Chapter Eighty-six: Jungle Ruins

  Wang Lin hesitated for a moment, then pointed his right hand at the spiritual mist that had merged with the Ling Root of the Teng Lian Spirit. The spiritual mist suddenly swelled and began to roll and twist in an eerie manner.

  Immediately afterwards, the blood sphere suddenly shot out and drilled into the spiritual mist, quickly dissolving. Gradually, the spiritual mist began to shrink. Then, the flesh sphere and bone sphere merged into the spiritual mist one after another.

  At this time, the spirit mist had changed greatly in shape, shrinking into a ring shape, emitting soft light and floating in mid-air.

  Wang Lin took a deep breath, knowing that the Heaven Defying Dao had reached its final step. He calmed his mind and controlled the last soul orb, slowly merging it into the halo.

  After a long time, the halo suddenly shot out dazzling light, Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and he bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood. As soon as the blood came into contact with the halo, it immediately made a dizzying sound and disappeared in an instant.

  The halo merged with the blood, and for a moment, it shook violently, waves of pressure radiating from the ring, affecting all living beings within a hundred miles, making them feel an abnormality in this place.

  A large number of powerful auras emerged from the forest and rushed towards Wang Lin's location at high speed.

  Wang Lin didn't even blink, he stretched out his hand and summoned it, the halo flew over immediately, merging into Wang Lin's chest, a vast and mighty spiritual power suddenly filled Wang Lin's body, his face instantly turned rosy.

  Wang Lin took a deep breath, his body moved, and he shot out of the tree cave like an arrow off the string, flashing several times before disappearing into the depths of the forest.

  He left not long after, a huge python suddenly appeared from the nearby jungle with its massive head, sniffed around for a few times, looked puzzled, shook its head and slithered away.

  Immediately afterwards, a giant ape over one zhang tall, swift as lightning, arrived in an instant, searched the tree hole and reluctantly left.

  More powerful monsters like this appeared, but without exception, they all left in confusion.

  Wang Lin ran wildly in the forest, his body bursting with an intense spiritual energy that had reached its peak. At the same time, every single pore on his skin was continuously secreting a foul-smelling black substance.

  A tearing sensation kept coming from inside his body, Wang Lin furrowed his brow, suddenly stopped in his tracks, and after pacing around the original spot, his eyes flashed as he swung his Gravity Technique at the ground, and the surging Spiritual Power within him instantly burst out.

  The mud on the ground was pushed open to both sides as if by two invisible giant hands, and a deep pit appeared in an instant.

  Wang Lin didn't say a word, took a step and jumped in, and the mud around him quickly filled up. Not long after, everything returned to normal, and from the outside, nothing seemed out of the ordinary.

  Sitting cross-legged on the ground, Wang Lin regularly calmed his mind and began to sort out the spiritual energy in his body. His body was changing rapidly, everything was moving towards the direction of building a foundation.

  In addition to the unusual silence of the surroundings, in this deep underground place where no one disturbed him, Wang Lin began his third closed-door meditation.

  Time flies, years are like songs, and three years have passed in the blink of an eye.

  The ground at Wang Lin's closed-door location was covered with a thick layer of rotting leaves, and all sorts of poisonous insects crawled in and out.

  On this day, the ground suddenly shook violently, countless poisonous insects and worms quickly crawled out of withered branches and rotten leaves. Immediately afterwards, the mud on the ground rapidly opened to both sides, and a figure entirely in black emerged from underground.

  As soon as he appeared, the crawling insects around him immediately let out a burst of terrified hisses and quickly retreated.

  "This Foundation Building Great Method is indeed extraordinary, and I've finally reached the Foundation Establishment stage." The figure was none other than Wang Lin, who had been in closed cultivation for three years.

  Wang Lin's eyes gleamed like lightning, and his body emitted a powerful spiritual energy. He opened his mouth and spat out a green light, and a small green sword appeared in front of him, shimmering with an otherworldly aura.

  Wang Lin's eyes flashed, and he pointed with his right hand. The sword sheath in the storage bag slowly rose into the air. His expression was calm, and he muttered to himself, "This sword sheath has been tempered for almost three years now. When used in conjunction with the flying sword, its effect will certainly be extraordinary."

  Sheathing his sword and flying sword, Wang Lin stood on the spot for a moment, touching the mysterious pearl on his chest. In his heart, he thought: "Three years ago, when I was in my embryonic state, I consumed too much of my essence, especially after using the spell to cover up the curse during my closed-door training. It has been asleep for more than two years now, and I don't know when it will wake up. Fortunately, I have already memorized the entire Yellow Spring Ascension Decision technique. Now, the most important thing is to find a place of extreme yin to cultivate the Yellow Spring Ascension Decision."

  After making up his mind, Wang Lin took a deep breath and scanned around with his divine sense before quickly fleeing northward. Before long, he arrived at a river in the woods and carefully washed himself clean, finally removing the black grime from his body, feeling refreshed and invigorated.

  Sitting on the stone by the river, Wang Lin thought back to his previous experiences and felt a deep sense of emotion. He didn't know whether Zhang Hu was alive or dead at this moment, but silently prayed in his heart that Zhang Hu could escape this calamity.

  He let out a soft sigh, and Wang Lin withdrew his thoughts, his eyes revealing a deep contemplation. After a long while, he pinched the seal with his right hand, and a white light shot out. As soon as the white light appeared, its color changed immediately, turning from white to gray, and continued to darken. At the same time, it flashed rapidly and flew swiftly towards the west.

  Wang Lin was taken aback, the white light that had been cast out was a special technique taught to him by Situ Nan for finding the Extreme Yin location. The deeper the color, the closer it indicated he was to the Extreme Yin location. When it turned completely black, it meant he had found the Extreme Yin location.

  Wang Lin didn't say a word and immediately chased after, following the guiding light that had completely turned gray. He swiftly darted through the forest, the color of the gray light deepening until it suddenly turned black and vanished with a loud crash.

  Suddenly, Wang Lin stopped in his tracks, staring blankly at a spot not far away, his heart shaken to the point of being speechless.

  What lay before him was a boundless and endless ruin, he couldn't see the end of it. Most of the houses in front of him had collapsed, and countless creeping plants covered the entire ruin.

  The ruins were overgrown with weeds, and the dung of wild beasts was everywhere. Small animals, no bigger than a head, ran around inside, and from time to time, a shrill cry echoed through.

  The ground cracked open with gashes like scars, gaping like a bloody mouth ready to swallow life at any moment, revealing its ferocious face.

  A massive metal wreckage stands upright on the ground, displaying a scene of apocalyptic ruins with broken walls and debris scattered everywhere. The monotonous gray tone is intertwined with the greenery of plants, exuding an aura of despair that takes one's breath away.

  Wang Lin took a deep breath, gazing at the ruins before him, his heart deeply shaken.

  At this moment, a bright light suddenly flashed on top of a tall ruin in the ruins, and then a white light column was emitted, shooting down in an instant.

  Wang Lin was taken aback, and his expression changed slightly. He turned his head to look towards the nearby thicket, where a small animal covered in blood struggled out and crawled towards the spot where the light pillar had fallen. Its right leg had a wound that exposed its white bones, and as it moved, it left behind a deep trail of blood.

  After a long time, it finally crawled under the light column and let out a joyful screech. Its right leg healed at an incredible speed, and the whole process took only a few seconds. The little beast was restored to its original state.

  It shook its body joyfully and walked out of the light column, its shadow gradually disappearing into the distance.

  At this time, the light pillar was still condensing continuously. Wang Lin's mind was greatly shocked, and he stared at the light pillar, unable to speak.

  At this moment, the light column turned into a few silver lights and dissipated. Wang Lin pondered for a while, standing aside to continue observing. Half an hour later, the light column reappeared.

  After such cycles repeated several times, Wang Lin watched for a day and finally saw some clues.

  According to Wang Lin's judgment, the appearance of this light pillar must be related to sunlight. Apparently, although this place has become a ruin, there are still some objects similar to magical instruments that have not lost their function, and after absorbing sunlight, they present a wonderful scene.

  Moreover, many wild beasts know that the light pillar here can heal wounds. On this day, Wang Lin saw no less than twenty injured wild beasts come to this place.

  As the sky turned dark, Wang Lin calculated the moment when the last beam of light would appear. He no longer hesitated and stepped forward, stretching his hand into the beam. A warm current immediately spread through his hand, but this current was not spiritual energy, rather a substance that was extremely unfamiliar to Wang Lin.

  Quietly sensing the airflow, Wang Lin's eyes flashed and he immediately cut open a wound on his arm. He stretched out his hand towards the light pillar again. Inside the light pillar, the wound healed at an extremely fast speed, disappearing in just a blink of an eye.

  Wang Lin hesitated for a moment, then flew quickly through the ruins without saying another word. Before long, he arrived at the base of the towering wreckage that emitted the beam of light.

  This is a majestic cylindrical giant stone remnant, from the outside it can be seen that it was broken in the middle, although more than half of it has collapsed, but its former grandeur can still be seen. Two huge statues holding giant swords stand beside it, on their bodies, pressing down a tower-like building about 30 zhang long.

  Wang Lin gazed at the wreckage, and involuntarily, a scene emerged in his mind: a towering spire piercing the clouds, which suddenly broke in half during a disaster, its tip crashing onto the statues standing upright on either side.

  That ray of light was emitted from a stone bead with a diameter of about two zhang on the top of the tower.

  Looking at the stone bead, Wang Lin hesitated. This thing was too big and seemed impossible to take away. Moreover, he hadn't fully analyzed its healing principle. If he forcibly dismantled it, he didn't know if it would lose its effect.

  After careful consideration, Wang Lin did not act rashly, but instead wandered around the ruins to observe. Gradually, Wang Lin's expression became strange, he checked many places and discovered an abnormality.

  He saw some relatively intact porcelain on the ground in some of the better-preserved houses inside the ruins, and some of the porcelain even still had some black residue left inside.

  At this time, the sky was getting darker and darker. Wang Lin didn't dare to stay here in the deep night, so he quickly rushed towards the forest. In the moment when darkness completely fell, Wang Lin walked out of the ruins. He stood outside, staring at the ruins, his eyes flashing with a fierce light.