Chapter 1108: Peak of the Cloud Sea, Barren Continent

Sun Yun’s words came true; within just three days, Wang Lin performed Alchemy sixteen times. Except for the very last attempt, all of them failed. Each time he failed, he would silently search for the reason, then leave the house to continue picking herbs.

Looking at the herb garden that was still full of vitality three days ago, now almost a desolate land, Sun Yun couldn't bear it and her eyes reddened. This herb garden contained too much of her painstaking effort; in the past, even when she performed Alchemy herself, she would pick herbs very carefully, not consuming too many.

But now, in just three days, the herbs were almost exhausted. Although there wasn't a single incident of an exploding Medicinal Pill during these three days, Sun Yun would have preferred a Medicinal Pill explosion, even if it destroyed half the herb garden, as it would have been much better than the torment she was currently enduring.

Looking at the house that made her feel extremely hateful, having lost all good impressions of it, Sun Yun could no longer endure it. She rushed over, pushed open the door, and stared at Wang Lin, who was sitting cross-legged on the ground inside, holding a finished Medicinal Pill in his hand.

What made Sun Yun feel particularly hateful was that Ceng Niu was actually smiling at the Medicinal Pill. This smile, in Sun Yun’s eyes, instantly ignited her fury.

“Ceng Niu!!” Sun Yun gritted her teeth, took a deep breath, and remembering her guess about his cultivation, she had to suppress her anger, constantly telling herself not to be angry, not to be angry… She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear and softly said, “Ceng Niu, congratulations on finally refining the Medicinal Pill. May I take a look?”

After fifteen failures, and exhausting an entire garden of herbs, he finally managed to refine this Medicinal Pill. During this period, the Beast Soul also underwent more than ten Fusions. By the end, the Beast Soul even felt that the pain of repeatedly Fusing had surpassed death, wishing that Wang Lin would succeed immediately to spare it some suffering.

Looking at the Medicinal Pill in his hand, Wang Lin was filled with emotion. The Cloud Sea Alchemy technique, combined with Beast Soul Fusion, required attention to many details that were not explained in the Jade Slip; the Alchemist had to comprehend them themselves.

Hearing Sun Yun’s words at this moment, Wang Lin instinctively touched his nose. His peripheral vision followed Sun Yun’s graceful figure to the almost desolate herb garden outside. Even with his thousand-plus years of experience, he couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.

With a wave of his right hand, he tossed the Medicinal Pill to Sun Yun. Wang Lin was about to say something, but was immediately interrupted by a piercing shriek.

Sun Yun’s eyes widened as she stared at the Medicinal Pill in her hand. Her anger, which she could no longer control, erupted. At this moment, the white-haired figure, the elegance of that one finger, and the Senior with profound cultivation were all cast to the back of her mind. She had been tormented for three days, watching helplessly as the herbs she had painstakingly cultivated over the years and couldn't bear to use herself were pulled out one by one.

Yet, in the end, he only refined a third-Rank Medicinal Pill! Although this third-Rank Medicinal Pill was already very precious and needed by Yang Solid Realm Cultivators, this entire garden of herbs was enough to refine a fourth-Rank Medicinal Pill. If Junior Martial Uncle Li had refined it, there was even a slight possibility of successfully refining a fifth-Rank Medicinal Pill.

“Ceng Niu!!! Give me back my herbs!!!” Sun Yun’s eyes were red as she looked up, intending to confront Wang Lin. But as she looked up, she found the house empty; Ceng Niu’s figure was gone.

Above the Moruo Continent, Wang Lin’s figure materialized. He touched his nose again, a wry smile on his face. Sun Yun’s voice still echoed faintly in his ears.

“Forget it, it’s just a garden of herbs…” Wang Lin shook his head, his body swayed, transforming into a long rainbow that shot towards the sky, disappearing into the horizon in a blink of an eye.

After breaking through the protective light layer above the Moruo Continent, what appeared before Wang Lin was a sea of clouds filled with star mist. In the Jade Slip within the Guiyuan Sect Daoist temple, besides Alchemy and Spirit Beast techniques, there was also a star map of the fifth-rank Star Domain where the Moruo Continent was located. Wang Lin studied this star map and discovered that within the dense star mist of the Cloud Sea fifth-rank Star Domain, besides continents where Cultivators could reside, there was also a type of continent called the Barren Continent.

Similar to the Barren Star in the Thunder and Rain Domains, but in the Cloud Sea, these Barren Continents lacked black tower protection and were completely enveloped by star mist, becoming gathering places for Vicious Beasts. On these Barren Continents, Vicious Beasts were numerous.

Some extremely precious herbs often grew on such continents.

Following the star map in his mind, Wang Lin transformed into a long rainbow and plunged directly into the star mist. He sped along, the star mist like clouds, obscuring his vision and preventing his Divine Sense from spreading too wide. Especially since Wang Lin was unfamiliar with this Cloud Sea Star Domain, his speed involuntarily slowed down as he advanced.

The Vicious Beasts on the Barren Continents closer to Moruo had gradually become scarce over the years, and these continents had even become the Trial Grounds for Guiyuan Sect Disciples. There weren't many Vicious Beasts, mostly low-Rank or even unranked ones. Even the herbs had long been completely harvested.

Naturally, this was not Wang Lin’s choice. Wang Lin’s target was a more distant Barren Continent, where stronger Vicious Beasts existed, and because few Cultivators ventured there, it retained a large quantity of herbs.

As he advanced, Wang Lin’s speed grew faster and faster. A flash of light in the star mist often meant his figure had already broken through the mist layer and appeared in the distance. Although his Divine Sense couldn't spread very far, only less than a thousand zhang, even Nirvana Scrutiny Cultivators here could only spread their Divine Sense about a hundred zhang. A distance of a thousand zhang could only be achieved by Pure Nirvana Cultivators.

Along the way, Wang Lin's Divine Sense also encountered many strange Vicious Beasts. Most of these Vicious Beasts looked eerie and sinister, with scale-covered fish-shaped Vicious Beasts whose gaping mouths revealed countless sharp teeth, emitting a strong stench.

There were also red Vicious Beasts that resembled Dragons but were only dozens of zhang long, moving as fast as lightning. These Vicious Beasts were clearly gregarious, appearing in groups of dozens or hundreds, like streaks of red lightning darting through the star mist.

There were also Vicious Beasts that resembled the Nether Beasts Wang Lin had seen in Luotian, but their bodies were obviously countless times smaller, only a few hundred zhang in size. These Vicious Beasts were not fast, but even the red lightning-like Vicious Beasts would avoid them as they moved.

Furthermore, black, tadpole-like Vicious Beasts, similar to the Ludi Spirit Beasts, appeared and disappeared in the star mist, emitting waves of pressure. However, when these Vicious Beasts entered Wang Lin’s Divine Sense range, most of them trembled and quickly retreated, keeping their distance.

As he sped along, Wang Lin’s eyes flashed. He waved his right hand forward, and immediately a Storage Rift materialized. As his body moved, buzzing sounds echoed, as Mosquito Beasts flew out.

These dozen or so Mosquito Beasts circled around, emitting cries of deep joy. Especially Wang Lin’s purple Mosquito Beast, it flew around even more excitedly.

Wang Lin’s body swayed, and he sat on the back of the purple Mosquito Beast King. Without Wang Lin’s command, the Mosquito Beast immediately charged forward, leading its companions behind it, traversing through the star mist.

The passage of time in the Star Domain seemed eternal; if one wasn't careful, it was hard to notice. After all, there was no alternation of night and day here, only the hazy star mist slowly drifting.

Silently calculating, after approximately three days, at Wang Lin's speed, he had already left the Moruo Continent far behind and was continuously approaching a Barren Continent marked as dangerous on the star map.

Not long after, a massive dark shadow appeared within Wang Lin’s Divine Sense. That dark shadow seemed capable of covering the starry sky, and as Wang Lin approached, faint roars could be heard.

Wang Lin’s eyes flickered, and the Mosquito Beasts beneath him showed vigilance. As they continuously approached, the dark shadow gradually became clear. This was indeed a massive Barren Continent!

Wang Lin leaped off the Mosquito Beast’s back, broke through the star mist, and landed on the ground of the Barren Continent. Looking around, it was like the starry sky, all mist. If not for what he saw with his Divine Sense, and if his feet weren't treading on solid ground, it would be difficult to distinguish it from the Star Domain.

The surroundings were silent, with only faint roars and growls of Vicious Beasts coming from afar, as if to say that this place was not as peaceful as it seemed.

The ground was black sand. Wang Lin walked forward unhurriedly, and gradually, a ruin appeared within his Divine Sense. This ruin was clearly once a Mortal city, but now, there were no signs of life. The houses had collapsed, and there were even many dried, reddish-brown bloodstains on the walls.

Just then, a black shadow suddenly burst out from a house in the ruins, charging directly at Wang Lin with a roar and a foul wind. The black shadow was only a few zhang in size, but its speed was as fast as lightning, reaching Wang Lin in an instant.

Wang Lin’s expression was calm; he didn't even need to act. The Mosquito Beast beside him flashed, transforming into an afterimage that shot directly towards the black shadow. With a bang, the black shadow immediately trembled, and a huge proboscis directly pierced through its entire body from its head. With one suck, the black shadow withered completely, turning into a pool of blood.

The Mosquito Beast flapped its wings and flew back, a look of disdain in its eyes.

Wang Lin patted the Mosquito Beast’s Big Head, pointed forward, and the purple Mosquito Beast King immediately flew out, leading its more than ten kin towards the ruins.

The moment they flew out, dozens of black shadows immediately rushed out from the entire ruins, growling as they charged towards the Mosquito Beasts.

With Wang Lin’s eyesight and Divine Sense, he naturally saw at a glance that all these black shadows were black apes, identical to the Beast Soul within the Soul-Separating Pill that Sun Yun had consumed back then.

“Leave your souls!” Wang Lin’s calm voice echoed in the surroundings. The Mosquito Beasts and these ape Vicious Beasts were simply not on the same Rank. The battle quickly ended, and the ape Vicious Beasts died miserably, turning into blood, emitting a strong bloody smell that permeated the surroundings.

More than ten Mosquito Beasts flew back to Wang Lin’s side, emitting cries while spitting out Beast Souls, which Wang Lin collected.

Perhaps due to the smell of blood, the distant roars and growls of Vicious Beasts increased. The ground vibrated, and strong winds howled in the sky, blowing and rolling the mist forward.

Wang Lin’s expression was as usual. He walked through the ruins, his Divine Sense sweeping over them, finding no herbs. He then turned and left.

His figure moved through the mist, seemingly merging with it, exuding a dense Evil Qi, and an even stronger ferocity than any Vicious Beast. Above him, the dozen or so Mosquito Beasts circled and howled.

Under this ferocity and Evil Qi, even the roars from afar gradually became scarce, eventually disappearing. The ground no longer vibrated, and the wind in the sky also stopped.

Let Er Gen reach 1000 votes, only a few tens short, clasps hands. Also, the recommendation votes are too dismal… seeking support.