The wandering soul struggled all the way toward the teleportation array. Wang Lin calmed his mind, his eyes flashing as he watched.
When the dozens of people in the teleportation array saw the wandering soul rushing toward them, they immediately retreated. They took out their magic treasures and nervously watched the wandering soul's every move.
As the wandering soul got closer and closer, the people inside the array became more and more nervous. Just at that moment, the wandering soul touched the light screen outside the teleportation array.
Wang Lin's expression was the same as usual, but he sighed in his heart. The moment the wandering soul touched the light screen, it turned into smoke and disappeared.
The people inside the array immediately cheered. The nervous expressions on their faces eased a lot. They were even more certain that this teleportation array could protect them.
"Newborn soul devourers are useless. That teleportation array is the entrance to the world of the living. Any soul that touches it will be killed by the laws of the world."
When Wang Lin heard this, he had a noncommittal expression. He stared at the teleportation array and pondered. After a long time, his eyes flashed and he pointed at the surroundings. Suddenly, more than ten wandering souls struggled and floated toward him.
Wang Lin sneered in his heart. He pointed at the teleportation array and the ten wandering souls immediately rushed forward. The difference in levels made it impossible for them to resist. One by one, they dissipated outside the array.
Wang Lin's expression was serious. He noticed something. The moment the wandering souls touched the light screen, a black thread suddenly appeared and drilled into their bodies. This was the cause of their death.
As for how the black thread appeared, it was too fast. Wang Lin could only see a blur and couldn't see it clearly. A hint of doubt flashed across his face.
Without a word, he spread out his divine sense and surrounded more than a thousand wandering souls. He pointed at the teleportation array and the wandering souls immediately rushed toward it.
Cries of alarm could be heard from within the teleportation formation. The cultivators' faces were pale as a sheet. If one or two wandering souls could be said to have made them afraid, then ten or so souls could make them panic. But now, with more than a thousand wandering souls rushing towards them, the word 'afraid' could no longer be used to describe their feelings. To be more accurate, it was fear!
Some people even closed their eyes in despair. But most people placed their last hope on the light screen. At the same time, they were prepared to kill themselves if the light screen couldn't stop so many wandering souls. Even if they died, they couldn't be devoured by the wandering souls.
This was the consensus of most cultivators.
The moment the thousand wandering souls rushed toward the light screen, they all screamed and dissipated. It was as if they had been blown away by a gust of wind.
Wang Lin suddenly stood up. He saw that the black threads appeared randomly from all directions. No matter where the wandering souls rushed toward the light screen, the black threads would appear around them.
The black silk was obviously closely related to the Precepts that his neighbor had mentioned.
Wang Lin's eyes turned cold. He spread out his divine sense again. This time, the number of wandering souls exceeded 2000. Under his control, these 2000 wandering souls started a suicidal attack.
At that moment, the cultivators in the teleportation array had just recovered from their fear, but they started to panic again. It wasn't that they didn't have confidence in the light screen, but what they had seen and heard along the way had scared them out of their wits.
It was like being surrounded by a pack of ferocious wolves. Even though there was a fire around them, they were still afraid.
The moment the two wandering souls rushed toward the light screen, Wang Lin pointed with his right hand. The mutated wandering soul that had been following behind him had a pleading look on its face. It didn't dare to move forward.
Wang Lin stared at the wandering soul. Although wandering souls had a certain level of intelligence, this was the first time he had seen one that could transmit pleading looks. Staring at the wandering soul, Wang Lin's face gradually turned cold.
The wandering soul whimpered. It couldn't withstand the pressure from Wang Lin's divine sense and immediately rushed out. As soon as it rushed out, it was different from the other wandering souls. Along the way, all the wandering souls made way for it. Although it wasn't as exaggerated as when they saw Wang Lin, it was obvious that they were afraid of one of their kind.
At that moment, the two wandering souls had already hit the light screen. They were all penetrated by the black threads that suddenly appeared. One by one, they quickly dissipated.
At that moment, the mutated wandering soul suddenly rushed out.
Wang Lin's pupils shrank and a look of joy appeared on his face. He saw that half of the mutated wandering soul's body had already entered the light screen. At that moment, a black thread suddenly appeared and penetrated its body.
The mutated wandering soul revealed a painful expression, but it still rushed in. It quickly pounced on an earth cultivator. That cultivator immediately screamed and his body quickly turned into a dried corpse.
At that moment, more than ten black threads suddenly appeared around the dried corpse and drilled into it like lightning. The mutated wandering soul immediately rushed out with an extremely painful expression. It didn't go far before it turned into ashes and disappeared.
The expressions of the cultivators in the teleportation formation all changed. They looked at the dried corpse in silence. Some of the female cultivators even started crying.
Yang Xiong secretly sighed and stepped forward to kick the dried corpse out of the teleportation formation.
Wang Lin's brows furrowed. Then, he decisively pulled out a trace of his divine sense and carefully probed forward. The moment it touched the light screen outside the teleportation formation, the black thread appeared and drilled in like lightning.
Wang Lin's divine sense immediately retreated. The black thread drilled in and immediately changed direction, chasing after his divine sense.
Wang Lin gritted his teeth. Not only did his divine sense not dodge, but it also went up to meet it. He wanted to see how powerful this black thread was. If it was before, Wang Lin definitely wouldn't have tried it so easily. But since the mutated wandering soul could resist it, it shouldn't be too dangerous.
The black thread immediately drilled into Wang Lin's divine sense. Suddenly, a destructive energy exploded from his divine sense and actually rushed towards Wang Lin's body.
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. His powerful divine sense immediately rushed forward and immediately surrounded the destructive energy. Then, he calmly studied it.
After a long time, Wang Lin secretly sighed. With a move of his divine sense, the energy was crushed and dissipated. Although he couldn't see through the structure of this energy, it was obvious that this black thread was extremely harmful to the soul. It was as if it was specially created to destroy souls.
Wang Lin thought that if this black thread exceeded a certain amount, even he wouldn't be able to withstand it.
Wang Lin closed his eyes. After pondering for a while, he suddenly opened them. He flipped his right hand and took out three storage bags. His divine sense rummaged through them. In the end, besides Ma Liang's teleportation jade talisman, he also took out a few mid-quality spirit stones.
Xu Hao and Ge Yang were also unlucky. After killing Ma Liang, they encountered a large number of wandering souls. Although they escaped at the time, they didn't know what happened in the end. Wherever they went, as long as the wandering souls saw the two of them, they would immediately pounce on them. Even the wandering souls that were chasing other cultivators would immediately give up on chasing others and focus on the two of them. Some even spat out the souls that they had just devoured and desperately pounced on the two of them.
Under such special care, the two of them couldn't last long before they were devoured by the wandering soul fragrance. Therefore, even though they obtained Ma Liang's storage bag, they didn't have time to carefully check it. This ensured that the storage bag was intact.
After going through the three storage bags, Wang Lin was a little surprised. There were a lot of things inside. Whether it was spirit stones, magic treasures, or materials, it could be said that there was a complete variety.
It has to be said that this was Xu Hao's and Ge Yang's 50 years worth of stock.
Just the mid-quality spirit stones alone, the two of them had about 2,000 in their storage bags. Wang Lin held the spirit stones. He had spent a lot of effort in the spatial crack to study the basic formation manual. He remembered that there was a formation called the Mysterious Turtle Shell Destruction Formation. This formation didn't have any offensive properties, but its defensive power was quite good. In addition, there were a few basic formations that could move with the formation user.
This kind of formation that could play a defensive role required a lot of spirit stones. When Wang Lin was studying it, he had thought that if he had enough spirit stones, he would have to set up more of this formation.
He calculated the time it would take for the teleportation array to open. He calmly picked up a spirit stone, crushed it, and quickly drew a symbol in the air.
Every stroke, every drawing, Wang Lin poured all his energy into it. The moment the symbol was completed, he immediately sent a trace of divine sense into it.
The symbol flashed slightly and floated in the air.
Then he crushed another spirit stone and continued to draw.
A mid-quality spirit stone could be used to draw a symbol. Before long, Wang Lin had used nearly 70 mid-quality spirit stones.
Some of them were abandoned due to failure. Wang Lin was already familiar with the theoretical research, but when it came to the actual arrangement, his technique was inevitably a bit rusty.
Looking at the 49 floating symbols in front of him, Wang Lin couldn't help but sigh. This formation was really too expensive.
Wang Lin didn't have many mid-quality spirit stones on him before. If it was before, even if he mastered the formation, he wouldn't have the capital to arrange it.
Wang Lin took out another spirit stone and began to make the core of the formation. With a point of his right hand, the spirit stone floated up and the 49 symbols were imprinted on it. Every time a symbol was imprinted, the spirit stone would emit a light.
When all 49 symbols were imprinted, the spirit stone had become crystal clear. Wang Lin reached out and the spirit stone immediately flew into his hand. Wang Lin pressed it against his forehead and an invisible ripple appeared outside his body. If one didn't look carefully, they wouldn't be able to see a trace of it.
Shortly after, Wang Lin continued to make the formation. His technique became more and more proficient, and the number of failures decreased. He used nearly 60 spirit stones to finish the second formation.
Time slowly passed. In the blink of an eye, the time for the teleportation array to open was approaching.
The cultivators inside the teleportation array were all very nervous. Every day felt like a year. They couldn't wait for the teleportation array to open so they could leave this place that made their hearts tremble.
Furthermore, during this period of time, the collapse of the foreign battleground had intensified. More and more spatial cracks had appeared outside the teleportation formation, and they were growing larger and larger. Large swathes of space had already collapsed.
At the moment the transfer array opened, Wang Lin slapped the last restriction on his forehead and stood up with bright eyes.
[This book is provided by Qidian, author is Er Gen]