The fog in the Sea of Devils was very dense and there was a hint of coldness in the fog. Not long after entering, Wang Lin's clothes were soaked by the fog and stuck to his body. It was very uncomfortable.
He then looked at Li Muwan. Her face was no longer pale and was now red. Her skin was smooth and smooth.
Her clothes were also soaked by the mist, revealing her curvaceous and graceful body. She looked even more lovely and enchanting, like she was in a painting.
Wang Lin only took one look before withdrawing his gaze. His heart wasn't affected at all. In his view, if Li Muwan didn't know how to refine the Distant Heaven Pill and was good at refining pills, he wouldn't have let her follow him.
The Sea of Devils was a giant basin. Wang Lin had been going down for a long time and still hadn't reached the bottom. However, he could clearly feel that the deeper he went, the colder the Yin energy became.
Strange creatures began to appear in the fog. Some of these creatures gave off spiritual energy that made Wang Lin's heart skip a beat. Luckily, he was very careful and didn't encounter any danger along the way.
Li Muwan was very nervous. She had heard too many rumors about the Sea of Devils. There was no logic here; strength was the only weapon. Also, there weren't many female cultivators in the Sea of Devils. Once a female cultivator was found, unless they had a powerful backer, their fate would be very miserable.
Before the upheaval in Hou Fen, there was a large amount of cultivators stationed at the border of the Sea of Devils. Many of them were Nascent Soul cultivators. Their purpose was to prevent demonic cultivators from escaping and plundering the Sea of Devils.
Luckily, most of the powerful forces in the Sea of Devils were at the center of the Sea of Devils. Most of them were small forces, so as long as they were on guard, they wouldn't be able to cause too much trouble.
Wang Lin didn't know how long he flew for, but he suddenly stopped. Li Muwan couldn't stop fast enough and almost crashed into his back. Wang Lin's eyes were cold as he looked into the fog and said:
"Get the hell out here."
Three thin and tall figures appeared in the fog. However, it was impossible to see their appearances clearly because of the fog. One of the three was a male cultivator, and one of them spoke in a sharp voice.
"How dare you!
This is the territory of my Fighting Evil Sect. If you know what's good for you, leave the female cultivator behind. Otherwise … Before he could finish speaking, Wang Lin snorted coldly. "Noisy!
Die! "The map said that there was no reason in the Sea of Devils, only the strong were respected.
With a wave of his right hand, his Ji Realm Divine Sense instantly spread out. The three opponents were only at the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment realm, so Wang Lin could kill them as he pleased.
In the blink of an eye, red lightning flashed in the eyes of the three. Their bodies trembled, and their eyes filled with confusion. Their Divine Senses were destroyed, and they died.
Wang Lin walked forward. After collecting their bags of holding, he kicked the three corpses into the fog. Then he didn't even look at them as he quickly moved forward.
Li Muwan looked at the scene before her in horror. This was the first time she had seen Wang Lin make a move. The three of them were at the middle stage of the Foundation Establishment realm like her, but they didn't even have the ability to resist and died just like that.
Her heart trembled as she looked at Wang Lin's back. She suddenly remembered half a month ago when her brother, Li Qiqing, told her about the battle at the spirit vein near the border of Xuan Wu that involved more than 1,000 people.
At the beginning of the battle, a very strange thing happened in Xuan Wu. All the Foundation Establishment cultivators mysteriously died during the battle and fell from the sky.
If it was one or two, it wouldn't be a big deal, but there were less than 200 Foundation Establishment cultivators, and almost half of them died mysteriously. When she first heard about it, she thought it was just a rumor and didn't take it seriously. However, now that she saw the three mid stage Foundation Establishment cultivators silently die, she couldn't help but think about that battle.
She was behind Wang Lin. Her voice trembled as she asked, "Senior … senior apprentice brother, which brigade were you in in the Hou Fen Union?"
Wang Lin didn't even turn his head as he coldly said, "The tenth brigade."
When the words "tenth brigade" entered Li Muwan's ears, it was like thunder. She clearly remembered that her brother told her that Hou Fen's side was the tenth brigade.
Now she was almost certain that this cold young man was the one who caused the deaths of a large number of Foundation Establishment cultivators in Xuan Wu.
Thinking about this, the last trace of resistance in her heart disappeared. She couldn't bring herself to retreat at all.
However, shortly after, she suddenly remembered a strange spell she saw in the Luo He Sect's Scripture Pavilion. She couldn't help but blurt out, "What you just used, was it the death spell?"
Wang Lin was a bit startled, but his expression didn't change at all. He didn't stop and asked, "You also know the death spell?"
After hearing Wang Lin's words, Li Muwan was even more certain that he was using the legendary death spell. Rumor has it that the death spell was an auspicious spell that was extremely difficult to learn. Once it was learned, all the user needed to do was say the word "die" and anyone they looked at would immediately die.
This spell was known as the most vicious demonic spell in the ancient times. Rumor has it that to learn this spell, one needed to combine three energies into one. The first energy was yin energy. The yin energy referred to a woman's primordial yin. The yin energy referred to the yin energy of a woman.
The second energy was death energy. It absorbed the energy of corpses and bones to form death energy. It leaned towards yin energy, but its essence was like heaven and earth.
The third energy was killing intent. After killing to a certain degree, the body would naturally produce a will. This will, after cultivation, would transform into killing intent.
After combining the three energies into one and going through a nine out of ten elimination, the survivor would be able to start mastering the death spell. Once one cultivated the death spell, they would have to endure unimaginable pain every day and go through a nine out of ten elimination every three years.
After going through several cycles like this, the death spell would be considered weak. If one continued to cultivate it, the chances of one dying would be even higher. According to calculations, if one cultivated the death spell, the chances of one becoming strong were almost zero.
Although the power of this divine ability was great, it was too vicious. Even people of the Devil Dao would rarely cultivate it.
After hearing Li Muwan's trembling voice explain the death spell, Wang Lin's expression changed and he remained silent.
His silence made Li Muwan even more afraid. Her heart couldn't stop pounding.
After walking in the Sea of Devils for a while, Wang Lin finally sank to the bottom of the sea. The fog here was even thicker and the yin energy was even thicker.
Wang Lin stared at the ground and pondered for a while. Then he took a few steps back and jumped around until he found a tall mountain at the bottom of the sea. He stood on a giant rock, slapped his bag of holding, and threw out a flying sword. He pointed at the mountain with his right hand and the flying sword immediately flew out.
The sound of metal colliding could be heard. Wang Lin frowned. The hardness of the mountain was beyond his imagination. The flying sword had little effect on it.
He let out a snort and slapped his bag of holding again. Suddenly, more than 30 flying swords flew out. His Ji Realm Divine Sense condensed on each flying sword. They immediately turned into a rain of swords that bombarded the mountain.
As a result, his progress was greatly improved. A cave quickly appeared in the middle of the mountain.
Along the way, Li Muwan was already used to Wang Lin's actions. She secretly thought that if this guy could successfully cultivate the death spell, then it wouldn't be strange for him to be able to control more than 30 flying swords.
Although she knew that controlling more than 30 flying swords was very demanding on a cultivator's divine sense, she still couldn't control them.
Time slowly passed. A large cave was dug in the middle of the mountain. There were four stone rooms inside the cave. It was a simple cave.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He took out spirit stones from his bag of holding and placed a formation around the cave.
When Li Muwan saw the formation, her eyes revealed a look of surprise. But after looking at the formation, the surprise in her eyes faded and was replaced with a faint trace of disdain. However, she quickly concealed it.
However, this trace of disdain was still noticed by Wang Lin. Although he had been setting up the formation, his divine sense had never left Li Muwan. Even on the way here, it was still the same. If Li Muwan made any strange movements, Wang Lin wouldn't have any pity for her. He would kill her without hesitation.
Wang Lin put away the spirit stones in his hand. Without turning around, he coldly said, "I plan to stay in this cave for a long time. If someone breaks the formation, I can just leave. As for you, you can only rely on yourself."
With that, he turned around and looked at Li Muwan.
Li Muwan clenched her teeth. Without another word, she floated forward and took out a small black flag from her bag of holding. After placing the flags around the cave, she was still a bit worried. So she continued to set up more formations. Finally, she reorganized the formations that Wang Lin had set up and linked them together.
After that, she hesitated for a moment. Then, she clenched her teeth and took out a large piece of crystal-blue beast bone. Using a flying sword, she cut it into several pieces. With a serious expression on her face, she carefully calculated and placed one of the pieces into position. Then, she began to calculate again.
By the time all eighteen pieces of beast bone were in position, six hours had passed. Sweat appeared on Li Muwan's forehead. She looked exhausted and said, "Including the ones you set up, there are a total of two hundred and fourteen formations. However, these are only elementary formations and can only prevent Foundation Establishment cultivators from entering. Just now, I used the crystal beast bone to set up the Nine Skeletal Abandonment Formation. Because there aren't many spirit beast bones, it can only display thirty percent of its power. However, even a Core Formation cultivator will be able to block them for at least two hours.
I only have that many crystal beast bones. If I want the formation to be even stronger, I'll need more. "
With that, she tossed out a jade slip. Wang Lin caught it and scanned it with his divine sense. It contained the method to enter the Nine Skeletal Abandonment Formation. After carefully reading it, Wang Lin crushed the jade slip, looked at Li Muwan, and pointed forward.
Li Muwan knew that he couldn't trust her, so she didn't resist. She walked into the formation. Wang Lin's eyes narrowed. He left a strand of divine sense on Li Muwan's body and followed her in.
After safely passing through the formation and entering the cave, Li Muwan took out a small flag from her bag of holding. She gently waved it, and suddenly, the formation outside the cave began to activate. A dense fog appeared. From the outside, it was impossible to see anything wrong with this place. Even if you walked in, you would only be able to see the mountain, not the cave.
Inside the cave, Wang Lin's gaze looked up and down at Li Muwan. His gaze caused Li Muwan's face to turn even paler. She took a few steps back and whispered, "Senior apprentice brother, should I refine the Distant Heaven Pill for you now?"
Wang Lin shook his head and said, "I don't dare to eat the pill you refine."
Li Muwan's eyes immediately turned red. She silently lowered her head. After a long time, she raised her head, revealing her tear-stained face. She softly said, "Senior apprentice brother saved my life. What do I need to do for you to trust me? Just tell me." At this moment, she was extremely beautiful.
Wang Lin wasn't moved by Li Muwan's beauty. His expression was still the same as before as he calmly said, "I don't want to force you, so I won't ask for too much. You only need to refine enough pills for me before I reach the Core Formation stage. Once I reach the Core Formation stage, I'll send you out of the Sea of Devils. However, during this time, I need you to hand over your soul blood to ensure that there won't be any problems when refining the pills."
Li Muwan pondered a little and firmly nodded. She touched her brow and forced out a drop of blood. Her soul entered the drop of blood and then it floated toward Wang Lin.
After Wang Lin caught it, he threw out several bags of holding and said, "All the materials are here. See what kind of pills you can refine."
Li Muwan checked with her divine sense and immediately exclaimed, "This … this is desolate wood root, there is also yellow pill grass, there is even burning gold root, sky spirit grass …" The more she looked, the more shocked she became. Most of the materials in the bags of holding were used to refine pills. Some of them were even extinct in Hou Fen. Only the disciples that returned from the foreign battleground every 100 years would bring back some.
Wang Lin rubbed his chin and threw out more than 10 bags of holding. These were all his spoils of war. All the treasures and spirit stones had been taken by him, leaving behind these materials that he didn't recognize. Now was the perfect time for Li Muwan to identify them.
After checking all of the bags of holding, Li Muwan's face lit up. Her face was now filled with excitement. She grabbed the bags of holding and asked, "Senior apprentice brother, I can use these as I please, right?"
Wang Lin nodded and said, "I only want high-grade pills. As for the process, you can do as you please."
For the first time, Li Muwan smiled at Wang Lin. She smiled sweetly and confidently said, "Senior apprentice brother, don't worry. I calculated that with these materials, I can refine around 300 Yellow Spirit Pills, 50 Poison Avoidance Pills, and other pills with different effects. Once I'm done, I'll introduce them to senior apprentice brother.
Senior Brother, among the materials you have, there is one that is the most precious. It is this Bloodsucking Vines. "As she spoke, she took out a seemingly limitless red piece of wood from a storage bag.
"This Bloodsucking Vine is one of the main ingredients for the Distant Heaven Pill. It is also the most important material. I have only seen this Bloodsucking Vine in ancient books. This is the first time I've seen the real thing. With it, I'm confident I can refine a Distant Heaven Pill. However, the effect will be a bit weaker. After all, I need to find substitutes for the other herbs."
Wang Lin's expression was calm as he said, "I won't ask about the matter of refining pills."
He muttered to himself for a bit and said, "I'm going to go out for a while. I'll be back in at least three days and at most half a month. Be careful."
With that, he was about to leave. Li Muwan hesitated for a bit and quickly said, "Senior apprentice brother, can you help me find a cauldron when you go out? The other herbs are fine since I can use the cauldron I carry with me. However, if I use a normal cauldron to refine the Distant Heaven Pill, the success rate will only be 50%. In the past, the refinement of the Distant Heaven Pill was done using the sect's Worldly Furnace … Wang Lin frowned and glanced at Li Muwan. After a moment of silence, he didn't say anything and walked out of the cave.
Li Muwan secretly sighed. She didn't want to lie to him before, but she was worried that if she told him the truth, he would leave her behind. However, now that they had reached this point and she had even handed over the soul blood, she had to tell him about the success rate of the Distant Heaven Pill. Otherwise, if something were to happen in the future, he might take his anger out on her.
After leaving the cave, Wang Lin determined the direction and looked at the continent of Zhao across the Sea of Devils. His eyes became cold as he muttered to himself, "Teng Huayuan, I'm about to reach the Core Formation stage. Once I reach the Nascent Soul stage, I'll slaughter my way back to Zhao and wash your Teng Family City in blood. You can't die early. Stay alive and wait for me to return …"
The coldness in his eyes disappeared as he used the earth escape technique and quickly moved forward.
His purpose for going out was to find the bones of spirit beasts.
According to Li Muwan, the Nine Skeleton Formation would only be able to display its full power if he added more spirit beast bones. Wang Lin knew that he was about to go into closed door cultivation to break through to the Core Formation stage. In this dangerous Sea of Devils, he needed a relatively safe cave to ensure that nothing would go wrong.
Also, the refining technique Wang Lin learned from the War God's Shrine also required the bones of spirit beasts to make a reaction furnace. With these two factors combined, he was determined to get the bones of spirit beasts.
According to the description of the Sea of Devils, there were a lot of spirit beasts in the fog. In addition, there were also the bones of dead spirit beasts scattered at the bottom of the sea.
However, most of these bones had been dug out by others, so even after walking for a long time, Wang Lin still hadn't found a single one. Adding on the fact that the fog was very thick, his vision was almost useless. He could only use his divine sense to check his surroundings.
As he was walking, Wang Lin's expression changed and he quickly took a few steps back. He saw a dim sword light come out from the fog behind him and flash by where Wang Lin was.
Wang Lin's cultivation had already reached the peak of the Foundation Establishment stage, so he was able to clearly see the cultivator in the sword light. The cultivator was about 40 years old and was at the early stage of Foundation Establishment. His face was dark purple and his breathing was short. It was clear that he had been poisoned, which caused the spiritual energy in his body to be in a mess, making it hard for him to control his flying sword.
As soon as the sword light flew past, another ray of light immediately shot over and chased after it.
Wang Lin revealed a strange expression. The person chasing the Foundation Establishment cultivator was a young cultivator at the peak of the 15th layer of Qi Condensation. His face was like jade and his eyes were long and slender. There was a hint of evil on his face.
The evil-looking young man held a piece of black beast bone in his hand. As he chased after them, he constantly blew at the beast bone. Every time he blew, a wisp of black smoke would rise from the beast bone.
The moment the smoke appeared, it immediately turned into a thin thread that quickly caught up to the Foundation Establishment cultivator in front of it and drilled into his body.
"Senior apprentice brother, hurry up and run. Junior apprentice brother really wants to see how long you can last with 16 different poisons in your body."
The evil looking young man blew on the beast bone and continued, "Senior apprentice brother, I spent a long time preparing these 16 poisons. Otherwise, with your Foundation Establishment cultivation, I wouldn't dare to attack you. Now, you won't be able to run."
The middle-aged man clenched his teeth and didn't say a word. The flying sword under his feet was crooked as he staggered forward.
The evil looking young man unhurriedly said, "Senior apprentice brother, you are already very old. Why don't you let me use the Foundation Stealing Technique to kill you?"
Wang Lin looked at the beast bone in the young man's hand with great interest. His body slightly moved and he quietly followed.
After the middle-aged man heard the young man's words, he didn't turn his head and hoarsely cursed, "Sang Muya, you murderous bastard. If it weren't for me pleading on your behalf, how could Master accept you as a disciple?
Aren't you afraid of Master finding out that you've done such a malicious thing to a fellow disciple? "
The evil looking young man laughed wildly and said, "Master?
Hehe, Senior apprentice brother, if Master didn't tacitly approve of this, how could I dare to brazenly use the bone poison to sneak attack you? "
The middle-aged man's body trembled and he spat out a mouthful of black blood. His body immediately became dispirited and he tumbled down from the flying sword.
The evil looking young man coldly snorted a few times and flew ten meters away from the middle-aged man's body. He controlled the flying sword and pierced through the middle-aged man's corpse several times. Only then did he confirm that the middle-aged man was dead. He picked up the corpse and was about to leave.
Suddenly, he stopped and stared at the black shadow standing in the thick fog in front of him. Cold sweat immediately appeared on his forehead. When he was chasing after his senior apprentice brother, he had spread out his divine sense with all his might. There was clearly no one nearby. But now, the opposite party had unexpectedly appeared in front of him. His cultivation was certainly far above his own.
He put down the corpse and hastily cupped his hands and bowed. The evil expression on his face was replaced with a simple and honest expression. He respectfully said, "Junior is Fighting Evil Sect's disciple Sang Muya. Senior, why have you blocked my path?
Junior will certainly do his utmost. "
Wang Lin slowly walked out of the dense fog and coldly swept a glance at the opposite party.
The young man's originally simple and honest expression suddenly jumped under Wang Lin's gaze. He suddenly felt as if he had been seen through by the opposite party.
His heart suddenly trembled with fear.
This kind of feeling only appeared when he faced his master, but his master was already half a step into the peak of the Core Formation stage. Could it be that this person in front of him, who looked to be about the same age as him, was actually a Pseudo Core cultivator? The young man's heart trembled and his expression became even more respectful.
"Give me your animal bone," Li Xiandao said.
Wang Lin's voice was cold without any emotion.
The more he acted like this, the more flustered Sang Muya became. He grew up in the Sea of Devils and was influenced by demonic cultivators. Although his cultivation level wasn't high, he had cultivated a pair of Devil Knowledge Eyes.
He knew that the great devils with high cultivation levels were often cold and ruthless. He had seen many demonic cultivators with this kind of coldness before. However, they were all imitations and weren't truly ruthless.
But this senior in front of him, this kind of coldness seemed to come from the soul. Especially the opposite party's double limit, it made him feel a chill from the bottom of his heart.
He quickly threw the beast bone in his hand and didn't dare to have any thoughts of resisting.
(To be continued)