Chapter 171 – Jade Li Muwan Leaves
It was clear that he couldn’t avoid it. If he wanted to leave here, he had to go through it.
Wang Lin sighed softly. He pointed the crystal sword and aimed it at the stone pillar behind him. The crystal sword continued to smash the stone pillar and everything floated into a circle around Wang Lin.
Gradually, more and more shattered rocks gathered around him. After reaching five or six rings, he drew the crystal sword after some calculations.
Wang Lin charged into the empty area with a large number of stones spinning around him. He slowed down once he entered the empty area and moved forward calmly. There were no signs of danger.
However, this didn’t stop Wang Lin from being cautious; it only made him even more vigilant. After being in this unfamiliar place for so long, Wang Lin couldn’t believe that such a calm and peaceful place existed.
Instead, he thought that he was simply feeling a false sense of security because there was a very powerful being somewhere nearby.
He was on full alert, the crystal sword hidden among the shattered rocks, and he held a Nascent Soul-grade talisman in his hand. His divine sense spread out and scanned his surroundings. There was also a small connection to his storage bag to ensure he was ready to retrieve items from it in any situation.
He slowly walked to the center of the quiet area. From his current position, if he turned his head to the side, he would be able to draw a straight line to where the stone had disappeared.
Wang Lin became more alert. After walking a few steps, he suddenly felt a large amount of danger from his divine sense. He did not hesitate at all to immediately retreat and used the Nascent Soul level amulet to form a light barrier in front of him.
As his body retreated, two arches appeared where he had been standing. The two arches connected to form a large, open mouth.
The Nascent Soul level talisman trembled violently in his hand and turned to dust. Taking this opportunity, Wang Lin quickly retreated. Cold sweat broke out on his forehead as he stared at the large, closed mouth. His heart trembled violently.
This space rift-like creature didn’t open its mouth when the rocks appeared, but waited for them to pass by. It seemed to have targeted Wang Lin.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment. Looking at the remaining distance, he was only halfway there. He couldn’t help but smile bitterly because that was the only Nascent Soul level talisman he had. This showed that the power of that mouth was stronger than the attack of a Nascent Soul cultivator.
If Wang Lin were to be touched by the creature’s mouth, he would definitely be seriously injured, if not dead.
He took a deep breath. After pondering for a moment, he took out a large number of defensive treasures from his bag without hesitation. These were the treasures he had obtained from killing all those cultivators. However, since they were all low-grade treasures, he had used them as disposable items.
After a moment of hesitation, he began to move forward with the stone ring. This time, he was even more cautious as he advanced, his sanity alert. He resolved to retreat immediately if he noticed anything amiss.
Then, a 100-foot-wide semicircle appeared before him, and more than half of the rocks in front of him suddenly disappeared. Wang Lin immediately retreated, but more than half of the rocks behind him also disappeared, and so did the rocks in other directions. This meant that wherever he went, there would be more of those invisible creatures.
Wang Lin immediately stepped aside, but then the protective layer formed by hundreds of defensive treasures began to crackle and crumble one by one.
Wang Lin was shocked as he curled up and slid to the side, narrowly avoiding it. He stood 100 feet away, his shirt completely covered in sweat. The space he had just passed through was surrounded by at least seven gaping mouths. If it hadn’t been for the treasure that had stopped him for a moment, he would have died.
Wang Lin smiled wryly. All the rocks around him were now gone. Although he still had more treasures for defense, they would all be gone if he faced danger like this a few more times. Most importantly, Wang Lin was worried that if he were surrounded by those mouths from all directions, he would definitely die.
He sighed as he took out more defensive treasures. After activating them, he spread his divine sense and began to move forward cautiously again. He looked towards the edge of this quiet area. If he flew at full speed, he could cross this area in just a few moments. However, if he did, he would most likely crash into the mouth of one of those creatures. At that point, not even a fairy could save him.
He took a deep breath and gritted his teeth as he slowly stepped forward. His divine senses carefully scanned his surroundings. Three days later, Wang Lin was completely exhausted, and all the defensive treasures in his bag had been used up.
In these three days, he faced many life-and-death situations. Once, half his body was inside a mouth. If he hadn’t entered heaven in time, he would have surely died.
Fortunately, the Heaven Defying Bead wasn’t inside those creatures’ mouths, so when he came out, he wasn’t inside those creatures’ mouths. However, Wang Lin was afraid of entering the Heaven Defying Bead now because if the Heaven Defying Bead was eaten, then even though he would be spared death for a while, he wouldn’t be able to escape it once the time he spent inside was up.
Seeing that the remaining distance was less than ten kilometers, Wang Lin took a deep breath and stepped forward. Suddenly, a mouth began to open in front of him. Just as Wang Lin was about to dodge, his divine sense suddenly sensed danger. The one thing he feared most happened.
Arched mouths appeared all around him. All the creatures opened their mouths simultaneously. Wang Lin felt extremely frustrated as he frantically searched through his storage bag until he found a very plain-looking piece of white jade.
This was the defensive formation Li Muwan had given him as a parting gift to use when he entered closed-door cultivation. Wang Lin didn’t hesitate to throw away the jade. He had made up his mind; if things went badly, he could only enter the Heaven-Defying Bead. Even if the space where the bead was located ended up being swallowed up, that was his only option.
As he threw the jade, the surrounding mouths opened wide and closed in on him. However, just at this moment, a green halo appeared beside Wang Lin. Then, it suddenly spread, and a green dragon emerged from the jade. As the dragon appeared, the mouths began to devour the spreading halo.
The ring of light continued to vibrate as the dragon circled around Wang Lin. Wang Lin jumped and forcefully charged out through the gap between the two mouths.
Throughout this process, the dragon continued to roar as its figure gradually faded. With this attack, Wang Lin traveled the last ten kilometers without stopping. Numerous mouths opened along the way, but they were all blocked by the green dragon surrounding him.
After completely leaving the calm area, the green dragon was about to collapse. Wang Lin quickly issued several seals, causing the dragon to transform into green gas again and send it back into the white jade.
Wang Lin heard a soft ping. When he looked down, he saw a small crack appear on the jade. Wang Lin’s heart ached. He examined it with his divine senses. After finding that the jade had not become useless, he breathed a sigh of relief and carefully put it back into his storage bag. He turned to look back at the quiet place. His heart was still trembling.
After a moment of contemplation, he raised his head and jumped onto the stone pillar. He then stepped on the pillar, causing it to shatter. The shattered stones re-formed a ring around Wang Lin as he flew upwards.
After several days passed, Wang Lin’s speed became even faster. After leaving that strange area, he felt like he had entered a different world. He no longer encountered creatures like those spatial rifts, and what was even more surprising was that he also didn’t encounter powerful creatures like those dragons.
As a result, his speed naturally increased. However, he didn’t throw away the surrounding rocks; it was better to be safe than sorry. Wang Lin was extremely cautious, so unless he was 100% certain that he was safe, there was no way he would throw away these rocks now.
As his speed increased, Wang Lin arrived at his destination faster and faster. After a while, Wang Lin realized that the stone pillars around him were the same size as the one he had stepped on when he entered.
This void was too large. Wang Lin didn’t have confidence in determining the location of the oval ring of light, so he could only use the size of the stone pillar to estimate its location.
On this day, he stood atop a cone-shaped stone pillar. His eyes lit up as he looked up. He had been flying horizontally among these massive stone pillars for a very long time, and now he had discovered that oval ring of light.
In the void above him floated a huge oval ring of light. He felt a bit regretful that he hadn’t gone to the trial. If he had completed the trial, he would have been able to enter the body of the ancient god. There would definitely be things he needed there, but after going through the dangers in this place, Wang Lin knew that with his cultivation, there was no way for him to survive here.
He sighed regretfully as he leaped and flew toward the ring of light. However, just as he was about to touch it, a flash of purple lightning appeared. The lightning bolts intersected, forming a concave and rhombic pattern.
Wang Lin was shocked. He couldn’t move forward; it was as if a powerful force was preventing him from doing so. His eyes lit up as he stared at the concave and rhomboid pattern. This concave was large enough to hold a high-quality spirit stone.
Wang Lin immediately retreated. At the same time, the concave rhombus pattern disappeared and the purple lightning returned to the halo.
He tried it a few more times, and a concave rhombus pattern appeared each time. Wang Lin began to ponder. His eyes lit up as he looked at it for a moment before turning around and flying upward.
He remembered that this place was just a path to the first test. As long as he sat on the stone pillar, he would be able to pass through this place.