He was Wang Lin!
After absorbing the Five Elements Earth Spirit, the Heaven Defying Bead had a strange change. If it was before, even if he hid in the Heaven Defying Bead, he wouldn't be able to stay for five years.
But after the Earth Attribute reached Perfection, the time that Wang Lin could stay in the Heaven Defying Bead was longer than before.
Most importantly, the Earth Attribute of the Heaven Defying Bead had reached Perfection, which caused a series of changes inside the Heaven Defying Bead. There was a trace of Spiritual Qi inside the Heaven Defying Bead.
The Spiritual Qi inside the Heaven Defying Bead was much purer than the outside world. However, Wang Lin had never seen the Qi of the Celestial Realm, so he couldn't compare it. But he felt that it should be slightly inferior to the Qi of the Celestial Realm.
In addition, the biggest change was the long glowing objects inside the Heaven Defying Bead. These glowing objects all condensed together and formed five huge balls of light in the sky above the Heaven Defying Bead.
Among the five balls of light, three of them shone with a bright golden light. One of them also shone with a golden light, but it was clearly much dimmer. As for the last ball of light, it was completely dark and had no color at all.
During the years that Wang Lin was in the Heaven Defying Bead, he had been observing these five balls of light. With his intelligence, he naturally guessed that these five balls of light had a lot to do with the Five Elements absorbed by the Heaven Defying Bead.
It was even possible that these five balls of light were the Five Elements Spirits absorbed by the Heaven Defying Bead.
As for the three bright ones, they were the Fire, Water, and Earth Attributes, the three Perfection Attributes.
The half bright one was the Wood Attribute.
As for the last one that was completely dim, it was the Metal Attribute.
During the years that Wang Lin was in the Heaven Defying Bead, he gradually had a strange feeling that these five balls of light were not dead, but contained some kind of life.
If it was someone else, even if their cultivation was higher than Wang Lin's, it would be difficult for them to discover this. Wang Lin also felt that there was a life force in these balls of light with his special Life and Death Essence of the Reincarnation Heavenly Dao!
This discovery greatly increased his interest in the five balls of light.
Situ Nan once said that the appearance of the Heaven Defying Bead attracted the attention of the cultivators of the Kingdom of Rosefinch and the cultivators of other planets. Situ Nan narrowly escaped death. His body was destroyed and his Nascent Soul entered the Heaven Defying Bead.
After a series of changes, the Heaven Defying Bead finally escaped the pursuit of the Earth Cultivators. Countless years later, the Heaven Defying Bead fell into the stomach of a bird and was picked up by Wang Lin.
This Heaven Defying Bead had been in Wang Lin's possession for more than four hundred years. However, he still couldn't figure out the true use of this bead. In his opinion, this bead could only reverse the flow of time to a certain extent and turn ordinary water into something with spiritual power.
These effects were extremely useful to low-grade cultivators below the Deity Transformation Stage, but they didn't seem to have much of an effect on cultivators above the Deity Transformation Stage.
After all, for true Divine Arts Practitioners, the Spiritual Qi of the mortal world could no longer be used for them to breathe in and out. Only the Spiritual Qi of the Celestial World could be used for breathing in and out. As such, the Spiritual Qi produced by the pearl was nothing in their eyes.
Only the ability to reverse the flow of time was slightly more useful. However, this alone was enough to attract the top cultivators of the Kingdom of Rosefinch and the cultivators of other planets to fight over the bead.
Wang Lin believed that this Heaven Defying Bead must have a magical effect that he hadn't discovered yet. That was the real reason why the cultivators with the godly ability were fighting over it.
Situ Nan once said that according to his many years of research and analysis, the Heaven Defying Bead would only be able to recognize its master after all the five elements were gathered. At that time, some of its abilities might be revealed.
As time passed, Wang Lin's interest in the true abilities of the Heaven Defying Bead didn't decrease. Instead, it became more and more interesting.
He even wondered if the five balls of light would one day become as powerful as the five elemental spirits of the woman in white.
Of course, this was only a guess.
Wang Lin stepped on the ground of Xin Xue Yu and looked around with emotion. During the years he was in the Heaven Defying Bead's space, other than observing the five elemental lights, he was quietly meditating and familiarizing himself with the cycle of life and death.
Logically speaking, the amount of time he spent in the Heaven Defying Bead's space far exceeded the amount of time he spent in the real world. However, under the cycle of life and death, the Heaven Defying Bead's ability to reverse the flow of time lost its effect.
Five years in the outside world was still five years in the Heaven Defying Bead's space.
This made Wang Lin quite puzzled. At this moment, he felt his own cultivation level. He could clearly feel that he only needed four more years to understand the cycle of life and death. Then he could step into the Soul Formation stage and become a true godly ability cultivator.
Wang Lin believed that once he reached the Soul Formation stage, if he met the mid stage Soul Formation old lady again, he would be able to fight her without using God's Punishment.
This time, Wang Lin had no choice but to leave the heaven defying bead's space. The heaven defying bead had gone through a series of changes. Staying inside for five years was the limit. He couldn't stay inside for too long.
Wang Lin let out a sigh. He didn't fly, instead, he slowly walked forward.
The straw hat had already been put away by him. Just like that, he walked on foot on the ice field.
The wind and snow blew against his face. Wang Lin took a deep breath. After a while, he saw an ice city.
In the center of the city, there was a 30 story ice tower. At the top of the tower, there was a bead that emitted a strange light.
The land under his feet had become the new territory of Xue Yu. Wang Lin had no right to interfere with this. He just wanted to find a place to quietly spend the next four years.
When Wang Lin arrived at the ice city, he looked no different from a mortal.
There were also mortals in Xue Yue. After these mortals moved to the new country, with the help of cultivators, they built new cities.
Wang Lin silently appeared in the city. He looked around at the ice crystal houses and couldn't help but feel a sense of unfamiliarity.
There weren't many people in the city, and there were very few inns and bars. The most common thing in the city were ice sculpting shops.
In front of almost every house, there was someone holding an awl. They were constantly hammering on a large piece of ice, creating a rough but mysterious ice sculpture.
On the way, Wang Lin saw very few people talking. If they weren't hurrying, they were focused on carving ice sculptures.
Furthermore, every time an ice sculpture was finished, these mortals would help each other carry the ice sculpture and place it outside the ice tower in the center of the city.
After it was placed there, someone would come out of the ice tower to receive it.
Wang Lin pondered for a bit. His appearance was a bit out of place. Seeing that there were already people paying attention to him, Wang Lin sighed, turned around, and disappeared into a secluded area.
In the blink of an eye, a year passed. During this year, Wang Lin's footprints covered the entire country of Xue Yu. He went to almost every city and no one paid attention to him anymore. This was because his clothes were no different from the mortals of Xue Yu. They were all wearing unique leather clothing and fur hats.
In this one year of time, Wang Lin gained a very deep understanding of Xue Yue. The only value these mortals had was to serve the cultivators of Xue Yue.
They made ice sculptures in exchange for their daily necessities.
In Xue Yu, there were no imperial families among the mortals. Every city belonged to a powerful cultivator.
Wang Lin also learned how to use the ice sculptures they made. After these ice sculptures were carved, a special formation would be placed on them. Then, the formation would be activated in a special way, turning the ice sculptures into puppets.
This kind of method was very mysterious. It even involved the essence of Xue Yu's cultivation method. Wang Lin studied it for a long time, but he still couldn't understand it.
As for these ice sculptures, most of them were not kept in Xue Yu, but sold to other countries.
Depending on the cultivation level of the ice sculptures, the price was also different.
The most expensive ones were Nascent Soul puppets. After all, very few of the Nascent Soul puppets Wang Lin had seen were made, and the failure rate was very high. Next were Core Formation puppets, and so on and so forth.
As for Soul Formation puppets, Wang Lin still hadn't found a city that could make them. These puppets were not easy to make, or they were impossible to make. Otherwise, the power of Xue Yu's cultivators would have reached an unimaginable level.
During this year, Wang Lin saw hundreds of ice sculptures being bought by a rank 4 cultivation country three times.
These ice sculptures were the foundation of Xue Yu's country. They were also a way for them to obtain large amounts of resources.
In addition to this, all of the spirit veins in the former Four Sect Alliance were mined by mortals.
It could be said that in Xue Yu, mortals were slaves. All of their labor was to serve the cultivators. But what made Wang Lin feel strange was that these mortals were proud of their labor and didn't resist it at all.
Even if they died of exhaustion, they didn't complain.
Wang Lin came to a conclusion in this year. This country of Xue Yue was an incredible country.
In addition, there was another thing that shocked Wang Lin. Almost every mortal had a small ice sculpture in their hand. These ice sculptures were of the highest cultivation level cultivators in their city.
No matter how tired they were from work, even when they were about to die, they would kneel down and worship the ice sculptures in front of them. Their expressions were very sincere.
All of these incredible things made Wang Lin have a strange feeling about Xue Yu. This country was like the surrounding ice and snow; there was no life at all.
Just like the sky, there was a dull feeling everywhere.