Chapter 116 – Untitled
Teng Huayuan didn’t act immediately because he was extremely anxious. In his heart, he didn’t believe that Wang Lin could reach the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm at all, but the scene before him told him otherwise. Be it Wang Lin’s aura, spiritual energy, or divine sense, they were all at the Nascent Soul stage. Coupled with the fact that he had just teleported, Wang Lin was definitely at the Nascent Soul stage.
If Wang Lin was still in the early stages, then Teng Huayuan would definitely still be willing to fight. However, the cultivation level that Wang Lin showed was a mid-stage Nascent Soul. So, Teng Huayuan couldn’t help but be cautious.
Everyone present was so focused on the young man in the sky that no one noticed the formation light up again as another young man walked out and blended into the crowd. He looked at Teng Huayuan, who was in the air, then his eyes fell on the black flag in Teng Huayuan’s hand.
Teng Huayuan focused all his attention on Wang Lin. Although he sensed the fluctuations in the curse, he remained staring at Wang Lin. He waved his right hand, and a soul emerged from the small flag. He cursed the soul with a cold smile and put the flag back into his storage bag.
At that moment, the sky darkened, and the pressure from three months ago resurfaced. The entire sky was covered by dark clouds.
Shortly after, a pair of giant hands emerged from the clouds and pushed them apart. A giant head emerged. This giant was the same one from three months ago.
When he appeared, the first thing he noticed was the young man in the air. He had a strange expression, but he muttered a few words to himself before ignoring the young man. He shouted to the Zhao cultivators, “Three months have passed. The path to the foreign battlefield is about to open!”
With that, he shot two beams of black light from his eyes. The two beams of light intertwined and formed a giant circle in the air.
When the circle appeared, the sky seemed to lose all its light. The circle seemed to suck in all the light around it, becoming the only source of light in the sky.
The giant waved his hand and threw a rock. As soon as it landed, it exploded into pieces that transformed into strange symbols. These symbols quickly imprinted themselves on the edge of the circle. All of Zhao’s spiritual energy quickly gathered in the circle.
Spiritual energy first became visible when a thick mist of spiritual energy gathered to be absorbed by the circle.
As the circle absorbed spiritual energy, the symbols on it grew brighter. Eventually, a thin layer appeared within the circle. The layer was nearly transparent. One could clearly see that within the layer was an empty space filled with disintegrating bodies, magical treasures, and floating materials.
Wang Lin was currently hiding in the crowd. He wasn’t looking at the crowd, but at Teng Huayuan’s waist, where his black bag hung.
The change in the sky was beyond his expectations and disrupted his plans, but soon, his eyes lit up and he quickly took stock. Slowly, he smiled.
The giant suddenly cut his finger and sprayed out a drop of blood. The drop of blood traveled like a meteor and landed on the thin layer.
The thin layer quickly melted like hot water poured on snow.
Wang Lin’s eyes turned cold as he poured spiritual energy into the treasure Adai gave him and muttered, “Attack!”
Wang Lin had studied this magic treasure closely during his two months of closed-door cultivation and discovered that the person it formed could be transformed. After absorbing his spiritual power, the magic treasure even managed to resist a bit of the curse.
The young man in the sky immediately waved his hand, and a purple dragon emerged from his body. It was as if his body had transformed into a giant purple dragon. The dragon roared and sent out a massive sound wave.
Teng Huayuan’s expression suddenly changed drastically. He was now certain that Wang Lin was indeed at the middle stage of the Nascent Soul Realm. Otherwise, there was no way Wang Lin could emit such a powerful aura.
The dragon’s body moved and shot towards Teng Huayuan like lightning. The dragon bared its fangs, and the stench of blood from its mouth pierced Teng Huayuan.
Teng Huayuan immediately retreated, biting the tip of his tongue and spitting out blood. The blood transformed into several large mosquitoes that charged forward, trying to stop the giant dragon.
After that, Teng Huayuan immediately slapped his bag and took out a seven-foot-long flag. As soon as the flag appeared, a cold wind blew. Thousands of faces appeared on the flag. Their expressions were filled with pain as they screamed like mad.
Teng Huayuan waved the flag with his right hand, and the faces within flew out. One by one, the disembodied heads charged towards the giant dragon, their eyes filled with pleas for death.
Lin Yi rubbed his chin as he stared at the flag and shook his head. “This soul flag isn’t enough. With only 30,000 souls, it hasn’t even reached the first level of completion.”
Punnan Zi heard this and nodded. “What the chief envoy said is true. Back when I was on the foreign battlefield, I saw a soul flag with over a million souls. Its power was indeed terrifying.”
Lin Yi chuckled and shook his head. “That’s just a partially complete soul flag from a level 4 cultivation country. The Soul Refining Sect in the level 5 Pi Lu country has a soul flag as their sect treasure. It’s said to contain over a billion souls, accumulated over the sect’s thousands of years of history.”
Teng Huayuan waved the soul flag, and 30,000 souls flew toward the giant dragon. In the blink of an eye, the souls surrounded the dragon and entered it, but then something strange happened.
The souls encountered no resistance as they entered the dragon. It was as if the dragon didn’t even exist. The souls entered through one side and exited through the other.