Chapter 161 – Eight-Clawed Divine Sense
One main body and three avatars. Their divine senses were interconnected and completely locked down Xuan Wu.
Every cultivator entering or leaving Xuanwu must pass through this divine consciousness passageway. This way, the Eighth Extreme Demon Sovereign will have complete control.
This old man was forced to do this. He chased Wang Lin from the Sea of Devils, passed through Hou Fen, and continued on to Xuan Wu, but then Wang Lin’s figure simply disappeared.
Even though he was extremely powerful, he still couldn’t find Wang Lin. He thought Wang Lin was hiding deep underground, but after scanning there, he still found nothing.
However, he didn’t give up. After hearing that Wang Lin could use the death spell in Nan Dou, he was tempted. In his grand plan, one part would be incredibly easy if he had someone who could use the death spell.
That was the sole reason he spent all this effort chasing Wang Lin. Normally, with his abilities, catching Wang Lin should have been easy, but Wang Lin was as elusive as a worm and disappeared without a trace. He waited for 97 days the first time, but when Wang Lin finally came out and he was about to succeed, the brat went underground using an earth escape technique.
Fortunately, he had borrowed an earthen boat. This treasure contained a powerful earthen escape technique, so using it would make things much easier. Although he couldn’t use many of his techniques underground, he thought it would be fine as long as he could get close. However, he hadn’t expected the little brat’s target to be the Hou Fen Union Mountain.
Although he was able to destroy the sect’s protective formation with a single palm, he had lost track of the little boy. This was why he risked angering the fourth-ranked cultivation nation behind Xuan Wu and Hou Fen to lock down the nation with his divine sense.
In fact, he hadn’t killed a single person from either country. This was largely due to the rank 4 cultivation country behind them. The higher one’s cultivation level, the more they knew about the inner workings of Suzaku. Both Xuan Wu and Hou Fen had the backing of the same rank 4 cultivation country, so no matter how much they fought, it would be fine. However, if someone from the outside were to step in, they would take action.
Previously, it would have been fine to just kill as much as necessary, but since the place was about to open, he didn’t want to cause too much trouble here.
This lockdown lasted for two years.
Over the past two years, Xuan Wu and Hou Fen Union had become accustomed to being scanned by the old man’s divine sense. This could happen several times throughout the day.
Almost everyone knows the origin of all this. The elders had warned them that they were not allowed to go in the four directions from which the divine senses originated.
The Eighth Extreme Demon King grew increasingly nervous because the place would open in just a year, and if he was late, the consequences would be unimaginable. In a heated mood, he decided to wait another half a year. If he still couldn’t find the boy within half a year, then he would risk angering a rank 4 cultivation country and purifying the entire country to find the little boy.
Time passed slowly. One month, two months… until five months had passed. As time passed, the Eighth Extreme Demon King’s complexion darkened, and the hostility on his face gradually increased.
Wang Lin sat in the lotus position inside the Heaven-Defying Bead’s space. His expression was even uglier than the Eighth Extreme Demon King’s. He had inspected everything on his body and discovered something different about Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood. It seemed the reason the old man had been able to chase him this far was because of Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood.
On this day, the boundary of the heaven-defying bead space was drawing near. He could feel that if he didn’t leave soon, he would never be able to leave again.
He had to leave and be out for three days before he could return. However, if the person chasing him was still out there, it would be very difficult to stay safe for three days.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment. The light in the Heaven-Defying Bead slowly dimmed. When it completely extinguished, he emerged from the Heaven-Defying Bead.
The moment he appeared, the Eighth Extreme Demon King suddenly opened his eyes and disappeared from where he was.
Wang Lin’s body slowly condensed. He suddenly felt extremely dizzy, but he forced himself to extract Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood from his brow. Without a word, he quickly flicked it upward and shot it far away.
At the same time, he suddenly felt a sense of danger. Wang Lin sneered as he quickly flew in the opposite direction.
The old man followed the connection of the soul essence blood and arrived in the air above his location. He smiled as he touched the ground, causing the ground to tremble. His body entered the ground using the earth boat. However, he immediately emerged from the ground holding Shang Guanmo’s soul essence blood. In a fit of rage, he crushed it.
“You can’t run!” the old man shouted as he spread his divine sense. The divine sense enveloped Xuan Mo’s entire body, then he snorted before immediately chasing after Wang Lin.
As Wang Lin walked underground, he suddenly felt the ground around him fill with spiritual energy fluctuations. He knew that the old man was already chasing him and he wouldn’t be able to escape for three days. After thinking about it, he quickly flew up and out of the ground.
As he stepped onto the ground, four identical figures appeared around him.
The old man stared coldly at Wang Lin as his four clones slowly merged back into one. He shouted loudly, “Including the 97 days at the beginning, I have waited for you for almost three years.”
Wang Lin’s expression was grim as he stared coldly at the old man. He didn’t say a word.
The old man snorted and asked, “What is your name?”
Wang Lin said, “Ma Liang!” The old man’s cultivation was like a calm ocean to Wang Lin, too deep to see.
The old man’s eyes stared at Wang Lin as he said, word by word, “Ma Liang, I will ask you: do you know the death spell?” There was a hidden killing intent in his eyes. If Wang Lin’s answer was no, the old man would immediately kill the brat in his anger. He would then return to Nan Dou to kill everyone who lied to him and use their souls to purify the treasure.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment and then nodded. He could sense the old man’s killing intent. If he took one wrong step, he would die without a burial site.
The old man’s eyes narrowed. Without a word, he patted his bag and a three-foot-long green python appeared in his hand.
The green python stuck out its tongue while its black eyes stared at Wang Lin.
The old man threw the green python to the ground and said coldly, “Use your death spell. The target is this python!”
As the python landed, it curled up before leaping toward Wang Lin with its mouth open. Wang Lin stared at the python. A red flash flashed across his eyes as he muttered, “Die!”
Wang Lin’s target wasn’t the python, but the old man. This time, he used his Ji realm to its fullest.
As soon as he said the word “die,” Wang Lin immediately retreated. The old man felt his mind shake as a ray of red lightning struck his sea of consciousness. His consciousness was completely blank except for an octopus lying on its stomach. As the red lightning entered, the octopus opened its mouth, creating a powerful suction force. The red lightning was immediately sucked into its mouth.
However, the Ji realm was extremely powerful, far beyond imagination. Even though the old man’s cultivation level was extremely high, the octopus still shivered after absorbing the red lightning.
The vibration caused a chain reaction that made his consciousness tremble as well, forcing his body to stop for a moment.
As Wang Lin stepped back, he opened his mouth and spat out a crystal sword. The sword cut the snake in two and moved like lightning to pierce the old man’s eyebrow.
However, a white halo appeared, preventing the flying sword from getting any closer. Wang Lin waved his right hand to summon the flying sword back before quickly fleeing underground.
Soon, the old man recovered from his shock when he saw the python on the ground and touched his brow. He was filled with anger as his hands formed a seal. He shouted, “Go!”
A blade emitting rainbow-colored light appeared in front of him. The blade was entirely made of clear crystal and light flowed inside it. Following the old man’s command, the blade flew out with a ring of rainbow-colored light. The blade pierced the ground and quickly chased after Wang Lin.
Along the way, as the knife moved on the ground, it simply disappeared and was immediately within 100 feet of Wang Lin. Wang Lin felt his head go numb. Without hesitation, he took out the amulet that Yang Sen had given him.
This talisman can block the attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator. As he threw the talisman, the knife arrived.
The talisman immediately expanded and protected Wang Lin from behind. The talisman collided with the knife, and after a series of cracking sounds, it shattered. The knife was also pushed back several feet. From where they collided, a shockwave spread out, causing the ground to rise.
If one looked from above, they would see a small circle expanding as the earth shook. It was as if an earth dragon was moving underground.
Wang Lin was hit by the shockwave and coughed up a mouthful of blood. He immediately climbed out of the ground and narrowly avoided the main shockwave.
Once he got out of the ground, he didn’t stop at all and immediately continued his escape.
Feeling the shockwaves beneath the ground, the old man’s anger subsided as he muttered to himself, “That attack just now was even able to stop me for a moment. Rumor has it that death spells focus on cultivating one’s divine sense and using it to attack. Following that logic, that brat truly has control over death spells.”
Thinking of this, his body disappeared from where he was. Wang Lin felt a pain in his chest as he quickly took one of the pills Li Muwan had given him to heal his wounds. Suddenly, he felt a fluctuation of spiritual energy before him. He had dealt with Nascent Soul cultivators many times, so he knew this was a sign of teleportation. Without hesitation, he turned around and began flying in the other direction.
At this time, the old man walked out from where the spiritual energy fluctuations were.
“Little friend, this old man doesn’t want to hurt you. Why don’t you listen to me first?”