Chapter 119 – The Soul Awakens
The spatial cracks in the foreign battlefield were created by the countless battles that took place there. If it weren’t for the arrival of the Cultivation Union and stabilizing the area, it would have already collapsed.
On the other side of the spatial rift lies a sea of stars, teeming with strange energies and creatures.
It wasn’t that no one who entered the crevice managed to escape. However, those late-stage Soul Transformation cultivators teleported out almost as soon as they entered, before the suction force reached its maximum strength.
The most terrifying thing about the spatial cracks in the foreign battlefield is their suction power. Even Soul Transformation cultivators have difficulty dealing with them. The suction power is so powerful that it can suck away spiritual energy, so don’t even think about escaping.
That was just one reason why they were dangerous. Another reason was that no one knew exactly where the spatial rifts connected. They had only heard from a few extremely powerful cultivators that the space was pitch black and that your divine sense would be trapped inside your body once you arrived there.
Suddenly, a point of light appeared in the spatial crack and floated within it. If they looked closely, they could see a faint glow of soulfire.
Time passed slowly. After an unknown amount of time, the speck of light continued to float in space. The soulfire showed no signs of fading away.
Time passed and the light was still very dim. Only faint embers remained of the soul’s fire.
One day, a giant shadow suddenly floated toward the light. Upon closer inspection, it was revealed to be a large corpse.
This body appears to be the same as that of a member of the Giant Demon Clan. However, if one looks closely at the body’s forehead, there is not a hammer, but an axe.
Black axe!
If there were any members of the Giant Demon Clan here, they would immediately recognize it as the mark of their ancestral tribe.
As the body touched the light, smoke billowed from it. The smoke transformed into a human figure, revealing a greedy expression as it leaped toward the light.
This is a special kind of creature that lives in foreign battlefields. It devours everything, be it bodies, magical treasures, or souls.
The creature leaped at the body, but it screamed and tried to escape. However, the light instantly absorbed the creature, leaving only the body behind.
After absorbing the creature, its light became brighter and the soul fire within it became stronger.
It was at that moment that Wang Lin woke up.
More precisely, his soul was awakened.
When he woke up, he had no consciousness whatsoever, as he was just a ball of soul fire. A feeling of extreme coldness came from deep within his soul.
There was a huge fire beside his soul. Although this fire released an evil aura, Wang Lin did not hesitate to jump towards it.
The light suddenly entered the monster’s head and slowly penetrated it.
Wang Lin’s soul could be considered to be surrounded by demonic flames as the coldness disappeared and his soul gradually calmed down. Time slowly passed again. This period of time was even longer than before. During this long period of time, Wang Lin’s body slowly floated in the foreign battlefield.
It was uncertain whether it was because the body contained Wang Lin’s soul, but more creatures seemed to be trying to devour Wang Lin. However, they were all devoured by him instead. His divine sense grew even greater, and his soul fire grew even stronger.
The stronger he became, the more such creatures appeared like crazy, wanting to devour him. Wang Lin didn’t know that his body was like a giant lighthouse in this dark world.
Wang Lin wasn’t sure how much time had passed. Since he woke up, he had been hungry and had devoured several of the creatures. He only knew that each time he devoured one, he could feel his mind becoming clearer.
Finally, one day, Wang Lin remembered his birth, his 16 years with his parents, his days in the Heng Yue Sect…. And finally he remembered Teng Huayuan.
A wave of sorrow surged through her soul as she realized what had happened. At the last moment, Situ Nan had risked himself to save her and brought her to a foreign battlefield.
Upon entering the spatial rift, the heaven-defying bead underwent a change. More precisely, it disappeared without a trace.
However, Wang Lin could clearly sense that the Heaven-Defying Bead had not disappeared. It had mysteriously fused with Wang Lin’s soul. It could be said that the Heaven-Defying Bead had melted and fused with Wang Lin’s soul.
That’s why he was able to devour all those mysterious and powerful creatures.
Situ Nan didn’t die, but entered a permanent state of slumber. The last thing he did before falling asleep was to envelop Wang Lin’s parents’ souls in his Nascent Soul to sleep with him.
Wang Lin’s parents weren’t cultivators, so they had no chance of being revived or possessing a body. Wang Lin simply wanted his parents to remain so they wouldn’t disappear.
After all his memories were restored, he realized that his divine sense had expanded. His giant body seemed unable to contain him any longer and began to crumble.
Helpless, Wang Lin left the giant’s body. The coldness returned. He floated in the air, searching for the next body to possess.
The journey through the void to find another corpse was a long one, and so were the mysterious creatures that kept coming to hunt him down.
His divine soul grew stronger and stronger. Devouring these powerful creatures gradually became Wang Lin’s habit. He stopped devouring them when defending himself, but he actively sought them out when he wasn’t.
Or it could be said that Wang Lin had been here for too long. Long enough for him to search through his own memories countless times. He began to analyze everything he had done. After he finished analyzing everything, he realized that he had nothing left to do. That was when he suddenly remembered the formation book he had bought.
He immediately memorized the book’s contents and began studying it. Once he had fully mastered the basic formations in the book, he returned to a state of inactivity.
In these countless years, Wang Lin had seen many spatial cracks that led to the exit, but his divine sense had become too large to exit through these small spatial cracks.
However, he discovered that as his divine sense increased, spatial cracks would crack when he struck them. However, after one or two collisions, the spatial cracks would automatically disappear.
One or two collisions weren’t enough to cause the spatial rift to collapse. It was because his divine sense wasn’t strong enough, so Wang Lin began devouring the creatures like crazy.
He completely gave up on the idea of finding a body to possess. Instead, he moved swiftly through the void. Whenever he encountered one of the mysterious creatures, he would immediately pounce on it and devour it.
This life continued for a long time. Every time he saw a spatial crack, he would attack it. He knew that he would be able to cause the spatial crack to collapse in one or two blows someday.
But as time passed, Wang Lin discovered that the mysterious creature in the void seemed to have disappeared. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn’t find another one.
So, he expanded his search. One day, Wang Lin sensed a divine sense as powerful as his own. This was the first time Wang Lin had encountered a divine soul as powerful as his own.
A faint voice entered Wang Lin’s soul. “You passed the test!” it said.
Wang Lin was shocked. He immediately used the same method to send a message.
“How do I get out of here?”
“Leave? Why do you want to leave? There’s no way to leave…” After the owner of the voice sent that message, he slowly retreated and disappeared.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment. He could hear a hint of coldness in the soul’s words. He realized that within this void, there were souls with divine senses that were as powerful as or even stronger than his.
They definitely had their own territories. Once Wang Lin entered someone else’s territory, it would be a fight to the death with them.
After this unexpected encounter, Wang Lin went in another direction and discovered that there were three more souls with divine senses as powerful as his. After several exchanges, Wang Lin discovered that with his current strength, he couldn’t break through the spatial rift in one or two blows.
However, Wang Lin’s determination to return was so strong. He came up with a crazy idea. He spread his divine sense to cover his entire territory. The wider his divine sense spread, the stronger the disturbance it caused.
Wang Lin carefully scanned the area covered by his divine sense. To his right, a spatial rift suddenly appeared. Without hesitation, Wang Lin sent a portion of his divine sense into the spatial rift. The moment his divine sense entered the spatial rift, he cut off that portion of his divine sense. The moment the spatial rift disappeared, he lost contact with that portion of his divine sense.
Wang Lin’s expression did not change as he waited for the next spatial rift to appear.