Wang Lin's eyes flashed. His right hand formed a seal and the low-level Attraction Spell that he hadn't used in a long time appeared in his hand. With a wave of his hand, the mud on the ground was lifted up and a fishy smell entered the surrounding Shimizu like ink.
Wang Lin's body moved and he quickly swam upwards like a fish. The ink behind him quickly spread as if it was chasing after him.
Soon, Wang Lin emerged from the water and leaped up. At the same time, he pressed down with his right hand. Under the control of the Attraction Spell, a large amount of black water mixed with mud immediately flowed out of the hole.
After a long time, the water gradually became clear. Wang Lin's body sank down and he once again entered the bottom of the water dungeon.
After doing this three times, the thick mud inside the water dungeon was finally washed away, revealing the scene inside.
At the bottom of the dungeon, there was a circular diagram. There were three positions on the diagram, and there were Spirit Stones. If they were ordinary Spirit Stones, it wouldn't be a big deal. However, Wang Lin could tell at a glance that these Spirit Stones were not ordinary. They all had a trace of red on them. They were obviously top quality Spirit Stones.
"No wonder there is spiritual energy in the water even though this place isn't a Spirit Vein." Wang Lin's eyes narrowed as he took a closer look.
The three top quality Spirit Stones on the diagram were gray in color. It was obvious that they had been there for many years and were on the verge of being discarded. However, this wasn't what attracted Wang Lin's attention. What really caught his attention was an item on the diagram!
It was a skeleton!
From the looks of it, it was a woman. Her entire skeleton was nailed to the ground in a strange position by black nails.
"Using three top quality Spirit Stones to seal this skeleton. How generous!" Wang Lin immediately recognized that the diagram only had one use, and that was to seal!
However, the right index finger of the skeleton was pierced deep into the ground.
After a moment of silence, Wang Lin did not act rashly. Instead, he swam upstream, intending to leave this place.
However, it was at this moment that Wang Lin's bag of holding suddenly flickered with an intense yellow light, and a powerful force spread out from within it. This was the first time in Wang Lin's life that he had encountered something in his bag of holding that he couldn't control.
The mysterious scroll scroll that Wang Lin had accidentally obtained a few hundred years ago, but he had never been able to study it thoroughly, or even use it, suddenly rushed out from the storage bag.
Wang Lin's eyes became serious. The moment this scroll appeared, it shocked the Forsaken Immortal Clan's old man. After analyzing it, he concluded that this scroll had a great origin.
At this moment, the scroll flew out and slowly spread out. Within the scroll was a black screen, and roars that shook the soul came from within.
Just at this moment, the skeleton inside the water prison suddenly released a burst of purple light. The area where the skeleton's index finger was pierced into the ground gave off an even stronger purple light.
Gradually, a ball of purple light the size of a fist quickly condensed from the body of the skeleton. In the blink of an eye, it was sucked into the scroll and disappeared.
The skeleton immediately shattered and turned into a pile of black ash. However, the ash didn't melt in the water and instead spread out at the bottom of the water prison.
All of this happened very quickly. After the scroll absorbed the purple light, it slowly closed and floated down. Wang Lin grabbed the scroll with his right hand. After hesitating for a bit, he didn't continue to look at it and quickly charged out of the water.
After coming out of the water, Wang Lin's face was filled with doubt. He held the scroll, pondered a bit, and then slowly opened it.
He saw that there was a change in the black screen inside the scroll. There was a purple mark flashing inside, but if one didn't look closely, they wouldn't be able to see it.
After a long time, Wang Lin frowned. He still couldn't understand the scroll. If it was a treasure, then why was it only in the hands of a Core Formation cultivator?
After pondering for a bit, Wang Lin put away the scroll. He looked at the water prison and began to ponder.
The skeleton inside the water prison was very mysterious. It was sealed with a top quality spirit stone. This person must have been very powerful when she was alive. But who sealed her here?
Compared to the skeleton, the scroll was even more mysterious. What was that purple light?
"Mosquito beast, call the middle aged scholar over!"
Wang Lin's eyes flashed as he said.
The mosquito beast immediately let out a roar and charged out. With a roar, all the snow on the mountain shook. Luckily, there wasn't a lot of snow, so it didn't form an avalanche.
However, its roar alarmed everyone in the village. They all secretly complained and didn't dare to go out.
A ferocious light flashed in the Mosquito Beast's eyes, and its body suddenly fell down like a meteor. With a bang, it crashed into a room. Its huge mouth flickered with a cold light as it stopped three inches away from a person in the room.
That person was the middle aged scholar. Looking at the giant mouth, his body tilted and he fainted.
The mosquito beast moved its mouth and carried the person to Wang Lin. It threw him to the ground. The middle aged scholar woke up immediately. His face was pale and his eyes were full of fear.
"How did you find this water prison?" Wang Lin asked in a low voice.
"Immortal … Immortal, many years ago, this place was just a barren mountain. After an earthquake, the mountain cracked and formed this place. This prison only appeared after the earthquake. There was a horrible stench coming from inside. Back then, I thought it would be a good place to lock people up, so I decided to use this place as a prison."
The middle aged scholar said in a trembling voice.
Wang Lin raised his head and looked at the mountain. There were indeed some cracks on the mountain that had been covered up by the passage of time. Clearly, this person wasn't lying.
As such, everything became clear. This mountain was most likely the place where the skeleton was suppressed countless years ago. Countless years later, an earthquake caused a gap to appear on the mountain, allowing the skeleton to see the sky again.
But, just who was she?
Wang Lin waved his right hand, signaling the middle-aged scholar to leave. Then his eyes lit up and he pondered a bit. He no longer thought about this problem and focused on how to recover his cultivation.
The top quality spirit stones in the water were almost useless. The amount of spiritual energy they provided was getting weaker and weaker. Although it would take countless years for them to recover, at this moment, they were no longer enough to satisfy Wang Lin's needs.
He sat down cross-legged on the ground and slapped his bag of holding. Instantly, three top quality spirit stones appeared in his hand. He placed them around his body and once again closed his eyes to cultivate.
Time passed by. In the blink of an eye, another three months passed. It had been half a year since Wang Lin left Chu.
By now, the State of Pilu had entered winter. The wind was cold, and the mountain wind was bone-chilling.
The bandits in the stronghold hadn't left the mountain for nearly half a year. Thankfully, there was plenty of food left on the mountain, enough for them to get through the winter.
During these three months, Wang Lin didn't move at all. He sat in meditation, absorbing the spiritual energy from the top quality spirit stones. As he built up the spiritual energy in his body, he prepared to break the seal and the Domain.
During these three months, with the help of the top quality spirit stones, his Cultivation base had been restored to the sixth level of Qi Condensation.
The mosquito continued to stand guard at Wang Lin's side. Occasionally, it would look off into the distance, in the direction of the State of Chu. It missed the Thunder Frog. Although it and the Thunder Frog were often at loggerheads, after not seeing each other for so long, it began to miss him.
On this day, Wang Lin opened his eyes. His gaze was like lightning as he slapped his bag of holding to produce five more top quality spirit stones, which he placed around him.
After a moment of silence, he touched the tea stain on his face, and his eyes flashed with determination.
Without saying anything, he immediately closed his eyes and began to absorb the spiritual energy from the eight top quality spirit stones. The spiritual energy condensed around his body. At this moment, his body was emitting bursts of green light and a light aura involuntarily filled the air.
As more and more spiritual energy filled his body, Wang Lin let out a roar and began to circulate his spiritual energy, which was equivalent to the sixth level of Qi Condensation. Together with the spiritual energy outside his body, they began to collide with each other.
At this moment, Wang Lin's body was like an iron plate. The spiritual energy inside his body was like a small hammer, and the spiritual energy outside his body was like a large awl.
The two awls struck the iron plate at the same time, trying to create a gap.
Under the bombardment, Wang Lin's face grew even paler. The tea stain on his face began to shine with a black light, and then began to wriggle strangely. From a distance, it looked like a spell formation was rotating.
Every time it rotated, a large amount of spiritual energy was sucked away.
Wang Lin suddenly opened his eyes. There was a trace of hesitation in his eyes, but it was quickly replaced by determination. He took a deep breath and took out a white jade from his bag of holding.
The moment the jade appeared, the surrounding spiritual energy of heaven and earth darkened, and actually moved away.
"Celestial jade … Swallowing this is like poison. But right now, the seal and the Realm of Tea are also a kind of poison. Using the Poison Rose Poison is the fastest way to break through!"
Wang Lin was silent for a moment. He picked up the Celestial jade, broke off a thumb-sized piece, and put it in his mouth.
The moment the Celestial jade entered Wang Lin's mouth, a large amount of celestial spiritual energy flowed wildly through Wang Lin's body. It was like a flood that shook the heavens.
The spiritual energy in his body was immediately washed away. Compared to the celestial spiritual energy, it was really insignificant.
After the previous experience with the Celestial Devouring Jade, this time the same feeling came. Wang Lin's eyes were calm as he focused on controlling the celestial spiritual energy to attack the seal and the Realm of Tea.
Once, twice, thrice!
Every time the celestial spiritual energy hit the seal, Wang Lin's body would tremble, but the tea stain on his face would tremble even more, and fine cracks would appear on it.
It was even to the extent that the place he sat on started to show signs of cracking under the repeated collisions of the Celestial Force within his body. The cracks were spreading rapidly towards the surroundings, and some houses were affected by it and immediately collapsed. With a gust of wind, the houses were reduced to ashes and vanished into thin air.
There was a cracking sound, and the sound of something breaking came from within Wang Lin's body. Then, a tenth of the tea stain on his face suddenly cracked and slowly fell off his face.
The moment it fell off, strands of black gas floated up and gathered above Wang Lin's head.
Wang Lin's face was pale, and blood flowed from the corner of his mouth, but his eyes were bright.
At this moment, the tea stain and the seal on his face finally began to move under the bombardment of the celestial jade, and a gap appeared.
(To be continued)