The Ancient God True Body that was thousands of feet tall made Wang Lin look like a giant that could support the heavens and earth. The Ancient God Cauldron around his body flashed and he suddenly appeared before a whirlwind.
This whirlwind could not be destroyed by force. Wang Lin had learned this before.
The moment he appeared, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He roared and did not use the Cyan Light Shield. Instead, he used his body to resist the whirlwind!
"I want to see how strong this whirlwind is compared to my Ancient God True Body!"
The whirlwind moved at an astonishing speed. In an instant, it closed in on Wang Lin and wrapped around Wang Lin's body.
The close contact made Wang Lin feel as if he had been hit by a giant wave.
There was also a strong wind within the giant wave that tore at his body. It was as if it wanted to tear his body into pieces and merge with the whirlwind.
As the whirlwind landed on Wang Lin's body, it tore and merged with Wang Lin's body. There were loud bangs and Wang Lin's body was forced back three steps by the impact.
The moment he was forced back, the Ancient God Cauldron around Wang Lin's body flashed again. His body disappeared and reappeared thousands of feet away, avoiding the impact of the four whirlwinds.
Wang Lin's expression was serious. Using his body to test the power of the whirlwind allowed Wang Lin to clearly calculate how many whirlwinds his body could withstand.
"If it was a normal cultivator, they would definitely be torn into pieces by this whirlwind. Even their Origin Souls would not be able to escape!
Even with my Ancient God body, I felt pain. What is this whirlwind! "Wang Lin's eyes flashed coldly. At this moment, the whirlwind in front of him came again.
There was a flash of cyan light around Wang Lin's body. The Cyan Light Shield immediately became thousands of feet large and started to spin around him.
"With my Ancient God body and the Cyan Light Shield, I should be able to dissolve this whirlwind!" Wang Lin moved and headed straight for the whirlwind.
There were three whirlwinds in front of him that were the fastest. The instant Wang Lin neared, they crashed into the Azure Light Shield in front of Wang Lin. A rumbling sound reverberated and the Azure Light Shield immediately flashed.
The unimaginable recoil forced Wang Lin to retreat. At the same time, nine more whirlwinds came whistling. The moment Wang Lin retreated, they rushed out from the front and collided with the Cyan Light Shield again.
Surrounded by the Cyan Light Shield, Wang Lin's body retreated again. There seemed to be no end to this retreat. Under the continuous attacks of the whirlwind, he retreated again and again.
When the nine whirlwinds all dissipated, Wang Lin did not know how far he had retreated. Even though he had the Ancient God body, he was only a five-star one. At this moment, under the continuous attacks of the whirlwinds, even with the Cyan Light Shield blocking them, Wang Lin's forehead was covered in cold sweat.
The danger was not over yet. In front of him, there were still fifteen whirlwinds coming. The last fifteen whirlwinds almost formed a string and headed straight for Wang Lin.
Even if he used the Ancient God Cauldron to avoid them, the speed of the whirlwinds would not be able to separate them.
Rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble!
Earth-shattering sounds reverberated in an instant. The fifteen whirlwinds collided with the Cyan Light Shield at almost the same time. All of them dissipated and turned into a destructive power. The Cyan Light Shield was suddenly pressed down and almost stuck to Wang Lin's body.
Wang Lin's body trembled and he coughed out a mouthful of blood. However, he suppressed it and didn't cough it out. His body was like a kite with a broken string as he was thrown back.
Tens of thousands of feet away, Wang Lin's body suddenly landed and a shockwave spread out like crazy. A large amount of black sand flew into the air and covered the sky. After a long time, the black sand gradually dissipated.
There was a huge pit on the ground. Wang Lin's ancient god body had shrunk to the size of a normal person. He revealed a bitter smile as he struggled to stand up and walk out of the pit.
Looking at the black sand desert around him, Wang Lin let out a deep breath. There was still lingering fear in his eyes.
"This is the first time a 5-star ancient god body has been injured like this. I don't know what this whirlwind is, but it's shockingly powerful. If I give it another chance to split, I won't be able to resist it." Wang Lin's expression was gloomy. After his avatar fused with his original body, he could battle Nirvana Cleanser cultivators.
He originally thought that aside from being at the late stage of Nirvana Cleanser and Nirvana Shatterer, he was safe enough. His ancient god body was extremely powerful.
However, at this moment, Wang Lin felt a sense of danger. Looking at the black sand desert around him, Wang Lin felt like he had returned to the Land of the Ancient God. He had to be extremely cautious, as one mistake could lead to a fatal disaster.
"I've been too comfortable recently. The increase in my cultivation level and the fusion of my avatar and original body has made me less cautious than before …" Wang Lin pondered as he clenched his fist and revealed a cautious gaze.
This kind of gaze hadn't appeared in his eyes for a long time. After the crisis in the black sand desert, Wang Lin had regained his previous caution.
"This is Celestial Emperor Qing Lin's cave, and danger is everywhere. I can't be careless and must always be cautious!" Wang Lin took a deep breath. He didn't spread out his divine sense but carefully circled his body.
He slowly walked forward.
With his intelligence, he naturally thought that although the appearance of the grey gas was a coincidence, it was most likely caused by his divine sense spreading out.
Although the grey gas was powerful at first, Wang Lin could resist it. However, now that he had calmed down, he vaguely understood that if he spread out his divine sense again, perhaps what would appear wouldn't be the grey gas but something else.
This feeling was very mysterious. It came from Wang Lin's more than 1,000 years of cultivation. It was a sliver of divine sense that was born from his comprehension of the heavens and earth.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He slapped his bag of holding and the one-billion-soul soul flag appeared in his hand. He shook the flag and opened it up. Wang Lin's left hand reached into it and a soul fragment appeared in his hand.
The soul fragment had a fierce expression. After being refined by the one-billion-soul soul flag, it had lost its consciousness. After it appeared, it respectfully floated next to Wang Lin. Wang Lin put away the one-billion-soul soul flag and pointed to the forehead of the soul fragment. He immediately left some of his divine sense inside.
After doing this, his body flickered and he charged forward. After the time it takes an incense stick to burn, Wang Lin was very far away from the soul fragment. He took a deep breath and didn't spread out his divine sense. Instead, he used his divine sense!
The divine sense he had left on the soul fragment immediately spread out. However, just at this moment, a powerful sense of danger entered Wang Lin's mind.
Wang Lin didn't hesitate to cut off the connection.
The moment that sliver of divine sense was cut off, Wang Lin vaguely saw the wind and clouds gather where the soul fragment was. A ray of grey light descended from the sky and landed on the soul fragment. At this moment, the soul fragment was shattered!
Cold sweat beaded on Wang Lin's forehead. Thankfully, he was prepared, and the divine sense connection was cut off quickly. He didn't cause any changes. He stared at the sky, his scalp numb. Although the gray light disappeared in an instant, it gave Wang Lin the feeling that it was countless times more terrifying than the dozens of vortexes combined.
After a long moment of silence, Wang Lin turned and continued forward through the black desert. Time passed. There was no day or night here. The sky was always gray, as if it were a sandstorm.
During the month, Wang Lin traveled very, very far into the desert. During that time, he didn't see a single person, not even a single living thing.
There were no plants here, and all he could see was barren black sand. After looking at it for a long time, even his heart seemed to grow dark.
Wang Lin's expression was even more gloomy than before. This place was like a dead end, a prison. It was a place where people would gradually feel despair, a kind of despair toward life.
Although Cultivators couldn't compare to mortals, if they stayed here for too long, their hearts would be filled with darkness. It would gradually affect their Nascent Divinity, and their personality would be filled with viciousness. In fact, they would almost be demonized.
If a Devil Cultivator lived here, it would be like a holy land. Their cultivation base would definitely increase, but in the end, their Nascent Divinity would be demonized, and they would become mindless devils.
Wang Lin was silent the entire way as he slowly moved forward. Fortunately, he didn't encounter the strange gray gas during this month. However, from Wang Lin's point of view, the sense of danger hadn't disappeared. Instead, as he moved forward, the sense of danger became stronger and stronger.
There were several times when Wang Lin could clearly feel a faint fluctuation of Divine Sense pass by like the wind. However, no matter how much Wang Lin tried, he couldn't find where this Divine Sense came from.
He couldn't fly in the sky. During this month, he had taken out his soul and tried to fly again. However, when his soul rose more than 200 feet into the sky, it silently collapsed.
As his feet landed on the sand, Wang Lin's expression became even more grim. There was a faint black gas flowing on his face, but Wang Lin's eyes were clear.
"I wonder how Situ is doing … Situ's cultivation is close to the Devil Dao. If he is in this kind of environment, he will definitely gain something."
Wang Lin silently raised his right hand and grabbed at his face. Strands of black gas immediately came out of his face and entered Wang Lin's right hand.
Looking at the black gas in his hand, Wang Lin felt a trace of the scattered devil's aura from the past.
"Devilish energy …" Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he clenched his right hand.
The mass of black gas suddenly collapsed and scattered into countless pieces. In the blink of an eye, the black gas had covered more than 1,000 feet and gradually dissipated. Wang Lin suddenly stopped and stared at the dissipating black gas. His eyes gradually became spirited.
"Perhaps I can do this …" Wang Lin pondered for a moment before continuing forward.
He didn't know where he should go. In this endless black sand wilderness, everything looked the same. He couldn't tell north from south. Wang Lin could only keep moving forward and find a way out.
Time passed like this once more. In the blink of an eye, another month passed. Wang Lin, who had been trapped here for two months, was covered in dense, black gas. From afar, Wang Lin looked a bit thinner, like a devil god.
Following his footsteps, he slowly moved forward.
On this day, Wang Lin's eyes were closed. As he moved forward, his expression didn't change at all. But at this moment, a weak Divine Sense suddenly swept past from the distance. It came from Wang Lin and flew over at an extremely fast speed.
"The ninth time …" Wang Lin didn't stop as he muttered to himself.
In these two months, this was the ninth time a Divine Sense had swept past. What made Wang Lin feel pressure was that these nine Divine Senses were all different. It was clear that there were nine people.
After three breaths of time, the Divine Sense was withdrawn and passed by Wang Lin again. Wang Lin's expression was calm as if he didn't notice it and continued forward.
"Still not enough …" After the Divine Sense was withdrawn, Wang Lin looked into the distance. His eyes flashed and he muttered.
Walking in this black sand desert, especially without the cycle of day and night, it was easy to forget the existence of time. If it wasn't for the fact that Wang Lin was used to loneliness, he would have gone crazy here.
Compared to the loneliness here, whether it was decades of meditation or the 100 years he spent in the Land of the Ancient God, they were all far greater. To Wang Lin, this kind of loneliness was nothing.
As he walked, his figure gradually disappeared into the distance. The loneliness of his back seemed to be able to show the loneliness in Wang Lin's heart.
One person, one world. They silently existed, silently walked, and there was no end.
One month, one month, one month … In this black sand desert, Wang Lin walked for half a year. For an ordinary cultivator, this half a year could make them go crazy. This wasn't meditation, this wasn't breathing, this was constantly moving forward. In this desolate place, he was enduring the pressure of the entire world.
However, to Wang Lin, this was nothing … In the endless black desert, a Divine Sense swept past Wang Lin.
At this moment, Wang Lin suddenly looked up, his eyes filled with coldness.
"The 32nd strand … I have enough devil energy!"
At this moment, Wang Lin's body was surrounded by clouds. From a distance, his devil energy was monstrous, like a black flame burning in the desert.
The Divine Sense swept past and disappeared into the distance behind Wang Lin.
After several breaths of time, the 32nd strand of Divine Sense rapidly shrank. But as it neared Wang Lin, the devil flames around Wang Lin suddenly exploded out!
He had waited for half a year, accumulated for half a year, and observed for half a year!
During this time, Wang Lin had silently waited for the devil energy to naturally form in this environment. During this time, he had to be careful not to allow the devil energy to enter his Nascent Soul. But now, all of this exploded out.
The devil flames roiled and shot up into the sky. It was as if the black flames wanted to devour the heavens. In the air, it turned into a giant devil shadow that viciously swallowed the retreating Divine Sense!
As it swallowed, a portion of the Divine Sense was swallowed up by the devil flames. At this moment, Wang Lin could clearly feel an icy cold origin energy follow the devil energy into his mind.
There was still some of the Divine Sense left, but it quickly shrank back. It used some unknown method to escape from the devil flames and was about to leave.
Within the black fog, Wang Lin's eyes flashed coldly. He had waited for half a year for this moment, and everything was going according to plan.
The moment the Divine Sense escaped, Wang Lin spread out his arms and let out a roar that he had been holding back for half a year!
At this instant, all of the demonic energy around Wang Lin rushed out like a storm. Strands of demonic energy flew out from Wang Lin's body. As Wang Lin stood on the ground, a large amount of demonic energy came out from his body and gathered in the air. In the blink of an eye, the demonic energy had covered an area of several thousand feet.
And within this black fog, Wang Lin's true appearance that had been hidden for half a year was revealed as the black fog drilled out from his body!
Anyone who was familiar with Wang Lin would gasp when they saw the current Wang Lin!
At this moment, although Wang Lin's clothes were the same as before, his long hair was as black as ink and moved without any wind. His face was sunken in, and at first glance, he looked like a bag of bones!
The sockets of his eyes were sunken with black blood vessels. This made Wang Lin no longer look like a normal cultivator, but more like a demonic cultivator!
In addition, a vicious aura surrounded Wang Lin's temperament, causing his entire appearance to change!
Half a year of gathering devil energy shouldn't have caused Wang Lin to change so much, and he shouldn't have been able to gather such a large amount of devil energy. If he wanted to reach this level of devil energy, he would have to cultivate here for at least dozens of years!
The reason Wang Lin was able to do this was because he wasn't a righteous cultivator. He had cultivated for more than 1,000 years, so it could be said that he was both righteous and demonic. Once he used the Demonic Finger, he would instantly turn into a demonic cultivator!
He would use an extreme force to display a supreme spell.
As he spread his arms, Wang Lin's eyes were filled with killing intent. The devil energy above him rotated rapidly and continued to spread.
The moment the divine sense was about to escape, Wang Lin let out a roar!
With this roar, the endless devil energy suddenly collapsed. Just like the small ball of devil energy in Wang Lin's hand half a year ago, the moment it shattered, it rapidly spread.
It spread too fast, and one could only see the devil energy in the sky surging. It immediately spread for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, and the divine sense was immediately surrounded.
If this was it, it wouldn't meet Wang Lin's requirements. This was only the second step of his plan; there was still the third step!
As the devil energy spread for hundreds of thousands of kilometers, Wang Lin's right foot mercilessly stomped the ground and a deep pit appeared. Wang Lin moved like a bolt of lightning and charged forward at an unimaginable speed!
At the same time, the black blood vessels on his face moved and the devil energy in his body continued to spread out. His right hand formed a seal and pointed at the sky with the Demonic Finger!
Borrowing the power of the Demonic Finger, he controlled the devil energy in the sky to slow down the dissipation of the devil energy. As he moved forward, Wang Lin was always surrounded by the devil energy.
At this moment, Wang Lin's mind was clear. He knew that he couldn't afford to waste any time. Every second, a large amount of the devil energy around him would dissipate. If he couldn't find the person who released the divine sense before all the devil energy dissipated, then his half a year of hiding would fail!
His speed reached the fastest in his life. He turned into a meteor and charged at the divine sense that was locked onto by the divine sense.
If one looked down from the sky, they would be able to clearly see this shocking scene. A ring-shaped demonic aura enveloped a radius of hundreds of thousands of miles and was moving forward at an extremely fast speed. However, this ring-shaped demonic aura was rapidly dissipating.
Inside the devil energy, there was a black figure moving like lightning. It was impossible to see its true appearance, only fragments.
If Wang Lin wanted to leave the Black Sand Desert, the divine sense that was sweeping toward him was the key. However, here, Wang Lin couldn't use his divine sense to chase. Although he didn't know why the divine sense didn't cause any changes, Wang Lin couldn't try.
He could only endure and wait. However, he didn't have the time to wait for dozens of years. If he did, forget about helping Zhou Yi, even Situ Nan and Wang Lin wouldn't be able to cure the devil energy.
All of this happened half a year ago when he discovered that a strand of devil energy had formed in his body. After this strand of devil energy was crushed, it immediately spread out for hundreds of meters. In that instant, Wang Lin immediately felt that everything within 100 meters was in a state of emptiness.
In this emptiness, he had an epiphany. He tried to spread out his divine sense and found that there was no resistance. It immediately spread out for hundreds of meters and didn't cause any changes in the process.
This discovery immediately opened a door for him, who was at a loss.
In order to accumulate more devil energy, in order to shorten the time, Wang Lin decisively chose to use the Demonic Finger. He used it countless times a day, making the speed at which he absorbed devil energy similar to a real demonic cultivator.
This was why he had so much devilish energy. However, the price was very high. Not only did Wang Lin's appearance change greatly, but as he continued to absorb the devilish energy, he gained a devilish intent.
He shot forward at top speed, his divine sense spreading out for hundreds of thousands of kilometers. As the devil energy dissipated, the distance between them shrank.
His divine sense spread out into the ring of devilish energy and didn't cause any change. However, Wang Lin knew that if his divine sense left the ring of devilish energy and spread out a bit more, it would cause a change in the black sand desert.
Wang Lin could still vividly remember the gray light that had descended from the sky half a year ago!
He sped forward at top speed, his divine sense spreading out to lock onto the shrinking divine sense. In the space of a few breaths, the devil energy that surrounded him, despite the control of the Demonic Finger, was rapidly dissipating. By now, only less than half of it remained.
"Faster!" Wang Lin gritted his teeth and roared inwardly.
The fleeing Divine Sense suddenly stopped in place and shot up into the sky.
"It's been cut off!"
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He had predicted that his opponent would do something like this. He had cut off the divine sense in exchange for not being discovered.
The moment the divine sense was cut off, Wang Lin coughed up a mouthful of blood. A blinding red light shone as Wang Lin dove into the red light and shot forward.
Blood escape!
Blood escape was a technique that harmed the body in exchange for extreme speed. Half a year ago, Wang Lin hadn't used this technique against the whirlwind because as the whirlwind chased after him, it would continuously absorb the gray energy, increasing its speed. Blood escape could only increase the speed for a short period of time, and couldn't last long. In the end, he wouldn't be able to escape.
There was a flash of blood light and Wang Lin's speed increased. He ignored the divine sense that was cut off and charged forward. Borrowing the devilish energy that had shrunk to less than half its original size, he charged out and chased after the divine sense that was cut off!
In the distance, a giant shadow gradually appeared at the end of Wang Lin's sight!