As for Wang Lin, after the pressure disappeared, his expression became gloomy and he began to ponder. The moment the pressure appeared, Ye Zizai left to send a message. There must be a problem!
Although Ye Zizai had left, Shiyin would be even more guarded. It would not be a good opportunity for him to escape. Wang Lin thought for a bit and spread out his divine sense.
However, when his divine sense touched the surrounding walls, it was immediately blocked. Only the small holes in the walls did not obstruct his divine sense.
However, the cold energy in the holes was unfathomable. Even after Wang Lin had probed about 300 meters into the holes, he still did not find anything strange. However, he could clearly feel that the cold energy had become even stronger. His divine sense could not withstand it and showed signs of collapsing.
He pondered for a bit and did not act rashly. He withdrew his divine sense and calmed his heart. He formed a few hand seals and quickly circulated his spirit force. Slowly, a deep blue light appeared on his body. The moment the light appeared, a whirlpool appeared around Wang Lin's body. Large amounts of white gas rushed out from the holes and were sucked into the whirlpool.
The disciples in Shiyin had just recovered from the pressure and were still in a state of shock. The moment Wang Lin began to cultivate, they could clearly feel the cold energy decrease. Because the cold energy came from a mysterious place deep underground, they could not see it, so they were all surprised.
Wang Lin looked at the endless cold energy and decisively stopped devouring it. He closed his eyes and began to digest the cold energy in his body.
As he was cultivating, Wang Lin suddenly felt the heaven defying bead on his chest become cold. He was startled and immediately took out the bead to find drops of liquid on it.
Wang Lin was pleasantly surprised. It has to be said that the only weakness of the heaven defying bead was that there was no spiritual energy inside. He could only use the spiritual energy liquid to cultivate inside. However, the longer he drank the spiritual energy liquid, the less effective it would be. Only the dew could maintain the effect.
However, harvesting dew was too slow, so ever since he started cultivating the Netherworld Ascension Art, Wang Lin rarely entered the dream space. However, he had always been harvesting dew, saving it for future cultivation in the dream space.
Now, for some reason, there was so much liquid in this heaven defying bead. Furthermore, he could clearly feel that the liquid was of the Yin attribute, and the Spiritual Qi fluctuations were no different from dew.
Wang Lin took a deep breath, took out the gourd, and began to collect the liquid.
After collecting all the liquid, Wang Lin's eyes flashed and he breathed out the cold Qi again. Suddenly, white Qi appeared all around. This time, Wang Lin's Divine Sense stared closely at the stone bead. He immediately noticed that a trace of white Qi quietly entered the bead. Then, several drops of liquid appeared on the surface of the stone bead.
Wang Lin's face lit up. He repeated the process again and again, slowly collecting a gourd of liquid.
The appearance of the gourd had completely changed. The dark blue surface was glowing. Even if it was Wang Lin, he would feel a chill when he touched the gourd.
If it was anyone else, just touching it would cause a chill to enter their bones and freeze their flesh.
Carefully putting the gourd into his storage bag, Wang Lin took out another gourd. Just as he was about to continue, he suddenly glanced at the stone bead and his expression changed.
On the surface of the stone bead, there was originally only a faint leaf carving, but now there was another one. The two leaves were symmetrical.
Wang Lin's eyes flashed. According to Situ Nan's guess, this heaven defying bead needed to absorb the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth. Only then would the bead be able to recognize its master.
The water element was already full, so the cloud carvings on the bead had disappeared and turned into leaves. This meant that the bead needed to provide wood element spiritual energy.
However, wood element materials were extremely difficult to find. Wang Lin had seen a few at the Teng Family City's trading center before, and they were all expensive. He didn't know how to get those materials for the bead to absorb. He wasn't even sure if those wood element materials could help the bead evolve, so he gave up on the idea.
But now, there was an extra leaf on the bead. This was worth Wang Lin thinking about.
After staring at the bead for a while, Wang Lin's eyes flashed. He was no longer in a rush to leave. At the very least, he had to wait until the bead finished evolving, or until he understood the mysteries of the bead.
However, he still had to do what he needed to do. A cold light flashed in Wang Lin's eyes. He put away the bead, formed a seal with his right hand, and shot out a ray of blue light. The moment the blue light hit the wall, the wall seemed to melt and a gap appeared. Without a word, Wang Lin quickly rushed out and followed the route he memorized.
The tunnel wasn't long, so it didn't take long for him to reach the other side of the cave. As soon as he walked out, Wang Lin suddenly stopped. He saw Mu Leng sitting cross-legged in the cave. He stared at Wang Lin and said,
"Ancestor, please return. Before the ancestor left, he specifically said that no one is allowed to leave their caves without permission. Ancestor, please don't make it difficult for me."
Wang Lin looked around, nodded, and took a few steps back. He turned around and walked back to his own cave. He muttered to himself, "Things have changed!"
Shiyin's security was strict. This was within Wang Lin's expectations, but no matter how strict it was, there was no need to arrange a mid stage Foundation Establishment cultivator outside Wang Lin's cave.
When he came before, Wang Lin clearly remembered that there was a Qi Condensation cultivator around the level of Shi San.
After thinking for a bit, Wang Lin found another exit in his cave and walked out. Not long after, he reached the end of the tunnel and a slightly smaller cave appeared in front of him.
But after taking a few steps, Wang Lin immediately stopped. On the ground of the cave sat a young man in black. His expression was cold as he stared at Wang Lin without saying a word. Behind him floated an emerald green coffin.
"Mid stage Foundation Establishment again …" Wang Lin's pupils shrank. He took a few steps back and left. It wasn't until he was far away that the other person's divine sense moved away from him.
Just like that, Wang Lin walked through a total of 11 tunnels. Other than the five that were sealed by the other person, the other six were all guarded by Foundation Establishment cultivators. There was even a late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator sitting in one of the caves.
Wang Lin's heart was heavy as he returned to his cave. He sat down in a lotus position and began to ponder. None of this was a coincidence. Combined with what he guessed about Ye Zi Zai, it wasn't hard to guess that this was all arranged by Ye Zi Zai to make it impossible for Wang Lin to escape.
Wang Lin frowned. Out of these six people, other than the late stage Foundation Establishment cultivator, Wang Lin was confident that he could defeat the other five even if they had corpse puppets. However, this was only the first level of the cave. On the way Mu Rong led him, they passed by more than 30 caves.
Because of this, there was no way he could leave in a short amount of time. If he made a move, he would be stopped by Shiyin's late stage Foundation Establishment or Completion Stage cultivators before he could even reach the last cave.
Wang Lin couldn't help but bitterly smile. Right now, he really hoped that Si Tu Nan would wake up. If he had Si Tu Nan's teleportation ability, then leaving this place would be much easier.
After calling the stone pearl a few times, Wang Lin realized that Si Tu Nan did not show any signs of waking up. Wang Lin sighed and gave up on this option.
However, Wang Lin also knew that leaving this place was not something he could do in a short amount of time. What he did before was merely a test.
After forming a hand seal and sealing the cave, Wang Lin once again breathed in and out the cold Qi. This time, not only did he take out the stone pearl and the gourd, but he also used his Spiritual Energy to enter the small holes in the cave.
Wang Lin did not spread out his Spiritual Energy. Instead, he concentrated all of his Spiritual Energy into one of the small holes. Because of this, his Spiritual Energy's range of observation increased by a lot.
Originally, with his current Spiritual Energy, he could easily see within a radius of a thousand feet.
However, the walls of the cave were extremely strong, so he was completely confined within the cave.
As Wang Lin breathed in and out, the white Qi rapidly emerged. Wang Lin's Spiritual Energy was like a thin thread that continuously entered a small hole. The path inside the small hole was twisted and turned, but the size was shocking.
Soon, he arrived at the previous location. This place was about a hundred feet away from the cave that Wang Lin was in.
After his Spiritual Energy reached this place, it was difficult to go any further. The cold Qi was like a tidal wave that came in waves. If it wasn't for the fact that Wang Lin cultivated the Underworld Ascension Method, which gave him a strong immunity against the cold Qi, his Spiritual Energy would have immediately collapsed.
Even so, the speed at which Wang Lin's Spiritual Energy went in had slowed down. After an unknown amount of time, his Spiritual Energy finally reached a distance of three hundred feet. At this time, the white Qi was getting stronger and stronger. It continuously rushed in and intersected with each other, almost forming a door.
Wang Lin clenched his teeth and fiercely slammed his Spiritual Energy. He broke through this "door" and his Spiritual Energy rushed in.
The scene in front of him made Wang Lin, who was originally meditating with his eyes closed, suddenly open his eyes …