Cold sweat appeared on Du Qing's forehead as he stared dumbfoundedly at the cave in the back mountain. The divine sense that Wang Lin had been there for months suddenly disappeared.
This kind of disappearance wasn't a retraction, but a true disappearance. It was as if Wang Lin had fused with the world.
This change was too sudden, and Du Qing couldn't imagine it at all. He didn't even have time to prepare himself for it. It was as if he was watching a joke as he casually scanned the cave.
After a brief moment of shock, Du Qing charged out of the place he was in. His divine sense spread out and charged toward the cave at the back of the mountain. The instant his divine sense swept through the cave, Du Qing's body began to tremble violently.
"Nothing … Nothing …" Wang Lin, who had been cultivating in the cave for months, disappeared.
Du Qing didn't notice Wang Lin's disappearance at all. It was as if Wang Lin had evaporated right before his eyes.
"This is impossible … This doesn't make sense …" Du Qing was standing on the peak of the back mountain. There was only grass under his feet, and his expression was even more dazed. As he muttered to himself, he rubbed his eyes and spread out his divine sense once more, unwilling to give up.
He searched again and again, but he still didn't find any trace of Wang Lin's divine sense.
"Impossible, his divine sense can't fuse with the world. This has never happened before. Only peak Void Tribulant old monsters can do this … He … He can't do this!!"
Du Qing's face was pale and his eyes were filled with fear. He suddenly felt like he had been dreaming for the past seven months.
"Are you looking for me …" Just when Du Qing couldn't find Wang Lin no matter how hard he tried and couldn't accept this, a calm voice came from behind him. "Are you looking for me …"
Du Qing's body trembled and he suddenly turned around. His pupils shrank as he saw Wang Lin standing behind him with a calm expression. He didn't look like he was in a sorry state at all.
There seemed to be layers of ripples behind Wang Lin, but they soon disappeared.
"You … you …" Du Qing subconsciously took a few steps back. Wang Lin's appearance was too strange. He hadn't sensed it at all. In fact, if Wang Lin had attacked just now, he might have been seriously injured.
A cold aura spread out from Wang Lin's body. This cold aura slowly dissipated after being hit by the Blue Dragon Sect's aura, but it gave Du Qing the feeling of a cold wind blowing in his face.
The shock and astonishment in his eyes transformed into fear, causing Wang Lin to become incomparably mysterious and terrifying in Du Qing's eyes.
Du Qing suppressed the shock in his heart and hurriedly said, "It's nothing … Most of the sect's disciples have returned, and we've found quite a few branch veins and child veins … We've also retrieved some of the sealed branch veins' souls …"
Wang Lin casually glanced at Du Qing. Under his gaze, Du Qing subconsciously lowered his head.
"Send it to the cave."
Wang Lin slowly said. He took a step forward and turned into a ray of light, returning to the cave.
After Wang Lin left, Du Qing let out a sigh of relief. However, the doubt in his heart once again appeared because of the ray of light Wang Lin had turned into.
"Impossible!!
He shouldn't have merged with the world, or else he could have left in a flash … His aura disappeared earlier, so he must have teleported. That's right, it was teleportation. This person must have lost face after failing so many times, so he ended it like this … "The more Du Qing thought about it, the more he felt he was right. He slowly calmed down and even found it a bit funny, especially when he thought about what happened just now. It was obvious he was just scaring himself.
"Like I said, merging with the world is something he can't do at all!
You overestimate yourself! "
Du Qing sneered in his heart and became even more confident. He waved his sleeves and was about to leave when his body suddenly trembled and he stared at the patch of grass Wang Lin was at. His eyes widened and a monstrous sense of terror appeared in his eyes.
Thunderous rumbles echoed in his mind like countless bolts of Thunder. Everything before him disappeared, leaving only the spot where Wang Lin had been standing clear.
After a long time, Du Qing's face turned deathly pale and he subconsciously retreated a few steps. He looked at the cave in the back mountain with terror and a complicated gaze.
Not far away, on the patch of grass where Wang Lin had been standing, there was some cyan snow. Under the sunlight, it shined and slowly melted.
In the entire Heavenly Bull Continent, only the Heavenly Mountain in the extreme west would have this kind of cyan snow. The Heavenly Mountain was a round trip from the Blue Dragon Sect. Even if Du Qing traveled at full speed, it would take several months … Du Qing silently pondered for a long time and muttered, "Snow of the Heavenly Mountain … This person … is a genius of the heavens!"
The moment he said this, all the disdain and contempt he had for Wang Lin during the past seven months disappeared and was replaced with endless mystery and unfathomability.
He vaguely felt fear toward Wang Lin. This had nothing to do with cultivation, but the unknown. It was a fear of the unknown.
Inside the cave in the back mountain, Wang Lin patted his clothes to get rid of the cold air and sat down. After seven months of time, he had finally awakened his avatar in the void.
The moment his avatar awakened, Wang Lin felt an indescribable sense of enlightenment from his avatar. The barrier that had been bothering Wang Lin suddenly loosened. It was as if the law of the Immortal Astral Continent had been broken by Wang Lin and disappeared.
All kinds of enlightenment appeared in his heart, but when he thought about it carefully, it was blurry. Wang Lin knew that this was because his avatar was still growing.
Once his avatar was fully grown, Wang Lin would be able to clearly understand everything about the law of the Immortal Astral Continent.
At the same time, the powerful pressure melted like a layer of ice, creating invisible cracks. Wang Lin's divine sense was able to enter in the blink of an eye instead of forcing its way in like before.
All of this was because of his avatar!
The moment his divine sense fused with the world, Wang Lin's body disappeared and he also fused with the world. At that moment, he found the feeling of spatial bending in the cave world. This was a feeling he hadn't felt in a long time.
With a thought, he appeared on the Heavenly Mountain of this continent and saw the blue snow falling from the sky. This was the first time Wang Lin had used spatial bending, so he didn't have a direction and just casually walked around to familiarize himself with the place.
However, when he returned to the Blue Dragon Sect, the image of the Blue Dragon Sect appeared in his mind. He clearly appeared behind Du Qing in the back mountain of the Blue Dragon Sect.
It took less than half an incense stick of time to go back and forth. If not for the blue snow under his feet, not even Du Qing would know that Wang Lin had gone to the Heavenly Mountain.
"My avatar has only grown for a few days and it has already given me such a powerful help … If I have more time, my avatar will become the strongest body!" Wang Lin had long understood this.
"It is time to go to the Great Soul Sect to absorb the main earth fire vein. Before that, I need to absorb the child veins of the other veins to see how strong my fire essence true body can be." Wang Lin knew that his fire essence true body would become more difficult the further he went.
The formation of the head no longer required pure Fire Origin. Instead, it required the will of fire.
Half an hour later, Du Qing came to greet Wang Lin. He was holding some of the earth fire souls his sect disciples had brought back and a complete map of the Heavenly Bull Continent. Many places on the map were marked with child earth fire veins.
Wang Lin wasn't polite and directly absorbed the earth fire souls. However, because they didn't contain much will, they weren't very helpful for forming his essence true body.
However, the map was very useful to Wang Lin. After taking the jade, Wang Lin said goodbye to Du Qing. Du Qing knew what Wang Lin was planning. He couldn't participate in this matter, but he also wouldn't report it. After all, he still had his own plans for Wang Lin.
More importantly, before Wang Lin left, he looked at Du Qing. His gaze was calm and emotionless, but ripples appeared under his feet and he suddenly disappeared. That was more shocking than any threat.
Du Qing's mind trembled as he watched Wang Lin disappear. After a long time, he let out a sigh.
"Wang will remember Fellow Cultivator Du's help. If there is a chance in the future, I'll definitely repay you." After Wang Lin left, his voice echoed in Du Qing's ears.
On the seventh day after Wang Lin left, the child earth fire veins in the Heavenly Bull Continent rumbled and collapsed. Waves of fire spread across the Heavenly Bull Continent. It was as if even the aura of the world was burning. Breathing it in would make one feel a hint of irritation.
This kind of thing appeared in many places in the Heavenly Bull Continent, and it slowly attracted the attention of the various sects. They sent out large amounts of disciples or elders to personally investigate, but they found no clues. When they arrived at the place where the child earth veins had collapsed, all they saw was ruins.
Half a month later, somewhere in the Heavenly Bull Continent, on a mountain shrouded in black fog, there was once a sect called the T Dao Sect!
Wang Lin's figure walked out from the mountain shrouded in black fog. He had a melancholic expression.
He had to come here. Here, he could feel the aura of the cave world and the many years that Xuan Luo had waited for him.
After walking out from the black fog, Wang Lin looked back at the mountain shrouded in fog. After pondering for a moment, he let out a sigh and left.
"Situ, Shimizu, Li Qianmei, and those who reincarnated … Where are you now …" Wang Lin's back was very bleak and lonely.
One day later, in the western part of the Heavenly Bull Continent, in the area covered by the Great Soul Sect, where the Heavenly Mountain was located, a white-haired young man in white stood at the top of the mountain. His gaze penetrated the falling snow and looked at the other layer of the mountain, west of the Heavenly Bull.
Standing here, the young man could vaguely see the countless mountains in the distance. At the deepest part, there was a red mountain that pierced into the clouds.
The white-haired young man muttered, "Great Soul Sect …" His eyes shined brightly.
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