The valley at the center of the Soul Refining Tribe was a place that belonged to Wang Lin. At this moment, he was sitting cross-legged in the depths of the valley. Before him, Shi San was kneeling on one knee with an excited expression.
It had been three days since Wang Lin returned to the Soul Refining Tribe, and Shi San had been awakened by his spell.
After waking up, the first thing Shi San saw was Wang Lin. The excitement in his heart immediately filled his body.
Wang Lin learned about what had happened in the past year from Shi San.
When he mentioned Hu Pao, Wang Lin let out a sigh. Hu Pao had disappeared in the Black Prison, and there were many clues about this. His divine sense had swept through Lucky Demon City, but with his peak late stage Soul Transformation cultivation, he hadn't found any trace of Hu Pao.
Hu Pao cultivated the soul refining spell that he had taught him, and the final control was in Wang Lin's hands. However, at this moment, Wang Lin couldn't find any trace of Hu Pao's soul in his divine sense.
"If Hu Pao isn't dead, then he must be in a strange place. Otherwise, there is no way I wouldn't be able to detect him …" Wang Lin pondered a bit and stopped thinking about Hu Pao. He had already done his best.
He raised his head and looked at Shi San. One of the main reasons he had brought Hu Pao and Shi San to Ancient Demon City was to test them.
If the two of them passed the test, Wang Lin would teach them new spells. For example, Hu Pao's soul refining spell wasn't the only spell; there was also the soul extracting spell!
However, this soul extracting spell was a lot more advanced than the soul refining spell. Although it had been modified by Wang Lin, he wouldn't easily teach it to others.
As for Shi San, the idea of teaching this person the ancient god tactic had only flashed through his mind before he immediately rejected it. The ancient god tactic could not be taught to others!
However, during this year, Shi San had passed Wang Lin's test with flying colors. Wang Lin could feel that this person would be loyal to him for at least a few decades.
When Wang Lin was in Suzaku, he had dealt with the Giant Demon Clan many times. When he killed the Giant Demon Clan ancestor, he had obtained his bag of holding. Aside from a small bottle of God Ji's blood and a trace of Yin Yudao's origin soul, there were also some jades.
Among these jades, one of them recorded a spell called the Giant Spirit Nine Cultivation Method. Back then, Wang Lin only took a quick glance at it and didn't take it seriously. Now that he looked at Thirteen, he touched his bag of holding and a green jade appeared in his hand.
"This is it!" Wang Lin scanned it with his divine sense. The Giant Spirit Nine Cultivation Method had a total of nine levels, and they were all body refining spells.
After memorizing the nine levels, Wang Lin erased the last three levels, leaving only the first six, and threw them at Shi San!
Shi San excitedly caught the jade. His gratitude toward Wang Lin couldn't be described with words. He knelt on the ground, kowtowed a few times, and said, "Ancestor, Shi San will only listen to you in this life!"
"Protect the Soul Refining Tribe well. Go!" Wang Lin waved his right hand and a gentle breeze picked up Shi San's body and sent him out of the valley.
Wang Lin sat by himself inside the valley. The sky was filled with black fog. This black fog was formed by the one-billion-soul soul flag. It was very effective to use it to nurture the soul.
"When I was in Ancient Demon City, I could leave the one-billion-soul soul flag here to nurture the soul. However, in three months, I'll be going to the capital of the Sky Demon Country. The distance is too far, so I can't leave the flag here!" Wang Lin looked up at the black fog in the sky, then he closed his eyes and began to cultivate.
At this moment, far to the west of the Soul Refining Valley, there was a desert that stretched as far as the eye could see. Even after crossing most of the Sky Demon Country, there was an endless desert.
This place was infamous in the Demon Spirit Land!
Rumor has it that countless years ago, this was an ancient battlefield in the Demon Spirit Land. The surrounding millions of kilometers were covered in broken corpses and the ground was dark red. Just looking at it would cause one to feel a powerful sense of pressure.
There was an invisible restriction around this ancient battlefield. This restriction separated this place from the outside world!
At this moment, within the ancient battlefield, there was a young man sitting cross-legged. Before him, there were over a hundred little black flags. These flags fluttered even though there was no wind. One by one, souls flew out from the flags and circled around the area.
A black fog surrounded his body. This fog wasn't thick, but its appearance caused a large amount of soul fragments that had been sleeping for countless years to awaken.
Every time a soul was awakened, a tyrannical black gas would rush out from the ground and merge with the black mist. After circling around a few times, it would drill into a small flag.
There was an old man wearing a black robe standing 1,000 feet away from the young man. He coldly looked at the young man, and after one incense stick of time, he calmly said, "Okay, stop!"
Hearing this, the young man immediately formed a seal with his hand. The small flags shined with a black light and landed in his hand. At this moment, the young man opened his eyes. The moment he saw the old man, he immediately stood up and respectfully said, "Hu Pao greets benefactor!"
The old man nodded and said, "Very good. If you can refine all the soul fragments in this ancient battlefield, then with the power of your soul flag, you can go anywhere in the Demon Spirit Land!"
Hu Pao's face was filled with excitement as he said, "All of this was given to me by Benefactor. You saved my life, taught me the Shen Technique, and brought me here to refine the soul fragments. Hu Pao will remember all of this!"
The old man's expression was still cold as he said, "If it wasn't for the fact that your cultivation method is strange and the Old Man has never seen it before, I wouldn't have saved you. In addition, your previous master reappeared at Ancient Demon City and fought with the demon general to save Shi San. I was a step too late!"
Hu Pao revealed a complicated expression and said, "If I refine all the soul fragments here, the first thing I'll do is kill this Wang Lin!"
The old man looked at Hu Pao and said, "After all, he taught you the soul refining spell. Why are you so determined to kill him?"
Hu Pao silently pondered. After a while, he sneered and said, "Although this person taught me the spell, he had ulterior motives. If not for him, how could I have been thrown into the Dark Prison by that Sima Yan?
"During those months in the Dark Prison, I began to hope that Wang Lin would appear and save me. However, that hope was erased by the bitter life in the Dark Prison. Where was he when I was being tortured?
Where was he when I was being bullied?
In the end, all of my expectations for him turned into hatred. If it weren't for him, how could I have ended up like this … Luckily, my benefactor saved me. The moment I walked out of Black Prison, I swore that I would never be a slave again! "
The old man's cold face gradually revealed a smile and he said, "Good, to have such a decisive thought, you are indeed worthy of being the person that the Old Man likes!" After the old man finished speaking, he turned around and took a step forward. Then he turned into a cloud of black smoke and disappeared.
Hu Pao clenched his fists as he looked into the distance and muttered, "Shi San is a simple person, but he was bewitched by that Wang Lin. During those months in the Dark Prison, I realized that this Wang Lin was just a pawn that I abandoned for Shi San!
"Wang Lin, one day, when I use the soul flag and release 10 million soul fragments, I want to see what kind of expression you will have. How will you resist my 10 million soul fragments!
"As long as I cultivate the World Extinguishing Origin Suppression Art that Benefactor taught me to cultivate to the fourth level, I will have endless demonic energy. Wang Lin, Sima Yan, just you wait!"
Hu Pao's eyes were filled with killing intent!
In the depths of the ancient battlefield, there was a tower that was completely black. That tower was hundreds of feet tall, and there were black rings of light around it. Those rings of light seemed to be able to absorb all the light in the world. From afar, it gave off a demonic and majestic aura.
The black-robed old man's figure appeared before Hei Pei. He took a deep breath and stepped into the tower. At the top of the tower, he knelt down on both knees.
In front of him was a set of armour!
This armor was extremely ancient and didn't look like something from the modern era. If someone with a discerning eye was here, they would immediately recognize that this armor had an extraordinary origin!
It was extremely well-preserved and completely black. There were countless patterns carved on it, and these patterns were clouds.
These clouds were black at the moment, but they gave off a strange feeling.
When the armor was put together, from a distance, it looked as if someone was sitting there wearing armor. It gave off an irresistible sense of majesty.
Bursts of mysterious aura came from the armor and filled the entire tower.
Two ghostly lights suddenly appeared from the helmet of the armor. It was as if a pair of eyes were looking at the old man.
The moment the ghostly lights appeared, the world outside the tower trembled as if a celestial spirit had descended.
The old man took a deep breath and respectfully said, "This subordinate has found out that the demon emperor of the Sky Demon Country, Sky Scorpion, should have broken through 1,000 years ago, but he was forced to stay!"
There was a flash of ghostly light from the armor and an invisible cold aura came from the ghostly light. The old man's body trembled and cold sweat covered his face.
After a long time, the ghostly light landed in the old man's eyes as if it was sending a message. After a few breaths of time, the ghostly light gradually dissipated and the armor returned to its original appearance. The mysterious aura around it disappeared.
The old man's body was covered in sweat as he whispered, "Yes!"
After he finished speaking, he stood up and respectfully left the highest floor. On the first floor, the old man sat down again. This time, he was clearly relaxed.
"If this child, Hu Pao, absorbs a large amount of soul fragments, then with the mysterious soul refining technique, along with my cultivation method and pills, his cultivation level will increase by leaps and bounds in a short period of time. At that time, I'll have him cultivate the One Hour Spell that Master passed down to him and condense all of his lifespan and potential into one hour. That way, he can become one of the demon guards!
"This soul refining technique is very mysterious, but I feel like there are some flaws in it. Unfortunately, Master hasn't awakened for long, so I can't trouble Master with such a small matter … If it wasn't for the fact that this person knows the soul refining technique, then with his talent and identity, he wouldn't be worthy enough for me to raise him as a demon guard!
"I'll temporarily use him as an experiment. If he succeeds, then I'll have to go take a look at the Soul Refining Tribe!
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