Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 260 Return, Arrival, First Meeting
On a space ship.

Lin Yuan stared at the old ghost Zhaixing steadily and asked softly, "There was an extremely large black stone pillar on the Soul Prison Square of the Punishment Hall just now. I sensed the origin of the soul inside it..."

"My friend, don't even think about that!!"

Before Lin Yuan could finish, the old ghost Zhaixing's eyes narrowed and he interrupted him quickly.

Taking a deep breath, he looked at Lin Yuan solemnly: "I know that the things in there are very attractive to you alchemists. But, they are prepared for a certain important person, and no one is qualified to use them."

"In the palace, only the Palace Master can deal with it, and the Palace Master attaches great importance to this matter. Once..."

After a pause, he continued, "There was once an eighth-grade alchemist in the hall who, relying on the respect of the hall master, secretly used some of the soul essence of the branch hall. The result was that he suffered the most severe punishment and was annihilated!"

At this point, the old ghost Zhaixing seemed to have thought of something, and a trace of deep fear flashed in his eyes.

"Big shot...huh?"

Lin Yuan thought for a moment and had a rough idea in his mind, "It should be the Void Devouring Flame... It seems that if we go through the normal channels, before it achieves the Emperor Realm Soul, the Soul Palace's accumulated soul essence will not be available to others."

"It seems that in order to obtain these soul origins, some extraordinary means must be used..."

Thinking of this, Lin Yuan's eyes narrowed slightly and he looked at the old ghost Zhaixing.

"I see!" With a look of sudden enlightenment on his face, he cupped his hands in gratitude and said, "I didn't expect this to happen. Thanks for reminding me. Lin Yuan won't think of those things again..."

"That's good!" The old ghost Zhaixing let out a long sigh and nodded slightly.

"Oh right..." As if remembering something, Lin Yuan asked in confusion: "I know the duties of Tiangang Hall and ordinary branch halls, but what about Disha Hall?"

"The responsibilities of the Disha Palace..."

Hearing Lin Yuan's question, Zhaixing Old Ghost's eyes flickered a little, and he said: "Sorry, this matter is a confidential matter in the palace. I can't tell you for the time being. You should be able to know it after you become a Heavenly Venerable!"

"Interesting, the Heavenly Lord... I'm really looking forward to it!" Lin Yuan nodded and chuckled, "I'm going to practice. I'll trouble you with the boat driving!"

"Hehehe, don't worry, leave it to me!" said the old ghost Zhaixing with a smile.

Lin Yuan waved his hand casually, then walked towards the cabin, a guess suddenly coming to his mind.

"The Earthly Demon Palace... will their duties be related to the Soul Devouring Life-Destroying Formation?"
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Black Horn Region, Canaan Inner Courtyard.

"You have advanced to Dou Zun?"

Looking at the gorgeous snow-haired woman in front of her, Medusa, who had already advanced to the eight-star Dou Zong level, had a flash of horror in her eyes. Although it was unbelievable, she could sense that the aura that was far superior to that of the Heavenly Demon Puppet could not be fake.

During this period of time, with the help of the Heavenly Demon Puppet, a Dou Zun-level fighter, she seized and devoured a large number of high-quality natural treasures and finally broke through to the two-star cultivation level.

And this white-haired girl was promoted directly from a six-star Dou Zong to a Dou Zun. It was too...

The Little Medical Fairy smiled elegantly, shone her jade fist, and said playfully: "Of course it's true! So? In the future... will you dare to disobey me who possesses the power of Dou Zun?"

Facing Medusa, the woman who obviously met Lin Yuan after him but won the first place over Lin Yuan, even though she was as elegant as she was, she couldn't help but feel an inexplicable sense of competition in her heart.

"Obviously I came first..."

Once faced with this charming and beautiful woman, this somewhat childish thought always came to Xiao Yixiang's mind.

Hearing this, Medusa suppressed her mixed thoughts and looked at the Little Medical Fairy carefully.

After her eyes fell on the frowning eyebrows of Little Medical Immortal, she raised a calm and playful smile and said lightly: "Even if you are a Dou Zun, I still gave you so much time... but it's still... useless!"

With a light laugh, she teased, "Don't you know how to do it? Call me sister, and I'll show you how to do it... By the way, where is my little man?"

"You!" Hearing Medusa's words, the Little Medical Fairy suddenly became a little angry, and a powerful momentum poured out.

"hehe--"

Medusa gritted her teeth, tried to straighten her back, and withstood the pressure with the powerful body of the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python. She said calmly: "Put back this useless momentum. Do you think the battle between you and me is a victory or defeat in this cultivation?"

Hearing what Medusa said, Xiao Yixian snorted coldly, but also retracted her momentum.

She knew in her heart that if she really used her strength to suppress him, she would be defeated in this war without gunpowder between the two.

Recalling the arrangement at the academy, she had a glimmer of confidence in her eyes...

The Little Medical Fairy smiled brightly and fought back. She was already prepared. Next, it would depend on how Medusa would respond!
However, before that... let's get down to business.

"Lin Yuan has left." She said lightly.

"During the time you were away, two Soul Palace Dou Zun came to visit. Lin Yuan left Canaan College a month ago and followed the Soul Palace to Zhongzhou. He prepared these things in advance and asked me to give them to you..."

As she spoke, Little Medical Fairy took out a storage ring from her bosom and looked at Medusa, Qinglin and Ziyan in front of her.

"Ah... my brother ran away?"

Zi Yan cried out in surprise, then frowned and snorted, "How dare he abandon me... No, I have to go to Zhongzhou to find him right away! Damn Lin Yuan, he dared to run away without telling me, I will beat him up a few times when we see each other again..."

Hearing the words "abandon" and "run away" from Zi Yan's mouth, Xiao Yixian and Medusa felt a strange feeling in their hearts for some reason.

The Little Medical Fairy pulled Zi Yan's little face and said calmly: "Okay, don't be angry, your brother just went to Zhongzhou to explore the way first. This is the new flavor he improved for you, go and eat it..."

As she spoke, she took out a few pills and handed them to Zi Yan.

“New flavor!”

Smelling this completely different aroma, Zi Yan's eyes lit up. She quickly took the pill and threw it into her mouth. She chewed the pill into pieces and swallowed it into her stomach. She licked her lips, and a look of unsatisfied feeling flashed in her eyes.

"During the months you were away, a lot of things did happen. Here are the details..."

With a gentle smile, the Little Medical Fairy took out a bottle of pills from her storage ring and fed them to Zi Yan while telling her about everything that had happened during this period and Lin Yuan's arrangements.

After half an hour.

Looking at the Zong Yuan Dan in her hand, Medusa said faintly: "Helping you achieve Dou Zun, fusing the new strange fire, refining pills, killing a three-star Dou Zun, and intimidating a five-star Dou Zun, my little man is really busy..."

She sighed in her heart, but she had no objection to Lin Yuan going to the Soul Palace.

After participating in Lin Yuan's attacks on the Xiao family's ancient jade and the Soul Palace's guardians, she had a premonition that Lin Yuan and the Soul Palace would have a deeper entanglement.

"Are we heading to the Sky Serpent Empire next?" Medusa tapped her forehead lightly, thinking about Lin Yuan's arrangements.

"You just returned, take a few days to rest before setting off again." Little Medical Fairy glanced at her and said meaningfully: "Take this opportunity to take a good look around Canaan College... After all, this is Lin Yuan's 'home'!"

"Time and opportunity are limited. It will probably be a long time before we come back next time!"

After saying that, the Little Medical Fairy greeted a few people and walked towards a square in the courtyard - today was her last time to teach pharmacology and poison techniques in the inner courtyard.

"Lin Yuan's 'home'?"

Thinking of the tone of the Little Medical Fairy, Medusa raised her eyebrows slightly: "The tone of your words just now is a provocation to me. Did she do something in the academy? If this is a challenge, then I will accept it generously as you wish..."

"I want to see what tricks you have up your sleeve." She restrained her breath and formed a mysterious hand seal with her hands.

"Xuanyuan Breath Control Technique!" This secret technique that Yao Lao gave to Medusa before the battle with Yunlan, combined with the Seven-Colored Sky-Swallowing Python's breath-controlling talent, made Medusa become like a "passerby". If people didn't pay special attention to her, they would unknowingly ignore her.

Even if you investigate, you can only see an ordinary person.

With a satisfied smile, Medusa stretched her body lazily and walked around the inner courtyard at a leisurely pace.

This kind of leisure is unexpectedly good, and suddenly...

"This painting, a fourth-grade elixir, this picture of hugging... I'll buy it! Hehe, Senior Lin Yuan and Fairy Mu look more and more compatible. They are truly a match made in heaven! They are worthy of being my favorite couple..."

"Who said it wasn't true? But you tell me, when Senior Lin and Fairy Mu were getting along... who was more powerful?"

"Needless to say... Of course it's Fairy Mu, she has a higher level of cultivation!"

"Nonsense, it's obviously Senior Lin Yuan. Don't forget, Senior is an eighth-rank alchemist. He will definitely make that kind of 'medicine'... hehehe..."

"Damn it, can you please stop slandering my Brother Lin? But... hehehe..."

The excited and heated arguments of several young girls finally broke Medusa's leisurely stroll.

A sense of uneasiness rose in her heart.
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A month later.

"It's almost time. Have you upgraded a small rank?"

Lin Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on the bed, took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes. A solemn look flashed in his eyes: "The quality of the Tianxin Soul Art is limited, and its effect can't keep up with my needs!"

The task of controlling the spaceship was more than capable of being accomplished by the old man Zhaixing, so Lin Yuan did not need to be distracted by it and devoted all his attention to nurturing fire and practicing.

In terms of maintaining fire, the progress is quite smooth.

Lin Yuan spent ten days allowing the Qianlan Ice Flame to devour all the beast fires at hand, bringing its power to its current upper limit, surpassing the Fallen Heart Flame.

As for cultivation, Lin Yuan was not very satisfied.

During this period, he did not practice any fighting spirit, but just let the Fallen Heart Flame polish his fighting spirit. He focused his main energy on the cultivation of the soul.

After practicing, the power of the soul has improved slightly. To be more specific, it has been improved from the early five-color stage to the middle five-color stage.

An ordinary eighth-grade alchemist would undoubtedly be ecstatic at this rate of progress.

However, Lin Yuan frowned slightly at the results of his practice.

"Sure enough, whether it's fighting spirit or soul, the later the realm, the greater the span and the accumulation required, the more it increases. The completed Tianxin Soul Art is estimated to be only at the low earth level. I need a better soul technique!"

Just like fighting skills, soul skills naturally have different levels of strength, quality and bad.

According to Lin Yuan's judgment, the Tianxin Soul Art and the Shahun Art seized from old man Mu Gu are both low-level earth-level soul techniques and can only be used for the early transition.

As for the prize for the champion of the Alchemy Competition - Taiyi Soul Art, Lin Yuan speculated that it might be an advanced earth-level soul technique.

As for the heavenly-grade soul skills... probably only ancient clans or top-level strongmen possess them. This thing, no matter how you look at it, is more precious than the heavenly-grade skills and combat techniques, and of course it is also more difficult to obtain.

This is one of the reasons why Lin Yuan decided to join the Soul Palace, and it is also one of the goals this time.

Based on the information he obtained from interrogation and his own foresight, Lin Yuan had some basic judgments about the Soul Palace or the Soul Clan.

Compared with other clans that attach great importance to their own heritage, the Soul Clan is more pragmatic.

For the so-called millennium plan, they are willing to pay a high price for anyone who is truly valuable. The Soul Palace has been able to develop to such a level and has so many loyal members, which is inseparable from its generous rewards...

"My friend, we are almost there!"

While he was thinking, the voice of Old Star-Picking Ghost came from the bow of the ship.

Hearing this, Lin Yuan got up from the bed, tidied himself up a little, pushed open the door and walked out, came to the bow, stood side by side with Zhaixing Old Ghost, and the two of them looked far ahead together.

At the end of the distant sight, a silver halo suddenly appeared and then expanded rapidly.

We have arrived in the Western Regions!
Seeing this, Lin Yuan also became serious, "Now that we are here, we must be not far from the Tiangang Di Palace! Unfortunately, there is no passage from the Hub Palace to the Di Palace..."

"Jie Jie!"

The old ghost Zhaixing smiled and explained, "The Three Heavenly Palaces are the core of the Soul Palace, so they are naturally in a very hidden place. As for the Earthly Palace, generally only the Heavenly Venerable is qualified to know the exact location, so naturally it is not a branch palace that can be directly accessed..."

"However, if we leave this palace, we will soon reach the underground palace."

Before he finished speaking, the spaceship flashed past like a swimming fish, and despite the violent space fluctuations, it swept into the aperture and disappeared.

Slowly opening his eyes, what appeared in Lin Yuan's sight was a scene that was quite similar to a painting.

However, this time, the two did not stay here.

The old ghost Zhaixing took out the token from before, injected power into it, and then used the token to create a space crack in the void.

"My friend, let's go!"

As he spoke, he waved to Lin Yuan, and then took the lead to step into the space crack.

Seeing this, Lin Yuan followed.

Not long after, deep in a desolate mountain in the Western Regions that was filled with spooky auras, a space crack about ten feet in size suddenly appeared in the void. Then, two figures slowly walked out of the crack.

After a brief pause, the two rose into the air, then turned into two streams of light and shot towards the west.
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three days later.

There is a canyon in the western region of Zhongzhou. The canyon is thousands of feet long and unfathomable. The bottom cannot be seen at a glance. There is also a chilly wind and black fog.

Along the steep rock wall, where the black mist fills the air, everything is silent, no weeds grow, and it is a land of no life.

Continue going down, all the way down, and you will find a space shield in the unfathomable valley. In the space shield, a huge black palace stands silently, like a giant beast crawling in the depths of the canyon.

An eerie and terrifying smell wafted from the huge palace and spread throughout the blocked space.

Suddenly, two streams of light fell from the sky.

Lin Yuan and Zhaixing Old Ghost fell straight down from the sky, passing through layers of black fog and landed outside the space shield.

"We're finally here!" Looking at the space shield in front of him, the old man Zhaixing breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, he took out the "Zun" token. Before he could use it, an indifferent voice suddenly rang in their ears: "Interesting little friend, I have been waiting for you for a long time..."

Before he finished his words, a huge black mist hand a hundred feet in size suddenly stretched out from the void and grabbed the two of them with irresistible force.

Immediately, there was a shaking of the heavens and the earth, and a feeling of dizziness came over me...

When Lin Yuan came to his senses again, he was already in a dark hall. He shook his head gently, and in just a moment, his eyes regained clarity, and a strange skeleton throne suddenly came into view.

At the same time, a look of indifference mixed with a hint of amusement was cast down from the throne.

"Being able to wake up so quickly is much better than Mu Gu..."

(End of this chapter)