Chapter 196 – Broken Agreement
The cyclone collided with the snake and collapsed.
Wang Lin’s soul activated his inheritance fragment, but his heart immediately sank. It seemed his inheritance fragment wasn’t enough to cause any reaction, even though his heart wanted to leave this place.
Wang Lin’s expression darkened. He had been skeptical before, and since the inheritance didn’t work here, he was certain that this place wasn’t the Sea of Knowledge.
As a result, everything he had done before was in vain. Wang Lin’s gaze turned cold, but his expression quickly recovered. He was well aware that none of the recent events were normal. According to the memories from his inheritance fragment, the fact that Tu Si’s soul became the Dead Sea and the Blood Sea when it split into two parts was true.
This place is truly the Sea of Dead Souls, but why can’t knowledge inheritance be done here?
Wang Lin looked around. His gaze fell on the scales of the million-foot-long creature, and a thought occurred to him.
His heart pounded as he stared at the scale and memorized its location. When Wang Lin activated his inherited knowledge, he sensed a faint response from the scale.
Although the response was weak, it responded to the call of its heritage part, so the scale must be special in some way.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He didn’t raise his right arm, but gently waved his index finger. A small crack appeared and quickly disappeared. Wang Lin’s movement was extremely stealthy, and the small crack disappeared as quickly as it appeared, so no one else noticed it.
Wang Lin’s heart calmed. The appearance of the crack meant he could use his unique method to move with his inheritance fragment.
He scanned his own storage bag with his divine sense and sneered inwardly. He had many storage bags. The one that worried him the most was the bag containing ten life-saving treasures, the Huan Yuan Beast Trap, and 20 high-quality spirit stones. He hadn’t let his guard down since receiving it.
He didn’t believe that these ten people would easily let him have these things. What he had said earlier was just to mislead them.
After many experiences entering rifts, Wang Lin realized that the rifts opened using inheritances were different. Once one entered, they wouldn’t immediately exit on the other side, as there was a small space between the entrance and the exit. That space was filled with chaotic energy that prevented any divine sense from entering.
He had experimented with it before. He took out a flying sword and threw it into the rift. When the sword entered the rift, he lost connection with it. Only after the sword emerged from the other side was the connection restored.
His heart was filled with joy. If he could harness the properties of this crack, it could work wonders for him.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin took a bag of top-quality spirit stones, a beast trap, and ten instruments, mixed them together a bit, and then put them in three different storage bags.
At the same time, changes occurred.
Dou Mu’s group looked at each other and, following the old man, joined their hands. Rays of light connected the ten of them, forming an irregular shape that surrounded Ta Sen.
Ta Sen’s cold eyes glanced at the ten people. A cold smile appeared on his face. He sneered, “The ten of you have been waiting for so many years, and now you finally find your chance? Very good!”
The old man’s face turned grim. Without a word, his hands continued to change. The other nine followed suit, their hands changing signs rapidly and rapidly.
The irregular shape that had formed suddenly began to glow and approached Ta Sen.
Ta Sen smiled coldly as he averted his gaze. He stared at the creature and said slowly, “It seems you’ve come into contact. You’re planning to seal me again.”
The creature stared at Ta Sen and said calmly, “After sealing you, these ten people will each receive a share of the inheritance. With such a great temptation, anyone would agree.”
Ta Sen didn’t seem to care about the irregular figure rapidly approaching him. He began to laugh loudly. His right hand held the spear and suddenly struck forward. A series of explosions rang out. A massive black dragon suddenly appeared and attacked the irregular figure.
Shortly after, the red-haired man pointed his finger at his forehead while glaring at the old man and shouted, “Explode!”
The old man’s expression changed. His body began to glow red. Chaotic Qi shards poured out of him as his body trembled. He quickly placed his hand on his stomach and shouted, “Scatter!”
Suddenly, a red light radiated from his body. The faces of the other nine people became more serious, and their hands formed signs. This caused them to enter a state where they could absorb Qi.
The red light quickly split into nine red lights and entered the bodies of the nine people. They glowed red. The old man quickly shouted, “Close!”
At that moment, the red light quickly left the bodies of the nine people, converged again, and returned to the old man’s body. The moment the red light entered his body, he trembled and vomited a mouthful of black blood. His face suddenly paled. He stared at Ta Sen and sneered, “Ta Sen, since this old man dared to try to kill you, I already have a way to break your technique. This technique is useless against me!”
It all felt like it took forever, but it happened in the span of a few breaths.
Ta Sen sneered silently. He pointed his finger at his brow and looked at the other nine people, one by one, and shouted, “Explode!”
The old man’s eyes lit up and he immediately shouted, “Li Peng!”
Ta Sen was silent for a moment. He vaguely remembered the words “Li Peng.” That was the name of the group of 11 who had escaped from him all those years ago.
At that moment, a laugh came from the creature’s mouth. The sound clearly didn’t come from the creature, but from someone else. The creature opened its mouth and vomited out a core. A tumor had grown on the core.
The tumor was tightly attached to the core, as if it were a parasite. After the tumor grew a little, it split open, and a human face emerged from within.
His face looked like a scholar, but his eyes, filled with evil like the eyes of a demon king, stared coldly at Ta Sen and uttered a complicated incantation.
The spell created ten circles that quickly appeared around the ten people and completely negated Ta Sen’s method of detonating the soul fragments.
Ta Sen turned his head and stared coldly at that face. His expression darkened, and he said, “It seems the reason I couldn’t catch you all those years ago was because you were saved by this beast!”
The head smiled bitterly, revealing a look of hatred. His voice was filled with hatred as he said, word by word, “Back when the eleven of us believed your lies, broke the seal Tu Si had placed on you, and allowed you to regain your freedom, we realized that it was the greatest mistake of our lives. Today, we will clear up our mistakes. No matter whether it is the inheritance of power or the inheritance of knowledge, both will be ours.”
Ta Sen moved the spear in his hand. He revealed a sinister smile and calmly said, “First, there were ten people who betrayed me, and then this beast hid another person. It can’t be just these two moves. What else is there?” With that, he looked at Wang Lin and the hundreds of stunned demonic cultivators outside the battlefield.
The head connected to the core sneered, “You’ll find out!” With that, it communicated with the creature using some unknown method. The creature suddenly moved violently and coiled itself in a circle within the water. Its massive body continued to coil, until it reached Ta Sen’s height and completely surrounded him.
Inside the creature’s body, the black dragon formed by the spear stopped a dozen feet away from the irregular shape.
As a result, Ta Sen was completely surrounded.
Ta Sen’s expression remained calm. He smiled sinisterly and emitted a purple light that transformed into a crescent moon blade. The sword landed in his left hand. Ta Sen held a spear in his right hand and a crescent moon blade in his left. He attacked with both.
Suddenly, the irregular shapes surrounding him showed signs of collapsing.
Ta Sen’s eyes lit up. He threw both weapons forward, each forming a meteor that struck the edge of the irregular shape.
Among the ten people, four of them vomited blood and trembled as if they couldn’t hold on any longer.
At that critical moment, the creature’s body suddenly stiffened, and a lump formed on its head. Within the lump, a man covered in scales emerged. His pupils were diamond-shaped, exuding an inhuman aura.
As the man appeared, a scream erupted from his mouth. His scream was incredibly sharp. His scream formed countless invisible blades that shot towards Ta Sen.
At the same time, the old man’s expression turned stiff. His forehead was covered in sweat. The irregular shape formed by the ten people only relied on themselves to maintain it. With every jolt caused by Ta Sen, their hearts trembled. He stared at Wang Lin and growled softly, “Little friend, act now!”
Wang Lin’s expression became gloomy. He stared at Ta Sen. Ever since the old man had made his move, Wang Lin had been observing Ta Sen, and from the beginning until now, the old man’s eyes had remained calm.
After hearing the old man’s words, Wang Lin suddenly moved and attacked the old man. The old man’s expression became excited. Just as he was about to speak, Wang Lin’s direction changed and he flew past the person holding the weapon and quickly attacked the million-foot-long creature.
Wang Lin didn’t care whether these people lived or died. All he cared about at that moment was one thing: the special scale on the creature. In fact, from the very beginning, he had never planned to help with the so-called seal. Wang Lin didn’t believe he had the power to do so.
The old man’s expression turned grim. He snorted and placed his hands on his chest, forming a diamond shape. He shouted, “My instrument, attack!”
As the old man’s words came out, Wang Lin’s right hand quickly opened a gap and entered it.