Chapter 91 – Extreme Yin Spiritual Energy
Teng Huayuan walked carefully through the forest while spreading his divine sense. His face suddenly beamed with joy when he found Wang Lin. Just as he was about to teleport, a terrifying gust of wind blew, followed by a gloomy voice.
“Get out of here!”
Teng Huayuan’s expression suddenly changed. He quickly took a few steps back without thinking and looked around.
He only saw a black mist floating in the distance. The black mist was surrounded by a terrifying wind. A withered hand reached out from the black mist and grabbed Teng Huayuan.
Teng Huayuan observed the fog with his divine sense and became afraid. This person’s cultivation level was at the middle stage of Nascent Soul, causing him to retreat again.
The withered hand waved slowly. A giant hand appeared and tried to grab Teng Huayuan.
Teng Huayuan smiled wryly. He turned and ran without hesitation, as a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator wasn’t someone he could afford to mess with. He knew there was a powerful cultivator here, but he didn’t expect it to be a mid-stage Nascent Soul cultivator.
Teng Huayuan disappeared in the blink of an eye. The hand snorted coldly and disappeared as well.
Teng Huayuan appeared in the sky outside the forest. His expression suddenly changed as a giant hand silently appeared behind him and mercilessly grabbed him.
Teng Huayuan silently groaned. He immediately took out an animal skin. He pointed with his hand, and the animal skin wrapped around him and pushed him away, barely escaping the giant’s hand.
Despite this, he was still hit by the giant’s fingers. He coughed up blood and his face turned pale, but he quickly fled without looking back.
A black mist appeared in the air. The mist slowly shrank until it revealed a figure. The figure was completely dried up and looked like a bag of bones. He looked in the direction Teng Huayuan had fled. However, he didn’t give chase, but instead returned to the forest.
It flew calmly here and there in the forest as if searching for something. Soon, it stopped over an open area. It stared at the ground emotionlessly. It hit the ground with its hand and with a loud sound, a large crack appeared in the ground.
As the crack appeared, a scream rang out from the ground as a dark figure flew out, trying to escape. The withered man snorted coldly, and a cage surrounded the area. The dark figure slammed into the cage and bounced back. The figure no longer tried to escape, but instead knelt down and began kowtowing.
The old man said softly, “After not seeing him for 100 years, I didn’t expect Master’s body to turn into a zombie and even form his own soul. You’re still considered someone of my generation, so I can let you live, but you have to use your connection with Master to help me find him.”
The zombie nodded quickly while staring fearfully at the withered man.
The withered man waved his hand, and the cage disappeared. He stared at the zombie and said grimly, “Come, take me to the master. If you can help me find the master’s Nascent Soul, then after I devour it and free myself, I will help you evolve into a demon.”
The zombie was surprised and showed a happy expression. It immediately nodded and ran into the forest.
The man followed her expressionlessly.
At that moment, somewhere in the ruins where the sunlight couldn’t reach, the blue-skinned man looked at Wang Lin with a lingering expression.
As for Wang Lin, although he had absorbed a large amount of Yin energy, it was all only of rank 6 or 7 quality. With this quality, no matter how much he absorbed, the changes to his spiritual energy were minimal and no longer good enough for him to make further breakthroughs. He turned his gaze to the interior of the ruins. His target was there!
He decided to explore a bit and find out where the highest quality Yin energy was located.
After all, the higher the quality, the higher the success rate of the breakthrough.
At midnight today, Wang Lin’s hands formed the seal for the Yin energy detection technique as he walked through the ruins.
After walking a short distance, the red light blinked rapidly and with a “pop” sound it split in two.
As the red light turned into two, Wang Lin revealed a look of joy. He knew that this meant the Yin energy had surpassed ordinary quality and reached a good quality.
As he continued to walk forward, two red lights continued to shine as his rank increased.
Good quality rank 2, rank 3… all the way to rank 5. Wang Lin stopped. In front of him was a wide street with ruined buildings on each side. It was clear that long ago, this was a very densely populated area.
Wang Lin calculated the distance for a moment and realized that he hadn’t even covered 1/1000th of the city’s radius, so he started moving faster.
The red light emitted by the technique was very eye-catching at night. Wang Lin’s divine senses spread, constantly scanning his surroundings.
The quality of Yin energy continues to increase. Good quality ratings are 6, 7, 8…
The sun rose and set. On the fourth day, Wang Lin had already entered the depths of the ruins. He guessed that his current location was the city center. If not the center, then it wasn’t far from there.
On his way there, he saw dozens of deep holes several meters wide filled with rainwater. There were also mysterious snakes that would leap at Wang Lin with their venomous fangs.
Furthermore, the damage to the ruins has worsened. On the road leading to the current location, there are no buildings taller than 10 meters.
Besides the overgrown grass, there are also swamps. These swamps are also home to several mysterious creatures. Once, Wang Lin was nearly eaten by one of these creatures, making him even more wary of his surroundings.
Even though he had delved into the deepest ruins, the quality of Yin energy still had not reached the quality of Dense.
On the evening of the fifth day, he emerged from the swamp and found himself in front of a large group of buildings. Although all the buildings had collapsed, you could still see how densely populated this place was.
The most eye-catching point is a hole in the ground that is a thousand meters wide and one hundred meters deep.
This giant hole is very strange. Normally, it is filled with rainwater, but there is no liquid at all inside.
Wang Lin took a closer look. Even though it was nighttime and there was dense Yin energy in the path, Wang Lin could still clearly see the honeycomb-like caves at the bottom of the giant pit.
As Wang Lin reached the edge of the hole to examine it, the red light in his hand suddenly reacted. The red light merged into one, then split into three, indicating that the Yin energy here had reached the “Good” quality.
Wang Lin’s eyes lit up. He didn’t rush in, but instead carefully walked around the hole. When he reached the opposite side, the three lights merged back into one and then into two again.
He understood that the reason the Yin energy reached Good quality was this giant hole.
Wang Lin rubbed his chin. After pondering for a moment, he didn’t go in immediately, but sat down and decided to wait until morning.
Soon, it was noon. As the Yin energy dissipated, Wang Lin jumped into the giant pit. As he landed, a small green flying sword flew out, releasing a cold aura.
Wang Lin raised his head and looked up at the sky. Given the depth of this hole, it should have been filled with rainwater over the years.
Wang Lin’s eyes narrowed and he focused his gaze on the countless honeycomb-like holes at the bottom of the giant pit.
Although he didn’t know how deep the hole was, all the water must have drained out. He touched the hole and found it wet, confirming his earlier thoughts.
After carefully examining his surroundings and finding no danger, he sat cross-legged and waited for nightfall.
The sun set and night fell. As the Yin energy flooded in, all the wild animals fled, unwilling to spend the night here.
The light in front of Wang Lin grew brighter and brighter, changing from one to two, then from two to three.
Normal quality ratings are four, six, eight, and ten. Good quality ratings are three, six, and ten, and breakthrough to Solid quality.
It was still not midnight and the quality of Yin energy had reached rank 1 of Dense quality.
Wang Lin showed a joyful expression. He spread his divine sense and discovered that the reason why the quality of Yin energy was higher here had to do with the holes in the ground.
He could see bits of Yin energy coming out of the hole and mixing with the surrounding Yin energy.
As time passed, the red light shone brighter and reached the Dense level 2 quality. When midnight arrived, the Yin energy had reached the Dense level 5 quality.
Wang Lin did not hesitate any longer and immediately began cultivating.
As more and more Yin energy accumulated in his chest, he noticed one difference: the purity of the Yin energy was more than ten times higher than before.
Changes in quality can lead to changes in quantity. This means that one minute of Yin energy gathering now equals more than 10 minutes of Yin energy gathering previously.
Soon, the Yin energy in his chest began to form a vortex and spin. As the vortex spun faster and faster, the unexpected change that had occurred last time occurred again.
The Yin energy within 100 feet of Wang Lin fluctuated and charged toward him.
As the vortex in his chest absorbed more Yin energy, it grew. Soon, it reached its final size, a radius of 1,000 feet.
The range continues to increase. 1,200 feet, 1,400 feet, 1,500 feet…
Within a 10 kilometer radius, the Yin energy moved as if it was being manipulated as it charged toward Wang Lin and was devoured.
As the Yin energy swirling around his chest grew, he began to feel like he was losing control. Knowing his limits, he controlled the Yin energy to attempt the first breakthrough in his Qi Sea.
The Yin energy vortex was like a knife blade, continuously piercing the Qi Sea to open it. Slowly, the Qi Sea showed signs of opening.
The signs grew stronger and stronger. If you compare this breakthrough to trying to break through a stone wall, it would be full of cracks and ready to collapse.
After an hour, the Qi Sea could no longer hold it and collapsed violently.
A vast amount of human potential erupted from the Qi Sea like a volcano. This energy quickly mixed with Yin energy, forming an extremely powerful Yin force.
At this moment, the spiritual energy in his dantian became restless. It quickly moved towards the newly formed Yin power and began to devour it.
Every time a bit of Yin power formed, Wang Lin’s spiritual energy would devour it to strengthen itself. Gradually, as Wang Lin’s spiritual energy devoured all the Yin power, his spiritual energy became stronger and stronger.
A nebula-like scene appeared in Wang Lin’s Qi Sea. Waves of blue spiritual energy spread out from the nebula.
Wang Lin felt a very strange spiritual energy in his body. His eyes lit up as he touched the rock next to him.
In an instant, there was a flash of blue light and the stone froze completely, releasing Yin energy.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and quickly kicked the frozen rock. With a series of cracking sounds, the rock shattered into many pieces.
Wang Lin examined it carefully and immediately sucked in a breath of cold air. Upon closer inspection, he discovered that the stone’s internal structure was constantly changing. It was no longer a stone, but rather an ice crystal structure.
In other words, with one touch of his spiritual power, he not only froze the rock, but completely transformed its structure into ice.
Wang Lin didn’t know that after devouring the Yin energy, his spiritual energy had undergone a major change. Even if Situ Nan were awake right now, he wouldn’t be able to tell.
In ancient cultivation times, besides the different levels of cultivation, there were also three levels of spiritual energy, namely Ji, Dao, and Shi.
These three realms are not ranked in any particular order, but progress in parallel. Once one enters one realm, one cannot move to another.
The difficulty of entering the three realms isn’t high, but it’s not easy either. Ultimately, it all comes down to luck.
In ancient times, any knowledgeable cultivator would know not to choose the Ji Realm. Although the Ji Realm’s offensive power was high, it had too many drawbacks. One of the most devastating drawbacks was that once one walked the path of Ji, one could only use Ji spiritual energy, which posed a major problem in breaking through to the Soul Formation stage from the Nascent Soul stage.
Soul formation requires one to integrate with the world and not take extreme paths.
However, even with these shortcomings, the Ji Realm also has many advantages. It can be said that people at the same cultivation level cannot withstand the Ji Realm at all.
Even if one has no chance of reaching the Soul Formation stage, after reaching the peak of the Nascent Soul stage, one can become number one among all those below the Soul Formation stage.
More importantly, with the increase in cultivation, Ji Realm cultivators do not even need magic treasures because their Ji Realm spiritual power is already the most powerful type of spiritual energy.
As for the Dao Realm, it is the dream of all cultivators. Once your spiritual energy enters the Dao Realm, entering the Soul Formation stage is incredibly easy.
Therefore, the Dao Realm was the most sought after Realm in the ancient cultivation world.
As for the Shi Realm, if the Ji Realm was death, then the Shi Realm was life. It wasn’t a realm that those below Soul Formation could comprehend, and even for Soul Formation cultivators, it was something they could only hope for.
The Three Realms of Spiritual Energy are extremely difficult to comprehend and with the destruction of the ancient cultivation world, information regarding the three realms gradually disappeared.
Cultivators today don’t care about their spiritual energy. The only thing they care about is their cultivation level.
Wang Lin didn’t know that because of all the Yin energy he was devouring, his spiritual energy was transforming into the Ji Realm.
The reason for all this is the Underworld Ascension Method. It is one of the few methods that can create the spiritual energy of the Ji Realm.
However, the Underworld Ascension Method that Situ Nan imparted to Wang Lin was unlike any other in the ancient cultivation world. Over time, some of the methods had been lost, and it was up to his successors to reconstruct the remaining information.
Regarding Wang Lin’s spiritual energy entering the door to the Ji Realm, the most important factor was the heaven-defying bead.
Wang Lin stared at his fingertips and his eyes lit up. Just then, he raised his head and jumped out of the hole. He looked and saw the blue-skinned man rapidly approaching.