The middle-aged man's name was Hai Zhu. When Wang Lin cut off his head, he sealed his origin soul. With Wang Lin's Ascendant cultivation, sealing a late stage Soul Transformation cultivator was effortless!
He left with the head and disappeared like the wind. As for the Demon Emperor's jade, Wang Lin didn't take it; it was useless to him.
However, this was something the Demon Emperor had given him to express his goodwill. If he hadn't accepted it, it would have made him look too domineering.
As he ran, Wang Lin didn't look back at the 10 million demon soldiers as he flew away.
Hai Zhu's head was refined by Wang Lin and the sword energy entered his body. As for Hai Zhu's origin soul, Wang Lin used the soul search spell to obtain the information he wanted. Hai Zhu's origin soul almost collapsed, so Wang Lin threw it into the soul flag and turned it into a primary soul.
"The people of the Da Lou Sword Sect, aside from Ling Tianhou's sword energy, also have someone called the Greedy Wolf secretly protecting them … Greedy Wolf … This name is very special, so I shouldn't have heard of it before. However, the Greedy Wolf in Hai Zhu's memory is a bit familiar … However, I'm sure I've never seen this person before." As Wang Lin flew, he began to ponder.
"Greedy Wolf … According to Hai Zhu's memory, this person's cultivation level has already surpassed the Ascendant stage and reached the Illusory Yin stage … He is only one step away from Situ Nan's Corporeal Yang stage …" Wang Lin frowned, but his body suddenly trembled and he stopped in the air.
"Situ Nan!"
Wang Lin took a deep breath as he slapped his bag of holding and a jade flew out. He caught it and scanned it with his divine sense. His expression immediately became ugly.
If it wasn't for Situ Nan, Wang Lin wouldn't have remembered that Situ Nan had given him a jade. Inside was a portrait of Situ Nan, and the people inside were the ones who had caused Situ Nan's body to collapse.
When Situ Nan gave Wang Lin the jade scroll, he didn't expect Wang Lin to meet them. He just reminded him not to provoke them.
Wang Lin really didn't expect that he would actually meet the people in those portraits. Moreover, it was extremely easy for cultivators to change their appearance. It was as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack just by looking for a few portraits.
"If this Greedy Wolf is really Situ Nan's enemy, then he must know about the Heaven Defying Bead …" Wang Lin rubbed his forehead. The Heaven Defying Bead was his greatest secret. Even after 700 years, the properties of the Heaven Defying Bead were extremely strange.
Back in the day, just a little bit of rain was enough to bring the Water Attribute to perfection. But as time went on, it became more and more difficult.
Now, only the Metal Attribute remained to be perfected. However, Wang Lin had a feeling that the difficulty of this last attribute had reached an unimaginable level.
If the Heaven Defying Bead could be completely separated from his origin soul, then Wang Lin wouldn't be so worried. If he was facing a life or death crisis, he would be able to calmly make a decision.
However, the Heaven Defying Bead had already fused with his origin soul, so it was impossible to separate it. The only way was to extract his origin soul and refine it like how he refined Ling Tianhou's sword energy. Only then would he be able to refine the Heaven Defying Bead from his origin soul.
Wang Lin frowned.
"What is the origin of this Heaven Defying Bead … Why does the Cultivation Alliance care so much about this bead … This Heaven Defying Bead has been with me for hundreds of years. Aside from reversing time, it has no other abilities. Even if I hide inside it, if I meet a powerful cultivator, I won't be able to hide and will be discovered.
"No matter how you look at it, this pearl is of little value …. Even if it's time reversal, it's only very useful to low-level cultivators. To high-level cultivators, it's not even as attractive as enough Immortal jades."
Wang Lin let out a sigh as he looked into the distance. His gaze was as sharp as a blade and he muttered, "There were originally five Da Lou Sword Sect disciples in the Sky Demon Country with Chen Long as the leader.
After Mo Yang died, although they weren't sure, they more or less became suspicious of me. With how the Da Lou Sword Sect does things, they would have immediately sent someone to ask.
"However, they didn't do anything.
"According to Hai Zhu's memories, the Greedy Wolf seemed to have found some secret in the Fire Demon Country.
"Now 10 years have passed, and only Hai Zhu is left in the Sky Demon Country. The other three have all gone to the Fire Demon Country to meet up with the Greedy Wolf … That's right, that Zi Shu must have gone to meet up with them as well. However, halfway there, he developed killing intent toward me and died."
"What exactly did the Greedy Wolf find …" Wang Lin's eyes lit up.
"Unfortunately, with the Greedy Wolf there, I won't have the chance to continue collecting Ling Tianhou's strand of sword energy. However, I can't rush this matter."
Wang Lin sneered and his body flickered as he teleported away.
"This war is the best time for me to collect slaughter energy, so I can't let it go. However, my strength alone is limited … This is what I should do!" Wang Lin's eyes became cold and he disappeared.
Wang Lin didn't participate in the war in the Fire Demon Country. He teleported and returned to the Soul Refining Tribe in the Sky Demon Country a few days later.
After more than 10 years of development, the Soul Refining Tribe had begun to take shape. It had become one of the four largest tribes in the Sky Demon Country.
Wang Lin's return caused the entire tribe to boil. Although many of the tribe members hadn't seen Wang Lin before, from word of mouth, they regarded Wang Lin as an existence similar to the Ancient Demon and worshipped him.
That valley was a holy land in their hearts!
After Wang Lin returned, he immediately summoned Shi San and Ouyang Hua to select more than 10,000 tribe members. Wang Lin sent out a strand of slaughter energy to each tribe member. The slaughter energy entered their bodies, and anyone they killed would have their life force absorbed by the slaughter energy.
The more slaughter energy these 10,000 people killed, the stronger the slaughter energy inside their bodies would become. In times of crisis, the slaughter energy would automatically transform into life seals to protect the safety of these 10,000 people.
Then these 10,000 people were sent into the battlefield in the Fire Demon Country.
Wang Lin didn't let them join the Sky Demon Army, but spread them out to develop on their own. Wang Lin only had one requirement for these people, and that was to continue to kill to nourish the slaughter energy inside their bodies!
10,000 people was nothing compared to a war with tens of millions of demon soldiers. Wang Lin understood this point, so he immediately sent out Ouyang Hua and Shi San. He gave them treasures and gave them three months of time to take the rest of the tribe members to devour the other three tribes in the Sky Demon Country!
As for himself, he sat inside the valley all day and continued to strengthen his origin soul seal on the scattered devil. At the same time, he spent the rest of his time repairing the Feng I Restriction Flag.
Three months of time passed by in a flash. With the help of Wang Lin's treasures, the remaining three tribes were devoured by Shi San and Ouyang Hua. A large amount of foreign tribe members drank the demon soup and became members of the Soul Refining Tribe.
For these new tribe members who hadn't cultivated the soul refining spell, Wang Lin directly took out the one-billion-soul soul flag and shook it. A large amount of soul fragments flew out and entered the tribe members' bodies under Wang Lin's control. He didn't harm their souls but chose to coexist with them.
Then Wang Lin spread out the slaughter energy inside his body and fused it with these people. Just like this, the second wave of 30,000 people was sent into the Fire Demon Country!
There were still a lot of tribe members left in the Soul Refining Tribe. Wang Lin used the greater teleportation spell many times to move everyone from the wilderness. The location he chose was the ancient battlefield where the scattered devil was.
At the location of the devil tower, Wang Lin used a spell to form a tower. Then he sat inside the tower. As for the tribe members, they began to multiply here.
A large number of simple houses were built. Not long after, this place had become a new tribe!
Time passed by in a flash and another 10 years passed!
During these 10 years, Wang Lin didn't take half a step out of the tower.
The three armies of the Sky Demon Country slaughtered people in the Fire Demon Country. The Fire Demon Country naturally had a plan to deal with them, and the slaughter continued on the battlefields.
The 10 years of war was only the beginning.
During these 10 years, waves of tribe members entered the battlefield with Wang Lin's slaughter energy. At the same time, the Soul Refining Tribe continued to infiltrate the wilderness. The savage tribes in the Fire Demon Country were their targets.
Wang Lin seemed to have forgotten about the war in the Fire Demon Country. During the 10 years he was inside the tower, he spent all his time cultivating and carving the scattered devil seal on his origin soul. He was preparing!
He was preparing to become even stronger before the 100 years deadline!
Only then would he be able to complete his agreement with the Ancient Demon.
During these 10 years of continuous cultivation, Wang Lin's early stage Ascendant cultivation became even more stable.
He could sense that although some of the Slaughter Qi was dissipating, most of it was growing by the day. The more the clansmen with the Slaughter Qi killed, the safer they would be, and the stronger they would become!
At this point, the total amount of slaughter energy he had released had reached 100,000 strands. These 100,000 strands of slaughter energy entered the bodies of 100,000 tribe members and continued to grow.
"Using slaughter to nurture slaughter. After this war, I want to see how many strands of slaughter energy I can split into!"
Inside the tower, Wang Lin opened his eyes. His gaze was like lightning and a powerful force spread out from the tower.
Outside the pagoda was an empty land with a circumference of ten li. Beyond that, there were many houses and buildings. Looking from afar, they were densely packed and stretched for hundreds of li!
This was the new Soul Refining Tribe!
Every month, tribe members would return with a large amount of captives from the Fire Demon Country. Every month, the size of the Soul Refining Tribe grew!
Wang Lin withdrew his gaze and slapped his bag of holding. The restriction ball sealing Yao Xixue flew out. His right hand squeezed the void and the ball shattered. Yao Xixue's figure appeared inside the tower.
Wang Lin's expression was indifferent as he slowly said, "How far have you gone with your thoughts?"
Yao Xixue was no longer naked; she was wearing a set of blue clothes. After she appeared, her beautiful eyes stared at Wang Lin. She clenched her teeth and said, "What exactly are you thinking in your heart? During these 10 years, I have already told you everything that needs to be said. What else do you want?!"