"Grey-robed Tian Yunzi. Interesting!"
Wang Lin revealed a gloomy smile. His divine sense had locked onto Du Jian, and it didn't seem like Du Jian was lying.
"Teacher, you really have a lot of secrets …" There was a flash of coldness in Wang Lin's eyes.
"So many of my own secrets make me nervous. I can't stay on planet Tian Yun any longer. If I stay here, I'm afraid I'll discover Teacher's secret and be poisoned as well!" Wang Lin took a deep breath and finally made up his mind to leave planet Tian Yun as soon as possible!
"After I leave the Demon Spirit Land, I'll fuse with my original body and leave. The water on planet Tian Yun is too deep; it's not a place I can stay!" Wang Lin's eyes lit up as he looked around and let out a sigh.
"Whether or not I can leave this place is another matter."
After Du Jian revealed the biggest secret in his heart, he carefully looked at Wang Lin. Wang Lin's expression changed slightly as if he was thinking about what Du Jian had just said.
Du Jian let out a sigh of relief. He was worried that Wang Lin wouldn't believe what he had said. After all, this matter was simply too strange.
He looked at the crack and his heart was filled with confusion.
"Where exactly is this place?"
Du Jian's gaze looked at the crack and there was a hint of lingering fear in his eyes. What happened just now scared him out of his wits. The feeling of his origin soul being sucked out of his body was something he would never forget.
He then looked at the seven treasured swords floating in the air. These swords contained Wang Lin's origin soul, and there was a flash of lightning between the swords.
"This must be Wang Lin's secret cave. This person is ruthless, so I can't just sit here and wait for death. Unfortunately, my cultivation level isn't high enough. If … if I can reach the Ascendant stage!!"
Du Jian's cultivation was already half a step into the Ascendant stage, but he was still unwilling to take that step because he didn't dare to face the test of life and death.
However, at this moment of crisis, he clenched his teeth. Although his origin soul was sealed, he was confident he could break through with the help of his Ascendant origin energy.
"If I reach the Ascendant stage, I'll have a chance to survive. If I can't, I'll die. Instead of sitting here and waiting for death, I might as well fight!" There was a hint of determination in Du Jian's eyes.
It was extremely rare to see such a resolute gaze on him.
However, right when he was about to give it his all, Wang Lin's icy cold gaze was like a pot of cold water that poured down from the top of his head, causing this person's resolution to immediately collapse.
Wang Lin waved his right hand, and the seven swords floating in the air turned into rays of sword light and fell into his hand. Wang Lin put them into his storage pouch.
"Wang Lin …" Du Jian's pupils constricted.
"I will give you a chance. You can try to aspire to the top. If you succeed, I will give you a great fortune!" Wang Lin said calmly.
Du Jian was silent. He didn't ask about any good fortune. At this point, his heart was clear. Wang Lin wouldn't let him go no matter what. After a long time, he stared at Wang Lin and said, "A gentleman keeps his word!"
Wang Lin nodded and said nothing.
Du Jian suddenly closed his eyes. Wang Lin's cultivation level was higher than his, so it was too easy for Wang Lin to kill him. There was no need to go through so much trouble. Although he was still confused, he was in a life and death situation, so he didn't have time to think too much.
"I'll make a bet!"
Du Jian took a deep breath, activated his mind, felt his domain, and took that step!
A surge of origin energy gradually appeared around Du Jian's body. This origin energy became denser and denser, and it easily destroyed the seal Wang Lin placed on Du Jian's origin soul.
Wang Lin's eyes lit up as he stared at Du Jian and began to ponder.
The reason he wanted Du Jian to reach the Ascendant stage was to increase the success rate of refining a celestial guard!
Celestial guard, Wang Lin didn't forget the description on the jade. In fact, the moment he placed the seal on Du Jian, he had already decided to refine this person into a low quality celestial guard.
Although the success rate was too low, once he succeeded, he would be able to create a cultivator at the peak of the late stage of Ascendant and half a step into the Yin and Yang Illusory Corporeal Realm. This kind of thing made him very tempted.
Also, the jade also introduced a few spells that only celestial guards could use. They were also very powerful.
If Du Jian didn't take the initiative to provoke him, then Wang Lin wouldn't capture him and refine him into a celestial guard for no reason. However, since this person wanted to kill him, then with Wang Lin's personality, he wouldn't be merciful.
"If you fail to reach the Ascendant stage and die while seeking dao, then it will be a worthy death and a worthy life.
If you successfully reach the Ascendant stage, then I will give you a great fortune. As for whether or not you succeed, that will depend on your luck! "
Du Jian's Ascendant stage was to follow the heavens, unlike Wang Lin's heaven-defying cultivation that caused the heavens to change. Time gradually passed and the origin energy around Du Jian's body became more and more dense. His origin soul floated out of his body and the origin energy was fusing with his origin soul.
Time passed and one hour had already passed, but there was still no sign of disharmony in Du Jian's origin soul. This caused Wang Lin's eyes to light up.
The fusion of Du Jian's Nascent Soul continued for three days. Finally, the moment the Origin Energy completely fused into the Nascent Soul, something happened. A slight tremor appeared on the Nascent Soul, immediately triggering the Origin Energy Fire. This fire suddenly backfired, as if it wanted to burn the entire Nascent Soul.
Du Jian revealed a painful struggle, causing Wang Lin to frown. Just as Du Jian's origin soul was about to be burned to ashes by the origin energy fire, Wang Lin took a step forward and his right hand reached into Du Jian's origin soul.
The moment his right hand reached in, the origin energy fire seemed to have found an outlet. It rushed into Wang Lin's body through his right hand and headed straight for Wang Lin's origin soul.
In an instant, Wang Lin's origin soul was surrounded by the origin energy fire, but it wasn't refined. On the contrary, his origin soul revealed a very comfortable expression.
As Wang Lin's origin soul moved, a large amount of lightning exploded from within and moved through the origin energy fire, creating a scene of lightning and fire intersecting!
At the same time, Wang Lin's origin soul sucked in all the lightning and fire. Even Wang Lin's right hand began to suck in a large amount of the origin energy fire from Du Jian's origin soul into Wang Lin's body.
It wasn't until Du Jian's origin soul was no longer in danger of being burned that Wang Lin immediately withdrew his right hand and took a few steps back. His origin soul began to absorb the origin energy fire.
Du Jian's origin soul was a bit weak as it slowly began to fuse with the remaining origin energy. He had lost too much origin energy, so even if he managed to fuse it and reach the Ascendant stage, he would be stuck at the early stage of Ascendant for the rest of his life unless he had a chance to replenish his origin energy.
Time passed by. After more than 10 days inside the rift, the origin energy in Du Jian's origin soul had completely fused into one. The aura of an Ascendant cultivator spread out and his origin soul gradually returned to his body. Du Jian suddenly opened his eyes, and they were filled with an extremely complicated gaze!
He knew everything that had happened when he reached the Ascendant stage. He should have failed, but it was Wang Lin who saved him.
At this moment, thousands of thoughts flashed through his mind. After a long time, Du Jian let out a sigh. Although he had reached the Ascendant stage, he was the weakest Ascendant cultivator. Facing Wang Lin, he was powerless.
"What kind of fortune do you want to give me …"
At this moment, Du Jian had an extremely complicated feeling toward Wang Lin. There was hatred and gratitude, but most of all, there was regret and fear.
Wang Lin's tone was calm as he slowly said, "Refine your body and origin soul. Use a secret technique to refine it so that you have a chance to reach the peak of the late stage of Ascendant and take half a step into the Yin and Yang Illusory and Corporeal stage!"
Du Jian's heart skipped a beat and he bitterly said, "This spell is so heaven-defying, so I'm afraid the failure rate is very high. Forget it, I only have one question: can I retain my consciousness?"
Wang Lin's eyes were profound as he said, "If you don't die after 1,000 years, I'll give you your freedom!"
There was an important condition to refining a celestial guard, and that was that the person being refined couldn't resist at all. Otherwise, the process would immediately fail.
Back in the day, Celestial Emperor Qing Lin had many celestial guards. However, the people he chose were all loyal to him. He used this as a price to obtain stronger cultivation, so he didn't have to worry about this part.
At this moment, Wang Lin was using the method of the Celestial Emperor.
Du Jian clenched his teeth as he looked at Wang Lin and nodded. He knew that his fate was already decided. If he resisted or didn't agree, he would immediately die. He could only gamble that the refinement would succeed and that he would be able to last 1,000 years.
He had no other choice. If he didn't want to die, this was the only way!
Wang Lin no longer wasted time. His hand formed a seal and the celestial spiritual energy inside his body surged. In an instant, a seal filled with celestial spiritual energy condensed in his hand. Wang Lin pressed it between Du Jian's eyebrows.
Du Jian's body trembled, then he closed his eyes and became motionless.
Wang Lin's expression became serious. The steps to refine a celestial guard were extremely complicated. There couldn't be a single mistake, or else it would result in failure.
Even if there were no mistakes, the chance of success wasn't high. However, Wang Lin was helpless; he had to gamble!
The reason he was so eager to refine a celestial guard was because there was a spell inside the jade that could only be used by celestial guards. It could help him have a chance to leave this place!
"If I fail, I can only try again with Yao Xixue!"
Wang Lin spat out a mouthful of origin energy that turned into countless runes in the air and landed on Du Jian's body.
The first step to becoming a celestial guard was to refine the body to the point that it couldn't be damaged by normal treasures. When Wang Lin saw the introduction in the jade, he thought of the ancient gods.
The second step was to refine the origin soul. Disintegrate the origin soul and use a special method to make it expand and fuse it with the body. This would make the body without a soul, but the soul would still be there.
The third step was to refine the body's internal organs and make them wither so that they could no longer be nourished by celestial spiritual energy. This would isolate the body's five senses and make it no longer painful.
The soul would be destroyed, but it would retain its intelligence. This would make the celestial guard emotionless but intelligent.
It would have an extremely powerful body that didn't have any emotions or feelings. Even if a person's head fell to the ground and was split into pieces, it wouldn't even frown.
This was a celestial guard!
Celestial Emperor Qing Lin imitated Gu Shen to create a human body treasure!