Chapter 128 – Burning Golden Mountains
Wang Lin waved his right hand to open the stone door and walked out.
At this moment, the sky was blue and clear 10,000 kilometers away. His body moved and he flew to a nearby volcano. When he emerged from the dreamland, his divine sense detected fluctuations of the wood element within the volcano.
Soon, Wang Lin arrived at the mouth of the volcano and looked inside. Waves of heat were billowing from within the volcano. Wang Lin’s eyes lit up, and he jumped in without hesitation. He used the attraction technique to control his descent.
The Burning Gold Mountains are a famous mountain in Hou Fen. The reason why this mountain is famous is because an alchemical ingredient called the Burning Gold Fruit grows here.
This Burning Golden Fruit is the main ingredient in the Soul Harmony Pill. The spiritual energy in this country is saturated with the fire element. Absorbing this spiritual energy for extended periods can be harmful to cultivators’ bodies. Therefore, because the Soul Harmony Pill regulates spiritual energy within the body, it is highly prized by cultivators here.
It could be said that the Soul Harmony Pill was the most widely consumed pill in Hou Fen. There were many different recipes for the Soul Harmony Pill, each with varying degrees of effectiveness. The most popular recipe used the Burning Golden Fruit.
This Blazing Golden Fruit only grows at the mouth of a volcano. Furthermore, it only grows in a series of volcanoes, not just a single volcano.
Every time the Burning Gold Fruit ripens, the four major sects send disciples to harvest it. This fruit is very peculiar. It cannot be harvested early or late. It must be harvested within three days of ripening.
On this day, the four sects had sent their disciples out early. Each sect had taken control of one volcano. The four major sects had an agreement regarding this much-needed material, so there was no conflict.
There were three Corpse Sect followers in total: two men and one woman. They carried coffins behind them as they stood at the mouth of the volcano, waiting for the right moment to enter.
Time passed slowly. Seeing the other three volcanoes emitting green smoke, the other three sects jumped into their respective volcanoes. The three Corpse Sect disciples showed puzzled expressions. The woman frowned and said, “Senior Apprentice Sister Mai, do you know what’s going on?”
The man named Mai also frowned as he said, “That green smoke means the Burning Gold Fruit is ripe and ready to be harvested. The four volcanoes should be ripe at the same time. Senior Brother Zhou, do you think we should go down and take a look?”
The young man named Zhou pondered for a moment. Then, he shook his head and said, “Let’s wait a moment. If the green smoke doesn’t come out and dissolve the poisonous gas of the volcano, we will be in danger if we go down.”
Time passed slowly. Seeing the green smoke growing thicker on the other three volcanoes, the three disciples grew impatient. The young man named Zhou gritted his teeth and said, “Alright, let’s go down and take a look.” With that, he was about to jump down when a cold aura came from within the volcano.
Shortly after, a young man brimming with a cold aura appeared. The three disciples were stunned when they saw him fly out carrying purple vines as thick as a human.
The vine was filled with Burning Golden Fruit.
This person was Wang Lin. After he appeared, he didn’t even glance at the three of them as he left. He had already noticed them some time ago, but he was having a headache trying to figure out how to get the fruit. Every time he pulled a fruit from the tree, it would turn to dust from the heat.
Thus, Wang Lin decided to uproot all the roots of the Burning Gold Fruit. However, what made him helpless was that he couldn’t fit these vines into his storage bag, so he had to carry them with him. If it weren’t for the fact that he desperately needed this wood-elemental fruit, he wouldn’t have bothered with all this.
The young man named Zhou swallowed hard as he stared at the vines on Wang Lin’s shoulder. His expression changed several times. This was his third year here harvesting fruit. At most, they would only pick ten fruits because the roots grew fruit to provide nutrition for themselves. Only with enough fruit could the roots survive.
If too much fruit is harvested, the roots will die. If the roots die, no more Burning Golden Fruit will appear on this volcano.
But this person had already pulled out all the roots. Didn’t this person know that the roots would die two hours after being pulled out? He was furious and saw that Wang Lin was only at the middle stage of Foundation Establishment, yet he dared to ignore the three of them and was about to take the roots away, so he shouted, “Stop! I don’t care which sect you are from. You must pay the price for destroying the roots of the Burning Golden Fruit!”
After that, he patted the coffin behind him and suddenly stood up straight. The coffin lid creaked as it moved slightly to the right, and a black hand protruded. Flakes of black gas escaped from its fingers, and a foul stench immediately spread.
The other two disciples behind also put down their coffins and glared at Wang Lin angrily.
Wang Lin turned around, looked at the three of them, and stroked the Burning Gold Plant while asking, “How much is it?”
Zhou Gang sneered, “Immediately cut off both your arms and legs, dig out your own eyes, and follow us back to be judged by the sect head.” After that, he didn’t wait for Wang Lin to answer. He pointed at the coffin. The coffin lid moved further to the right until it opened, and a completely black mummy came out. Suddenly, the mummy jumped toward Wang Lin, black gas coming out of its hands.
At the same time, the two other sect disciples behind Zhou Gang also slapped their coffins. The other two mummies jumped out, formed a formation, and charged at Wang Lin.
Wang Lin’s eyes turned cold as a loud explosion occurred in the golden sea within his consciousness. Red lightning suddenly shot out from Wang Lin’s eyes. The bodies of the three Corpse Sect disciples trembled as their eyes dimmed, and they died from the destruction of their souls.
Then, Wang Lin casually raised his head to look at the three corpse puppets. Two of them had instantly rotted and turned into piles of white bones.
Only Zhou Gang’s corpse puppet remained unharmed. It suddenly stopped attacking Wang Lin. Its emotionless eyes emitted a golden light as it stared at Wang Lin with a horrified expression. The puppet quickly retreated, preparing to flee.
Wang Lin sneered in his heart and said, “Take one more step and you will die!”
Wang Lin’s words fell on deaf ears as the corpse puppet covered itself in black gas and fled. However, the corpse puppet let out a miserable scream as a ray of light flew out of its body. The light transformed into the figure of a small person who bowed to Wang Lin and begged, “Fellow cultivator, please forgive me. I am Xu Liguo, a disciple of the Tian Gang Sect from a Tier 4 cultivation country. Just now, I offended you, so I will repay you. If you need anything, we can talk. Please, don’t be rash.”
This little guy was scared witless. He initially wanted to flee, but then he suddenly felt a destructive force entering his body. Sensing danger, he immediately fled from his body.
Although he was a Nascent Soul cultivator, he was severely injured in a war. He managed to escape with his Nascent Soul, but his injuries were so severe that his Nascent Soul was nearly destroyed. His close friends pooled their wealth and bought him a body from the Corpse Sect.
The bodies provided by the Corpse Sect are extremely renowned in Tier 4 and Tier 5 cultivation countries. All of them possess exceptional talent, and their appearances can be customized to suit the client’s preferences. They even provide some unusual cultivators with bodies of the opposite sex. As long as you can afford it, you’ll find a satisfying solution in the Corpse Sect.
More importantly, there will never be any problems with the body, and if you are willing to pay extra, you can receive full protection throughout the ownership process.
Furthermore, the Corpse Sect’s research into possession has reached a very advanced level. They can provide very detailed instructions to assist owners in the possession process.
As long as you can afford the price, you can choose any body at any cultivation level. As we all know, for a Nascent Soul cultivator, the best body is the body of another Nascent Soul cultivator. If you use the body of a Core Formation cultivator, your cultivation will be greatly weakened and it will take a long time to recover.
If you really can’t afford it, and can’t even afford a Core Formation body, then you can only buy a Foundation Establishment body at a low price. Even if you’re a Nascent Soul cultivator, it will take a very long time for you to recover your cultivation.
Xu Liguo was one of the Nascent Soul cultivators who couldn’t afford the price.
If a Nascent Soul stage body is the best quality body that Corpse Sect can sell, then it is not a big deal. Nascent Soul bodies are not their main source of income.
The perfect body for a Soul Formation cultivator belonged to another Soul Formation cultivator, but the difficulty of obtaining a Soul Formation cultivator’s body in perfect condition was extremely high. And almost every Soul Formation expert had a large sect from a rank 5 cultivation country behind them, making them untouchable.
However, this problem can be solved by the Corpse Sect if you are willing to pay the price. The body will become a Soul Formation, but no matter how hard you search, you will not be able to find where the Soul Formation body came from.
This was the Corpse Sect’s greatest secret, and no one knew the truth. There were even rumors that the Corpse Sect could provide a suitable body for the only top-tier expert in a level-6 cultivation country.
This is an extremely powerful and mysterious sect. Every sect leader only knows that the main sect is within the 5th level of the cultivation world.
However, is the actual headquarters really located in a rank 5 cultivation country? No one knows the true answer to that question.
But one thing was certain: no one dared to offend the Corpse Sect in cultivation countries ranked fourth or higher. As for countries ranked third and below, as long as the sect wasn’t exterminated, the Corpse Sect wouldn’t care. After all, this was just a field for low-level corpses and a place for business.