Of the four great sects in the Hou Fen Union, only the War God Shrine, the Luo He Sect, and the Evil Demon Sect remained on the main peak. As for the Shiyin Sect, they only stayed for a short period of time. After the rank 4 cultivation country dealt with the fire beasts, they immediately left and returned to Hou Fen.
Many people didn't understand this. Although the fire beasts in Hou Fen were destroyed, the spiritual energy there was still very violent. It was impossible to absorb it, so it became a dead end for cultivators.
The Shiyin didn't give any explanation for this. One night, the entire sect left.
In the eyes of the other three great sects, the Shiyin Sect was very mysterious. Although there weren't many Nascent Soul cultivators in the sect, every time the Nascent Soul cultivators of the other sects met, they could feel that the Nascent Soul cultivators of the Shiyin Sect contained a terrifying power.
That was why the three great sects didn't stop the Shiyin Sect's actions.
In the western part of Hou Fen, there was a giant cave under a series of volcanoes. The caves were connected to each other, forming a giant underground world.
Compared to the Shiyin Sect in Zhao, the structure was very similar, but the size was a bit larger.
The current sect master of the Shiyin Sect, Zhao Chuanliang, was kneeling on one knee in a stone room. Before him floated an irregular crystal made of countless diamonds.
At this time, Zhao Chuanliang's attitude was respectful, and there was even a hint of fear on his face. He said in a low voice, "Exalted Sect, I will definitely investigate this matter thoroughly. Exalted Sect, please give me a few more days. I will definitely find the reason why 4876 is missing."
"I'll give you a few days, but who will give me a few days?
"4876 is a disciple of the Tian Gang Sect in the rank 4 cultivation country of Tian Gang. My branch is also in the Tian Gang Sect. Now that they are here for him, according to my calculations, 4876 should have already completed his possession. What do you want me to hand him over?" A ferocious face appeared from the crystal and a roar came from its mouth.
Zhao Chuanliang secretly complained. He revealed a look of fear and quickly said, "Sect Master, I've found some clues and found where 4876 went missing. According to the analysis, a disciple of the War God Shrine named Ma Liang is related to this matter. I've already sent people to investigate and received news that he is currently in Xuan Wu. As long as you give me 10 days, I'll definitely find the truth."
The expression of the face inside the crystal softened a bit. After looking at Zhao Chuanliang, it sighed and said, "Chuanliang, for the sake of my current body, I'll give you ten days. If there are no results after ten days, then don't blame me for reporting this matter to the fifth rank branch. At that time, with the fifth rank branch's methods, they will definitely take away your chance to choose after your body was taken."
With that, the face inside the crystal slowly disappeared.
Zhao Chuanliang suddenly collapsed to the ground and bitterly smiled. "Since 4876 is someone from Tian Gang, wouldn't it have been better to just possess him there? Why did they throw him here? Ah!"
In truth, he understood that if a cultivator from his own country tried to possess someone, the sect would usually throw them to another country.
A cold voice came from inside Zhao Chuanliang's body. "Canceling your one chance to choose, Zhao Chuanliang, you're in a bit of a bad situation!"
Zhao Chuanliang pondered a bit and sighed. "Ye Zizai, what do you think we should do?"
"What should we do?
I don't know either, but the Old Man was the sect master of Zhao's Shiyin Sect. It's not like he hasn't encountered something like this before. Back then, my junior brother's situation was very similar, only slightly different. 4876's soul lamp hasn't been extinguished, which means he isn't dead. If we can find him, that would be for the best, but if we can't, you will be in danger.
"However, I'm very curious. The upper sect said that they would give you ten days because of his body. Who is that body to you?"
"It's my little brother. The two of us entered Shiyin at the same time 400 years ago. He was extremely talented and was chosen by the upper sect as his body."
Zhao Chuanliang's tone was calm as he slowly spoke.
"Hmph, if it wasn't for the fact that the body I chose was suddenly discovered by a rank 5 sect and taken away by force, I would have already recovered my cultivation and successfully possessed him." Ye Zizai sneered and his tone was filled with dissatisfaction.
Zhao Chuanliang took a deep breath and stood up. He took out a jade and placed it on his forehead before throwing it out.
"Earth cultivators above the Core Formation stage of Shiyin, follow me to the Hou Fen Union!"
With this order, all the disciples in closed door cultivation in Shiyin's stone rooms opened their eyes. Specks of ghostly light appeared in their eyes.
As for Wang Lin, although the Divine Path was mysterious, it wasn't suitable for him to cultivate. He let out a sigh and walked out.
However, what made Wang Lin happy was that the Divine Path had remained in his mind ever since he saw through the stone wall. It didn't disappear like before.
However, when Wang Lin took out the jade and tried to make a copy, he found that he couldn't do it. It was as if there was an invisible force stopping him from recording the Divine Path.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit and gave up on the idea of making a copy. He looked at the water mirror doors around him. Behind each door was a patch of darkness and he couldn't see what was inside.
He spread out his divine sense, but when it touched the water mirror doors, it was as if there was a layer of resistance and his divine sense bounced back. Wang Lin's eyes lit up. He first looked at the giant water mirror door at the exit. The red faced old man should be outside.
He jumped up and landed in front of one of the water mirror doors. He put his hand in and felt a cold feeling in his palm. When his hand was halfway in, he touched a stone wall.
Wang Lin pulled his hand back and stared at the water mirror door. After pondering for a bit, he slapped his bag of holding and took out the War God Shrine's refining jade. He scanned it with his divine sense and quickly flipped through it.
The three steps of the War God Shrine's refining technique were adjustment, fusion, and fusion.
All magic treasures were refined through these three processes.
Wang Lin flipped through a bit and immediately found an introduction called the Reverse Flow Technique.
The so-called Reverse Flow Technique was originally used to allow refiners to communicate with each other. It was a method to reverse engineer each other's treasures and return the treasures to their original state.
Practicing the Reverse Flow Technique for a long time could increase one's refining experience. During this process, one could learn the strengths of others and perfect one's own refining.
However, this Reverse Flow Technique could only be used on treasures that were made through adjustment, fusion, and fusion.
Wang Lin carefully read through it and put away the jade. He put his hands in front of his chest and closed his fingers. Spiritual energy gathered in his hands and when he pulled them apart, spiritual lines appeared in his hands.
Wang Lin said in a low voice, "Go."
The spiritual lines were immediately cut in the middle. Thin and long spiritual lines quickly drilled into the water mirror door and connected to Wang Lin's hands. At this moment, it was as if Wang Lin's hands had multiplied into countless branches. These spiritual lines swayed inside the water mirror door. As Wang Lin's spiritual energy surged, more and more spiritual lines appeared and became longer and longer. Soon, they densely covered the entire water mirror door.
The fusion stage of refining was actually similar to enlightening a treasure. It allowed the spiritual energy and array inside the treasure to perfectly fuse with the treasure embryo and achieve a mysterious balance.
But the Reverse Flow Technique did the opposite. The first thing it needed to do was to break this balance. Once it succeeded, the fusion stage would be broken.
Spiritual energy continued to pour in. Wang Lin's expression was the same as usual, but his eyes flickered as he stared at the crystal door.
All of a sudden, his expression changed, and the thin threads that grew out of his hands began to tremble. An extremely bright circle of light appeared in the center of the Water Mirror Door. The circle of light let out a soft sound, and slowly shattered. The moment it completely shattered, the circle of light suddenly spread out in all directions, spreading to the four corners of the door before disappearing.
The entire water mirror door immediately became dim. Wang Lin knew that the balance of the fusion stage had been broken. What he needed to do next was to separate the spirit ball from the spirit ball that had been fused.
Wang Lin's expression was solemn. He controlled the spiritual lines and slowly retracted them.
As the thin thread retracted, the Water Mirror Door rippled. The four edges of the door flickered with a bright light. This circle of light gradually shrank and finally condensed in the center, forming a crystal-like ball of light.
There were countless dense, thin lines on the ball of light. The other end of the thin lines was connected to Wang Lin's hands.
Wang Lin shouted, "Withdraw!"
The ball of light was immediately pulled out of the stone wall by the thin lines. The moment it appeared, Wang Lin's hands trembled and the thin lines immediately disappeared from his hands.
Wang Lin looked at the ball of light in the air and revealed a smile. He had completed the second step of the Reverse Flow Technique, breaking the fusion stage. Now the spirit ball of the War God Shrine's refining technique had been separated from the treasure embryo.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and looked back at the exit. He didn't know how many days he had been here, but this water mirror door isolated divine sense and spiritual energy fluctuations. No matter how big a change occurred here, the outside wouldn't be able to detect it.
Plus, the red faced old man didn't believe that Wang Lin could break the water mirror door with his Core Formation cultivation, so he didn't wait inside.
This gave Wang Lin a chance, but Wang Lin knew that he had to be fast. Otherwise, if the other party suddenly came in, everything would be for naught.
Thinking of this, he slapped his bag of holding and took out the reaction furnace made from the bones of the fourteenth valley's underground beast. He carefully placed the ball of light in the air into the furnace and cast a seal on it. The reaction furnace immediately shook and quickly began to spin. Slowly, it began to spin faster and faster.
After sending out the spiritual seal, Wang Lin walked toward the treasure embryo stone wall without a word.
This water mirror door was made up of two parts. One was the treasure embryo stone wall, and the other was the spirit ball. When the two were combined, they formed the water mirror door.
Now that Wang Lin separated the two, the only thing blocking his way was the treasure embryo stone wall.
Wang Lin placed his hand on it and sent out his divine sense. After scanning the stone room, Wang Lin's expression immediately became strange.
Inside the stone room, there was only a corpse. The corpse seemed to be supported by an invisible force. It was sitting cross-legged on the ground with its finger pointing at the ground.
A strand of black gas came out from the bones and drilled into the ground through its finger.
Wang Lin carefully examined the room with his divine sense before withdrawing it. He rubbed his chin and looked at the rapidly spinning reaction furnace. His right hand made a grabbing motion and the reaction furnace suddenly stopped spinning. The spirit ball suddenly flew out, but its color was slightly dim.
Wang Lin looked at it and threw it back into the reaction furnace. The furnace immediately began to spin again.
Wang Lin's gaze turned to the next stone room.
After opening more than ten water mirror doors in the same way, his expression became even more strange.
"What the hell is the War God Temple doing?
Is this a graveyard? "Wang Lin muttered to himself.
There was a corpse in every stone room.
Apart from this, there was nothing else.
Wang Lin looked around. After a moment of silence, he once again searched the room. Every time he opened a room, he would immediately control the spirit ball to merge with it and restore it to its original state. Finally, after opening all the stone rooms, Wang Lin's divine sense entered one of them and immediately found something strange.
The corpse in this stone room was clearly different from the others. This corpse was not sitting cross-legged on the ground. Instead, its body was floating in the air. Strands of black gas slowly spread out from the stone room and turned into thin lines that connected to the corpse.
Wang Lin's heart immediately tightened.
This person was not dead. There were still fluctuations of life, and from the fluctuations, the exuberance of this life force was shocking.
Wang Lin was about to retreat without hesitation, but his gaze immediately focused on a black bag with golden threads under the corpse.
This was obviously a storage bag. Wang Lin's eyes narrowed. After looking at it for a while, he pondered for a moment. He did not act rashly, but instead withdrew his divine sense and immediately retreated.
After retreating, Wang Lin grabbed the reaction furnace that had slightly slowed down. The ball of light inside had already melted into a crystal clear liquid. Without hesitation, Wang Lin scooped it up with his right hand.
He immediately scooped out more than half of the liquid and rubbed it between his hands a few times. After inserting a spirit technique, he threw it into the stone room that was the first to open. The stone room immediately returned to its original state.
After doing all this, he took a deep breath and hesitated. From the appearance of this storage bag, it was very different from the ones he had seen before. However, this was the War God Temple's territory, and they had allowed him to observe the Divine Path. If he took it away before leaving, it would be a bit unreasonable.
If there were refining materials stored in the stone room, then he wouldn't mind taking some of them. However, among all the stone rooms, only this one was strange.
After pondering for a moment, Wang Lin suddenly thought of something. He had a vague guess. Could it be that the many corpses in the stone rooms were actually used by the person in the special stone room to cultivate?
Thinking of this, Wang Lin's heart skipped a beat. The scene he saw just now, the black gas on the corpse was the same as the black gas emitted by the corpses in the other stone rooms.
Wang Lin's face was filled with shock. He was now certain that his guess was not far off. This person must be cultivating some kind of divine technique.
He looked around at the hundreds of stone rooms. The corpses in these stone rooms must have been prepared for this person to cultivate.
Wang Lin pondered a bit. He had a vague suspicion that this person was not someone from the War God Temple. Perhaps the War God Temple didn't even know of this person's existence. If that wasn't the case, the red-faced old man wouldn't have been so calm when he introduced this place. Most importantly, if this person knew about this place, he definitely wouldn't have let Wang Lin come here alone.
Of course, he couldn't rule out the possibility that this person had ulterior motives, but according to Wang Lin's analysis, if he died, it wouldn't benefit the War God Temple at all, and there was no need to go through all this trouble.
The more he analyzed, the more certain he was of his guess. This place must be the burial ground of the War God Temple's ancestor. For some reason, it attracted that person's attention and caused him to come here to cultivate.
Thinking of this, Wang Lin took a few steps back. He felt a cold wind blowing, as if a pair of eyes had been silently watching him for the past few days.
But soon, his eyes flashed a few times, and he immediately returned to the strange stone room. He opened his mouth and spat out a mouthful of spiritual energy. The crystalline flying sword immediately appeared in the spiritual energy.
It immediately stabbed into the bottom right corner of the stone wall, and in the blink of an eye, a fist-sized hole appeared.
Wang Lin's divine sense stared closely at the corpse. His mind tensed up, and he used the Gravity Spell to grab the storage bag and quickly pulled it out of the hole.
He didn't have time to look at it carefully, so he immediately put it in his chest pocket. At the same time, he retreated and waved his hands. The ball of light returned to the stone wall, and the stone wall returned to normal. The water mirror door appeared again, but there was an inconspicuous blank space in the bottom right corner.
Wang Lin didn't stop and quickly came out of the exit. When he came out, he saw the red-faced old man meditating in the distance.
The red-faced old man opened his eyes and said in a low voice, "You stayed inside for seven days. Did you comprehend it?"
Wang Lin shook his head and bitterly smiled. "This Divine Path is too strange. Often, after seeing it once, I immediately forget it and can't comprehend it.
Senior, this junior has something to ask. What exactly is sealed in the Water Mirror Door in the cave mansion?
Can you tell me? "
The red-faced old man glanced at Wang Lin and calmly said, "The ancestors of the War God Shrine are all sent into the stone room after they die."
The red-faced old man's expression was normal, but his heart shook. He was now completely sure that his guess was correct.
Wang Lin's expression remained the same, but his heart trembled. He was now completely sure that his guess was correct. He jumped up and clasped his hands. "Junior won't bother you any longer. Goodbye!"
In the blink of an eye, he left the Hou Fen Union mountain. In the distance, he saw the old man sitting on the clouds. The moment Wang Lin flew over, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and said, "If you didn't come out, the Old Man would have gone in to find you."
In the blink of an eye, he left the Hou Fen Union's mountain and saw the old man sitting in the clouds. The moment Wang Lin arrived, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and snorted. "If you didn't come out, I was going to go in and find you."
In the blink of an eye, he left the Hou Fen Union mountain. In the distance, he saw the old man sitting on the clouds. The moment Wang Lin flew over, the old man suddenly opened his eyes and snorted. "If you didn't come out, the Old Man would have gone in to find you."
Without a word, Wang Lin quickly flew away. The old man moved and the clouds he was sitting on disappeared, revealing the giant gourd. He immediately caught up to Wang Lin.
The speed of the gourd was very fast. It was even faster than Wang Lin's earth escape technique. From afar, the border between Hou Fen and Xuan Wu was already within sight.
Along the way, the two of them didn't say a word. Wang Lin could feel the existence of the bag of holding, but he didn't immediately check it. He didn't even send his divine sense into it.
After all, the old man was right in front of him. If he did anything strange and the old man noticed it, it would cause a lot of trouble.
Not long after, the gourd left the border of Xuan Wu and entered Hou Fen.
One day later, they arrived at the Sea of Devils. From afar, the Sea of Devils was covered in clouds. The clouds moved slowly and there were some spirit beasts that would occasionally appear and then immediately disappear.
Outside of the Sea of Devils, the old man slapped the gourd. The gourd shrank and landed in his hand. Wang Lin jumped off the gourd and landed on the ground.
The old man put away the gourd and expressionlessly said, "Let's wait here for a few days. One more person will come. Then the three of us will go in together."
With that, he sat down in the lotus position and closed his eyes.
Wang Lin looked at the Sea of Devils as he sat on the shore. The layers of fog moved like the tide and gave off a cold aura. He pondered a little and sat down in the lotus position to cultivate.
Not long after, Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes and saw a strange scene in the sky above the Sea of Devils. Eight pillars of purple light suddenly appeared in the sky and turned into eight giant, purple logs. The logs intersected to form a circular formation. A large amount of spiritual energy blew out like a hurricane. Even the fog in the Sea of Devils was pushed away, revealing a giant vortex.
The eight logs were engraved with ancient symbols and patterns, making them look very solemn.
Between the eight gigantic trees, there were fluorescent rays of light connecting them. From above, one could see that these rays of light were anchored together, forming rings of light that intertwined with each other. Counting carefully, there were forty-nine of these rings of light.
The green-robed old man opened his eyes, let out a snort, and gloomily said, "This is the Corpse Sect's special transfer array. I don't know what's wrong with these people to dare to come here!"
Wang Lin was very familiar with the word Shiyin. Even this transfer array looked familiar to him. After taking a closer look, this was clearly the same transfer array that Shiyin saw in Zhao, only this one was many times larger.
At this moment, the rings of light inside the transfer array lit up one by one. When all 49 rings of light were lit up, more than 30 black figures appeared inside the transfer array. Although these people all looked different, their expressions were the same. Their eyes were all emitting a ghostly light and their breathing was a bit chaotic. However, the lowest cultivation level was at the late stage of Core Formation, and five of them were at the Nascent Soul stage.
Aside from the five Nascent Soul cultivators, the rest all had black coffins floating behind them.
Zhao Chuanliang was one of the five Nascent Soul cultivators. He was inside the formation. His gaze lingered on the old man for a bit before landing on Wang Lin.
After a moment of hesitation, he made a grasping motion with his hand, transforming it into a black mist that shot toward Wang Lin.
Wang Lin sneered and didn't dodge. He continued to sit cross-legged on the ground, completely ignoring the black mist. Just as the black mist was about to touch Wang Lin, the old man waved his right hand and the black mist immediately dissipated. When the shockwave reached Wang Lin, he took out a very ordinary defensive talisman from his bag of holding and easily dissolved it.
Two chapters of 3000 words combined into one, and there was one more chapter at night.
Writing 9000 words in a row was very tiring, but for the monthly votes, he would give it his all.