Chapter 336 – Rank 6 Pill Recipe
“More than 10,000 spirit stones…” Wang Lin’s eyes lit up.
He didn’t have more than 10,000 high quality spirit stones with him, but he did have several top quality spirit stones. Just one of them was priceless, and it could beat all other offers.
However, it seemed like one wouldn’t be enough. He would require several. In the end, although he could obtain it, he would have to pay quite a bit.
Of course, he could trade celestial jade for it as well.
However, due to Wang Lin’s personality, although he had to have it, he wouldn’t buy it himself if its price became too high.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He slapped his bag of holding and a wooden carving appeared in his hand. It was one of the defective statues containing the domain of time he had made. There were traces of the domain of a Soul Formation cultivator on it, but it contained the power of a peak late stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
There were also several blood veins inside it, so this wooden carving was like a puppet. There was no limit in the number of times it could be used.
This kind of treasure would be very important to the cultivators of the Sea of Devils.
The white-haired old man’s eyes lit up when he glanced at the wood carving. He was moved by it. What he cared about wasn’t the wood carving but the method in which the wooden carving was made.
The Treasure Refining Pavilion became famous for refining treasures. This old man was very skilled at refining treasures, so he was able to instantly notice the abnormality of the wooden carving.
Whether it was the faint domain of a Soul Formation cultivator or the blood veins inside, both were very intricate. However, the blood veins felt very familiar to him for some reason.
Wang Lin took out the wooden carving, threw it down to the stage, and said, “I offer this item.”
Xu Luo had always been paying attention to the third floor. When he saw the wooden carving being thrown down, he immediately caught it. Then he handed it over to several treasure appraisers.
The moment the appraisers saw this wooden carving, their expressions changed and they began to quietly debate.
The white-haired old man pondered for a bit, then his eyes suddenly became serious and he asked Wang Lin, “Fellow cultivator, could the blood veins inside the wooden carving be Xue Yue’s puppet creating technique?”
Wang Lin looked at the white-haired old man. He was shocked that he was able to recognize it. However, after thinking about it, this old man must have lived for a very long time and, being the head of the Treasure Refining Pavilion, he must have seen a lot.
Wang Lin nodded. Just at this moment, the appraisers raised their heads. One of them said, “I have never seen anything like this before, but we are sure that the effect is as powerful as a late stage Nascent Soul cultivator. We price it at 5000 high quality spirit stones.”
The moment everyone heard this, the people on the first floor all looked at the wooden carving and then at the third floor.
Wang Lin frowned. The value of this object was definitely not just 5000 high quality spirit stones.
The old man also frowned. He let out a snort like he was sending a voice transmission. Those appraisers didn’t know anything. With his cultivation, he could tell that with just the blood veins inside the object, the price would be several times higher, and that’s not even considering the sliver of domain inside it.
These 5000 high quality spirit stones weren’t even enough for the pill recipe, which was already priced at 10,000 spirit stones.
Wang Lin’s eyes remained calm and he didn’t speak. Instead, he looked toward the door of the room.
Shortly after, a very beautiful girl came up from the second floor. She greeted Wang Lin, placed down a purple jade, and left.
The white-haired old man said, “Fellow cultivator, I’ll buy that puppet of yours. This purple jade can be traded for 20,000 high quality spirit stones at any Treasure Refining Pavilion.”
Wang Lin smiled. He didn’t even look at the jade before shouting, “I offer 20,000 high quality spirit stones.”
This caused everyone to be in shock, but then a voice came from the center room of the third floor. A girl’s voice said, “30,000 high quality spirit stones.”
Wang Lin frowned.
Qiu Siping clenched his teeth and said, “Brother Wang, I have 40,000 high quality spirit stones.”
“No need!” Wang Lin’s voice was calm.
Even in Suzaku, 30,000 high quality spirit stones was a high price. No one offered any more for a long time, and in the end, the rank 6 pill recipe was obtained by the person in the center room.
Although rank 6 pill recipes were rare, the materials required to make the pill itself were mostly extinct, so 30,000 high quality spirit stones was already a sky high price. Of course, if it was an already made rank 6 pill, it would be a different story.
The white-haired old man shook his head and left. He didn’t take the purple jade with him.
“Let’s go!” Wang Lin stood up and put the jade away. Although he looked calm, there was a hint of coldness in his eyes. He and Li Muwan went downstairs and returned to their inn.
In their room, Li Muwan whispered, “Wang Lin, that rank 6 pill recipe doesn’t matter. We don’t even know what kind of recipe it was…”
Wang Lin smiled. “You wait for me here. I must have that recipe!”
Li Muwan hesitated for a bit before gently nodding.
Wang Lin’s gaze landed on Lu Fei and Tie Yan and he said, “The two of you stay here and guard her.”
Lu Fei and Tie Yan immediately nodded.
Wang Lin’s body disappeared from the spot. When he appeared, he was already outside of Devil Rebel City.
He spread out his divine sense and his body disappeared again. When he reappeared this time, he was on a mountain 3,000 kilometers away. He saw a girl wearing a green dress there. He couldn’t seen her face because there was a white veil covering it. Beside her stood an old man.
The old man’s eyes remained calm. There didn’t seem to be any spiritual energy within him. When Wang Lin appeared, the old man’s eyes lit up.
“Junior Zhou Yanhong greets senior.” Her voice was very charming, and her expression was as calm as water.
“If you can’t give me a good reason for luring me here, don’t blame me for being ruthless,” said Wang Lin. His expression remained the same.
The green-robed girl’s eyes lit up. She then said, “Senior is very cunning. This little girl admires you.”
This girl was on the third floor, so she knew about everything that had happened. She knew that Wang Lin was a Soul Formation cultivator, but after seeing him offer 20,000 spirit stones, she raised the price by another 10,000. There had to be some reason for doing so.
And after leaving the Treasure Refining Pavilion, they didn’t immediately leave but waited here for him. Wang Lin was instantly able to see through her.
“Don’t waste time speaking about useless things.” Wang Lin’s voice was cold.
The old man behind the green-robed girl snorted and took a step forward.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He gazed at the old man and said, “You have just reached the Soul Formation stage; your cultivation isn’t stable and you had to comprehend someone else’s domain. Stand down!”
The old man’s face darkened, but his heart was shocked. However, he clenched his teeth and stood firm.
Wang Lin looked at the old man and flicked his finger. A ray of spiritual energy shot out. The old man’s expression immediately changed as he quickly took out an umbrella treasure. He opened the umbrella and it released rainbow-colored light.
Wang Lin snorted. “You overestimate yourself!”
Bang!
The ray of spiritual energy landed on the umbrella, causing many cracks to appear on it, and its light dimmed. The old man was sent flying like he was hit by a powerful force. He was forced to back up several steps and his face turned red. It took a very long time for him to return to normal.
Wang Lin didn’t want to kill him. His gaze fell on the girl.
The green-robed girl’s eyes revealed a hint of dread. She took out a sealed box and offered it to Wang Lin.
Wang Lin reached out and the box flew to him. He broke open the box, scanned it with his divine sense, made a copy, threw the jade back at the girl, and asked, “Speak. Why did you lure me here?”
The green-robed girl caught the jade. She took deep breath and said, “Senior, junior was rude, but I was forced to. Please consider the value of this rank 6 pill recipe and help junior once.”
Wang Lin’s expression remained the same.
The green-robed girl clenched her teeth and said, “Junior is from the Faint Mist Sect of Zhou. My father is the sect master of our sect. 20 years ago, my dad entered the Immortal Graveyard and still hasn’t returned. This Immortal Graveyard is one of the two most dangerous places in Suzaku, on par with the Nine Ghost Desolate Valley. Juniors cultivation isn’t strong enough, so I was hoping senior could accompany me there to retrieve my father’s remains.”
With that, the green-robed girl revealed a look of sadness. She bit her lower lip and waited for Wang Lin’s response.
Wang Lin calmly said, “I don’t have time!” He took out the purple jade from his bag of holding and threw it at her. “This jade is worth 20,000 high quality spirit stones. Consider it the payment for making this copy.”
With that, he disappeared in a ray of rainbow-colored light.
The green-robed girl looked toward where Wang Lin disappeared and revealed a look of despair. She originally had given up hope, but when she saw Wang Lin on the third floor, the old man next to her told her that Wang Lin was a Soul Formation cultivator.
After hearing this, it ignited the hope in her heart. Then she saw the old man from the Treasure Refining Pavilion and was even more confident.
This was why she bought the recipe. Her goal was to lure Wang Lin.
Wang Lin indeed didn’t have time. The recipe was for the rank 6 Return to Origin Pill, something even people in rank 1 and 2 cultivation countries could refine.
However, the ones they refined were rank 1 and 2 Return to Origin Pills.
The Return to Origin pill only had one use, and that was to increase the speed at which someone could absorb spiritual energy from the heavens and earth by several fold.
The rank 6 Return to Origin Pill did the same, only the speed of spiritual energy absorption was terrifying. However, there was a limit to this pill: a person could only take one every 100 years. If one were to take more than that, that person’s body would be turned into crystal by the excessive spiritual energy.
As a result, that person would become a human-shaped crystal with their soul sealed inside.
After being refined for a very long time, the human-shaped crystal would become smaller and smaller. There was a chance for it to become a fake, top quality spirit stone.
In ancient times, there was no way to get top quality spirit stones beside letting them form naturally, so there weren’t many of them around.
As a result, they created high ranking Return to Origin Pills. In fact, even though the success rate of creating them wasn’t high, most top quality spirit stones back then were these fake ones.
Chapter 337 – Not Giving Up
This kind of top quality spirit stone was called a “fake top quality spirit stone.”
After seeing the description of this pill recipe, even with Wang Lin’s mental fortitude, he was shocked. This pill recipe was too vicious.
It said that all fake top quality spirit stones had a thread of blood inside them, but they could only be seen by the origin soul of a Soul Formation or above cultivator.
He took out his top quality spirit stones and carefully looked at them one by one.
“I didn’t think that all them would have a thread of blood except for one…” Wang Lin pondered for a bit before disappearing.
Ten days later, Wang Lin’s group appeared in an ancient transfer array at the edge of Chu.
This time, when using the ancient transfer array, Wang Lin wasn’t sure if he was hallucinating or not, but he heard a faint sigh of relief.
This sound came from the top quality spirit stone.
They returned to the valley in Chu. This place hadn’t changed at all since they left it. Lu Fei and Tie Yan went to where each of them were before and continued to cultivate to condense the spiritual energy in their bodies so that they could reach the peak of the late stage of Nascent Soul sooner.
Wang Lin’s life calmed down again. He continued to treat Li Muwan’s body while Li Muwan studied the rank 6 pill recipe. Many of the ingredients were already extinct, so her job was to find replacements.
She wasn’t afraid of dying, but she didn’t want to leave Wang Lin. In order to stay with Wang Lin, she put all of her effort into studying this pill recipe.
Sometimes she would raise her head and see Wang Lin cultivating nearby. Her eyes would be filled with tenderness, and inside that tenderness there was sadness and love.
Li Muwan sighed in her heart.
After a month of trying to find replacement ingredients, Ouyang Zi was also called over by Wang Lin. Unfortunately, the other rank 5 alchemist, Tian Yunzi, died when he tried to reach the Nascent Soul stage years ago. With the three of them studying the recipe, the process would be a lot faster.
Ouyang Zi was crazy about alchemy. It was as if he was born to do alchemy. When he saw the rank 6 pill recipe, it was as if he had come across his purpose in life. He immediately became like a madman and began to study the substitutions and combinations of the 138 ingredients.
Whenever they found a replacement, Liu Fei and Song Qing would search around and send over the ingredient.
If it was something the Cloud Sky Sect didn’t have, they would buy it at a high price from sects of other countries.
If that was still not possible, they would find information about the location of the ingredient and have Lu Fei and Tie Yan gather them.
Time quickly passed by. Two years later, of the 138 ingredients, only three were left. Sadly, they still hadn’t found replacements for these three.
In these two years, Ouyang Zi had forgotten about everything else. He was completely focused on the rank 6 pill recipe.
As for Li Muwan, in these two years, she slowly aged. Her skin was no longer snow white; it was now starting to show a bit of gray.
Two years of endless body maintenance done by injecting spiritual energy into her body wasn’t able to stop the life and death cycle of the heavens.
The reluctance in Li Muwan’s eyes became even stronger.
On this night, it began to rain inside the valley. After Li Muwan fell asleep, Wang Lin stood in the rain by himself while looking at the mountain in the distance. The pain in his heart became even stronger.
“Wan Er’s body is becoming weaker and weaker. If she tries to reach the Nascent Soul stage by force, her body will not be able to handle it. It will be destroyed. At that moment, the incomplete Nascent Soul will only dissipate. I won’t even be able to extract her soul…”
Wang Lin stared into the distance and let out a sigh. He looked very sad as he took out a wine gourd and took a big gulp. He sat down and leaned against the stone house.
This wine was the fruit wine. There wasn’t much of it left in Wang Lin’s bag. Every time he drank this, he would think of Da Niu bringing him wine.
“Uncle Wang, you came to the capital to make a lot of money so you can go back home to marry your wife, right?”
“After uncle has made a lot of money, he is going to go home to get married”
This scene from the past appeared in his mind. He finished drinking all the wine in a few gulps, then he raised his head and looked up at the sky.
Just at this moment, a scream of excitement came from Ouyang Zi’s room. Shortly after, Ouyang Zi came running out from the room. He was startled to find Wang Lin out in the rain. He quickly walked up and said, “Sect master, I found the substitute ingredients for the last three ingredients!”
Wang Lin’s eyes became serious as he looked at Ouyang Zi.
Ouyang Zi quickly took out a jade. He handed it to Wang Lin and said, “Those three ingredients are extinct, but I found a combination of 37 other ingredients that will have the same effect. Although the effect will be weaker, it shouldn’t deviate too much from the original.”
Wang Lin accepted the jade, scanned it with his divine sense, and instantly memorized it.
Ouyang Zi said, “These ingredients are quite rare. The Cloud Sky Sect only has four of them. We will have to go to a rank 4 cultivation country to get the rest.”
Wang Lin stood up. With the jade in hand, he disappeared.
The moment he left, Li Muwan opened her eyes and revealed a trace of sadness.
“You can never see me during my loneliest hours because I’m only lonely when you’re not around.”
Two streams of tears rolled down from Li Muwan’s eyes. Thin lines had appeared on her forehead. She looked like she had aged ten years in the past two years.
Wang Lin didn’t waste too much time. Seven months later, he came back with a tired expression.
During these seven months, Wang Lin didn’t rest at all. He had gone to most rank 4 cultivation countries and even some rank 5 cultivation countries.
He finally managed to get all of the ingredients by either buying, trading, or stealing.
In these seven months, he experienced a lot of danger. The most dangerous time was in a rank 5 cultivation country against a mid stage Soul Formation cultivator with a very special domain. The domain was “forget.” Wang Lin was able to win in the end, but it was very close.
The forget domain really scared Wang Lin.
The other occasion was with a late stage Soul Formation cultivator. Although his domain was pretty normal, he was about to reach the peak of late stage Soul Formation. His domain was ever changing under his command.
In hindsight, Wang Lin calculated that this person’s power was slightly above Red Butterfly’s. In the end, Wang Lin fought to a standstill against this person.
In these seven months, Wang Lin realized that among Soul Formation cultivators, Red Butterfly wasn’t the strongest. Although these people hadn’t reached the Soul Transformation stage, they were very powerful.
Especially those with special domains; they had abnormal strength.
After returning to Chu, Wang Lin quickly moved toward the valley.
Inside the valley, Wang Lin spread out his divine sense and found that both Tie Yan and Lu Fei were both 500 meters closer to the pagoda than before. Both of their cultivation levels had raised a bit.
Wang Lin appeared outside the stone house. He opened the door and his body shook. What he saw was someone’s back.
This figure had a head of long hair, but half of the hair was white.
Wang Lin’s heart ached. He walked up and stood beside Li Muwan. He looked at her beautiful face that was now even older.
Wang Lin whispered, “Wan Er, I’m back. I have gathered the ingredients.”
Li Muwan faintly smiled. She didn’t say anything as she looked at Wang Lin. She whispered, “Don’t leave anymore, just spend more time with me. I don’t have much time left…”
Wang Lin looked at Li Muwan and once again said, with a serious expression, “You won’t die!”
Li Muwan bit her lower lip and gently nodded. She leaned against Wang Lin and closed her eyes.
Wang Lin’s return caused Ouyang Zi to become devoted in refining the rank 6 pill. His life’s dream was to refine a rank 6 pill. It was like his soul had been ignited.
Almost all of the substitute ingredients were things he chose after researching for a very long time. He used more than 1000 ingredients to replace these 138 ingredients. This calculation included the effect of each ingredient and how long it would take to refine each of them.
If he didn’t have the alchemy experience to back it up, there would be no way for him to refine it.
Even Ouyang Zi couldn’t be careless about this. He didn’t care about Li Muwan at all; this was just for himself. He was about to fulfill his life’s dream. He told himself countless times that he could fail as many times as he needed in his life, but he couldn’t fail this time.
As the refining process continued, Ouyang Zi’s temper became even worse. Sometimes he would even become impatient toward Wang Lin when he came to ask about the progress.
It was not because he wasn’t afraid of Wang Lin, but due to his personality. He had forgotten about the world; in his mind, only the pill mattered.
Wang Lin didn’t mind Ouyang Zi’s temper. In fact, he thought that among all the people in the Cloud Sky Sect, Ouyang Zi was the one to most likely reach the Soul Formation stage.
Because he was obsessed with alchemy, it was likely that he would be able to comprehend the heavens and gain a domain.
However, his cultivation was still stuck at the mid stage of Nascent Soul. If he could reach the peak of the late stage, then reaching the Soul Formation stage was only a matter of time.
The days slowly passed by. In the blink of an eye, three years had passed. Ouyang Zi’s refining was still going. It seemed like he was stuck at some kind of barrier, so his temper became even worse. One could occasionally hear him shouting in rage.
After Wang Lin’s return, he had spent every second at Li Muwan’s side. Her hair was now completely white. If it wasn’t for the fact that Wang Lin had been transfering spiritual energy into her non-stop for the last three years, her beauty would have long been dried up as time brought change…
Three more years had passed when Ouyang had a breakthrough in his alchemy. Although he hadn’t finished the pill, it wasn’t far away. The heavy smell of medication came from his stone house.
Li Muwan’s body had become extremely weak. She could no longer move; she could only lie in the bed and look at Wang Lin. The reluctance in her eyes became even stronger.
Chapter 338 – Li Muwan
I can’t fight the life and death cycle, and time won’t wait for me. When will you come to take me away…
In my left hand is the brief karma from the Sea of Devils, and in my right hand is more than 100 years of loneliness.
Li Muwan was quietly lying on her bed wearing a white dress. Although her face had aged, her eyes were still bright as she stared at the man before her…
She wanted to carve the person’s image into her memory.
She didn’t know if she what she felt for the man before her was true love, but she knew that in those 100 years, whenever she played music, his image would appear in her mind.
Wang Lin grabbed Li Muwan’s hand with a gentle smile on his face while his heart felt like it was being cut apart.
Li Muwan moved her gaze to outside the window and whispered, “Wang Lin, last night I had a dream. I saw my big brother smiling at me, and there were two elders behind him. They looked like my parents…”
Li Muwan’s parents died when she was very young. It was her big brother that raised her.
Wang Lin’s heart hurt even more.
At night, Wang Lin stood outside the stone room, looking toward Zhao. His heart called out to it.
In Zhao, deep under Heng Yue mountain, a red-haired young man with a face as cold as never-melting ice suddenly opened his eyes.
When he opened his eyes, the entire country of Zhao shook. It was as if some kind of demon was awakening, shocking every cultivator in Zhao.
His original body’s eyes were filled with coldness and ruthlessness. On his forehead were two spinning, purple stars, and around his body was purple lightning.
He slightly turned his head. His gaze seemed like it could pierce the earth as he looked toward Chu. He ripped open the ground and walked toward Chu underground.
Six months quickly went by.
Li Muwan’s body was even weaker now, and her soul was on the verge of collapsing. The life and death cycle was constantly pulling her as if it wanted to completely take her away from Wang Lin.
On this day, Ouyang Zi came over with a bright, red pill. There was hint of excitement he couldn’t hide as he gave it to Wang Lin.
“I, Ouyang Zi, completed a rank 6 pill!” After he finished speaking, his eyes dimmed and he fell down.
He didn’t die, but he was very weak.
Holding the pill, Wang Lin looked at Li Muwan, who was on her deathbed. Her hair was all white and her once young and beautiful face had been affected by the passage of time.
In these several years, Wang Lin personally saw her slowly age and her beauty drying up.
Endless sorrow filled the sea in his heart. However, the sea was too deep and too large. In the end, the sea turned into two streams of tears.
He walked the path that defied the heavens and cultivated the domain of life and death. His life was filled with twists and turns, and while his heart was tired, he still believed. However, at this moment, although his expression didn’t change, his heart aged as the girl before him aged.
In his eyes, the age of this girl was but an illusion. In his eyes, the girl will forever remain how she looked back in the Sea of Devils, back when she was playing the zither in her loft, back when she stood there watching him leave.
Wang Lin gently touched Li Muwan’s face as he slowly put the pill in his hand into her mouth. The pill immediately melted in her mouth and her face became red.
In an instant, an endless amount of spiritual energy surged from all over Chu and entered Li Muwan’s body.
The stone house couldn’t withstand this powerful spiritual energy, so cracks began to appear all over it. With a blow of the wind, the stone house turned to dust and disappeared.
Lu Fei and Tie Yan were awakened from their cultivation. The expressions on their faces immediately changed. At this moment, Ouyang Zi’s body was pushed away by a gentle force and landed before Lu Fei and Tie Yan.
Wang Lin’s voice drifted toward them saying, “Take Ouyang Zi and wait for me in the Cloud Sky Sect!”
Tie Yan didn’t say anything. He quickly grabbed Ouyang Zi and left with Lu Fei. It wasn’t until they were more than 50 kilometers away that they turned around and looked back.
Although the stone house was destroyed, Li Muwan’s body was still floating in the air. Boundless amounts of spiritual energy surged into her body, causing her face to become more red. Slowly, a golden core formed in her body.
The moment the golden core appeared, it caused all of the spiritual energy to rush into it.
Wang Lin formed many seals that landed on the golden core.
His expression was extremely serious, and he started making the seals even faster until a crack appeared on the golden core.
The rank 6 Return to Origin Pill’s purpose was to make the person who consumes it absorb spiritual energy much faster to break through a bottleneck. However, Li Muwan’s body was too weak. With her life almost over, it was hard to withstand this.
Wang Lin flew into the sky. He wasn’t looking at Li Muwan. Instead, he raised his head toward the sky with a determined expression on his face.
His greatest enemy was the heavens, the life and death cycle.
Li Muwan’s golden core began to crack even more as it absorbed more spiritual energy. Golden light was leaking through the cracks; however, the light wasn’t blinding. Instead, it emitted a gentle feeling.
However, just at this moment, gray gas appeared around her body. The amount of gray gas quickly increased and completely covered her body.
Wang Lin’s life and death domain had already covered Li Muwan’s entire body, but compared to this grey veil, it was trivial.
Mortals couldn’t see this grey veil; even most cultivators couldn’t see it. Only Wang Lin, who cultivated the life and death domain, could.
Only he understood what it was!
This grey veil was the law of the heavens, it was the life and death cycle, it was the sign that someone was about to die.
Li Muwan’s eyes showed a deep sense of reluctance. She looked at Wang Lin with a nostalgic gaze and then looked around before slowly closing her eyes. A teardrop fell from the corner of her eye.
The teardrop slowly fell down, creating a weak sound when it landed on the ground.
This sound entered Wang Lin’s ears. It made him feel like past was collapsing…
No one knew if where that tear fell will create a field of memories and sorrow by next year…
The moment she closed her eyes, her golden core immediately dimmed and then shattered soon after. A small person who looked exactly like the Li Muwan of the past appeared. Her eyes were pure, but they quickly closed due to Li Muwan’s death.
Wang Lin, I’m willing to give up everything. Even if the stars fall, as long as you are willing to accompany me, your heart is the brightest light.
Wang Lin, I’m willing to give up everything. Even if all my past lives are destroyed, it won’t extinguish my reluctance to leave you.
Wang Lin, I’m willing to give up everything. Even if my life ends, even if time passes on, I hope the flower of memories never wilt.
Wang Lin, this is the karma between us. This is the choice of the heavens. In the we are ink and water struggling under the heavens.
“Even if the heavens want you to die, I’ll steal you back!!!” Wang Lin’s eyes were filled with sadness. He suddenly raised his head and, with a determined gaze, his life and death domain surged forth.
In the sky above the valley, that black and white scroll appeared once more and slowly opened up.
It was as if there was a giant hand moving across the scroll, creating waves of ripples on as it went by.
The moment the scroll appeared, a thunderous roar spread throughout Chu.
Li Muwan’s body quickly decayed and turned to dust as it fell to the ground. Her Nascent Soul was also quickly dissipating.
However, as Wang Lin’s life and death scroll covered the sky, the speed at which her Nascent Soul was dissipating slowed down.
Wang Lin then charged forth and appeared in the sky. He reached out toward the scroll and pulled down. The scroll quickly surrounded Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul.
Now that the scroll was gone, a very strange scene unfolded. Red clouds covered the sky, and two shocking lights appeared within the rolling red clouds. They seemed to be looking at Wang Lin.
This unfamiliar yet familiar gaze caused Wang Lin’s body to tremble. However, he still stared at the sky with a determined look. Behind him was Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul wrapped up in the scroll.
Wang Lin was using his own life and death domain to prevent Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul from dissipating.
He was going to fight against the heavens!
“Even if the heavens want you dead, I’ll still steal you back!” This was a promise, as well as Wang Lin’s declaration of war against the heavens!
The two rays of light in the sky slowly disappeared. However, shortly after, countless red clouds condensed into a giant hand and reached toward Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul.
Wang Lin let out a shout. He quickly grabbed the scroll and then flew into the distance.
The giant hand seemed to be able to bypass distance and reached toward the scroll in Wang Lin’s hand.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He raised his head and clashed with the giant hand.
Bang!
Wang Lin’s origin soul shook violently. It was knocked out of his body. However, he quickly returned to his body and his divine sense spread out. He was looking for something.
The giant hand was retracted and the two eyes inside the red clouds appeared again and looked at the scroll in Wang Lin’s hand. Then the giant hand descended again.
Wang Lin roared, “Original body!”
Chapter 339 – To Be Reincarnated
The moment the giant hand got close, the ground began to shake. A cold-faced young man with red hair charged out from the ground and slammed into the hand.
Bang!
The hand was bounced back several meters. The pair of eyes in the clouds locked onto the red-haired man.
The original body’s expression remained the same. It was as if that hand earlier was just a gentle breath. However, the two purple stars on its forehead were rapidly spinning.
It stood before Wang Lin and coldly stared at the sky.
The eyes in the red clouds disappeared again, and the amount of red clouds increased. This time, a large amount of red clouds entered the hand. The previously illusionary hand became more solid, and five deadly fingers formed.
It attacked once again!
This time, as the hand got closer, five spacial rifts were opened by its five fingers as they chased after Wang Lin.
Wang Lin let out a roar. He slapped his bag and took out the restriction flag. A lance quickly formed and he threw it at the hand.
At the same time, the spinning of the purple stars on the original body suddenly paused, and crackling sounds came from all over the body. It turned into a 30-foot-tall giant with a hint of purple light under its skin. The body emitted a grim aura.
The original body was starting to look like an ancient god.
The original body’s eyes were filled with battle intent. It quickly stepped toward the hand and grabbed the lance.
With a bang, it lunged toward the hand!
However, with a boom like the heavens were collapsing, the lance shattered and turned back into restriction gas. The original body was hit with a powerful force and crashed down into the ground.
When it landed on the ground, many cracks appeared around it. The original body kept sinking and only stopped when it was 1500 kilometers underground.
A stream of blood came out from the corner of the original body’s mouth. Its will to battle increased even more, causing its blood to boil as it charged out once more.
Wang Lin hadn’t stopped moving; he was rapidly flying away with his divine sense spread out. Then he suddenly locked on to a mountain village 5,000 kilometers away.
The giant hand chased after Wang Lin after knocking his original body away. The eyes inside the red cloud didn’t show any sign of changing.
The moment it arrived, Wang Lin suddenly turned around. He focused all of his spiritual energy into his finger and touched the palm of the hand with it.
Bang!
Wang Lin was sent flying. He coughed out a mouthful of blood, which landed on the scroll and disappeared into it. Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul, which was almost dead, suddenly gained a hint of life.
He was fighting against the heavens’ reincarnation cycle for this woman.
The giant hand reached out once more. The original body charged out of the ground and let out a roar. It stopped before Wang Lin and slammed into the giant hand with its right fist.
Bang!
The original body spat out a mouthful of blood and began to laugh maniacally. The giant hand had been knocked back several meters.
The original body let out a loud laugh as it walked forward and continued to punch the giant hand.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
With each impact, his original body would bleed more from the corner of its mouth, but its will to fight kept on increasing.
“I’m an ancient god, so I’m naturally a heaven defying existence! If you wish to take her, you will have to walk over my dead body!”
A figure suddenly appeared behind the original body. Its feet were on the ground, but its head was in the sky. The figure was not standing but kneeling with one leg on the ground. Its head was down like it was asleep.
The original body laughed like a mad man as it continued to throw out punches, knocking the giant hand back. As the original body kept attacking, the figure behind him gradually raised its head.
The eyes inside the red clouds were still calm. These eyes belonged to the messenger of the heavens. He had no emotions; his only goal was to follow the rules of the heavens and pull anyone who wished to escape the cycle of life and death back in.
The original body’s strength was far beyond any cultivator’s. Wang Lin quickly left with the scroll in his arms.
The giant hand was eventually pushed back into the red clouds and disappeared. But in the blink of an eye, the hand charged out of the red clouds again. This time, the hand was almost completely solid, and it was several times more powerful than before.
The hand wasn’t open anymore; it was a fist that collided with the original body. With a bang, countless parts of the original body were damaged as it fell from the sky.
The figure behind the original body seemed to have woken up. At it raised its head, a powerful force surged out of its body. The original body suddenly stopped falling, then it flew up to the forehead of the figure.
The giant hand ignored the figure and smashed toward Wang Lin, who had already flown far away.
Wang Lin had been keeping track of everything that was happening behind him. He clenched his teeth and teleported. The 5,000 kilometer distance was crossed in one teleport.
Below his feet was a paradise-like village. The children were playing as if the earth-shattering battle 5,000 kilometers away couldn’t be heard.
They actually couldn’t hear it, though; no one but Wang Lin and his original body could see and feel the power from the heavens.
The only thing that others could see and hear was the hole the original body had made, but by the time the sound from that impact traveled this far, it was too weak to be noticed.
In this village of less than 100 people, a woman was currently cooking porridge. She would occasionally raise her head to look at the children playing outside while touching her stomach.
Floating in the air above the village, Wang Lin shook the scroll. Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul came out of the scroll and immediately began to dissipate.
Wang Lin’s eyes revealed a hint of tenderness as he pointed at Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul. Her Nascent Soul flew like a meteor toward the village.
At this moment, the giant fist arrived.
It suddenly came down from the sky, smashing toward Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul. Wang Lin quickly blocked the fist.
Bang!
Wang Lin coughed out a mouthful of blood. His eyes were bloodshot right now. He then quickly took out nine wooden carvings with the domain of time.
The giant fist descended once more and shattered six of the wooden carvings.
The fist passed through the remaining wooden carvings, went around Wang Lin, and once more chased after Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul.
Wang Lin let out a roar and once again arrived in front of the fist. He didn’t have any time to use any techniques, so he blocked it with his body.
Bang!
Wang Lin was bleeding from his orifices, but he began to laugh. He continued to laugh. Eventually, the laughter sounded like it was filled with madness.
“You want to wipe out Wan Er to force her back into the reincarnation cycle? I, Wang Lin, won’t let you!”
The cold eyes in the red clouds looked at Wang Lin and the fist descended again.
Wang Lin blocked it once more. This time, many parts of his body shattered and blood spewed out of his mouth and nose. However, his expression was now even more mad as he looked at the eyes in the clouds and laughed .“I cultivated the domain of life and death. One day, I’ll make the heavens’ reincarnation cycle mine! Then I’ll make the reincarnation cycle follow my commands and make you, an illusion created by the reincarnation cycle, bow before me!”
The gaze in the red clouds was still calm as if it were looking at a sad mortal spouting nonsense.
Li Muwan’s Nascent Soul had already entered the village and silently fused with the flesh inside that woman’s stomach.
The eyes looked at the village before turning back to Wang Lin. Then the giant fist fell once more. This time, there was a suction force coming from the fist, and it was covered in lightning.
This punch was punishment for obstructing the will of the heavens!
The moment the fist started moving, the original body arrived. A ray of blood-red light charged in from the distance and fused together with Wang Lin.
Wang Lin and his original body suddenly disappeared. They were replaced by a ten-foot-tall person with long hair.
This person’s left eye was like the moon and his right eye was like the sun. This person was covered in an aura composed of a mix of the ancient god’s power and the life and death domain.
The current Wang Lin was no longer a cultivator or an ancient god, but a never before seen combination. His body was as powerful as an ancient god’s, but he had the origin soul of a cultivator.
This was a combination of inner and outer cultivation methods. Wang Lin raised his head. Behind him was the figure with its head raised. If one looked closely, they would see an origin soul the size of a person in the figure’s chest. There were vein like-things that extended from the origin soul to the entire body of the figure.
That original soul was like the heart of the ancient god.
Without waiting for the fist to land, Wang Lin stepped forth and flew toward the fist.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Wang Lin’s body was sent flying and he kept on coughing out blood. However, he laughed the entire time. His laugh was filled with arrogance.
“Now that she has been reincarnated with her Nascent Soul, her life has been extended. This falls in line with the laws of the heavens. As long as she doesn’t cultivate, she will be able to escape the eyes of the heavens. 19 years from now, when her Nascent Soul reforms, you will come back, but I’ll stop you again!”
The eyes in the red cloud calmly looked at Wang Lin for a while before disappearing. Even the giant fist disappeared. The red cloud scattered.
Chapter 340 – Messenger of Suzaku
Wang Lin flew to where the pagoda was and landed next to it. His original body separated from him, coughed out some blood, and sat down to cultivate.
After a very long time, Wang Lin opened his eyes. He quickly sat down, took out some pills, and started to manage the spiritual energy in his body.
Three days later, he and his original body both opened their eyes at the same time.
“My injury is too serious this time. I must go into closed door cultivation to recover!” Wang Lin secretly thought that the messenger of the heavens had no intent on killing him until that very last blow. The messenger had no emotions; it did everything by the rules.
“With how much of Wan Er’s Nascent Soul dissipated, it will take her 19 years to recover and awaken. Once she awakens, the heavens will come again to wipe out anyone who dares to try to escape the heavens’ law.” Wang Lin stared at the sky.
Wang Lin stood up. At the same time, his original body silently flew away toward the giant hole that was created during the battle. It landed in the hole and sank down. As it sank, the dirt around the hole followed it in. Soon, the hole was filled. It was like it was never there.
Thousands of kilometers underground, the original body sat there cultivating. The two purple stars on its forehead spun rapidly. A faint, purple light came out of its body, forming a small ball of light beside him.
The injury the original body suffered was much heavier than Wang Lin’s. Especially on that last attack, where the original body took 70% of the damage. However, with the strength of the original body’s body, it was not life threatening, but it had to go into closed door cultivation as well.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. He then slapped his bag of holding and took out a jade. After leaving a message inside, he threw it into the sky and it disappeared, leaving a streak of light.
After doing all of this, Wang Lin sat down next to the pagoda and activated the sliver of Zhou Yi’s domain. Unless an Ascendant cultivator comes, no one else will be able to approach him.
Just like this, Wang Lin closed his eyes and silently healed his injuries.
During the day, the rays from the sun landed on Wang Lin, giving him a hint of warmth.
At night, the moonlight quietly arrived, bringing with it the cold of the night.
On rainy days, the rain fell down from the sky and landed on Wang Lin, completely soaking him almost instantly.
On snowy days, the snow slowly fell from the sky, covering everything. No matter where one looked, everything was covered in white. There was even a snowman next to the pagoda.
Whether it was day or night, rainy or snowy, Wang Lin’s body still wouldn’t move. He was like a an old, dead monk; there was no vitality coming from his body.
Six months after the battle, spring came again. In the old Zhou’s home in Apricot Village, a baby was born. Her name was Zhou Ru.
This baby girl was born crying like other babies, but no one knew that this cry was different than a normal baby’s cry.
The baby girl’s body was very weak. Luckily, old Zhou was respected in Apricot Village. He also owned a store, so his life was better than most people’s.
There was a cave in the mountain 50 kilometers away from the Apricot Village. Tie Yan had been cultivating there for more than six months. Six months ago, Tie Yun an Lu Fei received Wang Lin’s message ordering one of them to come and guard Li Muwan.
After the two talked about it, Tie Yan came. His divine sense was locked onto the village at all times as he silently guarded it.
Wang Lin’s healing continued. The snow outside the pagoda had already turned to water and was absorbed by the earth.
The original body was thousands of kilometers underground. During these six months, it had gone deeper three times. Each time it did so, it sank several thousand kilometers.
The original body had already traveled 1/5th of the way to the planet’s core.
It was not a lie that the ancient gods grew in battle. After this fierce battle, the original body was showing signs of breaking through. Although it was slow, he had already reached the peak of the two star stage. The third transformation was not far away.
In the blink of an eye, a year passed by. Zhou Ru was now one year old. Most children at this age would start making sounds even if they couldn’t speak, but Zhou Ru remained silent.
Thus, the people of the village began a rumor stating that this girl was a mute.
On this day, a group of people walked out of a normal transfer array on the edge of Chu. Among them was a woman wearing a veil. There was a hint of fatigue in her eyes, but they still shined like the stars and would mesmerize almost anyone.
Following behind her was an old man. The old man was wearing an old, black coat, and his eyes were dim. It was like he was going through a severe illness.
If Wang Lin saw them, he would recognize them as the two that had bought the rank 6 pill recipe.
Beside the two of them stood a white-haired old man. He was the Soul Formation cultivator from the Treasure Refining Pavilion named Hu.
Behind him were three people. One of them was someone Wang Lin knew well: Qiu Siping.
The other two were Xu Luo and a very beautiful woman. This woman was the person who delivered the purple jade.
After the six of them exited the transfer array, the old man looked toward the north and said, “Although Chu isn’t the quickest way to enter the Immortal Graveyard, it is easier than going through Zhou.”
The woman with the white veil nodded and said, “What senior said is correct. Although going through Chu takes longer, there is no checkpoint to pass through like there is in Zhou, so it is much easier.”
The old man named Hu flew forward. Everyone else quickly followed.
Qiu Siping secretly sighed. After Wang Lin left, he decided to follow old man Hu in hopes of reaching the Soul Formation stage one day.
Although his cultivation level had risen in the last ten years, it was still too far away from the Soul Formation stage. He believed that if he were able to obtain that object in the Immortal Graveyard, then reaching the Soul Formation stage would no longer be a dream.
The woman secretly sighed. During these ten years, she had reached out to many Soul Formation cultivators. In the end, she remembered that the Treasure Refining Pavilion had a Soul Formation cultivator. After she revealed some secrets she hadn’t told Wang Lin, she was able to convince the old man to help.
The six of them flew north. They passed by many sects, but no one dared to stop them.
Old man Hu was surprised. “I haven’t come to Chu in over 100 years. There seems to be many changes.”
Behind him, Xu Luo respectfully said, “Ancestor, in these recent years, the Cloud Sky Sect has devoured several other sects and officially became the number one sect in Chu.”
Old man Hu nodded and said, “The Cloud Sky Sect focuses on alchemy, so they must have a lot of Nascent Soul cultivators. When we return from the Immortal Graveyard, remind me to take a trip to the Cloud Sky Sect to ask for some pills!”
Xu Luo faintly smiled. He was sure that the Cloud Sky Sect would immediately hand over pills for their own safety.
As the six of them flew, a pillar of light shot into the sky. From where they were, the pillar was only as thick as a baby’s fist, but if they were closer, the pillar would be countless times larger.
Old man Hu suddenly turned toward the pillar of light. Even with his experience, he was shocked.
The eyes of the old man who was behind the woman suddenly lit up as he looked toward the pillar of light. He was also shocked.
This pillar of light was coming from the center of Chu, where the Heaven’s Tower was.
“This is a messenger from an upper cultivation country descending. But a messenger from a rank 4 cultivation country wouldn’t cause this big of a commotion!” The more the old man looked, the more shocked he became.
Then, several golden dragons appeared around the pillar of light, and soon, a white-robed young man slowly walked out.
The moment he walked out, the golden dragons let out roars. Even with how far the six of them were, they were able to clearly hear the roars.
Shortly after, the golden dragons all charged at young man in white. Right as they were about to collide, they turned into countless golden threads and became embroidered onto the young man’s clothes.
“A messenger from Suzaku!!!” The old man revealed an aghast expression. He realized that something big was about to happen in Chu. Why else would a messenger from Suzaku come to a mere rank 3 cultivation country?
The woman’s face revealed a trace of panic. The old man took a step forward and stood in front of her.
The panic on the woman’s face quickly disappeared, but her clenched fist was covered in sweat.
Qiu Siping, Xu Luo, and the beautiful woman were all shocked. Qiu Siping was especially shocked. He looked at the light and muttered, “This is the first time I’ve seen someone from Suzaku… Suzaku…”
The beautiful woman took a deep breath and softly asked, “Ancestor, why did a messenger from Suzaku came to Chu?”
“Fellow cultivator Gong Sun, what do you think?” Old man Hu looked toward the old man wearing the old, black coat.
The old man slowly said, “Fellow cultivator Hu, I have just entered the Soul Formation stage, so I don’t know many things about Suzaku. However, I believe that something big is about to happen. I don’t know what it is, but why else would a messenger from Suzaku come to Chu?”
Old man Hu secretly thought, “Rubbish!” His gaze turned toward the pillar of light.
Just at this moment, the pillar of light started to fade. The young man in white flew toward the six of them like a meteor.
The woman with the white veil’s body trembled. Her eyes were filled with extreme fear.
This scene was noticed by old man Hu. He didn’t show any reaction on his face, but a hint of doubt appeared in his heart.
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