From beginning to end, Wang Lin's gaze never stopped on the young woman. After Wang Lin left, Xu Si stared at his gradually disappearing figure. Her eyes were filled with confusion. Mai Liang had been pestering her for a long time. No matter if she hit or scolded him, no matter how she tried to hide, he would always pester her.
She and Mai Liang grew up in the same village, and their parents were good friends. Later on, they were accepted as disciples of the War God Shrine. No matter how she looked at Mai Liang, she felt he was a country bumpkin, and she hated him more and more. However, they were still engaged, and she hid this matter very well. When she tricked Mai Liang into going to the foreign battleground, she used this as an excuse. She said that as long as Mai Liang came back, she would become his dao companion.
But now, after Ma Liang returned, he turned a blind eye to her. Xu Si had an indescribable feeling about this. Coupled with the sudden trembling in her heart, the sharp contrast caused her mind to go blank for a moment.
As for Wang Lin, after flying for a long time in the unfamiliar country of Hou Fen, he arrived at an endless mountain range. According to Mai Liang's memories, this was a famous group of volcanoes in Hou Fen.
The reason why Hou Fen was named this way was because there were many large and small volcanoes in the country. If it wasn't for the fact that cultivators often monitored the seals, they would have already erupted.
In the history of Hou Fen, there had never been a large group of volcanoes that erupted. This had a lot to do with the control of cultivators' spells.
After looking around, Wang Lin turned around and flew away. He stopped outside a nearby village. Right now, it was busy farming season, and the children in the village were playing. Wang Lin stood outside the village and felt a sharp pain in his heart. After a long time, he walked in.
He found a few buckets of water in an empty farmhouse and filled them with Shimizu. Then, he turned into a ray of light and quickly left.
After returning to the group of volcanoes, he found a natural cave and immediately sealed the entrance. He used some rocks to set up layers of formations before sitting down in the lotus position.
After doing all of this, Wang Lin's face was extremely pale. He was seriously injured in the foreign battleground, and his divine sense was completely destroyed. He only used a sliver of his Ji Realm Divine Sense to escape. After leaving the transfer array, he ignored his injuries and spread out his Ji Realm Divine Sense. His goal was to cover up his injuries so he could find another place to heal.
He took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and immersed himself in his sea of knowledge.
Wang Lin's sea of consciousness was a golden sea. Most of this sea of consciousness was covered by a layer of grey fog. Only a small part of the sea of consciousness wasn't covered by the grey fog. There were black thorns that isolated the grey fog.
There was a small, green sword that was three inches long. The light was coming from the sword.
Looking carefully, one could see that there were several deep cracks on the small sword.
On the other side of the sea of knowledge, there was an empty space. A grey stone bead floated inside. No grey mist dared to approach within ten feet of the bead.
In Wang Lin's sea of knowledge, besides these two areas, the rest of the sea of knowledge was filled with mist.
Suddenly, the grey mist in the sea of knowledge began to surge. Within the golden sea of knowledge, a red lightning suddenly rushed out. The moment this lightning appeared, the mist around it immediately retreated.
Although Wang Lin's previous divine sense had collapsed, it had condensed a sliver of his Ji Realm Divine Sense. This Ji Realm Divine Sense was actually a type of divine sense. However, its quality was far superior to Wang Lin's previous divine sense.
Although Wang Lin's previous divine sense was huge, under the laws of the world, it could be said that it could not withstand a single blow. However, the Ji Realm Divine Sense was different. It could resist the laws, and in the end, it even managed to escape.
This red lightning was that sliver of Ji Realm Divine Sense.
Wherever the lightning passed, the grey mist avoided it. Even the golden sea was stirred up. In a flash, the red lightning arrived at the place where the small sword was. It suddenly rushed in and flashed on the small sword.
Suddenly, the small green sword let out a strong sword cry, and followed closely behind the lightning, rushing out.
The two long rainbows shuttled through the grey mist, creating huge waves in the golden sea. In an instant, they arrived at the stone bead. Using the same method, they brought the stone bead out of the grey mist.
Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. He formed a seal with both hands and pointed at the space between his eyebrows. Suddenly, two illusory lights emerged from his forehead. One was the stone bead, and the other was the flying sword. They quietly floated in the air.
Wang Lin didn't even look at it. He closed his eyes again. The red lightning shuttled back and forth in the sea of knowledge for a long time. Finally, after finding no abnormalities, the lightning flashed and went back into the golden sea, disappearing.
The grey mist once again covered the empty space. Finally, the entire sea of knowledge returned to normal.
In the depths of the golden sea, the red lightning quietly stopped and slowly absorbed the energy in the sea.
Wang Lin could clearly feel that the Ji Realm Divine Sense was gradually growing in the golden sea. Although this speed was extremely slow, it was a steady growth. If Wang Lin could not die, perhaps in millions of years, it would grow to the size of the original Ji Realm Divine Sense.
If that day really came, perhaps the laws of the world would be overshadowed in front of him. The Nirvana Space, he could go or stay at will.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. He looked up at the two lights in front of him. He flipped his right hand and two bags of holding appeared in his hand. The three bags of holding he obtained had all been used to resist the laws of the world. As for the materials inside, when he was making the Mysterious Tortoise Shell Destruction Formation in the foreign battleground, he divided the items in the bag into three parts. At this moment, he moved his heart and a black iron piece the size of a palm floated out from one of the bags.
This piece of metal was clearly part of a set of armor. Wang Lin pondered for a while. His biggest weakness right now was that he didn't know much about cultivation materials. Even though he had a lot of materials in his two bags of holding, he felt like he was walking into a mountain of treasures but didn't know what they were.
This iron piece was one of the few things he recognized. It was a piece of fine iron.
The reason why he recognized fine iron was because when he was at the Heng Yue Sect, he saw someone take out a piece the size of a fingernail to trade. He knew that it was an important material for refining flying swords.
He put away the bag of holding and secretly decided that after going into closed door cultivation, he would put in a lot of effort to find the jade that recorded the materials.
Wang Lin threw the iron piece into the air and pointed at the flying sword shadow. The shadow immediately flashed and rushed into the iron piece. The center of the iron piece immediately lit up with a green light that quickly spread out. Finally, with a buzzing sound, it released a ray of sword energy.
Wang Lin frowned and bitterly looked at the iron piece. He was quite depressed. He didn't know how to refine and couldn't make a sword embryo, so this was the only thing he could do.
Then with a thought, the iron piece flashed and disappeared. It appeared behind Wang Lin, but the iron piece had shrunk by a whole circle. The edges of the iron piece emitted a red light and a few drops of molten iron dripped down.
Wang Lin let out a sigh. After the iron piece cooled down, he put it into his bag of holding.
Then he looked at the stone bead shadow and felt a connection between his soul and it. Wang Lin's heart moved. He waved his right hand and the stone bead shadow immediately flew into his palm. It gradually solidified.
The pattern on the stone bead was still two leaves. Without a word, Wang Lin took out the wooden bucket he got from the farmhouse, opened the lid, and threw the bead into the water.
A moment later, Wang Lin took out the bead and gave it to Shimizu to drink. Suddenly, a wave of spiritual energy appeared in his body. Wang Lin immediately took out the other three buckets and soaked the bead in them. He stared at the stone bead to see if he could still enter the dream space.
After entering the dream space again, Wang Lin looked around at the familiar scenery. He pondered for a bit and then quickly flew forward. Not long after, he arrived at where Situ Nan's Nascent Soul was.
Situ Nan's Nascent Soul was still there, but it had shrunk to one-tenth the size of a normal person. Compared to before, it was like heaven and earth.
The Nascent Soul's body was dim, and its expression was dispirited. Its eyes were closed.
Beside the Nascent Soul were two weak balls of light, one on the left and one on the right.
Two streams of tears flowed down Wang Lin's face. He knelt before the balls of light and kowtowed a few times. Then he sat down cross-legged and took out four wooden buckets. He took a big gulp from one of them and immediately began to cultivate.
Wang Lin's body didn't have any spiritual energy, so he had to start from the Qi Condensation stage again. However, both Wang Lin and Ma Liang's bodies had experienced the Qi Condensation stage, so it was a walk in the park for them. As Wang Lin cultivated, his cultivation quickly recovered.
Time passed quickly. In the blink of an eye, one year had passed. Although it was one year, in reality, seven years had passed in the dream space.
During this one year of time, whether it was inside or outside the dream space, Wang Lin spent all of his time cultivating. He also went out to replenish his spiritual energy in Shimizu several times.
During the third year in the dream space, Wang Lin reached the 15th layer of Qi Condensation. Then, he spent another two years reaching the early stage of Foundation Establishment. After that, he finally recovered his cultivation to the mid stage of Foundation Establishment.
With his Ji Realm, Wang Lin was the natural enemy of any Foundation Establishment cultivator. Wang Lin was even confident that he could fight against early stage Core Formation cultivators. If he reached the late stage of Foundation Establishment, then Wang Lin was 70% confident that he could kill early stage Core Formation cultivators.
Similarly, if he could reach the Core Formation stage, then he would be the number one cultivator under the Nascent Soul stage in the entire Cultivation Alliance.
This was the power of the Ji Realm!
The relationship between the Ji Realm and Wang Lin's cultivation was like fish and water. Although the Ji Realm was strong, without the support of cultivation, it wouldn't be able to last. Only when one's cultivation level increased could the Ji Realm be nourished and grow. Only then would it have the power to last.
The stronger one's cultivation level is, the more power the Ji Realm can display.
At this moment, after seven years of cultivation, Wang Lin had completely fused with Mai Liang's body, so there was no more discomfort. However, the coldness from his body had become even stronger. He was like an iceberg that wouldn't melt for tens of thousands of years; no one could melt him.
(To be continued)