Chapter 190 – Legacy of the Ancient Gods (part 4)
Within the body of the Ancient God, there were countless demon cultivators searching nearly every inch of it. The Ancient God’s body was enormous, but for the cultivators, although it was somewhat difficult to search, they all knew the place well.
They weren’t even afraid of the Qi waves. Some of them even charged into the Qi waves to search.
Even after all that searching, they still found nothing. However, none of the demonic cultivators stopped, because whether they found the Soul Devourer or not would directly impact their future.
As Wang Lin was surrounded by the tentacles, he entered a strange state. Around him was darkness filled with countless stars.
He couldn’t feel his body, but it didn’t feel the same as when his soul left his body. He could clearly feel himself moving forward rapidly.
The sparkling stars grew larger and larger, until they became giant spheres. Soon, he saw a giant. The giant sat cross-legged on top of the large spheres, his hands clasped together, forming a seal. He moved his right hand, and one of the spheres in the distance exploded, releasing a terrifying blast.
The giant didn’t seem to care. A stream of golden liquid flowed from the exploding ball into the giant’s right hand. Moments later, the giant rubbed his chest, and a colorful light erupted. After the light dissipated, a normal-sized baby appeared in the giant’s hand.
He stared at the baby coldly. His right hand pinched the golden liquid and dripped it onto the baby. Then, he stood up and threw the baby toward a ball.
Suddenly, the golden liquid surrounded the baby. It moved like a golden meteor and quickly struck the sphere. Its speed was incredibly fast and the impact was intense. Only when it neared the center of the sphere did the liquid slow down.
Soon, the giant didn’t even look at the baby anymore and disappeared.
A thought flashed through Wang Lin’s mind as he watched the scene before him. A trace of shock flashed across his eyes. This person must be an Ancient God! Wang Lin finally understood the power of an Ancient God. Those spheres were clearly what Si Tu Nan had mentioned earlier. The worlds they lived in were spherical objects called planets.
Looking at it now, every star here is actually a planet. They appear so small because they are so far away, but they are actually so enormous they are beyond compare.
With a wave of his hand, the Ancient God could destroy a planet. What kind of power is this? What kind of magic technique?
A thought crossed Wang Lin’s mind. He understood why the Ancient Gods had almost all disappeared. How much Ling Qi would such a large body require? If they continued to grow stronger, how many planets would be destroyed?
Wang Lin was silent for a moment. He stared at the planet where the baby was. As he thought about it, he suddenly felt like he was on that planet.
There are many cultivators on this planet. Aside from a few top cultivators who noticed the disturbance caused by the baby’s birth, no one else noticed. Even those top cultivators couldn’t find anything.
From the clothes they wore, it was clear that they were very different from the world Wang Lin came from.
Wang Lin immediately sank into the ground and arrived at the baby’s location. The baby was wrapped in a golden liquid and sleeping peacefully in the planet’s core.
After an unknown amount of time, more and more cultivators appeared on the surface, It became very busy.
But suddenly, one day, after years of sleep, the baby opened his eyes. The golden liquid surrounding him was rapidly shrinking. The golden liquid was absorbed by the baby as he grew older.
What followed was a catastrophe. Wang Lin watched the baby grow into a child. With a single movement from the child, all the plants on the planet died and turned into a green liquid that flew to the planet’s core to be absorbed by the child.
The process takes a long time…
No matter how the farmers searched, they couldn’t find anything. It was as if they were blinded by something. They couldn’t figure out where all the plant sap had disappeared to.
Soon, it was Ling Qi. All the Ling Qi on the planet rapidly vanished in a short time, until there was no Ling Qi left on the planet. The cultivators on the planet could do nothing but migrate.
All the Ling Qi was absorbed by the young man, and his body grew significantly larger.
Then, more and more natural disasters appeared on the surface. Mountains collapsed, and even some cultivators who hadn’t immediately migrated began to die suddenly. The cause of death was unknown. Most often, the person suddenly lost all their cultivation and their life.
Years later, the entire planet became a dead planet. Then, the young man suddenly made a move and the entire planet exploded.
Amidst the exploding planet, the young man stepped out. He stood thousands of feet tall and his gaze was cold, devoid of any emotion.
The child closed his eyes. He seemed to be searching for something with his divine senses. After a long time, he muttered to himself, “My name is Tu Si!”
Suddenly, he opened his eyes and stared at the void where Wang Lin was and said coldly, “I am the successor of the Ancient God. You should have inherited some of my memories, stay alert!”
Wang Lin was stunned for a moment. Suddenly, he opened his eyes. He was no longer in the void, but inside a transparent filament.
“Inheritance…” A thought crossed his mind. Everything he had seen earlier must have something to do with the ice crystals.
At that moment, three golden words appeared in his mind. He scanned them with his divine sense and immediately recognized them.
“Ancient God Tactics”
Wang Lin closed his eyes. After a long time, he opened them and revealed a strange smile. Wang Lin understood that what the Sky Demon Magician had worked so hard to obtain was the inheritance of the Ancient God.
Based on the information he obtained from some of the memories, Wang Lin learned that every time an Ancient God died, an inheritance would be formed, and whoever obtained the inheritance would become an Ancient God.
The Legacy of the Ancient Gods is divided into two parts. One part is power and the other part is knowledge.
Only when one possesses both parts can they instantly become an Ancient God and obtain everything an Ancient God possesses. However, not all Ancient God bodies will create an inheritance. Only after an Ancient God reaches a certain level and their body remains undamaged for 100,000 years is there a chance for an inheritance to form.
Overall, the chances aren’t great. In fact, it could be said to be very small. To this day, the number of Ancient Gods capable of producing legacies is very small.
There’s a very important reason for this. In addition to all the other requirements for forming a legacy, an Ancient God must be willing to give up his or her life. The lifespan of an Ancient God is extremely long. If they die accidentally, there’s no chance of creating a legacy.
Only those at the peak of their careers, who use their lives as a price, are able to produce a legacy.
As for the Ancient God family, they were extremely cruel when it came to raising their children. They often banished them to planets. Once attached to a planet, they would act like parasites, absorbing the planet for nutrients. When the infant reached a certain stage of maturity, the planet would die.
Of course, there’s a chance of failure with this method, but the Ancient Gods are a cruel race. They don’t care about the lives and deaths of the babies. This is another reason why Ancient Gods are so rare.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. A thought crossed his mind. Based on his memories, he knew that there were no magical treasures or remnants of immortal medicines. They were all fabricated by people with ulterior motives.
He also used the memories he had just acquired, as well as his connection with the body of the Ancient God and discovered that the inheritance had been acquired by someone tens of thousands of years ago.
The most important thing for Wang Lin was finding a way to leave the Ancient God’s body. The memories contained the answer, but that answer left Wang Lin feeling helpless.
For ordinary people, leaving this place was extremely difficult, but for a successor, it was incredibly easy. All they had to do was enter the body of an Ancient God and wish to leave.
If Wang Lin had entered the Sea of Knowledge the normal way and obtained the inherited memories, then everything would have been fine. However, he had obtained some of those memories through an alternative method. As a result, he had to go into the Sea of Knowledge.
However, previously, Wang Lin had no idea how difficult it was to enter the Sea of Knowledge. But now that he had received a portion of the inherited memories, it could be said that in the Land of the Ancient Gods, no one could match his knowledge of the Sea of Knowledge.
To enter the Sea of Knowledge, one must obtain the inheritance of the Ancient God’s power, then use it to use the Ling Qi remaining in the Ancient God’s body to open the Sea of Knowledge.
However, there was a slight change in all of this, and that was in the portion of memories Wang Lin obtained. There was a slight mention of the reason why Ancient God Tu Si gave up his life to create the inheritance.
The Ancient God Race had passed down a mysterious magical technique long ago. Its name was the Flowing Ink Transformation Divine Technique.
Once this technique is mastered, the Ancient God will divide his divine consciousness into ten. Then, ten becomes tens of thousands, and tens of thousands become millions. Each divine consciousness will possess a cultivation base no less than the original body. The creator of this technique is unknown. However, for many years, no one has succeeded in cultivating this technique.
TuSi could be considered a genius in cultivation. After failing to achieve any results while cultivating this divine technique, he came up with a crazy idea: reverse cultivation. He gave up his longevity, and at the moment of his death, as his soul began to dissipate, he forcibly used a divine technique to keep the fragments of his soul from dissipating. This allowed him to continue cultivating until he achieved results similar to the Flowing Ink Transformation Divine Technique.
Unfortunately, if Tu Si had more time, he would have succeeded. However, there was one change: a red-haired man who had charged into the Ancient God’s body.
That person’s cultivation was truly astonishing. He forcibly took the inherited power and fought with the remnant soul of Ancient God Tu Si. In the end, because Tu Si was dead, his remnant soul was destroyed.
The Sea of Knowledge was divided into two. One part became the Sea of Blood to trap the red-haired man, preventing him from leaving. The other part became the Sea of Dead Souls to prevent anyone from entering. It was there that the entire legacy of knowledge was hidden.
A thought crossed Wang Lin’s mind. He carefully scanned the inherited memories. The more information he had, the better his understanding of the situation.
Comparing all the information, Wang Lin felt that his greatest gain after entering the Land of the Ancient Gods was the three words “Ancient God Tactics” in his brain. Besides retaining a portion of Ancient God Tu Si’s memories, the words also contained an incomplete Law of Supernatural Power. This Ancient God Tactics was something that had been in the minds of Ancient Gods since they were young, and was a technique they practiced throughout their lives to control Supernatural Power.
The essence of this Supernatural Power is one word, plunder!
Grab everything!
The memory Wang Lin obtained only contained the mantras for the first two levels. However, after he examined them, he couldn’t help but feel shocked. His heart pounded. If he followed this cultivation technique, forming his Yuan Ying would no longer be a dream.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin remembered something. He reached out his hand toward the membrane surrounding him. His body emitted a colorful light. He muttered some extremely complex incantations, then his entire body disappeared and reappeared where he had disappeared before.
The moment his body appeared, he immediately saw a Qi Wave in the distance. The boundless and endless Qi Wave roared toward him. Wang Lin’s body remained motionless. He closed his eyes and performed some techniques with his hands. As the Qi Wave arrived, he pushed his hands forward. His body merged with the Qi Wave and was carried away by it into the distance.
If it were before, Wang Lin would not have been able to do this, but now that he had inherited some of the Ancient God’s memories, it could be said that he was more familiar with the inside of the Ancient God’s body than anyone else.
It could even be said that if he wanted to hide, no one would be able to find him, except for the red-haired man trapped in the Blood Sea and inheriting the power of the Ancient Gods. With his extraordinary cultivation, he would be able to find him.
A thought flashed through his mind as he rode the Qi Wave. After the Qi Wave reached a certain point, he rushed out of it. Then, using the power of the Qi Wave, he arrived at the edge of the sky. He grabbed the space with his right hand and opened a gap. With a flash, his body entered the gap.
When he reappeared, he had already left the Sea of Qi. He flew toward the Zifu Knowledge Sea in the Ancestral Point. Wang Lin decided to observe the Sea of Dead Souls from the outside firsthand. If it ultimately proved to be as written in his memories, then he was ready to carry out an extremely bold plan.
After leaving the Sea of Qi, a sparkling world appeared before his eyes. If it were in the past, Wang Lin would have thought this place was endless, without beginning or end, but now, he had inherited those memories. This place was no longer mysterious or incomparably vast.
During the flight, Wang Lin’s mood was calm. Every so often, his hand would grab the air, creating a crack. After entering the crack, he would emerge thousands of feet away from where he had been.
This was a special method for moving within the Ancient God’s body after inheriting the Ancient God’s memories. If he inherited all the memories, then all he had to do was will it in his heart and he could arrive at any point within the Ancient God’s body.
Wang Lin had just stepped out of the rift. His expression suddenly changed, and he sneered. Suddenly, space distorted before him. A demonic cultivator appeared. He stared at Wang Lin in surprise, then licked his lips and laughed. “Little one, this old man has finally found you!”
As he spoke, his right hand reached toward Wang Lin. Wang Lin’s expression was calm, and without panic, he stepped back and chanted a complicated incantation.
Instantly, the surroundings seemed to expand infinitely. More precisely, the distance between the demonic cultivator and Wang Lin instantly expanded. In the blink of an eye, the distance between them went from a few dozen feet to tens of thousands of feet.
The demonic cultivator’s right hand grabbed at empty air. He was stunned. His face suddenly darkened as he let out a scream. He threw his right hand forward as his entire body suddenly shot forward tens of thousands of feet toward Wang Lin.
Wang Lin revealed a cold smile. He waved his hand in front of him and disappeared into the rift.
The demonic cultivator was stunned again. He blinked his eyes and, without a word, began scanning the area with his divine sense. His divine sense quickly connected with his companions and spread the news that he had found Wang Lin. In a few short breaths, with all of them relaying the message, almost all the demonic cultivators in the Land of the Ancient Gods swarmed to this location.
Meanwhile, dozens of demonic cultivators who were already there spread out their divine senses to search for Wang Lin. They soon discovered Wang Lin and flew toward him at incredible speed.
Inheriting a portion of the Ancient God’s memories didn’t increase Wang Lin’s cultivation base at all, but within the Ancient God’s body, he could go anywhere he wanted. No one else was more familiar with this place than he was.
Even the red-haired man who inherited the power of the Ancient Gods couldn’t match him in this regard. Needless to say, the types of inheritances the two inherited were very different.
When the demonic cultivators discovered Wang Lin, they began charging at him at full speed. However, even though their divine senses were locked onto Wang Lin, they were shocked to suddenly realize they had lost track of him. It seemed he was more familiar with the place than they were.
As more and more demonic cultivators arrived at the location between the Qi Sea and the Ancestral Point, their combined divine senses were immense and could easily locate Wang Lin, but the moment their divine senses locked onto Wang Lin, he suddenly disappeared. After this happened several times, no matter how much they searched, they couldn’t find any trace of Wang Lin.
Wang Lin sneered. He waved his right hand and entered the rift. After exiting, he arrived at the Ancestral Point outside the Zifu Knowledge Sea.