The Primal Orifice, Sea of Qi, and Dan Tian each had a Cold Dan. To combine the three Cold Dans into one was to break the balance of the three Meridians. This would cause the three Cold Dans to sink and merge with the Sea of Qi's Cold Dan. This was the first step of merging.
Once this step was achieved, the next step would be to sink to the Dan Tian and merge with the last Cold Dan. Once the three Cold Dans become one, there was a certain chance that one could break through to the completion level and form a real Golden Dan.
Wang Lin quietly sat in the stone tunnel. This small space was filled with dense Yin energy. His eyes were closed and his consciousness returned to his body. His mind was focused on the Primal Orifice.
The first thing he needed to do was to break the Primal Orifice and cause the Cold Dan to sink.
The difficulty of combining the three Cold Dans into one was very high. This was something Wang Lin only knew a little about before. But now, he deeply felt the difficulty. Using the word "very" to describe it would be an understatement. In reality, the difficulty was unimaginably high.
Just to break the Primal Orifice alone, Wang Lin had been trying to do it for a month. In this month, he was constantly trying to break the Primal Orifice. There was an invisible barrier around the Primal Orifice. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break it.
The requirement to practice the Underworld Ascension Method was to break the Primal Orifice, Sea of Qi, and Dan Tian three times in order to form the Cold Dan. The difficulty increased with each time.
The first time could be said to be difficult. The second time was very difficult. As for the third time, it was extremely difficult. What Wang Lin was trying to do, in reality, was equivalent to breaking the Primal Orifice for the fourth time.
The difficulty was not hard to imagine.
After many attempts, Wang Lin changed his strategy. He no longer tried to break the barrier. Instead, he slowly wore it down. Slowly, the invisible barrier thinned out as time went by.
However, the pain caused by the friction of the spiritual energy in his body was not something a normal person could imagine. Even words couldn't describe it. Every time the spiritual energy rubbed against each other, Wang Lin's body would violently tremble. Large beads of sweat would fall from his forehead like rain. His clothes hadn't dried since he sat down.
If one didn't have great perseverance, it would be impossible to fuse three cores into one. However, what Wang Lin didn't lack was perseverance. Back when he participated in the Heng Yue Sect's test, his perseverance was shocking. He left two bloody marks on the Heng Yue Sect's stone steps.
If it wasn't for his lack of talent, with his perseverance at the time, he would definitely have been favored by the Heng Yue Sect. Unfortunately, all of this had disappeared with the destruction of the Heng Yue Sect.
Wang Lin's perseverance was amazing. He endured unimaginable pain, and after three months of grinding, his Ancestral Acupuncture Point finally broke.
Wang Lin's perseverance was amazing. He endured unimaginable pain. Finally, after three months of rubbing, the Ancestral Meridian was destroyed.
The fist-sized cold core slowly sank from the Ancestral Meridian. As it sank, a thin thread extended from it into Wang Lin's body.
Every time the cold core sank, the threads would increase. Finally, the cold core landed outside of the Qi Sea Meridian, only one meridian away from the second cold core.
Another three months passed. The Qi Sea Meridian finally disappeared with a series of popping sounds. At the same time, the two cold cores violently collided. Wang Lin felt a "boom" in his body. A terrifying force immediately erupted from the point of impact.
Wang Lin's face immediately became pale. His throat moved a few times before he coughed out a mouthful of blood. The moment the blood appeared, it immediately turned into frost. It hung on the walls of the cave like red ice crystals.
After the blood mist was finished, Wang Lin's body flickered and eight low quality spirit stones flew out of his bag of holding. The eight spirit stones collided with each other and turned into spirit powder. They followed a certain path and landed on his body, forming a strange symbol.
The symbol flickered and then disappeared. At the same time, a black flying sword flew out of the bag of holding. It circled around Wang Lin once and then quietly floated in the air. The devil's shadow appeared on the flying sword.
The devil first looked at Wang Lin and revealed a hesitant and struggling expression. But soon, the divine sense that Wang Lin had hidden in the devil's body activated. The devil didn't have the slightest thought of attacking him and began to guard the surroundings.
After Wang Lin finished doing all of this, his head tilted and he fell to the ground. He only had time to set up a defensive formation before he fainted.
Speaking of formations, Wang Lin had made a lot of instantaneous and simple formations in case of an emergency.
The devil paced around while secretly looking at the fallen Wang Lin. He struggled in his heart and thought, "Should I fight him to the death?
Hmm … He shouldn't be faking it, right … This guy is too cunning … Ai, should I fight him to the death?
But if I don't fight him, then the consequences … "The devil couldn't help but shiver and quickly threw this thought to the back of his head.
A day later, the thought that was thrown to the back of his head slowly returned. His eyes shone as he looked at Wang Lin. He struggled in his heart once more, "Fight him to the death?
This is the best chance. If I miss it, I won't have another chance in the future … No, this Wang Lin is so cunning. How could he not be wary of me? He fainted and let me out. That doesn't make sense. "
The devil shook his head viciously and stared at Wang Lin. He continued to think, "I won't fall for it. You can continue to act."
The thought of fighting to the death was tossed to the back of his head once more.
Another day passed and the devil looked at Wang Lin. His heart was tempted once more. He hollered and thought to himself, "I'm going to go all out.
If I die, then so be it. This fellow doesn't look like he's faking it. I'm going to go all out, go all out, go all out! "
His eyes turned red and he pounced towards Wang Lin. The defensive formation was useless against him. The demon passed right through and pounced onto Wang Lin's body.
But then, the demon screamed again and again. His body emitted green smoke, and there were faint traces of him dissipating. He quickly retreated while howling, "I knew this guy was cunning. How could he not be worried about my backlash and let me out so easily? Damn it, when did he leave his Divine Sense in my body? I … How am I going to live in the future …" The demon beat his chest and stamped his feet, howling incessantly.
After going through all of this, the demon squatted in the corner and stared at the wall opposite him. His mind was filled with rage and sadness.
On the third day, Wang Lin awakened. He sat up and wryly smiled. He knew that he had underestimated the difficulty of fusing the three cores into one. The destructive cold energy created by the fusion of the two cold cores was the key to the fusion.
This cold energy couldn't be allowed to leave his body, otherwise, the merger would fail.
But if he didn't, his body wouldn't be able to take it.
Wang Lin's expression was dark and he didn't say a word.
The root cause was that his body couldn't take the cold energy. But Wang Lin didn't understand. How did the seniors who cultivated the Yellow Springs Ascension Method merge the three cores into one?
Just Situ Nan, who also cultivated the Yellow Springs Ascension Method, how did he succeed?
Wang Lin couldn't figure it out. Situ Nan had never mentioned this before.
Wang Lin muttered to himself, "How can I make my body withstand that cold energy?" After a long time, he let out a sigh and looked at the devil in the corner.
After Wang Lin woke up, the demon had been carefully sneaking glances at him. When he saw Wang Lin's gaze, his body shook and he quickly said, "I've been protecting you. I didn't relax at all."
Wang Lin reached out and grabbed the demon and threw him into the flying sword. He jumped out of the tunnel and left the stone room.
Outside of Li Muwan's room, Wang Lin looked inside. Li Muwan was half lying on the stone table next to the cauldron. Her breathing was even and she was sleeping soundly.
Her silky hair was casually placed on her head, and a few strands fell around her ears. Her face was slightly red, like she didn't have any makeup on, but her complexion was like the morning sun reflecting the snow.
She wore a purple dress that made her look like a beauty from a painting. Her skin was as white as snow and made people's hearts beat faster.
At this moment, the cauldron beside her emitted white gas. This scene was like a celestial beauty, like a painting.
In addition, Li Muwan was carefully dressed up in this stone room. The surrounding walls were covered with some green vines that she had obtained from who knows where. That kind of picturesque feeling was even stronger.
A faint medicinal fragrance wafted over. Wang Lin took a deep breath and his mind immediately became clearer.
After looking for a long time, he slowly withdrew his gaze and turned to look at the next stone room. Half of the stone room was planted with a large amount of medicinal herbs and the other half was filled with non-alchemy materials. Among these materials was the half skull of a flood dragon.
The flood dragon's skeleton was too long, and the skull was especially large. It would be a waste to use it all to arrange the Nine Corpse Skeleton Formation. Thus, Wang Lin had asked Li Muwan to keep some of this skull.
After giving this order, he began to fuse the three cores into one.
Looking at the small half of the skull, Wang Lin began to ponder. This skull was purple in color and didn't look like bone. Instead, it looked like some kind of crystal. It must have been formed from a special structure within the flood dragon's body.
As Wang Lin was observing it, his mind suddenly moved. He turned around and saw Li Muwan yawning sleepily. She walked out of the stone room and looked at Wang Lin with surprise. Her sleepiness immediately disappeared.
During these days, Li Muwan's state of mind was slowly changing. She often began to let her imagination run wild, afraid that Wang Lin would turn on her. After all, people who cultivated the Death Curse Art were often good at harvesting their Primordial Yin.
However, later, she found out that Wang Lin was in closed door cultivation almost every day. Before, Li Muwan always thought that her brother, Li Qiqing, was extremely diligent in cultivation, but after seeing Wang Lin, the word "diligent" immediately shifted to him.
In her view, Wang Lin was already at the peak of Foundation Establishment, a pseudo Core Formation stage. Just one more step and he would be at the Core Formation stage. However, how could the Core Formation stage be so easy to reach? From what Li Muwan knew, the fastest cultivator to reach the Core Formation stage in Hou Fen in thousands of years was 17 years old. However, it took him 30 years to reach the Core Formation stage.
This person was the ancestor of Hou Fen. He was the first Nascent Soul cultivator in Hou Fen. He raised Hou Fen from a second rank to a third rank.
However, looking at Wang Lin's appearance, he was at most 20 years old.
It was impossible for him to reach the Core Formation stage in a short period of time.
Back then, Wang Lin told her that after he reached the Core Formation stage, he would send her away. She bitterly smiled in her heart and sighed. If she waited for him to reach the Core Formation stage, it would take him hundreds of years.
In her heart, she began to mock Wang Lin. If he wanted her to stay, he could have just said it. There was no need to play tricks.
Li Muwan hesitated a bit. She looked into Wang Lin's eyes and softly asked, "You … You've reached a bottleneck in your cultivation?"
Her soul blood was in his hands. If he made any excessive demands, she didn't know what to do. She had been thinking about this problem for a long time.
Today, when she saw him frown, she couldn't help but think about how to cultivate the death spell. He needed to absorb three types of energy, or else his cultivation would stagnate and easily reach a bottleneck.
She calculated in her heart. Ever since he came back, he had been in closed door cultivation for several months. During these months, he hadn't touched a woman or killed anyone. It was very likely that he had reached a bottleneck.
Wang Lin didn't know what Li Muwan was thinking. He glanced at her and nodded.
Li Muwan's heart skipped a beat. She took a few steps back, and her face turned pale again. She struggled for a bit, but in the end, she secretly clenched her teeth and bitterly smiled. "You … I only promised to refine pills for you. If … I … I won't comply even if I die." Her voice was sobbing, filled with resentment and admiration.
Wang Lin glanced at Li Muwan in surprise. He turned to look at the skull and calmly asked, "Why is this flood dragon's skull this color?"
"The flood dragon's body is filled with poison, so it's not strange for the skull to turn purple." She pursed her red lips and said in a low voice. "Its body is filled with poison?" Wang Lin was startled and carefully examined the skull.
"When a flood dragon is alive, its body is filled with poison. Once it dies, the poison can change its body and turn it into a supreme treasure. The ancient books say that flood dragons are born with poison, and when they die, their bodies become treasures.
The most poisonous part of a flood dragon is its bone marrow, but when it dies, its most precious part is also its bone marrow. "Li Muwan's voice became colder and colder, and her expression gradually became calm.
Wang Lin stared at the flood dragon's skull without saying a word. His face was cloudy, and he was deep in thought. He muttered to himself, "Its body is filled with poison … this flood dragon's body is filled with poison, so why isn't it affected …" A light flashed in his mind. This light came and went quickly. Wang Lin had just grasped a clue, but he was immediately confused.
Li Muwan coldly glanced at Wang Lin. Seeing his eyebrows furrowed even tighter and tighter, she couldn't help but say, "This flood dragon's body was filled with poison when it was alive. Its flesh, blood, bones, internal organs, and even its saliva are filled with poison. Naturally, it won't be affected …"
An idea flashed through Wang Lin's mind like lightning. This idea became clearer and clearer, and his eyes became brighter and brighter. His eyebrows loosened, and finally, he, who hadn't laughed for a long time, suddenly laughed out loud. He grabbed the dragon's skull and put it into his bag of holding.
"Since my body can't handle the cold energy, then I will turn my body completely into cold energy. That way, I will be able to handle it." Wang Lin took a deep breath, turned around, and walked toward Li Muwan.
Li Muwan's face became paler and paler. She retreated to the wall, and her body trembled. She let out a bitter smile and was about to break her own heart when Wang Lin suddenly said, "The day I form my core, it will be the day I send you back to Luo He Gate!"
Then, without looking back, he turned around and walked out of the cave. His body jumped out of the formation, and in the blink of an eye, he disappeared.
Li Muwan was completely stunned. Her mind was a mess, and all kinds of thoughts flooded her mind. In the end, she sat down on the ground along the wall.
Wang Lin fully activated the earth escape technique, and his target was the Corpse Valley.
Li Muwan's words just now had cleared the clouds for him. This time, he was 100% confident he could fuse the three cores.
His speed was extremely fast. Three days later, he arrived outside the Corpse Valley. He flew in as if he was familiar with the place. He flew all the way from the first valley to the thirteenth valley. Outside the thirteenth valley, he took a deep breath and stepped in.
Inside the fourteenth valley, there was a layer of blue frost on the ground. When Wang Lin stepped on it, strands of cold energy came from his feet and drilled into his body.
Wang Lin hesitated a little, then he suddenly stomped on the ground with his right foot. Under the effect of the earth escape technique, his body sank down bit by bit.
As he sank down, the Yin energy became even more dense. After he sank down about 100 feet, Wang Lin had to stop. His body was already frozen. This large amount of Earth grade Yin energy made it so that he could only go this far. If he went any deeper, not only his body, but even his soul and divine sense would be frozen into pieces.
As for how deep the fourteenth valley was and what mysteries there were at the bottom, Wang Lin didn't have time to guess. He tried to keep his heart rate as he slowly sat down in the lotus position.
Wang Lin said in his heart, "If the three cores don't fuse, I won't leave the valley!" He closed his eyes.
Spring passed and autumn came. Time flew by and three years passed in the blink of an eye.
The rank 4 cultivation country sent people to deal with the fire beasts disaster in Hou Fen. In the end, three Soul Formation cultivators used nine days to completely subdue all of the fire beasts. They refined all of the fire beasts into a mid quality spirit level fire beast and brought it back to the rank 4 cultivation country.
The ranks of spirit beasts were divided into four ranks: Abnormal, Spirit, Desolate, and Celestial. Each rank was divided into high, mid, and low quality.
The fire spirit that was absorbed by the heaven defying bead was half a step into the Desolate grade. If it was ranked according to rank, it would be at the peak of high quality spirit beast.
Its descendants were all low quality spirit beasts.
The difference between the high, mid, and low quality spirit beasts was obvious.
If it wasn't for the fact that the fire spirit was weak, it wouldn't have been so easily devoured.
It has to be said that a peak high quality spirit beast is equivalent to a peak late stage Soul Formation cultivator.
Mid and low quality spirit beasts are equivalent to peak late stage Nascent Soul and peak late stage Core Formation cultivators.
The dragon that died was a mid quality spirit beast.
Although the fire beasts disaster was over, Hou Fen really couldn't afford to clean up the hot spiritual energy in their country. They could only wait for time to slowly neutralize the hot spiritual energy.
The battle with Xuan Wu continued, but battles involving more than 100 people rarely happened. Most of the battles were between a few dozen people.
Gradually, the Hou Fen Union stabilized themselves. After conquering about a third of the country, they no longer had the energy to move forward, so they stabilized.
As for the battle between the cultivators of the two countries, it had also evolved from a life and death battle to a training ground for the disciples of the two countries to gain combat experience. This was quite a helpless irony for the disciples of both sides who had died on the battlefield in the previous development.
As for Wang Lin, after he sank 1,000 feet into the 14th valley, he calmed down like an old monk. His heartbeat slowly slowed down and endless Yin energy entered every part of his body and entered his flesh and blood.
Slowly, the extreme Yin Qi accumulated more and more. Half a year later, the flesh and blood of his limbs had already turned blue, showing signs of crystallization.
During this half a year, his heart beat a total of 9837543 times.
His body sank to 1,800 feet.
After another half a year, his internal organs were all invaded by the extreme Yin Qi. The flesh and blood of his limbs began to crystallize. His hands and feet had even completely turned into blue crystals. It was as if they would shatter into pieces with just a slight knock.
During this half a year, his heartbeat dropped to 487659 times.
His body sank to a depth of 730 feet.
Another half a year later, the crystals had spread to his limbs. His arms and legs had all turned into blue crystals. Even his bones could be seen clearly.
His torso also began to show signs of crystallization.
His heart beat 3865 times in half a year.
His body sank to 1,460 feet.
Another half a year later, aside from his head, his entire body had turned into blue crystals. His heart was frozen and had stopped beating.
His current position was 3,672 feet above the ground.
Two years passed. In the middle of the third year, Wang Lin's head slowly turned into blue crystals.
At this moment, Wang Lin's breath of life was completely gone. He had truly reached the Yellow Spring Ascension Technique's requirement — the Yellow Spring Realm.
His body sank to a depth of seven thousand nine hundred and seventy-nine zhang and appeared in a dark blue space. He was surrounded by countless giant skeletons of spirit beasts. For some reason, even though these skeletons were in the Land of Extreme Negative Energy, their bodies still disappeared, leaving behind a dense sea of skeletons.
In the sea of bones, without exception, the color of each corpse was blue.
Wang Lin sat quietly in the sea of bones for half a year. During this half a year, he used one month to recover his heartbeat, two months to recover his divine sense, and three months to sense the three cold cores.
After that, the Ancestral Orifice Cold Core and the Sea of Qi Blocking Core slowly collided. The destructive cold energy appeared again. However, compared to the extreme Yin energy that filled Wang Lin's body, this cold energy was slightly insignificant.
The two cold cores easily fused together. They were inseparable and gradually condensed into one.
Then, the fused cold cores continued to sink and arrived at the dantian meridian. The invisible barrier around the meridian only lasted for the time it takes for half an incense stick to burn before it collapsed layer by layer.
The cold cores sank and collided with the cold cores in the dantian. The cold energy that was ten times stronger than before immediately appeared. This cold energy was extremely dense, but it was still a little weaker than the extreme Yin energy in Wang Lin's body. Slowly, the three cold cores finished fusing and fused together.
However, its color was not golden. Instead, it was a deathly gray.
Wang Lin didn't know that the Yellow Spring Ascension Technique he was cultivating was slightly different because of the heaven defying bead and the fact that he had reached the Extreme Realm. The difficulty he experienced could be said to be the highest.
The reason why the Art of Underworld Ascension was known as the fastest way to form one's core was because it took a shortcut. First, it fused the cold core to form the core embryo. Then, it used the spiritual energy to break through to the golden core and enter the core formation stage.
Right now, he had already completed more than half of it. All that was left was the final burst of spiritual energy. However, reaching the Core Formation stage was not that easy. This final burst was not in the bag. There was a certain chance of failure.
If he failed, the embryo would immediately shatter, and he would have to start all over again.
Recently, his body had not been in good shape. After sitting for a long time, his lower back had been hurting. Sometimes, he had to support himself against the wall for a long time before he could move. He had thought that it was an old problem and would be fine after a few days of rest. However, when he went to the hospital yesterday, after a C7 scan, the doctor said that it was a protrusion of the lumbar disc, which was a L5 S1 disc.
Alas, I'm only 30.
This has nothing to do with writing a book. It's the root of my illness in the past. However, now that I'm writing a book every day, I sit for seven to eight hours. It's really hard for me. I really can't write 9000 words a day.
I can only promise that I will write 6000 words a day, not less. If the treatment in Material I is effective, I will write more. I definitely will.
I didn't expect this book to stay in the top ten of the new books. Even if it got in, I thought that it would drop in the end. Especially now that the next three books are only 30 votes away from catching up. At first, I didn't want to give up.
The subscription for this book was not bad. It was dozens of times more than my monthly votes. However, after asking for votes for half a month, there was little effect. My heart had also calmed down. If it dropped, then so be it. It must be fate that I have no chance of being in the top ten of the Renegade Immortal Realm. Since this is fate, I accept it. I can change Wang Lin's fate, but I can't change my own fate. After all, I'm still a mortal.
(To be continued)