Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 173 Studying the Technique, Entering the Internal Affairs Hall

In the quiet room, the Yin-Yang Twin Swords transformed into a concealment array, enveloping Lin Le.

Lin Le internally observed the inner landscape of his supernatural powers, realizing that the merits of ten thousand people had been consumed.

Twenty-seven years passed in a single thought, and Lin Le devoted himself to studying the Azure Sword Scripture.

With the experience of Xu Lingzi, he quickly mastered the Foundation Establishment and Golden Core stages. As for the Great Perfection, he didn't need it; it was just a cover-up.

Then he started thinking about the fusion of different cultivation techniques, otherwise Huang Ting's cultivation would be wasted in the future.

Moreover, this was inevitable. Dao Yin had reached its end at the Golden Core stage, and from then on, he could only walk his own path.

Twenty-seven years passed in the blink of an eye, and Lin Le continued to consume human merit, this time a thousand.

Since one can begin cultivation at the Foundation Establishment stage of Divine Sense, the one thousand is definitely the most cost-effective option.

Nine years later, he began to formally study the Myriad Phenomena View.

Unlike cultivation techniques, which can be easily discarded if they leave a backdoor, divine sense techniques leave a backdoor, putting one's life and death in the hands of others. Trying to abolish them often carries the risk of death.

The Myriad Manifestations Temple and the Soul-Slaying Temple seem to follow the same path. However, compared to the Soul-Slaying Temple's method of killing people and condensing soul strings, the Myriad Manifestations Temple condenses a soul talisman for each thing observed.

One talisman for beginners, one hundred talismans for minor mastery, ten thousand talismans for major mastery, one million talismans for perfection.

Lin Le had seen many things, and his previous life was in a physical world without supernatural beings. His scientific way of thinking made him quite adaptable to this divine sense technique.

He quickly mastered it, achieved some proficiency, and then progressed to mastery.

After nine years had passed, Lin Le opened his eyes, his brows slightly furrowed.

After reaching a high level of mastery, some things should have started to show signs of improvement, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't find a backdoor, though he did find a flaw.

'Could that old bastard have truly fallen into demonic possession through the Path of Heartbreak?'

Lin Le's eyes flashed with a strange light, feeling somewhat incredulous. It seemed that the old bastard really hadn't left any backdoors at all.

After much deliberation, Lin Le decided that preserving his life was the priority and did not intend to actually cultivate the Myriad Manifestations View.

However, the Myriad Manifestations Temple is not used for cultivation, but it can be used to modify the Soul Slaughtering Temple.

Lin Le looked at the two Soul-Slaying Yakshas deep within his sea of ​​consciousness. His soul strings had reached two hundred thousand, and the second Soul-Slaying Yaksha was born as a result.

With the birth of the second Soul-Slaying Yaksha, Lin Le vaguely sensed that the current Golden Light Divine Mantra could only barely suppress them.

After another thousand merits were consumed, Lin Le began to try to modify the Soul Slaughtering Temple. He didn't only have the Soul Slaughtering Temple as a divine sense secret technique. The families that died at his hands all had one or two sets of divine soul secret techniques, and he had understood these when the Liu family was proposing the new technique.

Therefore, given his background, it wouldn't be too difficult to change things fundamentally.

Nine years later, and another nine years after that, a total of twenty-seven years later, Lin Le reached the limit of what he could modify.

In reality, one enters a meditative state, and consciousness sinks into the sea of ​​consciousness, where more than 200,000 soul strings approach each other and coalesce into one another.

Furthermore, sixteen golden pillars were generated, eight in a group, each surrounding a Soul-Slaying Yaksha.

Ultimately, more than 200,000 soul strings formed sixteen chains, with each end tied to a golden pillar and a Soul-Slaying Yaksha.

The chains were stained gold, with runes appearing on them, and the two Soul-Slaying Yakshas that were bound by them seemed to be scalded by hot iron, letting out painful howls.

Boundless killing intent surged towards Lin Le. In a daze, Lin Le was transported back to the time when he first comprehended the power of slaughter and death. One by one, the dead enemies rose from the sea of ​​blood, cursing as they pounced on him.

Lin Le remained unmoved, only throwing punches. With each punch, the sun blazed overhead and lightning swept across, obliterating the enemies into dust.

If they rise up, then kill them again!
After killing for an unknown period of time, Lin Le completely suppressed this boundless killing intent, and the true meaning of death omen was close to completion.

Within their sea of ​​consciousness, the Soul-Slaying Yakshas, ​​each controlled by eight golden locks, also restrained their ferocious expressions and became somewhat dignified and solemn.

It's under control now.

Lin Le nodded slightly, feeling that the Golden Light Divine Mantra had a lot more space.

'It should be able to suppress two more yakshas.'

After making a calculation, Lin Le continued his cultivation. The almost liquefiable spiritual energy in the quiet room was drawn into Lin Le's body as if being sucked in by a whale.

The golden cores within the three natal magic artifacts quickly divided up this massive spiritual energy, leaving only a small portion for Huang Ting.

'I wonder if they'll still award Heavenly Merit.'

Lin Le entered the towering pillar, looked at the sixth city gate, and threw a punch at it.

Boom!
The sixth city gate remained completely still.

Lin Le was not surprised, after all, he had already reached the Golden Core stage, and the difficulty of reaching the Golden Core stage again was on a completely different level.

With his three natal magical artifacts temporarily separated from him, Lin Le felt as if his body were a tall building about to collapse at any moment.

Lin Le punched the sixth gate again.

Bang! This time, a gap was blasted open in the sixth city gate, and the precarious high-rise building suffered a heavy blow.

Cracks began to appear on his skin, like porcelain about to shatter.

Lin Le threw another punch.

Bang! The sixth gate was completely breached, and chaos descended once more.

The building began to collapse, but was forcibly glued back together.

A beam of light rose behind Lin Le, miraculously saving the collapsing building.

The indestructible wheel of the world-burning Xuanlian!
A constant mind, eternal and indestructible!
The magical power within the three natal magical artifacts was being rapidly depleted.

Lin Le felt the energy being depleted while watching the new Golden Core forming in the Yellow Court.

Each time the golden core showed signs of forming, Lin Le would use the Transformation Technique to deplete some of it, allowing it to continue drawing energy from the chaos.

Lin Le only allowed it to fully take shape when his magic power was almost exhausted.

The three natal magical artifacts returned to his body, stabilizing the tall building and allowing it to stand upright once more.

Through introspection and the inner vision of divine powers, one's heavenly merits begin to increase, eventually settling at three thousand six hundred.

'Three thousand six hundred? Seems like it's possible to get it again.'

Lin Le looked at the snow-white lotus seeds and stroked his chin.

But as soon as this thought arose, Lin Le felt his heart skip a beat, a warning instinctive response from his body.

what happened?

Lin Le immediately checked his body.

Adding to the world's stock is a good thing. Even if he keeps changing his tune, the world has no reason to target him.

The remaining ones either pose health risks or present some unpredictable crises.

The golden core, adorned with sword patterns, spun within the Yellow Court Secret Realm, supporting the nine-foot-wide realm.

Lin Le carefully examined the golden pill, swapping it with the original Huangting Golden Pill several times, and repeatedly comparing it with his daily memories before finally discovering a trace of it.

The secret realm has thinned.

The outer wall of Huangting's secret realm was still bright yellow, but its brightness had dropped by a level. This had nothing to do with the Golden Elixir; it was simply that its brightness had decreased on its own.

The impact is unknown; among the cultivation manuals Lin Le has read, no one has deliberately destroyed their Golden Core and started cultivating again.

Therefore, Lin Le still needs to explore the specific impact on himself.

Is it my own fault, or is repeating the course inevitable?

Lin Le withdrew his gaze, extinguishing the turbulent thoughts that kept swirling within him. Compared to the merits of the Heavenly Dao, he valued his own path of cultivation more. Then he recalled his earlier conversation with Xu Lingzi, in which the old bastard had expressed great confidence in his ability to cultivate the Yin-Yang Intercourse Technique.

In other words, he must have a reason to practice the Yin-Yang Intercourse Technique.

With a slight frown and his eyes narrowed, Lin Le spread his hands and pushed his Yellow Court magic power to its limit, wanting to see what the effect would be.

The azure sword energy swirled like a dragon, constantly revolving around the boy and accelerating.

The dragon spun faster and faster, then suddenly collapsed in an instant.

His blood and qi flowed in reverse, and a trace of blood appeared at the corner of Lin Le's mouth, which slowly disappeared, but his face looked extremely ugly.

"Damn old bastard!"

Lin Le gritted his teeth and growled, his eyes flashing with coldness.

After a series of extreme maneuvers, he finally realized the downsides. The most obvious downside was that his maximum output ability had decreased, resulting in a drop in his combat power.

The more profound impact is that his Huangting Dao can only reach the ninth level of the Golden Core stage, and he cannot break through to the tenth level, which represents the ultimate realm, because the secret realm cannot withstand it.

Consequently, even if he wanted to break through to the Nascent Soul stage, it would be several times more difficult for him than for ordinary people.

Given his temperament, he certainly couldn't accept a situation where the foundation couldn't be solidified to the limit before a breakthrough was achieved, so seeking a solution became inevitable.

And what is the solution? It is undoubtedly the Yin-Yang Interaction Technique of Heaven and Earth.

Based on Lin Le's understanding of the Yin-Yang Intercourse Technique, this dual cultivation secret method does indeed have the effect of making up for congenital deficiencies and healing Dao injuries.

His condition clearly falls under the category of Dao injury, which happens to fall within the healing range of this dual cultivation secret method.

That old bastard's schemes were truly elaborate, every step a calculated move, leaving him with no way to avoid or escape!

Even if you know he has ulterior motives, you're still going to fall into his trap.

Taking a deep breath, Lin Le took out spirit stones and continued cultivating.

There is still a glimmer of hope; it's not time to give up yet.

The next day, Lin Le put on a water-cloud robe with the words "Sky Blue" embroidered on the cuffs like cloud patterns, representing the people of Sky Blue Peak. Around the cuffs were seventy-two mountain peaks, representing his status as a true disciple.

Behind them is a picture formed by clouds and strange mountains, resembling a yin-yang symbol, representing the Xuantian Sect.

Lin Le was not a pedantic person. Putting aside what schemes Xu Lingzi might have against him, his position in the Xuan Tian Sect was undeniable.

We should use any external force we can, without any reservations.

Stepping out of the meditation room, I saw Ling Muzhu waiting there, also dressed in the Taoist robe of the Xuantian Sect, except that her sleeves only had the two characters "Tianqing" on them.

"Let's go, senior sister," Lin Le said.

"Mm." Ling Muzhu followed behind Lin Le, seemingly a little timid.

As they reached the entrance of the cave, a cloud of auspiciousness rose beneath Lin Le's feet, lifting him and Ling Muzhu up.

After flying a short distance away, Ling Muzhu couldn't help but get closer to Lin Le.

Normally, it didn't seem like much, but standing at this height, Ling Muzhu couldn't help but feel a sense of fear rising from within.

Just then, Lin Le seemed to have become familiar with the auspicious cloud technique that came with the Azure Sky Sword Scripture, and began to accelerate suddenly.

Ling Muzhu lost her balance and instinctively grabbed and pulled on the nearest object.

When she came to her senses, her body had already automatically wrapped tightly around Lin Le.

Lin Le's slightly higher-than-normal body temperature was transmitted through his clothes, and Ling Muzhu felt the heat coming from him, causing her heart to skip a beat.

So hot!

With a slight blush, Ling Muzhu released Lin Le.

Lin Le seemed oblivious, focusing intently on controlling the auspicious cloud.

Down on the mountainside, some people with gleaming eyes saw auspicious clouds rising from the mountaintop and immediately took out their jade tokens to transmit information.

The Xuantian Sect has seventy-two peaks, each with a Nascent Soul Daoist presiding over it. Among the seventy-two peaks, the Heavenly Azure Peak's leader, Xu Lingzi, is one of the top figures and has the potential to become a Nascent Soul Venerable.

Disciples of such a person naturally attract many people who want to befriend them, and every piece of information about him can fetch a good price.

Chongshan Peak is the location of the Tianxuan Sect's internal logistics, housing the Law Enforcement, Internal Affairs, and External Affairs Halls.

Lin Le led Ling Muzhu to a grand hall halfway up the mountain.

The jade talisman that Xu Lingzi gave him contained, in addition to the three thousand Dao techniques, the basic terrain of the Xuan Tian Sect and some of its special locations.

This main hall in front of us is the Inner Affairs Hall, which is responsible for distributing salaries to inner disciples and providing them with available tasks.

A sharp-eyed deacon saw Lin Le land and immediately went to greet him, for he had noticed the seventy-two peaks on Lin Le's sleeve.

"Are you the junior brother Lingzhuzi, a disciple of the Heavenly Azure True Disciple?" the steward asked respectfully. "My name is Lu Fengzi, and I am temporarily serving as a steward in the Internal Affairs Hall."

"I am." Lin Le nodded indifferently.

"Greetings, Master Lingzhu." The steward bowed respectfully and said, "May I ask what brings you to the Internal Affairs Hall?"

"I'll take on a small task and go down the mountain to relax," Lin Le said casually.

"What is your cultivation level?" Lu Fengzi asked cautiously.

Lin Le said calmly, "The Golden Core has completed its first transformation."

The Golden Core has been transformed? Lu Fengzi was shocked. He knew that the boy in front of him, who still looked like an underage boy, was indeed only fifteen years old.

At the age of fifteen, he achieved the first transformation of the Golden Core, almost matching the historical record of the Xuantian Sect.

Surprised, Lu Fengzi continued respectfully, "Then I know a few small tasks to help the Spirit Pearl disciple relax. Please follow me."

Lin Le nodded slightly and followed Lu Fengzi to a jade disc.

As Lu Fengzi manipulated the jade disc, dozens of lines of text appeared on it.

"How about this one? Go to Baihong Kingdom to recruit talented individuals from our subordinate forces into the outer sect." Lu Fengzi pointed to a row of people and said, "Baihong Kingdom is just a small country, with not many Nascent Soul True Monarchs, and it's located near our Xuantian Sect."

Lin Le ignored Lu Fengzi and pointed to a task: "This one will do."

Lu Fengzi followed Lin Le's finger and his expression changed slightly: "Seal or purify the White Sand Battlefield? That won't do. The Spirit Pearl True Inheritance has seen Nascent Soul cultivators fall there. Although the Ghost Generals detected are all at the fourth or fifth level of the Golden Core stage, it's hard to say if there are any stronger beings."

"This is it." Lin Le glanced at Lu Fengzi, his eyes cold and sharp.

Lu Fengzi, who had already reached the seventh level of the Golden Core stage, trembled and quickly said, "Yes, then I will register for you."

Lu Fengzi took the jade token handed to him by Lin Le and quickly registered the task for Lin Le.

After retrieving the jade token, Lin Le asked, "Where is the exchange counter?"

"Here." Lu Fengzi led the way, bringing Lin Le to a jade platform.

"Just put your disciple's jade token in here," Lu Fengzi said, pointing to a groove. "Once it's in, there will be a light screen in front of you, and no one else will be able to see it."

Lin Le placed the jade pendant in as instructed, and then he saw rows of icons that looked like those in the online game mall of his previous life. When he looked over them, descriptions appeared.

The overly familiar art style made Lin Le feel strange, and he couldn't help but ask Lu Fengzi next to him, "Who designed this interface? It's quite clear."

"It is said that it originated from a certain holy site," said Lu Fengzi.

"Oh." Lin Le nodded slightly, without asking any further questions, and began to select the supplies he needed.

(End of this chapter)