The earth trembled and Wang Lin could clearly feel a fluctuation coming from deep underground. The trembling was caused by this fluctuation.
These ripples were extremely powerful, and when they reached the ground, they caused the entire planet Dong Lin to shake violently!
"What is it …" A calm voice echoed across the world, and an ancient aura spread out. It was as if this voice didn't come from underground, but from the ancient cultivation world from tens of thousands of years ago.
Shimizu's right eye flashed red. He looked down at the earth before him, but his expression didn't change.
The old man named Xiang respectfully said, "The battle between Luo Tian and the Alliance has begun. This person is ranked first in the celestial bestowal and has obtained a promise from the Xiang family. However, what he asked for is something junior can't do with my strength. I hope the ancestor can use the Qixi spell once!"
The moment Xiang Yundong's words echoed, Wang Lin felt an unimaginable divine sense lock onto his body. He suppressed the thought of retreating and calmed himself down.
To him, this divine sense was incredibly powerful. However, it couldn't completely penetrate his entire body. Within his third eye, the power of Essence filled his entire body.
The divine sense swept by and then withdrew.
"Let him come down by himself!"
The ancient voice echoed in the air, and the ground before him trembled even more violently. A crack appeared on the ground, revealing a deep ravine.
Xiang Yundong quickly nodded and turned to look at Wang Lin. He was originally only 50% confident. After all, the ancestor's temper was strange, and it was impossible to guess. Even though this was a promise from the Xiang family to the celestial bestowal, the ancestor didn't care about it.
Now that the ancestor had agreed, Xiang Yundong faintly smiled and said, "Xu Mu, you can go down. I'll wait for you here."
Wang Lin nodded and looked at Shimizu.
Shimizu's right eye flashed red and he calmly said, "If anyone dares to hurt you, all the families on planet Dong Lin will bleed." Although his voice was calm, the killing intent in it caused Xiang Yundong to frown. He bitterly smiled but didn't say anything.
Wang Lin's eyes were filled with gratitude. In his life, there weren't many people he was grateful to. Situ, Zhou Yi, Du Tian … and now there was Shimizu!
Wang Lin took a deep breath and clasped his hands toward Shimizu and Xiang Yundong. Then he turned around and descended into the gully!
This gully was very large. Wang Lin's eyes shined brightly as he continued to descend. The surrounding walls were smooth, but there was no life inside the gully; it was filled with death aura.
As he descended, the death aura became thicker and thicker. In the end, it felt as if it could become corporeal. This made Wang Lin feel very uncomfortable.
He was like a flame wrapped in a ball of chilly wind that could be extinguished at any time in the chilly wind.
As Wang Lin descended, the death aura became more violent. Waves of coldness entered Wang Lin's body like crazy. If it was anyone else, their body would be stiff and their life force would be in danger.
However, Wang Lin's first step of cultivation was the dao of life and death. His early cultivation method was the Underworld Ascension Art, so he was very familiar with death aura.
At this moment, the Origin Power in his body was circulating, and the Yin Yang Twin Fish Avatar appeared outside his body. It slowly rotated, and with that, the dense Death Qi was pushed away in front of him, so that he wouldn't be injured too badly.
The gully was very deep, and seemed to have no end. Wang Lin descended quickly, but after enough time passed for half an incense stick to burn, he still hadn't reached the bottom. His expression was calm as he rotated the origin energy in his body and activated the Dao of Karma.
After some time passed, the death aura grew thicker and thicker. Even the yin and yang fishes were affected, and began to slow down. Finally, a tremor ran through his body, and his feet touched the ground.
In front of him was a tunnel. It was pitch black, without any light. Even with the level of Wang Lin's cultivation base, he couldn't see very clearly. He could only make out a vague outline.
"Come here!"
An ancient voice echoed out in the quiet tunnel, filled with a strange feeling. Wang Lin was silent for a moment. Then, his eyes filled with determination, he began to walk down the tunnel.
The tunnel wasn't very long. After enough time passed for half an incense stick to burn, Wang Lin reached the end. What he saw caused his pupils to constrict!
Heads!
It was a dense and boundless sea of human heads!
In front of the tunnel was an enormous space. From a distance, it looked like there was no end to it, only endless skulls and skeletons emitting an eerie aura.
Everything in front of him was a sea of human heads!
Even with Wang Lin's mental fortitude, his scalp went numb. He could not help but take two steps back, his face filled with astonishment.
There were simply too many heads here, so many that it was impossible to count them all. Just looking at them would cause one's mind to tremble. The dense death aura had transformed into a tempest that filled the center of the sea of heads, whistling through the air.
Under the impact of the death aura, Wang Lin immediately felt like he was suffocating. The astonishment in his eyes reached its peak at that instant.
In the center of the sea of human heads, on a platform made of human heads, there was a yellow coffin.
The wood of the coffin was slightly rotten. However, a berserk aura was being emitted from the coffin.
"What is your name?" An ancient voice came from the coffin and echoed in the surroundings.
Wang Lin took a deep breath and suppressed the shock in his mind. He clasped his hands respectfully and said, "Junior Xu Mu greets senior!"
"So you're the one who wants the Old Man to use the Qixi Art?" The ancient voice didn't sound happy or angry, but it was filled with an oppressive aura.
"That's right!" Wang Lin calmed his mind and said calmly.
"The Old Man can help you, but just the promise from the Xiang Clan is not enough. I want half of your life force!"
The ancient voice turned into a divine sense, and the moment it spread out, it caused the surrounding death aura to become even denser.
Even the countless human skulls in the sea of human skulls all moved when those words reverberated in the air. The eyes of the human skulls immediately lit up with a dark light.
This scene was too strange. From Wang Lin's point of view, it was as if all the skulls in front of him had opened their eyes and possessed intelligence. Rays of ghostly light instantly gathered on his body.
The moment these incalculable gazes landed on him, the life force in Wang Lin's body immediately collapsed and dissipated. Half of his black hair instantly turned as white as snow.
Wang Lin's face instantly aged at a speed visible to the naked eye. In the blink of an eye, he had turned into a middle-aged man.
A feeling of weakness that he had never felt before appeared in Wang Lin's heart. His cultivation wasn't damaged, but this feeling of weakness lingered for a long time.
"Take out the person you want to save!" The voice of the Xiang Clan's ancestor echoed out.
Wang Lin was silent for a moment, then he slapped his bag of holding. The sphere of light containing Li Muwan's Nascent Soul flew out. However, just as the sphere of light was about to land on Wang Lin's palm, a domineering death aura swept up the sphere of light and shot toward the storm in the center.
At this moment, Wang Lin forgot everything. He forgot about the unsurpassable gap between them. His eyes instantly turned red, and his third eye on his forehead flashed with a red light.
"What are you doing!?" Wang Lin let out a roar and charged toward the death aura surrounding Li Muwan!
A cold snort came from the coffin, and another wave of death aura wrapped around Wang Lin. At this moment, Wang Lin seemed to have gone mad. His third eye on his forehead opened without hesitation. A red light flashed out in the shape of a fan and landed on the death aura.
The death aura immediately collapsed, and Wang Lin moved like lightning toward the sphere of light containing Li Muwan!
"Noisy!
The Old Man has taken half of your life force, so he knows how to use the Qi Xi technique! "
The ancient voice echoed, and Wang Lin had no choice but to stop. He stared at the coffin in front of him with a cold light in his eyes.
Under the influence of the death aura, the sphere of light containing Li Muwan collapsed with a bang. While Wang Lin was worried, Li Muwan's Nascent Soul was not injured at all, and it calmly floated in the air.
"So it's a remnant Nascent Soul with no life force left in this world!
No wonder she came here to beg the Old Man to use the Qi Xi technique! "
Wang Lin remained silent as he looked at the coffin in front of him.
"However, if the Old Man used the Qi Xi technique when he was at his peak, he would be able to recover this remnant Nascent Soul, or even awaken it.
However, right now, the Old Man only has a 30% chance of success! "
As he spoke, the eyes of many of the heads in the sea of heads lit up. Suddenly, strands of death aura surrounded Wang Lin's body.
Wang Lin did not resist. As the death aura surrounded him, strands of life force were extracted from his body. This life force was Wang Lin's lifespan!
As the life force dissipated, Wang Lin's hair turned completely white and fell off in large amounts. His body gradually withered and his skin became filled with wrinkles.
His appearance rapidly aged from that of a middle-aged man. In just a few breaths of time, he had turned into an ancient old man. His appearance could still be vaguely seen from the past.
Wang Lin's eyes dimmed, and the feeling of weakness increased several fold. He could vaguely feel something calling out to him from the void.
It was as if there was a force waving at him, wanting to take him away.
After cultivating for a thousand years, how could Wang Lin not understand what this force was … this was the reincarnation cycle of the Heavenly Dao. He didn't have much lifespan left, and the reincarnation cycle of the Heavenly Dao had already begun to call him. It was just like how Li Muwan had died when her lifespan ran out!
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