Ascending to Immortality by Slaying Spirits

Chapter 198 - A Troublesome Inventory of Water Thieves
"Continue," Lin Le said to Ling Muzhu after finishing the pill.

Ling Muzhu nodded slightly, then continued her attack on Jiang Hanfei.

Jiang Hanfei stared wide-eyed at Lin Le, who looked perfectly normal: "How is that possible? That's the Six Yin Sunflower Poison, which would seriously injure even a Nascent Soul Dao Lord if they came into contact with it! How could you be alright!"

He was so shocked that he didn't even notice Ling Muzhu rushing towards him.

With a single thrust of her sword, Ling Muzhu broke through Jiang Hanfei's defenses, opening a gash in his waist.

Jiang Hanfei was in pain and had no choice but to focus his attention on dealing with Ling Muzhu.

Lin Le simply looked at him calmly without saying a word.

It's just poison. What enters his stomach will only become nourishment, unless it's contaminated with a wound or a more unusual form of poison.

Anything that can be ingested poses no danger to him.

After dozens of rounds of fighting, Jiang Hanfei's psychological pressure increased, not only because Lin Le was watching from the side, but also because Ling Muzhu was becoming more and more familiar with how to fight, and her combat power was becoming stronger and stronger.

With a final burst of icy blue light, Jiang Hanfei's limbs and bones were frozen, and his magical power was as solid as ice, rendering him unable to move.

Lin Le raised an eyebrow slightly, because Ling Muzhu had actually broken through to the Great Perfection of her magic.

The Dao Body is truly wonderful; not only does it accelerate cultivation, but it also enhances comprehension.

Lin Le couldn't help but sigh inwardly, because if Ling Muzhu had been more insightful before, she would have shone brightly long ago, instead of becoming even more monstrous in her comprehension as her Dao body gradually recovered.

Stepping in front of Jiang Hanfei, Lin Le slapped down with his palm, his divine sense invading Jiang Hanfei's sea of ​​consciousness, quickly flipping through his memories.

Before long, Lin Le's palm emitted red and blue light, causing Jiang Hanfei to vanish into thin air.

"You can kill him." Lin Le threw Tan Yifang in front of Ling Muzhu. "The enemy who killed your parents."

Looking at Tan Yifang in front of her, Ling Muzhu calmly thrust out her sword, destroying his nascent soul.

There was no excitement, no discomfort; it was like killing a duck.

After all, she had never met either her parents or Tan Yifang, so she naturally didn't have any deep or extreme feelings for them.

Lin Le also calmly began the great purge.

It's the same old routine: search the mansions of those high-ranking officials and nobles for evidence, then kill the wealthy and powerful, redistribute land, and redress wrongful convictions.

There were protests, including from the commander of the Demon Suppression Division in front of us.

“My lord, our Demon Suppression Division has no right to interfere in administrative matters. Your blatant interference in local affairs will be punished by your superiors!” a serious-looking man advised Lin Le.

Lin Le, who was reading a book, raised an eyebrow: "Did I say I was a member of the Demon Suppression Division?"

The man was taken aback, then his face turned ugly: "Sir, you yourself said that you came on the orders of the Demon Suppression Division."

"Who said that obeying your orders makes someone your man?" Lin Le said in a gentle tone. "Alright, go do your work and don't disturb my reading."

"I cannot comply. Our Demon Suppression Division would never do such a thing that would disrupt the officialdom!" the man said righteously.

boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, the man exploded into a bloody mist, and the nascent soul was also absorbed into the embroidered ball.

"If it's too difficult, then let's not do it," Lin Le said quietly. "Do you understand?"

The members of the Demon Suppression Division who had come with the commander shuddered and bowed their heads, saying, "Understood."

"Speak louder, I didn't hear you," Lin Le said, picking at his ear.

"Understood!" The shouts from the crowd were deafening.

Lin Le waved his hand: "Alright, get back to work."

"Yes."

After a loud shout, everyone slunk away.

Lin Le continued to read with his head down.

The bloodshed and violence continued, spreading from the prefectural city to the county seat and then to the county town.

Following the clues in Jiang Hanfei's memory, one by one, the disciples of the Sacred Heart Sect were eliminated and killed.

It wasn't until a month later that the State of Wei and Lu realized what was happening.

However, after the higher-ups arrived, Lin Le and Ling Muzhu left Jiujiang City.

Within a sacred spring nestled in the mountains, starlight filled the air.

The waterfall relentlessly crashes against the rounded rocks, sounding like ice being smashed, creating a crackling sound.

As the spring water flowed, droplets splashed onto that smooth back again and again, then slid off.

齁~
Ling Muzhu couldn't help but make a nasal sound due to the stimulation of the ice water.

The contrast between ice and fire was quite exciting.

The tense muscles relaxed, and the previously taut feet returned to normal.

Ling Muzhu lazily soaked in the pool and hugged Lin Le, who was tired from pushing the cart earlier.

The two of them were slightly unsteady, but their breathing remained stable at the ninth level of the Golden Core stage.

Although they were busy dealing with the aftermath of the plague for the past month, the two of them did not forget to cultivate.

He has already advanced his cultivation from the eighth level of the Golden Core stage to the ninth level.

Lin Le rested his head on Ling Muzhu's chest and focused his inner vision on the supernatural realm.

The amount of killing karma surged to 1.3 million. This time, it wasn't on the territory of the Xuantian Sect, so Lin Le naturally had no intention of restraining himself. Therefore, the amount of killing karma he gained in one state was higher than that in an entire country.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the proportion of cultivators in Wei Lu Kingdom is higher than that in Da Wei Kingdom and Bai Hong Kingdom.

Humanitarian merits also skyrocketed, reaching 3.32 million. Seeing this, Lin Le had to thank Jiang Hanfei. If it weren't for Jiang Hanfei spreading the plague, he really wouldn't have been able to accumulate so many merits, nearly ten times more than what he had in Yizhou.

The merit points gained from the underground path increased by a meager margin, barely reaching 100,000. After all, things like the Ghost Realm generally don't have much room to survive in human territory, where they are usually suppressed by imperial aura.

Having experienced the killing karma required for physical evolution, and through continuous dual cultivation with Ling Muzhu, it has dropped to ten million.

Now, each time we practice dual cultivation, the damage can only be reduced by a thousand points.

Ten million divided by one thousand equals ten thousand. At a frequency of once a day, it would take another twenty-seven years.

It's not a long time, but it's not short either. In terms of Lin Le's current lifespan, it's only a period of one-hundredth of a lifetime, and for an ordinary person, it's only one or two years.

To put it simply, Lin Le is only nearly eighteen now, and in another two or three months he will be nearly nineteen, twenty-seven, more than twice his age.

Lin Le bit the source of the jade dew, pondering where to start his next attack.

As for practicing medicine and saving lives? Isn't that what he's doing right now?

He just didn't use medication, only surgery, but at least the lesion was removed.

"Let's go to the Nine Treasures Sect," Lin Le quickly decided.

He wasn't curious about where Ling Muzhu had gone for the past twenty years, because he already had a guess about that. Rather, he was curious about the fact that Jiang Hanfei was actually a true disciple of the Nine Treasures Sect.

However, this true disciple betrayed his master and went to the Sacred Heart Sect.

The Nine Treasures Sect's upper limit is only the Nascent Soul Realm, how can it compare to the Sacred Heart Sect with multiple Nascent Soul Venerables? It can't even compare to the Medical Saint's Dao Lineage.

In order to pursue a better path, he naturally defected to the Sacred Heart Sect.

This major epidemic in the entire state was also planned by him using the resources of the Nine Treasures Sect, intending to launch a major attack before leaving.

However, by sheer coincidence, they ran into Lin Le coming down the mountain.

All the painstaking planning ultimately benefited Lin Le.

After carefully learning about the internal situation of the Nine Treasures Sect, Lin Le discovered that the Nine Treasures Sect was not a good thing after all.

Or perhaps it was good in the past, but after so many years it has all rotted away.

Suppressing herbal medicine farmers, selling inferior products as superior ones, using people as test subjects for medicine, raising people for elixirs... they are completely aligning themselves with heretical sects.

Such a serious ailment should be eradicated as soon as possible.

Lin Le gently bit the red ointment while holding the beautiful woman's head in his hands.

However, before going there, one must first perfect one's cultivation. Even Lin Le cannot reverse the process of severing the Golden Core from the body.

The bow of the boat crushed the thin ice floes in the river, making a crackling sound, as the hull sank deeper into the hidden waterway of the dark forest.

The dark jungle was dotted with white foam, but upon closer inspection, it turned out to be white mushrooms growing on the bushes.

The Black and White Forest is a well-known forest on the border of the Wei and Lu states. The "black" refers to the black, living trees, and the "white" refers to the white, dead mushrooms.

This vast forest also served as a barrier between the Wei-Lu Kingdom and the Jiubao Sect.

On the riverbank, a group of deer were drinking water when they saw a boat approaching and immediately ran away in panic.

At the bow, Lin Le rowed the boat with an oar, pushing it forward.

It wasn't that he didn't want to use magic, but the circumstances didn't allow it.

There's a reason this forest can separate Wei Lu Kingdom from the Nine Treasures Sect: the entire forest is infested with predators.

It devours every outside cultivator or demon who wants to pass through this forest, either by disguising themselves as a mortal without spiritual energy.

Either one's cultivation level is high enough to fly over a thousand feet in the sky.

Lin Le wanted to enjoy the scenery inside, so he chose to take a boat through, which wasn't difficult for him anyway.

Upon reaching a wide expanse of water, Lin Le suddenly spoke calmly, "Come out."

Although the spiritual energy was contained, the five senses were not.

He could clearly hear breathing sounds that were distinct from those of animals and belonged to humans.

Small boats sped out of the water and surrounded Lin Le's small boat.

"Hey kid, I planted this tree and opened this road. If you want to pass, leave your money to buy your life!" the leader of the river bandits shouted.

Because of the unique nature of the Black and White Forest, high-level cultivators can cross it directly through the air, while low-level cultivators can only conceal their cultivation levels and dare not make a move.

Furthermore, the exorbitant profits from trade between Wei Lu State and Jiu Bao Sect provided fertile ground for the survival and development of bandits.

Hearing the noise, Ling Muzhu, who was grilling fish in the cabin, crawled out. She was very curious about who dared to risk their lives to rob them.

As soon as she emerged from the cabin, the pirates' eyes widened in astonishment.

She and Lin Le were not using their transformation techniques at this time, so their true appearances were revealed.

The water pirates live in this area in groups for one or two months at a time, and they hardly have any entertainment activities.

When they saw Ling Muzhu, such a voluptuous and alluring beauty, they were like hungry wolves eyeing meat.

"Boy, I've changed my mind!" The bandit leader's mouth was drooling. "Hand over the woman next to you, and if I'm in a good mood, I'll spare your life."

Lin Le put down the oar, looked calmly at the pirate, and uttered a single word: "Die."

As soon as he finished speaking, he swept his divine sense over them and shredded their souls to pieces.

After Lin Le went through all the memories of the leader of the water bandits, he deliberately tortured him.

(End of this chapter)