Reaching the pinnacle from Doupo

Chapter 272: Letter of Invitation, Calculation
"Since the letter has been delivered, I will go back to report." Ling Ying bowed and said goodbye, with a hint of respect in his words.

"Mr. Ling, wait a moment!" Lin Yuan called out to Ling Ying.

Seeing the latter's puzzled look, he smiled slightly and explained: "From what I know, the Ancient Clan seems to be in the Eastern Region. Coincidentally, I also intend to go to the Eastern Region recently. It happens to be on the way, why don't we go together?"

When he feels sleepy, he is about to go to the East Region to fulfill his one-year appointment with Gu Zhen. He just happens to be in need of a guide and a tool man to drive the spaceship.

"Young Master Lin is also heading to the Eastern Region?" Ling Ying showed a look of surprise when he heard this.

"Haha!" Lin Yuan nodded gently, with a smile on his face, "I'm going to meet a friend over there, and travel a little bit..."

"So that's it!" Ling Ying nodded.

"In that case, you might as well stay in the Star Realm for a while and rest for a few days!" Yao Lao's voice of questioning sounded at the side.

“Ling Ying, we are destined to meet. When we were in the Jia Ma Empire, you helped me and Xiao Yanzi a lot. Today, I have the chance to come here, and I have just rebuilt my body, so I will give you some pills as a token of my gratitude…”

"Thank you, senior!" Ling Ying was overjoyed when he heard what Yao Lao said and bowed quickly.

"It's just a small matter!" Yao Lao waved his hand casually and chuckled, "I have just been reborn today. I will make some adjustments. Tomorrow, I will start refining the elixir!"

When he mentioned the word "alchemy", a hint of excitement flashed in his eyes.

Unlike most alchemists who make medicine for profit, Yao Lao has a natural love and persistence for alchemy and enjoys the process of making medicine.

However, after losing his physical body, he was almost deprived of his greatest pleasure.

Yao Lao, in his soul state, had a hard time refining the sixth-grade elixir. When he saw Lin Yuan refining the seventh and eighth-grade elixir before, he was eager to do so. Now, with his physical body reshaped, he finally enjoyed the fun of refining elixir again.

While the three were talking, Xiao Yan and Venerable Feng also flew over.

After everyone greeted each other, Xiao Yan gently extended his hand and handed a wisp of earth-yellow flame to Lin Yuan, "Brother Lin, this is the Wind Fury Dragon Flame I promised you..."

"The interweaving of wind and fire, worthy of being the eighteenth Strange Fire... It is indeed interesting."

Looking at the tiny tornado-shaped flame in front of him, Lin Yuan showed a satisfied smile on his face. Then he flipped his hand, took out the "Fire Gathering Pot", put the Wind Fury Dragon Flame Fire into it, and then took back the Dark Sea Ring.

"By the way, does Senior Yao know Elder Mu Gu?" Lin Yuan asked casually, as if he remembered something.

"Old Man Mu Gu?" Upon hearing this name, a hint of ferocity flashed across Yao Lao's eyes, and he said in a deep voice, "Little Lin, how did you know this name?"

When Venerable Feng, who was standing by, heard the name, a hint of coldness flashed in his eyes.

"Uh...it seems that you two do know him!" Lin Yuan nodded and said in sudden realization: "It seems that you two have a grudge against him. This makes me feel relieved. I know this person because he died at our hands..."

As he spoke, he raised his hand and the body of an old man with his head mostly shattered fell to the ground with a thud.

"Dead?" Upon hearing this, Yao Lao was somewhat incredulous.

Then, he looked at the corpse that was emitting poisonous gas, stared at the half-remaining hateful face, and was suddenly stunned, and fell into deep silence.

"Dead, just like that... dead? Died so easily? I didn't even have the chance to take revenge..."

Even though this disgusting face was incomplete, Yao Lao was certain in an instant that this was the "good fellow disciple" who had been fighting with him for many years, and the culprit who had bewitched Han Feng to betray his master and ancestors and led to his death.

Staring at the corpse, Yao Lao's mood was extremely complicated, with resentment, joy, relief, melancholy... many emotions intertwined.

As his expression and mood changed, the energy in his body suddenly rose and fell. The powerful energy fluctuations caused dark cracks to appear all over his body.

Seeing this, everyone fell into deep silence.

After a long while, Yao Lao took a deep breath, forced himself to suppress the unspeakable emotions in his heart, and asked, "Little Lin, can you tell me what's going on?"

"Of course!" Lin Yuan nodded, and immediately told the processed facts.

"After this person knew that I was carrying a strange fire, he ran all the way from Zhongzhou to Canaan College, intending to directly seize my Azure Lotus Earth Core Fire by force. After I used the 'Mysterious Soul Seal' given to me by the senior, he wanted to completely kill me."

"However, fortunately, Xiao Yixian successfully condensed the poison pill in time and broke through the Dou Zun realm. We worked together to kill him, and I was able to escape..."

Lin Yuan concealed the fact that Mu Gu was killed by him. Dou Zong killing Dou Zun... too ostentatious! For this reason, he even asked Xiao Yixian to deal with it and forge some traces...

The reason why he told Yao Lao about this was to do him a favor. After all, he was also helping him to get revenge.

At the same time, in order to make Yao Lao realize one thing - Lin Yuan and Soul Palace are in a hostile relationship, he gave himself a good guy card.

And with Yao Lao's reputation and his relationship with the three giants of Danta today, as long as the former gives Lin Yuan this good guy card, Lin Yuan can easily gain the trust of the three giants, and his subsequent actions in Danta will be much smoother.

In the Douqi continent where the strong are respected, the world is full of fighting and killing, as well as human relationships and worldly wisdom.

And the body of old man Mu Gu is the best token of his allegiance.

If old man Mu Gu knew about this in his afterlife, he would surely be very happy that his legacy has been fully utilized: his soul has become nourishment for Lin Yuan's soul; his corpse has also become the best tool for Lin Yuan to gain the trust of Yao Lao and Dan Ta.

After all, what else could better reflect hostility towards the Soul Palace than killing an eighth-grade alchemist of the Soul Palace?

As for using an eighth-grade alchemist as a discarded pawn... that can only be a stroke of the brain!
Apart from the Medicine Clan, which major force does not lack eighth-grade alchemists?

The matter of killing old man Mu Gu, and the cooperation with old ghost Zhaixing who was helping Lin Yuan spread the name of "Yuan Tianzun" in the Southern Territory. Without knowing many detailed details, no one would be able to connect Lin Yuan and Yuan Tianzun together in the future.

In this way, Lin Yuan's identity as "Yuan Tianzun" in the Soul Palace can be deeply hidden.

Even if someone from the Soul Palace told Yao Lao that "Lin Yuan is Yuan Tianzun", I'm afraid he wouldn't believe it at all.

On the other side, Xiao Yan's eyes became solemn when he heard Lin Yuan's words.

A Blue Lotus Earth Core Fire ranked 19th could attract Dou Zun to travel millions of miles to snatch it. But could a mere three-star Dou Wang like himself really protect the Wind Fury Dragon Flame ranked 17th?

In the future, if I obtain a higher-ranked Strange Fire, what level of strongman will target me... Fighting Saint?
Thinking of this, Xiao Yan's eyes became confused. Burning Technique, is it...

But soon, he suppressed the weakness in his heart and his eyes became firm again. As long as he was strong enough, it wouldn't be a big problem no matter how many people coveted him. He needed the Burning Decision to make himself stronger quickly.

Moreover, I have the support of Yao Lao who will soon break through to the semi-saint level, so there will be no problem...

Thinking of this, Xiao Yan looked at Yao Lao, and seeing the latter's complicated expression, a hint of worry flashed in his eyes.

Without paying much attention to the master and disciple's emotions, Lin Yuan pretended to be ignorant and continued to ask: "What is the relationship between Mu Gu and Senior Yao? Is there any hatred between them?"

Looking at Xiao Yan, who was curious and worried, and Lin Yuan, who was puzzled, Yao Lao sighed. After a moment's silence, he briefly recounted his past and hatred with Mu Gu, "Mu Gu can barely be considered a fellow disciple of mine, but we have a deep grudge, and he is my mortal enemy who nearly killed me..."

As the story progressed, he seemed to slowly let go of the past and his emotions gradually calmed down.

After everything was told, Yao Lao seemed to be relieved a lot.

Looking at the corpse of old man Mu Gu, he shook his head: "After years of hatred, I didn't expect that you would end up like this! Dying for trying to steal someone else's strange fire is really a retribution and a death that suits you..."

"Lin boy, regarding Mu Gu's matter... I owe you a favor."

Yao Lao looked at Lin Yuan and said quietly, "Can you give this body to me? When a person dies, all hatred is gone. Let me collect and bury him!"

Hearing this, Lin Yuan pondered for a moment and finally nodded.

"Sure! But... I originally intended to use this corpse as a token of my joining Danta. But since you want to bury it, I can agree, but... you need to give me a letter of proof."

"You want to join Danta?" Yao Lao raised his eyebrows and asked in confusion.

Suddenly, he remembered Xun'er's letter, and suddenly he understood, "That's right, your current situation is a bit dangerous! It's hard to deal with Soul Palace and that clan, so joining Danta... is a wise choice."

"I will give you the letter you want in a while. Besides, the current head of Danta is my old friend, I will ask him to take care of you..."

"Thank you, Senior Yao!" Lin Yuan bowed and said gratefully.

"Don't worry about it, it's a trivial matter!" Yao Lao waved his hand casually, took the body of old man Mu Gu, turned around and left.

But in the moment of turning around, a hint of apology appeared in his eyes.

According to what Xun'er said in the letter, for a long time afterwards, Lin Yuan... would have to help the immature Xiao Yan to bear the pressure.

Although Yao Lao was very confident about Xiao Yan's future, it was also a fact that the latter was currently far behind the geniuses of the Imperial Clan. Now was far from the time for him to face the geniuses of the Ancient Clan.

Xiao Yan has a sense of pride in his bones, which is also something that Yao Lao appreciates.

However, if he were to face the pressure from the imperial family too early, his pride would most likely be shattered to pieces, and Yao Lao would never allow this to happen.

Although he did not think that Xun'er's approach was appropriate, if he did not follow her current method, he could not think of any better way to deal with it except sending Xiao Yan away from Zhongzhou.

And sending Xiao Yan away from Zhongzhou is obviously an unrealistic idea.

Water flows to lower place, man goes to higher position.

Since Xiao Yan has already arrived in Zhongzhou, he must continue to face challenges here and keep moving forward.

Although it is quite mysterious, based on past experience, many geniuses do have a "momentum" in the dark. Once this "momentum" is interrupted, even if they are extremely talented, they may fall into a long bottleneck period and find it difficult to make any progress.

Compared with being defeated in a battle, escaping behavior is more likely to interrupt this mysterious "momentum".

There are many people who rise again after being defeated in war, but once they flee to the border areas, the high spirits of youth will involuntarily dissipate, and it will be extremely difficult to rise again.

It is very rare to hear in the Douqi Continent that a person can escape from Zhongzhou to the border area and then fight his way back from the border area.

As a teacher, what Yao Lao needs to do is to make joint arrangements and maintain this forward-looking "momentum".

People will always be close to each other, and although he felt a little sorry for Lin Yuan, since Xiao Yan's girlfriend had already taken action, as Xiao Yan's teacher, he would not add fuel to the fire, but he would not sabotage it either...

I can only let Lin Yuan suffer, and I can only give him more compensation.

Thinking of this, Yao Lao sighed softly in his heart, his figure flashed strangely, and then disappeared from the sight of several people.

After Yao Lao left, Lin Yuan looked at Venerable Feng and chuckled, "Senior Feng, can you find a quiet place for me? I have some things to take care of."

"Haha! You are a distinguished guest, so of course there is no problem!" Venerable Feng smiled and said, "Follow me! I will take you to a good place in the star realm..."

After saying that, the two of them left, leaving only Xiao Yan and Ling Ying.

Xiao Yan looked at Ling Ying with a burning gaze: "Mr. Ling, how is Xun'er doing now? Can you tell me in detail?"

Because he was worried about Yao Lao before, he didn't ask in detail, but now is the perfect time...
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The next morning, at the back mountain of Xingyun Peak.

When the sun shone on this beautiful valley, Lin Yuan, who was sitting cross-legged on the bluestone, also responded and slowly opened his eyes.

And the moment he opened his eyes, a strange fluctuation began to appear in the space around him. A stream of energy that was completely different from the fighting spirit quietly poured into the center of Lin Yuan's eyebrows and finally merged into his soul.

"As expected of the Soul Art gifted by Hunxuzi, the effect is better than expected! At this rate, in two months, I will have a chance to break through to the eighth level and six colors."

Feeling the sense of fullness coming from between his eyebrows, Lin Yuan's lips slightly raised.

During this period of time, he has been diligently practicing the 'Heaven and Earth Soul Art'. The more he practiced, the more he could realize the subtlety of this art. The spiritual energy that was difficult to condense before can now automatically emerge from between heaven and earth as long as he practices the art.

With such a domineering effect, Lin Yuan dared to say that even if there was only the Earth Scroll at present, the preciousness of this soul skill was no less than that of the Heaven Grade Fighting Skill.

Thinking of this, a hint of heat flashed in his eyes: "The complete 'Heaven and Earth Soul Art', I think even among the Soul Clan, which has been passed down for a long time, there are few comparable methods."

At this moment, a burst of passionate cheers came faintly from the medicine refining square in the distance.

"I see. Yao Lao is going to start refining the seventh-grade elixir in public."

After distinguishing the sound, Lin Yuan's eyes suddenly showed understanding, and he murmured: "Okay, it should take him a few days to refine the elixir this time. I will use this time to push my Dou Qi cultivation to the limit..."

He had no intention of observing the alchemy. For him now, alchemy below the eighth grade was of almost no value to observe.

After making up his mind, Lin Yuan snapped his fingers and two jade bottles flew out from the storage ring.

In one of the jade bottles, there was pill mist filling the air, and the longan-sized pill in the center was emitting extremely powerful energy fluctuations.

This pill is exactly the seventh-grade high-level pill, the Earth Fire Yuan Pill.

In the other jade bottle, there was purple-red cloud swirling around, which vaguely gathered into the shape of a firebird. Fire energy that was even hotter than the strange fire was faintly emanating from it.

This pill is exactly the eighth-grade five-color pill, the Extreme Flame Mysterious Quenching Pill.

These two pills were the ones that Lin Yuan had refined during his time in the 23rd Earthly Demon Palace. The Extreme Flame Mysterious Quenching Pill was upgraded from eight-color four-color to eight-grade five-color by Lin Yuan using the Spiritual Ascension Method.

(End of this chapter)