Chapter 117 –
The 30,000 souls entered and exited the dragon’s body as if they were having a feast. Teng Huayuan was stunned as the dragon passed through the souls and charged towards him.
Teng Huayuan’s expression became extremely agitated; however, he didn’t have time to think and immediately retreated. He cast several defensive magic treasures to stop the dragon, but no matter what they did, they couldn’t stop the dragon. The dragon passed through them as if they weren’t there, let out a roar, and swallowed Teng Huayuan.
Lin Yi’s expression was strange. He glanced at the giant enjoying the show and found that the giant’s expression was also strange. The two exchanged glances, then the giant laughed and looked at the dragon with a playful expression.
Teng Huayuan only felt a gentle breeze as the dragon devoured him. The dragon looked extremely ferocious, but the moment it touched him, it disappeared without a trace.
It had been a long time since Teng Huayuan had felt cold sweat, but at that moment, his back was covered in sweat.
“Illusion…” Teng Huayuan’s face turned from green to red. Finally, he couldn’t hold it in anymore and cursed out loud. This was the first time he had cursed since reaching the Core Formation stage several hundred years ago.
He was scared witless by the illusion in front of all the Zhao cultivators. Teng Huayuan’s anger suddenly reached its limit. He grimly patted his storage bag to take out a black flag and kill Wang Lin’s family members one by one right in front of him. But just at that moment, dots of light appeared in the air. The light gathered, and the young man reappeared.
Without a word, he waved his hand and a flash of cyan light filled with coldness shot towards Teng Huayuan.
Teng Huayuan sneered. Not only did he not retreat, he instead advanced. He stretched out his hand and said sarcastically, “The first one was an illusion, but the second one might not be! Is this little trick all you have, Wang Lin?” With that, his hand grabbed the flying sword.
A green light flashed and the flying sword disappeared. It reappeared behind Teng Huayuan and attacked him mercilessly.
There was a clanging sound as the sword struck a piece of metal. The sword was sent flying away. A golden armor plate was visible through Teng Huayuan’s torn clothing.
A cold light flashed across Teng Huayuan’s eyes as he stepped forward with a grim expression. He appeared in front of the young man and grabbed him with black lines extending from his nails.
At the same time, he waved his left hand and eight blood pillars appeared. The eight pillars merged together to form a cage.
At the same time, the young man in the air not only did not panic, but instead showed a mocking expression. As Teng Huayuan’s hand approached him, the young man’s body turned into a speck of light and slowly disappeared.
Two cyan light beads, one large and one small, appeared where the young man was. The two cyan beads quickly collided with each other.
Teng Huayuan’s expression suddenly changed. At that moment, a wave of blue light spread out and instantly covered everything within a kilometer radius.
Everything within a kilometer turned into a sea of ice.
Lin Yi narrowed his eyes and thought, “Interesting, this little guy is interesting. Not only does he have the Thousand Illusion Bead from the City of Illusions, he also has the Blue Ice from the Underworld Sect. That flying sword is also unusual. Even though it’s a fake, it’s still powerful.”
The giant in the sky was also shocked as he looked at the formation in Jue Ming Valley and smiled strangely.
In the sky, the film within the circle formed by the two black dragons had almost completely melted. The film was about to be torn open.
The eight blood pillars around Teng Huayuan emitted cracking sounds as they instantly froze and lost their effect as a prison.
At the same time, a wave of icy blue rapidly rose to Teng Huayuan’s feet. He felt a wave of cold enter his body, causing him to stiffen. However, he didn’t panic. This level of cold wouldn’t affect him much. He circulated spiritual energy through his body and recovered.
At the same time, Wang Lin, who was at the entrance of Jue Ming Valley, suddenly used one of his two remaining teleportations.
He appeared just as the blue light spread. With his body’s resistance to cold, he was unaffected and silently appeared behind Teng Huayuan.
He knew that with his strength, he had no chance in a fight against a Nascent Soul cultivator. Teng Huayuan only needed to raise his hand to kill him countless times, so Wang Lin didn’t even think about taking revenge. Although he was filled with killing intent, he held it in. He reached out and grabbed Teng Huayuan’s storage bag.
Teng Huayan noticed Wang Lin’s presence when he appeared behind her. She suddenly turned her head and saw that it was Wang Lin. She understood what was happening, but her body was still recovering from the stiffness, so her movements were slow, and Wang Lin’s appearance was sudden.
When he saw Wang Lin, Wang Lin was already in his handbag.
Teng Huayuan revealed a terrifying expression and shouted, “Explode!”
A destructive force suddenly erupted from the storage bag the moment Wang Lin’s hand touched it. The force entered his body and flowed through his arm. An explosion began at his fingertips and rapidly spread. Wang Lin clenched his teeth. The flying sword appeared, cutting through his arm, and he used the force of the explosion to propel himself back.
At the same time, his left hand moved and grabbed the bag of holding with his pulling technique as he quickly escaped.
When Teng Huayuan regained his mobility, he stepped forward. He instantly moved out of the cyan light area and chased after Wang Lin.
He caught up to him in the blink of an eye, reached out, and shouted, “Wang Lin, do you think that just because you have my bag of holding, you’ll be able to open it? Since you killed my great-grandson, I will refine your soul into a soul flag and let you suffer a torture worse than death!”
Wang Lin’s right arm was completely shattered. He used his spiritual energy to freeze his arm to stop the bleeding. He didn’t dare touch Teng Huayuan’s bag of holding. He held it with his attraction technique.
Teng Huayuan felt extremely annoyed. Having to face off against a Foundation Establishment junior in front of everyone was already an extremely humiliating matter. If he had directly captured or killed Wang Lin, it wouldn’t have been so bad, but he had been tricked into a miserable state by the illusion, and then the blue ice had temporarily restrained his body. Furthermore, even though it was only for a short time, Wang Lin had managed to steal his storage bag.
He couldn’t feel more humiliated than if he had been slapped in the face, and this wasn’t just one slap, it was like being slapped over and over again.
What annoyed him most was that Wang Lin clearly wouldn’t be able to survive a single attack, yet he knew how to teleport. This shocked Teng Huayuan greatly because teleportation was something only Nascent Soul cultivators could perform.
Besides all this, what shocked Teng Huayuan the most was Wang Lin’s determination and decisiveness in cutting off his own right hand to stop the explosion from spreading. At this point, Teng Huayuan couldn’t help but praise Wang Lin, but that praise was quickly drowned out by hatred.
The more assertive Wang Lin was, the more Teng Huayuan wanted to kill him.
“Wang Lin, you can’t blame anyone for killing my great-grandson, but you can rest assured. After I kill you, I’ll finish off that old man Jimo, who sent Teng Li after you, and his disciples to accompany you to hell.” Teng Huayuan sneered in his heart and waved his hand. Suddenly, a cold wind began to blow. 30,000 souls came out and attacked Wang Lin.
To prevent Wang Lin from using teleportation again, Teng Huayuan slapped his chest, and his Nascent Soul appeared above his head. With a rumbling sound, his Nascent Soul shrank drastically. A ball of blood flew out of the Nascent Soul’s mouth. As the ball of blood appeared, it began to expand until it enveloped the area.
As a result of the curse, as blood covered the area, Wang Lin found himself instantly immobilized. He was about to teleport away until he looked straight ahead and saw something that made his body tremble. He stared at the souls coming toward him, dripping two streams of blood. The souls he saw had expressions filled with pain, and one of them was his father.
Teng Huayuan noticed Wang Lin’s expression. He suddenly decided not to rush. He laughed strangely. “Did you see that? Do you really think I’ll put your entire family’s souls into just one soul flag? Wang Lin, you’re too naive.” With that, he pointed with his hand and the 30,000 souls stopped. Then, Wang Lin’s father’s soul separated from the group and charged at Wang Lin.
Wang Lin gritted his teeth as a stream of blood flowed from his mouth. He watched his father’s soul enter his body. Enduring the excruciating pain, he began to laugh out loud. His laughter grew louder as he coughed out blood several times. He raised his head and shouted, “So this is the cultivation world. Good! Good!” He slapped his forehead and spat out a mouthful of Yin spiritual energy. He carefully wrapped it around his father’s soul in a way that wouldn’t freeze it.
Teng Huayuan looked at Wang Lin and suddenly felt a chill in his heart. However, he soon found it somewhat amusing to be afraid of a Foundation Establishment cultivator. However, he couldn’t stop the chill in his heart from growing stronger. He waved his hand again, and another soul came out from the group of 30,000 souls. This time, it was Wang Lin’s mother.
Wang Lin’s body trembled as he released the bag he was holding with his attraction technique. The bag was now useless to him.
Memories of his childhood, before he entered the Heng Yue Sect, flooded his mind.
“Wang Lin, look how kind I am, letting you reunite with your parents?” As he spoke, Teng Huayuan pointed with his finger and Wang Lin’s mother’s soul entered Wang Lin’s body.
The pain in his body was nothing compared to the pain in his heart. Wang Lin could feel his heart bleeding. He stared coldly at Teng Huayuan as he once again used his Yin spiritual energy to freeze and preserve his mother’s soul.
Teng Huayuan smiled sarcastically and said, “Alright, let this game end. I know you want to use the tunnel to the foreign battlefield to escape. You can give up on that idea.”
After that, he reached out and Wang Lin’s storage bag flew into Teng Huayuan’s hand. He crushed the storage bag, destroying everything inside, including the token.
At the same time, 30,000 souls rushed into Wang Lin’s body and began devouring his flesh and spiritual energy. Countless human faces appeared beneath his skin.
There were even those who attacked Wang Lin’s parents’ souls which were covered in Wang Lin’s ice, but Wang Lin protected them with his body.
Shortly after, Wang Lin’s left hand was devoured at a speed visible to him. After that, both of his legs were also devoured. All this time, Wang Lin didn’t make a single sound as he stared coldly at Teng Huayuan. This caused the chill in Teng Huayuan’s heart to grow even stronger.
The giant in the sky stared at Wang Lin and thought excitedly, “Hostile aura! This is hostile aura!”
As 30,000 souls raged within him, his body slowly disappeared. Teng Huayuan revealed a solemn expression as he muttered to himself, “Li Er, your great-grandfather is taking revenge for you. Look, this isn’t over yet. Once his body is destroyed, I’ll take his soul…”
Wang Lin laughed heartily. He couldn’t feel any pain in his body. He took the opportunity while he could still breathe to use his attraction technique to wrap the ice containing his parents’ souls and move it to his chest. That was all he could do. Even if he had to die, he wanted to die with his parents.
He didn’t regret leaving Jue Ming Valley. He knew that hiding would only temporarily save him, but even if there was a glimmer of hope, he wouldn’t give up. Leaving gave him a glimmer of hope of stealing back his parents’ souls. If he had stayed inside, he wouldn’t have had that glimmer of hope.
His body was locked inside this blood prison. He had tried to teleport away, but it was impossible. Right now, there was only hatred in Wang Lin’s heart.
“Father, Mother, Tie Zhu is unfilial. If there is another life after this, I hope I am not your son because I am… unworthy… without me, you would not have suffered…” Wang Lin cried tears of blood as he closed his eyes…
Just then, an ancient voice sounded from Wang Lin’s chest. Shortly after, Wang Lin’s body exploded. 30,000 souls frantically rushed out of Wang Lin’s body as a ray of light shot out from Wang Lin’s parents’ souls, broke through the blood prison, and entered the foreign battlefield.
The film that had melted more than 80 to 90% suddenly collapsed due to the impact of the light beam.
The giant and Lin Yi’s expressions suddenly changed when they saw the beam of light. Lin Yi shouted, “That’s…” As soon as he started, he immediately covered his mouth and jumped into the foreign battlefield. However, the moment he touched the circle formed by the two black dragons, he was sent flying back.