Chapter 85 – Stealing the Foundation (5)
Teng Li suddenly opened his eyes. They were dull and bloodshot. His lips trembled, and his jaw was clenched tightly.
Wang Lin drew a complicated symbol in the air with his right hand. Then, he bit his finger and dripped a drop of blood onto Teng Li’s head.
Teng Li groaned as his body began to move violently. Something began to move beneath his skin and towards his chest.
Not long after, Teng Li’s body seemed to shrink as all the muscles and veins in his body formed a large ball of flesh on his chest.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. His right hand waved and he unleashed another technique. With a loud bang, the ball of flesh separated from Teng Li’s body. His body was now nothing but a bag of bones.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and spat out another mouthful of spiritual energy. The energy entered the ball of flesh and, after a moment, shrank to the size of a ball of blood.
Wang Lin revealed a tired expression. He took out a gourd and took a sip before beginning to cultivate. After a while, he opened his eyes and pointed at Teng Li’s body.
Suddenly, a loud cracking sound filled the air. All the bones in Teng Li’s body shattered into bone powder, forming a ball of bone dust.
Balls of blood, flesh, and bones lined up, releasing a demonic aura.
Wang Lin sighed and muttered to himself, “To steal someone’s foundation, you need their blood, flesh, bones, soul, and spiritual roots. Furthermore, the person won’t die while you’re taking their blood, flesh, and bones. This technique is too cruel.”
Situ Nan said softly, “This is nothing. In my homeland, there’s a demonic sect that steals cores. It’s truly cruel. Not only does the person whose core is taken suffer, but even the person who stole it suffers, all with a success rate of less than 1%.”
Wang Lin pondered for a moment and regained his focus. He pointed his hand at Teng Li and began chanting. As Wang Lin’s chanting increased in speed, white gas emerged from the pile of flesh that was once Teng Li’s body and gathered in the air.
After an unknown amount of time, the white gas became extremely dense and formed a human figure. Upon closer inspection, the figure looked exactly like Teng Li.
The little man’s eyes revealed a confused expression and his body trembled. Slowly, the confused expression disappeared as he stared viciously at Wang Lin and let out a few low cries.
Wang Lin didn’t even blink. He waved his hand, and a red light appeared. The little person seemed to be afraid of the red light and tried to escape, but the area three meters around Teng Li’s body was like a prison. No matter how hard the little person tried to escape, he couldn’t get out.
Finally, the little man realized he couldn’t escape. He let out a sharp glare and charged towards the red light.
Wang Lin had a blank expression as he waved his hand. Red light circled around the little person a few times and pulled him toward Wang Lin.
Wang Lin knew that the soul extraction step was crucial. He had to safely extract the soul from that 3-meter distance without damaging it. Although a damaged soul wouldn’t affect his ability to steal the foundation, he wouldn’t be able to use Teng Li’s spirit root to enhance his own if the soul was damaged.
The little man’s face showed a pained expression as the red light slowly pulled him out. In the blink of an eye, half of his body had been dragged past the 3-meter mark.
At that moment, a yellow light shone from the little person’s body, and the yellow light shattered the red light. The little person quickly retreated back into the 3-meter space, and with the yellow light, the little person became even more solid.
Wang Lin’s face darkened as he stared at the little person. His hands moved to perform the technique again. The little person’s face showed a look of horror as he spoke.
“If you kill me, my grandfather won’t let you go! He’s a Nascent Soul cultivator, so if you kill me, you’ll definitely die.”
A cold light flashed across Wan Lin’s eyes. He spat out a large amount of spiritual energy. Then, he continuously cast one technique after another on the spiritual energy until it became a thin line.
The little boy’s fear grew as he said, “My grandfather already knows I’m in danger and he’ll be here soon. You…”
Before he could finish his sentence, Wang Lin waved his hand. The rope wrapped around the little person’s body and pulled him out.
The little man struggled and shouted, “Grandpa, save me!” The yellow light shone even stronger as it fought Wang Lin.
Without another word, Wang Lin patted his bag of holding and took out a bottle of spiritual water. He poured the spiritual water onto the fishing line and the fishing line suddenly became as thick as a thumb when he pulled it again.
This time, no matter how hard the yellow light shone on the little person, he couldn’t fight back against Wang Lin. The little person was pulled out of the 3 meter range. The moment the little person left the 3 meter range, the yellow light turned into a cloud of yellow gas, forming a shadowy figure within it. The figure was indistinct, but a voice rang out, “Fellow cultivator, please stop! We can discuss this.”
Wang Lin was startled, but Situ Nan immediately said, “Don’t worry, this is the illusory avatar of a Nascent Soul cultivator. It’s different from a physical avatar because it can’t attack, see you, or even know your location. This avatar only allows you to hear what he says. Furthermore, looking at this illusory avatar, this person is very far away, which is why it’s so blurry. As for why this avatar is there, it seems like he loves Teng Li very much, so he always left that bit of divine sense on him.”
Without a word, Wang Lin pointed at the little person. The little guy immediately stopped, struggled, and shrank until he became a ball emitting purple light.
The illusory avatar seemed to have realized that Teng Li’s soul was being refined. He shouted, “You killed a member of the Teng Family, so you must pay for it! I will find you one day and I will kill you.”
On a mountain peak tens of thousands of miles away, a black-robed old man stood with a grim expression. His eyes were gleaming. He clenched his fists and muttered to himself, “Li Er, your grandfather promised that I would avenge you.” With that, he struck his chest with his right hand and coughed up black blood. His right hand quickly sucked in the black blood, forming countless strange symbols that floated in the air.
Then, little purple people appeared and sat in the air.
The little man shouted, “Damn it, go away!” The little man’s hands formed a seal as his divine sense divided and merged into all the symbols.
“Damn it, it’s complete!” The old man’s soul seemed to shrink. He didn’t seem to be afraid of wasting his energy at all. The symbols, which contained divine meaning, emitted a demonic light as they soared into the sky. They covered half the sky, forming a formation, causing thunder to rumble.
“Damn it, it’s spinning!” The formation began to spin slowly. Blood-colored lightning appeared in the sky, forming a strange diamond shape.
“Damn it, close it!” The little man shouted as the earth shook. He spat out more soul energy as the formation spun faster and faster, and the strange blood-colored lightning became denser. Soon, the formation shrank until all the blood-colored lightning was engraved into the diamond shape.
The pattern slowly fell from the sky and imprinted itself on the little person’s forehead.
The little guy smiled sinisterly and said, “If you kill the people of the Teng Family, you will be cursed by me!”
Inside the tree hole were four balls floating before Wang Lin. He pointed his finger at Teng Li’s remains, and countless specks of golden light floated out from the remains.
These points of light are countless and ⅓ of them disappear into the surrounding environment.
Wang Lin took a deep breath. He knew that these specks of light were the so-called spirit roots. He spat out spiritual energy to devour the spirit roots. The devoured spirit roots immediately began to reject Wang Lin, and the remaining third disappeared. Wang Lin was only able to devour a third of Teng Li’s spirit roots.
Just at that moment, Wang Lin’s forehead began to glow and a purple diamond appeared there.
Wang Lin immediately realized it. He raised his hand to touch his forehead and his expression suddenly changed.
Situ Nan immediately exclaimed, “This person is truly arrogant. Wang Lin, you’ve been cursed by a Nascent Soul cultivator. With this curse, once you get within a certain distance of him, he’ll be able to instantly teleport beside you. I never thought he’d give up his own lifespan to use this complex formation curse on you.”
Wang Lin suddenly stood up. His face was gloomy as he asked, “Is there a way to break it?”
Situ Nan pondered for a moment and laughed proudly, “Actually, you don’t have to worry too much. This type of curse doesn’t have any offensive capabilities. It only allows him to find you and teleport to you. Although this person’s curse is good, I’ve spent a lot of time studying this type of curse, which uses formations and the fluctuations of spiritual energy in the world to cast the curse. I can’t cast any curses because I’ve lost my body, but I can still help you break it.”
“With my help, conceal your aura. As long as you don’t get too close to him, he won’t be able to find you, so relax. Hehe, Wang Lin, here’s another resource. I know an ancient technique that can be used to make a curse affect its user. You need to be at the Core Formation stage, then, with the help of a pill, you’ll be able to steal half of his cultivation. Ah, your luck is pretty good, kid.”