Chapter 100 – Repairing the Sword Sheath
This was a very large cave with many small holes in the walls. Wang Lin’s divine sense came out from one of those small holes.
In the center of the room stood a large coffin. This coffin looked perfectly ordinary. In fact, it didn’t even have any decorations on it, but powerful waves of Yin energy were released from it. The Yin energy transformed into white gas that was sucked into the countless holes.
Wang Lin hesitated and observed the coffin for a moment. Then, he tried to examine it with his divine senses and, to his surprise, it entered without any resistance.
The coffin was completely empty except for a large hole. Yin energy was emanating from this hole.
The Yin energy was extremely dense. Waves of Yin energy blocked Wang Lin’s divine sense from seeing it.
In his own cave, Wang Lin’s eyes revealed a strong light. Wanting to find out where this Yin energy came from and why the bead could absorb it, he took out a gourd from his bag and took a sip without hesitation.
Even with Wang Lin’s current physical condition, he couldn’t help but shiver. He quickly lost consciousness and his body went numb. Wang Lin wasted no time and quickly circulated spiritual energy throughout his body to absorb Yin energy. As he absorbed Yin energy, his divine sense became stronger. With a constant flow of energy, his divine sense rushed into the hole in the coffin.
His divine sense struggled in the hole and many times the Yin energy almost scattered his divine sense. When he descended about 400 meters, the Yin energy formed a wall.
Wang Lin clenched his teeth and took a large gulp of Yin Spirit Liquid. He broke through the wall and was shocked by what he saw.
An enormous body floated in the air. If Wang Lin compared his body to this giant’s, he would only be the size of the giant’s finger. Surrounding his body was a strange, purplish-green plant. The plant would move in a strange manner, and his body would appear to shrink, but it would quickly grow back to its original size. As this cycle continued, the purple plant rapidly released Yin energy.
Wang Lin was stunned. He spread his divine sense, observed it for a while, and was stunned. This body was deliberately left here by someone. The purpose was to be nutrition for the green-purple plants.
It is clear that the reason the Corpse Sect has this Yin energy is because of this plant.
Even the reason why the Heaven Defying Bead evolved must be these planets. Wang Lin felt this place was very strange because the moment he entered, he felt a sense of danger.
Just as he was about to leave, an unintelligible voice was heard.
Wang Lin didn’t say a word and tried to pull back his divine sense, but he was shocked to find that the Yin energy in the room was preventing him from leaving. Soon, the voice got closer, until he could almost hear what it said.
“Save me…”
Wang Lin resolutely took the gourd and drank all the remaining Yin spirit liquid. His divine sense trembled as he charged into the Yin energy around him. A large amount of Yin energy entered his divine sense and mixed with the unabsorbed Yin energy in his body, causing Wang Lin to cough up a mouthful of blood. By the time the blood was coughed up, it had already congealed.
Despite this, his divine sense managed to penetrate the barrier and quickly returned to his body. He coughed again and coughed up more clotted blood, revealing a terrified expression.
He didn’t dare check any further and immediately began cultivating to regulate his body. After a while, he opened his eyes and began to contemplate, staring at the holes in the wall.
Time passed slowly, and in the blink of an eye, Wang Lin had been in the Corpse Sect for four days. During these four days, except for the three days ago when he explored the underground with his divine sense, he hadn’t left at all. He had spent this entire time collecting the Yin spirit liquid from the bead. During this time, the bead had changed from two leaves to three leaves.
According to Wang Lin’s calculations, the total number of leaves should be the same as the previous cloud, which was ten. Wang Lin also knew from previous experience that each leaf would take longer than the last. If he continued like this, it would take many years before he could complete the wood element.
However, the Corpse Sect wasn’t a place he could stay for long. He decided to explore the place again to find a way to get his body inside. If he could obtain some of the plant, he was confident he could make the bead evolve faster.
However, the dangers of doing this were too great. Even Wang Lin wasn’t sure.
After pondering for a while, he gave up on going there directly. He understood that with his current cultivation level, no matter how careful he was, his chances of obtaining a portion of the purple-green plant were slim, and he was more likely to lose his life. After considering the situation, he knew it wasn’t safe.
After he made up his mind, he slapped his storage bag and an ancient sword sheath floated before him.
After Wang Lin obtained this sword sheath, he only refined it once after stealing Teng Li’s foundation. Although he didn’t successfully refine it, he did gain some control over the sheath, but the effect wasn’t very great. He was only able to submerge the flying sword three-fifths of the way.
Wang Lin had studied this sword sheath countless times. Even Situ Nan said that this sword sheath was extremely strange and more valuable than the small flying sword that had undergone blood refining.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up as he muttered, “Sun Hao said before that he found this sword and scabbard in an ancient cave, and that, aside from his master, only those who have reached the Core Formation stage can refine them. There’s both truth and falsehood in this. It’s not that you can’t refine it if you’re below the Core Formation stage, it’s just that the amount of time and spiritual energy required is too great. Once you reach the Core Formation stage, the fire in one’s core shortens the process significantly. Unfortunately, the blood refining technique can only be used on one item. If it could be used on both at the same time, then things would be much easier.”
Wang Lin didn’t even blink as he stared at the sword sheath. To increase the power of his flying sword, he had to try refining this sheath again. Although he didn’t have a core, he did have the cold core from cultivating the Underworld Ascension Method.
All the spiritual energy in his body was controlled by the cold core within his body. Wang Lin had studied it for some time, but Situ Nan had once told him that the cold core was far from the true core and that unless it was a last resort, the cold core should not leave his body. After the cold core left his body for a certain amount of time, it disappeared, meaning he needed to form another cold core.
The first time he refined the scabbard was when he first entered the Foundation Establishment stage. Now that he had cultivated the Netherworld Ascension Method, not only had the quality of his spiritual energy changed, but his own spiritual energy had also improved greatly. He was now at the peak of the early Foundation Establishment stage and only a step away from the middle Foundation Establishment stage, so this time would be much easier.
Thinking about that, Wang Lin opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of Yin spiritual energy. The moment the Yin spiritual energy touched the sword sheath, a layer of ice covered the sword sheath.
Wang Lin pointed with his finger, and the sword sheath slowly spun in the air, emitting a blue light. It looked extremely beautiful.
Wang Lin’s hands didn’t stop as they shot out several rays of blue light. Every time the blue light touched the sword sheath, the sword sheath would vibrate. Gradually, Wang Lin’s hands moved faster and faster, until it looked like a stream of light was connecting Wang Lin’s hands with the sword sheath, and the frequency of the sword sheath’s vibrations increased.
Large drops of sweat appeared on Wang Lin’s forehead, but they immediately froze and fell to the ground. Wang Lin didn’t have time to bother with them at all as he quickly shot out several more rays of blue light. Then, he quickly slapped his storage bag and drank some Yin Spirit Liquid before continuing to refine the sword sheath.
Time passed slowly. After the scabbard vibrated for a long time, the blue light around it flickered on and off. Slowly, a pentagonal shape appeared on the scabbard.
After seeing the pattern, Wang Lin relaxed slightly. He no longer emitted the blue light and instead regulated the spiritual energy in his body while thinking, “My cultivation is about five times stronger than before. Situ Nan told me about a method that can force the formation on the sword sheath to appear using my spiritual energy. Last time, I shot out 5,000 rays of spiritual energy before the formation appeared, but I was too exhausted to continue. This time, the formation appeared after only 1,000 rays. Although my cultivation level has increased greatly, it is still too far from the Core Formation stage. Situ Nan said before that at the Core Formation stage, just a few rays of spiritual energy will force the formation to appear.”
She took a deep breath. Her right hand formed a seal and pointed to her stomach. Her stomach shrank as she expressed pain. Her right hand slowly lifted from her stomach and she opened her mouth as a blue ball the size of a baby’s first ball floated out of her mouth.
Wang Lin’s face was pale. After breathing slowly for a moment, he immediately pointed at the cold core. Suddenly, the cold core melted into a pool of blue liquid. Wang Lin’s face became even paler. There wasn’t even a trace of blood, but Wang Lin’s expression became increasingly serious as he carefully guided the melted cold core into the sword sheath.