Chapter 197 – True Inheritance
The man standing on the creature turned his head and stared at Wang Lin with a strange expression on his face. He thought, “It can’t be…”
As Wang Lin entered the crack, the bag containing the best quality spirit stones, ten instruments, and the beast trap all began to glow.
However, the light immediately dimmed as soon as he entered the gap, as if some force was interfering with the divine sense connected to the pockets.
Wan Lin already knew that with the personalities of those ten people, they wouldn’t hand over their treasures so easily. They must have installed some kind of technique on them to remotely control their treasures.
So when Wang Lin received the items, he was always on guard against them. He decided to use the loophole that could cut off divine sense as a countermeasure.
The moment Wang Lin’s body entered the crack, the old man’s expression changed as he realized that his divine sense was blocked.
Ta Sen’s sinister smile widened. He growled and waved his right hand, causing a red circle of light to appear. It was small at first, but quickly began to expand. Soon, his right hand continued to move, forming more red circles. He sent them out in all directions.
The irregular shape surrounding Ta Sen began to tremble violently. The old man didn’t have time to worry about Wang Lin and instead focused on keeping the irregular shape intact.
As for the scaly man standing above the creature, he began to ponder. Without a word, he slammed his hand onto its forehead and it split in two. [A powerful slap to the face, its body split in two] One of its bodies charged towards the irregular shape. The moment it touched the irregular shape, it chanted an incantation and used its hands to form a seal that allowed it to pass through the irregular shape.
After successfully entering, his eyes lit up and he waved his right hand, causing an illusory spear to appear in his grasp. The spear looked exactly like the one Ta Sen had, only this time it was just an illusion.
However, the pressure released from the spear was no less than that of a real spear. He immediately charged forward and attacked Ta Sen.
Beyond that irregular shape, his other self floated in the air, continuously chanting incantations and forming hand signs. Countless purple lightning balls appeared around his body.
More and more lightning balls appeared. Lightning crackled between them, releasing a destructive aura.
Even though he was constantly performing techniques, his eyes were locked on the special scales on the creature’s body as he carefully observed his surroundings.
All of this happened almost at the same moment that Wang Lin’s body disappeared into the crack. As the old man focused on maintaining the irregular shape, a crack suddenly appeared near the creature’s special scales.
A shadow suddenly appeared from the gap.
The old man and the scaled man immediately noticed the crack and the shadow emerging from it. The old man’s face revealed a hateful expression. He tried to do two things at once. He used his left hand to maintain the irregular shape and raised a finger on his right hand to point at the figure emerging from the crack. However, he was stunned for a moment, then revealed a cold smile. From the figure that emerged, he couldn’t sense any of his life-saving treasures.
As for the man covered in scales, he didn’t even look at the figure, but instead waved his hand and ordered a small portion of the purple lightning ball to charge towards the figure.
However, after a while, he frowned and ordered the lightning balls to change direction, but the figure, instead of avoiding them, attacked the lightning balls.
The figure moved extremely fast and collided with the lightning balls, but the figure quickly transformed into tiny creatures. They were completely destroyed by the lightning balls.
While lightning rumbled, four huge black tornadoes emerged from the gap.
The tornadoes hummed, and one of them seemed to be hiding something within. The scaly man’s expression became strange. After carefully observing the tornado, he smiled sinisterly. Inside the tornado were only a few soul fragments, not Wang Lin. This was all just a trick.
He waved his right hand, and more purple lightning bolts shot out. This time, they circled the tornado, as he had a new target: the crack.
As for the old man, he had the same idea. He pointed towards the crack with his right hand.
As a result, the four tornadoes managed to bypass the scaly man and attack the million-foot-long creature. Soon, the tornadoes arrived beside the creature.
As the lightning balls hit the crack, it slowly got smaller, until it finally disappeared.
The scaly man was stunned. Without a word, he waved both hands, and all the purple lightning balls around him suddenly shot toward the four tornadoes. He wished he could send the body he had sent to fight Ta Sen to attack the tornadoes as well.
But at that moment, Ta Sen, who was surrounded by the irregular shapes, stared at the black tornado. His eyes lit up as he understood what was happening and laughed. Ignoring the person he was fighting, he chanted several extremely complex incantations, and his body suddenly turned into a mist of blood.
After the blood mist appeared, it rapidly spread in all directions. The irregular shape surrounding it suddenly collapsed, releasing a shockwave outward.
This caused the ten people who maintained their irregular forms to reveal terrified expressions. Six of them, including Dou Mu, were struck by the shockwave. Their bodies were immediately invaded by a blood mist, which rampaged throughout their bodies, destroying all their internal organs, before finally bursting out from their heads.
As the blood mist poured out, the six of them revealed looks of disbelief as their limp, empty bodies fell straight into the Dead Sea.
The man attacking Wang Lin had to stop and turn around. He didn’t have time to confront Wang Lin. His hands opened, directing the purple lightning balls attacking the black tornado to turn and shoot toward the blood mist.
Meanwhile, another body threw an illusory spear. The spear transformed into a black dragon and struck the blood mist.
As for the four survivors, they were all extremely frightened, especially the old man. He never expected Ta Sen to still possess a move like this.
The blood mist, chased by the purple lightning ball and the black dragon, quickly coalesced into ten identical copies of the red-haired man. They all appeared in different locations. One of them suddenly charged toward the black tornado.
The remaining nine corpses followed the trail of two men wielding spears and half-moon blades. They began to approach the scale-covered man and the four other survivors.
Instantly, the body chasing the black tornado followed. He waved his hand and emitted a red light. The four tornadoes quickly merged into one.
After the tornadoes merged, they collapsed, and the souls of countless tiny creatures scattered in all directions.
Some souls hit the scales of the million-foot-long creature.
The sudden event shocked the clone. He smiled and pointed his finger in various directions. Each time his finger pointed, a large number of the tiny creatures’ souls disappeared.
But at the same time, the souls attacking the million-foot-long creature began to gather together. They released a demonic aura before rapidly exploding.
This explosion caused a chain reaction. All the remaining souls exploded, causing a large amount of Ling Qi to be released into the surrounding area.
As the explosion occurred, a crack appeared near the body of the million-foot-long creature, and a figure swiftly shot out. The figure moved like lightning, and, in an instant, landed on the scales of the giant creature.
This person was Wang Lin, but this time, his body didn’t seem real, more like an illusion. It was clear that he was now his soul that had left his body.
The moment Wang Lin appeared, the clone of the scaly man who was fighting with Ta Sen and was slowly moving towards here suddenly froze as he stared at Wang Lin. His eyes revealed a look of disbelief. From Wang Lin’s soul, he sensed a fragment of inherited knowledge.
All of this happened in a very short time. Wang Lin had always been cautious when entering the rift, and he had sensed the destructive power emanating from the items he had obtained from Dou Mu’s group. This caused him to be extremely cautious. In short, how could he reappear without any preparation?
So, he used the method of inheriting knowledge to hide in the crevice and use the crevice’s divine sense-blocking effect to block the treasure’s effects. After he carefully examined the treasure, he realized that its light had dimmed and its destructive power had dissipated. Only then did he relax slightly.
So after he opened the gap, he sent out small animal souls as scouts. He discovered that not only the old man’s attention, but also the scaly man’s attention was focused on him.
Wang Lin was watching as the man came out of the million-foot-long creature, and he realized that the man covered in scales could fight evenly with Ta Sen. Considering these factors, Wang Lin didn’t dare to come out.
He pondered carefully for a moment, then released four black tornadoes and hid some of his divine sense within them, then immediately retreated back into the gap.
Regarding everything that had happened between Ta Sen and them, he had seen it all through the black tornado, especially Ta Sen’s supernatural abilities, which made Wang Lin feel that his previous decision was correct. If he had truly followed the old man’s instructions and tried to seal Ta Sen, it was likely that before he could complete the sealing, he would have died like those six people.
After Ta Sen formed ten clones, one of them came toward Wang Lin. Wang Lin personally brought the four tornadoes together, and before Ta Sen could act, countless small beast souls exploded out. As a result, his divine sense was spread among the small beast souls, so the chances of him being discovered were much lower.
However, Wang Lin wasn’t arrogant enough to think he wouldn’t be discovered. If he was discovered, then, at most, he would only have part of his divine sense severed.
After all, the primary purpose of this part of his divine sense was to act as a scout. He controlled the souls of small animals to land on the body of the million-foot-tall creature.
One of the souls accidentally touched the special scale, and the moment it touched him, he clearly felt a strong calling from it.
Based on this call, the inherited part that was in his mind felt like it was going to jump out of his body.
But at the same time, within his inheritance, a new piece of memory emerged. After understanding this memory, Wang Lin’s heart couldn’t help but feel sorrow.
Wang Lin immediately decided to detonate all the little beast souls. He sneered as his soul left his body and shot out of the crack like lightning.
As Wang Lin had expected, the cultivation gap between him and Ta Sen was too great. Although it was a clone, it was clearly not at a level Wang Lin could hide. The clone left a feeling of disgust in his heart. He had already detected Wang Lin’s divine sense in the black tornado, or else he wouldn’t have used a force that would injure his body.
In fact, when Ta Sen entered the Sea of Dead Souls, he felt something was wrong. Although he had no connection to the inheritance of knowledge, because he was born from Tu Si’s evil thoughts, he was very familiar with Tu Si’s sea of knowledge.
This place seemed a bit strange to him, but he couldn’t quite put his finger on what was so strange about it. It was entirely based on his instincts.
Even with the appearance of a million-foot-long creature and ten people betraying him, he didn’t really mind. All he really cared about was what was strange about this place. It wasn’t until Wang Lin emerged from the crack that it struck him like lightning and made him understand.
That was why he used supernatural powers to break free and why he didn’t immediately destroy Wang Lin’s divine sense, because he wanted to see what exactly this soul devourer had comprehended.
In an instant, Wan Lin’s soul landed in the body of the million-foot-long creature. His body was extremely blurry, and he directed a cold smile at Ta Sen’s clone.
Ta Sen’s clone stared at the scales surrounding where Wang Lin was standing. He smiled coldly. He knew that the strange thing about this place was one of those scales. Although he didn’t know which scale it was, once they fused back into one body, he knew he would be able to find out.
At this point, in his eyes, Wang Lin had lost all his value. He formed a diamond with his hands and stared at Wang Lin and said, “Dead!”
Wang Lin’s smile became colder. Previously, when his divine sense touched the scales, the memory he gained was that no physical body could enter the place that held the inheritance of knowledge, only the soul could enter it.
After receiving these memories, he decided to set off with only his soul. It was a bold idea. If everything went as he hoped, he would be the first to enter the place that held the legacy of knowledge.
If this was true, then obtaining the complete inheritance of knowledge was not impossible. Thinking of this, Wang Lin’s heart began to pound.
Regarding Ta Sen’s clone’s attack, Wang Lin didn’t mind it at all. His soul began to spread out like clouds, and three words began to shine. Those three words were: “Ancient God Tactic”!
Ta Sen’s clone’s face suddenly changed. All the other clones who were fighting realized something and turned to look at Wang Lin. All of their expressions suddenly changed drastically.
The clones stared at the three golden words. Shortly after, their bodies moved, and the other nine clones charged toward where Wang Lin was standing.
Instantly, the scaly man was shocked. Then, an idea struck him, and he immediately reintegrated into one body. He chased after Ta Sen’s clone and laughed loudly, “Ta Sen, anyone but you can inherit the legacy of the master’s knowledge. Little fellow, it all depends on your luck!”
Those final words were addressed to Wang Lin. In that moment, he made a decision, a decision that would cost him a price he could barely bear.
Suddenly, the scaly man pointed his hand to his forehead and said, “Using my clone as a sacrifice, I transfer the inheritance of knowledge!” His clone rapidly trembled, and, together with the spear, both of them turned into specks of golden light and disappeared.
As the clone closest to Wang Lin attacked, Wang Lin’s scattered soul rapidly shrank, as if being sucked in by a powerful force. In the blink of an eye, Wang Lin’s soul was sucked in by the special scale and disappeared.
No sooner had the scaly man uttered those words than his scales exploded and vanished without a trace.
Ta Sen’s clone turned toward the scaly man and roared. His clones merged back into one body. His left hand held a half-moon blade and his right hand held a spear. He glared at the scaly man with burning rage in his eyes.
“If that little one doesn’t manage to merge with the inherited knowledge within a thousand years, you might have another chance!” The scaly man started laughing loudly.
Ignoring what happened to the two of them, after Wang Lin’s soul was absorbed by the scale, he arrived in a world of clouds. This place had no sky or land, but endless clouds as far as the eye could see.