
would have thought that he was flying in place.

During this time, he met more than 10 Qi waves. He avoided them

all by going into the Heaven Revolting space. Gradually, he noticed
some clues. No matter how he looked at them, the Qi waves were
formed by Ling Qi.

Wang Lin already had an answer in his heart, but he refused to

believe it. This Qi wave clearly came from the Qi Sea’s Ling Qi
whirlpool. If only the whirlpool could produce such strong Qi Waves,
wouldn’t the entire Qi Sea already have achieved an unimaginable
level of Qi?

If this Ancient God was dead, why did his Ling Qi still circulate? In
addition, Wang Lin noticed that as he flew forward, waves of
fluctuation, that caused his mood to change, came from all sides.
These waves, however, caused Wang Lin no real harm. It was only a
little, but they increased Wang Lin’s vigilance. He checked the
location of his own Qi sea for reference. Above the Qi sea was the
Progenitor Point, and within it was the Zifu Sea of Knowledge.

While Wang Lin flew, he was secretly calculating in his heart, but
the information was too little. It felt like there was always mist in
his eyes, preventing him from seeing the truth. The whole Land of
the Ancient God had a strange atmosphere.

While Wang Lin was flying, he suddenly stopped. Without a word, he

pointed at his brow and disappeared into the Heaven Revolting
space. At the same time, a flash of white light appeared nearby. As
the white light faded, Six Desire Devil Lord appeared.

His face was sullen. He looked at the golden arm in his hand, then
looked at this surroundings. He was stunned for a moment. A
thought flashed in his head. He looked at his surroundings again
and his expression suddenly changed, revealing a look of ecstasy.

“This…this Ancient God is clearly dead, but this place still has such
strong desire fluctuations?” Six Desire Devil Lord’s eyes became
brighter and brighter. He could feel the fluctuations coming in from
all sides.

These fluctuations to him were clearly all types of desires. A thought

flew through his mind. He formed a seal with his right hand, casting
a spell into the air. A thin snake-like black Qi appeared before him
and flew away, heading into the distance.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s eyes shined. He opened his mouth and
sucked air in. The black light instantly turned around and was
sucked in as well. Six Desire Devil Lord’s face once again revealed a
look of ecstasy. He could clearly feel that from absorbing just that
trace of desire, he had already recovered all the Yuan Ying he had
lost to the wandering souls.

Six Desire Devil Lord, without saying a word, scanned the area with
his divine sense and found nothing abnormal. He immediately
opened his arms, both arms forming different seals, while he sat
cross legged. He shouted, “Fear Desire, come!”

The moment those words left his mouth, as he formed seals with his
hands, black Qi materialized all round him. All of the black Qi
charged toward Six Desire Devil Lord.

Gradually, more and more of the black Qi accumulated, until it

covered a very large area around Six Desire Devil Lord’s body. His
body was like a blackhole, endlessly absorbing the black Qi.
His expression became more and more confident. He revealed a hint
of surprise on his face. He could clearly feel that the Fear Desire in
the Ancient God’s body was larger than he could have imagined, far
above his expectation.

Time slowly passed. From 100,000 feet away, Sky Devil Magician
revealed an excited expression as he looked at the direction of Six
Desire Devil Lord. He mutter to himself. “Absorb, my good disciple,
keep absorbing. For my master’s plan, you must put on a good
performance!”

He let out a strange smile. Both of his hands crossed each other,
causing a blue light to quickly spread in all directions, instantly
covering everything within a mile. After he finished, a thought
flashed through his head. His smile grew wider. He thought, “Good
disciple. Back then, your teacher’s calculation was correct. Your crazy
nature would be a wall that blocks your cultivation path. But looking
at it now, this crazy nature of yours will be what helps this old man’s
plan ultimately succeed.”

Time slowly passed. The endless black fog covered an area with a
one mile radius by now. If it wasn’t for Sky Devil Magician’s
preventing it, the black fog would continue to spread.

After an unknown amount of time, the block fog faded. Six Desire
Devil Lord revealed a crazed light. His cultivation had reached an
incredible level.

“Greed Desire, come!” He shouted another sentence. Not long after,

red mist suddenly appeared until it covered a one mile radius around
him.

Afterwards, Rash Desire, Pleasure Desire, Jealous Desire, Obsession

Desire, and the likes were all devoured by Six Desire Devil Lord.
What his master, Sky Devil Magician said was correct; his greatest
weakness was his desire to raise his cultivation. If given the chance
of increasing his cultivation, he absolutely wouldn’t give it up.
Even until now, he had never thought of stopping, but continued to
endlessly absorb all the desires. When Obsession desire was
absorbed by him, his body released horrendous smell.

The six desires in the Ancient God’s body were scattered due to
some change in the Ancient God’s soul before death. Six Desire
Devil Lord now had absorbed part of the Ancient God’s desire and
reached a level in Mysterious Sky Devil Cultivation Method that
exceeded the creator, Sky Devil Magician’s, expectations of what the
ultimate level was.

At that moment, Sky Devil Magician’s displayed a smile. Even his

normally gloomy face couldn’t help but laugh. He quickly rushed
toward Six Desire Devil Lord.

“My good disciple, your task has been completed. It looks like this
old man didn’t adopt you in vain. This time, you have really showed
your gratitude!”
Chapter 188: The Ancient God’s
Inheritance (2)
Wang Lin was able to see everything that happened outside while he
was hiding in the Heaven Revolting space.

Originally, before the Heaven Revolting Bead acknowledged him as

its master, he wasn’t able to do this, but after he reached Jie Dan
Middle stage, he noticed a change when he entered the bead’s space.

That feeling appeared when he first entered the Jie Dan stage as
well, but it wasn’t as obvious as now. Wang Lin felt that his
cultivation was only one of the reasons. The other might’ve been
due to his soul growing stronger.

The wandering soul in the third realm allowed his soul to grow
rapidly.

Now, when he was inside the Heaven Revolting Space, all he had to
do was grab the strip of light to be able to see what was happening
on the outside.

He was surprised by the appearance of Six Desire Devil Lord. He

didn’t think that Six Desire Devil Lord would be able to make it to
the exit of the third realm and reach the body of the Ancient God.

Also, from the whirlpool that Six Desire Devil Lord appeared out of,
it seemed like he was just teleported from the fourth realm’s
transfer array.

Wang Lin became very alarmed. He decided that once Six Desire
Devil Lord leaves, he will go a different route. If the two were meet
here, it would not be good for Wang Lin.

However, what happened next really surprised him.

The things consumed by Six Desire Devil Lord looked very familiar
to him. He suddenly remembered back to the tunnel, where Six
Desire Devil Lord used a technique.

After recalling that memory, he took a deep breath. However, a

doubt raised in his mind. Didn’t it seem like Six Desire Devil Lord
was absorbing them too easily?

It seemed as if everything was prepared, just waiting for Six Desire

Devil Lord to arrive and consume them. He could clearly feel the Six
Desire Devil Lord growing stronger.

Six Desire Devil Lord felt power he had never felt before. The
Mysterious Sky Devil Cultivation had reached completion. His heart
was filled with excitement. The goal that he had been pursuing for
thousands of years was finally achieved. He was feeling very
confident.

This confidence came from the desire he had just absorbed from the
Ancient God’s body. With the six desires combined, it created a very
special power that allowed him to control someone’s life and death.

However, before Six Desire Devil Lord could indulge in those

feelings, his heart suddenly sank. His face became ugly. From the
distance, a meteor-like shadow was charging toward him.

“Old man, since you don’t care about our master/disciple

relationship, don’t blame me for killing you!” Six Desire Devil Lord
sneered. He still hadn’t moved as he stared at the shadow
approaching him.

In the blink of an eye, the shadow had arrived before Six Desire
Devil Lord, revealing Sky Devil Magician.

He stared at Six Desire Devil Lord with eyes that could hardly
contain his ecstasy, laughing. “Good! As expected of my disciple. You
dared to absorb the Ancient God’s desire. Yi Er, your master really
needs to thank you.”

Wang Lin was stunned. He was able to see everything that was going
on from inside the Heaven Revolting Space with the help of the
Heaven Revolting Bead. Sky Devil Magician’s appearance, shocked
him greatly. This person’s demon-like body looked very similar to
Hunchback Meng’s.

What surprised him even more was that this person seemed to be
Six Desire Devil Lord’s teacher.

Wang Lin didn’t know that the person responsible for the expedition
into the Land of the Ancient Gods was Sky Devil Magician, but after
analysing it, he had a rough notion what happened.

From what the man said, Wang Lin knew that Six Desire Devil Lord
consumed the Ancient God’s desire. Although he didn’t know what
the Ancient God’s desire was, he understood the implications from
what he had just witnessed.

Six Desire Devil Lord revealed a cold look. Without a word, his
hands quickly formed seals before his chest. He then whispered,
“Spirit of Desire, appear!”

The moment the words left his lips, pillars of different colored
smoke appeared behind Six Desire Devil Lord. Ferocious spirits
appeared from each pillar of smoke, snarling toward Sky Devil
Magician.

Sky Devil Magician’s eyes were filled with greed. He didn’t stop Six
Desire Devil Lord, but activated the same technique instead. Just as
Six Desire Devil Lord activated his technique, Sky Devil Magician
also whispered “Spirit of Desire, appear!”

Suddenly, behind Sky Devil Magician, appeared the same pillars of

smoke that formed six ferocious spirits that charged forward.
Six Desire Devil Lord revealed a devious smile. Although he learned
from Sky Devil Magician, he knew that Sky Devil Magician didn’t
teach him certain things about the Mysterious Sky Devil Cultivation.
Since a long time ago, he had been improving the Mysterious Sky
Devil Cultivation himself. He believed that his Mysterious Sky Devil
Cultivation was absolutely not inferior to the Sky Devil Magician’s.

While the two almost identical techniques hit each other, Sky Devil
Magician suddenly let out a strange smile. He suddenly opened both
his arms, and his body quickly started to float upwards.

His hair flowed in the air without wind. Waves of Ling Qi emitted
from his body.

Sky Devil Magician muttered, “Use the bone as the guide…” The
voice sounded a bit heart broken. The moment the words were said,
the golden bone in Six Desire Devil Lord’s hand started to shake
until it exploded into countless golden specks, dissipating in Six
Desire Devil Lord’s hand.

The golden specks flowed like a golden river toward Sky Devil
Magician. They reassembled into a golden arm bone before him.
This time, the hand mostly closed, with only its index finger pointing
at Six Devil Desire Lord.

Wang Lin stared at the scene before him. He felt it was strange that
Six Desire Devil Lord was able so easily successfully absorb the
Ancient God’s desire. It was as if there was something manipulating
the event. The moment Sky Devil Magician appeared, Wang Lin
suddenly realized that all of this was set up by Six Desire Devil
Lord’s teacher. If it was like this, then Sky Devil Magician must have
some grand goal in mind.

A thought flashed through Six Desire Devil Lord’s mind. Ignoring

the spirits fighting each other, he started backing up. A red light
appeared around him and he immediately escaped. At that moment,
he realized why the whirlpool he had created using the arm bone at
the third realm’s exit had collapsed.

The bone arm didn’t really belong to him, but still belonged to Sky
Devil Magician. Otherwise, it wouldn’t suddenly leave him to go
back to its original master with just one word.

The moment the arm bone left him, the connection he had
established with it for a thousand years was instantly severed. This
surprised him and lead him to think about many things.

Sky Devil Magician revealed a satisfied look. He didn’t even look at

Six Devil Magician and said, with a calm voice, “Use desire as a
sword…”

The six spirits fighting with the Sky Devil Magician’s six spirits
immediately let out a scream. They turned back to smoke and fused
together to form the shadow of a person.

Meanwhile, Six Desire Devil Lord, who was running away with the
red light around him, started to silently dissipate. When he
reappeared, he found, to his horror, that he was next to Sky Devil
Magician again.

He appeared exactly where the shadow that was formed by the six
spirits were. To be exact, the two fused into one.

Sky Devil Magician’s Voice started to sound like a demon’s. “Use

this person’s blood and essence as a sacrifice…” The moment those
words were said, Six Desire Devil Lord lost any ability to resist. Small
explosions injured every part of his body, causing him to bleed from
everywhere.

With a wave of Sky Devil Magician’s right hand, all the blood that
came from the wounds of Six Desire Devil Lord began to form a ball
of blood that floated in the air. During this entire process, his body
was controlled by an invisible force. He was not able to resist at all.
“Use this person’s cultivation to form the road…use the six desires
of the Ancient God Tu Si as the medium… open up the place where
the Ancient God’s soul rests…” Sky Devil Magician’s eyes revealed a
crazed expression. He had waited 4000 years for this.

In reality, when he entered the Land of the Ancient God a thousand

years ago, it wasn’t his first time, but his third. 4000 years ago,
when he entered the Land of the Ancient God for the first time,
using a magic treasure, he was able to get past the third realm and
enter the fourth realm. That was when he won the arm bone. He
realized that this place contained unimaginable fluctuations of
desires. Others would only feel discomfort in their hearts, but he
was very sensitive to this because he was already using various
desires as attacks.

Sky Devil Magician could be considered a peerless genius. When he

detected the strange desires, he didn’t immediately start to absorb
them, but instead used the arm bone to leave the Land of the
Ancient Gods.

After coming out, he worked hard on studying desires until he

created the Mysterious Sky Devil Cultivation Method. When he
came here the second time, he also made it to the fourth realm, but
realized that the Ancient God’s desires became even larger. He also
started to see those demonic cultivators.

He was shocked. He decided to flee, and after a bitter fight, he barely

escaped. It was at that time that he found out some secrets about the
Ancient God’s inheritance.

After escaping, the huge temptation was simply too great for him to
handle, thus, after contemplating hard, a very daring plan formed in
his mind. After preparing for a thousand years, the time had finally
come.

From the time he died, to when he handed the inheritance treasure

to Six Desire Devil Lord, everything had been carefully planned by
Sky Devil Magician.

At the third realm, even if Hunchback Meng didn’t call him, he

would have appeared when Six Desire Devil Lord was in danger. His
goal was to have him enter the fourth realm.

It could even be said that ever since the day he accepted Six Desire
Devil Lord as a disciple, everything had been for the sake of what
was happening today.

Six Desire Devil Lord’s body finally exploded into a mist of blood. As
for his Yuan Ying, Sky Devil Magician grabbed it and turned it into
boundless Ling Qi.

Sky Devil Magician’s eyes had an excited and crazed look. He put his
hands together and spit a mouthful of blood into the Ling Qi. He
said, in a fearsome voice, “Ancient God, lead the way…go, Ancient
God’s fear!”

Suddenly, the golden arm bone that was floating in the air exploded
with a bang. It created circles of golden ripples that condensed into a
golden circle in the air.

Meanwhile, a black dragon came out of the blood mist of Six Desire
Devil Lord. The black dragon had a very ferocious face. It turned
toward Six Desire Devil Lord’s Ling Qi and sucked up almost one-
sixth of it. As its body started to glow, it slammed its body on the
golden circle.

At that moment, it seemed as if the whole Land of the Ancient God

shook. If it wasn’t for the restriction Sky Devil Magician had set up
earlier, all the other demonic cultivators would have immediately
noticed.

There was a loud roar. The black dragon kept slamming into an
invisible barrier. Numerous cracks appeared where the black dragon
slammed. Once the black dragon finished slamming into the barrier,
its whole body dissipated into white smoke, and disappeared from
the Ancient God.

The Ancient God had forever lost the Fear Desire!

Wang Lin gawked at the scene before him from within the Heaven
Revolting Space. With his heart pounding, he revealed an excited
expression. That golden arm bone was really the Ancient God’s
bone. Even that bone that was missing half its ring finger that was
sitting in Wang Lin’s bag of holding.

But what made Wang Lin’s heart even more excited was where the
black dragon had slammed into. A thought crossed his mind as he
stared at that location.

“Go, Ancient God’s greed!”

In the blood mist, a red dragon appeared. It swallowed one-sixth of

Six Desire Devil Lord’s Ling Qi and mercilessly slammed into the
same location.

Afterward, joy, envy, and ignorance all appeared, each as a dragon,

and slammed into the golden ring. When the last dragon, formed by
ignorance, slammed into the same place, the area shattered,
revealing a tunnel.

Sky Devil Magician laughed wildly. His hand went into the tunnel
and grabbed out a light blue circular ice crystal. The ice crystal was
about ten feet wide, but the tunnel wasn’t even three feet wide.

Wang Lin stared at the tunnel. After hesitating for a while, he finally
gave up on the risky plan of going out.

Sky Devil Magician’s hands formed a seal and sent a ray of Ling Qi
toward the ice crystal. At that moment, his expression changed. He
could feel that someone had broken his restriction and was coming
very quickly toward him.
His face revealed an unwilling expression. It could be said that the
restriction he set up earlier was the strongest restriction he could
set up. He also stacked a lot of other restrictions on top of it. Even
for him to break the restrictions, it would take a very long time. Even
though the Ancient God’s body was large beyond comparison, it was
unlikely for people to pass by. He still put in a lot of work on the
restrictions just in case.

Only this time, he never would have expected for a soul devourer to
appear. Or that the owner of the Blood Sea had sent all the demonic
cultivators to the body of the Ancient God to chase after the soul
devourer.

As a result, there would be some inevitable changes to his plan, but

he couldn’t let this opportunity go to waste. He was also fairly
confident in his restrictions. That’s why he went ahead with the plan
anyway.
Chapter 189: The Ancient God’s
Inheritance (3)
Knowing that someone had easily broken though what he thought
was the perfect restriction startled Sky Devil Magician.

After thinking quickly, his face revealed a bold expression. His hand
reached toward the tunnel and pulled out one-third of the ice crystal.
His left hand slapped the tunnel, causing it to immediately
disappear, leaving no trace behind.

Sky Devil Magician felt like his heart was bleeding. If he only had a
few more hours, he could have shrunken that ice crystal enough for
it to fit through the tunnel, but now he could only get one-third of it
out.

Once the ice crystal split, a lot of what was contained inside would
be lost. Also, there was only one chance to retrieve the ice crystal. It
couldn’t be retrieved piece by piece.

After he took the ice crystal, without a wasting a moment, he moved

it toward his face in order to press it against his forehead. However,
before it could reach its mark, a cold voice stopped him and said, “If
you dare move, I’ll devour you and increase my own knowledge!”

Sky Devil Magician’s right arm shook. He was too familiar with that
voice. It was no wonder the restriction was so easily broken. This
person was one of the ten generals of the owner of the Blood Sea. In
terms of cultivation, he was already something that people in the
Suzaku Star System couldn’t comprehend.

It was accurate to say that this person was an ancient cultivator, and
was only alive today due to some special circumstances.

“This subordinate, great Lord Duo Mu…”

Sky Devil Magician forced a smile. He didn’t dare to move his right
hand. Even if he could start to absorb the ice crystal, it would take
time for him to fully absorb it, and if the person in front of him
wanted to kill him, it would only take a second.

A few seconds later, a purple haired man wearing red clothes slowly
floated in from the direction the first person had come from. His
height was like a normal person’s. He didn’t turn into a demon like
Hunchback Meng and Sky Devil Magician had, but kept his normal
appearance.

He looked very ordinary, but was surrounded by a very special

atmosphere. When people looked at him, they would become
nervous.

The first thing the middle aged man looked at wasn’t the Sky Devil
Magician, but at an empty space. He had some suspicion in his heart.
He felt fluctuations of Ling Qi in that location.

But this was outside the Ancient God’s Qi Sea, so it was not
unnatural to have fluctuations of Ling Qi. After he gave it one more
look, he scanned the area again before finally locking his gaze on
Sky Devil Magician.

Wang Lin’s heart was gripped with horror. He felt like the person
saw into the Heaven Revolting Bead and into his heart. It was the
first time that he had felt that sensation.

The person could detect the Heaven Revolting bead. This really
surprised him. He took a deep breath and blinked a few times.

Under the gaze of the person, Sky Devil Magician felt like they could
see right through him, but since he had been able to live in the
Blood Sea until now, he had his ways of dealing with things. The
moment the person appeared, a strange Ling Qi started to quietly
rotate within his body. Soon, the feeling of being seen through
started to slowly disappear.
The middle aged man’s gaze scanned Sky Devil Magician until it
landed on the ice crystal in his right hand. He reached out his hand
and the ice crystal flew out of Sky Devil Magician’s hand, landing in
his.

Although Sky Devil Magician’s heart felt like it was bleeding, no

discontent was shown on the surface. Even his inner heart was
completely concealed by the strange Ling Qi.

“What is this?” The middle aged man’s voice was plain, but
contained an indescribable dignity. He gave the ice crystal one look,
but wasn’t able to see what was so special about it.

Sky Devil Magician quickly said, respectfully, “Lord Dou Mu, this ice
crystal is made from the cultivation of my disciple, Six Desire Devil
Lord. The reason I accepted him as a disciple was to use his
cultivation to help raise my own. If the lord likes it, then consider it
a gift from your subordinate.”

The middle aged man gave Sky Devil Magician a look, then picked up
the ice crystal with his two fingers and flatly said, “Really?” As he
was talking, he used a bit of strength. That caused the ice crystal to
shatter into pieces and dissipate into the surroundings.

Sky Devil Magician was completely stunned for a while. He stared as

the ice crystal shards disappeared, unable to say a word.

The middle aged man sneered, “This thing is so fragile, and you
consider it a treasure!?”

Sky Devil Magician laughed bitterly as he shook his head. His whole
body seemed like it had suddenly gotten older. He was unable to say
a word.

The middle aged man said, “Come with me to search for the Soul
Devourer!” Then the middle aged man reach out and grabbed with
his hand. Sky Devil Magician felt a strong force from all sides
holding him as the middle aged man quickly flew away, dragging
him along.

After the ice crystal broke, tiny crystal shards started to disappear
into the surroundings. Wang Lin stared at the disappearing crystal
shards. Many times he wanted to grab them in order to study them,
but he held himself back.

After the time it took for one incense stick to burn, the middle aged
man suddenly appeared again. He frowned as he scanned the area
once again, before disappearing into the distance.

Earlier, when he scanned the ice crystal, he only detected some Ling
Qi. The reason he crushed it was because he suspected that there
was more around that spot.

The Soul Devourer could have been there. The fluctuation he felt
here was very strange.

After the time for another incense stick to burn passed, Wang Lin let
out a sigh. Although he didn’t know what the ice crystal was,
considering how much effort Sky Devil Magician spent to get it, it
couldn’t be as average as the middle aged man said.

Unfortunately, the ice crystal had already been destroyed by the

middle aged man. Wang Lin really wanted to see what it was made
of.

He sighed. He wasn’t in a rush to leave the Heaven Revolting Space

because that middle aged man was simply too strong. Maybe he had
left some traps around that area.

But at that moment, the location where the ice crystal shattered
suddenly started to shine. It was some of the remaining crystal
shards. The crystal shards became more and more numerous, before
finally condensing back into the ice crystal.
Shortly after, a golden circle appeared in the sky. There seemed to be
a layer of thin film inside it. There were spider web-like cracks
growing on the film as a suction force grew stronger and stronger,
pulling the ice crystal toward it.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s mind. He gritted teeth.

Without hesitation, he left the Heaven Revolting Space. An
illusionary figure appeared, and as it became more real, it reached
out its hand and grabbed the ice crystal.

At this point, the illusionary figure became real. It was Wang Lin!

After he grabbed the ice crystal, he didn’t stop, but quickly flew away.
On the way, he didn’t try to save any energy, but used almost all of
his Ling Qi to fly as fast as possible.

After flying for a hour, he finally slowed down a bit. He looked back
behind him before finally looking at the ice crystal in his hand. His
face revealed a hesitant expression. He didn’t know what this was.
When he was flying, he tried to put it into his bag of holding, but this
thing was really strange. It wouldn’t fit inside his bag of holding.

Wang Lin’s face revealed a bold expression. Sky Devil Magician put
such great importance to this ice crystal, it must not be normal. He
suddenly remembered Sky Devil Magician’s movement and pressed
the ice crystal on his forehead.

As soon as the ice crystal touched Wang Lin’s forehead, with a little
force, it went inside of Wang Lin. Wang Lin didn’t feel any different.
His Ling Qi didn’t increase, and his soul was still the same.

Wang Lin had doubts in his heart. It seemed like the ice crystal had
just disappeared. He scanned his body, but couldn’t even find a trace
of it.

He frowned. Did Sky Devil Magician really spend all that effort, and
even killed his disciple, to get this? Was the middle aged man
correct when he said that this was trash?

Wang Lin furrowed his eyebrows. As his body was about to move
forward to get to the Sea of Knowledge, his head started to hurt.

The pain was very light. It disappeared as quickly as it appeared. But

moments after it disappeared, a stronger pain appeared. This cycle
repeated itself rapidly. What was just a slight pain had turned into
severe pain.

All of this happened too quickly. Wang Lin only moved a few feet
before he let out a blood curling scream as his body trembled. The
pain emerged quickly, each time more severe than the last. He
immediately touched his brow to try to enter the Heaven Revolting
Space to meditate, but he found that there was suddenly a strange
Ling Qi from his brain that was blocking him from entering the
Heaven Revolting Space.

Wang Lin’s face looked weak. He quickly sat down cross-legged and
started to meditate. He quickly found that his own Sea of Knowledge
was surrounded by a blue light. The pain was coming from there.
This pain, no matter how strong Wang Lin’s mind was, he couldn’t
block it, only endure it.

After a few moments, a blue circle slowly flew out of Wang Lin’s
head. From the blue circle appeared countless tentacles. The
tentacles just hung there. As time passed, more and more tentacles
appeared, and they became longer and longer.

Eventually, all the tentacles started to move. They started to spin

rapidly around Wang Lin. As more and more tentacles started to
spin around him, a giant oval shaped cocoon-like object appeared in
the sky.

Meanwhile, a blue light came from the cocoon-like object. As the

blue light appeared, it caused massive amounts of ripples to spread
in the space nearby. As the ripples increased, a suction force
appeared and pulled the giant cocoon into it.

In the blink of an eye, the cocoon disappeared into the sky.

Everything was calm again, as if nothing had happened.

Not long after, a demonic cultivator appeared at that location. His

face looked very old, and it felt like he was full of hostility. After he
appeared, he scanned the area, then casually grabbed at the air,
making countless cracks appear where he had grabbed.

The demonic cultivator didn’t stop. He kept grabbing with this right
hand to check the cracks in space one by one. After not finding
anything, he finally turned and disappeared from there.
Chapter 190: The Ancient God’s
Inheritance (4)
In the Ancient God’s body, there were demonic cultivators searching
almost every inch of it. The Ancient God’s body was very large, but
to the cultivators, although it was a bit of a pain to search through,
they all knew the place every well.

They didn’t even fear the Qi waves. Some of them even charged into
the Qi waves to search.

Even after all that searching, they still found nothing. However, none
of the demonic cultivators stopped, because whether or not they find
the Soul Devourer directly affected their future.

While Wang Lin was surrounded by the tentacles, he entered a

strange state. All around him was darkness filled with countless
stars.

He couldn’t feel his body, but it didn’t feel the same as when his Soul
leaves his body. He could clearly feel himself quickly moving
forward.

The shiny stars became larger and larger, until they became huge
sphere. Shortly after, he saw a giant. The giant sat cross-legged on a
large sphere with his hands together, forming a seal. He moved his
right hand and one of the spheres in the distance exploded,
releasing a terrifying blast.

The giant didn’t care at all. A stream of golden liquid flew from the
exploded sphere to the giant’s right hand. Shortly after, the giant
rubbed his chest and a colorful light came out. After the light
disappeared, a normal sized baby appeared in the giant’s hand.
He gave the baby a cold look. His right hand pinched the golden
liquid and dripped it onto the baby, then he stood up and threw the
baby toward a sphere.

Suddenly, the golden liquid surrounded the baby. It moved like a

golden meteor and quickly slammed into the sphere. The speed was
very fast and the impact was great. It wasn’t until it was close to the
center of the sphere that it slowed down.

Shortly after, the giant didn’t even give the baby other look and
disappeared.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s head as he watched the scene

before him. A trace of shock flashed through his eyes. This person
must be an Ancient God! Wang Lin now finally understood the
Ancient God’s power. There spheres were obviously what Si Tu Nan
had mentioned before. The world they lived in was a spherical object
called a planet.

Looking at it now, every single star here was really a planet. They
looked very small because they were a great distance away, but in
reality they were large beyond comparison.

With a wave of his hand, the Ancient God could destroy a planet.
What kind of power was this? What kind of magic technique?

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s head. He understood why

Ancient Gods had almost all disappeared. How much Ling Qi would
a body that large require? If they continued to grow stronger, how
many planets would be destroyed?

Wang Lin was silent for a while. He looked at the planet the baby
was in. With that thought, he suddenly felt like he was on the planet.

There were many cultivators on this planet. Besides the few top
cultivators, who noticed the disturbance caused by the baby’s arrival,
no one else noticed. Even for those top cultivators, they still couldn’t
find anything.

From the clothes they wore, it was clear that they were very different
from the world Wang Lin was from.

Wang Lin quickly sunk into the ground and arrived at where the
baby was. The baby was wrapped in the golden liquid and was quietly
sleeping in the planet’s core.

After an unknown amount of time, there were more and more

cultivators on the surface, It became very busy

But suddenly, one day, after countless years of slumber, the baby
opened up his eyes. The golden liquid around him rapidly shrunk.
The golden liquid was absorbed by the baby as it started to grow
older.

What happened next was a calamity. Wang Lin watched as the baby
grew into a child. With one movement from the child, all the plants
on the planet died and turned into green liquid that flew into the
core of the planet to be absorbed by the child.

The process lasted a long time…

No matter how the cultivators searched, they couldn’t find anything.

It was as if they were being blinded by something. They just couldn’t
figure out where all the plant essence disappeared to.

Shortly after, it was the Ling Qi.All the Ling Qi on the planet quickly
disappeared in a short period of time, until there was no more Ling
Qi left on the planet. The cultivators on the planet could do nothing
but migrate.

All the Ling Qi was absorbed by the youth. His body grew a lot
bigger.
Later on, more and more natural disasters appeared on the surface.
Mountains collapsed, and even some of the cultivators that didn’t
migrate soon enough started to die unexpectedly. The cause of death
was unknown. Most of the time, the person would suddenly lose all
their cultivation along with their life.

Many years later, the entire planet became a dead planet. Then, the
youth suddenly moved and the entire planet exploded.

In the middle of the exploded planet, the youth walked out. He was
thousands of feet tall and his eyes were cold, without any emotion.

The child has his eyes closed. He seemed to be searching for

something with his divine sense. After a long time, he muttered to
himself “My name is Tu Si!”

Suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared at the void where Wang Lin
was and coldly said, “I’m the Ancient God’s successor. You should
inherit some of my memories, stay alert!”

Wang Lin was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, he opened his eyes.
He was no longer in the void, but inside a transparent filament.

“Inheritance…” A thought flashed through his mind. Everything he

saw earlier must be related to the ice crystal.

In that moment, there were three golden words in his brain. He

scanned them with his divine sense and immediately recognized
them.

“Ancient God Tactic”

Wang Lin closed his eyes. After a long time, he opened his them and
revealed a strange smile. Wang Lin understood that what the Sky
Devil Magician spend so much effort to get was the Ancient God’s
inheritance.
According to the information he obtained from a part of the
memory, Wang Lin knew that every time an Ancient God died, an
inheritance would form, and whoever obtains the inheritance would
become an Ancient God.

The Ancient God’s inheritance was split into two parts. One part
was power and the other part was knowledge.

Only when someone had both parts could they immediately become
an Ancient God and obtain everything an Ancient God had. But not
all Ancient Gods’ bodies would create an inheritance. Only after the
Ancient God reached a certain level and his body remained
undamaged for 100,000 years was there a chance for an inheritance
to form.

Overall, the chance was not great. In fact, it could be said that the
chances were very small. To this day, the amount of Ancient Gods
that were capable of producing an inheritance were few.

There was a very important reason for this. Aside from all the other
requirements of forming an inheritance, the Ancient God must
willingly give up his life. An Ancient God’s life was very long. If they
accidently died, there was no chance of creating an inheritance.

Only those in their prime who used their lives as the price could
produce an inheritance.

As for the Ancient God’s family, they were extremely cruel when it
came to raising their young. They often just tossed them into a
planet. Once attached to a planet, they would act like a parasite and
absorb the planet for nutrition. When the baby reached a certain
stage of maturity, the planet died.

Of course, there were chances of failure with this method as well,

but the Ancient Gods were a merciless race. They didn’t care about
the life and death of the babies. This was also another reason why
the Ancient Gods were so scarce.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. A thought flashed through his mind.
According to the memory, he knew that there were no magical
treasures or any residue of immortal drugs. They were made up by
people with ulterior motives.

He also used the memories he had just obtained, as well as his

connection with the Ancient God’s body and found out that the
inheritance was already obtained by someone tens of thousands of
years ago.

The most important thing for Wang Lin was finding a way to leave
the Ancient God’s body. The memories contained the answer, but
the answer made Wang Lin feel helpless.

For for an ordinary person to leave this place was very hard, but for a
successor it was very simple. All they have to do was be in the
Ancient God’s body and wish to leave.

If Wang Lin entered the Sea of Knowledge the normal way and
obtained the inherited memory, then all would be fine. But he
obtained part of the memory though an alternate method. As a
result, he had to go to the Sea of Knowledge.

However, before, Wang Lin didn’t know how difficult it was to enter
the Sea of Knowledge. But now that he had received part of the
inheritance memory, it could be said that within the Land of the
Ancient God, no one could compete with his knowledge of the Sea of
Knowledge.

To enter the Sea of Knowledge one must have obtained the

inheritance of the Ancient God’s power, then use it to use the
remaining Ling Qi in the Ancient God’s body to open up the Sea of
Knowledge.

However, there was a little change in all of this and that was in the
part of the memory Wang Lin obtained. There was a small mention
of the reason why the Ancient God Tu Si gave up his life to create an
inheritance.

The Ancient God’s race had passed on a mysteriou magical

technique for a long time. Its name was Flowing Ink Transformation
Divine Technique.

Once the technique had been successfully mastered, the Ancient

God would split his divine consciousness into ten. Then ten into
tens of thousands and tens of thousands into millions. Each of the
divine consciousnesses would have cultivation not inferior to the
original body. The creator of this technique was unknown. It was
just that in countless years, no one has succeeded in cultivating this
technique.

TuSi could be considered a genius in cultivation. After failing to

produce any results while cultivating this divine technique, he came
up with a crazy idea. It was to do reverse cultivation. He gave up his
long life, and at the moment of his death, during the moment his
soul started to dissipate, forcibly used the divine technique to keep
the pieces of his soul from disappearing. This was to keep
cultivating until he achieved results similar to the Flowing Ink
Transformation Divine Technique.

Unfortunately, if Tu Si had more time, he would have really

succeeded. However, there was one change, and that was a red
haired man who charged into the Ancient God’s body.

That person’s cultivation was amazing. He forcibly took the

inheritance of power and waged a war with the Ancient God Tu Si’s
remaining soul. Finally, because Tu Si was already dead, his
remaining soul was destroyed.

The Sea of Knowledge split into two. One part became the Blood Sea
to trap the red haired man, causing him to be unable to leave. The
other part became the Dead Soul Sea to prevent anyone from
entering. It was there that the complete inheritance of knowledge
was hidden.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s mind. He carefully scanned

the inherited memory. The more information he had, the better he
grasped the situation.

Comparing all the information, Wang Lin felt that his biggest gain
after entering the Land of the Ancient God were the three words
“Ancient God Tactic” in his brain. In addition of holding part of the
Ancient God Tu Si’s memory, it also contained an incomplete Law of
Supernatural Powers. This Ancient God Tactic was something that
was in the Ancient God’s head since youth, and was a technique that
they practiced all their life to control Supernatural Powers.

The essence of these Supernatural Power was one word, plunder!

Plunder everything!

The memory Wang Lin had obtained contained only the chants for
the first two levels. However, after he examined them, he couldn’t
help but be surprised in his heart. His heart was pounding. If he
followed this cultivation technique, then forming his Yuan Ying was
no longer a dream.

After pondering a while, Wang Lin thought of something. He

reached his hand out to the membrane surrounding him. His own
body shined a colorful light. He muttered a few very complicated
chants, then his whole body disappeared and reappeared where he
disappeared from earlier.

The moment his body appeared, he immediately saw a Qi Wave in

the distance. The boundless and endless Qi Wave roared toward
him. Wang Lin’s body was motionless. He closed his eyes and
performed a few techniques with his hand. When the Qi Wave
arrived, he pushed his hand forward. His body integrated into the Qi
Wave and was carried by it into the distance.
If it was before, Wang Lin wouldn’t be able to do this, but now that
he had inherited part of the Ancient God’s memory, it could be said
that he was more familiar with the inside of the Ancient God’s body
than anyone else.

It can even be said that if he wished to hide, then no one would be

able to find him, besides the red haired man who was trapped in the
Blood Sea and inherited the Ancient God’s power. Using his
amazing cultivation, he would be able to find him.

A thought flashed through his mind while he rode the Qi Wave.

After the Qi Wave arrived at a certain point, he rushed out of the Qi
Wave. Then, borrowing the force of the Qi Wave, he arrived at the
end of the sky. He grabbed the space with this right hand and
opened up a rift. With a flash, his body entered the rift.

When he reappeared, he had already left the Qi Sea. He flew toward

the Zifu Sea of Knowledge at the Ancestral Point. Wang Lin decided
to personally observe the Sea of Dead Soul from the outside. If it
ultimately was what the memory stated it was, then he was ready to
implement a very bold plan.

After leaving the Qi Sea, before his eyes was a glittering world. If it
was in the past, Wang Lin would think this place was endless,
without beginning or end, but now, he had inherited the memory.
This place was no longer mysterious or large beyond comparison.

During the flight, Wang Lin’s mood was calm. Often, his hand would
grab at the air, creating a rift. After entering the rift, he would
appear thousands of feet from where he previously was.

This was a special method to move within the Ancient God’s body
after inheriting the Ancient God’s memory. If he inherited the entire
memory, then all he had to do was will it in his heart and he could
arrive at any point in the Ancient God’s body.
Wang Lin just exited a rift. His expression suddenly changed and he
sneered. Suddenly, before him, the space distorted. It was followed
by the appearance of a demonic cultivator. He stared at Wang Lin in
surprise, then he licked his lips and laughed. “Little guy, this old man
has finally found you!”

As he was talking, his right hand grabbed toward Wang Lin. Wang
Lin’s expression was calm, and without panicking, he took a step
back and recited a complicated chant.

Immediately, the surroundings seemed to elongate indefinitely. To

be more precise, the distance between the demonic cultivator and
Wang Lin was instantly elongated. In the blink of an eye, the
distance between the two went from a few dozen feet to tens of
thousands of feet.

The right hand of the demonic cultivator grabbed empty air. He was
stunned. His face suddenly darkened as he let out a cry. He threw his
right hand forward as his whole body suddenly charged forward tens
of thousands of feet toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin revealed a cold smile. He waved his hand in front of him
and disappeared into a rift.

The demonic cultivator was stunned again. He blinked his eyes, and
without a word, began to scan the area with this divine sense. His
divine sense quickly connected with his companions and spread the
news that he had found Wang Lin. In a few short breaths, with all of
them passing on the message, almost all the demonic cultivators in
the Land of the Ancient God charged toward this location.

Meanwhile, the few dozen demonic cultivators that were already

here spread their divine sense to look for Wang Lin. They quickly
found Wang Lin and flew at an incredible speed toward him.

Inheriting part of the Ancient God’s memory didn’t raise Wang Lin’s
cultivation at all, but within the Ancient God’s body, he could go
anywhere he wanted. No one else knew this place better than him.

Even the red haired man who inherited the Ancient God’s power
couldn’t compete with him at this. Needless to say, the type of
inheritances the two of them inherited were very different.

When the demonic cultivators found Wang Lin, they began to charge
full speed at him. However, even with their divine sense locked onto
Wang Lin, they were struck by the sudden discovery that they had
lost all trace of him. It seem as if he knew the place better than they
did.

As more and more demonic cultivators arrived at the location

between the Qi Sea and Ancestral Point, their combined divine sense
was enormous and can easily find Wang Lin, but the moment their
divine sense locked onto Wang Lin, he would just strangely
disappear. After this happened a few times no matter how much
they looked, they couldn’t find a trace of Wang Lin.

Wang Lin sneered. He waved his right hand and entered the rift.
After exiting, he arrived at Ancestral Point which was outside the
Zifu Sea of Knowledge.
Chapter 191: Dead Soul Sea
The Zifu Sea of Knowledge before Wang Lin was like a large ball. It
was clearly divided in half; one blood red and the other pitch black.

The blood red half had to be the Blood Sea and the pitch black part
must be the Dead Soul Sea

While looking at the strange ball in front of him, Wang Lin

remembered something. Back then, the fight between the red haired
man and the remains of the Ancient God’s soul was earth
shattering. They fought to kill each other with the Ancient God’s
body as the battleground. In the end, the Ancient God Tu Si lost
because he had already died and only had some of his soul
remaining, but he split his Sea of Knowledge into two. One was the
Dead Soul Sea to prevent anyone from getting the inheritance of
knowledge and the other half was the Blood Sea, made to trap the
red haired man.

Witnessing the scene before him, he really admired the likes of Six
Desire Devil Lord’s master, Sky Devil Magician. That person was a
genius to think of using the desire of the Ancient God, with the
Ancient God’s bone as a guide, to temporarily open a passage into
the Dead Soul Sea to get to the knowledge inheritance.

If not for the appearance of the middle aged man, Sky Devil
Magician would have successfully obtained the knowledge
inheritance.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s mind. He moved his body

forward and charged toward the Dead Soul Sea.

The moment his body was near the black area, a black mist suddenly
came out and surrounded him, preventing him from moving
forward.
Wang Lin tried moving to move in other directions, but no matter
which way he went, the black fog would appear to block his path. No
matter how hard he charged forward, he was unable to get past the
black fog.

Wang Lin pondered for awhile. He slammed his bag of holding and
drank a few big gulps of Liquid Ling Qi, then he sat cross legged and
started to cultivate. His eyes revealed a cold look as his hand formed
different techniques in front of him. Soon, countless illusionary
circles appeared around him.

His eyes grew brighter and brighter, and his hands moved faster and
faster. The restriction illusionary circles started to increase. After a
long time, his hand suddenly stopped and pressed forward.

The illusionary circles formed countless rings and quickly spread in

all directions. Soon after, Wang Lin stood up. He placed his right
hand on his chest and his left hand on his right shoulder. Both
hands seemed to be performing strange seals while both his legs
moved him forward slowly.

Suddenly, a black snake appeared from where he had stepped. It

quickly climbed up his body until it split into two at his chest. The
black snake followed along his arms and arrived at each of the
strange seals that both of his hands had formed.

In an instant, a skull sized ball with many tentacles attached to it

appeared in front of Wang Lin.

Wang Lin roared lowly, “Ancient God, break!” His eyes became cold
and threw both of his hands to his sides. The black sphere charged
forward like lightning, quickly catching up to the illusionary circles
as it charged at the black fog.

This Ancient God Break was the only technique that Wang Lin could
use after reading the Ancient God Tactic. The power of this
technique wasn’t for attack, but to use a large amount of Ling Qi to
break all restrictions.

The Liquid Ling Qi Wang Lin drank earlier was turned into that
black sphere by the Ancient God Break technique.

At the same time, Wang Lin charged forward like a meteor.

The first thing that touched the black fog was Wang Lin’s illusionary
circles. The moment they touched it, it was like hot iron touching
snow. The fog quickly melted away.

But the moment the fog dissipated, more fog came to replace it.
From the looks of it, instead of the fog decreasing, it seemed to be
increasing, forming even thicker layers of fog.

After the illusionary circle was the black sphere that was created by
the Ancient God Break technique. On this sphere were countless
flaming tentacles, and the moment they touched the fog, the fog
would shatter. The moment it shattered, four waves of pressure
would explode outward in all directions.

As a result, in this dense fog, a deep gap was opened. Looking at the
gap from outside, it seemed to be endless. Wang Lin used that
opportunity and quickly flew into the gap.

After the four waves pushed outward, they would quickly get
overwhelmed by black fog. Gradually, as the waves couldn’t handle
the pressure anymore, they started to shrink, and as a result, the gap
got smaller. Soon, the gap closed due to the waves collapsing.

Wang Lin’s speed was very fast. He quickly charged toward the
shrinking gap. Although he saw the gap visibly shrinking, he knew
that now was not the time to be backing down. Even if there was
only a small possibility, Wang Lin didn’t want to give up his plan.
Seeing that the waves around him had shrunk and that the end still
wasn’t in sight, a thought flashed through his mind. He drank
another gulp of liquid Ling Qi. Both of his hands formed a seal and
he muttered some chants. After releasing his hand, another black
sphere appeared.

He took the sphere and threw it to the side. The sphere broke and
the surrounding waves seemed to gain a second life and started to
push outward again. Time was of the essence. The burden on his
body was great every time he used the Ancient God Break technique.
If it was only three times, the harm on his body wasn’t great, but
more than three would cause him great harm before he mastered
the Ancient God Tactics.

The Ancient God Break technique was based on the Ancient God
Tactics, but right now Wang Lin was just using Ling Qi to get by.

He continued to move forward. As the wave couldn’t stand the

pressure of the fog anymore again and started to shrink, Wang Lin
finally reached the end of the fog.

After a quick glance behind him, Wang Lin let out a bitter laugh,
then turned around to leave. At the bottom of the fog was a
continuous layer of purple lightning. If he carelessly entered, he was
bound to die.

Also, below the layer of purple lightning he saw a black sea. Within
the black sea’s roaring water were creatures that look like dragons,
but weren’t dragons, that stared at Wang Lin through the layers of
purple lightning.

This was not a place that Wang Lin could enter by force. It seemed
that before he even entered the Dead Soul Sea, he would die. Wang
Lin had a very decisive personality. The moment he saw something
was wrong, he backed off.
The waves started to collapse. The moment before the gap was
about to be sealed, he charged out. He stared back at the black fog.
His face was gloomy and uncertain.

If he couldn’t enter the Dead Soul Sea, then he wouldn’t be able to

leave the Ancient God’s body. But with his current strength, entering
the Dead Soul Sea was impossible. Even the likes of Six Devil
Magician wouldn’t be able to enter the Dead Soul Sea.

The only person that could enter was the person who inherited the
Ancient God’s power.

Wang Lin pondered as he stared at the other half of the huge sphere,
the Blood Sea.

This was the place the red haired man was trapped in. If he could
break free, then entering the Dead Soul Sea was easy. It could be said
that this man’s chances of breaking into the Dead Soul Sea were
much higher than Wang Lin’s.

After all, within the Dead Soul Sea contained the inheritance of
knowledge. If the red haired man obtained it, then he would have
obtained both inheritances and would immediately become an
Ancient god.

Wang Lin stared at the Blood Sea, his mouth gradually revealing a
small smile. He thought about the events that had occurred earlier.
It because Wang Lin was a soul Devourer that all those demonic
cultivators were crazily searching for him.

Then for what reason were they searching for him? He thought back
to what happened before, when he met the large wandering soul
that was about to become a soul devourer. The appearance of such a
large wandering soul was not normal.

As a Soul Devourer, Wang Lin knew that, in the Decaying World, the
soul devourers had very clear boundaries between territories. If a
wandering soul was about to evolve into a soul devourer, a soul
devourer would stop the evolution by devouring that wandering soul.

Unless there was no soul devourer nearby, would a wandering soul

be able to evolve successfully? Because there was already a soul
devourer in the third realm, such a large wandering soul should not
exist. It was very likely that under some special circumstances with
the help of external forces, this was possible.

Especially considering that the soul devourer seem to be in a strange

state, as if it was sleeping, not aware of its surroundings. Wang Lin
knew the answer.

The sleeping state of the soul devourer was caused by someone. The
purpose was to allow other wandering souls to evolve into soul
devourers. It revealed that the other party had some grand scheme.

This plan required two soul devourers to complete.

This was the only reason to explain why the moment they realized
Wang Lin was a soul devourer, all those demonic cultivators started
to search for him as if they were crazy. According to Wang Lin’s
observation, for that wandering soul to become a soul devourer
would still require a long time.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s Mind. The last question he

had was who was all these demonic cultivators working for?

Hunchback Meng was able to come back from the dead. There must
be some shocking secret behind it all. Also, the capture of Duanmu
and Wang QingYue. The more Wang Lin analyzed the situation, the
more he started to grasp the grand picture. He felt like he had
almost seen through the mysteries.

Wang Lin stared at the Blood Sea. His expression was calm.
Someone within the Ancient God’s body who has the power to
control all these demonic cultivators must be the person who
inherited the Ancient God’s power. It must be the red haired man
trapped in the Blood Sea.

If it really was that person, then the reason why they wanted two
soul devourer was clear. Besides leaving the Blood Sea, Wang Lin
couldn’t think of any other reason.

Wang Lin pondered a little. A cold look flashed through his eyes. He
looked at the Blood Sea again as he held his finger to his brow. His
body started to turn transparent as he entered the Heaven Revolting
Space.

In the Heaven Revolting Space, Wang Lin looked at Situ Nan and his
parents, then sat down where there were few floating lights. Since
he had entered the Jie Dan stage, he was no longer restricted from
bring items with Ling Qi into the Heaven Revolting space. This was
a very clear change in the bead.

Wang Lin decided that unless it was his last resort, he wasn’t going
to look for the red haired man to open up the Dead Soul Sea. Now
that he had the Ancient God Tactic and have many treasures to help
increase his cultivation, he decided to go into closed door training to
attempt to reach Yuan Ying stage.

He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and focused his divine sense
on the three big words left in his brain. Gradually, complex
techniques appeared one by one in his heart.

The first layer of the Ancient God Tactic contained three parts:
stealing Ling Qi, swallowing Ling Qi, and melting Ling Qi.

The moment each Ancient God was born, their body would
automatically use the first technique. But as the Ancient God grew
up to a child, the first layer would cultivate to the melting Ling Qi
stage. If the Ancient God broke into the second layer, he could
absorb the planet’s energy. If this was not achieved, then the baby
would keep sleeping. Once a certain amount of time passed, the
golden liquid surrounding the baby would disappear. After losing the
protection that prevented people from detecting him, the only road
left was to be found and devoured by others.

After studying the first technique for a very long time, Wang Lin let
out a breath and opened both his eyes, revealing a contemplative
look. After studying this technique, Wang Lin understood one of the
reasons why the Ancient God’s body was so large.

Ancient Gods focused on training their bodies and rarely used

weapons. It could even be said that their bodies were the best
treasures. Their bodies’ hardness could compare to the best
treasures in the world.

The focus of the Ancient God’s Tactic was to use all of the Ling Qi
that one steals to reinforce the body. Once the limit of the body is
reached, one must expand the body, or else their cultivation would
stop. The larger the body becomes, the more Ling Qi the body
requires. After reaching a certain size, the Ancient God would
experience body reconstruction. This was process to increase the
quality of the body.

To an Ancient God, the more times their bodies experience

reconstruction, the stronger their cultivation and bodies become.

Also, with every reconstruction, their souls would also become

larger. Among the Ancient Gods, there were no cultivation levels
like in the world of cultivators. The Ancient Gods’ cultivation was
mainly just their soul and their body.

The body was the weapon and the soul was the hand that controlled
the weapon, combining into the almost invincible Ancient God
Family.

In ancient times, the Ancient Gods were glorious, but in the end,
were still buried in history. As of today, they have disappeared
without a trace besides a few mentions in some ancient texts.
Wang Lin realized that, by using the Ancient God Tactic, he could
use the Ling Qi that he’s stolen to raise his cultivation. This would
allow him to increase his cultivation quickly.

He took out his bag of holding. After searching for a while, he took
out an object.

It was a dantian. It was obtained when he went on a killing spree.

This dantian contained all the cultivation of a middle tier
cultivators.

Without a word, Wang Lin threw the dantian into his mouth. The
moment the dantian entered his mouth, it released tons of Ling Qi
into his body.

Wang Lin immediately used the Ling Qi Stealing technique of the

first layer of the Ancient God Tactic, then he put his hands together
and sat down to cultivate. All the Ling Qi was quickly absorbed by
the Ling Qi Stealing technique, but the moment it was about to be
fused into this body, Wang Lin stopped it and moved all the Ling Qi
into the Jie Dan in his body.

Waves of Ling Qi surged in his Jie Dan, forming patterns.

A hurricane passed through his body. The Ling Qi that took it two
hours to gather disappeared in an instant.

If Wang Lin didn’t have the Ling Qi Stealing technique, he would

need to spend anywhere from several months to several years of
time to digest the dantian, and he would only be able to absorb 70 to
80 percent of it while the remaining would be lost.

Although time moved faster in the Heaven Revolting Space, it would

still waste a lot of time. However, in what was only an instant in the
real world, he was able to completely absorb the dantian.
His Jie Dan spun in a pattern, sending out waves of Ling Qi to his
body. Wang Lin’s eyes glistened. A single dantian allowed him to
reach the peak of Jie Dan middle stage, one step away from Jie Dan
late stage.

Wang Lin’s right hand moved toward his bag of holding and took
out bottles of immortal pills made by Li MuWan. He started to put
them into his mouth, one by one. Time flew by really quickly. The
moment a pill was consumed, the Ling Qi Stealing Technique would
completely absorb it. Right before the Ling Qi entered this body,
Wang Lin would redirect it toward his Jie Dan.

As a result, his cultivation quickly increased as he broke through Jie

Dan middle stage into Jie Dan late stage.

Next, Wang Lin took out the most valuable object in his bag of
holding; the spinal liquid that he obtained from the dragon in the
tunnel.

The spinal liquid from the dragon was only enough to fill a small
bottle. One could see how precious it was. This was the most
precious drug Wang Lin had obtained so far. After hesitating, he
opened up the bottle.

After drinking a gulp, his body released a burning heat. The Ling Qi
Stealing technique activated and quickly circulated the Ling Qi. Time
slowly passed. Wang Lin could clearly feel his Jie Dan become larger,
its color more bright, and its spinning even faster.

After the gulp of spinal liquid was absorbed, Wang in took another.

One day, two days, three days… until a month later, Wang Lin had
been closed-eye cultivating the entire time. The Ling Qi Stealing
Technique was constantly active in his body.

There were only ten drops of the spinal liquid left. The Jie Dan in his
body was about the size of two fists.Its color was golden, with faint
glow of red. Every time it spun, the meridians in his body would
ache, but he still hadn’t broken into YuanYing stage.

A month ago, Wang Lin took a pill that would increase the chances
of his Yuan Ying forming, but the pill only turned the Jie Dan red,
with no sign of it breaking and forming a Yuan Ying.

After pondering for a while, Wang Lin let out a sigh. He wondered if
others had this much difficulty forming their Yuan Ying, but it
seemed it was lot harder than he had imagined.

He was running low on pills in his bag of holding, and there wasn’t
much Liquid Ling Qi left. After pondering for a while, he arrived at
where Situ Nan and his parents were. He kowtowed a few times in
front of his parents, then pointed his finger to his brow and left the
Heaven Revolting Space.

Outside the Sea of Knowledge, Wang Lin’s body went from an

illusionary form to more and more solid one. He stared at the Sea of
Knowledge and let out a sigh. Based on his plans before, if he was
lucky enough to enter the Yuan Ying stage, then he might have a
chance to enter the Dead Soul Sea. Perhaps the moment he gained
the inheritance, he would be able to leave the Ancient God’s body.

But now, he wasn’t confident.

After pondering for a while, Wang Lin raised his hand and a cold
look appeared in his eyes. Now there was only one road left. If he
didn’t want to be trapped here, always avoiding the pursuit of the
demonic cultivators forever, there was only one way.

His right hand grabbed at the void,created a rift, and entered it. After
coming out, he left the Sea of Knowledge and arrived somewhere
within the Qi Sea.

After he appeared, he hesitated. Both of his hands came together

and sent out a few rays of light in all directions, creating many rifts.
As the rifts were sealed up, he spread out his divine sense in all
directions. As a result, the demonic cultivators that had been bitterly
looking for him noticed his presence and quickly charged toward
him.

Soon, the demonic cultivators appeared near Wang Lin, one by one.
They stared at Wang Lin, revealing smiles. One of them was
Hunchback Meng. After he saw Wang Lin, that feeling of disgust
appeared. Without a word, his right hand reached out to grab Wang
Lin.

Wang Lin’s expression was normal, and he was very calm. As

Hunchback Meng reached toward him, he sneered, “Don’t you want
to break the seal on your master?”

The moment Wang Lin said those words, although all the
surrounding demonic cultivators’ expressions remained normal,
their eyes were filled with surprise. Hunchback Meng was stunned
and he stopped his right hand.

Wang Lin noticed this pause. He confirmed now that what he

guessed was correct. Now the only thing he needed to confirm was
that their master was the red haired man trapped in the Blood Sea.

Hunchback Meng’s face was gloomy and showed uncertainty. He let

out a cold snort and his right hand grabbed toward Wang Lin even
faster.

Wang Lin wore a steely expression. He didn’t move an inch. He had

already set up traps here ahead of time. If anyone tries to catch him,
the nearby rift would quickly tear open and bring him away from
this place. After all, they were in the Ancient God’s body, and no one
was more familiar with this place than him.

His eyes were calm. If Meng made a move and none of the other
demonic cultivators intervened, his prediction was wrong. They
don’t care if the soul devourer was dead or alive.
The moment Hunchback Meng’s hand was about to catch Wang Lin,
a cold voice suddenly resounded

“Stop!”

The moment the voice was heard, Hunchback Meng felt like he was
being held by an invisible hand and was thrown back. He stopped
after spitting out a few mouthfuls of black blood, then kneeled on
the ground. There wasn’t any resentment in his face. He respectfully
said, “Greetings Lord Duo Mu.”

Meanwhile, all the other demonic cultivators kneeled down.

The middle aged man that had destroyed Sky Devil Magician’s plan
appeared before Wang Lin, staring at him with a cold expression.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm as he replied.

“You really are a soul devourer. Very good, follow me!” After the
middle aged man finished speaking, he waved his hand in the void
and a rift hundreds of feet wide appeared in the sky.
Chapter 192: Unexpected
He glanced at Wang Lin, then floated into the rift. Wang Lin stayed
silent and entered the rift as well.

Behind them, all the demonic cultivators followed suit.

But right as they were about to enter the crack, it started to close up.
In the blink of an eye, the rift disappeared without a trace. Besides
Wang Lin and Dou Mu, no one else entered.

As the rift folded, what appeared before Wang Lin wasn’t the Blood
Sea he expected, but a space illuminated by a dark purple light.

This space wasn’t large, only about a hundred feet in each direction.
Floating in the four corners were some strangely shaped
instruments. Waves of gentle light emitted from them.

Next to each instrument sat a cultivator, each one cultivating next to

an instrument. Their figures looked like Dou Mu’s. They kept their
human forms and didn’t turn into demons. Wang Lin scanned the
area and counted a total of nine people, all cultivating in the room.

The moment the two entered, all the cultivators opened up their
eyes. One by one, they activated multiple techniques on each of the
instruments, causing purple light to shine from them.

Dou Mu turned around. His unblinking eyes were fixated on Wang

Lin.

Wang Lin took a few steps back. His pupils suddenly contracted. He
placed his right hand near his bag of holding as he stared at the
person in front of him. This was very different from what he
expected.
One of the nine cultivators said, “Dou Mu, we can’t support this for
long, three hours at the most. Quickly, explain everything.”

Golden light shot out of Dou Mu’s eyes while he stared at Wag Lin.
He said, “Little guy, you managed to disappear. Why did you appear
again?”

Wang Lin frowned. He stared at Dou Mu. Right as he was about to

speak, his left hand formed a seal. His left hand swiped behind him
using the Heaven Technique, which he learned from the Ancient
God Tactic. It allowed him to go anywhere in the Ancient God’s
body.

The moment the rift appeared before Wang Lin, a purple light shot
out from one of the instruments and destroyed it.

Dou Mu’s expression was calm. There was no hint of emotion.

Wang Lin’s heart sank. He stared at Dou Mu and slowly said, “To
leave the Land of the Ancient God.”

A tall red faced cultivator said, frowning, “DouMu, you always say
things too slowly. Little guy, let me tell you; the moment the seal on
Ta Sen is removed, everyone here will die. He is the only person who
will leave.”

“Back then, 11 of us arrived on this wild planet. We originally

planned to create a residence here. But we didn’t expect to find that
this place contained Ling Qi of the Ancient God. After I investigated
a bit, I met a cultivator named Ta Sen outside of the Ancient God’s
body. This person’s cultivation was very strong. Even with all of us
working together, we weren’t a match for him.” The red haired old
man’s voice grew louder. He talked very quickly. As soon as he
finished speaking, another cultivator raised his head and gloomly
said,
“This Ta Sen didn’t kill us, but invited us to enter this Land of the
Ancient God. This person understood the Land of the Ancient God
very well. He had a perfect handle on the three realms. According to
him, he had been in the land of the Ancient God for a long time, but
sadly, he was blocked by the door of the last level.”

“He invited us to help him break through the last level. Although the
chance of an inheritance was low, the temptation was too great.
Although we couldn’t beat him, we knew of a formation that, once
activated, could defeat even him. Only, after using this formation, we
would lose a lot of our cultivation.”

“The trip into the Ancient God’s body that that person schemed was
deep, but we were not people that were easily messed with. We were
prepared for him. In the end, we eventually cleared the last level, but
all of it seemed too strange. The last level was clearly a seal, and its
power was great. It took us a very long time to get past it. It seemed
the Ancient God used it to seal something away. If it wasn’t for that
person understanding the seal so well, even if the method to break
the seal was given to us, we weren’t sure we could break it. After the
seal was broken, we could tell that the person named Ta Sen
changed, but couldn’t tell what about him changed.”

“We successfully entered the Ancient God’s body. Ancient God Tu Si

really was a genius. He really did leave behind an inheritance. In the
Qi Sea, we saw the inheritance of power, but before we could even
fight for it, it disappeared before our eyes. It was taken by Ta Sen.”

“After that person obtained the inheritance of the Ancient God’s

power, he suddenly started to laugh hysterically. But at the same
time, within the Qi Sea, a giant appeared and started a huge battle
with him. Then, an even more strange thing occurred; that person
knew all of the giant’s techniques. In the end, the giant lost and split
into two. One half formed the Dead Soul Sea and the other started a
very powerful divine technique.”
“That person was clearly unfamiliar with the technique. I remember
that he said, “There is nothing you know that I don’t.” But this divine
technique, he clearly didn’t know it. The Ancient God’s soul split
into thousands of pieces and entered that man’s body, forming
thousands of seals on his body, before imprisoning him in the Blood
Sea.

“We thought everything was over and didn’t dare to stay any longer,
so we all quickly left. But the nightmare had only just started. Only
one of us eleven managed to successfully leave this place. The rest of
us were grabbed by demonic hands that reached out from rifts that
appeared into the Blood Sea.

“Ta Sen was too scary. He immediately thought of a way to break the
thousands of seals on his body. Each seal was basically a fragment of
the Ancient God Tu Si’s soul. He forcibly took some fragments and
inserted them into us.”

“In the countless years, every few thousand years, there would be a
few cultivators that arrived here. They were all captured by him and
had part of the seal embedded in them. Even though many people
came together, he would always allow one lucky person to leave.
This was so more people could come in the future.”

“As there were more and more cultivators, the seals on Ta Sen
decreased. The good thing was that the later cultivators were
different from us. Their cultivation was low, so they couldn’t fuse
with the fragments of the Ancient God’s soul. Many cultivators
could only handle one seal on their body, so the process of Ta Sen’s
seal removal became slower and slower.”

“But he really was a genius. After seeing that his method was
slowing down, he came up with another idea; the soul devourer!”

“Before this, we didn’t even know what kind of creature a soul

devourer was, but Ta Sen seemed to know. He sent us demonic
cultivators to go catch a soul devourer to devour the soul fragments
within his body.”

“This method was very effective, but after the soul devourer
devoured a certain amount it, he would need to sleep. That method
didn’t achieve Ta Sen’s desired result, so he came up with the idea of
raising his own soul devourer. So he helped Lord Shi Zhe, who was a
wandering soul, to grow toward becoming a soul devourer.”

“Originally, for Lord Shi Zhe to become a soul devourer, it would

take a very long time, but now that you appeared, everything has
changed.”

Each of the ten people, besides a wrinkly faced old man that looked
like he had just crawled out of a grave, narrated part of that story.
This caused Wang Lin to be very surprised, but he didn’t believe it
all.

“There is still one every important point that we are still wondering
about; that is the identity of Ta Sen. Why is he so familiar with the
Ancient God’s body? After observing him for countless years, we
guessed that that Ta Sen isn’t human like us, but a demon formed
from the resentment of the dying body of the Ancient God.” That
last sentence was said by Dou Mu. His expression was calm.

If Wang Lin obtained the complete inheritance of knowledge, he

would know if all of this was true or false, but now, after hearing
such a scary idea, he couldn’t help but change his expression.

“Only this can explain why when he invited us to enter the Ancient
God’s body all those years ago, he was so familiar with the place and
why we felt that had he changed after we broke the seal. That seal
was clearly one that us cultivators used to seal away demons when
they enter our bodies. This would also explain why all the
techniques used by the giant were known by Ta Sen. After all, just
obtaining the inheritance of power is pointless. Only after obtaining
both inheritances would one have the power of the Ancient God. All
this speculation only pointed to one thing; that person is either the
Ancient God Tu Si or the Demon God Tu Si!”

As Dou Mu’s words sank in, Wang Lin sucked in a breath. A thought
flashed through his head, but he stayed silent.

“I really don’t need to cheat you. If you charge into the Blood Sea,
you’ll become a tool just like the soul devourer in the third realm,
and once the seal is broken, you will die.”

Wang Lin silently pondered for a while, then he sneered, “Death? I

assume that by death you mean when my soul dissipates. If the story
you guys told is true, when that person is free, won’t he just take the
soul fragments back?

Dou Mu’s group stayed silent.

Among the ten people, the old man who hadn’t said a word let out a
light cough. He said, in a gentle tone, “Fellow cultivator is indeed
smart. Once Ta Sen obtains the inheritance of knowledge, he will
retrieve the soul fragments in our bodies to allow his soul be to
complete again. In all these years, the soul fragments have fused
with our souls. To take them back would be the same as devouring
our souls. Friend, helping us is helping yourself, however, I won’t ask
you to help for free. If you agree, I’ll have a gift for you.”

Wang Lin didn’t accept. He secretly considered how credible the

things these people said were.

Dou Mu gave Wang Lin a cold glance and said, “Junior, don’t think
we have to rely on you. We could always just kill you to avoid any
trouble in the future.”

A dark faced cultivator sneered, “Time is almost up, and what was
needed to be said has been said. Since this kid continues to be so
thickheaded, I might as well lay down a restriction. Although it could
create some inconveniences, it would make controlling him a lot
easier.”

After Wang Lin heard this, he thought of a sarcastic remark. If such

a restriction could actually work, these old guys wouldn’t spend so
much time talking to him. The moment he appeared, they would
have used the restriction to control him.

Wang Lin mulled over it a little and guessed why they didn’t use the
restriction. It seemed no restriction would go unnoticed by the red
haired man.

These peoples’ purpose couldn’t be this simple. Like Sky Devil

Magician, they must’ve had their own hidden plans.

Wang Lin calmly said, “What do you guys want me to do?”

The old man full of wrinkles heard what Wang Lin said and his
heart skipped a beat. This person didn’t ask what the reward was,
but first asked what the task was. It seemed that this person was
extremely calm and wouldn’t be easily moved.

The old man slowly said, “Enter the Blood Sea. After Ta Sen removes
the seal, he will directly enter the Dead Soul Sea. Once he opens up
the Dead Soul Sea, you must enter the Dead Soul Sea and use a
technique. It’s that easy. As for what technique, it’s the sealing
technique the giant formed by the Ancient God’s soul used. I studied
that technique for countless years and have a 30% success rate. If
you use it, you have a 70% chance of succeeding because you are a
soul devourer. All the soul fragments you absorb will listen to you.”

Wang Lin sneered. He gloomily said, “With my cultivation of only Jie

Dan, it is but a dream to seal Ta Sen.”

The old man let out a laugh and said, “Of course, we aren’t letting
you perform the seal, but will let you control the soul fragments
which will trigger the Dead Soul Sea again. Based on my predictions,
the Dead Soul Sea will seal up again and completely seal Ta Sen
within.

“If you agree, it doesn’t matter if it succeeds or not, I’ll give you a
gift. I obtained this object after much hardship. After searching
many ancient texts, I finally found the name of this object; it’s Huan
Yuan Beast Trap. Any animal in the world could be controled by it
for a short period of time, but its origin is unknown. In theory, if you
have enough Ling Qi, even immortal beasts, if trapped by the circle,
could be used by you. But when using this circle, the stronger the
beast trapped within, the more Ling Qi it requires, and if you want to
trap an immortal beast, then the amount of Ling Qi it requires is
unimaginable. When I received it all those years ago, I tried it once
but failed. However, before I could try a second time, I had already
been trapped here.
Chapter 193: Seal of the Blood Sea
Wang Lin’s expression was mostly normal, but he soon revealed a
cold smile and snorted.

Dou Mu’s eyes grew cold. When he was about to speak, he was
stopped by the old man. The old man stared at Wang Lin and slowly
said, “This Huan Yuan Beast Trap is a legendary treasure. If you are
still not satisfied, I don’t have anything better.”

Wang Lin’s expression was calm. He stared at the instruments that

surround him and didn’t say a word.

The old man pondered a little and said, “This is my life saving
treasure. I can’t give it to you. I can give you ten top quality sprite
stones. That is as much as we can give.”

Wang Lin didn’t feel the need to push them too far. The fact was
that these peoples’ cultivation was at an unimaginable level. If he
didn’t have the inheritance memory as his ace in the hole, he
wouldn’t be this calm.

Wang Lin calmly said, “100 pieces.”

Without waiting for the old man to reply, Dou Mu said, “No way!”
The other peoples’ gazes also became cold.

Wang Lin wasn’t intimidated. He simply waited for the old man to
reply.

The old man hesitated and gloomily said, “20 pieces. This is my
limit. We don’t have many of these top quality spirit stones. If you
still don’t agree, then we have to use different methods.”

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same. Without a word, he

stretched out his right hand.
The old man pointed at his chest. A black snake slithered by [I think
the snake was inside his clothes] and a normal looking copper ring
appeared in his hand. He threw the copper ring and Wang Lin
caught it.

Wang Lin glanced at the copper ring. It was the size of a bracelet and
had engravings of many fearsome beasts. These fearsome beast felt
very alive, as if they were real.

Wang Lin sent out his divine sense. Just as he entered the ring, he
heard waves of beast growls. His divine sense couldn’t help but
shake, so he quickly withdrew it.

Wang Lin put away the copper ring without any change in his
expression. He then looked at the old man.

In the old man’s hand appeared a grey bag of holding. He tossed it at

Wang Lin. Wang Lin looked into the bag and saw 20 neatly placed
top quality spirit stones. Waves of spirit energy came from the bag.

After placing the top quality spirit stones into his own bag of
holding, he threw the grey bag of holding to the ground and heavily
said, “I have one more question; after I seal the master of the Blood
Sea, how do I leave this place?”

After the old man heard Wang Lin’s question, his heart relaxed a bit.
He had always been waiting for Wang Lin to ask that question. If
Wang Lin didn’t ask that question, he would be suspicious.

“Its very easy. After Ta Sen is sealed again, I will want to leave this
place as well. The key is to be inside the Dead Soul Sea. Since you
will be there with us, you will be able to leave as well.”

Wang Lin sneered in his mind. He was now convinced that their
goal was the inheritance of knowledge in the Dead Soul Sea, if what
they just said was true that is.
Wang Lin revealed a cold look. He slowly said, “It’s not that I don’t
believe you, but this matter is very important. If I can’t be 100% sure
that I can leave this place, then all of this is just empty talk.”

The old man frowned and said, “Since this old man promised you, I
would never go back on my promise.”

Wang Lin didn’t move. He shook his head and said, “Senior is a
master, and junior should believe you, but this is a matter of life and
death. If this junior can’t be sure, even if we come to an agreement,
it would be hard for me to fully devote myself to this.”

Dou Mu snorted, revealing killing intent, and said, “Junior, talking in

such a roundabout way is really annoying. And I already promised
you. If you don’t believe it, don’t be so difficult. Let me send you to
hell to ease my mind!” He suddenly waved his right hand and
created a black hand that slammed toward Wang Lin.

A Wang Lin’s gaze became cold. He didn’t even look at the giant
hand and stared at the old man.

The giant hand stopped three inches from Wang Lin’s head. The old
man waved his hand and Dou Mu took back the giant hand.

The old man frowned as he gave Dou Mu a look and slowly said,
“What do you want?”

Wang Lin looked at the surrounding instruments and said, “Since

these instruments are your life saving treasures, how about giving
them to this junior to hold. Once we leave this place, junior will
naturally return them. I believe seniors don’t have to worry about a
junior like me, who is only at the Jie Dan stage, to take these
treasures for my own.”

The old man looked at Wang Lin. After pondering for a long time, he
revealed a cold smile and nodded his head. He waved his hand and
the ten instruments flew to his hand. After placing some seals on
them, he tossed them to Wang Lin.

Without a word, Wang Lin took out another bag of holding and
placed the ten instruments inside, then carefully put the bag away.

The space started to dissipate without the power of the ten

instruments. The old man gave Wang Lin a look and waved his hand
as he opened up a rift. He stepped back to get out of the way.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm as he entered the rift.

After Wang Lin entered, Dou Mu had an unwilling expression. He

said, “Big brother…”

“You, shut up!” The old man’s expression changed, it was no long as
calm as it was when talking to Wang Lin, but filled with anger. He
stared at Dou Mu and entered the rift.

The others beside Dou Mu entered the rift one by one. The last
person was the man that always had a dark expression. When he
was about to enter the rift, he said, “Dou Mu, do you still not
understand? That little brat knows every detail of our plan. He
knows that we need him alive. What you did earlier was simply
humiliating yourself! I’m depending on this brat for my wish to
come true. Big brother also waited a very long time for this. If
everyone wasn’t so devoted to Ta Sen, things wouldn’t be this
difficult.”

After he finished speaking, he stepped into the rift. Dou Mu

pondered a little and followed him in.

After entering the rift, what appeared before Wang Lin was a blood
colored world. There were many eye catching stone pillars, especially
the one that seemed to enter the heavens. Seeing this caused Wang
Lin’s pupils to shrink. This place was really the Blood Sea.
Wang Lin’s gaze fell on the man at the top of the pillar that rose to
the heavens. The man had blood red hair. There was an air of
arrogance spreading from the man. After one look, Wang Lin felt
like he couldn’t even breath.

At that moment, the other demonic cultivators all returned,

including Dou Mu’s group. After they entered the Blood Sea, they all
sat down on different stone pillars.

The demonic cultivators all found their pillars, sat down, and stared
at Wang Lin.

They all sat crossed legged. Wang Lin was the only person floating in
the air.

Wang Lin’s gaze swept the area. There were many cultivators, at
least a thousand. Among these people, he saw Hunchback Meng,
Duamu Ji, Wang Qing Yue, Sky Devil Magician…

In that moment, in the space next to the red haired man, appeared a
rift. A tall man walked out. The moment he appeared, he looked at
Wang Lin and revealed a look of ecstasy. He said to the red haired
man, “Master, he is the soul devourer.” Then he sat down at a stone
pillar nearby.

Wang Lin noticed at a glance that that person was the huge
wandering soul.

The surroundings were completely silent, until a hoarse voice

suddenly came from the red haired man.

“Soul devourer…” He suddenly raised his head and the whole Blood
Sea shook. The surrounding pillars sprayed out countless amounts of
blood. The entire world was covered in blood after that.

His eyes felt as if they possessed limitless power. His gaze gave off a
demonic feeling as he stared at Wang Lin.
Wang Lin suddenly felt that the moment the red haired man gazed
at him, an invisible restriction started to activate near him. He
suddenly became unable to move his body.

“Absorb this piece of the soul and unlock this seal for me or die!”
After the red haired man finished speaking, he grabbed at his brow.
His face revealed a painful expression. His body trembled as he
pulled out a red light from his body. The blood red light floated
before Wang Lin.

After taking out the red light, the red haired man let out a few heavy
breaths. It took him a long time before his breathing returned to
normal.

The surrounding demonic cultivators all stared at the red light,

revealing a mixed look of fear and envy.

The red haired man’s body trembled. He stared at Wang Lin through
his messy hair.

Wang Lin was surprised, but his expression was calm. He calmly
said, “I can help you, but once you break out of the seal, you must
help me leave!”

The red haired man’s mouth moved slightly and he nodded his head.

Wang Lin cautiously looked at the red haired man. Suddenly, his Ji
Realm Soul leapt out, formed a large mouth, and swallowed the red
light.

A feeling of intense pain suddenly arose in his soul and his body
trembled. After a long time, the pain disappeared. He checked his
soul and noticed that it was twice its original size.

The reason he dared to boldly show his face was because the
inheritance of power and inheritance of knowledge were very
different from each other, so there wouldn’t be any chance of it
being noticed unless the same inheritance was inherited by two
people.

This way, besides Wang Lin himself, no one would know that he had
received part of the inheritance.

As for the red light, Wang Li heard from Dou Mu’s group that it was
part of the Ancient God’s soul. If it was someone else, they would
fear it due to lacking the ability to control it, but as a soul devourer,
he could devour it for himself.

After seeing that the soul fragment was devoured, the red haired
man stared at Wang Lin with a cold gaze. After a long time, he said,
“Even though you are a soul devourer, you haven’t formed your soul
gem yet. However, the fact that you can forcibly devour a soul
fragment is very satisfactory. Wandering soul, help him form his
soul gem.”

The man formed by the wandering soul’s body trembled. He

hesitated, but quickly became determined and whispered, “As you
wish.” He pointed his hand at his brow. His body involuntarily
trembled. He clearly became a lot weaker. At the same time, a see-
through, sparkling red ball appeared from his brow.

The moment the red ball appeared, his body collapsed into his
wandering soul form as he wasn’t able to keep his form any longer.
After a long time, he slowly condensed into his human form again.

Without a word, his Ji Realm Soul quickly went out and surrounded
the light ball. The ball contained the huge wandering soul’s soul
energy. Wang Lin was able to absorb it without any hinderance.
After half an hour, he was able to completely absorb it all.

Wang Lin could clearly feel that his soul suddenly grew several sizes.

The red haired man pondered a little and slowly said, “Wandering
soul, continue.”
The wandering soul let out a wry laugh. He didn’t think that Wang
Lin, as a soul devourer, wouldn’t have a soul gem. If he had known,
he wouldn’t have told his master. That would keep himself from
entering into his current sorry state. Also, this soul devourer was
really something. Even with one soul ball, it didn’t seem to be
enough to let him form a soul gem.

A soul gem was something soul devourers gradually formed as they

reached a certain stage and devoured a certain number of souls. It
was something they naturally formed for their core. Generally
speaking, most soul devourers would devour massive amounts of
souls the moment they evolved into a soul devourer in order to form
their soul gem as soon as possible. Almost no soul devourer would
wait so long to form their soul gem.

The difference between a soul devourer with and without a soul gem
was that a soul devourer with a soul gem could create wandering
souls.

The wandering soul let out a bitter laugh. He pointed his hand at his
brow and another soul ball appeared. His body collapsed again. This
time, he could no longer form his human body again. After a long
time, a red ball appeared from his wandering soul form.

This time, his breath became ragged. Although he was still stronger
than the normal wandering soul, the difference from before was too
great.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He sent out his soul to surround the ball and
started absorbing it. This time, he could clearly feel a difference. His
soul no longer grew, but, inside him, a particle the size of a grain of
rice started to condense.

The red haired man frowned. If a soul devourer didn’t have a soul
gem, they wouldn’t be able to handle too many soul fragments. But
after this person absorbed two soul balls, he only reached the first
step of forming his soul gem.
Those two soul balls made up most of the soul energy that the
wandering soul had.

The red haired man pondered a little. A thought flashed through his
head. He reached out his right hand and lifted the wandering soul.
The wandering soul let out a miserable scream. His body quickly
shrank and condensed into a soul ball. The red haired man grabbed
the soul ball and threw it at Wang Lin.

This soul ball was formed from the life of the wandering soul.

After consuming the soul ball, Wang Lin felt the rice grain sized
particle quickly grow larger. It soon grew to the size of a thumb.

Suddenly, a strange feeling entered Wang Lin’s mind. His Ji Realm

Soul suddenly shrank and fused into the fingernail sized ball. As for
the ball, it disappeared into his brow.

Wang Lin’s eyes blinked. As of that moment, he was a real soul

devourer, with the ability to produce wandering souls.

All of that knowledge appeared, as if it were an inheritance, when

his soul gem was formed.

The red haired man retrieved his gaze. He waved his right hand and
a rift appeared in midair. Next, he quickly grabbed with his hand.
The entire Blood Sea shook and a huge illusionary figure appeared
from the rift.

The moment the figure appeared, Wang Lin suddenly felt the aura of
a soul devourer. This figure was clearly the soul devourer from the
third realm.

Soon, the whole illusionary figure appeared like a cloud and came
through the rift, revealing its whole body. The red haired man’s eyes
lit up. His body trembled as traces of blood-red light started to
release from his body. Waves of blood mist sprouted from his body.
Almost immediately, his entire body was covered by the blood mist.
He seemed to be enduring unimaginable pain. After a long time, he
raised his head, revealing a bloody face. He said, with a husky voice,
“Come out, Tu Si’s soul fragments!”

The moment his voice came out, countless red lights were forced out
of his body. There were countless red lights, and as they appeared,
they started to circle like a red tornado. The red lights contained a
demonic aura.

The surrounding demonic cultivators all bowed their heads in fear.

All except for Dou Mu’s group, who looked at the red light with dark
expressions.

The shadow formed by the soul devourer formed a mouth. The

mouth became larger and larger as it stretch outward. It closed in
front of the red haired man. Dozens of red lights were consumed by
it.

But at the same time, the rest of the right lights suddenly started to
flash brightly and circle the red haired man as if they were crazy. As
they circled the red haired man, symbols would appear and land on
the red haired man. Every time one landed, his body would tremble.

Meanwhile, following his trembles, dozens of red lights appeared

from the Blood Sea to replace the ones devoured by the soul
devourer and circled around the red haired man.

As for the soul devourer, after devouring 10 more soul fragments, its
cloud-like body started to glow red. It clearly needed time to digest
and couldn’t continue to devour more.

The red haired man revealed a painful expression as he looked

toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin now understood why this required two soul devourers. If
there was only one soul devourer, more soul fragments will appear
from the Blood Sea before they finished digesting. This way, not only
would it not remove the seal, but would increase the amount of soul
fragments.

There needed to be a buffer time. Only, with two soul devourers

taking turns devouring the soul fragments, would it be possible?
Even then, the possibility was low.
Chapter 194: Opening the Seal
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. The thumbnail sized soul gem appeared in
front of his brow. His Ji Realm Soul quickly came out as well and
circled the red haired man. He immediately devoured more than 10
red lights that were floating around the red haired man.

The soul devourer had finished digesting the red lights, and as Wang
Lin retreated, it came forward again. So just like this, the cycle
continued. Although the Blood Sea replenished the red lights around
the red haired man, there were a lot less lights than before.

It seemed that it took time for the Blood Sea to replenish the red
lights. The red haired man revealed a euphoric expression. When he
forced the red lights out of his body, he had to suffer unimaginable
pain, but after seeing the red lights decrease before him, he thought
that even if the pain was 10 times worse, he would still be willing to
suffer through it.

Time slowly passed. All the demonic cultivators silently watched the
scene before them. They all held their breath. Even Dou Mu’s group
was nervous. Wang Lin’s ability to break the seal played a vital role
in their future plans, but if the seal couldn’t be broken, then no
matter how carefully crafted the plan was, it would all be for
nothing.

As time passed, the red lights around the red haired man started to
circle around him faster and faster, but the quantity was steadily
decreasing. He let out several loud roars. Constantly forcing the red
lights out was taking a toll on his body. His face looked ferocious
and his veins bulged green, as if there were green worms crawling in
his veins.

Among the many demotic cultivators, Sky Devil Magician looked at

the scene with a sense of unwillingness in his heart. He exerted all
that effort for his plan, but, at the last moment, it was destroyed. It
made his heart bleed. Now that he saw that the red haired man was
breaking the seal, he felt despair.

When the red haired man breaks the seal, opens up the Dead Soul
Seal, and obtains the inheritance of knowledge, he will notice that ⅓
of it was missing. With the red haired man’s power, he would be
able to use a technique to find that it was Sky Devil Magician who
had it. By then, the only road left for him would be death.

He dared to be bold before because the red haired man was trapped
in the Blood Sea and was unable to detect what was happening
outside. Only in the Blood Sea was the red haired man not restricted.

Sky Devil Magician let out a bitter laugh in his heart. He looked up at
Wang Lin and sighed in his heart. He knew that Wang Lin came in
with his disciple. He never thought that, because of his own
schemes, the red haired man would be able to break his seal. If he
didn’t let Six Desire Devil Lord and them leave a thousand years ago,
then although he wouldn’t be able to get the inheritance treasure,
his life would still be safe.

All of this could be described as karma.

Sky Devil Magician let out another sigh, but as he looked at Dou
Mu’s group, his hatred disappeared and he began to ponder.

Sky Devil Magician’s expression was calm, not revealing any of his
inner thoughts. He was a very sly old man; even facing such a great
ordeal, his expression didn’t change at all.

The red haired man simply used the soul fragments to leave a mark
on these people to control them. The reason Sky Devil Magician was
able to retain his sanity was mainly due to his cultivation technique.
Beside the Mysterious Sky Devil Cultivation Method, he also had a
mysterious chant. He accidently found that chant during his first trip
here.
He didn’t pass down the chant to anyone, not even Six Desire Devil
Lord knew of its existence. It was because of this chant and his
countless years of cultivation that, when he was caught by the red
haired man and forced to fuse with the soul fragment, he was able to
take the initiative and suppress the soul fragment instead of fusing
with it.

He looked at Dou Mu’s group. Several years ago, he begun to have

his suspicion that, among the thousands of cultivators here, it
couldn’t be only him that had suppressed his soul fragment. He
suspected that there were others who had as well.

Those people were most likely the ten Blood Sea Generals.

Sky Devil Magician’s heart shook. If those men were like him, when
the seal breaks, they will act. If this was true, then he might still
have a chance.

While thinking about it, Sky Devil Magician’s heart grew excited. He
took a deep breath to calm himself down and looked up.

Each time Wang Lin devoured a red light, his soul gem became
larger. As his soul gem grew larger, his mind felt a sense of clarity.

Wang Lin’s teamwork with the soul devourer also became better and
better. The color of the swirl of soul fragments around the red
haired man grew dim and the amount of soul fragments was
decreasing.

But in that moment, the surrounding sea of blood suddenly rose up.
All the blood on the ground started to float up, forming tens of
thousands of soul fragments. They headed toward the red haired
man.

This sudden change of events caught everyone off guard. Without a

word, Wang Lin’s soul backed off, afraid of getting affected.
The red haired man let out a growl. His hand quickly formed a seal
and a circle appeared before him. He pressed on the circle and
countless rays of five colored light came out of his body and formed
a five colored barrier around him.

Outside the barrier, the soul fragments charged and pushed against
it.

The red haired man looked up. His arrogance and haughtiness were
at their limit. He muttered, “Tu Si, this seal can’t trap me!”

With that, he casually grabbed with this right hand. A demonic

cultivator that was sitting near by flew into the air. His face revealed
an alarmed expression. Before he could say anything, his body flew
to the five colored barrier and more than ten soul fragments went
into his body.

He screamed again and again. His hands were constantly tearing at

his body. In the blink of an eye, his entire body was covered in
wounds and blood.

Normally speaking, these demonic cultivators couldn’t even handle

one soul fragment, but now, more ten suddenly entered this one’s
body. His only fate was death.

The red haired man normally didn’t attempt this extreme method
because it didn’t help him at all. The moment the cultivator dies, the
soul fragments would return to him. That didn’t help him break the
seal at all.

But now, it was different. He had almost broken the seal. If he didn’t
use this method to delay the soul fragments, then, when the barrier
breaks, the soul fragments would all enter his body and render all of
the work from earlier pointless.

The red haired man ignored the cultivator. His right hand drew in
the air. A golden symbol appeared and landed on the cultivator. The
moment it landed, a golden light surrounded the cultivator’s body.

Soon after, the red haired man’s eyes released a red light. With
waves of both of his hands, several cultivators’ bodies flew into the
air. After they absorbed some red lights, they were covered by the
golden light as well. Their bodies were very bloody.

Wang Lin’s was alarmed. A moment later, another cultivator was

grabbed by the red haired man. A look of horror appeared on his
face, but was quickly replaced by a decisive one. He rapidly
performed a technique with his hand and disappeared on the spot,
then reappeared 10 feet away.

The moment he reappeared, he created a rift in the air and charged

toward it.

The red haired revealed a cold gaze. He didn’t stop the cultivator, but
sneered. He pointed his finger at his brow and spit out, “Explode!”

With a bang, the cultivator’s body exploded as he was heading into

the rift. His blood and flesh scattered everywhere. A soul fragment
appeared and charged toward the red haired man. It joined the other
soul fragments outside of the barrier.

A thought flashed through the red haired man’s mind. He suddenly

opened both his hands and, with a growl, he grabbed at the air and
hundreds of cultivators suddenly flew up into the air. Their faces
were filled with fear and helplessness, but there were some with the
exact opposite expression; looks of relief. They flew toward the
barrier and many soul fragments entered their bodies. They became
just like the people before them.

After using hundreds of people as buffers, the amount soul

fragments outside the barrier had decreased a bit. However, the 5
colored barrier wasn’t as strong as it was before and started to
tremble, as if it could break at any time.
The red haired man didn’t say a word, but grabbed again with this
hands. This time, he grabbed more than 300 people. Among those
people, eight of them suddenly used various techniques to break
free. They desperately tried to escape by opening up rifts.

Meanwhile, four people on the ground also jumped up, opened rifts,
and disappeared into them.

The red haired man’s cold smile grew wider. He didn’t kill these
cultivators like he did the ones before, but retracted his gaze after
looking for some time. While killing them would be easy, the soul
fragments returning to him would make a big impact on his barrier.

There was no rush to kill those people.

Wang Lin watched what had happened. He knew that the red haired
man wouldn’t act against him, because he still needed him to absorb
the remaining soul fragments. Among the people that escaped, Dou
Mu’s group wasn’t in their ranks. All ten of them sat there, waiting,
without any expression.

Outside of the barrier were more than 400 golden circles. Within
each golden circle was a bloody cultivator, each with more than 10
soul fragments within their bodies.

The red haired man gave the remaining hundreds of cultivators a

cold look. Suddenly, 3 to 5 cultivators opened up rifts and entered
them.

The red haired man sneered. He didn’t bother with them, but looked
at the soul devourer and growled, “Devour!”

The cloud-like soul devourer extended its illusionary body to form a

mouth and shot toward the soul fragments outside the barrier. After
devouring more than 10 soul fragments, it was about to retreat. The
red haired man frowned. He knew that if this kept up, the blood sea
would activate and try to seal him again.
His face revealed a malicious expression. He reached out and
grabbed the soul devourer that was about to retreat and said,
“Continue!”

The soul devourer hesitated, then opened his mouth and devoured
more than 10 soul fragments again. The red haired man was still not
satisfied. He bit his finger and drew two strange symbols. One of the
symbols released a five colored light and landed on the soul
devourer.

Wang Lin noticed that the soul devourer suddenly became violent.
Countless threads of divine sense spread out from it.

“You…broke our promise!”

The red haired man opened his mouth and sucked the other symbol
into it. After, he gloomily said, “Since when do I not keep my
promises? I only have some control right now. As long as you help
me break this seal, I’ll use the Ancient God’s power to make you a
human body, and also get you out of the Decaying World. Now,
continue to devour!”

As soon as he said those words, the symbol he swallowed appeared

on his head and flashed a few times. At the same time, on the soul
devourer’s body, the same symbol appeared and seemed to flash in
sync with the one on the red haired man’s head.

Then, the soul devourer immediately started to devourer the soul

fragments like crazy, as if he had no control. After consuming the
soul fragments one by one, his body glowed red. He looked like a red
cloud.

Wang Lin could clearly feel the soul devourer sending out waves of
painful divine sense. It seemed he had devoured too much and
exceeded his limits. If this continued, then the soul devourer could
become like those cultivators.
The red haired man’s eyes became cold and he gazed at Wang Lin.

Wang Lin’s expression remained normal. He sent out is Ji Realm

Soul. It flew out of the barrier and started to devour the soul
fragments outside. This time, Wang Lin devoured very quickly. After
devouring more than 10, he felt full, but he didn’t stop and kept
devouring.

He secretly started to operate the Ancient God Tactic, so the soul

fragments quickly fused with his soul.

The five colored barrier surrounding the red haired man began to
shake more and more. It was bound to break at any moment. There
were still some soul fragments left, but even with Wang Lin and the
soul devourer, they still wouldn’t be able to devour them all in time.

At the same time, all the stone pillars in the Blood Sea, besides the
one the red haired man was sitting on, exploded simultaneously and
turned into red powder. It seemed the red powder was condensing
into soul fragments.

The moment the stone pillars exploded, the cultivators on top of

each of them jumped off.

The red haired man’s face darkened. He gritted his teeth and
immediately grabbed 300 of the 600 or so remaining cultivators
and dragged them toward the barrier.

At that moment, the five colored barrier broke, but the moment the
barrier broke, the red haired man used his power to force the soul
fragments into the body of the 300 cultivators.
Chapter 195: Doubts about the
Dead Sea
The moment the 5 colored barrier broke, the rubble of the stone
pillar started to glow bright red. There were no more soul fragments
around the red haired man. The seal on his soul was gone.

It could be said that the him now had temporarily broken the seal.
His eyes emitted a demonic gaze. He quickly raised his hand and
swiped it downwards.

Suddenly, a giant rift appeared above him. The rift was very large,
and layers of grey fog spilled out of it.

Wang Lin was very familiar with the grey fog. He immediately
recognized it as the fog that was outside the Dead Soul Sea.

Meanwhile, within the red dust, countless red lights appeared. The
specks of dust assembled into soul fragments and charged toward
the red haired man. If those soul fragments were to land, then
everything that had happened would have been a waste.

The red haired man’s eyes became cold. He would not allow those
soul fragments to seal him again. After tearing open the rift, he
stretched out his right hand and lowly growled, “Tu Si is long dead.
Using my name, Ta Sen, I call upon my life saving weapon, the Star
Destroyer Spear!”

The moment he finished uttering those words, a long spear that

looked like a black dragon suddenly burst out from the gray fog and
appeared before him. The spear paused for a moment, but quickly
landed in the red haired man’s hand.

The moment the red haired man gripped the spear, a thunderous
roar echoed through the surrounding area. Shortly after, the pillar
that he was standing on collapsed and became a small pile of rubble.

The red haired man still floated in the air. His eyes were filled with
pride. As for the soul fragments, it seemed he didn’t care about them
at all. He waved the spear and all the soul fragments paused in
midair. They floated 10 feet away from him.

Meanwhile, the red haired man moved his body and charged toward
the rift. At the same time, everyone in Dou Mu’s group, especially
the old man who made the deal with Wang Lin, revealed nervous
expressions. Without a word, they quickly stood up and followed Ta
Sen into the rift.

As they passed Wang Lin, the old man looked at Wang Lin and
slightly nodded. Wang Lin’s soul went back into his body and moved
into the rift.

The remaining surviving demonic cultivators all followed them into

the rift without hesitation.

After entering the rift, Wang Lin immediately realized that they
were just outside the Soul Sea. Right below them was the Dead Soul
Sea that Wang Lin had tried to break into before.

The Soul Sea was split into two; one half was the Blood Sea and the
other was the Dead Soul Sea.

A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s mind. From the moment he

entered the rift, he had been very careful. He discreetly looked
around and saw that Dou Mu’s group had positioned themselves in
such a way that they surrounded him and the red haired man.

This position was very intricate. If one didn’t look carefully, then
they couldn’t see any sign of it. But Wang Lin had been through
much and was able to see it at a glance.
Wang Lin’s expression remained normal. He sneered in his heart.
He was very suspicious of Dou Mu’s group. Throughout all those
years, had they really never shown any signs or allowed Ta Sen to
realize that they had always been plotting against him? It was a bit
suspicious that people who had been secretly plotting for who
knows how many years to be this blatant in front of Ta Sen.

But even if Ta Sen were to realize it, it didn’t have anything to do

with Wang Lin at all. He just wanted to be present during the
moment the Dead Soul Sea was opened so he could enter it and use
his part of inheritance of knowledge to leave this suffocating place.

The red haired man stood above the Dead Soul Sea and started
laughing madly. He shouted, “Tu Si, you couldn’t keep me trapped!
Even though I was only a sliver of your evil consciousness, this
inheritance should have been mine.” As he was speaking, his face
turned grim and the spear in his hand struck down.

Suddenly, the wall of fog that surrounded the Dead Soul Sea caved in
and a tunnel going deep in the direction of the Dead Soul Sea
appeared soon after. The fog in the surrounding area was quickly
pushed out of the way.

The tunnel was deep, the bottom could not be seen. A muffled roar
could be heard, as if there were something roaring inside the tunnel.

“Tu Si, even your life saving weapon, the Star Destroyer Spear, has
submitted to me. Only I have the qualifications to succeed your
inheritance!” Ta Sen said, as the spear in his hand struck out again

This time, it was a vertical slash. It created a cross with the previous
slash, forming a giant cross. In the center of the cross was a hole
dozens of feet wide. Ta Sen entered it.

After the red haired man went in, Dou Mu’s group became more
nervous, but they quickly followed behind. As for Wang Lin, his eyes
lit up and followed them in as well. Meanwhile, all the surviving
demonic cultivators revealed excited expressions and shouted with
joy.

The red haired man was in the front. He turned around and looked
behind him. His lips curled into a cold smile. Soon, he arrived at the
bottom of the grey fog. The path was blocked by a layer of clouds.
Purple lightning flashed constantly in the clouds.

The red haired man didn’t say a word. He tossed the spear forward.
It transformed into a black dragon.

It charged into the clouds right as a bolt of purple lightning landed

on it.

The red haired man didn’t pause for a moment. He quickly followed
the spear into the clouds. Suddenly, countless bolts of purple
lightning shot out of the clouds and landed on his body.

Under the bombardment of the purple lightning, a lightning sphere

formed around Ta Sen’s body, but he was not harmed. He started to
laugh.

Wang Lin’s pupils contracted as he stared at the red haired man. He

remembered that the purple lightning that appeared at the second
realm’s restriction mountain was the same purple lightning as this.

Wang Lin blinked and slowed down. From somewhere behind him,
he heard the old man’s voice, asking, “Little friend, how come you’re
not moving forward?”

Wang Lin didn’t turn his head. From the moment they left the Blood
Sea, the ten old cultivators had been keeping their eyes on him,
preventing him from backing out.

He had only slowed down a bit, but the old man was already
questioning him. From this, Wang Lin could tell how important this
was to them.
Wang Lin didn’t know why they had so much confidence that they
could even ignore Ta Sen’s existence, but he had already made up his
mind; leaving this place was his main goal.

Within the lightning ball, the red haired man formed a strange hand
sign and said, “Tu Si is long dead. I use my name, Ta Sen, to call upon
my family’s lightning weapon, the Purple Moon!”

The moment those words left his lips, the technique in his hand
shot out and entered the clouds. Soon after, the clouds began to
shrink. The raging purple lightning slowly died down. Eventually, the
cloud turned into a half moon blade and fell into the red haired
man’s hand.

After he looked at it, he opened his mouth. The half moon blade
shrank and entered his mouth.

Under the grey fog were the clouds of purple lightning, and under
the clouds of purple lightning was a completely black sea. This was
the dead soul formed by half of Ancient God Tu Si’s soul when he
died.

The red haired man looked at the half moon blade. His face revealed
an excited expression, then he charged toward the dead sea under
his feet. [Yep, he looked at it while it was in his mouth, according to
the author.]

The moment he rushed forward, a roar came from the dead sea.
Soon after, a non-dragon, but dragon-like creature suddenly bursted
out from the dead sea. As it moved, it created countless waves in the
dead sea.

Shortly after, the creature’s large head came out from the sea and
stared at the red haired man.

Ta Sen looked at the creature and frowned. He shouted, “Evil

creature, you can’t even recognize me!?”
The creature, that was millions of feet long, slowly moved, causing
the waves in the sea to roll violently. It stared at Ta Sen and
suddenly spoke human words.

“Ta Sen, you are an evil consciousness that formed when the master
was practicing the Flowing Ink Transformation Divine Technique.
How could I forget about you? If it wasn’t for you revolting when the
master was at the most critical point of his cultivation, the master
wouldn’t have died.”

Ta Sen coldly snorted and grimly said, “What does this have to do
with me? Tu Si’s ambition was too big, trying to master a divine
technique that no one could master. If it wasn’t for that, how could
he have created me? The moment he separated me from his soul, he
abandoned me, but I have to thank him, otherwise, the moment he
died would have been the moment I perished as well!”

The large creature’s eyes became cold and said, “Before master’s
death, he told me to guard the inheritance of knowledge. Without
my permission, no one can get the inheritance.”

“The inheritance of power is already mine and the only thing left is
the inheritance of knowledge. Tu Si’s memories are useless to me.
Everything he knew, I know as well. If it wasn’t for the restrictions
placed by the law of inheritance that requires both inheritances to
fully control the power in this body, I wouldn’t even have bothered
with all this, and I wouldn’t have gotten trapped by him in the Blood
Sea for so many years.” The red haired man said as he struck
forward with the spear.

Suddenly, a dark cyclone appeared. The cyclone grew larger and

larger, until the wind was roaring. It charged at the creature.

Seeing the scene before him, Wang Lin couldn’t help but form a
doubt in his heart. If what this creature said was true, and he was
guarding the inheritance of knowledge, then when Sky Devil
Magician opened the portal to the inheritance treasure before, why
was there no danger? And even after part of it was taken, why was
there no sign of this creature?

Wang Lin looked down at the dead sea and his doubts increased. He
frowned. He quietly activated the Ancient God Tactic in his mind.
According to the inherited memory, anyone with the inheritance
only had to active their inheritance in the Dead Soul Sea to leave.

The large creature coldly stared at the red haired man. It didn’t even
care about the cyclone roaring towards it. The moment before it
landed, the creature whipped its head out and hit the cyclone.
Chapter 196: Broken Agreement
The cyclone collided with the snake and collapsed.

Wang Lin’s soul activated his portion of the inheritance, but his
heart quickly sank. It seemed that his part of the inheritance wasn’t
enough to cause any reaction, despite his heart wanting to leave this
place.

Wang Lin’s expression became gloomy. He had doubts before, and,

with the inheritance not working here, he confirmed that this place
wasn’t the Sea of Knowledge.

As a result, everything he had done before had been a waste. Wang

Lin’s eyes became cold, but his expression quickly recovered. He was
well aware that none of the recent events had been normal.
According to the memory from his part of the inheritance, the fact
that Tu Si’s soul became the Dead Sea and Blood Sea when it was
split into two parts was true.

This place really was the Dead Soul Sea, but why wouldn’t the
inheritance of knowledge work here?

Wang Lin looked around. His gaze fell upon a scale on the million
foot long creature and a thought came to his mind.

His heart skipped a beat as he stared at the scale and memorized its
location. When Wang Lin activated his inheritance of knowledge, he
felt a faint response from that scale.

Although the response was weak, it responded to the call of his part
of the inheritance, so that scale must’ve been special in some way.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. His didn’t raise his right arm, but gently
waved his index finger. A very small rift appeared and quickly
disappeared. Wang Lin’s movement was every secretive, and the
small rift disappeared as soon as it appeared, so no one else noticed.

Wang Lin’s heart calmed down. The appearance of that rift meant
that he could use his unique method of moving around with his
portion of the inheritance.

He scanned his own bag of holding with his divine sense and
sneered in his heart. He had a lot of bags of holding. The one that
made him the most worried was the one holding the ten life saving
treasures, the Huan Yuan Beast Trap, and the 20 top quality spirit
stones. He had never let his guard down since he received them.

He didn’t believe that these ten people would so easily allow him to
hold on to these things. What he had said before was to simply
mislead them.

After a lot of experience with entering the rifts, Wang Lin realized
that the rifts that were opened by using the inheritance were
different. If one entered it, they wouldn’t have to immediately exit
on the other side, because there was a small space between entrance
and the exit. The space was filled with chaotic energy that prevented
any divine sense to enter.

He experimented with it before. He took out a flying sword and

threw it into the rift. When the sword entered the rift, he lost
connection with it. Only after the sword came out from the other
side was the connection restored.

His heart became excited. If he could take advantage of this property

of the rift, it could work wonders for him.

After pondering a little, Wang Lin took the bag of top quality spirit
stones, the beast trap, and the ten instruments, mixed them up a bit,
and placed them in three different bags of holding.

At the same time, a change occurred.

Dou Mu’s group looked at each other and, following the old man, put
their hands together. A light beam connected the ten of them,
forming an irregular shape that surrounded Ta Sen.

Ta Sen’s cold eyes glanced at the ten people. His face revealed a cold
smile. He sneered, “You ten have waited so many years, and now
finally found an opportunity? Very good!”

The old man’s face became gloomy. Without a word, his two hands
constantly changed. The other nine followed suit. Their hands
changed signs faster and faster.

The irregular shape that had been formed suddenly started to glow
and close in on Ta Sen.

Ta Sen smiled coldly as he looked away. He looked at the creature

and slowly said, “It seems you guys have already been in contact with
each other. You planned to seal me again.”

The creature stared at Ta Sen and calmly said, “After sealing you,
these ten will each get part of the inheritance. With this large of a
temptation, anyone would agree.”

Ta Sen didn’t seem to care about the irregular shape quickly closing
in on his body. He started to laugh loudly. His right hand held the
spear and suddenly struck forward. A series of booms could be
heard. A large black dragon suddenly appeared and charged at the
irregular shape.

Shortly after, the red haired man pointed his finger at his brow while
coldly looking directly at the old man and shouted, “Explode!”

The old man’s expression changed. His body started to glow red.
Slivers of chaotic Qi came out of him as his body trembled. He
quickly placed his hand on his stomach and shouted, “Scatter!”
Suddenly, the red light was vented out of his body. The other nine’s
faces became more serious and their hands changed signs. This
caused them to switch to a state in which they could absorb Qi.

The red light quickly split into nine red lights and entered the bodies
of the nine people. They were glowing red. The old man quickly
shouted, “Close!”

In that moment, the red light quickly left the nine people’s bodies,
became one again, and went back to the old man’s body. The
moment the red light entered his body, he trembled and spat out a
mouthful of black blood. His face suddenly paled. He stared at Ta
Sen and grinned, “Ta Sen, since this old man dared to attempt to kill
you, I already have a method to break your technique. This technique
is useless against me!”

All these events felt like they took a long time, but they happened
within the span of a few breaths.

Ta Sen secretly sneered. He pointed his finger at his brow and

looked at the nine other people, one by one, and shouted, “Explode!”

The old man’s eyes lit up and he quickly shouted, “Li Peng!”

Ta Sen paused. He faintly remember the words “Li Peng”. It was the
name of the person from the group of 11 that had escaped from him
all those years ago.

At this point, a laugh appeared from the mouth of the creature. That
voice clearly wasn’t from the creature, but from another person. The
creature opened its mouth and spat out a core. A tumor grew on the
core.

The tumor was tightly attached to the core, as if it were a parasite.

After the tumor grew a bit, it split open and a person’s face appeared
from within.
The face looked very scholar-like, but the eyes, that were filled with
evil like a demon lord’s eyes, coldly stared at Ta Sen and spit out a
complicated chant.

The chant created ten circles that quickly appeared around the ten
people and completely negated Ta Sen’s method of exploding the
soul fragments.

Ta Sen jerked his head around and coldly stared at the face. His
expression became dark, and he said, “It seems the reason I couldn’t
catch you all those years ago was because you were saved by this
animal!”

The head smiled bitterly, revealing a look of resentment. His voice

was filled with hate and said, word for word, “Back when the eleven
of us believed your lies, broke the seal that Tu Si had placed on you,
and allowed you to regain your freedom, we realized that that was
the biggest mistake of our lives. Today, we will clear up our mistake.
It doesn’t matter if it’s the inheritance of power or inheritance of
knowledge, both will be ours.”

Ta Sen moved the spear in his hand. He revealed a sarcastic smile

and calmly said, “First, its ten people betraying me, then this animal
was hiding another person. It can’t just be these two moves. What
else is there?” With that, he gazed at Wang Lin and the hundreds of
dumbfounded demonic cultivators that were outside the battlefield.

The head that was connected to the core sneered, “You will find out!”
With that, he communicated with the creature using some unknown
method. The creature suddenly moved violently and coiled in the
water. It’s enormous body kept coiling, until it reached the height of
Ta Sen and completely surrounded him.

Within the creature’s body, the black dragon formed by the spear
stopped a dozen feet from the irregular shape.

As a result, Ta Sen was completely surrounded.

Ta Sen’s expression remained calm. He let out a sarcastic smile and
spit out a purple light that became the half moon blade. It landed in
his left hand. Ta Sen held the spear in his right hand and the half
moon blade in his left hand. He attacked with both.

Suddenly, the irregular shape that surrounded him showed signs of

collapse.

Ta Sen’s eyes lit up. He threw the two weapons forward and they
each formed a meteor that hit the edge of the irregular shape.

Among the ten people, four of them spit out a mouthful of blood and
trembled as if they couldn’t hold on much longer.

In that moment of crisis, the creature’s body suddenly turned stiff

and a bump formed on the top of its head. Within the bump, a man
covered in scales appeared. His pupils were diamond shaped. They
gave off an inhuman feel.

The moment the person appeared, a shriek came from his mouth.
The shriek was extremely sharp. It formed countless invisible blades
that homed in on Ta Sen.

At the same time, the old man’s expression turned rigid. His
forehead was covered in sweat. The irregular shape formed by the
ten of them solely depended on themselves to maintain. With every
shake caused by Ta Sen, their hearts trembled. He looked at Wang
Lin and lowly growled, “Little friend, act now!”

Wang Lin’s expression became gloomy. He stared at Ta Sen. Since

the moment the old man started to act, Wang Lin had observed Ta
Sen, and from the start until now, the old man’s eyes were still calm.

After hearing the old man’s words, Wang Lin suddenly moved and
charged toward the old man. The old man’s expression became
excited. Right when he was about to speak, Wang Lin’s direction
shifted and he flew past the hold man and quickly charged toward
the million foot long creature.

Wang Lin didn’t care if these people lived or died, all he cared about
at that moment was one thing, and that was the special scale on the
creature. In fact, from the start, he never planned to help with the so
called seal. Wang Lin didn’t believe he had the power to do so.

The old man’s expression became sullen. He snorted and placed his
hands on his chest, forming a diamond shape. He shouted, “My
instrument, attack!”

The moment the old man’s words came out, Wang Lin’s right hand
quickly opened a rift and entered it.
Chapter 197: The True Inheritance
The man standing on top of the creature jerked his head and looked
toward Wang Lin with a strange expression on his face. He thought,
“Impossible…”

The moment Wang Lin entered the rift, the bag holding the top
quality spirit stones, the ten instruments, and the beast trap all
started to glow.

However, the glow immediately dimmed once he entered the rift, as

if a force was interfering with the divine sense connected to the
bags.

Wan Lin already knew that with the personalities of those ten
people, they wouldn’t just hand over their treasures. They must have
placed some sort of technique on them to allow them to control
their treasures remotely.

So when Wang Lin received those items, he had always been on

guard against them. He decided to use the rift that could cut off
divine sense as a countermeasure.

The moment Wang Lin’s body entered the rift, the old man’s
expression changed as he noticed that his divine sense was
obstructed.

Ta Sen’s sarcastic smile became wider. He let out a growl and waved
his right hand, causing a circle of red light to appear. It was small at
first, but quickly began to widen. Soon after, his right hand didn’t
stop moving and formed more red circles. He sent them in all
directions.

The irregular shape surrounding Ta Sen started to shake violently.

The old man didn’t have time to worry about Wang Lin and regained
his focus to keep the irregular shape intact.
As for the man covered in scales, who had been standing on top of
the creature, he began to ponder. Without a word, he slammed his
hand on his forehead and he split into two. [Facepalm so powerful,
his body split into two] One of his bodies charged toward the
irregular shape. The moment he touched the irregular shape, he
recited a chant and used his hand to form seals that allowed him to
pass through the irregular shape.

After successfully entering, his eyes lit up and he waved his right
hand, causing an illusionary spear to appear in his grasp. The spear
looked exactly like the one Ta Sen had, only this one was a mere
illusion.

But the pressure released from the spear wasn’t in any way inferior
to the real spear. He immediately lunged forward and attacked Ta
Sen.

Outside the irregular shape, the other him drifted in the air,
constantly chanting and forming hand signs. Countless balls of
purple lightning appeared around his body.

More and more balls of lightning appeared. The lightning crackled

between the balls, releasing a destructive aura.

Although he was constantly performing techniques, his eyes were

locked on to the special scale on the creature’s body while carefully
observing the surroundings.

All of this happened in almost the exact instant Wang Lin’s body
disappeared into the rift. The moment the old man shifted his
attention to maintaining the irregular shape, a rift suddenly
appeared near the special scale on the creature.

A shadow suddenly came out of the rift.

The old man and the man covered in scales immediately noticed the
rift and the shadow coming out of it. The old man’s face revealed an
hateful expression. He tried to do two things at once. He used his
left side to keep the irregular shape intact and raised a finger in his
right hand to point at the figure that appeared from the rift.
However, he was momentarily stunned, then revealed a cold smile.
From the figure that appeared, he couldn’t sense his life saving
treasure at all.

As for the man covered in scales, he didn’t even look at the figure,
but waved his hand, commanding a small part of the balls of purple
lightning to charge toward the figure.

However, after a few moments, he frowned and commanded the

balls of lightning to change direction, but the figure, instead of
dodging them, charged toward the balls of lightning.

The figure moved extremely fast and collided with the balls of
lightning, but the figure quickly bursted into small creatures. They
were completely destroyed by the balls of lightning.

While the lightning was rumbling, four large, black tornados

appeared from the rift.

The tornados hummed, and one of them seemed to be concealing

something inside. The scale covered man’s expression became
strange. After carefully looking at the tornados, he let out a sarcastic
smile. Within those tornados were only some soul fragments, not
Wang Lin. All of this was simply to trick people.

He waved his right hand and more of the balls of purple lightning
were sent out. This time, the balls of lightning went around the
tornados because he had a new target: the rift.

As for the old man, he had the same idea. His pointed at the rift with
this right hand.

As a result, the four tornados successfully made their way past the
scaled man and charged toward the million foot long creature. Soon,
the tornados arrived next to the creature.

When the balls of lightning hit the rift, the rift slowly became
smaller and smaller, until it disappeared.

The man covered in scales was stunned. Without a word, he waved

both of his hands and all the balls of purple lightning around him
suddenly shot toward the four tornados. He wished he could send
the body that he had sent to fight with Ta Sen to charge at the
tornados as well.

But in that moment, Ta Sen, who was surrounded at the center of the
irregular shape, stared at the black tornados. His eyes lit up as he
understood what was happening and let out a laugh. Disregarding
the person he was fighting, he chanted a few very complex chants
and his body suddenly turned into a blood mist.

After the blood mist appeared, it quickly spread in all directions. The
irregular shape that surrounded him suddenly collapsed and
released a shockwave outwards

This caused all ten people that were maintaining the irregular shape
to display frightened expressions. Six people, including Dou Mu,
were hit by the shock wave. Their bodies were soon invaded by the
blood mist, which rampaged through their bodies, destroying all
their internal organs, before finally exiting from their heads.

The moment the blood mist came out, the six revealed looks of
disbelief as their limp and empty bodies fell straight into the Dead
Sea.

The man charging toward Wang Lin had to stop and turn around. He
didn’t have the time to deal with Wang Lin. Both his hands opened,
directing the balls of purple lightning that were charging at the black
tornados to turn and shoot toward the blood mist.
Meanwhile, his other body threw the illusionary spear. The spear
turned into a black dragon and charged toward the blood mist.

As for the four people that survived, all were extremely afraid,
especially the old man. He never thought that Ta Sen still had a
move like this.

The blood mist under the pursuit of the balls of purple lightning and
the black dragon quickly came together to form ten identical copies
of the red haired man. They all appeared in different locations. One
of them suddenly charged toward the black tornados.

The remaining nine bodies followed the lead of the two that held
the spear and the half moon blade. They started to close in on the
man covered in scales and the remaining four survivors.

Almost immediately, the body that chased the black tornados caught
up. He waved his hand and sent out a red light. The four tornados
quickly fused into one.

After the tornados fused into one, it collapsed, and countless souls
of small creatures burst out in all directions.

A few of the souls hit the scales of the million foot long creature.

The sudden turn of events stunned that clone. He let out a smile and
pointed his finger in various directions. With each point, a large
amount of the small creatures’ souls disappeared.

But at the same time, the souls that hit the million foot long
creature started to gather together. They released a demonic feel
before quickly exploding.

This explosion caused a chain effect. All of the remaining souls

exploded, causing a large amount of Ling Qi to release into the
surrounding area.
The moment the explosions occurred, a rift appeared near the
million foot long creature’s body and a figure quickly rushed out. It
moved like lightning, and, in a flash, it landed on a scale on the giant
creature’s body.

This person was Wang Lin, however, this time, his body didn’t look
real, more like an illusion. It was clear that the him now was his soul
that had left his body.

The moment Wang Lin appeared, the clone of the man covered in
scales that was fighting with Ta Sen and slowly moving here was
suddenly stunned as he stared at Wang Lin. His eyes revealed a look
of disbelief. From Wang Lin’s soul, he sensed a fragment of the
inheritance of knowledge.

All of this happened in a very short period of time. Wang Lin had
always had a careful personality when he entered the rift, and felt
the destructive force coming from the items he got from Dou Mu’s
group. This caused him to be extra careful. In conclusion, how could
he reappear without any preparation?

Thus, he used the method from the inheritance of knowledge to hide

in the rift and used the rift’s effect of blocking out divine sense to
block the effects of those treasures. After he carefully examined the
treasures, he noticed that the glow dimmed and the destructive force
went away. Only then did he relax a bit.

So after he opened the rift, he sent out the souls of small beasts as
scouts. He found that the attention of not only the old man, but also
the attention of the man covered in scales were focused on him.

Wang Lin was watching when that man come out from the million
foot long creature earlier, and he realized that the man covered in
scales could fight evenly with Ta Sen. Taking these factors into
account, Wang Lin didn’t dare come out.
He carefully pondered for a while, then he sent out four black
tornados and hid part of his divine sense inside of them, then
quickly retreated back into the rift.

As for everything that happened between Ta Sen and them, he saw it

all through the black tornados, especially Ta Sen’s supernatural
ability, which made Wang Lin feel that his earlier decision was
correct. If he had really followed the old man’s instructions and tried
to seal Ta Sen, it seemed that before he could even complete the
seal, he would have died like those six.

After Ta Sen formed the ten clones, one of them came toward Wang
Lin. Wang Lin fused the four tornados himself, before Ta Sen could
act, and the countless souls of small beasts burst out. As a result, his
divine sense scattered among the souls of the small beasts, so the
chances of him being found out were a lot lower.

However, Wang Lin was not arrogant enough to think that he

wouldn’t be found out. If he was found out, then, at most, he would
just cut off that part of his divine sense.

After all, the main purpose of this portion of his divine sense was to
act as a scout. He controlled the souls of the small beasts to land on
the body of the million foot creature.

One of the souls hit that special scale by accident, and the moment it
touched the scale, he clearly felt a strong call from it.

Under this call, the portion of inheritance that he held inside his
mind felt like it was going to jump out of his body.

But at the same time, within his inheritance, a new piece of memory
appeared. After understanding the memory, Wang Lin’s heart
couldn’t help but sink.

Wang Lin soon decided to make all of the souls of the small beasts
explode. He sneered as his soul left his body and exited the rift like
lightning.

Just as Wang Lin expected, the cultivation gap between him and Ta
Sen was far too big. Despite it being a clone, it was clearly not at a
level that Wang Lin could hide from. The clone left a feeling of
disdain in his heart. He already detected Wang Lin’s divine sense in
the black tornados, or else he wouldn’t have used a power that
would hurt his body.

In fact, when Ta Sen entered the Dead Soul Sea, he felt that
something was wrong. Even though he had no connection with the
inheritance of knowledge, because he was born from Tu Si’s evil
thoughts, he was very familiar with Tu Si’s knowledge sea.

This place seemed a bit odd to him, but he couldn’t clearly say what
was odd about it. This was entirely based off his instincts.

Even with the million foot long creature appearing and the ten
people betraying him, he didn’t mind much. All he really cared about
was what was odd about this place. It wasn’t until Wang Lin
appeared from the rift that it struck him like lightning and made
him come to some understanding.

This was why he used the supernatural power to break out and why
he didn’t immediately destroy Wang Lin’s divine sense, because he
wanted to see exactly what this soul devourer had figured out.

In a flash, Wan Lin’s soul landed on the million foot long creature’s
body. His body was very hazy, and he directed a cold smile at Ta
Sen’s clone.

Ta Sen’s clone stared at the scales around where Wang Lin stood. He
let out a cold smile. He knew that the odd thing about this place was
one of those scales. While he didn’t know which scale it was, once
he fused back into one body, he knew he would be able to figure it
out.
At this point, in his eyes, Wang Lin had lost all value. He formed a
diamond with his hand and looked at Wang Lin and said, “Die!”

Wang Lin’s smile became even colder. Earlier, when his divine sense
hit the scale, the memory he gained was that no physical body could
enter the place holding the inheritance of knowledge, only the soul
could enter.

After receiving this memory, he decided to head out with just his
soul. This was his bold idea. If everything turned out as he expected,
then he would be the first person to enter the place holding the
inheritance of knowledge.

If this was true, then obtaining the complete inheritance of

knowledge was not impossible. Thinking about this, Wang Lin’s
heart began to pound.

As for Ta Sen’s clone’s attack, Wang Lin didn’t mind it at all. His
soul started to spread out like a cloud, and three words began to
shine. Those three words were: “Ancient God Tactic”!

Ta Sen’s clone’s face suddenly changed. All the other clones that
were fighting noticed something and all turned to Wang Lin’s
direction. All of their expressions suddenly changed greatly.

The clones stared at the three golden words. Soon, his body moved,
and all of the nine other clones charged toward where Wang Lin
stood.

Almost immediately, the man covered in scales was shocked. Then,

an idea came to him, and he quickly fused back into one body. He
chased after Ta Sen’s clones and laughed loudly, “Ta Sen, anyone but
you can inherit the master’s inheritance of knowledge. Little guy, it
all depends on your luck!”

Those last words were meant for Wang Lin. In that moment, he
made a decision, a decision that would cost him a price he could
barely withstand.

Suddenly, the man covered in scales pointed his hand at his brow
and said, “Using my clone as a sacrifice, I transfer the inheritance of
knowledge!” His clone quickly shook, and, along with the spear, both
turned into golden specks of light and disappeared.

As the clone that was the closest to Wang Lin charged at him, Wang
Lin’s soul, which was spreading out quickly, shrunk, as if it were
being sucked in by a strong force. In the blink of an eye, Wang Lin’s
soul was sucked in by the special scale and disappeared.

Soon after the man covered in scales said those words, the scale
exploded and disappeared without a trace.

Ta Sen’s clone turned back toward the man covered in scales and
roared. His clones fused back into one body. His left hand was
holding the half moon blade and his right hand was holding the
spear. He stared at the man covered in scales with intense rage in
his eyes.

“If that little guy doesn’t manage to merge with the inheritance of
knowledge within a thousand years, you might have another
chance!” The man covered in scales began to laugh loudly.

Disregarding what happened with those two, after Wang Lin’s soul
was absorbed by the scale, he arrived at a world of clouds. This place
had no sky or land, but endless clouds as far as the eyes could see.
Chapter 198: Body Reconstruction
There were many blue ice crystals flowing in the clouds, each of
them about ten feet wide. Wang Lin scanned the area and found a
total of 94 ice crystals.

After scanning the area, he discovered that one of the ice crystals
was smaller than the rest. Wang Lin immediately recognized it as
the ice crystal that Sky Devil Magician tried to get when he opened
that tunnel.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He finally understood that the ancient god’s
inheritance of knowledge wasn’t just one ice crystal, but 94 of them.

The part that Wang Lin had absorbed wasn’t even 1% of it.

Wang Lin was here as his soul. After pondering a little, his soul
landed on top of that ice crystal.

The moment his soul touched it, the ice crystal suddenly melted and
fused with Wang Lin’s soul. Waves of majestic memories entered
Wang Lin’s soul. As time passed, the memories came to him faster
and faster. Wang Lin’s soul became like an expanding cloud.

Countless complex chants, countless strange technique, and

countless fragments of memories stormed into Wang Lin’s mind
like roaring dragons. His soul was torn apart, then reassembled.

As that cycle continued, tidal waves of pain completely engulfed

Wang Lin.

In reality, Wang Lin shouldn’t have been able to feel anything in his
soul form, but he was feeling pain all over his soul, as if there were
countless insects devouring him.
This feeling stayed with him. Even when he absorbed the first part
of the inheritance back then, he didn’t have this feeling. Little by
little, he lost control of his soul. Part of it flew out in thin lines and
eventually surrounded him to form a cocoon.

The cocoon formed by his soul glowed blue like the ice crystals. In
fact, it looked just like a slightly larger ice crystal.

While this process took place, Wang Lin’s soul entered a state of
chaos. He had experienced this feeling before, when he first
absorbed part of the inheritance. Even after experiencing it once
before, the first time could be compared to a trickling stream, while
this time it was like a raging river.

He feel like a leaf on the raging river, helplessly being swept with
the ups and downs of the rapids. Every wave would make his pain
worse.

Suddenly, he saw a light in front of his eyes. Soon, a familiar scene

appeared before him. There was an empty space with countless
specks of light glowing before him.

This scene, Wang Lin had seen before. Upon seeing the scene again,
he suddenly gained a bit of understanding. The moment he gained
that little understanding, the pain that he had been experiencing
disappeared without a trace.

Soon after, a feeling of numbness immediately began to spread from

every part of his soul. The countless chants, techniques, and
memories moving in his soul finally calmed down and completely
integrated into it.

Slowly, Wang Lin felt his soul move forward, and those specks of
light became larger and larger. Eventually, they became giant
planets. Soon, he saw the large body of the ancient god.
Wang Lin already knew that the youth he saw before was the
Ancient God Tu Si when he was a child, and the giant before him,
who was the size of a planet, was the adult Tu Si.

Tu Si’s face looked very normal. The only exception was that there
were eight stars in a circle between his eyebrows. In addition, his
skin was very rough and contained countless cracks. However, the
cracks were barely visible. They were hard to notice if you didn’t
examine Tu Si very carefully.

But after carefully observing him, there were countless cracks. His
skin looked like a cracked shell.

At this point, Tu Si’s eyes were bursting with light, staring at a planet
in the distance with a thoughtful look on his face. Soon after, his
large hand lightly reached out and made a grabbing motion, causing
that planet to shatter into dust and disappear among the countless
specks.

From the dust cloud flew out a golden light. With a wave of his hand,
the golden light changed directions and flew toward Tu Si. Soon, the
golden light landed in his hand and became a golden nugget.

The object was clearly some sort of material. It looked like gold, but
wasn’t. It was stone, but not stone. It had sections of black lines on
it. While holding it, Tu Si made another grabbing gesture with his
other hand and another planet exploded.

And so, just like that, after an unknown amount of time, more than
30 planets had been destroyed. At this point, many different colored
materials lied in his hands.

Next, both of Tu Si’s hands moved, and all of the materials fused
together. He became focused and recited some chants that fused
into the material.
Soon after, he closed and reopened his eyes. The moment he opened
them, the eight stars on his forehead started to spin, as of they were
alive. The stars shot out rays of golden light into the material.

After a long time, a square pyramid that glowed with rainbow colors
appeared in his hand.

This square pyramid gave of a look of majesty. A feeling of being

able to destroy the world escaped from the pyramid as countless
vortexes appeared near it. Wang Lin’s soul felt a sucking force when
he saw the pyramid. He had a feeling of terror in his heart as he
nervously looked at it.

Tu Si looked at the pyramid and shook his head with a look of pity
on his face. He grabbed it and examined it some more before
throwing it at a planet. It disappeared into the planet.

Tu Si sighed. His body moved, and after a few steps, he disappeared

into the void.

Wang Lin witnessed all the events that had just occurred. Tu Si was
clearly trying to create a device. After using more than 30 planets as
resources, Wang Lin would expect the square pyramid to be some
sort of legendary artifact, but he would never have expected Tu Si to
only look at it for a bit, then throw it away because he wasn’t
satisfied with it.

If such a treasure landed in the hands of a cultivator, then that

person would be almost unstoppable. He stared at the planet that
the square pyramid went to and secretly sighed.

As for the process of refining the treasure, Wang Lin saw it all.
Although he didn’t know what materials or chant Tu Si used, Wang
Lin believed that once he absorbed all of the blue ice crystals, he
would know it all.
After Ancient God Tu Si left, he clearly felt his soul begin to
disappear from that place. Soon, all of his soul disappeared from
there.

At the place that held the inheritance of knowledge, besides the 93

blue ice crystals, there was a blue cocoon. Soon, countless cracks
appeared on the cocoon.

Countless colorful lights peered out from the cracks. As more and
more cracks appeared, the colorful light became more and more
intense. Soon, with a cracking sound, the cocoon broke open.

A half transparent figure that emitted colorful light appeared from

the cocoon.

The person was Wang Lin.

Wang Lin opened his eyes and looked down at his body. His eyes
revealed a questioning look. He could clearly feel that after
absorbing the blue ice crystal, not only did he gain more memories,
but his soul went from an almost completely illusionary state, to this
half transparent state.

After contemplating a little, Wang Lin tried to move his soul, but his
current body immediately collapsed and spread out into the
surroundings.

Wang Lin moved his soul again, and once again it fused back into
that half transparent state. He pondered silently for a while, then
waved his right hand and formed a mirror made of the ice crystal.

After glancing at the mirror, Wang Li suddenly quivered. He stared

at the mirror, unable to utter a word.

From the mirror, he could see the half transparent figure. Although
it was half transparent, he could still see its features. It contained a
very common looking face.
Wang Lin just stared at the mirror. His face revealed a very
complicated emotion. He thought that, one day, he would be able to
regain his old body.

He had forgotten how many years it had been since his body was
destroyed by Teng Hua Yuan, but he had never forgotten about the
body that was given to him by his parents. Everytime he
remembered it, his heart would fill with hate for Teng Hua Yuan.

After a long time, Wang Lin sighed, and his mood was calm again.
He moved his soul and quickly surrounded another blue ice crystal.

The extreme pain from before appeared again. This time, Wang Lin
was prepared and he remained calm. All the information bursted
into his soul and was absorbed by him.

Shortly after, his soul became unable to withstand it any longer. It

collapsed and soon surrounded him in that oval cocoon again.

The empty space, filled with countless specks of light, appeared

again. This time, he observed the ancient god refining a pill. It was
made using the Ling Qi of countless planets.

This pill, in Wang Lin’s eyes, was extremely rough. It looked like a
ball of mud that was releasing a horrifying amount of Ling Qi, but no
matter how you looked at it, it didn’t look like a pill.

After Tu Si took the pill, the cracks in his body became much
thinner, and, between the cracks, appeared countless patterns that
emitted a very mysterious atmosphere. With the ancient god’s
movement, the patterns created an illusion and looked as if they
were alive.

When the giant cocoon broke again, Wang Lin’s body became a bit
more solid.
Time slowly passed. Wang Lin continued to absorb Tu Si’s
inheritance of knowledge. After absorbing one ice crystal, he would
move on to the next.

When the 34th ice crystal was absorbed by him, his soul was solid.
No matter how hard you looked, you couldn’t find any difference
between his soul now and a real body. As for his hair, it was still
white like before.

Wang Lin took a deep breath and began to carefully examine his
body. No matter if it was his sense of touch, smell, sound, or taste,
all were the same as a real body.

Gradually, Wang Lin’s heart became filled with more and more
doubt. All he did was absorb the ancient god’s inheritance of
knowledge. Why would his soul turn into a body?

This body, aside from not having a Jie Dan, was exactly the same as a
normal body.

Wang Lin pondered a little and cut his left arm. From the wound, red
blood dripped out. While staring at the blood, Wang Lin finally
understood that he had really recovered his old body.

He closed his eyes, and after scanning his soul, he found that there
were no changes to it. Within his soul, the circle of bright lightning
around the core of the soul devourer spun, and every rotation sent
out waves that expanded his soul.

Within his soul, no matter if it was the Heaven Revolting Bead or

the Ji Realm, everything remained the same.

After he carefully explored his body, he opened his eyes and

tightened his fists.

Wang Lin didn’t need any time at all to get familiar with the body
his soul formed, since this was, after all, his original body. When he
moved his fist, Wang Lin’s heart was filled with joy.

He raised his head and his eyes became cold. He said, “Teng Hua
Yuan, you destroyed my body back then, but now I have managed to
reform it. Once I reach Yuan Ying stage with this body, I’ll kill my
way to the country of Zhao and kill the entire Teng Family! This hate
can only be calmed by the blood of your entire family. Only the souls
of the entire Teng Family can calm my heart!”

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. When he first arrived in this place, he didn’t
expect there to be 94 ice crystals. That disrupted his original plan.

He originally planned to absorbed the inheritance of knowledge and

find the ink stone needed to make the Restriction Flag, then return
to his body and leave the Land of the Ancient God that he had been
trapped in for so many years.

If everything went according to his plan, then this time, Wang Lin’s
harvest would have been great. Not only did he manage to learn the
art of restrictions, he also learned the method for making the
restriction flag and managed to obtain Hunchback Meng’s and
Ancient Emperor’s bags of holding. Of course, there was still that
beast trap and the 20 top quality spirit stones. If you include the 10
instruments as well, then he really did have a bountiful harvest.

In addition, there was still the more valuable inheritance of

knowledge.

But after finding out that there were 94 ice crystals, Wang Lin
became much more cautious. If he could enter this place, then
others could as well.

But after waiting for a long time, no one else came. It was clear that
some change happened.

More importantly, the place where Wang Lin hid his body was also
where all of his bags of holding were. But that place was between
the rifts, so he was not too worried about its safety, but if his body
was without a soul for too long, then there might be complications.
However, since Wang Lin formed a new body, he finally relaxed a bit.

As time passed, Wang Lin’s speed in fusing with the ice crystals
became slower and slower. On the 57th ice crystal, after Wang Lin
broke out of the cocoon, there was a faint star between his
eyebrows.

Wang Lin quietly sat crossed legged within the cocoon. He closed his
eyes. After a very long time, he opened them again. They exuded a
mysterious light.

Although the Wang Lin now looked like that youth from the country
of Zhao all those years ago, the atmosphere he emitted now was
completely different. The him now, with his white hair flowing, gave
off the feeling of an extremely dangerous stranger, just like a savage
beast that caused people’s hearts to grow cold.

The star on his forehead appeared between his eyebrows after the
57th ice crystal. The moment the star appeared, it felt as if mind was
struck by lightning and became clear.

He clearly remembered that on the Ancient God’s Tu Si’s forehead

there were eight stars. He remembered that no matter it it was
refining a treasure or a pill, they all required some mysterious power
from the stars.

But the stars on Tu Si’s forehead were red, and the star on his head
was only a faint outline. In fact, if you didn’t look at it carefully, you
couldn’t even see it.

Even though he didn’t know how to get the rest of the stars on his
forehead, Wang Lin believed that once he absorbed all of the ice
crystals, he would have an understanding of it.
Although Wang Lin didn’t know much about the star, after
absorbing more than 50 ice crystals, Wang Lin gained an
understanding on why his body reformed.

The Ancient Gods focused on refining the body. Every Ancient God
used all of the Ling Qi they absorbed to refine their body. As a result,
even if they were Ancient Gods, their bodies would reach a limit and
stop becoming stronger.

At that point, there was a need to expand the body, otherwise, one’s
cultivation would stop. Only by expanding the body would one be
able to reach higher cultivation. It could be said that the larger the
Ancient God’s body, the more Ling Qi could be stored in it. Once the
limit was reached, the Ancient God’s body would go through
reconstruction. This could be considered reaching a new stage of
cultivation.

Each Ancient God would experience countless body expansions, and

also countless body reconstructions. The more they experienced, it
the stronger they became.

And after each reconstruction, the Ancient God’s soul also increased
in size. For the Ancient Gods, there were no stages of cultivation,
there was only the soul and the body’s strength.

The inheritance of knowledge that Wang Lin had absorbed

contained the lifetime memories of Tu Si. Even though Tu Si died in
an early adult stage while practicing the Flowing Ink Transformation
Divine Technique, he had experienced body reconstruction eight
times.

Each body reconstruction was an unforgettable experience for the

Ancient Gods. After all, each reconstruction was a step to becoming
stronger. Before, Wang Lin only absorbed a small part of the
inheritance, so there wasn’t much change.
After entering this area, he completely absorbed 1 of the 94 ice
crystals, and the ability of reconstruction automatically started.

Therefore, Wang Lin’s body began to reform, using his soul as the
core and his memory as the template. To Wang Lin, undergoing the
process of body reconstruction wasn’t anything special. In fact, if
anyone else received the inheritance, they would go through the
same process.

But when Wang Lin’s body reformed, it allowed him to recover his
original body.

Although this body looked very normal, compared to ordinary

cultivators, it was much stronger.

If Wang Lin could experience 8 reconstructions, then his body would

be like the Ancient God’s.

After understanding all of this, Wang Lin came to a wild conclusion.

Maybe the 8 stars on Tu Si’s forehead had to do with his 8
reconstructions.

If that was really the case, then that would explain why there was a
star on his forehead. After all, his body had reconstructed once.

But according to Wang Lin’s analysis, his body’s reconstruction

wasn’t complete, otherwise, why would the star on his forehead still
have no color and remain so faint.

This was all Wang Lin’s speculation, because he didn’t have that
memory yet, but he believed that he would soon have the answer.

After absorbing 57 ice crystals, the broken pieces of chants,

techniques, and memories were starting to become complete. This
caused his soul to become very chaotic. Sometimes, Wang Lin’s soul
would become confused, sometimes he would believe he was Tu Si,
and sometimes he would remember that he was Wang Lin.
This chaotic feeling caused his heart to feel a strong sense of doom.
Despite Tu Si being dead, and there not being any chance of being
possessed, Wang Lin believed that if he absorbed all of the
inheritance of knowledge, if one of them wasn’t properly handled,
he would really think that he was Tu Si and forget his real identity.

Because of this, Wang Lin had slowed the speed at which he

absorbed the inheritance. Only after he had completely absorbed
one ice crystal would he move on to the next.

As a result, the chaotic feeling in his soul lessened by a lot. Although

it still happened sometimes, Wang Lin was able to maintain his
identity.

Although the speed had gone down, the key was to be steady. Wang
Lin wasn’t in a rush and slowly absorbed the inheritance.

Time flew by. Wang Lin had completely lost his sense of time in this
place. After every time he came out of his cocoon, his soul would be
in a state of chaos for an unknown amount of time.
Chapter 199: Land of the Ancient
God (Final)
I have a coconut.

Wang Lin clearly remembered how many ice crystals he had

absorbed.

After the 70th ice crystal, they took several times longer to absorb.

As Wang Lin absorbed more ice crystals, they contained more and
more memories, and the first thing that Wang Lin would do after
breaking out of the cocoon was check his body. As he absorbed more
and more of the inheritance, his speculation was confirmed. The
star on his forehead represented the amount of times that his body
had undergone reconstruction.

After every ice crystal he absorbed, the color of the star on his
forehead would become more clear, and at the same time, Wang Lin
could clearly feel that with every ice crystal he absorbed, his body
underwent an adjustment. After readjusting 70 times, Wang Lin
could feel his body’s toughness. It was as if he was following the
steps of the Ancient Gods.

Although, from the outside, his body looked completely normal, the
inside had undergone tremendous change. After absorbing 70 ice
crystals, his body was extremely robust.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He speculated that, in its current state, his
body would be able to withstand blows from a spirit forming stage
cultivator.

Time passed. Today, within the space that contained the ancient
god’s inheritance of knowledge, there were no more blue ice crystals
remaining. The only thing left was a giant dark blue cocoon
The cocoon was not normal. There were countless cracks on its
surface. If one looked carefully, then they would say that they looked
like the cracks on Tu Si’s skin.

This giant cocoon had been here for countless years with no sign of
breaking. The entire surrounding area felt like it was silenced by
some mysterious force. There had been no change in these countless
years.

Wang Lin’s body laid inside the cocoon. His heart had long since
stopped beating. His entire body lied in there, in a death-like state.

His soul was in complete chaos. The time that it was taking to
absorb the last ice crystal had been much longer than the last 93
combined.

His soul was submerged in the ancient god’s memories. He

experienced the events from the birth of the Ancient God Tu Si, to
when he decided to practice the Flowing Ink Transformation Divine
Technique, as if he was there himself. After experiencing all that,
Wang Lin even had a feeling that he himself was an Ancient God.

This type of confusion was something that Wang Lin had been
avoiding, but now, on the last ice crystal, this feeling burst forth.

Because of of this, Wang Lin’s soul remained in a state of slumber.

After an unknown amount of time, a cracking sound could be heard
from the giant cocoon.

Shortly after, continuous cracking sounds emitted from the cocoon.

The countless lines that covered it began to grow wider. Soon, with a
pop, the entire cocoon broke open.

A body emerged from the cocoon. That person had black eyes and
white hair, with a very ordinary face, but very tyrannical atmosphere.
Currently, the person’s eyes were closed, and heart his was stopped.
He presented no sign of life.
After a long time, his eyes opened. His eyes felt like they contained
endless power.

Wang Lin slowly let out a breath, then he examined his body. After
absorbing the 94th ice crystal, he could clearly feel how strong his
body had become. Even though he hadn’t done any testing, he was
confident that this body would help him reach his goal and bring
him many benefits.

Recalling when he was absorbing the last ice crystal, his heart still
felt shocked. If he didn’t take precautions before going into it, like
when he absorbed the 50th ice crystal and slowed down the rate he
was absorbing the ice crystals in order to create a solid foundation,
then after absorbing the 94th ice crystal, he would have lost himself
and would’ve ended up becoming a lunatic who thought he was Tu Si
.

Because of the solid foundation that he had built, he was able

withstand the storm and keep his identity.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. The memories he obtained were almost
complete, but his heart still felt a trace of doubt. According to the
memories that he had received, they contained the moment of Tu
Si’s birth to when Tu Si started practicing the Flowing Ink
Transformation Divine Technique, but not of when he was
practicing the technique that lead to his death.

Wang Lin pondered for a while. He carefully scanned the

surroundings. He had a wild guess that there weren’t only 94 ice
crystals, but not too much more.

It’s just that, why weren’t the remaining few here? Wang Lin
frowned and pondered it for a while, but gave up thinking about it.
Both his hands moved to form a seal, then he spoke in the Ancient
God’s language and said, “Open!”
Immediately, a curved rift opened before him. Within it were three
black, glowing stones.

Wang Lin grabbed the three stones with this right hand. As he
stepped forward, ripples spread out from under his feet.

He took three steps and his body disappeared from this place.

Those three stones were the key material for making the restriction
flag. Within a rift in the Ancient God’s meridian, there were
countless restrictions placed in a way that formed a ring around a
certain spot, releasing a dangerous scent. A figure with white hair
suddenly appeared outside the ring.

After he appeared, he stared at the ring. After looking at it for a

while, and confirming that there was no change, he walked forward.
Those restrictions seemed as if they had lost their power, because
none of them activated at all. With every step, the nearby
restrictions disappeared. As he walked to the center of the ring, all
of the restrictions on the way disappeared.

He was Wang Lin, and as for these restrictions, they were the ones
that he himself had placed to protect his body and his bags of
holding.

Although he believed this place to be safe because it was not really

within the meridian, but in the special space created from the
memories of the inheritance, Wang Lin’s personally was very
careful, so he still left many safety measures.

After entering the restrictions, his eyes landed on his old body and
the bags of holding. His eyes revealed a look of regret. The body
before him had already rotten. There were traces of Ling Qi released
from the body’s Jie Dan.

Next to the body were some bags of holding.

Wang Lin let out a sigh. If he hadn’t reconstructed a body after he
received the inheritance of memory, then he would have to obtain
another body.

He placed his right hand on the chest of his old body. The lifeless
body suddenly started to release thick Ling Qi. Soon, cracks appeared
on the body’s hands and feet, and continued to spread. As the cracks
grow wider, the fluctuations of Ling Qi grew larger. Eventually, the
body completely shattered, and a fist sized Jie Dan floated out of it.

There were countless specks of colored dots scattered among the

shattered body.

Upon seeing the Jie Dan, he felt a sense of familiarity. After all, this
was the Jie Dan that he had formed himself, and this connection
wasn’t something that time would cut.

Shortly after, Wang Lin’s right hand reached out and the Jie Dan
flew toward him. The moment the Jie Dan reached his hand, it
disappeared into his body and charged toward his dantain. Once it
reached his dantain, it started to slowly rotate in place.

Waves of Ling Qi washed over Wang Lin’s body. He closed his eyes
and felt his body. He reopened his eyes stared at the remains of his
old body. He hand formed a seal as he growled, “Inferno Flame!”

As his words left his lips, the blue dots mixed in with the remains of
the body came together to formed a blue flame.

Wang Lin opened his mouth and sucked the flame into his body. It
disappeared into his dantain.

Wang Lin waved his right hand and made the bags of holding next
to the body fly one by one into his hand. Shortly after, a white light
emitted from his hand and a black cloak appeared. After putting on
the cloak, Wang Lin grabbed at the void created a rift. Without any
hesitation, he walked into it.
He appeared again at the place that held the inheritance of
knowledge. Wang Lin took a deep breath and checked his
surroundings. After making sure that everything was the same as
before, he began to chant some very complex words in the ancient
god’s language.

With the seal formed by his hand, a simmering light screen

appeared before him. The words in his mouth acted like an invisible
hand, expanding the light screen. Soon, the light screen became
large enough, and the Ancient God’s image appeared on it.

Wang Lin was very familiar with the pressure that Ancient God Tu
Si’s illusion had, so his heart remained calm.

After the image appeared, the eight stars on Tu Si’s forehead shot
out eight beams of light, forming a octagon shaped whirlpool.

Wang Lin stared at Tu Si’s image and thought, “Land of the Ancient
Gods, goodbye!”
Chapter 200: Yun Fei
In the Sea of Devils, the chaotic broken stars.

It was a ring formed by many large, broken planets. There was a

mysterious force in this place. No matter if it was entering or
exiting, one must face many avatars with the same cultivation as
one’s self. Only upon victory can one pass into or out of the
mysterious ring. This place was also very dangerous, so as a result,
not many people come here.

Two swords of light charged toward this place, one in front of the
other. The sword of light in front was clearly dimmer. Inside the
light was a young woman with her lips pursed and face pale. She was
wearing greenish red clothes, her waist was slim, and she looked
very pretty.

In the light behind, there was a middle aged man with a square face
and thick brows. His eyes were as big as bells. He had a mocking
smile on his face as his cold eyes stared at the young woman in front
of him.

The sword under his feet was very stable. He was clearly not putting
too much effort into this pursuit. As he stared at the woman, his
eyes became more cold.

These two lights, one behind the other, quickly closed in from the
distance. The young woman looked ahead at the chaotic broken
stars and an idea came to her mind. She had been running for a
months now, and for this past month, no matter where she ran, that
person was always close behind her. If she hadn’t used her master’s
secret technique to escape, she would have already been caught.

But using this secret technique required too much spiritual power.
After using it a few times, she couldn’t afford to use it anymore.
Under the stress, she panicked and didn’t pay attention to where she
was going. Without realizing it, she came to the chaotic broken
stars.

When she realized this, she wanted to change direction, but just
then, that person caught up to her again. She was helpless, so she
could only move forward. Soon, the two came closer and closer to
the ring formed by broken stars.

She knew in her heart that the person behind her wasn’t using his
full strength, but playing around with her, to pressure her to keep
moving forward. She had to be careful to not enter the chaotic
broken stars’ ring, but the distance to there was getting shorter and
shorter.

Qian Kun was casually chasing her. He had his heart set on the item
she possessed. If it were not for her suddenly using that escape
technique a few times, he would have already caught her, but now, in
panic, she ran herself toward the chaotic broken stars. It seemed as
if even the heavens were helping him. Thinking about this, his smile
widened and became even colder.

Qian Kun’s gloomy voice slowly said, “Yun Fei, in front of you is the
chaotic broken stars. In the Sea of Devils, the chaotic broken stars is
a very dangerous place. As of now, no one has ever passed through it
by relying on luck. Do you want to give it a try?”

The woman’s face became more pale and the bitter feeling in her
heart increased. When she was 5 feet away from the chaotic broken
stars, she suddenly stopped and turned around. She looked at Qian
Kun with a bleak face. Biting her lips, she said, “Senior, junior here
escaped to here by chance. Why must you kill me?”

Qian Kun’s mouth twitched. The sword under his feet stopped 10
feet away from the woman. He shot one glance toward the chaotic
broken stars behind her. He smirked and said, “I am only here on
orders. You should blame yourself for taking something you
shouldn’t have.”
The woman laughed. She tooked out a piece of jade from her bag of
holding. Looking at Qian Kun, she whispered, “This is something
that belongs to my master. How it is something I’m not supposed to
take? Senior, within the Enchanted Palace, there is a replica. Even if I
take this, it doesn’t affect the Enchanted Palace at all.”

Qian Kun’s gaze landed on the piece of jade. His expression was one
filled with greed. His task was to kill this woman and take back the
jade.

There was a seal placed by the Enchanted Palace on this piece of

jade. Qian Kun knew that even if he were to get his hands on it, he
couldn’t use it, only return it. And this woman named Yun Fei,
although her identity was ambiguous, she could read this jade,
otherwise, she won’t have had the chance to steal it.

Precisely because of this series of events, he didn’t just kill her, but
followed her closely.

Qian Kun darkly said, “I don’t know if taking that jade would affect
the Enchanted Palace or not, I just know that if I take it, it will
benefit me greatly.”

The woman revealed a bold expression. She said, “Senior, if you have
something to say, just say it, but do consider the importance of this
piece of jade.”

Qian Kun didn’t say a word, but a hint of joy appeared in his eyes. He
already knew that this Yun Fei was the successor of the famous Qi
Huang Sect. Although the Qi Huang Sect was destroyed by a
mysterious force, this woman somehow managed to escape
unharmed.

Afterward, the woman who held the piece of jade containing the Qi
Huang Sect’s most precious pill recipes was captured by the
Enchanted Palace and was forced to be a concubine there. Now, after
many years, she finally found the chance to run away with the piece
of jade.

Qian Kun was at the mid Core Formation stage. Although the line to
the late stage was thin, his cultivation technique was very limited.
He was afraid that he would never be able to enter the late stage.

But if he could get his hands on this piece of jade and make pills
with the recipes inside, then he would be able to enter the late Core
Formation stage.

The woman let out a heavy sigh. Without a word, she took out a
blank piece of jade. After imprinting information on the jade, she
said, “Senior, I’m finished imprinting. If you let me escape, this jade
is yours.”

Qian Kun laughed and said, “Good. First, hand over the jade. After I
confirm the information inside, I’ll let you leave.” As he finished
speaking, he started to move forward.

The woman quickly shouted, “Stop!” She held the jade in her right
hand. With just a bit of spiritual power, she could crush this replica.
At the same time, she backed up two feet. While staring at Qian Kun,
she said, “Senior is already at the mid Core Formation stage and I
have only just entered the Core Formation stage. I’m one stage
below senior, so I can’t help but guard against senior not keeping his
promise after getting the jade.”

Qian Kun slightly frowned. His cold eyes stared at the jade in her
hand and said, “What do you mean?”

Yun Fei took a deep breath and plainly said, “I’d like to ask senior to
back away 1000 feet. I’ll place the jade here. After I leave, senior can
come here and collect this piece of jade, or else I’ll immediately
crush it and commit suicide. Then, senior would have gained
nothing.”
Qian Kun revealed a cold smile, “What a joke. How would I know if
the jade you give me is real or not? What if you trick me?”

At this time, neither of them noticed that, within the chaotic broken
stars, was a 3 foot long rift. Waves of black energy emitted from it.

Yun Fei’s face hardened and was about to speak, but Qian Kun
continued to say, “I don’t have time to waste with you. Hand over the
jade and I’ll let you live. Otherwise, don’t blame me for being
ruthless. As for the jade, I’ll take my loss.” As he finished speaking,
he slowly floated forward.

The distance of 10 feet could be traveled in a flash, but Qian Kun

moved slowly, because he was afraid of her unconsciously crushing
the jade, then he really would have gained nothing.

Yun Fei clenched her jaw. She threw the jade to the side and quickly
escaped away from Qian Kun.

Qian Kun suddenly started to move like lightning and chased after
the jade. After catching up to it, he held it in his hand and scanned it
with his divine sense, then immediately became excited. After
laughing madly a few times, he found Yun Fei, who was escaping. His
eyes revealed malicious intent as he quickly chased after her.

This time, his speed was clearly different from before. It was several
times faster..

Although Yun Fei was running away as fast as possible, she secretly
kept tabs on Qian Kun’s movement with her divine sense. After
seeing him catch the jade, she suddenly had a really bad feeling and
started to move faster.

But soon, she started to despair. Qian Kun didn’t keep his promise,
but chased after her.
Yun Fei sneered in her heart, “Qian Kun, even if I die, if you follow
that jade to refine pills, you will die miserably. All of this is your own
fault.” Then, she sighed. She stopped moving and decided to stop her
own heart.

Qian Kun saw that Yun Fei stopped running and had given up on
resisting. He let out a big laugh and quickly rushed forward. He said,
“Since you gave me this piece of jade, I’ll let you die in pleasure. Let
me have a good look at that body and see what’s so extraordinary
about it that even enchanted master. If you properly serve me, I
might even let you go…”

Just as Qian Kun finished talking, his eyes suddenly fiercely stared
toward the chaotic broken stars. His eyes were filled with
astonishment, but that quickly turned to fear.

Qian Kun suddenly stopped talking. Yun Fei stopped herself from
stopping her own heart. She looked toward the chaotic broken stars.
Her jaw dropped and she had a shocked expression on her face.

She only saw that, within the chaotic broken stars ring, a rift
somehow appeared. The rift was rapidly expanding. In the blink of
an eye, it was already more than 5 feet wide. The rift formed an arc,
like the mount of a beast. This caused anyone who saw it to feel a
chill in their heart.

Within the Sea of Devils, there were only red rifts that appeared
between the inner and outer seas, so the meaning of a rift here was
deep. This rift not only emitted black energy, but was quite large,
while the rifts that appeared between the inner and outer seas were
only small rifts.

But before Qian Kun and Yun Fei was such a large rift. The moment
the rift appeared, Qian Kun felt a tingling sensation on his head.

He almost immediately wanted to give up killing Yun Fei and escape

from this place. Just as this thought surfaced, he immediately
suppressed it. His eyes lit up as he stared at the chaotic broken stars’
ring. His heart calmed down. With the formation there, no matter
how strong the thing that comes out of the rift is, it won’t be able to
come out of the ring, so there was no need to flee.

At the same time, the rift suddenly started to grow. Waves of black
light came out of it, along with many strange energies. Soon, a young
man wearing a black cloak calmly walked out.

This person had a head of white hair that flowed behind him, giving
him an ancient feel, but his eyes revealed a ruthless look.

The most eye catching part was the dark purple star on his forehead.
This purple star gave of a purple light. It felt like it was filled with
demonic energy. Along with the black light from the rift behind him,
he looked like a demon that just walked out of hell.

The person didn’t even look back. He waved his right hand and that
large rift behind him quickly started to close. In almost the blink of
an eye, the rift disappeared completely, leaving only the demon-god-
like youth.

He stood in mid air. His eyes showed signs of regret and looked
through the chaotic broken stars’ ring and spotted Qian Kun and
Yun Fei.

Qian Kun felt a sense of horror from the moment he saw the youth
walk out of the rift. Because there was the ring between them, he
couldn’t scan the youth with his divine sense. However, even if the
ring didn’t exist, Qian Kun wouldn’t dare to scan that youth with his
divine sense.

In his view, if that person could walk out of such a large rift, then
that person’s cultivation level must have reached an unimaginable
level. The youth should be at least nascent soul, or even the mythical
Spirit Forming stage.
As a result, how could he dare to offend the youth?

More importantly, he felt like the scene before him, he had heard of
it from somewhere before, but couldn’t remember where he had
heard it from.

When the white haired youth looked at him, even though it was
through the broken star, his legs grew weak and he wanted to run
away, but he stopped himself.

Qian Kun knew that even if he ran, if the youth could get through
the ring, then he would be able to catch up to him instantly, so
running or not running was the same. In fact, running would just
make the youth remember him more clearly.

Besides, if the youth couldn’t get out of the ring, then even if he
didn’t run, he was still safe.

Thinking this in his heart, Qian Kun suddenly stopped and clasped
his hands. He respectfully said, “This junior is the Poison King’s
Enchanted Palace’s 5th generation disciple. Qian Kun greets senior.”

Yun Fei’s heart became weak because she had just had a near death
experience and then witnessed such a scene. Her conclusion was
about the same as Qian Kun, but in her mind, she thought that if she
ran, then she would be killed by Qian Kun, but if she stays, there
might be a chance for her to live.

After thinking about it, she respectfully said, “Junior is Qi Huang

Sect’s Tu Mo Yun. Greetings, senior.”

The white haired youth withdrew his gaze after glancing at them
coldly. He looked toward the chaotic broken stars’ ring. After
pondering for while, he slammed his bag of holding and a small
creature appeared in his hand.
The beast had three pairs of wings on its back. It’s clear eyes made it
seem as if it were psychic. It immediately flew forward.

With its wings beating, it quickly charge at the ring. Soon, it arrived
inside the ring.

Shortly after, a broken fragment released a white light. After the

light faded, a copy of the beast appeared.

When the two beasts met, both released high pitch screeches and
started to attack each other.

The white haired youth frowned. He waved his hand and the little
beast’s body suddenly started to tremble. Its body formed a small
toronado and flew out from the ring and landed on the youth’s
shoulder. With a move of his hand, the beast disappeared.

This white haired youth was Wang Lin. He had used the method left
in the Ancient God’s memory to open up a tunnel to leave the land
of the Ancient God.

After exiting the tunnel, he appeared inside the ring of the chaotic
broken stars. If he wanted to leave, then he must pass the ring. From
what he had heard from Duanmu and others’ conversations, he had
an idea of what the ring was like.

He planned to use the same method he entered before to leave, but

that transfer array was too complicated, and among the memories of
the Ancient God, for some reason, there was almost no information
about transfer arrays.

After thinking about it, it made sense. With how strong the Ancient
Gods were, there really was no need to use transfer arrays to travel.
They could easily open up a black hole and travel through it.

Of course, this didn’t mean that there wasn’t supposed to be

information on transfer arrays in the Ancient God’s memories.
Otherwise, why would there be that mysterious array in the fourth
realm?

If this was really true, then it was as Wang Lin had suspected. The
inheritance that he absorbed wasn’t complete.

However, all of this was Wang Lin’s speculation. As for whether or

not any of it was true, no one could really know.

Wang Lin pondered for a while. His eyes were filled with
determination and he charged toward the ring.

The moment Wang Lin entered the ring, although Qian Kun’s
expression was calm, his heart started to tense up. This was not the
first time he had seen someone charge into the ring. Many years
ago, he saw someone who was at the nascent soul from the
Enchanted Place charge into the ring. He died so miserably that not
even his nascent soul managed to escape and was swallowed by the
mysterious force.

So when he saw Wang Lin charge into it, his eyes immediately
focused.

Yun Fei was even more tense than Qian Kun. She had placed all of
her hope of escaping death on that youth. She thought that if Wang
Lin could make it out of the ring, then Qian Kun would not act
rashly. With the jade as a gift, she might have a chance. Although all
of this might not work, it was a chance Yun Fei decided to take.

The moment Wang Lin entered the ring, a few of the broken
fragments quickly collided together. In a flash of white light, an
exact copy of Wang Lin appeared in the ring.

When the copy appeared, it let out a cold smile. It slammed its bag
of holding and a black sword appeared. This flying sword was weird,
it had many thorns on it. It was clearly Wang Lin’s personal flying
sword.
Wang Lin scanned the black sword and was really impressed by the
power behind the mysterious force, that it could even copy magical
treasures. Even the crack created by Hunchback Meng was on there.

This time, Wang Lin decided not to fight. He was just there to scout.

After the copy took out the black sword, it let out a loud laugh and
the sword flew toward Wang Lin. Wang Lin’s mouth twitched. He
slammed his bag of holding and took out the black sword as well.

Immediately, two identical swords started attacking each other.

Shortly after, Wang Lin let out a cold smile. His Ji Realm Divine
Sense suddenly moved and formed red lightning. At the same time,
the copy’s eyes also revealed red lightning.

Wang Lin stared at the copy with a dignified look. He saw that the
red lightning flashed a few times in the copy’s eyes, then the copy’s
eyes exploded and became fragments. At the same time, it seemed
the copy couldn’t withstand the red lightning’s power either and
exploded as well.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up and he immediately began to ponder.

Although he moved his Ji Realm Divine Sense, he didn’t attack with
it, but only used it to test if the copy could even copy his Ji Realm
Divine Sense.

Now he knew that although the ring’s power was mysterious, it

couldn’t copy his Ji Realm. Wang Lin revealed cold smile and walked
deeper into the ring.

According to what Wang Lin heard from Duanmu, this ring was 100
miles wide. After beating the first copy, one can travel 50 miles,
then one must defeat two more copies, then one can travel 50 more
miles and exit the ring.
Qian Kun’s heart almost collapsed when that copy exploded. Wang
Lin’s ranking in his heart instantly soared to an unprecedented
height. He could have never thought that the copy formed by the
mysterious power would explode so quickly by itself. He could not
imagine the technique behind it.

Yun Fei’s eyes became stronger. She stared at Wang Lin, who was
inside the ring, thinking about how to ask him for help in a way that
she wouldn’t be rejected.

Wang Lin easily moved forward, but only after he had moved ten
feet did the fragment release a white light again. After the white
light faded, two more copies appeared.

After the two copies appeared, one took out a flying sword and other
took out a scroll.

Wang Lin’s expression remained the same, but his heart sank.
Unless Duanmu lied, then it was because he had destroyed the the
first copy so quickly, that it caused a change.

But Wang Lin’s mood did not change at all. He still remained cold
and calm. The moment the two copies appeared, red lightning
appeared in his eyes again and his Ji Realm Divine Sense came out
again.

This time, the two copies didn’t immediately follow and use their Ji
Realm, but quickly started to use their treasures.

Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. Without any hesitation, he charged toward
the copies. Before, he experimented with with his Ji Realm. This
time, he wanted to test how powerful his body had become after
receiving the Ancient God’s inheritance and underwent
reconstruction.

Will the body formed by reconstruction be as strong as his

memories showed him?
Credits
Translator: Five Star Specialists / Wuxiaworld

Epub: Estevam / dotNOVEL