Renegade Immortal

by Srtyi

Wang Lin is a very smart boy with loving parents. Although him and his parents are shunned by the rest of their relatives, his parents always held high hopes that he will one day become someone great. One day, Wang Lin suddenly gained the chance to walk the path of an immortal, but found that he only had mediocre talent at best. Watch Wang Lin as he breaks through his lack of talen

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Chapter 33 – Main Text

Wang Lin had no interest in this Foundation Establishment Pill at all. Seeing the price already so high, he sighed for Wang Hao. It seemed that Wang Hao wouldn't be able to get this Foundation Establishment Pill.

While thinking this, he heard Wang Hao shout, "230 Qi Gathering Pills! This is my limit. Any more and I'm not trading!"

The scene quickly became silent. 230 Qi Gathering Pills was already a very high price. Not many could beat it. But the Foundation Establishment pill was simply too rare, and few were willing to give theirs up.

The person selling the Foundation Establishment pill smiled. He arrogantly said, "With just 230 Qi Gathering Pills, you want to trade for my Foundation Establishment pill? If the price is under 2000 Qi Gathering Pills, I'm not trading!"

Wang Lin quickly listened to his voice. After pondering for a while, he secretly guessed that this person was Wang Zhuo, but he was not sure, because he was completely hidden by the black fog.

Wang Hao shrugged and didn't say a word. Everyone present was stunned by that person's arrogance.

The person in charge coughed and said, "Ok everyone, since that person doesn't want to trade his Foundation Establishment Pill, let us move on and continue the exchange."

Before long, another person came out and presented their goods. Soon, it was Wang Lin's turn. He stepped forward, took out a small bottle, and said, "A mysterious liquid that could match 1 drop to 1 qi gathering pill. There are about 100 drops in here. I only want the chants for the 4th layer or later." After he finished talking, he opened the bottle. Everyone could sense the spiritual energy within it.

Many people became mesmerized. Although Qi Gathering Pills were filled with spiritual energy, it was still a finished product. This liquid had many more uses, like refining more pills.

Even when refining treasures, like a flying swords it would help increase its spiritual power.

Someone immediately said, "I'll trade the chant for the 4th layer with you!"

Wang Lin raised his brow and said, "Only the 4th layer?"

Another person shouted, "How about the chants for the 4th, 5th, and 6th layers to trade for that mysterious liquid?"

Wang Lin pondered a little. He shook his head and said, "I want the chants for the 4th through 15th layer."

"Brother, aren't you making this too difficult for us? Even second elder apprentice-brother Can Jie, who won last year's competition, is only at the 6th layer, and they only have the chant for 7th, 8th, and 9th layer. From the 10th to 15th layer, only a few elder apprentice-brothers have them!"

Wang Lin was stunned. He hesitated for a while. Suddenly, a voice from not far away said, "If you have 200 drops of that liquid, I can give you the chant for layers 4 through 9!"

Everyone looked toward the voice and saw a man wearing purple walking toward the disguised Wang Lin. He was only about 20 years old, but had a cold expression. When he arrived, he looked at the surroundings and everyone was shocked. They respectfully said, "Second elder apprentice-brother Can Jie!"

The purple clothed man didn't pay any attention to them, but said to Wang Lin, "Do you have 200 drops?"

Wang Lin's face hardened and his pupils shrank. He was getting an extremely dangerous feeling from this person, far exceeding anyone else that he had met in the Heng Yue Sect.

Even master Sun Dazhu and brother Zhang couldn't compare to him.

Wang Lin respectfully replied, "This liquid is something I found by accident. Besides these 100 drops, I have a few dozen left to use for myself. I don't have that much."

The purple clothed man pondered a little. He tossed out a piece of jade and said, "Fine. Give me the rest of the liquid and these chants are yours!"

Wang Lin took the piece of jade and scanned it to make sure it contained what he needed. He took out another bottle and placed the two bottles on the ground. He didn't get closer to the purple clothed man.

The purple clothed man looked at Wang Lin, then waved his hand. The two bottles flew towards him. After scanning them with his divine sense, he said, "If you get more of this liquid, come look for me in the back mountains. It doesn't matter if its Foundation Establishment pills, flying swords, skill jade, or even the chant for the 10th layer or later. I can get them all!" After he finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Wang Lin's eye became narrow and his gaze became cold. The last thing that purple clothed man said was simply too vicious. If it was the people in the crowd, they might not have immediately realized, but Wang Lin had always been smart, so he could always see the deeper meaning in things.

The words the guy said meant that anyone could take the mysterious liquid to him to trade. That placed Wang Lin in a very dangerous position.

Although he couldn't see other people's eyes, he could feel that there were people secretly watching him.

But after Wang Lin decided to bring out the spring water, he had already prepared for this possibility, so he didn't panic and calmly checked his surrounding.

The crowd quickly continued the exchange until it was over. As people left, there were people who were filled with joy, as well as many filled with disappointment.

Wang Lin did not leave with Wang Hao, but placed a dozen or so talismans on his legs and rushed out. He disappeared in the blink of an eye.

Wang Hao was a smart person and understood why Wang Lin did this. He quickly used a talisman and left the exchange ground.

The disciples that revealed some good treasures all did the same and quickly left.

The several disciples that had malicious thoughts toward Wang Lin after seeing the mysterious liquid were all taken by surprise. They wanted to chase, but only saw a shadow. They cursed a few times and left.

Some of the higher cultivation level disciples didn't go and blatantly try steal things. This was, after all, an exchange between disciples of the same sect. If killing and stealing really occurred and was found out by the other's master, then there would be dire consequences.

As Wang Lin was running, he kept placing more talismans on his legs. The speed the talismans gave stacked, so, with a few dozen talismans on his legs, he quickly returned to the sect courtyard.

The person he was the most afraid of was the purple clothed man. He didn't immediately return to the chore house, but hid in an empty room.

Only when daylight appeared and the disguise disappeared did Wang Lin carefully leave the room. Luckily, along the way back, there was nothing.

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Chapter 34 – Training

With the chants all the way up to the 9th layer, Wang Lin could continue his cultivation. He returned to his reclusive lifestyle, while heavy tension loomed over the Heng Yue Sect.

All of the inner sect disciples were preparing for the competition. If they could reach the top, then magic treasures, pills, talismans, spirit stones, and more will be rewarded to them.

What made their eyes green with envy was that this time, the sect took out one of its big treasures, the Two Moon Ring, as the reward for first place.

This Two Moon Ring belonged to a senior of the sect from 300 years ago. It contained great defensive power.

Therefore, all of the inner disciples were secretly preparing their strength.

As for the newcomer competition, since there were only a handful of new inner disciples, everyone predicted that the winner of the newcomer competition will be Wang Zhuo.

As for the honorary disciples, they became even more hostile toward each other. The competition to become an inner disciple was a chance to turn their lives around. Everyone was secretly preparing for it.

This tense atmosphere had nothing to do with Wang Lin at all. In addition to cultivation, he also practiced the attraction technique. The day before the end of the month, he left the chore house and headed straight for the main courtyard.

The technique to hide his cultivation level was activated. The spiritual energy in his body quickly disguised itself to the level of the first layer of Qi Condensation.

He found that the people at the chore house were too annoying and kept him from cultivating properly, so he wanted an excuse to go to a quiet place to cultivate.

After arriving at the main courtyard, he walked in. A while later, he stepped in front of Sun Dazhu's herb garden and respectfully said, "Disciple Wang Lin requests to meet master."

"Why are you here?" The herb garden's gate didn't open. It seemed Sun Dazhu really didn't like this disciple.

Wang Lin's expression remained normal. He respectfully said, "Disciple's cultivation is too low, and I'm afraid I won't be able to win in the competition and lose master face, so I would like to refrain from participating."

Sun Dazhu sneered, "Hmmm, it seems you are still a bit self aware, you little brat. Look at elder Xu's disciple, Wang Zhuo. So young, yet already at the peak of the first layer, and could enter the second layer at any time. Even if you went, it would be useless. The others could kill you with their finger. I even heard you guys are relatives. How could there be such a big difference?"

Wang Lin didn't care and said, "Wang Zhuo has been smart since he was young, and he's naturally talented. He's not someone this disciple could compete with."

Sun Dazhu pondered for a while and asked, "Did you find any more gourds in the past half year?"

Wang Lin shook his head, revealing a look of helplessness, and said, "This has really been strange. I have been to the mountain multiple times, but haven't seen any gourds."

Sun Dazhu coldly said, "Do you have anything else to say? If not, then scram. Every time I see you, I get angry!" Every time he laid eyes on Wang Lin, he couldn't contain his anger. He wished he could just kill Wang Lin with one hand so the others wouldn't laugh at him.

Wang Lin bowed and respectfully said, "Master, disciple is really bored from staying up here in the mountains and would like to leave until after the new year. What do you think?"

Sun Dazhu refused and said, "Leave the mountain? You can't. I almost forgot until you mentioned it, but in four years is the competition between the other sects. This time, the head already ordered that after the new year, most of the inner disciples will go into intense closed door training. You should go so you don't ruin my name in the intersect competition."

"Intense training?" Wang Lin was stunned.

"Every 20 years, there must be a competition between the sects. That has been the rule for hundreds of years. Although Xuan Dao Zong is friendly with our Heng Yue sect on the surface, we secretly have a lot of disagreements. For the past 100 years, we have always lost to them, which is very disgraceful. That's why there will be this intense training. You listen to me well. If after four years you haven't made any advancement and make me lose face during the competition, I'll kick you out of the Heng Yue Sect no matter what!" After saying that, Sun Dazhu didn't explain anymore.

Wang Lin secretly let out a sigh. It seemed that training outside the sect won't be possible. Seeing that Sun Dazhu's tone wasn't friendly, he nodded and took his leave.

After returning to the chore house, Wang Lin pondered a little. Since he couldn't train outside the sect, let's use this intense training to properly cultivate.

The next day, the competition began. The scene was very lively. Wang Lin didn't go. He used this time to cultivate and solidify his foundation in the second layer.

In the next few days, Wang Lin found out from the gossip of the honorary disciples that among the inner disciples, apprentice-brother Zhang got first place, but only because no purple ranked disciple participated.

As for Wang Zhuo, he unsurprisingly became the king of the new disciples. He became even more arrogant and no longer viewed disciples his age as people on his level.

A week later, in the morning, a bell rang throughout the sect. It rang five times. That meant that all inner disciples must quickly gather outside the main hall.

Wang Lin couldn't hear the bell from inside the dream space. It wasn't until the furious Sun Dazhu kicked open the chore house's door and woke him. He quickly put away the bead and opened up the door to the secret training room, only to see Sun Dazhu's furious face, shouting, "Wang Lin are you deaf? Did you not hear the bell? You bastard! All of the inner disciples participating in the intense training are there but you! You made me lose face before elder apprentice-brother! You… you make me so mad!"

Wang Lin raised his brow and remained silent.

Sun Dazhu gave Wang Lin a hard look. He knew that this was not the time to scold his disciple, because the head and apprentice-brothers were all waiting. Without a word, he grabbed Wang Lin and stepped onto the seven colored cloud and flew into the sky.

At top speed, they arrived in front of the main hall. Sun Dazhu mercilessly threw Wang Lin to the ground. Sun Dazhu said, in a low whisper, "Wang Lin, follow me in. If you make me lose face again, I'll go against the sect rules and kill you!" Those last words by Sun Dazhu were filled with killing intent. He was already at his wit's end with this disciple. He later decided that he must find a reason to kick his disciple out of the sect.

Wang Lin rubbed his shoulder. If he hadn't already reached the second layer of Qi Condensation, then that fall would have broken his arm. He lowered his head and whispered, "Disciple obeys."

Sun Dazhu snorted. He tidied his clothes and walked into the main hall. Wang Lin took a deep breath and suppressed his anger as he walked into the hall as well.

The Heng Yue Sect main hall was the most grand place within the sect. It was a wide hall with dozens of status of sages of the sect. The entire hall was filled with a sense of awe.

After Wang Lin followed Sun Dazhu into the hall, dozens of gazes suddenly gathered on him. He had difficulty breathing and quickly lowered his head.

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Chapter 35 – Back Mountain

More than 40 inner disciples stood inside the hall. There were disciples of black, white, and red rank, but no purple. All of these disciples had serious expressions. Among them, Wang Lin could see many faces that he knew, like Wang Zhuo, the girl named Xu, the girl name Zhou, apprentice-brother Zhang, and such.

Right in front of them sat two rows of more than 10 elders, all with cold expressions. Right in the middle sat a person, about 40 years old, wearing a blue gown, with eyes like lightning. He said, "Junior brother Sun, this is your disciple?"

Sun Dazhu quickly put up a smiling face and said, "Elder apprentice-brother, this is my disciple, Wang Lin. He entered the sect late, so he doesn't know the meaning behind the bell ringing 5 times."

A red faced man sitting on the right sneered, "The disciple is really like his master. He's kinda dumb, just like you were back then."

A man on his side laughed. "Apprentice-brother isn't correct. Junior brother Sun at least had some talent, so he was much stronger than his disciple."

Sun Dazhu's face changed between red and white for a while. He gave Wang Lin a hard look. He snorted and ignored Wang Lin and went to sit down.

The man in the blue gown frowned. He looked at Wang Lin one more time before forgetting about him and said, "As said before, these 4 years of intense training must provide results. We must win in the competition against Xuan Dao Zong. Starting today, you will be entering the back mountain. Everyone will be provided with their own cultivation place. This time, the sect will provide 10,000 qi gathering pills for you all to use. None of you may leave the mountain during this time."

All of the inner disciples replied in unison.

The man in the blue gown nodded and continued to say, "I hope that in four years, one of you will become a purple clothed disciple. Purple clothed disciple means a core disciple far more important than inner disciples. Forget it, experience it for yourself. Now, all of you, go to the back mountain and someone will lead to you the cultivation ground."

After he finished speaking, he waved his sleeves and a white light shot out from them. After circling the hall once, he growled, "Open!"

The white light suddenly expanded and soon engulfed all of the inner disciples.

"Go!" Following the growl from the man in the blue gown, the white light sparkled and disappeared from the main hall.

Wang Lin felt a warm sensation in his body. After the blink of an eye, he found himself inside a valley. This place had much more spiritual energy than the other places. Sounds of water could be heard from all sides. He scanned the area and found the other inner disciples chatting with each other.

This valley had no plants. It was a cliff with many holes carved into it, like a bee hive. Some of the holes were sealed with giant rocks.

Suddenly Wang Lin noticed that someone was watching him. He turned around and saw Wang Zhuo smiling at him coldly.

At that moment, a youth came out from one of the holes in the cliff. He was wearing purple clothes and coldly looked at everyone. He said, "Fellow apprentice-brothers and sisters, this is the back mountains of the Heng Yue Sect. As for back mountain, it's not really the back of the Heng Yue Sect, but a cultivation ground for inner disciples built by several Soul Transformation stage experts 500 years ago. This place has much thicker spiritual energy than normal. Since you are here, you must concentrate on cultivating, or else don't blame us seniors for kicking you out of the back mountain."

Wang Lin recognized this purple clothed youth. He was the person that bought Wang Lin's spiritual energy liquid . It was rumored that he was already at the 6th layer of Qi Condensation and that he was very unpredictable.

Wang Lin lowered his head. This kind of scheming he understood well because he put him into a dangerous situation before.

"I have the chants for the 7th layer and below. If you reach that level, but don't have the chant, come to me. Once I check you, I'll give it to you. As for where you will be practicing, any one of these caves that isn't sealed can be chosen. Here are bottles of Qi Gathering pills. Each bottle contains 50 pills and will be refilled once a year." After he finished speaking, he waved his hand and 50 white bottles appeared on the ground.

Some of the inner disciples stepped forward and took a bottle, then started to look for the entrance to the cultivation area.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. Because he took a disguise pill back then, that person didn't know his identity, so he went up and took a bottle. Zhang Kuang stood at the side, looking at the inner disciples take the bottles one by one, when he suddenly saw Wang Lin. He had a strange look on his face and said, "Whats your name? How come you haven't even reached the first layer of Qi Condensation? Who is your master?" [E/N: Apparently, his name changed from Can Jie to Zhang Kuang. Whatever.]

Wang Lin stopped and turned around. He respectfully said, "Senior brother, my name is Wang Lin. My master is Sun Dazhu. My talent is lacking, that's why I haven't reached the first layer yet."

Zhang Kuang was stunned. He smiled. "You are Wang Lin? I heard about you before. Although talent is important, perseverance is also key. Since your talent is lacking, you must work even harder!"

Wang Lin quickly promised.

"This cliff is too high for you since you're not even at the first layer. I'll give you a lift." Zhang Kuang waved his sleeves. An invisible force appeared under Wang Lin's feet and pushed him until he was in front of a cave.

Wang Lin respectfully thanked Zhang Kuang. After he turned around and entered the cave, his face quickly darkened. If he hadn't met this apprentice-brother before, he would have been thankful, but after seeing his true nature, he would, of course, not take this small favor to heart.

The cave wasn't large. There was only a stone bed and a lever on the wall. Wang Lin walked over and pulled the lever. Suddenly, a roaring sound could be heard as a giant rock fell down and completely sealed the cave.

After carefully examining the cave again and finding nothing wrong, Wang Lin was very satisfied with the place. When he looked for Sun Dazhu, he wanted to look for a place to cultivate outside of the sect. Although he was rejected, the current situation lead him to a place that was pretty close to his original plans.

The only downside was that there was no source of water inside the cave. Wang Lin's cultivation mainly relied on the spiritual energy liquid. But in his bag of holding, he had collected a lot of snow water, so it should be enough for him to use for a while.

He also heard sounds of water inside the valley. As long as he was a bit cautious, water shouldn't be an issue.

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Chapter 36 – Quarrel

After thinking about it, he took out the mysterious bead and started his first closed door training.

Time flew by, and in the blink of an eye, 2 years had passed. During those two years, Wang Lin was either cultivating or practicing his attraction technique, but he didn't feel lonely at all.

Even though it had been two years in the real world, in reality, he had been in closed door training for 13 years.

The spiritual energy here was very rich. He was very impressed. Although it couldn't compare to the spiritual energy liquid, whenever he was waiting in the real world, he found the spiritual energy to be at least twice as dense as it was outside of the back mountains.

Starting from the second layer, his cultivation became very slow. After cultivating in the dream space for more than 6 years, he reached the limit of the second layer. He then started to tackle breaking into the third layer. After countless tries, he finally broke through.

But what was causing him confusion and distress was that in the 7 years after, even though he had already reached the peak of the 3rd layer, he couldn't enter the 4th layer, no matter how hard he tried. It was not that he lacked spiritual energy. He felt a mysterious force stopping him every time he reached the critical point.

And this 3rd layer of Qi Condensation was also weird. It was unlike the 1st or 2nd layer, where once he reached the peak, he couldn't condense any more spiritual energy.

Although Wang Lin felt that he had reached the limit, the 3rd layer didn't seem to have a limit. If he continued to cultivate, his spiritual energy would continue to increase and keep transforming his body.

This caused Wang Lin to be very surprised, but no matter how hard he thought about it, he couldn't find an answer.

Today, all of the snow water had been used up. He only had one gourd of spiritual energy liquid left. That gourd had been with him for a long time. It was one of the three that Wang Lin buried in the mountains. He used two of them to make the 10th cloud appear on the bead, and considering that he almost died the last time he took a gulp of it, he had been very wary of it and kept it in his bag of holding.

After a bit of hesitation, Wang Lin didn't take out that gourd. Based on his calculations, the amount of spiritual energy in that gourd had already reached a terrifying state. He could always use it once he reached a higher level of Qi Condensation.

He stood up and stretched his body. He walked to the lever and pulled. With a roar, the stone door opened. Sunlight poured into the cave and blinded Wang Lin. After he got used to the light, he came out of the cave and took a deep breath.

Looking down, there were a lot of people chatting in the valley. It seemed that a lot of these people found cultivation dull and came to socialize.

After pondering a little, he activated the technique to hide his cultivation level to the first layer of Qi Condensation. He waved his sleeves and jumped forward. His body slowly floated down to the ground.

In the 13 years that he had spent in the dream space, he had completely mastered the attraction technique. He didn't even need to say the chant anymore, he only needed to will it to use it.

Like now, he was using the attraction technique on his body. Although it could be said that once the attraction technique reached a certain level, it was doable, that was only when one moved slowly. The moment it speeds up, it becomes difficult.

But Wang Lin felt so confident now, that even if he needed to fly quickly, he wouldn't lose control. Without more than 10 years of practicing the attraction technique, this would be impossible.

But who had the time to waste on practicing for 10 years on this low level technique? All of cultivators were racing against time. If they had the time, why not practice some higher level techniques?

In order to not attract attention, Wang Lin slowly landed in the valley. Right as he landed, he could hear the sound of ridicule. "The sun really came out from the west side. Even the trash, Wang Lin, has reached the first layer of Qi Condensation and can finally come down from the cliff without help."

Wang Lin turned his head. He indifferently looked at Wang Zhuo. There were also a few people sitting next to him. They were all inner disciples.

A 24 to 25 year old white clothed youth laughed. "Wang Lin, you shouldn't be here. You should be mixed with those honorary disciples back in the chore house. At least there, you can feel high and mighty, but here, you are the worst of all of us."

Wang Lin scanned with his divine sense. Wang Zhuo was the same as him, reaching the peak of the third layer, and the white clothed youth had reached the peak of the 4th layer. He could break through it at any time.

Wang Zhuo proudly said, "Wang Lin, you sure were smart 2 years ago. You knew you weren't my match, so you just gave up. But let me tell you, trash will always be trash. You will never match up to me. I was the top newcomer two years ago, what are you?"

The white clothed youth beside him laughed. "Junior brother, go fetch me some water from the river there. Your senior brother is feeling good, so I might give you some pointers." As he was speaking, he threw a bottle. It landed at Wang Lin's feet.

Wang Lin remained silent and looked at the white clothed youth.

The white clothed youth said, with a dismissive look, "What does this mean? You want to fight? Let me tell you, second apprentice-brother already said that inner disciples can't fight with each other. If you don't act properly, don't blame me for teaching you a lesson."

"That's enough. All of you shut up!" A shout came from the cliff. Soon, a shadow appeared like lightning, revealing apprentice-brother Zhang's shadow. He frowned and looked at everyone and growled, "Wang Zhuo, Sun Hao, the two of your aren't cultivating, but are here bullying a junior who is only at the first layer of Qi Condensation. Is this really that interesting?"

The two's expression quickly changed. They quickly shot Wang Lin ugly looks and lightly snorted. Afterwards, they didn't say any more. They clearly feared marital brother Zhang.

Apprentice-brother Zhang's gaze turned to Wang Lin and equally harshly said, "Wang Lin, you really shouldn't have come, but since you're here, you should properly cultivate. In the world of cultivation, power is everything."

Wang Lin nodded. He hesitated a bit and asked, "Apprentice-brother Zhang, I have a question. After reaching the peak of the first layer of Qi Condensation, why, no matter what I do, can't I break into the second layer?"

Wang Zhuo snorted and said, "With your talent, don't even think about reaching the second layer in your lifetime!"

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Chapter 37 – Four Years

Apprentice-brother Zhang gave Wang Zhuo a cold look and said, "The key to breaking through really does have a lot to do with your talent. Some people only need a few attempts to succeed, while others need hundreds or thousands of years or never even break through in their life."

Wang Lin revealed a melancholy expression and suddenly asked, "Apprentice-brother Zhang, is breaking through every layer this difficult? Is breaking from the 2nd to 3rd and 3rd to 4th as hard?"

Apprentice-brother Zhang nodded, "Yes. The later the stage, the harder it is especially, the 3rd to 4th and 5th to 6th layer."

Apprentice-brother Zhang's answer also attracted a few other disciples. A female disciple suddenly asked, "Apprentice-brother, what is so difficult about going from the 3rd to 4th layer? I'm currently in the 3rd layer."

Wang Lin knew the person that talked. It was the girl named Zhou that Wang Huo was pursuing.

Apprentice-brother Zhang pondered a while and said, "Fine. Just today, I'll tell you guys about the two bottlenecks you will face below the 6th layer of Qi Condensation. The first bottleneck is from the 3rd to 4th layer. For some people, it's very easy, but for others, it's something they might never get past in their entire life. The key has nothing to do with talent, but in one's ability to understand the meaning behind the phrase "the road is merciless"."

He gave everyone a thoughtful look and continued, "Immortals need to cut away their mortal ties. If you can do it, then the 3rd to 4th layer is easy, if not, then it becomes hard. As for the bottleneck at the 5th to 6th layer, that is a change in the quality of spiritual energy in your body. spiritual energy slowly changes your body, and at that point, it starts making deeper changes. This requires a large amount of spiritual energy, so it became a bottleneck that blocks a lot of people.

After Wang Lin finished listening, he was stunned and silently pondered.

The other inner disciples all had different expressions and continued to ask questions. It wasn't until it became dark that everyone dispersed.

Wang Lin wandered into the valley, following the sound of water, frowning. Soon, a lake appeared before him.

A faint scent of spiritual energy was emitted from the water. Wang Lin went and drank some of the water. Although it couldn't match the spiritual energy liquid, it still contained enough to help increase his spiritual energy.

So he took out gourds and filled them with water, one by one. After a long time, he finally filled all of the gourds and turned around. His pupils immediately shrank as he saw second apprentice-brother standing a distance away, behind him, like a ghost. When he was filling the water he was constantly scanning the area with this divine sense, but didn't find anything. However, it seemed that Apprentice-brother Zhang had been there for a long time. Wang Lin's heart sank.

Zhang Kuang's eyes lit up and said, "Brother Wang, the river does contain a lot of spiritual energy, and is good for your cultivation, but I see you have a lot of gourds prepared already. Did you already know you would need them before you came here?"

Wang Lin put away his things without any change in his expression and said, "Master had previously informed me that the river would help my cultivation, so disciple has prepared a lot."

Zhang Kuang stared at Wang Lin for a while and said, "It's normal for Sun Dazhu to know this. You should go back and practice. To be able to reach the first layer in only two short years, it seems junior brother is really determined. That's good. I hope that when I seen you again, you will be at the second layer."

Wang Lin clasped his hands and left. Only after he returned to his cave did he finally relax a bit. His clothes were soaked in sweat. Good thing he trained himself to constantly use the technique to hide his cultivation level, otherwise, if Zhang knew that he had already reached the 3rd layer, he would definitely become suspicious. If Zhang tried to kill him, he wouldn't have the power to fight back.

Wang Lin quietly reminded himself, "Immortals are the same as mortals. There are many different types. In fact, the immortals are much more cruel than mortals, so I must not let anyone know I have this mysterious bead."

After pulling the lever to seal the cave again, Wang Lin sat down crossed legged and started to cultivate again.

The principle of cutting off all mortal desires and ties was to prevent these things from distracting them from their cultivation, but after entering the Heng Yue Sect, Wang Lin found that most of the immortals not only do not cut themselves off from their desires, but become even worse.

As a result, the term "cut off mortal desires" was a very vague expression, but according to Brother Zhang, it was the key to go from the 3rd to 4th layer, which seemed to be a contradiction.

After being puzzled for a long time and still not finding any clues, Wang Lin knew that he could never cut the ties with his family. The lucky part was that the 3rd layer wasn't like the first two layers. Even though he couldn't break through, his spiritual energy still increased. In the end, he gave up trying to break through the to the 4th layer quickly and just kept building his spiritual energy up.

Time quickly passed. One year, two years. Without knowing, two more years had passed. Wang Lin had been in closed door training for 4 years now. He only left the cave once more to refill with water to make into spiritual energy water for this cultivation.

Four years in the real world resulted in 25 years in the dream space. Including the time from before the closed door training, Wang Lin had been cultivating for 27 or 28 years already.

His Qi Condensation level was still stuck at the 3rd layer, but the amount of spiritual energy in his body was still increasing.

It was the last day of the 4 years of intense training. Outside, an arrogant voice shouted, "Fellow apprentice-brothers and sisters, the 4 years are up. Come out quickly. The head is here, preparing to send you all back."

All of the caves on the cliff opened up. The inner disciples made their way out from them one by one.

Wang Lin felt, with this divine sense, that these 40 plus people all had great harvests while training here in the past 4 years.

Wang Zhuo had already reached the peak of the 5th layer and was ready to break into the 6th layer. There were many others in the same situation. Everyone's cultivation had increased a lot.

The girl named Xu was at the 3rd layer, and as for brother Zhang, he was already at the 6th layer!

He vaguely felt that his cultivation was different from everyone else's. Just now, when he used his divine sense to scan everyone, it seemed as if no one else noticed.

The girl named Zhou had already said that she reached the 3rd layer two years ago, but under Wang Lin's scan, he observed that she was still at the 3rd layer, with no growth at all.

Wang Lin had a guess. It seemed others' 3rd layer weren't like his, without a limit.

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Chapter 38 – Light Speck

After analysing the situation in great detail, he felt that this had something to do with him cultivating in the dream space. He had experienced many of the bead's mysteries in these past 4 years.

When cultivating in the dream space, he could feel that those glowing orbs released a light that got absorbed by his body.

As for those glowing orbs, he had analysed them for a while, but still hadn't found their exact use.

Wang Lin no longer used the technique to conceal his cultivation level, as 4 years of cultivation in a place like the back mountains was a good enough reason to explain it all.

No one else knew that 20 years ago, in dream space time, he had already reached the 3rd layer.

Also, for the past 20 plus years, he had been constantly practicing his attraction technique and it had reached a terrifying level.

In fact, no one in the country of Zhao would spend 20 years practicing such a basic technique.

Suddenly, a white light appeared silently from the sky and covered everyone. The warm feeling came again, but this time, Wang Lin noticed a difference.

There were faint flashes of strange symbols in the light. The symbols came together to form a whirlpool that quickly pulled everyone in, and they disappeared from the valley.

When they reappeared, they were in the main hall. The sect head sat there, still wearing the blue gown. Next to him sat several elders.

In the moment, several powerful divine senses scanned them. The sect head smiled. He nodded and said, "For years have passed and I'm very pleased that all of you have made considerable progress. Very good. Now, all disciples that reached 5th layer or higher, stay. The rest of you, go and tell your masters of your harvest in these 4 years. In three days, Xuan Dao Zong will be here. This time, we must win. As for the changes in clothes, it will all be done after the competition with them."

The people all replied in unison. All of the disciples below the 5th layer left. Wang Lin looked around and didn't see Sun Dazhu.

After leaving the hall, Wang Lin made his way to Sun Dazhu's herb garden. He sent out his divine sense and found that the seal on the gate didn't stop him at all, so his divine sense went into the garden and he found Sun Dazhu there, cultivating. Sun Dazhu didn't notice his divine sense at all.

This seal that terrified him before now seemed to be filled with flaws. He now felt that if he wanted to break this seal, he could easily do so.

Wang Lin withdrew his divine sense and respectfully called out, "Disciple Wang Lin is here to greet the master."

After Sun Dazhu heard this, he hesitated for a while. After thinking for a long time, he somewhat remembered that he had accepted a disciple called Wang Lin 4 years ago. Then, he sent Wang Lin to the intense training. He was not sure if that trash had made any improvements.

Due to his curiosity, he opened the gate to the garden and arrogantly said, "Come in then."

Wang Lin walked in. Sun Dazhu examined Wang Lin and exclaimed, "You managed to get to the 3rd layer?!"

Wang Lin nodded and respectfully said, "Disciple has trained hard in these 4 years and barely made it into the 3rd layer."

Sun Dazhu blinked a few times. He seemed to remember why he had accepted Wang Lin as his disciple. He remembered that he was going to wait until this disciple reached the first layer and use the soul searching technique, but after hesitating for a while, he decided to give up. After all, it had been so many years, and the backlash of lowering his own cultivation didn't seem to be worth it.

Sun Dazhu glanced at Wang Lin and said, "Fine. Since you reached the 3rd layer now, you are a true disciple of Sun Dazhu, and since you are my only disciple, starting today, you can come back and live here again. In a few days, there will be the competition with Xuan Dao Zong. You can follow me there and broaden your horizons. Also, since you reached the 3rd layer, did you practice the attraction technique?"

Wang Lin's expression remained normal as he replied, "Disciple has practiced the attraction technique, but still feels very unfamiliar with it."

Sun Dazhu nodded and said, "That's natural. To be frank, these basic techniques are all about practice. The more you practice, the better you will be at it. Your master practiced it for a whole year and that could be considered the longest in the sect, see." As he was speaking, he moved his hand and a small colorful sword appeared and circled around the room before landing back in Sun Dazhu's hand.

"After practicing the attraction technique and reaching the second layer, one can start practicing the drive technique. The drive technique is what moves this sword. Of course, to reach this level, you must have at least have reached the 4th layer, but with the competition so close, we can't have you making a joke out of the sect. Your cultivation is low, so the chance of you going up is low, but you can't lose the sect any face. A flying sword can still be controlled with the attraction technique. I'll give you a token, so go to the sword shrine and pick out a good flying sword to wear and to show off at the competition." Sun Dazhu finished talking and tossed a token toward Wang Lin.

Wang Lin's expression became strange. He opened his mouth for a long time, but didn't know what to say.

Seeing Wang Lin's expression becoming strange, Sun Dazhu snorted and said, "Don't think of this as a small matter. You must look good, because if you make me lose face, I won't forgive you. Back then, your master did the same thing. Just holding a flying sword earned my master a lot of face."

Wang Lin wryly smiled and said, "Disciple will definitely look fierce, master. Don't worry."

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Chapter 39 – Wealth

Sun Dazhu nodded his head in satisfaction and said, "You can keep this token. It will allow you to freely enter and exit this garden. But remember, you aren't allowed to touch any of the herbs without my permission."

Wang Lin nodded. He knew that Sun Dazhu didn't like him, but seeing how he had already reached the 3rd layer, Sun Dazhu at least recognized him as a disciple. Wang Lin respectfully left.

Not long after, he arrived at the sword pavilion in the main courtyard. He was here many years ago, and being here again made him remember the scene from back then.

Outside the sword pavilion sat a disciple in white. He looked like he was 30 years old and kinda chubby. Wang Lin didn't recognize him, so it seemed he didn't participate in the intense training.

He looked at Wang Lin and exclaimed, "Junior brother, you are only at the 3rd layer. What are you doing here? This is a place only disciples of the 4th layer or higher can enter."

Wang Lin remained silent. He took out the token Sun Dazhu gave him and tossed it over.

After the fat disciple received the token, his face became strange, as if he was trying to hold back a smile. Soon, he couldn't hold it back any longer and burst out laughing. "It seems to be Elder Brother Sun's tradition. I had forgotten about this. Elder Brother Sun has this tradition that at everyone competition with another sect, he likes to show off a flying sword."

Wang Lin became embarrassed, especially thinking about Sun Dazhu's serious expression before. He warily smiled.

The fat man laughed for a long time. He forced down his laughter and waved his hand saying, "Junior brother, you can go. I recommend the sword 3 from the right. That flying sword is really amazing. The first time I saw it, I thought it was the most amazing flying sword in the country of Zhao."

Wang Lin quickly thanked the man and made his way toward the pavilion. When he was 5 meters away, he suddenly detected waves of energy from the pavilion, seemingly to try to prevent him from entering.

Seeing this, the fat man realized that he forgot to turn off the formation set around the pavilion. He wanted to tell Wang Lin, but right when he was about to speak, he suddenly stopped as if there was a fishbone stuck in his throat. His eyes grew large and stared at Wang Lin with a look of disbelief.

Wang Lin felt the resistance and remembered the shame from back then. He snorted and kept moving forward, 5 meters, 4 meters, 3 meters, 2 meters, 1 meter!

Despite the resistance increasing, it wasn't able to stop Wang Lin at all and he easily stepped into the sword pavilion. After entering the room, he used his divine sense and found that the room he was currently in was very strange. It seemed his divine sense was restricted to only 3 meters in range.

The fat man immediately jumped up with a shocked expression on his face. He was the disciple in charge of managing the sword pavilion, so he knew the power of the formations very well. Not to mention inner disciples, but lot of the elders couldn't force their way in like Wang Lin just had.

Only when recruiting disciples was the power of the formation weakened hundreds of folds, so that the swords' energy could be released to see if there were any matches.

"Is the formation broken?" The fat man couldn't believe what had just happened. He think the formation had to be broken, so he moved up to test it himself.

Just when he entered the 5 meter range, he felt a very strong pressure that made him feel like he was a leaf in the turbulent sea. He was mercilessly thrown out. His body flew black and made an arc as he fell. He coughed out a few mouthfuls of blood after he landed on the ground. After a long time, he recovered his senses. His was face filled with fear. He exclaimed, "Not… not broken!"

Wang Lin easily entered the room. Once inside, he saw that there were many flying swords of various lengths, all releasing powerful sword intent.

Wang Lin scanned each sword one by one without stopping, until he finally saw the sword that the fat man said was the most amazing looking sword in the country of Zhao.

Aftering seeing it, Wang Lin was speechless. It could really be considered the most amazing looking flying sword. It shouldn't really even have been regarded as a flying sword, but more like a rectangular sign.

It was two palms wide, 1 meter long, and the whole body shined with a golden light. The reason for the golden light was not because this was some sword with a magical spell, the golden light was there because the entire sword was coated with gold.

Also don't think that the coat of gold was there just to hide some amazing sword under, it was just regular iron.

On the handle were two large diamonds, and even the sword tassel was made from thin strips of gold.

In short, taking this sword out to show people would really amaze them, and maybe even make them think it was an amazing sword.

Wang Lin stroked his chin. He is really optimistic about the sword. If anything else, at least if he ever needed money in the future, he can sell it for a lot of money.

On the flying sword there was a sign that read, "This sword's name is Wealth. It was made by a sect elder 500 years ago and said to have unimaginable power. But in reality, this sword has been broken and rebuilt many times. However, because the elder had done much for the sect, his last will was to leave the sword here in hopes that it finds someone fitting in the future."

"Whoever chooses this sword must treat it well. If it breaks, it must be immediately repaired. If it's sold, then the person who sold it will be kicked from the sect!"

Wang Lin couldn't hold in his laughter. He picked up the sword and said, "I'll chose you then, but I, Wang Lin, am a poor man, so if you break, don't expect me to put you back together!"

After putting the flying sword away in his bag of holding, he left the room. The fat man outside looked nervous. Instead of the mocking laughter from before, he respectfully sent Wang Lin off.

Wang Lin's divine sense was restricted inside the pavilion, so he didn't see what happened to the fat man, so he was surprised at why the fat man suddenly became so respectful.

After returning to Sun Dazhu's garden, Wang Lin took out the sword. Sun Dazhu was stunned, and after mumbling to himself for a while, he glanced thoughtfully at Wang Lin and said, "When I saw this sword before, I didn't have the guts to take it, but it seems you have guts. Good. Take this sword with you to the competition in three days and show it off to the elders."

Three days later, the bell in the Heng Yue Sect rang nine times. It echoed for a very long time through the mountain. The head, all the elders, and many disciples all stood outside the main hall.

They saw a black dot appear in the sky. The black dot got closer and closer to them, until they saw it was a thousand foot long centipede. The centipede was completely black. It seemed to step on black clouds as it thunderously roared towards them.

All of the Heng Yue Sect inner disciples took a deep breath their eyes filled with fear. Some of the female disciples' faces became pale and their legs became weak.

"What's the big deal about it? Although this thousand foot long centipede looks scary, if everyone here struck it with a sword, it will still die!" The red faced man next to the sect head shouted. His voice was very loud. It seemed he wanted the people on the centipede to hear.

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Chapter 40 – Guest

Another elder stared at the centipede and whispered, "Hmph, the Xuan Dao Sect is always like this, trying to bully my Heng Yue Sect because we don't have a spirit beast. If there is a chance, we must kill that spirit beast, then we'll see how they will show off."

The sect head coldly snorted. A purple sword suddenly appeared before him. The sword flew into the sky and became a giant purple dragon. It coiled above the Heng Yue Sect and roared at the centipede.

The thousand foot centipede suddenly stopped and didn't dare to continue. Suddenly, a loud laugh could be heard from the top of the centipede.

"Huang Long, it is rumored that this purple sword contains the soul of a dragon. It seems that that rumor is not fake. Friend, I'm here now, and if we win again, the Heng Yue Sect must keep their promise and return the 137 treasures that were stolen from us, as well as give us 200 flying swords as compensation."

The sect head's expression remained normal. There was no trace of anger. He indifferently said, "Friend Ouyang, if the Xuan Dao Sect wins this time, the Heng Yue Sect will naturally do as promised, but if you guys lose, then you must hold back on your technique to control spirit beasts."

While he was speaking, the purple dragon slowly dissipated and turned back into a purple sword. It returned to sect head Huang Long's hand.

The thousand foot centipede started to move forward again. It circled above the Heng Yue Sect as it slowly descended. The inner disciples all pulled back to make room.

All of the elders had frowns on their faces from seeing the disciples recoiling.

After the centipede landed, it remained motionless. Dozens of people jumped down from the centipede's back. Besides three elders, everyone else was very young.

The Xuan Dao Sect had both male and female disciples. It seemed like they were making fun of the Heng Yue Sect because they knew that the Heng Yue Sect didn't have many purple clothed disciples, so every one of them was wearing purple. Another thing that surprised the Heng Yue Sect disciples was that every single Xuan Dao Sect disciple was good looking. The males were very handsome and the females were all very beautiful.

Especially the male and females disciple in the front. The male was extraordinarily handsome and full of masculinity. His long sleeves and hair fluttered in the wind, with a flying sword on his back that made him look even cooler. His appearance completely enchanted a few of the female inner disciples.

The female disciple wore full purple with hair long like a waterfall, bright red lips, and with beautiful eyes could move anyone's heart. Even Wang Lin couldn't stop his heart from beating faster when he saw her. He became very surprised as he carefully looked at her and quickly became more cautious.

Seeing all the disciples with memorized looks in their faces, one of the elders finally couldn't stand it anymore and shouted, "When did the Xuan Dao Sect started practicing charm arts? It is simply too despicable."

This shout quickly awakened many of the inner disciples. All of them had a surprised expressions.

One of the three elders of the Xuan Dao Sect laughed and said, "This must be elder Dao Xu. My name is Qin Gu Lei. You should take a closer look. My two disciples here didn't practice any charm arts, but were born with water spirit roots. I can see that among all of the Heng Yue Sect disciples, none of them are of such a pure spirit root. All of them are a mixture of all 5 elements. No wonder you can't tell the difference."

All of the Heng Yue Sect's elder's expressions became unsettled. After a long time, sect head Huang Long's expression remained the same as he changed the subject and said, "Friends of the Xuan Dao Sect, first, rest at our sect. The competition will begin in three days."

Elder Ouyang nodded. Smiling, he said, "Very good, our Xuan Dao Sect has had these competitions with the Heng Yue Sect for many years, but although there are some disputes, there is no need to hurt our relationship."

Among the many elders of the Heng Yue Sect, a very old man walked out. His face was full of wrinkles and he somewhat looked like he had no energy. He lightly chuckled and said to Ouyang, "Good friend Ouyang. It's been 20 years, do you still remember me?"

Elder Ouyang laughed out loud and said, "I've already seen you, old friend Song Dao You. This time, you must let me have some more of your homemade wine. I didn't have enough because you were too stingy last time. You only brought out one jar!"

Elder Song smiled. "It's not that I'm stingy, it's that when you start drinking wine, it's too scary. No matter how many jars I bring out, it's not enough."

As the two started talking, the other two elders of the Xuan Dao Sect found familiar faces and started chatting as if the unfriendly words before were never said.

As they talked about things that were happening in cultivation world of the country of Zhao, the eyes of the disciples of both sects were really opened.

Things like: the Wu Feng Sect had a male disciple that seduced the Misty Sect's head female disciple and made her pregnant. The Mist Sect's head went to the Wu Feng Sect for justice, but came back with a baby.

Or like the Heaven Sect, where some disciples abandoned the sect and joined the He Huan Sect. After some of them started to spread the benefits of joining the He Huan Sect, more and more disciples abandoned the Heaven Sect. This made the Heaven Sect's head so mad, that he sent out a kill order for any disciple that abandoned the sect.

Or about some genius baby being born, and finally about the Misty Sect's Core Formation expert's birthday being in a few months, so all the friendly sects would send people to attend and such.

Wang Lin listened for a long time and started to have a very blurred impression of the cultivation world in the country of Zhao. At one point, he suddenly felt someone looking at him. He turned his head and saw that female disciple from the Xuan Dao Sect looking at him a faint smile on her face.

Wang Lin nodded his head and secretly put up his guard. He didn't believe that he had the charm to attract someone's attention among all the disciples present.

Liu Mei was the leader of the inner disciples at the Xuan Dao Sect and was very confident in her innate charm ability. Within the Xuan Dao Sect, almost no one her age could resist. But that ordinary looking youth was the first to recover, which surprised her. She couldn't help but take a few more looks, but no matter how she looked at Wang Lin, he was only at the 3rd layer and was nothing out of the ordinary.

As the elders talked, the disciples of the two sects also started to chat with each other to prepare for the competition that was to come. All of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples seemed to have a mysterious fog that hid their cultivation level.

Wang Lin was also surprised that he became interested in the Xuan Dao Sect. This technique seemed similar to the disguise pill, but on a higher level.

The Heng Yue Sect disciples seemed to focus all their attention on that male and female, all of them with their own ideas, but Wang Lin noticed a strange phenomenon; all of the disciples of the Xuan Dao Sect, from the looks in their eyes, all seemed to shown signs of respect to a middle aged man in the back.

After giving that person a thoughtful look, Wang Lin withdrew his gaze, lowered his head, and remained silent.

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Chapter 41 – Centipede

The Xuan Dao Sect's disciples were also all secretly evaluating the Heng Yue Sect disciples, especially the ones who were at the 6th layer and higher. Wang Zhuo's looks and his peak 5th layer cultivation also made the Xuan Dao Sect disciples keep him in mind.

As for Wang Lin, he was only at the 3rd layer, so they completely ignored him.

Everyone aside from Liu Mei that is. She paid a little attention to him.

As the two sect's elders talked to each other, they were also secretly looking at each other's disciples. The Xuan Dao Sect's three elders became more and more happy as they saw the Heng Yue Sect's disciples. They thought that if these were all the disciples the Heng Yue Sect had, they would win this exchange for sure.

But they had secretly been in conflict with the Heng Yue Sect for many years and knew that they were very cunning. They would save the killing blow until the most crucial moment. Even though there were quite a few disciples of the 6th layer present, all of them were new faces, and all the ones that participated last time weren't in sight.

Those were the people who they needed to focus on during this exchange.

The sect head, Huang Long, scanned the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples. His gaze paused on the male and female with the pure water spirit roots. He secretly sighed in his heart. In the past 500 years, the Heng Yue Sect had really fallen without a successor. Even the Xuan Dao Sect, which was an unknown, small sect only 500 years ago could constantly beat the Heng Yue Sect. He originally thought that they would win this time, but two single element spirit root disciples had appeared this time, which made him very worried.

"Do we really need the purple clothed disciples to come out? They are currently in training…" Suddenly, Huang Long's gaze fell on the disciple all the way in the back and he finally made a decision.

"Fine. Since they sent this disciple, then it's time for our core disciples to come out as well."

Thinking about this, he laughed and said, "Friend Ouyang, the disciples must be tired from the trip. Let them go rest first. Us few old guys should have a good time. Come into the main hall." He waved his hand to welcome them into the main hall with a smile on his face.

Xuan Dao Sect's three elders nodded and followed him into the main hall.

The Heng Yue Sect's elders followed in behind them. Elder Xu was the last one. He turned to the disciples and said, "Wang Zhuo, you're in charge of taking care of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples. If there are any issues, teacher won't forgive you!"

Wang Zhuo seemed to be prepared for this. He respectfully said, "Teacher doesn't have to worry. I will properly take care of Xuan Dao Sect's fellow apprentice-brothers and sisters."

Elder Xu smiled at the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples and said, "Disciples of the Xuan Dao Sect, if you have any needs, you can ask Wang Zhuo. This old man is old, so I won't bother you young ones. You all should get to know each other more. The future of the cultivation world belongs to you all." After he finished speaking, he walked into the main hall with a faint smile.

The moment the elders left, the disciples immediately became more relaxed. Some of the Heng Yue Sect's female disciples went up to the male with the water spirit root and started to make small talk. Their eyes were filled with admiration.

Besides the Heng Yue Sect's 6th layer disciples appeared some Xuan Dao Sect's disciples. They made small talk about their experiences.

As for the other disciples, they all started to talk with each other. There were also many disciples who looked up to the unmoving centipede in amazement.

Wang Lin looked at the scene and didn't want to join in. He went off to the side and sat down on some steps. Looking at the blue sky and white clouds while bathing in the sunlight felt very comfortable.

There were many other disciples like Wang Lin that didn't like the crowds, like the female named Zhou. She saw Wang Lin and casually walked over.

"Junior brother Wang, I want to congratulate you on reaching the 3rd layer. There aren't many inner disciples as hardworking as you." The female named Zhou said with a smile. She sat down on the steps without a caring if it was dirty or not.

Wang Lin chuckled. He shook his head and said, "It's not like what you said at all. I see that most of these people are painstakingly cultivating as well."

The female named Zhou looked at the clouds. She sighed and said, "Junior brother Wang, don't sell yourself short. During the 4 year of intense training, almost all the inner disciples came out very often, but I rarely saw you. Cultivation is a very boring thing to do. Junior brother Wang, to be honest, I admire you. To reach the 3rd layer in 4 years takes a lot of perseverance!"

Wang Lin rubbed his nose and smiled, "Senior Sister Zhou, didn't you also reach the 3rd layer?"

The female named Zhou sighed and gloomily said, "I reached the 3rd layer three years ago, but now, all the disciples who were weaker than me back then have surpassed me. Maybe it's because I can't cut off my mortal ties."

Wang Lin pondered for a while and said, "The road is ruthless. If senior sister Zhou wants to advance, you must understand this phrase."

The female named Zhou looked at Wang Lin with her beautiful eyes. Revealing her beautiful teeth, she said, "Junior brother Wang, I can see that you have already reached the peak of the 3rd layer and can break through at any time. I think that you will soon surpass me too."

Wang Lin stared at the breathtaking beauty. He wryly smiled and said, "I won't be able to break through any time soon. These mortal ties aren't something I can cut easily."

The female named Zhou was stunned. She hesitated and asked, "Junior brother Wang, it's rude of me to ask, but what mortal ties can you not cut?"

Wang Lin shook his head and didn't answer. His mind was filled with thoughts about his parents.

The female named Zhou saw that Wang Lin was reluctant to answer. She sighed and said, "I can't cut the ties with my family. Cultivation is too ruthless. Maybe I'm not fit for this."

Wang Lin was about to speak, but he suddenly turned his head and saw Wang Zhuo staring at him and the female name Zhou with an evil gaze.

At that moment, they heard Wang Zhuo's voice. "Brothers and sisters of the Xuan Dao Sect, you all said this centipede likes to eat live animals. Let us, the Heng Yue Sect, take care of it for you during your stay. I have a junior brother, you see. Cultivation is just a waste of time for him, so making him catch live animals to feed this centipede is a much more fitting job for him."

The male disciple with the water spirit root hesitated and said, "Brother Wang Zhuo, this is a bit improper. The centipede's nature is wild. If a stranger were feed it, that person might be in danger."

Wang Zhuo said, with a gentle expression, "Don't worry, brother Liu. How could a cultivator back down because of danger? You are our guests. These chores should be left to us, the Heng Yue Sect."

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Chapter 42 – Centipede's Poison

Some of Wang Zhuo's companions agreed and one of them said, "This is true. Friends of the Xuan Dao Sect, leave it to us."

All of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples hesitated. The disciple named Liu wanted to use the elders as an excuse, but at that moment, the middle aged man in the back lightly coughed. The disciple named Liu's face twitched. He nodded and said, "If that's the case, then we will trouble the Heng Yue Sect."

Wang Zhuo smiled. He turned toward Wang Lin and loudly yelled, "Junior brother Wang Lin, the job of feeding the centipede will be left to you. You need to be careful."

Hearing Wang Zhuo's words, all of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples turned their heads to look at Wang Lin. They all had strange expressions on their faces. How could they still not understand the meaning behind it all? This Wang Lin must have offended Wang Zhuo.

Among the Heng Yue Sect disciples, one person laughed and said, "I was wondering who brother Wang Zhuo was talking about. As I expected, it's junior brother Wang Lin."

Someone else continued, "This job is really fitting for him. With his lack of talent, it's really a waste of time for him to cultivate. There is no chance for him to compete in the exchange."

"There really is no one else more fitting for these chores than him. Junior brother Wang Lin, you must do your job properly and not lose the Heng Yue Sect any face."

Hearing the laughter, the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples understood that not only had Wang Lin offended Wang Zhuo, but, because of his lack of talent, had also became the target of mockery among the other disciples.

This kind of thing happened in every sect, so it was not a big deal. As a result, all of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples categorized Wang Lin as trash.

The female named Zhou that was sitting next to Wang Lin frowned. She shot Wang Zhuo a disgusted look. She whispered to Wang Lin, "Junior brother Wang Lin, if I hadn't come, he wouldn't have targeted you. I…"

Wang Lin shook his head. Wang Zhuo hadn't just been targeting him for a few days. Ever since the first day they met and onwards, Wang Zhuo had always made an effort to ridicule him. The rest of the sect had looked down on him due to the fact that he got accepted by trying to commit suicide and then became an inner disciple due to Elder Sun.

Most importantly, he was only at the 3rd layer, making him the weakest among these disciples.

Power was everything. Wang Lin eyed the thousand foot centipede that was lying on the ground. He didn't care and pretended like he hadn't heard any of it

Not long after, Wang Zhuo assigned a few disciples to lead the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples to their rooms to rest.

The Xuan Dao Sect's disciple with the water spirit roots named Liu glanced at Wang Lin before he left and gently said, "You must be brother Wang Lin. Our Xuan Dao Sect's centipede has a wild nature. When you feed it, you mustn't get too close, or you will be injured."

Wang Zhuo looked at Wang Lin with a cold smile. He didn't bother him anymore after that. Soon, everyone dispersed from outside the main hall.

The female named Zhou frowned. She talked with Wang Lin for a bit more, then left.

Looking at the deserted area, Wang Lin stood up and walked toward the centipede. He stopped 10 feet away from it and carefully examined the spirit beast.

Upon a closer look, this thousand foot centipede was an enormous beast. The body was formed by many sections, and between each section were rings with thorns pointing out like countless swords. There were also faint black spots all over its body, and its head had two massive pincers sticking out.

In addition, what attracted the most attention were the two long red whiskers that moved without wind, as if they were two very long snakes.

As if it knew Wang Lin was looking at him, it opened and closed its eyes, giving Wang Lin a cold glance. Wang Lin immediately felt a cold sensation sweep by.

Wang Lin's body felt cold, but the movement of spirit power in his body immediately dispersed the coldness.

The thousand foot centipede revealed a surprised expression. It gave Wang Lin a deep and thoughtful look, then closed its eyes and ignored Wang Lin. Wang Lin revealed an interested expression. No wonder this was a spirit beast, it even had human-like expressions.

While musing this, he left at a brisk pace for the mountains. Using his divine sense, he easily captured some small animals and came back.

Along the way, Wang Lin saw some of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples being lead by some senior disciples. When they saw Wang Lin with the small animals in his hands, they laughed, which drew the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples' attention.

One of the Xuan Dao Sect's female disciples, who looked very pretty, with a face that looked so delicate, it felt as if it could be broken by a drop of water, laughed. "Junior brother, all of those small animals you caught won't be enough to feed the thousand foot centipede. You should go catch a large worm. Those are the centipede's favorite."

One of the inner sect disciples immediately tried to suck up and said "Junior sister Ouyang, this dumb kid is like a mute. There is no need to talk to him. You didn't know this, but he isn't qualified to cultivate. He failed all of the entrance tests and then tried to commit suicide, which forced the elders to accept him as an honorary disciple."

Wang Lin was familiar with the person who talked. He was the one that ridiculed him back during the training period, Sun Hao.

Someone from the Xuan Dao Sect quickly asked, "Honorary disciple? But I see him wearing red. He should be the Heng Yue Sect's inner disciple."

Sun Hao loudly laughed. "I'm not done yet. This kid used some lowly method to gain the favor of one of the elders and was quickly raised to an inner disciple. But even so, with his talent, he will only be laughed at for the rest of his life."

Wang Lin glanced at them and left. He arrived back near the centipede and threw the small animals next to it.

The moment the small beasts saw the centipede, they immediately fell to the ground, trembling in fear.

The centipede opened its eyes and didn't even look at the small animals. He spat out a black gas. The moment the black gas touched the small animals, there was a sizzling sound.

In a blink of an eye, the small animals turned into a pool of blood. The centipede sucked the blood into its mouth.

Wang Lin took a few steps back. His eyes lit up. Centipedes typically contain poison, and these poisons were their greatest weapon.

As a child, he read a book that mentioned that the poison of a centipede was related to its size. Simply said, the larger the centipede, the stronger the poison.

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Chapter 43 – Old Friend

The centipede before him was one hundred feet long. The poison it contained must have reached an unimaginable level. Wang Lin wasn't unfamiliar with centipedes. Many of the children caught centipedes to play with, and many used them to feed their chickens.

Sometimes, they would accidentally be bitten by the centipede, but all they needed to do was wash the wound with a lot of water, then at most lay in bed for a few days and they would be fine.

There was even a time where he collected centipedes for their poison. The doctor at the village said that if the centipedes' poison was used properly, it could be used to cure illnesses. In the early days, his father couldn't afford to buy wood for his work, so he went up to the mountains to chop wood and let the cold air enter his body. This caused him to almost lose his life.

At that time, the prescription made by the doctor contained centipede poison.

Although his father's illness was cured, the illness left its roots in his father's body. Every time it rained, his father would be in a lot of pain. The prescription the doctor gave to help with the pain contained centipede poison as well, so Wang Lin had caught a lot of centipedes for his father.

Until now, Wang Lin still remembered what happened back then.

Looking at the hundred foot centipede, Wang Lin stroke his chin. If the small centipedes' poison could help his dad's illness, then the poison from this centipede might just remove the root of the problem once and for all.

But the centipede before him was simply too large, and Wang Lin was just too small compared to it. He was afraid that he wouldn't be able to get any poison and hurt himself in the process.

Suddenly, Wang Lin remembered a method for obtaining centipede poison. This method was passed down through the generations. It was to make a pill to feed to the centipede. Once the centipede consumed said pill, it would spit out poison.

Thinking about it, he stared at the centipede and walked toward the pill house. The pill house contained the most materials in the sect. He also hadn't seen Wang Hao in 4 years, so it would be good to check up on him.

It was already getting dark when Wang Lin arrived at the pill house and saw Wang Hao carefully exiting from the side door. Wang Hao saw Wang Lin and gestured him to be silent. He motioned him to go outside.

Wang Lin was stunned. He sent out his divine sense and found the 3rd elder staring at the pill furnace with a serious expression on his face.

After walking away for a while, Wang Hao saw that Wang Lin had silently followed him out. He grabbed Wang Lin and quickly ran. After running away for a while, he finally let out a breath.

Wang Hao was short of breath. He warily looked toward the pill house and quickly asked, with a glint of hope, "Wang Lin, I heard you went to the intense training four years ago. What layer are you at now?"

"The 3rd layer…what is this?" Wang Lin scanned Wang Hao with his divine sense and found that Wang Hao was already at the first layer, but the spiritual energy in his body was very strange. The spiritual energy wasn't flowing properly, but moving in an odd path.

Every time the flow circulated through Wang Hao's body, it would take away a bit of Wang Hao's life essence from his organs and absorb it.

In this state, Wang Lin was afraid that it wouldn't be long before Wang Hao ran out of life essence and died.

Wang Hao bitterly smiled and said, "You saw through it?"

Wang Lin nodded and said, "Wang Hao, tell me what this is about."

Wang Hao tightened his fist and said, while grinding his teeth, "Back when we went to the exchange, I always regretted not being able to get the Foundation Establishment pill. Later, master, bah, Lu Yunie gave me a Foundation Establishment pill to repay me for being his helper. I was very surprised at the time. He also gave me a cultivation method and told me that it was better than the one the sect gives. I didn't think too much about it and cultivated with it."

Wang Lin took a deep breath and asked, "What? Let me see!"

Wang Hao took out a thread bound book and threw it to Wang Lin. He continued, "But after I practiced it for 2 years, my body became weaker. Although I can manage to condense spirit power in my body, I can't use it. Later, I secretly bribed a disciple to look it up for me and found that the cultivation method Lu Yunjie gave me is called Fire Furnace Trial."

Wang Lin opened the book and looked through it. The more he read, the more shocked he became. What was in the book was completely different from what was inside The Three Layers of Qi Condensation. Instead of using the spiritual energy to refine the body, it gathered spiritual energy into a swirl. This swirl would expand as one gathered spirit power, and it would soon be able to absorb the spiritual energy of the heavens and earth to refine the body from the outside, achieving something similar to Qi Condensation.

In simple terms, Qi Condensation was to slowly refine the body from the inside.

And the latter was a high handed method. If one was lucky, the swirl would expand outside the body before the body collapsed and achieve Qi Condensation, and if not, then the body would be destroyed before the swirl expanded to outside the body.

Wang Hao said, with his teeth grinding, "This Fire Furnace Trail cultivation method, the archives in the sect held some copies of this. It is said to have been obtained from the extinct country of Lu. Only 2 out of 10 cultivators would survive using this method. It's all based on luck."

Wang Lin asked the important question, "What benefit would Lu Yunjie gain from all this?"

Wang Hao's eyes grew cold. He darkly said, "He wants to use me as a pill furnace. When the disciple of the archives gave me the information, it was recorded that the moment someone dies from cultivating the Fire Furnace Trial, if a certain method is used, a pill that extends one's life for 3 years can be created."

Wang Lin took in a cold breath and thought that this 3rd elder Lu Yunjie was too cruel.

Wang Hao's expression was bitter. He harshly said, "I don't dare to talk about this with the other elders and the sect head, after all, I'm Lu Yunjie's helper. Under the sect rules, my life is no longer mine, but Lu Yunjie's. If I knew this would happen, I wouldn't have agreed to be his helper. Ah, it is too late to regret it now. Lu Yunjie found out that I know the secret and threatened me with my parents. Now, I have no control over my life. Every day I must take several Qi Gathering pills and the swirl in my body grows larger by the day. Based on my calculations, I only have about a year left to live."

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Chapter 44 – Li Shan

Wang Lin pondered for a while and said, "What plans do you have? Do you need my help for anything?"

Wang Hao sighed and said, "You are only at the 3rd layer. You can't help me because Lu Yunjie is already at the 6th layer. Also, because he can produce pills, he is loved by the elders. I have already given up hope. Wang Lin, in these few years at the Heng Yue Sect, you are my only friend and my big brother. If you become stronger in the future, you have to avenge me!" Wang Hao tightened his fists after he finished speaking.

Wang Lin stared at Wang Hao and nodded.

Wang Hao bitterly smiled and said, "Brother Tie Zhu, did you need me for something? While I'm still alive, I'll help you as much as I can. Do you want some Qi Gathering pills? I have a lot of them."

Wang Lin looked at Wang Hao. He gave up on asking Wang Hao for the materials he needed and shook his head. He wanted to help Wang Hao, but the enemy was at the 6th layer. Wang Lin was not confident at all.

Although his divine sense was different from others' and he had practiced the attraction technique for more than 20 years, he had never fought with any other human, so he couldn't say for sure how strong he was.

Wang Hao saw that Wang Lin stayed silent. He bitterly patted his clothes and said, "Brother Tie Zhu, you have more talent than I do. Thinking back to when we were taking the test, it feels like a dream. Time passes by too quickly…." Wang Hao sighed and turned to leave with a gloomy expression. He slowly disappeared from Wang Lin's view.

"In this cultivation world, the strong prey on the weak…." Wang Lin pondered this deeply in his heart as he stared at the sky.

At that moment, Wang Lin had an epiphany.

The so called epiphany wasn't one where he suddenly gained understanding and his cultivation suddenly increased, but more like knowledge being poured into one's brain. What was increased here wasn't one's cultivation or soul, but one's understanding of heaven and earth.

Realizing the cruel nature of the cultivation world was his epiphany. To be a cultivator, one must have the attitude of a cultivator.

Wang Lin mumbled as he let out a sigh, "Is the strong preying on the weak really the mentality a cultivator must have?"

His body moved and he disappeared from where he was.

When he was on his way back to the herb garden, Wang Lin's expression suddenly changed as he looked at the guest rooms that the Xuan Dao Sect disciples were staying at and thoughtfully walked toward it.

Before he even entered, he heard an exaggerated voice from inside.

"I have to say, brothers of the Heng Yue Sect, this flying sword I have is one of the peerless treasures of the Xuan Dao Sect. It is called the Noon Money Sword. You guys ask around yourselves to know how much trouble I spent stealing this sword. If any of you wants to buy this, then you have to make a vow to not use this in the exchange in 3 days, or I'm not selling it."

Someone immediately asked, with doubt, "Is this treasure really as amazing as you say it is?"

"I, Li Shan, would never lie. If you guys don't believe me, then forget it. I can sell this flying sword anywhere."

Wang Lin already found this place to be unusual, as a lot of disciples from both sects were gathered here. When he walked closer, he saw a 20 something year old disciple of the Xuan Dao Sect holding a sword made of coins that was glowing blue, talking bombastically about the sword.

The Xuan Dao Sect disciples in the surroundings all had weird expressions on their faces. One of them couldn't stand it anymore. He coughed and said, "What Junior Brother Li Shan said is correct. This Noon Money Sword is indeed a treasure of our Xuan Dao Sect, but I have to say that the one in Junior Brother Li Shan's hand is a fake. However, it still has some uses."

The Heng Yue Sect disciples talked among themselves. Then, a 5th layer disciple walked forward. Wang Lin remembered that this disciple was named Zhao. Disciple Zhao walked up to Li Shan and they talked among themselves until they made an exchange, both with smiles on their faces.

Among the inner disciples, there were people who knew about the sword and mockingly said, "It is just a simple iron sword with some broken spirit gold and someone dared to try to sell it? It seems the Xuan Dao Sect is worth only so much."

Li Shan immediately retorted, "What this brother said is incorrect. My elder apprentice-brother even said that this was a fake, but your Heng Yue Sect still had someone who bought it. This type of thing is best to buy for the sake of novelty."

The Heng Yue Sect disciple who bought the sword laughed and said, "Brother Li Shan, what you said is wrong. I didn't buy this sword to collect, but to give it to my dad. My family raises pigs, so this sword would be perfect for killing pigs."

Li Shan didn't get mad and said, smiling, "Since you already bought it, I don't care what you do with it. Ok, I still have another treasure. It's called the invincible dark stinking thunderball! This thing really is a treasure. I'm not lying. We can even do a live test."

With that, he took out a black ball and threw it at a wall. With a boom, cracks appeared on the wall. There was a dark mist on the spot the ball hit and it emitted a foul odor.

Li Shan said, with a proud and smiling face, "How is it? This invincible dark stinking thunderball is my own personal hidden weapon. Although the power isn't strong, if it lands on someone, this sludge is something even I can't wash off. Especially the smell, it's something I made after gathering dozens of beasts. Anyone would be disgusted by it."

Everyone was stunned and stared at each other with their mouths wide open. A few of the female disciples pinched their noses and took a few steps back. Wang Lin was also surprised. He sent out his divine sense and his expression suddenly turned strange.

The disciples of the Xuan Dao Sect all felt really awkward, but Li Shan was known in the Xuan Dao Sect for making weird things. No one dared to mess with him because no one wanted to get hit by one of those stink bombs.

The invincible black sludge stink bomb was really famous in the Xuan Dao Sect. Secretly, it could almost match one of the sect's real treasures.

"So how was it? This time, I'm showing you all hidden my ace, but I still have to say the same thing I said before; you can't use it in the exchange in 3 days, or I won't sell it to you." Li Shan revealed a serious expression, but secretly laughed in his heart, "You silly brats, the more I say you mustn't use it, the more likely you guys will use it in the exchange. Hehe, there will be a good show to see. The elders will definitely praise me and even give me a few magical treasures."

With that, his eyes lit up and he began to shout.

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Chapter 45 – Low Life

With that, his eyes lit up and he began to shout.

"Fellow brothers of the Heng Yue Sect, there is an old saying: "Killing people only takes a nod of the head". But I have to ask everyone; how could killing people be as satisfying as disgracing them? By disgracing them, they would stink for 10,000 years. Think about it, when you are fighting with your rival and you use this, even if you don't win, you still come out with more face than them.

"Or when escaping, if you have this move, it also works wonders. If you run into a crowded area, how would he still have the face to chase after you?"

"Also, if you encounter a love rival, this could also be a deciding move. Hehe, if anyone dares to steal your woman, use this on them and then he would never have a chance as she would never want to be around the stink."

Li Shan's advertising moved a lot of the inner sect disciples, especially when he talked about how it could be used against love rivals. That really resonated with some of the disciples.

This thing was really a top quality item to get rid of love rivals.

Li Shan's gaze turned shifted toward Wang Lin in the distance. He knew that Wang Lin was considered trash in the Heng Yue Sect. People like him were big customers for Li Shan. The trash back in the Xuan Dao Sect had already been cleaned out by him, so, when he saw Wang Lin, he excitedly continued:

"This bomb is especially useful for brothers with lower cultivation. With this stink bomb in hand, who would dare to bully you again? If anyone dares to bully you, throw one at them. I, Li Shan, can promise you that you can walk tall in the sect without anyone daring to bother you." With that, Li Shan secretly laughed in his heart. No one daring to bully you was impossible. It was more like it would invite a beating.

Li Shan saw that he had almost won many people over. He quickly tried to seal the deal. "This stink bomb is a really good self defense weapon for the people with lower cultivation. Today, I'll have a sale. Buy two, get one. Consider it a gift from me. When we meet again in the cultivation world, don't forget to take care of me."

Among the disciples that were moved by everything he said, one asked, "Is this item really as amazing as you say? Take out a few more and let me randomly test one. If it's really that good, I'll buy a few to play with."

Li Shan took out a dozen of the stink bombs from his bag of holding and gently placed them on the ground, as if he was afraid they would explode, and said, "You must keep in mind to be careful with this treasure. Gently pick it up and place it down. When using it, just toss it. When it meets any resistance, it will explode."

The inner disciple that had spoken up was Sun Hao.

Sun Hao stepped up and randomly carefully picked up one of the stink bombs and examined it in his hand.

Li Shan's expression remained normal, but he quietly mocked him in his heart. "Little brat, think you can understand it? Besides the sect's elders, not even the senior brothers are able to see through its secret."

Sun Hao looked at it for a long time and wasn't able to find anything special about the stink bomb. He threw the stink bomb into a distant clearing and as the bomb flew in an arc, the moment it was about to hit the ground, Li Shan thought in his mind, "Explode!"

With a bang, the stink bomb exploded, making the ground black and filled with a foul odor.

Wang Lin's eyes lit up. No one knew that his divine sense had covered the area. When the stink bomb exploded, he detected a fluctuation of spirit power from Li Shan.

When Li Shan threw the stink bomb the first time, it was the same. Wang Lin chuckled, but he didn't point it out and kept on watching.

Li Shan said, smiling, "How was it? These stink bomb are really powerful right? But I, Li Shan, am an honest man, so I'll say the ugly stuff now. This treasure doesn't explode all the time. To make it explode requires a certain throwing technique. Once you guys have bought it, you can figure it yourself, so don't come to me about it."

Sun Hao walked up to Li Shan and whispered something to him. They walked over to the side and he took out quite a few things.

Li Shan thought about it for a while and took out 10 stink bombs to exchange.

Li Shan whispered, "You normally only get 3 free for buying 6, but since you are the first buyer, I'll throw in one more for free."

After one person traded for them first and even tested it, a few other inner disciples came up and bought a few.

Every time Li Shan finished his sale, he would always add a few words. Things like "This thing isn't guaranteed to succeed all the time", "If it doesn't work, practice it a few more times." If there was any question, they could come and ask him and he could teach them the throwing technique.

When saying this, Li Shan laughed in his heart, "You guys will try several times and fail, then try a different one and succeed after one or two tries. I'm only going to be here for a few days, so by the time you guys suspect me, I'll be long gone."

But there were still many disciples who were cautious and didn't buy any.

After a while, there were only a few stink bombs left. Li Shan proudly looked at the Heng Yue Sect disciples and thought, "A bunch of idiots. Hmph, if you guys don't use it in the exchange in three days, then all you'll have done is get cheated by me, but if you do use it, then there will be something good to watch. These stink bombs are completely under my control. Other people can't even explode it using a hammer! I really can't wait for the exchange in three days."

His gaze swept the surroundings and he noticed Wang Lin's faint smile. He was stunned. His eyes turned and he said, "Brother, why don't you buy a few to play with? With your cultivation, these are truly fitting for you. If anyone bothers you, just throw one at them."

Wang Lin looked at Li Shan and revealed a mocking expression.

Li Shan was surprised. That look made him feel as if Wang Lin had seen through his secret. He carefully looked at Wang Lin and saw that Wang Lin was only at the 3rd layer. Being called trash couldn't have been for no reason, so he thought that it must've been his own imagination.

Wang Lin lightly smiled. He nodded and said, "Ok, I'll exchange for 2, but I don't have any treasures. Only talismans from the sect."

Li Shan hesitated for the first time. He made sure Wang Lin was only at the 3rd layer before he finally relaxed and took out three stink bombs. He smiled and said, "Brother, I'll give you face and sell them for talismans. Buy two, get one. These stink bombs will give you an extraordinary feeling, haha."

Finished speaking, he thought, "I'm wasn't lying when I said it will be an extraordinary feeling. As long as you hold on to the stink bombs, even if you don't use it during the exchange, if I ever meet you again, I'll let you know what the extraordinary feeling is like. Something you will remember for life, haha."

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Chapter 46 – Strange Old Man

Wang Lin put away the stink bomb and looked at Li Shan. He said, "Brother Li Shan, I won't bother you anymore, so please continue selling."

Li Shan nodded. He revealed a friendly expression and said, "Brother, you must be careful with those stink bombs. Remember, they don't always work because they require a certain throwing technique. If you don't succeed, don't say I lied to you."

With that, he continued to tout to the other people.

"Fellow brothers, I still have another treasure. This is a keepsake from the He Huan Sect. With this, you can go to the He Huan Sect to get a beautiful girl. This is something I got through a lot of painstaking effort, but I'll sell it based on our friendship. Fellow brothers of the Heng Yue Sect, you mustn't miss out on this chance."

Wang Lin chuckled. He turned around and headed back to the herb garden. Not long after, he had arrived at the garden. He scanned the garden and found that Sun Dazhu was not there, so he sat down cross legged in his room and took out the three stink bombs to examine them.

After a long time, Wang Lin revealed an interested expression. These stink bombs appeared transparent under his divine sense, as if there were no secrets they could hide.

To say it plainly, there was a trace of Li Shan's divine sense in the stink bombs that allowed him to detonate them at will.

Wang Lin never knew that divine sense could be used like this. After carefully mimicking it, he overlapped the divine sense in the stink bombs with his

He didn't destroy Li Shan's divine sense, but surrounded it. If he wished to, he could destroy it at any time.

The use of divine sense on this stink bomb inspired Wang Lin. He pondered a little and took out the mysterious bead.

"If divine sense can be used like this, can it be used the same way on the bead?" Wang Lin's eyes lit up and his divine sense quickly gathered on the mysterious bead.

After a long time, Wang Lin frowned. The stone bead looked like it hadn't changed, and under his divine sense, it looked the same as always as well.

He pondered for a moment, then he took the stone bead and left the herb garden. At the fastest speed, he went to a secluded place in the mountains and entered the dream space.

The moment he entered, he knew that time was of the essence and he quickly spread out his divine sense.

One minute, three minutes, ten minutes, thirty minutes…

There was no change. Wang Lin rubbed his chin and muttered, "Can I really not leave my divine sense inside the mysterious bead?"

At that moment, one of the glowing objects suddenly began to shine brightly, then finally dimmed.

Wang Lin was stunned. Then, like a chain reaction, other glowing objects started to dim. Soon, all of the glowing objects in the dream space dimmed, until there was no light remaining and the dream space became completely dark.

Wang Lin was shocked. He carefully observed for a long time and couldn't find anything unusual.

An old voice suddenly appeared. "I don't need to observe anymore. With your Spiritual Movement stage, trying to see through the heaven-defying bead is just wishful thinking!"

Wang Lin was startled and his pupils shrank. He had been in the dream space for dozens of years and this was the first time he had heard someone else speak.

Wang Lin took a deep breath. He suppressed the shock in his heart. He clasped his hands and respectfully said, "Junior's name is Wang Lin, and senior is?"

Wang Lin was a smart man. He didn't think that the person had suddenly appeared, but had been there all along and had observed him for the 30 years he had been in here.

"As a junior of this small country, you don't have the need to know this old man's name. You used nearly 30 years of time with my help and the help of the stone bead, and only reached the Spiritual Movement stage. That is truly disappointing. Especially your perception. You only now thought of using your divine sense to scan the bead! Hmph!"

Wang Lin pondered for a while. He had observed the stone bead with his divine sense before, but just hadn't observed for as long as now.

"Your way of doing things really annoys me. Cultivating is a heaven-defying act. If anyone goes against you, you should kill them. I have observed you in these few years that you been at this dog shit sect. If I were you, I would have killed all of them already. Hmph. If anyone dared to insult me, I would destroy them completely, especially that Wang Zhuo. He really gets on my nerves. With my temper, I would have taken his soul and thrown it into purgatory and then wiped out his family. I really like that Zhang Hu in your sect. Quite vicious. Also, that junior Liu really suits this old man's tastes"

Wang Lin's expression became odd. He wryly smiled, "Senior, I…"

"Don't interrupt me. I haven't finished speaking. Hmph, your small sect also has quite a few good looking ladies. You really don't know how to enjoy yourself. If it were me, I would have caught them and refined them for their soul. Hehe, the taste really makes me reminisce about the past. I haven't tasted it in over 30 years…"

Wang Lin was dumbfounded and couldn't speak for a long time.

"Brat, can you work a bit harder? Hurry up and reach the Soul Transformation stage so this old man can come out. Sigh"

Wang Lin hesitated. He was somewhat confused and asked, "Senior, what is Soul Transformation stage? Also what did you mean when you said I was at the Spiritual Movement stage.?"

"Can't you think for yourself? Always asking about everything. Forget it! For a little cultivator from only a rank 3 cultivation country, even if you think until your head explodes, you won't figure it out. Hmph. Listen well brat, I'm talking about the cultivation realm of a rank 5 cultivation country. In a rank 3 cultivation country like yours, there are only 4 realms: Qi Condensation, Foundation Establishment, Core Formation and Nascent Soul. As for the Spirit Forming stage, it would be a thing of legends in your eyes."

"Once someone reaches the Spirit Forming stage, then your country's rank will be increased to a rank 4 cultivation country. With that, the country will be provided the appropriate resources from the Cultivation Alliance and the country will also gain the right to fight for cultivation stars outside the country. The country would also need to undertake missions to protect the alliance."

"Similarly, if a Soul Transformation appears in a rank 4 country, it would be raised to a rank 5 country and so on. As for the Spiritual Movement stage, it is a stage commonly used in rank 4 country or higher. It is similar to the Qi Condensation stage, but has a broader range."

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Chapter 47 – Exchange (1)

Wang Lin bitterly smiled and said, "Soul Transformation is simply too far away for junior."

"Bullshit. With me, who is from a rank 6 country, helping you, what is the Soul Transformation stage at all? Although I can't go out, I have been using my Nascent Soul Essence to help you cultivate for these past 30 years, otherwise, with your lack of talent, how could you have reached this stage in 30 years?"

"And because you absorbed my Nascent Soul Essence, besides people on the same cultivation level as me, no one else can see through your cultivation."

"Also, with the heaven-defying bead in your hands, what do you have to be afraid of? It took me painstaking effort to obtain this bead when it appeared in the cultivation alliance, resulting in me losing my body. My soul would've destroyed if I hadn't escaped into this bead. Originally, I wanted to find another body to use, but this damned heaven-defying bead…it seems that if someone without a body enters it, they can't leave.

"I won't lie to you. When I first saw you, I wanted to take over your body, but this heaven-defying bead is like a cage that prevents me from leaving."

"I studied this bead for many years. This bead must have an owner before many of its effects can be used and I can be released."

"When I obtained this bead, I was being hunted, but I had some time to study it. It must absorb the essence of the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth before it would identify an owner. But even so, the owner has to have reached the Soul Transformation before they can get me out of here. Ah, little kid, show some compassion and cultivate faster! Then help me find a good body to use. I, Situ Nan, will remember your kindness, and with my protection, you can live a safe and comfortable life!"

At the end, Situ Nan's tone wasn't as aggressive as before, but filled with regret.

Wang Lin pondered a little. Right when he was about to speak, Situ Nan's voice came again.

"Brat, someone came. I'll help you leave."

Suddenly, the tearing feeling appeared. Wang Lin's body shook and he opened his eyes.

He sent out his divine sense and found two disciples, one male and one female, quietly walking toward Wang Lin's direction. About 30 meters away from Wang Lin, the two stopped and started to kiss and flirt with each other. Soon, they both took off all their clothes and their moans echoed in the surroundings.

Wang Lin was very familiar with these two disciples. Both of them were at the back mountain. He curiously looked at them for a while, especially at the female disciple, before he reluctantly left.

Back at home, Wang Lin thought about what Situ Nan had said. Wang Lin didn't fully believe his words, but he had really learned a lot about how the cultivation world worked. Wang Lin didn't believe he would lie about those things.

Three days later, the exchange between the Heng Yue Sect and Xuan Dao Sect officially began.

This was a long standing tradition between the two sects, so there wasn't too much fanfare. The location was set on the pine mountain peak of the Heng Yue Sect.

An arched stone bridge connected the two peaks of the mountain. Wang Lin had seen the peak of Pine Peak Mountain from a distance, but could never get a clear look because of the clouds.

Pine Peak Mountain was one of the important locations of the Heng Yue Sect. It had high spiritual energy density, like the back mountain, and was where the two Core Formation elders went to cultivate.

On top of the Pine Peak was a large stone platform prepared for this exchange. It was surrounded by 8 large pillars of white jade with the Heng Yue Sect's 500 years of history carved onto them.

After arriving here, a majestic air radiated from the white jade pillars and immediately transformed into killing intent that pierced the bones.

"Friend Huang Long, every time I see these white jade pillars, it feels different. No wonder this is a treasure of the cultivation country of Zhao." Old man Ouyang sighed and waved his hand to destroy the killing intent.

Behind him, all of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples were shocked. In that moment, the killing intent made them feel as if they had entered a battlefield. They felt almost crushed by this feeling, until elder Ouyang dispersed it.

"Fellow cultivator Ouyang, this is a treasure our founder personally made. Within 100 meters of the white pillars, any none Heng Yue Sect disciple will be pressured by a killing intent. I believe elder Ouyang understands, so please excuse us." Huang Long's face remained calm. His hand formed a seal and a gentle light shot out from the white jade pillars. Like large hands, the lights moved the clouds that covered the peak away. The killing intent also disappeared.

Before him, all the inner disciples cracked their knuckles.

Elder Ouyang turned and talked with the other two elders before saying, "No worries. According to the old rules, we will send the first person. Liu Feng, you can go!"

Liu Feng was the male with the pure water spirit roots. He smiled, then took a deep breath and arrived on the stage like lightning. He said, in a clear voice, "Xuan Dao Sect's Liu Feng asks the Heng Yue Sect for pointers."

Wang Lin stood behind Sun Dazhu with the flying sword on his back, wearing his red disciple clothes. He looked quite majestic.

Sun Dazhu was very satisfied with his disciple's appearance. Ever since Wang Lin had reached the 3rd layer, whenever he looked at Wang Lin, he was no longer as annoyed as before. Although he was far from liking Wang Lin, he was at least starting to see Wang Lin as his disciple.

Of course, all of this depended on whether or not Wang Lin could manage to get past the 3rd layer. If after 8 to 10 years Wang Lin was still stuck at the 3rd layer, then Sun Dazhu would probably hate Wang Lin again.

In these three days, Wang Lin almost never left home. He spent most of that time in the dream space, talking with Situ Nan.

After a number of conversions, he came to some understanding about Situ Nan. Situ Nan was the rank 6 country of Suzaku's number one expert. His cultivation was at an unimaginable level, he would kill anyone that annoyed him, steal anything he wanted, and was extremely arrogant.

Because of the appearance of Liu Feng, the scene became very quiet. The sect head, Huang Long, looked at Liu Feng and said, "Zhao Long, you go!"

Zhao Long was a very silent disciple. He was one of the disciples that had reached the 6th layer after the intense training.

The Heng Yue Sect sent out a 6th layer disciple in the first round. This was a rare occurrence in the exchanges.

Elder Ouyang didn't mind and said, "Liu Feng, for this fight, I'll allow you to use 50% of your power."

The moment he said those words, the people of the Heng Yue Sect's expressions all changed.

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Chapter 48 – Exchange (2)

"Too showy. Apprentice-brother Zhao, beat him up and make the sect proud!"

"Let that pretty face see how strong our Heng Yue Sect is. Go, brother Zhao!"

"The Xuan Dao Sect is too arrogant. Brother Zhao, you must make him look miserable! They even dared to say something like only use 50% of their power!"

"The Xuan Dao Sect is too cunning. They already have an excuse ready for when they lose. I'll be watching, brother Zhao! Go!"

All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples were riled up. Those words by the Xuan Dao Sect Elder hurt their self-esteem.

The elders of the Heng Yue Sect's faces all darkened. They stayed silent, but theirs eyes became cold and their gazes toward the Xuan Dao Sect became less friendly.

Sun Dazhu chuckled. He smiled and whispered to Wang Lin, "Disciple, watch this carefully. This exchange will be more intense than before. This is the first time the Xuan Dao Sect has dared to be so arrogant."

Wang Lin looked around at the angry inner disciples and then looked at Liu Feng. There was still a layer of black fog on his body that prevented Wang Lin from seeing his cultivation level.

Liu Feng stood on the stage and gently said, "Brother Zhao, since our sect elder has spoken, I'll only use 50% of my power in this fight."

Zhao Long was of medium height. His complexion was dark and his body looked very strong. Instead of a cultivator, he looked more like a warrior in the mortal world.

He cautiously looked at Liu Feng. He clasped his hands and said, "Brother Liu, please!" When he finished speaking, he took a step, then blooming white lotuses appeared one by one around him and floated around his body.

Slivers of sword qi appeared on the white lotuses. Sounds of wind hitting Zhao Long's clothes could be heard, but there was no wind.

Sect head Huang Long smiled. "Zhao Long's lotus blade has already reached the mid rank. Very good."

The red faced elder proudly said on the side, "Haha, sect head, Zhang Long is my favorite disciple. His talent is very good and he is very hard working. This lotus blade is something he picked out himself from the sword pavilion. After 5 years, he has already reached the mid rank."

Elder Xu smiled and said to the surrounding disciples, "The lotus blade is known for its attack power. You inner disciples should take this opportunity to learn from him."

Wang Zhuo narrowed his eyes. He didn't show it on his face, but he thought, "Lotus blade? Hmph, I know it as well. Give me 5 years and I'll be stronger than him."

"Brother Zhao is usually so quiet. I didn't expect him to have already reached such a level with the lotus blade." Sun Hao secretly envied him and watched carefully.

On the stage, Zhao Long shouted, "Brother Liu, this lotus blade of mine is very powerful. You have to be careful."

At that moment, the lotuses floating around Zhao Long started to rapidly spin and sword qi rained down on Liu Feng.

Liu Feng's expression remained calm. He quickly moved backward and formed a sign with this hand and shouted, "Water screen!" At that moment, the sky darkened and specks of light appeared. They were water droplets.

The water droplets gathered like lightning in front of Liu Feng, forming a screen of water. It shined rainbow colors and looked very pretty.

Elder Ouyang faintly smiled and said to the disciples behind him, "Heng Yue Sect's Lotus Blade is a very hard technique to master. You all have to remember, if you meet this Lotus Blade, you mustn't try to take it head on, but avoid it, unless you're like Liu Feng, who has a pure water spirit root and can control the water at will."

All the disciples nodded in agreement, all except the middle aged man in the back, who had a look of disdain on his face.

On the stage, the sword qi raining on Liu Feng hit the water screen. Zhao Long's face sank. This water screen was too strange. The moment the sword qi landed on it, they disappeared without any effect.

He frowned and was about to use the same technique again, but he saw Liu Feng let out a smile. Liu Feng said, "Brother Zhao, you try and take on this lotus blade!"

The water rippled and sword qi shot out from the water screen toward Zhao Long. The same technique, the same sword qi.

Zhao Long's expression changed. He quickly moved backwards, but the sword qi was too fast. He grinded his teeth and threw out yellow talismans from his bag of holding. The yellow talismans lit up without any fire and turned into a black mist.

The sword qi landed on the black fog and dissipated. The black fog managed to block most of the sword qi before disappearing, but some sword qi still got through it and pierced Zhao Long's body.

Zhao Long was launched into the air by the sword qi. He coughed out blood as he was flying in the air. He finally crashed into the ground. After struggling for a while, he failed to get up.

There were many small holes throughout this body, however, none of them were that serious, so he wasn't in any life threatening danger.

Liu Feng had a very proud expression on his face. He stepped off the stage and said, "Disciple listened to teacher and only used 50% of his power on the water rebound."

The red faced elder quickly moved. His body turned into a red mist and landed next to Zhao Long's body. His expression darkened as he patted Zhao Long's body a few times and fed him some precious pills. After that, he said, "A very good water screen reflect. Only someone of 8th layer or higher can break through it. My disciple isn't that strong yet, so defeat is normal!"

One by one, the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples revealed looks of joy as they talked amongst each other.

"Just a 6th layer disciple and he thinks he can fight with brother Liu Feng. I knew instantly that we were going to win round 1."

"So true. Brother Liu's water screen is very powerful, even the elder can't stop praising it. They must be dreaming if they think they can break it."

"True. The Heng Yue Sect's disciples are getting weaker year after year. In these past few days, I checked out the inner sect disciples and none of them are a threat to us."

"That's not completely true. None of the Heng Yue Sect's purple clothed disciples have appeared yet. I heard from the elder that those are the Heng Yue Sect's core disciples."

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Chapter 49 – Exchange (3)

Like the Xuan Dao Sect disciples, the Heng Yue Sect disciples had all joined in the last 20 years and had never seen such a bloody scene before.

All of them remained silent and felt uneasy in their hearts.

Sect head Huang Long's expression remained sullen. He stayed silent for a long time. He could easily see that this Liu Feng was at the 6th layer, but didn't expect him to have such a powerful technique. His water screen couldn't be broken unless the attacker was at least at the 8th layer.

This was only the first round and it was already like this. There was bitterness in his heart. The Heng Yue Sect had really fallen. He looked at his fellow apprentice-brothers and saw that all of them had bitter expressions on their faces as well.

Sun Dazhu sucked in a breath of cold air. "Mother f*cker! A disciple is even more powerful than me. How does the Xuan Dao Sect get disciples like this? How come I'm not this lucky?"

Wang Lin gave Liu Feng a deep look. He clearly saw what had happened. Although he was able to see through Liu Feng's cultivation when he used the water screen, Wang Lin was still shocked by the technique.

Xuan Dao Sect's elder Ouyang smiled and loudly said, "Friend Huang Long, in this second round, it's your turn to send out a disciple first."

Huang Long's gaze swept across each inner disciple. Each of the disciples lowered their heads, hoping not to be selected.

Seeing this, Huang Long became very angry. As he was about to speak, Sun Hao clenched his teeth and said, "Sect head, although disciple isn't a genius, I'm willing to fight in the second round."

The few elders' expressions all changed, and elder Xu frowned and said, "Sun Hao, you are only at the 4th layer, don't mess around!"

Sun Hao hesitated for a while and said, "Disciple…disciple has a new technique. Although I can't win, I can still make them look bad." He thought in his heart, "Right now, no one wants to go, so if I go up now, I can leave a good impression with the sect head. Even if I can't win with this stink bomb, I won't look bad. Sorry brother Li Shan, I bought this from you and now I'm using it on you guys. I guess it can be called karma."

In these past few days, he felt that he had gained a good understanding of how to use the stink bombs. He tried it himself and failed, but after going to brother Li Shan, he finally succeeded a few times. Although, due to lack of time, he didn't get to practice more, he felt that with a few tries, he could make it work.

Huang Long pondered a while and sighed. He nodded and said, "You can go. Let me see your new technique."

Sun Hao straightened his body and stepped onto the platform. He said, "Heng Yue Sect disciple Sun Hao asks the Xuan Dao Sect for guidance."

When Li Shan saw Sun Hao, his lungs almost burst from laughing. When he saw that elder Ouyang was about to appoint a disciple, he quickly stepped up and said, "Elder, disciple Li Shan is willing to go up and spar with him." He even winked as he was talking.

Li Shan was a disciple that caused elder Ouyang many headaches, but Ouyang also knew that Li Shan was very cunning and wouldn't do anything that was disadvantageous to him. Elder Ouyang knew that if Li Shan was willingly going up, he was 100% confident in himself, so he let him go.

Li Shan excitedly went up to the stage. His heart was about to burst with excitement. He thought, "Oh Sun Hao, Sun Hao, you've brought this upon yourself."

When Sun Hao saw Li Shan come up, his expression became strange.

Li Shan loudly said, "Brother Sun Hao, come and show me your newest technique. I, Li Shan, will stand here and take your attack."

Sun Hao hesitated a bit. He had already reached the level to use flyings words. His hand formed a seal and a red sword quickly flew out and floated around him, revealing a cold light.

"Go!" The flying sword rapid flew toward Li Shan and Sun Hao took this time to take out several stink bombs. He shouted, "See my new technique!"

Li Shan let out a loud laugh. He easily dodged the flying swords and thought in his heart, "Explode!"

The stink bombs in Sun Hao's hands exploded with a bang before he even threw them. A putrid stench spread out to the surroundings. Sun Hao stood there, covered in black ash, dumbfounded.

He couldn't understand why these stink bombs exploded before he even threw them. Did he use too much force earlier?

Li Shan let out a sigh and said, "Brother Sun Hao's move is too strong. What is it called? Self destruct? I already told you before, you need to be careful with the stink bomb, but you used too much force grabbing them and they exploded."

All of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples roared with laughter and sounds of ridicule could be heard.

Even the Heng Yue Sect disciples wanted to laugh, but they didn't dare to as it might anger the elders.

Huang Long angrily waved his hand. A wave of wind blew the stench away and even flew the dumbfounded Sun Hao off the Pine Peak back to the Heng Yue Peak.

Elder Ouyang smiled and said, "That Sun Hao misused his technique, so we don't know his real strength. Let's call this a draw." After he finished speaking, he gave Li Shan an approving look.

Huang Long gloomily said, "A loss is a loss. How is it a draw? Continue."

Elder Ouyang laughed and said, "No less from the largest sect 500 years ago. Xu Mu, you go up!"

A disciple walked out from the Xuan Dao Sect. He was about 24 to 25 years old. He clasped his hands together on the stage and didn't say more.

Huang Long didn't call out any inner disciples, but took out a piece of jade and gently crushed it. The moment it was crushed, a flash of blue light appeared on the stage. Three people walked out of the shining blue light.

These three people wore purple clothes. The moment those three appeared, they released a very strong pressure that shocked the inner disciples.

Elder Ouyang's expression slightly changed and he carefully examined those three.

The middle aged man standing in the back of the Xuan Dao Sect suddenly turned to them. His eyes lit up and displayed an urge to fight.

When the three men appeared, they coldly looked at the audience. One of the 40 year old middle aged men said, "Xuan Dao Sect? Hmph, 20 years ago, I, Lu Song, lost, but this time, I won't."

Wang Lin's pupils contracted. Among the three people, he only knew one of them: second apprentice-brother Zhang Kuang.

Huang Long plainly said, "Lu Song, this time, you go."

Lu Song nodded. The other two besides him moved off the stage and stood next to Huang Long.

"Lu Song! Fifth senior brother Lu Song! I heard he was at the 6th layer 20 years ago. This time, our Heng Yue Sect will win for sure!"

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Chapter 50 – Exchange (4)

"He is Lu Song. I heard from the elders that he is the number one genius in the Heng Yue Sect! Xuan Dao Sect is going to lose for sure!"

"5th senior bother, go! I will follow your example!"

The Heng Yue Sect disciples all cheered with excitement. All of the confidence they lost from the first two losses had started to come back. Some of the female disciples became love struck and felt dependent on Lu Song.

Huang Long also smiled faintly. He thought that since Lu Song had come out this time, he would win this round for sure.

Wang Zhuo jealously looked at Lu Song and softly snorted.

Even the Xuan Dao Sect disciples were filled with shock. Lu Song's fame was something they had heard of as they grew up in the past 20 years. Although Lu Song ultimately lost in the exchange, he still left a deep impression in the elders' minds.

Elder Ouyang's face darkened. He said, "Xu Mu, I'll allow you to remove ancestor's seal to use your full power."

Xu Mu's expression became serious. He opened up his shirt and revealed a yellow talisman on his chest.

The elders of the Heng Yue Sect were stunned. After carefully looking at the talisman, they all revealed shocked expressions.

Huang Long asked, "Friend Ouyang, this talisman…"

Elder Ouyang's eyes lit up. He indifferently said, "Huang Long, this is something that I'll explain to you at another time. In this exchange today, I'll add another condition. If our Xuan Dao Sect wins this time, you have to lend us the Heng Yue Mountain for 500 years!"

Everyone's expressions changed. Huang Long narrowed his eyes and said, "Are you joking, friend Ouyang?"

Elder Ouyang shook his head. He said, "Huang Long, as you can see, this talisman can't be created by someone not of the Nascent Soul stage. To tell you the truth, an ancestor of the Xuan Dao Sect returned from the battlefield of a rank 4 country and told me that all of the ancestors of the Heng Yue Sect have died!"

Huang Long's expression changed. After pondering for a long time, he said, "Elder Ouyang, stop this nonsense, otherwise, don't blame the Heng Yue Sect for not showing mercy!"

Elder Ouyang smiled and said, "Our Xuan Dao Sect hasn't take this mountain by force yet because of our friendship, so we will give you guys a fair chance in this exchange. If the Heng Yue Sect wins this time, then we will leave you guys be. I already passed my message. Huang Long, let us continue this exchange."

The inner disciples of the Heng Yue Sect were all confused, but all of them felt giant rocks weighing down their hearts. Even the sky felt like it had darkened.

Wang Lin was alarmed. It seemed that what Situ Nan said was true. The cultivation world really was separated by ranks.

Sun Dazhu's face was pale and his eyes were dull. He muttered to himself, "Over…it's all over… all of the Heng Yue Sect's ancestors are dead. Before, we could at least rely on the ancestors to intimidate the other sects and barely hold on, but now that the ancestors are dead, it's all over. Damn it, if it wasn't for the rank 4 countries invading 500 years ago to steal the dragon star and resulting in the country calling away all its Nascent Soul cultivators, the Heng Yue Sect wouldn't be in the state it's in now."

Huang Long saw his fellow brothers' and inner disciples' uneasiness. He suppressed the unrest in his heart and shouted, "Everyone in the Heng Yue Sect, stop panicking. Whether this is true or not will be checked by the Core Formation elder. What are you all worrying about? Lu Song, continue the exchange!"

Lu Song, who was on the stage, was also shocked by Ouyang's words, but he regained his composure. He opened his mouth and spat out a purple fog. The fog grew until it became a giant hand and grabbed toward Xu Mu.

Xu Mu's expression slightly changed. He didn't say a word and slammed his bag of holding. Six golden balls flew out and went toward the hand. Lu Song coldly smiled. His hand formed a seal and the giant hand waved in the air, causing an evil wind that moved the golden balls off course.

This evil wind also caused the spiritual energy in Xu Mu's body to go out of control. He quickly shouted, "Explode!"

The six golden balls simultaneously exploded. The explosion released shock waves that blew all of the audience back a bit.

Lu Song snorted and mocked, "A small trick!" The giant hand formed a fist. Ignoring the explosion, the fist quickly slammed down.

Xu Mu's face was pale. Seeing that the hand was about to land on him, he clenched his teeth and took out a yellow talisman. The talisman looked plain. Xu Mu bit his tongue and sprayed out some blood.

The blood mist in the air quickly transformed into liquid and formed a blood dragon. Xu Mu didn't bat an eye and formed a seal with his hand. The blood dragon twisted and turned. It formed into a strange image that imprinted onto the talisman.

The yellow talisman suddenly started to glow a glaring light, as if it were a small sun. The fist dissipated in front of everyone's eyes.

After Wang Lin saw this, he was shocked. He had one of those talismans as well.

"It is a magic talisman!" Lu Song frowned. He waved his sleeves and two white dragons flew out. The white dragons flew around once and charged at Xu Mu at lightning speed.

Xu Mu let out a pitiful laugh. He used all of his energy to resist the giant fist that came down on him. He had no energy to stop those two white dragons at all.

Seeing that the two white dragons were already showing their ferocious teeth at the most dangerous moment, a cold snort came from the Xuan Dao Sect disciples.

Shortly after, a black rainbow shot out from the Xuan Dao Sect and easily surrounded the two white dragons. With a cracking sound, the two white dragons quickly disappeared and turned into two silver swords. The black rainbow tightened again and broke the two swords in half.

Lu Song's expression suddenly changed. The flying swords linked to his soul were broken, which caused him to cough out a mouthful of blood. His face revealed a horrified expression. The giant hand above Xu Mu's head dissipated as well, since Lu Song couldn't keep his concentration.

Xu Mu quickly left with the yellow talisman with the look of him getting lucky today. Lu Song also walked off the stage with a bleak expression.

Huang Long's face sank. He shouted, "Xuan Dao Sect, don't go too far!" The elders beside him also became enraged. Some of the more ill tempered elders already took out their treasures, ready to fight.

The inner disciples also saw what was going out and became angry. The remaining two yellow clothed disciples all looked at the middle aged man standing in the back of the Xuan Dao Sect.

It was him who let out that cold snort earlier.

Elder Ouyang turned back and looked at the middle aged man. He warily smiled and said, "This 3rd round is won by the Heng Yue Sect. As for what just happened, I…"

"Old man Ouyang, don't say anymore pointless words. This Heng Yue Sect is only mediocre!" The middle aged man standing in the back slowly walked forward. As he took a step, the ground suddenly split and the crack extended all the way to the stage.

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Chapter 51 – Entering the Stage (1)

Meanwhile, his body moved and he appeared on the stage. He looked at the Heng Yue Sect disciples with an arrogant expression and said, "All you Heng Yue Sect inner disciples can all come at once. I, Zhou Peng, will take you all on!"

The Heng Yue Sect disciples went into an uproar. Even the Heng Yue Sect elders revealed frowns.

None of the people from the Xuan Dao Sect said anything. They only revealed respectful looks. It seemed that this person's status was not low in the Xuan Dao Sect.

Elder Ouyang coughed and shouted, "Friend Huang Long, this is Zhou Peng. He is our Xuan Dao Sect's head disciple! Let this one match decide it all. If one of your Heng Yue Sect disciples can last 10 seconds, then the Heng Yue Sect has won.

Zhang Kuang's eyes lit up. He moved his body, landed on the stage, then heavily said, "Such an arrogant kid. I'll test you!"

Zhou Peng let out a laugh and said, "You? You appear to be at the 6th layer of Qi Condensation, but you're hiding your true strength. You're actually at the 8th layer. You are not strong enough." As he was speaking, a cold light flashed across his eyes. He waved his right hand, then a black snake suddenly leapt out and grew into a giant python.

This python's large head looked coldly at Zhang Kuang's terrified face. It opened its mouth and inhaled, which produced an unimaginable suction force.

The suction was very strange. It only effected Zhang Kuang and no one else.

Zhang Kuang didn't have the power to resist. Before he could even use any techniques, his body acted like a kite with its string broken and was sucked toward the python.

Zhou Peng sneered. He raised his right hand and grabbed Zhang Kuang's neck. He said, "Go back and train for a few dozen years before coming back to look for me!" With that, he threw Zhang Kuang out with his right hand.

The last remaining purple clothed disciple went to catch Zhang Kuang, but wasn't able to counteract the force, so they both slid on the ground for a very long distance before finally stopping.

Zhang Kuang's face was very pale. His eyes were closed and his body constantly trembled. On his neck was a black handprint, as if there was a hand firmly clamped on his neck.

The purple clothed disciple that caught him had a look of horror on his face and was silent.

Huang Long's heart was very bitter. The Xuan Dao Sect's head disciple was simply too strong. Based on what happened just now, this person was at least at the 10th layer. He surely had a talisman hiding his cultivation level, so the exact level wasn't known.

Then, he looked at the surrounding inner disciples. Huang Long let out a sigh. Even the head disciple, who was with the Core Formation elders, didn't have a good chance of winning, because he was only at the 10th layer. If he loses the fight, then the Heng Yue Sect will have completely lost!

Huang Long wryly smiled. "Fine. It seems my Heng Yue Sect has no hope. Quickly, tell the two ancestors about what old man Ouyang said so they can make a decision. If what he said is true, then there is no hope in keeping the Heng Yue Peak."

Zhou Peng arrogantly looked at the surrounding people and asked, "Who's next?"

All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples became dumbfounded. None of them spoke up and all of them lowered their heads at Zhou Peng's gaze, because none of them wanted to go up.

Zhou Peng sneered. He looked down upon them in his heart. However, as his gaze was sweeping over the disciples, he was stunned when he noticed that there was a 3rd layer disciple who wasn't afraid of his gaze.

Wang Lin's expression remained calm as he looked at Zhou Peng.

Zhou Peng stared at Wang Lin and coldly asked, "What? Do you want to come up?"

Zhou Peng's words attracted everyone's attention. When they realized that Zhou Peng's words were directed at Wang Lin, all of their expressions became strange.

Huang Long let out a sigh. Wang Lin was only at the 3rd layer and normally wouldn't be noticed among the disciples, but now, although his cultivation was low, his bravery was commendable.

Zhou Peng, seeing that Wang Lin didn't respond, sneered, "Out of the 4 battles, there is still one left. The Heng Yue Sect is such a large sect, yet no one dares to come up. I'm very disappointed! Do none of your inner disciples dare to come up?"

Elder Xu, who was standing next to Huang Long, said, "Sorry, junior brother Sun. Wang Lin, you go!"

Sun Dazhu was stunned and immediately realized what was going on. He angrily said, "Dao Xu, although you are my senior brother, you can't disgrace me like this! My disciple is only at the 3rd layer! Letting him go up will only make me lose face! Don't think I don't know what you are thinking! Their sect's head disciple is too strong, so you all are afraid that your disciples will be defeated, shamed, and hurt, so you are sending in my disciple as a scapegoat. My disciple has always been considered trash at the school, so, even if he loses, you guys can make an excuse. I refuse to agree to such a disgraceful thing."

Dao Xu frowned. He really did have such thoughts in mind, but Sun Dazhu didn't give him any face and said all of that in front of the Xuan Dao Sect.

He sneered. His eyes looked at the sect head Huang Long and sent some messages.

Huang Long sighed and said, "Junior brother Sun, don't bother saying more. Wang Lin, you go up!"

Sun Dazhu angrily threw his sleeve to the size and looked up into the sky with a mocking smile on his face.

Wang Lin clasped his hands and respectfully exclaimed, "As you command!"

With that, he took a deep breath, then slowly walked forward and onto the stage.

All of the Xuan Dao Sect's disciples started to jeer loudly at him.

"Heng Yue Sect, you have no shame, sending a waste to compete with our eldest martial brother."

"Our eldest martial brother doesn't even need to deal with with this trash! I can kill him with just a thumb!"

"Eldest martial brother, they have already given up. Just send someone else to deal with him. He is honestly pretty pitiful. Be a good person and just send him off without hurting him."

Elder Ouyang looked at the two elders and revealed a look of disdain. He laughed and said, "I really got to know the true Huang Long and Heng Yue Sect today!"

Huang Long's face sank. Without a word, he waved his sleeves and left. He didn't have any hope in Wang Lin. He only sent Wang Lin up to be fodder to end the last match. In this exchange, he had already accepted defeat.

After all, even if he lost, then if word of it were to spread, it was not so bad, but if word got out that no one even dared to fight, then it would be too disgraceful.

None of of the other inner disciples dared to go up, so he could only send Wang Lin.

Behind him, all of the elders of the Heng Yue Sect shook their heads and turned around to leave.

Even the inner disciples started to move their feet, unwilling to stick around and lose more face.

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Chapter 52 – Entering the Stage (2)

Zhou Peng arrogantly laughed and said, "Wang Lin, I can knock you down with one breath, so steady yourself!" With that, he sucked in a breath. His body was like a bottomless pit. The clothes of all the spectating disciples started to make flapping sounds, as if they were about to be blown off.

Wang Lin had never fought with anyone before, so to say he was not nervous would be wrong. He concentrated all of his power into his attraction technique and fanned out.

For insurance, he took out a stink bomb. He quickly dissolved Li Shan's divine sense from it and threw it out.

With a bang, the stink bomb exploded and Zhou Peng's body was thrown out from the black smoke. His body heavily slammed into the ground. He was covered in black sludge and wore a dumbfounded expression just like Sun Hao.

The giant python floating in the air also disappeared.

This bang surprised the people from the Heng Yue Sect. They subconsciously turned their heads, then froze in place. Everyone present was silent.

Huang Long was dumbfounded. He thought, "This … this…" His heart was in complete chaos and his ears buzzed. It was as if there was thunder raging right next to his head.

"No way! When did Wang Lin became this strong?! His opponent was the head disciple of the Xuan Dao Sect!" Dao Xu rubbed his eyes in disbelief.

Brother Zhang, the one who brought Wang Lin to the Heng Yue Sect, also revealed a shocked expression. He thought, "This is the junior brother Wang, the one I keep telling to work harder? He is only at the 3rd layer. How did this happen…"

"He is Wang Lin? The one that entered the sect by trying to commit suicide…the piece of trash?" The red faced elder was shocked. He opened his mouth, but forgot to breath.

"Incredible…" Another elder named Song stood there, frozen.

Wang Zhuo was stunned. His face hardened like a wax statue's and he keep repeating in this head, "Wang Lin? Trash?" He shook his head. He felt weightless and kept telling himself that this was a dream, an illusion.

The female disciple named Xu's small hand covered her mouth and she muttered, "How can this be… when did Wang Lin became so strong… he is clearly only at the 3rd layer."

Sun Dazhu touched his head and muttered, "This is an illusion. I must be hallucinating! How can there be an illusion in broad daylight? Is this my disciple?"

The female named Zhou stared at Wang Lin. Her mind was completely blank.

Zhang Kuang had already woken up, but he was afraid of losing face, so he had been pretending to be knocked out. However, he couldn't pretend anymore as he stared at Wang Lin. His pupils shrank and he thought, "Yes, its him! It must be him!"

"Dreaming! I must be dreaming!" The middle aged man who accepted the metal from Wang Lin's fourth uncle bit his tongue.

Lu Song's reaction wasn't as strong as theirs. This was the first time he had heard Wang Lin's name. He looked at Wang Lin and thought, "When did such an expert appear among the inner disciples? Hmph, why didn't the elders just send him up instead of sending me first?!"

"Did I test wrong back then? Does Wang Lin have really good talent?" The pill house's 3rd elder thought, as he was still shocked by the scene before him.

All of the inner disciples were still frozen. They all exhibited dumbfounded expressions.

The people of the Xuan Dao Sect weren't doing any better. Elder Ouyang's eyes widened. Zhou Peng was their secret ace, known as the number one genius in the cultivation world of Zhao. His true power was that of 13th layer of Qi Condensation, but he actually lost? If the Heng Yue Sect's elders made a move, then it would be fine, but this was someone even the Heng Yue Sect considered trash! It must be because Zhou Peng was careless, it must be!

The other two elders looked at each other. They were unable to use their voices. This battle was simply too strange. They were so flabbergasted that they were unable to talk at the moment.

Liu Feng gave Wang Lin a deep look. He was secretly glad he didn't go up, or he would have suffered the same fate, but he couldn't understand why Wang Lin was called trash in the Heng Yue Sect when he was so strong. After looking at the Heng Yue Sect's people's reactions, it didn't seem like they were faking it. Was it really because senior Zhou Peng was careless? No matter how much he looked at Wang Lin, he was only at the 3rd layer.

All of the other disciples had thoughts similar to Liu Feng's and thought that senior brother Zhou Peng was just careless. They refused to believe that he was truly defeated by Wang Lin.

Liu Mei's delicate face also became erratic. Her thoughts were very different from everyone else's. On the first day, Wang Lin had already caught her eye, and now, she looked at Wang Lin with deep interest.

Among all the present people that were shocked, Li Shan could be considered the 3rd most shocked person. His body softened and he fell to the ground, muttering to himself, "Over, it's all over! I sold him the stink bomb and he used it on Senior Martial Brother! Senior brother lost so fast, he must already be thinking about how to deal with me!"

"Li Shan, Li Shan, why didn't you realize Wang Lin was pretending to be a pig to eat a tiger? Wang Lin, you are too despicable, too shameful, too sinister! This time, you have really put me in a terrible position…. how will I be able to stay at the Xuan Dao Sect? Senior brother will definitely not forgive me!"

"No, I must think of a way to wash off that black sludge and wash away that stink…I…. this black sludge is my most proud invention! There is no cure other than half a year in the bath!"

"And that stink is something I developed to steal away other people's girlfriends. Even I wouldn't touch it. The only way to get rid of it is to stand at the wind tunnel for a month. There is no other way….I'm finished….finished!"

At that moment, Zhou Peng woke up. He was knocked unconscious by the stink and shouted, "Li Shan! I'm not gonna forgive you for this!"

Li Shan couldn't stand this kind of blow. He cried, "Senior brother, I was wrong! Senior brother, please forgive me! I'll never try to profit by cheating again!"

Zhou Peng's face was full of anger. He moved like lightning while carrying the black sludge and the foul smell with him. He instantly made his way back onto the stage and madly shouted, "Wang Lin, that didn't count! I wasn't ready and you attacked early! We are going to fight again, and this time, you are not allowed to attack early!"

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Wang Lin was also shocked and didn't recover for a long time.

Zhou Peng was in rage because he thought that he had been careless earlier. How could a mere 3rd layer kid beat him? This time, he didn't say a word and summoned the giant python again. He formed a seal with his hand and the python was about to open its mouth.

Wang Lin's attraction force was sent out again. The python let out a whining sound as it disappeared. Zhou Peng's right cheek was swollen. He coughed out a mouthful of blood as he was sent flying again.

The moment he landed, he charged back onto the stage. His hair was completely disheveled. Ignoring the blood in the corner of his mouth, he ripped off his clothes and removed the yellow talisman from his chest. His cultivation suddenly rose and his hair flowed in the air in a strange manner.

"Wang Lin!!! That didn't count! I didn't use my real strength! Lets fight–"

Wang Lin was now confident in his strength. Without waiting for Zhou Peng, he used the attraction technique and swiped him again.

Pa! Zhou Peng, who was still raging, was hit in the face again and he coughed up more blood. This time, he didn't immediately get up. The spiritual energy in his body was in chaos. He struggled, but couldn't get up, and the sense of shame drowned him. He wasn't able to catch his breath and passed out

Everyone was completely silent. Besides the deep breathing of the surrounding disciples, there was no other sound.

Huang Long finally recovered from the shock and his face revealed a look of ecstasy. The more he looked at Wang Lin, the more he liked him. He thought, "This Wang Lin is my Heng Yue Sect's lucky star. This brat has already become this strong and he didn't want to fight. He really needs some scolding! I also need to carefully question him on how he did it."

Sun Dazhu took a deep breath. He finally recovered a bit and thought, "Wang Lin must have some secret. That gourd must not have been the only one! Wang Lin, you have deceived me well! Hmph!"

Dao Xu was stunned. The first time could be considered luck, but the next two fights were real fights. What shocked him the most was that after the Zhou Peng took off the yellow talisman, his cultivation climbed to the 12th layer, which was same as him, but was still sent off the stage with one slap by Wang Lin's attraction technique.

What level has this Wang Lin achieved? He stared at Wang Lin for a long time. No matter how much he checked with his divine sense, he couldn't see through Wang Lin's cultivation.

The red faced elder finally recovered and thought, "When Wang Lin was accepted into the sect, it was I who approved him. Hmph, it seems my eyes weren't wrong!"

The middle aged man who accepted Wang Lin's fourth uncle's piece of metal also thought, "Fate! This is fate! It seems me and this kid have some fate, or I wouldn't have pushed for him to join the sect. I have done a good deed for the Heng Yue Sect! I have to talk with the sect head later."

Standing next to him was a yellow faced middle aged man. He nodded and thought, "When I tested this kid before, I knew that his perseverance was great. It seems he is not normal. Hmph, if he wasn't stolen by Sun Dazhu, he would be my, Zhang Rencai's, disciple!"

Wang Zhuo's mind was finally clear now. He was no long floating on a cloud, but bitterly thought, "It turns out he was this strong…all those times I mocked him…he must be thinking of ways to get revenge on me…what do I do?!"

The female named Zhou's eyes lit up. She was completely convinced that Wang Lin had been hiding his strength. She remembered when she thought that he was still at the 3rd layer and she said all those emotional things to him. Her face turned red. She thought, "This Wang Lin is really… he is already so strong, but lied to me when he said he was only at the 3rd layer. Later, I must get an answer out of him! Hmph!"

The female named Xu blinked many times while staring at Wang Lin, then looked at Wang Zhuo and thought, "How can he compare to brother Wang Zhuo? Right now is the time for brother Wang Zhuo to show off, but this Wang Lin is too strong! He was able to send the other sect's head disciple off stage with one slap not once, but three times. He really vented for us all."

One of the inner disciples secretly laughed and checked out few of the surrounding disciples and thought, "This Wang Lin turned out to be pretending to be a pig planning to eat a tiger this whole time. Too devious. Fortunately, I never mocked him before, or it would have been really bad. Hehe, I'll be able to see many good shows from all these people that used to mock him a lot."

One of the disciples that mocked Wang Lin a lot thought, "It's over! I used to point and laugh at him so much, but now he can kill me with just one finger! Your cultivation is already so high, but you still pretend to be so weak! Too shameless! Alas, this Wang Lin is known to hold grudges among the nameless disciples and was nicknamed the Black Hearted King. I should go and suck up to curry some favor later…"

Another disciple that used to mock Wang Lin a lot nervously thought, "This Wang Lin must be a cool headed genius. That must be why he didn't even bother to respond when he was the object of my ridicule! This must like how when a dog bites a person, a person won't bite the dog back. Right, it must be like this. Brother Wang Lin is a genius, how could he bother with someone like me?"

The pill house's 3rd senior brother sucked in a breath of cold air. His expression was unsettled as he thought, "This is bad. I heard that this guy and Wang Hao are relatives and that their relationship is pretty good… How to deal with this? If this was three days ago, I could have let Wang Hao go and not have angered him, but now…ah Wang Hao has already become like that. If he goes and finds Wang Hao, that means I have to face his anger…This Wang Hao can't be kept alive! If I let him go, then he might come back at me for revenge! After the exchange is over, I'll go kill him and pretend he died from something else!"

Lu Song lowered his head and looked at the purple clothes on his body. He bitterly laughed and thought, "The inner disciples of the Heng Yue Sect are about to go into an upheaval. This Wang Lin is not simple. His schemes are very deep. He probably has been keeping his cultivation hidden just for today. Hehe, I'm afraid Wang Lin's name will spread across the cultivation world of Zhao soon. I must make him a friend and not an enemy!" With that, he decided on how he will treat Wang Lin in the future.

Zhang Kuang's face was filled with a bitter look. When he got the spirit water, he just thought it was water containing a lot of spiritual power, so he didn't go after Wang Lin.

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Chapter 54 – Entering the Stage (4)

But, after he compared the spirit water to the spring water in the back mountain, he found out that not only did the spirit water contain several times more spiritual energy, but it also had some other uses. After his careful analysis, he found out that the spirit water could help one retain a youthful look!

If it was regularly taken, then one could look young forever. He only took a few drops and immediately noticed this effect. This realization made him very excited.

It has to be said that only after one reaches the Nascent Soul stage would they live forever, but, when that happens, it has already been hundreds, if not thousands, of years.

Zhang Kuang knew that if this spirit water was taken out to exchange with other sects, they would go crazy for it, especially the female cultivators at the Foundation Building or Core Formation stages.

But when he went to check again, he had already lost Wang Lin's shadow. There were only a few dozen inner disciples in the Heng Yue Sect . He checked them all, but couldn't find one that was similar.

He was depressed for a long time because of this. He had also checked up on Wang Lin, but after finding that Wang Lin was only at the 3rd layer, he didn't think it was Wang Lin.

But now, he was 100% sure that that person was Wang Lin. This confirmation had no logical reason. It was purely based on his intuition.

"This Wang Lin has already reached such a high cultivation level! Good thing I didn't do anything to him back then. Alas, the secret of the spirit water must be buried in my heart. It doesn't matter if Wang Lin is really that person or not, because the cultivation world is too cruel. Not to mention fellows from the same sect, even brothers would kill each other. With Wang Lin's cultivation, I won't be able to fight back at all!" Zhang Kuang decided to never mess with Wang Lin.

He also involuntarily remembered that back in the back mountain, he thought that Wang Lin wasn't even at the first layer and gave him a lift. He wondered what Wang Lin thought about that back then.

There was that time at the river in the back mountain too. While thinking about it, Zhang Kuang shivered. He was glad that he didn't do anything back then, or it would have been over for him.

It's not that he didn't wonder about how Wang Lin had become so strong, but, with Wang Lin's current cultivation level, he immediately stopped himself. He felt that if he kept thinking about it, he would throw his life away.

Brother Zhang, who had always scolded Wang Lin to train harder, felt very perplexed. He looked at Wang Lin and gloomily said, "This Wang Lin is someone I personally brought over from the Wang family. He is clearly a normal youth. When he tried to commit suicide, it was I who saved him as well. It's been five years and so much has changed. He is now the Heng Yue Sect's number one disciple. Fate is simply too cruel! I have painstakingly cultivated for 10 years and have only reached the 6th layer."

If the Xuan Dao Sect was surprised before, they were now shocked!

Zhou Peng could explain the first time as him being careless, but, on the second and third times, he was again and again sent flying, each time with one move. Especially that third time. Zhou Peng removed his yellow talisman and used his full cultivation, but was still beat with one move.

This caused all of the Xuan Dao Sect people to be stunned.

Liu Feng's jaw fell and he didn't regain his senses for a long time. He was convinced that Wang Lin was the Heng Yue Sect's ace. He thought, "Senior brother wasn't careless before, but was simply weaker than Wang Lin. However, senior brother is already at the 12th layer. What level of cultivation has Wang Lin reached?"

Liu Feng muttered, in a tone of disbelief, "Could he have already reached Foundation Building?"

The female disciple named Ouyang, who laughed at Wang Lin before for trying to feed the centipede small animals, was also stunned. The senior brother she admired the most lost…

Liu Mei's eyes lit up even more. She had become even more interested in Wang Lin. She secretly thought, "He indeed has many secrets. I realized that something was wrong three days ago, when he was the first person to recover from my charm technique."

Several other disciples couldn't even say a word because senior brother was their hero, an expert, but now, this expert was beaten by someone else, and beaten in one move, without any chance of fighting back. This caused them all to begin to doubt the techniques taught at the Xuan Dao Sect.

Elder Ouyang's expression was like Huang Long's expression when the Heng Yue Sect's disciples lost all those battles before. His face was very bitter. He deeply looked at Wang Lin and was shocked. With his 14th layer cultivation, no matter how he looked at Wang Lin, he could only see that Wang Lin was at the 3rd layer.

"He…is he really a Heng Yue Sect inner disciple… has he already reached Foundation Building? How else would I be unable to see his cultivation level?"

The other two elders' faces were also very pale. The three matches Zhou Peng fought made them understand Wang Lin's power.

This was when one of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples suddenly whispered, "What technique did he use? Why do I feel like he used the attraction technique?"

A disciple on the side started to analyze with a serious expression. "Attraction Technique? Not possible. That is the lowest level of technique. How could it contain that much power? If you ask me, it must be some lost ancient technique. You see him waving his hand like it's the attraction technique, but that must be used to cover up this ancient technique! This Wang Lin is too sly!"

"But from how I see it, it looks exactly like the attraction technique. I often practice it myself. I could wave my hand and make objects fly any way I want… just like what happened to senior brother." Another disciple added, but, on those last few words, his voice became very faint.

Another disciple said, while rubbing his chin, "Forget it. You try and do what Wang Lin just did. This can't be the attraction technique, it can' be!"

The other disciples started to discuss what technique Wang Lin used. Some even went and directly asked the three elders.

Elder Ouyang and the other two elders bitterly laughed. He sighed and said, "This is not the attraction technique. I have never seen such a powerful attraction technique. From what I saw, this must be the long lost Dragon Capture Hand!"

"Dragon Capture Hand!" The other two elders were stunned. They had never heard of this Dragon Capture Hand, but they couldn't see through what technique Wang Lin used either, because it just looked too similar to the attraction technique.

Elder Ouyang let out a dark sigh and thought, "This old man can't see through it either. If I say I don't know, it will lose me too much face, so I can only make something up."

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Chapter 55 – Entering the Stage (5)

The discussion of what technique Wang Lin used also happened among the Heng Yue Sect disciples.

Wang Lin stood on the stage, unable to calm his excited heart. He was able to beat Zhou Peng down with his attraction technique three times, causing his confidence to grow. His gaze swept across the Xuan Dao Sect disciples like Zhou Peng did before and said, "Today's exchange is not over. Who is going to come up next from the Xuan Dao Sect?"

All of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples looked at each other. They all lowered their heads, unwilling to look at Wang Lin, just like how the Heng Yue Sect acted before with Zhou Peng.

All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples forgot the title "trash" they gave Wang Lin. They all cheered and shouted:

"Xuan Dao Sect's trash, how coming none of you are coming out after seeing how strong our senior brother Wang is? You were all so arrogant before. How come none of you are coming out now?"

"Where did all the drive you guys had before go? Quickly, send someone up so our senior brother Wang can teach them a lesson, then we'll see if you guys will act cocky again!"

"Liu Feng, you looked so strong before. Come on out! Do you dare to fight with my senior brother?"

"All that the Xuan Dao Sect has left is trash. None of them dare to come out. Brother Wang is invincible!"

"Li Shan, you *! You sold us those stink bombs with bad intentions, but we all saw through it, especially senior brother Wang Lin. Have you learned your lesson?"

"Did you guys all see? The Xuan Dao Sect is so scared of brother Wang Lin that none of them dare to come out."

"Senior brother, I mocked you before, but I'm here to apologize to you now, before everyone else. You are now my boss! If you tell me to go east, I definitely won't go west!"

The scene suddenly became more lively. All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples became excited and started to shout loudly. The earlier battles between the two sects were too depressing for them, but Wang Lin's performance gave them hope.

By coincidence, the title of senior brother was given to Wang Lin.

Elder Ouyang's face turned red, then white. He finally felt what Huang Long felt earlier. Then, he finally said, "Yang Yi, you go!"

A tall and thin youth reluctantly walked up. Before he got on the stage, a Xuan Dao Sect disciple shouted, "Second senior brother, go! Go and give Wang Lin a…"

Before he even finished talking, he noticed all the other disciples were looking at him with strange expressions, especially Yang Yi, who gave him a hateful look. The look made him so scared, he didn't dare to finish that sentence.

Yang Yi secretly cursed in his heart, "This moron, Wang Lin, is so strong that he is able to beat senior brother with one move, yet old man Ouyang still made me come up. So shameful. And I don't know how many stink bombs that bastard Li Shan sold him either. That Li Shan, I'll have to teach him a lesson once we go back."

While thinking that, he turned to Li Shan and shot him a fierce gaze. He then clasped his hands and respectfully said, "Brother Wang, I am Yang Yi. Brother is very handsome and has such high cultivation! You will definitely become famous in the cultivation country of Zhao! Having the chance to battle with brother is really a privilege!"

Wang Lin glanced at Yang YI, but didn't say a word.

Yang Yi didn't feel embarrassed. He said, "Brother Wang, we are only here for a friendly exchange between the two sects. How about we fight by touch* to determine the winner? If I can last 100 seconds, then it's my win."

Just as he finished, he immediately regretted it and said, "No, 50 seconds. Actually, let's do 30 seconds…no let's go with 20 seconds."

All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples finally decided that they must properly suck up to Wang Lin, or they just wouldn't feel safe.

"Get off the stage! You're the Xuan Dao Sect's second senior brother, yet you're so shameless! Brother Wang, don't listen to him!"

"Yang Yi, are you still a man? From 100 seconds to 20 seconds? Get off the stage and send in someone else. You're not worthy of fighting our senior brother!"

"How could the Xuan Dao Sect send out such a person?! Simply too shameful!"

Huang Long's smile became wider. The more he looked at Wang Lin, the more he liked him. He turned to Sun Dazhu and said, "Junior brother Dazhu, this disciple of yours is very good!"

Sun Dazhu's body trembled. His body felt several pounds lighter. Since when did the sect head call him junior brother Dazhu with such intimacy? He proudly said, "That is true. I've had my eyes on Wang Lin from the moment he came into the sect! Hehe, good thing no one fought with me for him. Hmph, when I took him as my disciple, quite a few people even mocked me!"

Dao Xu's and the red faced elder's, along with a few other elder's, faces turned red and were about to speak.

However, Huang Long fiercely looked at them and said, "Junior brother Dazhu, you have done a great service for the Heng Yue Sect! Don't worry, your elder brother will deal with this matter for you!"

Sun Dazhu was talking proudly, but, secretly, he was even more shocked and his eyes contained a cold light.

On the stage, Yang Yi didn't even have time to bother with what the other sect's disciples were saying. He was carefully examining Wang Lin. He was afraid that he wouldn't agree to his suggestion.

Wang Lin looked at Yang Yi and said, "Ok!"

Yang Yi secretly became excited. He had always been a calm person. He was not arrogant like Zhou Peng. He thought, "Wang Lin, although your Dragon Capture Hand is strong, and I can't compare to senior brother, I specialize in speed! Hmph, let's see if you can catch me in 20 seconds. It will surely be my win!

He clasped his hands toward Wang Lin, then quickly took out a piece of white jade and crushed it. Suddenly, white light appeared around his body and increased his speed. He shot toward the side.

He deliberately avoided Wang Lin. His objective wasn't fight him, but to use his speed to waste time.

Wang Lin revealed a mocking smile. His divine sense was far above Yang Yi's and he was easily able to keep up with the speed. His attraction technique was sent out and he slowly took out a stink bomb.

The moment Yang Yi saw the stink bomb, his face changed greatly, and he increased his speed.

Li Shan stared dumbfoundedly at the stink bomb in Wang Lin's hand as he muttered to himself, "Martial Brother Wang, Elder Brother Wang, Grandpa Wang! Please don't use it anymore! I have already angered senior brother. If I anger second senior brother as well, my life will be over…"

*Basically is you fight but on a critical blow or something you don't hit them but stop by just before hitting them after breaking through their defenses.

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Chapter 56 – Entering the Stage (6)

Unfortunately for him, his prayers didn't come true. Wang Lin's eyes flashed, then his attraction technique formed a hand and caught Yang Yi. Then, an stink bomb was tossed into the air. It flew in an arc and landed on Yang Yi's head.

Yang Yi felt the space tighten around him as if the air around him was sucked out and a force was pressing him from all sides, making him unable to move. He could only stare as the stink bomb fell toward him.

With a bang, Yang Yi was hit by the stink bomb. His entire face was black and his body emitted a disgusting stench.

He couldn't be bothered with his face being black or with the stench. His face was filled with horror. When he felt the the squeezing force loosen a bit, he used all the power in his body to break free. His heart pounded as he thought, "This Dragon Capture Hand is too strong. I'll lose no matter what. Fine, let's go all out!"

Wang Lin faintly smiled at Yang Yi and said, "There are still more than ten seconds left. You can continue."

Yang Yi gritted his teeth and spat out a mouthful of red light. The red light grew large and turned into a long, sword-shaped red light and flew toward Wang Lin with strong sword qi.

Meanwhile, he moved again and threw out handfuls of talismans. The talismans all grew and activated techniques that rained down on Wang Lin.

Wang Lin sneered. He activated his attraction technique and formed a hand. He waved it and destroyed all of the talismans in the air. He then created another hand and grabbed the red light.

The red light dissipated and revealed its true form. A red flying sword! The flying sword was stopped in mid air and continued to struggled. Wang Lin scanned the flying sword and found that it had a piece of divine sense inside, just like the stink bomb. He easily erased the divine sense left on it and used a bit more force with his attraction technique. With a cracking sound, the flying sword split in half and fell to the ground.

Yang Yi's expression changed greatly and he coughed up a mouthful of blood. He took a few steps back and said, "Brother Wang's ancient technique, the Dragon Capture Hand, is very strong, but I don't admit defeat! What defeated me was not you, but your ancient technique!"

Wang Lin was stunned, but he let out a smile. "Ancient technique Dragon Capture Hand? This is the first time I've heard of it!"

"Hmph, you don't have to deny it. Your Dragon Capture Hand has already been seen through by my uncle-master!" Yang Yi walked down from the stage and all of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples got out of the way. The smell on his body was simply too awful.

Elder Ouyang's face reddened slightly. He coughed and stiffly said, "Junior Wang Lin, the technique you used is really the Dragon Capture Hand. These ancient techniques are very unpredictable and powerful. I've only ever heard of it in some old texts myself. I never thought that the Heng Yue Sect still had a technique that has been lost for thousands of years. No less from a powerful sect from 500 years ago!"

As he kept speaking, even he himself began to believe it. Even though it was not the Dragon Capture Hand, it must've been an ancient technique, or it would not have been so powerful.

Wang Lin was dumbfounded. He had practiced this attraction technique for more than 20 years in the dream world, so its power would not be weak.

This was only a small matter. What was important was that these fights made Wang Lin realize his current strength. Situ Nan said before that Wang Lin was at the half circle of the spirit movement stage, which was the 14th layer of Qi Condensation in the cultivation country of Zhao. This meant that he was one step away from reaching the peak of Qi Condensation.

As for why he felt like he was still at the 3rd layer, even Situ Nan couldn't guess what was wrong. Wang Lin had once brought up what Brother Zhang said about cutting one's mortal ties, but,with a face full of disdain, Situ Nan told him that there was no such thing. That was only a rumor spread by the juniors of these small cultivation countries. Cultivation was a heaven defying act. These small things don't matter at all.

He stated that, in his home country, there was a cultivator at the spirit severing stage, but he couldn't let go of his family ties, so he stayed home and enjoyed life with his family, and, in the end, he still reached Spirit Transformation after a number of years.

This lifestyle becomes very dull after a long time. After all, a cultivator's life span is much longer than an average person's, so, to normal people, it looks like cultivators don't care about these things.

Situ Nan finally concluded that this had something to do with the heaven defying bead. Because Wang Lin cultivated so much in the heaven defying bead's space, it caused a desynchronization between the dream space and the real world, so, while Wang Lin's true strength was at the 14th layer, his body only showed that he was at the 3rd layer.

After a while, the desynchronization will be gone, so it was not a big deal.

With the power of the 14th layer of qi condensation and more than 20 years of hard work on the attraction technique, no wonder its power would cause people to have crazy guesses.

Huang Long narrowed his eyes and said to Wang Lin, "Wang Lin, is the technique you used really some ancient technique?" He was currently not in the mood to find what the name of the technique was, but he wholeheartedly wanted to make the Xuan Dao Sect lose face.

Wang Lin shook his head and smiled, "Sect head, the technique junior used is clearly the attraction technique. As for the Dragon Capture Hand, disciple has never heard of it before."

Huang Long secretly praised Wang Lin for being smart. He looked toward the three Xuan Dao Sect elders and laughed. "Friend Ouyang, I can tell you that this technique is not the Dragon Capture Hand, but the most basic technique of my Heng Yue Sect: the attraction technique. Your disciples can't even defend against the most basic technique of my Heng Yue Sect, and you guys are making up this Dragon Capture Hand to justify it."

Elder Ouyang was pretty embarrassed, but, on the surface, he couldn't back down. He retorted, "Friend Huang Long, you don't have to deny it. Hmph, I already saw through it. This is the Dragon Capture Hand!"

Dao Xu let out a laugh and said to sect head Huang Long, "Sect head, I think that name is pretty good. How about we change the attraction technique's name to the Dragon Capture Hand?"

Huang Long's eyes lit up and gave Dao Xu a praising look. He said "Good! From now on, my Heng Yue Sect's attraction technique will be renamed to the Dragon Capture Hand. I'd like thank the Xuan Dao Sect for the name!"

Elder Ouyang and the two other elders' faces were full of bitterness. They shook their heads in silence.

Wang Lin stood on the stage, pondering. After the last two matches, he had gained great confidence in his strength, but the opponents were too weak to test his full power. Although his spiritual energy was at the same level as someone at the 14th layer of Qi Condensation, he was a bit short in terms of technique. He only had proficiency in the attraction technique.

In order to test how strong he truly was, he suddenly said, "Fellow senior brothers of the Xuan Dao Sect, all of you can come up at once."

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Chapter 57 – Entering the Stage (7)

All of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples became furious. They all secretly cursed Wang Lin for being too arrogant, but none of them dared to go up. Elder Ouyang and the other two elders were also frowning and looking at Wang Lin with unfriendly gazes.

Wang Lin raised his head and let out a laugh. His current demeanour was exactly the same as Zhou Peng's before. He asked, "Xuan Dao Sect, are you all too scared to even all come up at once?"

All of the Heng Yue Sect disciples became very excited and started to cheer loudly.

"Is the trash of the Xuan Dao Sect too scared to come out? Where did all of that arrogance go? Come out!"

"Senior brother Wang Lin is invincible! Punch the Xuan Dao Sect! Kick the Xuan Dao Sect! Even his spit can drown the Xuan Dao Sect!"

"Your senior brother was not good enough! Your second senior brother was also not enough! Do you guys have a third senior brother? All of you, come out together!"

"Liu Feng, come out and die!"

The Heng Yue Sect disciples became even more rowdy and Huang Long's smile became wider and wider, until one of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples who couldn't stand it anymore finally shouted:

"Wang Lin, you are too arrogant! It is you who wants all of us to come up! Fellow martial brothers, let's all go and beat him up!"

"That's right! This is his request, so it's not against the rules. Elders, let us all go up!"

"Elder, this Wang Lin is too arrogant! Let us all go up!"

The Xuan Dao Sect's disciples asked to go up one by one. Elder Ouyang clenched his teeth and said, "Since the Heng Yue Sect requested it, then, whoever wants to go, go up!"

The moment he finished speaking, three disciples immediately jumped onto the stage. Soon, 7 to 8 more disciples came onto the stage. There were even a few female disciples amongst them. With a shout from someone, all of them took out their magical treasures and attacked Wang Lin.

Wang Lin didn't mind at all. He activated the attraction technique. He created a few giant hands and swept them at the crowd of people. Suddenly, several people were sent flying. Then, he took a few steps back and the giant hands grabbed the Xuan Dao Sect disciples like they were flies and threw them into the distance.

Screams came from the crowd. The Xuan Dao Sect disciples were thrown from the stage one by one and were unable to get up after they landed.

The more Wang Lin fought, the more he got used to it. His control of the attraction technique became even more refined and, after a while, there were only three people remaining. One of them was Liu Feng.

Wang Lin let out a laugh and took out the last stink bomb.

Liu Feng's expression suddenly changed. He didn't care about the other two anymore. He shouted, "Brother Wang, have mercy! I surrender, I surrender!" As he was speaking, he quickly backed up and stepped off the stage. He had already seen what happened to Zhou Peng and Yang Yi, so he didn't want the same thing to happen to him.

The last two people were Xu Mu and Li Shan.

Xu Mu saw that things weren't going well. He quickly surrendered and awkwardly got off the stage.

Li Shan's face was filled with grief. He loudly shouted at Wang Lin, "Wang Lin, come. Use your last stink bomb on me!" With his strength, he would normally not be the last person left, but, when he got on the stage, he immediately played dead. Although he was stepped on a few times, it was worth it for the sake of his future in the sect.

Li Shan planned this well. If he was also hit by the stink bomb, like senior brother and second senior brother, then he might get their pity and his beating might not be as bad.

Wang Lin faintly smiled at him. He put away the stink bomb and said, "This is a treasure, so it shouldn't be carelessly used. You can get off the stage."

With his attraction technique, he grabbed Li Shan like a small baby chick and threw him off the stage.

Elder Ouyang and the two other elders were furious. They wished there was a crack in the ground for them to burrow in right now.

Huang Long's face was bursting with joy as he said, "Friend Ouyang, who is the winner between the exchange of our two sects?"

Elder Ouyang snorted and said, "Your Heng Yue Sect has good fortune to have such a good disciple. This exchange is your win! But, what I said before is true. All of your Heng Yue Sect Nascent Soul ancestors are dead! All of the things you want are in this bag of holding. Goodbye!"

With that, he waved his sleeve and a bag of holding flew out. Huang Long caught the bag of holding with a thoughtful expression.

Elder Ouyang let out a shout and, soon, a black cloud arrived at his location.

Wang Lin looked closer and found that it was the thousand foot centipede.

Without a word, elder Ouyang took one step and jumped onto the centipede. All of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples flew onto the centipede with looks of shame, anger, and many other expressions.

Seeing the other about to leave, Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he made a decision. He shouted, "Fellow peers of the Xuan Dao Sect and elders, I have an unreasonable demand!"

With that, his body flew forward with the attraction technique and stopped before the centipede.

Elder Ouyang's expression remained unwavering. If it was any other disciple of the Heng Yue Sect, he wouldn't bother, but this Wang Lin's power was too amazing, so he suppressed the discontent in his heart and said, "Speak!"

Wang Lin looked at the thousand foot centipede and honestly said, "I would like to borrow some poison from the centipede. I hope elder Ouyang will agree!"

Before elder Ouyang could speak, all of the Xuan Dao Sect disciples became furious. One of them shouted, "Wang Lin, don't push us too far!"

"Wang Lin, this centipede is one of the guardian spirit beasts of our Xuan Dao Sect! How could its poison be just lent to you because you ask!?"

"You're too arrogant! Elder, this person is too disrespectful to our Xuan Dao Sect! I request the elder to teach him a lesson!"

The other two elders both couldn't stop sneering.

Elder Ouyang stared at Wang Lin with an eerie smile. "Junior, scram. I can't be bothered with you!"

Huang Long and the other elders of the Heng Yue Sect all stepped onto their flying swords and flew up next to Wang Lin. Huang Long said, in a clear voice, "Friend Ouyang, your Xuan Dao Sect is too stingy. It's only the centipede's poison. It's not like he is asking for its life!"

Elder Ouyang's expression darkened. He looked around and his gaze fell back on Huang Long. He said, "Friend Huang Long, taking a bit of the poison is not a big deal, but for a junior to dare to be so arrogant is too disrespectful toward our Xuan Dao Sect!"

Huang Long hesitated for a moment. He really didn't want to embarrass the Xuan Dao Sect too much, because the news they brought was just too shocking. If the news were true, then the balance of power in the cultivation country of Zhao was going to be shuffled.

Wang Lin hesitated for a while. He was definitely going to get the poison from this centipede. He said to elder Ouyang, "Elder Ouyang, I only want a bit of the centipede's poison. I promise I won't hurt him. If you agree, I'm willing to exchange something for it."

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Chapter 58 – Finished

Elder Ouyang gave Wang Lin a scornful look. He said, "You're only a little junior. What right do you have to trade with me? If you take out the treasure left behind by the Heng Yue Sect's founder, I might exchange one drop of poison with you!"

Wang Lin frowned. He secretly sneered. Then, he activated his attraction technique to full force and grabbed.

Elder Ouyang's face instantly changed. "Junior, you dare!" With that, he waved his sleeve and an old looking flying sword came out. The moment the flying sword came out, wind started to gather and formed a giant sword in the air. The sword swung down.

The moment the sword appeared, a hint of killing intent appeared in elder Ouyang's eyes. This disciple was simply too strong and he will become a threat to his Xuan Dao Sect in the future. He wanted to take this opportunity to destroy his cultivation.

Huang Long's face darkened. He realized what Ouyang's intent was and immediately took out his sword. Wang Lin let out a laugh. His attraction technique reached its limit and the invisible hand he created turned visible.

Two large hands that emitted white light appeared. Swirls of light appeared around the hands and all of the clouds surrounding them scattered.

One of the giant hands grabbed hold of the neck of the centipede. The other hand rose up and blocked the sword that was coming down.

The sword that was swinging down slowed down until it was stopped in mid air. Elder Ouyang's face was all red as he revealed a look of horror.

The other two elders clenched their teeth. Disregarding their status, one spat out a rainbow colored light that turned into a rainbow colored ribbon. It shot toward Wang Lin.

Meanwhile, the other elder threw out a piece of jade. Eight ghostly fireballs appeared and shot at Wang Lin.

A strong heat wave reached Wang Lin, but his expression didn't change at all. He created another hand with his attraction technique. That hand created a swirl of wind around him, causing the ghostly fire to fade.

All of this happened very quickly. Huang Long let out an angry roar and formed a seal with his hand. His flying sword, the Purple Moon, flashed toward the rainbow colored ribbon.

Using this time, Wang Lin quickly moved toward the thousand foot centipede. With his attraction technique holding the centipede, no matter how hard it struggled, it couldn't break free. Wang Lin placed his right hand on the centipede's head and activated his spiritual energy. The centipede let out a painful howl and coughed out a black mist.

All of this lasted only a few seconds. No one even had the time to react yet. Both sects' elders stood on each side of the centipede, ready to fight. When Dao Xu saw the centipede cough out the poison, he was afraid that Wang Lin wouldn't have anything to hold the poison, so he waved his sleeve and threw out a white bottle. He shouted, "Disciple Wang Lin, use this to hold the poison!"

After that, he took his flying sword and started fighting the Xuan Dao Sect elder that let out the ghostly fire.

The three elders of the Xuan Dao Sect were all furious that they were stopped by the Heng Yue Sect elders and were unable to stop Wang Lin.

When Wang Lin saw that the centipede coughed out the poison, he quickly moved back a bit. He took the bottle and used his spiritual energy to move the poison into the bottle.

Elder Ouyang furiously shouted, "Heng Yue Sect, you've gone too far!"

Huang Long secretly sighed. He put away his sword and backed away. The other elders all did the same.

Wang Lin's face showed hints of regret. This centipede's poison could be the cure for his father's illness, so he was determined to get it no matter what. He clasped his hands and said, "Elder Ouyang, this centipede's poison is very important to me. I have something that can be considered a fair trade for it." With that, he threw out a very normal looking jade bottle. The bottle was filled with the river water he had stocked up on from the back mountain.

Elder Ouyang's face was sullen. He was about to speak when carefully scanned the jade bottle. He frowned and said, "I heard that, 500 years ago, several Nascent Soul cultivators of the Heng Yue Sect created a cultivation ground with spiritual energy several times higher than normal. I guess this liquid came from there?"

When the cap on the bottle was opened, a strong aura of spiritual power leaked out. Huang Long gave the jade bottle a look, then rubbed his beard. He said, "This brat. He even brought out a bottle of river water."

Elder Ouyang grunted. He weighed the bottle in his hand, then said, "Friend Huang Long, your Heng Yue Sect has a very good disciple. Goodbye!"

With that, he glanced at Wang Lin. After pondering for a while, he sent a message to Wang Lin, "Nephew-disciple Wang, I can let this matter about the centipede's poison go, but the Heng Yue Sect no longer has any Nascent Soul ancestors behind them, so stay at your own risk!"

With that, he touched the thousand foot centipede. The centipede glared at Wang Lin and flew north.

At that moment, Wang Lin noticed that, on top of that centipede, there was a pair of attractive eyes looking at him.

He was stunned. His mind was still echoing with the words of elder Ouyang. As for the owner of that pair of attractive eyes, after looking at the person once, he didn't even take it to heart.

After the Xuan Dao Sect had left, the entire pine peak was silent. Huang Long's eyes swept the area. Smiling, he said, "Today's exchange is won by my Heng Yue Sect! All inner disciples will be rewarded! All of you can go to the pill house to get a bottle of spiritual energy gathering pills. You all have to follow Wang Lin's example.

All of the inner disciples started to cheer one by one. As of now, no one dared to call him trash anymore.

Wang Zhuo's heart was in chaos. He said to Xuan Dao, "Teacher, disciple wants to go into the life and death passage. I will no longer concern myself with other affairs."

Dao Xu let out a sigh. Wang Zhuo was his favorite disciple, so he knew of the issues between Wang Lin and Wang Zhuo. He pondered for a while, then nodded and said, "Fine. You can take this opportunity to hide from Wang Lin as well."

Wang Zhuo let out a bitter smile, but didn't say word.

Huang Long spoke again. "All of you can leave. Wang Lin, come with me."

Wang Lin nodded. His gaze swept the crowd and landed on third elder brother Lu Yun. He said, "Third elder brother, wait a moment!"

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Chapter 59 – Questioning

Lu Yunjie shivered. He forced a smile and said, "Wang…brother Wang do you need something? If you need some spiritual energy gathering pills, I still have a lot left and can give some to you."

"Third brother, there's something I want from you: your helper, Wang Hao." Wang Lin stared at Lu Yunjie. Before, he was not confident enough to go against Lu Yunjie, so he didn't help Wang Hao. But, after this battle, he had a much better understanding of his own power.

Lu Yunjie's expression become unsettled. He bitterly laughed in his heart. He clenched his teeth and said, "Wang Lin, that Wang Hao is my helper and is very important to my pill creation, so I can't agree!"

Huang Long stood at the side, very puzzled, and shouted, "Lu Yunjie, it's only a helper. How important can he be?"

Lu Yunjie's face was very bitter. He decided to bite the bullet and said, "Sect head, disciple can't obey. Wang Hao has already…."

Wang Lin's expression quickly changed. He moved like lightning toward the Heng Yue Peak.

Huang Long and the other elders were all confused and followed behind. Dao Xu grabbed Lu Yunjie as he followed Wang Lin.

Soon, Wang Lin arrived above the pill house in the main courtyard. He scanned the the area with his divine sense and quickly found Wang Hao's weak life force in the back room. The moment he entered the room, his anger reached its limit.

In the large room was a giant pill furnace with Wang Hao sitting cross legged inside. His life force was growing weaker and weaker.

Wang Lin didn't even blink. He moved his hand and sent out his attraction technique to grab Wang Hao. As the hand formed by the technique came closer to the pill furnace, a rainbow colored light came out from the furnace and collided with the hand.

Wang Lin coldly snorted. Immediately, the power of the attraction technique reached its peak and broke the rainbow colored light. Wang Lin gently grabbed Wang Hao and placed him on the ground.

His placed his right hand on Wang Hao's forehead and remained silent.

At that moment, Huang Long and the other elders arrived as well. The red face elder looked at the pill furnace, then at Wang Hao. His expression suddenly changed and he shouted, "Fire Furnace Trail!"

Dao Xu carefully looked at Lu Yunjie, who was in his hand. He threw him on the ground and said, "Lu Yunjie, you sure have guts! Although this Fire Furnace Trial isn't banned, you can only use it on people outside the sect, and never on anyone inside! Did you forget?!"

Lu Yunjie's face was completely pale. He kneeled on the ground and whispered, "Disciple came, joined the sect, and became your disciple at age 15. It has been 25 years and disciple is still stuck at the 6th layer. Disciple is unwilling to give up. Once this Fire Furnace Trial is complete, the pill can not only extend my life, but will also give me a chance to break through, so I had to try, no matter what. This Wang Hao is my personal helper. According to the sect rules, I can do whatever I wish, and he is not part of the sect, so I have done nothing wrong!"

Wang Lin opened his eyes. Before, Wang Hao's life was in critical condition, but after he sent spiritual energy into Wang Hao's body, he was able to save Wang Hao's life. After he heard Lu Yunjie's words, he let out a few snorts.

Huang Long frowned. On one side was the genius Wang Lin, and on the other side was a faithful disciple of 25 years, Lu Yunjie. He found this decision very hard to make. After pondering for a while, he made a decision and said to Dao Xu, "Junior brother Dao Xu, you are in charge of disciplinary actions. How do you want to deal with Lu Yunjie?"

The moment Dao Xu heard this, he immediately understood sect head's decision and said, " Lu Yunjie will go into seclusion for 20 years."

Huang Long nodded and turned to Wang Lin. He kindly said, "Wang Lin, from now on, this Wang Hao will become an inner disciple. Consider it making it up to him. From now on, you can't go look for Lu Yunjie for trouble anymore. After all, you are all in the same sect."

Wang Lin glanced at Lu Yunjie and said, "Disciple obeys!"

Huang Long waved his sleeves and said, "Ok, since the thing is resolved, Dao Xu, you deal with the matter here, including Wang Hao's retreatment. Wang Lin, you follow me." With that, he walked out of the room and then floated into the air.

Dao Xu looked at Wang Lin and smiled, "Disciple nephew Wang Lin, don't worry and leave Wang Hao to me. As long as he is still alive, I'll find a way for him to recover."

Wang Lin slightly nodded. After taking a look at Wang Hao, whose face had recovered a little, he left the pill house and followed Huang Long.

Wang Lin had been thinking this whole time. He understood fully well why sect head Huang Long wanted to talk to him alone. Before long, Huang Long brought Wang Lin into the main hall. Then, he suddenly shouted, "Wang Lin, you sure have guts!"

Wang Lin's expression remained calm and said, "Sect head, if you have something to say, just say it."

Huang Long grunted and said, "During that exchange, what technique did you really use?"

Wang Lin chuckled and said, "Attraction technique. If sect head doesn't believe me, you can have a closer look." With that, he activated the attraction technique and grabbed all the tables and chairs in the main hall. After making them circle the room a few times, he put them back to where they were.

Huang Long carefully examined the technique, then began to ponder. After a long time, he suddenly asked, "Before, you were obviously at the 3rd layer and, even now, you still look like you are at the 3rd layer. How do you have so much power? What level are you at exactly? Wang Lin, tell me the truth!"

Wang Lin's face revealed a bitter expression and said, "Disciple doesn't really understand. I just kept on cultivating and it became like this. As for what level I have reached, disciple doesn't know."

Huang Long stared at Wang Lin and said, in a deep voice, "Wang Lin, you're still not going to tell me?"

Wang Lin wrily smiled and said, "Disciple really doesn't know."

Huang Long secretly sighed. He didn't want to pressure Wang Lin too much because, no matter what, Wang Lin was still a disciple of the Heng Yue Sect, and he had also just done the sect a great service. He will also very likely become a star among the inner disciples. Thinking about it, his expression became friendly and said, "What was in that bottle you gave to the Xuan Dao Sect?"

Wang Lin chuckled. He waved his right hand and took out two small bottles. He handed them to Huang Long and said, "Sect head is talking about this? Sect head should know these better than me. It's just the river water from the back mountain."

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Chapter 60 – Elder

Huang Long looked at the bottles and let out a snort. "The river water from the back mountain is not allowed to be taken out. I'll be taking these two bottles. You can go and rest. Remember to come meet me tomorrow and I'll take you to the scripture library to find a suitable cultivation technique for you," he said.

After Wang Lin heard this, he became very excited. On his way out, he respectfully said goodbye. Although his current cultivation was high, his only technique was the attraction technique.

After Wang Lin left, Huang Long turned. He respectfully bowed and said, "Elder Shangguan, do you think what Wang Lin said was true? And how should we deal with him?"

A skinny old man wearing a blue robe walked out into the main hall. His face was very gloomy."How much of it is true? Huang Long, can you not tell that that little guy didn't say a single word of truth?"

Huang Long revealed an embarrassed expression. This was one of the ten foundation building elders. In the cultivation world, strength was what mattered the most. Him being the sect head and his fellow martial brothers being elders was only a front put up for the outside world.

The rule of the Heng Yue Sect was that if one reached the Foundation Building stage, they could become an elder and enjoy that role's privileges. If one achieved Core Formation, then they would become one of the true elders of the Heng Yue Sect, and if one reached Nascent Soul, then they would be considered an ancestor of the Heng Yue Sect.

Normally, the ten foundation building elders were in closed door training, but, after hearing the shocking news from the Xuan Dao Sect, Huang Long quickly found the ten elders to tell the two Core Formation true elders about this matter.

Wang Lin's appearance was very unexpected for Huang Long, so he took the chance to bring Wang Lin here to question him and have the Foundation Building elders question him as well.

Elder Shangguan took a look at the bottles in Huang Long's hand. He scanned them with his divine sense, then said, "This little brat did say one thing that was true. This is indeed the river water from the back mountain, and, if consumed every day, it will help with cultivation."

Huang Long hesitated for a while. "Elder Shangguan, do you think the technique Wang Lin used was really the attraction technique?" he asked.

Elder Shangguan looked at Huang Long and said, "I saw his matches and I can confirm that the technique he used really was the attraction technique."

Huang Long's expression changed greatly. "Is it really the attraction technique? But how could it be so powerful that it could even catch magical treasures?" he asked.

Elder Shangguan coldly snorted and said, "Any technique, after practicing for an extensive period of time, will have some special effect, although it's nothing to Foundation Building cultivators. This attraction technique is the most basic technique in the cultivation world. Do you still not understand that the more basic the technique, the longer its history?"

Huang Long quickly nodded in agreement.

Elder Shangguan pondered for a while, then said, "This child's cultivation is indeed at the 3rd layer, but he has way too much spiritual energy in his body, so I can't clearly check it all. My guess is that his power is that of 14th layer Qi Condensation, so he should be able to reach the Foundation Building stage soon. It is ok for a disciple like this to have his secrets, because the sect is in a very dangerous state. Hmph, the Xuan Dao Sect really deserves to be called a small sect. Sending some Qi Condensation juniors as elders and daring to try to win Wang Lin over in front of us with voice transmission!"

Huang Long was stunned. He didn't ask further about the voice transmission, but asked, "Huang Long obeys. Elder Shangguan, regarding matters about the ancestors…"

Elder Shangguan let out a sigh. A scowl appeared on his face. He shook his head and said, "The ancestors haven't sent back any messages in 30 years, I'm afraid… Alas, this is not something you can do anything about. If the Xuan Dao Sect really wants the Heng Yue Peak, then there is nothing we can do. The country of Zhao is a large place and will have a spot for our Heng Yue Sect. Once the two true elders break into Nascent Soul, hmph, all of this humiliation will be paid back."

Huang Long let out a bitter smile and silently nodded.

As for Wang Lin, after he walked out of the main hall, all of the inner disciples made way for him and were full of respect. This treatment was completely opposite compared to the day before.

"Strength, in the cultivation world strength is all that matters." Wang Lin felt a bit emotional as he walked back to Sun Dazhu's garden.

The moment he entered, he immediately saw Sun Dazhu walk up with a smile on his face. "Good disciple, teacher has been waiting for you for a long time. Here, have some top quality recovery tea teacher made for you. It will make you feel much better once you've drank it."

With that, he picked up a cup from the stone table in the garden and handed it to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin's expression became a bit odd. Sun Dazhu's behavior changed too quickly, causing Wang Lin to be stunned for a bit.

Sun Dazhu saw Wang Lin's expression. He awkwardly smiled and said, with a sincere look in his eyes, "Wang Lin, as your teacher, I wasn't every good and we had a lot of misunderstandings."

Wang Lin didn't take the cup. He scanned the tea with his divine sense and found fluctuations of spiritual energy. He said, "Disciple is tired, so I won't be drinking this tea."

Sun Dazhu quickly said, "Tired? Then you must get some rest. The place you were staying at before is too small. From today on, you can live in my room."

Wang Lin's expression remained calm, but he was very cautious in his heart. It has to be said that, within the sect, Sun Dazhu was the one that would be most suspicious of him, so Wang Lin shook his head and said, "It's fine. I won't be staying for long. I'll return to the back mountain to go into closed door training in a few days."

Sun Dazhu opened his mouth to say something, but Wang Lin quickly said goodbye and left. Sun Dazhu looked at the tea in his hand. His eyes were filled with a cold light.

Wang Lin suddenly turned around with a faint smile on his face and thoughtfully looked at Sun Dazhu.

Sun Dazhu's face suddenly stiffened and he said, "Good disciple, is there anything else?"

Wang Lin revealed a sarcastic expression. He took a few steps forward and said, "Teacher, you look very nervous."

Sun Dazhu's heart skipped a beat. He took two steps back and regained his composure. "Teacher is indeed nervous. You, the disciple, are much stronger than me. I am only at the 5th layer of Qi Condensation," he said.

Wang Lin looked at the tea and said, "Teacher, drink this tea for disciple."

Sun Dazhu's expression suddenly changed and he forced a smile. "What is this? If you don't want to drink it, I'll just dump it." With that, he threw the cup to the ground and moved back a few more steps, until his feet were at the gate.

"Teacher, drink it." Wang Lin's expression remained calm. He activated his attraction technique. The cup that was falling to the ground stopped and floated toward Sun Dazhu. Wang Lin let out a sigh. He knew that Sun Dazhu had hostile intentions. There was indeed something wrong with the tea.

Sun Dazhu's expression became unsettled. After pondering for a long time, he suddenly frowned and said, "Wang Lin, it seems you still have misunderstandings about your teacher. You believe there is something wrong with this tea? Fine, I'll drink it."

Sun Dazhu picked up the tea and drank it. Then, he threw the cup on the ground and said, with discontent, "Is that ok? The sect head has asked me to talk to him. It will be bad if I'm late. If there is anything else, let's talk afterward." With that, he turned to leave.

Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he moved his body. Sun Dazhu's expression changed and he quickly backed up, but how could his 5th layer cultivation compare to Wang Lin?

In a moment, he arrived next to Sun Dazhu. His eyes lit up and he slapped Sun Dazhu's chest Before, when Sun Dazhu drank the tea, he realize that Sun Dazhu didn't really drink the tea, but surrounded it with spiritual energy.

With that slap, Sun Dazhu's spiritual energy was scattered and the tea quickly dissolved into Sun Dazhu's body.

Sun Dazhu's expression suddenly changed to one containing a hint of fury. He quickly said, "Wang Lin, what are you doing? Do you want to kill your teacher? If you kill me, the Heng Yue Sect will not forgive you!"

Wang Lin remained silent. He sent out his divine sense and found that the tea had completely dissolved in Sun Dazhu's body. Then, he felt slivers of wires making their way from the tea to Sun Dazhu's head.

Sun Dazhu also felt that something was wrong, but before he could speak, the wire-like object had already reached his head. Instantly, his grim expression started to relax.

Wang Lin stared at Sun Dazhu and immediately realized that something was off. Sun Dazhu's expression seemed a bit dull.

He pondered a little, then asked, "Teacher, disciple is not trying to kill you, but you try to act against me. However, if teacher really did drink the tea, I wouldn't have done this."

Sun Dazhu's expression stayed dull. He quickly said, "The tea should not be drunk."

Wang Lin was stunned. He carefully examined Sun Dazhu for a while, then asked, "Why shouldn't it be drunk?"

Sun Dazhu said, with a dull expression, "There is Three Thread Nematode Grass in the tea."

Wang Lin's eyes lit up. "What effect does the Three Thread Nematode Grass have?" he asked.

"The ability to control the person who drunk it for a short period of time. It is a key ingredient for making puppets."

Killing intent flashed across Wang Lin's eyes. "Why did you want me to take it?" he asked.

"Ever since I found out that you had those gourds, I had some doubts in my heart, so I took you in as my disciple. Originally, I wanted to get you to the first layer so I could use the soul searching technique on you, but I had already given you the Spiritual Energy Scattering Grass, so I thought it would take you more than ten years to reach the first layer and gave up on that idea. In the competition, you suddenly showed great strength, so I thought you must have had more of those gourds, and even other secrets. I want to increase my cultivation as well, so I thought of giving you this tea."

Wang Lin took a deep breath and asked, "What is the Spiritual Energy Scattering Grass? Also, have you told anyone else about me? And why didn't you use this Three Thread Nematode Grass on me before?"

"Spiritual Energy Scattering Grass is used to help remove all of your cultivation. As for the matter about you, I never told anyone. I didn't want anyone besides me to steal the gourds, and, after that, things changed too suddenly, so talking now would end up hurting me instead, so I decided to act."

"As for the Three Thread Nematode Grass, I didn't have it before. I got it from another cultivator when I left the mountain last year. That cultivator said that if it's used on a cultivator below Foundation Building, it has a 90% success rate. I originally wanted to use it on Lun Yunjie, to get some pills out of him."

Wang Lin became furious and sneered. "Were you not afraid of me finding out?"

"In order to find the secret you hold, I can't worry about too many things. I'm already old. If i don't improve, then I will never be able to reach foundation building in my lifetime. In fact, I wasn't sure if you were going to come back today, so I decided to gamble and prepared this tea. If you came back, I would offer you the tea, and if you didn't, I assume you would be with the sect head and will live in the back mountain most of the time, so I wouldn't have another chance to act."

A cold light flashed across Wang Lin's eyes. He coldly asked, "Before, you said that the sect head was looking for you. Is that true?"

"No."

The moment Sun Dazhu's word came out, Wang Lin's eyes lit up and he slammed his hand on Sun Dazhu's head. Blood started to pour out from Sun Dazhu's orifices and he fell on the ground.

Wang Lin stared at Sun Dazhu's body. He felt an indescribable feeling. This was the first time he had killed anyone, and it was his teacher.

After pondering for a long time, Wang Lin put away Sun Dazhu's body. He walked out of the Heng Yue Sect with a dull expression until he reached a mountain, then threw the body down.

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Chapter 61 – Ancestor

After returning to his room, Wang Lin sat cross legged on his bed. He spread out his divine sense and left a trace of it around his room in order to detect anyone who was trying to probe in with their divine sense.

After that, he took out the mysterious bead and began to think. Around three days ago, all of the cloud images on the bead disappeared and were replaced by the image of a leaf.

In regard to this, Situ Nan said that the heaven defying bead had enough water element and now needed wood element. Because of this, he had urged Wang Lin multiple times to leave the Heng Yue Sect to get material with wood element and quickly fill the heaven defying bead with it.

Wang Lin had gained an understanding of his current power. He was currently at the 14th layer of Qi Condensation. However, he was curious about how he didn't need any of the chants and just progressed this far through cultivation. He suspected that it had something to do with Situ Nan.

While holding the bead, he entered the dream space. Right as he was about to enter, he quickly put the bead away.

The moment he entered the dream space, Situ Nan said, with discontent, "Why didn't you kill those people in the competition earlier? If it was me, I would have killed all of the males and sucked dry all of the females, then used that centipede to make wine. It would be very nutritious. But one thing you did that suited my taste was killing that Sun Dazhu. Not bad. Just like me in my youth. Wang Lin, you have to remember that the cultivation world is a cruel place. The strong consume the weak. If you keep up your naive thinking, then I'm afraid you won't live for long."

Wang Lin pondered for a long time. "Senior, should the next step be to prepare for Foundation Building? Junior doesn't know any chants to enter Foundation Building."

Situ Nan snorted and said, "I know the chant, but entering the Foundation Building stage is the true step into the world of cultivation and is very difficult. You should find a secluded place to go into closed door training in to help increase your chances of breaking through. Also, your spiritual spring water and snow water won't be enough anymore. When you enter Foundation Building, you need a lot of spiritual energy, so you better prepare some spiritual dew.

Wang Lin nodded and said, "The dew is easy to get. It just requires a lot of time."

Situ Nan sighed and said, "The Spirit Movement stage, which is also the Qi Condensation stage, is to use the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to refine the body. This has all been laying the foundation for the Foundation Building stage. As of now, you can already attempt to break into the Foundation Building stage, but I recommend you wait until you reach the 15th layer. Your talent isn't that good, and even though I've been using my own essence to help you in these past few decades, entering the Foundation Building stage is a heaven defying act. If I still had my body, I would be able to just barely help you through it, but I can't do much now."

"In addition to this, your means of attack is too simple. Just one technique won't do. But sadly, all the techniques I have require you to be at least at the Foundation Building stage to use. You should quickly reach the Foundation Building stage so I can pass the Underworld Ascension Method to you."

Wang Lin was stunned and said, "Underworld Ascension Method?"

Situ Nan proudly said, "Correct. Hehe, even in my home, a rank 6 country, it is still a top quality method. Unfortunately, it requires a place with a lot of yin element, or the cultivation will be too slow, but the cold spiritual energy it creates is incredibly powerful. Hmph, once you have reached the peak of this method, you can even fight against the experts of rank 7 countries. This is settled. Tomorrow, you can go to the scripture library of this small sect and see what they have, but, once you reach Foundation Building, you must practice the Underworld Ascension Method."

Wang Lin pondered for a bit and nodded.

"Also, Wang Lin, it's best that you don't put the heaven defying bead in your bag of holding. Place it as close to your chest as possible, so I can still communicate with you when you're not in the dream space, and you can enter the dream space through me."

Time slowly passed as Situ Nan talked. After two days in the dream space, Wang Lin woke up.

He sat cross legged and put the bead close to chest, then took a drink of the spiritual liquid and cultivated all night in silence. The next morning, Wang Lin opened the door. His body floated into the air as he moved toward the main hall.

The moment he arrived in the air of the main hall, Huang Long walked out and let out a kind smile when he saw Wang Lin. The smile on his face was much warmer than it was yesterday. He said, "Wang Lin, come with me."

With that, he waved his sleeves and jumped into the air. Wang Lin quickly followed behind. After a while, they arrived at a sub peak of the Heng Yue Mountain, the pine peak.

When they passed over the area where the competition was held yesterday, Huang Long didn't stop, but flew straight past it and went deeper into the pine peak, until he stopped in front of some strange rocks and said, "Wang Lin, this is a restricted place in the Heng Yue Sect. This is where the Core Formation true elders and Foundation Building elders cultivate, so don't carelessly spread out your divine sense, or you might offend them."

Wang Lin immediately agreed.

Huang Long took a deep breath. He took out a piece of purple jade and threw it into the air. Then, he formed a seal with his hand, swiped his hand through the air, and whispered, "Open!"

The piece of jade quickly started to shine and a circle started to expand from it, forming a circular passage wide enough for one person to pass through.

Huang Long didn't say a word and walked inside. Wang Lin hesitated a little and followed him in.

The moment he entered, his eyes blurred. When his eyes cleared up, he saw a few old and tall buildings. The buildings gave off a very heavy aura, making him feel like he couldn't breath in here.

Meanwhile, 7 to 8 powerful divine senses came out and scanned him. Then, a slow and ancient voice came out:

"So you are Wang Lin. Not bad."

Wang Lin became alert and respectfully said, "Disciple Wang Lin greets elder." And at the same time, Situ Nan's voice echoed in his mind, "This place makes it look much more like what a small sect should be. 2 Core Formation and 10 Foundation Building cultivators, not bad."

Huang Long's expression suddenly changed and growled, "What, elder? This is ancestor!"

Wang Lin was stunned. The voice came again. "It's fine. Sect customs are useless here. Wang Lin, this time, you have done a great deed for the sect, so you can choose any technique you like in this scripture library. This scripture library can't be compared to the one in the courtyard. This is where the real techniques of the Heng Yue Sect are stored. There are more than 10,000 techniques inside this library. If you were to take this library and compare it to all of the other sects in the country of Zhao, there is no other sect with a larger collection. You must not be too greedy and you must pick the right one! Huang Long, you can take him there now."

In Wang Lin's mind, Situ Nan scornfully said, "A mere Core Formation as ancestor? When I was young, all of the Core Formation cultivators tried to suck up to me, and some of the female Core Formation cultivators would even take off their pants to try to sleep with me."

Wang Lin's expression remained normal, as if he hadn't heard anything Situ Nan just said.

Huang Long quickly and respectfully responded. He pulled Wang Lin to one of the buildings. This building gave off a very ancient atmosphere. It looked like an old library.

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Chapter 62 – Calamity

Outside the building, Huang Long stopped and whispered to Wang Lin, "Here is the scripture library. You can go inside. On the first floor are mainly techniques for the Qi Condensation stage. You can look around in there, but focus your attention on the second floor, because that's where the techniques for foundation building stage are. I'll wait for you outside."

Wang Lin was a bit nervous. He took a deep breath and walked inside. This building had four floors. On the first floor were numerous pieces of green jade, floating on shelves and emitting green light.

Situ Nan mocked, "There is no need to look. What kind of things are there? These are all low quality techniques. Back then, I won't even bother to look at them."

Wang Lin didn't rush up to the second floor or listen to Situ Nan's words. He walked to each piece of jade and checked out what techniques were inside them. His hand also formed seal to test out the techniques.

Wang Lin picked up a piece of jade and closely looked at it. "Top quality technique – Fire Dragon."

Situ Nan immediately said, "Piece of shit top quality technique. This is clearly the low quality fire control technique. My soul fire technique is a real top quality technique."

Wang Lin was stunned. He put it down and picked up another one.

"Top quality technique – Earth Escape."

"Trash, complete trash! Where I come from, you can get this from anywhere and they dare to call it a top quality technique! My five element escape is a real top quality technique!"

"Top quality technique – Wind Blade."

"This is still trash! I know Howling Gale. It is 100 times more powerful!"

"Nine day thunder formation."

"What is all all crap? It is clearly just a bad thunder technique. Why give it such an powerful sounding name? Trash!"

"Immortal transformation."

"This is kind of interesting, but still trash. I know greater immortal transformation. It is 100 times more powerful."

Situ Nan mocked each technique one by one, making Wang Lin frown even more. He finally couldn't stand it anymore and went to the second floor.

There weren't as many jades on the second floor, just a few dozen jade floating in the air.

Situ Nan lazily said, "All of these are low quality. There is no need to look at them."

Wang Lin wrily smiled and thought, "You are a senior from a rank 6 cultivation country, of course none of these techniques are good enough for you."

Situ Nan urged, "Wang Lin, you don't need to look at this. Quickly find a place to go into closed door training in, and, once you reach foundation building, you can leave this small sect."

The previous mood of anticipation had all been destroyed by Situ Nan, so Wang Lin walked out of the scripture library, frowning.

When Huang Long saw Wang Lin leaving, he was stunned and asked, "You picked that quickly? You have to carefully choose. This scripture library contains the best techniques in the cultivation country of Zhao. Other people don't even have the qualifications to enter. You shouldn't waste it."

Wang Lin's expression was a bit odd. Situ Nan's mocking and elder's praise caused a large conflict in his heart. He said, "Disciple has already chosen."

Huang Long frowned and was about to ask him which technique he chose when the the entire pine peak suddenly started to shake.

"I am Xuan Dao Sect's Pu Nanzi. Juniors of the Heng Yue Sect, quickly come out and greet me."

Huang Long's expression suddenly changed. At that moment, more than ten figures rushed out from the surrounding buildings. The two figures in front were the most noticeable. One of those two had a red complexion with eyes that were clear and piercing.

Next to him was a old woman. Her face was full of wrinkles and was very gloomy. She coldly looked at Huang Long and Wang Lin, then silently looked into the sky.

Behind those two were ten elders, all with bitter expressions on their faces.

Situ Nan's seriously said, "Wang Lin, there is a nascent soul cultivator outside. The Heng Yue Sect is in big trouble now. You should find the chance and escape. With me here, I can temporarily make it so that he can't sense you. Hmph, if I had my body, I wouldn't be afraid of a mere Nascent Soul."

Wang Lin took a deep breath. His expression was very unsettled.

The red faced old man loudly said, "Senior Pun Nan, I don't know why you have come to my Heng Yue Sect. Please tell us."

A tall figure appeared in the air. His face was very dignified and said, in a low voice, "If it was 500 years ago, I would be intimidated by the Heng Yue Sect's defense formation, but, looking at it now, it is only so so. After I have broken this formation, I'll talk to you juniors."

With that, he waved his hand and a small black colored hill appeared. This small hill started moving and created wind, which soon created a giant tornado. Both of his hands formed a seal and a few very complex words came out of his mouth.

The giant hill slammed down toward the ground. A light screen appeared between the pine peak and the Heng Yue peak. The light screen formed a concave bowl and blocked the blow for the Heng Yue Sect.

"No less from a great sect from 500 years ago. This defensive formation will have some advanced techniques behind it. It can spread the power of the impact around, but I have to see without a nascent soul to maintain it how many of my attack can it take." Pun Nanzi let out a cold smile, his hand quickly moved and formed another giant tornado and slammed down again.

The red faced man's expression became pale. He swiped in the air before him and created a rift. He quickly went into the rift and the people behind him followed.

Huang Long quickly whispered, "Wang Lin, follow closely." With that, his body shot like an arrow and went into the rift.

Wang Lin took a step and closely followed behind them.

At that moment, the tornado smashed down again. A thunderous roar appeared when the tornado hit the light screen. Rainbow color lights shone from the light screen, which was barely holding up.

Wang Lin entered the rift. After he exited the rift, he appeared again on the stage on the pine peak. Right now, the red faced man and the old woman sat on top of one of the 8 white jade pillar. Their hands formed many different seals while chanting some complicated chants..

On the other six white jade pillars sat six other foundation building elders. Each of their faces were bitter and unsettled.

The old woman said, "Huang Long, quickly, gather all of the inner disciples here. The greatest disaster my Heng Yue Sect will face is this." With that, she spit out a mouthful of core energy into the white pillar.

Huang Long's body shook. Without a word, he charged toward the bridge back to the Heng Yue Peak.

"Hmph. It was able to withstand two attacks. Break for me on this third attack!" Pun Nanzi let out a cold snort. He spit out a mouth full of Nascent Soul energy into the small hill and it grew 10 time its size, covering the sky over pine peak.

With a bang, one of the white jade pillars broke and the foundation building elder on top of the white pillar bleed from his orifices and fell onto the ground.

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Chapter 63 – Powerful

"Break for me! Break! Break!" Pun Nanzi's expression became serious. His hands were constantly swinging as the giant tornado slammed against the mountain.

All of the people in the surrounding towns and villages were too scared to go outside, so they hid in their houses. The more brave people looked out of their windows and saw a giant mountain floating in the air, constantly slamming down.

Another white jade broke and another Foundation Building elder coughed out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

Pun Nanzi took out a purple gourd. His hand formed a seal and he spoke some complicated chants. The gourd trembled and red liquid came out of it. The moment the liquid appeared, it lit on fire and surrounded the tornado.

"Break!" Pun Nanzi let out a roar and slammed the flaming tornado down. With a boom, numerous cracks appeared on the light screen and began to spread.

Two more white jades broke and two more elders fell down.

Of the eight white pillars, only 4 remained. Aside from the two Core Formation elders, the two Foundation Building elders' faces were completely ashen and their bodies trembled. They had clearly reached their limit.

Huang Long had already brought all of the inner disciples here. All of their faces were filled with shock and fear. Wang Hao was also among them. His face was still pale, but a lot better than before. When he saw Wang Lin, he walked up to him and stared dumbfounded into the sky, unable to say a word.

Pun Nanzi's face was dark as he floated in the sky. This defense formation's strength was beyond his expectation. He knew that this formation wasn't at full powerful. If there was a Nascent Soul cultivator controlling it, it would be a lot more powerful.

Right now, this formation could only defend and do nothing else, but, if there was a Nascent Soul cultivator here, its power would be terrifying.

As the red faced elder watched his Foundation Building juniors fall one by one, his heart bled. He shouted,"Senior Pun Nanzi, your Xuan Dao Sect has always had a good relationship with our Heng Yue Sect. Do you really want to kill us all?"

Pun Nanzi snorted and said, "Liu Wenju, you went from being just a junior 500 years ago to a core member of the Heng Yue Sect and have even reached Core Formation. It is a shame to destroy this formation. If you open it yourself, things will be easier for you all."

The Core Formation expert, Liu Wenju, hesitated and the old woman suddenly shouted, in an angry voice, "Senior Pun Nanzi, I can't obey!"

Pun Nanzi let out a crazed laugh. His face sunk and he shouted. "Fine! This defense formation, break for me!" With that, he waved his hand and the giant tornado rose high in the air. His face turned red as he spat out more Nascent Soul energy and the tornado grew even larger.

"Fall!" Pun Nanzi's hand seal changed and he signaled the tornado to go down.

The giant tornado released buzzing sounds as it pushed down a bit more.

With a cracking sound, the cracks in the light screen increased and another white pillar broke as another Foundation Building elder fell.

The giant tornado fell another inch and the last Foundation Building elder coughed out a mouthful of blood and fell down.

"Break!" With Pun Nanzi's shout, the giant tornado pressed down and sunk three inches. The pine peak shook. With a thunderous roar, the entire mountain sunk dozens of meters into the ground.

The stone bridge connected to the Heng Yue Sect broke in half and fell down the cliff.

Meanwhile, the Heng Yue Sect's defense formation finally couldn't hold out anymore and shattered into tiny pieces and disappeared.

The last two white jade pillars broke and Liu Wenju and the old woman fell onto the ground with bitter expressions, unable to say a word.

Pun Nanzi let out a cold snort. He slowly floated to the ground and the giant tornado still floated in the air, releasing a powerful pressure.

After Pun Nanzi landed, he said, with a cold expression, "Who here is Wang Lin?"

Wang Lin had already backed up into the crowd of inner disciples. He never thought that the first thing this Nascent Soul expert would do was look for him.

All of the surrounding disciples' gazes turned to him. Pun Nanzi scanned the group and his gaze fell on Wang Lin. He raised his brow and figured that this must be Wang Lin. Before, his junior Ouyang had mentioned Wang Lin many times and said that their losses were entirely due to Wang Lin. He really wanted to recruit Wang Lin

Pun Nanzi had always wanted the Heng Yue Sect's land. This time, he thought that, with Zhou Peng, they would win for sure and would take over the Heng Yue Sect's land without openly using force.

But this Wang Lin's appearance disrupted his plan and forced him to appear and forcibly take the land.

Pun Nanzi's demeanor was cold as he asked, "You are Wang Lin?"

Wang Lin took a deep breath. He clasped his hands and respectfully said, "Disciple is Wang Lin, and he greets senior Pun Nanzi."

Pun Nanzi nodded his head. He turned to Liu Wenju and the Core Formation old woman and said, "The Nascent Soul ancestors of the Heng Yue Sect have all died fighting in another country. You guys no longer have the ability to keep this Heng Yue mountain. Instead of letting another sect steal it, why not give it to my Xuan Dao Sect?"

Liu Wenju gave the old woman a bitter look and said, "Senior, please consider the good relationship between the two sects and not…"

Without letting Liu Wenju finish speaking, Pun Nanzi interrupted him and impatiently said, ""Leave! Besides the people, nothing else can leave! If you keep bugging me, I don't mind wiping out the entire sect!"

The old woman became furious and was about to charge in when Liu Wenju stopped her. He took a deep breath and respectfully said, "Junior obeys, but this Heng Yue Mountain has been our sect for thousands of years and junior doesn't have the right to give it away. Junior can only agree to lend it. If in the future…"

Pun Nanzi sneered. He once again interrupted and said, "Lend? That's fine. Lend it to my Xuan Dao Sect for 100,000 years."

All of the inner disciples were furious, but none of them dared to display it. They all felt very depressed and stayed silent. Some of the disciples began to think about themselves.

Pun Nanzi's face swept the area and landed on Huang Long. He said, "You. Leave behind your Purple Moon Sword. My junior Ouyang has his eyes on it."

Huang Long endured the humiliation and clenched his hands. He looked toward Liu Wenju and the old woman. When he found that they were waiting for him, he let out sigh, took out the sword, and threw it on the ground.

Pun Nanzi grabbed with his right hand and the purple moon sword flew into his hand. The moment the sword entered his grasp, a purple gas came out of the sword and formed into a giant dragon.

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Chapter 64 – Sect Scatters

The dragon roared at Pun Nanzi and attacked him.

Pun Nanzi sneered. He flicked the sword and said, "Animal, restrain yourself!"

The dragon's body shook and immediately lost its will. It reluctantly returned back into the sword. The sword stopped glowing.

Liu Wenju and the old woman looked at each other and let out a sigh. She said, "Fine. All Heng Yue Sect disciples, listen to my order: follow me off the mountain." With that, she took a look around and let out another sigh before floating up into the air.

Pun Nanzi narrowed his eyes and said, "My Xuan Dao Sect is going to recruit more disciples. If anyone wishes to join, they can stay here."

The ten Foundation Building elders' faces all turned strange. Besides the two who were next to the old woman, the other eight didn't follow her.

Liu Wenju's expression changed. He wanted to say something, but ended up staying silent. He let out another sigh, then shook his head and stood next to the old woman.

The old woman suppressed the anger in her heart and shouted, "Everyone has their own path. If anyone doesn't want to follow us, I won't force you."

Among Haung Long's generation, all of the elders hesitated and, in the end, besides Huang Long, Dao Xu, and the red faced elder, none of the other elders moved. Only those three moved and stood next to the two Core Formation elders.

Among the dozens of inner disciples, only about 10 or so flew next to the Core Formation elders. Wang Zhuo hesitated for a long time. He didn't dare to look at Dao Xu as he raised his foot and put it down. Ultimately, he didn't follow.

The female named Zhou hesitated for a while, but didn't follow. As for the female named Xu, she saw that Wang Zhuo didn't move, so she pulled back the step she took forward.

Wang Hao could already walk. He wrily smiled and said to Wang Lin, "Brother Tie Zhu, I'm not going to go anywhere. I plan on heading home and helping my dad. Don't worry, brother Tie Zhu, I'll take care of your family."

Wang Lin hesitated. He had too many secrets and, if he joined the Xuan Dao Sect, there would be too many uncertain dangers, so, after pondering for a while, he started to move.

At that moment, Pun Nanzi's eyes lit up as he stared at Wang Lin. He suddenly said, "Wang Lin, you stay!"

Wang Lin was stunned and respectfully said, "Senior Pun Nanzi, why do you want junior to stay?"

Pun Nanzi raised his head and said, "If I tell you to stay, you stay. What's with all the questions?!"

Liu Wenju hesitated for a while and suddenly said, "Senior Pun Nanzi, this Wang Lin is my Heng Yue Sect's head disciple, so I would like to request senior not to make it hard on him and let him leave with us." He had heard a few things about Wang Lin and also observed him for a bit. He was really unwilling to give up this future Foundation Building disciple.

Pun Nanzi grunted and said to Wang Lin, "The Heng Yue Sect only exist in name. Are you going to follow them as they drift around the world? If you join my Xuan Dao Sect, your future will be much brighter. You decide for yourself what you want. You wouldn't want rumors to spread, would you? Rumors saying that my Xuan Dao Sect not only stole the mountain, but the disciples a well.

Pun Nanzi was confident that, unless this Wang Lin was retarded, he wouldn't follow the Heng Yue Sect.

Wang Lin pondered a little. Without a word, he clasped his hands, rose into the air, and stood next to Huang Long.

Pun Nanzi's eyes lit up. "Ungrateful brat!" he said.

Liu Wenju and the old woman gave Wang Lin thoughtful looks. They waited for a while longer, but after seeing all of the disciples of the Heng Yue Sect with their heads down, the old woman let out a sigh and said, "Fine, let's go."

With that, she flew off into the distance. The other ten or so people followed her with bitter expressions.

The people of the Heng Yue Sect followed the two Core Formation elders and flew away from the Heng Yue Sect like homeless dogs.

Along the way, no one said a word. Besides anger, they were filled with a sense of loss.

After flying for a long time, until the sky darkened, Liu Wenju and the old woman debated for a while, then landed on the side of a mountain.

The old woman let out a sigh. She looked at the people around her. Besides the two Foundation Building elders, everyone else was at the Qi Condensation stage. There were only four people from Huang Longs generation and 12 people from Wang Lin's generation. She bitterly smiled and forced herself to calm down. She said, "You guys shouldn't lose heart just because the Heng Yue Sect has met this disaster. Things always change in the cultivation world. Today, he stole the Heng Yue Mountain from us, but, once I and ancestor Liu reach Nascent Soul, we will be able to take it back!"

Among the two Foundation Building elders was elder Shang Guan, who observed Wang Lin in the main hall a few days ago. He let out a dry cough and said, "Ancestor Wang is correct. The more miserable we feel now, the higher our fighting spirit will be. We must carve this humiliation into our hearts. If we are successful in the future, we must take back the mountain!"

The other Foundation Building elder had a wide face and body. His face was filled with worry as he looked at the remaining disciples and said, "When disaster came, everyone flew in different directions. In the end, only you guys were willing to follow us from Heng Yue Sect." he sighed.

Among the inner disciples that followed, aside from brother Zhang and Lu Song, Wang Lin didn't know the names of any of them, but they looked familiar.

There was also a little fatty, which was the person he met outside the word pavilion.

Liu Wenju took a deep breath and said, with a serious expression, "There is no point in dwelling on the past. The most important thing right now is to find a place to house our sect. Many years ago, I built a house at a snake-like mountain thousands of kilometers from here. For now, let's go live there."

The old woman pondered for a while. She nodded and said, "That is good. Once we reach it, we must go into closed door training and reach Nascent Soul within 100 years."

Liu Wenju's gaze shifted. He said to the two Foundation Building elders, "Shang Guan and Song Yu, you two stand guard while I and ancestor Wang recover the spiritual energy used on maintaining the formation. Then, we can carry all of you to move faster."

Shang Guan and Song Yu quickly did as they were told.

Liu Wenju took out a few pieces of green jade. He tossed them into the air and they began emit a green light. His hand formed a few seals and the green jade suddenly shook and created a dome of green light that covered everything within a 20 meters radius.

After that, he sat down cross legged and held a spirit stone in his hand and began to cultivate. The old woman did the same and began to cultivate to recover her spiritual energy.

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