Xian Ni 141-145

Chapter 141: Dou Xie Sect
The murky mist of the Sea of Devils held a hint of Cold Yin. He had only entered the fog just moments ago, but his clothes were already wet from the fog and sticking to his body, making it very uncomfortable.

Wang Lin looked at Li Mu Wan, whose face was originally pale, started turning red and showing a hint of pinkness. Her clothes were also wet from the mist, showing a curvaceous and exquisitely delicate body that was very lovely to look at, as if she came out of a painting.

Wang Lin turned his gaze away, refocusing his attention on finding shelter and not allowing his heart to waver even the slightest bit. Were it not for Li Mu Wan’s ability to refine Heavenly Li Dan pills and make other useful pills, he would have never allowed her to follow him.

The Sea of Devils is a huge basin and after flying into it for so long, Wang Lin had still not reached the bottom. Even so, he was clearly aware that the further downwards into the mist he walked, the heavier the Yin Cold Qi became.

Within the mist appeared some strange creatures, some of which released spiritual power fluctuations. Wang Lin was startled when he sensed them and proceeded cautiously to avoid them; however, he still had a few near misses.

Li Mu Wan had been extremely nervous ever since entering this Sea of Devils. She has heard too many rumors and has no say in the matter regardless. Strength is what gives a person the right to have a say, and she was too weak. This Sea of Devils was home to few women. Once it was known that she was here, without support from someone powerful, she would be stuck in a truly miserable situation.

Prior to the Hou Fen Country’s catastrophe, large numbers of troops were located at the borders of the Sea of Devils year-round. Among them, none were in the infant stages of the Yuan Ying realm since the purpose of their presence was to prevent beings from the Sea of Devils to cross into their country and plunder nearby areas.


Fortunately, the strongest Devils lived near the central area of the Sea of Devils while the weaker ones were in the outer edge. As long as the proper precautions were made, the weaker Devils wouldn’t be able to cause too many problems.

Wang Lin did not know how long he flew before suddenly stopping. Li Mu Wan, who was behind him, did not have as much power as him and nearly collided with his back. Wang Lin, with cold eyes, turned to look into the distant mist and ordered: “Come out.”

Three lanky shadows appeared within the mist, but Wang Lin couldn’t see their appearance in any details due to the thick mist, only that they were three male cultivators. Among them, one spoke out in a piercing voice.

“Imprudent! This territory is within my Dou Xie’s influence! Immediately leave the woman behind you here, otherwise……”

Not even waiting for him to finish speaking, Wang Lin snorted: “So noisy! Die!” On the map introduction it stated that in the Sea of Devils negotiations were unnecessary, only power mattered. He waved his right hand and released his Divine Conscious. Even though the three men were only at Foundation Building Stage, he had murder within his heart.

In an instant, red lightning flashed from his eyes and struck the three men. Their bodies trembled as their eyes filled with confusion, before their souls shattered and they died.

Wang Lin stepped forward and retrieved their storage bags before kicking the three bodies with his foot into the thick mist. Without a glance, he quickly continued forward and advanced within the mist.

Li Mu Wan was horrified as the scene played out in front of her. This was the first time she had seen Wang Lin fight. The other three men were at the same level as herself, but they were not even given the chance to resist the slightest bit before dying in that strange manner.

Her heart was filled with shock. Looking at Wang Lin’s back, she suddenly remembered the story her brother Li Qi Qing had told her. Two weeks ago, more than a thousand people on both sides of the border war had fought over a Xuan Wu Country spiritual vein.

Early on, a very strange thing had happened. All the Foundation Building disciples of the Xuan Wu Country had inexplicably died in the middle of the fight and fell from the skies, one after another.

After she had heard the story, she had thought it just a rumor. If it had just been one or two, she could have believed it, but the Foundation Building stage disciples on the other side was around 200 and almost half of them had died in this mysterious manner. But now, after witnessing that scene of those three Foundation Building stage men die so silently, she could not help but think about what she heard.

She spoke up from behind Wang Lin, and with a trembling voice whispered, “Sen... Senior, what brigade were you assigned to by the Hou Fen Country Alliance?”

Wang Lin, not even turning to look back at her, replied in a cold voice: “Tenth Brigade.”

His words, “Tenth Brigade”, resounded like spring thunder exploding in her ears. She clearly remembered her brother saying the Hou Fen Country’s war party in that battle was the Tenth Brigade. Now she was almost certain that this cold youth standing before her was the one responsible for the large number of deaths of the Foundation Building stage disciples of Xuan Wu Country.

After this realization, any trace of resistance in her heart evaporated immediately for good. Suddenly, a memory flashed through her mind and she remembered the North Luo River and the single book introducing weird techniques and she couldn’t help but blurt out: “What you just used, was it a Death Incantation?”

Wan Lin was startled from the bottom of his heart, but it cannot be told from his face since his facial expression did not show any changes. He stopped and asked: “You know of the Death Incantation?”

Li Mu Wan heard what Wang Lin had said before they died. It took heart and determination to develop the legendary Death Incantation, as it is extremely difficult to develop and practice. The rumored death curse is an ancient magical power which, once made, the practitioner only needed to say “die” while looking at someone, and they would instantly die.

These spells during ancient times were known as devil spells, the most vicious techniques. Rumor says that to practice these spells, you have to gather three types if Qi. The first Qi is the Qi of a female who possess the Yin element in order to use the technique for collecting Yin Qi. Second, the Death Qi which comes from bones that have absorbed Qi and condensed it into Death Qi, which is still Yin, but of another quality. The third is Murderous Qi, which, after killing to a certain degree, the body’s naturally produced Qi will transform into Murderous Qi.

The three Qi’s, after experiencing a near death situation, can be used to master the Death Incantation. However, the practitioner will experience unimaginable pain daily, and face a near-death experience every three years.

After going through so many cycles of the Death Incantation, the Death Incantation is of small benefit, as the chance for death is high, according to calculations, if one continues to practice the Death Incantation, the chance of living is almost zero. Although the power of the Death Incantation is great, it is too vicious and even Devil cultivators rarely practice them.

Upon hearing Wang Lin’s Death Incantation of “Die!”, Li Mu Wan started to tremble while looking at Wang Lin, silently fretting. Li Mu Wan had fear in her heart, causing it to pound in an unstoppable manner.

 After going through the Sea of Devils for quite some time, Wang Lin finally sank into a patch of dense fog where the Cold Yin Qi air was rich.

Wang Lin was staring at the ground in thought as he continued descending, before suddenly jumping around in every direction. He finally jumped onto a flat stone and with his right hand summoned a flying sword then immediately threw it at the mountainside above him.

Bursts of metallic scraping sounds could be heard as Wang Lin frowned. The hardness of the mountainside was beyond his expectations and the flying sword had little effect on the mountainside.

He snorted and reached into the storage bag again, summoning over 30 flying swords out. His Ji Realm soul dispersed and covered each of the flying swords. Again, he sent them at the mountainside, bombarding it with flying swords.

In this way, the damage to the mountainside immediately increased and a cave rapidly emerged in the mountainside before their eyes. Li Mu Wan had already become accustomed to Wang Lin’s strange mannerisms, and given that he could develop and use the Death Incantation, was not at all surprised he was able to control more than 30 flying swords at once.

Enough though she knew that to control over 30 flying swords at the same time demanded a lot from a cultivator’s soul.

As time slowly went by, a large cave was dug into the mountainside, and within that cave were four small rooms; it was a simple cave. At this point, Wang Lin’s eyes flashed, and he started repeatedly taking out LingShi from his storage bag arranging them into formations all around the cave.

Li Mu Wan, seeing the formations, had a fearful look in her eyes; however, as she studied the formations, within the fear, a hint of disdain appeared which was immediately hidden.

Nonetheless, that slight disdain was still discovered by Wang Lin. Although he was not always monitoring his surroundings, the Divine Consciousness within Li Mu Wan was never removed. Even if on the way here should Li Mu Wan make sudden movements against him, Wang Lin will never feel a shred of emotion for any women and behead her without hesitation.

Wang Lin, after using the last of the LingShi in his hand, said in a cold voice without turning around. “I intend to stay here for a long time. If someone breaks in, I can walk away, but as for you, you must rely upon yourself for your own survival.” He then turned to look at Li Mu Wan.

Li Mu Wan clenched her jaw and float forward, taking out a small black flag from her storage bag. However, she was still uneased and made successive formations of her own before finally connecting them with the formations Wang Lin previously setted up.

Finishing that, she hesitated for a moment before grinding her teeth and pulling out a large piece of aquamarine-colored beast bone from her storage bag that was cut into smaller segments by a flying sword. Her face showing a concentrated appearance, she did careful calculations on where to put a specific piece of beast bone.

She continued to calculate until all 18 piece of crystal beast bones were placed. By that time, she had already spent three hours. Li Mu Wan’s forehead was full of sweat and her face revealed her exhaustion as she spoke: “Based on my calculations, those formations of yours, have 214 parts but those are merely primary formations and can only stop Foundation Building Stage cultivators from entering. Just now I used beast bones to create a nine-bones formation, but because there isn’t enough beast bones, it can only reveal a third of its power. However, it is still a Jie Dan level formation and can at least obstruct others for an hour.

I only have so many of these crystal animal bones, if you want to make the formation even stronger, I will need more.”

With that said, she tossed a jade strip from her right hand to Wang Lin, containing the method of entering the nine-bones formation. Wang Lin swept it with his soul and carefully read it before crushing it. His eyes on Li Mu Wan, he motioned to her.

Li Mu Wan did not resist and entered the formation. Wang Lin narrowed his eyes at her willful attitude as she went inside.

After safely passing all the way through the formation, they entered the cave. Li Mu Wan took out a small flag from the storage bag and with a gentle flash of light, the formation outside suddenly released a burst of mist that completely hid the cave from the outside.

Within the cave, Wang Lin’s gaze went up and down Li Mu Wan. She paled and took a step back, whispering, “Senior, should I refine a Heavenly Li Dan for you now?”

Wang Lin shook his head, his tone turning heavy, “The pills you refine, I don’t dare to eat them.”

Li Mu Wan’s two eyes immediately reddened, with her head bowed, she didn’t dare to speak and only after a long time did she dare to lift her head, revealing her flower-like face that was about to rain, and she whispered: “Senior, to me, is a person that I have a life-saving debt to pay. What must I do for you to trust me? Please, tell me.” At this moment, her beauty was pressuring.

Against Li Mu Wan’s beauty, Wang Lin remained unmoved. With his demeanor still releasing a cold aura, he calmly explained: “I’m not willing to force someone to do something, so I will not make excessive demands from you. You just have to refine enough Heavenly Li Dan pills for me to sufficiently train and reach the Jie Dan stage. After I become a Jie Dan, I will naturally send you out of the Sea of Devils. However, during this period of time, I need you to hand over the soul of blood to ensure that nothing has been done to the pills.”

Li Mu Wan muttered to herself a little before firmly nodding her head, her right hand lightly touching the space between her eyebrows to extract her soul of blood. After her soul of blood was extracted, she floated it over to Wang Lin.

After this, Wang Lin threw out a number of storage bags, saying: “All the materials are here, you can see what kind of pills you can refine from those.“

Li Mu Wan immediately started to examine the materials and cried out in alarm not long after: “This…… This is Huang Mu Root, Yellow Grass Powder. This…… You even have Fen Jin Root, Tian Ling Grass……” The more she looked, the more fearful she became. Within these storage bags, a good half of the materials were herbs used to make immortal pills. Among them, there were even those that were extinct and therefore could no longer be found in Hou Fen Country. They could only get them every few centuries when their disciplines returned from the foreign battles and bring some with them.

Wang Lin rubbed his chin a few times, before throwing out a dozen more storage bags. These were all the spoils of war he gained. The magic treasures and LingShi were all taken out by him and only these unknown materials were left within them. Now is a good chance for Li Mu Wan to identify them for him.

After all the storage bags were checked out, Li Mu Wan’s face was all smiles, sweeping away all the grief that was formerly on her face and her face was emitting rays of light, a type of excitement. Grabbing all the storage bags, she raised her head and asked: “These things, I can use however I please, right?”

Wang Lin nodded his head, saying: “I only need finished pills. As for what you use during the process, do as you will.”

Li Mu Wan exposed a smile at Wang Lin for the first time. Her smile was beautiful, full of confidence in herself: “Senior, do not worry. I just calculated that with these materials, I can approximately refine cultivation increasing pills of 300 Huang Ling Dan, 50 Poison Escape Dan, and many other effective pills of all kinds and sizes. After I finish refining those, I will introduce Senior with many more, one by one. Senior, among these materials, there is one type that is the most precious. And it is this Devil Blood Vine.” Saying this, she pulled from one of the storage bags an unremarkable looking red vine.

“This Devil Blood Vine is one of the main ingredients needed in the Heavenly Li Dan, and at the same time, the most important material. I have only ever seen this Devil Blood Vine in ancient texts before, so this is my first time seeing the real thing. Regarding that, I have full confidence in refining one Heavenly Li Dan, however, the effects may be a little inferior since without all the other medical herbs, I have to find alternatives to substitute them.

Wang Lin with an ordinary expression, said: “Regarding Alchemy, I’m not going to ask.” He muttered to himself a little and then said: “I’m preparing to go out for a trip for at least three days. I’ll be back by the next halfmoon. Take care of yourself until then.”

Finish his sentence, he was about to leave and Li Mu Wan hesitated for a moment, before promptly speaking: “Senior, when you go out, is it possible to find me a Lian Dan Furnace? The other medical herbs are alright with the furnace I have on my person, but this Heavenly Li Dan, if I were to use a normal furnace, the success rate is only half. In the past, when refining the Heavenly Li Dan, we always used the sect’s Heaven and Earth Furnace to accomplish this……”

Wang Lin’s brows crinkled and swept Li Mu Wan a glance. After a moment of silence he left without saying a word.

Li Mu Wan sighed within her heart. She didn’t want to deceive him, but previously she was afraid that if the truth came out it was very likely that he would instantly leave her behind. But she was already at this point, her soul of blood already handed over. With the low chances of the Heavenly Li Dan being refined, she can’t not say it. Otherwise, if some unforeseen accident happened in the future, she was afraid he would take his fury out on her

After getting out of the cave, Wang Lin identified the directions and looked across the Sea of Devils to locate the mainland of Zhao Country. With his eyes showing an eerie chill, he muttered to himself: “Teng Hua Yuan, I’m about to become a Jie Dan. The day I succeed, is the day I return to Zhao Country and the time where your Teng Family will be massacred. You definitely can’t died early, stay alive, and wait for my return……”

The chill in his eyes was slowly suppressed, and with light footsteps, he continued forward rapidly. The purpose of his trip was to look for beast bones since Li Mu Wan explained to him that the nine-bones formation was lacking beast bones and the only way for the formation to show its full might was for them to add more bones to it. Wang Lin was fully aware that with his Qi nearing the Jie Dan stage, in this Sea of Devils where danger lurked everywhere, they must have a relatively safe dwelling to guarantee that something unexpected doesn’t happen to them.

There was also another reason. The techniques that Wang Lin got from the War Shrine also needed beast skulls to create a reactor. Since both things needed beast skulls, it was killing two birds with one stones and both benefited him. According to the Yu Jade map’s introduction of the Sea of Devils, within the thick fog, there are many spirit beasts. In addition, there are also many skeletons of dead spirit beasts within the seafloor.

But the problem is that these beast skeletons are frequently dug out by people, so even though Wang Lin walked for a long time, he has yet to find even one and with the dense fog, his vision was practically useless. Only with his Divine Consciousness could he look around.

While walking, Wang Lin’s expression declined and he immediately took a step back and saw a dim light that was staggering here and there within the thick mist before piercing through the area where Wang Lin previously stood.

Wang Lin is a person whose cultivation is at the peak of the Foundation Building stage and will soon break into the Jie Dan stage. The cultivator of the sword of light could clearly be seen by him. The man looked to be around 40 years old and is in the early Foundation Building stage. His complexion is purple-black and short of breathe. He was poisoned by something highly toxic that disturbed his spirit power and made it hard for him to control his flying sword.

Not soon after the sword of light flew by, another rainbow streak immediately followed, pursuing the sword of light closely.

Wang Lin’s face took on an odd expression. The one that was so relentlessly chasing after the Foundation Building cultivator was a young, 15 year-old cultivator at the Concentrating Qi stage. With a face as white a jade and two slender eyes, a trace of evil could be seen creeping onto the youth’s face.

Within the hands of the evil youth, was also a segment of black beast bone. The youth was leisurely pursuing and constantly blowing air on the beast bone. Every time he blew onto the beast bones, black vapor would delicately rise from from the bone.

Once this black vapor appear, they would immediately change into thin threads that would rapidly catch up with the Foundation Building cultivator and bury themselves into his body.

“Senior, you’d better run. This Junior of yours want to see how long you can last with sixteen different kinds of poison going through your body.” The evil youth once again turned to his beast bone and blew, before continuing in that feminine voice: “Senior, these sixteen types of poison took a long time to be prepared by this Junior. Otherwise, based on your cultivation, how would this Junior dare to attack you? But now, you can’t get away.”

The middle-aged man clenched his teeth and did not say a word as the flying sword below his feet staggered through the air.

“Senior, you are already very old, why not help this Junior by letting me have your cultivation?” The evil youth said unhurriedly as the distance between them closed a little more.

Wang Lin, with great interest, stared at the beast bone that was held by the youth. His body hidden, he quietly followed and caught up.

In the front, the middle-aged man was fleeing for his life, but after hearing the youth’s words from behind his back, he started to roughly scold the youth without even turning his head: “Sang Mu, you backstabber! If it weren’t for me pleading for your case all those years ago, how would Master, that old man accept you as his discipline? You are doing such malicious thing to your own peers! Are you not afraid that Master will find out?”

The evil youth started to laughed hysterically and said: “Master? Hey hey, Senior, if it weren’t for Master’s approval, how would I dare to brazenly attack you by using the Bone Poison in a sneak attack?”

The middle-aged man started to tremble and sprayed out a mouthful of black blood as his body started to fail, before tumbling off his flying sword. The evil youth coldly snorted and flew within a meter of the middle-age man as he controlled his flying sword to continuously pierce the body before him. This was to make sure he was truly dead before he grabbed the body, preparing to leave.

Suddenly, he stopped. Staring at the dark figure in front of him within the thick fog, cold sweat quickly formed and started dripping from his forehead. When he went to kill Senior, he went all out. The surroundings clearly didn’t have anybody present, but now, there was someone in front of him who seemed to appear out of nowhere. Their cultivation also far exceeded his!

He put down the body and promptly cupped his hands in the sign of respect as well as wiping the evil grin off his face and replacing it with one that was simple and honest. He said respectfully, “This Junior dispatched from Dou Xie, Sang Mu, pays his respect to his Senior. I am unaware that Senior has stopped by, is there anything you need done? This Junior will do his utmost best to fulfill your demands.”

Wang Lin slowly emerged from the dense fog, giving him a cold glance.

The youth’s simple and honest expression, under Wang Lin’s single glance, caused his heart to stir and feel as if his heart had been seen through completely. In his heart, he immediately felt a burst of shock.

This kind of feeling, he only got when facing his Master. But his Master already had half a foot in the Jie Dan stage. Then, could it be that this person standing before him, but looked to only be the same age as him, was already at Fake Jie Dan stage?

The youth’s heart trembled, his demeanor becoming even more respectful.

“Hand over your beast bone.” Wang Lin’s voice was ice-cold and without any hint of emotion.

The more he was like this, the more Sang Mu panicked in his heart. Since he was a child, he had grown up in the Sea of Devils and seen and heard many types of Devil Spells. Although his cultivation wasn’t high, he has a pair of Devil Spell seeing eyes. He knows that those who have high cultivation in Devil Spells, tend to be ruthless and cold. This kind of coldness he has seen many times on other cultivators; however, they were all merely imitations, not true ruthlessness. But this Senior in front of him, this kind of cold and detached feeling, felt as if it could penetrate the soul. But most of all, it was his eyes; chilling him from the bottom of his heart.

He immediately handed over the beast bone in his hand, not daring to show any resistance.


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Chapter 142: A Unique Treasure
Wang Lin quickly flew through the Sea of Devils while holding a small flag. This was known as a spirit flag, one that could hold hundreds of souls, but contained just one: Sang Mu Ya. This flag had originally belonged to Sang Mu Ya, but he had never expected it to become the reason for his death.

Through a conversation with Sang Mu Ya, Wang Lin learned that everything within the radius of over a million miles was part of the Sea of Devils. There resided a countless number of sects of various sizes, with the Dou Xie Sect being one of them.

Holding onto the title of the strongest in Dou Xie Sect was Liu Sen, who was also Sang Mu Ya’s Master. He was a peak-middle Jie Dan cultivator, and was regarded as a minor celebrity within the outskirts of the Sea of Devils.

Within the outskirts of the Sea of Devils, resources were scarce and spirit veins were rare. Under normal circumstances, very few cultivators were willing to live on the outskirts of the sea, and most of them resided in the central section of the Sea of Devils.

In addition, Wang Lin had also learned that the outskirts of the Sea of Devils contained very little beast bones. These strong beasts generally lived in the heart of the Sea of Devils and rarely appeared. They usually didn’t travel alone, but even if one did, the cultivators in the outskirts would still be unable to kill it.

As a final piece of information, Wang Lin had learned that within the radius of over a million miles, there were three dangerous valleys, called Corpse Valleys. Within these three valleys were many beast bones, where nearby schools would often go to search for bone materials.

The shocking thing was that, within the Corpse Valley, newly deceased beast corpses would sporadically appear throughout the day. Some of these beasts were even extremely powerful when they were alive, and shouldn’t have had any reason to appear in the outskirts of the Sea of Devils, much less in the Corpse Valley.

While this Corpse Valley was mysterious, as long as one did not enter it, then generally, nothing dangerous would happen.

The Poison Bone Sang Mu Ya had used against his senior was also taken from a mysterious spine beast in a Corpse Valley called Do Ya. After a lot of research, Wang Lin discovered that this Poison Bone was only effective against Foundation Building stage cultivators. The effect would become more diluted as a cultivator’s cultivation deepened.. The effect was almost useless against a late Foundation Building stage expert; needless to say, it would be useless against a Jie Dan stage expert.

Wang Lin’s goal was the Corpse Valley, and he quickly flew to it by following Sang Mu Ya’s directions.

After arriving at the location containing the Corpse Valley, Wang Lin saw a mountain range extending for as far as his eyes could see. These mountains of varying size all had valleys of various sizes between them.

The Corpse Valley was here.

The mist was not as dense here and was slightly pale, impacting his vision slightly; surprisingly, before entering, Wang Lin felt that the Cold Yin Qi radiating from the inside the valley had a vastly different quality compared to that of the outside.

He immediately made a sign with his hands and muttered a chant. Suddenly, a sliver of red light appeared, slowly condensing into a ball of white light. Upon appearing, the white ball of light immediately changed color and finally turned blue.

Wang Lin’s eyes flashed without pause, as this was a spell that was specifically designed to check the quality of Yin. Based on the colors of the ball, there were four types of lights. The four types were purple, blue, silver, red, respectively corresponding to the Four Elements of Heaven and Earth.

The ball of light became light blue, indicating that this place had Earth Yin.

Taking a deep breath, Wang Lin pointed forward, causing the ball of light to promptly move forward. Wang Lin leisurely followed, while he observed the ball for any changes in color. At the same time, he looked around for any beast bones.

Within Corpse Valley, Wang Lin’s Divine Consciousness swept through the area, and found a few cultivators. These cultivators were all flying around, looking for beast bones. Whenever they happened to run into each other, they would only nod a greeting, but maintained some distance from one other while continuing to search.

Wang Lin muttered to himself a little. This Corpse Valley did not contain only one valley, but countless valleys of all sizes. And also, the deeper they went, the less cultivators there would be, and therefore there would be more beast bones.

After the ninth valley, the number of animal bones increased to a frightening amount, covering more than half of the valley.

Wang Lin stood on the bones of a huge animal, carefully observing them for a while before dismissing them. He could not feel even the slightest spiritual power from them, and decided they were clearly not from a spirit beast, just from a large animal.

As he headed into the inner valley, the ball of light increased in intensity. He had not seen any other cultivators since the ninth valley, and the animal bones littering the ground continued to increase in number.

Wang Lin paused a little in the ninth valley, carefully observing his surroundings with his Divine Consciousness. He kept getting the feeling that the ninth valley was different from the other valleys, but he couldn’t place his finger on exactly what made it different. However, he felt as if there were numerous eyes watching him the moment he entered, all assembled within this valley.

Wang Lin sneered in his heart and swept out his Divine Consciousness. The gathered watchers immediately dissipated, and the valley was restored to its previously calm state.

Wang Lin muttered to himself, taking his time to evaluate the collection of beast bones he had found after entering the tenth valley. After walking into the thirteenth valley, the light ball made a “pop” sound and split in two.

Wang Lin had an excited look on his face, as he knew that this signified that the quality of the Earth Yin was above the regular quality. The bursts of cold air coming from the fourteenth valley slightly stiffened Wang Lin’s body.

Wang Lin took a look around before releasing a sigh. Although this place was really good for closed-door training, it could be considered as one of the three most dangerous areas in the area, despite how calm the area appeared to be. Since it definitely had its own dangers, Wang Lin didn’t dare to seclude himself here for long periods of time. Even if he found the cave in better condition, he would not risk himself and train in an area that he did not understand, unless as a last resort.

He hesitated a little. Along the way, he had already gathered some beast bones. Although their effects weren’t too great, they should still be able to add some more power to the nine-bones formation.

However, he was somewhat unwilling to just walk away. Looking at the fourteenth valley from here, he could see the fourteenth valley’s general appearance. This fourteenth valley was obviously different from the previous thirteen valleys. Its size alone was practically the size of all the previous ones combined.

Aside from this, the fourteenth valley also gave off a strange aura. There were practically no beast bones or animal bones to be seen. The floor was covered with a layer of blue, gleaming gas. It looked quite mysterious.

Wang Lin looked off in the distance. This fourteenth valley wasn’t really the final destination in the Corpse Valley, at most it was only halfway in. Wang Lin raised his attentiveness a bit, then shook his head, planning on leaving for now.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly heard a roar in the distance. Shortly thereafter, an enormous Aquatic Dragon over 1000 feet long suddenly leapt out of the mist.

Wang Lin’s complexion changed and he immediately retreated underground. His foot steps were light, but they were also firm as his Divine Consciousness washed over the area, watching out for the enormous dragon.

With a mere movement from the Aquatic Dragon’s large body, bursts of winds suddenly appeared and within the blink of an eye, it had already crossed the thirteen valleys and arrived at the fourteenth valley.

The large Aquatic Dragon flew past Wang Lin with large drops of blood following it, dripping down from the sky. Wang Lin raised his head and immediately discovered a deep wound on the abdomen of the enormous dragon. The wound itself was a least half the length of the large beast.

Wang Lin looked towards the direction from where the Aquatic Dragon came. All he saw was the trail of blood on the ground that followed it, painting the entire path it flew red.

The Aquatic Dragon stopped above the fourteenth valley, not minding the deep wound on its body. It looked up at the sky with cold eyes, and let loose a loud roar. The second the roar was let loose, ripples formed in the air as violent shock waves of anger. They were like the waves in the sea, tossing and turning through the air.

The bones around the valley all emitted a ‘pa pa’ sound as they turned into ashes one after another by the waves of Qi that continued to radiate from the valley.

Even underground, Wang Lin could feel the tremors from the earth as the ground was shaved by a meter. In his heart, he felt extreme shock at the Aquatic Dragon’s strength. It was probably even stronger than a Yuan Ying level cultivator.

Finally, after the roar that lasted for quite some time, the Aquatic Dragon’s eyes dimmed and within the span of a breath it fell from the sky, crashing head first and smashing through the blue gas and drilling into the ground, as if it were sinking into water.

Wang Lin immediately lept from within the ground and within the blink of an eye rushed into the fourteenth valley. The dragon’s body was only half buried into the ground and so he grabbed the Aquatic Dragon by it’s tail and forcefully pulled it out of the valley floor.

With a few ‘ka ka’ sounds, the Aquatic Dragon was brutally ripped from the ground. Wang Lin’s heart was beating wildly as he grabbed the body and sped out of the valley without another word.

The Aquatic Dragon’s corpse was too heavy; Wang Lin, having to expend all of his internal strength, was barely able to support its weight. He could hear his bones creaking in protest, but compared to the benefits gained from a recently-deceased Aquatic Dragon corpse, Wang Lin ignored the pain.

After wobbly flying out of the valley, Wang Lin saw a gathering of the bone hunting cultivators. Each of them were in a defense position and they looked stunned as they stared at him flying.

The cultivators had long become accustomed to the strange events that may spontaneously occur within the valley. Thus, the moment the huge dragon started flying over they had all retreated into defensive positions and found themselves a sturdy shelter. Even so, some of them were still affected and received severe injuries.

To be able to survive, not only must you possess enough cultivation, you must also have an intelligent mind that is able to quickly respond and adapt to different situations. These people were all ones whom spent all year-round at the valley and scavenged for beast bones as their main source of income.

Because they were people who were year-rounders in the valley, they had seen many different kinds of spirit beasts fly into the valley, but they had never seen anyone who was able to retrieve the corpse of a spirit beast that just died.

This kind of situation, not to say that they had even seen it before, but they hadn’t even heard of it before; not to mention that the man was also carrying the entire corpse of a 1000 foot long Aquatic Dragon.

A complete Aquatic Dragon corpse that wasn’t even rotting yet! At this point, many of the cultivators lost their ability to think rationally as greed shone in their eyes.

Wang Lin could feel many gazes on him, calculating his strength and power. With a cold snort he landed on the ground with the Aquatic Dragon corpse and sank into the earth to escape.

The instant he sank into the earth, he swept out with his Ji Realm. With a flash, all the cultivators collapsed one by one. All of them died without fail since none of them were at the Jie Dan stage, therefore possessing no defence against his power.

The Aquatic Dragon’s body was simply too large. Even though Wang Lin drunk considerable amounts of Ling Qi liquid, he could still only walk back slowly to the cave with the corpse in tow.


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Chapter 143: The Three Cold Dans
Wang Lin slowly made his escape back to the cave, taking a full ten days before he finally arrived. Upon arriving, he cautiously observed the formations outside and once he determined that they had not been breached, leaped out from the ground while pulling the Aquatic Dragon’s corpse and throwing it on the floor.

The ground shook from the corpse’s weight, send out a large noise that startled Li Mu Wan. After receiving Wang Lin’s summons through his Divine Consciousness, she went to the entrance of the cave. Upon seeing the 1000 ft corpse of the Aquatic Dragon her hair stood up straight in shock.

“Will this provide enough bones to finish the Nine-Bones Formation?” Wang Lin asked, still dragging the dragon behind him while walking towards Li Mu Wan.

She nodded blankly as she still had not been able to recollect her thoughts from the initial shock. She had seen an Aquatic Dragon described in ancient scrolls and knew it was comparable in power to a late Yuan Ying stage cultivator. It could only be described as a unique treasure!

Within its head was Aquatic Dan, a natural immortal elixir, that could be improved with a little refining. The Aquatic Dragon’s skin was perfect for the production of defensive armor. Aquatic Bones, Aquatic Jin… all the parts were considered rare treasures. And the most precious of them all was the Aquatic Dragon’s bone marrow!

The refining potential of an Aquatic Dragon’s bone marrow is based on its life span. The older it is, the sparser its bone marrows, but the more effective it is until the bone marrows have all been condensed and the Aquatic Dragon can turn into a real dragon. The bone marrow will also turn into a Dragon Dan.

Dragon Dan. Possessing it has been a dream for cultivators since the ancient times. According to the legends, taking it allows the cultivator to turn into a dragon interchangeably and removes all bottlenecks and constraints on their cultivation!

However, to form a Dragon Dan, the Aquatic Dragon must have lived for over 9.99 million years. But this is nothing more than legends, because until now, no record exists of someone taking a Dragon Dan nor any verification of its effectiveness.

After throwing the dragon’s corpse to Li Mu Wan, Wang Lin ignored her, turning around and entering the cave. This trip, in addition to the Aquatic Dragon corpse, was quite successful, as Wang Lin had learned from Sang Mu Ya that in the Sea of Devils there is a sect named Lian Qi where one can purchase any instrument for refining..

This sect specializing in refining equipment had many shops with the closest one being over 400,000 miles away in Na Dou City. But the price of the refining equipment is often expensive, so Wang Lin pondered his predicament for quite a while. Finally, he abandoned the thought of traveling to Na Dou to buy a furnace since Sang Mu Ya had mentioned the head of Dou Xie sect spent almost half of his LingShi to buy an excellent furnace.

Putting the furnace issue out of his head, Wang Lin intended to retreat into closed-door training until reaching Jie Dan stage since the dragon bones should boost the power of the current nine-bones formation by a large extent; enough to keep them protected.

Inside one of the stone rooms he had carved out, Wang Lin sat cross-legged with a boulder closing the door. From his storage bags shot out more than 30 flying swords and with a flash from his eyes they immediately slashed the ground as one. Within the blink of an eye, a deep hole formed below, into the mountain.

Wang Lin’s eyes flashed and a ball of white light appear and started changing color until it turned a light blue. His eyebrows rose slightly before returning to normal. Although the quality of the Cold Yin here could not compare to the that which was in the Corpse Valley, it was enough to form a Cold Dan through the Abyssal Ascension Technique.

With a leap, Wang Lin jumped down the hole into the depths of the mountain. The quality of the Cold Yin was at its limit for the Yin here, only an ordinary level three (Earth Yin). Wang Lin patted the light ball once, dismissing it, before closing his eyes and entering a state of meditation.

Wang Lin resumed his training with the Abyssal Ascension Technique that he had previously done. It had a familiar feeling to it, a dark and cold sensation, as the Cold Yin was sucked into his body making a ‘Shi Shi Shi’ sound.

Time slowly passed, after three days, Wang Lin slowly opened his eyes and the Heaven Revolting Bead appeared in the middle of his forehead. Drops of Cold Yin dew seeped from the surface of the bead and Wang Lin collected each and every drop.

Time flew by and Wang Lin spent everyday training in the Abyssal Ascension Technique. But he did not forget to collect the Cold Yin dew from the Heaven Revolting Bead. Once he collected enough dew, he would spend half his day in the space reversal chamber.

As a result, he progressed quickly and within just a month had condensed two Cold Dan and only needed one more to perform the three Cold Dan integration technique and step into the Jie Dan realm.

This last Cold Dan still needed more time to break through, however, since the previous two Cold Dan’s took Wang Lin a whole year to condense. Fortunately, he already had a base level of cultivation and so a situation where it would take him years to form the third Cold Dan was impossible.

Wang Lin expected that he would be able to form the third Cold Dan within three months, so his mind was calm and not anxious. In addition to absorbing Cold Yin and collecting the dew from the Heaven Revolting Bead he took some time to slowly start raising his captured devil.

He had tried many times before, but the devil could not be directly controlled with his Divine Consciousness. Therefore, he could only create a connection with it by feeding it slowly..

Speaking of the devil, Wang Lin found it very useful. He would feed the remaining traces of souls captured in the Flag of Souls to it. Within this flag were the souls of Sea of Devils cultivators. Most of them died fighting against disciples of the Dou Xie sect. According to Sang Mu Ya’s explanation, they were all sacrificial victims he ruined by fighting and then sealing their souls to gain favor from his Master.

As time slowly passed, most of the souls contained within the Flag of Souls were absorbed by the devil. At last, Wang Lin condensed a thread of Divine Consciousness that connected to the devil.

Even the devil itself didn’t know that there was now a piece of Wang Lin’s Divine Consciousness in its body and with evil intentions, it still secretly looked for a chance to escape.

By now, Wang Lin had been in closed-door training for three months. His third Cold Dan already had its initial form and over the course of the three months he had gone out a few times. Li Mu Wan’s stone room was covered in medical herbs. He had no idea how, but she even went as far as to get soil to plant some Ling grasses. The Ling grasses were also surrounded by a LingShi formation that she had carefully planned, enabling the grasses to absorb as much Qi as they needed and guaranteeing they would grow up to have abundant amounts of Qi.

There was also a small Dan Furnace set in the middle of the room with a dense stack of failed elixirs next to it. Li Mu Wan had been working hard on refining ever since Wang Lin went into seclusion.

Other than the residues that were left piled up on the ground, there were also some Jade strips scattered around. When Li Mu Wan was refining pills, she would sometimes get a burst of inspiration, or some idea of deviating from the original recipe of some pills and hastily get a Jade strip to quickly write it down..

Of the four rooms in the cave, one was used by Wang Lin for his seclusion training. As for the other three, one became an Alchemy laboratory, another became an herb garden, while the final room had been changed into a shower by Li Mu Wan.

The fog within the Sea of Devils causes things to become damp and the cave was no exception. The clothes on her person would often become wet and stick to her body. Li Mu Wan, as a girl, really couldn’t stand this sensation, especially so when her wet body had a sticky feeling. And so with a large amount of effort, she turned the last room into a shower.

The shower was completely ignored by Wang Lin however, since he could just exert a bit of spiritual power and have his body inhale the Cold Qi clinging on his clothes and into his Cold Dans.

As a result of the Aquatic Dragon’s bones, the nine bone formation outside the cave had an increase in power. According to Li Mu Wan, this Nine Bone Formation can no longer be called that, but instead, should be called the Nine Aquatic Dragon Bone Formation.

When activated, the formation would be able to stop a Jie Dan realm expert for several months and even stop a Yuan Ying realm expert for several days. However, there was one point Li Mu Wan was regretful about. If the Aquatic Dragon wasn’t dead, but instead captured alive, the Aquatic Dragon’s soul could be bound to the formation. Then, not could it only stop and trap people, it would also have the ability to attack intruders. For those below the Yuan Ying realm, it would be certain death and even Yuan Ying realm experts would get moderately roughed up by it.

But unfortunately, the soul of an Aquatic Dragon is nearly impossible to acquire, so Li Mu Wan could only dream about it.

As for that Aquatic Dragon, the Dragon Dan from the corpse is now in Li Mu Wan’s hands and ready to be used as a component for her Alchemy. When she obtains a furnace of acceptable quality, she will refine it. The Dragon skin took her nearly a month to carefully remove from the corpse with her flying sword before carefully folding it up for later use.

Apart from those, there is also the Aquatic Dragon’s tendons. These tendons, apart from the bone marrows and Aquatic Dragon Dan, is also the third most valuable part of the dragon. If there was an Expert Refiner around, no matter what kind, it could have been refined and used to support numerous types of cultivation.

What was left over was a small bottle of bone marrow, but because it is too precious, Li Mu Wan was afraid of failing and suffering a great loss even when refining an immortal elixir. So all of these were reluctantly given back to Wang Lin one by one.

While Wang Lin claimed the bone marrow and dragon muscle for himself, he left all the other parts for Li Mu Wan to use at her discretion. With Li Mu Wan’s clever use of skill, she was able to manufacture two sets of armor from the dragon’s skin.

After putting one set on, Wang Lin noticed the other set of armor was made to conform to the female figure. Pondering a little, he threw the other set to Li Mu Wan. She immediately smiled and without a word of thanks put it into her storage bag without trying it on.

There was still plenty of dragon skin left, so Wang Lin put the rest into his storage bag, hoping to exchange it for other materials should the opportunity arise.

In this manner, the entire Aquatic Dragon was turned into various treasures.

Wang Lin, on this day one month later, had finally condensed the third Cold Dan. The three Cold Dan were in his head, his chest, and his abdomen and threads of Cold Yin Qi were circling through the three Dans.

Wang Lin opened his eyes, revealing an excited glint. He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. Without another word, he began cultivating Cold Yin to his first Dan.

Situ had once explained to him in detail about cultivating with the Abyssal Ascension Technique and the process of uniting all three Dans into one. The process was divided into the initial integration and the deeper integration. If he can complete the initial integration, then it can be counted as him already having a foot in the Jie Dan realm. If he finishes the deeper integration right after the initial one, then he will most likely succeed in breaking through into the Jie Dan realm!

He would need to obtain a high quality furnace to allow Li Mu Wan to refine the Heavenly Li Dan. She only had a half refined Heavenly Li Dan and he wanted to make sure she turned it into a quality finished product.

He was also prepared to use the Devil Blood Vine to refine a defective Heavenly Li Dan.

Previously, he considered the furnaces sold in the city of Nan Dou to be prohibitively expensive. But now, he had some Aquatic Dragon skin that he could probably use to trade for one, and if it still wasn’t enough, Wang Li would do whatever else it took to obtain one. Pondering this, he took another deep breath and resumed fusing the three Cold Dans.

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Ancestral Aperture (祖窍) - Point between the eyes. Also: Ancestral Orifice
Chapter 144: Jie Dan
There are three special points on the body: the Ancestral Aperture between the eyes, the Qi Ocean in the chest, and the Dan Tian below the navel. Each of these three points contain a single Cold Dan. The first step towards completing the Abyssal Ascension Technique requires you to break the balance between those three special points, while fusing the Cold Dan in the Ancestral Aperture and the Qi Ocean into one.

If this succeeds, one must take their now fused Cold Dan and fuse it once again with the Cold Dan in the Dan Tian, leaving only a single, mighty, Cold Dan. Only once the three Cold Dan have been fused into one, will the cultivator have a high chance of breaking into the Jie Dan realm, becoming a real Jie Dan stage cultivator.

Wang Lin sat quietly in the stone cave. In the secluded enclosure overflowing with Cold Yin Qi, his eyes were shut, as he merged both his mind and soul with his body.

The first thing Wang Lin needed to do was to break down the Ancestral Aperture in his body, until the Cold Dan could sink into it.

Fusing the three Cold Dan was a very trying and difficult process. Only now had Wang Lin gained an insight into the trial he would face, while previously, he only barely understood the sheer difficulty of this feat. Only after experiencing it himself had Wang Lin finally realized that the words ‘extremely arduous’ were truly a major understatement. In reality, the task’s difficulty was so extreme that it couldn’t even be imagined.

Just breaking down the Ancestral Aperture alone had already taken Wang Lin a month of trial and error. During this month, he had been fervently working non-stop. When he surrounded the Ancestral Aperture with a spiritual force, no matter how he would attack it, the aperture would never budge an inch.

While training in the Abyssal Ascension Technique, the Ancestral Aperture, Qi Ocean, and Dan Tian, each of these had to be broken down thrice in order to form their respective Cold Dan. The difficulty increased exponentially each time, and the first time could be said to be only somewhat troublesome. The second time was excruciatingly challenging, and the third time was like no other. What Wang Lin was currently doing was equivalent to breaking down the Ancestral Aperture for a fourth time!

One could only imagine the difficulty! After attacking repeatedly without any impacts, Wang Lin decided to change his strategy. Instead of directly attacking it, he tried to slowly wear it down. Ever so slowly, with the passage of time, the incorporeal wall hindering him gradually thinned.

However, this unceasing stroking of his inner Ling Qi gave rise to much pain. Even exceptionally imaginative people would have difficulty describing it with words. With every rub, Wang Lin’s body would shudder violently. The beads of sweat on his head were like rain. The clothing on his body, starting from when he first sat down, had never been dry.

Without enough willpower, fusing the three Cold Dan would be impossible. Fortunately, Wang Lin did not lack for willpower. During that year long ago, when he had participated in Heng Yue Sect’s tests, his willpower had shocked the others. Two blood stains still remained on the stone steps of Heng Yue Mountain.

Heng Yue Sect would have definitely nurtured him with great care due to his great willpower, if not for his lack of talent.. Unfortunately, with the destruction and disappearance of the Heng Yue Sect, he could no longer return.

Wang Lin’s willpower was truly astonishing. While enduring the unimaginable pain, the Ancestral Aperture finally shattered after three months of constant vigorous stroking.

A fist-sized blue Cold Dan slowly sunk down from the Ancestral Aperture. As it sunk in, a thin thread spread out from it and entered Wang Lin’s body.

Every time the Cold Dan sunk down a bit further, another thin thread would appear. Finally, the Cold Dan fell into the Qi Ocean, and lay next to the second Cold Dan.

Wang Lin sucked in his breath, and without hesitation, and began to furiously stroke once again, with an intense emotion on his face.

After another three months passed, the Qi Ocean made a wave of *pa pa* sounds, which quickly faded away. Simultaneously, the two Cold Dan violently attacked each other. Wang Lin only felt a “boom” in his body and a terrifying power immediately arose from the clash between the two Cold Dan, exploding crazily within his body.

Wang Lin’s complexion immediately paled. After hacking for a few moments, he coughed out a bloody mist. Just as this bloody mist came out, it immediately froze, and covered the surrounding cave walls, forming a layer of red ice crystals.

After spraying out the bloody mist, Wang Lin’s body trembled. Immediately, eight low-grade Ling Shi’s flew out from his storage bag and rammed into each other, grinding themselves into a fine powder. Following his directions, the powder fell onto his body and formed a weird symbol.

The symbol flickered briefly before disappearing from sight while a black, flying sword flew out of the storage bag, revolving around Wang Lin. Floating quietly in midair, the Devil’s silhouette leaped out from the flying sword.

It first at Wang Lin with an expression of hesitation and struggle. Almost immediately, Wang Lin took action, completely extinguishing his divine consciousness. The Devil suddenly changed his expression and obediently stood on guard.

After doing this, Wang Lin’s head twisted at an odd angle and hit the floor. He had only enough time to put up a single defensive formation before losing consciousness.

Speaking of this formation, a few days ago, Wang Lin had made a few teleportation formations for emergency usage.

The Devil hovered around Wang Lin, while furtively glancing at him. Rebellion rose up once again from the bottom of its heart and it thought gloomily: “Should I try fight him? Hmm… He doesn’t seem to be faking it… It’s too hard to say, this lad’s too cunning… Ai! Am I going to fight with him? But if I lose, then the result…” The Devil could not help but tremble, and tossed the idea out of its head.

After a day, the idea that it had thrown out, slowly returned. Its gaze flickered and as it looked at Wang Lin struggling, once again rebellion rose up from the bottom of its heart: “Fight with him? This is the opportunity to do so. Once I miss it, there might not be another chance… No, this Wang Lin is extremely cunning. How could he have not prepared for this? Releasing me after he has fainted is inexplicable.” The Devil firmly shook its head, watching Wang Lin attentively, and continued thinking: “I’m not going to be fooled. Keep on faking it.”

It once again threw away the thought of fighting.

Another day passed. As the Devil watched Wang Lin impatiently, as its his heart once again grew restless. It roared in rage and gloomily thought: “If I’m dead, I’m dead. This lad doesn’t seem to be faking it. Fight! Fight! Fight!”

Its eyes turned deep red as he pounced towards Wang Lin. The defensive formation had no effect, and the Devil bypassed it directly.

But when he grew close, the Devil repeatedly shrieked. Its body made zapping sounds while emitting green smoke before dissipating. As it rapidly retreated, it miserably howled: “I knew this fellow was cunning! How could he not have anticipated that I would try to devour him after letting me go so easily? Damn him! When did he leave behind his divine consciousness, How… How am I going to live in the future…” The Devil stamped his feet and howled in grief endlessly.

After that experience, the Devil accepted its fate and obediently stayed in the corner of the cave wall. It blankly looked at the opposing wall, its mind filled with grief and indignation.

On the third day, Wang Lin awoke and sat up. He gave a bitter laugh, but did not speak. He knew that he had still looked down on the process of uniting of the three Dan. The destructive force produced from the fusion of the two Cold Dan was the pivotal point.

This cold Qi could not leak out; otherwise, the fusion would be a failure. But if the cold Qi did not leak out, then his body would be unable to bear it. Wang Lin’s face was contorted into uncertainty.

After all, fundamentally, his body had no way of containing the cold Qi. But Wang Lin did not understand. How did the founder of the Abyssal Ascension Technique fuse the three Dan into one? Not even speaking of the distant past, how did Situ Nan succeed using the Abyssal Ascension Technique?

Wang Lin contemplated deeply, but couldn’t understand it. Moreover, Situ Nan had never mentioned this point.

“How can I allow my body to bear that cold Qi?” Wang Lin muttered to himself. After a long period of silence, his gaze fell upon the Devil’s body.

After Wang Lin had woken up, the Devil had snuck in a few furtive glances from time to time. At this moment, its gaze swept onto Wang Lin and its body immediately trembled. It promptly said: “I have been on guard the entire time without relaxing a bit.”

Wang Lin stretched out his hand, grabbed the Devil, and threw him into the flying sword. He got up, leapt out of the passage, and left the stone room.

Outside of Li Mu Wan’s room, Wang Lin looked inside. Li Mu Wan had her upper body resting on the stone table where the Dan Furnace lay. She was currently sleeping. Her beautiful, silk-like hair wrapped around her head carelessly, with a few strands tucked behind her ears. Her tiny charming face was rosy, giving off a beautiful color like red clouds reflected off of snow.

She wore a fragrant purple garment as if she were in a painting, delicate and beautiful with lustrous skin, causing any onlookers’ pulses to race. At this very moment, the Dan Furnace let out threads of white Qi. This scene held an immortal and painting-like feeling.

Adding onto Li Mu Wan’s meticulous dress, the surroundings were covered in green vines that had found from some unknown place. That sort of surreal feeling, as if he was entering a painting, grew stronger.

A faint medicinal smell arrived. Wang Lin sucked in his breath and his mind cleared a bit.

After watching for a long time, he slowly withdrew his gaze, and turned around towards a stone room. One half contained a large amount of medicinal herbs, while the other half contained a few materials for refining pills of immortality. Among these lay half of an Aquatic Dragon skull.

The Aqua Dragon’s skeleton was too long, especially the skull. It was a waste to use up all of it in the Nine-Bones formation, so Wang Lin had told Li Mu Wan to leave some of the skull.

After instructing her, he went to fuse the three Cold Dan into one. Looking at the half of a skull, Wang Lin began muttering. This skull gave a peculiar feeling. It didn’t look like bone, but instead like some sort of crystal. It was probably formed from the Aquatic Dragon’s unique composition.

Just as Wang Lin was observing, suddenly, his mind stirred and he turned his body. Not long after, Li Mu Wan awoke hazily and yawned. After leaving the stone room, she glanced at Wang Lin in amazement. Her sleepiness quickly disappearing.

On that day, Li Mu Wan’s mental state had slowly begun to change. She had started letting her imagination run wild frequently, since she was terrified that Wang Lin would pounce on her like some beast. After all, those that practiced the Death Incantation were all experts in plucking Yuan Ying.

But afterwards, she had found out that Wang Lin had gone into seclusion everyday. Li Mu Wan had always thought that her brother, Li Ji Qing, was diligent in his cultivation, but after seeing Wang Lin, the word diligence became associated with him.

From her view, Wang Lin was already at the peak of the Foundation Building stage, and into the Fake Dan stage. One more step and he would step into the Jie Dan stage. But how could reaching the Jie Dan stage be so easy? Li Mu Wan knew that in the several thousand years of Huo Fen Country history, the fastest person to have ever reached the peak of the Foundation Building stage was 17 years old, but had taken thirty years to step into the Jie Dan stage. This person was the founder of Huo Fen Country, and the first Yuan Ying cultivator, bringing the Huo Feng Country from Rank 2 to Rank 3.

But based on Wang Lin’s appearance, he was at most only 20 years old. Wanting to form a Jie Dan in a short amount of time was absolutely impossible! Originally, Wang Lin told her that once he had reached the Jie Dan stage, he would send her off. When she had heard this, she didn’t know whether to laugh or cry. If she waited patiently for him to reach the Jie Dan stage, she was afraid that he would not succeed after dozens or even a hundred years. A trace of ridicule towards Wang Lin arose in her heart. If he wanted her to stay, he only had to say so. There was no need to make things so unnecessarily complicated.

“Your… Your cultivation has reached a bottleneck?” Li Mu Wan meeting Wang Lin’s eyes, hesitated a bit and then quietly asked. Her soul blood was in his hands. If he asked too much from her, she wouldn’t know what to choose. She had already pondered upon this for a long time. Recently, Wang Lin always had a complicated expression on his face. She couldn’t help but think of the Death Incantation’s strict requirements for frequently absorbing the three Qi. If the requirements weren’t high, then the technique wouldn’t be considered substantial, and it would be easy to reach a bottleneck!. In these several months, he had not touched a woman or killed anyone. Thus, it was likely that he had reached a bottleneck.

Wang Lin didn’t know what Li Mu Wan was thinking. He looked at her in the eye and nodded his head.

Li Mu Wan’s heart dropped. She backed away a few steps as her face turned pale. She struggled for breath and ground her teeth, then bitterly smiled: “You… I only agreed to refine pills. If… I… I won’t do your bidding, even if I die.” Her voice sounded like a mournful whimper.

Wang Lin, astonished, glanced at Li Mu Wan and turned his body towards the skull. He said dully: “Why is the Aquatic Dragon skull this color?”

“The Aquatic Dragon’s body is full of poison, to the point that even its bones are purple. It should not be all that surprising.” She pursed her lips, explaining in a soft voice.

“The whole body is poisonous?” Wang Lin was stunned, and carefully looked at the skull.

“While living, the insides of the Aquatic Dragon are highly toxic. Once it dies, the poison can change the body, turning it into a treasure. An ancient book once said: Alive, the dragon’s body is poisonous; dead, the dragon’s body is a treasure. The dragon poison comes from within the bone marrow, but after it is dead, the bone marrow becomes the treasure.” Li Mu Wan’s voice grew colder and colder, her voice gradually turning dull.

Wang Lin wordlessly stared at the Aquatic Dragon skull. His face was downcast, as he pondered for a moment before muttering to himself: “The entire body is poisonous… if this Aquatic Dragon’s body is highly toxic, then why is it not affected by the toxicity…” A thread of light flashed in his mind. This light came quickly and violently. Just when Wang Lin understood the basics, he immediately became perplexed.

Li Mu Wan coldly sweeped past Wang Lin with her eyes. Seeing that his brows creased tighter and tighter, she couldn’t help but say: “This Aquatic Dragon’s innards are all poison. His blood, bones, flesh, organs, even its saliva contain poison. Naturally, it wouldn’t be affected...”

A thought streaked across his mind, like lightning. This thought became clearer and clear. His eyes glittered as his eyebrows gradually unfolded. The Wang Lin that had not smiled in a long time, suddenly gave a large laugh. He grabbed with his right hand and the Aquatic Dragon skull was immediately taken into the storage bag.

“Since my body has no way of containing the cold Qi, then I’ll just have my entire body become cold Qi. In this way, I’ll naturally be able to bear it.” Wang Lin sucked in his breath. He turned his body and walked with large strides towards Li Mu Wan.

Li Mu Wan’s complexion grew pale as she backed up to the wall. Her body trembled and she smiled in distress. Just as she was about to cut off the blood from her heart, Wang Lin suddenly proclaimed: “The day I reach the Jie Dan stage will be the day I send you back to the Luo He Sect!”

Done talking, he turned around and walked out of the cave without turning back. With a leap, he rushed out like great wave, and disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Li Mu Wan was completely astonished; her mind was in chaos. All sorts of thoughts sprung up like spring water. Her back slid along the wall until her bottom hit the ground.

Wang Lin launched the Earth Escaping Technique at full strength, his destination: Corpse Valley. Li Mu Wan’s words just a moment ago pushed aside the clouds and mist in his mind. He was now completely confident in uniting the three Cold Dan into one.

Flying at high speeds, he arrived at Corpse Valley after three days. He flew in with ease, as if he had done it many times before, from the first valley to the thirteenth valley. Outside of the thirteenth valley, he held his breath and entered.

Inside the fourteenth valley, the ground was covered in a layer of blue ice. Wang Lin treaded on top. Threads of cold Qi came out from beneath his feet and drilled into his body. Wang Lin hesitated a bit, then suddenly stamped down with his right foot. Using the Earth Escaping Technique, his body slowly sank down.

As he sank down, the Ying Cold Qi grew thicker. After reaching a depth of 320 metres, Wang Lin had no choice but to halt. His body was already frozen stiff. This enormous Earth Grade Ying Cold Qi only allowed him to sink here. If he went down any further, not only his body, but his spirit and divine consciousness would all freeze and then shatter in a flash.

As for how deep the ground of the fourteenth valley was, and what mysteries the bottom level contained, Wang Lin had no time to guess. Carefully monitoring and maintaining his constant heartbeat, he slowly shifted his body into a cross-legged position.

“If my three Cold Dan have not united into one, then I will not leave this valley!” Wang Lin silently said in his heart before closing his eyes.

Spring passed and fall arrived. Time flew by in a flash, and three years passed in an instant.

As for the calamity by the fire beasts in the Huo Fen Country, a Rank 4 Cultivation Country sent three Spirit Forming stage experts, and they took nine days to thoroughly subdue all of the fire beasts. They combined the beasts together and refined them into a mid-grade Spirit level Fire medicine, bringing it back to the Rank 4 Cultivation Country.

The rankings between Spirit Beasts had a rigid hierarchy divided into: Unusual, Spirit, Desolate, Immortal. Each rank was split into Top, Mid, and Low grade.

The Fire Beast sucked in by the Heaven Revolting Bead was a Fire Beast with a half a step into the Desolate rank. Under the ranking, it would be a peak Top Grade Spirit Rank beast.

A peak Top Grade Spirit Rank beast was equivalent to a peak Spirit Forming stage expert. A Mid Grade was equivalent to a peak Yuan Ying stage expert, while a Low Grade was equivalent to a peak Jie Dan stage expert.

That recently deceased Aquatic Dragon was a Mid Grade Spirit Beast.

Although the fire beast calamity was resolved, the Huo Fen Country could not afford to clear up the burning Ling Qi within its borders. They could only patiently wait for time to slowly neutralize the burning Ling Qi.

Their war with Xuan Wu Country continued, but battles with over 100 people rarely occurred. Most of them were small-scale battles consisting of dozens of people. The Huo Fen Alliance stood firm and set up a regime a third of the way, before running out of power to continue forward, thus settling down.

As for the battling between cultivators from the two countries, it first started out as life and death killing, and later developed into a looting ground for disciples. Towards those that died in the initial fights to the death, this was a rather helpless mockery.

Going back to Wang Lin, after sinking down 320 meters in the fourteenth valley, he was like an old monk in meditation. Under the stillness, his heart rate gradually lowered. Consequently, boundless Ji Ying Qi drilled into every position of his body, spreading to his blood and flesh.

The Ji Ying Qi slowly accumulated. After a half year, his four limbs had already turned blue with traces of crystal formation. In this half year, his heart beat a total of 9837543 times. His body had sunk down 576 meters.

Another half year passed, his torso and organs had all been invaded by Ji Ying Qi. Crystals appeared on his four limbs, and his arms and feet had already completely transformed into blue crystals that looked as if they would shatter with a soft hit. In this half year, his total heart beats decreased down to 487659 and his body has sunk down to 2432 meters.

After another half year, the crystal extended down to his four limbs. His arms and legs had completely transformed into crystal, to the extent that the bone could clearly be seen. Crystals began to emerge from his trunk too. His heart beat a total of 3865 that year. His body sunk down to around 4672 meters.

Another half year passed and every part of his body besides his head had turned into topaz. His heart had already frozen, ceasing its beating. At this moment, his body sunk down 11,750 meters.

Two years passed. On the third year, in the middle of the third month, Wang Lin’s head slowly turned into topaz. At this moment, Wang Lin no longer breathed life, reaching the requirements for the Abyssal Ascension Technique: the Abyssal Realm.

His body sunk down to 25,533 meters appearing in a sheet of deep blue space. Countless immense skeletons of Spirit Beasts surrounded him. For unknown reasons, these countless corpses gradually lost their flesh, and became skeletons in the ground filled with Yin, piling up to the point where they resembled a sea.

In the sea of skeletons, without an exception, every skeleton had the color of topaz.

Wang Lin quietly sat in the sea of skeletons for half of a year. In this half year, he used a month to restore his heartbeat, two months to restore his divine consciousness, and three years to sense the three Cold Dan.

Afterwards, the Ancestral Aperture’s Cold Dan and the Qi Ocean’s Cold Dan slowly rammed into each other. The destructive cold Qi once again appeared. Only when compared to the Ji Ying Qi of Wang Lin’s body, this cold Qi was not worth mentioning.

The two Cold Dan fused together with ease, and gradually condensed into a single body.

Immediately following, the fused Cold Dan continued to sink until it reached the Dan Tian. In the time it takes to burn half a stick of incense, the protective layer of the Dan Tian collapsed and completely shattered.

The sinking Cold Dan and the Dan Tian’s Cold Dan hit each other. Cold Qi that was over ten times the previous cold Qi immediately sprung up. The concentration of this cold Qi was extremely high, but was still a little lacking compared to the Ji Ying Qi in Wang Lin’s body. Slowly, these three Cold Dan fused together.

Only its color was not golden, but a kind of lifeless grey.

Wang Lin didn’t know that because of the Heaven Revolting Bead and the birth of the Ji Realm, the Abyssal Ascension Technique he practiced was a bit different. His difficulties could be said to have come from this.

The reason the Abyssal Ascension Technique allowed one to reach the Jie Dan stage quickly was because it was a shortcut. First, the cold Dan was fused into a Dan Pei. Then, with the attack of Ling Qi, the gold Dan is formed, thus entering the Jie Dan stage.

Currently, he had already finished a large portion of it. He only needed to attack it with Ling Qi. Only, the Jie Dean stage was not so easy to reach. This attack was not certain; there still existed a certain rate of failure.

Once the cultivator failed, the Dan Pei would instantly shatter, and he or she could only start over again.





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Chapter 145: Jie Dan (II)
The Three Dan fused into one, successfully forming the Dan Pei. The next step is to fuse it into the body. If there is no rejection, then the Gold Dan will begin to form through the constant bombardment of spiritual force supported by the divine consciousness. This will mark the entrance of the Jie Dan.

The Heavenly Li Dan was crucial to increasing the success rate when forming the Gold Dan, when hit with multiple attacks of spiritual force. Suddenly opening his eyes, Wang Lin noticed small cracks forming upon his forehead. The cracks steadily increased in size and number until, with a burst of ‘ka ka’ sounds, they covered his entire body.

Moving his body, the cracks increased in multitude and his skin slowly sloughed off, falling to the floor. His body trembling, Wang Lin slowly stood up as the flakes of skin were immediately swept away by a gust of wind.

His clothes also peeled off, crumbling into dust as it drifted into the air. The Dragon Armor was the only thing left on his body.

Wang Lin quietly and calmly stood in place with his eyes shut. A substantial amount of time had passed, before he slowly lifted his eyelids, staring directly in front of him. Immediately, a flash of blue energy entered his cold gaze, as his hands gradually tightened into fists. Although he can only be considered having a foot in the Jie Dan realm after the Three Dan into one, it is a considerable accomplishment for his Abyssal Ascension Technique.

Blue flames suddenly emerged from the Dan Pei, flowing through his right hand and out of his fingertips as curls of flame. He slowly gathered the flames, forming a bright ball of flame that floated a few inches above his palm, flickering silently.

Rather than radiating heat, these burning flames emitted cold air. That ball of Icy Flames was the essence of the of the Abyssal Ascension Technique, the Abyssal Flames

The thick layer of crystal blue ice below Wang Lin immediately released steam, showing signs of melting once the Abyssal Flames appeared. Waving his right hand, Wang Lin quickly extinguished the icy flame, revealing a crater at where he stood.

The sheer power of the Abyssal Flames could be easily seen. After changing into a new set of clothes, Wang Lin bored his gaze onto the beast bones, falling into a state of meditation. After the amount of time needed to burn a stick of incense had passed, he sat down with his legs crossed, patted his storage bag, and took out the Aquatic Dragon Skull.

Wang Lin’s eyes flashed as he stared at the skull. His next action was to go to Nan Dou City and obtain a reactor, so Li Mu Wan could refine the Heavenly Li Dan pills. Even though 3 years had passed by in a moment, Wang Lin could tell that Li Mu Wan wasn’t in any danger through the Soul Blood connection.

Wang Lin changed his mind after seeing the vast amount of ice bound beast bones around him.  The War Shrine refining technique revolved around the necessity of a reactor.

After the previous failure, Wang Lin no longer had the spirit beast skull. He withheld it from Li Mu Wan as he planned to refine a reactor from it–though that had been delayed for a while due to the fusion of the three Cold Dan. Additionally, Wang Lin was discouraged from his previous failure. Refining the spirit beast skull again always seemed like it took too much effort.

However, after being surrounded by all the beast bones, he was inspired to attempt to refine the furnace once again. Taking a deep breath, he tried to remember the manufacturing methods discussed in the jade strip before taking it out to read it again.

With a clap of his hands, threads of spiritual energy appeared like waves of sunlight from his palms. Wang Lin showing an extremely concentrated face, immediately threw both hands up simultaneously, sending the lines of spiritual energy flying.

Without even batting an eye, Wang Lin crossed his hands again, repeating the cycle over and over. Slowly, in front of him the lines of spiritual energy grew more and more dense, before finally turning into spiritual silk threads while emitting bursts of sparkling light.

After that was done, Wang Lin let loose a sigh. The first step in refining the reactor was complete. Now it was time to test whether the furnace base could withstand the smelting of the spiritual threads.

Rapidly weaving the spiritual thread into a fabric, he quickly wrapped and stuck it around his little dragon skull. Wang Lin breathed out qi and closely observed the strands slowly merge into the skull as the purple color of the skull gradually faded.

But after a short while the skull suddenly emitted a “ka ka” sound and from within the wrappings of spiritual thread a crack appeared. With a final bang, the whole skull exploded into fragments that fell to the ground, leaving behind only the spiritual threads in midair which began to emit fluctuations of spiritual force.

Wang Lin let out a sigh, but his face showed a renewed determination. Sweeping his gaze over, he suddenly jumped up to grab the spiritual threads floating in midair and quickly went to a spot beside a gigantic beast skeleton and pressed downwards. This beast bone was about five to six thousand feet and exuded a grey color. Its skull was also enormous, almost as large as the just ruined Aquatic Dragon skull.

The moment the spiritual threads began to merge, it immediately penetrated this beast’s bone as well. Wang Lin stared blankly and attempted one more time. Nothing stopped the spiritual threads from going through the bone.

Wang Lin stared at the beast bones, eyes flashing. By its outward appearance this beast bone was covered in a layer of blue ice crystal giving the impression that it is made of crystal in general. He used a fraction of his strength with his right hand to grip it. The bones let out a “ka ka” sound but did not fracture.

Wang Lin pondered a little. He waved his hand and from his palm the Abyssal Flame flew out. As these flames just about approached the beast bones, a burst of white gas immediately dissipated from the beast bones. The closer the Abyssal Flames got, the more gas that was dissipated. The layer of blue crystal wrapped around it rapidly dissolved at a rate visible to the naked eye. Once it all finished fading away the ash grey beast bones were exposed.

Without thinking, Wang Lin grabbed hold of the spiritual silk and pressed it down. This time, he wove the spiritual silk directly around the skull.

But after the time it takes to burn half of a stick of incense, the beast bones quickly changed color three times before shattering into ash with a bang! The spiritual silk wafted in the air, having lost some of its spiritual power.

Wang Lin frowned; the difficulty of refining a furnace really was far beyond his imagination. The reason why so few people had succeeded was because of this reaction.

To others, just obtaining a spirit beast skull is already enormously lucky. Making a reactor requires a recently dead spirit beast skull for a good chance and using a powerful spirit beast skull for an excellent chance. If the beast has been dead for a long while, then the odds drop dramatically.

Of course, if you can get a hold of a Rare Beast beast skull no matter if it recently died or not, the probability of succeeding will increase by a large magnitude.

On the other hand, like this the difficulty naturally increases. If Wang Lin began to refine immediately after the Aquatic Dragon died maybe his success rate would have been a bit better, but at that time he didn’t even think about refining. All he thought about was reaching the Jie Dan stage as quick as possible.

Wang Lin softly groaned, looking around at the endless sea of bones. He couldn’t even guess how many spirit beasts bones surrounded him.

“I won’t believe that with this many beast skulls around me, I can’t refine even a single reactor!” Wang Lin eyes flashed and more spiritual threads were drawn out from his hands. When there was enough, he held the spiritual threads and once again, tried it on another beast skull.

An incense stick later, the beast skull once again shattered into pieces.

In this way one after another, even Wang Lin didn’t know how many beast skulls he had shattered. The only thing he knew is that he had already replenished the spiritual threads hundreds of times.

His brows became more and more furrowed; finally, Wang Lin jumped and halted in midair and let his cold gaze sweep around him. Soon after, he released spiritual threads outside of his body and the spiritual threads immediately began to ripple and rotate around Wang Lin.

His hands were constantly together and opened so this way spiritual tendrils were gradually but constantly merging with and emerging from the spiritual threads. The spiritual threads rotating around Wang Lin became faster and faster and, like rain, the spiritual tendrils merged and the size of spiritual threads gradually increased.

The spiritual threads rippling around him also began to grow. Wang Lin showed no signs of stopping and in one breath converted all the spiritual force in his body into spiritual threads. Immediately, he drank a large gulp of Ling Qi liquid to convert again.

Time gradually passed by. The spiritual threads outside his body gradually rippled and increased more and more to the point that it could already cover several hundred meters.

“It’s still not enough!” Wang Lin estimated the amount of bones within this sea of bones, his heart quiet. Soon after, he drank more Ling Qi liquid and it continued to change slowly, the ripples becoming bigger until it could cover several thousands of meters. Wang Lin took took a breath, letting it out as he lifted his pair of hands. His Divine Consciousness appeared and ruthlessly subdued the ripples. At the same time, icy flames bursts forth from him.

Within the continuous “hong hong” sound, his area of control covered within 10,000 feet. The beast bones moved like tremendous rising tides and lifted to become layers upon layers of bone ash. Piece by piece were unendingly destroyed into waves of bone ash. Within this area not a single bone could resist and were turned into ashes and mixed into the bone waves.

Among it all, in this vast area was innumerable amounts of white gas. It truly was an extremely spectacular sight. After the white gas dispersed within this 10,000 feet, nothing remained. Wang Lin gritted his teeth and once again used Ling Qi liquid to change into 10,000 feet of spiritual threads, pushed to cover in a different direction.

The bone tides rolled and the white vapour passed. Wang Lin suddenly saw in the middle of his line of sight, just one ordinary-sized, small beast skeleton, alone in the middle of the empty space of 10,000 feet.

Wang Lin’s face revealed a happy expression, his sank and immediately flew towards those small beast bones. He concentrated a little; this was what appeared to be an extremely commonplace, nothing unusual about it skeleton.

The bone color was slightly white in color, slightly slim, and extremely normal. With flashing eyes, Wang Lin raised his right hand to the sky and spiritual threads weaved together in the form a giant invisible hand, which he controlled to grab at the direction of the small beast skull.

The skull immediately began to change colors, once, twice, thrice...after changing nine times, a “ka” sound was heard. The skull separated from the spine and slowly rose from the ground.

The spiritual threads already completely integrated within, after the color changed nine times the skull shape gradually transformed and changed into a bowl shape as bursts of spiritual power fluctuations flowed from within.

Wang Lin held it in his hands, examining it.

War Shrine refining technique with its unfathomable history, was rumoured to have been discovered at the same time as the Heavenly Dao technique by the War Shrine Ancestors. Afterwards, later generations separated into different practices and a great deal of attention had already been spent on studying this refining method. Finally, it was separated into classes and only now could a set of steps be arranged, among this is a key point regarding the refining of the reactor. It can be divided into 10 ranks.

The higher the rank, the better the quality. The method to distinguish rank is also very simple: the first 15 minutes the reactor is completed the color will changed several times. The number of times indicates the number of its rank.

“Ninth Rank!” Wang Lin muttered to himself, with a feeling of regret. Expending so much effort as well as having this mysterious sea of bones, unexpectedly still did not produce a tenth rank However, ninth rank is better than no rank. Wang Lin took out the refining method jade strip and began to carefully study it one more time.

Wang Lin was completely unaware since the jade strip also did not present in detail, even the palace hall master of the current War Shrine Temple Refinement Palace Hall, that Yuan Ying stage cultivator, just barely obtained a Sixth rank reactor. Of the remaining few reactors, all were Third rank and lower.

The reason why Wang Lin’s was at the Ninth rank was directly because of these seemingly ordinary beast bones. These bones, within this bone sea, were extremely Rare Beast beast bones!

After a Rare Beast dies, its bones show no noticeable difference. Even if a researcher were to directly examine them, they could easily overlook them and be unable to distinguish them.

Wang Lin withdrew his mind from the jade strip, a little bit lost in thought. War Shrine’s refinement technique paid particular attention to three processes. Separately they were: Prepare, Fuse, Combine. Preparing to start, Fusing for a stable form, and Combining it all to complete the process.

Wang Lin focused his qi and, unblinkingly, took out materials from his storage bag which he threw one by one into the skull reactor. These materials were all recorded in the jade strip as refining materials. After having memorized it, he had to pour through his storage bag to find some things.

Bloodstone (mineral heliotrope), it can cause a high temperature after it has been catalyzed by spiritual force.

Amethyst Moon Vine (Chawol Vine), a plant whose role is decomposition once past the Big Dipper Wood catalysis.

Big Dipper Wood, a type of material with wood properties. Its role is corrosion.

Wang Lin had all these materials in his storage bag. He did not have them in large quantities, but enough to use for refining. Before he obtained the refining method from the jade strip, Wang Lin was always confused about these things he took from the battlefield as he did not recognize them. But now, at least, he understood a bit more about refining materials.

Putting the Amethyst Moon Vine into the reactor, every segment he put in, he smashed within the beast bone. Simultaneously, qi was added and melted in. As more Amethyst Moon Vines were added, a viscous purple liquid gradually accumulated within the reactor.

Staring at the reactor, Wang Lin murmured to himself, appearing to calculate something. Not a moment later with his eyes flashing, he added a drop of his own blood within the shell of the reactor.

Immediately after, a few bubbles emerged from within the reactor. Wang Lin calmly sent his Divine Consciousness to condense upon the reactor and spiritual force steadily flowed in.

As detailed in the refining method jade strip’s introduction, the primary purpose of the reactor and this refinement method’s unexpected best use, is for the reactor to act as a medium through which refinement masters can manipulate and transform the material within.

Wang Lin took a deep breath, hesitated some, then quickly took out the Big Dipper Wood and gently crumbled it, sprinkling it onto the other materials within the reactor.

The purple liquid gave off bubbles one by one, emitting a foul odor. Then Wang Lin took out one Bloodstone/Heliotrope and threw it in.

Once that was done, his face radiated an intense concentration. His hands rose up, prepared. With lightning speed, divine light was shot out. Gradually, the liquid within the reactor coagulated to form a purple sphere.

Wang Lin pondered a little before he waved his right hand. The sphere split in two with one half floated up while the other sunk back into the reactor.

Wang Lin controlled the floating sphere to rise. Thinking for a moment, he put both hands and pressed down on the space between his eyebrows and the pit of his stomach with slight strength. Suddenly Purple Palace (taoist cultivation term) spiritual power was extracted from within his body, which he spit out. Once this spiritual power came out it immediately bore its way inside the sphere.

War Shrine refining method’s first process, Prepare, has now been completed. Next is the second process, Fuse.

Fuse needs a Qi foundation. Wang Lin patted his storage bag and numerous flying swords, big and small, quickly flew out. Altogether, thirty five all came out and flung out in midair one after another.

Wang Lin pointed to one flying sword. That flying sword immediately shot out, piercing the sphere, and slowly the point melted. Finally the whole sword fused into it.

Next, the remaining thirty-four flying swords, under Wang Lin’s control, fused into the sphere. Afterwards, within the sphere flashed rainbow-colored light, bright and dazzling.

The whole process, from when the first Amethyst Moon Vine was put in till now, altogether took nearly two hours. For two hours continuously, Wang Lin had been completely focused. Now he not only did not even sigh, but instead concentrated even more. A little later after staring at the sphere, he took out, from his storage bag, a black flying sword.

This black flying sword could be said to have gone through thick and thin together with Wang Lin. From when he first acquired it, accompanying him to kill Zhang Hu's Master, then even drank Teng Li's blood, afterwards followed him to the Sickle Pod Valley battle, up till his corporeal body was destroyed and Situ Nan enveloped him with his Divine Consciousness and carried them away. As a result, this flying sword’s sword base shattered leaving a trace of its sword spirit because it was refined with Wang Lin’s blood. Only because of this it was able to meld within the Divine Consciousness and survive.

Later, Wang Lin looked for several new foundation bodies for it, but all were ineffective. The current base body, this black flying sword, after several teleportation attacks already became bent. It seems to be quite battered and exhausted.

Wang Lin grabbed the flying sword with his right hand and lightly stroked his palm over it. Instantly, the sword cried out from within, followed closely by an apparition in the image of a sword which slowly floated above the flying sword and suspended in front of Wang Lin. At the same time, the devil fled from within the flying sword and floated at distance to the side. He looked, dumbstruck, all around his surroundings not knowing what to think.

Wang Lin took a deep breath, the big hand grasped, and the sphere immediately shot towards him. He grit his teeth, as soon as he moved it with his mind, the flying sword apparition rushed into the sphere without any hesitation.

Wang Lin’s soul instantly dispersed in front of the tightly wrapped sphere. The last step of the War Shrine’s refining technique, Combine, had begun!

Time slowly wore on as the ball stretched and gradually solidified. Wang Lin lost track of time and just listened to the sound of the inner Dragon humming from within. As time passed, a crystal flying sword overflowing with light slowly transformed in front of Wang Lin.

Once this flying sword appeared, a spiritual power vortex suddenly appeared. After spinning several times next to Wang Lin, it suddenly merged into the flying sword. Wang Lin gazed at the crystal flying sword. After a long time Wang Lin opened his mouth wide, the flying sword turned into crystal light, and flew into his mouth.

The Devil, at a loss, rubbed his hands, and in a rough laugh, “This… you swallowed it, so where will I live?”

Wang Lin raised his head to glance at it, waved his right hand, and the Aquatic Dragon’s tendons flew from within the storage bag. He reached for the reactor to grab what was inside, and before he reached inside, the sphere that was in there floated out. Wang Lin’s eyes flashed and the Dragon tendons flew into the sphere.

After sacrificing it to refine, the sphere grew smaller and smaller, finally changing again into Dragon tendons. Only the Dragon tendons’ color became gold. Wang Lin glanced at the Devil and the Devil obediently entered it.

Summoning with his right hand, the Dragon tendon dropped down. Wang Lin focused on it and it entered the storage bag. He raised his head to look at the topaz blue wall before him, extended his right hand, and the Abyssal Flames immediately appeared. With a kick, his body suddenly flew up.

Like splitting bamboo, shooting straight up 10,000 feet from the ground, the speed was too quick. Added with the destructive power of the Abyssal Flames, the whole Corpse Valley below shook. The faces of every cultivator looking for beast bones in the valley became pale. Without knowing why, those surrounding nevertheless flew out of Corpse Valley in confusion as the ground's quaking grew more and more violent.

TL Note: Like splitting bamboo = Like a hot knife through butter

A few keen-eyed bystanders immediately saw that in the direction of the 14th valley, a thunderous roar immediately followed by a shadow rising from there. In a flash, it flew into the dense fog, disappearing from sight.

Only a long time afterwards did these cultivators, one by one, look over at the 14th valley in confusion. All kinds of speculation slowly spread around. The final conclusion was that within the Corpse Valley slept a 10,000 year corpse, which slept until this day, suddenly awoke and caused the quake. The shadow that flew out, must actually be the refined body of the corpse.

After Wang Lin flew out, without stopping, he quickly flew towards the south. According to the information he got from Sang Mu Ya before, Nan Dou City was to the extreme south; about 300,000 miles from Corpse Valley.

Wang Lin knew that he had refined for quite some time, so his speed went up, with only one thought in mind. And that is to exchange for a Dan Furnace and refine a Heavenly Li Dan.

After two days and two nights, Wang Lin saw a huge black city in the distance stretched as far as the eye could see. This enormous city where one cannot even see the end in sight was exactly one of the 998 cities in the Sea of Devils, Nan Dou City.

The reason why it was named Nan Dou was because of the City Lord. Lord Nan Dou is said to possess Yuan Ying cultivation, and is an expert with numerous accomplishments. He can be described as the overlord of this region.

To have a city within the Sea of Devils, it basically means that City Lord must be a famous person with outstanding cultivation. Within this sea, there are many sects of all sizes and strength, but they cannot compare to the dignity of the City Lord.

The City Lord of Nan Dou City went missing five hundred years ago. As a headless dragon, the many sects within the hundred thousand miles of the city were allowed to prosper and grow to become well-known sects.

Nan Dou City became a city without a Lord within the Sea of Devils and was jointly ran by a couple of large sects. However, Nan Dou City is still a city on the very edge of the Sea of Devils, it is still a place with poor resources and spiritual power. Cultivators of the Yuan Yin realm will usually not come to this place, as such, it caused this place to be a place with many cultivators even those of the Jie Dan realm, but not even one Yuan Yin stage cultivator within the millions of miles.

A person once predicted before, that if someone within this place could become a Yuan Yin realm cultivator, then they will inevitably become the new City Lord of Nan Dou City.

It wasn’t as if there weren’t any Yuan Yin stage cultivators that were City Lord hopefuls in this past half millennia, it was just that they never stayed for long due to the poor environment that lacked both resources and spiritual power, causing them to give up one by one.

Over time, there weren’t any Yuan Yin realm cultivators that were willing to come to this place. After all, there were about a thousand cities in the Sea of Devils, why would they come to Nan Dou City, a city with zero benefits.

And now this Nan Dou City is a city where people could come as they please and run by three major sects. Although Dou Xie Sect has a qualified person to become the City Lord, against the alliance of the three sects, they were unable to make them budge an inch.

There is a very big difference between three sects and four sects divisions. There also wasn’t anybody that would dare think that the Dou Xie Sect can eliminate one of the three and become a major sect. So the attitude of the three sects against them were exactly the same.

After paying ten LingShi and obtaining the pass, Wang Lin hurriedly entered Nan Dou City. His target was the Refining Pavilion that was within these city walls.

The Refining Pavilion has three levels. With every level, the costs of the treasures within multiplies. When Wang Lin arrived, there were around seven or eight cultivators on the level who were haggling over prices with the shopkeepers.