Chapter 99 – The Change of Stone Beads
As for Wang Lin, after the pressure disappeared, his expression darkened. Ye Zizai had left when the pressure appeared. “Something must have happened here,” he thought.
Although Ye Zizai had left, the Corpse Sect was even more vigilant now. After thinking about it, Wang Lin realized that this might not be a good opportunity, so he spread out his divine sense. However, the moment his divine sense touched the wall, it was blocked. Only the hole in the wall didn’t block his path.
However, the pits were filled with Yin energy and were extremely deep. Even after Wang Lin had gone more than 100 meters into the pits, he still hadn’t discovered anything unusual. However, the Yin energy grew stronger, to the point where his divine sense couldn’t hold it anymore and showed signs of collapsing. He pondered for a moment. He didn’t act rashly and first withdrew his divine sense. He calmed his heart, then formed several seals as all the spiritual energy in his body began to work. Then, a layer of dark blue light appeared on his body. After the light appeared, it formed a whirlpool that sucked in all the white gas.
All the disciples cultivating within the Corpse Sect had just recovered from the pressure. They were all shocked because they could clearly feel the Yin energy diminishing as Wang Lin cultivated. Because the Yin energy originated from a mysterious place deep underground, they were all extremely shocked.
When Wang Lin saw the endless stream of Yin energy coming, he immediately stopped absorbing it and began to digest the Yin energy in his body.
While he was cultivating, he suddenly felt the area where he was holding the bead grow cold. He immediately took the bead out and discovered that countless drops of liquid had gathered there.
Wang Lin was immediately shocked. It had to be said that one weakness of the Heaven Defying Bead was its lack of spiritual energy, so he had to consume spiritual liquid to continue cultivating within it. However, the effects of spiritual water diminished with use. Only the spiritual water from the dew maintained its effectiveness.
However, the dew collection was too slow. That’s why he didn’t practice much inside the beads after he began cultivating the Underworld Ascension Method. However, he still collected dew for occasional use.
Now, for some reason, the Heaven Defying Bead had suddenly produced this much spirit liquid. He could clearly sense that the spirit liquid contained Yin energy, and its spiritual power was no less than that of spirit liquid made from dew.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. Without saying anything, he began to collect the liquid.
After he finished collecting all the liquid, his eyes lit up as he began cultivating Yin energy again. Instantly, a white gas appeared. This time, he focused his divine sense on the stone bead and noticed that some of the white gas was entering the stone bead, causing a few drops of liquid to appear on it.
Wang Lin showed a joyful expression. Just like that, he collected a bottle of spiritual liquid.
The gourd had completely changed color. It was now a deep blue that emitted a faint light. Even when Wang Lin touched it, he felt a slight chill.
If someone else were to touch it, even a moment of contact would allow the Yin energy to invade their body and freeze their blood, muscles, and bones.
He carefully put the gourd away in his bag. As he took out another gourd, his gaze suddenly fell on the stone bead.
Originally there was only one leaf on the stone bead, but now there is a second leaf that is symmetrical to the first leaf.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. According to Situ Nan, the bead needed to absorb the five elements: metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. After that, the bead would truly open and recognize its owner.
The water element is full, which is why the clouds on the beads disappear. The leaves indicate that the beads need the wood element.
However, wood element materials were hard to find. When Wang Lin checked the market in Teng Family City, he found some, but the prices were extremely high. He also didn’t know how to make the beads absorb them or even if the materials were enough to complete the beads, so he gave up.
However, looking at it now, there was an extra leaf on the bead. This made Wang Lin think deeply. After looking at the bead for a long time, Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He was no longer in a rush to leave, at least not until the bead finished evolving or until he discovered its secret.
However, there were still things that needed to be done. Wang Lin put away the stone bead and formed a seal with his hand, shooting a ray of blue light toward the wall. When the blue light hit the wall, it seemed to melt. A hole opened up in the cave. Wang Lin entered through the hole and followed the originally planned route.
The tunnel wasn’t long, so it didn’t take him long to reach another cave. Just as he exited the tunnel, he suddenly stopped when he saw Mu Rong sitting there, cross-legged. Mu Rong looked at Wang Lin and said:
“Ancestor, please return. The first ancestor left an order stating that no one was to leave his private cave. Ancestor, please don’t cause me any trouble.”
Wang Lin’s gaze swept across the room as he nodded and took a few steps back. He turned around and returned to his own cave, thinking to himself that the situation had changed.
Wang Lin understood that the Corpse Sect had strict rules, but no matter how strict the rules were, there was no need to place a mid-stage Foundation Establishment expert outside his room.
Previously, when he arrived, he clearly remembered that the person in the room was a 13th layer Qi Condensation disciple.
Thinking this, Wang Lin walked toward another exit within his own cave. After a while, he exited the tunnel and entered a smaller cave.
However, after taking a few steps, he stopped. On the cave floor sat a young man dressed in black. He stared coldly at Wang Lin without a word, and behind him was a green coffin.
“Another mid-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator…” Wang Lin’s pupils shrank as he retreated and left. Only after he had gone a very long distance did the young man’s divine sense finally stop locking onto him.
Thus, Wang Lin inspected all 11 tunnels connected to his cave. Aside from the five that were sealed, the other six were all guarded by Foundation Establishment cultivators, and one of them was even guarded by a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator.
Wang Lin returned to his cave with a heavy heart. He sat down and began to ponder. This was clearly no coincidence. It wasn’t hard to guess that Ye Zizai had orchestrated this to prevent Wang Lin from leaving.
Wang Lin frowned. Of the six people, except for the one late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wang Lin was confident that he could defeat them even if they had corpse puppets. However, this was only the first layer of the cave. On the way here, there were over 30 caves.
As a result, he couldn’t leave in a short time, so before he could reach the final cave, he would be stopped by a late-stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, or even a Core Formation cultivator from the Corpse Sect.
Wang Lin couldn’t help but smile. He hoped Situ Nan would wake up by now. If Situ Nan did, it would be easier to leave by leveraging Situ Nan’s experience.
Wang Lin called out to Situ Nan several times inside the beads, but gave up after getting no response.
However, Wang Lin knew that if he wanted to leave this place, it wouldn’t be something he could do in a short time. His previous actions were merely to assess the situation.
His hands formed a seal and sealed the cave. He began cultivating Yin energy once again. Not only did he possess the beads, but his divine sense also penetrated the holes in the walls.
Wang Lin did not divide his Divine Sense, but transferred them all into one small hole. As a result, the range of his divine sense increased greatly.
Initially, with his divine senses, his range was 1 kilometer, but the interference from the cave walls was so strong, that he was trapped inside the cave.
As Wang Lin cultivated, white gas rapidly gathered toward him. His divine sense was like a thin thread moving through a tunnel in the wall. Although the tunnel was very long, its complexity was even more astonishing.
Soon, he arrived at the furthest point he had ever explored, about 100 meters from Wang Lin’s cave. Once his divine sense reached there, it became difficult for him to proceed any further as waves of Yin energy surged forward. If it weren’t for Wang Lin cultivating the Underworld Ascension Method, which made him extremely resistant to Yin energy, his divine sense would have collapsed under this single wave of Yin energy.
However, his speed of investigation had slowed significantly. After an unknown amount of time, his divine sense had reached 300 meters into the tunnel. The white gas flowing towards him came in waves, almost forming a wall blocking his path.
Wang Lin gritted his teeth and broke this wall with his senses.
The sight before him caused Wang Lin, who was sitting there cultivating with his eyes closed, to open his eyes.