Chapter 204 – Ancient Mirror and Restriction Flag
After setting up the barrier, Wang Lin stopped paying attention to Yun Fei. With a wave of his hand, he divided the cave into two, separating their living quarters. He also set up a barrier between them.
Sitting cross-legged inside the cave, Wang Lin pointed his finger between his eyebrows. Suddenly, a phantom appeared. The phantom was blurry and only the size of eight palms, but it had the appearance of a ferocious beast.
This ghost was the second demon that Wang Lin used in the Land of the Ancient Gods.
After the second demon appeared, it floated in the air, motionless, awaiting Wang Lin’s command. Ever since Wang Lin formed his soul core, the second demon’s slightest sense of rebellion had disappeared without a trace.
Wang Lin pointed his finger there. The ghostly form of the second demon quickly faded until it disappeared, but if Wang Lin used his power as a soul eater, he could clearly sense where the second demon was.
He sent a message to the second devil with this divine sense and the second devil silently moved toward Yun Fei and landed on the restriction Wang Lin had just placed on him.
Yun Fei didn’t pay attention to this process at all.
After doing all this, Wang Lin paid no further attention to it. He sat there and organized his thoughts about what had happened in the Land of the Ancient Gods in the past 200 years.
During this time, he had experienced many things and nearly died several times, but now, he felt like he was dreaming. He couldn’t tell what was real and what wasn’t.
After a long time, Wang Lin sighed. Although he had received the inheritance of knowledge, it was only a portion of the true inheritance. The other portion was the inheritance of power.
The Blood Sea Lord wouldn’t give up so easily. Once he found a way to leave the Land of the Ancient Gods, the first thing he would do was find Wang Lin, who had taken the inherited knowledge, and steal it.
Once Wang Lin lost the inheritance of knowledge, he would have no way to protect himself.
This problem felt like a giant mountain weighing on his heart.
However, based on Wang Lin’s analysis, if the red-haired man really wanted to leave the Land of the Ancient Gods, it would not be a simple matter, so Wang Lin did not need to worry about it for now.
However, some preparations were still necessary. Wang Lin had decided that once he settled down in Qi Lin City, he would ask Yun Fei to help him find the ancient transfer array on the mainland of the Sea of Devils.
He had more than 20 top-quality spirit stones, enough for him to open a transfer array to wherever he wanted.
But before that, he had to carefully study the ancient transfer array. If he didn’t understand it, even if he found a way to use it, he wouldn’t dare do so.
This was one of the reasons why he came to Qi Lin city.
Moreover, he had reached the peak of the late Core Formation stage and was only one step away from the Nascent Soul stage, but that step was like a vast chasm, one he could not cross.
Wang Lin didn’t know if forming a Nascent Soul was as difficult for others as it was for him, but for him, it was far more difficult than he had imagined. He had used dragon spinal fluid and other pills that were supposed to aid the process, but even then, he still couldn’t form his Nascent Soul.
Even the traces of the formation of his New Soul are not yet visible.
Wang Lin had tried to analyze this before, to see if it had anything to do with his Ji Realm, but based on the little understanding he had gained when the Ji Realm entered his soul, this strange state would make reaching the Nascent Soul stage and breaking through its three stages much more difficult. However, once one broke through the late Nascent Soul stage and entered the Soul Formation stage, when compared to any cultivator of the same level, the possessor of the Ji Realm would have an absolute advantage.
In truth, he never had much understanding of the Realm of Ji. Another reason he came to Qi Lin City was to see if he could find any texts about the Realm of Ji.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. After pondering for a moment, he took out several storage bags. These were all items he had obtained while in the Land of the Ancient Gods.
The first was the Ancient Emperor’s storage bag. When he tried to enter it with his divine sense, he felt a gentle energy pushing his divine sense out.
Wang Lin’s gaze focused on the storage bag. He pondered for a moment. It seemed the Ancient Emperor wasn’t dead yet.
He sneered. He put the bag aside and moved on to the other bags.
The bag that excited him the most was the one containing 10 musical instruments belonging to the Duomu group. With a wave of his hand, all ten instruments fell out of the bag.
The ten instruments floated before him. Except for the half-moon blade, which still had a faint glow, the other nine instruments were no longer glowing.
Wang Lin’s divine soul quickly moved toward the nine instruments, but the moment his divine sense touched them, his expression darkened. Although the owners of the nine instruments were dead, there was another divine sense within them that prevented Wang Lin from using them.
His eyes lit up. He pondered for a moment and suddenly remembered that before he handed the tools over to him, the old man had made a mold for each one.
Wang Lin frowned. He once again surrounded the instruments with his divine sense. This time, he studied each instrument carefully. He spent a lot of time searching for divine sense fluctuations on them.
After a long time, Wang Lin’s gaze fell on a small mirror, and his eyes lit up. From his observations, of these nine instruments, aside from this mirror, the divine senses on the other eight were not something he, at the Core Formation stage, could destroy.
The destruction of his master’s divine sense somehow messed up the divine sense placed in the mirror.
As a result, it wasn’t impossible to destroy the divine sense embedded in this mirror. Wang Lin pondered for a moment, then suddenly put away his other instruments and began to forcefully take over the mirror.
Time passed so quickly. After a month and a half had passed, Wang Lin emerged from the cave with his expression as calm as ever. He had successfully destroyed the divine sense in the mirror and made it his own 30 days ago, and it had taken him 7 days to gain a basic understanding of it.
Then, he refined it with his own fire, and after 49 days, the mirror was completely his.
He had felt the mirror’s effects during this time. This ancient mirror’s effects were truly mysterious. They resembled a chaotic ring of shattered stars. It was related to the avatar.
Wang Lin was certain that this must be a treasure that had been famous for a long time, otherwise, it would not be a treasure that saved the life of an ancient cultivator.
However, with Wang Lin’s knowledge alone, he didn’t know the name of this mirror. Even with the memories of the Ancient God, he didn’t have much knowledge about magical treasures.
After all, the body of an Ancient God was the best weapon. Ancient Gods didn’t often refine treasures, and when they did, those treasures would possess unimaginable power.
Even now, Wang Lin still thought about the square pyramid that Tu Si had thrown away.
After inheriting the memories, Wang Lin retained the memories to create many magical treasures, however, the amount of resources required was too great. Even if he used all the resources in the Suzaku Star System, he wouldn’t be able to refine a single one.
Now, he knew the name of the square pyramid. It was the Mysterious Star Pyramid. Its function was to seal. If used correctly, it could seal anything, including entire planets.
This pyramid requires the least amount of materials compared to the other treasures, but that is only relative to the other treasures.
In the past month and a half, besides studying the mirror, Wang Lin also began to make restriction flags with inkstones.
However, Wang Lin still lacked some materials for the prohibition flag. The reason he left the cave was to explore the city square and try to find these materials.
During this time, while he was refining the mirror, the restrictions on Yun Fei were activated many times, and each time, Wang Lin stopped them remotely through the second demon. After all this time, Yun Fei had resigned herself to her fate and even grown numb to it.
In fact, Yun Fei had left home many times to seek out experts, to see if anyone could remove this restriction, and each time, he returned disappointed.
All the cultivators Yun Fei encountered were unable to break through the barrier. Everyone who saw the barrier frowned. They felt that this wasn’t like the barriers used in the current cultivation world, but rather an ancient one.
There were also some people who asked about restrictions, but restrictions were already a strange topic in the cultivation world, so not many people were willing to take the time to study them. Even though Yun Fei’s restriction was truly unique, no one had really tried to study it further.
Yun Fei was extremely cautious when she discovered anyone attempting to break the restriction. She was afraid of accidentally leaking information about Wang Lin and being killed by him before she could successfully break the restriction.
Yun Fei didn’t know that everything she did was being observed by Wang Lin through the second demon. He saw everything she had done and laughed coldly in his heart, thinking that she was simply seeking death.
Wang Lin exited the stone room and was about to exit the cave toward the city when the cave suddenly opened and Yun Fei walked in with a frown on her face. Wang Lin stopped, made a hand seal, and suddenly disappeared.
After the woman entered the cave, she looked towards Wang Lin’s room. There was bitterness in her eyes.
Wang Lin stared at the woman. The things this woman had done made him want to kill her. After the woman entered her room, Wang Lin left the cave and headed toward the heart of Qi Lin City.
The interior of Qi Lin City was very spacious. There were many shops selling all kinds of goods. While walking through the city, Wang Lin encountered many cultivators of varying cultivation levels. The stronger ones were at the late Core Formation stage, while the weaker ones were at the first or second layer of Qi Condensation.
Wang Lin strolled leisurely, scanning the shops for the items he needed. Meanwhile, his divine sense remained connected to the second demon as he watched Yun Fei’s actions. He went to a corner of his room, opened the stone tablet, and took out the pill furnace, then put it back. He remained in his room, unsure of what to do.
Seeing this, Wang Lin sneered in his heart. His life was already in his hands, so he wasn’t in a rush to kill him. He intended to see if anyone in Qi Lin City could break the restriction, and, in a way, test how strong the restriction was.
With this plan in mind, he continued to monitor it through his divine senses and also started searching for the materials he needed.
As he walked, Wang Lin’s gaze suddenly fell upon a shop. The shop was five stories tall, decorated with carvings of dragons and phoenixes emitting spiritual power. There was also a giant piece of white jade with three words engraved on it: “Treasure Refining Pavilion.”
Looking at the pavilion, Wang Lin smiled strangely. He remembered back when he was in Nan Dou City and went to the Treasure Refining Pavilion to exchange dragon skin for a pill furnace, which led to many people chasing him and ended in bloodshed.
He ended up giving the pill furnace that caused all of this to Li Muwan.
Thinking of this, the image of a gentle, weak, and fragile woman appeared in his mind. He sighed. He knew that Li Muwan liked him, but he had a blood feud that he couldn’t forget. In the cruel world of cultivation, he absolutely couldn’t have any ties, because if he caused another disaster, he would be hurt by it.
After going through such an experience, Wang Lin’s heart grew cold. He decided not to allow himself to have any ties until he was strong enough to protect her.
In the blink of an eye, 200 years have passed. Li Muwan may no longer be alive.
He forcibly removed Li Muwan’s figure from his mind. His heart turned cold again as he stepped into this Treasure Refining Pavilion.
The interior of this Treasure Refining Pavilion was not much different from the one in Nan Dou city, apart from having one additional floor.
After Wang Lin entered, he looked around leisurely and climbed the stairs. As he walked to the second floor, he stopped and his gaze fell on the left wall.
On the wall hung the skin of a giant dragon. The skin was so complete that it felt like a live dragon was in the room.
On the second floor of the Treasure Refining Pavilion, a girl wearing a blue silk dress sat. She was eating sunflower seeds when she saw Wang Lin staring at the dragon skin. She used the pavilion’s special technique to look at Wang Lin and discovered that he was in the late stage of Core Formation.
She said in a clear and beautiful voice, “This is the most complete dragon skin our pavilion has. It’s not for sale unless you have something of equal value to exchange it for.”
This dragon skin felt very familiar to Wang Lin, especially the way it was put together. It was very similar to the skin Wang Lin had exchanged for the pill furnace.
Wang Lin pondered for a moment and asked, “I want to ask; where did this come from?”
If Wang Lin had asked when she was in the early stage of Core Formation, she would not have gotten an answer, but now that she was in the late stage of Core Formation and approaching the Newborn Soul stage, her cultivation was high enough for the girl to answer. She chuckled and said, “Senior is not the first person to ask where it came from. After all, obtaining a complete dragon skin is too difficult, and this dragon skin was carved from the dragon when it died.”
Wang Lin nodded. His gaze shifted from the dragon skin to the girl.
The girl put down the sunflower seeds in her hand and smiled sweetly, “To be honest, junior doesn’t know who got this dragon skin. It was exchanged for a pill furnace at a branch shop in Nan Dou City outside the Demon Sea. Rumor has it that the cultivator who exchanged the dragon skin died outside the Demon Sea.”
“Ever since that cultivator left Nan Dou City, he’s been pursued by numerous Core Formation experts, including a mid-stage Core Formation expert, and that cultivator was only in the late Foundation Building stage at the time. Originally, there was nothing strange about it, as this cultivator was doomed to die. However, that cultivator managed to reach the Core Formation stage during the chase and turned around and killed all the cultivators chasing him. He even forced that mid-stage Core Formation expert to use the Hundred Days and Ten Thousand Demons Heavenly Killing Order.”
Wang Lin’s expression remained calm as he listened to all this, without any change in expression. After the girl finished speaking, he nodded and didn’t ask any more questions.
After walking through the pavilion, he spent 30 mid-grade spirit stones and brought the necessary materials. He then spent more spirit stones on a piece of jade that contained the location of an ancient transfer array. Then, he left without looking back.
The dragon skin still hung quietly on the wall of the second floor of the pavilion.
Wang Lin was very satisfied with the materials. He had all the materials needed for the forbidden flags. Honestly, aside from the inkstone, all the other materials weren’t particularly rare, so they were very easy to obtain.
Putting aside the materials, Wang Lin wasn’t very satisfied with the jade slip. Even in the pavilion, there wasn’t much information about ancient transfer arrays. Even this jade slip only contained a few scattered notes about ancient transfer arrays.
Regarding information about the Ji Realm, Wang Lin didn’t ask directly. He inquired indirectly, but found nothing.
After returning to the cave, Yun Fei was still in her stone room. After checking on her, Wang Lin returned to his stone room and began making prohibition flags.
His cultivation was much higher than Yun Fei’s, so when he entered, Yun Fei didn’t notice him at all.
He took out the jade slip he had obtained from the second realm in the Land of the Ancient Gods, which contained information regarding the production of restriction flags. He examined the jade slip again before crushing it in his hand.
After he took out the inkstone and sent his spirit power into it, he took out the other materials and put them together according to the instructions.
Then, following the jade’s instructions, he extracted the essence of the blood spirit power and began the refining process.
This process is called “Raising the Device” in jade.
It could be said that the process of refining the restriction flag was different from the treasure refining method he had learned from the Temple of War. The two methods were not just two different systems, but two completely separate domains.
The time the device is raised can be long or short, depending on the needs of the boundary flag.
If one could put 999,999 restrictions on the restriction flag, then that would be optimal, but in reality, the restriction flag has 4 levels.
These four levels are divided based on the number of flags they contain: 999, 9,999, 99,999, and finally, 999,999.
Wang Lin’s first goal was 999 restrictions.
Later that day, Wang Lin sat in his room, constantly moving his hands. In front of him was a small white flag with 81 black dots.
Wang Lin became more focused. His hands alternated between numerous seals and suddenly pointed at the flag. The afterimages left by his hands formed an illusory circle and landed on the white flag.
When the barrier lands, it shatters and reforms as a black dot on the flag. At this point, there are 12 dots on the flag. Once there are 999 black dots on it, the lowest-level barrier flag will be created.
Wang Lin was extremely careful throughout this process. Although he had created dozens of restrictions tonight, not all of them were successfully attached to the flag.
After several attempts, Wang Lin discovered that the flag could only hold nine identical prohibitions at a time. Once the tenth prohibition was placed, the number nine in front of it would disappear.
After resting for a while, just as Wang Lin was about to place the 13th prohibition on the flag, he raised his head and looked at Yun Fei’s room. His gaze turned cold.
Through the second demon, Wang Lin could see that Yun Fei had taken out another pill furnace. This pill furnace was very old, and on top of it was a piece of yellow paper that emitted a faint light.
He hesitated for a moment, then clenched his teeth. Instead of putting the furnace away in his storage bag, he held it in his hand and silently walked out of his room. Outside his room, he stared at Wang Lin’s room with intense hatred in his eyes, but he quickly covered it up.
The woman stood outside Wang Lin’s room and asked, “Senior, are you there?” After she asked, he didn’t move at all and waited.
After about an hour, the woman respectfully said again, “Senior, junior needs to go out for a walk and would like to ask for senior’s permission.” After she finished speaking, she slowly retreated. Even when she was at the cave entrance, Wang Lin still didn’t do anything.
The woman’s eyes lit up. She gently touched the cave door and left.
For a month, Wang Lin was locked in his room. Every time the woman wanted to leave, he would do this. Wang Lin sneered in his room. After the woman left, he stood up and followed her.
This time, the woman brought a pill furnace with her. Something important must have happened, and Wang Lin was also somewhat curious about the pill furnace. It had to be said that when he first entered the cave, he had scanned it with his divine sense and hadn’t discovered anything unusual.
Clearly, the furnace was guarded by some kind of spell that prevented it from being detected by divine senses from behind. Furthermore, Wang Lin had some speculation as to why he didn’t put it in his storage bag.